This is my first try to publish a story. I had this idea on my mind for a long time now and I wanted to give it a try, it's not going to be a very long story but I hope that if you give it an opportunity you enjoy it.

I don't own Inuyasha and any of its characters and content, I just happen to be in love with him and all he has to offer and wanted to give him a life in a different universe =).

Hope you like this project of mine and I'd very much like to hear your comments, let me know if you like it (or not) or if there is something I can do better, please.

With that being said. I let you with the first chapter of the story.

Chapter 1

Things were… complicated.

Yeah, that is the best way to describe their relationship at this moment. Mainly because he didn't know what he was feeling. Mainly because he was not supposed to be going through this. Mainly because he had a girlfriend now, one that he was supposed to be in love with…that he had chosen… and most importantly, because said girlfriend was her cousin. He wanted to blame all this mess on her. If only she had stayed and not go to that one year student exchange, everything would have gone on like normal and they would still be the best friends as they were before her departure. It was at that point that things got complicated… it was then when everything got twisted to the way it was now…

or so he kept telling himself…

How was he supposed to get out of this mess? Did he even want out? He was completely confuse, didn't know what to think, and most importantly didn't know if he wanted her to know what he had been doing to her and what it really meant for him (and for every single soul that happened to be aware of their situation)… because he didn't. Even. Know. What it meant until a few weeks ago… He didn't have any idea of the importance of what he was doing when he did it, and his father only blamed him for being irresponsible and don't paying enough attention when he talks about everything that is to be a great demon and their customs and the implications that their existence has and blah, blah, blah…

Seriously, he wasn't even a great demon, he was in fact only half demon, but half a great demon as his father liked to say. He could also blame all this on that fact too, because his father was sure that he would not be forced to find his unique mate (as he was sure he would not go through the transition) because being half human he would be free of those instincts and thus would be free to choose whomever he wanted to be with, as was the case of the other few half demons in existence.

But fate said otherwise and apparently he was also forced in the ways of demons when it came to choose his intended, as well as he was forced to act upon those instincts in every other THING in his life now. The pleasures of being the offspring of a great demon, you see… it seems that his demon blood overpowered his human one, and even forced him to live the so call transition every young and inexperienced demon went through, the equivalent of human adolescence you may call it… And apparently being ignorant of his own instincts was not an excuse for his unwise decisions.…really his father was to blame for this, but no one could call upon the great Inu no Taisho mistakes, not even his son, not even when those mistakes had lead him to make the worst mistake of his life… or could it be the most wonderful mistake for him…NO, IT WASN'T GOOD AT ALL… (yeah, keep saying that to yourself until you believe it, he thought to himself.)

…As if learning to control his instincts and apparently growing power was not one of his greatest problems already (one that he was not supposed to be suffering to start with. But hey, even his father could be wrong at times, right?)… Thinking of it, those instincts were only piling up to the list of things that he had to fix, along with being the second son of the Taisho clan, and all that shit. Meaning that there was no real way for him to be able to fix shit…

So after an excruciating year of being without her, and a long, long list of stupid decisions to try to cope with his loneliness and deal with the pain of his unexpected developing half demon body and more unexpected increasing powers, things were not the same when she came back. He was not the same. He had gone through a lot of changes, changes that he would had wanted to live with her, but couldn't. That year had put all his world upside down and was now only starting to put the pieces back in place. He didn't want her to suffer with him. And if what he learnt was true, and if the feelings he feared to have for her were true too, then he wanted her as far from him as possible. He was not going to risk her life, her happiness, her safety. But then again, he went and did just the opposite of what he had planned…

At the beginning he was sure to make it, he would distance himself from her. He would act the role that he had created for himself, he had Kikyo to help him with that, and it make him feel bad to use her like that and give her high expectations of what was going to happen between them, but hey, it was better her than Kagome, right? If he had to choose a life to threaten he better risk the life of Kikyo, after all Kagome didn't want anything to do with his family's treasure and the position of the main miko of her own clan, and now he had everything to do with it. In that year he had made up his mind, it wouldn't matter that he had known Kagome since forever… that he was practically there when she was born. That his and her family were close friends and business partners and that they were a constant into the other's life. It wouldn't even matter that she was once (and still was for him at least) his best friend, and about the only person that really know him and he care for, it wouldn't matter that this decision tore his soul in billion pieces because all he really wanted was to be with her.

It almost cost him his resolution when she got back from that one year separation and tried to make everything seemed normal, but he knew better, he had learnt a reason to be far away from her, and he didn't trust himself around her either. It was rather impossible for things to be the same. So he played his role, after all, he had betrayed her by getting together with her cousin and worst enemy ever, and seemed to be happy with her. He make it obvious that they had grown apart so that the tension between them was obvious even for the ones that didn't even know them, and so it was an unspoken agreement between them to distance from one another and try to get reacquainted with their new situation bit by bit. He hoped that she would get used to the new way their (nonexistent) relationship work, and that someday they could be in the same room without feeling completely torn and betrayed. He also hoped that he could clear his mind and feelings, and place her in his heart as what she always was, his best friend, and thus getting her out of the impending danger she unknowingly was. Though, it seemed that plan was going downhill every day that passed, and got even worse when she started dating the idiot of Hojo, that only got more of his instincts out, and forced him to create a greatest distance between them.

At some point she stopped trying to get their friendship back and they stopped talking whatsoever, something that made him incredibly miserable but thankful nonetheless. The only update they got from each other were the news that they got from their mutual friends every now and then, and their uncomfortable encounters in the school's corridors and classes. He knew he had screwed everything up, but he couldn't help it, he had made up his mind after all, and now he also felt betrayed by her, and couldn't bare seeing her with her boyfriend.

So in an attempt to stop himself from going back on his plan and keep her away, he was being harsh to her, acting like the jerk she accused him to be. Doing all the things he knew for sure pissed her off. Being the number one of those, his current relationship with Kikyo, even though, he knew he didn't really love her, and acting like he couldn't for the life of him get over the fact that she had left him to study abroad when he needed her to stay the most (although at that moment neither of them knew what he would have to go through on that year, and to be fair he never really told her what had happened to him in during that time) because even if that made him look even more like a jerk, he really didn't want her to go, even if it was a good opportunity for her and her academic life.

Still he wished that things could go back to where they were before she was gone, and they could start over and forget everything bad that had happened in the last months. But things were not that easy, especially for him. And besides everything else, she was still the most important person in his life, and he wanted to protect her, even if the protection she needed was from him. So if he had to make her believe that he was a jerk that loved her cousin so be it. She was going to have the happiness she always wanted and deserved, she should not be tied to this word they didn't ask to be born in, and he was going to give her a way out.

...If only he hadn't fucked everything up again… now everything was just about to get worse.