Disclaimer: -shouts over a megaphone- I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA, HAPPY NOW!? -runs off crying-

A/N: Okay, my second fic. It took me a while to decide what to write, but all of a sudden I had this urge to write this no matter what and now I have to write this. You know those stupid voices in your head telling you to write and then you get mad because everyone else has ideas and you don't and then an idea pops into your head and you're like....wow... Okay I'm done with this rambaling now. Gomen minna-san! I just...had..a..moment.

1/29/05: Oh.. my.. God... I cannot believe how poor my organizational skills in my writing were back then! I'm so fucking embarrassed. x.x; So, I am now revising these poorly written, crap-chapters, though I am too lazy to do it completely, so the same stupid plot will remain...

A small child with short, ebony hair, and a green sundress smiled softly to herself, raising her head toward the sun. Another great day in the innocence of her mind. A necklace made of sweet-smelling flowers hung loosely from her neck, a floppy hat completing her childish look. Her hazel eyes then fixed on the opening of the door to her house. A man stepped out. Not just any man, however, but the man she called "tousan". Her father.

The girl bounded from the fence that surrounded the Goshinboku, the sacred tree at her family's shrine, and ran to the man. As she pumped her little legs to go forward faster, the hat was taken from the wind, to blow back to her original spot. The little girl took no notice to it, though, and propelled herself into the open arms of the much taller man. He caught her with practiced ease, and spun her around, hugging her to him.

"My Kagome.." He said, slowing his spinning, with a smile.

"I love you, Daddy!" Kagome happily called out, giggling.

"And I love you, my little Kag..." He replied, as he set her down, the smile never leaving his features.

Beep, Beep, Beep!

Kagome brought her hand down apon the evil alarm clock that spoiled her dream. She then got up groggily and stretched. Something hit her foot. 'Is the roof leaking..? It felt like water..' She looked up, only to see the mirror, and brought her hand shakily to her cheeks. Her fingers came back wet.

'I was crying? But, why?' Then, the dream came back to her. She smiled sadly, and for once thanked her alarm clock for waking her up. That was one memory she didn't want to remember..

She sighed and began to dig through her closet for some clothes to change into after a nice hot bath. She found a green top with flower prints and quarter lenth sleeves and a navy blue, short skirt.

'Inu Yasha will be here to pick me up soon... I better get dressed so I can have breakfast before he comes.'

She took her hot shower and got changed into her clothes (with the shikon no tama half around her neck), and walked down the stairs for a quick bite to eat. Souta was there, telling her of what went on at school and such, and about how Inu Yasha was his hero. The usual little-brother banter. She just smiled and nodded, as her thoughts kept drifting to her dream which could've become a nightmare, but was saved thanks to her stupid alarm clock.

"Kagome?" Her mother's voice broke through her thoughts.

"Hai, Momma?"

"Can you help me clear the table, I have something to give you."

'Something for me? What is it?' She wondered.

"Hai, Momma." She got up and began gathering the plates, then followed her mother to the kitchen; but she took another look behind her. Souta had a soccer ball in his hands walking out the door and her Grandpa was writing some more of those written spell tailsmans.

She put the plates in the sink and turned to her mom. "Mom, what is it? Inu Yasha will be here soon, you know."

"Hai, I know. But, could you follow me for a second, dear?"

"Sure." She began following her upstairs. Her mother began looking through some old boxes stashed in the bottom of her closet as she kept muttering to herself things like, "I know I saw it here a couple of days ago..Aha, Here it is!" She proclaimed, as she pulled a small, rectangular, velet box out of an old, cardboard box.

She handed the box to Kagome and smiled. Kagome opened the box up, causiously, while eyeing her mother, waiting for an explanation on what is was or what is was for. Inside lay a gold locket shaped like a heart with the intials K.H. inscribed in it.

"Your father wanted you to have it...Before he passed away he gave it to me to give to you sometime after your fifteenth birthday...I would've gave it to you sooner, but with you going into the past, I was afraid something would happen to it." Her mother smiled sadly as Kagome exaimed it.

It was beautiful. Solid gold with her intials ingraved in it. Diamonds were in the place of the periods of the K.H. Yes, the intials were in English, cursive English to be exact. The locket was a little bigger than a complete Shiko no Tama but was round and a little heavy. She tried to open it, but had no luck. She need longer, stronger fingernails.

"Arigatou, Momma." She said as she began walking back down the stairs, still staring at the locket some more. She couldn't figure out why her father would want her to have such a thing.. And why after her fifteenth birthday? What was so special about turning fifteen? Of course, she would be having to apply for a highschool soon..

If she passed this year, that is..

Sighing, she turned the locket over in her hand, watching the smooth back catch reflections of light, despite not being polished. 'Why does it feel so famillar to me? I feel like I've seen this locket before somewhere..' She suddenly gasped, grabbing for the railing of the stairs, as the memories returned once again.

Like in her dream...

As Kagome was put down from her after spinning, she looked up into his eyes. He pulled out a big, golden locket that had her intials ingraved in it, but without diamonds... "You like it, Kag?" He asked with a smile.

"It's beautiful, Daddy" She gasped, her eyes big and full of wonder.

"One day it'll be yours, but it's not finished yet." He said.

"What is it for, Daddy?" Kagome asked, still gazing into the locket, as if she was in a trance.

"Well, little Kag, you put pictures in here of the one you love and your fondest memories together. I gave your mother one a long time ago and it's still shines today." His smile brightened.

"Will you put a picture in it for me, Daddy. Of us?" She asked.

"Of course, little Kag."

"Promise, Daddy?"

"Promise."

Kagome started to fall down the stairs as she remebered, her eyes full of tears at the happy moments that tore away at the fact she'll never see her Dad again. She tripped down the stairs, stumbling the whole way, and waited to hit the ground and get a heck of a bruising.

But she didn't hit the ground; instead, she fell into two, strong arms. She hit a firm, male chest and felt two, clawed hands gripping her arms. Not hard, but gently.

She blinked the tears from her eyes as she saw the curtain of silver hair in her face. Inu Yasha helped her up and looked in her eyes, worried at her clumsy-ness in a place so familiar to her. She felt like she was lost in his golden eyes, and smiled slightly, shyly.

"Daijoubou, Kagome?" He asked, his face etched with worry.

"Yeah, I'm fine...Just got a bit dizzy, that's all..." She still had a death grip on the locket. His worry was replaced by annoyance, as he straightened her up and released her. She looked to the ground knowing an insult was most likely on its way.

"Feh, clumsy today, aren't ya wench?" He looked at her thinking, 'At least she okay. I thought something might be really wrong. It's not like her to fall like that. Was it just me.. or did she have tears in her eyes before I caught her?'

He exaimed her and saw that she was staring at a strange locket, trying to pry it open. "What's in your hand?" She outstretched her arm to him and unclasped her death grip on the golden locket. He picked it up by the chain. It held her scent all over it, since she had been gripping it so tightly. She was reluctant to let it go, but let him take it from her.

"What were you trying to do?" He asked, suddenly interested in the necklace that seemed to mean a lot to Kagome.

"I was trying to open it..."

"Why can't you open it?"

"My fingernails aren't strong enough to open it without breaking and the locket's kinda old, so it's stuck..."

Without a second thought, Inu Yasha slipped his claws in it and with a click it opened...

TBC

A/N: Minna-san, plz. review! The next chapter will be up by Thursday if I get some reviews! Maybe tomorrow if I get enough reviews by the time I get home from school. ) Suggestions welcome, and this will have a little humor in it. Oh yeah, any questions at all, even if it has nothing to do with anything important, just ask me. I'll give ya virtual candy if ya review!