A/N: . Here on another crazy idea... It came after I wondered, in the anime at first Kagome tries to be nice to Inuyasha but gets brushed off because of her resemblance to Kikyo. She still tries to warm him up though, but what if Inuyasha can't get close to Kagome because of guilt over another reason? Just had to try it out...please no flames!


Summary: Kagome's life is shattered when Souta gets killed in the war between the wolf and dog youkai. Not knowing it was Inuyasha who had killed Souta, *accidentally people! You'll see when the time comes it was an ACCIDENT .* she tries to piece back her life in the Western lands, finding her place...but what happens when the truth gets out? Eventual Inu/Kag fic...


Disclaimer: I'm really tired of these things when it's a fanfic, the definition of fanfiction suggests we don't own the original story, chars etc. Well if in any case I'm sued go ahead, I need to practice my advocacy skills and diplomacy anyways...^.^


*Italics=Thoughts*


(Oh it might be a little depressing at the end of this chapter because well Kag's brother dies...But don't worry its not one of those mope he's dead I'm going to kill myselfs...she'll heal eventually starting from Chapter II.)



~*Chapter I*~


Kagome Higurashi frowned at the pile of laundry she had to do that day. It was times like these when she wondered how mothers handle more than one children. Twitching her nose she walked glumly over to the stack which she swore was breeding because it was taller now than five minutes ago when she had been staring at it. She was definitely going to have a talk with her brother...

"Nee-chan! I'm going out for a while!" Souta's called in and Kagome spun around.

"Souta! Don't you dare take another step!" Kagome demanded angrily making Souta wince as he stopped and quickly run through the things he had done that week in his mind.

"Uh, I didn't do it?" Souta asked hopefully.

"What are you going to tell me a youkai wore your clothes, went out fell in the mud, ripped them, get grass stains on them and left them in the dirty clothes pile?" Kagome asked sarcastically.

Souta sighed, it was laundry day, smiling he looked up again, "Sorry nee-chan, I promise I'll be more careful this time! I'll be back by dinner! I promise!" He ran up to his sister hugging her and kissed her on the cheek before running off, leaving a more subdued Kagome.

"Souta be careful okay?" Kagome yelled after him.

He turned around waving, "Don't worry nee-chan, after all who will take care of you if I die?"

"Souta!" Kagome scowled.

Sighing Kagome went back to the dirty clothes having a weird feeling of apprehension. The last time she felt like this their mom had died but that couldn't be...Souta was just going out to play like he always did...Shaking herself mentally for silliness, she started to tackle the clothes into a basket.


~*~


Inuyasha cursed looking at the battle ranging below him. What was infuriating him was that the wolf and dog youkai seemed evenly matched, which meant more deaths on the inu youkai's side than he had expected. He had leaped up the ledge a few minutes beforehand to see how his side was faring. Seeing a glimpse of shadow on his side he slashed out with his right claws feeling them grasp a wolf youkai which had tried to sneak up on him. Growling in frustration he threw the corpse aside before lunging back into the fray. He had to find the commander of the wolf youkai faction against him, and quickly before more of his kind died.


~*~

Kagome was resting in the shade of a large tree near the river when she heard the sounds of people coming. Looking up she saw two of the village women who had helped Kagome with her housekeeping occasionally. There were only a few people that hadn't acted strangely around Kagome and Souta after that night they lost her.

The lady in the white and navy kimono smiled worriedly when she saw Kagome. "Kagome-chan, isn't Souta with you?"

Kagome wondered why Akiko seemed worried, "No Akiko-san. He went off wandering like he usually does." That feeling of apprehension started to change into dread as she saw the look exchanged between the two women. "Is something the matter?" Kagome asked getting up quickly.

Akiko's worry was obvious in her voice, "Kagome-chan, you might not know because you don't hear the village gossip but there's rumored to be a youkai war going on..." Kagome paled not liking the direction this was leading to. "One of the battles is taking place just yonder near the mountain passes..."

"Kami-sama! Souta!" Kagome gasped and forgetting about the laundry she started running toward the passes.


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Inuyasha smirked finding who he had been looking for. The leader of the wolf youkai that they were fighting, Kouga. Since he had finally located that idiot in the crowd he wasn't going to lose him. Inuyasha darted between the fights going on, his eye never leaving the blur which he knew was Kouga.

"Kouga!" Inuyasha shouted and was satisfied that the other youkai had heard him over the clash going around.

"Yo, Dogturd!"

"Oi WimpyWolf, I'm going to kill you today!" Inuyasha snarled as he advanced.

Kouga dashed in to kick Inuyasha's side and he avoided it barely as he was unprepared for the attack. Inuyasha quickly spun around catching Kouga's foot the next time he tried to kick him and the impact sent them both falling. He quickly flung Kouga towards the walls of the canyon. The two demons were too engrossed in the fight that they didn't notice a small shape at the top of the cliff watching in awe and slight terror.

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Kagome was running as fast as her legs could carry her cursing herself for not listening to her intuition. She cursed her brother for his curiosity and fascination with demons. She anathematized his need to explore everyday. She damned the demons for waging a war traveling distance from a village...She basically cursed everything up to the air she was breathing...praying that somehow she'll make it in time to grab Souta and come back to the village where it was safer...Interfering or loitering around hundreds of youkai fighting each other did not register to Kagome as being safe for her little brother...

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Souta was too entranced by the battle going on below him, he was oblivious to the wolf coming from behind him. It had smelled the human kid and registered the smell as prey. Souta heard the wolf when it was near enough to lunge at Souta making the small boy shout in terror as he ran backwards...straight off the ledge.

The canyon wasn't too high and Souta fell on top of a couple of dogs which broke his fall. Apart from complete shock he was fine except for the fact he was now in the midst of the fighting. He panicked and started darting through fights trying to find his way out.

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Inuyasha smiled as he saw it. There was the opening in Kouga's defense he had been waiting for. Growling he lunged at his opponent, his class already dipped in his blood to send the claws of blood attack. This was too perfect, Kouga had his back to the wall and wouldn't be able to maneuver out of this one...Inuyasha slashed completely sure of victory when his eyes widened in horror.

Right in front of Kouga, a boy, a human boy from the smell was running past. The boy saw Inuyasha and froze in fear. "Nee-chan!" the boy mouthed.

"Run you damn fool!" Inuyasha shouted but it was too late, the attack hit. Three of his bloody claws had thankfully gone over the boy and hit where they were supposed to but two had hit the kid in front.

Inuyasha snarled, if the kid had been a demon instead of a human there were chances of survival but a human had no chance... The boy looked at him, a terrible gash across his chest and one cutting his shoulder.

Kouga seemed shocked at first too. Then he grinned at Inuyasha's shock thanking his own luck, and grabbed the frozen kid by the shoulders.

"AHHHHHH! NEE-CHAN!" the kid shrieked sobbing and struggling in Kouga's hands.

"Wimpywolf! Damn it! That's a human kid!" Inuyasha growled.

Kouga smirked, "Dogturd you're the one who hit him not me. Thanks kid for saving me, and now you'll be a perfect snack for some of my buddies who should be famished..." With that he threw the screaming kid to the side where wolves had gathered.

"Why you–!" Inuyasha's eyes turned red in rage. He lunged for the kid trying to catch him but Kouga had prepared for that and lunged too, to kick Inuyasha in the stomach the impact sending him away from the boy. Rage conquered all of his senses blacking out everything but the demon in front of him.

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Kagome was gasping for breath by the time she came to the ledge overlooking the canyon. She could hear the fighting ten minutes before she even reached it. Looking around desperately she saw no sign of her younger brother. A cold hand crushed her heart as her eyes started to sting when she ran to the ledge hoping against the odds for her brother's safety. *Souta, I'm going to kill you when I find you! Just please Kami-sama, let him be alive... Let him be alive*

Within seconds she was at the ledge when she heard, Souta's scream. Searching for his voice she saw him flying towards some wolves. Without thinking, she darted down the ledge slipping and sliding as she lost her footing in her haste. Kagome didn't even notice the wolves, dogs, and demons around her heading for her brother. The fear clogged her throat as she blinked away tears trying not to think about the red she saw on Souta's clothes...She didn't realize she was radiating energy...She didn't notice how abnormal it was for her to be able to walk to her brother without being harmed...

Kagome found wolves fighting dogs in front of her baby brother. A part of her conscious mind wondered why the dogs were protecting him but most of her thoughts were on Souta. A wolf got past the fighting and was about to bite his arm when Kagome shrieked a hand of hers connecting with the wolf as she pushed him away with a burst of light. Cradling her brother in her arms, she cried.

"Souta! Souta, wake up. Open you eyes Souta! Open your eyes! Come on let's go home.." she tried to move his bangs out of his eyes when she saw her hand came up bloody red. "No!"

She hugged him feeling him slightly wince stopped, "Souta?"

The boy's upper lip trembled as he looked at her, "Nee-chan. I'm sorry about the clothes.."

Kagome saw the wounds in his body, "Souta what happened? Don't worry about the clothes! Souta, don't you dare leave me...Souta, say something!"

Souta's eyes kept fluttering shut, he tried to obey her, he whispered, "Thrown...as.. food...for...wolves... Somehow...knew-you'd...come. Nee-chan...I–"

Kagome started to stand before she fell, hearing roaring in her ears as she struggled to breathe. Souta went limp in her arms. "Souta, here let's go home ok? I'll go home and treat those wounds..Souta...let's go home..." she whispered painfully aware of her surroundings all of a sudden. Fury welled up and consumed her... "How dare you hurt Souta..." she whispered as she glared at the wolves clawing at the space around her unable to come any closer. The small rational part of her mind wondered why the wolves hadn't attacked her...But that wasn't important...

*Souta's not dead...He's not dead... I need to get him out of here... How could they hurt him so... How dare they...How dare they!... This fighting is going to keep me from going back to the village...Souta needs treatment NOW..!* Taking another look at Souta limp in her arms, she was afraid to check for breathing... A wave of helplessness engulfed her as she closed her eyes and fell the waves of hopeless anger overlapping her...The roaring stopped when she felt a warmth surround her, opening her eyes she saw a bluish light surround her...The battle was gone, the canyon was gone, somehow it was just her and Souta. Then the warmth solidified and Kagome sobbed as she felt a hug... "Mama..."she whispered completely unaware of her surroundings. She let her emotions stream away from her, her anger and fear as she felt the strength of hope and love replace them..(A/N: I know Kag's miko powers haven't been trained yet but you know the saying if a Mom's child's in danger the said mother can lift a car. More explanations will come later on how this unbelievable thing happened.)


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Inuyasha's senses snapped back into work when he heard a chilling shriek. He had his hands on Kouga's neck and Kouga's foot was kicking at his stomach but they both froze. Inuyasha heard all the dogs and wolves in the area starting to howl. What he saw next would have frozen him in fear if he wasn't already motionless. He thought he saw a faint, pale blue light but it was growing and every demon it touched...was purified. He saw wolves writhing on the ground, dogs whining and shrinking away. The rational part of him knew the dogs would be affected less because unlike the wolves the dogs had never killed humans just to eat them.

Then he saw the eye of power, midnight hair was flowing in the wind around a girl holding onto...that boy. Inuyasha realized it was a miko, and judging from the purification going on, a strong one at that. All of a sudden Kouga twisted out of his grasp, yelling, "Retreat! All wolves retreat!" The idiot wolf was gone in a matter of moments.

Inuyasha was going to shout the order to retreat too when a voice from the past spoke. In his mind as if it was happening at that moment he heard his old nurse Kaede speaking, "But Inuyasha mikos all have a limit to their power. Even simple healing may exhaust some without training...If an exhausted miko continues, she calls upon her life force and if not stopped dies..."

Scowling he shouted, "All Inu Youkai back to the Western lands NOW!" This had nothing to do with him, after all he could already tell many of the inu youkai will be too exhausted to move if not gone, after a purification. Hopefully none had been killed. He started off in the direction of the youkai obeying his commands, when he saw the boy's face as he received the attack. It stopped him from leaving the girl... Muttering to himself he walked back towards the girl realizing how stupid his idea was when it got harder and harder to get near her. Cursing he kept going knowing he owed it to the kid to save that stupid sister of his who was going to die if she didn't stop using so much energy.

Inuyasha noticed his claws were gone and knew he was getting purified back into a human from a hanyou. 'What did I expect?' he grumbled to himself as he walked forward, grabbing the shoulders of the girl, he shook her since he didn't know what else to do.

~*~

All of a sudden the arms were gone. Instead Kagome felt someone roughly hold her shoulders and shake her. The hope and serenity that came along with the warmth was also disappearing as her other emotions flooded back into her. The lighted area around her was fading and she didn't want it to...Kagome was about to close her eyes when she felt a hand tugging her sleeve. Looking down she saw Souta was doing it.

"Nee-chan, let's go," Souta said surprising Kagome. Smiling Souta added, "It's safe to let you go now, they said so..." That was all she heard before she heard the sounds of someone muttering. Her eyes snapped open in anger and fear as she realized she still had to treat Souta's wounds...She stood up saw a raven-haired boy in front of her before she blacked out.


~*~

Inuyasha was beginning to regret coming back for her when the girl stirred. She opened her eyes and shot up trying to stand before she saw him looked and a look of astonishment fleeted across her face before she fell. He automatically caught her and the boy.

This was going to be a long trip back, and not after a victory but a stalemate. His only hope was that his older brother had done just as horridly on the other battle that occurred that day. Well, he did seem to have found a miko but would she help them when her brother died because of his fight with Kouga? Questions ran through his head, 'Who was this girl? That was definitely purification going on but the last miko who could purify youkai was Midoriko...' Sighing he ran westward.


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A/N: Ok please hold the flames! 1) I'm sorry I killed Souta. 2) Kagome is not going to be a Mary-Sue, I'm not even sure if she won't be able to do anything without training. 3)Her unnatural and immense miko ability is partially due to the fact she had to do something, anything, to help Souta, *she's in denial* and she had help ^^, along with her heritage. 4) It was an accident that Inuyasha killed Souta but he's still going to feel guilty because he was the one who attacked Souta not Kouga.

Hmm just thought I would say all that.

(Oh and if any of you readers read Polar Attraction, its not going to be updated tomorrow...I guess today... Since I'm a procrastinator and left all my homework for the last minute .)