well.. I've been working on a cool picture - my best ever of Inu-yasha and Kagome - I just finished it, in fact.. and it gave me this idea.. I'll try and work it out - and don't worry! I'll be writing a sequel to A Little Lovin' sometime soon, due to popular request and my own musings and ponderings on what Miroku, Sango, Kaede, Shippo, Kouga etc, etc. will say to them :D

Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-Yasha.. however, I do own this purtyful pic of him and Kagome that I drew!

Living A Nightmare (title subject to change)

Prologue

Mrs. Higurashi climbed up the steps, heart and steps heavy. Ever since Kagome and her not-so-friendly-friend Inu-Yasha Tetsuji had mysteriously disappeared some four odd months before, Ame Higurashi had been cleaning her daughters room, hoping that somehow, someday, Kagome would return. Ame opened the door to Kagome's room, but certainly wasn't expecting to see what she saw.

There was Kagome, and her silver haired friend, laying on Kagome's bed, neither of them wearing a stitch of clothing. Around the room were scattered a few odd artifacts, a sword, a staff, backpacks, pouches, a flowing book, and an odd necklace hung around Kagome's neck, giving off a pale light that illuminated Kagome's sleeping features. Mrs. Higurashi dropped the handle of the vacuum, letting it fall to the floor with a thump. Kagome's eyes opened, and she sat up, her senses obviously sharper than they had ever been before.

"K..Kagome?!?" Ame asked, hand clenched over her heart.

Kagome looked around, taking in the familiar - and yet strange - decor of her bedroom. "Mama? What.. How? We're home?" She looked at her mother in silence for a minute, before laughing out loud and poking Inu-Yasha in the side until he woke up. "Inu.. Inu! Wake up! We're back home!"

"Huh..Wha?" Inu-Yasha obviously wasn't a morning person, but he sat up anyways, and looked around. "This is.."

"Yes!"

"We're home!" Inu-Yasha crowed, pumping his fists in the air, and then grabbing Kagome and kissing her. This last was a little too much for Ame, and she fell to the floor in a dead faint.

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Ame's eyes slowly fluttered open, and the first thing she saw was her daughter watching her worriedly. She sat up, blinking, and looked around, realizing that she had somehow been brought down to the living room. "What happened?"

"You fainted, Mama. I guess seeing us back home was a little bit of a overload for your mind." Kagome smiled, head cocked ever so slightly to one side.

"I'm glad to have you back, Kagome-chan, but where have you two been?"

"Now -that's- a long story, Mama. I wouldn't know where to begin." Kagome answered, then sat down, leaning against the back of the couch with Inu-Yasha's hands resting lightly on her shoulders. And that's when Ame noticed that they weren't wearing modern clothes - at least, she didn't think that the leather bracers Inu-Yasha was wearing were modern clothing.

"Just start at the beginning, sweety." Ame answered.

"At the beginning? Heh, okay. But we'll probably be sitting here for a while." Kagome closed her eyes, revealing odd tattooed on eyeshadow that was teal in color. She opened them again, and Inu-Yasha gently squeezed her shoulders. "The beginning.. I guess it started when Iyako-sensei assigned our science/chemistry project..."

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well... that's it for the prologue ^_^ chapter one coming soon! R&R