Disclaimer: I don't own any to the characters.

Author's Note: Okay, I know you are all going to sigh, but this is another Beauty and the Beast take off. There are only four of the Inu Yasha characters in it though; Sesshomaru, Kagome, Sango, and Shippo. The beginning is a lot like the movie and story, but after this chapter it is different, very different. I plan on writing this in three chapters, of course this one being the shortest. I hope you all like it and enjoy.

A heart of ice, Is like the glass, That contains this fragile rose.

For if you love, You will be free, If not always this way you will be.

He lived alone in the far western lands. Not many people ventured that far into the wilderness. Only the bravest men, but in these days man was known as coward. His castle lay on a cliff over looking a gorge. There was never any sun, it was over cast, and every thing took on the appearance of gray. The only thing of beauty was a garden surrounded by tall stone walls enclosing roses. The most beautiful red roses that any one had seen..

~Forbidden Forest~

Chapter 1

"Momma," Kagome called into the kitchen, "I am going into to town to return this book. Is there any thing you want?"

"No honey."

Kagome walked out of their small house and down the dirt road and into the small town where they lived. As she neared the town the road she walked turned into gravel and then into stone. The raven haired beauty with the rare pale blue eyes, loved to walk through town. It was a time when she could get lost in her thoughts in the hustle and bustle of the little town in the county side.

"Hello!" Kagome called as she entered the tiny library.

An old man with thick glasses came out from behind the counter and smiled a toothless smile and the young teenager. "Hello, Kagome, I see you bring back the book that you borrowed?"

"Yes, you know that this is my favorite book, I can not help but read it again and again!"

"Well, if you love it so much, it's yours!"

"Oh, thank you Sean!" Kagome gave the old man a big hug.

Kagome arrived home a little while later. As she walked in the house she called out to her mother, but was surprised to hear no sound coming from the kitchen, her mother's favorite place. As she walked into the kitchen she was met with the horrific sight of her mother, laying on the floor dead.

Not knowing what to do and wanting to get as far away from the sight as possible she ran to their stable and took up their horse. She hopped on and road him off into the forbidden forest, no paying attention to were she was going, due to the fact she was in shock.

Riding on into the night she started to come to her senses. She was not deep in the unforgiving forest and was lost on top of that. Just as she thought that things could not get worse, she heard the howl of a wolf. Turning to look over her should her saw a pack of wolves running at her.

With a moments notice they jumped and started biting at her legs. Kagome gaining her composure she told her horse to run. And he did.

Running through branches and fallen trees, the wolves started to tire, but would not give up in the chase. Kagome was thinking that she would surely be wolf dinner, but her spirits where raised when she saw a castle looming in darkness ahead. As she neared it Kagome realized that she and her horse would half to jump over a gorge.

Looking over her shoulder to see the wolves still in hot pursuit she decided to take the chance. It was either die and at the jaws of the wolves or in the jaws of fate. She egged her horse to go faster, telling it they would make the jump. Believing in the horse was all she needed to do. The second had come and gone they had made it to the other side of the gorge, the wolves had not.

End Note: Okay, I hope that you all enjoyed the first chapter; the next two will be much longer. Thank you for reading and please review!