[REVISION]:

Woha! Welcome to the COMPLETELY but not so completely revised version of TLD! Want to know what was changed?

The dusky night. I really hated that paragraph. I also changed the puberty sequence…and total opening paragraph. In the original version, she was watching the dusky night from the park bench. Here, she's walking home and trips ^^;;; I also deleted the third person bit and changed it into first person~!

REVISION 2: Changed some small things…

Disclaimer: I don't own SABRINA or INUYASHA~! [weep]

The Librarian's Daughter

The sky was painted with so many hues. Dusk is like the day melting into the sun, with so many colors melting into one another.

Clumsily, I tripped over a rock on my pathway home. Now my knee hurt and all the groceries I had been carrying are probably no good. Foolishly, I thought to salvage the wreck of food.

"Need any help?" Came a boyish voice behind me.. Immediately, I was enchanted with his voice. When he held out his hand, I slowly reached out and took it. It was like being hypnotized. Here I was, taking a stranger's hand. He could be a serial killer, or a rapist, for all I know!  Before I could pull away, I got a very strong sense of déjà vu.

" I know you, but I can't really put my finger on it…" I trailed off timidly. I was talking to a complete stranger. But I felt oddly comforted…..the last thing I wanted right now was complete, all-encompassing mortification. The kind that comes whenever you think you know a person, but they're a completely different person from who you know.

" Do you happen to know anyone by the name of Kouga?" The man asked.  His head moved slowly out of the shadows, displaying the boyish features I knew so well. I let out a strangled gasp.

" Kouga!? What are you doing in Paris? What about your girlfriend, Ayame?" I asked eagerly. When I was a little girl, Kouga and I used to play together. He was a son of a butler, but he grew up to be a great actor.

Once or twice I was invited to go to his play, but I never got to go. I can still remember before the time of Inuyasha, I used to have a  huge crush on Kouga. My heart was broken when I realized he shoved my attentions into the trash and took notice of Ayame, a girl promised with beauty. I eventually forgave him, but every once and then, I get the feeling that I wish I had someone to hang onto….like Kouga.

" We went our separate ways. We just weren't meant for each other." Kouga said casually, looking straight into my eyes.

Imagine this; you and your love walking down a park avenue, with the full moon seen through the branches of the budding oak trees. Call me desperate or anything you want, but all I wanted right now was love.

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Time flew by. For some odd reason, a few weeks after I met Kouga puberty kicked in. Over time, my hair grew out to be straight unlike the frumpy mess it once was. My Bra sizes began to increase drastically over a period of the year. My hips also flared out during the time, which was a real big uh-oh because I had to get new jeans ( I had tried wearing my old, little-girl jeans. But they were uber tight against my skin, and almost cut off circulation. Plus, It leaves nothing to the imagination.)

Puberty is when a young girl flourishes dramatically, like a bud opening in the springtime. (Notice the word in bold; young girl.) When teens get puberty, it is NOT pretty. Everything busts out at once, almost like puberty is trying to make up for lost time. And, when you think about that, it's like overstuffing a suitcase before you get home.

I made it through with the help of Kouga. I guess the only thing I didn't like about Kouga was when he bragged to other lustful men about how I'm his woman.

I also got those stares. I recognized, in time, that these were the stares of lustful men. These were the kind of stairs that you could feel sliding all the way down your figure…I hated them for a while, because of the way they'd try to do anything to get me in bed. Once, a man even tried to pay me! ( I'm shamed to admit I did like to watch that man get beat by Kouga.) I learned to tolerate the stares when I accepted the fact that no one was going to try and jump out of a corner and rape me.

Kouga and I often went out to dinner or to carnivals, or sometimes even parties ( Kouga: Yeah? You see that number over there? [points at me] She's my woman.). Every day our bond grew a bit more intimate.

I didn't love him.

I don't think he realized that when I began to pack one day. It wasn't any particular day,  I was eating breakfast when I just got up and began to pack. I needed to see Inuyasha again. I needed to go home.

I wanted to go home.

But what I didn't realize was the heartbreak, the pain, and the loss. It hurt to leave Kouga behind. It hurt because even though I said I was coming back, I wasn't. Somehow, I think he knew that I wouldn't be coming back soon. He never really told me straight out that he didn't want me to go, but we had our moments.

But those kinds of moments slowly chipped away at my heart, and I could feel my heart breaking---knowing that I was going to leave this wondrous fairy tale land. This land had made me so beautiful.

I was walking away from him. It hurt to leave behind my life with Kouga. It hurt to watch him plead with me in the rain, and as much as I wanted to stay, all I could do was look into his eyes and smile warmly, then shake my head. I hated this. I hated him for doing this to me.

 I could sense, that even now as his heart broke, he wouldn't let go of the fact that I was leaving---probably for forever. When I felt someone grasp his hand in mine, I knew it was Kouga. He placed his arm around my wait, but left one off to hold onto the umbrella.

" Kouga-kun….you know I have to go." I whispered sadly.

" I know….but I want you to know, Kagome…." Kouga replied with his voice lower than mine. " But I'll never let go. I'll never let go…" A fresh batch of tears came to his eyes, though it blended with the rain, I could still fell them.

I was crying too. But all I could do ( not trusting my voice) was nod and walk into the loading hall. He watched me from the window, and even when taking off, his eyes never left mine.

And then, I was alone.

---------(^^)AUTHOR

Oh. My. God. I'm SO sorry for such a TINY  chapter, but I changed some things around, then chopped off, like, a page, and decided to do that last part in third person. I didn't want to go in depth about the relationship, because…there…well, was not depth about it. All they did was hand out and kiss. Not really love, ne? ^^ But the next chapter will be in partly Kagome's view.  And if anyone wonders why Kagome is not in the airport this time, she's taking one of those smaller planes…the ones that don't need those hallways…and…uhhhmmm…yeah. And IF PEOPLE TRY TO FLAME ABOUT THE  KAG/KOU THING, lets just say I'm putting that in….for a little twist…Where you ask? Patience, little ones.

I'm going to include a tiny snippet from the net chapter. No, it's not in italics. So…SNIPPETS START!

[[[[['Oh, I know you….' Inuyasha cried happily. ' You're my next-door neighbor! Right?'

I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry. He didn't remember me…]]]]]

p.s….I'm sorry if the chapter seemed a little bit unrealistic, with the puberty change, but in a way, I was just trying to get that out of the way. X_O I just want to get these two years out of the way, so we can start to focus on SESSHY!

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