Waiting For You

Prologue

Departing

"Inuyasha, catch!" A young girl around the age of four yelled as she threw a ball to a young boy the same age as her.

The girl had long raven black hair that reached a half way down her back; her eyes were a blue-gray color, and she stood only about 2' 6". The boy named Inuyasha had hair as long as the girl's though his hair was a silver-white color instead of black. He had amber eyes and he had two dog type ears on top of his head, which were also a silver-white color. He stood about 3' 0", a half a foot taller than the girl.

Inuyasha laughed a bit as he caught the ball and threw it back to the girl.

"Here, catch!"

She quickly caught the ball as well and laughed a bit to, she was about to throw the ball back when a hand touched her shoulder making her turn around.

"Come on sweetie, time to go home for today." A young woman in her late twenties said to the girl.

"Ok, mommy. Bye Inuyasha! See you tomorrow!" The girl waved her hand goodbye as she walked away with her mother.

"Bye..." Inuyasha said at a whisper a bit sad to see his friend go.

The girl had arrived home and had dinner with her family, afterwards she went upstairs to her room and looked out the window she could see the park that her and Inuyasha were playing at earlier today. She smiled to herself and took out a piece of paper and some crayons as she began to draw a picture of Inuyasha trying her best to make it look great so she could show her parents and then give it to him the next day.

A half an hour later she gave another smile as she put down the red crayon, just finishing her drawing. She looked it over and quickly ran out of her room completely happy, she ran down the stairs and towards the kitchen but stopped abruptly when she heard her parents arguing.

"We can't go now, I know it's because of your job but can't we wait until the baby is born, Teijo?

"I wish I could but I'll lose my job if we don't go now, and with the baby coming we'll need the money to take care of the newcomer. Just please let us go, Maemi."

The young girl listened in not knowing what to say or do, what was it about her dad's job and what was it about her new younger brother or sister. She stepped aside as she thought this but moved back to look in the kitchen though as she did that her father saw her and walked up to her kneeling on the floor the sound of his voice turning completely calm.

"Sweetie, we're moving to Kyoto..." The girl's father said to her as he put a hand on her shoulder.

"Where's that?"

"It's a city far away from where we are now. You'll see when you get there that you're going to go meet new friends and new people. Won't it be fun?"

"Can I still see Inuyasha?"

"Oh, honey. I don't think so; Kyoto is to far for any of you to visit each other. And with us moving we won't be able to come back to Tokyo for a while because of the money."

"I...I can't see Inuyasha anymore?"

"I'm so sorry...but..."

"No!" the girl screamed as she stepped away from her parents dropping the picture. "I want to stay here! With my friends!" She couldn't stand it as her parents stayed quiet building up the tension into the room they were in, she ran up into her room and slammed the door shut and locked it for the rest of the night. The girl fell on top of her bed and began to cry just letting the tears fall.

"I don't want to say goodbye to him..."

The next day at the park, the girl sat on a bench holding a necklace in her hands as she swung her legs back and forth just slightly noticing the silver haired boy sneaking up to her. Inuyasha crept up to the girl about to scare her when...

"Hello, Inuyasha." She quickly said scaring him a bit.

"How did you know it was me?"

"I know everything about you. You're my best friend, Inuyasha." The girl gave a small smile, though it quickly disappeared to turn into a frown as she turned in the bench seeing Inuyasha sit next to her and begin looking at the other kids around the park.

"Inuyasha..." the girl began.

"Hm."

"I heard my daddy talking yesterday with mommy and they were arguing about something. I didn't really hear them until my daddy walked up to me and said that my family was moving to Kyoto."

"Ky-o-to?" Inuyasha sounded out each syllable becoming confused. "What is that?

"It's a big city."

"Ok, well I'm sure it's close to Tokyo so we'll have a bunch of fun still, right?"

"I asked my parents they said its pretty far away..." The girl stretched out her arms as far as she could. "Its like this far away, I'm not sure if we can still play together or not."

"But...but..."

"I got this for you to remember me by." She held up the necklace to Inuyasha's face as he just stared at it for a while until finally taking it in his hands. He looked at the necklace; it had black beads and what looked like white beads in the shape of fangs attached to the necklace surrounding some of it. "It's a rosary, I picked it out all by myself this morning."

"Th...Thanks..." He managed to get out. The girl took the rosary away from Inuyasha for a second and stood on her tiptoes slowly sliding the rosary over his head for him to wear. She giggled a bit at the sight when she stood back to take a look at him that caused Inuyasha to blush a little.

"It looks good on you..." She said while still giggling.

"Feh, I don't need this stupid thing. It looks dumb." He said pulling off the rosary but soon regretted his action as he saw a hurt expression on the girls face. The girl began to sniffle a bit holding back tears as she turned away from him and began walking away.

"Well...it's...it's ok if you don't...wear it..." The girl managed to say as she began to wipe away tears that formed in the corner of her eyes.

She turned to look at Inuyasha who was just standing there staring at her not saying a word at all to help calm her down or make her feel a little better, which only built up the tension between the two. The girl couldn't help it anymore as she began to run away from Inuyasha, tears fell to the ground one by one leaving a small trail.

"No wait...I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." Inuyasha finally said as he saw her run away he tried catching up to her but with no luck.

"Goodbye, Kagome..." He said giving up and stopped chasing her. Some of the adults looked at the two children who just had the argument confused expressions filled every one's face as Inuyasha was on the verge of tears.

Inuyasha turned around and began to leave a hurt expression on his face, he knew he wouldn't see Kagome again and he had a strange feeling in his body that he never had felt before. He still held the rosary in his hand and looked at it for a second as he still walked, finally placing it back over his head and around his neck. He would never take it off...he would never forget her...

A/N: So what do you think? Good so far? Bad so far? Remember that this is just the prologue and this is when Inuyasha and Kagome are kids, so cute, huh? Slow right now and I know they're kids I did that for a reason next chapter takes place 13 years after this event. I'll post the next chapter as soon as I get one review...I also didn't mention Kagome's name until the end maybe making some think it was Kikyo or something (a/n: I hate Kikyo!)

Oh and if you're wondering... Teijo: Kagome's dad, it's a Japanese name I found it means, "well governed" and Maemi: Kagome's mom, also a Japanese name that means "smile of truth." May not fit the characters completely, sorry...