THE PAST ALWAYS COMES TO HAUNT YOUR FUTURE

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Chapter 1

Kagome smiled at her friends as they talked real loud to be heard over the loud music. She was happy. The Shikon no Tama had been completed and Naraku eliminated. Life was perfect. After that she had told her friends she wanted to go home and let her family know she was still alive as she hadn't returned in five months now. She also said she wanted to stay home for awhile to catch up in school, but told them she'd be back as soon as possible to visit them.

They had agreed, even Inuyasha surprising enough. The most surprising thing was after the battle had ended she had handed the jewel to him so he could make his wish, and he gave it back to her saying he didn't want to use it telling her she had made him appreciate what he was and she was the protector of it and to do so.

She smiled at that memory. One reason she had wanted to come back home for the time being was she couldn't handle the heartbreak anymore. She had been betrayed one to many times in the feudal ages and wanted time to heal from it.

She tilted her head looking into a memory only she could see. A tear slid down her cheek. Yes her leaving had been for the best even though it had hurt a lot. She quickly wiped it away before any of her friends saw it.

One thing she would always remember though was how she was ready to return to her friends to find the well didn't work anymore. It had hurt but then she figured it for the best. There was so much she knew she'd be missing out on though. Like Shippo growing up. Miroku and Sango's wedding and their future children. Inuyasha and Kikyo's love regrowing again.

Yes Kikyo was still alive. They had found that Kagome was in fact not Kikyo's reincarnation but Midoriko (Did I spell that right? Please correct me if it isn't correct) They were even able bring Kikyo back to life so she was no longer a doll of clay and bones but a human being with a soul of her own without having to feed off of others.

She would miss out on a lot but for now she was able to rebuild her life here. It had gotten as normal as she could get it and she even pulled her grades up so she was somewhere in the top ten of her grade.

Tonight her friends had somehow talked her into coming to a dance club to celebrate her miraculous recovery from her "illnesses". She had tried to get out of it saying she didn't have anything to wear but Ayume had declared she had the perfect outfit for her to wear. So she ended up reluctantly agreeing tocome along.

So here she was sitting in a club with her five best friends.

She looked at her outfit briefly. She wore skin tight black leather pants that flared at the bottom around her black army boots. Her top was a slinky green spaghetti strapped shirt with studs on it.

Her friends had done her makeup for her. They even got a henna tattoo on her right shoulder blade that said protector. Her hair was pulled back in a high ponytail with a little bit of her bangs down to frame her face in. All in all she had to admit she looked pretty good.

Soon a boy came over asking Ayume to dance. Looking at her friends to see if it was okay she smiled as they all nodded and headed toward the dance floor with the boy.

Soon one by one her friends were asked to dance and only Kagome was left at the table by herself.

Sighing softly she walked over to the bar getting a coke. As she headed back to the table when a new song came on making her stop listening to it. Closing her eyes she began to sway to the beat of it. She shut the noise out around her so it was only her and the music. The song seemed to offer comfort to her as the notes wrapped around her giving her the feeling of safetly and happiness. She was soon brought out of her thoughts when a man wrapped his arms around her waist pulling her back against his hard chest.

"Mind if I have this dance?" a silky voice said by her ear.

Startled by the man behind her she began to struggle to free herself of his grasp, but he only tightened his hold on her swaying with her to the music.

She relaxed in her struggling coming to the conclusion that the man wasn't going to hurt her and relaxed into his arms still on her guard.

She soon became comfortable in this strangers arms that she didn't seem to notice that one song after another had finished and they were still dancing.

She felt so safe in these arms it reminded her of someone else who used to hold her like that before in the feudal era before he had betrayed her. Images of golden eyes and silver hair came to mind.

As another song ended the man wrapped his arms a bit tighter around her waist making her frown. What was he doing?

He spoke again into her ear in the same silky smooth tone he had used earlier. "Silly girl. Did you really think you could escape me?" he asked making her stiffen in his grasp. "I told you a long time ago you were mine. Did you really think you would be free from me in the future?"

Scared stiff she broke free from his grasp and turned to face him.

The whole time he had been talking to her she'd been thinking `There are only four who said I was theirs. One we killed, another mated with someone else, the other most likely be dead. That only leaves.... Oh god don't be him.' she thought as she looked at him gasping when she saw who it was.

(I should end here but I won't because I'm going to be nice this time just don't expect it from me that much.)

"Sess-Sesshomaru." she said looking at the beautiful demon before her in terror. He hadn't changed much. He still had the long silver hair and golden eyes and still was as tall as ever.

The only things different was he no longer had the markings on his face nor did he have his tail. Where did that go anyways?

Still looking at him in terror she ran from him to one of her friends who was closest to her and also knew about her history. Having a whispered conversation with her about her situation, Alex frowned thoughtfully and called the rest of their friends together only saying Kagome was having problems with a guy here and it was best if they left.

The rest of the girls agreed, even if they didn't know anything about this they knew whoever this guy was he scared their friend they didn't like that. They walked off in a group Kagome in the middle to keep her safe even though she and Alex knew if he really were to come after her the circle wouldn't keep her safe.

Sesshomaru watched her rush to her friends. He had expected her to react that way though and wasn't surprised, but it still hurt slightly.

No matter how much he had expected it, it would never stop that slight bit of pain that would enter when she looked at him with that look of horror over her pretty features. It still hurt.

Ever since she disappeared back into her time he had waited until he would see her again.

He remembered when he had met with his brother Inuyasha had blamed him saying it was his fault that she didn't return to his friends. He never got a chance to explain to him or her what had happened. She had left before he could tell her anything and Inuyasha wouldn't hear it.

He had vowed he would find her and explain to her what had happened. In fact he had entered into the club tonight trying to think of a way to find her still not expecting to find her for some time. But he had. He found her dancing by herself. He had found her after five hundred years of waiting. He could wait awhile longer to get her back but he wasn't about to lose her again. He had already lost her once and he would not allow it to happen again.

What did you think?? Good or bad. I hope you enjoyed this is one of my first stories that a friend of mine encouraged me to write. So is one of my other stories. She has a lot of power over me. O_o it's kinda scary lol anyways please r&r

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