The way I see it life is like a jelly doughnut. You don't know what it's about until you bit into it. And then, just when you decide it's good, you drop a big glob of jelly on your favorite shirt.

My name is Kagome Higurashi, and I drop a lot of jelly globs, figuratively and literally. I was brought up in the darkest part of Japan that we called: Shikun. If you were any other kid but me you would probably grow up to be either a cop or a member of a gang. I however was born and raised in a temple, right in the middle of Shikun. I grew up with my older sister, Kikyo as any other normal kid would, being put in my situation. My sister was the best at everything she ever did. She got strait A's at school, and all ways had a boy friend at her disposal. I on the other had managed a C if I was lucky and the closest thing I ever had for a boy friend was my pet hamster, Larry. Mom always said she was proud of me for being who I am, and not being my sister. But deep down I believe if I was Kikyo's identical, she would like me even more.

Mother was very protective of us. But the one thing that she stressed the most was never go near the Estaphan's. Mom said that their family was dangerous and needed to be locked away. I was only six and had no Idea why my mother would forbid me against seeing some one. I might have never seen this family if mom had never told me about them, but her worries intrigued me. So later I suppose you could say it was her fault, but for now my curiosity was the one to blame. The Estaphan's family contained one boy about my age, a mother and a grandmother, how bad could it be? Apparently, very bad. I learned that the boy's name was Kouga. He had Black hair and blue eyes. He was the most gorgeous boy I had ever seen.

I met him while walking down the street with my sister. My sister upon spotting him playing with his ball, at once tried her usual antics to try and get his attention. At first I didn't understand what she was doing. She was announcing her report card grades so loud that my ears started to hurt. When she finally got him to look at her, she started gloating about how she was the most popular at school and how her old boy friend wasn't good enough for her. She closed her eyes and blabbed so loud I wouldn't be surprised if the boy would run away to escape her voice. But in stead he kicked his soccer ball at her and it hit her square in the stomach. That effectively put an end to her noise for a moment then she started screaming her head off, crying.

"I'm going to tell on you!" She cried pointing at Kouga then started running home. Kouga who looked like he could care less turned to me and smiled.

"You wanna play?" He asked. I looked after my sister thinking I should really go after her, but all I would be missing was a lot of crying and here this boy wanted to play. What the heck? Why not? I agreed to the play date and told him my name. Then asked for his in return.

"Kouga, Kouga Estaphan" There my world froze. What should I do? This is one of the evil Estaphan's my mother warned me about. A smarter kid would have faked remembering something and ran away. I however was not one of those kids. Time caught up with me and I found my self in a garage. Most likely Kouga's garage, being that he was the only being there besides me.

"What do you want to play?" I asked. He smiled big then said,

"Choo-choo" I had never heard of that game before, but was willing to give it a shoot. "This is how you play, I'll be the train and you'll be the tunnel." This worked out pretty well I had never thought that he being the train had full view of under my skirt while going under me. After a day of Choo-choo, I went home to tell my mother of my new friend. She seemed to get the gist of Kouga's little scheme and told me if I ever play with him again I would be grounded for life. I of course didn't understand why I wasn't allowed to play with Kouga. I thought that if it were my sister they would be allowed to be friends. So I ignored mothers warning once again. I wanted to play with my friend, is that too much to ask?

Well I guess it was because I was caught sneaking out of the house wanting to play again. Mother tried to explain as much as she could with out getting into the 'birds and the bees" talk. Kikyo, who was a bit older, understood what was going on and told me, forcing mom into it anyway. Six is an innocent age, an age where you learn that things die and live. Not an appropriate age to ask the, 'were baby's come from' question. Not for another four years anyway. For some odd reason in the same week this happened the Estaphan's moved to the other side of Shikun. I didn't see him again until college.

I worked at a pastry shop part time to earn some extra money. The place was nice, homey and it paid fairly well too. It was Saturday night and business was slow. I was debating with my self weather or not to eat one of the eclairs form the glass container, when in all his pride and glory Kouga walked through the double doors. He took my breath away, he was even more handsome then I remembered. I had heard rumors of a hot guy writing not so pleasing poetry about me in a school on the other side of town. A guy hot by the name of Kouga. I was furious when I first found out, but I was willing to forgive him now if he would just look my way. And he did, he enchanted my pants of with his charm and then before I knew it, I had lost my virginity. Yes very sad indeed. As soon as my mind started to work I damned him to hell. This was not what I wanted. Every girl in Shikun would have died to have what happened to me happen to her. But I wish he were the one who died. Gods what did I do wrong to have this happen to me. I didn't want this to happen, I was filthy and I took me till I was out of college to finally feel clean again.

Kouga had forever marked me and I got over it. As soon as I escaped from college, I got a job as a clothing designer and I got married to a guy named Inu-yasha. He seemed nice enough, I loved him and he loved me that's good enough right? Right? Wrong! I thought I loved him but what is love anyway? Is it a feeling that you get when you receive a gift? If that's love I love a lot of people. What I had going for me had not been love, this was confirmed when I caught him and my sister making out on the sofa. I got divorced. And moved in to an apartment with my new hamster, Josh.

You might be thinking poor me well I didn't feel bad for myself so no one else should. With Inu-yasha I lost my job, so there was still something I had to do before I rolled over and died. I was now at the age of 24 and things weren't that bad....

I woke to the blasting of my alarm clock in my ear. I turned over taking care of the alarm clock by throwing it at the wall opposite. That didn't help the fact that I still had to get up. I dragged my self in to the bathroom and took a shower. This always got me up in the morning. When finished I moseyed over to my close on the counter next to the sink. I dressed in my uniform of blue genes and a loose T-shirt. I did my hair and did the make-up thing. I exited the bathroom and took a door to the left in to the living room. The living room was pretty empty, due to the fact that I had to sell almost every thing to buy food. I entered the kitchen to Josh's happy scuttling. Despite what you might think the furniture didn't buy much food. I opened the fridge and let out a pitiful sigh at the contents. There was two bottles of beer, hamster nuggets, moldy cheese and four eggs. I grabbed a beer and a hand full of hamster nuggets. I dropped the nuggets in to Josh's caged and stopped watched his reaction. Josh sniffed them, then clearly disgusted ran back to his wheel and continued running.

"I don't blame you" I snorted. I tried them once they're not very yummy. I had to get a job it was the only way to turn this miserable life upside down. Just then the phone rang. I walked back in to my room to pick it up. I was to slow so the answering machine took it.

Beep "Kagome, this is your mother speaking. When you get this massage I want you to come over and visit. Your aunts here and would like to say hello. She said that she might know were you can get a job. And she brought your favorite, strawberry cheesecake. I have to take your grandpa to a viewing so your aunt will be here alone. Come over soon." Beep

Kagome rolled her eyes. Her aunt was a nice person, but her obsessive cooking was too much. There was no way I could manage to avoid strawberry cheesecake and I'm sure beer was not as healthy of a breakfast. I put the beer back in the fridge, locked up the apartment and fled down the stairs into the parking lot. The apartment was not huge, but average size. From where I was standing I could see my bed room window. I hopped in to my purple Buick and sped off towards my mom's house. Mom still lives in the same temple that she lived in for as long as I've known her.

As soon as I reached the house I did some impressive parallel parking. Then marched up the steps to claim my prize. The door swung open as I reached for the doorknob. My aunt ran out and gave me a hug.

"Welcome, Kagome. It's been to long." She said. Despite what she may act like, she is about 49 years old. She was different then most aunts, she all ways was trying to make her self look younger and the amazing thing was that she actually succeed. She led me inside the house and sat me down in one of the chairs surrounding the dining room table. In the center was a large cheesecake. I couldn't stop my self from staring and drooling. "Kagome, I heard you lost your job" my eyes snapped up from the cheesecake to her. "My son might be able to get you a new one" I had to stop my self from snorting. My cousin Zack, or as I say the weasel would sooner give me a heart attack then a job. I'm not even sure what kind of job he does. My eyes started to drift back to the cake. "I know what your thinking and I can assure you that Zachary will give you a job."

"To believe that I need cake!" I exclaimed.

"Take it. I made two," she said with a smile. I forked a slice on to my plate and dug in. I left with a tummy full of cake and a possible job in my future, things were looking up. Believing I would actually get the job was too much to hope for but hey, who knows? I looked back at the slip of paper she gave me with the address to Weasel's flower arrangements. Not for one minute did I believe that Zack did flower arrangements but I decided to humor his mom. I pulled into a parking lot and looked up at the building. 'Zackery's bond agency'

I let out a laugh. He spelled his name wrong so his mom wouldn't know. I parked then walk casually toward the automatic doors. At the front desk there was a woman about my age give or take a few years, labeled Sango. I walked up to her and smiled.

"Hi, I'm looking for Zachary" the girl looked up and smiled back.

"One moment," she said and pressed a button then said; "Mr. Smoke there's a person here to see you." Then unpressed the button and turned toward a door to the right of her. Weasel looked just as his name inquired, he had a long nose and his eyes were to close together. He looked at me in horror.

"What's wrong dear cousin? Didn't you miss me?" I asked in mock hurt. Sango watched me with interest as I walk towards him.

"Kagome, how did you find me?"

"Well, your mom said that I might be able to find work here."

"There's no work for you"

"That's sad, I guess I'll have to tell your mom what you're doing. This defiantly is not a flower shop" Zack's eyes widened.

"That's black mail, that's not fair"

"All is fair in love and war" I cackled.

"F-fine but if you tell, you're fired!" I smiled wider, and then turned back to Sango.

"Give me the one that pays the most." I said. Sango smirked.

"The one that pays the most is.... This one" Sango said digging through her files. "No one can get this one" She handed it over. I opened and gasped at the face that grinned up at me.

'Kouga'

That's the first chapter of 'They Call Her Kagome'. Tell me how you like it!

-Llamachick

P.S. What's a bounty hunter you may ask. Well Bounty hunters are the guys that hunt down the bad guy who skip out on there court date! They go knocking down door guns drawn taking down the bad guys.