Hey I'm back!!! But before anything else, I'm going to warn you now. I update late so don't expect seeing another chapter every time you go on fanfiction. Though it's now summer here and we're currently on summer vacation, I still have my badminton, basketball, swimming and creative writing classes everyday so I'm really busy. But hope my late updating will not cause you to stop reviewing and reading my fics.. Well, thanks for your support though. All your reviews made me smile Ü (Yeah, I too can't imagine Sesshy with short hair but to make it believable, he has to have this. But what you will not imagine is Inu-Yasha!!! hehehe!!!) Wish you guys enjoy this chappy!!! Ü R&R... kaikawaii

Disclaimer: "coughs" I own Inuyasha ok... then... *get's hit on the head with a large keyboard* "No one owns me except the person who created me!!!" shouts a hanyou from behind.
K fine *sighs* the truth is... I DON'T OWN INUYASHA OR ANY OF IT'S
CHARACTERS!!!

Because of you...

Chapter 1- An unfriendly welcome

Emiko felt helpless. All she could remember was walking on Crescent Avenue and then everything went black. She couldn't move nor open her eyes. She could only feel the cold wind pass through her skinny body.

After a few minutes, she felt she had her energy back. Feeling that her once neatly brushed hair was now in a huge mess, she started to open her eyes. Another feeling of limpness came through her body. Then, she decided to give up. She just couldn't open her eyes. The young girl could only hear the noise of Tokyo. She heard footsteps and chattering. The deafening voices caused her to jerk a little.

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Sesshomaru felt the same thing. But unfortunately, he was stronger than average humans. Feeling the cold breeze run around the ground he was lying on, he slowly opened his golden eyes.

Unlike Emiko, Sesshomaru successfully did it. He scanned the surroundings still on the ground.

The bright rays of the sun collided in the city. The silver haired devil slowly stood up. Bringing his weight to both his hands, he pushed himself battling with gravity. Once he got on his feet, he felt dizzy. He put his left hand on his forehead then shook his head continuously.

He fixed his school uniform which happened to be a long sleeved turtle neck black shirt and matching black pants. ((I'm reminding you that this fic happens in the future so they are not in feudal Japan. Sesshomaru is currently attending a highly praised high school university that Emiko is also attending)) Not noticing what had just happened, Sesshomaru climbed on his bike and started putting on his helmet.

FLASHBACK

Sesshomaru's attention was currently on the accident happening on the street that he usually passes when going to school. He took another way not noticing that the stoplight has just turned red.

On the other hand, Emiko was waiting for the pedestrian's stoplight to turn green. She was so excited to go to her new school that she was too preoccupied to notice anything else happening.

Finally, she thought as the red light turned green.

The young Ishikawa walked with her chin up, surprisingly humming to herself now. As she took a step nearer, her heart beat started racing.

Sesshomaru started speeding again as he snapped back to reality. Just then he saw the light turn red. Seeing the pedestrian pass, he stopped abruptly causing his chest to bump the wheel. Finally, loosing balance, he fell, stomach first to the ground in front of him.

Emiko glanced to her right to see speeding Sesshomaru. She stopped walking curious of what he was doing. Just then, the unknown boy's motorcycle stopped right in front of her skinny body.

Not ready for the incident, Emiko dropped to her feet. Because of all the nervousness she was feeling, she fainted and dropped on the floor. Sesshomaru on the other hand was lying in front of her, unconscious as well.

END OF FLASHBACK

Just as Sesshomaru was back and ready to rumble, he caught sight of the unconscious girl covering his way to school.

God, he said to himself mentally annoyed that this woman was sleeping in the middle of the road.

He got back on his feet feeling a little dizzy. He shrugged the feeling off.

He knelt down to the brunette "sleeping" in the middle of the street. He was about to carry her when he noticed his hand was bleeding badly. He also noticed several cuts on his forehead that started giving out blood as well.

His hands were shaking when the young man saw his blood. Sesshomaru's family came from a long bloodline of very sensitive hearing, sight, touch and smelling. So, sniffing the scent of his own blood made him look even paler.

Blood never smells good, he said to himself. Even if it's my own.

He, then tried to forget the awful scent and tried to carry the girl. But when he almost laid his bloody hands to the girls white shirt, she slowly opened her eyes.

Seeing gold, Emiko quickly jerked right up.

"What were you doing with me, stranger?" she asked puzzled.

"What do you think I was doing?" Sesshomaru answered coldly.

Emiko just stared at the stranger. Sesshomaru stared at her too.

Just then, Emiko noticed the blood coming from the stranger's pale face.

"Don't you want to wipe that?" Emiko asked pointing at the scars.

"I don't care," was the cool reply of Sesshomaru. Then he stood up and once again put his helmet on his head. He sat down leaving helpless Emiko on the ground.

"Thanks a lot," she said sarcastically but Sesshomaru didn't give any sign that he heard her because he started running his engine. And at a split second, Sesshomaru rode off.

What a rude man, Emiko said to herself. She was now in the school grounds. Good thing, a girl named Eri passed by. She noticed Emiko's uniform and told her to hop in her car.

She took another step and then she felt butterflies in her stomach again. She stopped for a while.

C'mon Emiko, you can do this, she told herself. She hated to admit it but she was now hesitating. What if this school is as bad as the last one? What if it also had very strict teachers, heartless bullies and nosy classmates?

She took a deep breath. She was now standing in front of the teacher's staff room where she was appointed to go. She was about to step in when....

"Oh!" someone said. "Ye must be Emiko Ishikawa, our new student."

Emiko now found herself face to face with a sixty year old woman. She had long gray hair and a patched eye, like one of those pirates.

"Uh," Emiko said. Once again she was uncertain. "Yes that's me."

"Then what are ye doing outside the office. Come in! Come in!" the old woman said. "I am yer grade level coordinator Kaede Shimigawa!"

The two entered the room to see two smiling faces. One was a man. Because of the blue tie and white polo shirt, Emiko assumed he was a teacher. His blonde hair swayed with him as he walked closer to the two girls.

The other one was a woman. She had long raven black hair tied in a loose ponytail. Emiko knew she was a teacher because of her ID.

"Kikyo, Ryo!" Kaede yelled as the two stepped closer. "This is yer new student Emiko Ishikawa. I believe she will be in yer class Mikami, take good care of her. Emiko, this is Mr. Ryo Mikami and Ms. Kikyo Shimigawa your Math, Science, Reading and Social Studies teachers."

Emiko stared at the two happy faces and let out a smile. "Ohayo Mikami-sensei, Shimigawa-sensei!"

"Ohayo Ishikawa-san!" greeted Kikyo in return.

"Emiko," said Mr. Mikami in a low voice which made Emiko slightly blush. "You better come with me to class. The bell will ring any time now."

So, Emiko followed her blonde sensei to her classroom not far from the staff room. It was found at the right side and was near to library too.

Emiko entered the room with an unpainted face. She closed her eyes when she was already in the room standing in front of the class. She was already hearing her heart beat. Sweat poured down her forehead.

It's ok Emiko, c'mon you can do this, she chanted.

She held her dark black skirt tightly as she heard Mr. Mikami say: "Class, I would like you to meet a new student. Her name's Emiko Ishikawa and she's from Kyoto."

"Ohayo Emiko-san!" recited the class in a sleepy manner. This made Emiko sweat more.

"Emiko, would you like to say a few words?"

Emiko took a deep breath and opened her eyes slowly to see twenty- nine faces in front of her. Some looked a little board but some kept a smiling face.

"Hi! I'm Emiko. Glad to meet you all!"

Emiko was expecting an answer but class was dead silent. She sweat dropped and simply smiled.

"Ok," said Mr. Mikami finally. "You take the seat in between Sesshomaru and Inuyasha over there." He pointed at the seat between two silver haired men. Emiko almost lost her balance when she saw the same cold man seated there. He had already had a bandage surrounding his cut forehead and his bloody hands.

Emiko walked between the last row and the second to the last one. She took her seat hesitantly and laid her bag beside her. She turned to her left to see a short silver haired boy just like the one she bumped into. Just then, she noticed to dog ears sprouting out of him.

"Excuse me," she said shyly. "Are those real?" She slowly crept to Inu-Yasha and rubbed his left ear.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING GIRL?! THOSE ARE REAL ALRIGHT!!!!!!!" Inu-Yasha shouted only for those people near-by to hear. Emiko couldn't believe it but her seatmate had dog ears and was now purring like a cat.

"What are you?" she asked windrowing her hand from his ear.

"Why do you care? I don't even know you!" Inu-Yasha replied annoyed.

"Sheesh!" sighed Emiko. "Just asking."

Then a jet black haired girl turned from her seat which was in front of Inu-Yasha.

"Sorry Emiko for his bad attitude," she said. "I'm Kagome Higurashi, this is Inu-Yasha Taishi."

"Hi Kagome! And it's alright, I was rude too," Emiko admitted as she turned to her right. "Are you alright now?"

Sesshomaru knew she was talking to him but simply ignored her. Emiko was irritated and decided to bug him with the same question but tried hard not to irritate Sesshomaru as well.

After the 8th time, Emiko saw Sesshomaru look at her with at the corner of his eye. Then he slowly faced her with the same unemotional stare he gave her a while ago.

"Leave me alone or else," he threatened and turned his gaze back to the black board. Emiko heard him curse under his breath and say something about a 'great disturbance she was going to be'.

Emiko sighed feeling defeated. She admitted that this school was better than the last one, but it was still not that perfect.

So much for a happy welcome, she thought sarcastically. Just hope I don't run into more of these kind of people.

She put her elbow on her table and rested her chin on her hand. She listened half attentively to her teacher slowly drifting to another world...........

TBC...

A/N: so how was that? just don't forget to review this chapter... I also want to thank my friend Blue Savege, with out her, well, um... I would not accomplish the prologue... thank a lot nikki!!!! (try to read her story too from Yu-Gi-Oh! and Beyblade... she's pretty good too...)