Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Inuyasha, or the brief excerpt from Bessie Smith's It Makes My Love Come Down quoted at the end of this chapter.

AN: Just an idea that I'm toying with, I'm not quite sure if I'll be finishing it. And if I do decide to continue it, it will only be updated when I can regularlyupdatethe Inu Tales and Haunted.In case you're dense this one-shot (or possible prologue) is written in Inuyasha's POV.

Yuugao

Prologue

Makes My Love Come Down

Dames...

Crazy, moody, touchy, bossy, sexy, punch your head(y) dames.

Why I got involved I'll never know

My older brother always said.

"Dames ain't nothin' but trouble."

For a long time he lived by this mantra, barely letting a woman get a foot near him before walking away. Of course then he fell in love and got married. And any word spoken against the "Gentler Sex" earned him a wallop over the head on behalf of his lovely young wife.

Up until that instant dames were just a one night stand. Wham, bam thank you ma'm. And if she had trouble letting go a few hundred dollar bills slipped into her hand could just as easily make her disappear from my life. The way I lived my life was not the way that men of the Inukami family were expected to act, but I didn't really give a damn. I just get through high-school, and later college living my life the way my own heart wanted. Of course by the time I got out of college my family had tried to saddle me with Kikyou Miyabita. A wealthy young beauty, and the daughter of another prominent "businessman", that had a tendency to hold onto my arm as if she were the Jaws of Life. The only reason that I let her hang around was that it kept my family off my back.

It had been winter, I remember because the snow was falling softly as we stepped into the small speakeasy and I was wondering how Kikyou could grasp me so tightly if she was "going to catch her death of cold." All thoughts of Kikyou left my mind though, when I walked into the Yuugao and I heard her sing. The sweet, svelte little thing In her blue dress…The moment I saw that dame I knew for sure my life was never going to be the same again.

"If you want me for your own, kiss me nice and leave me alone
It makes my love come down, it makes my love come down
Take me bye-bye, it makes my love come down
When you take me for a ride, when I'm close up by your side
It makes my love come down, ridin' all around
Easy ridin' makes my love come down"

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