Kagome's grandfather's brother's daughter's husband's sister's daughter (i'll just say she's her cousin), Lyn, from America, comes to live with her family in the shrine.Will she be able to go down the well anddefeat the creature that killed her motherand made her an orphan in the first place? How does InuYasha feel aboutLyn's secret? and what's with the collar with the bell?

DISCLAIMER: I do not own InuYasha, all I own is Lyn, Kagome's "cousin" from America

Please review so I know how you'll feel about my story. It's myvery first fanfiction, so don't flame me if it's not good.

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Chapter 1: The Big Surprise

Lyn's Dream:

" Lyn. . . Lyn. . .where are you, sweety? "

Lyn opened her eyes to find herself in a dark void of nothing. She looked down to see that she was also standing on nothing.

"Mom?" Lyn questioned the voice. "Mom, is that you?" She looked around her one more time to find a strange looking light in the distance.

"Lyn. . . sweety . . mommy can't see." the light said. Lyn looked a little closer at the light to see a figure in the middle. 'Is that mom?'

"Lyn. . .are you there?" the light said almost crying this time.

Lyn was trying to run, but it felt as if her feet were bolted to the ground. "MOM! ! !"

"Lyn. . . it is so dark."

Lyn was crying this time. "Mom I'm right here.'' She kept staring into the light.

"Lyn. . . Lyn. . ." the voice was disappearing with the light " Lyn. . Lyn. . "

"Mom." Lyn managed to say, but the light was gone, "MOTHER! ! !"

Lyn fell to her knees, tears threatening to come out. Her throat started choking up and she felt the tears coming out of her eyes. Lyn carefully put her hands on her face to try and stop her from crying. "mom." Lyn said at last, "mom come back."

"Mom is not coming back." A cold hoarse voice said behind her. Lyn slowly turned around to see a white baboon pelt. The snow white pelt turned blood stained red. "Your mom belongs to me now." He slowly pulled his hand up to Lyn's face so she could see what he was holding. It was a head. Lyn started feeling a lot of her emotions. Sadness, Anger, Threat. She recognized the head of her mother's right there, in his hands.

"D-d-did you d-do. . " Lyn couldn't finish her sentence. She felt all alone all over again. Lyn heard a chuckle. 'Who would laugh at this?'

Baboon man stopped laughing and stared at her. "Yes." He calmly replied.

Lyn felt anger toward the man. "BASTARD! ! !" she yelled.

He started chuckling again. "What are you laughing at this. . " she was roughly interrupted as she felt a knife coming up to her neck.

The baboon man stopped laughing and plainly said, "You're next."

Reality:

Lyn quickly shot up from her bed panting and sweating. She looked around to see that everything was okay. All twelve bunk beds were there. The American flag still stood near the door. yes, it seemed to be a normal day at Mountain Orphanage. One thing seemed wrong though. "Every one's gone!"

Lyn looked at all the beds. They were all fixed. She looked at the grandfather clock in the corner. It read 9:00 AM.

"Shit." Lyn said as she tried to fix her bed. " I'm going to be late."

She finally fixed her bed, changed her clothes and walked down stairs to the kitchen where she saw everyone finishing up breakfast.

"You are late Lyn." said a very plum woman at the end of the 26 seat table.

"Sorry Miss Dew. It wont happen again." (A/N: I was drinking a Mountain Dew when I came up with her name, and she hates Lyn's guts. )

Everyone looked up so see Lyn. She was 13 years old. Always had a spiked dog collar around her neck. At the end of the dog collar, there seemed to be a tiny pink pillow with a bell. That really brought out her eyes which were a brilliant green with tiny blue circles. Her hair was a beautiful shade of blue that she always had in a high ponytail. She was 5' 1". She always wore baggy jeans with two T-shirts. One extra small, and the other Extra Large. The small one was either white or black, never both. The bigger one was always a crimson and had funny phrase like "Bite Me" or "You wish". The smaller one was underneath her bigger one. She had a piece of cloth on her left wrist that seemed to be part of a beautiful outfit. Nobody really knew why she had that on her.

" Lyn" a child at the age of eight said, " I saved you some food."

Lyn looked at her with puzzled eyes thinking 'She has never done that before.' (AN: clearly saying, Lyn was an outcast in the orphanage)

Lyn heard some sniffing and some crying. She looked around to see that every one had tears in their eyes. She saw three groups of two girls each hugging each other. ' What the. . .'

"We're gonna miss :: sniff ::you Lyn." one girl said.. 'Huh? Am I going somewhere?'

" Lyn," Miss Dew said trying to get her attention. Lyn wasn't paying any attention. Miss Dew got really upset about this. (A/N: Just imagine an anime pulse on her forehead.) " LYN! ! !"

Everyone stopped crying and turned to face Miss Dew.

" Lyn, I have great news." Miss Dew said finally calmed down. "Can you guess what it is about?"

"Well, telling about all the looks on every ones faces," She thought aloud, " It has something to do with me getting out of this shi. ." she looked at Miss Dew's expression . It seemed to be a dont-say-what-i-think-youre-gonna-say look. Lyn caught herself and instead, she said, "I mean It has something to do with me getting out of this orphanage." 'That was close.' sigh

"That's correct Lyn." Miss Dew congratulated. "Do you know where you are going?" Lyn shook her head. " Your going to live with the only family you have. Do you know where they live?" Miss Dew was getting happy this time, 'She's finally leaving this shit-hole to me. ' Lyn shook her head again. " CONGRATULATIONS LYN ! ! !" this caught everyone off guard and nearly everyone fell out of their seat. "You're getting a nonstop flight to" Miss Dew was drum rolling on the table, " Higurashi's Sunset Shrine in Tokyo, Japan."

Every one started crying again. Even though more than half of the orphans didn't know where Japan was.

Lyn stood there shocked. She didn't know what to say. The only thing that acknowledged Miss Dew that Lyn heard her was the sudden shock in Lyn's eyes. 'What!?' Lyn shouted in her head, ' Japan. . . Tokyo. . . Higurashi's Sunset Shrine!?' After her sudden shock, Lyn fainted.