Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA... NOR THE MANGA NOR THE ANIME

SunMoon1285: Hello readers! Here I am... trying to start with another story... (sighs) I hope it's as good as the one that I sooo loved doing

Sesshomaru: Don't worry I'm sure they'll like it... If they don't... (sharpens claws)

SunMoon1285: Don't get psycho Sesshy... Anyways... please enjoy, please review and please... no flames (begs)

CHAPTER 1: The Journey is Only Beginning

A young girl with dark hair and kind brown eyes looked up from her journal and sighed to herself. "Even now I don't have the courage to write," she thought to herself, "If this keeps up, I will not be able to pass any of my classes." She looked at her trembling hands and she noticed the ring that a friend gave her a long time ago."It's strange, I hardly remember anything about my social life in high school and I don't know who gave me this ring. I woke up in a hospital and everyone was worried, they said they found me in a well. Of all places... why would I be doing in a well? I know now that I am afraid, of falling in love again. I don't know why."

Kagome. Don't be afraid. I will be here. Always

"Why do I always remember that?" she whispered. Kagome looked around the café she was in. She was outside sitting at the coffee table looking at the people around her. Most of the people looked happy and innocent. But still she couldn't find courage to go on. She looked down with her auburn eyes at her paper as she tugged one of her pigtails with her hand. She was suddenly brought back to reality when a blond boy dropped his belongings.

Slam! He dropped his books and materials from his table and was now picking it up. Kagome decided to help the boy. She handed him a couple of books and pens.

"Thank you," he said without looking. As he collected his things Kagome saw an acrylic picture of the sea.

"Excuse me, but do you have a flair for drawing?" she asked nervously.

"Oh. This is... homework," he said laughing, "Actually I want to become a professional athlete. Do you have a flair for drawing?"

"I draw and write for a hobby. I want to study history." Kagome said bluntly.

"You don't really like talking to other people do you?" the boy said with his purple eyes sparkling.

"I don't talk to people whom I don't know their names for the least." Kagome said sheepishly.

"Ouch girl! Okay! Try me! My name is Inu Kazuma. I like pizza, writing and driving around in my white Ford Mustang! I hate snobbish people and I am single" the boy said rather arrogantly, "and you?"

Kagome was about to respond when she heard two boys coming over which she thought were Inu's friends. One of them, wore a plaid blue buttoned shirt with jeans and the other wore a yellow T-Shirt with jeans and a sweater tied around his waist.

"I am sorry but I must go" she said, "I hope to see you again"

"You will, Kagome Higurashi." Inu responded as he hoisted himself from his position as she left the café.

Kagome was left with shiver running down her spine. "How does he know my name?" The wind rustled her wild ebony hair. Her thoughts were interrupted by a rushing memory.

"Kagome. I. I'm sorry but you have to go..." Sango told her, "Miroku is right...you cannot bear to see him again"

"Why? You said you'd need me here always! Why?" she heard herself cry.

"Because, you cannot stay... I'm so sorry. Lady Kagome" Miroku answered her

As Kagome walked away from him, Inu Kazuma observed Kagome intently.

"She really is something, isn't she? Well, I guess it is better that way. It makes things for for me more interesting. Maybe I could have some fun- UGH!" Inu stopped short when his two friends Koga and Shippo jumped on his back and almost fell face first on the sidewalk.

"Dude! We're late for practice! You know that, don't you? You ARE the captain of the team and all." said Koga brushing away his long dark hair from his tanned face.

"Maybe you've been flirting with some girl again!" Shippo said exasperately. Unlike Inu and Koga, Shippo thought that he should wait for someone special to start bantering and develop a relationship.

"SHOTGUN!" Koga called as he fought with Shippo fumbling over the handle of the passenger door.

Finally Shippo gave up and slipped in the back seat. Koga, proudly, sat on the passenger seat.

"You guys are pathetic." Inu said as he got on his white Ford Mustang.

When Inu, Shippo, and Koga arrived at the soccer field, they quickly changed into their team uniforms, regardless of the women that were staring at their well-developed bodies. They called all the freshmen over to the bleachers in order to begin their tryouts.

"Look at these! All scrawny and stupid!" yelled Inu with a smirk on his face.

"You guys really are something..." Shippo said to himself, already used to their taunts and common insults to scare the freshmen.

The boys were hurt by that remark. Koga and Inu continued laughing at them as they both laid bad comments on them.

"Stop it. They don't like that," a stern voice called out coolly from behind them.

"Who said that?" yelled Shippo while taking off his cap revealing his reddish brown hair.

A young man walked towards the bleachers. His blonde hair was stroked gently by the wind. His eyes were covered by his soft bangs.

"Well," said Inu, "What are you going to do about it?"

"Nothing," the boy said with a sarcastic grin, "nothing at all"

Inu felt rage flowing through his body. "This punk is making a fool out of me" he thought. Inu started to think of a comeback but unfortunately the 'punk' had already left him to his thoughts, walking away from him.

"You stupid son of a bitch! Suck on this!" Inu said as he kicked the soccer ball straight to that man's head. But suddenly, the handsome outsider turned around, deftly detained the ball and gently laid it on the ground.

"Is that the best you can do?" the stranger laughed icily looking up at Inu revealing his amber eyes, "Please, don't comment on others if you are worse than them. It only makes you more foolish."

"I'll do what I want! I am Inu Kazuma! I am the best! You couldn't last a minute against me!" Inu yelled.

"Are you finished, or shall I withstand more of your bickering?" the stranger asked in a bored tone.

"Lighten up asshole!" said Koga, "He is the captain of the team!"

"And what a great captain he is." he said sardonically, "and if you'll excuse me, I have an appointment" The mysterious student headed to the exit.

Inu couldn't contain himself anymore. He began to curse around and hit everything in his way.

"Listen up, you bastard! How about a one-on-one? Then I could show you who Inu Kazuma really is!"

"I refuse," said the young man as he left the field, "only because I have an appointment to go to." He kicked the ball skillfully to the soccer net leaving the entire team, and the arriving coach, in awe. "Hmph, I need more practice, I have become rusty." he said to himself.

When the unfeeling person left, all of the team remained quiet.

"Hey Inu, what do you want us to do about him?" Koga asked.

"Nothin' just leave that asshole alone! I'll find a way to hurt him." Inu answered.

Inu swore that the poor fool would pay for what he did.

"Please.. Don't leave" he heard himself say at the beautiful miko

"I'm sorry but I have to... and I've been...Sesshomaru. I..." Kagome trailed off as the memory began to fade away.

"Don't worry Kagome. We will meet again. I shall be with you always" the Taiyoukai answered as suddenly, the world turned black, 'I realized it too late. That I did love her, that day.'

The mysterious stranger thought about that memory as he took his leave from the field. 'Poor fool... This memory may be perhaps from a dream... It must be' he thought as he continued onward, 'He must have loved her a lot... to sink himself to openly welcome a human no less... after all, he was a youkai'.

"Sessho Taishou?" a woman asked.

Sessho snapped out of his trance and realized he was already at the reception table. The woman had addressed him several times. "Yes?" Sessho answered stoically.

"This is your schedule and your keys to your apartment. But for now you should take a breath of fresh air around campus" the woman explained.

Sessho forced a smile and left the room. He began to wander around looking for his room. Suddenly, a pain shot through his chest. "Damn it. Why now of all times?" he managed to said out loud. He took out a pill from his pocket and swallowed it. After a few minutes of labored breathing, he could walk again. He sat down on a bench waiting for it to go away complettly.

"Hello, Sessho Taishou" a man said. He was around his mid-twenties as was he.

Sessho stood up and glanced at the silhouette emotionlessly. "How did you find me?" he asked.

"Please, sit down before you have another attack." the man said as he brushed away his charcoal hair from his face."I finally found you Sessho Taishou. I have been looking for you for a long time. You ARE my best friend you know..."

"You truly are a fool... Miroku Lee" Sessho managed to say, rolling his eyes at him.

"You knew you would see me sometime today. How could you forget? You know that destiny awaits all of us. You have those strange dreams as I do... of the girl who had stolen your heart in your past life."

Sessho found himself responding to him. Miroku's voice seemed soothing and yet... he felt as if he had met him before in another life... 'It can't be, it would be preposterous'.

"This pain... I've had it ever since I can remember... Even after all this time, doctors don't know what it is but gave me this pain reliever. It has been a life saver in many occasions" Sessho recalled.

Suddenly, he remembered a dream he once had of his past life. He was with a miko. He had gotten hurt from a great battle with a demon and was bleeding heavily. Kagome knelt down beside him and touched his wound and the bleeding stopped. But a person, he inferred as his brother pushed her away when he saw what she was doing.

"So you know that she hasn't yet fulfilled her destiny?" Miroku asked as Sessho looked at him blankly, but his mind amazed that he read his exact thoughts, "I can read your face like the palm of my hand. I was a monk in my past life."

"That was why... the miko was told to stay away... after the battle" Sessho blurted, 'From the Feudal Era".

"Not exactly. She was sent away from the Feudal Era to escape her fate, but something made her erase her memories. Perhaps she was not supposed to be with you. I mean your past incarnation. She was supposed to be with someone else," Miroku added as he stood up and walked ten paces away from Sessho.

Sessho's hand began to shake his eyes began to glow, "NO. This isn't true. I can't be..."

"Do not hold back. You have to let it out sometime" Miroku teased, "Just like I had to with my holy powers"

"I'd rather not." Sessho whispered, "I haven't found a way to control them... not without it taking over me"

Little did Sessho realize that a stone was cast to him and he caught it effortlessly.

"Good. But how about this?" Miroku said as he launched two rocks simultaneously towards him.

Sessho barely flinched and opened his eyes only to cause a red glow in them and freeze the rocks just mere centimeters from his face. The rocks pulverized to blowing dust and Sessho dropped to the ground exhausted.

"Sorry, my friend... it was the only way I could help you release it" Miroku said as he hoisted Sessho over his shoulder and carried them back to the bench.

Unknown to them both, a looming figure was watching them from his window.

"Well. I guess I found you and your friend, monk" the voice muttered, "only three more to go".

He gathered his things and said: "I'll see you all at my class... especially you, Sesshomaru..."

"That memory..", Kagome thought to herself, "was that a dream or was it real?"

She walked around aimlessly throughout the campus. Suddenly, someone put his hand over her shoulder. She got surprised and hit that person on the gut before pining him to the ground. She got red of embarrasment when she noticed who it was.

"Inu!" she called out.

"MAN you have some good techniques! Where did you learn that?" he asked.

"Well. I don't remember- but... you can't be too careless you know" Kagome added nervously with a smile.

"Yeah," Inu said with a sad tone. "She really doesn't remember?" he thought to himself.

As he thought about that he sensed something and looked up at the punk who embarrassed him at practice looking at them from a bench. He kept staring at Kagome instead of him.

"Hey Kagome! Wanna to go get something to eat and talk more about each other?" Inu offered.

"All right!" she replied with a smile on her face.

Sessho watched from the bench as Inu escorted Kagome somewhere. His eyes held confusion before his mask was put into place.

"Why? Why I am I captivated her?" he asked as emotionless as he could.

"Because it isn't your destiny," responded Miroku.

"Not the miko... her... that girl over there" Sessho signaled the raven haired girl walking with Inu, "Forget I said anything... What is my destiny Miroku?"

Miroku browsed through his bookbag and took out an ancient book.

"These belonged to my ancestor... My family believed that he fought a fierce hannyou to remove himself of a curse called 'The Wind Tunnel'... maybe his writings can help us know your destiny..." Miroku answered as he browsed through the worn pages.

"Heh... your family believes so much in that grovel that they named you after him" Sessho said nonchalantly.

"I am going to tell you of a legend. A tale you might call it, but it is true, at least to me," Miroku said ignoring Sessho's remark, "Once upon a time there was four beings chosen by destiny. Each of them possessed great power and their souls were meant to fulfill a mission. Firstly was Sesshomaru the Lord of the West, he possessed the power of the Tenseiga and Toukijin. Secondly, Kagome, a miko from another dimension who possessed the power of magic and healing. Thirdly, Naraku, an evil being who desired nothing more than to have all the power to himself. And lastly, Inuyasha a hannyou who had the power of Tetsusaiga and... chaos. Well, the main matter is that Inuyasha fell in love with Kagome and was willing to do anything for her, but Sesshomaru also loved her with all his heart. They engaged in an everlasting war between them for her love unbeknowest to her."

"Weren't they in a rivalry before meeting this girl?" Sessho asked his friend.

"Yeah... but at that moment their hatred was more than before, but then, Inuayasha tried to coax Kagome into being his bride by forcing himself on her... but Kagome... she left the era... into her own dimension. But her memory was erased of unknown causes... Inuyasha in his rage of chaos... vanquished Naraku with the help of my ancestor. And Naraku with his dying breath chanted a spell to reincarnate history in hopes that maybe, in a distant future, he will gain the power of all Earth. What Naraku didn't expect was that THIS would still surface again."

Miroku took a deep breath and showed him a picture. Below it, there was an inscription that said: "The Taiyoukai of the West". He had long white hair and a stern face.

"You are the reincarnation of Sesshomaru, Sessho. As you can probably suspect... that girl whom you saw... she may be the Kagome in the legend..." Miroku said as he showed him the picture of a demon hunter. Strangely, it had doodles of hearts and flowers around it.

"Opps... Wrong one! That's my future wife who'll bear my loving children" Miroku stammered as he turned the page, "Here she is!"

"Gods... it looks just like her!" Sesshomaru said, but before Miroku could continue, shadow cast itself over them.

"Sessho Taishou... Miroku Lee... please come with me to my office" a professor in his thirties said. His ebony hair and ruthless eyes hid the real reason of their presence.

SunMoon1285: Another chapter done! Yay! (jumps up and down in happiness)

Sesshomaru: (comes by doing the moonwalk) Yeah! (chants in tune) I'm cool! I'm sexy! All my readers love me!

SunMoon1285: (staring at the dancing youkai praising himself) Why do I feel like he's a Narcissus look-alike? Well I hope you guys enjoyed the chapter and please review without flames... (I couldn't take it... sobs)

Sesshomaru: Please review... arigato for your attention