For the next few years, InuYasha saw images of his mothers dead body being dragged away inside his head, he never smiled, never laughed, never giggled, never showed any signs of happiness. One day he decided to run away, so he did. He got a whole 2 kilometres away and then one of the people who worked at the asylum for Tramatized kids found him and put him in the back of the truck.

The back of the truck had to be the dirtiest place InuYasha had ever seen in his whole life, but he was used to it. He saw this place every day for the past 7 years. That's right, he had been running away since he had first gotten to the asylum, and now he was 10 years old. Silently he prayed that todays beating would hurt less then the last, but usually it didn't make a difference. Every beating hurt worse and worse every time. Whenever Mr. Toyokotsu found him he would beat him to a bloody pulp and say that he found him that way.

InuYasha stopped praying when he saw Mr. Toyokotsu coming to the back of the truck, fists clenched. "This'll teach ya to run away like that, ya crazy fool" he said, punching InuYasha and making him smash intot he boxes in the side of the truck. The corner of the box dug into InuYasha's side, knocking the wind out of him. He had almost caught his breath when Mr. Toyokotsu swung another punch at him and he was knocked off his feet once more and into the same boxes again. InuYasha was about to fight back but Mr. Toyokotsu was too quick for him, once he had caught his breath, Mr Toyokotsu was on top of him once more and he was flying once again into the boxes.

He didn't know how much more he could take. Usually there were no boxes for him to be swung onto and the corners of them were digging into his skin, making him bleed. Mr. Toyokotsu threw his last couple of punches and grabbed InuYasha by the arm, making him go up to the front passengers seat so that nothing would seem suspicious when he brought InuYasha back to the asylum.

When they arrived back InuYasha was slow to get out of the truck. His whole body hurt. His lips were cut and swollen, his arms were bleeding to no end, his ribs felt as if they were broken but he was having no toruble breathing so they weren't. Slowly and painfully he walked inside the asylum and was engulfed in a huge hug by Mrs.Tikyene. He flinched at the touch and pushed her away and began to head to his room where he sat and drew deranged things and colored them in with black markers until about an hour and a half later when he was called downstairs for dinner.

He walked in with a gloomy look on his face which was his expression everyday. His mouth was always formed into a frown, he never smiled, never. His ears always drooped and he always always looked at the floor when he walked. Usually he had bags under his eyes because he stayed up most of the night either drawing those hideous deranged pictures or he sat staring out of his window watching the rain fall down and imagined them the tears of his dead mother.

He sat down in his usual spot at the dinner table and played with his food for a little while, then took a couple bites of his mashed potatoes, carrots, and spinnach and left the table without saying a word. He was almost out the door when he heard another chair pull away from the table and footsteps start towards him. He knew what was coming so he just kept on walking. It seemed the smartest thing to do at the time but he knew that he was going to pay for it later. He knew that pretty soon Mr. Toyokotsu was going to catch up with him and he was going to be hurt even more. And he was right. The next thing that happened was that Mr. Toyokotsu had yelled at him for behaving rudely at the table and threw him a punch and he was out.

The next thing he knew it was morning. InuYasha awoke with an aching head...no, an aching body. He knew he was going to be killed if he didn't get away. He was strong and could take a lot more then a lot of kids but he knew that if he stayed for much longer his body would give out on him and he would die. He had to get away. But for now he just ran up to his room and drew some pictures. Drawing always helped him think. Then he heard a noise outside.

It was laughter. He looked out his window to see who it was and saw a little girl who looked to be about his age with raven black hair and a white and green outfit on playing hopscotch with her friends. InuYasha imediatly took his attention away from his drawing and towards the raven haired girl outside his window. He stared at her for a long time, wondering what it was like to laugh as she did. The girl and her friends seemed to be canstantly laughing. He watched these girls for days and then decided to go outside and see them.

So one day around 4:30pm he went outside where the girls usually played hopscotch and waited for them for about 5 minutes and of course they showed up, but this time they didn't play their game, they just stared at the strange boy who was watching them so closely. "Uhm...Not to be rude or anything, but who are you?" the girl with raven hair asked him. "InuYasha" he answered her back. "What's your last name?" the girls friend asked. InuYasha just shrugged. He had never really thought about it before, but he didn't know his last name. "I'm Kagome Higurashi" she said, holding out her hand to shake.

"Would you like to play hopscotch with us?" Kagome asked him. InuYasha nodded and she held out her hand for him to take and held his in her own. She began showing him how to play hopscotch and where to put your feet and other things of this importance when playing hopscotch and finally the game was started. Everyone fell down at least once and they ended up staying out late that night telling jokes. Some of which the raven haired girls friend Sango's proved to be offensive. But when Kagome told her joke he laughed. For the first time in his life he actually laughed. And then it was time to go inside.

"Will you meet us here tomorrow?" Kagome asked him, hoping he would say yes. InuYasha nodded and quickly went inside to go to sleep so that he wouldn't be tired the next day, for once in his life he felt happy, but was this happiness going to last? Or was it just for the time being?

That's chapter three! I hope you liked it! Please review! More chapters to come!