Disclaimer: - I do not in anyway own InuYasha or anything to do with it. I'm simply borrowing the characters to annoy the characters.

Shadow- hay peoples, this is my first fanfic so no mean comments, I hate the whole burst the bubble thing. Do and you will regret it, I have my ways. (Evil laugh)

Sesshomaru- she needs to work on her evil laughs.

Shadow- shut up. You forget who writing this story. I have yet to get to the main twist and if you are not careful you will not live to see it, or you will hate it with the greatest of loathe.

InuYasha- (snicker)

Shadow- I haven't even began the story, both of you shut up!

Chapter 1: - New Home, New Chances

Two girls carefully opened the front door of the old house. Everything was covered in sheets and dust- the house hadn't been in use for over 40 yrs. But the house itself had survived two world wars, since it was over a hundred yrs old. The family that had once owned it had lost it when the last owner willed it to his two adopted grandchildren. The house itself was in a fine part of the Japanese country side, a few hours from its capital-Tokyo. The ground would need a lot of work before it could be restored to its former glory.

One of the girls was two years older then the younger, smaller one. Her waist length fiery hair and pale lavender eyes spoke of the fact that she wasn't native to Japan. In fact both girls were foreigners to the country, recently moving since the death of their only guardian. The second girl, while smaller was likely to become much taller then the older. She on the other hand wore her hair a lot shorter, it only coming down to her shoulders and being a bright blond colour with the blacken tips. Her small slightly snubbed nose added to the sweet nature of her heart shaped face. Both girls had recently moved from their home city this other country in hope of leaving their past behind them.

The girls both had rough pasts- often they were not proud of what they had to do to survive in their world. Downtown New York City was no place for a couple of orphan girls who had the incredible ability to get into fights with almost every gang in the city in the matter of a few months, but then again it had been for a good course. When the girls had discovered that everything that the grandfather had own had been willed to them instead of to the family, they had taken the chance to start a new life in a new country. But there were some things in their pasts that the girls could look fondly back on, things to be proud of.

"Well, this is it. What ya think? Does it have potential?" The older girl looked back to the younger one, who had already dumped her bag at the front door before coming in.

"Yeah, I think so. I wonder why G's moved away from here to a dump in DT NYC? Yo, my girl, check this out." The younger one moved over to the side of the front entrance to look out the small window. Outside stood a statue of 3 people, all of them carrying swords. While two was kneeling and holding their swords in front of them the third was standing over them. All three had long hair, but that was all that they could see as a vine and come up and was entangled around the statue.

"That must be that statue the G's was always talking about. Talk about old school." The younger girl looked back at the older one, who was busy studying the rafters in the roof to notice.

"This place doesn't seem to need too much repair, but decorating is a must, think you got that one covered Nicky?" The older girls glanced over to the younger, who happily complied with the unvoiced request and took out paper and pen from her bag.

"Now, we need a theme-" Nicky started

"Restoration and modernisation."

"Fine bossy. Let's go look at eh rest of the house. I think we are going to need a few extra things added if we are to survive here. Come on Nashi, I want to see what is going to be need to added to the kitchen and I want to see the bedrooms- I want to pick out mine- and I really want to see where we should put the office, I still have my laptop but I want a more reliable connection for my website. Oh, oh, oh! I want to see the bathroom! I love big baths and G's said this place had a huge one!" Nashi smiled to herself as she grabbed Nicky by the back of her shirt before she could take off to explore the house.

"In Japan it's considered very rude to wear your shoes inside the house. You wouldn't want those nasty rellies of G's to drop by and get offended, would ya now? Oh, and remember the next bus to the city goes by in two hours, and the next one is not until 9, and I really don't want to stay here over night until we at least have a few things we need to done. And no, we are not Nigh clubbing tonight, one we are not dressed for it, two you are under aged and three we only arrived in this damn country two hours ago and still haven't checked into the hotel yet. Just remember that alright? If you need me I'll be checking the dojo, k?" Nicky smiled innocently up at the older girl, they technically weren't related, but they were best friends and sisters until the end.

After taking off her shoes and running off to explore her new home, Nicky couldn't shake the feeling that something was watching her. But after living in NY for so long she didn't give it a seconded thought.

Nashi went outside and around the side to look for the dojo. After several turns around the house she stopped short. Before her was a post, a plain wooden post about 6inchs think. The grass around it was short, unlike the rest of the grass around the house. The plants around it look as if it had been slashed back, not cut with even a little attention, but more randomly slashed, like someone had been ticked off at something. But that was not what caught Nashi's eye- it was the marking on the post itself.

There were what looked like claw markings deep into the wood- some had four while others had five. Nashi moved closer to the post. She had seen such markings before- they were like the nail marks you get when women with long nails attack you with them, only these were deeper. They looked like that had been done with claws and not nails since nails would had broken long before they could have gotten marking that deep. They hadn't been done far some whacked out art project, that was plain to see. Whatever had made these markings, Nashi did not was to get into a bitch slapping fight with.

Trying to put it to the back of her mind, Nashi moved on until she found what she was looking for, a separate building that would be the dojo. Hundred There was a veranda all the way around it. It had a bit of junk piled up against the walls that would have to be gotten rid of, put the trees that were growing way too close to the dojo would have to be cut back, the roof could use some cleaning and a few repairs, but other then that it looked like it was in good condition.

After taking her shoes off and pushing aside some of the junk, Nashi tried to unlocked the padlock that look almost as old as the house, but it had rusted beyond unlocking. Taking hold of it, Nashi twisted the lock until it snapped in her hands. It wasn't very hard since she was use to doing it and the lock was very rusted. Carefully opening the door, she stepped in and looked around. Apart from 40 yrs of dust, the inside of the dojo was pretty good. The roof hadn't leaked- which that in itself was a miracle- and there didn't seem to be any damage from the 40yrs of neglect. The ring from the call of her younger sister's cell brought Nashi back from her daydreaming

"Yo, Nashi! Can you help me with this? I can't open this door. It's got a weird lock on it and it needs the key. BTW, where are you? I was calling for you!"

"You called my cell for that! I'm in the dojo, like I said I would be! It's a separate building altogether! I'll be up there in just a sec, just hold tight. Which room are we talking about here?"

"That's the weird part- it's not just a room, its part of the hallway! I'm guessing two to three rooms have been completely blocked off to us." Nicky sounded really confused.

"Wha-? Never mind, I'll be up there with the key in just a sec. Which part of the house are ya?"

"The east wing, I think. I'll open a window for ya." Nicky hung up after that as Nashi made her way back to the house.

Upon making it back to the house Nashi looked up to the arched roof before gently jumping up and grabbing hold of the roof. Bring her legs together and lifting them complexly straight as high as she could before sharply swinging them back and bringing herself to a handstand on the edge of the roof. Nashi held it for a few extra seconds then slowly brought her feet back to the roof and calmly stood up. Sighing in relief, Nashi wen to turn to go she her sister and best friend when the tile under her foot gave way and sent her fall backwards. Pushing off her hands and jumping up to the top of the roof. Taking a few seconds to regain her balance and slow her suddenly fast heartbeat. Turning towards the east wing, Nashi didn't notice the 3 sets of golden amber eyes watching her from the trees around the dojo. One set was bored and cold, while the other was simply curious to whom these new strange people were and the third was carefully summing her up and a slight look of approval.

Jumping in though the open window Nashi found her friend waiting while she listened to her MP3 player. Looking up with a slight look of frustration, Nick pointed to the looked door. The door was in the middle of the hallway and it was not the kind of door that would lead to another room. Nashi examined the handle to discover that there was no lock.

"It's probably locked from the inside, there's no lock on this side. We'll look into it later, but first I want you to decide what we are going to need in the way of appliances, I want them ordered by the end of the week. Since its summer break at the moment we have until the holiday to finish the house." Nashi turned to go have a look at the kitchen and where she should put the new TV they would be getting, not to mention how she was going to rig up the sound system throughout the house. With all the money they now had they could afford it. Nashi was careful to plan out how much they could spend on what and knew not to go on a crazy spending spree like what Nicky had wanted to do but now she could see just what there had to be done for them to live comfortably for the rest of their lives, and of course she also knew not everything always goes to plan.

Later they moved outside and found a deep pond that was really hot.

"Hot springs, funny, G's never said anything about any hot springs. Well, at least we don't have to worry about running out if hot water." Nashi stated causally

"Yeah, I can't wait to swim in that! I've always wanted my every own heated swimming pool. Yay!" Nicky jumped up and down with excitement, which was somewhat childish in Nashi's eyes.

"Ah, Nicky, that's not an outdoor pool, that's an outdoor bath. Man, for someone who can speak, read and writes Japanese so well, I'm surprised that you don't know more about the culture and customs of this country." Nashi looked at her sister with a fake sad look in her eyes. Nicky on the other hand gave her a surprise and shocked look.

"You mean… we gotta… HELL NO! We are getting a special set of swimmers. I sure as hell am not coming out here with nothing on!" Nicky shuddered involuntary.

"Come on, we'll discuss this later, if we don't leave now we'll miss the bus back to the hotel, cause I'm sure as hell am not going to walk back and I'm sure how to hack us a ride in this country." As Nashi moved off towards the bus stop that was about a half hour walk she could have sworn that she felt something fly past her, fast enough to cause a wind to move her hair, but the day was completely still and there was no breeze.

InuYasha-Wait a sec, I thought we were suppose to be in this story!

Shadow- You are you baka! Now you'll have to wait until I have the next chapter up until you can find out more. And NO EATING MY SUPLIE OF CHOCOLATE!

Sesshomaru- foolish brother.

InuYasha- Shut up!

Sesshomaru (ignoring InuYasha) You never cease to amazing me with you stupidity.

InuTashio- Sesshomaru, I have requested that you be nicer to your younger brother

Both sons ignoring father- I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!

Shadow- Get out of my room! Now I do not want you baka's destroying it! Go annoy Sister or something, she enjoys watching you try to kill each other.

A/N –Sister is one of two best friends.