Hey ya'll! I am back with a new fic! My friend and I came up with it so tell me how it is! Enjoy!

Counterbalance

Chapter One

By Kaguya's Chaos

It was a horrific sight. A girl with short auburn hair lay in the street. The car that had hit her had taken off, leaving her broken body in the road. Blood ran in rivulets down the side of her face to pool at the back of her head. Her school uniform was turning from the tan to a deep red. The ambulance was called and the spectators lined the streets. Next to the girls body was another girl with the same uniform. She cradled the unconscious girl's head and called out her name in a terrified voice.

"Miaka! Miaka! Wake up, Miaka!" The blond yelled down at the unresponsive girl now known as Miaka. A paramedic team arrived and removed the hysterical blonde from the wounded girl and placed her onto a stretcher. Sirens wailed in the distance, covering up the slight whisperings of Miaka.

"Yui..."

The paramedics checked her vital signs and did what they could before loading her into the ambulance. Yui pushed through and boarded as well, saying that they were sisters. The paramedics allowed her on and to the hospital they went. Yui sat by and watched as the crammed first response medics tried to stop the blood flow, occasionally shouting for new bandages.

They arrived at the hospital and immediately rushed the nearly dead girl into the building, a silently sobbing Yui trailing behind. Medics, doctors and nurses alike, flooded from everywhere. Voices were everywhere and mixed into a large mass of noise. The stretcher baring Miaka finally reached a pair of doors that lead to the ICU. Yui was held back by rather muscular-looking nurses and told that she could not go any further. Dismayed, Yui nodded in understanding and turned away from the double doors.

:a little later:

Yui stayed in the waiting room waiting for the arrival of the doctor to give her news on Miaka. 'Please let her be ok! Please!' She thought and turned sharply as the doors were thrown open. Standing in the doorway was Miaka's mom and brother. Yui ran forward and clung onto Miaka's mom with a tight grip, conveying her fear. She let go a minute later to explain what had happened.

"We were on our way to the library. We were crossing the street at the light and Miaka dropped something and bent down to pick it up. S-she...the driver was going too fast...she was..." Yui found she couldn't finish and broke down in tears. Keisuke, Miaka's brother, felt his own tears form as he looked away.

'Please be ok.' He thought to himself as he sat down, placing a comforting hand on his sobbing mothers back. Thoughts of everything being ok swam through his head as he tried to deal with the situation. Meanwhile, beside him, his mother was going through her own thoughts, vainly hoping that everything would be alright as well.

'Please, Kami. Let my baby be ok! If she makes it out of here, I won't hassle her on what school she goes to! Just please let her make it out of here alive!' She stifled another sob as she thought of the possibility that her little girl would not live.

Yui's head jerked up as her own parents burst through the door. She ran and embraced them before the doctor came out. His face was pale and a look of devastation was on his face. "I'm sorry..." He started. Yui didn't hear the rest as she passed out, tears leaking from her closed eyes. 'Why, Miaka!'

:With Kagome:

Kagome looked over at Inuyasha and sighed. He was being a jerk, again, and was snapping at everyone. He wasn't being his normal grumpy self. Oh no. He had taken this way over the normal meter. He had snapped at everyone and everything with a heated level of viciousness that made Kagome's eye twitch.

'He must be thinking about Kikyou.' Kagome thought with another sigh. They had been traveling back toward Kaede's village because Kagome was running low on supplies and the group hadn't found any leads on the shards. Feeling that they needed a slight rest anyway, Kagome had stated that she was going home. Needless to say, this brought a lot of anger down upon her from an unusually irritated hanyou. So, after much arguing and a lot of sits, the decision was made that they would head back. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

They reached the outskirts of the village and Shippo jumped off of Kagome's shoulder and ran toward Kaede's hut, wanting to draw out the latest drama that they had endured while on their journey. Inuyasha 'Feh'ed and jumped up into the nearest tree, wanting to seem as if he didn't care WHAT anyone else did. Sango and Miroku, however, walked with Kagome toward the bone-eaters well, insuring their friend didn't walk into any trouble on the way. They reached the well without problems. Kagome turned to her friends and smiled a little mischievously, secretly happy that Inuyasha had chosen to stay behind.

"I'll be gone for a couple of days, tell Inuyasha and Shippo I said good-bye!" She chirped as she hugged both of them good-bye and slapped Miroku for his wondering hands. She turned to the dried-up well and smirked. 'Inuyasha won't be happy with how long I'll be gone.' She thought and jumped into the wells darkened depths.

After Kagome jumped, Miroku and Sango turned to each other, their thoughts the same. 'Inuyasha won't like this.'

:Hehehe through the well:

Kagome climbed up the sides of the well and headed toward the house. Her shoulders sagged showing fatigue and her eyes were distant telling the world she was deep in thought. 'Ugh. I need a bath. And my bed.' So lost in thought, she didn't see the boy coming up the steps, waving his hands and trying to get her attention.

"Higurashi-san! Higurashi-san!"

Kagome's head jerked up and she looked over to see another of her problems running toward her. 'Oh shit! Hojo!' Kagome thought and realized she'd cussed. 'Stupid Inuyasha is rubbing off on me!' She faced away from Hojo then turned to him with a smile plastered on her face.

"Uh, hello, Hojo." She said with fake enthusiasm, wincing slightly at the tone in her voice. Hojo never noticed as he came closer and grinned with that innocent, dopey smile. He began his usual talk about her sicknesses and gave her something for her arthritis. Kagome felt her eye twitch for the second time that day and blamed it on stress.

'Oh, Kami. I'm going to kill ji-chan. Arthritis!' She thought as she wondered if someone her age could even get arthritis. However, Kagome smiled and nodded through all of the clueless boy's rambling, not paying any attention to what was being said. So it came as no surprise when she didn't notice he had asked her for a date and just kept smiling and nodding.

"Great! I'll pick you up at 7!" He exclaimed before he ran off. Kagome stood there blinking in confusion, her smile completely gone. 'Wait...what just happened here?' She wondered as she thought over what he'd said. 'Did I just say I'd go out with him?'Her confusion remained as she went into the house and shouted that she had come home. Before anyone could respond to this, she had run up the stairs and into her room.

:XP:

Kagome relaxed in the bath and sighed. She had called Hojo at 6 and said that something had come up and that she had to cancel. He had sounded dismayed as he had said that it was ok and he hoped that what ever it was that came up wasn't bad. She had assured him everything was fine. Hojo had then asked that maybe they could go out some other time and Kagome had laughed nervously, trying not to answer, knowing that she would probably crush the boy. She wasn't about to lie and agree to something she didn't really want to do...again.

Kagome sighed, for the third time today, and sank into the water. 'Why doesn't he get it? Boys are so dense!' She thought talking about four different people.

'Hojo and Kouga just don't get that I'm not interested. Miroku doesn't get that Sango is. And Inuyasha has enough problems with his old girlfriend. How do guys get this stupid!' (sorry guys! No offense! I swear!) Kagome asked as she let out all her frustrations on the rapidly cooling water, splashing at the surface.

She finished washing up and stepped out. (I'm not going to describe anything. Ya perverts!) She wrapped a towel around herself, dried off, and got dressed in her favorite pajama's. She then sat at her vanity and brushed her hair, pulling it back and braiding it. She looked down at her textbooks and sighed, thankful that it was Friday and that tomorrow was Saturday. This obviously meant no school or nagging friends, and certainly no amorous Hojo! With a last sigh she stood up and turned off her light, ready for bed.

Kagome woke up the next morning to see Souta staring down at her. "Souta! What are you doing in my room!" She shouted sitting up in bed. Souta grinned back at her with a combination of giddiness and an evilness that all little brothers seemed to possess. "Mom said you had to take me to the library today." Kagome groaned and got out of bed, muttering under her breath.

Souta left quickly, saying something about breakfast and for her to hurry up. Sparing her departing brother a glare that promised death, Kagome quickly got dressed in a pair of blue jeans and a black tank-top with '90 percent Angel, 10 percent other' written on the front in red lettering while underneath it was a picture of an angel with devil horns.

Kagome, still muttering under her breath about evil munchkins, tromped down the stairs and plopped down in the dining room. She ate breakfast grumbling at the way Souta chatted away so "early" in the morning. Obviously, she wasn't a morning person. After breakfast she stood up and her mom told her why she was taking Souta to the library.

"I have some things to do today, so I need you to take Souta to the library. He has some research to find for a school project." She said in a 'No arguments or else!' tone of voice. Kagome sighed, looked down at her empty plate, and resigned herself to her fate. 'Crap. And I thought I would be able to relax here!' She snorted to herself at the irony of it all.

"Alright, lets go." She said as stood from the table and walked out the door quickly, followed by a cheery Souta. They walked without talking for a while before Souta couldn't take the silence anymore. "So how is Inuyasha? Did you fight any youkai lately? Was anyone hurt? Have you found any new shards lately? Has Naraku attacked you?" He fired off his questions and Kagome sighed again.

"No. We haven't fought any youkai lately. No one has been hurt. We have not found any new shards and Naraku has not attacked us at all." Kagome lied and walked a little faster. She ignored the question of how Inuyasha was because she didn't know herself. 'He never tells me anything.' She thought irritably. Souta knew that she was pissed about something, and that she had most likely lied, so he kept quite the rest of the way.

'What crawled up her ass and died?' He thought to himself, clearly not unaffected by Inuyasha's speech patterns.

:XD:

(Alright folks, I know I'm sounding like I'm rushing through this, but it's a lot to write and I just can't wait to get it all out! I'll try to put more detail in it from this moment on! Again, I said I would try so bare with me.)

The Gods looked down on the world and frowned, troubled by the things they witnessed. They watched as the girl Miaka was declared dead and her funeral was planned.

"The girl wasn't supposed to die."

"What do we do now?"

"How are we supposed to fix this?"

"She wasn't supposed to die!"

"Calm down!"

The God that spoke last turned his eyes to the others around him. A frown marred his features and the look in his eyes signified that he was in deep thought. All eyes turned to the window in which they viewed everything. A girl with black hair and stormy blue eyes came into their sights. She had the same amount of energy as the first girl had and the right amount of purity. And to top it all off, she was heading toward the library.

"Well. I believe we have found her replacement."

"No! She has another mission to do!"

"She can put that one on hold. This is more serious."

"You know what'll happen if either of the missions fail! She will have to do them both?"

"She won't be able to complete them! It'll wear her out and then where would we be? She's a mortal! She won't last long."

"She'll be fine." The calm, quiet voice came from the back and all arguments ceased. The other gods looked to him with unease and relented in his choice of the young miko shown before them.

"I hope you know what you're doing."

"As do I."

:Hehehe the Gods…:

Kagome entered the library and headed toward the front desk with Souta to ask if the book he was looking for was in. She waited beside him, as the librarian searched her computer database for the book, and looked around. She had to admit, the place was huge. She felt a slight breeze at the back of her neck and looked over to see what it was. There standing on the stairs was a huge beautiful red bird. Her eyes widened and she was almost tempted to walk right back out the doors.

'Follow me.'

:That's all for now:

Alrighty folks! This is a new story by me! Kaguya's Chaos and my friend EarthBabie! We came together and came up with this crack-pot idea! We decided to try it out and we want to know your opinion. If you think that we should continue...please tell us!

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