What if I didn't have you?

By Minako-chan

Original story and characters by Rumiko Takahashi.

The idea for this story just popped out of my mind some days ago. And I actually thought that perhaps it could do a great story. I know I have 3 stories in the making already, and that I haven't finished one of them. ^^u Sorry. I just had to write down this idea or I'm sure I would forget it later.

^^ So here it is, my version of what would happen if Inuyasha didn't have Kagome. It's just a small intro cause it's kinda late. But hopefully if tomorrow I don't have much homework to do, I'll write up some more ;). Enjoy.

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CHAPTER 1

"A new world"

"AH! Kagome get out of the way!" The hanyou screamed at Kagome.

"No! I can take it down!" Said girl responded with as much anger.

"I said get out of the way! I'll do it."

"No! I can do it myself! I'm not weak you know!" Why did he have to be so stubborn? Did he not believe she could do it? She was strong enough. Why was it then that when ever Sango tried doing something like that he didn't even tell her not to? It got on her nerves.

Kagome took a couple of steps back; Inuyasha kept murmuring stuff about how dumb she was and how weak girls were; how she would surely drop it and then she'd have to do double the work.

Her concentration slipped for a second and that was all she needed for her arms to start to give out. Bam! The basket of apples fell down. Crap! She crouched down and started to picking them up.

"See I told you you couldn't do it! You should have listened to me! Now you have to pick them all up. Humans. Heh!"

That was it! Inuyasha had been bothering her all day. First when she hadn't found any shards. Then, in the afternoon when the group had finally decided to head out to the village, he kept cursing his luck for having such weak humans that could not survive more than two weeks living in the forest. And now because she tried to help out in the village's orchard and he thought she was too weak to do anything.

She could have carried that basket of apples, if she hadn't been so distracted on what he was saying. It was as if that day he had set out to annoy her the most. And he was doing a great job at it too. She could still hear the flow of hurtful words come out of his mouth; and there IS only a certain amount of things a girl can take.

Well she had had enough! So what happened next? Well the only thing that could. The word popped out of her mouth. "SIT!"

His face meet the dirt really fast, and he didn't even have time to close it. The attack was unexpected. He heard her stomp off somewhere. Stupid wench. Why did she always have to overreact? The spell finally weakened and he was able to sit up.

His other three companions came around and saw his dirty haori. Miroku and Shippo just sighted, Sango looked at the apples on the floor and soon figured out what had happened. They had had a fight yet again. "Inuyasha when will you learn not to fight with Kagome?"

"Hey she started it! She just kept trying to get the stupid basket of apples down by herself."

" A fight over a basket of apples. How immature can adults be?" Shippo mouthed his thoughts out loud in a serious tone of voice. And of course, his comment would not go unpunished by a specific half breed that had been sitting on the floor.

The kitsune found his head soon under a closed fist. "Care to repeat that KIT?!"

"Inuyasha leave Shippo alone. He's quite right though. A fight over a basket of apples? Why have you been at Mrs. Kagome all day?" Even Miroku seemed tiered of that day's antics.

"Why don't you just go apologize so she'll come back? She'll want to sleep in Kaede's hut. And you might as well. I'm amazed at Kagome's patience, you haven't once apologized for all that you've done."

Inuyasha glared at his friends. It was they that were getting on his nerves. Specially Kagome, she had gone back to her time for a week without telling him and hadn't apologized for it. Whenever he'd gone to her time to find her she had been in that stupid place school or with her friends studying. For what did she study that much anyways?

Besides why the hell should he apologize if she hadn't? "Heh! She'll be back. I'm getting outta here."

And with those few words Inuyasha fled the crime scene.

"Do you think he'll go after her?" Sango looked after her friend. They were both stubborn but cared for each other. She was surprised that they hadn't figured out their feelings for each other -after being together for about a year-, when everyone else could tell how they really felt.

"But of course dear Sango. Just let him cool off, they'll be back."

As they all turned to pick up the apples. The kitsune, the demon slayer and the monk all picked up the apples in no time and headed off back to the hut. If you were part of the village, what happened next would not have seemed odd. But to any passer by it was a rare image. The next thing that could heard was: 'Slap!' "Get your dirty hands off you perv!"

"But Sango I did not do anything."

"Like hell you did! Keep your hands to yourself!" The young woman put one hand on her haritotsu and kept on threatening the monk.

The arguing could be heard all around the village, and as I said, if you had been a passer by this would have been strange. But not to the people of this village, after all they had gotten accustomed to the unusual sight of a hanyou, a miko, a demon slayer, a monk and a kitsune passing by the village every so often.

And yet, soon, they would have to get used to a different sight. Because within the shadows, a figure had a thought out plan. A plan that would change everyone's life. The figure went through the forest, it passed creatures that froze on the spot, but it did not do anything to them. Because to that individual nothing mattered; nothing mattered, that is, except getting rid of the miko, the girl named Kagome.

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A young girl sat at the edge of a well and sobbed. Why did he have to be such a big jerk to her? What did she ever do to deserve that kind of treatment? No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't figure it out. Perhaps it was the fact that he did not like her and would only ever love one person, Kikyo.

"Kouga is right, he IS a mutt. I don't even know why I take this from him. My life would be so much easier if I he wasn't here… If I hadn't come." Kagome kept sobbing, she wiped her nose with her handkerchief, the sadness was welling up inside of her. She had come to realize she cared dearly for this insensitive jerk. But he would rip her heart out every time he made hurtful comments.

" He doesn't really care about me. As always I'm just a shard detector, a replacement for Kikyo. For all rights I should just go back home now and never come back."

If the young miko had been more aware of her surroundings she would have noticed our shadow creep up behind her. But in the emotional state she was at, she was barely aware of anything. So all she felt was a hand push her into the well; and all she heard were the words: " Well your wish has just been granted. Goodbye Kagome Higurashi. You will not be an obstacle anymore."

What happened was totally unexpected. And she had little time to even think, she fell and was soon enveloped by the bright light that would always come whenever she traveled through time.

Kagome landed in the future. And thought about what had happened. Who had been that person? She hadn't even had time to register who the voice belonged to, but it seemed oddly familiar. Well she would just climb back up the well and fall back in to find out. So that's what she did, but when she fell down, she touched the ground.

She checked around her neck for the shards, and found that they were gone. * They must have taken them away when I fell through!!! Oh no! I can't go back!*

Her mind raced. What could she do? What could her friends do? * Inuyasha will come back for me! He will find a way!* But at the back of her mind something kept telling her that something wasn't right. That it just wasn't that simple.

She sighted and climbed out, there wasn't much she could do but wait for Inuyasha. He'd probably come back for her in no time. Once he saw his shard detector was gone he'd jump in the well and come get her. After all he never seemed to need the shards to jump in though time.

Kagome went up to the door and looked back one last time to the well. Inuyasha would find her, she had no doubt about it. She heard running footsteps outside; she turned and opened the door. But the sight, the smell, the world that greeted her WAS not the world she had left behind. She froze in shock, she froze because of what she saw past the figure in front of her; she froze because of WHO was in front of her.

"…Sesshomaru?"

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^^ Jijijijiji ^^ Did you guys expect someone else? ^^ Where is she getting to with this story you're wondering. Now go ahead and review, say anything you'd like to. If you like or dislike my narration, if you're interested in me continuing the story. ^^ lol Even if there was no one interested, actually, I'd just keep going ^^u lol. I've got great ideas for this story ^^. Well better go to sleep, it's 3:07am. ^^u