Chapter 1

The raven haired girl threw down her pencil for the hundredth time. She looked out her bedroom window and saw there was no moon that night. Inyuasha must not be very happ- Stop you can't keep thinking about them. Resolved the girl picked up her pencil again only to throw it down a few seconds later. Maybe I should go and walk, yes a nice walk will help to clear my head.

As she walked down the deserted suburb streetsshe thought about the past. I know they are all dead and gone but I can't just forget everything like it didn't happen. You can't just give up friends like that cold turkey. Finally resolving what she was going to do she looked up to find out exactly where she was.

I guess when I need to clear my head I really have to go far she thought. After turning her third corner to get back to her house she still had an idea of her surroundings, but by the time she had gotten to her fourth corner she was sinking deeper into her thoughts like they were a cool refreshing pool. If she hadn't been so busy swimming in her brain then she would have noticed the young man standing in the center of the walk in front of her.

"Oh! Excuse me," was exclaimed from both parties when they collided. It was then when the girl had a chance to see her obstacle. He had a great lot of thick hair in a color that was not common in Japan, light roan brown. But the thing that was most striking about this man was his eyes were the color of liquid gold.

"No it is I who should apologize. Here I am lost and the one time I stop to look where I am it is right in front of someone." He laughed and his eyes, if it were possible, got even more golden.

"Oh, I would have seen you if I were paying attention." Said the girl, wow he is really beautiful, and his voice is just like his eyes, liquid smooth. "What is your name?" She asked only because she didn't want him to leave.

"Kin," he smiled, and it covered his entire face. The girl smiled as well, she could see why he was named that. (A.N. Kin means Golden in Japanese.)

"Well, mine is Kagome. I hope we will run into each other again Kin." She bowed and was about to pass him when he spoke to her.

"Wait! Can you help me? You're the first person who I have seen all night." He looked at her with almost pleading eyes. That look reminded Kagome of her kit.

"Fine, where do you have to go?" That look always got her; Shippo could make her do anything with that look.

"Um..." he took a piece of paper from his pocket and read "The Higurashi Shrine." He looked back at her with an air of polite confusion.

Kagome's breath caught in her chest, this man was looking for her shrine? Why was it the first night that she decided to move on with her life the world brought this man who somehow reminded her of all the things in her past?

"What do you need at the shrine?" She asked in a shaking voice.

The man in a very chivalrous act pretended not to hear the hesitation in the girl's voice.

"I have some business to attend to there." If Kagome hadn't been so preoccupied with her thoughts she would have been able to feel the sinister aura coming from the man's comment.

"Yes, um follow me. It isn't far." She looked down to her shoes when she said this, for some very odd reason she felt like she couldn't tell him just at that moment that her family owned the very same shrine this young man was looking for.

Again he didn't seem to notice her sudden interest in her laces. He put forth his best smile and she looked back at him. She seemed so fragile, like if he pushed her too hard then she would break. What his master wanted with her he had no idea. She just seemed to be a small introverted teenager who had absolutely no connection to him at all. I must do whatever master wants and master wants this girl so he will have this girl. I must get her to trust me. He held his hand out and put out an even better smile, one that Kagome was useless to. She took his hand and led the way back to her house.

When they were standing outside her door she said: "Well I should probably warn you, I live here and my family has owned this shrine for generations." She again had a problem looking into those golden orbs and this time looked at their interlocking fingers. Was it right to feel an attraction to this man? He is so much older than me, but then Inyuasha was over fifty years older than you too a tiny voice called out to her, she giggled and looked at him.

"What luck then I have had to have met you on the street!" He exclaimed with such excitement Kagome was taken aback. "I mean," he quickly corrected himself, "it was a very strange thing indeed for us to meet the way we did." Still looking at him oddly Kagome agreed and went up to the front door; finally having to drop his hand to get her keys out to unlock the door.

Thinking that there would be no one up in the house at that time in the night Kagome hoped they would be able to slip in unnoticed and leave Kin in the guest bedroom. Unfortunately the house was run by a woman who had an uncanny ability to hear everything that made noise.

"Where have you been?!" She called from the living room, Kagome cringed and Kin laughed in spite of himself.

"Hi mom." Kagome said meekly. Kagome's mother ran to the entrance way and started to yell at her daughter.

"Bed empty! No note! Paper unfinished! I could have called…" Her face and voice seemed to sag like a balloon because she noticed Kin for the first time. "And who may I ask are you?!" She stared angrily between the two of them as if they were doing something other than walking along a street.

"Mom, don't freak out Kin was lost and I helped him on his way." Kagome got between both of them and tried to calm her mother down. It was the perfect opportunity for Kin to pull out his wand and hide it in the folds of his jacket.

When Kagome had calmed her mother down she turned to Kin and mentioned that she would make a pot of tea. The second her hair whipped around the corner Kagome's mother shot a suspicious glance at Kin and then turned her back to him.

Imperio.

It was just a whisper not even that, Kagome's mother fell under Kin's control immediately.

"Kagome, why don't you give this nice young man the Shikon No Tama?" Her mother said in an odd voice. It seemed to go through a filter, a filter that seemed to take the entire human element out of it.

"What mom? I can't hear you over the water running." Kagome called.

With his wand carefully hidden in the small of her back Kin pushed his victim towards the kitchen. When they were in the doorway he pushed the older woman with his mind into repeating the line.

"What!" Kagome's face turned from surprise to anger in seconds. Kin loved watching her squirm and let out a low laugh.

"Did you really think that I was interested in you? Please, spare me the tangled web of high school drama I went through those years ago. Now if you would be so kind as to give me the Shikon No Tama and I will be on my way." He gave out his true smile, a smile that made his eyes grow hard and cold, a smile that seemed to take all the joy out of his entire face, a cruel smile.

"I can't I don't have it." She said indignantly looking him straight in the eye.

"Wrong answer," he said smiling again, "cruico!"

Kagome fell to the floor in pain, it seemed that there was thousands of bugs crawling and biting her. Every single part of her exploded with throbbing bitterness that didn't seem to go away.

As instantly as it had come, it disappeared because Kin had dropped the stick he was holding. He was grasping his arm and his face was contorted, when he pulled his sleeve up there was a black tattoo shining as if the ink had been crawling through his skin to get to the surface. Kin growled and grabbed his wand and disappeared with a pop.

Kagome had never felt anything like that. Of course she had felt pain before, but the way the young man had chosen his exit. His aura had completely disappeared, no not completely but it had decreased substantially.

"Kagome, where is that young man you brought here?" Her mothers said as if she had done nothing but walk out of the room and just come back. Kagome looked at her mother in surprise; both seemed to feel the same emotion. Her mother blinked several times and then seemed to think nothing of it and went to the door.

Kagome meanwhile had felt a strange sinking sensation. Her entire body felt like cold water had been dumped on her, but then to add on she felt something else and it was like the wind was blowing on her freezing wet body.

"Mom, I think I need to go away for a while." With that said the raven haired girl got up and went to her room to pack.