A Lifetime without You Here.

(Kagome's POV)

"Inuyasha I'm sorry but I have to go back to my own time for a while." I sighed as the dog demon held on to my ankles. School was going to end soon but first I had to take test to make sure I could stay in high school or not.

"Please Kagome you can't go." Inuyasha crying and gave his sad puppy eyes. "What if Nuraku comes and you're not here to find his jewel shard?"

"Well then you can deal with that if it happens but I still have to go." I shook him off and jumped down the well.

I was so glade to be back in my old time. The hot baths the warm beds and best of all my family they are always putting up with my problems and I love them for it.

"Mom, Sota, Grandpa I'm home!" I called out and I ran in the house and kicked off my shoes.

"Kagome!" My mother cheered as she met me at the door. "How are you?"

I smiled. "I'm good and glade to be back."

"Kagome!" Both Grandpa and Sota cheered and they raced to greet me.

"How are you?" Grandpa asked.

"How's Inuyasha?" Sato jumped up and down. "Did you guys kill another demon?"

"I'm good and Inuyasha's the same." I smiled at my little brother." As for killing demons well we did yesterday."

Sato gasped and a huge smile took over his face. "You did? What was it like? Oh wow Kagome you really have a cool life tell me all about it."

"Kagome." My mother said. "I'll take your things and you can relax for awhile then you should really get some studying done."

"Alright." I nodded and handed her my bag then ran off to tell Sota all about Inuyasha and our grand adventures.

I left Yoko out of everything I wasn't going to dare bring him up. I miss him and I knew if I talked about him I would start to cry and then I wouldn't be able to concentrate on my studies. It has been over three months now since I been home and two months since I have seen Yoko. I wonder if he ever cares about me anymore.

"Okay Kagome it's time to study." My mom said and handed me a tray of food. "You can eat in your room tonight."

"Thank you." I nodded and I took the tray and went up to my room. "Time to study." I told myself as I cracked open a book and began to read. It was hard to remember things from previous chapters because I hadn't read them in so long. It was equally hard to concentrate on reading and studying because my mind would always drift and think on other things.

I woke up and saw that I had fallen asleep on my desk and my paper was wet from drool. Oh I hope my day was going to be better than this.

I took my bath and got ready for school. Mom had fixed omelets for breakfast because she knew they were my favorite. Then I was off to school.

Everyone was happy to see me and all my friends told me everything I had missed while I was gone. The one thing that caught my eye was the new student sitting in front. I couldn't tell the gender yet but I had a feeling by its long red hair it must be a girl.

"Got your eye on Shuuichi over there?" One of my friends giggled. "Isn't he cute? He just transferred here and from what I've heard he's a genius."

"A genius?" I asked. Oh so he wasn't a girl oops honest mistake. "Where did he move from?"

All the girls giggled. "From Toyama, isn't that cool?"

I smiled. "I think I'll go say hi."

"Oh don't." One of my friends said.

"He is very shy." Another said.

"Well what harm could it do you introduce myself?" I got up and walked over to him. He was reading but I couldn't just stand there like and idiot and wait for him to get done. "Um hi."

He looked up from his book and his green eyes widened a bit. "Oh hello." He smiled letting his eyes relax.

I held out my hand. "My name is Kagome Higurashi but you can just call my Kagome."

He smiled and took my hand. "Shuuichi Minamino but you can call me Shuuichi."

We let go of each others hands and my mind raced for something to ask. "So what brings you all the way to Tokyo?" I asked pushing a few strands of hair behind my ear.

"My mother." He said. "She isn't doing so well and the doctors in Toyama told us that the doctors here could treat her better."

"Oh I'm sorry to hear that." I said. "I hope she gets better soon."

He nodded. "Thank you Kagome."

Then the teacher came in and I had to go take my seat. "Talk to you later." I smiled and went to my desk.

After school my head hurt from all the information that was given so fast. I really should have taken more time to study in the feudal area. I hope the tests aren't as hard as most people say they are other wise I won't be able to graduate.

I began to walk home with my friends when one of my friends handed me a note. "This is from Shuuichi he asked me to give it to you." I took it and all my friends huddled around me.

I opened it and read it to myself. Meet me behind the school. Was all it said so I closed it quickly and told my friends I would see them later. What did this guy Shuuichi want from me all I said was hi. But I went behind the school anyways.

When I got there no one was even there. I looked around and wondered if maybe this was a trap but just as I turned to leave a short guy jumped in front of me.

"Leaving so soon?" He laughed in an evil way.

I stood frozen in my tracks and looked around. How did he get in front of me? I looked up and only saw sky. Then I looked back down at him and saw he had tall spiky black hair and a white bandana around his forehead.

"Who are you?" I finally asked.

"That's none of you concern." He said. "But I'm here to tell you that Yoko wants to see you."

"Yoko?" I gasped. "But I can't go back to the feudal era now I have to stay here and take some test first. Please tell him I'll come back soon."

"That's alright Kagome." A voice said behind me. "You don't have to leave."

I spun on my heels and saw Shuuichi standing right in front of me. No it couldn't be.

"Yoko…?"

He stepped into the light a little more looking down. "No my name is not Yoko Kurama anymore." Then he looked up looking serious. "From now on my name is Shuuichi Minamino."

I went in to shock and I could hardly speak. How did this happen? Why wasn't he Yoko anymore? How was he human?

"Yoko…" The words finally escaped.

He looked away. "I sorry Kagome."

"But how?" I cried.

He looked around when we heard people coming. "Come to my place and I can explain."

I nodded.

"Hiei lets go." He told the spiky haired guy.

"Hn," He nodded and we walked to his house.

When we got in the door I demanded to know what was going on. "Alright now spill. What happened? Why aren't you Yoko anymore?"

He sighed. "A bounty hunter named Rei-kai killed me in my fox form and my soul retreated to this time 15 years ago."

"If you haven't figured it out yet girl he is saying that he is human." The short guy said rudely.

"Forgive Hiei." Shuuichi said. "His not always nice."

I nodded not knowing what to say.

"Oh he's a fire demon."

"Oh" I looked down at him. "How did he get here?"

"Hu," Hiei rolled his eyes. "Unlike Shuuichi here I didn't have to die to get here I've been alive for many years."

"Oh so you're an old demon?"

"Grrr." He growled and sat on the windowsill. "Just talk to the fox."

"Is he always like that?" I asked.

"Only to people he doesn't know that well." He smiled.

"How do you know him?" I asked. "I don't remember him in your group."

"Hn." Hiei spoke up. "I would never be one to follow Yoko. He follows me."

'What?" I asked looking back at Shuuichi.

"Well you see…" Shuuichi smiled nervously. "Though I may appear human I still kept some of my demonic powers. I've tried to hide them from everyone but then Hiei here wanted me to join him in a group of other demons."

"Oh…"

"I'm sorry you probably don't understand a word I am saying." He smiled and rapped his arms around me. "The only thing that matters now is that we're together and nothing is going to separate us."

I stayed at Shuuichi's for an hour more but then I needed to go home and get to studying. I hated to say good bye but I knew I couldn't stand to see him as a human any longer. He wasn't Shuuichi to me but what was I going to do?