Just then, the black phone on the table started to ring. Kagome went to it and picked it up. "Hello?"

"Kagome Higurashi? I love butterflies. I have a few butterflies to show you. I'm coming over and I'll be there in about 5 minutes. Stay in the room. I'll come and get you. Do you understand?"

"Yes sir." Kagome said as she hung up the phone. Then she went to the door on the right and opened it. Indeed it was full of money. "This must have been the money those men were talking about." She saw a few bags on the floor, grabbed one and started stuffing it with the money before the people came in about 5 minutes.

Kagome finished packing the money just as she heard the front door unlock and two sets of feet walk inside. The feet were now walking up the stairs, crossing the hall, and they were now just outside Souta's room. Kagome quickly shut the door and pulled the bags around her feet as she hid under the desk. The door was opened and the people were moving the bed across the floor. Kagome could see the handle on the door just above her start to turn and then it was swung open. Kagome couldn't breathe. She didn't recognize the scents.

"Kagome?" the voice sounded old. It was a women's voice… not the voice she heard on the phone.

"Kagome, where are you?" it was the old man. This voice she trusted for some reason. Kagome stuck her head out from under the desk and smiled. They were an old couple. The women had an eye patch over her left eye and the man smelled of Flee Demon.

"Oh Kagome. There ye are. We need to go now. Those men are on their way here right now. Hand me those bags at your feet." The woman said as she held out her hands.

'I'd rather carry them if that's okay?" Kagome said as she grabbed the bags.

"That's fine dear. We just need to hurry. Give us your hand." Said the old man. Kagome reached up and took the elderly people's hands. They rushed to her room and threw as many clothes into a bag as possible in three seconds flat. They grabbed her bedding and ran outside to their car. They shoved everything into their trunk, put Kagome into the back seat, jumped into the front and took off.

Kagome sat in the back seat starring out the window at the world she had known zoom by. A tear streaked down her pail skin. Her brother had just died and now she was in a car with two old people going to a world she didn't know.

"We're sorry about ye brother Kagome. We are only here to protect ye. Do ye understand?" The old lady said. Her unpatched right eye looking at her around the right side of the seat. Kagome just nodded her head as she wiped away the tears. "My name is Lady Kaede. Ye may call me grandma if ye wish to. This is my husband Myoga. Ye may call him grandpa if ye wish to." Kagome just nodded her head again. She was grieving the loss of her older brother. She didn't care for familiarities right now. Her heart was in pain.

After a while, the car came to a slow stop in front of a HUGE building. Kagome looked up from the window to look at the house she will now call home.

"Welcome home Kagome. We can help you set up your room." Myoga said as he opened Kagome's door for her.

"That's okay. I'll do it later. Can I take a walk? While it's still a little light out? I won't go far." Myoga and Lady Kaede looked at each other skeptically for a minute.

"That doesn't sound too back. Ye may go for a walk. We will take your things to your room and ye can set it up when ye get back. Don't go far and don't talk to strangers." Lady Kaede said as she gave Kagome a hug.

"Kagome hugged her back. "Don't worry grandma. I won't go far. Souta let me go for walks all the time and he even taught me karate. Don't worry grandma and grandpa. I'll be back soon." Kagome finished with a smile as she walked away.

"She called us her grandparents Kaede! Souta said she was going to be difficult." Myoga said as he pulled Kagome's things out of the trunk of the car and started into the house.

"She's really upset. She was crying in the car." Lady Kaede said as she too grabbed bags and bedding and walking into the house.

"I know she was crying. Her salty tears filled the entire car. It was nauseating. I almost ran off the road."

"I almost passed out with the grief coming off of her aura. How can someone so small grieve so much but still put a smile on her face? The smile reached her eyes too."

With Kagome

Souta. Why did you have to go? If I had known you were going to see those guys I would have talked you out of it and we could have run away. We could have taken the money and gone away and could have been safe and still together. Kagome looked up when she felt someone walking towards here. She didn't know where she was going. She was just crying and walking. She saw two little boys and a girl, all about her age, walking her way.

"Hey girl. Why are you crying? You weakling little girl. Probably lost her little dolly or something." Laughed one of the boys. He had shoulder length silver hair, a dark red shirt, blue jeans, and a baseball cap.

"Inuyasha, that's not funny." Scolded the girl. She was wearing dark jeans and a dark green shirt. She smacked the boy known as Inuyasha in the back of the head with such force that Kagome even winced.

"OW. Sango that hurt. I was just kidding." Inuyasha said as he rubbed the back of his head. Kagome wasn't laughing. She was fuming. "Why are you so upset kiddo?"

"I JUST LOST MY OLDER BROTHER AND NOW I'M LIVING WITH MY GRANDPARENTS. I HARDLY KNOW THEM. MY OLDER BROTHER WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD. EXCUSE ME FOR BEING A LITTLE UPSET ABOUT THAT." Kagome screamed. Then she turned around and was about the run back home when two arms around wrapped around her.

"You poor thing. I am so sorry for my idiot of a friend. He's heartless most of the time." The girl said. "I'm Sango Tajia. These are my friends Miroku Houshi and Inuyasha Takahashi." Sango said as she pointed to each of the boys. Miroku was wearing a pair of dark jeans and a dark purple shirt. He had short hair that was pulled into a little ponytail at the nape of his neck. "What's your name?"

"I'm Kagome Higurashi. I just moved in with my grandparents." She said as she looked at Inuyasha. He was different than the other kids. She could sense it.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Inuyasha asked with a huff and his arms crossed across his chest.

"It's nothing." Kagome said as she shook her head. "I need to get home." Kagome said as she turned around.

"Hey Kagome." Sango said.

"Yeah?"

"Why don't you meat us tomorrow at the big tree in the park. Wear jeans and a dark shirt."

"I could do that. I have only dark shirts. What time?"

"Oh. Just be there at noon. I'm sure your grandparents wouldn't mind you hanging out with us? Who are your grandparents? We probably know them."

"Their names are Myoga and Lady Kaede." All three children sweat dropped.

"You're related to Master Myoga and Lady Kaede? I didn't know they had any children let alone grandchildren." Inuyasha said skeptically.

"Yeah. I didn't know I was related to them until just this morning." Kagome said as she started walking away again. "I'll be at the tree tomorrow at noon." Kagome smiled and waved as she walked away back to her new home.

At Home For Dinner

"So where did you go Kagome?" grandpa asked.

"I just walked down the street. Met three kids." Kagome said as she put a spoonful of mashed potatoes in her mouth.

"Oh, who were they?" grandma asked.

"Sango Tajia, Miroku Houshi and Inuyasha Takahashi. I'm meeting them at the big tree in the park tomorrow at noon, if that's okay." Kagome said and asked all at the same time.

"That sounds fine. Its time ye meet some kids your own age. They are nice kids all though I would watch out for Inuyasha. He tends to get himself into trouble." Kaede laughed.

"What kind of trouble? Trouble with the law?" Kagome asked. She was very curious about this boy for some reason. She really wanted to get to know him.

"Oh, no. Just some things he does. This is a small town. Not much to do to get on the wrong side of the law. I hope you don't mind me saying but Souta knew you would be safe here." Myoga said. "Inuyasha merely does a few things to get under our skin. Toilet papering houses, egging cars, and a bit of graffiti. Nothing to major."

"Oh. How did you guys know Souta?"

"Well, he came to us a few years back. You were too small to remember. But he asked for work. He said that his parents had died and he didn't want to be separated from you so he was hiding from police and CPS just to keep you safe. He said that you didn't do well around other children and you had a short fuse when it comes to your temper." Myoga started the story. Kagome didn't know anything about this.

"That right. He came and asked for worked and a home in order to take care of ye. He said that ye were to stay with him because he was the only one that ye trusted to take care of ye. We gave him a room here. No children of our own, so we took ye in as our adopted grandchildren. We took him to work with us in our local factory and he did everything he could in order to make enough money to get a home and put ye into school. He said that ye deserved to live as any child should with or without parents." Lady Kaede said.

"He worked hard so we paid him extra until you turned five and had to start going to school. He said that he wanted to put you into the school in your hometown so he moved away from our home with the promise that he would call if ever he needed our help. We were slightly surprised when he called yesterday saying that we had to come and get you. He said that he was in trouble over money and he probably wouldn't live through it. We had to call his private phone around noon and say that we loved butterflies. We were to talk to you and get you out of town and to your new home here. Since his 'friends' didn't know that you even existed, we had to move fast. We came to the outskirts of town this morning. At noon we started calling the phone. We called probably five times when you finally answered. We were relived when you answered the phone. We were worried that they had found you."

"Well. When ye answered the phone, we started driving again. We had to make it to ye house before Souta's 'friends' did. We out-drove maybe 2 cops before we got to the house. We passed by the warehouse and saw the men getting into their cars. Myoga heard them talking. They were coming to the house. We drove faster just to get there before they did. We managed. As we were leaving the house, we passed them. We were driving down the street as they were driving up. We were lucky. Ye were lucky. Well that's the story and it's the past. This is the future. Ye future." Kagome was in tears at this point. She realized just how close she had come to being discovered and probably killed. At least she would have been with her brother. But then she would have never fulfilled her brother's wishes. Kagome's head was bent as she silently cried.

"May I be excused?" Kagome asked quietly. She wasn't at all surprised that Myoga had heard her.

"You sure may Kagome. We will put your dinner in the fridge for you for when you feel like eating again."

"Thank you." Kagome stood from the table. Just as she got to the stairs across the hall from the dinning room she paused. She looked at her new family and a small smile spread across her face. "Thank you so much for getting there as fast as you did. Souta would be upset if I didn't fulfill his wishes."

"You're welcome Kagome!"

"Ye are very welcome dear!"

With that said from her new family, Kagome went to her room. She wanted to finish putting her room together, take a shower and go to bed. She was tired and she wanted to make sure she got proper rest for tomorrow. When she got to her room, she went to the bed that had her things on it. She put the bag on the floor and opened it. Inside were a lot of her things. All unfolded and getting wrinkled. She was a very neat person and this was driving her crazy. She pulled out shirts and her jeans and started to fold them again. She put them into the drawers that she could reach at only a 4'2" stature with a 6'8" dresser.

After her shirts, pants, and undergarments were put away, she pulled out a few of her dresses that she owned for when she rarely went to church with her brother or with the neighbors. She went to the closet and opened it up. There was a TON of room in it. On one of the sides, there were four dozen hangers. More than enough than what she needed. After hanging up her three dresses, she pulled out her shoes and placed them neatly and in pairs at the bottom of the closet and then put the bags on the side of the closet.

She went back to her bed and put the sheets and comforter onto the bed. It was a rather plain one. Just a dark pink, almost red color. She was used to the dark colors. She wore boy's clothes. Souta had to be careful with what he bought at the store. He couldn't trust anyone when it came to the existence of Kagome. He had bought the dresses from garage sales and had to hide them just the get back home without gaining the suspicion from his 'friends'. Kagome walked to school everyday and had to take the back way home and walk inside the house through the back door. Even then she had to be careful. She never knew when those men were their talking to Souta. When they were, she would hide up in her tree until it was safe to go inside. One time she had gone to school in the same outfit three days in a row just because the men had stayed over. She got a few curious stares from teachers and even students but she held her head high and walked on.

Kagome shook her head to rid herself of those old memories. Now was the time for new memories. A new life and new friends… real friends and a new school. And the most new thing was a new family. Kagome grabbed her shampoo and conditioner and soap and headed for the bathroom. As soon as she put those things into the shower, she turned on the water. She then ran to her room and grabbed her pajamas and her hair brush and went back to the bathroom.

She took a few minutes to look at herself in the mirror. She hardly recognized herself. She was pale and her eyes were a little red and puffy from the crying. To top of her once youthful face, she had worry and sadness etched into every crevice on her face. She looked older than she was. It scarred her. Finally the water was warm and she took off her dirty clothes and jumped into the shower. The water was very warm on her skin. She washed her hair and her body and jumped out. She was out in less than 2 minutes. She was going to have to get used to taking bathes and longer showers but that was going to have to take time.

She put her boxer shorts on and an old shirt her brother had given her. She brushed her hair, put it up in a bun, grabbed her things, and walked to her room. She sensed a presence in her room and paused at the open door. She pushed up against the wall and silently put her stuff on the floor. After that, she silently crept around the wall into her room and pounced on the intruder.