Thank you to those that reviewed! It is greatly appreciated and motivated me to write this. God I can't spell tonight.... -.-; A couple reviews gave me a general age range for how old Ritsuka was when Seimei, and I'm not going to hold it against those who didn't know, I'm only going with the ages given in reviews and still clueless. So Rituska is going to be somewhere between ten and eleven.

Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi
Loveless© Kouga Yun

I: Starting Over
Part 1

Kagome blinked her eyes and sat up, head bent forward as her eyes closed briefly. Stretching her arms above her head and yawning, she removed the covers the pooled in her lap, getting out of bed, passing her full-length mirror to go to her closet to get clothes for the day, without school seeing how it was Sunday. Her tired eyes caught the color of white as she passed the reflective surface, making her pause in her steps to turn her attention to it.

The sleep quickly left her eyes as she took in the white-haired girl that stared back at her. Kagome took in her reflection—there had to be another reason for this—as blue-white hair reached her shoulders with the occasional flip in her hair, bangs varying in lengths, ear-locks reaching passed her shoulders with a curl. Her deep blue eyes stayed the same, though they had a sunflower burst of green-gray around the very cat-like pupil.

Sure she was surprised and shocked at the five-year-old in the mirror, what caught her attention were the white cat ears atop her head even though she already had another—human—pair on the sides of her head. Blinking in confusion as she watched the animal appendages twitch in response to her emotions, it was all too much for Kagome's now five-year-old mind.

She screamed shortly at the top of her lungs before darting out of her room, not caring that her door banged on her way out against the wall, or that she seemed dangerously close to tripping and falling down the stairs. However, out of the way of excessive bodily harm, her long nightgown (that she had absolutely no recollection of) decided to slow her down, making her step on the front of it, creating a tear in the cotton material and landing face first on the floor.

However, if she had looked back, Kagome would've noticed a small blue-white cat tail poking out from the back of her nightgown.

Her human and cat ears twitched as she heard the tell-tale scrapping of a chair against the tatami flooring of the dining room. Bringing her hands up by her face and lifting her face off of the floor, Kagome - through the small tears in her eyes - looked up at the light blue-haired man who had no cat ears approach her in concern. His gray eyes looking questioning as he knelt on the ground by her, her grandfather (who she just noticed) behind him.

"Kagome what are you doing? Are you all right aijou (beloved daughter)? What are you doing running around this early in the morning?" the light blue-haired mane asked, gently grasping her small shoulders in his large hands to held her to her feet.

Now that she was standing at the normal height for a typical five-year-old, Kagome could get a better look at the light-haired man. The first thing she noticed was that his hair was very much like hers, curling, light in color and with odd bangs. Though his hair was short in the back, his ear locks made up for the length and just about reached his elbows. He had deep storm gray eyes that looked at her with concern as she hadn't answered any of his questions. Though he looked very boyish, Kagome could also tell that he was tall, taller than average at least.

Looking over his shoulder to her grandfather, she realized that he was basically the same, just twelve years younger. Kagome looked back to the light-haired man that called her his daughter, the small tears in her eyes from tripping had disappeared at she stared at him. She felt as if she couldn't catch her voice, but when she did speak, her voice wasn't familiar to her, "'Tou-san?"

Giving a small relieved smile for a few moments, the light-haired man now identified as her father let it drop as he placed the back of his hand under her uneven bangs to see if she was running a fever, "Daijobu Kagome?"

The five-year-old cat-eared Kagome nodded her head, "Hai daijoubu."

Taking the answer, but not seeming at all convinced with just the verbal answer, he stilled looked at her with concern, "What with the scream that your ojiisan and I heard?" Kagome blinked at the question and racked her small brain the best she could, she said the first thing that came to the forefront of her brain, "I uh… had a nightmare?" Kagome saw her father roll the answer around in his brain, before an understanding smile same onto his tanned face.

Shaking his head lightly at her, he stood up, picking her up at he same time, and now Kagome could see that her father stood to at least six five or six easy. Wrapping her arms around his neck as she peered at the ground curiously, the five-year-old miko could feel her father chuckle through his chest at her actions. As he walked to the kitchen table, Kagome looked up at the close ceiling, not at all able to resist the urge to reach up and touch it, though her fingers fell short by about half a foot or so.

She watched the ceiling become farther away as her father sat down back in his chair from earlier. Kagome didn't look around, all ready knowing the interior of the house she lived in for the past seventeen years of her life, before asking a question that came to mind, looking up at her father, "Where's 'kaa-san, 'tou-san?"

Her father smiled down at her, storm gray eyes twinkling, "She was kept up by your younger sibling moving around and kicking in her stomach."

Kagome looked up at the light-haired man in full attention at the words 'younger' and 'siblings', "Souta?" Her father looked at her in mild confusion, "Souta? I thought you wanted to name him Goushinki yesterday?"

Kagome paled and mentally blanched at the name, 'Goushinki?! The incarnation of Naraku that broke the Tessaiga in half with his teeth that Kaijinbou later forged into an evil sword?! What the hell is going on here! And why would I name him that name? It brings back too many memories of when Inuyasha first had to deal with a heavy Tessaiga and being unable to wield it properly for awhile. That and when ever he was separated from it, he want all full demon.'

She looked up at her expectantly confused father, "Um… I change my mind?" She gave him a smile that she hoped was sheepishly innocent with that of a normal five-year-old that never keeps their mind on the same thing for very long. Her father smiled again, a trait that she was being to notice, "Well, Souta does seem like a more normal name than Goushinki does. I'm sure your mother will like it, aijou."

Kagome smile, though it dimmed just a tiny bit, where were the ramblings of youkai, hanyou, miko, houshi, taijya, and Taiyoukai from her grandfather that he would normally tell no matter what age she was, just censored until she got a bit older to know the more gruesome details? She looked over at the silent senior who sat with his eyes closed sipping his tea. Was he waiting for something or was he sick?

An awkward silence came over the table and its three occupants, but is wasn't long before Kagome's boyish father looked down at her, "Do you want to watch television Kagome?" Kagome looked up at him, before shaking her head, "No thank you, watching TV for too long actually affects the developing brains of children and is the reason for low grades and exceedingly short attention spans."

Kagome's cat ears laid themselves back as both her father and grandfather stared at her curiously at her intelligent train of thought just now when she answered her father's question. Kagome sheepishly poked at her chin, 'What? Did I do something wrong? Did I say something that I shouldn't have? Why aren't they saying something, anything?! Answer me damn it, either one of you, please say something so I don't think that I am going completely bonkers! What? Do I not normally act like this? How do I act then? Am I supposed to be more ignorant to the world and just smile and nod? What?!'

However, she got a different reaction as she heard her father chuckle at her knowledge, her grandfather just sighing and shaking his head and returning to his cooling tea in front of him. Her father looked at her, greatly amused mirth shined in those eyes of his, a smile on his tanned face, the chuckle subsiding, "Have you been in your mother's books again Kagome? Or is it that you're taking after her more than me, though you take after me more than her with looks?"

Kagome looked at her father confused, though she had a feeling that he anticipated this expression and just smiled at her and set her on her two feel on the tatami flooring beside his chair, "Why don't you go get dressed or lay back down? I'm sure that when your mother gets up, that she'll get you back up for breakfast and all that. Besides, she said that she was going shopping and that you agreed to go with her."

Kagome nodded, seemingly on autopilot, she walked back up the stairs to her room to apparently get more rest. She was positive that she was not acting as she should, how was she as a five-year-old anyway? Was she more happy and hyperactive, or are her father and grandfather that ones that changed? She didn't know and she could feel an all too familiar headache start to form behind her eyes. Suddenly, a nap seemed all to much like a slice of heaven.

The now useless, ash-pink Shikon no Tama moved with he movements as she made her way to her room from its position around her neck on its traditional necklace.

This is part one of chapter one so far. I am so far becoming sleep-deprived and maybe it was not such a good idea to eat those twelve cheese sticks within half an hour to fourty-five minutes. God, I'm tired. This is going to follow the manga plot line of Loveless as much as I can with throwing the Inuyasha characters into the mix. I am planning on writing the next two chapters, well the other half of this chapter and the next chapter tomorrow and during school. But for now, good night all.