Author's Note: This story should help friends that even though that you've been through awhole bunch of shit and hurt all your life, you still have some people that still cares for you and would do every thing in their power just to make you smile.

Berlin, Germany

A little girl, no younger than 14, was in her dark room. Her powerful music was blasting from her stereo. She was on her bed, reading her big, thick, old book. Her violet orbs scan through the words. Her black-fingernail ran under the words. Then she closed her book and sat it next to her. She ran her fingers through her short, red tresses. She sighed and listened to the words of her music.

Stone after stone
you build a road to nowhere
Mile after mile
the future isn't going anywhere

I've been waiting such a long time, baby
I've been waiting for the world to

Burn the churches!
Burn the banks!
Burn the precincts!
Burn City Hall!
Burn the Court House!
Burn the schools!
Burn the prisons!
Burn the shopping malls!

Then, there was banging at her door.

"Miko!" called out her mother, "Turn that music down! There's a letter for you!"

"Eh?" With one quick motion, her fingers pointed at her stereo. It shuts off. In came her mother. The little girl frowns as the woman sat down on her bed, with a letter in hand.

"Dear, do you remember your cousin, Kagome?" her mother asked.

"Nope!" the red-head quickly answered.

"Well, do you remember my sister, Hitomi?"

"Nope."

"Do you remember your-"

"Are we going to keep on playing this 'Do I remember' game, Claire", Miko snapped, "or are you going give me the damn letter?"

The mother sighed and handed her daughter the letter. Miko snatched it from her mother's hand and looked at the front of the envelope. It was in Japanese.

Swell, Miko thought. Just what I needed. A Japanese family. She rip it opened and read the letter.

Dear Miko,

It has been awhile since you've been in Japan and we were hoping you came come back to stay. It's my turn to raise you. We're so excited to see you. I bet you've grown so much in the past 11 years.

I can't wait to see you.

Hitomi Higurashi.

"I'm going to Japan?" Miko asked, getting really pissed. "You're sending me off to Japan?!"

"Miko, dear. Do you remember now?"

Miko rolled her eyes. "No! But I hope you're very happy when I'm gone!" Miko got off her bed, went to her closet and pulled out her suitcases.

Her mother was horrified. "Why so angry?" she asked.

"Knowing you, 'My-so-called-Mother' ", Miko said in disgust, "You just don't want to raise me. You want someone else to raise your 'uncontrollable daughter', huh? Is that it, Claries? Is it?"

Her mother was in tears. "Oh….Why do you-?" Her hands went to her face and sobbed.

Miko sighed and rolled her eyes again. Again with the fake tears. What an actress, Clare. "Look, just get out of my room, okay? I'm going to pack. I'm leaving tonight. And if you tell Hitomi this, making up lies and getting things your way, I don't think there's a bright future for you, Mother."

Her mom looked at her with red-shot eyes, nodded, and walked out of her room, closing the door behind her. Miko sighed and went to her bed and sat on it. She sighed.

Why does that woman want to make my life harder than it is now?

Tokyo, Japan

"Miko's coming?!" Kagome exclaimed during breakfast. "Tonight?!"

Hitomi, her mother, nodded. "Yes. You remember her, right?"

Kagome nodded. How could she forget hanging around with her red-headed cousin when she was 5? "Yeah! She was a cute little girl. And you always wanted to spoil her, Mom. She was a whole lot better than Sota."

"HEY!!!" her younger brother exclaimed, standing up from his seat. "What's that suppose to mean?!"

Grandpa Higurashi nodded. "It a great idea for little Miko to stay with us." He sighed. "But I wonder if she'll change back to the sweet, little girl we all remember."

Sota and Kagome settled down and looked down at their plates.

I understand, Grandpa Kagome thought. Miko might not change since what had happen to her in America. I wonder if her staying here will change her a bit? "Oh! What about Inuyasha?"

"Well, that's a great idea," Hitomi said. "You can invite Inuyasha for dinner."

"But…his ears!"

"We can't keep secrets from family, Kagome", Hitomi said.

Kagome sighed, and then smiled. "Yes, ma'am." She continued to eat her meal.