InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Growing Up Or Growing Apart? ❯ Meeting in Kindergarten ( Chapter 1 )

Hey guys! Okay, I have to do two things:

1. Disclaimer- No, I don't own Inuyasha. *cries pathetically in a corner*

2. Summary-

I have a lot of big ideas for this fic, but it might take a while to make them happen. So stay with me on this. Kikyou and Kagome are sisters, almost a year apart. Before they start kindergarten together, their parents die. So, the two girls have to come live with their Aunt Kaede. Inuyasha and Kagome meet, become best friends. However, Kikyou and Inuyasha start going out a few years later. Kagome misses her friend and comes to realize that she loved him more than a friend. By the time they are in high school, can she find the courage to let him go? Or take him back?

(Please understand that most of this is in Kagome's view and understanding, and since she is just a four year old, her thoughts might not be astoundingly mature. lol, thanks.)

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September 3, 1992 First day of Kindergarten.

The two girls, garbed in scratchy green uniforms, stood nervously in the doorway of their kindergarten class. The school was expensively decorated, and looked very intimidating, at least, it was to a five year old. The first girl, an inch or two taller than her sister, took the first step in. She held a stoic expression. However, the second girl was as easy to read as a book. Her eyes were wide with anxiety and excitement.

 

Kikyou, older by eleven months, had already taken her seat. Desks were quickly being filled. Panic filled Kagome. All she wanted then was to sit by her sister. Kikyou would be the only person she knew.

 

“Kikyou! Please sit by me, I don't wanna be all alone.” she said. Kikyou turned her nose up. She and another girl began talking. She seemed impervious to her little sister's distress. Tears welled in Kagome's blue eyes.

 

“Hey girl, hurry up and sit down before the teacher kicks you out.” grumbled a silver haired boy next to her. He also had small puppy dog ears protruding from his head. His small face was contorted into a snarl, but it wasn't very ferocious on a five year old.

 

Sniffle. “The teacher won't kick me out. You don't know what you're talking about.” she said as haughtily as she could muster through a tear-choked throat.

 

“Yeah well, if you don't stop that stupid cryin', I'll kick ya out. So shut your trap and sit down.” he growled.

 

Kagome was shocked. No one in her family had ever spoken like that. But she sat down anyway. “Why are you so mean? I've had a bad day,” she sighed like she was world weary. An adult would have smiled at the cuteness of her voice, but the boy was more aggravated than amused. “First I get dropped off here just `cause Aunt Kaede thinks a `spensive school will be better for us, and my sister makes me sit by myself, then YOU come along and make me feel even worse by callin' me stupid. It just hasn't been a good day, m'kay?”

 

They quit their bickering when the teacher called out their names for attendance.

 

“Inuyasha Tashio?” the plump, grandmotherly woman called out. Kagome giggled when the silver haired boy called out, “What?”

 

The teacher, Mrs. Rogers, reprimanded him, and Inuyasha glared all the while. He sulked the entire class period, even lunch, when the children had milk and spaghetti delivered to their classroom. Finally, the children were sent outside to the fenced-in playground until their parents arrived.

 

Inuyasha quickly went off to a shady, tree-filled area to brood. Kagome, curious, followed him. The boy had somehow ended up about six feet up on one of the thick branches. It was not very high up, but enough to impress Kagome.

 

“Hey,” she called up, “whatcha doin' up there, huh? Can I come up? Why are ya up there?” she asked, her words slurred together, as children usually do.

 

The boy, Inuyasha, glared down at her. “Leave. Me. ALONE.” he growled. He then turned his back to her, giving her the cold shoulder.

 

Kagome sank down to her knees. Her first day in school had been a failure. Aunt Kaede would hate her, just like everybody else. She didn't have any friends, and probably never would. She began to cry at the trunk of the tree. She was so loud in her pathetic little sobs that she did not hear the boy sink down beside her. He knelt by Kagome's side.

 

He gave her a worried look, and nudged her shoulder. “Hey, okay, you can come on up the tree, it's no big deal, really. Just stop that crying, I don't like it, okay?” he said, more gently than anything else he had said that day.

 

“You gonna be my friend?” she asked timidly, with a wary gaze. Inuyasha solemnly nodded.

 

After Kagome dried up her tears, beamed him a smile, she stood up beside him. She grabbed his hand, surprising the boy. He immediately jerked his hand away, and blushed a deep shade of red. “Come on,” he said, “I'll give you a boost.” He cupped his hands, and she stepped up. He guided her to the lowest branch, then scrambled up beside her. They sat side by side, looking down at their small, swinging shoes.

 

Kagome once again grabbed his hand, but he didn't pull it away this time. “You're my best friend.” she said softly. They sat there in peace, waiting for their ride to pick them up.

 

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Later that year

 

It was one week until Kagome Higurashi's birthday. She would finally be five like everyone else in her grade. Her parents had wanted Kagome and Kikyou to be in the same grade as each other, so they let Kagome start school early. She was smaller than everyone else in her grade, but she was just as smart.

 

Kagome winced as her sister slammed her bedroom door.

 

Kikyou never wanted to play anymore. Not since their Mom and Dad died. Kagome wasn't sure why they died. Kagome wasn't even certain what dying was. But her Mom and Dad were in Heaven now, whatever that was. And Kikyou and Kagome lived with their Aunt Kaede now.

 

Kagome and Kikyou came to live with their aunt a little over two months ago, in the summer.

 

Kagome thought, boy, I sure am glad that Inuyasha was her friend, since Kikyou won't even play with me anymore.

 

Aunt Kaede called Inuyasha's parents to invite the boy over for a small birthday party for Kagome. It turned out that the Taisho family only lived perhaps a fourth of a mile away, on the same street.

 

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Kaede Higurashi spoke on the phone with Mr. Taisho, Inuyasha's father. He seemed like a very respectable man, and trustworthy as well.

 

She had me the Taisho family at school events, and knew they were powerful demons. Trained to be a priestess in her childhood, she was no stranger to youkai. Though some humans still objected to youkai and humans mingling, Kaede saw no wrong in it. She had always been very accepting of any race or heritage, always kind. She gelt pity for Kagome's new friend though, for she knew it would be a tough upbringing as a hanyou.

 

The youkai on the phone eventually brought up the subject of Kagome's family.

 

“Yes, Mr. Taisho. Kagome has an older sister. Eleven months older.”

 

“What grade is she in, if I might ask?” Mr. Taisho inquired. His youngest son had referred to the girl as a `bitch'. His mother had sent him to his room for that transgression.

 

“Kikyou is in the same grade as Kagome. Their mother insisted on their being in the same grade,” she paused and listened to the inuyoukai's condolences. “Thank you, yes my sister and brother in law's deaths were a shock to us all.”

 

The older woman allowed a moment of sadness to wash over her face. God, how I miss them both, she thought. Kikyou had stopped playing with her sister. Kaede knew it wasn't because she hated Kagome, but because Kikyou did not know how to deal with her parents' death. Kikyou ignored Kagome outside of the house because Kagome was one more tie to their parents. She was part of their old life, that could never be replaced, and it hurt Kikyou too much to be reminded.

 

The man seemed to understand her pain, and dropped the subject. They continued to arrange what time his sons would arrive for Kagome's birthday.

 

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Kagome and Inuyasha, headed to the backyard swing, which was a little more secluded. The two children always preferred to be alone with each other. That was when they were the most open with one another.

 

They sat down, their feet dangling over the edge. “So why didn't your brother come to my party?” Kagome asked. She had looked forward to meeting Sesshomaru, though Inuyasha told her his brother was a `pansy', whatever that was.

 

“Sesshomaru said he'd rather swallow chalk than come to a little kid's birthday party.” Inuyasha said bluntly. He knew since the insult wasn't directed at Kagome, but in five-year olds in general, she wouldn't cry.

 

“Oh,” said Kagome. Not really knowing what to do, she leaned back in the swing. Inuyasha promptly handed her a silver and gold foil-covered box. Kagome hesitated to unwrap it.

 

“Go on, open it already!” Inuyasha impatiently commanded.

 

“Okay, okay, eesh. I just don't want to forget today,” she said softly. She slowly tore the foil off. Inside the decorated cardboard lay a locket.

 

It was intricately designed metal, forming a heart. Kagome knew it wasn't pretend jewelry, it was real. “Boy Inuyasha! You must have paid a billion bucks for this! Wow!” Kagome was so impressed with her gift. She had seen her mother wear jewelry like this, jewelry their father had given her.

 

Inuyasha shrugged his small little boy shoulders. “Nah, I asked my Mom what I should get you, and she gave me this.” Of course, it was years later that Kagome found out that Inuyasha begged and pleaded to be given the locket. He demanded he have a really good present for his best friend. His mother gave him the locket that once belonged to her in childhood. She knew it was the perfect gift for the young girl that had so affected her son.

 

However, at that moment, Kagome was in awe of her locket. The string was long enough that she could loop it over her hear. She struck a pose, and said, “How does it look?”

 

“Looks pretty.” Inuyasha said, pleased at her enthusiasm over the gift.

 

They soon headed back to the party. Kagome showed off her new locket to anyone that would look. She boasted how her `bestest friend in the whole round world' had gotten for her. Soon, the time came for Kagome to blow out the candles on her cake.

 

Her parents had taught her to wish on the candles of a birthday cake. Last year, with her mom and dad, for her birthday, she wished for a toy. Feeling a little more grown up, and a lot more wishful, this year, she decided to wish for something a little better than a toy.

 

The small crowd of Kaede's coworkers, her sister, and her best friend, quieted. The crickets seemed to chirp even louder than usual. Kagome had a soft smile on her face. She closed her eyes. `Please, please,' she prayed to whatever forces would grant this wish, `let me and my friend Inuyasha always be together.' She then blew out the candles, and Kagome Higurashi was five.

 

 

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Author's Note:

 

Okay guys, I know, I know, reading about Inuyasha and the gang is not very interesting when they are in kindergarten. But I promise that they will grow up. The next chapter will have them in their preteens, where they will meet Miroku and Sango.

Let me explain a few things. Kikyou was not born a b*tch. When their parents died in a car wreck, Kikyou alienated herself from her sister because Kagome was a reminder of the death of their parents. Kikyou is not trying to be such a mean person, she is only a child, struggling to deal with her parents' death.

Anywho, for the sake of this story, Inuyasha's parents are alive, but Sesshomaru's mother is deceased. (Pretend his father remarried to Inuyasha's mom and had Inu.) Also, Kaede is Kikyou and Kagome's aunt, and not too much older than forty.

So! I hope you guys liked it! I'm really enjoying writing it. Constructive criticism is always great to hear, but please, go easy on me....*I beg for mercy!*

Please review, make me feel loved! (At least do it for Inuyasha and Sesshomaru! For goodness sakes, do it for the hot demons!!)

Thanks.

amandachristine06

P.S. - I hear it is good to have a beta, and I'm sure I need one. Anyone that would gladly edit my story and correct mistakes would be considered. Let me know!!