A.N.: Hey there peeps! This is my first fic! Coolios! I'm really excited about this and I hope it doesn't suck too much… Any ways if you do review please go easy on the flames (if there are any). I really really, really hope that you all like this!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-Yasha or any of its rights.

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Simple Words

By Golden Fire Goddess

Chapter 1 - The Beginning

"Damn Him, Damn Him, Damn Him!" She yelled; tears were welling up in her eyes. Anger poured out of every word. She was angry with her friend, who at this moment was being harassed by his ex-girlfriend and was desperately trying to get out of the situation. Usually Kagome was composed and cheerful, but when she got angry…there was hell to pay. Her friend, a wise girl of eighteen came around the bend to check on her friend who had run off after seeing her friend and his ex-girlfriend. Kagome ran away from the scene when Kikyo, friend's ex-girlfriend, made another attempt at ruining Kagome and Inu-Yasha's relationship.

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Sango walked over and put an arm around her friend's shoulders and said, "Don't be too angry at him, this could be a difficult situation that he has to go through." The abnormal sounds of Kagome's sobs slowly stopped, leaving a shaking, hiccupping, tear-stained, teenage girl.

Miroku, the nineteen-year-old pervert of the group, came around the bend, carrying Kagome's five year old, unofficially adopted son, Shippo. Both had a worried look on their faces. Kagome figured they had heard her venting her anger by yelling. Each vaguely wondering whether or not 'comfort time' was over yet and if it was emotionally (for her at least) and physically (for them at least) safe to approach…

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The morning sun spilled its light onto the group of five camping hikers, traveling around in the ancient forests of Japan. Birds were heard giving morning calls to each other as the sounds of early morning complaining became audible.

Inu-Yasha, as usual, had woken the group up early and wasn't going to allow them the chance to break their fast before the oncoming harsh hunger pains came to agitate them while they were still in their early morning stupor.

The sun had just risen into the midday sky, before the traveling group stopped for a little while.

The trio cleared a space to build a small fire, whilst Kagome and Inu-Yasha started to argue again…

"What do you MEAN, I don't let you guys get enough sleep!?!" He yelled while shaking his fist.

"If you don't stop getting us up at the crack of dawn, you'll find yourself traveling alone, because the rest of us will have fallen asleep on the side of the road. We are not like you who can go all day and night without rest. The rest of us aren't so lucky!" She shot back.

The trio listened to this go on for a little while and after a few minutes they looked at each other with a mischievous grin an each of their faces. They silently sneaked away from the campsite leaving their friends arguing.

Kagome and Inu-Yasha, at that point, were looking like they were ready to begin a slam fest at any second. They had just gotten themselves into a defensive position when Inu-Yasha stood up suddenly. He looked around and closed his eyes and silently counted to ten before reopening them. Kagome stared at him wondering why he was acting in such a manner. She then also stood up and also looked around only to find that Miroku, Sango, and Shippo were missing.

Kagome and Inu-Yasha walked around the forest paths calling out the names of their missing friends. About two hours passed, only to find the both of them calling out their friends names more urgently while possibilities of what could have happened to them floated around their heads.

Suddenly as Kagome was walking underneath a rather large Japanese maple, a hand fell down, nearly hitting her in the face. Her only reaction to this was to scream as loud as she could. This brought Inu-Yasha instantly to her side. They heard laughter from up in the boughs of the tree and looked up to find their missing friends laughing hysterically at the look of total surprise on their friends faces. Both had a feeling of searing anger flow through them as their friends slowly climbed down the tree. The tricky trio was about to get a tongue lashing from both Kagome and Inu-Yasha when some one who they never thought would bother them again appeared behind the super pissed off couple…

It was Kikyo. Inu-Yasha's ex-girlfriend. A girl who notoriously know for being one of the biggest sluts imaginable. She on countless occasions had unsuccessfully tried to get Inu-Yasha and Kagome to betray each other. They didn't like her, for although she was known to be one of the biggest sluts around, she was also know for being an utterly complete bitch to every single one of them.  Miroku, Sango, and Shippo instantly dropped their looks of happiness to looks of severe dislike and anger.

Kagome and Inu-Yasha instantly turned around when the looks of their friends turned from light to dark. They found themselves face to face with Kikyo. Inu-Yasha had a total look of surprise on his face, where as Kagome kept a steady angry glare radiating towards the damnable slutty bitch.

Kikyo looked at all five of them with a cool and calm look that allowed no one to read her thoughts. She took slow steps towards her ex-boyfriend while holding an evil smile upon her lips. Instantly there was a blur before her and found herself face to face with an extremely pissed off Kagome.

Kagome was so mad that Kikyo would even attempt to try to get to Inu-Yasha again after what happened the last time that she was literally radiating possessiveness from her body and there was a look of death to anyone who would dare to hurt her friend. Kikyo just moved her aside to get to the object to which she had been advancing towards. She stopped just a foot short of him and just looked him in his eyes. Inu-Yasha moved fidgeted nervously about while under Kikyo's cool stare.

Kagome was unsure of what to do at this point, so she watched to see what her friend would do. Inu-Yasha on the other hand was beginning to become angry. "What do you want?" He barked at Kikyo. She only smiled and took a small step closer to him.

Sango was about to push Kikyo out of the way when Shippo and Kagome pulled Inu-Yasha away from her, making the distance between them greater. A look of disappointment flitted across Kikyo's face as Inu-Yasha looked up at his friends gratefully. "Maybe I shouldn't tell you this but I think you should know that you and I have a son, Inu-Yasha." Kikyo blew towards him, a large smile appeared on her face as everyone else's jaws dropped and their eyes widened in surprise.

Kikyo walked away with a happy face leaving Inu-Yasha with all of his friends staring at him in complete surprise. Each of them was speechless not knowing what to say.

After a few minutes past, a look of misery replaced the surprise on Kagome's face. 'He has a son already, but how? HE never did anything with Kikyo. She as always doing it with someone else from what he tells me. Did he lie to me?' She thought. "Kagome are you okay?" Inu-Yasha looked over at her with a concerned look on his face. Before He knew it, Kagome was running away from the group…

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Inu-Yasha stood where his friends left him, trying to figure his thoughts out. 'Do I really have a son? How can I have a son?' He thought. No answers were coming to him. 'I don't think I could have one; I never did anything with Kikyo. Unless she drugged me one night…' These thought kept reoccurring in his mind as he desperately searched his mind for something that would point him to the answer.

Miroku came back to his friend, after trying to talk to a miserable Kagome. This time however, he didn't reappear with Shippo on his shoulder. They looked at each other for a while before saying anything.

"You know she is quite upset Inu-Yasha." Miroku said quietly.

"Yeah, I know, I could hear her yelling." Inu-Yasha stated, unsure of where to go with this conversation.

The quiet became deafening to the both of them.

"Did you know?" Miroku asked simply.

Such a simple question and yet Inu-Yasha had no way of knowing how to answer it. He just stared dumbfounded at the ground before answering.

"No, I don't even remember doing anything with Kikyo that would produce a son." He finally stated after going through his memory once more, hoping to find an answer for the both of them.

"Maybe we should go to someone who would have an answer for us. But who?" Miroku offered.

One person entered Inu-Yasha's mind… his brother Sessho-maru, a CEO of Umptydumpty Industries.

"I know of just the person…my brother." Inu-Yasha said.

Miroku looked at him wide-eyed. He knew that both brothers did not care much for each other and hoped that the both of them would not get into a memory battle like they did the last time…

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Inu-Yasha had gone to Sessho-maru to try to get him to help get a restraining order on Kikyo, so she wouldn't be able to come near any one of the again. The meeting had started off well, everyone was being so damnably polite to one another, it seemed like they were in one of those 50's shows where everything is so conformed to be EXACTLY the same all around.

Rin (Sessho-maru's wife), Kagome, and Sango were chatting quietly to one another while Shippo and Reiko (Sessho-maru and Rin's son) were playing quietly on the floor. The men (Sessho-maru, Inu-Yasha, Miroku, and Jaken [Sessho-maru's lawyer, secretary, servant, henchman, etc {you get the picture}]) were talking business.

"So you finally want to get that bitch out of your hair…I told you when you first met her, not to get involved." Sessho-maru stated with a smile. He loved to remind Inu-Yasha over and over again how he was right about Kikyo. Inu-Yasha looked like he was turning into a radish from anger and embarrassment. Miroku and Jaken looked on with slightly amused faces as the two brothers started to argue.

"Will you stop reminding me about her! She is one mistake that I am not going to make again!" Inu-Yasha yelled angrily.

"Ah, so now you are admitting that you were wrong! Well this is something I thought I'd never hear you say!" Sessho-maru grinned at his younger brother.

The arguing became so loud that even the women and the children watched the two brothers go at it. It ended up turning into a wrestling match where Sessho-maru ended up winning. He sat there on his brother's back grinning at their audience who snickered here and there…

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Inu-Yasha, with a determined look on his face, nodded solemnly. It was almost like he knew what Miroku was thinking.

"Maybe while we're at it we can get that restraining order on her, since we didn't get it the last time we bothered your brother. And PLEASE try not to make an ass of yourself…again!" Miroku warned.

By this time the sun was passing into the evening sky, before Miroku and Inu-Yasha went over to the girls and Shippo, only to find them all asleep. They had to come over quietly so as not to wake their friends up. Inu-Yasha went to check up on Kagome and Shippo while Miroku went over and checked upon on Sango and her pet Kirara. Inu-Yasha looked over at the two and thought to himself, 'I wonder when those two are going to get together.'

He shook his girlfriend and 'unofficially' adopted son gently. They both opened their eyes and saw Inu-Yasha kneeling over them. Kagome looked like she was going to scream at him when both Inu-Yasha and Shippo touched her arm to stop her from saying anything. She gave them both a ponderous look.

"We're going to see my brother soon. Miroku and I believe that he might be able to get rid of the Kikyo problem. And I promise not to make an ass of myself, as Miroku so kindly reminded me of what happened last time." Inu-Yasha informed them. Kagome began to giggle at the memory, while Shippo laughed, and Inu-Yasha growled.

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They were making their way up the front walkway to Sessho-maru's house (Sessho-maru's house or should I say mansion which was located in the MOST EXPENSIVE area of Tokyo). Inu-Yasha, Kagome, and Shippo were in front. The back being brought up by Sango and Miroku.

They were greeted at the door by one of Sessho-maru's many servants. "Master Sessho-maru has been waiting for you, this way please," the servant said with a nasally English accented voice. The small group followed along the cavernous hallway till they got to a one-door doorway. The servant then knocked on the door. "Enter." a masculine voice semi-boomed on the other side of the door. The Servant entered telling the owner of the voice that the awaited company had just arrived.

End A.N.: Well this is it for the first chapter I hope you all enjoyed it too much and that the story didn't jump around too much! Please review and let me know how ya liked it!