Summary: Her father brought her a strange gift… she thought she'd seen somewhere. When he leaves, however, something happens, and Kagome finds herself the owner of an inu-youkai slave. Sessy/Kag

InuyashaForever1989: This Fic is one of two I have dedicated to KibaSin who came up with the name and the summary and who is allowing me to use them thank you

Disclaimer- I do not own the characters of Inuyasha

Chapter 1 - A Gift

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Kagome had woken up early that morning. She didn't know why but she was excited today and felt something was going to happen. Although she didn't know if it would be good or bad she kept her hopes high for now.

Upon entering the dinning hall she sensed someone, someone familiar. She followed her miko powers to the source of the aura and found she had been right about today. She found her father in his study working. To many people this may have seemed normal, but to Kagome it was wonderful. Her father had been gone, for almost two years now, on business. She ran and gave her father a hug; she was so happy to see him again.

"My dear little Kagome," her father said brushing some of the stay locks of ebony hair from her face, "I have missed you so much. Now what are you doing up so early?"

Kagome shrugged, "I don't know I was just excited today, I must have sensed you coming." She gave her father a smile. She was 17 yet she still couldn't help but act like a happy little kid while she was around her father.

"I guess you would," he said giving her a smile, "Your powers are getting stronger are they not?"

Kagome nodded her head, "Yes, Keade is a very good teacher." Kagome beamed Keade was the best she was like a grandmother to her. "So are you staying long this time," she asked hopefully despite the fact that he never stayed long, because of his work.

"I don't know how long I will stay this time but it will be a couple days at least," he replied to her. He sighed; his little girl was growing up without him, his son too. "So, how's your bother?"

She smiled once again as she dove into her stories of her little brother along with anything else she could remember at the moment. Hours passed and a servant finally came into the study with the announcement of breakfast being served. "Come on we'll go surprise everyone else now," he whispered into her ear. She nodded and happily walked out of the study with her father following.

Breakfast had been wonderful. The entire family was together, which hadn't happened for almost two years, and everyone was so happy. Souta was absolutely ecstatic to see his father again and Kagome's mom was delighted to have her husband home.

Everyone spent the rest of the day catching up. Souta was retelling some of Kagome's stories and some she had left out earlier.

The next day Kagome met up with her friends Sango and Kikyo. She was in her room that was painted a light pink that she hadn't cared for since she was seven, but she never really felt like changing it so pink her room remained.

"So your dad's home, huh?" Sango asked looking around at the pink walls. Kagome nodded as a reply. Sango hadn't really ever met Kagome's father, he was always away on business. But, of course he would be, as one of the ningen leaders he often had to travel keeping the peace amongst themselves as well as between them and the youkai.

"It must be nice to have him home even if it's for a little while," Kikyo added also looking at the pink walls. They both seemed to be thinking the same thing.

Kagome sighed, "I'm not changing it; it's too much trouble."

The two girls looked at her. "So now you're a mind reader as well as a miko?" Sango asked her voice was highly sarcastic. Kagome smiled at her friends knowing she was right. They argued about changing the color of the room for about the thousandth time and Kagome stood firm with her decision.

Soon the two girls had left. Having stayed for dinner they got to meet her father for the first time in a while. Now she was getting ready to go to bed when one of the servants came in to inform her that her father wished to see her.

She quickly finished getting changed and went to the study that she would always find her father in when he was home. As she walked in she noticed that he seemed to be distracted. "Father?" Kagome spoke softly not wanting to startle her father from his thoughts.

He turned his gaze to her. His eyes looked as though his mind was some where far from here. "Kagome . . ." he paused looking for the right words to tell her, "I'm leaving now. I have urgent business to attend to, but first I need to give you something." He held out his hand to her.

She stretched out her hand to his hesitantly and he dropped and small crystal ball into her hand. The crystal had a faint glow and was attached to a necklace. She placed the crystal around her neck then said, "Thank you, but why did you give this to me?"

He smiled at her. "Because you are the only one I can trust to guard it. This crystal is called the Shikon No Tama. It is very powerful and I don't want it to fall into the wrong hands." He looked to his daughter's confused face. "I know you will take good care of it. Goodbye Kagome," he said kissing her on the forehead and walking out of the study.

Kagome didn't understand. It looked like an ordinary piece of crystal, but her father wouldn't lie to her so there must be something special about it. She examined the Shikon No Tama and she felt like she had seen it before somewhere, yet she knew she hadn't. She pushed those thoughts to the back of her of her mind as she headed for her bed room.

Little did she know that someone had been a witness to the scene. "So he has passed the jewel on to the girl, very well then," said a deep and cynical voice. He needed to gather more information on the girl before he could attack her and gain possession of the jewel. He silently slipped off into the shadows.

- With Kikyo and Sango

"Maybe we should get her a present," Kikyo said out of the blue.

Sango gave her a strange look. "What for?"

"I don't know, just to get her something," Kikyo started to look around the market place though few stores were open this late.

She spotted an open stand and ran over to it. "Kikyo, you know Kagome doesn't like those," Sango reminded her friend.

Kikyo half glared at Sango. "She may not like them, but she should have one anyway. I mean everyone has one, she will just have to get used to it," Kikyo stated bluntly. Sango sighed as Kikyo shopped. "That's the perfect one," she said to the shop keeper as she pointed to what she wanted. She then turned to Sango, "We can bring it over to her tomorrow."

"I'll have no part in this. I won't have her get mad at me for your stupid idea," Sango marched away Kikyo following behind her.

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InuyashaForever1989: Chapter one is done yay. Hmm . . . Now what could Kikyo have bought Kagome? Please review you know you want to.