Our Once Upon A Time

(Kagome's POV)

Ever story begins the same, once upon a time. This is how my story began; once upon a time the must unlikely girl fell in love with the perfect boy. But would our story have that wonderful happily ever after?

My name is Kagome Higurashi, age 15 and in the ninth grade I'm gifted enough to have the honor of going to the past called the feudal aria. In the feudal aria I help search for jewel shards with my friends Inuyasha, Sago, Miroku, Shippo and Kilala. I never knew my once upon a time would be there.

The day began like any other. Inuyasha and I were fighting again and the others were trying to calm us down. But today's fight was different and we just couldn't be settled.

"We'll if you do want me here then I'll leave." I yelled at the silver haired dog demon.

"Right," Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "And go where back to your own time? We've been over this before Kagome and you always come back."

"I never said I was going back to my time." I yelled. "I'm just not staying with you."

"Oh this will be fun to see." Inuyasha laugh. "Poor little Kagome running to us with five demon bustards casing after her."

"Come now you two." Miroku, the monk tried to calm us. "Fighting is not going to solve anything. Now why don't you two just make up and we'll go on with our lives."

"No!" I yelled at him. "I wouldn't make up with him. I am leaving and that's finally."

"Kagome." Sago, demon slayer stared but it was too late I was already too far off to hear her.

I didn't know where I was going but I knew I couldn't stay with them. Now that wasn't right. I love Sago, Miroku and Shippo but it was that stupid Inuyasha I could go back to. I intended to stay away long enough for him to come and find me then I would like an apology. But for now I would be mad at him and wish I had never realest him from that stupid tree. Since then he has brought me nothing but pain. Now that's not right either but he had made me mad and I couldn't think of anything good about him at the time.

"Stupid Inuyasha." I mumbled as I march through the thick forest. "Who does he think he is?" Oh that one was easy. He's a jerk. "He's a big fat jerk!" I yelled then let out a loud scream tugging on my hair.

"Must you be so loud?" A clam voice asked as I took a gasp of air.

The voice was so sudden that I jumped and accidentally slipped in a puddle of mud and found myself lying in the grass. "Oh wonderful, If my day couldn't have gotten any worse I think that just about did it. Now I'm probably covered in mud and my shirt is most likely ruined. But wait, what was that voice?

Before I could even get off the ground to find out who the owner of the voice was a hand was out stretched for me to help me up. Was this the person who scared me? I took the hand that and looked up to see the man of my dreams. Okay so he looked a lot like Inuyasha but he was some one different. He was completely different why just his eyes made him the most unique. His eyes were almost as yellow as gold and they even sparkled like gold in the sun.

"Oh um thank you." I said as he helped me up. "I sorry I must look up a complete idiot."

"Not at all." He said and sure enough his voice was the one that scared me. "I'm sorry for starling you."

"Oh its fine no harm done." I said whipping the mud off of my shirt and skirt. After I was sure all the mud was off I offered my hand for him to shack. "Hi my name's Kagome. Kagome Higurashi."

He took my hand and when he did my heart fluttered as if a hundred butterflies had been set free inside of me.

"Yoko. Yoko Kurama" He said still with a calm voice.

"Yoko." I smiled. "I like that."

Yoko, what a wonderful name. He was wonderful. His golden eyes, his long silver hair and his perfectly pointed ears. All wonderful not like that airhead Inuyasha.

He smiled and looked at me questionably. "If you don't mind me asking, what were you screaming about?"

"Oh it was nothing." I grind feeling really strange about the turn on the conversation. "Just a fight."

"What kind of fight is bad enough to make someone scream that loud?" He asked. "I don't see any sign of a battle here."

"No, it wasn't a battle." I shook my head. "It was just a stupid fight with a friend. To tell you the truth I don't even remember what all it was about or how it even got started for the matter."

He chuckled and nodded his haed. "Yeah that happens to me sometimes."

"Yeah…" Oh, his eyes are making me melt in my shoes. It was as if he was calculating my every being and programming it into his brain. But I do wondered what he was thinking about me. Maybe he thought I was just some stupid girl with mud on her ass, oh I hope I didn't look that much like an idiot. "So do you live around here?" I finally stopped looking into his eyes long enough to ask.

"Well I live most everywhere but for right now I'm living here." He shrugged.

"Oh…" So he moves a lot, I wander why. "How long do you plan on staying?"

"I'm not sure, whenever we find a new place to loot from I guess."

"We?"

"Oh my men and I." He said making the gold in his eyes flash with excitement. "You can meet them if you'd like."

What was I suppose to say? He was too fine. I couldn't just say no he was the one who help me up and knocked me down but I still couldn't say no. "Sure."

"Alright." He smiled showing his white teeth and fangs. "Then let's go." He took me by the hand and he took me to a small clearing in the woods.

Yoko's men were okay but were nothing like him. His men were true bandits and with the looks to boot, defiantly not like Yoko.

Yoko sat beside me and made sure his men wouldn't try anything. He was truly wonderful and even told his men he would not hurt me or do anything to me. What a great guy, Inuyasha wouldn't be this nice if anyone were to ask him inappropriate questions about me he'd stick out his tongue and say, "Yuck! No way." I guess some men are just like that sometimes.

I hate to say it but I wasn't all that upset when everyone wanted to go to bed and told me to get lost. Yoko was such a gentleman and offered to walk me home. When he asked were I lived I had to decline his offer.

"Thank you but I think I can manage." I told him pushing a few strains of hair behind my ear. "My homes not to far from here."

"Well then may I see you tomorrow?" Yoko asked with a hint of blush.

"Sure." I blurted out with out thinking or watching my tone. "I- I mean yes you may."

Then he took my hand in his and kissed the back of it. My face got hot and turned red and my heart jumped and felt like it would stay up forever. When he looked at me with his beautiful eyes I thought I was going to fait because my heart was now flying throughout my body with all those butterflies in it. "Till tomorrow." He smiled. I nodded then tried to walk away as casually as I could, holding the hand he kissed to my heart. I wasn't even thinking that I had no place to go all I could think about was him.

I ended up sleeping in a cave and dreaming of Yoko. Seeing him tomorrow and rubbing his ears with him not complaining like that deadweight Inuyasha. Strange, just two days ago Inuyasha and I where looking into each other's eyes and have a romantic moment it's funny how quickly things can change or in our case Shippo laughing at us and Inuyasha hit him and me have to tell him to 'sit' well you get the picture but still it is strange. But nothing can ruin a moment with Yoko or even a day or maybe even a life time. Nothing is going to ruin tomorrow.

(Yoko's POV)

I'm laying here on the ground trying to fall asleep. All my men are already snoring and grunting but me I can't stop thinking of Kagome. She's so sweet and I couldn't believe how she didn't even mind when my men tried to mess with her and she just decked them on the heads then let me deal with the rest.

I also can't believe I'm going to see her tomorrow. But the scariest thing is I thing I might I love her. It's strange because I don't really know what love is but there are things about her I just can't stop thinking about. Her smile. Her eyes. Her laugh. All wonderful. What am I saying? I can't love her and she can't love me, I'm a bandit and I shouldn't get to close anyone anyways. But what if? What if we are in love and are meant to be and what if she will travel with me forever? Okay now I know I'm losing it.

I rolled over on my side and looked in the direction Kagome left. Why wouldn't she let me walk her home? Maybe she just doesn't like bandits. Or maybe she just didn't want me to know where she lived because I was a bandit and she was afraid of what I might do if I know where she lived. I let out a long sigh and closed my eyes hoping I could just stop thinking about her and go to sleep.

Finally sleep took hold of me and I began to dream. I dreamed of Kagome, her hair blowing in the wind as she stood beside me on a tall mountain and her telling me how much she enjoyed being with me and look down at the world. The strangest thing was is that I had never been on a mountain in real life, sure I had seen them and had many opportunities to but I never felt the need. But if I ever do climb a mountain I want to be with Kagome and her and I can live this dream for real.

I was shaken up by one of my men who told me they heard some one in the forest. We all grabbed our weapons (I empty handed because of my powers) and we raced after whoever had crossed into our territory.

I sniffed around and picked up on a sent and went after it. The sent was a mix between fire wood and something sweet. I didn't really take the time to wonder if I was even of the right sent but whatever was in the forest I knew we would catch up with it eventually.

Finally it was close and I started to run for it. Then there it was and it wasn't long before I had pounced on it and brought it to the ground. Surprisingly it was smaller than what I expected but it didn't matter it deserved death. And I raised my claws ready to kill it when I heard it speak.

"Please, don't kill me." A scared squeaky voice came from whoever I was holding down. I looked down and saw that I was holding a little squirrel with a blue bow in its hair. "Please I'm just I kid."

I picked it up by its fluffy tail and placed my hand under my chin. "You have got to be the weirdest looking squirrel daemon I've ever seen."

"Hey I'm a fox." It glared at me.

"No I'm a fox demon. You look more like a squirrel. But it doesn't matter." I bared my teeth. "What are you doing in my territory?"

"I-I'm sorry. I didn't know. Y-you see I'm looking for a friend and I kind of got a little lost."

"A friend?" I asked. "I another squirrel?"

"Fox" It corrected sharply. "And no, I'm looking for a human." He crossed his little arms which were so small they didn't even look like they went to the same species. "She never came back after a fight she marched away from."

I put the little thing down and was ready to leave. "Hn, it's no concern of mine get lost. The only girl I've seen today wouldn't mingle around with your kind."

"Who was she?" He asked looking a little worried.

"Why should I tell you?" I crossed my arms. I really didn't want to deal with this kid tonight. "I already told you she wouldn't know you."

"Was her name Kagome?"

My ears perked and my head spun back down to the little fox. How did this kid know Kagome? Was she actually fiends with he? Why didn't she make it back home? Oh I knew I should have taken her.

"Was it?" The kid asked again this time madder than before.

"Kagome..."

"You know her?" He jumped up like crazy almost to my height. "What have you done to Kagome?"

I grabbed him by the tail in midair and pulled him to my face. "I didn't do anything to her. How do you know her?"

He struggled a bit to get out of my grasp but when he knew it you hopeless he calmed down. "I'm Shippo one of her friends. She got in a fight with Inuyasha and stormed off. Sango, Miroku and I have been looking for her since." He sighed. "We thought she might have gone back to her own time." Then he pointed at me. "Your turn, how do you know her?"

What was this kid rambling on about? Who were all these people he just listed off and what did they have to do with anything. I smiled but not to look happy. "I met her here. And what do you mean her time?"

"Put me down and we can talk." He gave me the same look.

I sighed and set him down. He fixed the fur of his tail a bit as I took seat on a large rock. "Alright, now tell. What do you mean when you say 'her own time' I don't fallow. Is that where she got those strange clothes?"

"Yes," He nodded. "And they are not strange." Then he sat on a smaller rock across from me with his legs crossed. "She is from a time way farther in the future and she sometimes goes back when she is mad or has to take a test. Like I said we all thought she was there." Then he glared me. "But I guess she went with you instead. Now what did you do to her?"

"I didn't do anything to her. I just helped her out of the mud and we talked that's it." I looked him in the eyes to prove my innocence. "And I'm sorry but she never mentioned you so I just assumed she was a daughter of a farmer or something."

"W-well maybe she was just too mad to bring it up." The little fox demon shrugged seeming a little uneasy about the topic. "She was in a fight and I know she wouldn't just forget me."

"Is that so?" I chuckled. "Well I'm sorry then. But tell me this," I sat back and relaxed a bit on the rock. "How bad was the fight? She doesn't seem like a very easy person to anger. She seems like a very nice girl just with weird clothes."

"It was a pretty bad fight and she gets angry a lot." He said. "Mostly because of something Inuyasha does or says like this time."

"I'm still not fallowing." I straitened up a bit. "Who is this Inuyasha person you keep talking about?"

"Oh, he's a dog demon that we search for jewel shards with." Suddenly he looked down and crossed his arms looking mad. "He always is making Kagome mad and sometimes even makes her cry. I know they are friends but sometimes I think he just wants her because she can find the jewel shards for him."

I nodded. "So it seems the two don't get along very well. But if that is all he wants with her for then why does she stay?"

The kids head popped up and his eyes got wide as if he hadn't even thought about it. "Well I guess it's just because they are friends and get a long sometimes. Miroku and Sango think Kagome is in love with him and that's why she keeps coming back but I don't know if that's true at all. I mean most the time Inuyasha only has his mind on Kikyo and doesn't even care about Kagome or her feelings."

"It seems that he doesn't know anything about women then and it would serve him right if she never came back." I stood up and stretched for a second then put my hands on my hips ready to get some sleep. "Well I'm sorry I'm no help but I hope you find her soon. I'll be sure if I see her to tell her I talk to you and maybe see if she is ready to face that Inuyasha creep anytime soon."

The kid's little face beamed as he stood up. "Thank you." He said. "And if it's not too much trouble could I ask you your name?"

"Yoko." I told him with a smile. "I'm sorry about scaring you earlier. My men and I thought you were a treat." I chuckled. "But you're no threat at all."

"I'm going to let that slide." He said responding to my comment. "I'll try no to scare you big men anymore like a mouse does and elephant."

"Big words for such a little thing you better watch who you say those things to. One day someone may make you retreat it."

He waved the words away with his small hand. "Well I don't have time to stay any longer and chat I must be off. Good bye." He said as he turned and walked away.

"Strange kid." I sighed with a smile and went back to the camp site to sleep with another dream about Kagome and how much I want to climb a mountain with her.

Maybe I am falling in love with her or maybe I'm just loosing my mind.