Debt by AnitaGrace

An Introduction, If You Please

A/N: Hello, my little butterflies! And Welcome to my first Inuyasha fanfic ever! Today we have a nice Alternate Universe course, followed by a Kagome Higurashi dabbled in light graduate school sauce accompanied by best friend Miroku/Sango chutney. If you take a look at the menu, you'll find it all done up in a nice Boston style. I hope you enjoy.

Chapter One: An Introduction, If You Please

The best way to start any story is to introduce the main character:

Kagome Higurashi, aged twenty-three years and entering her final year at Boston University to claim her graduate degree is the heroine of our story. As the heroine, she will face many trials and tribulations which include:

1. Writing her graduate thesis of over two hundred pages

2. Maintaining her own apartment in the Back Bay area, which she has recently acquired

3. Going to classes

4. Babysitting her neighbor's hyper-active but completely lovable kid

5. Keeping her sweet job at Axis Management Corporation (also in the Back Bay area)

As you can see, this will be no easy story. Any one of these troubles would be... troubling, to say the least (particularly #4) but all five of these problems is quite daunting to say the least. It would be best if I didn't write this story, perhaps, because then it would be like none of it ever happened.

But then we wouldn't get the great stuff like sex, murder and winter in the Alps. Some of these things might even actually occur, though of course I cannot guarantee anything.

So now that the basic introduction to setting and heroine has been finished, it would be best to introduce a few minor characters:

Miroku Morioka is Kagome's oldest friend. He's very handsome and he knows it. He also attends Boston University as a grad student and has known Kagome since the first days of undergraduate school at Boston College. He lives on Commonwealth Avenue (two streets to the left of Kagome's street) in a pretty nice town house with his longtime friend, somewhat recent girlfriend. I'd give you his specific address, but no doubt you'd run over there and demand something indecent and he (being the truly generous soul he is) would be unable to turn down a woman in need. (If you are a man, there is nothing he could do; in fact, he is not home, so go away.)

And if that were to happen, his girl friend would beat you up and bury him and we would lose one of the reasons people wish to read this story. Of course, it would take care of the murder part of the plot, but it would also take away from the sex part by at least ninety percent. (If you count fantasizing, it's ninety-eight.)

Not that there won't be plenty of promiscuosity (as the author I am taking creative licensing to make up words) but without Miroku Morioka there would simply be a whole lot less. Sex, I mean.

Moving on:

Sango Katagiri is Kagome's best friend. It is she who owns the town house on Commonwealth Avenue with her boyfriend, Miroku Morioka. She had only met Kagome's sophomore year as an undergraduate student when they were forced to dorm together due to strange and bizarre circumstances I have decided aren't worth the trouble to indulge to you, the reader.

At first, these girls did not get along. Sango is a strong woman, a little shy and very reticent, and does not like to be touched. Kagome is very bubbly and bouncy and many other words all beginning with the letter 'b'. (Except for bitch. Kagome is not very bitchy.)

Also, Kagome likes to hug people. A lot.

So you can imagine they weren't the best of friends. Add in the lecherous Miroku, fond of going through drawers when no one is looking, and there was quite a bit of tension in room 406 that year. But in the end, Kagome managed to win her over in a manner that is left unknown to even me, the omnipotent author. (Or is it omniscient?)

Ah, the last character I will be introducing today is from #4 on the list from the beginning and his name is Shippo Horiguchi. He is an adorably small seven-year-old with tiny little hands and bright green eyes like grapes made out of emeralds. He is a very attentative and draining character and I am expecting quite a show from him, so don't forget who he is.

The last thing I will describe (and then we will get on with it, I swear!) is Kagome's apartment and it is so small, it will not take long at all.

First off, it is very... er, um, well, small. It's fine for one such as Kagome, unused to the high end of life like her best friend Sango, and she is still in school so there is only so much she can afford. And really, she got it for a great deal. A bathroom, a kitchen, a bedroom and a room of all rooms for so cheap in such a nice part of town, and it wasn't even a college building so it was very conceivable that she might live there even after her graduation. Very nice, very nice.

It even has a nice view because she lives on the tenth floor. And it came with a couch. A very nice couch. She can afford to pay for it with her sweet job at Axis Management Corporation while her mother continues to pay for her college tuition. (Her mother is very nice.)

And see? That was it. That was all the describing that needed to be described as of now. There will be more later on, but it will be done in a less... well, you will feel less like you just got hit with a truck full of manure/details and more like you are reading a story with an actual plot.

But good for you, if you've made it this far. It gets much more interesting from here on and I hope you will appreciate the madness and its method. If you need anything, please tell me and I'll have Miroku deliver it over to you in very tight jeans.

(Miroku will be in the jeans, not whatever he's delivering. But you can keep them – the jeans – if you want; I'm sure he wouldn't mind taking them off for you. Especially if it's in time to a song.)

Ta ta!

A/N: Please, if you have any comments, tell me. I promise the rest of the writing won't be as riddled with author narrative – I was just trying to make this part a bit more interesting. Please review, my little darlings!