This is my first Inuyasha story ^_^

I tried posting it a while back, but I have re edited it to be a little longer.

Disclaimer- this has been inspired by a book. I wont say which book because I don't want to give it away, but everything here is mine beside the characters.

Chapter 1

My lungs burn, the searing heat sucking every breath away before it is fully taken. Blinded by the tears running down my face, and deafened by the roaring of the fire around me I know that death is drawing ever closer.

The fire elemental I have conjured with the power of the Board will cavort in the open for a short time before descending on me and devouring me whole. But even in the pain I am, I still long for the Boards burning kiss, ache to control it and make it mine once again.

My knees scrape against the hot surface as I dart forth and reach for the Board, opening and speaking my mind, trying to reach and control it once more. But nothing comes out. The searing heat has dried my throat out and I cannot reach the Board. I can hear the crackling of the fire, and I know the element is laugh at me.

"You are but a candle flame compared to her. Your weak and shall never control me."

Where are the Winds? I reach for it in my mind but cannot seek it, almost as if it never existed.

Waters; its voice as fleeting as the gurgling spring dried up into the earths crust by the sheer heat their brother: Fire.

Strongest of the three. Confident, arrogant and prepared to wrest control away from me at a moments notice. And I know once that happens the others will follow. For to control Fire is to be in control of all others.

Three fire elementals tower overhead, roaring and furious to have been torn from their home deep in the center of the Earth. A tongue of flame lashes out towards me and before I can move kisses across my cheek, leaving a mark that immediately turned into painful blisters.

I know my chances of escaping are slim so I pray that whatever happens, it will be quick. The flames spin faster and faster around me and they draw closer towards me until I cannot see nor breathe through the heat. Inches away I feel my skin crisping and peeling away one thin blackened layer at a time. I want to scream. My body wants to scream till I cry, but my throat is so dry. How long will the pain last? Will my conscious slip away like ash or will it remain till my life slips away. Aware of the pain and terror. Aware and shrieking as I burn away into the darkness.

Then it comes. Fire speaks for one last time, his voice bright and filled with hatred and malice that, my own arrogance, had inspired.

"Yes fool, you will be aware- and it will hurt for a long, long time."

Then the real pain comes, and I know that he has spoken the truth.

Kagome's screams tore through the dark night, waking up everyone around her and they raced over to her. She hadn't fully awakened yet, and she had thrown herself to the forest floor and started rolling all over the place trying to douse the imaginary flames of her dreams. She cried out that she was still burning in the flames. Her breathes were short, coughs consuming most of her oxygen, causing her body to tremble.

Inuyasha and the others stood around her, watching as their friend whimpered in her semi-sleep about how flames had claimed her flesh, charring it black with their burning tongues. Inuyasha reached his hand out to her when she started beating at her hair and face in an attempt to put the flames out.

"Kagome! Kagome wake up. Your safe but please just wake up!" Inuyasha yelled, holding the crying girl to his chest. Her eyes flew open and she took deep shuddering breathes as she looked around at her surroundings. She buried her face into Inuyasha's kimono when it hit her all of it was a dream and she clung to him for support.

Inuyasha was surprised at the girl's actions, but held her in his arms as her tears soaked through his kimono.

"Are you alright?" Sango asked, placing a hand on Kagome's shoulder.

"Yeah I'm fine. Just a bad dream." She said, her voice cracked as she tried to maintain her composure. She pushed away from Inuyasha, missing the hint of disappointment on his face, and stood up shaking herself free of her sleeping bag. She walked away from her friends towards where she knew the river was. She dodged low hanging branches and watched her footing as she walked along the damp ground.

When she reached the river bank she knelt down and cupped the cold water in her hands and splashed it against her face, feeling slightly better. She put her elbow on her knee and stared into the water, feeling relived that she was only dreaming. She reached her hand out and dipped her fingers into the water, swirling them around making ripples form on the waters surface. The moonlight casting from above made the water glow, creating beautiful blues and whites on the surface. It was magical.

Kagome smiled, feeling a little more at peace.

"I wonder…" She murmured to herself, drawing her hand back from the water.

She stood up from the bank and started walking back to the camp where the others were but stopped just at the edge of the tree's when the sounds of Sango and Miroku talking came to her ears.

"Kagome's been having bad dreams for the last month now hasn't she?"

"It could be just stress."

"I hope so."

Kagome looked down at the ground, hearing the worry in Sango's tone tore her heart in two.

'I'm sorry Sango, but there are just something's, no one would understand.' Kagome thought to herself. She looked over her shoulder up at the night sky towards where the crescent moon hung high in the sky.

"How ironic…" She muttered staring at the pearly moon. She smirked to herself and kept walking into the make shift camp site until she joined the group.

"You feeling any better Kagome?"

"Yeah thanks Sango. I'm sorry you guys for waking you all up."

"Keh it's not like I care. Just as long as you can keeping searching for the jewel shards I don't really care."

"Sit Boy." She muttered a loud crash sounding from behind her and a string of curses following soon after. She climbed back into her sleeping bag and shuffled down until she was chest deep inside. She put her hands behind her head and leaned back on the pillow and stared up to the sky through the wide gap in the trees. Shippo came back over to Kagome and snuggled into the sleeping bag with her, burying his face into the crook of her neck. She looked down at the mass of fur and smiled warmly, instantly feeling at ease.

'I can't shake that dream. It's been so long too…'

"Psst…Kagome."

"Not now."

"Fine… stupid old bat."

Kagome just rolled her eyes and sighed, trying to relax and ignore the muttering curses coming from not only Inuyasha but also from somewhere else. Slowly she dozed off, this time her dreams untouched and leaving her to sleep well into the cold morning, being watched over by Inuyasha, who didn't bother hiding his concern for the girl.

When she did finally wake up the next morning, the air and ground around her was damp and misty from the fog surrounding her. She sat up and stretched out her back, cracking a few bones in the process.

"Good morning Kagome." Sango greeted, sitting next to Kagome.

"Morning Sango." Kagome greeted, faking a smile back. Her body was sore and her mind was running too fast for her to feel genuine this morning.

"What's this weird feeling?" Kagome thought, unable to shake the dull aching sensation in her chest.

"Something wrong?"

"Is there any danger near by?"

"Not right now. But let LaVarden get their way, and that wont last too much longer."

"Terrific."Kagome rolled her eyes and pulled herself up out of the sleeping bag.

"Anything can happen. And knowing you, it will."

End