Hi, This is my first fanfic, so please try to be nice, but honest (tell what you like and what you don't). I'll try to update as often as possible, but I'm a first year university student, so I get really busy sometimes.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha. Damn! That sucks.But...--thought dawning brightly in brisk33's mind--... If I could possess the Shikon Jewel, I could wish to own Inuyasha!!! Yeah! --giddily wanders off in search of jewel shards--.

Chapter One: The Prophecy

Kagome tossed fruitlessly in her sleeping bag. Sleep continued to elude her and she cursed the stars for being so bright. To tell the truth, the world around her was draped in darkness with the approaching new moon looming on the horizon. Kagome couldn't explain why she was so restless. There were no issues brewing in her mind, other than the usual.

The hunt for the Shikon Jewel was coming along nicely. The group had located a new shard that very day, putting a generally grumpy (especially this close to the new moon) Inuyasha in a good mood. The shard had been wedged into the trunk of an ancient tree, but the plant gave up the jewel fragment easily enough and the group had remained under its eaves for the evening.

'huff,' Kagome sighed in desperation. She slammed her eyes shut and began to count imaginary sheep. The white cuddly beasts jumped over a fence in her mind calling there number as they passed.

"baaaaah!" A sheep bleated and Kagome jumped up in fright. She stared at the sheep blankly wondering what it was doing there. She took a quick glance at her surroundings, to make sure there were no more lose sheep, and she was surprised to find that she was no longer in the forest. Instead, Kagome stood in a field upon the beginnings of a wood. Fright building up inside her heart, she stared at the sheep with more intensity.

"What are you looking at?" The sheep rudely demanded.

"You can talk?" Kagome blustery answered, while drawing on her own conclusion, "demon…" she called in quite fear.

"Yeah, that's right," The sheep mocked, "I'm the evil sheep demon, beware." The beast began to giggle hysterically. Kagome stared with total disbelief.

"You got anything to eat around here?" The sheep asked. Kagome continued to stare with her mouth wide open.

'Something this cute couldn't be evil, could it?' she thought, fully knowing that evil came in many forms.

"Hello!" The sheep yelled, calling Kagome back to the situation at hand.

"What?" Kagome half said in confusion.

"Never mind," The sheep sighed in exasperation, "We have to get going."

"Going?" Kagome pondered aloud, "Going where?"

"To your new position," The sheep shortly explained.

"New position?" Kagome retorted questioningly.

"Hush!" The sheep responded, "Could you ask any more questions?"

Knowing a rhetorical question when she heard one, Kagome remained silent.

"Come on," The sheep commanded walking through the tree line. Kagome reluctantly followed. She pushed against the bushes bordering the forest and they pushed back. Blinded by leaves, Kagome continued to stumble through the dark. When the last leaf cleared her eyes, she opened them to find she was still in her sleeping bag, sitting up towards the pitiful remains of the fire.

"That was a weird dream," she tiredly told no one.

"What dream?" Inuyasha asked as he had been listening to her all along.

"Oh…" Kagome flustered, "Ah…ah…nothing."

"Well let's hope, you've been awake the whole time." Inuyasha informed her. Confusion swept over Kagome, but she held her composure.

"Damn, sheep demon," Inuyasha growled, "Don't worry, I took care of it."

"Hey you!" A voice from the bushes exclaimed, "What are you doing here? Your not suppose to be here!" Inuyasha glared at the bushes as the sheep appeared from behind them. He allowed a low growl to escape his throat.

"I thought I took care of you," The sheep mumbled loudly to herself, ignoring Inuyasha threats. She began to push Inuyasha into the bushes surrounded the campsite.

"Hey! Hey!" Inuyasha yelled in pointless protest. Kagome tired to help Inuyasha, but found that she didn't have the will to move. Once the hanyou had been pushed from the scene the sheep returned, dusting off her hooves in a very unsheep-like manner.

"There now that he's gone," The sheep proclaimed, "We still have to give you your position."

Finding that now she could rise, Kagome rose from her sleeping bag slowly and stood before the strange mammal; questions raced through her mind, but she was unsure of which to ask first.

"What?" was all she managed to stammer.

'huff' the sheep retorted in annoyance, "It is your destiny, or rather the destiny of this chosen path." More question flooded to Kagome's mind, but she was preoccupied by the sheep's appearance. The animal's eyes had begun to glow a menacing red and, though her physical size remained the same, her presence increased to monstrous proportions. Quivering in fear, Kagome stood glued to the spot. The frightening beast moved closer to her, growing in size with each step, and whispering in an incoherent fashion. Still, each word clung to Kagome's ears like she was being told the fate the world. When the sheep was so close that all Kagome could see was the red of her eyes, the incoherentness turned into a dull creepy hiss.

"Kagome…Kagome," Each time her name was called she pulsed with a great magical force and the sheeps eyes changed, a warm shade of gold began to engulf the red.

"Kagome…Kagome," The hiss continued, turning into a feverish yell.

"Kagome!" The last pulse pulled her out of her stupor and she stared with shock and horror into Inuyasha's eyes.

"It's just a nightmare," he reassured her. She saw passed him a confused Miroku, tired yet concerned Sango, and a very worried Shippo.

"You were yelling weird things in your sleep, Kagome," the kitsune offered. Kagome opened her mouth to reassure them that she was all right, but the words she wished to speak failed to leave her lips. Instead, in a low powerful voice, she spoke the sheep's message.

"The transformation will occur on the black mark,

If slain all will remain dark.

The path chosen may bring righteous light,

The child, unborn, may reverse ebony night.

The jewel stolen, all will fall,

The link unbroken, all will recall."

Hey, so that's my first chapter. Please, I'm begging you, review. Sorry about the lame prophecy at the end, but it's importent to the plot, unfortunetly,my poetry skills have apparently diminshed. Hope all the grammatical errors weren't distracting and I'll post a new chapter as soon as I have one written.