Disclamer: These obviously aren't my characters, or I wouldn't be writing this, would I? Just read the darn story! God, I can't believe you're actually bothering to read this disclamer!

"Urg!" grunted Inu-yasha as he hit the snake demons scaly body. The fang sword just clanged as it hit, bouncing off as if he had stuck metal. Sango took a shot next, but with the same effect. This wasn't a normal demon, but they couldn't understand why.

"Kagome!" Inu-yasha shouted to her. "Is there a shikon shard in it?"

"No!" she shouted back. She glanced around it's long, twenty foot body with no luck. The snake appeared perfectly normal, aside from the fact that its rattler was the size of her body.

Inu-yasha dodged the snake's fangs as it struck for him. Damn, he thought. What is wrong with this snake? They're not supposed to be this strong.

"Snake demons, are in fact, one of the least powerful demons for their size. Their size is their only real weapon. They aren't very bright and have no real abilities. This demon, though, is particularly odd." Said Myouga on Kagome's shoulder.

She looked over at him wide eyed. "You're still hanging about? I'd have thought you'd run long before now!"

"Well," he said, perfectly serious. "Snake demons aren't supposed to be very strong, so I figured you'd be just fine. Since I was wrong, I'll be leaving now." He hopped off her shoulder and scurried into the nearby underbrush.

"You really are a coward," she told him indignantly as he left in quite a hurry.

"Kagome!" Inu-yasha called frantically. "Look out!"

She turned around just in time to see the snake strike towards her. Teeth bared, and looking as menacing as possible, his eyes seemed to glow for a moment, before going back to their normal color.

The last thought Kagome had as she felt the demon's fang pierce her arm, was, 'now isn't that odd?'

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As Inu-yasha saw he fall to the ground, he panicked. This was wrong, all wrong. Why had the demon suddenly started to go for Kagome? It was attacking him last time he checked.

"Kagome!" Sango called, rushing over to her friend's side. Miroku jogged over to her side. Inu-yasha could only stand there staring at them.

The snake turned on them. When Inu-yasha saw the blood dripping off it's fangs and Kagome lying unconscious on the ground behind it, he lost it. "Die, demon!" he cried, running towards it, sword upraised. The demon dodged it with surprising speed.

Then something odd happened. Something seemed to click inside the demon; its eyes seemed to go fuzzy for a moment and when Inu-yasha noticed this, he immediately charged it.

The snake demon didn't even see it coming. Inu-yasha drove the sword strait through its mouth and up through its head. The demon's eyes rolled back, so all you could see was the white lining. He lay their for a moment, perfectly still with his head raised toward the sky. Then he dropped to the snake with a huge thud. The earth seemed to shake for a moment before going still.

Miroku and Sango were shocked, and for a moment just stood still looking at the dead snake demon. But Inu-yasha lost no time at all. He jumped up, leaving the fang sword lying in the demon's mouth, and ran as fast as he could toward Kagome.

She was lying on the ground, with a pool of blood surrounding her. That's not normal, thought Inu-yasha. That's too much blood.

The tip of the demon's fang still lay buried in her arm where is had struck. Blood splattered over her white uniform, making it look like some bazaar art, but Inu-yasha was not impressed. He was scared, almost out of his wits.

The next to run up to him and Kagome was Shippo. "Eeep!" he cried falling to his knees by Kagome's side. "Inu-yasha! Inu-yasha! Kagome's dead! She's DEAD!" he started to wail.

"Shut up!" he said, hitting him on the back of the head. "She is NOT dead." But at the same time he wasn't really that sure. Was she dead? No, he thought. No, Kagome couldn't be dead. Not the Kagome who, just a few hours ago had laughed at his reaction to coffee. Not the Kagome who made him sit when he hit Shippo, or teased her. That Kagome just couldn't be dead.

Sango and Miroku finally got a hold over themselves and ran over to join them. "Oh my goodness," said Miroku when he saw her. "That's a lot of blood."

Sango sat and rested Kagome's head on her lap. Inu-yasha watched her, frantic for some sort of explanation as the demon hunter checked the girl's pulse. Then, Sango lifted her eyes to him, slow and sadly. "She's dead," she told him.

Inu-yasha just starred at her. She couldn't be dead. Sango was wrong. Maybe she was just not that sensitive to the pumping of her blood. But she wasn't dead. No, anything was possible but that.

"Waaaaaahhhhhh!" wailed Shippo, holding onto the end of Inu-yasha's robe like a child would hold a blanket. "Kagome's dead!!!!"

"Shut UP!" Inu-yasha roared at him, standing up and ripping his robe out of Shippo's grasp. He ran into the forest at full speed.

"Inu-yasha!" called Sango from behind him. But he ignored it and continued to run. He ran with all his power, trying to escape it. But he couldn't. No matter how fast he ran, no matter how much he pretended it wasn't true, that didn't change the fact that Kagome was dead.

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Hi, folks.

As you know, not much happened in this story. Well, Kagome did die, but we haven't gotten into the main plot line yet. If you don't like it so far, I promise you, Kagome does not stay dead. Well, not exactly. The next chapter will be up in a day or so. Please review, or I might not bother to write more!

Thanx

-Dream Fox