Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, at all… I wish though…. sobs why can't I be the genius that created Inuyasha!
The sun rose and startled Kagome as she aroused from her nightmare. Kagome looked at her clock and screamed.
"Chikusho! I'm late!"
She jumped out of her bed and dashed to her closet as the clock struck eight.
"I was supposed to meet Inuyasha at six this morning."
As she dashed into her kitchen, buttoning her blouse, the dream still haunted her. She was trapped in a dark room, staring through two dark, plain windows, and she saw Inuyasha raise his Tessaiga ready to strike. She screamed out his name, hoping he would rescue her from the desolated room, but to all her horror she realized he was going to kill her.
Shivers went down her spine as she rushed to the well barefoot, slippers in hand. Quickly, she threw her shoes in as she went head first down the well. Smack, smack... "Ouch!" she heard a voice say as she screamed out, "Inuyasha, move!"
Too late... With a loud Boom she landed into Inuyasha, who was cursing and rubbing his head.
"Damn it, Kagome, what the hell is wrong with you? I've been waiting for two hours and right when I'm coming after you, you come down the well, smacking me in the face with your damn shoes and toppling me to the ground when you landed on top of me."
Kagome stands and dusts herself off, ignoring Inuyasha's further rambling.
When he finally stood Kagome replied, "You shouldn't have been standing by the well! Besides, is that any way to treat someone on their birthday?"
Inuyasha snorts and begins to walk away from Kagome.
"Technically, it's my birthday too. The day you found me and let me live again, heh, but that didn't stop you from knocking me to the ground."
Kagome rolled her eyes and followed close behind him.
As Inuyasha and Kagome began to walk over a hill, Kagome could see Miroku and Sango come into sight. Their backs were turned to them as they stared out over a crystal clear lake with a mass of think green woods shadowing the other side.
"Roar!" said a little figure behind Kagome and she let out a loud screech.
Inuyasha didn't bother to turn around, but laughed instead.
"Relax," he said, "It's Shippo."
Inuyasha had smelled him a long time ago. Kagome, relieved, scooped up Shippo who was laughing and singing the Happy Birthday song Kagome taught him, skipping words every now and then. As they finally reached Miroku and Sango, the two seemed to be lost in a daze.
"What's up with them?" Inuyasha queried poking Miroku with his toe.
"Don't know." Shippo replied, "They've been like that for an hour as far as I know."
Kagome moves up close to Sango's face, just close enough to feel her warm breath on her cheek.
"Sit down!" she hissed and Kagome immediately takes a seat next to her, as if she were Inuyasha.
Her eyes followed Sango's gaze and across the lake, deep in the woods, are a pair of glowing red eyes.
Kagome gasps, "What are they?"
"I don't know," Inuyasha states, "but I'm gonna find out!"
Sango's eerie trance is broken. "You can't slay something and you don't know what it is!"
"I may not know what it is, but I know one thing: It's going down!"
And with his eyes fixed upon the ghostly scarlet eyes he zooms across the lake, treading water behind him.
"Baka…" Sango murmured.
