Hello everyone! I've had this cross-over story idea for quite some time and I've finally decided to put my plan into action! You'll notice that I've altered some references & etc. from "Resident Evil", although that's about it. No characters from the game will be mentioned, sorry! Anyway, I hope you enjoy the story! Please review and let me know what you think! Thanks!

[WARNING:] This story contains major profanity, violence, blood and gore.

[DISCLAIMER:] I do not own anything associated with the anime, "Inuyasha" or the video game, "Resident Evil" in this entire story.

Chapter 1: "The Horror Begins"

July 24th, 5:37 pm Arklay Forest

A woman was happily humming a song-less tune while she got out a few camping supplies out from the back of a truck. Her husband, who was a few feet away, was busily checking their green tent to make sure that he had put it up properly.

"All set! What do you think, huh?" The man called from over his shoulder as he looked the tent over to see if there were any last flaws.

"I think you did a great job, honey!" The women replied as she walked over to her husband and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "All we need now is a roaring camp fire to complete the look!"

The man laughed. "Yeah, your right. It'll be completely dark soon and I know I don't wanna be stuck out here in the middle of nowhere with no source of light!" He said sarcastically as he slowly stood up and headed off towards the nearby woods, away from their little campsite. "I'm gonna go collect some wood for the fire. Be back in a jiff!"

"All right! Hurry back!" The woman called out to him as she watched him make his way around some thick pine trees in the distance. She then walked over to the truck and grabbed a large backpack, filled with odds and ends and two sleeping bags. She then proceeded to the tent and started rolling out the sleeping bags.

After the woman was done, she was just about to sit down and take a rest when all of a sudden, she heard loud, pain-filled screams echoing nearby.

Panic and fear seeped through her veins as the woman instantly recognized that it was her husband who was the one screaming. In a panicked hurry, she quickly scrambled out from the tent and ran towards off into the woods to search for her husband.

"HENRY?" The woman called out in a desperate, panicked tone as she continued running and scanning the surrounding area, hoping to God that he was all right-but his loud, agonizing screams weren't very convincing.

All of a sudden, the sound of her husbands' screaming ceased, but the woman was in too much of a panicked state to notice.

"HENRY?" The woman desperately called out again as tears started streaming down her cheeks.

Upon passing through a thicket of pine trees, she suddenly spotted something which made her stop dead in her tracks: lying motionlessly on the cool and damp forest ground a few yards away from her, was her husband-covered in blood. The only way that she was able to recognize him was from his clothing, which now was mostly tattered and soaked with his own blood. From what she could see, his face had been mauled beyond recognition and there were several deep scratches across his chest. Large sections of flesh from his torso, legs and arms were missing, which exposed some of the man's organs and other innards. His throat had also been ripped out as well.

"Oh... oh God..." Was all the woman could utter as she took a shaking step backwards. She could feel the vile starting to rise within her throat and tried to suppress it as she quickly switched her gaze to the ground in front of her instead of the mutilated body.

Suddenly, the sound of something rustling in the thicket of bushes that were a few feet away from the man's body alerted the woman's attention. As the woman looked over towards the spot where the noise was coming from, three ungodly creatures suddenly emerged from the bushes.

The woman was so horrified at the gruesome site of the creatures, that she was unable to find her voice to scream out her fear.

All three of the creatures looked similar in state. They all had dirty, blood-covered black & tan fur, which hardly covered their mangled bodies. Patches of flesh were missing throughout their entire forms, which exposed bloody-pink muscle tissue, tendons and bones. Even though they were a good distance away from the woman, the creatures were also emitting a bad stench, which was something like a rancid road kills smell.

For a moment, time seemed to have halted. The woman still remained frozen to her spot as the creatures stared at her with their blank, white eyes. Then suddenly, one of the creatures bore its' blood-stained fangs at her and started growling dangerously. Without thinking, the woman quickly turned around and started running as fast as she could back towards the campsite. Not too far behind her, she could hear the sounds of the creatures barking and chasing after her.

It didn't take long before the woman stumbled upon the little campsite, but she kept on running. She would've gone straight for the truck, but she didn't have the keys with her-they were in her husbands' pants pockets. 'They're catching up with me! I can't keep running like this!' She frantically thought to herself as she continued to dodge tree branches and jump over fallen logs and sticks. Suddenly, she spotted what looked to be a river in the distance, which gave her some hope. 'I'll be safe once I make it to the water! They won't follow me in! They can't...'

Within a matter of seconds, the woman finally made it to the rivers' bank. Wasting no time, she quickly stumbled into the shallow, cold water and started making her way across to deeper waters while trying to push against the strong current

But before she even made it to waist-deep in the water, the woman was suddenly knocked down forcefully face-first into the water. Immediately, she felt excruciating pain from her left shoulder and opened her mouth to scream, but ended up getting a mouthful of bitter river water. As she continued to frantically thrash around underwater in panic and from pain, she had somehow managed to momentarily knock the creature from off of her back. She then quickly picked herself up out of the water while coughing and spitting out water to try and get her breathing back. Her eyes started blurring with tears and she started screaming and crying out loud in pain as she reached around to hold her injured shoulder, but felt that some of the flesh had been torn away.

"SOMEONE HELP ME!" The woman desperately screamed loudly as she turned around to try once again to make her way through the water, but before she could take another step, she was tackled from behind again-only this time by all of the creatures.

The woman's screams and pleas for help were drowned out by the sound of the flowing rivers' water as the creatures unforgivingly sank their sharp fangs into her limbs and tore at her flesh...

7:18 pm, Somewhere close by...

A woman with short black wavy hair and brown eyes quickly yet quietly made her way down an empty, dimly lit hallway. The light padding of her brown loafers and the soft swishing of her white lab coat were the only sounds that she was making. As she continued to nervously make her way down the hallway, she passed by many electronic doors, medical charts and several other scientific data amongst the walls.

Just as the woman was about to round a corner down another hallway, the sudden sounds of many loud footsteps and deep voices talking in the distance somewhere made her freeze in her tracks. She held her breath in fear as she stood there staying flat against the wall, silently praying that nobody would find her.

Then as if her prayers had been answered, she could hear the footsteps and voices starting to become fainter and fainter, meaning they were heading in another direction. The woman then let out a relieving sigh and then quickly proceeded once again down the next hallway to continue on to her destination.

As the woman neared the end of that hallway, she suddenly slowed down her pace and walked over to a metallic sliding door that was off to the left side. On the front of the door was a painted white sign with red bold lettering that read: "Room OFF LIMITS To All Staff & Personnel!". Ignoring the sign, she quickly reached into her right pocket of her lab coat and retrieved a white plastic key card. Immediately, she swiped the card through the silver security device that was off to the right side of the door and then pushed a few buttons to put in the pass code. A second later, there was a beeping sound and then suddenly, the electronic door slid open. The woman quickly slipped inside the room while mentally cursing at how loud the beeping noise was as the door slid shut behind her.

Once inside, the woman discovered that there were no lights on. She then quickly felt along the wall beside the door until finally her hand came across a light switch. As soon as she flipped the switch, an overhead light in the middle of the ceiling came on, revealing that it was a tiny office room. The woman wasted no time in scanning the room for the one thing that had been on her mind since it happened: a phone.

Finally, the woman spotted the phone sitting on top of the desk that was across the room. She then quickly ran over to the desk, picked up the receiver and immediately started dialing a number with shaky hands. 'If I get caught, I'll be-NO! Stop thinking like that!' The woman mentally scolded herself as she crouched down beside the desk, waiting for someone to pick up the phone on the other end. 'Please, please, PLEASE pick up the phone somebody!' She thought frantically as her breathing started to become heavier and her body started shaking with fear.

Just as the woman was starting to loose hope, the sound of someone's voice answering from the opposite end of the line alerted her attention. It was someone that she hadn't spoken to for over four years...

7:12 pm, West End Apartment Building, Raccoon City

"Ah, relaxation!" Happily exclaimed 18-year old Kagome Higurashi as she lazily plopped down onto the tan leather couch with a bag of potato chips in one hand and a can of soda in the other. She then grabbed the remote control from off of the coffee table that was in front of the couch and turned on the T.V. and started to flip through the channels. 'Hmm... boring... boring... stupid...' Kagome thought to herself while frowning as she continued flipping through the channels for something to watch. "Jeez! It's the frickin' weekend! You would think that there would be something decent to watch!" She suddenly exclaimed out loud with frustration. She was almost tempted to throw one of her sneakers at the television screen.

"Why are you yelling, Kag?" Groggily asked Souta Higurashi, Kagome's younger brother, as he made his way over towards the couch while rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "You woke me up."

"You were sleeping?" Kagome questioned, surprised that he was home. "I thought that you were going to the movies with your friends?"

"I was supposed to, but everyone said that they weren't feeling good." Souta replied while yawning.

"All of them?" Kagome asked in disbelief.

"Yup." Souta stated as he plopped down onto the couch next to his sister.

"Bummer." Kagome plainly replied. 'Hmm. That's weird...' She thought to herself as she took a gulp of her soda.

"So, how was work?" Souta asked as he quickly stole a few potato chips from his sister's bag.

"Just the usual, boring everyday thing." Kagome stated in a dull tone as she kept her attention focused on the T.V., oblivious that her brother was stealing her chips. "Mr. Smith closed the shop early 'cause he said he had a doctor's appointment this evening."

"Foh wha?" Souta asked with a mouthful of chips.

Kagome shrugged. "I don't know. I think he has the chicken pox or something 'cause I saw him scratching his arms a lot the whole time I was there." She replied thoughtfully.

Just as Souta was about to say something, Kagome cut him off. "Shh! Wait a minute!" She quickly interrupted as she turned up the volume on the T.V.

(Woman news reporter speaking on T.V.)

"...found the remains of a local woman's body that was pulled out from the Marble River earlier this evening. Police Chief, Myoga Flea of the Raccoon City Police Department, has stated that it was yet another grizzly bear attack from the Arklay Forest. This makes the tenth victim within the past few days. Police have now issued roadblocks on the main road that leads up into the Arklay Mountains and urges local hikers and campers to refrain from going into that area until they find the source of these gruesome attacks."

"In other news, local residents seem to be feeling 'under-the-weather' lately. Residents report having high fevers, cold sweats, dizziness and other flu-like symptoms. We've spoken with Dr. Kaede Baba of the Raccoon City Hospital about this issue. From her observations, Dr. Baba has stated that it's just the normal flu virus that's going around and that there is nothing for the citizens to worry about. She has also stated that if anyone is feeling severely ill or if symptoms do not improve within a week, citizens are urged to visit the hospital to receive immediate medical attention and a flu shot vaccination."

"And now, on with the sports news..."

(End of news report)

"Well, that explains why everyone's acting so sickly!" Souta stated as he got up off the couch and stretched his arms up over his head.

"But it's in the middle of the summer!" Kagome exclaimed as she turned off the T.V. "I thought people only get sick in the winter time-especially with getting the flu!"

Souta just shrugged and walked out into the kitchen.

"This is just plain weird if you ask me..." Kagome mumbled to herself as she got up off the couch and headed towards the bathroom-but before she even made it to the hallway, the phone suddenly rang. "I got it!" She hollered out to her brother, who was currently making a peanut butter & jelly sandwich in the kitchen.

Kagome lazily made her way towards the ringing phone that was located on a small table in the corner of the living room. 'It's probably just another sales person or something...' She thought with annoyance as she neared the phone. "Sheesh! Alright already!" She exclaimed as she finally picked up the telephone receiver. "Hello?"

"Kagome? Is... is that you?" A woman whispered unsurely from the other line.

Kagome froze with shock. That voice... she recognized that voice! It was her mother... Tears started welling up in her eyes. "Mama?" She asked unsurely. "Is it... really you?"

"Yes! Yes it's me!" Mrs. Higurashi happily whispered from the other line. "Oh honey, I'm so glad that I got a hold of you! I really miss you and Souta! I love you both so much!"

"We miss and love you, too!" Kagome exclaimed while sniffling and wiping her tear-stained cheeks. "How come you haven't called or even come to see us? Why all of a sud-"

"I don't have much time left." Mrs. Higurashi quickly interrupted.

"Huh? What do you mean? What's going on?" Kagome questioned, feeling utterly confused. She could hear her mother's ragged breathing on the other line. It sounded like she was crying...

"Listen to me, Kagome," Mrs. Higurashi sternly demanded, no longer whispering. "Take Souta and leave the city, NOW! There's... there's been an... accident here at the lab... some virus that... just please do as I say! I- OH GOD, NO!-"

(CLICK!)

The line had suddenly ended. All Kagome could hear now was the sound of the dial tone. "MOM?" She hollered as more tears started to flow freely down her already tear-stained cheeks. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?" She then yelled as she slumped down onto the floor and started sobbing, while still clutching the telephone receiver in her hands.

Hearing Kagome's outburst, Souta had quickly darted into the living room only to find his sister lying on the floor, crying hysterically. "What happened? What's the matter?" He worriedly asked as he kneeled down next to his sister and helped her sit up.

"M-mom just called! She… she told us to leave the city because of... of a v-virus..." Kagome shakily said in between her sobs.

Souta looked at his sister with a confused face. "But why would she call just to tell us about the flu virus? We've never gotten sick before in our whole life! She knows that we-"

"S-she said that there was an accident at the lab." Kagome replied in a hoarse voice, cutting off her brother. She started to calm herself down a bit and wiped her tear-stained cheeks again with the back of her hand.

"Huh? What else did she say?" Souta questioned as he helped his sister stand up from off of the floor.

Kagome sniffled. "That's all she said before the line went dead!" She exclaimed in a frustrated tone.

Souta stood there and ran both his hands through his short black hair. "What the hell's going on?" He asked out loud to no one in particular.

"I DON'T KNOW!" Kagome yelled, finally releasing all of her vented up confusion and anger over the entire incident.

Both siblings just stood there in silence, neither of them knowing what to say or do for the time being...

Several hours had gone by since that disturbing phone call. Souta had passed out on the couch a few hours ago, finally letting sleep claim his tired mind and body. Kagome on the other hand, could not sleep. She was currently curled up into a little ball on the tan reclining chair that was next to the couch, trying desperately to catch some sleep-but it was pointless. All she kept thinking about was that telephone conversation with her mother. So many questions kept running through her head: Was this some sort of twisted joke? Had her mother gone mad or was she telling the truth? But there was only one major question that plagued Kagome's mind: What happened to her mother?

"'OH GOD, NO!' "Those last words that her mother had yelled just before the line went dead would probably haunt Kagome for the rest of her life. It made her feel sick inside at hearing how terrified her mother had sounded.

Kagome couldn't take it anymore. She obviously wasn't going to get any sleep, so she got up from out of the chair and made her way out into the kitchen. She walked over to the refrigerator, opened the door, grabbed the carton of orange juice and then started gulping it down, not caring about getting a cup at the moment. After she had downed the juice, she then walked over to the small kitchen table and sat down in one of the chairs. Propping both of her elbows up onto the tabletop, she let out a depressing sigh and looked out through the nearby kitchen window. It was pouring with rain outside and in the far distance; she could see lightning striking every now and then followed by the low rumbling of thunder.

'Fits my mood just perfectly...' Kagome thought sourly. She felt like crying again, but she was 'all-cried-out' now. Her brother was in better shape than her, although she saw how hard he struggled at times to prevent himself from crying as well. She sighed again. 'Hell, for all we know, mom could be dead.' She suddenly shook her head violently. 'NO! Stop thinking like that! She is NOT DEAD! 'She mentally screamed at herself as she blocked out all of the negative thoughts from her head. 'I have to do SOMETHING! I can't just sit here and wonder what happened to her for the rest of my life!'

Suddenly, Kagome got up from out of the chair and started to pace around in the small kitchen. 'Mom had to of at LEAST left SOME kind of information about where she was working!' She pondered as she kept pacing the kitchen. 'All I know is that she works for the Shikon Corporation... and NO ONE knows where it is!' Suddenly, she stopped pacing. 'Maybe she left some papers or something inside the safe!' She quickly thought as she raced out of the kitchen and down the hall to her parent's room. When she entered the bedroom, she made her way over to the nightstand next to the bed and turned on the lamp. Then she started searching the room for the small metal safe that her parents had bought a long to ago.

A few minutes had gone by and the only thing that Kagome had accomplished to do was mess up the entire bedroom.

Feeling hopeless, Kagome sighed as she sat down onto the edge of her parent's bed and looked around at the mess she had made: Clothes, books, shoes, jewelry, make-up and other little things were scattered everywhere. She even raided the closet, inspecting from the floor to the ceiling and still found nothing! 'Where the hell is it?' She thought with frustration. 'If I remember correctly, the safe was only about the size of a shoe box-so why haven't I come across it yet for cripes sake?'

Suddenly, something caught Kagome's attention that was lying on the scattered mess of a floor. She slowly slid off from the bed and sat on the floor and then picked up a big brown photograph book that was lying face-open on the floor. She started flipping through some of the pages, seeing pictures of when she and her brother were only small children. Surprisingly, there were also a lot of pictures of them with their mother.

Kagome continued to flip through the family photo album until she suddenly came across one picture in particular that caught her attention. It was a very rare picture of her father and mother. In the picture, it portrayed her father happily standing on a beach with his arms wrapped around her mother, whom was smiling happily.

Kagome kept staring at the picture with a longing look. She missed her mother so much! She also missed her father as well, even though she hardly even remembered him. After all, she was only seven years old when he left to go work for the "Shikon Corporation". Her brother was only two at the time, so he probably didn't even remember him.

For years, the young Higurashi children and their mother had never heard from him. There were no visits, no phone calls... not even a damn letter was written. Only a money check from the Shikon Corporation was sent to the family each month. Even the envelope that the check was sent in held no information whatsoever on the whereabouts of corporation's location, so therefore none of them were ever able to contact him.

Then one day on Kagome's fourteenth birthday, the Higurashi family had finally received a phone call-but it wasn't Mr. Higurashi on the other end of the line: it was someone else calling from the Corporation. The person had informed their mother that her husband had been suddenly involved in a tragic car accident and that he was killed instantly. When her mother requested for her husbands' body to be sent here in the city for a proper burial, the person had denied her request, saying that it was impossible to. The persons' excuse was that because his body had been extremely burned in the fire, there was nothing left but ashes.

But there was more to that conversation. Whatever the person had said to her mother after the heart breaking news still remained unknown to Kagome. Her mother never told her. But as soon as her mother hung up the phone, she turned to her two young children with a fearful look in her eyes and quickly explained that she needed to leave immediately to replace their fathers' place at the corporation.

When Kagome and Souta had questioned their mother why she had to leave so suddenly, Mrs. Higurashi's only response was, "Daddy's work needs me.". Without saying another word, her mother quickly left the room to go pack her suitcase.

About an hour later, a tall man with long white hair and wearing a black business suit and black shades, showed up at the door. When Mrs. Higurashi answered the door, the only thing the man had said was, "Let's go.". Her mother then quickly gave both of her children a quick hug and kiss, and also reassured them that everything would be okay. Then just before she exited the tiny apartment for the last time, she had whispered, "I love the both of you very much!"-then she was gone.

That was the last time either of the Higurashi children ever saw or heard from their mother-with the exception of the earlier disturbing phone call.

Ever since that day, Kagome had to immediately take charge and play the role as the parent and take care of Souta and herself, since they had no other living relatives to depend on. Thankfully, the only good thing that the Shikon Corporation did for them was continued to send monthly checks, which easily covered all of the monthly bills, food and other needs, so therefore the city did not put them into a foster care facility.

Thinking back to those horrible, stressful days was enough to make Kagome cry again, but she held back her tears. The past was the past and there was nothing she could do about it.

Sighing, Kagome went back to flipping through the photo album. When she got towards the middle of the book, a loose photograph suddenly fell out and onto the floor. Curiously, she picked up the picture and looked at it. It was a picture that she had never seen before of her family. In the picture, her mother was cradling a baby Souta in her arms and her father (who was standing next to his wife) was holding a smiling little Kagome in his arms. They were all standing in the hallway, right in front of a large framed portrait that portrayed a little log cabin with mountains in the background and the sun shining a ray of light through the clouds, which illuminated the cabin.

'Hmm, I don't ever remember having this picture taken before...' Kagome wondered to herself as she started to tuck the photograph back into the album's page-until she suddenly saw something that caught her eye.

There was something written on the back of the photograph, which appeared to be her fathers' hand writing. The little message read: "The heaven above shine's its beautiful light upon the family's home, where it will always be safe and protected by God himself."

'Okay... Why would dad write something like that?' Kagome thought curiously to herself. She then re-read the message. 'Maybe that's what the artist wrote on back of the portrait or maybe it's something from the Bible...' Shethought, still pondering about the quote. Suddenly, it hit her: the writing mentioned the word safe in it, plus the word had been underlined as well!

It was the craziest idea that she had ever thought of, but deciding to take a chance, Kagome quickly scrambled up off of the floor with the picture in her hands and ran out of the bedroom. 'I think we still have that picture hanging up somewhere!' She thought with excitement as she raced down the hallway. 'Maybe this is a sign or something... I hope I'm right about this!'

As Kagome came to the end of the hallway, she finally spotted the picture, which was hanging up on the wall directly in front of her. She then glanced down at the photo in her hands and then back up at the portrait-they were exactly the same. Taking in a quick deep breath to calm herself down, Kagome then carefully removed the hanging portrait from the wall and then gasped in shock. In the center of the wall where the portrait had once hung, was a 5" by 7" metal box imbedded into the wall. It was her parents' safe!

Kagome felt like shouting and dancing in triumph, until she suddenly realized something: the safe required a key to open it.

"Damn it!" Kagome yelled with frustration as she threw the portrait down onto the ground, feeling defeated. Just as she was about to turn around to go back down the hallway to her parents room, she quickly glanced down at the portrait when she suddenly noticed something which caught her attention. Curious, she then bent down to the where the portrait was lying, which was face-down on the carpet, and noticed that a small silver key was taped onto the lower left corner of the portrait.

Hope suddenly flooded through Kagome's mind as she hastily removed the key. She then stood up and went back over to the safe. Wasting no time, she carefully inserted the key into the key hole and then turned the key until she heard a small click sound. "YES!" She exclaimed happily as she opened the small door and peered inside the safe.

Contained inside the safe were a couple of old silver coins, birth certificates and an old folded-up piece of parchment paper.

Out of curiosity, Kagome picked up the old folded paper and carefully opened it. Even though the paper was in poor condition, she could still make out what it was: a map. Upon closer examination, she noticed it wasn't just an ordinary road map-this map looked to be roughly hand-drawn by someone. The unusual map portrayed the main road which lead up into the Arklay Mountains, but also showed a disclosed road near the end of the mountain road that was off to the right side somewhere (which had been labeled "secret road" with an arrow pointing north). The "secret road" then led to a square-shaped box labeled, "Onigumo Mansion", which was basically in the middle of nowhere, surrounded only by the entire Arklay Forest. Scribbled at the very bottom of the map, were the directions on how to get to the mansion, as well as a few notes.

After quickly reading the notes, Kagome suddenly felt many emotions flood through her entire being. The notes had briefly stated that the mansion was really the cover-up location for the secret headquarters of the Shikon Corporation.

Hope and determination settled in Kagome's mind. She knew now what she had to do-what she wanted to do. She was going to find that damn mansion and get her mother back: no matter what it took.