A/N: Ok, this is the prologue for "Gone with the bullets." which was given to me by Kimiko888, if any of you are wondering. Yes, she's the same person who lended me the idea for "Shop til' you drop!" And I hope I get the same response for this too!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha! If I did, I'd have created Inu pups!

Disclaimer #2: The ORIGINAL idea was Kimiko's. Anything else mentioned, created or otherwise, belongs to me.

Now on with the story

Prologue: Bullets number one, two, three and four

"See you tomorrow, Kagome!" Eri called to the raven-haired girl. Kagome glanced up, gave her a smile and waved goodbye. She returned her gaze to a paper in her hand. Her report card had just been issued to her, and she had finally been able to make an 'A' average, something that her and her mother had been working on since the beginning of her sophomore year. She smiled to herself as she thought of how proud her mother would be.

Keeping her pace steady, she began to walk home to the shrine her family and her lived in. She wondered idly if her grandfather would be out today again, telling one of his wacky old stories. She cut across the park that was near her house to get there faster and tell her mom the good news.

Just as she rounded the corner, she noticed red and blue lights blinking everywhere. At first, she didn't realize who or what was causing it, until she bumped into an officer clearing the vicinity.

"Hold up, little lady, you can't go there. Been cut off, you see." The officer held out his hand, stopping Kagome.

Kagome frowned and stepped to the side. "But I live here!"

Before the officer could say anything else, she bounded across the street to where her house was. She stopped dead at the end of the stairs, gazing at the yellow tape that now blocked entry way, silently and with fear-widened eyes.

No. . . It can't be. . .

Kagome hesitated before about jumping over the tape, afraid of what might be on the other side. But she had to, didn't she? Her family had to be okay, right?

She jumped over the tape, ignoring the yells from the officers as she bounded up the steps of the shrine. She came upon more yellow tape, and she jumped that too. She just needed to know that her family was alright. Kagome frowned again. They had to be okay.

There were officers everywhere, but she squeezed through all of them, and none of them seemed to notice she was there. It wasn't until she got inside that they finally realized she had ducked under all of them.

Her mother was the first one she saw. She was sprawled on the floor, the color gone from her cheeks, lying in a pool of her glistening red blood. Her eyes were wide and frightened, as if she had been petrified.

Kagome couldn't make a sound. Horror struck her first and then a couple of seconds later, grief. Her hand hovered over her mother's face but she could not bear to touch her mother like she was now. Her knees gave and the material soaked up the red liquid that surrounded them. It was like a horror movie, only a whole lot worse and actually real.

Momma. . .

Finally deciding that she couldn't live to see her mother's eyes glazed over, she slowly closed them.

Bullet number one.

-x-

Kagome moved away from her mom, afraid of the grief that was threatening to boil over from the inside. The blood stains were still on her jeans. . .

She slowly came to the living room and in horror, found her grandfather on the floor, with two bullets in his chest. The broom was still half-clutched inside his hand, and a small charm was in his other, slightly crumpled. His hair was matted with blood from a head wound, but Kagome could tell the shots in his chest were what killed him. His blood still seemed like it was dripping from his wounds and onto the puddle of blood around him.

Bullet number two.

-x-

Kagome couldn't take anymore. The smell of the blood sickened her and suddenly she had the urge to hurl. She stepped back, tripping and falling down. She scrambled up and reached the bottom of the stairs. She gazed up at the stairs and was afraid to go up. Where was her brother, if he hadn't been down here with her mom and grandpa? Kagome grabbed the mahogany railing as the officers came inside.

"Grab her!"

She rushed up the stairs quickly, her light weight giving her a head's start. She blindly chose a room, hurried inside and shot the door, locking it as it closed shut. Kagome sighed in relief and turned around.

Much to her terrible grief and horror, she saw her brother, lying half-kneeled with her diary at the edge of the bed. He had been shot from behind, a clean shot. There was almost no blood on his back. She realized that he must've never seen who killed him. Kagome tore her eyes away, and realized she was in her own room. On her bed was also her cat, Buyo. He had also been shot and killed.

Bullet number three and four.

-x-

Kagome couldn't help the tears that come down like rain. She fell to her knees and sobbed openly. Her heart felt like it was tearing itself apart and the pain was too much. She couldn't believe someone could do this to a boy, a mere child of eight years, who was kind, loving and so different from other brothers her friends talked about. Why him, of all people?

It should've been her in their places. It should've been her and not them on the floor, dead, without the shine in their eyes. She would give anything to do that. Who could have possibly been evil enough to commit such an atrocity? Who had killed her family?

She sat there, drenched in her own tears and the blood of her family members, and she vowed vengeance for them. A vendetta would be the only thing she would live for. She would not rest until she found the murderer and take their life just as they had taken it away from her family and now her.

Her life was gone, whether or not there was a blood pumping in her heart, whether or not there was oxygen in her lungs. The moment her family has ceased to exist, she had too.

She broke down once more, falling to the floor herself, not caring if the police found her. She had nothing but her sworn vengeance to keep herself alive and not to jump the highest building in the city.

She closed her eyes and imagined her family, ignoring the bangs on the door and it's collapse. She and her family would have been eating dinner by now, celebrating Kagome's grade. Her mother would have smiled and her grandpa would have gone on about some old story.

She smiled at the smile her imaginary mother gave her. It would be the only way to see her smile ever again.

A/N: Short, but it was only a prologue. I hoped you guys liked it. I know it sounds depressing and all, but don't give up hope! There is still much more to come! Please review and alert!

~Daichi