Disclaimer I do not own Inuyasha and company. They are Rumiko Takahashi's creation so he holds the rights to them. I do however own the plot to this story.

A/N I do not condone violence of any kind. I use the philosophy of violence only begets violence. Oh and I placed this fan fiction in the present time so it might seem a little weird to some.

"Talking" 'thinking' (me)

Chapter One: Christmas Eve.

Inuyasha walked up the walk to his girlfriend's house. It was 10:00 pm on Christmas Eve. Inuyasha went up to the door and knocked. Her mother answered the door.

Inuyasha said, "Hello Mrs. Takimori is Kikyo home? You look very lovely this evening might I add."

She said, "Hello Inuyasha. Kikyo is up taking a bath at the moment but should be done soon. And why thank you Inuyasha. You two have fun tonight Inuyasha. I will be home around midnight so feel free to stay the night."

Inuyasha was sitting on the couch in Kikyo's living room waiting to hear her come out of the bathroom. He looked at the clock and saw it was 11:00pm. He knew she had been in there for an hour and a half already so he got up and went to the bathroom door and knocked on it. He got no answer from Kikyo.

He knocked on the door again and said, "Kikyo are you alright? You've been in there for an hour and a half."

He waited and didn't get an answer so he opened the door just enough thinking maybe she hadn't hear him.

He said, "Kikyo?"

When she didn't answer him he opened the door all the way and saw her laying in the tub like she was asleep except Inuyasha could see and smell her blood. He ran over to her and grabbed her out of the water. He held her lifeless body in his arms as he cried.

Across town in the house lay a teenage girl with black hair and brown eyes. She held a phone in her hand and she laid it next to her on the bed as the 911 operator saying, 'Hello is anyone there? Can you hear me? Hello?' In her right hand was a picture of a young man and a young girl. The young man was her boyfriend as well as the last person who she had in this world. The young woman was the same teenage girl. Her name was Kagome Higurashi. The young man was Hojo Fukimori.

Kagome cried as she looked at their picture. They had been so happy back then before the accident that left him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

She whispered, "I love you Hojo and I will be with you soon."

Her world went black around her. The last thing she heard was the police breaking the door down.

Inuyasha sat in a hospital waiting room with Kikyo's parents. The doctor came at 11:30pm and told her parents that there was nothing they could do. It was exactly midnight when Mrs. Takimori knelt infront of Inuyasha.

She said, "Inuyasha."

He looked up at her and saw her sad eyes. She looked into his lifeless eyes and knew this was going to hurt a lot.

She said, "Inuyasha, Kikyo's gone. There was nothing the doctors could do. She lost too much blood."

Inuyasha looked past her to where Kikyo's body lay and lost it. He just lost it completely. He couldn't believe she was really gone. He buried his head n Mrs. Takimori's chest and cried so hard she couldn't get him to calm down.

Down the hall in another room laid the raven haired beauty that was Kagome Higurashi. She awoke and saw the hospital room and she lifted both her hands and saw the bandages around her wrists. She cried because she didn't want to live anymore. She wanted the pain to stop forever.

The doctor came in the room and said, "You had us worried there Mrs. Higurashi. We though we'd lost you there for a minute."

She looked at the doctor and said, "Why did you help me? Why not let me die it's what I wanted?"

The doctor said, "You really don't want to throw your life away do you?"

Kagome said, "Yeah I wanted to die. Why else would I have taken my own life?"

He said, "Then why did you call 911 if you wanted to die?"

Kagome said, "No one would have known I had died so I called them so someone would at least have known what I had done."

The doctor said, "Well it didn't work this time around. So be grateful for your life while you have it you still have a lot to live for."