I remember the night I died. I was cold and broken. My head was split into two as was my lip. I remember coughing up dark almost black blood. I could taste the death on my touge.

You see, when you love someone you know is evil and dark, you think you can change them into someone who is pure and worthy of love.

My mama always told me 'You can't change a man, who is stuck in his way.' I wanted so badly to prove her wrong. I wanted to show her that the man I loved was good.

I guess I should start at the beginning, long before I met... Sesshomaru..

I was a little girl when my parents divorced. I don't remember my father much, just that he was handsome and wanted his freedom back. So my mother gave into her broken heart and let him be free of us. I never saw him again. It was me and her for many year until we move to the Shrine that my grandfather owned. She was broken and beaten from life and was ready to give up. Until one day she didn't wake up.. I dont like to talk about it. She was my world. I guess thats how it all started though. I was 15 alone with my grandfather. He was a good man but it was sickly. I was mainly by myself until my grandpa figured out i wasnt in school...

"Kagome! Wake up. You're going to be late for your first day of school."

"I'm awake.." I said quietly in my bed. I didn't want to get up. I was depressed my grandpa would say. I should get over it and move on. Very heartless coming from the man that lost his only daughter, right?

But I'm just a teen. What do I know?

I claimed out of bed and through on some black skinny jeans and my black hoodie. After brushing my hair and teeth I walk out the front door without saying anything.

It's only been a month since my mother's passing.. It hasn't gotten easier. Why should it? In a city of millions and the only person I want is unreachable. Im tired of life. Nothing good has happened to me since I was a kid. I needed something. Anything to make this pain go away.

School was half way over and it was time for lunch. I stopped eating weeks ago, so instead of going to the cafeteria, I decided to go outside to the field to be alone.

"Hey. Why you out here?" I looked up to see a boy with sliver hair and golden eyes and what looks like dog ears?

"I'm sitting." I didn't want to talk to anyone. That's why I came out here.

"I see that wench." He sat down beside me with a cute smile on his face. Must think he so irresistible. I wanted to laugh at him.

"My name's Inuyasha." He reached his hand out for me to shake. I must have stared at him hard because he poked me in the cheek.

"Hey are you alright?" For some reason, when he asked me that..I broke down crying. Pretty lame right?

"Why are you crying?!" He became hysterical with me. Freaking out, he didnt know what to do. I wasn't saying anything. Just crying looking at him dead in his eyes.

"I'm Kagome." I said with snot and tears coming down my face.

"I'm sorry. I'm just going through a lot and no one has asked if I was okay. You just kind of took me by surprise."

"Oh no. That's okay. Are you okay?"

"I guess. I just feel so alone." I'm asuming he saw the pain of my face because next thing I know he picked me up and places me in his lap. I know I just met him. But he was so warm and soft and I finally felt like I belong..

"You don't have to talk.." He told me as he run his fingers through my hair. "..You don't have to say anything."

We stayed like that for hours it seemed. I drifted off in his warm embrace.

"Where do you live?"

"I dont want to go home.."

"Okay." I felt him pick me up, like I was a wounded animal on the side of the street. It felt nice to be cared for, even though I didnt know where we were going.

"Kagome..." I felt Inuyasha nudge my shoulder.

"What..?" I don't open my eyes. I didn't want reality to be real again. I wanted to stay in the darkness. The darkness was welcoming. It embrace me like a heavy blanket in the winter time. I clinged to it but it was disappearing and the light shined through. I opened my eyes to see golden orbs staring at my with concern.

"Where are we?"

"We in my room. You said you didnt want to go home so I brought you to my house."

"What time is it?"

"uhhh. A little after 3."

"We left school?"

"Yeah. You were really upset. I didn't think you wanted to be there."

"Thank you Inuyasha." I sat up in his bed. His walls were red and his celling was black. His bedding was also red and black. He had a huge flat screen tv hanging on his wall with game systems and the bottom of it. One black dresser and a computer with a desk in one corner of his room.

"Nice room." I didnt know what else to say. We only just met.

"Keh. Thanks. My brother got me this stuff. He's never home. So he tries to make up for it bring my stuff."

"What about your mom and dad?" His head dropped and I felt bad for asking.

"ohh. Im sorry Inuyasha. I didnt know.."

"Its okay. They died 5 years ago. Its been me and my brother ever since."

"At least you have each other. Well when hes home I guess."

"I guess." He laughed.

"So are you hungry? I'm starving." I didnt want to eat but I didn't want to be rude either.

"Uhh sure. Whatcha got." He smiled at me. It looked like he had a fang or something sharp in his mouth. I shrugged it off. I would ask him later about it.

He grabbed my hand and pulled me off his bed.

"Come on. Let's go see." He seemed happier for some reason. I didnt know why. But I liked it. It made me smile. I real genuine smile.

"Lets see. We have ramen, chicken ramen, and shrimp ramen."

"Hmm what else you got?" I asked laughing alittle.

"Pizza?"

"I love pizza!" He practically jumped out of his skin when I yelled with delight.

"Pizza it is then." He smiled at me again.

As the pizza was making, we were trying to figure out what we wanted to watch.

"Comedy?" He asked.

"Nahh. Horror?!"

"Sounds good. If you get scared we can always cuddle." We laughed. I knew he was just playing. But it was nice he joked and cared about me so soon.

We watched our movie and eat our pizza in comfortable silence. Hours went by and we were stuffed and scared out of our minds.

"No more scary movies." He looked at me with humor in his eyes.

"You big baby." I teased and his smile grew bigger. Making someone else happy made me want to be happy too. There was somwthing about him that I adored. He was sweet, charming, and funny as hell. He made me feel good. The kinda good you didnt want to stop feeling. The kind of good that made you believe in love. The platonic kind of love.

"Oh geez. Its already 8. Do you have to go home?" He said with sadness in his voice. I didn't want to make him sad. I wanted to see his smile again.

"I can call and ask if I can stay the night. If thats alright with you.."

"YESS! Stay. We can have a sleepover." His face light up and I loved it.

"Okay. Ill be right back."

While I went to call my grandpa, Inuyasha cleaned up the mess we made and called his brother. I was in the doorway when I heard Inuyasha talking. I stopped so I could listen.

"A friend."

"No you havent met her."

"Yes a girl."

"You dont have to come home early. We ate and are watching movies."

"Brother.."

"Yes.. I understand brother.."

"Yes.. I really like her. She's special."

Hearing him say I was special made my heart swell with joy.

"Okay. See you tonight. I'm sure you can't." He said sounding irritated. He hung up his phone and sat down hard on the couch.

"Can't what, Inuyasha?" I asked stepping into the livingroon.

"Oh nothing. My brother is coming home. You'll get to meet him." He seemed upset with this.

"If he's anything like you, I'll love him." I said pinching the tip of his nose. He smiled and grabbed my head.

"We're nothing alike." He kissed the top of my hand and placed it beside me.

"How about some ice cream!?" He jumped up and down on the couch. I couldn't help but to laugh at him.

"Sounds good." A small smile appeared on my face.

-Squid.