LNFG Chapter 9

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Note: Oh MY GOSH you guys! I am sooo friggen sry for not updating! ESPECIALLY since I had left it at a sort of major cliffy! Soon after I finished the last chapter though, finals started, and then summer began and I'm hardly even home during the summer. And then on top of that I went to FL to visit my Cuban family and my grandparents aren't very "up to date" with technology and no one else I knew had a working computer because they had just moved or had stopped paying for internet. rolls eyes Then I STARTED school all over again and A LOT of bad things have been occurring in my life (more sicknesses, mother is preggy, things like that) so I apologize, I hope I can make this chappy long! Thank you so much (the peoples the reviewed) I really appreciate your guyseses support!

On to the story:

Recap:

He continued to talk, "If I wanted to leave you there and be cold-hearted I would've but I didn't just want to leave you there. I knew you needed someone…so I'm here for you." 'I'm not going to leave her here, even if I don't exactly know everything about her.'

Kagome hugged him again for some reason she couldn't explain to herself and sighed as she felt his warmth against her. Inuyasha awkwardly patted her back then pulled away from her a bit to look at her again. "Kagome…what…happened in there…?"

Kagome closed her eyes tightly for a few moments. "If you don't want to it's oka-…"

"No, I'll tell you…It happened a while ago…"

End Recap.

Flash-back:

The day had started like a normal day. It was the middle of the week and she was going to go out with Sango somewhere as soon as she had finished her shift at work. (a/n: Sango's not Kagome's). It was around ten o'clock and she still had a lot of time to kill before she would have to actually start getting ready. She could hear her mother in the kitchen making some breakfast and deeply inhaled the wonderful smells seeping under the door of her room. She put her hair in a loose bun to get it out of her face and, smiling, rushed downstairs to see what was cooking.

"Hey mom." She gave her mom a quick kiss on the cheek then peered over at the stove and asked, "Watcha makin'?"

Her mom was in good spirits that morning and smiled warmly at her daughter before telling her, "Oh, just some eggs and bacon with pancakes and toast."

"Wow mom you went all out today." She looked over at the stove again, her mouth watering slightly.

"I know but I was in that kinda mood." Her mother chuckled a bit and then looked up when she heard smaller footsteps coming down the stairs. "Hey sweetie."

Souta came in rubbing his eyes and yawned. "Hey sleepyhead." said Kagome with a slight giggle in her voice.

"Hi, hi." He sat down across from Kagome and then looked over at the stove similar to how Kagome had done, "YAY! Pancakes!" His sleepy-ness soon left him and he brightened up. Kagome laughed at the child's easy delightment and got up to serve everyone orange juice while her mom served food. Souta waited eagerly for his food and when everyone was served and ready they began to eat. There was silence as they ate except for the occasional clang of spoon/fork against plate or "Pass the butter" comment.

Kagome helped her mom wash and put away the plates then went up to her room. Souta went to the living room to watch TV and was later on joined by his mother. Kagome just relaxed in her room after cleaning it up a bit and then relaxed to read a couple of books. 1 o' clock came around and she got a phone call from Sango telling her that she was going to have to work overtime that day, Kagome was a little sad because she hadn't spent much time with her lately but she agreed to meet her later on near evening. During her reading time she hadn't noticed that the sky outside had darkened abnormally for the time that it was. She shrugged to herself and closed the window as a chilly breeze came in. She took out yet another novel and began reading until she heard a familiar ding noise coming from her computer. 'Oh hey an IM.' she thought and began to IM some friends online to pass the time to 6.

Around 3 the sky outside was a purplish black and the "breezes" her racking the window. It began to rain and Kagome was so busy laughing at things on the computer and eating some snacks that she didn't notice until the panels of her room shook and the power went out. She gasped and immediately started opening drawers to find a flashlight. She could hear Souta's high pitched, little boy screams and then her mother's reassuring voice. Finding the flashlight, she hurried out and stumbled down the stairs until she found the rest of her family. "Mom! What's going on?"

"I don't know, the power just went out. Honey, can you stop shining that thing in my face?" Her mother put her hand up to cover her eyes and then Kagome nodded then went to hug Souta who seemed to be shaking too much. "Hey, are you okay?" she said as softly as she could.

Souta just nodded but kept looking around like if he was expecting someone to jump out at him any minute. Kagome decided that she was going to go check if she could go turn the lights back on and gave the flashlight to her mother, "I'm gonna go check the power box."

"Are you sure Kagome? It's so dark outside…" Her mother looked out worriedly but Kagome wouldn't hear it.

"Souta is scared and besides, no power means so cooked meals tonight. And I sure don't want to be doing things by candle for 3 more hours." Her decision made she groped for the door and went out to the rain and wind after grabbing a jacket. a/n: If your wondering why it's so dark it's becuz they didn't have their blinds open okay? Also, it's very, very dark outside, although they don't know that they are the only few that can see the darkness…only the rain is visible to everyone.).

She walked out the door and to the back of the house. Some loose strands of her hair were hitting her face like whips and it was causing her to squint more than she would normally have to in rain because she didn't want to get smacked in the eye. She was muttering things and having a hard time finding the box outside so she didn't notice the black shadow that had gone into her house before she closed the door.

When she finally got to the box she sighed in relief but noticed that the cables were all messed up and then she didn't know which switch to pull. She muttered evil things and started walking back when she heard screams. Not scared sounding screams…death screams.

Kagome panicked and began running to her house and almost tripped over some rocks. She had tears running down her face already; images were going through her mind like lighting flashes and when she opened the door…it was her turn to scream. The shadow had 5 thick, shiny claws pierced through her mother. Her mother's face was twisted in agony and blood was splattered everywhere. The blinds had been opened by her mother and Souta while she was leaving to have at least a little more light and the light of the flashlight was shining on them also. The creature had a hideous grin on it's face and Souta had passed out on the floor. Upon her entering her mother's face had turned towards her, "Kagome!" she croaked out.

"Mom!" Kagome rushed at the shadow thing and cried out when she just went through him. It seemed that only his deadly claws were solid and she didn't know how she would cut them off of him. Her mind went blank; rushed into despair. Despair she had never known to be possible. Then a, revolting laughter echoed out through the house. It made her cringe.

"You really thought you could cause me damage by just throwing yourself on me? You are but a weak human female…" His voice crackled and hissed at her ears, like acid.

"Leave her alone!" she cried; she needed all her strength to do just that and he noticed. He took out the claws from the now ripped and shredded flesh and then "looked" at Souta. Kagome saw this and her eyes grew even wider with fear. Her mom was dead, her eyes just staring straight ahead…her last tears frozen on her cheeks. Her brother was pale and hardly breathing for he was still fainted on the ground and Kagome whimpered. She moved her mouth but no sound would come forth and she started crawling over to her brother. She was making slow progress and the creature just ignored her extended its claws once more. Kagome realized with sheer horror that he wasn't gonna hold back because her brother was young and she was filled with rage. 'I have to wake him up…' she thought and screamed once more, "SOUTA!" Her brother shook violently as if in a bad dream but still wouldn't wake up. "SOUTA, PLEASE!" Her brother stirred once more and was opening his eyes, "Sis…?" he said weakly. "Souta I'm right here!"

"Sis!" He finally realized what was happening and looked up just in time to see a claw come down…and go right through his throat. "Nooooo!" Kagome screeched and a power overcame her, using her sadness, rage and despair as a fuel and blue light escaped through her arms and hand and shot straight at the creature. There was an immortal scream and a crackling voice saying, "You Bitch!"

Frightened at what she had done she trembled and looked at her hands for only a few seconds before realizing that even though she had heavily wounded the creature he was still alive. She got up and saw the open door then began to run. She could feel the thing notice her lost presence and begin to follow her; it was like they were suddenly connected. Could feel the thirst for her blood and this only made her run faster. She hadn't meant to run to Sango's house but somehow she made the 10-minute walk in about 5 and as she frantically knocked on her door she prayed that she would hurry. When she was inside and the creature banged at the door and left she figured it was too wounded to keep trying. After that, she broke down and couldn't stop crying…feeling a gaping hole in her soul.

End Flashback

Inuyasha didn't know what to say. He was a half-demon he knew but he had never heard of anything like that happening. Kagome had finished and was crying uncontrollably. Between sobs and tears she said, "I thought that I would get over it, but I'm starting to realize that you can't get over something over that…" Then more quietly, "Ever…"

Inuyasha still couldn't understand. He had heard of demons attacking random people but this had sounded planned. "Kagome, was there anything that your family had done? Any pacts with any demons?"

Kagome shook her head, "Not that I know of. My father died a long time ago and my mom never got involved with anyone else or anything. We hardly knew any demons. Why?"

"I don't know, something about this sounds complicated. No demons would just kill for fun…not like that. There had to be some reason…" He looked at her and saw that tons of tears were now running freely down her face and her eyes were red and puffy, her hands shaking.

She suddenly clenched her fists, which made them shake even more. "I couldn't do anything…I was right there but I was too scared…I was looking at the fucking box…" Inuyasha saw the pain in her eyes. Saw her grinding her teeth and didn't know what to do.

Kagome was silent for a few moments then suddenly she started sobbing loudly again and flung herself at Inuyasha and hugged him tight as she cried, "Inuyasha…please…just hold me…" Inuyasha was surprised but nodded, understanding, and held her tightly as she was him while lightly stroking her hair. He didn't know why, but something inside of him told him that this was the right thing to do. That was the thing he was destined to do for the rest of his life. Hold this girl in his arms and never let her go…but he didn't know it yet.

Sango and Miroku:

Sango sat there at the café finishing her cappuccino as she glared at Miroku. He had been trying to scoot his chair closer and closer to her without letting her notice but he didn't know that she had seen every little move. As he scooted over once more she mentally rolled her eyes. "You know Miroku, the last time I looked up you were right in front of me. Now your more to the right of my vision, I wonder how that happened…" Miroku gulped a bit then got up and put his hands up.

"Alright, alright you caught me." Sango shook her head and was waiting for him to sit down when she felt something caressing her buttocks. "MIROKU!" A large smack was heard and as he fell to the floor everyone turned to look. After a couple seconds they all turned and kept conversing quietly. Sango was surprised they weren't kicked out and then glanced at the clock in the café. Kagome is more than half an hour late…something must have happened.

She took out her cell and dialed Kagome's house number.

Kags and Inu:

When Kagome had "flung" herself at him he had fallen back a bit but as she cried he had turned so that he was leaning against the couch and had continued to stroke her hair until she grew calm and had fallen into a deep tired sleep. He had his eyes closed but wasn't asleep. He was filled with all the questions that Kagome's story had put in his mind. As he was thinking about these things he heard Kagome's house phone ring. 'Aw damn I can't get up.' He figured just to let it wring but then when it finished ringing he heard a familiar voice on the answering machine.

"Kagome, it's me Sango. You never came to the café and I was wondering if you were okay. That jerk Inuyasha didn't do anything to you did he? Cuz if he did…Miroku! I thought you were still on the floor….!" Then all you could hear was static before the line goes dead.

'Jerk? I'm not a jerk…!" Inuyasha knew that he should call Sango back so that she wouldn't worry but he was offended and then on top of that he didn't want to accidentally wake up Kagome by moving because after all her crying she finally looked peaceful as she slept. He held her closer and made sure she was comfortable before going off into a light sleep with her warm scent all around him.

Okay, okay, so it wasn't THAT long but at least it's better than nothing. I didn't want to add more because I have writer's block at this point and I gave you the whole story so yeah. I'm sorry I had to make it so weird and kinda gory and mean but I'm feeling like crap today and it kinda reflected on it heehee But yah, so tell me what you think!

MUCHO luv/ Me