~*~ Flashback

'Thoughts'

"Spoken"

-Song-

*Time and Day and Place*

Well, this is the next chapter. And thank you to all the people that reviewed ~^^~

Disclaimer: I don't own anybody in this whole story. And I don't own the song either!

Chapter 3
The Night to the Dance

'The day has flew by in a flash,' Megumi thought. She was searching for a dress in her closet. 'Tomorrow is finally Saturday. I am so excited!!!'

"Meow." Megumi turned and saw Cloud on her bed.

"So how is my Cloud?" Megumi asked her white kitten.

"Meow.."Megumi turned back to her closet. Finally her eyes laid on a black shirt and skirt.

"Oh my god, this is perfect!" Megumi pulled out the black tank top and the short black skirt from her closet. Megumi twirled around with the clothes as if they were Otaru then fell on her bed. "I really do like him," Megumi starred at the ceiling, "I am in love."

-All day-
-Staring at the ceiling-
-Makin' friends with shadows on my wall

Megumi rose from the bed and turned to her clock which marked the time, 'its already 10:00 pm. Maybe I should get some sleep.'

-All night-
-Hearing voices telling me-
-that I should get some sleep-
-Because tomorrow might be good for something-
-Hold on-
-Feeling like I'm headed for a breakdown-
-and I don't know why-

'I'll sleep after I do my exercise!' Megumi went over to her window, opened it, and then she jumped out. The cold breeze on her face felt good as she jumped from tree branch to tree branch. When she hit the ground with her feet she ran threw the forest with speed. Megumi did this every night when it is dark. It was strange, she didn't know how she could run so fast, it was incredible, No regular human could do it she knew that. One time she thought that she would join a track team or something around that.

-Well I'm not crazy-
-I'm just a little unwell-
-I know right now you can't tell-
-But stay a while and maybe then you'll see-
-A different side of me-
-I'm not crazy-
-I'm just a little impaired-
-I know, right now you don't care-
-But soon enough you're gonna think of me-
And how I used to be-

'I am so glad my friends or Kagome don't know that I do this.' Megumi thought with a smile. She jumped again and landed in the inside of her room then she went toward her bed to get some sleep for the big day tomorrow.

*8:00 pm, The Night To The Dance*

"Aren't you going to the dance, Megumi?" Kagome asked when she saw Megumi sitting by the window in the living room.

'Where is he?' Megumi ignored Kagome's question and asked, "what time is it?"

"8:45."

"What!!??" Megumi grabbed her jacket and ran out of the house, " Have to go Kagome see ya at 10!"

"Wait! Megumi!" But Megumi ran out of sight into the night. "Megumi."

Once Megumi knew that Kagome couldn't see her she slowed down to think. 'He told me that he would pick me up at 7:00 right?' Megumi walked toward her school, which was still quite far. "Damn! Why is it so dark?" Megumi looked up; there was no moon,

-Me,-
-talking to myself in public-

"Today is the new moon right? Urgh can't this get any worse?" She felt little drops of water touch her cheek as she continued to walk. 'I guess it can,' with that Megumi ran toward her school. As she ran her dark hair, darkened. Her human ears disappeared as if they were not there ever and new black dog-ears appeared on the top of her head. Megumi's beautiful brown eyes turned silver like a full moon. Her teeth were now sharp.

Megumi pushed threw the door. As she opened it she could hear the party that awaited her inside and the boy she was going to kill with her own hands. Megumi closed the door behind her and laid her tired body on it.

"Megumi-chan!!!" Megumi heard her friend Ayame call. Megumi looked up and she saw Ayame stop in front of her. 'Oh no!' Megumi thought as Ayame gasped when she saw her. "Megumi! What happened!? Look at yourself and.and," Ayame gasped again.

"Will you stop that already? Where is Otaru? Is he around here?" Megumi asked looking around. Ayame reached out her hand and squeezed one of Megumi's dog-ears.

'What in the world?' Ayame thought. "Megumi, what are those things on your head?"

"What things?" Ayame pulled out a small mirror and handed it to Megumi.

"Oh my goddess!!!" Megumi dropped the mirror and used her hands to cover her ears. She used her shoulder to push the door open. As the door closed Megumi started to run. 'What is wrong with me? My eyes, my hair, my ears?' Someone grabbed her arm.

"Not now." Megumi started to say, but then stopped.

"Hey, Megumi where were you going?" Otaru asked with a smile, "isn't the dance that way?' Otaru pointed to the school that was still visible, but then Megumi remembered what he had done to her and she felt anger and fire burn inside.

"Let go of me!" Then Megumi punched him with all her might. Rain pored down between the two; both in silence as Otaru stayed on the ground and Megumi didn't dare to look at him. A few minutes past and they both stayed where they were.

"Otaru!" She looked up to see who had spoken. It was Yura, "Otaru, are you alright?" Yura helped him up, "what happened?" Megumi didn't want to hear it so she ran, ran away like a coward. Tears seemed to fall, or was it the rain that was pouring on her face, clothes, and hair.

"Otaru, what happened between you and Megumi?" Yura asked. As Megumi kept running she still heard them speaking.

"I don't know." Yura saw her chance, 'Now I can be with Otaru since the bitch of Megumi isn't here.'

"I am sorry Otaru," Yura told him with her fake sad voice.

"Why is that, Yura?" Otaru starred at her, but she was looking down at the ground and it continued to rain.

"It's just that.that," Yura forced tears to go down her face.

"Are you crying?" Otaru grabbed Yura's chin and made her look into her eyes as her fake tears went down her face. "It's alright, Yura." Otaru put his arms around to comfort her, "lets go back to the dance."

"Okay." Yura sniffed, really happy inside.

*Inside the Shrine*

Tears filled Megumi's eyes and they felt unstoppable. "Yura is going to tell everyone what happened! She probably saw the whole thing." Megumi didn't know what hurt her worse. The traitor of Otaru who is probably enjoying the dance with Yura who is probably happy, Yura who is probably going to spread a rumor that she had punched Otaru, Otaru not coming for her at 7:00 pm like he had promised, or everything all together.

-And I know-
-I know they've all been talkin' bout me-
-I can hear them whisper-
-And it makes me think that there must be something wrong with me-

"Why did everything have to go so wrong!?" Megumi asked herself, as she walked down the steps to the old well. She sat on the rim of it as she thought to herself. 'Now Yura is probably enjoying her time with that.that.' She was also so confused. She didn't now whether she loved Otaru or hated him. 'I should hate him. He like dumped me!' Megumi felt tears rain down her face again and faster. She could here the rain outside the Higurashi shrine go 'plop, plop, plop' on the roof. Megumi searched into her pocket and pulled out a small shard. 'I wonder what this is?' Megumi thought as the small shard glowed in her hand with pinkish and purple light.

~*~

Megumi combed her hair in Kagome's room. "Okay, my hair is ready. Now what do I need?" She walked over to Kagome's closet and opened it. Instantly, something caught her eye. Megumi looked around the room to make sure that Kagome wasn't around. Then she quickly grabbed a school uniform. "This uniform looks so ugly, I can't even believe that they wore this kind of stuff, but I don't care about that." Megumi reached into one of the pockets of the uniform and pulled out a crystal shard. The little shard glowed in her hand and it gave her a strange feeling. 'I should take it with me for good luck.' Megumi put it into the skirt's pocket.

~*~

Megumi decided to forget about her troubles. She had friends' right? That was enough for her. She cleared her eyes and put the jewel shard back into her pocket. (AN: I know you must be thinking 'Why didn't Kagome sense the jewel shard this whole time?' Well let me explain. This was one of Kagome's uniforms that was old and she didn't think there would be any jewel shards anymore in the Modern time because she was really sure that Kikyo had taken them all from her and she sort of wants to forget about the Feudal Era and Inuyasha because now she has a child and she didn't want Megumi to live in the Feudal Era with all the demons and all that evil. *gasps for air* Long explanation well I'll carry one with the story. Email me if you don't understand -.-V) the girl heard footsteps come closer and closer her way. 'Oh no! I don't want to see anyone right now especially Kagome. I'll hide that's it! I'll hide in the bottom of the well. Megumi jumped down as she heard that shrine door's open, but then she heard no more.

I guess this is a good spot to end this chapter. ^^ Don't worry Inuyasha will be in this story and most likely in the *covers mouth* I mean uh. please review ^^;