Author's Note: I am thankful to all the people who cared it really helped me feel a lot better. I sat my butt down and decided that I definitely needed to get back on track with this story so I did. I sat and sat thinking what I should do with this story and I finally got the inspiration, weirdly enough it was thanks to my big bro who was visiting...Don't ask why. Enjoy chapter seven and read my AN at the bottom after you're done with the story, it explains my story and where I am trying to go with it. It's not a spoiler though.

Disclaimer: Guys haven't we already been through this? (Sighs and mutters about how unfair life really is).

The Story of Two

Chapter Seven

Unexpected

Kagome sat in front of her dresser mirror brushing out her hair. She sat there with the world's biggest smile on her face. She couldn't help it, each day she grew to love him more. Each day with him made her feel things that she had never felt.

And it was a relief. For so many years she had sat alone in the dark, crying and in pain of her loss; her mistakes she had made. Her past...

But somehow Inuyasha made that go away. All her darkness was replace with a feeling of great emanating light of happiness, of love in her. She couldn't help but fall in love with him.

Never in her life had her heart let go of its barriers so quickly. Never had she fallen madly in love with someone that she barely knew. Until now...

Her heart soared at the idea of her going out with him tonight. He had made plans to go out to dinner for their one month anniversary. She put the brush down and looked deeply in the mirror.

She was shocked to know that she was still smiling. Lately the things she had been doing were shocking. In fact just yesterday she was making herself breakfast when she noticed she poured orange juice in her cereal, she had been daydreaming again.

Sango walked in and saw that Kagome was drifting off into a land of happiness again. "Kagome..." Kagome turned around with a faint blush of pink staining her cheeks.

"You were doing it again."

"I know..." Kagome admitted looking down at her lap.

"You're never going to get anything done at this rate. You do know that he is picking you up in thirty minutes?" "What! I haven't even picked out my outfit for dinner!" Kagome frantically applied on makeup to her bare face.

"Relax, I'll find you something in that mini mall of a closet of yours and you finish touching up your makeup." Sango headed into the closet and Kagome grabbed her makeup brush.

A good few minutes later Sango walked out of Kagome's closet with a black strappy dress. She held it out for Kagome to see. "How about this, you've never worn it before." Kagome looked at the dress and stood up and walked over to Sango.

"I don't remember ever having it..." Kagome recalled the dress looked familiar but couldn't place where she had seen it, or that she even owned such a dress. Sango smiled gave the dress to her. Kagome nodded and grabbed the dress by the hanger and went into the bathroom to change. She emerged out of the bathroom wearing the black dress. She twirled around in front of Sango. "Well how does it look on me?"

"It's perfect it was made to be worn by you." Kagome produced her ever famous smile and hugged Sango. "Thanks so much." Sango pulled back placing her hands on Kagome's shoulders and said "You deserve it the last few years have been your hardest. Besides whoever the guy is that is responsible for putting smiles on your face, making you hum all day long; driving the rest of your room mates here crazy...Well that guy deserves to know what kind of person you are and what he is doing to your face, heart, and soul."

The doorbell rung. Sango gave Kagome a gentle push towards her door way. "He's waiting for you..." Kagome winked at Sango and exited her room. She headed towards the front door. She opened the door slowly revealing the man that she was growing to love.

He held out a bouquet of white roses for her and said "These are for you." Kagome graciously accepted the roses taking the time to smell them. "They're beautiful..."

"Not as beautiful as you." He replied. Kagome smiled softly and place the roses in a vase on the counter and joined him out the door. Every word he said made her feel special. He made her feel as if she was the most beautiful woman in the world, a feeling she hasn't experienced in a long time. She placed her hand in his and followed him to wherever he was taking her. It didn't matter as long as she was with him...



Kagura sat behind her desk typing rapidly on her lap top. Her eyes bored into the screen while her fingers danced across the keyboard. Her picture of her and Naraku sat face down on her desk. She no longer harbored the feelings of love for him. She hadn't in a long time.

She hated herself for what she had become. For what he had made her become. The evil schemes she had to be a part of. She had to. There was no choice. She stopped what she was doing and leaned back against her chair and let out a long sigh.

She closed her eyes. Remembering everything that happened that day.

Flashback

She was going up the steps that led to a white building. She was going to class, when she bumped into him.

Back then he had been young and handsome. Equivalent to what a male model or actor would be today. He was perfect with his long rich black hair tied in a loose ponytail. His features sharp and outstanding. His eyes full of life and energy. He was perfect.

She bent down and picked up the papers she dropped. He bent down and helped her. She looked up at him, unable to resist his presence and smiled at him. "Thank you..." He handed the papers over to her and smiled back, he looked a good ten years younger smiling.

She suddenly felt weak at the knees. Something she hadn't experienced before. "People call me Naraku. And you are?" She placed the papers neatly on top of hers and said "Kagura, I'm new here."

"Well we definitely need to better our acquaintances, don't you think?" Kagura blushed and stood up, he followed her suit. She looked away and nodded smiling prettily.

He smiled his perfect smile again and said "We should have dinner, Friday at seven, I'll pick you up?" Kagura looked at him eagerly and smiled back at him. Her heart fluttering. She answered yes.

He winked at her one last time and headed the other way.

After that dinner, he managed to charm his boyishly good looks into her heart. All his antics and charms got to her. Everything about him was perfect. She had fallen in love with him in that one day.

But the one thing that she regretted was going out with him on that date. The date that sealed her fate all together.

End of Flashback

Kagura sighed it was a long time ago and it was too late for regrets. She didn't know what she had gotten herself into at the time. She was young and inexperienced. She didn't know what changed him, or if he was always that evil. Everything changed soon afterwards. His heart, his face, and his soul, all turned black and evil. He changed for good.

He was no longer the same person that she had fallen in love with. He had become something else, a figure that thrived on darkness, almost nonhuman like.

She fell out of love with him afterwards, but she was binded to him. She couldn't leave him until she fulfilled his wishes, his dark desires, and his evil duties. She became his personal slave.

She was pure and innocent once, now she was tainted. Tainted with darkness. She placed a hand over her heart. It once was good; a bit still had survived and managed to stay there after all these years.

It hurted that she had become this person. She looked over at the ring that was on her desk.

Her engagement ring, sitting there waiting to be on her finger. Disgusted she grabbed the ring and chucked it against the other side of the office. It lay on the ground now, away from her.

That little bit of good in her heart was enough. It was enough to fight back. It was time to fight back. Too many years had gone by since she had smiled; too many years had gone by since she has laughed, since her sister left this world young and weak, too many years.

Somehow she would find a way. She would find a way to beat him at his own game. She would find some way to leave all this behind, and to live in peace once again. She would find a way out, even if it killed her.



Inuyasha led Kagome to the back of the restaurant, into a private little room that he had reserved weeks ago. He smiled when he saw her face light up. "Inuyasha this place is..." She was at a loss for words.

She looked at the paintings that covered the walls and the beaded curtains that was the doorway. The table it self was amazingly decorated. The silverware perfectly aligned on each side of the white gleaming plates. On the center of the table was a large candelabra with each candle lit.

"I presume you like it?" He said as he pulled out her chair for her. She sat and smiled at him. "Of course."

During dinner they told each other a fact about themselves. They both learned a lot about each other. She loved soft colors and music. She preferred baths rather then showers. Her favorite meals were desserts. He loved fast cars and the outdoors. He preferred the night over the day.

After they finished dinner, the restaurant's band started playing music. He asked her to dance. She accepted.

Now they were on the middle of the dance floor being watched by the young and old, who envied their love or wished for a love like theirs. Her head was on his shoulder and her eyes were closed in content as her body swayed to his, following the music.

Her heart beating wildly as each minute passed. She enjoyed being close to him, taking in his warmth and his smell.

He enjoyed being near her. He liked the fact how perfectly her body framed his. How her small delicate fingers were entwined with his large ones. How she breathed softly on him, how the smell of her hair was intoxicating him. How soft her skin was. And how her heart drummed fast for him.

Meanwhile seated far away in the dark was the very person that wished for their existence to be off the face of this Earth. How much he hated what they had. He too once had that but it was all lost a long time ago. He scowled and crushed the wine glass he was holding. The shards of glass scattered everywhere.

He stood up to leave. It didn't matter in the end. Their perfect love would be ruined in the end. He was going to make sure of it.



Kagome closed the door behind her with a smile on her face as usual. Dinner was everything and more. She saw everyone was asleep and was about to head to bed when the lights turned on.

There stood her roommates with a wide smile on their faces. Sango was the first to speak. "You didn't really think you were going to bed without telling us anything now were you?"

Kagome put her hands on her hips and said "Let's put it this way it was a fairly nice dinner." Suki rolled her eyes and said "We meant details Higurashi, plus if it was fairly nice why is it you have a smile plastered on your face that is the size of Jupiter?"

"I do not." Kagome replied still smiling.

Ayumi added "Oh yes you do, you can't stop smiling. Look at you you're all a glow." Kagome looked at her roommates trying her best not to smile. It didn't even last a good second.

They all bursted out laughing. There were some things you could not get past your best friends.



Kagome yawned for the umpteenth time waiting for her hair stylish to finish curling her hair. "Evan are we done yet?"

Evan shook his head no and released the hair that was in the hot curling barrel and wrapped a new lock of hair around it. Kagome sighed and continued to read her magazine. It was going to be a long day.

Kagome was exhausted and drained from her photo shoot today. She had worn ten high heels that had extremely high pumps with tight uncomfortable straps, to tight-fitting barely unable to breathe dresses, to posing on hours for that perfect picture.

She dropped off her purse and set it on the kitchen island. Surprise to see a brown box sitting on the table she reached over and read the card.

It was unsigned but she smiled instantly when she read the note. She knew who it was.

Setting the card down, she slowly untied the bow and peeled off the wrappings. She peeled off the tape and slowly and gently lifted the top back.

She face dropped when she saw what it was. It wasn't what she had ever expected. And she knew it wasn't who she thought it was that gave it to her.

It was a clock attached to what looked like explosives. She ran out of the room but it was too late because by the time she just exited the room, the clock rang and a loud boom went off. She hit the ground unconscious and barely breathing. She was hit by the explosion.

And the kitchen was black and covered in soot. Little flames were surrounding her. Hot flames were slowly creeping towards her.

And no one was home, no one was around. No one.

AN: Before you think what I might've done, it's not. Trust me it's not what you think it is. Don't flame me, you'll see what happens in the other chapter everything will be explained. There was a reason why I added that bit in. It's the whole point of the story; I even gave bits of clues in the earlier chapters about her past and her life. So the scene is part of the whole mystery charade that we will eventually get to. There's plenty more to this story. Plus she's not dead...Yet?