Authors note!
Hello everyone! Thanks to all those who have reviewed! sniff I am so grateful! Tear well while you were reading and reviewing I was having my hair hacked off! ACK! IT'S SO SHORT! IT'S DEAD! IT WAS MURDERED! AHHHHHHHHHH! BOO-HOO! (I'm crying!) Okay well I am upset! :( it makes me angry! Okay well who knows maybe my mood while be reflected in my chapter. ACK! No!! I'm drifting! Focus! Sheesh what is my problem? I am always getting off topic! Jeez, I fell like I have a brain defect! Maybe I do! Oh no! SHITAKI MUSHROOMS! I am drifting again! Focus! hits head against keyboard okay maybe I should just start. Right.
Inuyasha's ears perked up as a distant voice floated to him. He shook his head. Naraku was dead. He was imagining things. Still, his ears strained for any other noise, chills ran up and down his back. (a/n: can you guys imagine little chibi inuyashas running up and down his back screaming pretending to be 'chills'? the thought just cracked me up!)
Shippo ran around in circles. He was worried about kagome. She had been gone for about a week. Inuyasha didn't admit it, but he was also worried. Inuyasha didn't like this Shuya guy. Although he had never really met him, he still didn't like the feeling he gave off. Shuya was wild and carefree with a good sense of humor. He was also somewhat of a lecher. Inuyasha didn't trust him, not one bit.
"GO GET HER!" Shippo finally cried, tears filling his eyes. "Please? I can't take it anymore. Every time she comes back from that place she seems different! I don't want her to change! Please inuyasha?" he whimpered. "I miss jade too. She gives me pocky."
Inuyasha let out a mock defeated sigh and stood slowly. "Fine I'll bring her back." Shippo squealed with joy. Inuyasha began to make his way to the bone eaters well. "Here goes nothing. Kagome, I'm coming for you." with that he jumped into the well and was engulfed in a brilliant purple light.
-Back at Shuya's (there hadn't been a party for a while)-
The house was surprisingly clean. The group had spent the last week telling jade about herself and her past. Jade tried desperately to remember anything, but to no avail. A few memories flickered back now and then, but nothing of much importance. A white room. A straight jacket. A hallway filled with people. A boy with dog ears. A woman that looked somewhat like kagome. And finally a man. This was the longest memory besides the one with the woman that looked like kagome.
The memory had become a nightmare. She had dreamt about it every night at shuya's. It was always the same. The same man, I same burning ropes. The same weapon. The same voice. The same forest. The same tears. The same rage. The same pain. The same fear.
Every night she woke up screaming in a cold sweat. And every night Sesshomaru was there. Ready to hold her hand, ready to console her. She had begun to fall for him. He was obviously in love with her. He was very open in his affection for her. She also observed how friendly Shuya was getting with kagome. Though kagome always seemed distant with him. Perhaps there was someone else? She only seemed interested in Shuya when he brought out the black beauties or the meth. Or the coke.
"JADE! HEY JADE!" Shuya came running into the room. "PARTY TONIGHT! WADDA YAH THINK? Are yah up for it?" jade smiled. She had already experienced one of his 'parties' she had decided in the first 5 minutes that Shuya was her new best friend.
"YES!" she shouted jumping off the couch. She had become known as a club kid. Her specialty was ecstasy. She smiled remembering this. She hoped James Saint James would be coming.
"And guess who I tracked down and invited just for you?" jade looked at him curiously.
"Who?"
"YOUR OLD FRIEND BRYCE!"
Jade froze and turned slowly to face him. Memories danced through her head. The bushes. The burnout boys. The clearing. Dirt under her fingernails, rain streaking her mascara; a crown of twigs and moss laced in her hair. The rain smelling of rot and rain and Christmas. Memories of times she had never known yet had somehow without her remembering, occurred. She remembered Bryce. He was he brother's best friend in Japan. Kagome would like him. "I remember him." she said softly.
"You DO?" Shuya did a little victory dance. "Well this calls for a celebration!"
Jade laughed. "Everything calls for a celebration with you."
"Why yes, yes it does." He smiled at her. "Go get ready!" jade smiled back at him before turning and climbing up the stairs.
Bryce sat on the couch. Jade and him had had a warm reunion. A VERY warm reunion. He was an ex-boyfriend after all. Sesshomaru was not pleased. When he appeared at the door jade had screamed and ran into his open arms. He planted a wet kiss on her lips and held it for several seconds. Jade pushed back from him and shook her head glancing at Sesshomaru. His hands were clenched.
So now he was sitting and Sesshomaru watched him with a wary eye. Bryce looked over to where kagome was. He smiled at her. She smiled back sipping her drip slowly. Jade walked passed him. He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her down onto his lap. He glared at him and tried to get up. He wouldn't let her.
"BRYCE!" she cried desperately, "let me up!" he just smirked and pulled her closer. She struggled ferociously.
Sesshomaru jumped up instantly. He moved to fats for anyone to see. In the blink of an eye he was standing beside jade. "Let he go filthy human." He said icily. Bryce raised an eyebrow but did not release her. Sesshomaru growled and pulled jade free of Bryce's grip and into his own. Jade looked relieved. She snuggled close to him. Bryce glared at him and set his sights on kagome. Her smiled was lopsided. She was drunk and high at the same time.
"SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE!!" he cried swaying back and forth in a haze of smoke. Pocky was scattered across the table in front of her. White pills were sprinkled around her on the couch. Bryce inched forward. He was almost touching her, his hand outstretched when the door crashed open. Everyone turned to look.
"KAGOME!" inuyasha screamed from the door. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" he strode over to her and picked her up glaring at Bryce. "You're lucky I don't kill you now." He said to him. Bryce whimpered and backed away. Inuyasha turned and walked out the door with a laughing kagome. Sesshomaru and jade followed behind him.
Inuyasha set kagome on her feet once they were outside. She instantly fell down. Jade caught her before she hit the ground. Jade was laughing with kagome. Kagome suddenly became silent looking around her cautiously.
"We should be quite, the mole people have spies! ACK NO! BEES! LOOK! BEES! THEY ARE EVRWHERE! HIDE!" jade and kagome fell to the ground covering their heads. Sesshomaru chuckled watching them. Inuyasha looked mortified.
"What's wrong with them?" he asked.
"Absolutely nothing." Sesshomaru replied simply. Jade stood slowly at looked at Sesshomaru.
"Kagome is so much fun isn't she?" jade smiled. She had only been playing along with kagome. "Man, I guess I've become a bad influence haven't I? Jessica rubbed off on me more then I thought." She turned and looked at inuyasha. "I remember you." she said simply. Sesshomaru choked.
"Y-you do?" he stuttered. Inuyasha looked puzzled.
"Why wouldn't she?"
So Sesshomaru began to explain what had happened. By the end inuyasha was smiling smugly.
"So, she remembered me and not you guys huh? I guess my face is hard to forget."
"Or maybe it's your stupidity and your arrogance." Jade said icily. "I don't know why anyone would willingly remember you." inuyasha glared at her. She glared back. Kagome was rolling around on the ground. Sesshomaru turned to look at jade.
"Maybe it's time to say goodbye to Shuya. We really should be getting back. We have been here a week. Another day and you or kagome will die of a drug overdose." Jade smiled.
"Okay, but do we have somewhere to go?" Sesshomaru nodded and smiled.
Onigumo (Naraku) walked through the forest, searching for the girl with the white hair. He was going to kill her. Her and all of her friends. He wanted to make them all suffer.
"I'm coming for you now." He whispered softly.
Kagome lay on the futon sleeping peacefully. Inuyasha stood over her watching her. A clawed hand stroked her cheek. She flinched in her sleep. 'Odd' inuyasha thought. She began to toss and turn. 'Probably another dream about tests.' He thought to himself.
"Inu-inuyasha!" she cried out softly. "Don't! Please don't! Stay away!" tears streamed down her pale face. "Please stop! It hurts inuyasha!" she began to cough up blood. Inuyasha tried to wake her. She began to shriek. The healed wounds inuyasha had inflicted opened and blood pooled around her. Her eyes snapped open but she continued to shriek.
"KAGOME!" inuyasha cried. She was stuck in her dreams. Her eyes looked as if she had no soul. Just pits of darkness. The shrieks faded to whimpers but the tears continued. Jade ran into the hut.
"What's wrong?" she cried.
"Kagome is stuck in her dreams I think. I don't know how to wake her up!" his voice was thin and desperate.
Jade stared at her grimly. She could guess what she was dreaming about. "I guess we'll just have to wait it out." Inuyasha sighed and nodded.
He mopped the sweat from her pale brow as she tossed and turned on the pallet on the floor. She groaned and opened her eyes. As her vision cleared inuyasha came into focus. She looked around,
"What am I doing in here?" she asked.
"You fainted outside after we brought you back from shuya's. You have been unconscious for about 12 hours."
"Were you here the whole time?"
Color crept into inuyasha's cheeks. "Feh, I was only here because Jade would kill me if I didn't watch over you." Kagome watched as he looked away, blushing furiously.
He turned back to face her. His face serious and creased with concern.
"Kagome please tell me what's going on, I'm begging you. I care about you and hate to see you in pain. You were screaming. And then you were stuck in your dreams. There was nothing I could do to wake you. What's going on?"
Tears welled up in her eyes and but she held back the tears. She forced a smile and said,
"I told you inuyasha, nothing is wrong. Please believe me."
She was so close to tears. She stood up to leave. Inuyasha blocked the door.
"Inuyasha," she pleaded.
"No, tell me what's wrong!"
"I said nothing! Now SIT BOY!"
"AHHH!"
His face kissed the dirt and all he could do was watch Kagome's fleeing feet. He cursed Keade for putting the new rosary on him in place of his old one. As soon as she was gone, he chased after her. Silently stalking her through the trees.
Inuyasha came upon her standing at the edge of a cliff. She could run no further.
"Kagome," he said softly, she turned slowly.
"You can't keep running. I will always catch you. So will the memories that haunt you. No matter how fast you run, or how hard you work, or how much you cry, or no matter how hard you try, they will always catch you. Stop running."
The wind whipped Kagome's hair wildly around her face. It billowed out from behind her, the breeze gently caressing her sad face. She shook her head gently making her hair flourish in the wind even more.
"Kagome, tell me what's wrong!"
"I told you Inuyasha, nothing is wrong! Just leave me alone. I am fine."
"DON'T LIE TO ME!"
"THEN DON'T ASK!" she bellowed back at him.
He stood back shocked. So she had been lying.
"Kagome, you can trust me. I would never do any purposefully hurtful to you. You know that."
"Do I inuyasha? I can recall many times when you broke my heart." She replied bitterly.
"You are skirting the subject! Just tell me what's wrong!"
She finally let the tears come. He stepped toward her opening his arms to embrace her but she cringed backwards. She was trapped she couldn't run from his touch any longer. Her eyes widened with face as she stared at his advancing clawed hands. His gave followed her fear stricken one. He stopped in his tracks. He remembered his claws sinking into her. He remembered her scared voice, the fear in her eyes. Oh, he remembered.
"Kagome," he whispered. "I never meant to hurt you."
"SHUT UP! That's not going to make it better! Sorry is not enough anymore inuyasha. You've hurt me, even killed me. You broke my spirit then mended in too may times. And I've been able to deal with it. But now, now every time I look at you I see those eyes. Those piercing blood red eyes. You wanted me dead inuyasha. You wanted to kill me. I can't look at you the same anymore inuyasha." She looked down. "I'm scared inuyasha."
He desperately thought for something to say but before he could open his mouth, a scream erupted from the forest.
Authors note!
I think this was one of my longest chapters. It's probably cause I had a lot of time on my hands. Cool. :) I am cool! No, just joking. Well now here's a treat, but be warned it's not for you to eat!
Sleep
Someone wake me
from this nightmare
I've become my darkest fear
Awaken to the sight
of your hacked up family
their spirits are trapped
beyond the cemetery
Bodies rotting, but I'm not sleeping
Scream you're not dreaming
Someone wake me
form this nightmare
I've become my darkest fear
Came to life
in my mind
A world of darkness
forever sleeping in this coffin
Eternally dreaming...
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Hello everyone! Thanks to all those who have reviewed! sniff I am so grateful! Tear well while you were reading and reviewing I was having my hair hacked off! ACK! IT'S SO SHORT! IT'S DEAD! IT WAS MURDERED! AHHHHHHHHHH! BOO-HOO! (I'm crying!) Okay well I am upset! :( it makes me angry! Okay well who knows maybe my mood while be reflected in my chapter. ACK! No!! I'm drifting! Focus! Sheesh what is my problem? I am always getting off topic! Jeez, I fell like I have a brain defect! Maybe I do! Oh no! SHITAKI MUSHROOMS! I am drifting again! Focus! hits head against keyboard okay maybe I should just start. Right.
Inuyasha's ears perked up as a distant voice floated to him. He shook his head. Naraku was dead. He was imagining things. Still, his ears strained for any other noise, chills ran up and down his back. (a/n: can you guys imagine little chibi inuyashas running up and down his back screaming pretending to be 'chills'? the thought just cracked me up!)
Shippo ran around in circles. He was worried about kagome. She had been gone for about a week. Inuyasha didn't admit it, but he was also worried. Inuyasha didn't like this Shuya guy. Although he had never really met him, he still didn't like the feeling he gave off. Shuya was wild and carefree with a good sense of humor. He was also somewhat of a lecher. Inuyasha didn't trust him, not one bit.
"GO GET HER!" Shippo finally cried, tears filling his eyes. "Please? I can't take it anymore. Every time she comes back from that place she seems different! I don't want her to change! Please inuyasha?" he whimpered. "I miss jade too. She gives me pocky."
Inuyasha let out a mock defeated sigh and stood slowly. "Fine I'll bring her back." Shippo squealed with joy. Inuyasha began to make his way to the bone eaters well. "Here goes nothing. Kagome, I'm coming for you." with that he jumped into the well and was engulfed in a brilliant purple light.
-Back at Shuya's (there hadn't been a party for a while)-
The house was surprisingly clean. The group had spent the last week telling jade about herself and her past. Jade tried desperately to remember anything, but to no avail. A few memories flickered back now and then, but nothing of much importance. A white room. A straight jacket. A hallway filled with people. A boy with dog ears. A woman that looked somewhat like kagome. And finally a man. This was the longest memory besides the one with the woman that looked like kagome.
The memory had become a nightmare. She had dreamt about it every night at shuya's. It was always the same. The same man, I same burning ropes. The same weapon. The same voice. The same forest. The same tears. The same rage. The same pain. The same fear.
Every night she woke up screaming in a cold sweat. And every night Sesshomaru was there. Ready to hold her hand, ready to console her. She had begun to fall for him. He was obviously in love with her. He was very open in his affection for her. She also observed how friendly Shuya was getting with kagome. Though kagome always seemed distant with him. Perhaps there was someone else? She only seemed interested in Shuya when he brought out the black beauties or the meth. Or the coke.
"JADE! HEY JADE!" Shuya came running into the room. "PARTY TONIGHT! WADDA YAH THINK? Are yah up for it?" jade smiled. She had already experienced one of his 'parties' she had decided in the first 5 minutes that Shuya was her new best friend.
"YES!" she shouted jumping off the couch. She had become known as a club kid. Her specialty was ecstasy. She smiled remembering this. She hoped James Saint James would be coming.
"And guess who I tracked down and invited just for you?" jade looked at him curiously.
"Who?"
"YOUR OLD FRIEND BRYCE!"
Jade froze and turned slowly to face him. Memories danced through her head. The bushes. The burnout boys. The clearing. Dirt under her fingernails, rain streaking her mascara; a crown of twigs and moss laced in her hair. The rain smelling of rot and rain and Christmas. Memories of times she had never known yet had somehow without her remembering, occurred. She remembered Bryce. He was he brother's best friend in Japan. Kagome would like him. "I remember him." she said softly.
"You DO?" Shuya did a little victory dance. "Well this calls for a celebration!"
Jade laughed. "Everything calls for a celebration with you."
"Why yes, yes it does." He smiled at her. "Go get ready!" jade smiled back at him before turning and climbing up the stairs.
Bryce sat on the couch. Jade and him had had a warm reunion. A VERY warm reunion. He was an ex-boyfriend after all. Sesshomaru was not pleased. When he appeared at the door jade had screamed and ran into his open arms. He planted a wet kiss on her lips and held it for several seconds. Jade pushed back from him and shook her head glancing at Sesshomaru. His hands were clenched.
So now he was sitting and Sesshomaru watched him with a wary eye. Bryce looked over to where kagome was. He smiled at her. She smiled back sipping her drip slowly. Jade walked passed him. He grabbed her around the waist and pulled her down onto his lap. He glared at him and tried to get up. He wouldn't let her.
"BRYCE!" she cried desperately, "let me up!" he just smirked and pulled her closer. She struggled ferociously.
Sesshomaru jumped up instantly. He moved to fats for anyone to see. In the blink of an eye he was standing beside jade. "Let he go filthy human." He said icily. Bryce raised an eyebrow but did not release her. Sesshomaru growled and pulled jade free of Bryce's grip and into his own. Jade looked relieved. She snuggled close to him. Bryce glared at him and set his sights on kagome. Her smiled was lopsided. She was drunk and high at the same time.
"SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE! SAKE!!" he cried swaying back and forth in a haze of smoke. Pocky was scattered across the table in front of her. White pills were sprinkled around her on the couch. Bryce inched forward. He was almost touching her, his hand outstretched when the door crashed open. Everyone turned to look.
"KAGOME!" inuyasha screamed from the door. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" he strode over to her and picked her up glaring at Bryce. "You're lucky I don't kill you now." He said to him. Bryce whimpered and backed away. Inuyasha turned and walked out the door with a laughing kagome. Sesshomaru and jade followed behind him.
Inuyasha set kagome on her feet once they were outside. She instantly fell down. Jade caught her before she hit the ground. Jade was laughing with kagome. Kagome suddenly became silent looking around her cautiously.
"We should be quite, the mole people have spies! ACK NO! BEES! LOOK! BEES! THEY ARE EVRWHERE! HIDE!" jade and kagome fell to the ground covering their heads. Sesshomaru chuckled watching them. Inuyasha looked mortified.
"What's wrong with them?" he asked.
"Absolutely nothing." Sesshomaru replied simply. Jade stood slowly at looked at Sesshomaru.
"Kagome is so much fun isn't she?" jade smiled. She had only been playing along with kagome. "Man, I guess I've become a bad influence haven't I? Jessica rubbed off on me more then I thought." She turned and looked at inuyasha. "I remember you." she said simply. Sesshomaru choked.
"Y-you do?" he stuttered. Inuyasha looked puzzled.
"Why wouldn't she?"
So Sesshomaru began to explain what had happened. By the end inuyasha was smiling smugly.
"So, she remembered me and not you guys huh? I guess my face is hard to forget."
"Or maybe it's your stupidity and your arrogance." Jade said icily. "I don't know why anyone would willingly remember you." inuyasha glared at her. She glared back. Kagome was rolling around on the ground. Sesshomaru turned to look at jade.
"Maybe it's time to say goodbye to Shuya. We really should be getting back. We have been here a week. Another day and you or kagome will die of a drug overdose." Jade smiled.
"Okay, but do we have somewhere to go?" Sesshomaru nodded and smiled.
Onigumo (Naraku) walked through the forest, searching for the girl with the white hair. He was going to kill her. Her and all of her friends. He wanted to make them all suffer.
"I'm coming for you now." He whispered softly.
Kagome lay on the futon sleeping peacefully. Inuyasha stood over her watching her. A clawed hand stroked her cheek. She flinched in her sleep. 'Odd' inuyasha thought. She began to toss and turn. 'Probably another dream about tests.' He thought to himself.
"Inu-inuyasha!" she cried out softly. "Don't! Please don't! Stay away!" tears streamed down her pale face. "Please stop! It hurts inuyasha!" she began to cough up blood. Inuyasha tried to wake her. She began to shriek. The healed wounds inuyasha had inflicted opened and blood pooled around her. Her eyes snapped open but she continued to shriek.
"KAGOME!" inuyasha cried. She was stuck in her dreams. Her eyes looked as if she had no soul. Just pits of darkness. The shrieks faded to whimpers but the tears continued. Jade ran into the hut.
"What's wrong?" she cried.
"Kagome is stuck in her dreams I think. I don't know how to wake her up!" his voice was thin and desperate.
Jade stared at her grimly. She could guess what she was dreaming about. "I guess we'll just have to wait it out." Inuyasha sighed and nodded.
He mopped the sweat from her pale brow as she tossed and turned on the pallet on the floor. She groaned and opened her eyes. As her vision cleared inuyasha came into focus. She looked around,
"What am I doing in here?" she asked.
"You fainted outside after we brought you back from shuya's. You have been unconscious for about 12 hours."
"Were you here the whole time?"
Color crept into inuyasha's cheeks. "Feh, I was only here because Jade would kill me if I didn't watch over you." Kagome watched as he looked away, blushing furiously.
He turned back to face her. His face serious and creased with concern.
"Kagome please tell me what's going on, I'm begging you. I care about you and hate to see you in pain. You were screaming. And then you were stuck in your dreams. There was nothing I could do to wake you. What's going on?"
Tears welled up in her eyes and but she held back the tears. She forced a smile and said,
"I told you inuyasha, nothing is wrong. Please believe me."
She was so close to tears. She stood up to leave. Inuyasha blocked the door.
"Inuyasha," she pleaded.
"No, tell me what's wrong!"
"I said nothing! Now SIT BOY!"
"AHHH!"
His face kissed the dirt and all he could do was watch Kagome's fleeing feet. He cursed Keade for putting the new rosary on him in place of his old one. As soon as she was gone, he chased after her. Silently stalking her through the trees.
Inuyasha came upon her standing at the edge of a cliff. She could run no further.
"Kagome," he said softly, she turned slowly.
"You can't keep running. I will always catch you. So will the memories that haunt you. No matter how fast you run, or how hard you work, or how much you cry, or no matter how hard you try, they will always catch you. Stop running."
The wind whipped Kagome's hair wildly around her face. It billowed out from behind her, the breeze gently caressing her sad face. She shook her head gently making her hair flourish in the wind even more.
"Kagome, tell me what's wrong!"
"I told you Inuyasha, nothing is wrong! Just leave me alone. I am fine."
"DON'T LIE TO ME!"
"THEN DON'T ASK!" she bellowed back at him.
He stood back shocked. So she had been lying.
"Kagome, you can trust me. I would never do any purposefully hurtful to you. You know that."
"Do I inuyasha? I can recall many times when you broke my heart." She replied bitterly.
"You are skirting the subject! Just tell me what's wrong!"
She finally let the tears come. He stepped toward her opening his arms to embrace her but she cringed backwards. She was trapped she couldn't run from his touch any longer. Her eyes widened with face as she stared at his advancing clawed hands. His gave followed her fear stricken one. He stopped in his tracks. He remembered his claws sinking into her. He remembered her scared voice, the fear in her eyes. Oh, he remembered.
"Kagome," he whispered. "I never meant to hurt you."
"SHUT UP! That's not going to make it better! Sorry is not enough anymore inuyasha. You've hurt me, even killed me. You broke my spirit then mended in too may times. And I've been able to deal with it. But now, now every time I look at you I see those eyes. Those piercing blood red eyes. You wanted me dead inuyasha. You wanted to kill me. I can't look at you the same anymore inuyasha." She looked down. "I'm scared inuyasha."
He desperately thought for something to say but before he could open his mouth, a scream erupted from the forest.
Authors note!
I think this was one of my longest chapters. It's probably cause I had a lot of time on my hands. Cool. :) I am cool! No, just joking. Well now here's a treat, but be warned it's not for you to eat!
Sleep
Someone wake me
from this nightmare
I've become my darkest fear
Awaken to the sight
of your hacked up family
their spirits are trapped
beyond the cemetery
Bodies rotting, but I'm not sleeping
Scream you're not dreaming
Someone wake me
form this nightmare
I've become my darkest fear
Came to life
in my mind
A world of darkness
forever sleeping in this coffin
Eternally dreaming...
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