Chapter Three

This one isn't influenced by Leiko! It's pure Dark Arashi!

Yay!! Chapter Three! I told you guys that I would be putting up two chapters at once. Just so you don't hate me for the last chapter. This one is going to be kind of short, I think.... I can't remember.... Oh yeah... The last chapter:

"Stupid lump." Kagome muttered affectionately under her breath as she slithered down the vine-covered trellis. There was a well house at the back of the property that no one really ever used that much, at least not since Grandpa had gone to the Home. He had been convinced that there were demons and such in the well and that it should be permanently sealed with a certain spell, but then, that was why he is in the Home. He had been crazy like that for a while.

The perfect place to hide out without running away. Meds be damned!

Yeah, that was it. And yes, I did cop out by putting Grandpa in the Home and Souta away in college. I was feeling really lazy when I started writing this. I should probably add the ages.... Kikyo-19 Souta-18 Kagome-15.... There ya go. Another warning. I don't really remember how the first few episodes went, so I'm just making this up as I go and trying to get it as close to what I can remember as possible. Okay now, on to the third chapter!!!

Kagome lay half in, half out of her sleeping bag, deep in a dreamless sleep. "Kagome." A shifting voice swirled up from the dark depths of the well.

"Kagome." It said again. Kagome twitched and moaned without waking up, her dreamless sleep instantly shattering into a nightmare. "Kagome!"

An invisible wind screamed up out of the well, descending on the sleeping girl. Kagome was suddenly wide-awake and sitting up rigidly. "Who's there?" Kagome stood cautiously, looking for what had awakened her. Shivering, she reached for her backpack to get a sweater, her back to the well.

An arm wrapped around her stomach, pinning the backpack to her, and a hand clamped over her mouth. Warm breath tickled her neck and ear.

"Ah, yes. It is you who has it." An indrawn breath ruffled Kagome's hair. "Yes, I can smell it on you. You will give it to me, yes?"

The hand slid from her mouth to rest caressingly on her cheek. Barely suppressing a shudder of revulsion, Kagome spoke in a slightly cracked voice that didn't even sound like her own. "What? Who are you?" She paused, thoughts clicking together. "You can smell what?!"

"The Jewel. I know you have it. Now give it to me." The voice crooned warmly into her ear. It was so different from the voice in her dreams...

"I don't have anything of yours! Let me go! I'll scream! Heeee--" The caressing hand clamped over her mouth again viciously. Kagome felt warm blood trickling down her cheeks from where the dagger-like claws - claws? - had scored her.

"I can't have you hiding the Jewel from me. It looks like I'm going to have to torture it out of you." Her captor spoke in a cheerful tone so full of eager malice that Kagome felt cold tendrils of fear creeping up her spine, and then she was being dragged backwards toward the well.

The last coherent thought she had before she was tugged into the screaming red maelstrom that had almost made her take her own life was 'This is one helluva hallucination.'

Cool, I really hope you all liked this chapter. It's another cliffhanger I got hit for. I also hope that it kind of made up for the chapter where she had the fight with her mom. I'm not sure how that will be greeted... XX Okay... yeah... Well, read and review. New chapters coming soon!

The 1st teaser (yay!!)

Her eyes focused on the hand in front of her face suddenly. Was that blood on her fingers? How had it gotten there? And a colder thought—Who had she killed?

Bet that got you interested, huh? Hee hee hee...