A/N: Hiya everyone :D I brought you a longer chapter and it's been checked over twice by muh handy dandy editors :D Okay it's not quite clear where exactly I was trying to go with the dream other then it does explain how Kagome's parents died, and expresses her grief towards it.

It ends in an odd place, but I figured 6 pages was long enough… So yeah, I'll finish the rest of the day in the next chapter.

3 meh!


Chapter 8

The dream


"Pancakes again," she asked skeptically upon entering the kitchen.

"Yup! Is that a problem?"

"No, it's just we've had them every morning for the last 2 weeks," Kagome stated.

"Are you feeling all right sweetie? Normally you'd LOVE to eat pancakes," Kes frowned.

"I didn't sleep all that well last night..." she paused. "That's all."

"Wanna talk about it?"

"I had the dream again..." she mumbled sullenly.

"The one about mom and dad?"

Kagome nodded her answer.

Kes thought for a moment, "I wonder what caused you to have it after all this time..."

"Inuyasha, I explained to Inuyasha why I was afraid of crowds. I think it's my fault for bringing it up," she replied. "I didn't think it'd be a problem if I told him. He seemed to understand well enough. Eh... As a matter of fact I think he felt sorry for me."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, he embraced me after I told him about it. He seemed angry, but he comforted me anyways." She explained.

"Do you want to go to school today Kag? You seem quite worn out."

"I have a big test today, so I have to go to school," she said frowning. "I just don't understand why all this stupid shit happens to me."

Kes hugged her sister, rubbing soothing circles on her back. She felt horrible for the younger of the two twins; Kagome spent a good majority of her life being depressed and being treated for it with different medications that hardly seemed to work. At one point Kagome had stopped eating due to a case of severe depression, which they didn't know until their family doctor suggested Kagome go see a psychiatrist.

After searching for the perfect doctor they landed on a Korean man named Dr. Rhye. He was a wonderful man, but Kagome always felt apprehensive when talking to him, and Kes knew it. Kagome would always make Kesilin go in with her for visits, and would hardly ever talk to the man, and always looked to her oldest sister to answer for her. After the last visit she walked home with a handful of new scripts, and Kes felt horrible. People Kagome's age shouldn't have to take things like Abilify, Lithium, Lamictal, or Ambien, but she was. Plus she was on other medications to help with her chronic sinus infection problem, and acid reflex, plus her medications for asthma.

Never had Kes met someone with so many problems. But she was proud of her sister for handling it so well most the time.

"You are pretty messed up," Kes joked.

"Thanks sis," Kagome muttered in playful annoyance.

"Is there anything else you want to talk about before I send you up to get Sango?"

"Well, there is one thing... But it's nothing important. It's just about Yasha."

"What about him?" Kes asked as she flipped a pancake.

"Well, he's been really friendly since last weekend. I'm just worried that he's messing with my head and not really wanting to actually be my friend."

"I see," she paused to think of the wisest thing to say in a situation like this. "I'd just give it time sweetie, you're right when in worrying, but you have to remember that there's a possibility that he actually does care and want to be your friend."

"Thanks," she said smiling a genuine smile. "I'll go get Sango now."

Kagome marched up the stairs, and over to Sango's bedroom door, knocking a few times while yelling a semi-soft "Wake up" knowing that Sango kept her door locked for reasons beyond Kagome. Which Kagome was fine with, considering the last time she walked into Sango's room to wake her up, she got a nice slap in the face, and a good yelling at.

"Not yet," she heard the mumbled response. "Ten more minutes."

"Get out of bed or I'm sending Kes up here," Kagome warned pounding on the door. A few minutes later a shuffling sound could be heard from the room, then the door opened and out came Sango still dressed in her pajamas. Kagome looked down at herself and laughed.

"One of us should change," she grinned.

Sango huffed and turned back into her room to change her pajamas.


As Sango and Kagome made their way into the school building, Ambi who commented on both girls' pajamas stopped them. For Kagome she made the comment that the white silk with red pinstripes was so her. For Sango she could only laugh at the white with pink hearts. While the twins both complimented Ambi on her silky light blue, sun, moon, and star pajamas.

"You girls wear some pretty interesting things," a voice said from behind them. "Especially you Kagome."

"Thanks Yasha," she turned around and looked at him. "Who knew you were into silk too. I sorta had you marked as a sweat pants man."

"Nah," he laughed. "Silk is much more comfortable."

"Anyways, we should be getting to Nieb's class," Kagome told him.

"Uh, we have Crane first hour Kag..."

"Not today, the schedule is backwards!" Kagome cheered, happy to be going to her favorite class first hour of the day.

Once in the room, Kagome and Inuyasha took their usual seats, and watched as the rest of the class walked into the room one by one.

"Alright, today we're going to watch another movie," Mr. Nieb announced, shutting off the lights and making his way to his seat where he turned the movie about the senate on.
Somewhere within the first 15 minutes of the movie Kagome started to zone out, and eventually fell asleep.


"Come on we're going to be late everyone," a man in his mid 40's yelled from the bottom of the stairs.

"Coming daddy!" two girls yelled in unison, as a group of people came rushing down the stairs.

It was the night of GM/Delphi's annual Christmas party and the Higurashi family was running late. As usual Kagome and Sango were dressed matchingly, the only difference being how their hair was done, and Kesilin and Mrs. Higurashi were wearing nice black dresses.

"All right, everyone into the car," Mrs. Higurashi ordered as she made it to the last step of the stairwell, grabbing her jacket from the rack.

Quickly the family of 5 ran out the door, only to be stopped by the sound of a gunshot and glass breaking. Kagome was the first to scream out as another bullet whizzed past her head, and watched horrified as a bullet went into her father's right shoulder.

"Daddy!" she screeched.

"I'm okay Kag," he said. "I promise I'm alright."

"Kesilin, take the girls insi..." her mother was cut off as a bullet went into the lower part of her face, and then they all watched as another bullet was shot directly into her right lung.

Kagome watched terrified as her mother's semi-lifeless body fell to the ground. Then she turned her eyes to her father just in time to see him fall to the ground after a round of shots. Him too... Both her parents were either dead or dying in front of her and there wasn't much she could do for them.

"Daddy, Mommy," she wept.

"Hey little girl," The man responsible called out to her, grabbing her attention.
She didn't know what to do now that the gun was pointed at her.

Seconds past, the man seemingly making a decision on whether or not to shoot at Kagome. Finally his decision was made, and he took a shot at the little girl standing in front of him. But the bullet never hit the girl; as a matter of fact it hit a man's leg.

Finally, one of the neighbors came to help. Kagome looked up to see who it was that had pushed her out of the way and gave a weak smile at Inuyasha' s father.

"Thank you sir," she mumbled shaking from her sobs.

"Run next door, I'll bring your sisters with me in a few minutes." He ordered.

He didn't have to tell her twice, she was off like a bat out of hell towards the house. Once inside her grief over took her and she fell to the ground in a fit of tears. That's when it happened. She felt two arms go around her shoulders and someone was holding her to them.

Of course she knew who it was.

"I...Inu... Yasha" she wept out.

"Shh, dad's already called the cops. They'll be here any second," he explained.

"It's not going to help! Mamma and daddy are already dead," she sobbed.

"But at least he won't be able to hurt anyone else Kag. You have to be thankful for that."

"No." she was feeling angry now. Not towards her friend, but towards the man that killed her parents. "It's not fair."

"I know..."

"You don't know. You still have both your parents."

"True."


And that's when she woke up, tears streaming down her face. Looking around the room she noticed the lights were out and a movie was still on. Without a second thought she bolted out of her seat and ran out the door. Causing everyone's' attention to be brought to her.

Without so much as a word to Mr. Nieb, Inuyasha ran out the door after her.

"Kag!" he called out to her looking for her, when he looked down by his feet he frowned.

There she was... sitting on the floor with her head in her hands. Silently he shrunk down next to her and wrapped his arms around her shoulders.

"What is it Kag?"

"I had a dream about my parents," she whimpered.

"Wanna talk about it?"

"Don't you remember what happened?" she asked panicked that she'd have to talk about it.

"I'm sorry... What?"

"You were there," she explained. "In every memory or dream I have about it, there was always you there."

"What do you mean? I don't remember that."

"Inuyasha, your father saved me from being shot, then sent me over to your house," Kagome explained. "Don't you remember? You were watching through the window."

"I'm sorry Kag.... But I honestly don't remember," he smiled sadly. "But we don't have to talk about it if you're not ready too."

"Thanks," she said weakly.

"Let's get you down to the office, I think you should go home.."

"I can't, we've got that big test in math, plus the week of performance is coming up soon. I can't miss any rehearsals and you know it."

He nodded, "I know but right now the most important thing is you, and you're not all right."

"Please stop worrying so much," she gave him a sad smile. "I'll be all right in a few minutes. I don't think I took my meds this morning. That's all."

Silently they sat in the hallway for the remainder of the hour, only being checked up on by Mr. Nieb once. Every once in a while Kagome would start to weep again, only to be soothed by Inuyasha once more. She was surprised by how differently he was acting towards her, just because she had a break down in the middle of class.