Okay people. IT'S HERE!! My masterpiece has been born.::sigh:: But I'm still upset that people didn't e-mail me any ideas. I guess no one ever reads my bio...This fanfiction is set in the fuedal era so, yeah,now ya know. Read on!

Disclaimer- I do not own Inuyasha. But maybe I can persuade Sesshy to let me kidnap him....

The road seemed to stretch on forever to Kagome, as she walked barefoot along the dirt road.Then she remembered , it does stretch on forever now, as will all roads. For she had no destination.

She pushed her long black hair behind her ear. 'I guess I'll walk for a couple more miles and then stop for the night.' for it was already dusk and she was getting tired.' That will be my destination now. Nightfall, when i stop to sleep. Atleast until i can find any useful information. Then I will get my revenge.' she thought angrily.So she kept walking and as she did she recounted how things had come to this.

Kagome's mother had been walking walking home when she was attacked. She was able to crawl the closer to home until she passed out from lack of blood and from exhaustion. Some men from the village found her lying on the road, and brought her home.

Her mother had lain in bed , getting better it seemed, for she was only wounded in the neck. Two small holes . Kagome listened as her mother told her what had happened.

"I was walking, and the sun had just set. I was going to stop for the night but I kept going because i was almost home so I kept going. And all of the sudden, something landed on me , knocking me down."
" It bit my neck and that's what these marks are from. I tried to scream, but it put it's hand over my mouth. I finally was able to turn and push it off of me. It tried to pin me down again,but I kicked it as hard as I could, and I must have hit it's face because it screamed at me and held it's head. I'm pretty suure it was a man because it was so strong, but it wasn't a normal man, Kagome." she paused to cough , and Kagome noticed her breathing was getting weaker.

"And then.....it...it flew away!" kagomes mom said.

"Are you sure you actually saw it fly? Maybe you were just hallucinating."

"Kagome, honey, I'm not crazy and I wasn't seeing things. I saw it fly! And it was so fast! I started running or atleast trying to run, but I was so weak."

Kagome walked out of her mothers room, and tried to figure out what had attacked her mother. But no matter how long she racked her brain, she couldn't remember hearing about anything that fit the description. ' Surely someone else has been atacked by it.' Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard her mother calling for her.

"Kagome!"she yelled. Kagome quickly ran to her mothers side. Her mother lay there , clutching the blankets in terror."Kagome, i remember now! I know what it was that bit me. I remember hearing about a it from my mother. She spoke of a race of people, who were pure evil, and stole little children who didn't behave. It was just a story that mothers used to scare the children. my mother said that they had strange gifts, one of wich was the ability to fly."

"My mother said that the creatures were the cause of a disease that was in their blood.The disease changed them; made them differant;made them...evil.They were cursed to damnation."she whispered all of this and seemed to be looking into the past, trying to remember what her own mother had told her.

"They hunted humans and drank the blood. They needed blood to survive;to live. And also to spread their disease to others." she was holding on to kagome's hand tightly, and kagome was woried.'she is so weak.' thought Kagome.

"Kagome, i have been bitten.that means....i'm going to die." Kagome looked at her mother with tears in her eyes. "kagome, you must be brave. You must be strong. please take care of yourself. Your aust kaede will let you live with her in here in the village." kagome looked down, and let the tears fall.

"Oh Kagome,don't cry...." her mother drifted off to sleep, and kagome went to her room. Sitting on her bed, she cried.

"This can't be happening!"she said. Her mother couldn't die! what would she do without her! Kagome cried herself to sleep and had awful nightmares about flying monsters with red eyes chasing her and she couldn't run. Her legs felt like lead, heavy and slow.In her dream she tripped and fell. They were upon her, tearing and biting , laughing evilly as she screamed and screamed.

She sat up in bed, finding that she was sweating and breathing heavily.

"It was only a dream." she mumbled and lay back down. Trying to get back to sleep, she heard her mother talking in the next room. She took her candle and tip-toed to her mothers room. Her mother was laying down in bed, thrashing and mumbleing. Kagome went to her and gently shook her shoulder.

"Mama...mama! wake up!"she said, trying to wake her. Her mother gasped and opened her eyes.

"Kagome! oh kagome!"she said wearily.

"I'm right here mama."kagome said kneeling by her mother.

"Kagome, listen to me.I will always be with you, even when I die.I will be watching over you."kagome nodded, biting her lip to keep from crying.

"I remember now what the creatures are called." her mother said with a faraway look in her eyes. She seemed to snap out of it for a moment to say,"I love you kagome." kagome sobbed but managed to say,

"I love you to mama." then her mothers eyes clouded back over and she whispered something so kagome had to lean close to hear.

"Vampires.They're called vampires." and then her eyes went limp and she slumped onto her pillow, her eyes open and unseeing. Kagome held back a sob and closed her eyes, trying to stop the tears from falling. Laying her head down on the bed, she felt like she was dying, the pain inside was so great. Eventually, she got up and went to tell Kaede about her mother.

"Aunt Kaede!" she half sobbed, as she walked into her aunts house.

"what ails ye, child?" kaede said, coming out of her room. Kagome ran to her and threw her arms around the old woman.

"Oh kaede! Mother is dead!"was all she was able to say.

"There, there, child.It will be alright. I will go and wake the men of the village to bury the body of your mother. Stay here, kagome." kagome sat on a chair , and waited for kaede to come back.

"I must leave. I can't possibly stay here."she said to herself." I will go away and never come back."

Kaede came back soon and took kagome to her mothers burial. not many people were there, not that kagome noticed. She was blinded by her tears and pain. Afterwards, kagome and kaede walkedhome silently. The sun was just coming up, and people were starting to go about their work. Woman could be seen sweeping and smells of breakfast wafted out of open windows. It was a buetiful spring morning, but it held no joy for kagome.Her mother was dead.

At kagome's,she packed most of her belongings into a large pack. She was completely frozen by pain and a sense of loss.But the more she thought about what had happened, the faster the ice in her soul melted, and became fire. Her mother hadn't deserved to die. If that monster, that vampire, hadn't attackedher mother, she would be would be safe at home, making breakfast or sweeping just like all the other woman. Had she deserved to die more than all the other woman did? ofcourse not! her mother was the greatest person she had ever known. She quietly made a vow.

"I will kill whoever has done this!" she whispered, seething with rage over her mothers murder. She wrote a letter to kaede telling her not to worry or come after her. Leaving the note on her bed, she picked up her pack and simply left.

And so that is how she had come to be walking, with no destination in mind, now in the dark.She didn't care about anythinganymore except finding killing whoever had killed her mother.And it is because of that attitude that she fell victim to a vampire, who was watching her from the trees, with golden, amber-eyes.

PEOPLES! tell me what you think! flames are welcome but will be used to roast marshmellows!

-AngelsTears15