ChApTeR TwO sEcReTs oF ThE NiGhT

Eight years later...

Thunder crashed through the area as the ground was poured on in a thick sheet of rain. Lightning flashed, lighting a young girls room. Kagome tossed and turned as the nightmare continued to haunt her.

"Mother...Father..." she whimpered in her sleep.

Dream Sequence

"Kukuku, you pathetic man, not even you can defeat me." the monster scoffed looking down at the bloody and beaten man.

"That may be true, but I can still hurt you enough.." said the man as he notched another arrow, and in a flash of blue and white it struck the beast. Thunder drowned out the cries of pain that the beast endured.

"Father!" a young girl cried as her father was hit with a katana.

"No Kagome! Stay back, do you hear me!"

"What's this? A little girl. Tell me Kaji would you like your daughter to demonstrate what is about to happen to you." he snapped his fingers and a priestess appeared at his side. "Kikyo! Show our dear friend here, what is about to happen to him."

"With pleasure!" she said coldly.

"Naraku! Don't you dare touch her!" Kaji cried as he fired another arrow. That distracted him long enough for Kaji to get to his daughter.

"Daddy! You're hurt." she said as she touched his face.

"Don't worry about that sweety, I want you to run ok, run and never look back. Go to our special place ok?" he said as he held her close.

"But, what about mommy." she whimpered her lip trembling.

"Your mother is...she's in a better place Kagome, NOW RUN!" he said as he pushed her out of the way.

"THIS ENDS NOW!" he yelled as he notched a final arrow. And that was all Kagome heard of her father before a blinding flash went through the area, her father's scream being masked by a crack of lighting.

"Daddy." she whispered as a tear fell down her face, masked by the rain. End Dream

Kagome bolted straight up a cold sweat covering her body. She ran a hand through her hair and sighed.

' that's the fifth time this week, I'm getting really tired of having those f'ing dreams every othernight!'

She whimpered as a clap thunder went off. " come on girl, your too old to be scared of some stupid storm" she yelped as a clap of thunder went off, and a pair of red eyes appeared in her window.

' when all else fails...RUN LIKE HELL TO INUYASHA!' She thought as she got off her bed and dashed across the floor and opened her door. Quietly she slid down the hall to Inuyasha's room. ' and inuyasha said that sliding down the halls in my tabi socks was stupid' ' but with bare feet it hurts!'

"Inuyasha?" she whispered expecting to be greeted with a grunt of annoyance, she silently padded over to her friend but her eyes widened when she saw black hair. Still a little shook up from her dream and tears streaming down her face still, here she was confronted with a boy that was not Inuyasha. Or at least didn't look like him.

' grr..dammit! Kags its inuyasha, I mean sure he has the worst attitude when you wake him up, but...ugh! Just do it already!'

She placed a hand on the boy and her wrist was grabbed before she could do anything. His eyes opened to reveal violet orbs. When Inuyasha recognized who's wrist he was holding he tensed. 'Shit!' he thought. Kagome now knew his secret.

"I..In..Inuyasha?" she said questionably.

"Who else would it be!" he snapped, he felt something wet hit cheek. 'Huh? Is she, is she crying?' he thought as he felt another tear drop on his cheek. He sat up and looked at her.

"Kagome, why are you crying?" He said as he used his thumb to wipe away a tear.

"I... had a bad dream, and... the stor m scared me and, and..." ' great act like a freakin crybaby that's a great tactic'

"Aren't you a little old to be scared of storms?" He asked as he turned over and pulled the covers over his head. "Anything else?" silence was his answer. ' maybe she left. No, she's too damn stubborn for that to happen'

"I came in here to see if I could stay with you." 'huh!' Inuyasha thought as his eye twitched. 'oh great kags, don't act all desperate now.' she thought sarcastically.

"Is that all?" ' that's right man, just keep your cool.' He thought as he sat up.

"No. Then I come in here to find you all different, you look,..."

"Human?"

"Yep."

"That's because I am, at least for tonight anyways." he watched her expression darken.

"Why didn't you tell me!" she hissed at him, that was the exact opposite reaction he was expecting. Then he saw her lip tremble.

"Don't you trust me?" she whispered, then she started to cry, "After all we've been through together you didn't tell me! YOU IDIOT!" she balled.

"I've always hid and kept to myself on the night of the new moon!" he retorted "and after eight years you couldn't tell me! Don't you trust me!" she whimpered softly while looking at the ground.

"I do trust you, it's just how I've lived until now ok?"

"What do you mean" inuyasha sighed ' man she can be such a pain some times!'

"my mother and father always told me to keep the night I turn human a secret."

"Why?"

" because, it's when I am most vulnerable to being hurt or attacked"

"oh." "Umm..Inu"

"yeah?"

"Can we go to sleep now?"

"I never said anything about you staying here." he joked, but apparently she didn't take it as a joke.

"Fine..g'night inuyasha." she said as she started to get up but inuyasha grabbed her wrist and pulled her down. Kagome's eyes widened as he pulled her close to him.

" I also didn't say you could leave either."

"Since when did I have to listen to you?"

"No clue, but then again, its not like you do anyway." "Now just shut up and go to sleep, before I change my mind."

"Night Inu."

"Feh..Night" and with that they fell asleep, not knowing what would await them.

The next morning Inuyasha woke to the rays of the sun peering in through the windows in his room. Claws, fangs, and his doggy ears came back to him in a matter of seconds. His hair bled from a pure jet black to a shining silver, and his vibrant violet eyes melted to a glowing amber.

' god, I feel I just got ran over' he glanced over at the window and was immediately blinded by the light. 'Damn sunlight, trying to blind me!' He thought as got up... or at least tried to. He looked down and saw Kagome with her head laying on his chest and an arm draped across his abdomen, then he remembered that Kagome had come in during the night. He sighed and suddenly felt a cold chill run up and down his spine.

' man talk about a creepy feeling' he thought as he tried to get Kagome off him while trying not to wake her up. After about five minutes of prying her off him, he got up slid open his door and looked out into the hall, he stepped out and walked down the hall and into the main room.

'Ok I know for a fact I sensed something out here.' Then a unfamiliar scent wafted up to his nose.

"What the?" then he heard a scream, that made his blood run cold. 'Kagome'!