Hinomi: I'm severly sorry for not updating, but I couldn't think of what I wanted. This chapter is quite stupid and not very exciting. However, I do have an outline for the next chapter... :3 In which Kagome will meet the entire Yusuke gang. o.- SO. Please, stay tuned for the next adventure!

She ran towards her house, trying to wipe Yusuke's face from her mind. He would probably call her a freak - and he would tell all of his groupies to do the same. How could she have desinerated that beast? Did she do it? Did something else do it? She didn't know. Her head hurt, like something was trying to push out from a deep long lost box but it couldn't, yet it kept trying and trying and trying, and it was all in her head. She hardly knew where she was going as she ran up the steps towards the god - tree, where she finally stopped, her cheast heaving for fresh oxygen. Slowly she came to lean and slide down the rough, yet smooth, bark of this tree that always gave her hope and serenity.

"What have I done..." It was no more than a whisper.

"Kagome? Is that you" Oh wonderful, her mother was home.

"...Yes mum." With a sigh she picked herself up to remove herself from the god - tree's safty.

"You didn't come home yesterday! I was so fightened" Her mother engulfed her in a great, big, bone crushing hug.

Alright, alright, her mother was releived. She didn't have go to and crush her bones though "Breathing... becoming... a problem."

With a soft 'oh' her mother let go of her beloved daughter, which she was oddly over protective of at this point, and turned to go back to the house - yet stopped quickly. "Kagome, if your going to spend the night at your friends house, you should at least call." So thats where she thought she was? Well enough. Kagome nodded very slightly, though she didn't say anything. Somehow, she was sure her mother knew that she had nodded. You know what they say. Mothers have eyes in the back of their heads.

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She stuffed her hands in the pockets of her jean jacket that often slipped off of her shoulders, creating this bad-girl look. She had left her house, telling her mother that she was spending the night at a friends house. But, that was all a lie. She didn't quite care where she was going, at the moment. Her memory came back to the time that she had dreampt about "Inu-Yasha" and when the pink light had burst from her hands, incenerating the beast that still haunted her. Sometimes, there was a laugh that woke her up screaming, her heart beating fast in her rib-cage, threatening to break out of there. She smacked her head with her hand, she was thinking like a lunatic. She giggled nervously, crossing the street where a speeding car whipped past only a few moments later. "God, that was close.." She looked back, watching the car as it sped off, when she was knocked into something with an oof. When she looked infront of her, nothing was there - she blinked, confused. She had... after all, just ran into something.

I'm watching you...

Forever, and ever.

I'm always here.

Your shadow...

Your stalker.

You'll never excape me.

Kagome...

The voice and sounds were all around her, like they kept moving, yet no one was out there. She clutched her head, whispering for them to go away over and over again. "Leave me alone.. Leave me alone.." Her eyes widened as she saw a flash back, Kikyo, standing above her, taking her half of the jewel for her arch enemy, Naraku. She reached out for nothing, just as she had back then, screaming"No! Give it back... Kikyo, why" Why had Kikyo betrayed them? Why was she working for Narak... Then it was all gone, the thoughts, the memory, the world had come back to what it was before. Everything was the same. She was alone.

She stood up, looking back nervously. She had to get back home, or somewhere. The hair on the back of her neck pricked up, like she knew something bad was going to happen. Nervously she looked in front of her, screaming at what she saw.

I told you, I'm never going to stop.

She took a few steps back and fell onto something, or some one, whimpering slightly. "Go away.." - But she was shoved away, and she fell onto the grass once more, snapping her from her stupor. "What..." It was a stupid question - or word, to ask. But she couldnt've helped herself.

"Oh, its the pig again."

Oh no ... not him.. Please don't let it be him. Her original fear was taken over by something else this time, dread. It was him - in all of his idiotic glory. There was Yusuke, standing right in front of her. Looking pissed, as usual. "Argh! What do you want" He probably wanted to torment her again. She stood upon her feet, bracing herself for words.

"Nothing. You were the one that ran into me." He crossed his arms and glared at her, somehow reminding her of someone she had met before. But, she didnt' know who. Inu... Inu something. Who was it? They had been severely important to her, back then. But, for some reason, she just couldn't remember. What a friggin drag. She glared at him, taking out her frustration...

"Whatever, i'm leaving." She brushed past him, not looking back. She wasn't ever going to look back. She arrived home in a matter of minutes, going up to her room and throwing herself into bed. She fell asleep soon after, though, her dreams were never pleasant. They were a nightmare.

I'm watching... Kagome.