Inu Kaiba: I got an obsession with Haunted here. Thank god I got like four versions, Kitty hath sent them. Oy vey… You know what would be cool is if someone like Aamalie or one of those really excellent cool authors that get a billion reviews would read and review this… That won't happen, but I can always dream!

This goes on and off between Narration and First Person. Ok, I'm done informing you, read on.

It looked like a scene straight out of a scary movie, something like Gothika or The Ring. And to Sango, it certainly felt like that. At first look it looked like suicide. After all who wouldn't suspect that, if your younger brother, Kohaku in this case had died not even twenty four hours previous?

You could almost hear Haunted in the background, "Still can't find what keeps me here…"

You know when something drastically important to you happens, and you can only hear this song playing around again and again in your head? I felt that way too. The music played on and on. It looked like my family had a stalker and with Kohaku and mother dead in the same twenty four hours thing weren't looking good.

It was almost as if I'd have a stalker soon, threatening the very brink of my existence. It never occurred to me that these very thoughts I was thinking were oh so true and in the end that my family might have had a stalker? Nah, too very unbelievable. A lie fabricated in tangled webs, to intrigue me, that which the idea had done. But I still pushed it away, realization clearing all paths, and no my family did not have a stalker.

I sobbed into Kagome's arms as she stroked my back up and down, the only thing she could do. There were no words exchanged between the two of us, any other friend would have said, "I'm so sorry it happened." Or "I completely understand." But…

A. That would be lying and Kagome would never lie.

B. I hated it when Kagome fabricated it, the truth was Kagome had never seen anyone in her family drop off the face of the earth, and while we both knew her Jii-Chan would stop breathing anytime now, it just wouldn't happen. Kagome was also not emotionally stable enough to handle deaths and I was thankful my friend had not really known my mom and Kohaku. And if Kagome couldn't even handle the death of her old Jii-Chan… She certainly couldn't handle the deaths of the two dearest people to her in the entire world, not in the same twenty four hours. She knew if that happened, that practically all of Kagome's soul would die before her, and it was just a prospect she didn't want to think about.

Kagome and Sango stayed that way until the ambulance and police man Kagome had dialed 9-1-1 about arrived. Sango had been in such utter and complete shock she couldn't say a damn word so Kagome talked for her. It was understandable, two near and dear people in the same twenty four hours?

Silently I wondered if my dad or Satsuko, my uncle would be next.

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When the police and hospital people came in running with a stretcher, also came the homicide detectives.

The homicide detectives pronounced the body dead on first glance, the men laid the body on a strectcher and draped a cloth over it.

"Any money for a funeral?" the main detective asked.

He was young and I mean really young. Like fresh out of high school young. Like so good that once he was done with high school he was put right on this team young.

I looked up at him and my mouth formed a silent 'O' of shock, unbeknownst to me. He was barely two or so years older than me, and he was hot.

But one can never mistake looks, ne?

The same man I had been ogling cast a glance around the room and his eyes stopped on me. "Hello, there." And he smiled. "What's a pretty girl like you doing there crying?"

He was way too much of a gentleman to grope a woman. The co-workers had all been expecting the grope and the slap that almost always followed unless the woman was too dumb to realize he was taking advantage of her.

But they had come to expect it. No matter how pretty a woman was; that man would never lay a hand on a grieving lady. It would be just too much for them to handle, and he would save it until they could handle it.

I smiled looking up at him, and he extended his hand. I accepted it and he pulled me to my feet. "Well?" he questioned again. It wasn't an exasperated tone, simply a curious one.

"My mother, she died and well… My brother died not even a day ago." I explained trying to hide the tears. They had come into existence now.

Someone brushed against the stereo, and it turned on eerie music that sounded too much like Evanescence to be mistaken for anything but. "I've woken now to find myself,

in the shadows of all I have created. I'm longing to be lost in you, away from this place I have made. Won't you take me away from me?"

I could relate to songs but the words went right through my head and straight to my heart, I crumpled to the ground about to sob, but the young detective caught me just in time.

"Isn't it odd that both of her cherished family members are dead in the same twenty four hours?" He asked aloud, puzzled by the very thought.

"Think nothing of it Houshi. It's not unusual, she probably killed herself."

"I want to look into it further though."

"If you want to waste your time, you may do so Houshi. But don't complain when you run into a dead end."

Everyone walked off the scene, taking the body with them. But Kagome and the head detective stayed.

"Hey, if your going to stay at least tell me your name." I said firmly, a question/answer like statement.

"My name? But you must tell me yours after." He said, a confident air about him.

"Alright. Name?"

"Miroku Houshi. Name?"

"Sango Tajiya."

And a pact was formed then and there…

And for a few moments, Sango forgot her mother was dead.

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Inu Kaiba: That's it, I can't wrote anymore…. I've been writing and updating so much. It haunts me dammit… I want to go read dreamland and so I shall. I hope people will read with a new summary! I'm obsessed with Evanescence, anyways, I'll update soon. Probably in five days XD… This sucked, I rushed it, sorry.

-Inu Kaiba