A/N: Hey people who like to read my story. Sorry that it's a bit late. I fell asleep last night as soon as I sat on my bed. I'm really sorry.

Reviews:

Chad's gurl: Oh well, no one is perfect. I actually bowl in a summer league now.

Kagome the gothicpunk: Thanks.

Starry22153: Well, I'm pretty sure that I lost that too. I like that song too but my favorite is Whisper.

youngmikohanyou: Dude, I love you now, you are my friend.

REDX: Please don't get Van Helsing, I like my head. It helps me think (a little)

Foxylilraven: My laptop crashed a while ago and it took forever to get my internet back but my friend lost everything that she had when she experienced that.

Asako: I'm sorry that I was late in updating.

Sikaria: My muse is too stubborn to go away but she did kind of grow on me. Sort of like my hair. It can be so temperamental some times.

kute-lido-azn: Actually, I have no idea how many chapters there are. It's basically a go along with the feel sorta thing. And I am writing another story but I still didn't finish the first chapter.

Kagome: Thanks. That's good to hear.

Lil' Angel Aj: I know. Evanescence rocks and Spears just sucks. And she can't handle commitment (coughmarriagecough). And if someone was kissed by Kikyou then they'd probably want to die.

Kitsy: It's my opinion that insanity is a life-style, not a condition.

randomgemini07: Sorry that this chapter has no vulgar dancing. There is suspence though, a least I thought that it was suspence.

inuyasha-freek0021: I love Evanescence too. Their my favorite band.

image5: Where did I go?

lindygirl: You too? And here I thought I was off the deep end.

Meeko: And I love to keep you guessing.

gothic inuyasha: Sometimes you have to mix the bad with the good.

Foxylilraven: No, Kikyou isn't Bipolar but I think my muse is.

moongoddess1989: You know, it originally had her cutting herself but the execs decided it was bad for the younger fans, the ones that don't have enough sense to hate her yet.

Disclaimer: If I owned InuYasha, you wouldn't see him on tv, he'd be here, on my bed...clothing optional, I don't know but that would be heaven.

Muted Words

§Arson§

-Friday (where we left off)-

And outside they went. The rest of the students stared in shocked, fascinated amusement as the two teens ran through the front doors. The voice that broke the silence was one of a boy from somewhere in the hall.

"Damn, I wish I had a girlfriend like that."

"Me too, dude, me too," another voice agreed into the awed silence.

Sango dropped to her knees and all eyes turned towards her.

"Sango?" Miroku asked concerned. Sango still gazed blankly at the wall and shook once. "Sango?" he repeated. She started to shake a bit more but there was voice to these. No real words, just a sound. That's when he realized it, they all realized it.

Sango was laughing. Laughing as if she just saw two naked guys in monkey masks running through the hall holding hands. It started slow but began to grow as time went by. At the moment, she practically rolled on the ground. It was contagious.

It spread to Miroku, then Rin, to Kouga, followed by Ayame, and Ginta and Hakakku were the last of the gang to laugh. Soon the entire hallway was erupting in laughter.

Of course, this doesn't include Sesshoumaru, but he did manage a smile and hide a chuckle.

Exempted completely was Kikyou who ran out of the school in the opposite direction as the two love birds.

"We...we really sho-shouldn't be la-la-laughing at th-them," Rin barely managed to get out before she collapsed onto her boyfriend's shoulder. "But st-still we should g-get them before th-they get t-too c-carried away."

Meanwhile, with the people that they're laughing at...

"InuYasha," moaned Kagome. InuYasha smirked against her neck in satisfaction. He ran his tongue against her pulse point and felt her shiver and moan his name out again. Her whimpers increased as InuYasha moved to her mouth and met her tongue with his own. He rubbed it against her in a haze of...well...he really didn't know what to call it...but he knew immediately that he loved it almost as much as he loved her.

"Kagome," he breathed out. InuYasha hugged her tightly to him and began to rub her back. Kagome nuzzled her face into his nape and tried to regain control of her breathing. His hands moved from her back to her waist in a clockwise pattern.

Finally, after they managed to relax enough, they raised their heads, looking into each other's eyes; amazing blue meeting warm amber.

"I love you, Kagome." The smile that InuYasha fell in love with made its appearance again.

"I love you, too, InuYasha."

"Aww, that's so sweet," a voice behind them cooed. They turned to find the starry eyed face of Rin as she clung to Sesshoumaru's arm. Sango was still having strange bits of laughter with Miroku's arm decorating her shoulders. Everyone else just beamed at them.

But the caught couple didn't blush. They would never be embarrassed because of being seen kissing each other. Why should they?

They were in love.

They walked down the street to pick up Shippou like they always do...

But today was not an ordinary day.

As they made their approach to the center, they automatically took in the billowing, black buffs of smoke. The closer they came, the more they saw. And the more they saw, the more horrified they became.

The center was on fire.

The gang ran as fast as they could and looked around, desperate to find Shippou's face in the crowd of people that were trying to put out the fire. The fire department hadn't made it yet.

Kagome saw Suki with her group of students and looked closely to see if Shippou was there. Not seeing him, she ran over to the other woman. No words were exchanged. Kagome didn't need to hear it. Everything was clearly explained in Suki's painful expression.

Shippou wasn't there.

He's still in the inferno that used to be a safe haven.

Without a second thought, Kagome ran to a bucket of water that would have been used to douse the flames and poured it over her head, completely soaking her hair and clothes. She ran into the burning structure in search of her son. She'd be damned if she would stand by and watch the destruction of her little boy.

"Kagome!!!" InuYasha screamed as he watched his girlfriend run into the flames. He tried to follow her but was being held back by Sesshoumaru and Miroku. He was thrashing wildly, desperate to reach his Kagome before she could get herself hurt.

"InuYasha, you have to stay here. I know you want to but you can't go in there."

"Listen to him brother. Think of what will happen if you don't get out in time. Do you really want to do that to our father?" InuYasha still struggled.

"And what about her? What if she doesn't get out in time? What the hell will I do with myself if she dies? I don't even know if she's okay!" InuYasha felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to find Sango.

"She's okay for now, InuYasha, but I need you to be quiet so I can tell if she'll stay that way." Instantly, he stilled but he stared apprehensively at the broken down door.

Hot. It was very hot but Kagome refused to remove her jacket. It was the only thing that protected her arms from the flames. Everything was on fire. The chairs, the tables, and worst of all, the support beams. That greatly limited her time.

"Shippou! Shippou!! Can you hear me?!!!"

Her calls went unanswered. The roar of the fire was drowning out her screaming voice. It was too similar to the screaming that she could hear outside. If she wanted to get Shippou out of hear, she had to find him. To find him, she had to create a sound that was different from the noises outside but similar enough for Shippou to know it was her.

That's when it hit her. Sure, it was something that would probably be pulled from a musical or a Disney story, but it might work.

She sang. She moved down close to the ground, away from the smoke that polluted the air and she sang as best she could in this condition.

"I've been looking in the mirror for so long.

That I've come to believe my soul's on the other side.

Oh the little pieces falling, shatter.

Shards of me,

Too sharp to put back together.

Too small to matter,

But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces.

If I try to touch her
"

She could have sworn that she saw some movement in the corner. Inspired, she moved over to the source.

"And I bleed,

I bleed,

And I breathe,

I breathe no more
"

Kagome crawled. Closer and closer to her destination, the ever- rising hope that she had found her son swelled in her heart.

"Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirits well.

Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child.

Lie to me,

Convince me that I've been sick forever.

And all of this,

Will make sense when I get better.

I know the difference,

Between myself and my reflection.

I just can't help but to wonder,

Which of us do you love
"

Moving aside the debris, Kagome looked into a pair of forest green eyes. Shippou's eyes. Shippou threw his small arms around his mother, which she returned simultaneously. He was shaking with fear and crying tears of relief that he was no longer alone. Kagome kept on singing in the hopes of calming him down.

"So I bleed,

I bleed,

And I breathe,

I breathe now...

Bleed,

I bleed,

And I breathe,

I breathe,

I breathe-

I breathe no more
"

Shippou calmed down some and let himself get wrapped in Kagome's jacket. It was wet but way better then the fire. Still staying low, Kagome tried to move back to the front door. Just as she was about to make through, a burning support beam fell in before it, blocking her quickest escape. Thinking quickly, she tucked Shippou closer to her, covering his mouth in the process, stood, and ran as fast as she could to the back of the establishment. There was a playground back there. So there had to be a back door. Right?

Another support beam fell. It nearly hit her. This was not good. The place was falling apart. She and Shippou were still inside. She could only hope that they were somewhere near the exit from this hell. Gods, she prayed that they wouldn't die here. That Shippou wouldn't die here.

Her prayers were answered when she found the door. The only problem was that the door had caught fire.

The window. There was a window. Thank the gods that there was a window!

Putting Shippou onto her back, she looked for something to protect her hand from the glass. Thanking the Gods again, she stomped out a small flame from a usable blanket that was for napping. Careful to wrap her hand completely, Kagome punched the window out, making sure Shippou wouldn't get hurt. She felt some of the shards from the glass graze into her hand but paid no heed. There would be no point to check her hand now if she wouldn't be alive later to worry about it. Kicking out the extra glass, Kagome moved Shippou to her front again to climb out.

Even though they were literally out of the fire, that still didn't mean that they were safe. If the building collapsed, as Kagome had no doubts that it would, then they had better get as far as Kagome's legs could get them.

They had gotten about thirty feet away when the building collapsed. Embers flew through the sky as the force caused Kagome to trip. She was too weak to stand having no adrenaline left. She moved just enough to see Shippou's eyes.

"Are you okay, sweetie?" she asked, surprised at the raspiness of her voice.

"Yeah, I think so," was his dazed reply. Kagome hugged him tightly, glad that they were relatively out of danger. Deeming it safe now that she aloud herself to hear the outside world, she slipped into the welcomed darkness, lulled there by the sounds of the fire trucks.

"Can you get anything on her?" InuYasha asked again. One of the support beams had fallen in front of the door and he was know desperate for knowledge that his Kagome was alive.

"I'm not sure InuYasha. She must be too busy for telepathy," Sango sighed. This was nerve-racking. The fire department was still not here, Kagome was still in there, and Shippou might still be lost.

"I hope she's all right," Rin voiced with worry. It didn't matter that Kagome had been in life or death situations before; she could still die in there.

Finally, the fire department came and by that time, everyone from school was watching or trying to help. Everyone immediately backed away to let the firemen do their job. Sango ran to one of them.

"My sister and nephew are in there!" she screamed. The man nodded once and began to run to the front door. But before he could actually get in the building, it buckled and fell to the ground in a roar.

"NOOOO!!! KAGOME!!!!!" InuYasha called out as if Kagome could hear him. He sunk down to his knees on the cold cement. Staring helplessly at the firemen as they put out the fire.

When they managed to get it under control and gone, them and the gang searched for a hopefully alive and nearly well Kagome and Shippou. Turning over ashen tables, chairs, and shelves, they still found nothing of their loved ones.

InuYasha moved through the remains of the daycare center, looking desperately for his girlfriend and her adopted son. That's when he saw it. Something was lying out in the field a bit away from the playground. Then he realized that it was moving. Running to it, he cried out in joy. He had found his lovely Kagome.

She was curled protectively against an also unconscious Shippou. Ashes smudged her skin and the smell of smoke clung to her wet body. Tentatively, he brush away some of her damp hair from her face.

"I...I found her!" he shouted out to everyone else. They, and the paramedics, came rushing over. And try as they might, they were unable to unclasp the grip Kagome had on Shippou.

The paramedic placed an oxygen mask over her nose and mouth after he lifted her head a bit off the ground. Shippou was getting the same treatment.

"They should go to the hospital until they wake up. And her hand should be looked at. That may need some stitching done," the woman diagnosed. They loaded the two onto the gurney and left for the hospital.

Kagome awoke to the familiar feel of a mask on her face and a hospital bed on her back, or rather she was on it. And from the feel of it, Kagome could tell that she was on her side and Shippou was wrapped in her arms. Slowly, she opened her eyes to meet the amber irises that she fell in love with. They shone with concern and relief.

"You okay, Kag?" he asked softly. He held her left hand, squeezing it gently. She tried to move her right hand to find that she felt pain. Slowly, she shifted her hand to her line of vision and took in the gauze bandage. "You needed to get some stitches done to your hand. The doctors found some glass in it," InuYasha answered her unasked question. He moved in to hug her tightly and protectively. "Gods, Kagome, do you know how worried I was. I saw the building collapse and I thought you were still in there. Never do that to me again."

Kagome nodded. She wanted to talk to him, tell him what happened, so she did. Moving aside the mask, she began to replay the events that happened to him.

"A support beam...fell in front of the door. I...had to go to the back one...on fire too. Window...punched it...hand in blanket...climbed out. Ran...passed the play ground...BOOM...building...ground...passed out." Kagome concluded her slightly broken story. It was enough for InuYasha though. He actually understood it, much to his own surprise.

"How'd you find him?" he questioned, indicating to the boy in her arms. Kagome looked down and smiled a bit.

"Sang...he heard it."

Shippou woke slowly to find that his mommy and the guy who he hoped to be his daddy were talking. And as it appeared to be, it was about the fire. InuYasha was commenting on something.

"I'm not surprised. You have a great voice."

'That's true' thought Shippou. Kagome was about to reply to that but InuYasha's father walked in. Dr. Teki looked at the trio in interest.

"You know, that oxygen mask is there for a reason," InuTaisho remarked.

"Oh, shut up," InuYasha chuckled slightly.

"Well," he countered, "at least I know that you are my son."

Kagome chuckled tiredly, pulling Shippou closer to her. They both fell asleep to the sounds of InuYasha and InuTaisho arguing.

§§§§§§§§§§§

A/N: The song was Breathe No More by Evanescence. My muse is tired and so am I. Please review so I don't feel so alone. And I accept anonymous reviews. I think that those who don't write stories have some great ideas for others. So on that note, REVIEW!