AN: hope you all like this one, I really did. Well, on with it then! I'm going to start this thing called the Summery So Far, where I recap what's happened in the story up to that chappie, tell me what you think! Ok, well that's it for me!

Summery So Far: Kagome's dad is an abusive Lord who uses the Shikon Jewel to turn Kagome into a half demon so she can wed a rich Demon Lord called Naraku. She runs away…

Chapter 1

Out Of The Darkness

Into The Light….

Kagome walked out into the sunshine, her eyes quickly adjusting to the new light. The sun was shining, the air was so light, and yet Kagome, Lady Kagome, couldn't be called anything close to happy this morning. She never seemed to be happy at all anymore. But that was considered understandable.

Since Kagome was four, she hadn't been all that happy. Until four years of age, Kagome assumed she probably had been a normal child. But one night had changed all of this. The normal happy Lady had become a sad despondent child. She had gone from Kagome Brown Eyes, as her maids had called her to, Lady Kagome of the Eastern Lands, in one night.

She had been sitting beside her father at their dinner table. Lords and Ladies from all of the surrounding courts were there. By the time the third course was served, Kagome was too full to eat.

"Daddy, I'm full, can I-" her father cut her off,

"Finish." He growled, she winced, and did her best.

Once upon a time there was a girl,

In her early years she had to learn,

How to grow up,

Living in the war that she called home

Never knowing where to turn for shelter from the storm…

Kagome ate until her stomach was killing her, and she couldn't shove another bit down. "Please Daddy, please." She whispered.

"Eat." He said coldly. So she did, her pains were brining tears to her eyes, but she slid another bit down her throat. And she puked. There had been no avoiding this. She splattered her entire dinner all over the floor. Her mother rose, about to go to her daughters side, but her father forestalled his wife. When she took another step, his fist forestalled her…

Hurt me to see the pain cross my mother's face,

Every time my father's fist would put her in her place,

Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room,

Hoping it would be over soon…

"I'll take care of it." He said tersely. Kagome's mother's face went as pale as it ever had, she looked ashen. But she nodded softly, saying not a word. I had never seen this part of my father before. He took me by a painful grasp on my arm, and pulled me to my room…

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same,

And I'll still remember how you kept me so afraid…

Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave,

Every morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday,

And I'm ok…

When I opened my eyes next, my mother stood beside me, she knelt down and held me to her, and we cried together. She slowly but a rag on my head, and we slept in her bed that night, some how it would chase all our problems away…

If only I had known how many nights would end this same way…

I often wonder why I carry all this guilt,

When its you that helped put up all these walls I've built,

Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door,

The echo of a broken child screaming please no more…

Kagome shook her head, trying not to remember, trying to ignore that lack of sleep she got. She tried to forget the fact that he made her wince. Tried to forget that he made her scared, he had created all the fear in her.

Her mother smiled as she sat down in their knitting romm, Kagome gave a weak smile back, and they began, gossiping and talking as any two women should. Like normal women.

Then he opened the door..

Daddy don't you understand the damage you have done?

For you it's just a memory, but for me it still lives on…

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same,

And I'll still remember how you kept me so afraid…

Strength is my mother, for all the love she gave,

Every morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday,

And I'm ok…

"Good morning my lovely ladies." Her father said smiling brilliantly at them. Kagome smiled and nodded to her father, her mother stood and kissed him lightly. They would keep on keeping on… Yes, they were truly Ladies fit for it…

"Good morning father." Kagome said calmly, anger and fear fighting for dominance in her soul. Fear always won. He nodded to her and looked at her more fully,

"Daughter," he said, he hadn't called her Kagome ever that she could recall, "You are Sixteen." He said, she nodded,

"As you say father." She said, he nodded as if confirming something he hadn't been sure of.

"You are eligible to marry." He said, she nodded, but stiffly this time,

"A, as you say father." She said, her voice stumbling, he nodded,

"It is, and so it shall be. I have someone, a Lord that I would like you to meet." He said, and then opened to door wider to reveal a tall man with dark black hair. Kagome paled, this man was a demon. She shivered as he kissed her hand, and bowed to her mother.

"My ladies. I am Lord Naraku of the South." He said, Kaogme's mother's face was carefully blank, but it was also as ashen as it had ever been.

"This Lord has approached me for your hand Kagome. And I am inclined to give it to him. He has but one condition that I am more than happy to give up. And he will pay hansomly for you. What do you say?" he asked, but it wasn't really a question,

I say that you are a pig and that he is a slimy demon that should be murdered rather than married, and that if you want me to be worth something to you than you could sell me for a slave for that's all I'll be to him anyway!

These were Kagome's thoughts, but that was just all they were. Fantasies of what she would say if she only could, instead she said,

"It will be as you say father. Always as you say." She said. The Lord Naraku smiled,

"Now how do you get them to behave so well?" He asked, her father laughed, and smiled,

"I am very dominating; a physical blow totally cows women. You would to well to learn that." He said, and then the two left laughing…

It's not easy to forget,

All the marks you left, along her neck,

When I was thrown against cold stairs,

And everyday afraid to come home,

In fear of,

What I might see next…

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same,

And I'll still remember how you kept me so afraid…

Strength is my mother, for all the love you gave,

Every morning that I wake, I look back at yesterday,

And I'm ok…

Kagome cried to her mother for a long time that night…

Kagome knew her father was desperate, but this had been something totally unpredicted from him. He held a replica of a powerful jewel called the shikon jewel in his hand. Where he had found this replica she had no idea, all she knew was he was going to fulfill that little 'condition' of Naraku's…

The price was her humanity.

The jewel took her humanity, or half of it anyway. The jewel turned her into a half demon so that Naraku could have a demonic bride. But not one more powerful than himself. Kagome cried all alone that night.

"No," she whispered fiercely to herself, "I won't be my mother, I won't let father do this to me, and then let Naraku do it too. I won't bring another child into the world for him to abuse, like I was. Oh mother why didn't you run away?" she asked herself, and that sparked an idea…

Run away? Could she? Dare she?

Oh yes, she dared.

That night, grabbing what she could carry she ran, and ran far and fast. Ran away from everything…

"I'm sorry mother, but I won't live my life like you did!"

OK, yeah this is totally sad for right now but it gets better by chappie two!

CHAPTER TWO: Welcome to the family…