Kagome lay awake in her sleeping bag with her mind stuck on previous happenings. She thought about Inuyasha and Kikyo. She thought of Shippo, Sango and Miroku. But most of all the odd dreams she had been having lately. All of them ended with at least one person dying. Each time that person died a horribly slow and painful death. One that kept entering her mind was the one that kept repeating itself, same victim but different killers. Night before her nightmare had a white haired, dog-eared, wolf tailed, crystal-blue eyed demon girl in it. Her hair went waist length and her eyes soft and loving, but still looked heavily pained. This girl would come to her before every nightmare and tell her these trange riddles, at times she just told of dangers and what would happen in the nightmare. Kagome didn't know whether to think of her as a guardian or a lost spirit. Her last dream played out like this:

Kagome awoke to find herself in complete darkness. She stood and wandered around calling out the names of her friends, but nothing…until. "Hello, Kagome…" a soft voice called from the darkness. Kagome turned and saw the white-haired demon. "Who are you?" Kagome asked watching the demon closely. "It matters not who I am. It meaning of me coming to you each night is more important" she said holding out her open hand, in which a small ball of gold light was held. Then she vanished and the world around Kagome changed in an instant.

Kagome found herself looking at a tree, where she could swear that demoness once stood. She turned to look around; it looked like the sun had just gone down. It was just light enough to see, some things were tinted blue, dark blue, black and in some cases violet. She wandered around until she heard a loud screech. It sounded like a human, she ran as fast as she could toward the screech. When she arrived at the scene, she was left speechless. There was a young girl covered in her own blood. When Kagome got a closer look, she noticed the girl had an arm crudely torn off, her right eye seemed like it was bitten out , there was a large gaping out in her stomach, a slit across her throat and words cut threw her kimono into her skin that read:
" We're back" in bloody, jagged letters.

The girl whispered something lowly. Kagome had trouble hearing at first but she soon understood what the girl said. "Run..." the girl said it once more. Kagome looked around and asked, "Who did this?" the girl looked at her weakly and slowly turned her head to look at the sky. She slowly closed her eye, falling into permanent sleep.

Kagome stood up and looked around. The tree branches above her shook, she backed up watching and waiting for whatever was going to come out. Suddenly noises started to surround her and she was forced to run for her life. As she ran she noticed a shadow ahead of her and human backing up. She stopped and hidden behind a tree. There was a man in a tan trench coat standing calmly, while the boy backed up with fear covering his features. The taller man took a step to the side. The boy backed himself up against a tree. Suddenly the man's shadow grew and shot out at the boy, massive claws cutting into the boy's chest. His blood spattered everywhere as he fell to the ground. He died within seconds, the man then looked in Kagome's area. Her heart skipped a beat, she heard him walking toward her. Her heart pounded in her chest, as his footsteps grew closer. She tried to run, but didn't get far. He reached out and grabbed her easily. She struggled but when that didn't seem to help, she yelled for Inuyasha. "INUYASHA!!" she yelled as loud as her voice would allow.

Meanwhile in the real world, everyone was around Kagome trying to wake her up. Inuyasha shook her shoulders and called her name, but nothing. Everyone tried whatever they could think of, still nothing. She bolted up, knocking Shippo off and almost hitting Inuyasha. Her eyes were full of fear as she panted and looked around. She noticed that demoness sitting on a tree limb behind Inuyasha. She was watching the scene closely as her tail wrapped around her waist. Her mouth moved to form muted words, the wind carried them to Kagome in a soft whisper of,'you're not ready…turn back…' Kagome thought to herself, 'Why is she here? who is she? I thought she was only part of my nightmares and what am I not ready for?' Her questions were answered when the soft voice told her in an odd riddle 'I am neither a dream nor a part of reality…I am not a demon…nor am I human…the depths of darkness grow deep…while the light becomes imaginary…' the words trailed off as she stood up and started to walk away. "Wait!" kagome yelled standing up," Who are you?" she asked as she ran in the direction the
demoness left. Everyone started to run after Kagome, calling her name and worrying what was wrong with her.