An: hi I don't like the beginning of this chapter but I think the ends ok…course it only matters what you think so…o and read my friend Sheeva a.k.a Hamona's storyResident Evil: Ain't Afraid to Die(its awesome…and she was cool enough to make me her sister in it to!) also her other story cherry blossoms of white death! Both r great! The inu-pup needs some reviews to! But anyways Konnichiwa to you to Sheeva! Also to ABBEY…mom and dad(cause I'm finally letting them read my story) so here it is hope you haven't left cause I've written to long of an authors note! Lol…you haven't have you? (gulps)

Flashback:

Suddenly remembering what he had heard before those assholes had done to him he tried to sit up again. "Wait how's Kagome," he asked seeing that it was light out. "I heard her scream before those guys got me." "She's fine she came over earlier to drop off your homework half an hour ago," said Sango. "She must of just tripped or something." "Ya…ya that must have been it," he said looking relieved but slightly suspicious. Some things not right he thought, but what is it? End of flashback

Kagome looked at the ground as she walked to school. It was cold and she shivered. Last night's beating had been bad.

Flashback:

He's back, she thought. The door slammed as he walked in. He stomped up the stairs drunkly . Though he was still all the way down the hallway the smell of alcohol infiltrated her nose slipping through the cracks under door. He was coming, coming for he, he always was. This was just an endless nightmare that always ended the same; always with her hurt. He opened up the closet door and dragged her out, slamming her into a wall, her body slid down and she lay there waiting for the beating that was sure to come. He slammed the door shut so she had no way out. He still held a beer bottle in his hand. He poured the rest down his throat, then he threw it against a wall causing it to break into a hundred pieces. He smiled, he new she was scared. He slammed his fist in to her stomach, all the air left her lungs as she slid down the wall helpless against his attacks. He punched her in the same spot again. She coughed up blood. After that he just hit her anywhere he pleased. Slamming a hand in to her cheek; it began to puff up and bruise. He laughed at her pain, finding amusement in her pain. Picking up an especially sharp piece of the bottle he began to punch her with it between his knuckles leaving open wounds, letting blood spill. After more than an hour he stopped and left. She hadn't cried, she had no more tears. She had nothing. She pulled herself up walking back towards her "room". She lay her head on the cold wood floor letting the coolness of it touch her bruises and cuts. She coughed up blood her before her usual nightmare took her away. End of flashback

The school building loomed ahead. She was late but didn't care. She walked slowly up the steps towards her first period class. At least Inuyasha and the others will be there she thought.

He was worried. Kagome was late to school again. It was near the end of first period class when she walked in and sat down next to him, she gave him a small smile. Her eyes had their usual expression to them…sad. But he noticed the rather large bruise on her cheek. He also noticed that she wore the same t-shirt and jeans. It had only been a three days since he had met her and yet it felt like longer. He felt like he new her so well. Something worried him about her; she always had bruises, and scratches, new ones every day. Something wasn't right. But she hadn't ever said anything. Was it Kouga? No…he sensed it was something worse. She shivered. He pulled his hoodie and handed it to her as if out of instinct. "Here take this". She stared at it like she didn't know why she had it. " Well go on put it on if your cold", he said impatience in his voice. She nodded and put on the dark blue hoodie. She smiled at him. "Thanks Inuyasha." "Feh, whatever you were cold so I gave you a hoodie no big deal." "ok Inuyasha."

In fourth period Inuyasha couldn't help but look at the girl who sat next to him, Kikyo. She looked almost the same as Kagome, but there were some differences. Like their eyes, Kikyo's had no emotion to them, they seemed cold. Whereas Kagome's were always sad looking, but still had feeling showing in them. Their hair was also different. Kikyo's was perfectly straight and was always tied back with two pieces hanging in her face. And Kagome's hair had a little curl to it, but it was the same color, raven black. Their faces were similar except Kikyo's skin was a little lighter. He couldn't explain it but he couldn't stop staring at her beauty.

At lunch the Kagome and Inuyasha met up with Sango and Miroku. Miroku had evidently just touched Sango's ass. They were screaming but stopped when Sango saw Kagome. "Hey how'd you get that Kagome," she asked pointing to the bruise on her face. "Oh this, I'm such a klutz sometimes." "I tripped over my book bag and landed right on my face.", Kagome said softly. Sango looked at her weird but decided not to say anything about it.

She noticed something else though. "Oh I see you have Inuyasha's hoodie on", she said slyly. "don't even go there Sango, she was frickin cold so I gave her the hoodie ok", Inuyasha said blushing. "Ahh Sango I do believe our little inu has found him self a girl," Miroku said winking at Sango who laughed. " Ya Miroku that'll be on the day that your hand stops wandering", Inuyasha said laughing. Miroku looked at his hand, " its a curse that's been in our family since my grandfather", he said. To make his point his hand wandered to Sango's butt. SMACK! "YOU PERVERT!" Miroku ran being chased by Sango. Inuyasha was laughing so hard tears came to his eyes. Kagome just watched as all this happened; still blushing at the part about Inuyasha and her. They're such good friends to each other…can I be like that to. Live life like its normal again. Well until I go home, but could I actually be friends with these people and trust them? Inuyasha looked over at Kagome. Her eyes were glazed over in thought.

All four of them walked out of the school building Kagome started to go one way and Inuyasha followed making her stop. "What are you doing Inuyasha", asked Kagome. "Well I'm not letting you walk home alone, not with Kouga after you." "Well I don't know…I mean Naraku doesn't really…" Inuyasha cut her off, "look I'll just walk you ok nothing else." Kagome still didn't look convinced but continued walking, Inuyasha following. Sango and Miroku looked at each other with eyebrows raised, giving each other a look that said, that's definitely not normal Inuyasha! "No inu", stated Miroku calmly. "No what?" Inuyasha said causing him and Kagome to stop walking "Sango and I are coming with you." "Feh, I don't need any baby sitters I can take care of myself!" "Oh ya you sure showed that the other night, you did a great job going to that side of town.", said Sango sarcastically. Kagome looked up curious, she didn't know about Inuyasha following her and getting beat up by Kouga. All she new was that Inuyasha didn't go to school the next day. "What happened after I left…what side of town.", she asked. Inuyasha started to walk again. "what happened", she repeated in a louder voice. Inuyasha sighed… "look I got worried about letting you walk alone because of what had happened so I followed you there, well turns out I was being followed to. By Kouga and his friends. The next thing I know I'm back at home. "Inuyasha do me a favor and don't follow me this time", she said as she walked away. "Dammit Sango now she's pissed", said Inuyasha as he stormed off in the opposite direction of Kagome. Miroku sighed, "well Sango don't you feel lucky you get to go home and relax, while I deal with that", he said pointing at Inuyasha. Sango sighed also, "Ya…have fun with that", she said running away, leaving Miroku to deal with Inuyasha by him self.

Why didn't he listen to me, Kagome thought. If he had heard anything or tried to stop it he could have been hurt…he could have been killed. Her eyes filled with tears at the thought. No, no I can't have anyone else get hurt…I can't lose anyone else. not again. She let her tears fall slowly from her eyes. But why does he even care? Its not like we've known each other long. But even though we've only been friends for a few days he's nice to me…he cares. She suddenly stopped walking. Wait friends? Could it be possible that these people, Miroku, Sango, and…and Inuyasha are willing to be my friends? But they can't know…it would only hurt them. I guess I should apologize to Inuyasha, I don't want to lose these friends. I don't want to feel lonely any more. She turned around walking towards Inuyasha's house. But I have to be quick she thought. Naraku won't be home till ten tonight but to be safe…

Inuyasha walked to the park and sat under his favorite tree. He remembered his mom taking him to sit under the tree a lot when he was younger. She used to tell him a story. A story about a young half-demon who fell in love with two priestesses and about how one priestess pinned the half-demon to a sacred tree and the other saved him from the curse. It was this tree according to her. After her death he came to sit under the tree, often for hours at a time. He missed her so much…he remembered the day…the day he found out she was dead.

Flashback:

Ten-year-old Inuyasha was walking home from school. He found it strange that his mother or brother hadn't come to walk with him. He liked it best when his mom did. For some reason his elder half brother Sessuameru seemed to hate him and his mother a lot even though his mom had made him a part of the family the day Inuyasha was born…the day their father died. So he was always cold towards Inuyasha. He still loved his elder brother though, and appreciated him walking him home so; Kouga the kid who bullied him would leave him alone, even though Sessuameru insisted his mother made him. When he got home their car wasn't there. He walked in and started on his homework. An hour later the phone rang, on the other side a woman said that at three P.M Sessuameru Youkai, and Ms. Charlotte Youkai had died due to injuries from a car crash, and that it was due to a drunk driver hitting the car. Inuyasha hung up the phone and began to let tears fall from his eyes. He ran out of his house and continued to just run and run. A few hours later he was wondering the streets down town lost. He was still crying and was hungry and cold. He heard someone coming and hid behind a trashcan hoping whoever was coming wouldn't notice him. A boy about the age of thirteen came from behind the corner, he had heard someone crying while he was walking and came to see who it was. He heard a sniffle from behind a trash- can. He went over to find a boy about three years younger then him hiding. "Whats wrong kid?" he looked up, "your not that much older so don't call me kid, he sniffled, and nothings wrong." The older boy raised his eyebrow, "nothing doesn't make you cry." "Shut up, I'm not crying." He wiped the tears from his face so he couldn't see his tears. The older boy looked at him curiously, knowing Sango was goanna kill him for being late. "where's your mom, its already nine? The boy looked down, "she's gone…dead." The older boy looked concerned, you could stay with me…my name's Miroku. End of flashback

That was the day he lost everything and found something new…Miroku and Sango. He moved in with Miroku that night and found out that he also had no parents. So that was that, they took care of each other from then on. Though they went over to Sango's frequently, she was the only one with a father and a brother still alive though her mother died mysteriously years ago…Sango never talked about that though. And even though her father had insisted on Miroku and Inuyasha moving in with him they turned it down. They were independent and didn't want to free load off him. So Miroku had been working part time since he was aloud by law, which was fourteen and attending school. And Inuyasha now being fourteen would also start working part time while still attending school also. He sighed, and closed his eyes, just to rest them but silently drifted off to sleep.

Miroku new where Inuyasha was. He was at the park under his favorite tree, he always went there when he felt down or needed to cool off. The park was just two blocks down from his house so he just headed home, Inuyasha new to come in at dark so he wasn't worried. He sighed, the other night when he found Inuyasha he was so afraid he was dead. His body had just lain in the road unmoving. He had bruises and cuts all over him. He remembered his heart freezing as he checked his pulse, thanking god he was alive. He had picked him up and carried him home leaving Sango to help him when he went to kick Kouga's ass. He was so pissed that Kouga had beat him up again, that time had been the worse. That stupid pretty boy had everything handed to him on a silver platter, his parents were rich, he was popular. So the prick picked on anyone less fortunate then him. Provided he had his goons with him that is, Genta and Hakkaku. He decided to go in his room and get ready for work at the café where he worked.

Kagome headed to Inuyasha's house cutting through the park that was just a few blocks down from his place. She walked past a huge tree suddenly stopping. That tree…her mom and dad used to take her and her brother there all the time. They called it the sacred tree, and had a story to go with it…something about a half-demon and two priestesses he was in love with. She couldn't remember the rest and decided to rest her eyes and sit down. She drifted off to sleep, and for once there were no nightmares to clog her dreams. But instead she dreamed about those priestesses and that half-demon…

Inuyasha woke up about half an hour later he stood up and walked around the other side of the tree towards his house when he stopped in tracks. There Kagome sat sleeping on the same tree he had just been sleeping at. He decided to wake her up and against his own will apologize for not listening to her. He gently shook her shoulders till she awoke, blinking away the sleep in her eyes. In…Inuyasha? He smiled, "now who's following who?", he said helping her up. "look", he began but she interrupted. "Inuyasha I'm sorry for yelling at you, I know you were just looking out for me, but maybe you should look out for yourself a little more", she said smiling one of her half smiles. She hugged him quickly and stepped back, " thanks she muttered." He just stood there stunned. Did she just hug him…and apologize! "now what were you goanna say Inuyasha?" "umm, never mind." "but can I walk you home?" she smiled thinking, well Naraku's not home. "sure Inuyasha she smiling…sure."

AN: hi me Ash again I'd like to say thanx to:

iLoVUiNuYaShA: THANX! K I'm writing more cause you asked! Thank-you for reviewing so soon, I had just posted my story when you did, so this chapter's dedicated to you for being my first reviewer

Provoked: yep if you haven't guessed this is another chapter, lol. Thank you

Hamona: hey Sheeva what up? Lol ya and I doubt that Naraku and Sessuameru will ever stop fighting (sighs) neither will Kouga and Inuyasha (looks at Inuyasha and Kouga.) Kouga: she's my woman and ill kill you if I have to get her away from you. Inuyasha: feh as if you scrawny wolf, I could kill you with only the power in my claws. Ash(me): GRRR SHUT-UP WOULD YA?

(sighs) lol anyways I hope you enjoyed I should be up dating soon ok? Now you see that purple button…ya that one push it and review! Yay that button makes me happy so if you want me to continue(will anyways) then PUSH IT! And in case you're wondering not a purple belly button…that only makes me happy on the third Wednesday of the month. Lol I'm weird I know. Well…BUH-BYE NOW!