Author's Note:

"The best way out is always through." Robert Frost

Mother Slaughters Son and Grandfather

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Flashback

Stressed Words

The sun was shining through the well house when she had first managed to climb up the walls of the well. Today was like any other day, Inuyasha ended up being sat and Miroku slapped into oblivion. She ran up the steps and quickly out of the well house. Leaving the door open she smiled at the sunny day and giggled in happiness. It had been a while since the weather was good. There had been cases of acid rain around the area that had seemed strange. She figured the environment was just bad and thought nothing of it.

She ran to the door on the side of her house and knocked a few times. Thinking nothing of it she knocked again. With a frustrated sigh she dropped her yellow bag on the ground and fished in her bag for a house key. With a cry of triumph she found the key and unlocked the door. Leaving her bag outside she stepped inside.

"Mama! I'm home!" Kagome happily called out thinking she just hadn't heard the knocking. The aura around the kitchen seemed ethereal.

She walked past the family table and into the cooking area. The fridge was tipped over and there was one solid pool of blood smeared against the side. Her eyes widened slightly and fear began to pool at the pit of her stomach as she took a cautious step towards the mess. She didn't have to be youkai to smell death because it was a faint odor. Pressing herself against the sink she whimpered when she found Ji-chan on the ground. They thing that would forever haunt her dreams was the image of his entrails missing. Tears threatening to pour she pushed herself passed the body and the house stairs.

"SOUTA! MAMA!" Kagome screamed in horror.

Bloodied handprints of an eleven year old plastered the walls. She ran to Souta's room to find the door closed. Her hand hesitated when she glanced down on the floor and saw a finger. Holding in the scream she kicked open the door and fell to her knees. She couldn't identify any piece of her brother. All she could distinguish was the hair color, even though it was drenched in blood. Her mother was in a corner standing. She was soaked in blood with a katana.

"Why?" Kagome whispered to the emotionless girl.

"She can't answer," a soft voice replied. Kagome let her eyes travel to the one known as Kanna.

"What have you done?" Kagome screeched.

"She is dead," Kanna whispered. Kagome looked up and that's when she saw the tainted Shikon shard in her mother's forehead.

"You'll die!" Kagome screamed.

"I already am," Kanna whispered before turning to dust and vanishing.

She cautiously approached her mother unsure of what was to happen. Her mother raised the bloody katana and stabbed her self in the stomach. Tears rushed down both faces as this scene played out. Kagome ran forward and caught her mother as she fell to her knees. She then reached up and removed the shard, instantly purifying it upon contact. Her mother weakly looked up at her daughter and into her pained eyes. She whimpered as her mama whispered her last dying words.

"Dear Kami."

Kagome could only watch as her mother's eyes slid shut before her breathing stopped totally. Kagome let the body drop to the ground as she ran to the corner of her room and sat there crying and screaming in anguish. It was horrible to the ears, and eventually Buyo ran under the couch and covered even his own ears. Once night had fallen Kagome stood up with an emotionless face and walked back down to the kitchen. She reached for the phone and dialed the cops.

"There's been a murder," she whispered.

"Everyone's dead," Kagome emotionlessly continued.

"Come to the Sunset Shrine."

Kagome hung up and walked out of the house. She slowly made her way up the steps to the well house before she turned around and looked up at the moon. Her life here was over and there was nothing she could do about it. Her hands glowed with a blood colored ki as she opened the door. The wood became distorted with the touch of the ki. She walked over to the well and jumped into it without a second thought. Her family was dead and as the world could tell, so was she.

Inuyasha appeared in front of her and was horrified at the blood that covered her. He took her to a hot spring and before she could undress she broke down and began to sob. He embraced and rubbed her hair down in a soothing way as she continued to sob. His ears flattened at the sorrowful story she told. Naraku had been behind this and he growled as the bastard managed to kill the loving family and the spirit of the girl he knew he loved.

When she had calmed down he shredded the clothes and buried them. He helped Kagome into the hot spring not caring about modesty. She relaxed for an hour and eventually got out without caring about what she wore. Inuyasha wrapped her in his fire rat haori and took her back to Kaede's hut. Everyone was asleep, so Inuyasha laid her on a spare futon and woke Kaede up to tell her what had happen. It had been a tragic day indeed.

Author's Note:

Sorry this is so short but I wanted to show what happened through Kagome's memory instead of flashbacking throughout the story.

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