A/N: Hey guyz, I know it's been like forever since I updated, but I have so much going on right now with school it's hard. Hope you enjoy this chapter.

IMPORTANT NOTE: EVERYONE SHOULD REREAD ALL THE CHAPTERS OF THIS FIC BECAUSE I HAVE EDITED THEM ALL, AND A FEW THINGS HAVE BEEN CHANGED.

Disclaimer: For the last time i do not own Inuyasha and Co.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Last time

"Look! Is that Inuyasha with his shirt off?" Sango exclaimed.

"Huh? What! Where!" Kagome looked around the room really fast causing herself to fall off the bed.

Sango just broke into laughter.

"Kagome-chan do you really think that Inuyasha would come over to my house with his shirt off? Let's think about this..hmmm," Sango giggled.

"Wait, then again don't or I won't be able to talk to you all night," Sango stated.

"What? I can't help it, he is so cute!" Kagome giggled.

"Oh please. He's not that cute. There are way hotter guys then Inuyasha. Inuyash is second best compared to other people," Sango whispered the last part.

"What was that Sango-chan? Let me guess, you are talking about a certain houshi that goes by the name Miroku-sama?" Kagome smiled.

"No of course...uhh not..." Sango didn't know how to answer that.

"You don't sound too confident in your answer Sango-chan."

"Anyways Kagome-chan it's getting late isn't it? Let's get some sleep!" Sango quickly covered herself with the blankets and pretended to be sleeping.

"Whatever you say Sango-chan but this doesn't get you out of answering me later, or going to the mall tomorrow! Good night!" Kagome did the same as Sango and went under the covers.

"What! Kagome-chan no, you gotta be kidding." Sango pleaded.

"Fine, I guess I can just go all by myself...alone...with no one around...I mean I could get kidnapped and raped or something..but that's okay Sango-chan you don't have to come," Kagome said too cheerfully.

"Fine, fine I'll go. You're are so mean to me Kagome-chan." Sango said before turning around and going to sleep.

"Yes, yes I know. Good night Sango-chan."

"Good Night."

Chapter 9: Do You Trust Me?

It was a beautiful day, the sun was out, clear blue skys. The birds where chirping. Everything was calm and peaceful.

"Kagome-chan, we have been at the mall for hours, can we go home yet?" Sango whinned.

"No! Sango-chan I haven't picked out my outfit yet," Kagome continued to look through clothes.

Sango looked at the clothes rack in about 5 minutes she had grabbed a shirt and skirt for Kagome and handed them to her.

"There you go," Sango smiled.

Sango had handed a black wrap around halter tank-top, that showed her stomach and all of her back, with a black mini-skirt.

"Now if you borrow one of my pairs of black leather knee-high boots, you'll be set. If you don't catch Inuyasha's attention in that outfit, nothing will work. Nothing to worry about though Kagome-chan, Inuyasha really likes you I can tell."Sango winked at her.

"Thank you Sango-chan, I'm just going to go try these on. I'll be right out. Can you hold my purse for me?" Kagome picking up her small black purse and handing it to Sango.

"Okay, hurry up though. We still got to go home and get ready you know, it's already 3pm." Sango sat down on a bench outside of the fitting rooms.

She was just reading a magizine when she could hear the sound of "With You" by Jessica Simpson coming from Kagome's purse. Picking up Kagome's cellphone to see why it was ringing. Kagome had a new text message.

'Probably a mushy text from Inuyasha.' Sango thought to herself.

When trying to click the message off, having pressed the wrong button the message opened. The message read:

Remember you are meeting me in the park where your father used to take you. No police, no nothing. Not a word

of this to anyone, everyone you love will be dead. See you at midnight.

Sango's eyes widened in shocked.

'Who the fuck is this? Kagome would have told me if there was something wrong right? I better ask.' Sango put Kagome's cellphone in her pant pocket with the message still up when Kagome came out of the dressing rooms holding the clothes ready to buy.

"Okay, I'm ready to buy my clothes Sango-chan," Kagome said with a smile.

"Good. Took you long enough to decide." Sango tried to smile but was finding it hard too.

Kagome went to the cashier and bought her clothes, and her and Sango started walking to the other end of the mall towards the parking lot Sango had parked her car.

"Hey Kagome-chan?"

"Yes, Sango-chan?"

"You would tell me if something was wrong right?" Sango was trying to give Kagome a chance to explain herself.

"Of course Sango-chan."

'Why does she have to lie to me? How can she just sit there and smile like nothing is going on? Does she honestly think that she can hide something from me? I'm her best friend I know her better then Inuyasha. Inuyasha may have known her longer but he could never have girl talk with Kagome like she has with me. Why is she hiding this from me?' Sango had so many thoughts rushing through out her heard, she wasn't sure what to think.

One thing was for sure though. Kagome was lying about something, and she was going to find out what it was.

Once they were driving, there was an awkward silence between the two girls. Kagome would look over to Sango and could tell she was hurt by something.

'Maybe she knows? I mean she knows everything about me. Have I been too obvious? I thought I hid everything pretty well but maybe they could see through the smile.' Kagome was scared, she didn't know what was going on.

"Kagome-chan, you tell me everything right?" Sango asked breaking the silence.

"Yes, I do. Sango-chan why all the weird questions?"

Sango was too hurt by Kagome's answer, she couldn't even look at her. So she just answered her with silence as they pulled into Sango's drive-way. Kagome got out of the car and was the first to door, and using her house key that Sango had given her awhile back. Sometimes when Kagome was all alone and upset and needed someone to talk too, she would go over to Sango's house. Since Sango is not always home when Kagome wants to come over Sango gave her a key, her parents were barely home anyways, but this way Kagome wouldn't have to sit out in the cold and wait. Or if Sango was sleeping Kagome could go in and wake her up to talk to her, Sango told her she wouldn't mind. They were best friends, they were supposed to be there for each other, right?

Sango walked in behind her and turned to shut the door. Kagome put down her bags and went to reach in her purse for her cellphone to call the guys and ask again what time they needed to be ready since she forgot. Her cellphone was not there though. Sango leaned against the door facing Kagome's back, waiting for Kagome to ask where her cellphone was.

"Sango-chan, do you know where I put my cellphone?" Yep, that's what Sango was waiting for.

When there was no answer Kagome turned around to face Sango's upset face, "Sango-chan?"

Sango pulled out Kagome's cellphone and pressed a button to illuminate the cellphone so everything could be seen on the screen of the cellphone. Then once you could see the small text, she showed Kagome.

"You tell me everything Kagome-chan?" Sango was slightly pissed off. It's been 2 days since she had found out about Naraku along with Miroku and Inuyasha from Sesshoumaru, who knows how long Kagome has been going through this, and she did not say a word.

"Sango-chan...I do tell you everything." Kagome felt like she was about to cry.

"Apparently not Kagome-chan. What's going on? You know you can tell me, you're supposed to trust me. I am your best friend, or at least I thought I was." Sango was more hurt then mad now.

"Sango-chan if I tell you, you'll die. So will everyone else."

"Kagome-chan, did you ever think that you're going to die? Do you think I would feel good about learning about your death off the news one morning, your body found in some ditch on the side of the road, because you didn't say anything. What would Inuyasha think? You know Mirkou cares about you too." Now Sango was twice as worried as she was when she first saw the text message.

"Okay...Sango-chan I'll tell you...you just can't tell anyone." Kagome close to tears now.

"That depends on what you tell me, Kagome-chan."

"You see, my dad had this friend Naraku. He thought he could trust him. Naraku was always been there for my dad, and my dad was always there for Naraku. Naraku was too into power though, he was very greedy. Still loyal to my father but my mom told me when she was around him she just didn't feel right. He was just creepy. He had this certain edge about him that would make your breath caught in your throat, and the hair on the back of your neck stand up. In my family, the Shikon Jewel; the jewel of four souls, the jewel that can grant any one wish to anyone, was guarded by my family. Naraku was a half-demon, and he wanted to become a full demon. He thought of humans as weak beings that just lived their lives of pain and happiness then after awhile they would die, with nothing left except their memories kept inside their loved ones. Then once they were gone, no one would even know they exsisted. All that for what? Nothing. So he asked if he could use the jewel so he could complete his wish."

"Your dad said no right?" Sango asked.

"Yeah he did, he told him that he should be happy with who he is, and changing into a full demon would not make him happy. So of course, that's not that answer Naraku wanted. He yelled at my dad, and called him a betrayer. Later that day Naraku went to my grandpa for answers to all his questions about the Shikon Jewel."

"And your grandpa answered all of them?"

"He didn't know about Naraku's greed, or about the fight between my dad and him. So once Naraku found out all he needed, he went after me as a hostage when I was 10 years old. My family would get me back in exchange for the Shikon Jewel. I was with Naraku for a long time, not sure how long exactly. I actually didn't know what was going on, Naraku was like my uncle, he was always around our family. He just came to school one day and said that instead of going on vacation with my family, it was just going to be me and him. He told me my parents would come along after awhile. After a few days I asked when were they coming. All Naraku told me was that they were having some problems and not to worry."

"Where did he take you?" Sango didn't completely understand this.

"That's the thing, I don't know. He never told me where we were going. I just trusted him because I thought my dad trusted him."

"Didn't you ever notice anything weird about it or anything?" This was too weird. Then again Kagome was easily decieved, all a person had to do to convince Kagome, was to just be really nice to her. Sango just gave her a weird look.

"Anyways it was a long time before my dad came to get me, but one day I heard a car pull up in the drive-way. I was about to go outside to see who it was but Naraku told me to stay inside, as he went outside to greet whoever it was. I went to the window to see what was going on. It was my dad! He had finally come to see me, he was talking to Naraku, and it wasn't going well. I could tell by the expression on my dad's face he was mad about something. He looked at the window I was looking out of, and his eyes locked with mine. I will never forget that look that he gave me that day. It was a look of fear, for me, not for himself. Next thing I know Naraku looks at where my dad was looking out, without a second thought he pulled out a gun out of his jacket and shot my dad three times in the chest and killed him. I screamed and ran to the lock door. Once I did I only had a few minutes to call the cops before he would shoot down the door. I called the police and before I could tell them what happened Naraku came in after me, I threw the phone to the ground and just ran outside to where my dad was. I tried waking him up, crying, but I got nothing. I was covered in his blood. Naraku came out pointing has gun at me with a smirk on his face. I knew he was going to kill me too. Before he could pull the trigger the cops had come, they had traced the call since I never hung up the phone. The police never caught him though. He disappered in front of our eyes with nothing, or any evidence of himself behind." Kagome finished the story.

"What does he want with you now?"

"Sango-chan...I need to show you something, I'll be right back," Kagome went into Sango's bedroom and grabbed out of her bag a small box, then came back into the living room where Sango was.

Kagome opened the box and showed Kagome the marble size white ball inside the box.

"I protect the Shikon Jewel now."

"Kagome-chan are you crazy! Get rid of that thing!" Sango exclaimed, what was her friend thinking?

"Sango-chan, I'm a miko. I have been taking private training from Kaede ever since my dad died. I have to protect it. If it falls into dangerous hands like Naraku, who knows what will happen."

"Why didn't you ever tell me this?" This was too much for Sango to comprehend all at once.

"I didn't want you to get killed, just because of this." Kagome looked down at the floor. She had never told anyone this besides the ones that already know.

"Kagome-chan I can't let you face this alone. What about Inuyasha and Miroku? Are you going to tell them?"

"I don't know Sango-chan. I just don't know." Kagome began to cry.

Sango stood up and gave her friend a hug trying to calm her down.

'What are we going to do?' Sango and Kagome thought.

A/N: I know this story is pretty confusing right now but I promise it will become clear in the next chapter, please read and review!