A week had passed since Emi's fight with her father, and her parents weren't home when Kagome and Emi returned to their house. The miko's eyes bulged when she saw the crater where Emi has blasted her father.

"Holy fucking shit, Emi!" she had exclaimed, pointing at it and the repair crews surrounding it. "You...y-you did THAT!" At this, Emi smiled sheepishly and scratched her head behind an ear. "Eh..hehe...yeah?" Kagome nearly fell over, but managed to get into the house, glancing out of her window every so often to look at the crater. 'Wow...I didn't know she was so strong...Or else she was extremely pissed, but I guess that was probably it...' she thought.

But now, Emi was at her Judo class, and Kagome was home alone.

And very bored.

She had already played a couple video games, took a really long shower, and anything else she could thing of. Well...almost. Then, a bright idea formed. "Hey...I could go hang out with Inuyasha!" She smiled brightly at this plan, as she hadn't seen him for almost a week.

Shaking the mouse and sitting down, she logged herself online and waited for her AIM list to come up. 'Hmm...' Emi's was online, with a really weird away message about cosplay costumes and stealing souls, Suichi's was online but idle, and...taintedblood was online. She did a jig inside her head and double clicked Inuyasha's screen name.

kuromiko: you have no idea how glad i am to see you online
taintedblood: Eh?
taintedblood: ...why?
kuromiko: i. am. bored. out. of. my. mind.
taintedblood: Sounds fun. Wanna come over? Nothing really that good to do over here, but still.
kuromiko: its something to do, and beggars can't be choosers. i'll be over there in...eh...30 minutes or so?
taintedblood: See ya then.

She leapt off of the computer to get dressed.

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Kick, kick, punch, jab.

Kick, kick, punch, jab.

Jab, jab, punch.

Which is all Emi was thinking about.

It was after class, and Emi was in the training room at the gym next door having her way with a punching bag. Meaning, she was nearly tearing the insides out of it.

Kick, kick, jab, kick.

Suichi was leaning against a wall, watching her. She seemed...pissed. 'Probably had too much time to think about something bad,' he guessed. He had half of an idea to tell her to stop or she'd kill the poor punching bag, but another part of his mind said, 'Well, you'll be the next punchingbag if you do...' He shrugged it off and went towards his girlfriend. "Emi? You might wanna stop, or else you'll be buying a new punching bag." Turning to him, Emi snorted, eyes narrowed, but stopped nonetheless.

"So what if I do?" Her voice was cold, and it sent a shiver through his body. Something was really wrong with her...Her once bright green-yellow eyes were dull, her voice was so icy, and she was never this angry for this long. She'd been like this all week, but this...

"Em..what's wrong?" Suichi sat down beside her, trying to get her to look at him. His plan backfired.

"Get the fuck away from me, Suichi," she said in a flat, emotionless voice. He felt his eyes widen, felt himself move away, stand, and walk outside. He felt himself doing this, but he was still too shocked to comprehend what had just occured.

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Emi ran a hand through her hair a minute after Suichi left, tears stinging her eyes. She couldn't keep doing this. It broke her heart in so many ways to do this to Suichi, he didn't deserve any of this. She ran into the changing room and stripped her workout pants off, stuffed them in her locker, and put on her black baggy jeans. She needed to go somewhere, anywhere, to be alone. She threw her tank top into the locker and tugged a red t-shirt over her head, not minding her ears in the least.

Sneakers on and everything put away, Emi threw her black oversized hoodie on, braided her hair to keep it out of her face, and ran out the door into the wind. She ran, and ran, and ran, and ended up in the middle of the park, cheeks flushed from the cold air and the tears streaming down her face, as she collapsed on the bridge sobbing hysterically. The wind howled in her ears as she curled up into a ball, trying to stay warm. She didn't want to go home right now. She didn't want to move. She didn't want to do this to Suichi.

But if she didn't, he would kill them...

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Inuyasha opened the door and let Kagome in from the cold. Her hair looked kind of damp, her cheeks flushed from the cold wind that was picking up speed. "If it doesn't start snowing soon, I'll be sho-..." She was cut off as, outside, she saw small white things falling from the overcast sky. 'It's gonna blizzard,' Inuyasha thought to her, 'So you might wanna call Emi's cell phone. Suichi's on his way home. Something was wrong, he said.' Kagome nodded. "Yeah...something's happened to Emi...she's really depressed and barely leaves her room at all anymore. I asked her what was wrong, but she shook her head and started to cry. She never cried. Scared me half to death, seeing Emi like that..."

The inuhanyou handed her a mug of hot cocoa and flopped onto the couch, rubbing his temples. He was almost getting a headache. He had known something was wrong from the moment Emi had passed out a week ago, he had sensed it. He knew Kagome did too, for right after she woke up, she got up and ran out of the house telling us not to follow her. Kagome had, of course, and Suichi tried to but was restrained by Inuyasha. Kagome had IMed him a few hours afterwards and said she was alright, just a little jumpy. But now, that was an understatement.

A sad, angry howl met Kagome's and Inuyasha's ears as Suichi slammed the door and came inside. He did a double take to Kagome and whimpered. "What happened to her? Why...why does she hate me now?" The young miko looked to the floor and sighed. "She doesn't hate you, Suichi...but...I don't know."


A/N: Hello, everyone. Yes. It's me. o-o; I'm alive. Methinks. Yeah. I had an idea for this story, so I decided to keep going with it. This is the beginning of a four-or-five-chapter plot. Which means "yay!" for all of you. :D The updates will probably be every other week, and I know that's far apart, but I have two stories to keep up with, not to mention the one-shot songfic I want to write. Haha, Emi's writing a songfic...And it's depressing. Of course. Good song, though, begs to be made into an Inu/Kag story. XD Anyways. I'd like to recieve at least three reviews. Please? I'm not doing any review responses for this, because I only got a few saying "Please keep going with this story!" and stuff...so...Tada. Hope ya liked.