Everyone was seated at the large table, and Kenara sat with Suki at the end. Kagome took the only empty seat, in between Sango and Inuyasha.

"Hey Kagome!" Artemis looked up over another book titled 'Theories on the existence of demons' and her own pile of food. Kagome ogled. All the food on that girl's plate could feed a family for a week!

"Hey!" She waved a little. Sango looked at her.

"So, have you seen the whole place yet?"

"Yeah, I think so."

"There is a room at the end of Kenaras and Sukis hall that is always locked. It kind of creeps me out."

"How does a room creep you out?" Inuyasha asked, pausing in stuffing a drumstick in his face. Kagome took a chicken wing and a heaping of mashed potatoes while Sesshomaru pulled out another twizzler and gnawed on it.

"It just does." Sango replied, grabbing some gravy. Suddenly her face turned bright red.

"HENTAI!"

WHAP!

Everyone at the table sighed except for Kagome, Sango and Miroku, who had toppled over his chair.

"Sorry. The pervert always does that."

"I am so hurt Sango!" Miroku straightened up, pulling his chair up into a standing position.

"That explains why he was so unusually quiet." Inuyasha said dryly before taking another bite out of his fifth helping. Soon, Kagome and Artemis were the only ones with food still on their plates. Artemis had barely touched hers, and Kagome had just finished.

"So, what now?" She said, noticing everyone was still there.

"Dessert!" The chubby lady cook said as she came in carrying a cheese cake. Artemis clapped her book shut and reached for another one under the table, titled 'Myths of hanyou and youkai alike'.

"Is that all you do? Read?" Inuyasha commented, slicing out a thick slice of cake.

"Is that all you do? Eat?" Artemis commented coldly, looking up over her glasses.

"Least I talk as well."

"At least I have said more than one word to Kagome." Artemis flipped a page. "What do you have against her? Does she look like your Kikyo?"

Inuyasha's face turned red and he stormed out of the room. Apollo sighed.

"Sis, that was cruel."

"He shouldn't judge Kagome." She flipped another page.

Kagome finished her slice and stood up. "If you don't mind, I am going to go to bed." She walked out of the room.

"See you tomorrow morning." Sango yelled after her.

"Kagome walked down the hallway and noticed Inuyasha's door was ajar. She knocked twice and stepped in. He was tuning his guitar. He had a red and black room, with amps in the back and a design of a black dog on the walls.

"Inuyasha."

"Yeah?" He looked up. "What do you want?"

"I want to know why we just can't be friends. Why do you hate me? Is it because I may look like this Kikyo person?" She practically yelled the last part. Inuyasha laid his guitar on the bed and leaned back on his hands.

"It's not really any of your buisnuess."

"Then why can't we just be friends?"

"Can you get out of my room?"

"I want to know!"

"Its none of your damn buisnuess!" Inuyasha shoved Kagome outside and shut the door, locking it. She could faintly hear guitar playing from inside.

She stormed off to her room and noticed a piano in the back of the room. She locked the door, and tapped on the keys, checking if it was in tune. When she confirmed that it was, she sat down and started to play. After catching a tune, she started to sing, softly at first, then louder.

I'm so tired of being here,
Suppressed by all my childish fears.
And if you have to leave,
I wish that you would just leave.
Because your presence still lingers here,
And it wont leave me alone...

These wounds won't seem to heal,
This pain is just too real.
There's just too much that time cannot erase...

When you'd cried i'd, wipe away all of your tears,
When you'd scream i'd, fight away all of your fears.
And i've held your hand through all of these years,
But you still have all of me.

You used to captivate me,
By your resonating light.
Now i'm bound by the life you left behind.
Your face it haunts, my once pleasant dreams.
Your voice it chased away, all the sanity in me.

These wounds wont seem to heal...
This pain is just too real,
There's just too much that time cannot erase.

When you'd cried i'd, wipe away all of your tears,
When you'd scream i'd, fight away all of your fears.
And i've held your hand through all of these years,
But you still have all of me.

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone,
But though you're still with me...
I've been alone all along.

When you'd cried i'd, wipe away all of your tears,
When you'd scream i'd, fight away all of your fears.
And i've held your hand through all of these years,
But you still have all of me.

She sighed and grabbed a booklet of paper from insider her dresser and a pencil.

Dear Diary,

There is a place inside my mind a place were nothing stops a place were I can leave my frailness dashed upon the rocks A place were I am by my-self though never quite alone A place so cold so dark so damp A place I can call home you could say this place unreal witch maybe the truth if only at face-value but there was this place it did exist and I called this place my youth.

Kagome Higurashi

When she finished, she lay down on her bed in her clothes from today and her eyes slowly shut.

Inuyasha took his ear away from the wall and sat on his bed.

"Maybe I should try to be her friend… Seems she has a lot to be sad about."