Unfortunately, I don't own Untitled by Simple Plan.

Kagome sat on the deserted sandy beach with the waves washing against her bare feet and shaking her bangle around her ankle.

She was wearing a skirt that went down to just below her knees that was colored a pale orange mixed with a dark blue and red.

Her skirt and her peach colored shirt matched the sunset as her ravel black hair twisted with the wind and made her hoop earrings in her ear lobe jangle against her smaller hoops right behind them. The ruby and silver studs in her upper ears were safe though.

She pulled her hair into a pony tail quickly and diverted her attention back to what she was working on.

She was writing a new song for her band Blood Red Roses. Her soft coffee brown eyes watched as her neat handwriting appeared on the paper in the notebook as she wrote down verse after verse. So far, she was on the last verse. Her song was called "Untitled" (ironic, no?) She chewed on her lower lip as she wrote the final word.

Kagome was so wrapped up in her song that she didn't notice Inuyasha, her best friend from childhood, sneaking up behind her. His bare feet didn't make a sound as he treaded through the soft sand towards Kagome. He noticed her beautiful facial features were relaxed as she scribbled down what was probably their bands next best hit song. Kagome was the brains behind their band because he didn't have enough, Miroku's was concentrated on women, Sango's was preoccupied with keeping Miroku away from her, and Sesshomaru was wholly fixed on the band's finances and Rin, his girlfriend of 2 years.

He was just about to tackle her from behind, when she said, without looking up, "Don't even think about tackling me."

He sighed and plopped down next to her. "Damn, do you have eyes in the back of your head? Don't worry, your secret's safe with me."

Kagome smiled and laid down her notebook that was filled with songs and band related things. "No Inu, I don't have eyes in the back of my head; I would've told you about them, you just need to be quieter."

He smirked as he looked at his watch. "We've got to leave in about an hour, so, what do you wanna do?"

"Dunno. I was gonna write the notes for the song I wrote."

"Yea? What instruments do we need?"

"Just a piano, bass, and drums was what I was thinking, so Miroku gets a 4 minute break when we play this."

"Cool, do I get to sing?"

"Doi genius. But only for a few measures."

"What's the song about?"

Inuyasha regretted it when Kagome's eyes grew sadder.

"Well, it's mostly about my life that night it changed."

"Oh."

Kagome's parents and her brother had been murdered by a mass murderer named Naraku.

FLASHBACK: A 15 year old Kagome woke up suddenly as she heard a scream and looked at her clock. 2:30 a.m. She bolted out of her bed and rushed towards the door. She opened it and ran down the hall to her parent's room. Just as she threw open the door, two shots rang out and her father's body fell towards the ground with her mother's on top of it, trying to protect him from the bullets. Kagome cried out as she backed away and headed towards her brothers room. "Don't bother, he's already dead." A horrible voice said as a man stepped out of the shadows.

"Why did you kill them!" she yelled as hot tears rolled down her face.

"For thrills my dear."

"Well, kill me then."

The man just looked at her and smirked.

"I don't intend to, at least not yet."

He pulled out a small beeping ball and squeezed it. He threw it behind him and it exploded.

When Kagome opened her eyes, she shut them quickly as a blinding light flashed and then when she looked up, he was gone. She stood up and her eyes widened when she saw fire everywhere.

It seemed that he had set off another bomb as it exploded and Kagome was sent through the window behind her. The last thing she remembered was hitting her head against something, someone catching her, and people screaming, then she blacked out.

When Kagome woke up, she was lying in a hospital bed with her arm in a cast. She noticed that Inuyasha was asleep beside her, with drool running down his chin. She giggled as she watched him sleep and looked at the clock on the wall and realized that it was almost midnight of the next day. She shook Inuyasha awake with her good arm. His eyes lighted up as he noticed that Kagome was awake.

"Inuyasha, why am I here?" END FLASHBACK

Shortly after, Kagomeremembered that night and she had told Inuyasha what had gone on.Inuyasha had been the only person that Kagome had told about what had happened that night and he had sworn to never tell anyone.

The press knew of the accident, but no one knew who was inside the house and whether the whole family had died. Kagome couldn't remember what had happened after she blacked out, and she didn't want to.

She was placed in the care of Inuyasha's parents, Inutashio and Izayoi. She grew up with Inuyasha and then they formed their band while they were in high school.

Inuyasha had comforted her when she woke up screaming after she relived that night in her dreams. The nightmares had become less frequent and then they stopped.

Kagome didn't want to tell Inuyasha, but they had started to come again.

Almost every night, she had woken up with cold sweat pouring down her face and soaking her body.

To keep it a secret, she had taken a shower and washed her laundry once she had woken up almost an hour before anyone else. It wasn't because she didn't trust Inuyasha; it was just that she didn't want him to worry.

Inuyasha looked over at his best friend and noticed that her eyes were clouded over with tears.

"Kagome, it's alright, you can cry."

She nodded and tears silently streamed down her face.

Inuyasha scooted closer to her and hugged her as her coffee brown eyes poured tears.

When she thought that it was no longer physically possible to cry any more, Inuyasha just sat there with his arms around her and both of them looking at the receding sunset.

Kagome's teary eyes reflected the sun's colors and she grabbed a tissue out of her pocket. She wiped her eyes and her nose and stood up.

"Inuyasha. We need to start heading back."

He nodded and stood up.

"Kagome…" he said quietly.

She stopped walking and turned to face him.

"Yeah?"

Inuyasha walked up to her and looked into her eyes.

"Her eyes are so sad. She tries to hide it, but I can still tell. I hear her every night. She wakes up screaming and probably crying, and then she gets up before everyone else and washes her stuff so no one knows that her nightmares have come back."

"Kagome, your nightmares have come back haven't they?"

She looked down guiltily and nodded.

"Well why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I didn't want you to worry."

Inuyasha's anger started to rise. "Didn't want me to worry! Kagome, I was worried anyways! Hearing you wake up screaming and not knowing why. Not knowing how I could help. In fact, you telling me would've been better than not telling me! God, why do you have to be so selfish!"

Kagome's guiltiness gave way to anger.

"Me? I was trying to put your happiness first! So excuse me if giving up my happiness for yours is now being selfish!"

"No! You're being selfish because you'd rather be wrapped up in your sadness than telling someone and letting it all out!"

"Oh, so know you're a psychiatrist! Then tell me doctor, what you do if you're constantly being reminded of the night your whole life was being torn apart and your family was killed by a madman that set the house on fire! And you watched them die and then hear him say that he won't kill you! But the worst part is that you wish that he had. And wondering why he didn't."

Kagome's eyes grew watery again and then angrier.

Inuyasha looked down at the sand and it was his turn to be guilty.

"So don't tell me what I should do about this because you can't say anything unless you've lived through it! And if I'm right, you haven't. You didn't watch you're family die, you weren't thrown through the window like a rag doll and fall three stories, and you certainly didn't wake up in the hospital next to your best friend, who by the way was adorable sleeping, and wondering why the hell you were there!"

Kagome threw down her notebook and stormed off.

"Kagome wait!" Inuyasha yelled, but she wouldn't listen and she made her way to the parking lot across the street where their band's tour bus was parked.

Inuyasha pulled her notebook out of the sand. He knew that if he saw the new song before Kagome let him, he'd regret it, but he really wanted to read it; Kagome's songs were always good.

He flipped to the back of the notebook and saw her neat handwriting on the newest page. He realized that the hour was almost up, and there was barely enough light to read it. He crossed the beach with his ring finger keeping the page and he quickly ran across the empty road and walked to the tour bus. He knocked on the door three times, their code for let me in, and he entered the bus.

Miroku was sitting on the sofa reading a magazine and Sango was on the opposite side of the bus in a reclining chair, twirling her drum sticks while staring at the ceiling.

"Hey Inuyasha." Miroku said without looking up.

"Kagome said to not disturb her, so I'd advise you don't unless you want the wrath of two women."

"Fine, I'm going to my room."

He headed down the hallway to the back of the bus where each band member had their own room.

There were two rooms on one side and two across the hall. Inuyasha was next to Miroku and was across from Kagome. He opened his door with his key and stepped inside his room.

It was small, just a bathroom, a wall counter, and a bed. He tossed his key on the counter and jumped on the bed. He reached up and turned on the lamp on the head board and opened the book to the page he had saved. The lead from her pencil was still fresh and he started to read.

"Untitled"

I open my eyes
I try to see but I'm blinded by the white light
I can't remember how
I can't remember why
I'm lying here tonight

And I can't stand the pain
And I can't make it go away
No I can't stand the pain

How could this happen to me
I made my mistakes Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

Everybody's screaming
I try to make a sound but no one hears me
I'm slipping off the edge
I'm hanging by a thread
I wanna start this over again

So I try to hold onto a time when nothing mattered
And I can't explain what happened
And I can't erase the things that I've done
No I can't

How could this happen to me
I made my mistakes
Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just wanna scream
How could this happen to me

I made my mistakes Got no where to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life

Ijust wanna scream
How could this happen to me

Inuyasha shut the book and felt like throwing up. He was disgusted with himself.

"How could I say that Kagome was selfish? She has to live with the fact that her whole family was killed and she wasn't. That the man that killed them wasn't caught. She must feel so sad, she thinks she has no one left, but she has me."