Chapter 1

---------Inuyasha-------

The blood covered the stairs, the walls, the floor and the roof. It pooled in dips in the stone courtyard. He stood still as his shock and horror mixed together. Then he got angry. He rushed down the shrine stairs and picked up the youkai by the scruff of its shirt, it didn't struggle

"WHERE ARE THEY!"

he yelled, it didn't speak, or maybe it couldn't.

He lowered it down to the ground and dragged it outside and yelled

"SHOW ME WHERE THEY ARE! NOW!"

he roughly pushed it into the centre of the blood soaked area. It stood there for a second then tilted its head as though listening to something Inuyasha couldn't hear, and then a single tear slid down its face, leaving a clean trail in the blood that cacked its face. It shone like a miniature fire. Before it touched the ground, it evaporated into steam and disappeared.

He looked closely at the youkai and saw it was only a girl looking 17 or 18 in human years. Her sky blue hair reflected the light like it was giving off its own, but every time she turned her head it would look like she had orange embers flying through her hair it looked almost magical. Her power didn't seem that strong, he could probably beat her with his bare claws. She sank down to the ground, which was just as covered in blood as she was and started sobbing, then crying. She began rocking backwards and forwards, her hands covered her face and she looked through her fingers. Tears escaped her staring eyes and ran down her face.

He walked over to her and put his hand on her arm, she stiffened, jumped up and took his hand. Dragging him along with surprising strength.

"Where are you taking me?"

she shook her head, shivered and dragging him faster, the tears continued to light the way.

"Wait, stop!"

but she didn't and her grasp was of steel.

"Where are you taking me?" then as an after thought he added "you bitch" she glared and pointed to his ears. Then stumbled over something on the path and kept on running.

He was slow to understand her meaning, but he did eventually get that he was meant to listen and was shocked when he heard crying… no… wailing…no…. the cry of someone in so much anguish and pain it couldn't be expressed through the persons voice alone.

He sniffed the air and smelt Kagome's blood along with the blood of her whole family mixing together. He stopped dead in his tracks, she tugged him onward, and then he bolted towards the smell.

Just as his hand was about to lose the grip of the girls, she tightened hers on his, turning him around roughly she opened her mouth and mouthed

"Promise not to kill me for it"

he didn't know what 'it' was and he really hoped that it wasn't what was the cause of what he smelled or heard. She closed her mouth, her eyes pleading. As the fiery tears began to fall, one landed on her cloths and it steamed a hole through her them. She closed her eyes and calmly put her hand over it and it stopped burning.

-----Girl---

She opened her eyes and let him go.

"I Promise not to kill you"

he said as he left. She collapsed down on to the ground and began banging her head rhythmically on a conveniently placed rock creating sparks as her head hit the rock. She was trying so very, very hard to get rid of the horrible memories of death and pain.

Then she got angry with Nuraku who had done this to her. MADE her kill people, sure she had killed people they really deserved it, BUT she didn't LIKE being controlled. She promised her self that she would never kill anyone again if she killed the mastermind, Nuraku, who did this to her. Never.

As her temper rose so did her power and the rock burst into flames,

(AN: This would be impossible if she wasn't so powerful XD)

as the embers fell they turned into water and splattered all around her. Then the fire flowed from the rock like water trickling from a spring, it didn't burn anything around it. It acted just like fire but burned nothing.

She followed it. She followed it to right the wrong she had done, to get revenge and because she had nothing else to do. Leaving the now molten rock she followed the fire to the well where she jumped in. Leaving no trace of her being there but the rock, blood and memories.

She continued to follow it till it stoped at a glade far way from the bone well. As her flame's died she was stunned that they had stoped at this man in a white kimono with red sleaves lying unconscious with very bad wounds, next to him was the mangled form of a human girl…dead.

She looked at him, her flames had stopped at him… he will help me. She touched him and he grabbed her arm. She tried to get out of his grip but he was too strong even when he was dieing. She was desperate and she couldn't use her voice right now he was in a lot of pain he would only go unconscious if she added to it. And she couldn't get into his mind; he had a very strong barrier around it. She stopped struggling and looked him straight in those golden eyes and went "uh" as she pointed to her throat and mimed something coming out of her mouth, then to him, then put her hand over her ears shaking her head as though in pain. She looked at him to see if he understood. He didn't, she sighed and opened her mouth and tried to talk to him. She screeched, it sounded like a bird but a lot louder and more piercing, it sounded like the hiss of hot metal in cold water, like the sound of metal scraping against metal, he didn't even flinch. So she told him what he needed to do so he didn't have to hear her voice. She closed her mouth and started talking to him through his mind. He didn't say much as she told him her story (at least the bit about coming to get him and why, nothing about what she had done.)

"Will you help me kill and find Nuraku, who did this to me?..Please"

"How did you find me?" he asked. He seemed to be ignoring the question

"I don't know how it happened when I was with that guy with the dog ears and-"

her eye's suddenly grew wide and filled with tears. She turned away from him, ran to a nearby tree and started banging her head on it

"I- I don't WANT to REMEMBER!" she screeched as she banged her head so hard on the tree, it was shaking and groaning with every blow of her head. Then it burst into flames. She sank to the ground and cried tears of frustration her tears burning her cloths and skin but she made no move to put them out, she just kept on crying.

She didn't care.

AN: I want to know what you think please Review. :)