A/N: w00t. 'Nother chapter! - Bow down to my awesome skills! XD

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Inuyasha cast. But there are many thigns in this story I do own. o.o Like... everything Rumiko Takahashi didn't make up before I did. o.o ...W-which is...a lot... o.o

Fanfiction: Nothing but Red.
Author: Shatsui

Beta Reader: Insane-san

Genre: Horror, Humor and Romance.
Rated: PG-13 (for horror, gross scenes and some odd humor. :) ... Well, fine! A load of odd humor. Get off my case!)

Chapter 3: Red liquid.

"Are you sure they look like bruises?" Kagome said in a bit of a soft voice. She was shivering slightly. What if the so called "dream" she had, wasn't actually a dream at all? Kagome began to feel around her neck. She winced at the pain she felt when she lightly pushed on a spot on her neck. They were bruises alright. Nice painful ones!

She looked at Kouga with a fake smile and said, "It's alright Kouga. I probably got them yesterday when I was rough-housing with Souta." 'Well, A Souta anyway...' Kouga smiled and was wearing an expression on his face that kind of said, "I feel sorry for you!" or something like that. Kouga was very kind to Kagome, and if anybody ever messed with her, then bad things would happen to the person who tried to mess Kagome up.
One time a girl named Ryoko had started to push Kagome's hands away every time Kagome tried to open her locker. Kouga ran over, and without hesitation, even though she was a girl, he punched her across the hall.

Never heard from that girl again.

Kagome gave Kouga a half hug, and all three of them, Kagome, Miroku and Kouga walked to class.

Kagome sat at her desk and stared blankly at the chalk board. She felt so tired...she felt like she was going to collapse. Her eye lids felt like miniature weights just begging to drop down. Her head bobbed up and down, and every now and then it would flop from side to side.

'I need sleep...' Kagome thought. In the background the teacher could be heard calling off names. "Higurashi?" He called. "Here!" Kouga replied. The teacher glanced over at Kouga, and checked off his name.

"Higurashi?" "Here!" Kouga shouted. The teacher glanced at Kouga, and looked straight forward again. "HIGURASHI?" The teacher called out, this time louder than the last. "HERE." Kouga said glaring at the teacher. The teacher looked a tad bit ticked now.

But just a tad bit. "HIGURASHI!" "CRAP IT ALL! I ONLY SAID "HERE" LIKE, WHAT? 5 DIFFERANT TIMES?" Kouga shouted from his desk, while glaring daggers at the teacher. The teacher shot his head towards Kouga.

"YOU FOOL. I MEANT MISS HIGURASHI! I ALREADY CALLED ON YOU!" He shouted back at Kouga. Kouga stood up. "Listen you liver for brains! If you MEANT my cousin, then you should have SAID so!" Kouga yelled. He was beginning to get a little scary.

The teacher glared daggers at Kouga now, and yelled, "YOU--YOU----YOU---! YOU STUPID CHILD! You are acting like a mangy WOLF!" Kouga's eyes grew wide, and he looked very dangerous now. "Maybe that's because I am a wolf you IDIOT. Or have you failed to notice my demon features until this very moment!"

The teacher's eyes grew wide. "I--I'm so very sorry Mr. Higurashi! P-please! Forgive me!" Then the teacher smirked. "Because I am about to give you one month of detention!" The teacher said, thinking he was the winner of this battle. Kouga pursed his lips.

On the opposite side of the room, sat Kagome. She was still feeling very tired and she wanted to sleep. But how could she when people kept yelling!

Kagome's eyes snapped open, and flickered a deadly shade of red for a fragment of a second, and she stood up in an abrupt manner. Her head shot towards Kouga, and then slowly turned down to the teacher. Something came over Kagome that she had never felt before. She felt that her actions, and the words she spoke weren't her own, but that of another.

"Shut...up..."

It was almost like something WANTED her to go to sleep. Something? Or someone...?

"Shut up! I need to sleep. I...I need to...to...I...need...to...I..." Kagome looked around for a moment... Why was she standing up? All she remembered was first she heard Kouga and the teacher yelling, then the next thing she knew her vision grew fuzzy and dark, and now she was standing up... and yelling at the teacher it looked like.

"Miss Higurashi! I-" "Oh NOW he says MISS Higurashi!" Kouga said, plopping down in his seat. The teacher glared at Kouga, and then converted his gaze back to Kagome. "Miss Higurashi! I cannot believe my ears! I apologize for I am going to have to give you 1 week's detention for yelling in class." Kagome's eyes grew wide. Detention? But she never got detention! Well...except for that one time... but that wasn't important!

"1 week..?" Kagome said in a bit of a daze right now. "Yes. One week. And if you would like to think otherwise, please discuss it with the principal." He said with a cocky smile.

Kouga's eye twitched slightly. This teacher HAD to be new. Suddenly, a student raised his hand. "Excuse me." He said in a rather blunt tone. "This is supposed to be math class. Not a pep-rally." He snapped. Kagome didn't really know why, but that voice sounded somewhat familiar...

The teacher stared at the boy in shock. "Why...why I never!" He began, but was soon cut off by the boy once more. "And another thing. You are the TEACHER. The teacher TEACHES things. And you don't seem to be teaching ANYTHING with the way you are acting like a childish fool!" The boy snapped once more. "You should be FIRED." Were his last words before he stood up, and walked angrily out of the class room.

But then he stopped. "Oh..." He began. "And another thing... if you so much as make that girl," He shot a finger over to Kagome. "Do so much as crack open an eye to see what's going on...I'll have your head." He said at last, and then left the class room.

Kagome blinked a couple times, and then sat back down. This guy actually wanted her to sleep...?

"Hm. He--" Kagome yawned. "--looked sort of familiar." Kagome said sleepily. But the fact that some random boy she didn't think she knew actually wanted her to sleep... kind of scared her.

"Miss Higurashi?" The teacher said. Kagome looked up at the teacher. "Y-yes sir?" She asked. "Wake up Miss Higurashi!" Kagome blinked and looked at him questioningly. "H-huh?" "Miss Higurashi...WAKE UP!"

Kagome shot her eyes open. "Wha---?" "Miss Higurashi if you are going to insist on sleeping during my class, I am going to have to ask you to go home." The teacher yapped. 'Now, like all of the other students, not wanting to get into trouble with her parents, she will apologize heavily, and no longer sleep!' Thought the teacher.

Kagome looked up at him lazily. "Tha...that might not be such a bad idea..." Kagome said, yawning at the end of her statement. The teacher looked very surprised by what she had just said. She was going to leave! Right in the middle of class! "You do realize I am going to have to call your parents because of this, Miss Higurashi?" That teacher said looking down at her as if she were nothing but a maggot that just happened to look like a human being.

Kagome looked up at him. "Yeah...um..." Kagome yawned again and her eyebrow twitched slightly. "About that. See, my grandpa is out of town this week, and mama is-" Kagome yawned deeply this time. From all of her yawning, she had to have had the whole class yawning by now.

"-Mama is...I'm going now..." Kagome said, getting up. She was beginning to feel quite dizzy. She didn't understand why. At first she thought she was just tired because of lack of sleep, but now she felt like she had been playing one of Souta's 3D video games for an hour or two.

(a/n: Getting dizzy off of certain video games, more so 3D than any other, can really get a person very dizzy in the head. My brother said it has something to do with your brain sending messages of some sort, and when you are moving a character, but your body is stay still, your brain gets confused and sends mixed messages, and then you get dizzy)
Kagome lazily walked through the halls of the school. 'Soon...' She thought. '..soon I'll be in a nice warm bed with my covers over my head, and I'll be...I'll be nice and...sleepy...' Kagome started to wobble as she walked. She needed to get home soon.

She feared that once she got out of the building, she could not call a cab because she might faint in it, and the cab driver probably would just drop her off at some hospital without her mother knowing a thing, and she couldn't go on a bus because she wasn't allowed on the bus...

Wait... that was when she was 6... "Wh-why am I not thinking straight? ...What's wrong with my head?" Kagome reached her hand up, and gripped the side of her head. Something was definitely wrong. She hadn't felt this way since she had the flu. But this felt very different from the flu. Almost like it only had to do with her head. Did she suddenly get a fever? Or maybe... Kagome shook her head slightly in hope of making the dizziness and pain go away.

"I better just walk home... I got my p-pepper spray..." Kagome mumbled out, gripping the small bottle in her pocket. She was already half way there. At least there was a side walk, and it wasn't just all the road. That would be dangerous. "Mama always said that a good girl that stays on the side walk is a safe girl. But a girl who walks on the road is doomed to be run over." Kagome slurred out.

Kagome finally reached her house. But she forgot one thing. All of the shrine steps. Kagome looked up the stairs and watched as she saw 3 stair cases, then 1 then 2 then 5. Kagome closed her eyes and smacked her fore-head with her palm. 'Stop doin' tha'...' She thought while wobbling back and forth. Left, right, backwards, then she held onto a nearby pole to balance herself.

"It's...times like this I wish...our shrine steps were a giant escalator..." Kagome murmured. She took one step up, and then another. Hey, this wasn't too bad. After a while, Kagome felt like she was being helped up the stairs.

"Ma...maybe I'm getting better?" Kagome said, smiling weakly. She was a little more than half-way. "Almost there... I do feel better... I just need to get to my room." Kagome said, taking a couple more steps. She began to feel a bit better.

It was almost as if something was trying to get Kagome to her room to help her out or something. Kagome shook her head. She took one last step, and she was at the top of the staircase. "F-finally." Kagome panted out. It almost seemed like the stairs were longer this time. Kagome still felt very tired. She really needed sleep.

She walked over to the front door, reached her hand down to the door knob, gripped it, and turned it. The door was locked. Oh... great. "This is wonderful. Just wonderful. I'm tired, I want to sleep, and the door is lo-" Kagome heard a click. She looked down to the door, and saw it clicked open. "Wow...th-that's strange..." Kagome said. That was a little scary. She felt that the door was locked.

How could that have happened?

Kagome felt the door knob again. It twisted perfectly. "B-but, it was locked...it...was..." Kagome gulped. She was beginning to think that somebody must have been in the house. She knew it wasn't her mother. Her mother was at a friend's house for tea, and wouldn't be back till 6 pm.

And it wasn't her brother. Her brother was with her grandpa visiting an old friend, and they weren't going to be back till 4:30. Kagome blinked. "At least the door is open...I guess." She said, walking into her house. She looked around. Nobody was home. Obviously.

She walked up the small staircase, and into her room. "Ah...sweet bed..." Kagome walked about quickly, and flopped down on her bed. Just lying here, she felt better. "Maybe I'll read some more of Kagamei's diary..." She said. "Just...to help me get to sleep."

Kagome reached her hand down and gripped onto the diary. Moving so she was on her stomached, she then propped her elbows, and opened to where she last left off.

Kagome began to read.

March 4, 1346,

Age: 14

Dear red book,

I've been feeling slightly tired as of late. Maybe I have caught a cold? But I do not feel that sick.
Perhaps I am just feeling more depressed than I thought I was?
... I must leave you now. I am sorry red book. I shall write again soon.

-Kagamei

Kagome stared at the book. Kagamei thought she was sick... but she wasn't...but...this was confusing. She said she was slightly tired as of late...

Kagome shrugged and continued to read.

March 5, 1346

Age: 14

Dear red book,

Today at school, I could not keep my eyes open. It was as if I had not gotten enough sleep the during the night. During Fine literature, I began to fall asleep.
I had the strangest dream. It was more that of a nightmare than a dream. There was a boy in my nightmare red book. A very scary boy. He had white locks, and an outfit with only the colors of red and white.
He wore the strangest boots. They looked as though they had some sort of spikes under them. Does he plan to step on a small animal later, I do not think he should wear them at all. But his eyes we the most peculiar.
They were... Either a deep orange or a blood red.
I only wish I could have asked for his name.
But I could not, for I was shaking all Throughout my body. From my blue slippers, to the tippy top of my black hair.
I remember that I was looking in a white room and he was in the center of it all. Grinning.
I remember his face. His grin. His features.
I wish I could tell you more red book. But now I must go, for I am very tired. Good night red book!

-Kagamei

Kagome stared at what Kagamei wrote. It was a bit scary. That she was recently getting very tired and all. Kind of like Kagome... Kagome's eyes went wide. "Kind of like...me..." Kagome grazed her fingers over the page, flipped it, and read on.

March 6, 1346,

Age: 14

Dear red book,

The boy has been appearing more and more in my dreams. Perhaps my dreams are trying to tell me something.
I am beginning to see things... things a 14 years old girl such as myself should not be seeing. I fear that if I tell you then I will only see more. Red book, I am frightened. Dreadfully so.
I must leave you now red book. I will speak soon.

-Kagamei

Kagome blinked. This...poor girl... Kagome wished that she could just...jump into the book and help her out! Tell her that she has been the same way! Tired and...well, she hasn't seen anything strange yet... except in that one dream she had. Kagome glanced at her clock. "Its 3:40...I hope Souta and grandpa come back soon." Kagome said with a small smile.

She felt really tired. Maybe she would have a short nap. Kagome laid her head down on her soft pillow, and closed her eyes.

After a bit, Kagome opened her eyes and glanced around the room. She looked at the clock again. "3:43? I was asleep for 3 minutes? but it felt like 3 hours--"

Just then, Kagome heard the phone wring.

Riiiiing...riiiiiiiiiing...riiiiiiiiiiiiing...

Click.

"Hello?"

Kagome did not just pick up the phone. It was somebody downstairs. Kagome listened carefully.

"That happened now, did it? Oh I see..."

Kagome blinked. It sounded a lot like... her mother.

"Yes. Oh, don't worry. If she was tired at school, you should just let her rest. I'm sure she had a rough night."

Kagome cocked her head. "...what?" Kagome said. That didn't sound like something her mother would say. Wouldn't her mother say something like, "Oh, sleeping in class? That is quite unusual for Kagome. I'll have a long talk with her. Yes. Thank you for calling me." But that isn't what she said. Nothing even close! It sounded like her mother actually WANTED her to sleep...

Kagome listened more, making sure she didn't breathe a word.

"Listen, how would you feel if you never got to sleep? ... She needs rest! ... Yes, I am very aware of that sir, but if the girl needs to sleep, then she needs to sleep!"

Kagome's mother was scaring Kagome.

"Look buddy, she wants to sleep. She is tired. I said she needs to sleep...She NEEDS to SLEEP."

Kagome began to shake slightly. Her mother never sounded this aggressive before.

"Some teachers can be so rude! ... Yes I do mean you buster! ...You should be fired for this type of behavior! Good day!"

Kagome could hear the phone being hung up. She didn't feel like going down stares to greet her mother just yet.

Then a thought hit Kagome. She shot her head towards her clock. "3:47..." Kagome whispered. "Mom isn't supposed to be back until 6..." Kagome grabbed her pillow and hugged it tightly. She felt like she needed to ask her mother a couple questions.

Kagome got up from her bed, and began walking towards the staircase. She looked down the stairs, and called out quietly, "Mommy...?" Kagome began to slowly walk down the stairs. Even though her pillow was soft, she felt as though she had a weapon, and that made her feel, somewhat safe.

"Mommy?" Kagome called out again. "Mom, can you hear me?" She said. She looked around the kitchen first; it looked as though nothing had been touched. Then she walked towards the living room. It... looked normal enough. Kagome then searched the guest room, and the bathroom. Her mother wasn't there.

"Mom!" Kagome yelled. As Kagome entered her mother's bedroom in search of... who else, her mother, only to find that she wasn't there either. Kagome looked out her mothers bedroom window and looked down at the drive way. "No cars..." Kagome said. Kagome turned around and began walking back towards the door. As she passed a mirror hanging on her mother's wall just above her mother's dresser, she gazed at it.

Kagome stared at herself from the waist up. Was she getting fatter, or was her vision becoming weak?

As she stared at herself, she didn't notice a figure walk behind her. It walked from the side of the room closest to the window, to the side that held the door. Kagome saw the figure a moment later, and jumped. It was her mother!

Kagome whipped around, only to find her mother wasn't there. 'But she was just there a second ago...' Kagome thought. She walked out the door, and looked around the hall. She had not heard any footsteps, so her mother should still be on the upper floor. Kagome looked over the rail which, looking down, you could see the hallway that lead from the bathroom to the kitchen.

Kagome leaned on the railing and thought about her mother. It wasn't 6 yet, but she saw and heard her mother in the house! How was this possible? This was all very confusing to Kagome. Just then, Kagome saw somebody walking out from the bathroom into the kitchen. It was...that boy. She noticed his silver hair right away. Kagome jumped back and pressed her body against the wall.

This can't be happening... it can't be. Couldn't he only appear in her dreams? Kagome slowly walked back towards the railing, then she leaned over, and looked down, and staring up at her was the silver haired boy. His blood red eyes were demonic. And he was grinning. It was a very eerie grin. It almost made you want to shoot the person just because he was smiling in such a way. Kagome jumped backwards, and ran into her room. She was so scared.

Kagome hugged tightly onto her pillow, and cried silent tears. "What's happening to me? Why me?" Kagome whispered. "Why me...?" Kagome dug her face into her pillow. After a moment, she heard her door begin to creak open, and Kagome looked up quickly. It was her mother.

"Kagome, what is the matter?"

Kagome stared at her mother. "Mommy... wh...why are you home so early?"

Kagome's mother looked at her with a sweet motherly smile. "I got a call from your teacher on my cell phone, and came right over."

Kagome's mother walked over and sat next to Kagome. Kagome stared at her mother. Her mother slowly wrapped an arm around Kagome.

...Wait... Kagome blinked. 'Mom doesn't have a cell phone...' Kagome thought.
"It's ok sweetie. I'm here." Kagome glanced at her mother's hand, and watched as it slowly shriveled and began to turn a very dark brown color. Then it began to rip open in various places, and leak out clotted blood. "I'm here..."

Kagome shot up from her bed, and whipped around, only to see her mothers face drained of liquid and still splitting open in many places. Suddenly Kagome felt...very sick. "Who are you!" She said, straining herself not to puke then and there. Her fake mother frowned, and her eyes shot wide open. Kagome was staring at the thing in disgust, and horror.

Then, the monster suddenly lunged itself at Kagome. Kagome screamed. She didn't know why such bad things were happening to her. Kagome struggled to get free of the psycho beast but it was so strong! She felt its claws slash at her arm, and she cried out in pain. Then, suddenly, the thing was off of Kagome. It was off as quickly as it jumped on.

"YOU FOOL! WHAT have I TOLD you all!" Kagome was in a state of shock. She felt great pain coming from her left arm and when she looked at it, she almost hurled. Her arm was split in several places from the claws that sliced her. She saw the blood pouring out of the deep wound, and saw the different pieces of flesh sticking up into the air. Kagome felt as though she was looking at the Grand Canyon in the form of long streak like mountains with red lacks and waterfalls.

"SHE HAS THE BOOK! Does that mean NOTHING to you!"

The monster looked frightened, but replied, "It does mean a lot to me! Forgive me Inu---sir! Please forgive me! I did not know it was her!" The thing bellowed out.

"Then...WHO...DO YOU THINK...IT COULD... HAVE BEEN!" The male yelled at the monster woman.

"Please sir! I swear I did not know! I swear it upon the grave of the great lords of the land!"

All of silent for a moment. Almost as if the boy was pondering something. The beast was on its hands and knees bowing, and begging for forgiveness. Then, with a simple, "KEH. A bunch of bull. If I catch you doing it again, you will perish." The boy said, before Kagome could hear him leave the room.

Kagome blinked once. She could feel sweat trailing down her face. She could tell she was loosing much blood. She dared not look at her arm again. It was too gruesome a scene. Then, Kagome rolled her head to where the monster had been bowing, and saw it staring right at her...smirking evilly. Kagome's eyes grew wide, and she fainted.

Opening her eyes, Kagome saw she was lying in her bed. Had she been sleeping this whole time? She sat up, and shook her head lightly. She felt so weak and dizzy. She looked down at her arm. It hurt a bit. She didn't know why though. Kagome glanced at the clock. "It's...it's...it's 3:50..." Kagome could feel her pupils grow small. She thought she had been asleep for hours! Shaking her head again, she got out of bed, and began to leave the room.

Little did Kagome know that if she had turned around, she would have seen her pretty light blue sheets drenched in blood.

A/N: That was it! Long chapter. o.o I enjoyed this one... I hope you did too. o.o It's longer than the other 2. :o Maybe I will make chapter 4 this long or even longer. o.o -gasp- Where do I find the time :o Thank you for reading Nothing but Red! Please review!