A/N: Yo! Sorry it's been a bit, but, do realize that I'm not alive just to type fanfictions. ;o I got my holidays, relatives and days off too. XD So, um, yeah! I hope you enjoy this chapter! Note, that it will be just as scary, funny, gore filled, blood filled, whatever you wanna call it, as the last chapters. :o And maybe if you are all good little monkeys, I'll soon get to adding some romance and jealousy? XD Not good with that stuff... I'll try, though! Muwahahhahahahahahahahahaa!

Author: Shatsui

Beta-reader: Insane-san

Rated: PG-13 (You know why. ;o)

Genre: Horror, Humor, Romance. (Hopefully that romance will unravel soon?)

Disclaimer: I am not the owner of Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Kouga, Kagome's mom, brother, blah blah blahdy! You get it! But I do own the people I've created... Dr. Nomel, the Guards, the scary little evil things... etc...

Chapter 8: Red letters.

Kagome stared in pure shock. Inuyasha was there. Right there. There was a murderous demon right in front of her. Again. He looked angry... Or was it happy? Is he amused? "Y-y-y-you're... In the d-d-d-d-dungeon? Wh-why?" Kagome stuttered out. Great, it made her sound so stupid to stutter. Inuyasha stared at Kagome and blinked. "I'm in the dungeon...because I knew that would be the quickest way to get to you." Inuyasha grinned evilly.

Kagome gulped and scooted further into the corner of her bed area. 'What should I do? What if he kills me? Why's he ripping off his chains with ease? What is--' Ripping off his chains with ease? Kagome stared as Inuyasha tore through each chain that bound him like it was made of rice paper.

"Wh-what are you doing? You're supposed to keep those on!" Kagome said in a panicked tone. Inuyasha stopped tearing his chains off and stared at Kagome. Kagome blinked and gulped. Was he going to listen to what she just said? Inuyasha smirked. "Now, why would I wanna do a thing like that?" He said loudly. Then, with one last jerk, all of the chains that hugged his body fell. He was now unbound. And free to kill. Kagome didn't really know what to do. She could die at any minute!

Inuyasha walked towards the cell bars. Steel? "Surprised they aren't gold..." Inuyasha mocked Dr. Nomel. Inuyasha's ears twitched. He turned his head towards Kagome. What was she doing? Inuyasha could hear faint mumbles coming from her. Her face looked like she was ready to commit suicide. Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders. He gripped both hands on the steel bars and yanked on them. They, and every other steel bar in front of the cell, fell to the ground with a loud clatter. Inuyasha stared at them with a smirk.

Kagome suddenly heard a loud clanking noise. She looked all around her and then saw Inuyasha standing in front of a, now, bar less cell. She blinked. She could leave... Kagome stood up slowly. Inuyasha turned around and saw Kagome ready to dart for the exit. Kagome started to run. Inuyasha put a slightly surprised look on his face and jumped in front of where she was running towards. Kagome twisted funny and jumped over Inuyasha. Inuyasha was shocked. What did she just do?

Kagome made a mad dash for the nearest exit. Which was also the only exit. 'I got to remember to thank mom for forcing me to take gymnastics lessons!' She ran as quickly as she could, but for some reason the exit felt like it wasn't getting any closer. Kagome knew she shouldn't turn her head to see if Inuyasha was chasing her but she wanted to. It was her curiosity that always got to her. That was one of Kagome's weak points. If she was curious about something, she wouldn't leave the thought alone until she was satisfied.

She knew if she turned around, something bad would happen. Just like in the movies. If a dinosaur was chasing you and you wanted to see if it was catching up, you turned your head around, and then you would get killed. Whether it was a swift slice of the head, or a brutal claw to the gut. Kagome twitched just thinking about it. She took in a deep breath and said, "Curiosity killed the cat...but satisfaction brought it back!" She said and turned her head around.

Inuyasha was so close to Kagome their noses were nearly touching. Kagome gulped hard. "Or maybe it should've stayed dead!" Inuyasha yelled and leapt at Kagome. Kagome screamed a short, high pitched scream. Inuyasha flattened his ears against his head. There it is! The exit! Kagome jumped over bones, moldy bread, blood stains and puddles of dark brown water. At least, she thought it was water... It felt like slow motion to Kagome.

She reached forward towards the door. The light was so close to her. All of a sudden, Kagome felt both of her arms being yanked high into the air. Her back was kicked hard and her legs buckled forward. She slammed onto the ground. Her face was splashed with the mucky brown water. But it wasn't water. Kagome glanced over at her shoulder. It was fresh blood. She shivered and then felt pressure on her back. Kagome winced and then felt hot puffs of breath beside her right ear. "Try and escape next time... and I'll kill you..." Kagome felt her stomach turn. She felt a sharp amount of pain on her neck and suddenly passed out.

Inuyasha snorted. "Wench."

Kagome stirred. Her muscles ached terribly. But, why? Kagome twitched her eyes and blinked them open slowly. She sat up immediately. "WHAT THE--?" Kagome screamed long and loud. Suddenly Mrs. Higurashi boomed through Kagome's bedroom door. Kagome stopped screaming and shot her head over to her mother. "Mom?" She yelled. "Kagome, what's wrong?" Mrs. Higurashi yelled. Kagome shook her head quickly. "I guess I had a bad dream." She replied quickly. Kagome's mother sighed a long sigh of relief. "Kagome, you nearly gave me a heart attack I got so scared!" Kagome nodded. "I'm sorry mom. It was really scary..." Kagome said quietly. Her mother nodded slowly. "It's okay, it's okay..." She walked over and hugged Kagome gently.

Kagome sighed. She had missed the embrace of her mother. And the smell of her perfume. Sudden thoughts of past events that had occurred with Kagome's mother flashed in her head. The last time Kagome had seen her mother, her mother had turned into a hideous demon with dark melting skin. Kagome's eyes widened slightly and she quickly pulled away from her mother. Looking up at her mom's face she saw... that it was completely normal. Kagome gave a sigh of relief. "Why Kagome, what ever is the matter?" Mrs. Higurashi asked. Kagome shook her head. "It's nothing mom." She said leaning her head on her mother's shoulder. It was good to be home.

Later, in the evening, Kagome decided to go onto the computer. Good old PC time. She plopped herself down in her large brown computer chair and turned on the computer. After she turned it on she felt a sudden cold chill run up her spine. Must've been the open window. Kagome watched the computer screen light up to its usual blue screen. She clicked her user name on the Windows XP background and watched it slowly load her settings. Her desktop icons were still the same but her desktop wallpaper had been changed. It read, SOUTA OWNS KAGOME! in big bold red letters. Kagome twitched. "Souta!" She yelled.

She then double clicked on the little AIM icon in the upper right corner of the screen and signed in as, "EvilGirl759". Kagome watched her AIM buddy list pop up. All of her friends... Kagome noticed one person out of all of her fifty friends wasn't familiar to her. She double clicked on the user name and began typing.

EvilGirl759: hi

An instant reply popped in.

bLo0dYbOdY666: hello.

EvilGirl759: do i know you?

Kagome waited a moment before the next reply came.

bLo0dYbOdY666: yes.

EvilGirl759: i do? well then who are you?

Yet again Kagome had to wait a couple of minutes before the next reply.

bLo0dYbOdY666: sum1 close 2 u.

Kagome cocked her head. Who was close to her that would have such an odd user name?

EvilGirl759: um, well then, who are you exactly?

bLo0dYbOdY666: ...

EvilGirl759: come on! tell me already!

bLo0dYbOdY666: LOL kag its me sango!

EvilGirl759: sango? why on earth do you have such an odd user name? Hahaha

bLo0dYbOdY666: i was trying 2 fool u in2 believing i was a stalker or sumthing! lol

EvilGirl759: oh! ahahahahahaha! nice one! you had me fooled for a while!

bLo0dYbOdY666: i did? really? lol kag u should not believe every 1 is out 2 get u!

EvilGirl759: haha very funny.

Suddenly, another instant message popped up on her screen.

RaefUoyNosaerEht: Hello.

Kagome gulped.

EvilGirl759: this isn't sango again is it?

RaefUoyNosaerEht: No. No it's not.

Kagome blinked. That message came so fast it was almost like she was talking to a robot.

EvilGirl759: then who is it?

RaefUoyNosaerEht: A friend.

EvilGirl759: do i know you from school?

RaefUoyNosaerEht: No.

EvilGirl759: then who are you?

RaefUoyNosaerEht: ...Hahahah.

Kagome scratched the back of her hand nervously. It had to be Sango! Suddenly Kagome heard the phone ring. Her mother picked it up. "Kagome, honey, Sango's on the phone!" Called her mother. Kagome scratched the back of her neck this time. "K, thanks mom!" She yelled down the hall and picked up the phone. "H-hello?" Kagome said into the phone. "Hi Kaggy! Sorry about that trick! Ahahaha! But you have to admit, it was pretty funny!" Sango said through the phone. Kagome swallowed slowly. "Then this one isn't you...?" She asked Sango. "What one isn't me? Are you receiving another prank?" Kagome shook her head around. "I don't know. Do you know anyone who goes by the user name, uh, R-A-E-F-U-O-Y-N-O-S-A-E-R-E-H-T?" She asked in a slightly shaky voice.

Kagome could hear Sango's breath through the telephone. "No I haven't. But I can check if it's Kohaku, Miroku or Kouga if you want?" Sango asked in a way to try and reassure Kagome that nothing must be wrong. Kagome swallowed again. "Okay. I'll keep asking the person questio--." Kagome suddenly heard an instant message tune ring through her ears. She quickly looked at the computer. "Sango, the person replied again..." Kagome said. "What's it say?" Sango asked. "Hang on..." Kagome replied.

RaefUoyNosaerEht: Trying to talk to your little buddy Sango won't save you, you know.

Kagome widened her eyes a bit. In the background she could hear Sango's words, "Kagome, it's not Miroku, Kouga or Kohaku so it could be somebody from school. Kag? Kagome? Kaggy...?" Kagome blinked. "Sango, I'll call you back..." She said slowly. "Kagome? Kagome wait! Don't hang up! Hang on a minute---!" Click. Kagome hung up the phone and placed it on her desk next to a stack of printer paper.

RaefUoyNosaerEht: How nice. You decided to talk to me instead.

Kagome snorted. "As if I'd want to talk to a stalker."

RaefUoyNosaerEht: I'm not a stalker.

Kagome held her breath. He heard her? She didn't even type to him! "Uh...You can hear me?"

RaefUoyNosaerEht: Yes.

Kagome yelped and exited the IM window but it just popped up again.

RaefUoyNosaerEht: I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Kagome exited again and again but the window kept popping back up.

RaefUoyNosaerEht: You're stupid.

Again.

RaefUoyNosaerEht: Stupid.

Again.

RaefUoyNosaerEht: Girl.

And again.

RaefUoyNosaerEht: Are you trying to make me mad?

Kagome blinked. Why wouldn't it go away? It was like a hex or something! She reached for the off button on her computer and pressed it quickly. Before the screen turned black, one more message popped up. It was in bold dark red letters in a strange blood like font. It read, "I WILL FIND YOU." Kagome closed her eyes tightly until she heard the sound the signaled that the computer had shut down. With a wave and a sigh of relief Kagome opened her eyes only to be staring into light brown eyes right in front of her. Kagome screamed and fells backwards.

"Who...Who're you!" Kagome yelled. It was a girl with light brown eyes. She looked about as tall as Kagome and had black hair. The girl smiled. "Hi! I'm Kagamei Hagerushe!" She said happily. Kagome blinked. What? "Where did you come from? Are you the daughter of one of my mom's friends or something?" She said in a shaky voice. The girl, Kagamei, smiled broader. "Nope! I'm dead!" She said. Kagome didn't realize until she started to speak again that she had been holding her breath. "You... You're dead?" She asked.

Kagamei still grinned. "Yes! I am dead! And I have this day come to warn ye of dangers that lurk near thee!" She said, her face suddenly turning serious and stern. Kagome winced. "What dangers...?" She asked. Kagamei blinked. "Ye do not already know of them? Hast thou not yet encountered the cruel beast?" Kagome cocked her head in confusion. Who did she know that was a cruel beast? Then it suddenly clicked in her mind. Her eye twitched and she lowered her gaze. "Inuyasha..." She mumbled.

Kagamei cocked her head and tapped her chin with her index finger. "What was that?" She asked quizzically. "Inuyasha..." Kagome repeated more loudly. Kagamei's face paled. If that was even possible. "What? What I say?" Kagome asked suddenly stressed at Kagamei's reaction.

Kagome suddenly felt her entire body pulse. What a strange feeling. Kagome stood up and felt a sudden urge to head for her bed. She walked over to it slowly and bent down. Reaching under her bed steadily, her fingers tapped lightly onto a small rectangular object and she pulled it out. "The little red book..." Kagome whispered to herself. She slowly opened the red book to a random page and began to read.

Monday, August second, 1406,

Dear Red Book,

Hello little book! I found you under an old trunk in my grandfather's shed! I saw that this already had some writing at the beginning but I decided to write in you anyway, red book!
Oh! How rude of me. I haven't introduced myself!
My name is Kagemi Hegarushi! I look forward to writing in you for my entire life! Please become my best friend!

Kagemi

Kagome blinked. Another girl was writing in it? "Girl..." Kagome suddenly remembered the dead girl that was standing in her room, what's her name. Kagome whipped around. The girl wasn't there. Where'd she go...? Kagome shook her head and looked back down at the little red book. She touched it's old, fragile pages. Kagome narrowed her eyes at the black ink that was written neatly in the little red book. "Hang on..." She flipped ahead a few pages from where she was just reading and landed on another entry from the same girl, Kagemi. Only this time her words weren't as happy.

Thursday, August twelfth, 1406

Dear Red Book,

I can't talk to you anymore Red Book.
We can't be friends anymore. He doesn't want me to be friends anymore. So I now must leave you Red Book.
You will be with him now. Forever...

Kagemi

Kagome stared at the words in surprise. That's what Kagamei had said as well. Kagome flipped through the pages of the little red book. It may have been little, but there were many, many pages. She flipped until she saw a different date.

July 14th, 1466,

Hi little book! I found you under a stare case in an old shrine!-

Kagome flipped through more pages looking for another year. "1526...1586...1646...1706..." She flipped and flipped and flipped. It seemed that the little red book had several happy owners. All of them were female, too. Well, except one. But Kagome had only seen one entry for it. But all the same it piqued her interest.

1766, Year of the Dog,

Dear Book,

I found you in my mother's ancient soba noodle chest! I hope we shall become well acquainted friends for many, many years to come!

-Foujo

Kagome stared at the page in annoyance. This boy sounded pretty fruity. Soba noodle chest? Who puts soba noodles in a chest? No wonder there were no more pages with his writing on it after that. Kagome flipped through more of the pages. "1826...1886...1946..." After 1946 the writing stopped. There were no entries after that. Kagome cocked her head wondering why they stopped. There were only a few pages left. Why didn't the last person to write just finish it off?

Kagome was so confused about it all. Everyone who owned the red book only had it for a few days. And almost all of the owner's last page was the same. Who is HE? This person they always talk about? One part that Kagome could relate to was the dreams everyone of them had. They were just like hers. Then it clicked. "HE must be..." She swallowed the rest of her words. They all described HIM the same. HE always had white hair. HE always had dog ears.

"Dog ears..." Kagome mumbled. She suddenly began flipping back all the way to the year 1766 and she once again read the date at the top. "Year of the dog?" Kagome whispered to herself. Then she looked at all of the dates in the little red book and wrote them all down on a slip of paper. All of them ended with a six. Kagome clutched tightly to the piece of paper and ran out of her room. She trotted downstairs and yelled from the front door, "Mom! I'm going to the library! Be back soon!" Then she opened the door, rushed outside and slammed it behind her.

Kagome grabbed her bike from the side of her house and hopped on it quickly, riding down the street as far as she could to the library. She skidded to a stop in the library's parking lot and dropped her bike to the ground as she ran inside. "Zodiac, zodiac, zodiac, zodiac, zodiac..." She kept repeating to herself. She jogged to the non-fiction section Z. She moved her fingers over all of the books until she landed on Zodiac animals or something related to that title.

She grabbed the book, sat down on the floor and flipped through its pages until she landed on the year of the dog. She then pulled the slip of paper she had written all the years on and held it next to the zodiac book. She matched all of the dates from 1346 to the year 1946. Every one of those years was the year of the dog. Kagome looked around her quickly, suddenly feeling uneasy. Kagome held on to the book and stood up. She walked briskly over to a computer and grabbed a pencil out of a jar that sat next to it and a couple slips of paper.

Kagome tapped the pencil profusely on her forehead as if trying to figure out what she was going to do with the paper and the pencil. She stared at the years she wrote down on the slip of paper and then back at the blank paper sheets. Years. Blank paper. Years. Blank paper. Then Kagome stared long and hard at the years on the slip of paper. '...Hold on...' She thought. She wrote down the year 1346 on one of the blank pieces of paper and then wrote 1946 above it. 'If I subtract that...then...' She scribbled different numbers on the paper, solving the math problem.

"Six hundred? As in six hundred years?" Kagome said a louder than anyone should while in a library. She was given a sharp shush from everyone sitting or standing near her. Kagome just mocked them by putting her right index finger up to her lips and making a weird "shut up" kind of face. Gosh. Didn't these people know it was rude to shush somebody while they are making a discovery that could change the world? Kagome just shook her head and stared back at the piece of paper. 600 years between them both. Kagome rubbed the pencil's eraser under her right eye and sighed deeply.

'Six hundred years doesn't solve anything...' Kagome huffed and leaned on her hand annoyed. Then she lifted her head slightly and turned her head slightly at the paper as if it just told her the answer. 'Unless...' Kagome wrote down 1946 and then wrote 1886 under it. She did the problem quickly and stared at her answer. 'Sixty?' Kagome raised an eyebrow at the paper. "Hmm..." She then wrote 1886 and put 1826 under it. Her answer was, once again, 60. 'So...there's a sixty year gap between every one who has ever owned the red book... So does that mean that HE only comes every sixty years?' Kagome thought, trying to figure out the puzzle in her head.

'So, every sixty years HE comes... If the last year was nineteen forty six, when is the next time HE is coming?' She asked herself. She wrote down the year 1946 and added 60 years to it. She resulted with the year 2006. '2006... Hey! This year is 2006!' Kagome grinned as if she just won a grand prize. But then she felt like a rock slammed against her head. 'Wait... THIS YEAR is 2006...' Kagome widened her eyes. Suddenly images of Kagome's past up until this point flooded her mind. Finding the red book, having nightmares with a strange dog eared boy in it, the video tape, the CD, the strange dream world with Dr. Nomel... And the dungeon.

Kagome suddenly remembered being locked in the dungeon and then trying to make an escape. But she was caught by Inuyasha and knocked out. This year was 2006. HE must be the one who wants the red book so badly. And the one who wants the red book so badly is... "Inuyasha..." Kagome whispered and looked up, eyes filled with fear. Not too far away near the back of the library stood a dark figure hidden in the shadows. Kagome blinked and began breathing more roughly. After she blinked, the figure was much closer. Kagome twitched and saw static around the dark figure and it suddenly poofed closer to her again. Kagome nearly screamed. She looked around her as if trying to warn everybody in there that there was somebody very scary poofing from one spot to another getting closer to her. Kagome looked back in front of her and the figure was right in front of her. Kagome stood up quickly and ran out of the library. She began to pick up her bicycle when she suddenly remembered. "CRAP! The red book!" She yelled. She ran back to the library doors and opened them.

She ran inside and spotted the computer area she was just seated at moments ago. Kagome ran towards it when her foot slipped on something wet. She looked down quickly to see what she had slipped on. It was blood. Kagome's eyes grew wide and she back away from the blood only to run into somebody behind her. "I'm sorry--" She began, but when she turned around there was a bloody body hanging by a telephone cored in front of her. Kagome gasped and back up once again. The body would give anybody a scarred mind. It was torn at its legs so hard they were holding on to the rest of the body by a few muscle tissues and a long white nerve.

Kagome breathed heavily and then suddenly the white nerve snapped and the leg thumped to the floor. The body suddenly screamed in pain. It was still alive. Kagome began to sweat and ran towards the desk she left the red book on. But when she arrived the red book wasn't there. Kagome felt burning on the back of her neck. The kind of burning that everyone felt when somebody was staring at you long and hard. Kagome turned around quickly only to be staring into bright red eyes. Horrified, Kagome stumbled backwards and fell to the floor. Her head hit a corner of the desk she was close to.

She looked up dizzily at the red eyes she had just seen. The red eyes stared down at her and suddenly a small, rectangular object came in to view. The person with red eyes was holding it up for her to see. Kagome could barely make out what it was. Then her eyes narrowed slightly. 'The...red book?' Then she heard an eerie voice... "I win."

A/N: o-o...Uh...Yeah, sorry for not getting a new chapter up sooner... Did you enjoy chapter eight? -grin- Wanna know soemthing scary? I didn't even know all the eyars I made for Inuyasha to arrive in were the year of the dog! It was a complete accident! o-o Weird...Was it everything you could have ever dreamed of and more? -starry eyed- Or did you not even expect it to end there and are now cursing at me insanely in your mind? -bored expression- Give me a nice review! -grin-

And unless I get 12 new reviews or more, I won't update for a LONG time... Even longer than last time... -scratches back of head- Which I'm still sorry about, but I won't be sorry this time unless I get 12 reviews or more... -chews on a large square of chocolate- Um, but, yeah. Please give me a nice review. I enjoy reading what people think of the story. -grins- Favorite parts, least favorite parts, annoying parts, funny parts, etc! I hope you look forward to the next chapter! Nothing but Red chapter nine! Please keep reading until then!

Oh! And another thing! Why not check out some of my younger sisters amazing stories? Her user on here is Insane-san and she has three wonderful stories she is currently writing. Please have a look!

Shatsui