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'Why do classes always seem to take twice as long as they should?' thought Kagome. She was currently stuck in math class and, curse her luck, she just happened to come back on the day there was a HUGE test. And of course it had to be in her worst subject, so it was safe to say that she had no hope what so ever of passing the test. And that wouldn't help her already dangerously close to failing marks. Oh yeah, today was not going to be a good one; she could already feel it and the eyes of her classmates as they stared at her. Which made her all the more nervous and more impossible to concentrate on her scarcely answered test.

"Ok class time's up. Put your pens down and turn your paper over. I see anyone writing another word MR. YOSHI then your paper goes into the garbage." Announced Mr. Yaoshi. He was one of those teachers that you could joke with, but if you got in his bad side everybody pitied you.

"And before the bell goes and you regretfully leave my class, I just want to remind you that your projects are due next week. Remember they're worth 30 of your final grade!" before he could continue his lecture the bell sounded its high-pitched whistle, announcing the end of class and momentary freedom before it rang again and they had to go to their next class.

"Miss Higarashi! A moment with you before you leave please," he called over the laughter and shuffling of papers as people raced to get out of the class.

'Oh no,' Kagome thought, ' He's probably going to tell me I'm failing and not to bother to come back. Or worse!' Taking a deep breath, she gathered her books from her desk and walked to his desk. Her hands were shaking as she approached the desk. But instead of seeing a stern frown on her teachers face she was shocked to find he had a huge smile instead.

"Kagome, I've noticed that your marks are falling drastically. I'm sure you know that your lack of attendance is a huge reason for this problem. I believe that everyone deserves a chance to come back from the bottom, so I'm going to give you a chance to fix this problem." Opening up his black book bag he pulled out a huge pile of papers and started grinning likes a mad man.

"This is all the work that you've missed in your many absences. If you complete and hand these all in by this Friday I'll overlook the lateness and give you full marks. As long as they're ALL done. Ok?" He smiled and pushed the papers towards her.

Gulping Kagome looked at the stack of papers, it was huge! There had to be at least 50-work pages. How she would ever get these and all the home work she was going to undoubtedly get in all her other classes done she didn't know, but she had to try. So she managed to scrape together a lopsided smile and accepted the papers.

"Thanks a lot Mr. Yaoshi. This means a lot to me." After carefully placing the stack in her bag, Kagome walked out of the class just in time to hear the bell sound once again telling her she was going to be late for her next class if she didn't hurry up. Walking as fast as she could Kagome tried to get to her class before the last bell.

Panting she raced down the halls and arrived in the door of her next class just as the bell went. Letting out a sigh of relief she raced to the back corner desk before anyone else could get it.

"Ok class settle down!" Called the teacher as she walked into the room. "Please take your seats and be quite as I call role. R. Takeda,"

"Here," came an answer from the front of the class. Followed by a check by the teacher as she marked the student present. On and on it went until. "K. Higarashi,"

"Present," Kagome called meekly. All at once the whole class turned and looked at her. Even the teacher looked at her in surprise. "Good to have you back, Miss Higarashi. S. Takehashi…"

A wave of relief washed over her. She was worried that the teacher might just tell her to get out of the class, or worse ask her where she had been all this time. It wasn't like she could say 'Oh sorry, I've been training to control my freakishly strong miko abilities with a demon that I've fallen deeply in love with.' But just like the last class Kagome could feel eyes on her all the time, making her shift uncomfortably in her seat.

She was afraid to move incase she did something foolish, knowing everyone would point and laugh. It didn't matter how much confidence she had gained it did almost nothing when she was in the classroom. Kagome couldn't help but be frightened; these people had tortured her ever since she had entered school. Just because she had Sesshomaru by her side didn't mean that the teasing would stop, she was still Kagome Higarashi. Which meant she was still the loner, the freak, the one that didn't deserve to live. It wasn't like every single person had tormented her. Some did nothing at all which hurt all the more, they would just walk by when the girls would gather and begin to push and shove her. Never once did anyone step in and help her, never once did anyone even try to be her friend. Nobody had ever offered her a way out, most just looked at her with pity and sympathy in their eyes, but that's all they did.

It might as well had been nothing at all, they might as well had been part of the teasing because their silence hurt even more. Kagome could remember times when the tiniest if things would happen, like having her books knocked out of her hands. The people that pitied her would simply walk around her and continue on their way, while others would point and laugh. She couldn't help but think that maybe if one of them had just helped her pick up her books then maybe it wouldn't happen any more. That's all she could ever do, because if you helped Kagome then it meant that you were her friend, which meant that you too might become a target. Nobody ever took the chance, they just gave her sympathetic looks and that was it. They just left her to suffer to make sure they themselves didn't, not that she could blame them, she wouldn't wish it on anyone not even the ones that made her suffer, nobody deserved the hell she lived with everyday of her life.

"BRIIIIIING!"

The sound of the bell brought Kagome out of her trance. Slowly she began to gather up her books and once everyone else had left made her way up to the teacher's desk. Where she waited patiently for her student to arrive. Eyes cast down ward onto the ground Kagome approached the desk and meekly asked. "Ms. Hina, ummm, I was wondering if there was anyway I could make up for all the classes I missed? I...I know I don't really deserve a chance but I really want to pass. Please, is there anything I can do to make it up?" she asked softly.

"Kagome, when your talking don't talk to the ground, talk to the person your speaking to. They want to hear what you're saying to them, and if you're looking at the ground they can't hear you." Ms. Hina chided her student gently. Though she knew very little about what was happening around the school concerning what the students said, she did know that Kagome was getting teased. Almost every staff member did, but no one ever did anything about it. There wasn't anything that they could do; whenever Kagome was hurt no staff member was around to help. They couldn't control what happened outside the school and if they gave Kagome any special treatment it would only serve to exclude her even more, even they knew that. So no matter how much it broke the hearts of the staff members to see the girl suffer they could only stand by and watch as she suffered more and more everyday. But to try and make things easier, every teacher that had the girl in their class made a 'Kagome file.' Whenever she was absent for any period of time the teachers would put the work in the file along with explanations on how to do them and any notes she missed. Kagome didn't know about it, nobody but the staff did. It was just one small way they could help her, but even though it was small it was the best they could do. And not one teacher regretted doing it, Kagome was an angel smothered and hurt because of the jealousy of the demons around her. Everyone preyed that one day she would become strong enough to fly above the demons, but until then they could still help a little.

Smiling she reached into her drawer and pulled the rather large papers out of the file and place them on top of the desk. "This is all the work that you've missed, there's a lot of it so I'll make you a deal. You get all this work done by Friday and I won't dock you any marks for lateness. But if you hand them in any later it's 50 off each one. Is it a deal?" The smile of gratitude that appeared on Kagome's face was worth all the time she had spent making the copies. Her only wish was to see Kagome succeed and escape the prison of pain and suffering she had been encased in.

"Thank you so much Ms. Hina!" gushed Kagome as she placed the papers into her rapidly expanding book bag. "I'll do them all I promise I really do appreciate it. And I promise I'll be in class from now on! Thank you so much!"

"Your welcome Kagome. Now you better hurry off to your next class I'm sure your teacher will be happy to see you, and you don't want to be late." Ms. Hina said.

"Your right, sorry for taking up your time and thank you again!" with those parting words Kagome rushed out of the class room and off to her next class.

As soon as Kagome left the room Ms. Hina stood up and walked over and closed the door. Once she heard the faint 'click' of the door closing and locking she quickly walked back to her desk. Once she reached the safety of her desk she let all the emotions she had kept bottled up run free. Tears began to fall silently onto her desk. She cried not for her, but for the girl that suffered so much because she had done nothing. Kagome was a pure and all around good person. She had many a times caught the girl walking home with tears in her eyes as she tried in vain to mend her torn uniform or hide the many bruises that marred her body. Her heart pained to see her like that and how she wished she could help her, but it was useless. She had once seen a concerned passer' by ask if she was ok, all Kagome would do was either begin to run or say that she was fine. Her heart ached to see such a good soul broken and bloodied. She cried for the way life was so fortunate to some yet so cruel to others. She cried because there was nothing she could do to stop it, she cried because it wasn't fair. But most of all she cried because there was so little she could do no matter how much she wished it. She was helpless to stop the continued torturing of the girl that had done nothing and because of it suffered. All she could do was watch and pray that someday Kagome would find peace on this cruel earth.

BRRIINNNGGG

The bell alerted everyone to the arrival of lunchtime. Sighing, Kagome walked out of the classroom. Just like her two previous teachers, Mr. Yoga had given her a pile of homework to have done by Friday. Groaning loudly, she walked up to her locker and lifted the now extremely over stuffed backpack off her shoulders. Looking at her way to small locker she sighed and hefted it back onto her aching shoulders. Closing the locker a little harder than she had to and began heading for the two large double doors that would lead her outside. Once she opened them she took a deep breath of fresh air after being stuck inside a cramped classrooms all day the crisp cool air felt wonderful to her. Walking down the steps she headed for a place where she could rest and eat her lunch before she had to go back in and face one more class. Scanning the land her eyes settled on a large oak tree a little ways off it was perfect. It was far enough away that she would not be bothered but close enough that she could make it back in time for class. Hiking her bag up higher on her shoulders she headed out for some well needed peace and quiet.

Sesshomaru let out an exasperated sigh; he was stressed out beyond compare. All his teachers had held him back after class so that they could lecture him on how far behind her was and the importance of coming to class. These lengthy lectures made him late for his next class and gave his teachers the opportunity to lecture him for not only missing so many days but for coming to class late when he decided to finally come. To make matters even worse, girls had been sending him notes all day wondering if he would go out with them, asking if he was with 'That girl', and where he had been. And so of course he got in trouble for these notes, which he did not even answer, he just tossed them on the ground. He didn't even open any of the ones that had been folded into a little square; they just got swept off his desk with a flick of his hand. He didn't know how much more he could take before he snapped, and thankfully the bell sounded and he was free for lunch. After, that is, he had a lengthy talk with his teacher.

All Sesshomaru wanted to do was find Kagome and just hold her. She could make all his problems just melt away or at least let him forget them for a time. As soon as he arrived out side his eyes began searching for her, and after a quick scan he found her resting against an old oak tree a little ways out in the field. His mood already getting better at just the sight of her Sesshomaru quickly set off.

Kagome tried to relax as she sat against the giant oak tree, but for some reason she couldn't. No matter what she did her body just didn't seem to want to relax she remained tense and on high alert. It was like something was missing but what she didn't know, to tell the truth she didn't really think that she would had been able to relax anyways. All her life she had constantly been on guard and so moments like this, where she was all alone made her nervous. Things just didn't work that way for her; she was never given a moment's peace and whenever she was it made her very suspicious. Wondering when the next attack would happen and what 'they' were planning for her. It didn't matter that she now knew how to protect herself a little bit, or that Sesshomaru was watching out for her she was still vulnerable and the constant state of alert she had to adopt would leave her like that. Yet it still felt strange to have it up right now, for the past while she had been able to relax because she had Sesshomaru around to watch and protect her and now that she was alone and had to protect herself the feeling felt so weird to her.

As soon as Sesshomaru got close to Kagome he knew that something was wrong, she was tense and even though her eyes were closed her brow was creased in frustration.

"Kagome?" he called softly.

Snapping out of daze Kagome looked up at the person who had called her. Smiling brightly when she saw it was Sesshomaru she stood up and walked up to him.

"Hey, I didn't think that you would be joining me. I thought that you would be in the library or something catching up on school."

Wrapping his arms around Kagome he pulled her into a hug. He couldn't help but smile when she wrapped her arms around his waist and returned his affections. It felt so weird for him to even be hugging someone, but to have them return his affections. The feeling was different but it was one that he enjoyed so much, and it was all thanks to his Kagome. He wasn't surprised to feel her relax in his arms, she had been on guard and he knew why. She was always watching for those that would hurt her, like a mouse is always watching for the many predators it had Kagome was also watching. 'Someday,' he thought 'I'm going to make it so that you never have to worry again.'

Easing herself out of the hug Kagome finally felt like she was able to relax. She knew what had been missing it was Sesshomaru. It wasn't just because he offered her protection but because she just wanted to be near him. It was everything that he was that she wanted, he was her everything. A protector, a friend and most importantly he held her heart. Walking back to the tree she sat down again and patted the ground beside her. "Come and sit down, you look like you need to relax."

A small smile graced his face as Sesshomaru went and sat down. He was smiling a lot more than he had been before and something told him that it had to do with a certain Miko, but for some reason he didn't care. Sitting down he picked up Kagome and placed her between his legs and wrapped his arms around her waist. One leg was out straight while the other was bent up. "How was your morning Koichi?" he asked

"It was ok, but all 3 of my teachers piled the homework on major. I have like 3000 tones of homework to do and only 4 days to do it." groaning Kagome rubbed her hands on her face. "Arrg why did I just remind myself of that? I'm never gunna be able to get it all done,"

"I'm sure you can do it. It just means no more TV for a while." Teased Sesshomaru.

Grinning Kagome turned so she was facing him. "No it just means I have to stay away from you. You take up so much of my time, maybe I should stay away from you for a bit."

Sesshomaru's face visibly paled at this comment and his grip on her tightened. There was no way that he was going to let her stay away from him. "You wish. There is no way I'm letting you stay away from me for that long."

"Aw, that's sweet, but don't you want me to do well in school?" Laughter danced in Kagomes eyes as she said this.

"You know I do." Unable to say anything else in his defense Sesshomaru just stayed silent.

A couple of minutes later Sesshomaru lifter Kagome off his chest. Looking back at him curiously she tried to ask why he had done it but just as she was going to he cut her off. "Kagome, you've been through so much. Yet here you are with me still fighting and still moving on. You still have a long way's to go but it think that your deserve this for all the work you've done," As he said this he pulled a velvet box out of his pocket, and placed it in her hands.

With trembling hands she opened the box. As soon as she saw what was inside she began to cry. In the box was the most beautiful necklace she had ever seen. The pendent was and angel, that had its wings stretched out. The body was made out of a creamy color pearl and the wings were made up of delicately carved diamond. It hung on a small silver chain. Looking up at Sesshomaru she continued to cry. "Sesshomaru thank you I love it, but are you sure you want to give me this? It must have cost a small fortune."

Taking the necklace out of the box he fastened it on her neck. "Kagome I love you, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, but it's something I can't promise right now. So I want you to have this necklace as a promise, a promise that I will always love you, and I will always protect you."

Kagome could only nod and smile, she was just about to reach out and kiss him when the loud ringing of the bell announced the end of lunch.

"Thank you so much," Kagome then stood up and turned around to face her love. " We have to go, though. We don't want to be late now do we? Or you know we could always skip out, something you seem to be very fond of doing lately."

Sesshomaru growled and stood up as well. "Don't tempt me, I have half a mind to take us back to the forest for another 2 weeks." Laughing the two made there way back to the school neither realizing that they had been watched.

Across the field two pairs of eyes watched as the couple walked back to school. "We're going to strike tonight. I can't take much more of this," one of the pair said as the other just nodded in agreement. Yes tonight would be the night, the beginning of stage one.

(A/N I was sooo tempted to just stop the chapter right here. Not that bad wouldn't have been the longest chapter but it still would have been a good one. But I couldn't do it I love you guys to much.)

After school

Groaning, Kagome pulled her backpack up higher onto her shoulders, the walk home always seemed some much longer when you had a backpack full of homework to do when you got home. ' There is no way I'm going to be able to get all this done by Friday,' she thought. She had been hoping that he last period teacher wouldn't have as much work for her, or maybe let her have a little longer, but things didn't work that way. She had been given another huge amount of work to do by Friday. It was so much that she had been forced to cancel her plans with Sesshomaru. They were going to go back out and train a little bit but there was no way she could do that and still be able to get a good chunk of the work done. So she had been forced to take a rain check, he had taken it better than she thought he would have. He said he understood and offered to walk her home, but she had declined. If he walked her home it was an almost guaranty that she wouldn't be able to do her work. So now she was carrying her very heavy backpack and walking home to do her homework.

"Great what a night this is going to be," she muttered to herself.

Once she finally arrived home she threw back the door kicked off her shoes and began to climb the stairs to her room. "Mama I'm home!" She called.

"Hello dear," peeking her head out of Souta's room, Mrs. Higarashi answered her daughter. "How was school?"

"It was ok I got tons of homework though. 12 grade sucks!" she called as she entered her room. "I'm gonna be doing my homework can you call me down when it's supper time?"

"Sure Honey. Have fun!" her mother called.

"Ya Really!" Taking a deep breath she walked over to her desk and set her backpack down beside the chair. Reaching down into it she pulled out the first pack, which happened to be math. Gritting her teeth she grabbed a pencil and got ready to work. As soon as she looked down at the paper a wave of déjà vu washed over her. It was like she had already done all this again. Placing the pencil on the paper she tried to think when she had done this before. After a couple of minutes of intense thought she could remember when she had done this before. It had been 3 years earlier, when she was just in grade 9. She had been away from school for a long time because she had had to hide from everyone that was just after she had had the words 'freak' carved into her back. It was 3 weeks before she had finally returned to school. Her mother had been so worried about her; it was hard to believe that it was just the very beginning. It had been the first time that she had been beaten so badly that she had had to hide. When she was younger the other girls weren't strong enough to do too much damage, but over the summer they had grown more violent and really tried to hurt her. It was funny she could remember at the time thinking how it would all end once she was older, yet here she was. 17 years old and still she was getting beat, and there wasn't a thing she could do about it. Just because she grew older didn't mean that the other girls would grow out of it, instead they had grown stronger and more into it. So many nights she had laid awake thinking how when she went into high school it would all stop, now it seemed that, maybe when she went to college it would all stop. Though she still had huge doubts about that, if there was anything that she had learned it was that you couldn't escape your past.

Shaking her head Kagome snapped herself out of her stupor. She didn't have time to think about the past she had hours and hours of home to do right now. Picking up her pencil she began to do the work.

About 3 hours later her mom called her for supper. Happy for a reason to put her pencil down and take a break she rushed down stairs for some well-deserved supper. The delicious smell of oden reached her nose as she neared the kitchen. "Mama, you made oden?"

"Yes, it figured it's been so long since we've had a family dinner that we should celebrate." Mrs. Higarashi beamed at her daughter. It was so good to have her daughter back at the table; she could remember when Kagome had first begun to disappear at random times. She had been worried and often called the police but after a year of this she had stopped. She knew that her daughter and if she was disappearing it must have been for a good reason, she didn't know what it was to this day and it hurt her a little to know that she kept it a secret from her own mother. Many times she had wanted to ask why she was gone, but the look of relief that she had when ever she didn't ask was to much for her. She couldn't do it the most she could do was trust her daughter and prey that she would come home safely and maybe someday feel that she could tell her why she was gone. Until that day she would be supportive and welcome her home with open arms it seemed like the only thing she could do now.

"Gee sis, when you gonna stop running off?" asked Souta as they began to eat.

"Souta that's enough," Mrs. Higarashi said sternly. "Right now let's just enjoy our supper ok?"

"Ok,"

Supper went great, for Kagome; it was just like old times. Her grandfather started rambling on about some legend about something or another, she argued with Souta, and mama was just as she always was watching and sometimes cutting in when things got to intense. All in all it was a great meal Kagome didn't want to leave but she had to if she didn't get her homework done she would never get into the college she wanted to. And Entrance exams would be coming p in a couple of months. She wouldn't even be allowed to take the exam if she didn't have at least a 75 average. She had always been interested in the ancient past and so she wanted to become an ancient history professor. She would never accomplish this if she did not do very well in school. So she dragged herself upstairs to her room and again began to work on her homework.

A loud shriek work Kagome up, she was still sitting at her desk. Where she had fallen asleep a few hours before. Jumping out of her desk she glanced at her alarm clock, it was 2:30 am. Racing down stairs, she ran towards the living room. That had been her mom; something had to be wrong her mother would never have shrieked unless something was indeed wrong. As she ran she briefly thought about how quiet it was, after the scream the house had gone dead quiet. Where were Souta and Grandpa? They were sure to have heard it they weren't heavy sleepers. But before she had a chance to think about it anymore a strong pair of arms grabbed her roughly from behind. She tried to scream but a hand was clasped over her mother, so all that came out was a muffled squeal. She was about to kick her assailant when she felt the cool metal blade of a knife place against her throat.

"Try anything and your dead," was all the person said. The voice sounded oddly familiar to her. Before she could question it her attacked began walking forward dragging Kagome along with him.

Seeing this as a chance to escape she tripped the attacker. By some miracle she managed to stay standing as her tumbled to the ground. Not hesitating for a second she bolted for the door, she had to get help. Unfortunately as soon as she was off her attacker was up and chasing after her, as soon as she reached the front door rough hands grabbed her from behind. Before she could be dragged into the house Kagome screamed, the name of the only person she knew that would help her. "SESSHOMARU!"

"Shut up wench!" yelled the man. "Nobody's coming for you!"

After a desperate fight Kagome had been dragged into the living room. As soon as she got there another pair of hands tried to grab a hold of her, but as soon as they did a pink glow surrounded their hand and the small of burning flesh assaulted her nose. "Damn it! Muso your going to have to handle her own your own, we won't be able to touch her."

"Fine,"

Suddenly Kagome was thrown face down to the ground, and the wind was knocked out of her. Before she could even attempt to stand Muso tackled her, and quickly grabbed her hands and tied them securely. Unable to take a breath she could do nothing to stop him, not even breath. Once her arms were bound he roughly ripped a large piece off her shirt and used it as a gag. Finally he got off of her and hauled her to her feet.

"Kagome you may want to look around you. Your not alone," said a cold female voice, one that she would know anywhere it could only belong to one person, Kikyo.

Kagome's eyes shot open and she looked around her. On the ground crying and trying to break free of there own bonds were her mother, brother and grandfather. Tears leaked out of her eyes, as she tried desperately to get free and release of family.

Laughing Kikyo walked in front of Kagome as she continued to try and break free. "I must say I'm surprised, freak. I didn't think that you would still have a family; I mean they must know you're a freak don't they? No, they don't? Well I guess then I'm going to have to tell them," walking over to Mrs. Higarashi she roughly grabbed her chin. "Did you ever wonder why you daughter was always gone? Why she sometimes came home with bruises and always needed new uniforms? That was because of me, your daughter is a freak and always will be. It's too bad that we couldn't beat it out of her,"

Tears fell from her mother's eyes as she found out what her daughter had been hiding from her all these years. A bright light surrounded Kagome as she tried to use her purification powers to break free. But they didn't do anything against Muso he just looked at her like she was a freakish light show.

"I wouldn't try that if I were you miko. Your powers are useless against another human; you're just a weak girl again. If you keep on using your powers you'll run out of energy and die." The voice belonged to somebody new. Who ever they were there voice made her shiver it was so cold. A man appeared as if out of nowhere and ran his finger across her chest. She could see and smell the smoke that appeared from where he powers began to purify his finger. "Indeed you are powerful, maybe I will have some use for you after all,"

Sesshomaru bolted up a sheet of cold sweat drenched his body. Something was not right his instincts screamed at him to go to Kagome, somebody was hurting his mate he could feel it. Dashing out of the house he began to run as fast as his legs could go towards the Sunset shrine, the place where his Kagome was he could sense it, she was in danger. He would tear apart who ever dared to hurt his Kagome.

"Dear Kagome," Continued the demon, "Your life has been hell on earth hasn't it. I bet you just want us to go away and leave you alone don't you. I bet your wishing that your Sesshomaru was here to save you." His hands made there way to the necklace that hung around her neck. A soft glow emanated from the necklace as he picked it up. "He gave you this didn't he?" In one swift movement he had pulled the necklace off and held the pendant in the palm of his hand, where he inspected it closely. "A very nice piece must have cost him a lot of money, it's a shame that he'll never see you with it again." his eyes now darted to Kikyo and Muso. "We must go now, he is coming and will arrive soon,"

"What do we do about the other's?" asked Muso as he eyed the rest of the Higarashi family. "They know who we are,"

"Simple, kill them all. Do it quickly we don't have much time Kikyo," The demon said coldly as he walked out of the room. "Come Muso we have to get her out of here,"

Kagome began to frantically fight as she tried to escape Muso's grip and go protect her family. The last thing she saw before she was dragged out of the room was Kikyo holding her mother up by her hair and a knife placed against her throat. Then everything went black as Muso placed a cloth that was drenched in something against her nose, as she was forced to breath in.

Once they entered the kitchen on the way out the door Naraku beckoned Muso to bring Kagome to him. When he did he used one of his sharp claws to make a small cut on one of her fingers. Then he placed the necklace on the table and using Kagome's finger wrote a note for Sesshomaru. Then satisfied with his work they departed.

----With Sesshomaru---

By the time he reached the shrine Sesshomaru was enraged. He could smell the scent of demon and blood, and a lot of it. The one that stood out most was the scent of Kagome's blood somebody had hurt her and it was a demon. They would have known that he would have come she was covered in his scent and the necklace was marked with a scent all demons would know. One that meant that she was taken and soon to be mated to him. He burst through the door not caring that he had knocked it clear off it's hinges, and he ran towards the scent of Kagome's blood. What he saw one the table made his eyes bleed red. There was the necklace that he had just given her and under it written in her blood was the words.

She'll never fly again.

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