AN: I do not claim any rights to Inuyasha but I do claim the story line and any characters not shown in Inuyasha!

By the way this is the first fanfiction I am posting and this is the only chapter ready. Constructive criticism is okay. Flamers are hated!

The Feudal Era was a hard place to live. Many people died from attacks. Also many creatures died from it too. Back then it wasn't uncommon to see all kinds of demons. Demons were not all bad. There were some demons out in the world that worked with humans to help them. These demons live and prosper with the humans, while the others kill and eat humans. Demon attacks were the most common attack that happened in the Feudal Era. The attacks happen a bit more then they used to since the Shikon no Tama resurfaced, then accidentally shattered. These jewel fragments could strengthen a demon and a human by almost 10 fold, just imagine what the whole jewel could do. That would be why Kagome and the ones she travels with are trying to collect them before anyone else, so that the Shikon stays in the right hands and not that of anything evil.

Kagome was lost, searching for her friends. They had all gotten split up during a fight with a random boar demon. Nervous and scared were the understatement of the year for Kagome. She was going to call out for her friends, but did not because she knew she could not protect herself very well if a demon came out to attack her. Usually she has her bow and arrows, this time she didn't since they flew out of her hands during the fight. Suddenly a twig snapped behind her. She then quickly turned around, only to be met with blood red eyes.

"Who… who are you!" Kagome stuttered out.

The guy didn't say anything, just smiled a very toothy grin. That grin caused Kagome to see his fangs in the moonlight. She immediately knew what he wanted from her, he wanted to kill her, feast on her in some way, so Kagome ran, ran as fast as she could to get away from this demon. Only to be slammed very hard against a tree, her back facing the demon.

"My name is Kaime Kakamaru, you shouldn't have ran, it only makes your blood sweeter to the taste for me, I'm a vampire!" the guy chuckled as he bit down hard on the nape of her neck.

Kaime drank almost all her blood, just leaving her almost enough blood to find her friends. He laughed as he finished then wiped his mouth as Kagome slid down to her knees. Her eyes were wide and she could feel her blood gushing out of her main artery from Kaime's bite mark. She knew her life was slowly draining away from her. She was going to die alone.

'If I die, let me die. Just let me get my revenge on Kaime Kakamaru!' Kagome quickly thought when Kaime flew off Kagome slowly stood up and wandered off.

"How could we let this happen?" Inuyasha shouted.

"Inuyasha, this couldn't have been stopped." Miroku tried to calm the irate Hanyou down.

"We all were in a battle." Sango added trying to find some sort of trail that might lead to Kagome.

"Still..," Inuyasha shouted as he picked up Kagome's scent, but mostly her blood, 'Shit!'

Without a word Inuyasha took off running towards the smell without a notice to Miroku or Sango, in search of Kagome. They looked at each other before they realized Inuyasha might have found Kagome, they were running quickly to catch up with him. Almost as quickly as they started running they stopped once they saw Kagome in Inuyasha's arms. His arms wrapped protectively around her fragile body.

"Inuyasha… I don't have much time." Kagome whispered to him.

"Don't talk like that, Kagome!" Inuyasha said softly.

"Inuyasha, you can smell it!" Kagome's breathing was getting shallow, "Just promise me one thing."

"Okay…" Inuyasha lightly touched her face.

"Promise you live no matter what…" Kagome started to pale, "Go on living no matter what gets in your way."

"I promise," Inuyasha hugged her, "Kagome."

Kagome smiled at him as she took her last breath. Immediately the smell of death was in the air, as Kagome's body went limp and lifeless. Carefully Inuyasha laid her cold body down on the ground. He closed her eyes as everyone walked over to his side. The child Kitsune was crying finally smelling the scent of death.

"What happened to her? Miroku asked as he and Sango looked at her blood soaked, white, shirt and her bloody neck.

"A demon attacked her!" Sango gasped.

"But it is such a tiny wound..," Inuyasha looked at his friends.

"What kind of wound!" Sango quickly went to look at the wound.

"What's wrong, Sango?" Sango looked at Miroku before she got a full glimpse of the bite mark on Kagome's neck.

"Oh Kami!" Sango sobbed, "I never told her how to defend herself against them…"

Miroku turned Sango toward him, "What are you talking about Lady Sango-sama?"

"She was bitten by a Vampire!" As Sango sobbed harder, Miroku pulled her into a warm embrace.

"Does that mean she'll turn into one?" Inuyasha asked as Sango stood up, getting out of Miroku's embrace.

"Most likely she won't. Usually a Vampyre has to feed off of the victim twice, draining all the blood from the person." Sango started to walk away, "Let's go to Keade's to bury Kagome. Hopefully the jewel, when it is finished, can bring her back to life."

Keade said a prayer over Kagome's body, wrapped in a white sheet from head to toe, as they buried her and the Shikon Jewel pieces with her. They decided that the jewel pieces would be safer with her then they would be with them since her body still gave of her miko powers to protect them. Even though usually a Mikos powers dissipate once the host is dead. Everybody, except the gang, left and returned to their work after the burial. The gang stayed to pray and mourn until Keade came to tell the of a lead on jewel shards. So they left to collect more jewel shards. Since it was the summer Inuyasha didn't have to worry about telling Kagome's mom anything, because everyone that didn't know about the well thought that Kagome was on a vacation in a place called Europe.

For the rest of the day no one visited Kagome's grave until it got dark. A mysterious human-like creature with bright green eyes appeared just as a hand shot out from Kagome's grave. It bent down and grabbed the hand, pulling the other creature out. Once it was fully out of the ground it looked at the green-eyed one.

"Who are you?" It asked the green-eyed creature.

"I am known as Niomi," she bowed, "and my people have been waiting for you Higurashi-sama."

"Me?" Kagome was confused, "Aren't I dead though?"

"Yes you are but not really. You are a Vampyre" Niomi smiled.

"But-" Kagome was cut off by Niomi pulling out a mirror from her kimono sleeve.

"Here have a look." She handed the mirror to Kagome.

Kagome had fangs, her ears got pointed, and her hair was elongated and extremely straight. Her hand had claw-like nails and her skin was a bit lighter than usual.

"Niomi-sama" Kagome interrupted her own silence.

"Just Niomi, Higurashi-sama, I am your loyal servant." Niomi bowed to Kagome.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Midoriko came to our vampyre village and told us that a rouge vampire will change the true keeper of the jewel." They walked off together, into the woods and away from the people, "She told us exactly where you would be buried, what day to come and everything. I was still only a child when this happened."

"And how will I become human again."

"Midoriko never told us that, only that when you do change back that you wouldn't exactly be human again."

"Oh great!"

"Midoriko did say that the jewel is really apart of you, which is how she wanted it."

Kagome knew then that things were going to change, but if they were for the good or the bad then she'll just have to figure it out when the time comes.