Claimer: -is in a tree trunk- I do own Inu-Yasha

Rumiko: -cuts the tree down with a chainsaw-

Disclaimer: AAAAHHHHH!!!!!! -Falls over with the tree and climbs out of it groggily- ohhh...OK, I don't own Inu-Yasha

Note: The genre officially changes to drama/romance/horror

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Silence can be very unsettling at times. You can be all alone in a room and it's silent, but there's something strange about the silence. Or, you could say, it was quite deafening. The silence is very unsettling. This is how Kagome had felt as she tried to sleep. Every night she had fallen asleep easily, but then was awakened as if something had splashed cold water on her. And every night she could swear she could feel those pair of eyes staring upon her, watching her. It always managed to creep her out. Kagome never had tried to look over the covers to look at the eyes, for she was scared that it was a monster that would come attack her. A monster with those same awful, fearsome, and scary blood-filled eyes. It chilled Kagome to the bone just thinking about it. On this night, though, Kagome had summoned up the courage to take just one tiny peek.

Once again she felt the eyes upon her, making her tail and ears twitch nervously. Once the feeling was gone, Kagome pulled down the covers again so her eyes were exposed. The eyes...

...were not there?

The cat hanyou sat up, rubbing her eyes sleepily, looking at the door in confusion. It was fully open and nothing was there. Kagome got up and went through the doorway, looking both ways down the hall. The halls were empty and filled with that unsettling silence. Kagome frowned and walked back into the room, closing the door fully. She slowly crawled back into bed, pulling the covers up over her head.

'It was probably just your imagination the whole time,' she thought to herself, snuggling into the bed. 'Just your imagination...' With that, she drifted back off into sleep.

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Munch...munch...munch...

Kagome was later awakened by a munching sound. Her ears turned this way and that, trying to find what direction it was coming from. The cat hanyou peeked out of the covers. It was still pretty dark out and she couldn't see what time the clock read.

Munch...munch...munch...

Kagome's eyes widened as she realized that the munching sounds came from behind her. Maybe it was just Inu-Yasha trying to scare her.

Munch...munch...munch...

"Inu-Yasha, stop it. I'm trying to sleep now, go away," Kagome mumbled gruffly, turning over to face the other way. She pulled the covers back up over her head.

Munch...munch...munch...

"Inu-Yasha! That's not funny, go away!" Kagome cried as loud as she could without waking anyone else up. The girl pushed the blankets off of her and glared at the opposite direction of that she was facing. Kagome frowned, her eyes starting to drown in fear. There was no one there. The girl curled up on the bed and look around.

"Heh...yeah, good joke Inu-Yasha," Kagome said, fear shaking through her voice. "You can come out now!"

No one came.

Munch...munch...munch...

The girl swallowed hard and dared to look downwards to the floor. Something was there. Something was eating down there. But what was it?

Munch...

It stopped suddenly. Kagome held her breath, praying that it wouldn't look her way. But it did. Two, massive, green eyes stared upon her, hunger flashing in them. It was a fairly short and small creature, but it had to be the ugliest thing Kagome had seen in her life. It's body was still pretty massive looking, and it was bubbly and had an odd green-ish brown color to it. Long skinny arms and legs with long toes and fingers with fearsome claws sprouted from it. The creature smiled a weird smile, showing Kagome teeth that were made out of shards of glass, bird's talons, sharpened wood, and mammalian teeth. Long whiskers were coming from it's face, along with a fat nose that made it seem like it had a good sense of smell. It had long, bat-like ears and was wearing a tattered old scarf.

"Hello, my pretty," it gurgled out, still showing off it's strange teeth. Kagome didn't respond. She was in too much shock and fear. Seeing that, the thing jumped up on her bed, making the cat hanyou retreat towards the front of her bed. The thing frowned for a second, but grinned again.

"What's wrong? it asked, edging closer to the frightened cat hanyou. "Don't be scared, my pretty. I'm not going to hurt you. My master doesn't want you to get hurt. If I were to hurt you, he'd kill me. And I don't want to die, no not yet. So no need to be scared. If I wanted to die, then you should be scared." The thing waved his hand over her. The girl felt a bit weird for a second, but ignored it.

Kagome merely stared at it. She swallowed hard again and found the will to spoke.

"Who's your master?"

The creature looked around. He looked nervous, he was suddenly nervous. "I can't tell you that."

"Why?"

"Because master will kill me if I do so. Ask me another question."

"What are you? Do you have a name?"

The thing smiled again, the moonlight shining off his glass teeth. "My name? I don't have a name. Master just calls me monster."

"OK, Monster," Kagome started, the fear of the thing slowly starting to die away. "Answer the other question. What are you?"

"Goblin." A look of mischief passed through it's eyes as it said this.

"Ok, well- a goblin?" Kagome asked in disbelief. "You're a...goblin?"

Monster shrugged and smiled again. "Yep. I'm a goblin. A pure one too."

"What are you doing here?"

"Master wanted me to check on pretty. Master wanted me to see if pretty was doing alright. And now that I see pretty is doing fine, I shall leave now. There's no more for me to do here. I already had an extra tasty snack so I won't get hungry on the way back." Before Kagome could stop it, Monster had disappeared. The cat hanyou was very puzzled now. What did it mean by 'I already had an extra tasty snack?' Then the truth suddenly hit Kagome hard like a sack of bricks. That munching noise was Monster. What was he eating? Kagome slowly got up, her legs wobbling, and walked over to the door. She turned on the light and dared to look back. Kagome's eyes widened in pure shock and the fear returned in a fast manner. In the corner of the room was a bloodied carcass. Bloody footprints were spread across the room. They had long toes, so Kagome knew that they were Monster's. Looking over at the carcass again, the cat hanyou let out a terrified, bone chilling scream. Only a few seconds later did Inu-Yasha come flying into the room.

"What? What's wrong?" Inu-Yasha asked, desperately trying to get something out of Kagome. Kagome was now crying and sobbing in fear and couldn't say one real word. But she pointed a clawed finger in the direction of the body and Inu-Yasha noticed, his golden eyes going wide.

"Kagome, don't look at it, come with me," Inu-Yasha soothingly said, guiding her out of the room. Inu-Tashiou, Izayoi, and Sesshomaru came out of their room. Inu-Yasha called his station and ordered them to get to the mansion as quick as they could. Police officers crowded Kagome's room, while others searched around the mansion. Inu-Yasha sat on the couch downstairs with Kagome, trying to make her calm down. Soon after when the crying had died down, Inu-Yasha spoke.

"Did you see anything?" Inu-Yasha asked quietly to the girl. "Did you see who did it?"

"Monster did it," Kagome whispered, still shaking quite a bit. "Monster did it."

"Monster?"

"Yes. Monster killed the person. He ate him."

By now Inu-Yasha thought that she was going insane. But he continued on asking her.

"What's Monster?"

"Monster's a..." she started but stopped. Kagome tried to say the word 'goblin', but she couldn't. It was like goblin had been permanently removed from her vocabulary. She tried to at least form the word with her mouth but no such luck came upon her. Kagome's mouth was as if it was glued shut.

"He's a what?" Inu-Yasha urged for her to go on. "Continue."

Kagome lowered her head. Then the truth once again hit her. When Monster had waved his hand at her she felt odd. Did the goblin put a spell on her? Kagome continued to stare at the floor, trying to find a way to answer these questions. Monster probably had put a spell on her. One of those spells where you can't talk about it. "I can't say."

Inu-Yasha started to get a bit worried. "Why can't you tell me?"

Kagome's gold eyes stayed focused on the ground below them. "I just can't."

Inu-Yasha furrowed his brow, then sighed and didn't bother to continue on. Maybe she was just still pretty shocked from waking up and finding a dead body in her room. Maybe he'd just better try later. Inu-Yasha got up.

"Do you want something to eat or drink?" he asked, starting to make his way to the kitchen. Kagome nodded before he had disappeared out of sight. The cat hanyou finally looked up when he was gone, her gold eyes once again seeming drained life.

"Why couldn't I tell him?" she thought out loud, though very quietly. "Why couldn't I say what monster was? What the hell is going on here? It's so damn confusing." Kagome laid down on the couch sleepily. It was true that she was quite sleepy. The girl closed her eyes and fell asleep and couldn't help it but have horrible nightmares about Monster and the dead body.

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"Monster, did you check up on her?"

"Yes master. Pretty was doing fine. She was scared at first, but I calm her down. Until I had my snack."

"You what?"

"Um...had a snack, master."

"I already told you not to do that when you check up on her! It will ruin our plan, you bastard!"

"I'm sorry master, please don't hurt me!"

"Fine. Just make sure it doesn't happen again. And next time, when I tell you to, go after Inu-Yasha. Not whoever you went after."

"Yes master."

"Who did you go after anyways?"

"Koga Ookami."

didn't see that one coming, eh? Yes, Koga did escape again and attempted to get into the Tashiou house, but Monster kind of...killed him. I bet some of you thought that the master of Monster was koga..hehe...if so, I fooled you all! And If I didn't...you suck!

kidding, you all rock!

Keep the comments coming please! no flames please