Claimer: -is in a shark's belly underwater- I do own Inu-Yasha!

Rumiko: -uses a machine to take the shark out of the water, shakes the shark until I pop out of it's mouth-

Disclaimer: Grrrr you found me...dang it...anyway, I don't own Inu-Yasha -sighz-

STILL rated m for coarse language, violence, and lemons

last time

"What? What is it?" Inu-Yasha asked, looking in the direction of Kagome's eyes.

"Monster," she murmured under her breath, wide eyed.

The goblin smiled his weird toothed smile. "Hello my pretty."

this time

"What are you doing here?" Kagome asked, her eyes still wide. Monster continued to smile.

"I'm here to check on Pretty again," the goblin replied, walking closer towards the cat hanyou. Kagome backed up.

"Kagome, what are you talking too?" Inu-Yasha asked in a worried tone, looking over at Monster as if nothing was there.

"Monster!" Kagome answered, pointing to the goblin. Monster smiled and waved a clawed hand at Inu-Yasha, but the dog hanyou seemed like he didn't notice. Inu-Yasha stared at the spot where monster was then looked back at Kagome. The look on his face read that he thought Kagome had finally lost it.

"Kagome, nothing's there."

Kagome gaped at him then looked over at Monster. Monster was there, he was standing only just a few meters away from the two.

"That's right! There's nothing there!" Monster sang mockingly, skipping and hopping around in his spot. "Nothing's there, Pretties! It's all just a figment of your imagination!"

Kagome furrowed her brow. She knew that Monster was real and was right there; the problem was that Inu-Yasha just couldn't see the goblin.

"You just can't see him," Kagome explained quietly, her eyes still locked right onto the dancing goblin. "That's it, you just can't see him. Or hear him."

Not liking her tone, Inu-Yasha grabbed Kagome's arm and started to pull her out of the room. "Come on! I think waking up to see a dead body in your own room made you finally loose it. Maybe you just need some rest Kagome. Go back on the couch and take another nap." Kagome hissed deep in her throat like she had did the first time she saw him. The cat hanyou clawed at Inu-Yasha, gently enough so he'd let go. Five small gashes lay nestled on his sleeve, little droplets of crimson blood started to come out of them. Inu-Yasha looked at Kagome with wide eyes.

"Inu-Yasha, you have got to believe me, I'm not insane! It's just that you can't see or hear him!" Kagome cried, edging slowly away from the dog hanyou. Tears of frustration were begging to come out of her eyes as she balled her hands into fists. "I'm not going crazy, he really is there!"

"You know he's not going to believe you, Pretty."

Kagome glared down at Monster and hissed, "Yes he will."

Monster shook his head. "No Pretties. He wouldn't believe you, he couldn't believe you. Why would someone like him believe what they can't see?"

"Well..." the cat hanyou was un sure of what to say. Seeing this, Monster gave his own little goblin smirk as his face grew suddenly dark.

"And that will be his downfall."

"Huh?" Kagome looked up just in time to see Monster lunge at the un expecting dog hanyou. Inu-Yasha was merely standing there, for of course, he couldn't see the goblin. The tears finally gave away as Kagome lunged for Inu-Yasha as well, but to protect him of course. Monster and Kagome were getting closer to the dog hanyou, but luckily Kagome got there first. The cat hanyou latched herself onto Inu-Yasha and tackled him to the ground. Monster missed and went flying across the room, where he slammed into the wall and slid down it like goo. When Inu-Yasha managed to sit up, Kagome was still on him, her arms wrapped around his neck. Kagome looked up at Inu-Yasha to see if he was fine. He was, it was just that his eyes were as wide as saucers.

"Oh um, sorry," Kagome mumbled, getting up off of the dog hanyou. She smoothed out the wrinkles on her shirt nervously as Inu-Yasha got up as well.

Inu-Yasha smirked. "My Kagome, I didn't think you wanted me that much."

The cat hanyou blushed and arched her eyebrows at him. "Baka, I was saving your life! Monster was just about to eat you!" Kagome looked around and panicked a bit when she noticed that the goblin was no where in sight. "Hey, speaking of which, where the hell is he?" The girl started to walk around the room, looking for him, but he wasn't there. She sniffed the air. Kagome had remembered that when she had first saw Monster, she couldn't really get over how terrible he smelled. Like rotten eggs and fish that had been left in an un washed athlete's shoe for a week (a/n: graphic, huh?). The smell was completely gone right now. How could he just disappear so quick? But then Kagome's thoughts were suddenly shattered when she heard Inu-Yasha cry out...

"Hey, what the hell?!"

Kagome whipped around to see Monster on Inu-Yasha's back, thrashing his wild claws at the dog hanyou. Inu-Yasha was desperately trying to get the thing he could not see of his back. Seeing this sort of reminded Kagome about something her father had once told her...

FLASHBACK

Even when Kagome was younger, she was into dark stuff. CD's, movies, stories, anything. In her childhood she had been fed a steady diet of horror. Every night her father would tell her a different horror story. Sometimes they were so scary Kagome would ask again for her father to tell her it. The queen of course hated having this horror brought up against her little girl, and would almost every late night argue with the king.

One night after Kagome had once again heard her parents arguing, she started to weep. That night her father had heard her crying and came into her room.

"What's wrong with mommy?" Kagome asked, sniffling and wiping the tears with her small hands.

"She just has a devil on her back," King Higarashi replied, helping her wipe the tears away.

Kagome looked at him, puzzled. "She has a devil on her back? What does that supposed to mean?"

"Well, some people say goblin too. It's when an invisible goblin latches themselves onto a person's back. The goblin makes their attitude get worse. The goblin makes them get really mean, nasty, and cranky," her father replied, a mischievous look coming across his face. Kagome giggled a bit and smiled back.

"Is it one of those goblins that look all blubbly and they had really big eyes?" the young girl asked, leaning back into her bed.

"Yes!" King Higarashi exclaimed, spreading his arms out wide to show how big there eyes were (and just exaggerating a bit). "None of them have real names. They belong to people that they just call their 'masters'. They don't speak quite right, it's sometimes like talking to a 6-year old!"

"Hey!" Kagome cried in protest, attempting to tackle her father. They playfully wrestled with each other for a bit, until the king gently dropped his daughter onto the bed. King Higarashi kissed her on the forehead and went to turn off the light off. Before he left the room, Kagome spoke again.

"I hope that the goblin with come off mommy's back. Will you try to take it off?"

The king smiled at his daughter. But this was a rather sad smile. "I'll try."

END OF FLASHBACK

Kagome's eyes widened as realization sunk in easily. Her father was actually telling the truth about those devils that go onto people's backs. Well, not really about the going onto people's backs thing, actually. But the king was right. He didn't really have a real name. He did have someone who he called 'master'. He did actually make it feel like you were talking to a six year old. Hearing Inu-Yasha's shouts again, Kagome snapped back to reality, where Monster was still attacking Inu-Yasha's back.

"Monster stop!" Kagome screamed, running towards the dog hanyou. She easily ripped off the goblin. Once in Kagome's hands, Monster had stopped squirming. The cat hanyou cringed as she held onto him. The goblin felt like wet sand paper, which totally grossed the girl out. Still holding onto Monster, Kagome scampered over to Inu-Yasha, who had collapsed on the couch.

"Inu-Yasha are you OK?" Kagome asked in worry, taking one hand off Monster to touch the dog hanyou's shoulder. But, she was able to use two hands. Kagome gasped as she saw that Monster was gone. A poof of smoke had surrounded her hands, meaning he had fled back to his master. Inu-Yasha cringed when he touched her but did nothing more.

"I'm fine," he replied. Inu-Yasha was breathing heavily. Kagome frowned.

"No, your not. Now let me see your wounds," the cat hanyou stated, her mouth in a tight frown.

Inu-Yasha smirked. "See, I told you that you wanted me." He quickly removed his shirt.

Kagome blushed and rolled her eyes. 'At least I know that he's starting to feel better.' She turned him around so he was facing the other way. Kagome winced. Bloody gashes and punctured fang marks were all over his back, along with some of Monster's glass teeth. Kagome frowned and gently took the glass out of Inu-Yasha's back, getting some whimpers of pain that were killing Kagome's heart. She then went upstairs and got a little first aid kit. Kagome used a little alcohol wipe to clean the dry blood and finally bandaged some of it up. When she was done, something caught her eye. There was a rather large scar on Inu-Yasha's back; one that looked like it was healed years ago.

"Inu-Yasha, what is this?" Kagome asked, gently scraping her index and middle finger's across it.

The dog hanyou was silent for a bit. "So I guess you were right."

Kagome pursed her lips slightly. She knew that he was trying to avoid the subject, but why? The cat hanyou sighed and dropped it. "Yeah, I guess so. Do you believe me now about Monster?"

"Yeah, now I do," Inu-Yasha turned around to face her. For some reason, his eyes seemed cold. "But why couldn't you tell me what he was? Because I still don't have a clue."

Kagome sighed. "I just can't. I can't even tell you why I can tell you what Monster is."

Inu-Yasha stared at her stupidly. "OK..."

"Hey!" Kagome suddenly chirped, getting up from her seat. "Maybe I could draw it for you!" The cat hanyou had always been a skilled artist, especially went it came to monsters. The girl ran off in search of a piece of paper and a pencil. A few minutes later she came back. Kagome sat down and started to draw Monster, starting off with the ears. Kagome frowned.

"No, that's not right," she mumbled, erasing it and starting over. Every few minutes she kept doing this. About half and hour later (and a lot of 'Are you done yet?') Kagome was done. The girl smiled proudly and shoved the paper into Inu-Yasha's face. The dog hanyou frowned.

"Um, Kagome. I can't really tell what this it," he said quietly, showing the picture back to Kagome. Kagome frowned and wanted to scream. The picture was just a bunch of squiggles.

"Damnit to hell!" Kagome cursed loudly, making Inu-Yasha jump a bit from his seat. "That ful-"

"Whoa Kagome!" Inu-Yasha stopped her before she could go on. "What's with the sudden outburst?"

"That baka made the sploase make me not able to even draw him!" she shouted in frustration, the word 'spell' turning all slurred. Inu-Yasha backed up again from the screaming girl.

'On second thought, maybe she is going crazy.'

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"Ah, Monster, good. You're back."

"Yes masters!"

"Now, one question. Why the hell didn't you finish off that damn hanyou!"

"Monster's is sorry! Monsters got grabbed by Pretty! Master ordered for Monster to not hurt Pretty!"

"You at least could've tried to squirm out of her arms! Or, held onto Inu-Yasha tired, bastard! You practically let go of the damned hanyou!"

"Monster is so sorry master! Monster won't let you down next time!"

"Next time? Why do you think there will be a next time?"

"NOOOOO! Master, please don't kill Monsters! Monster will do his best! Monster will use all his might to kill hanyous!"

"..."

"Master?"

"Fine Monster. You get one more chance. If you ruin it, say hi to everyone in hell for me."

"Oh, thank you masters!"

"Get off of my feet you ass! Now leave again. You better not disappoint me this time."

"Monster's won't! Don't worry...I'll make sure that Inu-Yasha's blood falls swiftly over Kagome's fragile body."

Did any of you notice something at the very last sentence? Huh? Did ya? If so…tell me...you'll see what it's all about in the next chapter if I get some comments

Oh, and yes, I decided to continue on...when people ask me (especially that nicely) I just can't help but say yes -sighz- that's what's wrong with me.

So, please still comment!

(Oh, and thanks to: darkangelMS, pearlless, Sammixoxo, and TeArS oF gLaSs)