long chapter here. wanna get the disclaimers out of the way before i forget. this scene will prob remind u of the first and newest Freddy movies. enjoy!

He could hear the girl panting as she ran. He loved the sound of their fear.

Unbeknownst to her, he was herding her, like he did with all his victims. Draw out their true fear before killing them. That was how he made them pay.

Not that way. He popped around the corner, sending her the other way, screaming.

He chuckled, knowing it sent shivers down her spine. You're almost there.

She turned the corner to see the bodies hanging. Everyone she'd ever met that died was either in the burner or hung on hooks. She screamed, terrified.

She turned to run, but he slashed her stomach open. She hit the floor shortly after her guts. He laughed in victory.

Freddy had claimed another victim.

Kagome woke up the next morning by being shaken. She opened her eyes, ready to kill whoever dared wake her. She completely forgot about that thought when she saw Inuyasha's face.

"Good morning." she said with a smile. "You okay?" he asked in return.

She tilted her head slightly. "What do you mean?" "You were moaning in your sleep." Inuyasha answered. "You weren't having that…dream, were you?

Kagome quickly shook her head. "No, not that I can remember." He shrugged his shoulders. "Guess that's good."

She looked at her alarm clock-6:30 a.m.. "Why'd you wake me up so early, Inuyasha?" she asked, irritated. "Uh, maybe because we have school today?" he said. She shot up, realizing how little time she had. "Oh my gosh!" she yelled, grabbing some clothes. "I have to shower, brush my hair-"

Inuyasha put a hand over her mouth. "Your mom and brother are still asleep." he reminded her. She nodded her head, and he removed his hand. "I'll make sure you get to school on time."

Kagome ignored him, hurrying to the shower, and almost screamed when she saw Inuyasha go in the bathroom with her. "What are you doing?" she asked him. "Making sure you're not late." he replied, taking his boxers off and turning the faucet in the tub.

"Well, you're not gonna shower in your clothes, are ya?" he asked, stepping in. "Inuyasha, you're not serious, are you?" she asked in return. Flipping open the shampoo, he answered, "Do I look serious?"

Kagome took off her undies and nightshirt, joining Inuyasha in the shower. This is ridiculous. she thought. "Inuyasha, why do we have to shower together?" she asked. He looked at her in mock-shock. "What, you're not enjoying this?" he asked. "Besides, how will two people separately get ready in less than half an hour?"

"So you're not skipping today?" Kagome asked. Instead of answering, he rinsed off and got out of the shower. "Hurry up." he muttered. "Calm down, Inuyasha. I was joking." she said, rinsing off. She stepped out and slipped on the wet tile. Before she hit the ground, Inuyasha caught her. "I swear, Kagome, you would be dead if I weren't around."

"Whatever." she said. "Hand me that towel." He did, and she started drying off. Before she finished, Inuyasha walked out into the hallway. "We got fifteen minutes." he informed her.

Kagome went into overdrive, doing all her morning bathroom stuff in record time. When she burst out of the bathroom, she saw Inuyasha waiting with an impatient look on his face. She ran into her room, grabbed her backpack and phone, saw she had seven minutes, and ran down the stairs.

Inuyasha was right behind her. They walked out the front door and got in Inuyasha's car. When he started the engine, Kagome asked, "You never answered my question. Are you skipping again today?" He pulled out of the driveway, making a loud screeching noise.

"I was." he answered. "Was, as in you were planning on it, but now you're not going to?" she continued. "No," he answered, "I was gonna go, but someone forgot to let me copy their homework." She reached into her bag and pulled the assignment out, waving it around. "You mean this homework?"

Swerving to avoid hitting a dog, Inuyasha answered, "Yeah, that one." Kagome giggled. "I didn't forget. I just decided to make a deal with you is all. You can copy the homework if you attend all your classes today."

Inuyasha's eyes widened. "Kagome, that's not fair!" he whined. "You know I-" "I hate school to, Inuyasha." Kagome cut him off. "Everyone hates school. But if you want these answers, you gotta put up with it, just like everyone else."

He frowned as he pulled into the school parking lot. "Fine." he snapped, snatching the paper. "But I'll get you back, Kagome."

As they walked to the front doors, Kagome started forging a plan. Before they walked through the shiny glass double-doors, Kagome bolted in the other direction, telling Inuyasha to go ahead. "I forgot something in your car." she explained, opening the door.

"You're late!" he yelled back before walking through the doors. She immediately shut the door and ran to the back of the school. This'll be great. she thought.

Recalling Inuyasha's schedule, Kagome remembered he had Team Sports first. And sure enough, when she reached the field, Kagome saw the boys putting on football gear. She saw Inuyasha and took a mental note of his jersey number. 87.

For about ten minutes, Kagome just watched them play from under the bleachers. She heard the teacher tell everyone to take five, and they all headed for the bleachers.

The entire class, even the teacher, went by and didn't notice her. She was about to grab Inuyasha's foot when he got up, shouting, "You wanna say that again, punk?"

"I said," the captain of the football team taunted, "that you're the only one here that isn't in some kind of sport, then I told you to leave." Inuyasha walked up to him, nostrils flaring. "You wanna go, Naraku? Is that what you're saying?" he asked.

Naraku laughed. "You idiot. You realize how outnumbered you are?" As Naraku bragged, the rest of the class circled Inuyasha. He growled, hoping the coach didn't interfere. Without warning, he pulled his fist back and hit Naraku in his cocky face. The rest of the football team jumped on Inuyasha, brutally punishing him anywhere they could land their punches or kicks.

"Hey, break it up, you little shits!" the coach yelled, pulling one kid out of the fray, then another, until everything calmed down. "Naraku, office! Inuyasha, nurse, then office!" the coach ordered. Inuyasha spit a mouthful of blood onto the seat he'd been sitting on. "I don't need any fucking nurse." he snapped before walking away.

"Watch your fuckin' mouth, kid!" the coach yelled after him as Naraku followed after him. "And I don't wanna hear about you little bastards getting into it on they way there!"

Kagome ran from the bleachers, unnoticed by the class, and to Inuyasha. When she hugged him from behind, he almost threw her to the ground. When he realized who she was, he almost shit himself. "Kagome, what are you doing? Don't you have Literature right now?" he asked her.

"Ahh, how cute. I think I'm going to be sick." Naraku said from behind them. Inuyasha stopped and turned around. "THAT is IT!" he yelled as he tackled Naraku. They rolled a few times, ending up with Naraku on top, mercilessly beating the life out of Inuyasha's face. Eventually, Inuyasha caught one fist and pushed back until he heard the satisfying the snap! of Naraku's wrist breaking.

The principal, Inuyasha's father, came storming out. "Break it the fuck up, now!" As soon as he yelled it, Inuyasha got up, blood gushing from his nose and mouth. His dad turned and saw Kagome. "Kagome, class. Now." "Yes, Mr. Taisho." Kagome said before going to class.

Kagome got to Literature just in time for the bell to ring. She went to her locker, put her stuff away, and waited outside the office, not caring if she'd be late.

Shortly after she got there, Miroku and Sango joined her. "Hey, Kagome, what's up?" Sango asked her. "Waitin' for someone?" Miroku added.

"Yeah." Kagome answered in a low tone. "Hey, what's wrong?" Sango asked. Kagome told them what had happened as they saw Naraku leave in an ambulance, fighting the whole time, yelling he was fine and that he didn't need an ambulance.

When she finished, Miroku chuckled and muttered, "Classic Inuyasha." Before anyone could say anything else, Inuyasha burst out of his dad's office. "Fuck that!"

Mr. Taisho followed, the purest of rage on his face. "Too fuckin' bad, Inuyasha! May as well go home and pack your shit now, 'cause you're leavin' as soon as I get home!" He returned to his office, slamming the door. Inuyasha joined his friends, only to be questioned about what had happened.

"Old man thinks he's fuckin' sending me to military school." He stopped to snort. "Like fuckin' Hell he is!" He started walking toward his locker.

"Military school? Inuyasha, wait!" Kagome called, running after him. "Inuyasha, he isn't serious, is he?" Inuyasha opened his locker and handed Kagome back her homework. "Do you know how many times he's threatened me and Sesshomaru with that?" He walked away, slamming his locker.

"He sounded pretty serious." Sango said, causing Inuyasha to snort again. "She's right, Inuyasha." Miroku told him. "Have you ever considered trying to not get in a fight?" "Shut the Hell up!" Inuyasha told them, walking into the History room. "Watch your mouth, Mr. Taisho." the teacher reminded him.

As they sat down, the bell rang. "Alright." the teacher started, standing up from his desk. "Good morning, class. Pass your assignments forward, if you would." He waited until he'd collected everyone's papers and started going through them.

"Miroku, no homework? Let me guess-another stray dog eat it?" "No, this time it was a raccoon." Miroku said, causing most of the people in the room to laugh. "I'm serious! Sango was even there!" "What're you talking about, Miroku?"

"Quiet!" the teacher yelled. "Okay, let's begin today with where we left off yesterday." He started to go on about the Romans, but Kagome wasn't paying much attention.

Military school? He can't be serious! But what if he's not? What if he does send Inuyasha off to military school? What'll happen to us? What if-

"Kagoooomeee?" She was pulled from her thoughts by the teacher asking her something. "Will you please answer the question?" "What was the question again?" Kagome asked.

"Wrong!" he said. "I asked you who the first Roman emperor was to accept Christianity. The correct answer was-" "Constantine." Kagome finished. "Kagome, please refrain from interrupting my class." The teacher scolded before he continued.

Someone's having an attitude today. Kagome thought. She suddenly felt her eyes droop, and yawned. Luckily, her teacher didn't hear her. She felt her eyelids go heavy.

She heard a knock at the door. No one seemed to notice, so she turned her head to see-Hojo? She quickly looked around. No one seemed to notice anything.

Kagome quickly got out of her seat and rushed to the door. Again, no one noticed anything. What's wrong with you people? she thought as she burst through the door.

"Kagome, this way!" she heard Hojo whisper before barely seeing him turn the first corner. She ran after him, calling his name. However, every time she turned a corner, Hojo was turning the next.

Just when she thought she'd finally caught up with him, he walked through a wall like a ghost. She quickly put her hand against the wall, hoping to find something ridiculous. Just as the thought, it was just a wall.

Then the lights went out. Before Kagome could adjust to the pitch-darkness, she saw a glow from around the corner she had just come from. She slowly walked down the hall, then turned the corner, and almost screamed.

Hojo was inside a boiler. He just sat there, like he didn't notice anything was wrong, even as his skin melted. She ran towards him, but suddenly the door slammed shut, and as if he'd just realized he was in the boiler, he started screaming for help.

She tried to open it, but the door was too hot. She yelped in pain and quickly pulled her hands back, seeing the small blisters forming on her palms. She looked around for something to put over her hands, when she saw him.

Freddy, holding Yuka's corpse up by her hair with his free hand. He was rubbing his blades together with his other, chuckling.

"Little Kagome," he said in his deep voice, "you remember this girl, yes?" Kagome stood there in fear. "Guess not." The boiler door opened, and Freddy threw Yuka's corpse in next to Hojo's. As the door slammed shut, Kagome screamed, "NOOOO!"

"It's too late." Freddy chuckled out. "Her soul's already mine." Kagome turned to run, but Freddy was already behind her. "Where do you think you're going?" She turned to run again, but everywhere she turned, Freddy was there.

"You're in my world, bitch. Don't think you can get away so easy." He tackled her to the ground, and she started screaming. "Why're you screaming? I haven't even cut you yet." he said, pulling his gloved hand back.

Kagome screamed, waiting for him to finish her. When she opened her eyes, she was back in History class, everyone staring at her. "Ms. Higurashi, do you need to leave?" her teacher asked her. She gathered her things and ran out of the room.

She had only taken a few steps when she heard the door open behind her and footsteps following hers. "Kagome, wait!" She turned to see Inuyasha running after her. When he caught up with her, he kept staring at her.

She stopped walking and turned to face him. "What, Inuyasha?" she snapped. "Calm down!" he snapped back. "What happened back there?" "It was nothing-ow!" she said, her notebook popping one of the blisters on her hands. Blisters? she thought. I didn't get those until…Oh my god!

Kagome dropped all her stuff, and while Inuyasha picked it all up, she started walking again. Carrying all her stuff, Inuyasha asked, "What the Hell's wrong with you?"

Ignoring him, she headed for the office. A moment later, she burst through Mr. Taisho's door. He looked up at her angrily, and anger turned to rage when he saw his son. "What do you want?" he asked them.

"Who the Hell is Freddy Krueger?" Kagome asked. Before Mr. Taisho could answer, she added, "And spare me the bullshit!"

"Kagome, you know you're like a daughter to me," Mr. Taisho started, "but your mother would kill me-" "I'm going to fucking kill you if you don't tell me what I want to know!" Kagome screamed. "Who. Is. Fred. Krueger?"

Mr. Taisho sighed. "Kagome, you're still-" Inuyasha tried to start, but Kagome put a hand over his mouth. "Not now, Inuyasha."

"Fred Krueger lived here a long time ago." Inutaisho started. "About twelve, maybe thirteen years ago, if you need to know. He was the gardener at the preschool." "Wait," Kagome cut in, "there's no preschool here." "There used to be." Inuyasha threw in.

"Right." Mr. Taisho continued. "He lived in the boiler room in the basement to the place. Anyway, he was great with the kids. He loved them, and they loved him. Hell, he spent more time playing with them than he did doing his job. No one minded, though. In everyone's eyes, he was a good man.

"Everyone was proven wrong, though. The kids started coming home with scratches on various parts of their bodies. They looked like they were caused by a big jungle cat or something, but we don't live in the jungle. That much was obvious.

"Then one day, one of the kids said something about a cave Krueger took them to. The parents asked all the kids about it, and they all admitted to Krueger taking them to a cave and cutting them. The police were notified, but he skipped town before they ever caught him."

"Then where do the burns come in?" Kagome wondered aloud. She saw Mr. Taisho's eyes widen before he asked, "Excuse me?" She pointed an accusing finger at him. "You do know something about the burns! Now stop with the lies! I'm here for facts!"

Mr. Taisho sighed again, rubbing his temples. He muttered a swear before looking back at them. "What I'm about to tell you, you repeat to no one, understand?" Kagome nodded her head, and he looked at his son. "Understand?" "Whatever." "Good enough.

"I don't know or what you know, but he did burn. We didn't tell the police. We, the parents, confronted him ourselves." "Wait, you knew him?" Inuyasha asked. "Yes. You even went to the preschool. So did you, Kagome, and a number of other people you know." Kagome gasped. That's why he seems to know me. "We were blinded by our anger. We took matters into our own hands.

"We chased him to a factory."

Flashback

Fred ran as hard as he could, panting. He could hear the cars behind him approaching, pushing him to run even harder. He ran into the old factory and locked the door.

The cars parked around the building, and Inutaisho tried the door. "Stupid bastard locked it." he said before slamming himself against the door.

Inside, Fred slid various equipment around, barricading the door. He heard the guy with silver hair yell, "Open up, Krueger! You've got nowhere to go, you son of a bitch!"

"I didn't do anything!" Inutaisho heard Fred yell back. "Why are you doing this to me?" "You know what you did! Open up and we'll go easy on you!" He waited a moment to see if Fred would surrender himself, but nothing happened. "You had your chance!"

Fred was panicking. Why are they doing this? he thought. Please, God, help me out of this. He started looking around and realized that there was only one way in or out of the factory, the door he'd come through.

He slid the machinery out of the way and cracked the door. As soon as he did, he saw all of their gazes quickly go to him. He yelped and slammed it back, sliding the machines back in place.

Inutaisho pulled the empty bottles out of his car and opened his trunk. "Inutaisho, don't do this!" Mrs. Higurashi begged him. "The police can handle this! We don't have to-" "Yes, we do." he cut her off. "Look around you!" She did, seeing the faces of all the other parents. They were all stern, as if they said it must be done.

Inutaisho started filling the bottles up with gasoline when Izayoi grabbed his arm. "Listen to yourself!" she exclaimed. "We're not murderers! I thought you weren't, either." "Izayoi, you saw what he did to Inuyasha! Higurashi, you saw what he did to your daughter! What will the cops do? Lock him away for a few years, only to let him back on the streets! What then?"

Inutaisho had made enough Molotovs for everyone to have one. He passed them out, then lit his. He ran toward the factory, pulling his arm back. "This is for Inuyasha!" he yelled.

Fred heard them arguing about something. He strained his to hear what they were saying. Something about what he did to the kids. But, I didn't do anything to the kids! he thought.

"This is for Inuyasha!" Fred heard the window shatter, then more glass broke, and fire was everywhere. They're burning me!

He screamed as the fire engulfed him, more Molotovs flying through the windows. He ripped off his jacket, revealing his striped Christmas sweater.

Flashback ends

"We put all of you through intense hypnotherapy to help you forget." Inutaisho finished. "You have to believe me, it was out of protection. You couldn't sleep, and when you did, you had horrible nightmares. We couldn't stand hearing our children scream so much every night and every morning."

Still holding Kagome's supplies, Inuyasha felt his anger boiling. "So instead of calling the fucking cops and doing an investigation, you assumed it was Fred and fucking burned him? You're fucking sick."

Inutaisho sighed again. "We didn't need an investigation, Inuyasha. Like I said, you all told us it was him." "And did you ever find this cave we told you about?" Kagome asked. Inutaisho remained silent. "You didn't, did you? And I used to look at you like a dad." she said.

"How about you two take the rest of the day off?" Inutaisho asked suddenly. "And remember, don't tell anyone. Besides, as far as anyone here cares, Fred Krueger never existed."

"You're so stupid." Kagome muttered. "What was that?" Inutaisho asked. "I said you're stupid!" Kagome exploded. "Because of you and your stupid plan to go burn a man alive, Fred Krueger is now killing us in our dreams!"

"Kagome, that's ridiculous." he said. "Explain that to Hojo and Yuka!" she replied. Both his and his son's eyes widened. Inuyasha asked, "Yuka's dead?" "How did you know she died?" Mr. Taisho asked at the same time.

"Freddy showed me her corpse before throwing her into a boiler today during History!" she explained. "Dad, Yuka's not really dead, is she?" "I'm sorry. We didn't want word getting out yet." "Yet?" Inuyasha nearly exploded. "Let me guess-you didn't want anyone to hear before school so everyone would attend? You'd let us figure it out on the six o'clock news?"

He bursted out of his dad's office for the second time that day, pulled the secretary out of the way, and mad an all-school call on the intercom system.

When he was sure it was on, he said, "Everyone, listen up. This is Inuyasha Taisho, and it kills me to tell you Yuka Takahashi is dead." he let the words sink in. "She died early this morning, and your parents didn't want to tell you until you got home from school today. She was killed by-"

Inutaisho pulled his son away from the intercom. "This is Mr. Taisho. My son is right-Ms. Takahashi is dead. The cause is still being investigated." He turned off the intercom. "What the fuck is wrong with you?" he asked his son.

"No, what the fuck's wrong with you?" Inuyasha snapped. He grabbed Kagome's hand. "Come on, Kagome." He dragged her out of the school, hearing various sounds coming from the rooms.

i kno what u mite be thinking-and yes, i know, its pretty corny to have the girl have a nightmare in class. but hey-technically, its a Freddy fanfic, too :P so anyway, ready for reviews especially ones with ur ideas! laters