AN: HOLY CRAP I HAVEN'T UPDATED THIS STORY IN AT LEAST A YEAR. I suck, guys, I'm so sorry…yeesh, a year can pass by fast.

Alrighty, here's the scoop. I wrote the first chapter to TGG in study hall two days ago, so expect that up tomorrowish. TOHG is about 75% done, so that's coming up as well.

I'm sorry about how long this took to update, I just couldn't figure out how to actually do this…I finally narrowed the dream choice down, so voila.

I currently am the female lead in a musical right now, and it's so much fun. Wish me luck, opening night's in two weeks!

Music was the Vitamin String Quartet's version of the Beast and the Harlot by Avenged Sevenfold. Thank you, Guitar Hero for introducing me to that song and forcing me to be a huge Avenged Sevenfold and heavy metal fan.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any characters, songs, or anything mentioned I this chapter but the storyline.

ANOTHER QUICK NOTE (VERY IMPORTANT): First of all, I hate you for making sure we have to answer stupid quizzes to stay on. Graaaaaah…(watch this only be a problem for me and it ends up being some stupid virus or something…that is the LAST thing I need…)

And now, the main event. The way I used to do my border lines to separate parts within chapters isn't showing up when I post the chapters, so bear with me for creativity coming up…

(THIS IS A BORDER LINE)

CHAPTER 6:

"Do you really think Kagome will be surprised by this surprise visit that we haven't told her about?" Ayame was asking Sango.

"Well, I haven't told her at least. Right now, I'm just hoping that you haven't spilled the beans." Sango groaned as she clicked on her left blinker light.

"Yuck, are they lima beans? I hate lima beans!" Ayame made a sickened face as two cars whizzed past them to her left.

Sango sighed as she sped up on the highway. She and Ayame were in Sango's car, dropping by for a surprise visit on Kagome. Lately, Kagome had been acting strange and both Sango and Ayame were convinced it was boy troubles. More specifically, boy troubles involving a certain hanyou.

"I love three-day weekends, you get to do so much!" Ayame squealed as they turned onto the road that led to the Higurashi shrine.

(INSERT BORDER LINE HERE)

"Miroku, remind me again why you're the one that's driving? Snails are going faster than us, dude." Kouga growled in the passenger seat of his own car.

"Because, Kouga, the reason my car is currently at a mechanic's is because of your driving. We can't be late for the meeting with Inuyasha." Miroku explained lightly.

Kouga sighed and bent his neck back so his head was resting at the top of the chair's headrest. Why the crap had that hanyou wanted them to come out to talk to him anyway? It was all too suspicious. It probably had to do with his darling Kagome, since it was that woman-stealing Inuyasha, after all.

"All right, we're heeeeeeeereeeeeee!" Miroku sang as he and Kouga stepped out of the car after parking in front of Inuyasha's mansion.

(GUESS WHAT GOES HERE?)

"Nice place ya got here, Kags." Sango complimented as she inspected a rather odd painting on the tan wall.

"Thanks." Kagome sighed as she set Sango and Ayame's glasses of fruit punch down on a small coffee table.

"So whaddid you wanna talk about?" Ayame asked childishly. The fact she had asked for a bendy straw in her drink did not help.

"Well, I might as well throw it out then. I had a dream about Inuyasha about a week ago." Kagome explained quickly, and then winced at the silence that followed.

(IF YOU GUESSED A BORDER LINE, THEN DING DING DING!)

"All right, spill it, ya damn mutt." Kouga ordered as he flopped down on Inuyasha's couch.

Inuyasha glared at the wolf demon. "Can it, wolfy."

Kouga and Miroku looked at each other questioningly. Something really was wrong with Inuyasha if he was so exhausted he couldn't come up with a better insult than "wolfy".

"Inuyasha, we're genuinely worried about you." Miroku began. "Lately, it looks as though you haven't slept at all."

"It doesn't just look like that." Kouga snorted.

Inuyasha "humphed" as he flopped down on a chair opposite of Kouga on the couch and Miroku, on the floor.

"So, what's going on, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.

Inuyasha winced slightly before blurting it out.

"I've had two dreams in two weeks about that Higurashi girl, Kagome."

(GIVE ME A B! B!)

Sango nearly choked on her juice while Ayame's eyes widened to the size of softballs.

"Dream? Who? What? Where? Why? When? HOW?" Sango and Ayame both stuttered out together.

Kagome had to avoid looking them eyes to keep from bursting out in laughter. It was amazing that Ayame and Sango weren't related, with the things they said and did sometimes.

"ANSWER THE QUESTIONS!" they both screamed together now, and Kagome totally lost it, not able to stop laughing.

"No laughing!" Ayame pouted.

Kagome took a few deep breaths. "Sorry, sorry. Okay, yes to the first one, I had a dream." She stopped herself before repeating it in a very aristocratical "I have a dream" way.

"Okay, she had a dream." Sango noted.

"The dream involved a girl I didn't know, my mom and dad, me, and Inuyasha." Kagome continued.

"The dream involved a girl she doesn't know, her parents, herself, and Inuyasha." Ayame repeated very seriously to Sango.

"The dream was about a society where the parents of children were taken away from them once they turned 15."

"The dream was about a society where the parents of children were taken away from them once they turned 15." Sango whispered to Ayame.

"The place was some weird desert country that also involved a lot of weird icy spots. There were a few volcanoes, too. And lots of caves."

"The place was a weird desert country with a lot of icy spots, volcanoes, and lots of caves." Ayame whispered back.

"I don't know why I had the dream, and I don't know why my dad was taken away, or why the unknown girl's parents were both taken away. Both of Inuyasha's parents were taken as well."

"She doesn't know why she had the dream, or why only her dad was taken away while both of Inuyasha's and the unknown girl's parents were taken away." Sango repeated slowly.

"I had the dream last week and I was the age I am now in the dream, so it must be a present-tense dream."

"She had the dream last week, and she thinks it was a present-tense dream." Ayame reported.

"Well, it's not very present-tense now, is it?" Sango grumbled.

"And…I…fell asleep…and that's how it happened?" Kagome guessed on how to answer the "how" part of their questions.

Sango and Ayame both glared simultaneously at Kagome.
"SPILL EVERY DETAIL NOW!"

(GIVE ME AN "O"! O! GIVE ME AN "R"! R! GIVE ME A "D"! D!)

Kouga had Inuyasha pinned to the wall, a clawed hand against the hanyou's throat. "You mean to tell me you had a romantic dream that involved you and my Kagome as the main parts? You sick, conceited little monster, why I oughta-"

A strong gust of wind blew through the corridor as Miroku opened his wind tunnel, then closed it just in time as Kouga was smacked against the opposite wall. "Really, Kouga, we ought to start thinking about you getting into anger management."

A groan was Kouga's response.

Miroku then turned to his other friend. "You do realize that you're going to have to tell us every single detail of this dream, however cheesy it may be?"

Inuyasha nodded. "I must accept the consequences of my actions."

"Damn…mutt-face…" Kouga muttered as he slowly sat up.

(GIVE ME AN "E"! E! GIVE ME A "D"! D!)

"Okay…so…let me recap here…" Sango began, staring at Kagome. "So…you and your mom were living in this weird fire and ice desert country, and you heard that your dad was going to be taken away, so you kept trying to run off. Eventually though, it didn't work, so you gave in and returned to your little town where this unknown girl with long, straight black hair and Inuyasha were. You were waiting for the police to come when you overheard the girl and Inuyasha talking. Inuyasha was saying that both his parents were being taken away. Emotions overwhelmed you and you ran over to him, threw your arms around him and apologized for being so selfish over the fact that only your dad was going to be taken away that you hadn't even realized Inuyasha's pain. At that moment, you heard the police coming to take your dad away, so instead of pulling away from the embrace you were currently involved in with Inuyasha, you pulled him tighter to you and begged him not to let you see your dad getting taken away. Inuyasha hugged you back, and then you woke up."

Kagome winced. "Maybe not so extraneously detailed, but yeah, that's pretty much it."

"Wow…that's…intense, Kagome. Even I don't dream things that intense, and I fail all my class because I'm daydreaming all the time!" Ayame pointed out, looking at Kagome with new admiration.

"Yeah, mhm, c'mon Ayame, it's late and we have school tomorrow." Sango sighed, standing up and pulling Ayame up with her. "You will tell us the next time you have a dream about Inuyasha?"

Kagome shifted so her bangs covered her eyes. "It won't happen again, so don't worry. It's just because I've been around Inuyasha so much lately, my brain just got confused and came up with that. That's it."

Sango looked at her friend inquisitively, but shrugged. "All right, whatever. We'll see you tomorrow, Kags."

The door slammed shut and Kagome was alone. Slowly, she stood up and climbed up the stairs to her bedroom where she flopped face-down onto her bed. After a couple of seconds, she shifted so she could breathe.

She hadn't told Sango and Ayame the first dream, the one that involved a princess and her knight in love. She had been so sure that the first dream was just a coincidence, just some stupid thing her brain was doing. Only it ended up not being that.

Kagome's eyes narrowed. What was wrong with her? She was through with men, they were nothing but no-good lying bastards that didn't deserve her attention.

Kagome placed two fingers to her neck and felt her quickened heart-beat.

Why? Kagome thought, why does my heart start racing whenever I think about that stupid Inuyasha?

She stood and turned off her light, then threw her bed covers over herself and started drifting off to sleep.

I'm not in love with Inuyasha, she decided.

I can't stand to feel the pain of love again.

Soon after, she was fast asleep.

(I GOT BORED OF CHEERLEADER SPELLING. THIS IS A BORDER LINE.)

Kagome sighed, hugging her knees to her chest and closing her eyes as she, her mom, and her dad sat in the wagon. She couldn't believe they were taking her father away. It wasn't fair. Who decided these things anyway?

"They should feel lucky, getting to keep at least one parent."

Kagome opened her eyes. What?

"I mean, at least they'll have someone, right?"

It was a girl's voice. Kagome turned to the wagon behind her family's and saw two people sitting in it. One, that half-demon...Inuyasha. The other was a girl who looked strangely familiar. She looked like someone Kagome had known all her life. Her straight, long black locks flew behind her in a breeze that whipped past.

Inuyasha shrugged. "I guess. I wonder if it'll be really that different, what with both my parents gone."

Kagome's eyes widened. Both…parents? Inuyasha was losing both of them at once? Here she had been, so selfish and trying to escape the law because she was just losing her father, while Inuyasha had sat through it and done nothing but had lost both of them? Her grip tightened around her knees.

Soon she found herself practically tackling the hanyou to the floor as she flung her arms around him. "I'm sorry!" she cried, "I had no idea that you were losing both of them! That's so unfair, I'm so sorry!"

What was she saying? It wasn't like Inuyasha cared that Kagome felt guilty, they hardly knew each other. Still…she felt that Inuyasha, though he would never admit it, needed someone right then.

Footsteps and loud voices came from behind the two. Kagome squeezed her eyes shut against Inuyasha's chest as she realized who it was. She felt the tears begin to flow as she heard her father protesting and her mom crying and the police dragging him away, out of their lives forever.

"Don't let me see." She murmured, "Don't let me see him taken away."

Kagome had no idea what she was doing. She was embracing a guy she hardly knew but at the same time, couldn't control herself around. She was surprised he hadn't flung her away yet.

Her eyes shot open as she felt strong arms encase her. "It's okay." A gruff voice murmured. "I'm here now, it's gonna be okay."

Kagome nodded against his chest and Inuyasha pulled her tighter, if that was possible.

The two had never felt more at peace in their lives.

(BOOOOOOORDEEEEEEEEEEEEER LIIIIIIIINEEEEEEEE)

Mukashi mukash, there was a society where taken away from their children once they turned fifteen. The children were forced to survive on their own, and the odds were highly against them.

Even so, one night, to lives swore to protect each other.

The odds were most definitely not in their favor.

(THE LAST BORDER LINE!)

AN: Well, voila, there you go. This was a fun chapter to write once I got going. Sorry I never went back to the guys once I finished the girls' scene, but we can just assume Miroku had to hold Kouga back from killing Inuyasha once he learned the whole story of the dream.

Next chapter…eh, probably this weekend, but no guarantee.