Kagome woke up again. This time it was night outside. She looked around the quiet room wondering again if she had been dreaming the entire thing. Something moved on top of her foot. She looked down and saw the cat again. It raised it's head and yawned. No, not a dream, definitely not a dream .

Pulling the covers back and moving off the bed, she decided to go downstairs to see if the strange male was still in her house. She heard the television playing as she made her way down the steps. She stopped at the bottom, whoever they were, had made themselves right at home in her living room.

Shippou was the first to see her. He jumped up and grinned. "Hi Kagome, I'm happy to see you're finally awake. I've been waiting to introduce myself to you all day." He walked over to her. "I'm Shippou and the grouchy one on the couch is Inuyasha. You've already met him."

Kagome recognized Shippou from their first meeting at the BART station. He still had the fluffly orange tail that she couldn't stop herself from staring at. "Um...hi," she mumbled.

Shippou took her hand and brought her into the dining room. "We took the liberty of ordering some food. I hope you like Chinese."

"I'm not really hungry," Kagome glanced at Inuyasha who was sitting on the couch ignoring them and flipping through the channels.

"You have to eat, you haven't eaten all day," Shippou looked at her in concern.

"Will you just stop! Both of you, please just get out of my apartment. You come here and act as if we're old friends and I don't know either one of you. How would you like it if someone suddenly appeared in your life and took over?"

Shippou looked hurt and glanced at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha finally turned to look at Kagome. "Is that anyway to act to the people who saved your life, you ungrateful human? For the past week we've done nothing but follow you around and watch over you like some fucking guardian angels because we were trying to let you come to terms with your own power without invading your privacy, but then you had to go and jump in front of a bus, which I might add is the lousiest way to end your life, but hey who am I to judge? And now that we've finally revealed ourselves to you because we saved your life, brought you safely home and tried to feed you , the only thing you can say is get out? We're not going anywhere, bitch, so sit down, shut up and eat your damn food! "

Kagome glared at Inuyasha who glared back at her. Shippou stood between them looking from one face to the next. He could feel the heavy tension between the two and a sudden rise of power that wasn't coming from Inuyasha. He turned back to Kagome. The look on her face showed how furious she was. Electricity crackled around her. Shippou jumped out of the way when a bolt of light shot from her body straight at Inuyasha.

Inuyasha managed to jump from the couch a second before it hit. The couch turn completely black and incinerated in front of their eyes.

"Are you trying to kill me, bitch?" Inuyasha yelled staring at her in shock.

"Get out of my apartment!" Kagome started to walk to him, her long dark hair began to rise slowly in the air.

"Inuyasha, I think we better do as she says," Shippou told him. "I don't want to get burned!"

"Calm the hell down woman!" Inuyasha yelled at Kagome. Another bolt of light flew at him which he managed to dodge. It hit the wall leaving a huge hole in it.

"Let's just go!" Shippou yelled. He grabbed Inuyasha and ran out the door.

They stood outside and watched as the house shook and moaned. Flashes of light could be seen through the window. Things were crashing and shattering , even the cat ran outside and bounded down the street in fright.

"She doesn't know how to stop it," Shippou said staring at the house worriedly.

"I'm not going back in there," Inuyasha said angrily. "She wanted us out, so we're out, let her deal with it."

"She certainly has a temper," Shippou said with a slight grin.

It took a few minutes for Kagome to calm down and realized what she had just done, by that time, the apartment was totally destroyed. She looked around at the blackened walls, the television which had blown up, her pictures, decorations, everything shattered and torn. Oh my god, she thought. I did this?

"Do you think we should check on her?" Shippou asked after a few minutes of silence.

Inuyasha was still angry at her, but it was his duty to protect her so with a sigh he walked back in with Shippou. The place looked vastly different from a few minutes ago. It looked as if a bomb had went off. They found her huddled in a corner with her knees drawn to her chest.

"Kagome? Are you okay?" Shippou asked squatting down in front of her.

She raised her head, he could tell she had been crying. "I'm sorry I ruined dinner..."

Shippou smiled. "That's okay, there's plenty of more where that came from."

"It's all true, isn't it? This is real...look what I've done...Now I don't have a place to live." She wiped the tears from her eyes and looked around again.

Inuyasha growled something in him hated to see her cry. It annoyed the hell out of him. He walked past Shippou and grabbed her arm pulling her to her feet. "Get up and stop feeling sorry for yourself. We'll find another place to stay."

She glared at Inuyasha and snatched her arm away. "Why are you so mean to me? You've done nothing but talk down to me and insult me. If you don't want to be around me, leave me the hell alone. I certainly didn't ask for this to happen to me. I don't want to be in this situation no more than you do. My life is fucked up enough without having a creature that stalks and insults me. All you've done is make me upset, faint and cry and now I'm homeless. Are you sure you're on my side? Perhaps, you were sent here to make me destroy myself."

Inuyasha stared at her for a long moment. Everything she said was true, he was totally fucking this up just like he thought he would. What if she had destroyed herself because he kept making her angry. She had no clue how to control her power and this could have been so much worse than it was. Like an idiot, he had ran outside and left her alone to deal with it because she had pissed him off. He knew he owed her an apology and yet his pride wouldn't let him.

The room suddenly began to grow very cold. Kagome's breath began to appear in soft puff of smoke. Goosebumps began to pop up on her arms.

"Um..guys...I think we have company," Shippou said staring behind them.

They turned around. Three dark figures stood in the middle of the room. They looked like shadows, but they wasn't attached to the wall.

"What are those things?" Kagome asked shivering from the cold as well as fright.

"Ghosts," Inuyasha said. "They must have sense your power."

They suddenly came at Kagome at an alarming speed. They went right through Inuyasha who tried to block them. Kagome was thrown against the wall. Two of them held her arms against the wall while the third one tried to find a way inside of her. Kagome's mouth was yanked open. The third ghost slowly began to go inside.

"Get the hell off of her!" Shippou swung at them wildly with his fists, but they kept dissipating and reappearing. He watched helplessly as Kagome began to gasp for air. "She can't breathe! They're killing her!" He turned to Inuyasha for help.

He was standing a few feet away making a triangular sign with his fingers and chanting something in a foreign language he didn't understand. Inside the shape of the triangle a black void began to form, it began to whirl around like a miniature hurricane. The room began to fill with air. Inuyasha's long white hair began to fly wildly in the wind. The ghosts began to scream as their form began to stretch towards the black void. The two that held her against the wall was quickly sucked into the void. The one that had almost made it inside Kagome fought the hardest. Inuyasha began to chant louder and faster. The ghost tried to hold on, but ended up sucked into the void like the others. Inuyasha stopped chanting and quickly clapped his hands together . The void disappeared. He would have to thank Miroku for teaching him that little trick.

Kagome fell limply to the floor. She struggled to breathe. It was as if there was something blocking her air passage. Inuyasha ran to her and took her in his arms. He stared down at her pale face in concern. Her mouth was wide open and her eyes were unfocused. Inuyasha shook her hard. "Breathe! Breathe! Damn you!" She was about to lose conscious. He did the only thing he could think of at the moment. He bent down and latched his lips onto hers, took a deep breath and filled her lungs with the air she needed.

Kagome felt something burst free inside of her. Inuyasha pushed air into her mouth again and her lungs began to work. He pulled away when she took in a deep breath and began to breathe on her own. Her body relaxed in his arms.

Shippou fell to his knees beside them and sighed in relief. "That was another close call. Why did they attack her like that? She's obviously been living with them in peace until now."

"I've been living with ghosts?" Kagome gasped between breaths.

"Shhh," Inuyasha told her. "Be still Kagome. You need to get your strength back," he told her gently. "Most humans live with ghosts, they 're just not aware of it unless the ghosts want them to know." He turned to Shippou. "Her display of power must have attracted their attention. They realized what she was and tried to take the shikon no tama. They wanted to come back to life."

"They could have asked," Shippou said irritated.

"No, Kagome can't bring a soul without a body back to life, but, if they had taken the shikon no tama and absorbed it inside of them, the sheer force along would have turned them into a powerful creature."

"This is crazy!" Shippou said. "Everything is after her!"

"That's why we're here," Inuyasha said looking down at Kagome once again noticing how helpless and fragile she looked in his arms. "To protect her." Inuyasha found himself getting lost in those lovely brown eyes as they stared back at him with innocent trust. He blushed, he didn't deserve the way she looked at him after the way he had treated her. He stood up lifting her with him and cradling her close against his chest.

Kagome laid her head on his shoulder too weak to do anything else. "Let's get out of here. We'll find a nice place to stay," she heard him say. For some reason she had the hardest time keeping her eyes open.