This is a story that has been going around in my head for a while. I hope that everyone like my new story as much as they do the old, but be warned the first few chapters will be kinda angsty so please bear with me ok? And yes eventually it will be Kouga/Kagome.

Disclaimer: I don't own Kagome or any related characters ok?

Standing in the rain.

By Kouga's Sweetheart

Standing in the pouring rain, staring down at the three freshly carved headstones, Kagome's vision blurred just a bit, from the tears that were filling her eyes and threatening to overflow and run down her cheeks, and mix with the cold rain, that had already soaked her to the bone.

Kneeling down beside one of them, Kagome sighed and ran her fingers lightly over the words carved in the cold granite slab.

Minka Higurashi

Loving mother, Daughter, Wife.

1965-2005

She looked over at the other two, the pain of it, finally releasing the tears that she had held back for the past week.

Souta Higurashi

Wonderful son, Brother

1992-2005

Takuya Higurashi

1932-2005

Shrine keeper, Loving father, Husband, and grandfather.

Kagome kneeled there in the pouring rain, sobbing, her shoulders shaking, unable to stop crying about the events that had led up to this rainy night, in the quiet cemetery.

As she knelt by her mother's headstone, Kagome thought back to that day just a week ago when her world had spun so out of control.

Flashback:

Sighing, Kagome gathered her schoolbooks, and headed for the door, with a yell of, "I'm leaving for school, bye Mom! Love ya!" she raced for the bus stop, know that she was going to be late, all due to that stupid alarm not waking her up, even though her mother insisted that it had been going off for a good fifteen minutes before she came to get her up.

Shrugging her, rather large yellow backpack onto her shoulder, she made it just in time for the bus were she promptly sat down with her best friends in the world, Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi. Giggling they all started bombarding her with questions.

"So Kagome, did you find out whether or not your mom is throwing you a party for your eighteenth birthday?" asked Eri, as she eagerly leaned forward to listen close.

"Yeah and is your cute boyfriend, Inuyasha going to be there?" giggled Yuka, bringing up Kagome's boyfriend of almost a year.

Blushing a bit, Kagome smiled at all of them. "Well Mom did invite him over tonight, and she was shopping all day yesterday so I think that I might get a party after all."

The girls all smiled at her, and Ayumi sighed just a bit. "I wish that I could find someone like, Inuyasha to date. I mean you guys will have been dating for a year as of tomorrow! Most couples don't last this long, at least my boyfriends never do." She said looking just a bit downcast.

"Yeah but remember, Inuyasha and I were friends first. Before we even thought about dating.

"Yeah I know." Ayumi sighed again. "But he is hot, with that odd hair coloring of his, I mean were do you get that silver of hair from anyway?" his stylist must be good."

Kagome smiled at her. "Actually his hair is naturally that color it's a family trait, his dad and half brother also have the same color, and even though his father owns the largest Computer Corporation in Japan, and he does have money. I doubt that Inuyasha would spend it on his hair; he would probably buy ramen instead.

From then on the day was normal, although painstakingly slow, almost as if it was dragging just to antagonize her, as she waited to go home to celebrate her birthday.

Walking home with her friends, Kagome couldn't help but smile. She was loved by her family, she had a wonderful boyfriend who loved her, and she had great friends, she was in the top ten in grades for her grade, her world was perfect, in her eyes, she couldn't think of one thing that would make it better.

Unbeknownst to her however her perfect world was about to make a very big crash.

As the four of them approached the shrine were Kagome called home, an ambulance, followed closely by a fire truck and two police cars, went around the corner with their sirens blaring. No one thought too much about it, until the rounded the corner, and saw that they were parked at the shrine.

The police had already put up tape across the entrance to the shrine so that no one could enter it. In shock, Kagome dropped her bag on the sidewalk and took off running for the shrine, only to be stopped by a policeman that was at the entrance.

Grabbing a hold of her, he told her in firm voice, "I'm sorry miss no one is allowed inside at this point."

"But that's my house! That's my family in there! What's going on!" she shouted.

"I'm sorry miss, but I was given orders that I wasn't to allow anyone inside. You're just going to have to wait here until we know more."

Kagome head drooped for a second, as if she was admitting defeat and would no longer fight with the officer about going inside. So the man thought it was safe to let go of her arm, until that is, when she brought her knee up sharply to connect with his groin.

Letting out a strangled gasp, he bent over, and she took that moment to slide under the tape and run toward her home to find out if everyone was ok. As she came to the main part of the house, she caught a glimpse of four stretchers being brought around the back of the house to the rear entrance were they would fit better.

Coming to the back door, Kagome was left with a sight that would haunt her for the longest time, of a stretcher, being wheeled out of her house, with a black body bag on it not completely zipped all the way so the she saw a glimpse of silver hair. Three more stretchers followed, each of them carrying a black shapeless bag.

Kagome quickly ran to the house, yelling, "MAMA!" as she got to the door of her house she stopped, aghast at what she saw. Blood, covering everything in sight. It was dripping down the walls, and covering the floor. The coppery scent of it, made bile rise in her throat, and she fell to her knees in shock, as a officer came up behind her.

"Miss I'm sorry but this is a crime scene and I must ask you to leave, Miss…."

"Higurashi…" she whispered. "My name is Kagome Higurashi, and this is my house."

Looking at her with sympathy, the officer led her over to a squad car, were he gave her a blanket to wrap around herself, as he went to go get the chief.

The police chief came over to were she was sitting, holding the blanket in her hands, staring at it, as if it held the answers to everything. She was shaking a bit, and her eyes were starting to fill with tears.

Squatting down her touched her on the shoulder gently. "Miss? My men told me that you are a resident of this house? Can you tell me your name?"

She looked up at him, her eyes rimming with tears. "my name is Kagome. What happened here? Is my mother ok? What about my grandfather, or Souta?"

He sighed just a bit. "I'm sorry miss Kagome, but the paramedics worked as hard as they could. But there wasn't anything that anyone could have done."

She started shaking even more. "Everyone is dead?" she then remembered the body bag were she saw the silver hair poking out. "Even Inuyasha?" she moaned and buried her head in the blanket, her tears falling freely now. "Mama…."

And that's were I'm going to leave it. I know I'm mean. Hope that you like my new story.