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Once upon a December

It was late December in the year 1972 and the evening with stirring with excitement and laughter. My Niece and nephew dancing about in their evening wear with big smiles, but none as big as Kagome's. She pranced around with her father, her curly raven locks flying out behind her, her cheeks flushed with excitement, her blue eye's wide and sparkling. When she caught sight of me the eight year old ran to meet me and leapt into my waiting arms with a happy cry of, "auntie !" I smiled when my favorite niece looked up at me smiling, "are you going to stay?" she asked hopefully, I shook my head, "I'm afraid not, but I have a gift for you." I felt my heart warm as I witnessed the excitement return to her eyes. I reached into the warm and regal coat I had worn over my dress and pulled out a sliver chain, dangling from it a pink pendant with the symbol meaning 'Kagome' etched into the shining surface along with the words, 'Together always' I placed the necklace around her neck and she picked up the pendant to observe it, "This is beautiful Auntie, thank you!" She gave me another dazzling smile and big hug, as the happiness of the little girl consumed me, little did I know that we wouldn't be together always.

The ball and the happiness was shattered by him. The lights went out and everyone turned to the grand staircase to see a tall man with long ebony locks tied up on his head, his eyes were full of malice and scanned the room with unforgiving glares, his formal suit was a deep purple, and dangling from a long chain was a large red gem, inside the red surface sat a black spider. "Onigumo," I heard my brother spat, as though the man's name was a curse. Onigumo's cold eyes found Lord Higurashi and with an evil smile, calmly made his way to him. The crowd backed up slowly in fright as he walked to face my brother who watched Onigumo approach, his blue eyes narrowed in disgust, "what are you doing here?" he spat, "Why so brash, my lord? I am your adviser." The evil man retorted. "Adviser? Ha! You are a traitor, get out!" My brother commanded. Onigumo's eyes were no longer filled with amusement but bitter hatred, "how dare you banish me!" he howled. My brother had banished the power hungry man after he had caught him trying to steal the sacred jewel from the palace. "Mark my words Higurashi, you and your family will die on the third night! I will not rest until I end Higurashi line forever!" He howled to the world.

Consumed by hatred and lust for power, Onigumo sold his soul to thousands of demons, to give him the power to destroy the Higurashis'. The merging of the demons along with Onigumo's bitter heart had created a demon named Naraku. The siege of the palace was like living my worst nightmare. I had woken up in the middle of the night from a gun shot and sat up awake, I grabbed my coat and ran out the door to see many servants, one ran out and said the words that broke loose all hell. "The Lord and Lady are dead!" My grey eyes widened and I ran towards Kagome's room only to meet her half way. The eight year old had wide fearful and stricken eyes, with tears running down her face and blood stains on her emerald green nightgown, "t-they got Souta!" Kagome cried and without another word a grabbed the little girls hand and dragged her into the sea of panicked servants. Explosions were heard and then Kagome pulled her hand out of mine, "My necklace!" she cried and ran against the servants into her room, "Kagome, come back!" I yelled forcing my way through in attempt to reach my niece. I found Kagome's room ajar and ran in finding her sliding the necklace on as another explosion went off, "Kagome we have to leave!" I told her and grabbed her hand once again, only to be stopped by a sliver haired boy, who could be no older than ten, "go this way, through servants quarters!" he explained while guiding us with inhuman strength, he opened a section of the wall and pushed both me and Kagome into the hole in the wall, "But-" Kagome had tried to say, "Go!" The boy commanded and pushed the wall closed behind him. I can't remember that boy's name, but I'll forever be ingratitude of him for saving our lives.

I hurried to the train station with little Kagome in pull, "Hurry Kagome," I told her as we chased the train. I was pulled on board by some of the men when I turned and gave a panicked cry as Kagome was still running beside, "Auntie Kikyo!" she cried and I reached out to the little girl I loved, "Kagome take my hand!" I called as I grasped her little hand tightly, I could feel it starting to slip as the train got faster, "Hold onto my hand!" I cried tears starting to form in my eyes, I watched helplessly as Kagome tried desperately to run with the train, "don't let go!" She cried through tears that had formed in her big blue eyes, her wavy raven locks spilled behind her while she ran. Her hand began to slip in my own, "No!" I cried as she slipped, "Kagome!" I called through tears trying to get to her, "KAGOME!" I screamed.

So many lives, were lost that night and my little Kagome, my beloved niece. I never saw her again.

A/N: I need 10 Reviews before I publish the next chapter! Please!

I am in no way a Kik/Inu fan, I'm not really a fan of Kikyo at all, but I decided to give her a good role in the story other than Kagome's sister, mostly to avoid her having relations with InuYasha. I wrote this chapter in Kikyo's point of view, however the rest of the Chapters will be written in third person. I'm trying to avoid using a complete word-for-word script of the movie 'Anastasia' but I am trying to keep it similar to the story line so that isn't not a completely different story. Thank You for reading, I promise to keep updating!