Toga ran with all his might. Him and his whole family were on there way to finally meet his grandparents when three of his sisters all of a sudden disappeared. His mother had become so lost in her grief that his father had no choice, but to stay by her side to make sure she didn't hurt herself or the baby she was carrying and had sent him to find out what had happened. They just had simply vanished right before their very eyes.

As he ran Toga reflected on what had happen earlier that night.

"Where is your father?" the yokai flea, Myoga shouted as he came bounding into the current family house. He instantly heard the horrid wails of Toga's mother coming from his parents bedroom. Toga's ears flatted against his head. He could barely handle the anguish that was obvious in his mother's voice.

"He's with mom. Izayoi, Minako and Emako just faded away right before our eyes. He's afraid she might do something in her mental state."

"Nothing compares to the love a mother has for her children," Myoga stated solemly. "A good mother will even give up her mate to protect her children."

"I assume you know how this happened."

"There was a shock wave that came from the Bone Eater well. Something has happened in the past that apparently has caused your three eldest sisters to disappear."

"What?" Toga asked a little in shock.

"You must go there and travel through the well so see what happened."

"Why do I have to go? Are you going to come with me?"

"I'm afraid I can't. I already exist in that time. If I come into contact with my past self the fabric of time could very well tear. You don't yet exist during that time so you can go back and hopefully correct what has happened."

"What makes you think I can even travel through the well?"

Toga couldn't believe he was going back to the past where his parents had met. He remembered hearing stories from his parents and older sisters about the feudal era. Apparently it was a dangerous time for both yokai and humans. Primitive yokai and humans were constantly hunting each other. The more civilized yokai almost never hunted humans, but thanks to the more primitive yokai the humans began killing all yokai indiscriminately out of fear.

When he finally reached the shed that housed the well he could tell the residents were asleep. Upon entering Toga shed his modern clothes and adorned the traditional men's clothing his father had kept from that era along with his uncle's sword. Myoga told him that it was the only sword they had that could rival Tessaiga though the sword's identity had to be kept secret. Toga could only use it if he had no other choice for they did not know what the consequences would be if the sword was discovered. After tucking his clothes in a safe hiding place Toga put on his camo backpack and approached the well. To his utter surprise he could see the night sky on the other side.

"Guess Myoga was right," Toga said before jumping in. Moments later he found himself in the feudal era. "The air is so clean here." Toga took a moment to admire the scenery. "I see why she stayed." He then began sniffing the air and discovered that the group was close. With inhuman speed Toga began running in the direction of Keade's village. Dawn was just breaking when he reached the village. A little ways into the village Toga caught sight of a familiar hanyou exiting a hut and taking off towards the forest. "Found them." Toga rushed to the hut and went inside. He was met with the inhabitants still asleep. After a quick check he found his target and began shaking her to wake up. Still half sleep Kagome's eyes were only registering the outline of a male with dog like ears.

"Inuyasha why are you waking me up so early?"

"I'm not Inuyasha," came a foreign voice to Kagome's ears. She instantly bolted out of her sleeping bag so see who had invaded their hut. Shippo yelped as he was unceremoniously tossed off of his place on Kagome's chest. Kagome and Shippo were shocked to see a tall young man with brown eyes and short brown hair with dog ears sticking out.

"You're a hanyou!" Kagome exclaimed as she stared at his ears.

"What's going on?" Sango mumbled as she and Kilala began to wake up followed by Miroku. Toga's eyes went wide for a second after seeing Sango. It shocked him to see how much Sango looked like his mate. Toga couldn't help but smiled to himself before returning his attention back to Kagome. Even though his mate was still very young he could tell she was going to grow up to look just like Sango.

"Another hanyou!" Shippo shouted as he jumped in front of Kagome in an attempt to protect his sudo-mother. "What do you want?" Toga smiled fondly at the little kit. This was a Shippo he never got to meet in his time. When he was born Shippo had already grown into an adult kitsune.

"My name is Toga and I came from the same future as Kagome." Kagome's eyes widen in shock.

"How do you know my name?"

"That's not important," Toga said dodging the question. "What is important is that something happened in this time period that caused our time period to change, Whatever has happened has caused my three eldest sisters to disappear. I have come to investigate what has happened and try to correct it."

"Another person from the future." Miroku softly said to himself as he stared at Toga. "There are hanyou in the future?"

"We are in quite an abundance actually," Toga said proudly. "In our time yokai have come to mix in a great deal with humans. As time went on and modern civilization began to arise yokai had to assimilate, go into hiding or die. Most pure yokai have died, but it was common for ones who were able to assimilate to find human mates so there are more hanyou then pure yokai now."

"So the need for demon slayers really did end," Sango said as she absorbed what Toga was saying.

"Not really," Toga interjected. "Sango, your bloodline still exist in our time. In fact your descendants have been under my family's protection ever since this time period. It is your descendants that took out the yokai that couldn't adapt to the changing world and it is them that keep the remaining yokai from disrupting the world."

"So I will have children one day." A sweet and loving expression came across Sango's face.

"Do you know how many children she bares or who the father is?" Miroku asked earnestly. With a sad smile Toga shook his head.

"I'm sorry, but I can not give any of that information. To give information about Sango's offspring or who their father was would jeopardize the future. All I can say is that Sango does bring children into the world and her bloodline thrives to my day." Miroku face fell a little at not getting the confirmation that it was his children that Sango bares. Sango couldn't help the feeling of pride knowing that even though her village was destroyed their practice and even her blood line still managed to survive all the way into Kagome's time.

"I wonder if I make it to your time," Shippo inquired to himself. "I bet you can't tell me that can you?"

"Correct," Toga confirmed.

"Sorry Shippo," Kagome said as she stroked Shippo's hair affectionately. "But at least this means that we are destined to defeat Naraku."

"Only if you do what you all are destined to do," Toga interjected sadly. "Things have been slowly changing in our time since the shock wave happened that wrapped around the Earth. If I don't get whatever that is suppose to happen back on track you all may not end up defeating Naraku. I was told whatever happened is centered around you guys." Toga paused and stepped closer to Kagome. He couldn't help but notice how beautifully innocent she was. He wasn't use to seeing the glow of innocence behind his mother's eyes. The Kagome he knew had wisdom and knowledge glowing behind her eyes along with the love that only a mother held. "Please allow me to join you until I have found what has happened and fixed it."

"I'm okay with it if everyone else is," Kagome answered with a smile.

"I don't see a problem with it," Sango agreed.

"Me neither," Miroku agreed as well.

"Toga seems like a nice guy so I'm okay with him joining," Shippo added happily. "At least he seems like a better hanyou then Inuyasha."

"What was that you damn runt?" came Inuyasha's annoyed voice from the entrance to the hut. He held half a dozen freshly caught fish hanging over her shoulder. Inuyasha quickly turned his glare to Toga who was standing next to Kagome. "And who the fuck are you?"

"This is Toga," Kagome answered as she stepped forward to Inuyasha. "He is from my time and has come to fix something that apparently went wrong in this era."

"How do we know he's telling the truth?" Inuyasha argued. "You're a fucking idiot if you think I'm going to allow him to join us."

"Excuse me, but who voted you leader of this group?" Kagome's shot back.

"You can't be so damn naïve Kagome to believe every sob story you hear!" Toga was taken aback by the way Inuyasha was treating Kagome. No one was ever allowed to speak to his mother in such a disrespectful manner. Toga had never even heard his own father raise his voice to her let alone curse at her. Apparently he had calmed down a great deal over the next four hundred years. Or maybe it was maturity that he would gain? Either way something inside Toga snapped and he found himself standing in front of his father's past self. Effectively blocking Inuyasha's view of Kagome. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?"

"You disrespect this woman by raising your voice to her." Toga's voice was low and gruff with a hint of aggression. Inuyasha dropped the fish he was carrying and grabbed the hilt of his sword.

"So you wanna fight?"

"Sit boy!" Kagome shouted and Inuyasha face instantly kissed the ground. Toga couldn't help the shock that took over when he saw his father hit the ground.

"Damn you wench."

"Toga, you are more then welcomed to join us in our search for Naraku," Kagome stated with authority as she picked up the fish from the ground. "We all were planning to head out after breakfast. Will you be ready to go by then?"

"I'm ready now," Toga said smiling as he pulled on his backpack strap. Kagome smiled back and directed him to sit next to her as they prepared the breakfast. After a few minutes the subjugation spell wore off and Inuyasha posted himself behind them, staring daggers at Toga. "Don't mind Inuyasha," Kagome said to Toga quietly. "He has his reasons for his attitude."

"There is no reason for him to speak to you the way he does," Toga responded gruffly. "In my family my father never raises his voice to my mother let alone curse at her."

"What's your family like?" Shippo inquired curiously.

"My father is yokai and my mother is human. I'm the first son of thirteen children."

"Thirteen!" Kagome exclaimed. "That's a lot of children."

"Not really," Toga said with a weary smile. "They've been together for five hundred years so having thirteen children in that long of a time isn't really a lot."

"Wait your mother is human and yet she's over five hundred years old?" Sango asked in astonishment. "How is that possible."

"Dad and mom completely bonded themselves to each other," Toga explained. "If a yokai and human completely bonds themselves to each other the mated pair live as long as the more powerful mate lives. It was my parents that discovered this since they were the first yokai and human mated pair to completely bond to one another. Not too long after this was discovered yokai and human mated pairs everywhere began completely bonding."

"How do yokai perform this bonding?" Kagome couldn't help but ask. Toga stared at his future mother for a moment. He remembered when he was just a small pup how he would play mark the female members of his family including his mother. For male yokai children it's common for them to play mark the females in the family as an innocent form of practice. In fact when Toga was a young pup he would mess with his father by play marking his mother whenever his dad would try to be affection towards her and since Inuyasha wasn't aware of Toga's relationship to him the opportunity to mess with his father was too good to pass up.

"Here I'll show you," Toga said and Inuyasha's back when ridged. Toga positioned himself to kneel infront of Kagome. "Right when a male yokai has released his seed into his female he puts his fangs on the part of her neck the meets the shoulder like this." While locking eyes with Inuyasha, Toga gently placed his mouth over where Kagome's neck met her shoulder, his fangs clearly sticking out for Inuyasha to see. For a micro second he applied pressure before removing his mouth. He could hear a low growl coming from Inuyasha. Toga then tilted his head to present his neck and shoulder. "The female would then bite the male in the same place as he bit her and the two would drink each other's blood as she received his seed."

"Wow," Kagome said blushing as she pressed her hand against the part where Toga's mouth was.

"I've lost my appetite," Inuyasha announced before leaving the hut. Everyone stared in astonishment as Inuyasha's retreating form.

"He's never not had breakfast before," Sango stated in amazement.

"He's just mad that another male was touching Kagome," Shippo informed with a teasing smirk. "You all couldn't hear it but he was growling the entire time Toga was showing us how Yokai mark their mates."

"Why hasn't he mated and mark you already then?" Toga asked in feigned ignorance.

"What?" Kagome's exclaimed at Toga's sudden question. "I'm not Inuyasha's mate." Kagome's face suddenly turned sorrowful as she looked away from Toga. "He's in love with Kikyo." Toga's eyes turned cold and deadly at the sound of Kikyo's name.

"That bitch is dead though." Kagome's eyes widen at the lethal undertone in Toga's voice.

"Yes, but you know of Kikyo?"

"That bitch tried to kill my mother more then once," Toga seethed. "She is greatly hated by many yokai."

"Why is she so hated?" Miroku questioned as he finished eating his breakfast. Toga looked at Miroku and contemplated whether or not he should divulge that information. He quickly decided against it. He could smell that his father was close by. Close enough to hear their conversation if Inuyasha chose to listen in.

"Depending how this all goes I might be able to tell you, but sadly I can't right now."

"I understand, but we should get going," Miroku said as he began to stand. "Inuyasha is going to get grumpier then usual if we don't start heading out to find Naraku."

"You're right," Kagome agreed and the group began getting ready to head out.