"Kagome, lets go already." Inuyasha uttered from the entrance of the temple that sheltered the sacred well.

"I'll be there in a minute." She yelled back from the back door of her house. I have to say good-bye." She left her bags on the pouch and disappeared back inside.

'That Kagome, she knows we have to go back. What's taking her so long.' He asked him self as he stumped back towards the house making his way to the back door and looked in.

"Bye mom, bye soda, bye grandpa." She stopped to hug her mom, then walked towards the door.

"Well, it's about time." He replied as he grabbed half the bags and walked back towards the well.

"Inuyasha, why didn't you just grab all the bags, you know my ankle is hurting." She said grabbing the two he had left BEHIDE.

"Why should I? You're the one bringing all this stuff, why should I have to carry all of it?" He said walking down the steps of the temple.

"I don't know, maybe to be nice." She yelled from the top of the steps. As she dragged the bags in.

"Hump, why?" He replied jumping up on the side of the well. Kagome stepped down the steps and tripped, but before she hit bottom she felt a set of hands catch her around her waist. Looking up she saw Inuyasha, his anger from their tardiness gone, and now replaced with concern. "You OK?" He asked sitting her on your feet.

"Yeah, I'm all right." She replied as she watched him pick up the remaining bags.

"You ready to go?" He said jumping back up beside the entrance.

"Yeah." She said, then both Inuyasha and Kagome jumped into the bone eaters well. First it was the inside of an old wood walls, then it changed to stone as they fell. Then a strange blue light tangled with the black void. Inuyasha white hair flow up over his head as he flow though time. As it had happened a thousand times before.

Then in the distance she saw a light glimmer red, then in a second it had doubled in size. "Inuyasha, what is that?" she asked as it moved closer to her. She grabbed his hand as the light enclosed it-self around her. A pain incised her in its strong grip, a pain that burned her from the inside out. She tried to scream, but no sound made it past her lips.

From outside the light Inuyasha used his claws, to try and cut into it, but the light just closed right after. "Kagome, hold on." He said as he pulled his sword and tried cutting into it, with the same results. Then he called out wind scare and aimed it to the side of Kagome, so it wouldn't hit her.

The explosion sent ripples though the well, and though the fabric of time. Inuyasha and Kagome were blown apart from each other as the light from the wind scare filled the air.

Slowly Kagome's eyes fluttered open. First she laid there not moving a muscle, trying to dismiss the haze that had filled her head. Taking a deep breath, she sat up, then daringly made it to her feet. Looking around she knew where she was, in the bottom of the well. One of her bags laying up side down against one of the walls, with its continence spilling out.

"Why didn't Inuyasha wake me up?" she asked her self as she started to pick up the thing. 'Why that Inuyasha, when I see him I'm going to give him a piece of my mind.' Putting the pack on her back she climbed the vines up the well. Coming close to the top she started to smell smoke." Smoke, that means there's a fire somewhere close."

Kagome reached the top and her eyes looked like this OO. Except for a small band of trees, around the well, and some leading up the tree of ages, everything else was gone. No trees, no grass, no anything, it had all been burned down to the ground. Climbing out she fell to her knees, and took in the sight that now stood before her.

"What happen?" She stood up and made her way to the tree of ages. Everything from the well to the tree was the same, trees, and flowers. Except there was no birds, animals or not even any insects. Once at the tree, she looked shocked. At the same place the body of Inuyasha once stood, there was another.

Kagome ran up to the tree and that let out a gasp. It was a women, her long black hair covering her face. The red pants, and the white shirt gave her identity away at once. Climbing the roots of the tree she reached Kykyo, or what was left of her. Her body was still in tact but, the look left on her face was one of betrayal. Brushing the hair aside she notice the object of her fate. An arrow sunk into her chest. Touching the arrow a shock went through the shaft and stuck Kagome, sending her flying to the dirt cover ground.

"Who is there?" a soft voice asked. Kagome looked up and seen that it was Kykio, that spoke to her.

"Kykio, what happened?" she asked jumping back up on the tree again. "What happened to you, what happened to the forest?" she asked.

"I've spent all my energy to protect this place," she whispered. "Someday, I knew you would come back." She replied then her eyes started to shut.

"Kykio, what happened, where is Inuyasha?" she asked as she started to shake her shoulders.

"Save Inuyasha, you're the only one who can. I am sorry, I have no more power, none to help you." Then her head fell limp and before Kagomes eyes she saw Kykios body turn to dust and float away with the wind. All that was left was the arrow, grabbing it she stuck it in her bag, not knowing what to expect.

Jumping down from the tree she noticed that the forest that Kykio had protected had all died. Everything was withered, running back to the well, she noticed that too was burnt and destroyed. "Did I just imagine the whole thing. No, Kykio gave her spirit to bring me here. To save Inuyasha." Kagome walked away in the detraction of Kyadaes village, not knowing what to expect.

Walking down, what once was the trail heading towards Keades village. Now it is only an overgrown inditchen, in the middle of some burnt trees. Looking around for the smallest bit a formality, she made her steps come faster and faster. Until she finally found her self at a full run. As she closed in on the spot where the village was supost to be, the only thing she saw, was the ashes of the once beautiful town that had taken her in so nicely.

She stood on the hill side looking down at the destruction, then fill to her knees and cried. 'What happened, to the village, to Kikyo and to Inuyasha. It had to be that bright red light in the well, it has to have something to do with that.' While Kagome was pondering on that, a sound started off in the distance. As she cried on the ground she noticed a rumbling that seemed to come from the north, looking up she saw a large cloud of smoke, and a group of people coming down from the hillside.

Kagome ran towards them as fast as she could, just to notice that they were doing the same thing. All of them were scared and running away from something. Then the trees behind them started to part, showing the giant demon that was coming after them. He towered over them casting a shadow on his would be victims.

"What is that thing?" she asked her self as she draw her arrow, but right before she shoot she noticed a cloaked figure heading up towards the monsters head. Watching, the figure, it used a powerful blow and knocked the demon off balances. Then twisting in air, used a kick to send it crashing to the ground. "Who is that?" She asked her self as the scared people began to pass by her.

Running out of the trees was the figure that had saved all these people. Making his way after the group he didn't noticed the demon getting up and reaching out to grab him. Kagome fixed her arrow and released, the arrow went flying over his head as it started to take on the power the surrounds all of her arrows. Seeing the arrow he turns to watch where it was going. Then the arrow hit the demon in the palm of the hand, as it did it spit it in half and continued all the way up the body, sending a burst of energy towards Kagome.

At the last second before the blast hit her, the stranger jumped in front of her and held out his heads in front of him and yelled, " Fox Fire." Soon a shield of green flames came up over the two of them. The stranger turned and grabbed onto Kagome in a protective embrace as the blast washed over the shield. She could do nothing else but shelter inside the demons imbrase.

The noise stopped and she stepping back, she bows slightly. "Thank you very much." She looks up towards him but, he said nothing. "Hello, I just said thank you. The least you could do is say your welcome." She added raising her voice slightly. Still the stranger just stared at her, his hood covering his face, making it impossible to see tough the shadow that surrounded it. "Are you OK?" she asked stepping close to him.

"Kagome? he asked looking at her intensively.

"Who are you?" she asked. As he lifted the hood of his cloak. At first he was a stranger, then as she starred at the young man a flash of a cute little demon hit her. "Shippo?" Kagome said putting her hands over her mouth to stop a gasp from excepting.

"Kagome, is that you?" he asked as his fox flame finally despaired.

"Yes, its me Shippo." She replied.

"Oh, Kagome." He cried as he fell to the ground in front of her. She just stared, in front of her kneeled a young man, not a boy. He had long red-brown hair, he was taller then her and ware the clothes of a warrior. She could bearly make out the care loving boy out of the war beaten man that was kneeling before her. She got down and looked him in the eyes. "Shippo, what happen?"

Shippo looked up into the eyes of the girl he once thought of as a mother to him. She was completely the same, the eyes, the smile and she was back. A tear fell down his check as he looked into her eyes and said, "What happened is you left."