Disclaimer: As much as I hate it, I don't own Inu-yasha, Rumiko Takahashi does. Cry. Shayne is my own character, along with Evea, so please, don't use them without asking permission and giving me at least a little credit. :o) "" is what someone is saying . ' ' is what someone is thinking. And 'mind' is when someone is speaking mind-to-mind. Bold is when someone's conscience (or in Kagome and Inu-yasha's case) or youkai blood is talking.

NOTE: This is a second revised edition. Grin. I'm at a bit of a writer's block at the moment and I decided to revise most of my stories since I can't seem to write anything new, yet.

The Wish

Chapter One

There was a loud screeching sound that would have woken up most people, and it did eventually wake up the girl who was lying down, unconscious, on the ground. She slowly came awake, but it was more from the heat, then the noise. 'What the hell happened?' She slowly sits up, her hand on her head and looks around. 'Where am I? The last thing I remember was Inu-yasha and..' All of sudden it all comes rushing back to her… The final battle. Miroku's hand starting to swallow him up, Sango trying to protect him when she couldn't even protect herself. Inu-yasha...Inu-yasha lying almost unconscious on the ground, yet still trying to get up. Kikyo getting one last shot at Naraku, after which her clay and soil body disintegrating into nothingness, her soul finally at peace. Herself shooting an arrow at Naraku, it completely destroying him. Then herself picking up the now complete jewel , a bright light, then falling into a blackness, a nothingness, so deep it seemed as if she would never find her way out again.

She stands up a bit too quickly and looks around for the others, but is not able to do much because of the swaying. She falls back to the ground and lands on her butt. 'Okay, that wasn't fun. Let's fricken try that again.' She slowly gets up, using a nearby rock to steady herself. Then a thought hits her, as the dizziness is fading. 'Oh great! Inu-yasha's bad language is starting to rub off on me.' Suddenly, the screeching stopped. Kagome looks at the skeletal birds. They realized that she is up and had faded into nothingness. "Oh great, my own personal alarm clock." She jumps at the sound of her own voice, when all around her there is no sound, but her own heartbeat. Then she realizes it, she can hear her own heart beat, but she doesn't think anything of it..

She leans against a rock and studies her hand while she tries to think about what she needs to do. Her finger nails are a bit too long, and they were a sharper then she thought they had been during the battle.

She looks up sharply as a thought pops into her head and just won't go away. "No, it couldn't happen." But she knew better then that; anything could happen. Her and Inu-yasha were proof of that; as were Sango and Miroku. She hesitantly reaches her hand up to the top of her head and feels two very soft triangular ears there in the same place that Inu-yasha's were. She picks up a piece of her hair and glances at it. It's the same shade of black that it had always been, but it was longer and somehow different. She was putting things together in her head and starting to figure out what had happened.

"The Shikon no Tama granted the wish that I subconsciously made. I wanted to be with Inu-yasha, even if it meant staying in the past and never seeing my family again, so it turned me into a hanyou. I guess that it is finally purified and now, Midoriko can finally rest in peace. Along with Kikyo, and everyone who has lost their lives as a result of it. She stares off into the distance, pondering, thinking about everything that has happened to her since her 15th birthday when she first fell through the well, but at the same time, she thinks about nothing. Mostly, she just thinks about Inu-yasha, and wonders if she will ever see him again.

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"What the fuck do you mean that Kagome hasn't been seen since the battle" "Inu-yasha, please, calm down" Sango comes up to Inu-yasha and tries to help Miroku hold him down. "We just thought that her task was done and that she was pulled back into her own time." By now, Inu-yasha in fuming; and it isn't helping that it's HIS Kagome that is missing, or that he was healing slower then a human. Even Miroku and Sango, who were a lot more hurt then he had been, were already completely healed. Miroku just gritted his teeth. He couldn't take much more of this. He had already had to deal with Kouga coming by and wanting to take Kagome with him. Miroku had practically bit his head off, Sango even more so.

Flashback

"Where is Kagome? I don't smell her. Is she alright? Where is my woman! Tell me now human…" Miroku just tries to keep control of his temper as he answers calmly. "She isn't here. She was pulled back to her own...home, I guess you could say, after the final battle with Naraku." Kouga pales slightly at Miroku mentioning the words 'final' and 'battle' together. "You let my woman almost get killed in a battle! I'm going to KILL Inu-kouro. Where is he? Never mind, I can find him myself." Kouga starts flexing his claws and sniffing around. "You won't be able to get to him, and I wouldn't let you, even if he wasn't so hurt. We were all hurt, all except Kagome and Shippo. Besides, without Inu-yasha's mate here, without Kagome here, to stop him, and if he was in any state to do so, Inu-yasha would gladly kill you. Now please, leave. Before you make my mate madder then she already is."

Kouga looks at Sango, who is gripping her Hirakotsu so hard that her fingers are turning white. He hesitates for a moment, but finally decides that he isn't afraid of a woman and. Especially not a human woman. Finding his woman was more important and he said as much. "I'm not afraid of a woman. She wouldn't be able to do much anyways. She's only human, besides too many pups. Even if she could do something, finding my woman and killing inu-kouro is more important." At this, Miroku finally loses his temper, as does Sango next to him.

"Kagome doesn't love you. Get it through your thick, STUPID, head" They both scream basically the same thing, but Sango has a much ruder way of saying it. Miroku is a little surprised at the extent of his love's vocabulary, but he decides just to think about that later. "Kagome has never loved you, SHITHEAD! And she never will! She loves Inu-yasha and he loves her! And as soon as they have told her family, they are going to become mates! She already has his mark on her! So go screw yourself, or something."

Miroku just raises an eyebrow at Sango's use of language that would normally only be coming out of Inu-yasha's mouth. "Or even better, that Ayame girl. She is supposed to be your mate eventually anyways. You were promised to each other and only someone with no honor would go back on a betrothal." Kouga finally realizes that they aren't going to tell him where either Kagome, or Inu-yasha, are, and leaves, but it's obvious that he doesn't believe them. "I think that Inu-yasha is rubbing off on you, my love." "As long as he doesn't rub off on you too, I'll be happy. Besides, he's going to be a godfather soon, and I don't want his language rubbing off on him, or her." Miroku's face brightens and he has a question in his eyes. "Sango, does this mean what I think it means" He doesn't want to hope, but does so anyways. She smiles and looks at him. "Yes. Miroku, you're going to be a father..."

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Miroku's mind heads back to the problem of Inu-yasha. He was healing very slowly, but the rate of his healing was picking up. It was as if, during that battle, Inu-yasha's demon abilities had completely disappeared. 'I really wonder what happened. Is it possible that Kagome made a wish for Inu-yasha to be human?' He shakes his head. 'No, Kagome wouldn't do that. She knows that his demon heritage means too much to him for her to make such a wish.' Sango comes up behind him and he holds out his arm. She comes close to him and snuggles into his side, her steadily growing belly testament to the love between them. "What's wrong, my love? Are you worried about Inu-yasha and Kagome again" He just nods and holds her a bit tighter. "Of course I am. He's starting to heal faster, but still. And Kagome, I don't want to even think about her. What if she wasn't pulled back to her time, and is somehow wandering around lost? I can't help worrying."

She smiles sadly. She's knows him too well, and knows that he couldn't help worrying. Just like he wasn't going to stop worrying when she finally had the child. She is lost in her thoughts when she feels a hand where it shouldn't be. She just grabs his hand and moves it to a different place. "Being pregnant has mellowed you, my love. Time was you would have hit me with your Hirakotsu for groping you." She glares at him. She knew that, but it didn't mean that she wanted him to say it out loud. He notices the warning glare in her eyes and quickly untangles himself from her arms. Using the flimsy excuse that he needed to check on Inu-yasha and make sure that he hadn't hurt himself.

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Kagome looks off into the distance. "Let me see. I'm going to need water, food, a place to sleep,...and different clothes.' She thinks that last thought a moment after she looks down at her clothes and notices that they are in taters and barley cover anything. 'Definitely some different clothes. She picks up the bow and arrows that she was holding onto when she awoke and walks off. "I wonder how I'm going to find water." Finally a thought hits her and she stops. "I know! I'll do an Inu-yasha." She closes her eyes and sniffs around hesitantly. 'This feels stupid, but if it works…Well, I'm not going to be the one to complain.' Thousands of different scents hit her at once, and she doesn't know how she could have ever thought that this was a dead world. It was full of the scent of life. She didn't know how she recognized it, but she did. It was in everything and all around her.

She picks one scent out of everything and follows it. "Okay, so this is water." She follows the scent, and running faster then she had ever before, she soon came to a small river. She smells it and then her brow furrows as she notices the stench of death in the air. 'That's weird.' She hesitantly drinks some of the water and a tingly sensation runs through her whole body, but soon passes. She drinks some more water and soon feels a small level of contentment, even though she's missing Inu-yasha and everyone else.

"How were you able to drink from the waters without getting killed" A voice rang out, loud and clear, and close. She had forgot that she was a hanyou now, and hadn't relied on her hearing and other senses. She springs into a crouch and starts growling. "As I thought, another brainless demon. It must have been a fluke." The guy who belonged to the degrading voice has a look of pity on his face as he draws a katana out of a small sheath at his waist. "I might as well put you out of your misery. Poor creature." He takes a swing at Kagome with the katana and she leaps into the air and pulls an almost impossible maneuver in order to doge the blade's back swing. "You're fast. I can give you that, but you're also still a demon. You can't outsmart me, so just give up." He has an evaluating expression on his face now as he attacks her.

Kagome just keeps dodging. Not exactly sure how to attack him with her claws. "Why are you attacking me? I didn't do anything" He stops suddenly. 'It can speak? How is that possible? It's a DEMON! Kill it! But I can't, not until I find out how it learned to talk.' He stops his attack and has an annoyed expression on his face. Kagome takes her chance when he stops, flees to the river, grabs her bow and arrows, and quickly runs back. She puts an arrow on the string and looks at him. 'Hmm. This could be interesting. It actually looks like it knows what it is doing with that thing.

He resheaths his katana and draws a dagger. He gets ready to throw it at Kagome, but stops when he feels a blast of miko power and an arrow lands inches away from him. It purifies the air beside him and only his quick instincts had kept him from dieing. "Don't move! If you move one more inch...well, let's just say that I won't miss the next time." He raises an eyebrow in surprise and looks at Kagome. 'Hmm. This creature almost sounds female, but that can't be possible. Demons don't have a gender. But if the books saying that they can't use any weapons, besides the ones they were born with, that is, and that they couldn't speak an intelligible language was wrong, along with them not being able to use miko power, then maybe the thing about them not having gender has no truth to it either. "It's okay, I won't hurt you. I'm taking off my weapons." He starts taking off his outer weapons in order for him to get to something inside his shirt.

All of a sudden, a quick movement from him, and her whole body bursts into pain. It feels like her skin is on fire and she tries to figure out what is causing it. She notices the ofuda and touches it. It disintegrates and the pain disappears. She looks really angry at him for a moment, but then grins. She pulls out a pouch of beads that is still at her waist. She mutters something and the beads head towards the guy and settle around his neck. "Down, boy." He does an 'Inu-yasha' and crashes to the ground. He has a shocked look on his face as he's forced to the ground, and then she walks up to him and divests him of his weapons. He's still in shock and hasn't totally recovered when she puts a warding spell on his stuff.

He gains feeling back in his body and slowly gets up. "Okay, speak. How did you do that? What are you? No normal demon has miko power. They can't use weapons. They can't even speak or have a gender." He has a really angry and shocked expression on his face as he looks at her. She just looks at him, smiles, and shakes her head slightly, rolling her eyes. "My name is 'Kagome'. And I'm not a normal youkai. I'm a recently turned hanyou. I was human before, but through the power of the Shikon no Tama, I became an inu-hanyou, at least I think that is what I am, in order for me to stay with my love, my mate Inu-yasha. I am female, in case you are wondering. I'm not exactly sure how I got here. All I remember was that at the end of the battle, when the Shikon was whole again, I fell into a nothingness, a blackness that I couldn't get out of. I woke up here, very hot, and with those infernal skeleton birds making enough noise to wake the dead."

He looks at her, disbelief in his eyes. "You're lying. Humans went extinct hundreds of years ago, if they even existed at all." She pales slightly and even though his instincts were telling him that she wasn't lying, he couldn't believe it. She looks at him closer and notices the pointy ears, but he doesn't feel like a youkai. He feels like forests, and something else, but she can't quite put her finger on it. "What are you? You're not a youkai, even if you do look a bit like one. Why do you feel like forests and...something else, I guess that you could call it magic, but that's not even close to the right word to describe it...maybe spirit…eternity"

He looks at her, a little surprised that she could feel his aura, he was good at hiding it, and normally, only another of his own kind could feel a hidden aura. She could only be freakishly strong, or the blood of his race ran through her veins. Both were very unlikely…