This is my first Inuyasha Yu Yu Hakusho crossover. It's not completely written yet, but I'm going to try to churn it out before the end of November. A couple warnings, I do have a relationship between Kurama and Sesshomaru sometime in the middle-verse between Present and Past. I will probably write that story eventually, if I get around to it.

Warnings:

There is yaoi hinted at, but this story is not about that. Sesshomaru may not even make a real appearance, and if he does, it's going to only be because we're following Kagome.

This story is mostly focused on talking instead of action, so yes, it has talking head syndrome. I started this a while ago so I'll be trying to fix this eventually, but for now it is what it is. The later chapters will probably be better than these ones.

There's a lot of info dumping.

The chapters are kinda long.

I own nothing. - This will probably be the last time I say this, so just assume it's applicable for everything in this story, thank you.

The sun was bright, and glittered into the window like a thousand shimmering angels bathed the room with their grace. The black haired priestess merely smiled as she sat up in her bed, more than happy about her day, her tank top ruffled from her night of tossing and turning, but the night was gone. Today was a new day, a bright and happy warm day, the summer was long and school was out for a time, so she could finally get back to work in the feudal era and actually make some progress, maybe get a few more jewel shards and put the rest of the thing together. That would be wonderful.

She'd packed everything last night, so all she had to do was jump in the shower, double check her stocks, then be off to the past in record time. Her mother would undoubtedly have breakfast ready and on the table by the time she was out of the shower and if no one interrupted her, she would be out of there before Inuyasha could complain about her tardiness.

Kagome nearly skipped to the bathroom leaving a stunned, groggy Souta in the hall. She shut the door and locked it letting the boy produce a groan of complaint as she turned on the hot water for her shower. It didn't take long to wiggle out of her night clothes, but when her hand grasped for the little bottle on her neck, it didn't connect. She frowned and looked in the mirror staring at her bare neck in pure shock. A line from where the shards leather strap had been lay as merely a tan line now, dipping down to between her breasts where the bottle lay for cushioning and safe keeping.

Her heart stopped, someone had the bottle, that was the only explanation, It had never fallen off at night before, never. She felt her heart pick up as she realized something else, she'd been robbed in her own room, at night, while fast asleep in her revealing pajamas. A shriek filled the shrine scaring off the birds from their early morning romp searching for worms. They fled from the sacred tree so fast that they barely avoided each other, and the humans on the shrine were all dead awake within moments, and running to the bathroom.

"Kagome!" Souta called as he banged on the door. "Kagome are you alright!"

"Souta move aside, go back to your room," Her mother's voice roused, "Kagome! Are you okay in there?"

"Y-yeah Mom, I'm fine, just shocked."

"What's wrong dear?" She asked. "Can I come in?"

"N-no! It's okay, it's okay. I just saw a spider!" She called back wondering if she should tell them or not. Inuyasha would come and get her right? He had to, right? He would get impatient and then he could find out who took the necklace, as long as their scent didn't fade away before he got there. She looked back at her clothes, skeptical and nervous, she would have to preserve the smell somehow. "I'm just going to take my shower, okay mom?"

"Alright sweetie, but if you see another spider please don't scream."

"I'll try mom!" Kagome shook her head. Surely she was mistaken, surely the jewels couldn't have gone too far away. She would just have to search them out and if someone did steal them, she'd have to get them back.

As she finished up her shower she went to her room and searched for the jewel shards there first, she didn't find any trace of them, which was probably why she didn't notice they were gone. Out of sight out of mind, "Damn it." She changed into street clothes and began trying to figure out when they jewels could have been taken other than last night while she slept, but she always checked, it was habit even with none.

"Mom! I'm going out for a while! If Inuyasha comes give him a cap, and tell him to find me, okay?"

"Alright dear! You be safe!"

"I will!" With that she was off. She stopped at the bottom of the stairs closing her eyes focusing on the jewel shards just like in the past. She didn't sense anything for a while until her senses picked up on a rather far trace. She groaned but strengthened her long skirt and trudged towards the source. It took a trolley ride to the other side of town and a bus ride towards suburbs to finally feel the shards closing in, but as she reached the suburbs, the shards got closer, fast. Kagome nearly bolted to the back of the bus as she saw the one holding the shards at the bus stop. She hid herself behind a few seats getting a strange look from the person next to her and the man getting off. As the bus headed back into town, the red head with her jewel shards didn't seem to notice her. She sure hoped he didn't notice her at least. He had her jewel shards in his pocket with his hand probably around them, impossible to steal them back, she'd have to confront him, but the boy looked intimidating somehow.

He didn't wear anything intimidating and although she could tell he had power, and lots of it, she had no idea how he had gotten the shards. He felt human even if his power seemed to somehow contradict that. She waited for him to get off the bus, and waited, until finally near the local strip of official buildings, he disembarked. She rolled her eyes, probably going to a hearing. She waited a street before getting off only to find him headed her way? She spun around as he crossed the cross walk and their eyes caught. He smiled with a bright grin and gave her a look that made her feel like she should be ashamed of something.

Kagome stood strong and squared herself drawing her purification powers to her hands. She had no idea what he was, but he deserved a good slap for trying to shame her into giving up her jewels. They were hers by all rights since she was the reincarnation of the keeper of the Jewel of Four Souls. Long title, yes, but it still made it her jewels!

"Hello there little, priestess? My, you are a priestess," that almost wiped the grin off his face, almost. "Why is it you were following me?"

"You have my jewel shards, hand them over or I will give you one hell of a slap and you won't forget it."

"Surely we can talk in a more civil manner in this day and age," the red head remarked, his green eyes glistening with delight as he kept his distance from her. "Come, let's go into that dark dank ally where people are mugged constantly to talk this over. There is some misunderstanding!"

"There is no misunderstanding. I had those jewels last night before I went to bed, I woke up and they were gone and now they are in your possession!"

"Where are they?" The man questioned holding up his hands, pockets suddenly turned out and looking innocent as can be.

Kagome studied him before grabbing his sleeve almost like unlocking a vault of damage, energy, and pain on the creature. His energy soared into an erratic dance and his shirt burned straight through when he cried out in pain.

The demon yanked his arm free before blinking and dropping his hand catching the shards. "Very good priestess, you can see Midoriko's Jewel, I am impressed!" He hissed as he nursed his arm blowing on it and drawing his energy back under control. She could see the demonic energy swarming around him in waves of a silver tail and ears.

"You're a demon," Kagome remarked as she stumbled back. "What's a demon doing here? Now!"

"What do you mean by that!" the demon requested as he moved towards the ally. She followed after him in curiosity and shock until finally they were alone. The fox demon leaned against the wall and gently huffed on his wound before pulling a seed out of his hair and shakily applying a leaf that came from the plant.

"Sorry," she muttered. "Look, I need the shards back."

"I have questions first and you won't be able to touch me again," he hissed.

"Kurama! Kurama what happened buddy!" Kuwabara ran into the ally and grabbed his friend's shoulders examining his arm, "Man! Look at that burn!"

"Purification energy," Kurama nodded to the female across the way. "She's a priestess."

"What?" Kuwabara turned and looked at her. "Oh! Hi there, the name's Kazuma Kuwabara." He held out his hand to her.

Kagome reached out even with her purification energy and shook hands with him, she was still high on defense with the fox in the ally. "Hi, I'm Kagome Higurashi. Who's your friend?" she asked begrudgingly.

"Him? Kurama."

"Kurama what?"

"Title's Youko." Kurama replied.

"Oh, oh right, wait, when did they have titles?"

"A long time ago Kuwabara, a long time ago," Kurama assured him.

"Kurama, and you're a...?"

"Demon, gah, you already figured that out," Kurama snapped as he swallowed more pain. She'd somehow left a trace of her energy behind.

Kuwabara blinked and looked at Kurama's arm, then at the girl, then back to the throbbing energy around Kurama's arm that was nearly making the fox scream in pain. He reached out and shoved his own energy through it, covering the foxes skin with his large hand.

Kurama panted hard and leaned into his friend glaring at the woman, "Tricky, miko, tricky." Kuwabara's energy almost encased Kurama fully as the male slipped himself under the bigger male's arm for support. "You sounded surprised that I was a demon little priestess," Kurama demanded.

"I was! There aren't any demons in this time, are there?"

"You didn't know there were demons now? What do you mean 'now'?" Kuwabara questioned picking up quickly in the setting. "You attacked Kurama?" He asked as he glanced at the now growing leaf. Kurama had the plant before for the leaf, but the leaf wasn't growing on his wound, like he couldn't grow it there.

"I just grabbed his arm."

"You had your energy activated." Kurama growled as he held his arm close to his chest cradling it and keeping his shoulder against Kuwabara's side. "Of course it burned me, my energy's demonic even if this body is human and I had my energy up on guard."

"Well you still stole those jewels from me!"

"This is Midoriko's jewel's shards, not yours."

"Midoriko's been dead for years. That's how those jewels came to be, she's dead."

"Midoriko may be dead but she knew what she was doing and left them for a guard, and you are no guard, you're a priestess."

"No, you're wrong I am the guard for Midoriko's jewel, that's how the jewel came to my possession to begin with."

"Don't you understand girl, this jewel is Midoriko's legacy, it is her, and she is to be respected! You shattered it!" He growled angrily at Kagome, still tucked under Kuwabara's protective energy. "I can feel your energy through these shards at the breaks, it was your energy that shattered her jewel and that is not respecting her properly."

"Whoa, whoa, Kurama slow down; calm down, and slow down," Kuwabara demanded as he supported his friend. "Kagome, can we go somewhere less dark, dank, and spooky to talk this out? I mean talk too, not yell and argue. I'll mediate," he offered.

Kagome nodded, "Yeah, let's go to the coffee shop across form the library,"

"You lead," Kurama snapped.

Kuwabara sighed and shook his head before turning and dragging the fox with him, "Kurama, you're not dictating this, I am, come on Kagome."

"Coming," Kagome replied as she strolled behind them.

Kurama struggled and pulled his arm away but as soon as it was out of Kuwabara's powerful hand, he yelped and grabbed it himself. Kuwabara reached out and covered his burn again, dragging him along.

It didn't take long to get to the coffee shop, but it took a while to order. Kuwabara and Kagome had a spat about who should actually pay for what, and in the end Kurama just paid for the group considering he was at the crux of the matter. As they took their seats, Kurama sat with his burned arm closest to Kuwabara on the inside of the booth. Kagome sat across from the two of them.

"Kurama, give me the shards," Kuwabara demanded.

Kurama reluctantly pulled out the little bottle and put it in Kuwabara's hand.

"Good, now Kagome, you say these shards are yours, care to explain what happened?"

"I carry around the jewel shards collecting them in the past to get the jewel whole again. It broke on accident after a crow demon ate the jewel. I ended up using his foot to kill the guy, but the arrow hit the jewel because of the method."

"No shit, a demon's body will regenerate because of the soul so anything from the demon would go to the jewel, not the body," Kurama scolded.

"Shut up Kurama, drink your drink."

Kurama visibly frowned before letting off a sigh and finally settling in to what was going on with things out of his control.

"So you broke the jewel and you're gathering the shards. That makes sense, but what did you mean about the past?"

"Uh, well the jewel activated a time travel system. You see, when I was growing up I had the jewel in my body, and I fell down the ancient well on my family's shrine, going back to the past 50 years after the jewel was burned with Kikyo's body."

"And what time is that?"

"500 years ago."

That had Kurama watching her intently, curiously, but intently. He didn't seem nearly as upset with her as he had been. He still had a firm interest in her, although now it seemed as though his interest spawned from another source.

"Wow, okay." Kuwabara on the other hand, just tired to digest it all.

"So the shards give you the time travel ability?" Kurama questioned.

Kagome nodded, "And that's why it's imperative I get them back. You took them from me last night while I was sleeping."

"They're Midoriko," Kurama reasoned yet again.

"Kurama, who's Midoriko?"

"She was a..." Kurama frowned and glanced down at his drink playing with the cup with his good arm. "She was a friend I guess. The last I heard of her before the jewel was that she traveled with Kilala to defend the humans from the demons under King Enma's maddening curse. We ran into each other quite often actually."

Kagome sat there with her eyes opened wide as she stared at him in confusion. She frowned and continued to listen to the fox as she tried to figure out how he knew about Kilala. Surly it couldn't be the same Kilala, maybe that was a common name?

"That doesn't explain much."

"She was a powerful priestess who had a kind heart to demons, but waged war against the negative world, not just the demon's negativity either, but all world negativity. She was basically Yukina with a bite, and a solid understanding of the evil in the world."

"Yukina can bite," Kuwabara defended.

"I don't doubt it, but she chooses to ignore the evil where Midoriko took it on. When Midoriko died, I heard a rumor that Kilala was to protect the jewel, it appears that the twin tail couldn't handle it, if it ended up in the hands of the priests," Kurama nearly snapped, but he retained his calm demeanor.

Kagome decided now was the time to pop the question. "I have a friend named Kilala. She was living with a demon slayer village which was killed off by Naraku. It couldn't be the same one, could it?" she asked.

Kurama watched the woman with a considering stare, "It may be the same Kilala. That seems like something she would do. Is she still letting people ride her?"

Kagome nodded.

Kurama nodded in return, "Yes, that's her alright. She's the only twin tail I've ever known to let someone ride them," he shook his head in something of dismay. "After Midoriko died Demon World began to grow. Midoriko was the first spirit detective in the time," Kurama told Kuwabara.

"So what's your beef about the shards?"

"Midoriko was a strong, respected woman who has been gone for over 500 years Kuwabara, I am going to protect my friend's soul."

"Her soul?"

"Yes, her soul is in that jewel, that's how the jewel was made. Her life energy, her soul, her purification energy, her spirit energy, it's all in that broken jewel waging war against all the corrupt beings she took with her."

"You mean it's not just demons? When we learned about the jewel's maker, we though it was just demons she fought."

"No, Midoriko's jewel was not made just by the attack of demons, but humans as well." Kurama whispered softly.

"Kilala doesn't have a problem with me finding the jewel shards on my own. I'm sure she can sense the same thing you can, so if she doesn't care, why should you?" Kagome challenged.

"I held Midoriko as a very close friend. Kilala helped Midoriko, sure, but she…" His eyes fell on the shards and a look of sadness and longing passed through his face, his energy, "She was more than just someone to fight beside."

"Come on Kurama, you stole from a human."

"What, like that's rare!" Kurama snapped. "I was no angle in Demon World, you know that Kuwabara. Yes, I stole the jewels from Kagome, but I'll be damned if I let her have them again. Do you see what she's got them in? Some glass jar! Midoriko's soul is scattered all over Human World to be used by corrupt individuals and sold to do who knows what! I will not stand for my friend's soul to be used like this!"

"Then where are you? Five hundred years ago Kurama, where are you?" Kuwabara asked bluntly as he looked at the shards, and then at his red haired friend.

Kurama blinked and thought back calculating the date and the time. He shook his head and stared down at his hands. "I was in Demon World. With Midoriko dead, I left."

"So you terrorized Demon World for five hundred years?"

"Over," he corrected.

"No wonder you're their boogie man."

"Demon World?" Kagome questioned.

"Yeah, there are other planes of life that lives beside ours called Demon World, Spirit World, and the Netherworld."

"So you lived through Demon World's creation?"

Kurama nodded "Yes. This is aside the point though. You shattering her jewel and now you are flaunting them about in this jar!" He snapped.

"How would you suggest I keep the jewels?"

"Not in a trophy case, and you're not getting them back."

"Kurama! They're her responsibility. Put up with it!"

"Kuwabara, Midoriko was my friend!"

"And you left the jewel in someone else's possession. It was never yours!"

"It is mine now."

"It is not, you stole it."

"What must I do to make you see reason Kuwabara! I'm not giving them back to her! If you give them back to her, I assure you I will just steal them again!"

"You're the one being unreasonable Kurama," Kuwabara replied with a sigh.

"You cannot stop me," Kurama growled.

"I can. I'll burn your arm off," Kagome replied sipping her drink.

Kurama glared at her, an expression unusual for the calm and collected fox. The torrential downpour of emotions that washed over his face scaled from absolute fury to the dark pain of defeated betrayal. "Just let me be with her," he finally requested with a sigh. "I just want to be with her for a little while." His eyes shut as the fox sat back and dropped his head.

"How did you even find out about it?"

"Galahad told me he felt her."

"Who?"

"It's the tree on the shrine. He was one of my guards for a long time when I was in Human World and I taught him to contact me whenever he saw Midoriko so I could keep an eye on her, but of course trees can't see so I enhanced him so he could feel her energy."

"You mean the sacred tree on our shrine is a demon's tree!" Kagome shrieked in fear.

"Sacred? It's just a tree! I don't even consider them sacred. They're royal ass holes most of the time."

"Kurama, why have you never mentioned trees talking before?"

"Because I didn't want Yusuke to ask me what's up Hiei's skirt," Kurama replied sarcastically.

Kuwabara blinked, then frowned, then blinked again and gave Kurama a confused look. "Fox, you've got too much going on in that brain of yours today."

"She's not here anymore Kurama, she's gone," Kagome confronted with a shake of her head, she didn't know who these characters were, but she didn't want to.

"No, her soul is in those shards, just…"

"Why didn't you pursue this before? I've had the jewel for a while! You could have come to me at any point and searched them out."

"I couldn't. I wasn't strong enough to hear Galahad at a distance. After that I was too busy with all the shit Koenma had us doing, or you were gone! I never had time to investigate why Galahad thought that Midoriko was near."

"You had five hundred years to get over it fox, she needs the shards to make the jewel whole, shouldn't that be more important to you than just these shards? Your friend's soul belongs together, and it can't get back together without her having the shards."

"I just want time! Stop scolding me for what I never had the power- to face and let me have my wish." Kurama's voice cracked as he spoke. He clutched his eyes shut tightly and balled his hands in his lap.

Kagome sighed and shook her head. "I'm sorry. I can't. The shards are mine and I need to get back to collecting them," Kagome denied.

Kurama growled fierily and glared at the woman as his nose flared and the muscles around it twitched without his control. He nearly split from the shop in a bolting run, but somehow managed to keep it at a determined walk. Kuwabara noticed the man's arm burning some as he left the protection of his friend.

Kuwabara dropped his head and shook it as he rolled the shards towards Kagome. "I don't really have anything I can say to justify him. I don't know why he's acting like this. It's not like him at all." Kuwabara watched the retreating figure of the fox until he was out of view.

"What's he generally like?" Kagome put the necklace on and continued drinking.

"Generally? Well he's usually calm and collected. He tends to be the one who plans things out and sits and waits rather than jumping on something like this. Man, I haven't heard of him stealing anything since he got caught last time either."

"What happened last time?" Kagome questioned feeling mildly intrigued to know that the irate man she had just witnessed nearly cry was typically calm and collected.

"He stole a mirror from Spirit World that could grant one wish for a price. Urameshi told me about it. He stole the mirror to use it for his mom. She was ill and dyeing. He wished for her to live a good life knowing that the exchange was his life. He would have died that night if Yusuke hadn't jumped in and saved his ass."

"Yeah, that doesn't sound like this case in the least, unless Midoriko was the love of his life or something like that."

"It might be something like that. Kurama's really old. In retrospect, we don't really know much about him." Kuwabara's eyes followed Kurama's energy as the man fumed down the streets until he curled up in an ally and calmed himself down, out of Kagome's range and almost out of where Kuwabara could feel him.

"I thought he was your friend?" Kagome questioned.

"Well, yeah, we're buddies but you can't just go asking about shit like that. I mean, he died, got put in a human body, and here he is, so how are we supposed to bring up the past?" Kuwabara remarked, "Plus he's devilishly manipulative and has a quick wit. If he doesn't want to say something, he's not going to say it, and he's never wanted to talk about his past to any of us."

"That sounds kind of lonely, having all that past and no one to talk about it with." Kagome remarked as she looked away from the guy and down at the shards. "I know when I'm here I always feel upset because I don't have anyone I can share my adventures with, aside from my family. Has he ever acted weird like this before?"

"Not like this. Sometimes he'll get a bit tipsy and we can't get the reason why out of him, but never something like this. We always figured it was stress before, but maybe it was something else."

"Does he typically seem stressed?"

"Not at all, but something's got to be eating at you after living all those years. He doesn't really have anyone who's with him. The one guy who knew him before and knows him now was someone he tried to have killed, and then there's Hiei, who actually just knew of him, and was his partner during the theft."

"Hey, I actually do need to get going, so maybe if we can get in contact some other time we can talk about it, but right now I was supposed to be back in time with them finding more of these shards."

"Yeah, sure thing." Kuwabara pulled out a pen and scribbled on a napkin his address and phone number. "Give me a call if you want to get together or something. Maybe you could see Kurama when he's normal."

"I doubt his normal side is one I'll ever see."

Kuwabara let off a repressed sigh and got up, more than willing to leave. There wasn't a real point in staying if there was no one to see. He'd go find Kurama and see how he was holding up.

Kagome on the other hand went her separate way wanting to head back in time to get back in her own flow of things.