Hello and thanks for reading. I'd like to start off with the fact that this is my first 'fanfic.' [OMG thats been s0o0o0o0o long ago! i wrote this first line in fanfiction EVER on 5/27/07!]

I have horrible spelling, LONG run on sentences, and bad grammar but an active imagination. Cheers! I'd also like to say that I've seen all 167 episodes and read from them up to current chapters ranging to 506, so unlike most fanfic's this one HOPEFULLY will not say something that the storyline has already disproved by either the anime or the manga. This is a work in progress but I'm not going to go posting things until I've got a good base for there to be read, I hate leaving people wanting more when they cant have it for a while. Like my DA's I'm going to say please leave me comments. Thanks! - r0o

The InuYasha universe and all its Characters are not owned by myself, they are © Rumiko Takahashi.I makes no moneys from this!

A New Beginning

Kagome Higurashi was her name, now a spout-legged eighteen year old pulled herself from the aged well. She was taller now even if by a few inches and resembled more then anything the spitting image of her predecessor Kikyo. The local miko that had passed away twice now, once only a few years before, and for the first time some fifty years in the past. Now the possessor of an almost full Shikon no Tama, she walked towards Kaede's village. Her face had changed some during her years and adventures in the feudal era, now older and wiser, her eye no longer dance with an innocence they once held.

Like Kikyo, a life of servitude bound her to the past, to this place. But unlike the days of the past Kagome's school girl uniform had been placed safely in her closet at home next to a very worn in pair of loafers, and a tattered yellow backpack that held too many memories to ever discard. Her hair longer, wilder, and bound much the same way Kikyo's had, and even though life had been so different in the past when she had to look into her heart to see if she hated Kikyo or not, she now knew all to well Kikyo's life, her sorrows, her joys and her pains, as now she wore a miko's traditional attire that drew so much attention to the needs of others.

Much to her surprise Kagome realized, that she wasn't greeted by either Kaede or Shippo, the two very common faces where missing here. She'd glanced around the clearing, more wary of times now. She had long since given up on seeing either Miroku or Sango at the well these days, as a pregnancy and one small child already trying to toddle around had made sure to keep both parents at bay until she had arrived safely at the village. Settling herself on the lip well as she pulled her now ominous worn tan leather backpack up she nestled it at her feet and wiped her trip her pack was full, unlike the olden days of books for schooling, but full of medical supplies and books on roots and medicines that could be found in this era, a 'survival guides for the past, ' she'd thought.

It was a hot day, and Kagome could feel the difference from her world in the future and her world here. Being a fit girl of sound mind and body she pulled her hair up in an elastic band neat and messy all in once, something only she could make look good and slovenly at the same time. She then pulled her large kimono sleeves back and picked her bag up, the weight was massive, 'Maybe I've overdone it this time... ' she thought to herself. Smiling she gazed at the forest, 'this was Inuyasha's forest once,' she paused on that thought not letting the name linger on her mind for long before she trod towards the village, towards friends, towards those she now felt were family, and towards those she was still getting used to.

Clearing the meadow Kagome could see the Kaede's growing village, inwardly Kagome had always had many thoughts when seeing it. The mountains far off in the distance would be changed, by human hands of demonic she didnt know. There would come to be a thriving metropolis here one day, one she would be a part of if only a little. She mused that so much would change and yet, she felt so at pease here in the simpler times. She sighed as she could see stars here that she could never see in her own time, also about if her ancestors where here now in this time.

Kagome had always forbade herself from seeing any family history after coming back for in time. She'd feared endangering them, or scaring them, or even messing up time more then she had already. Kagome'd once asked her friend Yuka, about time traveling, as she was now in college and had classes on these things, Yuka had explained Kagome's head into knots about worm holes, and diminutions, until Kagome herself was ready to faint from being over whelmed.

One things Kagome'd picked up though was that the past was delicate and doing things here could unravel time as they knew it. When she thought on these things she wound up with a headache, just like now. She frowned her brows, reaching her finger tips to them to squish any wrinkle she might be helping to create. Sighing to looked at it, her town, her home away from home.

"Do you need assistance?" a cold unyielding familiar face and voice sounded from behind her. Looking coyly over her shoulder she said no louder then if he were standing right in front of her face, and knowing fully well that those full yokai ears could hear every pressed lip pause and breath.

With a small smile she answered, "If you'd like."

Sesshomaru had been a presence worth knowing for a little over a year now. Intimidating beyond belief and terrifying she'd come to regard him as a graceful walking death warmed over. She had come to know Sesshomaru more over the time, his mannerisms, even the change in his voice when he'd managed to delight himself at her flight and fancy; more often then not he was the voice and sight that had greeted her at the well these days, when Kaede or Shippo could not come, or more so, when they were not aware she was coming back. Sesshomaru walked over as though he were attached to a breeze that floated daintily over to her and assisted in dislodging her bag from her back and walking with it hanging to his side.

"I trust your stay in your time was fruitful judging by the weight of this bag?" he'd said eying the larger girthy pack.

"Is that a joke?" she accused still smiling at him. Joking with Sesshomaru? she'd laughed to herself, only three years ago when she'd arrived here and met for the first time they'd wanted to kill each other, and he did try on more then one occasion she thought. "Actually I had a hard time going back, I had to get things for the delivery since Sango's so close to having the baby-"

"Pups." he corrected her.

"Pups?" she asked. He'd noticed her tad bit of stare in his general direction. Shocking things from Sesshomaru where hardly a good thing.

"Hn. I do not wish to repeat myself, ...you know this. "

"Ah, I do, and...I'm sorry. But when you say pups, there's more then one? Has Sango started giving birth?" she'd said with more urgency in here eyes.

"No. They are still dwelling within her. But-"

"Then why did you say, 'they and pups?'" she interrupted him causing him to crease his brow in a slightly noticing way that Kagome had picked up on.

"Interruptions are just as rude as being asked to repeat ones self," he'd replied with a more characteristic glare, pausing for a moment in improve his point, "I said 'they and pups because she is having two of them."

It was all dawning on her now why Sango had looked so much more bloated now then with her first pregnancy. And why the bump got so much bigger that much faster. Sango after all was Kagome's only married friend, with a child, or for that matter that had ever been pregnant. All of Kagome's friends from the future were all in college with her now, taking many more classes to further their budding careers and educations. Kagome let her mind wonder for a bit as she walked with this graceful death of a dog god, before her mind landed on the word, "Pups"... 'Miroku sure wasn't wasting time was he?' she'd thought.

"May I ask you a question?" she'd said.

"Hn." he thought, 'that was a questions' but rather then being rude...he paused as he thought inwardly, "You may."

"How do you know there are two?"

"Because when I'm near her I hear there are three heart beets. A longer slower rhythmic one, and two fast ones. I can only assume that she's having two, or she's got three hearts." he'd said with a smirk that Kagome had only recently learned was a smirk, she'd always thought in fact that he'd just had some odd quark about him. As his face never seemed to move to show emotions a smirk was indeed a change for him.

"Ah, ...well it's a good thing my trip was 'fruitful .' " she looked at his face to see that overly annoyed face she'd grown used to. They walked in silence the rest of the way only speaking here and there to pass the time when silence became unbearable for Kagome, something that Sesshomaru never felt. But like many things this too he was used to, after traveling with Rin for at least three years, mindless chatter he could handle with the greatest of ease, and with Kagome he found that it wasn't always bad to listen.

Kagome usually spent these walks enjoying the view of the world that for her was another life, sometimes wondering where buildings and streets would be, based off of where Inuyasha's tree was and where she could remember they'd be. And sometimes she'd share these thoughts with him, mostly he didn't mind because he had found her world worthy of note. Kagome herself had picked up on this and found that this topic was an easy one to pass the time with him as the walked.

Sesshomaru had been in and out of Kaede's village for over a year now. For it was here that he had rooted Rin. Kagome and Sango were the only human females he'd known and thought worthy enough to keep her safe, Kagome with her miko powers and Sango the huntress with that powerful weapon. Both role mottles he thought smart and strong enough to make good impressions for his young ward, it too didn't hurt either that Rin was now older and in need of these female influences.

"Sesshomaru-sama!" a young female voice rang. "You've come back!" Rin said with a smile beaming from ear to ear. Placing the bag on the ground he bent to meet young Rin at eye level and a faint smile that only Rin and Kagome had come to know dawned his porcelain face. Kagome smiled and bowed a polite 'thank you. ' Picked the bag up and began towards Kaede's house. Sesshomaru was in engrossed in Rin's world and Kagome would have it no other way. She turned back to look at the pair, smiled and waved. " Bye Kagome-sama!" she could hear Rin's voice and inwardly she smiled.

Kagome was on the edge of the village now and she hadn't seen him anywhere, she sighed, 'Oh Inuyasha. ' she could feel her brow growing closer together again with frustration, and the headache returning. As she walked in silence with only the sounds of the old world to fill her ears, Kagome let her mind fall on less amusing matters of life. Now that she was back she would be dealing with 'Him ' again, 'InuYasha ' she's said to herself letting her mind pour over the events of the past. They had killed Naraku, Kikyo had given them a gift. A gift wrapped and delivered by Kanna and bathed in blood by all of those that had been lost to the campaign.

That day, it was a horrible day, that ended with Naraku being dead, 'really dead ' she thought. The world was safe from him, and then life had to ensue. Miroku's wind tunnel had disappeared, again. And there was no evil aura to be found, at least none worth note except for Sesshomaru, Kagura-kun had died helping them, Kouga-kun had lost his shards but had avenged the deaths of his comrades. All seemed right with the world, but then they noticed what had been there all along but seemed so plain as day now. A need.