Disclaimer: Inuyasha is not owned by me. It is owned by Rumiko Takahashi along with most of the characters, though the plot belongs to me.

Prologue:

Arrival

During the darkest hour of the night, when everyone was expected to be deep in their slumber and dreaming of dreams that some would remember and others would not upon their awakening, two beings were wide awake as they remain in watchful reveries of those they were born to protect and care for. These beings reside in a world that lay far above the world of mortality, hidden by the clouds and cloaked by the darkness of the abyss known as space and surrounded by the brilliance of the stars. It was a world created by the beloved of the gods during her third birthday, and when her world turned upside down and became shrouded in darkness and constant fighting. A world that existed as a battle arena between the purist entities and evilest entities of the universe as one side tries to recover from their defeat and overpower the goodness in the universe while the other tries maintain the balance and peace of the universe. It was no other world than the World of Tama, a place where good and evil continuous to fight and where the guardians of the Universe, the Celestials, resided as they sacrifice their freedom to protect those who did not even know they existed anymore. The World of Tama, where evil is locked away within a barrier maintained by a sixteen year old who happened to be one of the purest souls in the universe along with her people, who all chose to be trapped in this world in hopes for the safety of the people of the Mortal World. This world was run by the remaining members of the Royal family of the Celestials, and a place whose leader was a mere sixteen year old, who was currently laying on her four-poster bed, and whose tired eyes were staring at an eighteen-year-old boy standing by her bedroom's window lost in his thoughts and wonders.

"Brother?" queried the sixteen-year-old girl, staring at her older brother with deep concern radiating from her tired eyes. "Sesshomaru-nii-chan?" she called once more with soft but stronger voice upon letting a minute past without yielding any response from her brother.

"Did you not feel it?" Sesshomaru asked, gold eyes staring up at the darkened sky in scrutiny. Sensing his younger sister's bewilderedness from his answer, he looked over his shoulder and softly demanded, "search your being, Kagome, and read the events which the stars are narrating."

Following her brother's request, Kagome, closed her silver eyes only for them to open in an instant as they widen in shock at her discovery, "Impossible!" she exclaimed, startled and troubled eyes meeting those of her brother's reassuring gold eyes. She would have bolted into a sitting position on her bed if she were not being hindered by her injuries, which she had acquired earlier that evening.

Sighing at his sister's obvious distress, Sesshomaru instantly header over to his sister's bed. Once seated on her bed, he placed a comforting hand on her head and ran his soothing fingers through her silver hair with hints of gold. "I'm afraid that it is true, Kagome-chan," he whispered sadly, it was at that moment where her brother's eyes were so close to hers that she realized how tired he also seemed to be and how much the battle had affected him. Though he may not have any grave physical wound, he was the one who was hurt the most from the battle, for he had lost one of the things he held so precious in his heart, and perhaps even two. It was the thought of what had transpired during the battle that Kagome forced her hand to move and to clutch her brother's hand in hopes that she could take away the pain his was currently feeling and fill that void with her soothing caress.

Sensing his sister's thoughts and concern, he let out a small smile which lasted no more than a beat of his heart before turning into another frown, but instead of the pained one he possessed earlier, this one was entirely due to worry about what the stars was foretelling, "It is time for us to rejoin the world of human and demon alike, for the second and perhaps the last war is nearing." The truth of his statement made both siblings sigh in resignation.

Sesshomaru and Kagome were the last remaining Celestials, and it was their duty as guardians of the universe to protect everything that resided in it, and so it was their duty to face the upcoming war that Sesshomaru spoke of. This war was no other than the on-going war between the people of the light and the people of darkness which had been held in the World of the Tama since Kagome's third birthday. This war also happened to be an ongoing cycle that kept repeating over since the start of war, only this time, it would be the last with the prophesized sacrifice of the Princess of the Heavens.

In fact, battles had been going on for many years since Kagome's third birthday except the people of the Mortal World had been exempt from battle and had been given peace due to the sacrifice of the Celestials, which created the World of Tama. And due to the battle that had taken place earlier that night, Kagome has been injured, which resulted in the weakening of the barrier around their world leading to their enemies escaping into the Mortal World in hopes of wrecking havoc and destroying the peace which resulted from the sacrifice of many and most of all due to the sacrifice of the previous Queen and King of the Celestials, Midoriko and Sai. The escape of their enemies only meant one thing to the Celestial siblings; the second Great War was ready to commence, and this time, it would take place in the Mortal World, where demons and humans coexisted peacefully. It was yet another indication that the end was nearing. "Is there no other way?" she asked, silver eyes glittering with hope but deep within her she knew the answer that her brother would utter.

"I'm afraid there's not," Sesshomaru replied, though there was no need to. "You are still far too weak to cast a spell to bring back our foes here in the World of Tama, which was created by you when you were three and had sustained since in hopes of giving peace to the people of the Mortal World." He looked out at the sky through the window, which he had been standing by not too long ago, "We have sheltered for far too long, and now, it is time for them to rejoin the fight once again."

"I see," her eyes trained at the same direction as her brother's as their train of thoughts became one.

"Everything is going to be fine, Kagome-chan," promised Sesshomaru as he squeezed his sister's hand as though to emphasize his promise, and that would somehow fulfill it. Though he sounded so confident in his promise, he could only hope that it would come true. He prepared to get up, causing for Kagome to look up at him expectantly. "I shall prepare our arrival in the mortal realm while you rest and try to rejuvenate as much as you can," he explained. "Now, rest up and I shall wake you when it is time for us to leave." Kagome could only nod, for even if she wanted to protest, her eyes were already closing, and before Sesshomaru reached the entrance to her chamber, she was already fast asleep.

That night, everything in the universe stopped as the two Celestials entered the mortal realm in their disguises as they teleported from the World of the Tama into a world they guarded with their lives. They appeared on top of Tokyo Tower as they gaze at the unmoving city in front of them. Sesshomaru had managed to locate where the uprising was taking place and his earch concluded that most of their enemies had migrated to Tokyo.

The siblings looked at one another and nodded. With a flick of their wrist, time began moving once again as frozen cars unfroze and zoomed on the roads to their destination; their drivers without the wiser of the time being stopped. While people resume what they were doing before without any idea that two powerful beings had entered their lives and that their long awaited guardians, though unknown to most of them, had finally arrived.

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