Chapter 2

Sesshoumaru of the Feudal era stood by the well, waiting for Kagome to appear. His future self had told him that she would be there before the end of the day- except there wasn't a black-haired demoness coming out. Where was Kagome?

Kagome, herself, was also wondering where she was. Instead of escaping back into the feudal era, she found herself in a cave- no well. As she continued to walk out of the cave, she could sense a devastating aura, that felt similar yet different than Sesshoumaru come close to the cave.

She readied a bow that was on her back, and drew back an arrow, when the tall, imposing figure stood at the mouth of the cave. She couldn't tell who it was, but she could feel the power when he spoke.

"Who are you, Demoness?"

"I am Kagome, The Shikon Miko."

"Shikon? I know no such place."

"The jewel of four souls. May I ask who i speak to, so i may not affend them?"

"You are speaking to the Lord of the Western Lands."

"Sesshoumaru? You sound little like him."

"How do you know of my son? He has not been announced!" he snarled, and Kagome was being held up by her throat.

"I- I came from the future. Please, I am with pup! I mean no disrespect!" the taiyoukai dropped her, and she was able to see his face, now that he was closer, and there was light. "Inutaishou..." she whispered in awe. Inutaishou looked at her with harsh eyes.

"Yes. That is I. As you smell of family, i will take you back to my home, where we will discuss what has transpired here." he said, exiting the cave and forming a cloud, waiting for Kagome.

"I would like to transport us there, milord."

"Can you?"

"I can. If you will allow me to."

"Very well. Let us see this power that you apparently have."

"I will say this. It leaves me weak because i have yet to master the energy it takes, so if you feel energy pulled from you, it is to make sure we make it there safely. I will need replenishing once we get there."

"that will all be arranged." he said. She took him in a hug, and thought of the western palace. They opened their eyes and were in his study. He was impressed, and barely caught Kagome when she began to fall on her knees. He led her to a chair, and then quickly sent a servant for raw liver. He sat behind the desk and watched kagome unwillingly eat warm raw liver. Nearly puking several times, kagome was able to keep it down as her stomach began to digest the food.

"Thank you."

"Tell me of how you came to be in that cave. It is a cave only the western royalty can get into."

"Easy enough. But it is a long tale. Are you sure you have time to commit?"

"speak or i will enslave you."

"very well. I cannot tell you all, but i will try to the best that i can without destroying the future i live."

"hn."

"I come from the year 2004. which is why i am educated and literate, and very much an equal to any male, for i hold a large amount of knowledge. I was pulled down my shrine's well by a centipede demon. There i found that i was a reincarnate,and i released a half breed from a tree. After a fight with him, i had to place a rosary on him, because at the time i was a human. I ended up splitting the jewel of four souls, and i had to travel across the land with this half breed, and a few others we had come to know across our journey and defeat a necessary evil. After the evil was destroyed, I was forced back to my time, with no way back. Three years later, i completed my schooling, and the day of my graduation, i was sent back into the well. Over the year that i traversed with this half breed, i had come to love him. But when i returned, he was mated and had a child on the way. I roamed the lands and contemplated on dying. After roughly a year and six months, i found myself weakened by battle, and i had been raped by a group of demons. At that moment, i prayed to any kami that was available, to help me fend them off. Once they had raped me, i began to change. I changed into a full-blooded, well controlled, Grey wolf Inu demoness. Six months passed by, and i had given birth to my pups, and they were both still born. My inner beast came out for six weeks, at which the current lord of the west had found me, and saved me from death, mated me, and I felt he took advantage of me. I ran, and was able to go back through the well to my time. I found that I was pregnant with the lord's child.

"after a near month, the future version of the same lord had found me, and then after i had gained his trust, he pushed me into the well. But i think when he pushed me into the well, he pushed his powers into me- which would explain why im so far back in time. But i am his mate, which would be why i was in that cave."

"Who is this mate of yours?"

"It- It is Sesshoumaru. I cannot tell you any more, because it may upset the very fragile future. I could tell you something, and that would make you act differently than what you would, and i would cease to exist."

"I understand very well. You, Kagome, future and slight present mate of Sesshoumaru, I give you my word that I will find a way to set you right."

"How old is Sesshoumaru, Lord Touga?"

"He is only three days old, Miko. I don't understand though, how can-" he began to speak but kagome felt a ripping through her abdomen, and when she felt liquid through her miko garb, she groaned in pain.

"Not- not again!" she cried. Touga called for a healer and paced the room, trying to pour his aura over hers to calm her but it did not work.

After near ten hours, the healer came from the ambulatory room and gave the prognosis of Kagome's health to Touga.

"She has miscarried the pup she was carrying. She is fine- physically. She is free to go, the blood has stopped and with supervision because of her depression, she should be fine."

"Set a room in the family wing for her. I will see her there personally after i talk to her more."

"Hai"

"kagome?"

"Papa?" she said, very weak obviously. He was about to reprimand her, but thought against it. If she is the future mate of sesshoumaru, then she has every right.

"yes, pup?"

"Take me away from here." she whined. He picked her up and left for his study.

"As I was trying to say, How is it that you are a demoness, yet you have miko powers?"

"I do not know. I believe that the pups i had first carried had changed me, and i stil retained my miko powers because i actively use them,, even when i was pupped."

"Well, that may be why you have lost the pups you carried. When demonesses are pregnant, they usually become a gentle, submissive, a...homebody. Carrying pups is five times more weakening for the demoness than it would be if it was a human child. The pups gain the inherited powers from the father by his DNA, but they absorb powers from the mother. Seeing as you have not only demon and miko powers, and have used both at great lengths by means of transportation or by means of protection, such as an energy procured bow and arrow, and have not mastered these powers nor have you unlocked your full powers, it can cause a power imbalance, which after the first month of pregnancy, can kill the pups so violently that they cause a miscarriage. My mate has lost seven pups because of her lack of knowledge because she was never told. I had to bind her powers to the point that she could not access them. If she cannot access them, then nor can the pup, and the pup will absorb powers as he drinks his mother's milk, after the pregnancy is successful."

"I understand now. And i thank you for the lesson."

"You are welcome. Now, about your situation. I have a favor to call in from a miko that I saved many a year ago, and i will have her train you to not only unlock your powers, but also train your miko half. But i will have to bind your demonic powers so there is no threat to her as you train. Once you are trained in the holy ways, you will be tutored by myself. Hopefully as you train with the miko, i will find a way to send you to the proper time. If not, you will have to go with time to the destination you seek."

"Thank you, sir."

"You may call me papa in private or in front of Midoriko. She is the most powerful miko of this time. I have good confidence that you will soon overpower her though."

"Where is Midoriko?"

"She is headed this way. May the Gods be with you, Kagome-san." he said, and she bowed to him. "Now, let's get you to your room and properly dressed."

"Thank you, papa."

"You are welcome." he said. They reached her room and she gawked at her room. It was beautiful- done in dark red, blue and eggshell trim with a feminine twist with it. Touga left her, and Kagome went to the bed, and the moment she felt the bed at her knees, she fainted on the bed from the week's events.

For two days, Kagome slept, oblivious to the world, wishing that she would have never been pulled from her time in the first place. But there was nothing she could do- the future was never set in stone, and nor was the past, it seemed.