Disclaimer: I own no one except Mari, everyone else belongs to the maker of Inuyasha

AN: There will be much OOCness in this fanfic. If you notice something, let me know and I'll try to change it to my best ability without completely changing the story.

Chapter 1: Reunion

Kagome was lying in the sun, near the stream, taking a nap when Sango came up to her. "Kagome, do you have any other siblings, other than Souta?" She asked after sitting down next to the relaxed girl. "Yes, one other. A sister, her name is Mari. She's my half-sister; we share the same mother, just different, different fathers." Sango gave Kagome an odd look. "Why were they so different?" "Her father came out of the Bone Eaters Well, no one knows for sure what he was, but mom fell for him hard and about a year later, Mari was born.

"When she was 2, he told her he had to leave. She started to cry and he took her to her room until nightfall and she had fallen asleep. Mom kept yelling and screaming for him not to go, but all he did was kiss her head, moved her aside, told her he loved her and left back through the well. After a while she met another man, got married and out came me and Souta a few years later."

"What happened to your father, Kagome?" Sango asked. "He died in a car crash." Kagome said. "I'm sorry. I never knew what had happened. How did Mari take to you?"

"We met for the first time when I was 5, she was about 9. She had been staying at a boarding school. That's a school so far away that she has to live there. Anyways, when she had come to live with us at my grandfather's shrine, she didn't have many expressions, but I could tell that we would be able to get along." Kagome looked at her feet. "Mom and grandpa had needed to go to a relative's house and she left me and her and Souta in the house. That night was a bad storm and the lights in the house had gone out. Then the thunder and lightning started.

~Flashback~

Thunder and lightning raged with heavy winds and rain outside of the girls' mother's windows. It was so bad Mari had begun to wonder at how long the poor things were holding up so much. Two small figures sat on a large bed. "I'm scared…it's so dark." A small voice said. Lightning flashed outside, sending some light into the room. Two girls; one in a pink pajamas and one in a white nightshirt, sat on the bed huddled together. "Don't worry, Kagome, lightning and thunder are not so bad." Said the girl in the white shirt. "Yes they are! They scare people!" Another flash made the small Kagome squeal and clutch to the other girl. "Kagome, do you want me to tell you a story?" "Would you, Mari?" Mari smiled, one that didn't reach her eyes but comforted the girl nonetheless. "Then close your eyes and relax a Mari began. "Once there a lonely rain faerie, she was always in the sky, always sad and lonely. She would look down on the lands she and her father had passed and saw the other kinds of faeries and human children playing happily.

"One day, their cloud stopped over a patch of dry fields. The faerie were curious to find out why they had stopped. So she snuck past her sleeping father and jumped out of the sky and onto the earth. That's when the earth faeries came out. They all started to play together for many days and nights. One day the earth faeries didn't feel good. And they began to dry up, becoming sick. The rain faerie went to the sky and asked her father why they were getting sick and if she could help. Her father told her that the faeries had become sick because she, the rain faerie was not there to give them rain when they needed it. The rain faerie figured out why it was that she had been so alone, it was her duty to make sure life had continued. To give water to those who needed it.

"She began to cry, looking on as her friends began to die. As she cried, it began to rain a lot, wetting the ground and her friends. As she cried, she could see the earth faeries getting better right before her eyes. She stopped crying and the rain began to let up a little, she could clearly see them getting their bright colors back. She became happy that she had helped them and rushed to the end of the cloud, but stopped herself, if she went back down, her friends would get hurt again, so she decided to stay in the cloud and watch her friends. Soon her friends had begun to visit her and play in her cloud. They still play right after every time it rains.

That is why it rains, little sister." Mari explained. "Mari?" "Yes, Kagome?" "Do you ever miss your daddy? Do you want to cry like the faeries in the story?" Mari was silent for a long while, and then finally said, "No, I will never miss my father and I don't cry. Ever. Now go to sleep, Kagome." as the smaller girl fell into a deep slumber, she heard a faint whisper. "As long as I have you, I will never cry…"

~End Flashback~

"Wow, she sounds like a strange girl. So when will she arrive?" Sango asked, getting ready to head back to the village and help Kagome pack and go home through the well. "Today, I can't wait. I want to get there earlier."

A few hours later, Kagome finished packing and headed to the Bone Eater's Well. Sitting down on the edge of the well, she heard someone shouting her name. 'Inuyasha… what could he want now?' She thought. "Hey! Kagome!" Inuyasha landed behind her and leaned on her shoulder to catch his breath. "Kagome, I have to ask you if you'll…" Kagome looked at him expectantly.

Inuyasha felt sick inside. Here he was about to ask Kagome, his sweet innocent little Kagome to mate him knowing that it would kill her. Literally. Kikyou told him of a witch that could give her back her soul. They just needed an innocent miko, who was a virgin and that held her soul. This only applied to Kagome. She told him that they could kill her because she doesn't exist in their time and they would have to destroy the well to make sure that she doesn't come back into the past and repeat the cycle. Kikyou seemed certain that it would be as if she had never appeared. In truth, each time he had lain with Kikyou, he had envisioned Kagome above him or under him while he was having sex against a tree, a rock, in an abandoned temple, the river and hot spring near the old temple. He had been plagued with the heat all Inu-youkai went through every 10 years of their life. His weren't that bad because he was only half demon. His were only a few days.

Kagome began to shift her body away from his. "Inuyasha, maybe later? I'm going to meet my sister now. I'll see you soon." 'And I'll seal the well as soon as I get over so that you can't some get me.' She thought with a mental smile. Kagome kissed Inuyasha on his cheek and then on his forehead before jumping down the well to be engulfed in blue light.

"How cute… Being giving such a loving kiss when the best you deserve is a sword through your heart." A cool, soft voice said from the shadows of the trees said. "Who's there?!" Inuyasha shouted. "Show yourself!"

A slim figure stepped from the shadows of the trees on Inuyasha's right. "I'm right here, dog-boy. I have not come to fight, I' just looking for some females to play with. Got any living spares?" The man chuckled darkly. "What the hell are you talking about?" "I know that you screwed that dead bitch. I could smell her for miles, still can't get it out my nose. You're so pathetic… You who has so much, choosing to bed that bag of death. You have so much to learn about the living, but then Naraku did tell me I'd find a reason to join his fight." The man turned and left Inuyasha standing, shocked. "Oh, by the way, I'm Djinn. I'll be the one to kill you and take that girl." He stopped and laughed again. "While I'm at it, I shall also kill that dead girl; I wouldn't want you to be alone in hell." Djinn walked into the darkness of Inuyasha's Forest.

Inuyasha stood, shocked for more than a few heartbeats, he blinked away the shock and moved towards the well. He jumped in, fully expecting the blue lights to embrace him and bring him into Kagome's world. It didn't. "What the…"

"Well, that's done. Now I can wait until my sister arrives to go back into the well." Kagome said to herself while admiring her seal. "Now to get home." She picked up her yellow bag and went out of the shrine and went further up to the front door of her home.

"I'm home!" she yelled as she took off her shoes at the door. "As am I," a soft, almost empty voice said from the shadows in front of her. "It's been such a long time, Kagome. Hasn't it?" Kagome's eyes lit up as she ran towards the young woman, standing in the kitchen doorway with open arms. "Mari!!" She screamed. "You're back. I've missed you so much." She ran into Mari's arms. "So have I, my little sister." Mari said, hugging her tightly.

"So, mom told me you've been down that well for a while. Since I've been gone a few years, I missed a lot. Tell me what's been happening." And so Kagome told her everything, from the day she was taken into the well by the centipede woman, to meeting Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippo, Sango and the rest of her friends. She told Mari about Naraku, Kikyou and even the Band of Seven, and laughed when her sister swore on killing them for all the pain they put her through. Kagome told Mari about Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's half-brother.

'…So then… He is like me…' Mari thought to herself as her sister finished her story. "I think that's about it… so what do you think?" Kagome asked, wondering what her big sister would think about everything she just told her. "I think… I would like to meet these friends of yours. When can we leave?" "We can try in the morning. I want to know about everything you've done. Come on!" Mari and Kagome went into the house. All night they talked about Kagome and her life while Mari was away.

It was a nice sunny morning when Mari woke up to a very fat cat sitting on her chest, purring like a lawn mower. As she pushed the vibrating animal off, she thought to herself 'I know something bad is going to happen today… I should have stayed on that damned island. Perhaps I shouldn't have listened to Angel.' "They should have gotten a dog" she whispered, looking down at the offending animal, now making his way to her black duffle bag. Mari got out of the bed and showered and then went downstairs to find her family.

As Kagome and her mother were at the stove, Souta and their grandfather were sitting down at the table. Souta looked up from his handheld game, he frowned slightly. "Who are you, one of Kagome's friends?" Ms. Higorashi gasped. "That is Mari; she is your older half-sister, from my first husband. Don't treat her like she is a stranger." "But mom, she is a stranger. If she is from your first marriage how come you have no pictures of her or the guy?" Grandpa balled up his fist and knocked into the thick skull of the teenager. "Don't talk to your mother like that. Where have those manners of yours gone? There are no pictures of the man because I burned them all; he left your mom for some stupid reason. He left your sister too. There aren't many pictures of Mari because she went away for school for most of her life, and we have not been in contact these past few years, she up and disappeared on us, with no sort of warning." Grandpa sighed and then stared at Mari. "Where did you go? It's not like you to go somewhere for so long and not tell us when you were going to be back." "I needed a place to go and I don't think I would have gotten what I needed here. I went to an island, have been there for the past 17 years. Not school. I finished college with masters in technology, I don't need anything else. Not when I can make anything out of nothing." Mari said while sitting down awkwardly at the table. "What about cooking?" Souta asked. "I have a degree in culinary arts as well as pastry. I can cook." Said Mari in a bored tone.

As Kagome and Mari packed, they began to talk about all the things they would be able to do in the Feudal Era. "Don't get too ahead of yourselves, sweeties, the well might not even let you pass through." Said Ms. Higorashi. "Don't give us bad luck mom, come on Mari, let's go." Kagome said pulling Mari and their bags out of the house and towards the shrine on the family's land. Kagome removed the seal. "Well, now we jump." Kagome made a hand gesture for Mari to go first. Mari looked into the deep well and hoped she landed on her feet. Mari jumped in and looked down at the floor, expecting the ground to meet her face, when a blue light surrounded her and transported her 500 years into a past she could only dream of.

Kagome and Mari came out through the well and got out to sit on the mouth of it. "Wow, that was something… so which way to your friends?" Mari asked looking around at the surrounding forest. "Just up ahead. There is a village, and even the Goshinboku tree. Come on, Inuyasha and the others should be waiting." Kagome said picking up her bag and walking to the well worn path. A white blur skidded from the bushes to their right a loud crash was made when it finally stopped and the dust cleared.

"Sesshomaru…" Kagome whispered in a frightened gasp. "Who?" Mari asked her sister, who stared openly at the man. 'Well, I want to stand here and stare at the fine man too…wait, is that a man…?' "Kagome I think we should run away from here as fast as-" "No!" Kagome interrupted "If we run, we're as good as dead." "Well, if we don't do something soon, we're going to be dead. That's worse than as good as. At least if we run now, one of us has a chance at getting your friends, and since I don't know anyone, that person is going to have to be you. I can distract him." Mari stated, taking a dagger out of her thigh high boots. "We both can make a run, there is something else coming out of the forest. It will take care of him." Kagome yelled and sprinted down the path towards the village. Mari in tow closely behind her.

Sesshomaru saw the two girls running towards the human village Inuyasha resided. 'Stupid humans…I wonder if the demon following me will get them instead…' He thought to himself. "They can run pretty fast for a couple of humans though." 'Silence, Demon, I don't have time for your taunting.' He was still staring after the girls. Sesshomaru looked into the dark forest, easily locating the swamp demon that had been sent by Naraku, he also noticed that it had switched directions to follow the human females. "They are running like the hounds of Hell are on their heels." 'I guess you want to continue with that demon, Inu?' Sesshomaru thought to his own demon. "Of course. Besides, that human girl looked very nice. It is nearing the time of our mating season isn't it, boy? She looked good enough to eat…" His demon said playfully. "Hn…" Was all he said to the other and then made his way towards the women and the demon.

"Kagome, something is following us." Both girls stopped and looked back. "I don't see anything." Then vines shot out of the ground and wrapped around them. "What the hell?" Mari grabbed for her dagger but the vines had made sure to keep her hands away from her body, as if they had seen where the weapon was stored. "My, my, I do deserve a very tasty snack after that little demon ran away." An extremely ugly swamp demon stalked out of the trees and walked up to the hanging girls and grasped Mari's chin. "I think my master would like you." His rank breath nearly knocked her out. "Go wash your mouth out for the rest of eternity and then talk to me." Mari ground out, turning her head out of its grip.

Kagome looked behind the demon to see Sesshomaru come into sight. "How cowardly. Attacking weak, human women instead of fighting something stronger than you." Sesshomaru's cold tone made the demon turn and face him. "Wasn't it I that you were searching for? Come and try to relieve my boredom." The demon charged at him, leaving the girls stuck in their current predicament. Sesshomaru drew Tokijin and ended the monsters life without ever breaking a sweat. When the field cleared, he saw that the vines still held the girls in a bound state. "Who are you girl?" he asked Mari. "I'm her half sister. Who are you?" "I am the one you owe your life to human." He paused for a heartbeat. "You may call me Lord Sesshomaru." "Well, you think you could help a bit more and cut us down?" At the bored tone, a fine white eyebrow rose to slightly disappear under perfect white bangs.