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Moonlight from the first Euclades Moon illuminated dull light into a small camp, in a barren valley below as the last storm clouds cleared the night sky.

The night was peaceful for the time being, but every man in the camp knew that the illusions of peace would be short lived.

Firelight centered the camp and all it's inhabitant – thirty six men – orbited around it like moths to a flame; their faces solemn and guarded.

Tomorrow there would be another battle. There would be no stopping it.

Under normal circumstances, the men would be in cheery moods, celebrating a battle with music, and laughter and feasts. However, this was not the case.

For not one of the men in the camp knew who the enemy was, or more importantly why they were fighting the enemy to begin with. All the men knew was that there would be another battle tomorrow and that their leader was in a delirious – wounded state and in no condition to fight tomorrow.

Fear was the unspoken disease among them and without their leader the men felt lost.

"Take me to the Tetsaiga's Hand." Commanded a quiet feminine voice from shadows behind the hills.

At once, the men were on their feet, wary with spook of the unseen voice. In their hands, they held spears and with a few nods they sent a man to scout out the area. However, before he got far, the voice spoke again.

"Don't be alarmed," Commanded the quiet feminine voice as a shadowy figure stepped forward to reveal a beautiful young woman with the body of a horse.

"I come peacefully to you, to speak to your leader – The Tetsaiga's Hand." She said again. The men looked at each other for a moment, before silently deciding that the woman was no immediate threat and went back to their previous activities.

Without waiting for invitation, the woman made her way into the midst of the camp before silently going to the delirious leader lying down off by himself on a wood table – since there was obviously no beds.

"Inuyasha – The Tetsaiga's Hand, that is the title you have chosen to be addressed by?" The woman asked the delirious man in a tired voice. The man stirred at the woman's voice but did not open his eyes.

"Lady Kikyo, the Seer." The man called Inuyasha muttered and then smiled at his own words – a trait that the Seer had never seen before.

"Yes it is me and in all the hundreds of years that I have known you, I have never seen you smile. You must truly be delirious." Lady Kikyo said with a laugh. Inuyasha frowned at this and with a grunt, sat up and opened his eyes.

"Tell me, Seer, have you come all this way to laugh in my face or do you truly have the gift of prophecy and have come to warn me of something?" Inuyasha asked in an irritated voice. Sensing his moods shift, Lady Kikyo stepped back a bit.

Looking at him silently, Kikyo tried to find the resemblance between the now silver haired hanyou and the once black haired human that served as her lover. There few but a few subtle hints.

"You changed." She said quietly to him. Inuyasha snorted at this.

"We have all changed." He said in an equally quiet voice as he eyed her critically. Kikyo realized he was speaking of her joining with the horse demon and felt the need to justify herself.

"I had to," She heard herself say.

"I was in an accident, and if I didn't join with the creature, I could have die-

"Spare me the details." Inuyasha all but snarled at her.

"You are not my lover anymore. You don't have to justify your actions to me, anymore than I have to justify my actions to you." He said, referring to his own joinings with a dog demon.

"Can we never go back to the way things were?" Kikyo asked sadly. Inuyasha grunted at this.

"You are the Seer. You tell me." Kikyo wisely chose to remain quiet. After a moment or two of silence, Inuyasha became irritated and tried to stand, only to fall back onto his seat.

"Tell me what you have come to tell me, and then leave!" He said in frustration. Kikyo watched him sadly, before shaking out of her thoughts.

"Right. In three mornings time from now, you will be hunted by a man who will decay in the sunlight and feed off of the two moons. He will lead an army that can never live and never die. He will not rest until you have been chased to the far corners of this land where you will seek refuge in a pyramid of light. A pyramid that this creature can never enter."

"Inside this pyramid, you will find a pool of mass amounts of water and any being that enters the pool will be boiled alive. On two opposite ends of the pyramid you will find two doors and any being that enters the doors will be met with a wall of flames and be burned alive. Any being that enters the pyramid will never be permitted to leave and any being who enters the pyramid will not be able to escape the call of death. Not even you, Inuyasha." Inuyasha's dog-ears twitched at this, but he found that he could say nothing -

Kagome Higurashi's life had been perfect and after attending high school, she found that she had been accepted into more than six different Universities due to her talent of writing.

Now, nothing spectacular ever happened to Kagome in all of her three years of attending the University. Nothing that is, until she wrote her term paper and based it off of an old legend about two hanyous who conquered the evil roots of early Japan. One hanyou had been part horse demon and had been a beautiful seer and the other had been part dog demon and a powerful general.

One minute Kagome found herself working on her paper, and the next there had been a blinding light, followed by an unfamiliar voice.

"What is this place? Where am I?" Inuyasha asked in bewilderment as he inspected the small room he had randomly appeared in. When he spotted Kagome, Inuyasha rushed over to her, threateningly.

"Hey you? What is this place and how did I get here? And why do you look so much like Kikyo?" He asked demandingly, annoyed that random pages of paper were sticking to him.

"Tell me, are you her? Have you found a way to separate yourself from the horse creature?" He asked hopefully, thoughts of his own separation from the dog demon in his head.

"You aren't real!" Kagome stuttered frantically, backing away from the hanyou in frightened speed. Inuyasha, for his part was completely annoyed.

"Yes I am. What are you talking about, wench? Who are you anyway?" He asked, through suspicious eyes when it became apparent that this girl wasn't in fact Kikyo as he brushed off chapters of paper that were currently sticking to him.

"What is this?" He demanded angrily when the paper refused to come off with one brush of his hand. Irritated, he finally grabbed the paper and proceeded to crumble it before throwing it to the other side of the room.

"And how do I get back?" He asked, looking around for traces of his homeland in the strange room. There were none.

"Back? You can't go back…" Inuyasha growled at her words.

"Wench, why can't I? Who are you to tell me what I can and can't do?" He demanded crossly.

"I'm…I'm Kagome." Inuyasha snorted loudly at this.

"So?" Kagome shook her head, trying to clear her thoughts.

"You don't understand. I'm Kagome." Inuyasha's patience shattered at this.

"I know! You just said that." Kagome continued to back away from him, still shaking her head.

"No, you don't get it! I'm Kagome –

Kagome barely noticed the table she had backed into, until it was too late and she tripped over it in her haste to get away from Inuyasha.

Inuyasha for his part, stayed where he was and allowed the human woman to fall to the floor. She wasn't his responsibility. He didn't even know her.

"-I created you." She said; her voice stunned by her own words.

"…What do you mean, 'You created me'?" Asked Inuyasha. Unfortunately, Kagome chose that time to faint, leaving Inuyasha alone with his thoughts…