Author's Note: I do not own Inuyasha, this story and others written by myself are of course mine. That is all, please enjoy the story.

(Enter opening theme)

I want to change the world
kaze wo kakenukete nanimo osorezu ni
ima yuuki to egao no KAKERA daite
Change my mind
jounetsu tayasazu ni takanaru mirai e
te wo nobaseba kagayakeru hazu sa
It's wonderland

[Instrumental]

hai-iro no sora no kanata nanika oite kita
kimi wa mayoi nagara
sagashi-tsudzukeru
kimi no kokoro furuete'ta asu no mienai yo
nanimo shinjirarezu mimi wo fusagu
kimi ni deaeta toki hontou no ibasho mitsuketa
nanigenai yasashisa ga koko ni atte
bokura mezameru

I want to change the world
nido to mayowanai kimi to iru mirai
katachi doreba doko made mo toberu sa
Change my mind
jounetsu tayasazu ni shiranai ashita e
tsubasa hiroge hanabatakeru hazu sa
It's wonderland

[Instrumental]

bokura wa onaji sekai wo oyogi-tsudzukete'ru
tagai no negai e todoku hi made
minna onaji fuan kakaete sasaeaeru yo
tachidomaru shunkan ni mitsumete'ru
kono basho ni iru

I want to change the world
kono te hanasazu ni mimamoru hitomi wo
uketometara nandatte dekiru hazu
Change my mind
hitori ni sasenai minna koko ni iru
donna koto mo tsukinukete ikou
It's wonderland

[Instrumental]

I want to change the world
kaze wo kakenukete nanimo osorezu ni
ima yuuki to egao no KAKERA daite
Change my mind
jounetsu tayasazu ni takanaru mirai e
te wo nobaseba kagayakeru hazu sa
It's wonderland

(End opening theme)

Paths

A story of possiblities.

Chapter 1: Seeing Red

"Damnit! I said you weren't going back!" Kagome scowled at the white haired hanyou standing between her and the well. It was always this way. She started for the well so she could go back to her own time and he tried to get in the way and stop her. It always ended the same way as well. She would try and get past him and he would block her, so she would say the word.

"Inuyasha, you know how this'll end. It always ends the exact same way." Inuyasha scowled at her in that way of his, amber eyes burning with anger, seeming to bore into her soul.

"Not this time bitch."

Sighing Kagome said the word and rolled her eyes at the sound of his body connecting with the ground. She walked right past him and climbed over the lip of the well and turned to him. "Inuyasha, I'll just be gone for a week, don't come through to get me early ok. If you do you'll be sorry." With that said she let go and slipped several feet and five centuries away.

(Present Day)

Kagome was in the city, she was running errands. And it was such a beautiful day out! The day seemed absolutely perfect and her mother still made her go into the city to get some things for the shrine. She could be out having fun with her friends, or at the very least studying! But no! She had to be doing chores. 'I'd rather be back in the past with Inuyasha.'

She made a hasty mental correction to add the other's names to that and grimaced at what Inuyasha put her through. The arrogant, selfish jerk! Messing with her feelings and acting like he cared, but the instant Kikyo showed up...WAM! It was like he was hypnotized or something! There was just no helping it. There was only one Inuyasha and two women that might just hold Inuyasha's heart.

Business suits and other drab colors were all around her, each of those suits was topped by a dark haired head. Which was what made him stand out all the more.

Red trench coat, red pants, red boots, red tinted sunglasses, and long white hair. Kagome's breath caught in her throat as she saw him. She darted a bit to the side to avoid being seen and peered around the corner at him. She couldn't see his eyes through the shades but she was certain they were amber. And despite the fact that his ears were at the side of his head, he was exactly like Inuyasha.

Then she noticed it.

Coming from his body was the glow, the aura, of Shikon shards. And from how strongly she was feeling them it was definetely a lot, a big chunk. Big enough to be the entire jewel.

He stopped dead, everyone keeping a good distance from him. His nose twitched as he took deep wiffs and tried to decipher the scents that were coming through to him. And with steady strides he headed straight for where Kagome was hiding.

He stepped up next to her and didn't look down. He simply looked straight ahead, but he did speak. "I know that scent from somewhere. Like a memory left far behind, or a dream that I've woken from. A nostalgic feeling that fills my veins, a scent I like, a scent that felt like it would have effected me long ago, in the days of my childhood. It's 2003 now, its been 500 years so I suppose this is the right time. I didn't even realize this was the same area."

She looked up at him and finally his eyes met hers, they were amber alright, but instead of the warm or angry ones she was used too...they were cold. Emotionless. And somehow familiar.

Sesshomaru. His eyes were like Sesshomaru's.

That was when it hit her. The glow of enough shikon shards to be the entire jewel, his cold almost emotionless voice and eyes. This was Inuyasha, 500 years later, and exactly what he had hoped to become. A full demon. And not the mindless killing machine that had frightened her so much, but a demon worthy to be Lord of the West.

She had seen him, the Inuyasha that she knew and loved, just the previous day and 500 years ago. And it was like he had become a completely different person in a single day, but despite how much he looked like the hanyou that she had come to love, she knew he was no longer the tough guy with a softie underneath it all. This was a cold and calculating demon who felt no remorse and took immediate action against anyone who might come in his way.

One question came to the front of her mind the fastest.

Why? Why had he chosen to become a full demon? Why hadn't he become human so he could stay with her? Other questions came flooding forward into her mind. What happened to them, did anything come of their pseudo-relationship?

"Inuyasha...I..." She couldn't say anything that she wanted to, seeing him like this just made it to hard to speak.

A look of compassion crossed his face for an instant and then was gone. "I left that girl far behind. I'm sorry that I'll hurt you after its all done, and I'm sorry for what you had to experience in the completion of the jewel. And I tell you now, what I say on that day was for your own good, and I wish you luck in that future, I hope I'll see you in a year or two." He extended a business card to her and turned away and began to walk into the crowds.

"Another time, Kagome."

"Wait!" She struggled to push her way to him through the crowd, but it was too thick. She couldn't make it. And in moments he was completely out of sight, like he had never been there at all.

(Warring States Era)

"You really should learn to stop doing that."

"Your one to talk Miroku!" The monk watched the hanyou with intelligent eyes and raised one eyebrow in a questioning manner.

"What are you talking about Inuyasha?"

At that moment Sango made her entrance, caring fire wood into the little cabin and setting it down next to where they had the fire going. Of course by setting the wood down she accidently put herself into perfect position. And Miroku was true to his nature, in response Sango was true to hers. It ended with the monk lying prostrate on the ground with a large lump on his head.

"That's what I'm talking about priest."

"I'm a monk, not a priest."

(Night, Present Day)

'Was that really Inuyasha I saw, or am I just going crazy?'

Kagome lay on her bed, chin in her hands, staring straight ahead at the wall. He had looked older, his mid-twenties or so, but it was more of that timeless look that Sesshomaru had. You couldn't really tell how old he was. Then there was his age. She had heard from Miroku, Sango, and even Myoga that demon's power grew the older they got. But that growth in power was relative. A gore crow would never be more then a nasty bird, unless it happened to live for several centuries. And even then it wouldn't be much more impressive.

But Inuyasha had been shockingly powerful for a hanyou at an age of around eighty, with the transformation to full youkai and the passage of five centuries, Inuyasha's power could have grown to heights that would make even Naraku look weak in comparison. And somehow she was certain that he had retained the Tetsuisaiga in some manner, add the power to kill one hundred demons in one strike and he would be nearly invincible.

No prayer beads. There hadn't been any prayer beads around his neck. At some point during the past five centuries he had either found a way to take them off, or gotten someone else to do it for him.

Mentally she put the Inuyasha she knew, next to the youkai Inuyasha she had just seen. There wasn't a huge difference, but after 500 years there was no telling whether Inuyasha had developed the power to conceal his youkai nature. Hardly any demons existed in her time because they were always killing each other. Over time that brutal warring of different clans and different species of demons must have decimated the entire demon population, dropping it down to hundreds at the most.

There was always the chance that demons had evolved in some way that allowed them to completely conceal themselves from humans. But even then not all demon species would have been able to manage it.

Slowly Kagome turned her gaze to the business card that the youkai Inuyasha had given her. Her gaze rose to the computer on her desk and she made a decision. She would do some research and find out what she could about the company that was named on the card. A name that seemed fitting.

Shikon Inc.

(Enter end theme)

sotto mezameru
hakanai omoi zutto
donna toki demo negau yo
anata ni todoku you ni to...

"ato sukoshi" to yuu kyori ga fumidasenakute
itsumo me no mae wa tozasarete-ita no
aitai aenai hibi wo kasaneru tabi ni
tsuyoi tokimeki wa setsunasa ni naru yo

moshimo eien to yuu mono ga aru nara
toomawari shite demo shinjite mitai
"bukiyou dakara KIZUtsuku koto mo aru" to
wakatte mo tomaranai mou dare ni mo makenai

anata no koto wo omou
sore dake de namida ga
ima afuredashite kuru yo
hakanai omoi zutto
donna toki demo negau yo
anata ni todoku you ni to...

tsuyogaru koto dake shiri-sugite-ita watashi
dakedo ano toki kara mayoi wa kieta yo

misetai to omou mono ga kitto atte
kikasetai kotoba mo takusan aru
egao nakigao mo zenbu mite hoshikute
matte-iru watashi wa yamete
"CHANSU" wo tsukamu yo

anata no koto wo omou
sore dake de kokoro ga
tsuyoku nareru ki ga suru yo
hakanai omoi zutto
donna toki demo negau yo
anata ni todoku you ni to...

anata no koto wo omou
sore dake de namida ga
ima afuredashite kuru yo
tookute koe ga todokanai dakedo itsuka wa
kanarazu todoku you ni
shinjite la la la la la la...
shinjite la la la la la la...
shinjite la la la la la la...

(End of end theme)

Next time...

Hey there, its Kagome. My wierd experience with that youkai Inuyasha left me all shook up, but things get even wierder when a new student comes to our school who...oh I can't say it. You'll have to wait and find out for yourself.

Second Sighting!