Disclaimer: I don't own IY.

Note: The setting of this story is one of my own. A cross between Feudal Japan, Middle Ages and snippets of the present. You'll get it once you read it.

Makeshift Misfits

"So your girlfriend accidentally turned you into a half-boy, half-girl?" Miroku inquired incredulously.

Inuyasha nodded, "Pretty much..."

"Where is she now?" Sango wondered.

Inuyasha's face fell, then he looked up at them with sad, almost brown eyes. Almost brown?! They all looked at him once more and saw that they were brown...well they were flickering brown.

Inuyasha sighed, he was too far in not to tell them this, despite his heart screaming no. "She had to go back to her family...family emergency...she had to marry some guy to save her family from going bankrupt."

"Oh," they all temporarily forgot his eyes.

"We weren't able to..." Inuyasha's voice faltered and seem to bounce between a higher pitched one and his own, "We didn't convince them soon enough...so she had to go..."

While Sango and Miroku got sidetracked by his faltering voice, Kagome was once again captivated by his necklace. It was glowing.

Inuyasha blinked back tears, his bangs flew past his eyes. He barely seemed to notice that they seemed blacker than usual. "So can we change the subject? I'm not quite..."

"What's with your necklace, it's been glowing off and on," Kagome didn't notice either.

Inuyasha looked back at her, completely normal. "My mom."

Sango and Miroku ceased their puzzled whispering to pay attention. "Your mom?" all three inquired.

Inuyasha smirked and nodded, "See, back when I lived at home, about four months before I bailed that place, some guy sneaked into the house to try and kill my dad or something. I was half asleep so I don't remember all the details but the results were my mom in this necklace."

"Oh, that sounds terrible!" Kagome gasped.

Inuyasha smirked a little wider, "It isn't really, she can come out and go in whenever she wants."

Suddenly the necklace glowed fiercely and a red light emanated form it and quickly took form of a beautiful woman...maybe twenty years older than they were (15).

"Hi," Izayoi grinned. Before Miroku could pull anything, Inuyasha kicked him in the face.

"Go anywhere near my mom and I'll cure you of your disease. You can't have VHS after death, right?" Inuyasha threatened.

Miroku nodded and respectfully left Izayoi' alone. "Speaking of children..."

"No one was speaking of children," Sango cut in.

Miroku rolled his eyes, "Now we are. Speaking of children, Kagome, would you bare my child?"

Kagome's eyes went wide with disgust, "NO WAY!"

Miroku sighed and then turned to Sango, "Then will you-"

"Don't even think about monk," Sango cut in.

Kagome tried to get away from this disturbing topic by stiring back towards Inuyasha's mother. "So, you're Inuyasha's mother?"

Izayoi nodded, "Call me Izayoi."

"Aren't you the least bit upset about your son being in jail?" Kagome inquired.

Izayoi thought for a moment, "It wasn't his fault so not really. He couldn't help being transformed at that time and he couldn't help their reactions. It wasn't anyone's fault. I'm not angry about it all."

"Mom," Inuyasha interrupted, "You hit the guy in the head with a frying pan."

"I'm not angry at all," Izayoi repeated.

"You also called him a lowly cow, inviting young women over to stay at his house," Inuyasha added.

"Not angry at all," She repeated.

"You nearly kicked his ass, mom, you were shouting all through it," Inuyasha continued.

Izayoi took a deep breath, "Honey, that was then and this is now. I'm not angry now. Understood?"

"You sound pretty mad," Inuyasha muttered, but he knew better than aggravating his mother further.

Sango paused momentarily between giggles to ask, "Inuyasha isn't it weird travelling with your mother like that?"

Inuyasha shrugged, "Not really. I set off to get her out of the stupid necklace for good anyways."

Izayoi nodded, "We're hoping that we can find someone who can un-cast whatever spell was cast on me."

"Not hoping, Mom," Inuyasha cut in firmly.

"Honey," Izayoi sighed.

Inuyasha crossed his arms, "This isn't a matter of if, mom, it's a matter of when."

"Inuaysha," his mom replied.

"No, mom," Inuyasha said, "You can't be negative."

"I'm not being negative, I'm being realistic," Izayoi looked at her son with sad eyes.

"Mom, you have to get out of that necklace," Inuyasha looked her with equally sad yet brown eyes.

"Dear, your eyes," Izayoi looked startled, "They're...they're brown."

"They are?" Inuyasha blinked and they went gold again.

Sango answered, "They were and this is the second time we've noticed. They flickered and so did your hair."

Inuyasha furrowed his brows, "When?"

Kagome looked downward, "While your were talking about your ex-girlfriend."

"Really?" Inuyasha wondered. "They did...while I was talking about...her?"

Kagome nodded and his eyes flickered again.

Miroku replied, "I think they do that when you're depressed."

Inuyasha looked down. Izayoi looked at her son with soft eyes. "Honey..."

His hair pulsed...and then went dark. "Honey?" Izayoi sounded worried.

"Everything in my life goes wrong!" Inuyasha blurted in a oddly feminine voice. He looked up at them with sad, dark eyes.

"Inuyasha?" everyone replied.

Sorry for the shortness...I was doing this at design academy...I'd do thank yous but I'm doing this at design academy. But special thanks to ki tama onikkusu, you'r epromise finally made me update!