Sorry about the upload issues I'm not really sure what happened. Got the it fixed so it's the right chappy. Hope you enjoy; much love for you all. Keva

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Kagome walked into the village after spending ten minutes at the well cursing a certain demon lord to hell and back several times over. Eventually she ran out of curse words and creative ways to describe him and decided it was time to go see when she was.

She wasted no time in again heading for Kaede's hut only to stop short when a VERY pregnant woman stepped outside. She was going to take a stab in the dark and guess that she was pregnant with Kikyo. Which led her to wonder how in the hell was Sesshoumaru sending her back to such specific times in history? She'd have to remember to ask him when she got back.

Well she couldn't stand there all day watching the village she had a job to do and she was going to get it done. Besides the sooner she got back the sooner she could give Sesshoumaru a piece of her mind and maybe a kick in the ass. With that as her incentive to get moving she turned on her heel and headed towards the village that was at the base of a mountain she had no desire to go anywhere near.

It wasn't to say she hated Koga she just hated his hard headedness and the fact that he couldn't take no for an answer. Though maybe this time if she happened to meet him she could give him a beat down and establish that no means no and that she wasn't a woman to be toyed with. Or she could just purify his manly bits off and call it a day.

Actually out of all her options that one seemed the most reasonable and time saving. Though maybe she'd be lucky just once in her life and the ookami wouldn't be home. Just once a little luck on her side would be damn nice.

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Kagome sighed deeply and decided that the Kami were clearly bored and were using her as their source of entertainment. Yep she was definitely going to have a nice long talk with them when she died and with any luck Sesshoumaru would be there to kill them afterwards.

"I asked you a question!"

Kagome stared at the growling wolf and sighed deeply. "So what," she huffed. "just because you asked that doesn't mean I have to answer." She pointed her dagger at him. "You can ask me all the questions you want and if I don't feel like answering them you know what;" she narrowed her eyes upon him. "I won't."

"You're pretty smart mouthed for a human wench." Koga growled getting into an aggressive stance against her.

"Yea well you're pretty annoying for a dog but you don't hear me complaining about it." She sighed deeply. "Now look either leave me alone or I purify you to hell." She nodded. "I've done nothing to you or your pack or anyone else you know to bring about any territorial behaviors out of you. So beat it."

"You're on my lands." He growled.

She snorted at that. "Yea and so is an entire village of humans so what's the difference? Secondly you're only a prince and therefore if you want to make a stink about this I will call you to court and have a talk with your pack elders." If her guess was right Koga's grandfather was still very much in charge and just as much now as would be in the future tired of Koga's domineering behavior.

His eyes narrowed deeply. "What do you know about wolf court?" He demanded coldly.

"Enough to know that if you want to keep this up you'll have a lot of explaining to do." She matched the glare he was giving her. "Especially when I've done nothing to you or your pack and you have no accusations against me other then walking down this road." She pointed down at the road with her dagger. "So what will it be? Leave me to my business or do we go to court?"

"How about I just kill you." He bit out.

"You want to take on a warrior miko?" She shrugged and put her powers into her daggers forcing the blades to glow pink. "You're funeral."

Koga stared at her for a long contemplative moment before he relaxed his stance and crossed his arms over his chest. He could feel her purification powers radiating off her blades and knew if they touched him he was dead. "Just get your business here done and leave." He bit out then turned and ran off.

Kagome snorted and shook her head as she pulled her powers back. "Once a baka always a baka." She sheathed her daggers back onto her back and continued on towards the village. Dark was fast approaching and she wanted to get there before it was too dark and all the bad guys came out to play.

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Kagome huffed irritably as she stormed through the village. Of course no one knew the whereabouts of Onigumo but everyone certainly knew where to find his worthless father. First she was going to find the little boy who she found out was just barely four years old then she was going to give his father the what for.

She grabbed a little boy as he ran by startling him causing him to stare wide eyed up at her. "Have you seen Onigumo anywhere?"

He nodded his head vigorously. "Uh huh he's by the old tree behind the abandoned shrine." He pointed towards the other side of the village. "That's where he's always at talking to himself."

"Talking to himself?" She drew her brows deeply as she released her hold upon him.

He shrugged. "Talking to himself." He repeated dismissively. "He does that a lot. It's like he's talking to someone or something only he can see." He shook his head. "He's a weird kid."

A realization suddenly hit and Kagome took off running towards the old shrine without a word to the boy. If she was right and she suspected she was Onigumo was already corrupted by a demon even this young. Her guess was it was a demon spider which led him to become the worthless vagrant he grew up to be. Plus that spider was what made it so easy for him to give his body over to the horde of demons that corrupted him.

She hoped beyond hope she would be able to save him now before the demon corrupted him too much or had too tight of a hold on his little body.

As she rounded the corner to the back of the shrine she spotted Onigumo reaching out to touch what looked to be a snake. Her miko powers instantly flared at the sight telling her that that wasn't a snake exactly. "Onigumo!" She yelled causing the boy to start as she ran towards him unsheathing her dagger. "Get away from it!" She ordered and flung her dagger underhanded sending it spinning towards the snake.

Just as the snake touched it's head to the boy's finger her dagger sliced through it's neck purifying it to ash. She ran up to the startled little boy staring wide eyed at her and picked him up. "Are you okay?" She questioned worriedly.

Onigumo startled when she picked him up causing his lip to quiver and his big brown eyes to begin filling with tears.

"Oh sweetie I'm sorry I scared you." She whispered soothingly as she held him to her chest. "That snake was going to eat you."

He stared at her unsure as his tears slowly spilled over though he gave a tiny nod of his head.

"What are you doing out here all by yourself?" She questioned as she wiped his tears away. She had to marvel at how much he looked like a baby Naraku not exactly like him but damn close. She could only think that if Naraku and Sango got together and had a kid Onigumo would be it. "It's too dangerous for you to be out alone."

"Mommy?" He suddenly whispered questioningly keeping his wide shocked gaze upon her.

She just stared at him his big brown eyes so full of hope and fear. She knew he didn't have a mother or did but no one knew where she ran off to. If she ever crossed paths with that woman she'd be hard pressed not to beat her to death.

Yet at the moment that had nothing to do with how to answer him. She knew she couldn't leave him here alone and she'd be dammed if she was going to leave him with his father. Well if the rumors about his father were true she wouldn't. She couldn't kill him as much as Sesshoumaru would probably insist she should and she was out of options other than leaving him with shrine monks. However that wasn't an option either since orphans weren't looked upon too kindly and treated with disdain. That was another reason she had a hard time dealing with the way people in the past thought. So many times she wanted to punch someone for their simple mindedness over things like orphans or abusive husbands and mothers.

"Do you want me to be your mommy?" She pushed a strand of his hair off his dirty face. He was filthy like he hadn't be cleaned in weeks and so so underweight. His father would be lucky if she let him live once she got her hands on him.

He nodded his head at her. "You're nice." He smiled and sniffed as his last tear rolled down his dirty little face.

"Well," she smiled at him. "you're nice too." She poked him in the belly causing him to giggle. There was no hope for it she couldn't leave him to suffer especially knowing what he could grow up to be. "Yes I'm your mommy." She smiled at him and nearly cried when his eyes widened excitedly and his aura exploded around him with his happiness. She had never seen a child so happy in her life and could only imagine that this was how it felt for Rin and Sesshoumaru when they became father and daughter so to speak.

"Mommy!" He beamed excitedly and wrapped his little arms around her neck hugging her tight.

She hugged him back for a moment smiling at his excitement. "Onigumo," she pulled him back from her and placed her hand flat against his chest. "can you do something for mommy?" She questioned feeling a little weird at referring to herself as his mommy.

He nodded his head and stared expectantly at her willing to do anything she asked of him.

"Can you close your eyes for me and keep them closed tight?"

"Okay mommy." He easily agreed and did as she asked.

She smiled. "Good now keep them closed until I say." She ordered and when he nodded at her she closed her own eyes and pulled her miko powers to the surface.

She pushed her powers into him just enough to make the spider within release its hold on him to get away from being purified. She pulsed her powers increasing them in strength to chase the dirty little youkai out and snapped her eyes open when she heard it fall to the ground. With glare at the nasty little thing she stepped on it and purified what was left to dust.

"There all better." She tickled his belly causing him to snap his eyes open and giggle. "Alright let's go get you cleaned up and fed."

He smiled hugely at her. "Okay."

She picked up her dagger and walked back to the center of the village but stopped when she reached the brothel.

"Hey Kariya this one likes it rough!"

Her eyes narrowed to deadly little slits.

"Send her over!"

"That's daddy." Onigumo whispered fearfully with a small nod at her.

"Uh huh." She set him down on his feet. "Go stand over there for mommy okay." She pointed towards the tree in the center of the village.

"Hai." He nodded and did as he was told. His mommy was here now and she'd keep him safe from daddy.

Kagome walked into the brothel doing her level best to look as sweet and innocent as possible.

"Women are not allowed in here."

Kagome looked at the woman who was clearly the madam so to speak. "Oh I'm so sorry." She feigned innocence. "But I was looking for Kariya," she batted her lashes and swooned. "the love of my life." It was taking everything she had not to cringe or gag. "I heard he was in here and I just HAD to see him."

The woman looked her up and down suspiciously. "Are you sure you're talking about the right Kariya? The Kariya I know is a disgusting drunken slob."

She opened her mouth to respond to that ready to gush about what a great man he was but just couldn't "Alright lady look I found Onigumo outside alone and practically starving and I would like to have a talk with daddy dearest about his parenting skills."

The woman appraised her for a silent moment before nodding at her. "It's about time someone cared about that little boy. He's too sweet to be treated the way that man treats him." She cast a glare towards the hall. "I've done what I can for him," she looked back at her. "but there's only so much I can do considering." She waved a hand around her.

"Well no need to worry any longer." She nodded. "I'm taking him with me after I deal with his father."

"I'll get him," she nodded and turned towards the hall. "but please try not to damage my store."

"Agreed." She nodded then turned and opened the front door so she wouldn't throw him through it. She watched as the madam led cursing loudly Kariya to stand in front of her. "Huh thought you'd be taller." She snorted when he came to stand in front of her though upon seeing him she knew without a doubt that he wasn't Onigumo's biological father. He was too short, fat, and ugly.

"Who the hell are you?" He bit out deadly then looked back at the madam. "I thought you said there was a hot little thing out here asking just for me."

"Oh I'm hot alright," Kagome drew his attention back to her. "and I was asking just for you." Her eyes narrowed. "Lets go outside and have a talk shall we?" She grabbed him by his shirt startling him and with a hard yank sent him flying outside. "Thank you." She nodded at the woman then followed after Kariya.

"No; thank you." The woman smiled hugely and moved to stand in the doorway to watch.

Kagome stormed up to the man who was cussing and pushing up to his hands and knees and put her foot on his back forcing him back to the ground.

"Bitch!" He growled as he floundered under her foot.

"You will watch your language especially when in the presence of women and a child." She bit out then, bent down, hauled him to his feet, and walked him over to where Onigumo was staring wide eyed at them. "Now apologize for being a worthless father and I'll think about letting you keep your man parts."

"Screw you bitch!" He squirmed from her hold and took a swing at her.

She easily dodged the punch then kicked him in the stomach causing him to double over. "Again with the language." She huffed then elbowed him in the back of the neck causing him to fall face first to the ground. "Now let's try this again." She bit out as she bent down and grabbed him by his hair jerking his head up to stare at the little boy. "Now say your sorry or I cut IT off."

"Sorry." He bit out completely obvious in that he didn't mean it.

She slammed his face to the dirt causing his nose to bleed. "Again and you better damn well mean it." She hissed. "I'm tired of being nice here."

He cut his widened eyes up to her then looked back at the little boy. "Sorry I was such a terrible father to you." He whispered sounding as sincere as possible.

"Good now was that so hard." She released her hold on him and stood up. "Now say goodbye to daddy." She held her hand out to Onigumo.

"Bye daddy." Onigumo whispered as he slipped his hand into hers.

"And Kariya," she sneered his name. "if I ever see you again I'll cut little Kariya off. Probably do the world a service if I did." She nodded curtly then picked Onigumo up and walked off leaving the man bloodied and staring wide eyed at her.

"Well that was fun." She shook her head as she headed towards the inn. "Alright let's get you cleaned up and fed."

"Mommy's strong." He whispered wide eyed.

She smiled at him and tickled his belly. "Yes I am and some day you'll be strong just like mommy too."

He beamed at that and hugged her tight. "I love you mommy."

It was a little awkward hearing that but she just smiled and rubbed his back. "I love you too."