Everyone piled into the living room and sat down. Sora however stood and looked up at a picture of Kagome before Inuyasha came into her life.

"My daughter use to be carefree. She used to love to hang out with her friends, complained about school. She was a normal teenager. Then on her 15th birthday that all changed. Do you know about the story of how she was sent back in time?"

Kurama and Hiei seemed to be the only two of the four guys that were in the office when Koenma was telling them about the assignment. It was Kurama though who spoke. "Koenma told us only basically what was going on. He told us that she travels through time to find the Shikon Jewel shards. He said that there was a youkai that was after them that could come into this world and time, but not through the well. And since it is clear that Inuyasha can't walk around in this age and this world, we were hired. That is all we know."

Sora reached up and took the picture from the wall and took her seat in a chair that her late husband had made for her. "Kagome use to be such a happy girl. Even when she first started going back and forth. She would talk about how she hated Inuyasha for being such a jerk. And had nothing to say but good things about the others she travels with. Then the first time that she was in trouble happened."

She had to take a break from the story. Even though Koga seemed to be a good guy now from the stories that Kagome tells, it worried her to no end when she had learned that her little girl was kidnapped by a youkai.

"The wolf prince Koga had attacked and was fighting with Inuyasha. He heard Kagome say where the jewel shards in his body were, and had kidnapped her to try to use her as a jewel detector. It was Inuyasha who came to her rescue. After that she started to change. I knew what the ailment was before she did. She had fallen in love with Inuyasha. And that bastard does not return her feelings and I deal with the mess that he leaves her in."

Sora wiped the tears away. "The sooner this jewel is got so she can make it disappear forever the better I say. If she can't go back to him, then there is a chance that she will forget about him."

Keiko let her urges to make everyone feel better take hold of her. She rushed to Sora's side and put a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry. Everything will be okay in the end."

Yukina looked up at the ceiling. Being a youkai she could hear her crying. "I am going to go and check on her." Then she was gone, almost as fast as Hiei would have been.

Hiei left the house, taking his perch on the tree. He was not going to stay in the guest house unless it was raining outside. He looked to his right and could see his sister and Kagome in her room. A single tear fell from his sister's eye and turned into the jewel that it always did. That was what was got Kagome's attention from the stupid hanyou.

He could not understand why she was crying that hard over someone who did not even seem to care about her. He wondered at first if she was the one he was wanting to claim as his mate, but it became clear that it was not that. He was acting more like a feral dog with a bone and all the other dogs in the world wanted it.

'He acts like he owns her. Not like he wants to protect her. Baka hanyou.'

x

Yukina walked on into Kagome's room without knocking. She saw the beautiful teenager lying on her stomach on her bed crying her head off. She rushed to her side and said, "Your mother told us about what is going on between you and Inuyasha. Kagome you are too good for that."

Kagome sat up and let the youkai sit next to her. After spending so much time in the past, dealing with Inuyasha, Naraku, Kagura, Kanna, Sesshomaru, and God only knows how many other youkai, this girl was a welcome change. "I know that. But I can't help who my heart says it wants to be with."

Yukina reached out and pulled Kagome into a hug. "I know that one. People tell me that I am too good and too pretty to be with someone like Kazuma. But I love him all the same. But he does not treat me like Inuyasha treated you. To him, I am his world, and he has to keep everyone away from me. Not act like he owns me."

Kagome relaxed in Yukina's arms. "I know he acts like I am his property. I am in love with him, and all he can think about is getting the damned jewel and becoming a youkai. What hurts the most, he knows how I feel about him, but he still runs off whenever Kikyo bids him."

Yukina rocked the young girl in her arms. Even though it was Yukina who looked younger, it was actually Kagome who was much younger. She thought about how she would feel in that situation. Being in love with Kazuma. But he would be in love with someone else. She could only imagine the pain that Kagome was going through. A single tear fell from her cheek and turned to the jewel and hit the floor.

Kagome sat up and reached down and picked it up. "Where did this come from?"

Yukina smiled and wiped her face. "That is my tear. I am an ice youkai. I was born on an ice glacier that soared high above the ground in demon world. It was an island of nothing but women. Every so many years a woman becomes pregnant, I don't know exactly how. But the mother sheds a single tear that turns into the jewel. It is fashioned into a necklace and given to the child when they are old enough to know what it is."

Kagome turned the jewel over in her hand and marveled at it's beauty. "It is beautiful."

"Keep it."

Kagome jerked her head up and smiled. She lunged herself into Yukina's arms and hugged her. "Thank you Yukina!"

x

Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama were all sitting in the guest house. Keiko was there also but was already zonked out in the bedroom she and Yusuke were going to share. Yusuke tapped his fingers on the table. "I don't like Inuyasha. He is an asshole."

Kuwabara nodded. "I agree. He acted like she was his property not a woman."

Kurama never took his eyes off the table. "Being a youkai I noticed some things that you would not have. I am sure that Hiei and Yukina did as well. He acts confused. He clearly cares for her, but something is keeping him back. She is still what a youkai calls unmated."

Yusuke and Kuwabara looked at each other odd. Yusuke then looked at Kurama with a pleading look. "What are you talking about? And words I can understand please."

A smile graced Kurama's face. "Okay Yusuke I can do that. When you and Keiko got married, do you remember what happened on your honeymoon?"

"Hai."

"Hiei, Yukina, and myself knew as well. We could smell your scent on her body before we smelled her scent. Kagome only has her scent. It is not mixed with Inuyasha's." he had to laugh at Kuwabara's face.

Yusuke remembered his honeymoon with Keiko then shook his head. "That is a good thing I think. Besides, she is too good for him. And then there was that Kikyo. I wonder what the story is with her and how she really comes into play."

Kurama nodded. "It is clear that Kagome's mother knows little about what goes on in the past."

Yukina walked into the guest house to tell Kuwabara that she was going to stay the night in the house with Kagome and heard the last thing that Yusuke said, "I can help you on that one. Kagome just told me everything about her, Inuyasha, and Kikyo."

All eyes turned to her as she walked in and sat down next to Kuwabara who instantly wrapped an arm around her waist. Yukina leaned against him and sighed. "Kagome was pulled through the well by a centipede youkai. That was when she saw Inuyasha. He was sealed to a tree by a sacred arrow. She was the one who broke the spell somehow. That was when a miko named Kaede put the beads on him. That is why when she told him to 'sit' he fell to the ground. When she started going back and forth, she eventually made one friend, a kitsune child named Shippo. Then a witch named Urasue brought Kikyo back to life. But she was different. She is made from clay and has to house the souls of dead women to sustain it."

By this time Keiko had woke up and was leaning on Yusuke. "So let me guess. Inuyasha fell for Kikyo after she was brought back."

Yukina shook her head. "Yes and no. He loved her when she was really alive. The youkai they are hunting Naraku tricked Inuyasha and Kikyo into hating each other. He posed as Inuyasha and landed a blow on Kikyo that eventually killed her. And Kikyo sealed Inuyasha in what was suppose to be an endless sleep on the tree that Hiei is sitting in."

Kurama sighed. "That would explain Kagome's reaction when he said he would get Kikyo to help them in the past. I wonder what he meant."

On a lighter note Yukina popped off, "Oh I know that one. Kagome is Kikyo's reincarnation. Kikyo was the protector of the jewel when she was alive for real. She can see the shards in the youkai that have them. Kagome can do the same thing. She keeps it pure and can see them inside a youkai's body to tell her friends where the shards are at."

Kuwabara smiled. "Well that would make the job a lot easier wouldn't it?"

Hiei was following the conversation when he came to the door. Startling everyone, even Kurama and his sister he laughed. "It would make it a lot easier if she didn't have to deal with that hanyou. The fact that she has to depend on Inuyasha to protect her tells me just how weak she is."

"I don't know brother. She seems a lot stronger than you want to give her credit for." Yukina was looking her brother in the eye. Only the two of them could speak back and forth in telepathy and could block everyone else out.

'You don't expect me to think she has any strength depending on that weak hanyou do you?'

'Hai. I believe she is much stronger than even he gives her credit for.'

Suddenly all eyes turned toward the house where three A class youkai stood surrounding it. Kagome in the clutches of one of them. Yukina, Botan, who had said nothing up to this point, and Keiko stayed in the guest house.

Hiei dead stopped, the others ramming right into him. Kagome was glowing and glaring. She was not screaming like he thought she would be. "Look."

Kagome glared at the youkai that held her. When he started to reach for her jewel that she held around her neck she growled out, "Don't you dare."

The youkai smiled and kept reaching for the jewel. "What do you think a weak human woman like you can do to an A class youkai like me."

"Inuyasha's older brother made your energy look like a wet kittens! Let me go!" Then she flared her purification powers to their max making him drop her. 'I hope those secret trainings with Sango will help me now after all!' Doing a flip she was able to land on her feet only to turn around and see a blade swinging down at her.

A flash of black and she was flying through the air in Hiei's arms! She looked down and gasped. She had never been that high except on Kirara. Instinctively she wrapped her arms round his neck. "Thanks."

"Hai." Hiei touched down and pushed her toward where his sister stood just outside the guest house. "Let us handle the rest of them."

Kagome turned and stared after Hiei. Inuyasha would have yelled at her than fought the youkai. Looking up she gasped. "Run!" A winged youkai was flying right at the guest house. She knew she had to get it away from the guest house. She then turned and ran for the well house, not realizing that Yukina had followed her.

Yukina followed Kagome into the well house. "What are we going to do? I don't fight!"

Kagome glanced at Yukina and then back to the door. There stood the winged youkai. He was a B class. "What the hell do you want?"

The youkai smiled. "My job was easy. Find some stupid youkai to attack you for the jewel. While the detectives were fighting them, I would steal you away for Sanosuke."

Kagome froze. That was the youkai that wanted her! The one she needed protection from. She backed up against the well, Yukina at her side. "It won't work. I won't go."

The youkai laughed and pointed at Yukina. "I am sure that she will do for Sanosuke until he has you." Swinging his hand he sent a blast of air that sent Yukina flying back into the well.

Kagome screamed, "Yukina!" And she reached out to grab her arm but was pulled down the well with her. When she was surrounded by the warmth she closed her eyes. "No. Yukina."

"Kagome?"

The frightened voice startled Kagome. Just as she touched down on solid ground she noticed that Yukina was with her. Knowing that if she could pass through on this side, she could go back, she sighed and threw herself into the girls arms. "I am so glad that you are alright."

Yukina looked up and saw nothing but stars. "Where are we Kagome?"

Kagome let go of her and said, "Feudal Japan. We have to go up and then jump back down. Come on. We will go and see my friends on this side of the well before we go back. Give your brother and the other's a chance to get rid of the youkai."

x

Hiei had just taken off the head of one of the youkai and watched it dissipate. Then the familiar scent of his sister, and Kagome disappeared! He followed them to the well house where there was a youkai standing over the well talking to himself. "What did you do with my sister and Kagome?"

The youkai turned and glared at the little youkai. Being a youkai he knew better than to say that he killed them. "I told Kagome to come with me. And that if she refused and escaped down the well the girl with her would be took to the one who hired me. The short girl tripped and fell back in the well, pulling Kagome with her. Then they were gone."

Hiei stared at the well for a moment. His sister passed through time! How had she done it and no one else could do it? Then he turned a hard red glare on the demon standing over the well. "You were going to take my sister, or Kagome to some youkai? Die." Then he was instantly on the other side of the well and the winged youkai fell to the ground in two parts.

He looked up as Kurama and Kuwabara came running. "They are gone."

Kuwabara saw Yukina run in the well house with Kagome and now Hiei said she was gone! "What are you talking about Shorty?"

Looking down the well he said, "Somehow she passed through the well with Kagome!"