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A/N: Thanks to all of my reviewers! I LOVE YOU GUYS!
Edited on April 2009: Did a little more structure work. Really it was the first two chapters that were the worst... but I still had some character changes I had to carry over.
Honor and Glory
A Truth Uncovered
"We saw you do it, Sesshoumaru." Came a steely voice.
Sesshoumaru resisted the urge to frown in irritation as he kept his hand planted on Katashi's head while facing the fox kit and his friends. "Perhaps your eyes deceived you, kit," he said in a mocking, icy voice.
Shippo flushed slightly as he stepped back, pointing at a crumbled, stone pile. "We saw you destroy the well, don't deny it!" he said as two older human beings, Miroku and Sango if Sesshoumaru could remember correctly, nodded.
"I was no where near Inuyasha's forest last night." Sesshoumaru scoffed before he cast a quick glance at Katashi, who was happily weaving a grass crown, humming some song, looking innocent while she was probably planning her newest escape. Cunning child.
"You flew through the village and collapsed the well with your bare claws!" Shippo impatiently spat. "Kikyo, Inuyasha, and I saw you do it!"
"Why would I attack a well?" Sesshoumaru asked in a deadly calm voice. The fox shuffled his feet and grunted something before Sesshoumaru smirked. "I do not see the hanyou or his mate, where are they?"
"Well, Inuyasha didn't think you did it either so he refused to confront you. Kikyo wanted to stay by his side," Miroku, who looked like he was in about his mid fourties now, said as he exchanged glances with Sango while Shippo let out a growl.
Eyeing the snarling pup, Sesshoumaru turned toward his third companion, a quiet frost haired demon who had recently been appointed as Katashi's guard. "Kasumi, take Katashi and let her play in that field," Sesshoumaru said as he released Katashi's head.
Katashi smiled up at her adopted father before she cast a withering glance at her guard and ran off, laughing 'innocently' as she went. Her little side poneytail that perfectly resembled her mother's, bounced with her movements.
Sesshoumaru watched her sit on the ground and pluck several flowers before she started weaving them into a crown while Kasumi ambled towards her, stopping when he was two feet away. The guard's twin swords were strapped to his side, and his black and silver eyes darted around, looking for any possible danger.
Allowing himself an extremely small and almost invisible smile, Sesshoumaru turned back toward the antagonists. "Kit, I do not know why this dry well is so important to you, nor do I know why you have eyesight problems. You are very lucky that Katashi is here." Sesshoumaru said, hissing out the last part.
The teenage fox demon glared at Sesshoumaru. "You moron!" He started.
"Shippo!" The demon hunter said as she quickly reached out and grabbed the young kitsune's shoulder, nodding her head toward Sesshoumaru, who had unsheathed his sword an inch.
The fox took several deep breaths and eyed Sesshoumaru. "I'm watching you Sesshoumaru. I never did trust you, but if you do something, I' be ready." Shippo said before he stalked off.
"I apologize, Lord Sesshoumaru." Miroku said with a bow. "Shippo is upset because we need to fix the well. However, only a powerful miko can do so, so we are forced to wait. Please pay him no heed." The older monk said with a nod, the grey hair at his temple giving him a wiser look.
The monk and his wife scurried off, leaving Sesshoumaru to study the rubble before he turned to look at Katashi, who was wrathfully plucking petals off of a flower while she glared at her guard who was watching the sky with a bored look.
"Something strange is going on." Sesshoumaru muttered.
Katashi laughed psychotically as she scrambled into a clearing in the woods. Earlier that day, once he was done talking to the angry fox, Sesshoumaru had told Kata and the slothful Kasumi that they were going to camp in Inu Yasha's forest. It was in the middle of the night, and Kata had just managed to escape from her evil guard's clutches, as well as sneak out from under the watchful eye of her father.
Kata stopped her evil grinning when she came upon the rubble that her dad and the fox had been arguing over earlier. She studied it, shivering slightly as she felt some dark, dirty aurora. Her chubby, fingers itched, and Kata eyed the glowing pile of stones. Although she appeared to be eight, Kata was far older since her blood kept her looking young. However, in her life she had never seen such concentrated evil like that which was coming off of the stones.
Walking around the fallen structure, Kata decided that it must have previously been some sort of well. Rolling up her sleeves the young girl decided that she would fix it, 1) because obviously it was important if people were arguing over it, but mostly 2) the stupid aurora would make her uncomfortable until she fixed it.
Grunting, Kata slowly waded through the rocks and eyed the base of the well before she sighed and got to work. The stones were quite heavy for her eight year old body, but Katashi pressed on, smiling slightly as she could feel some of the evil dissipating. She had worked up three rows, and had transferred all the stones to a large pile when she paused near the 'mountain' of stones, panting slightly. She frowned at her barely started project but turned when she heard some kind of thudding noise. She stared with large, golden eyes as a large stone at the top of her pile tumbled down and came flying toward her. Closing her eyes for the impact, Kata waited with tense muscles. Nothing happened.
Opening one eye Kata saw the tall, athletic build of her guard, supporting the stone with one hand while keeping his other hand on one of his swords.
"Thank you." Kata quietly said as her guardian slowly set the stone down.
He nodded. "Why are you doing this?" He quietly asked, his sharp eyes taking in the small child's clumsy, yet solid work.
Kata didn't respond and instead picked up another stone and tottered back to the well, carefully placing it on top of her other layers that almost reached her knees.
Kasumi picked up a stone, frowning slightly as he felt some sort of oily presence, before he walked over, about to set the stone down, next to Katashi's.
"DON'T!" Kata screamed. The startled demon paused, slightly confused when Kata ripped the rock out of his hands. "I need to do this by myself." Kata quietly said, gripping the stone to her chest.
Kasumi studied her before he shrugged his shoulders and walked back to the pile of stones, standing near by.
He watched the miko/demon girl with thoughtful eyes. He, an arctic wolf, had been pulled out of his top position in Sesshoumaru's army almost a month ago. From going to top soldier to baby sitter, Kasumi had been rather irritated when he learned that he was forcibly giving up his prestigious position in the army to become a guard. The toad demon, Jakken, had gone on and on about what a great honor it was to watch Kata, but Kasumi wasn't fooled. The Western Lord needed someone to make sure the kid wasn't murdered, and Kasumi was an excellent soldier and perfect candidate to become the eternal babysitter, and ultimately the person who could keep Katashi out of Sesshoumaru's hands.
To Kasumi's surprise, Katashi barely left Sesshoumaru's sight. She went with him wherever he would travel, and she always ate with him, no matter what. He appeared, very much, to be a some-what doting father. Most servants speculated it was because the dog demon was afraid of what Rin would do if Katashi was ignored, but Kasumi didn't believe it. Rin or no Rin, the only reason Sesshoumaru put up with Katashi and her evil, crafty smiles was because he truly cared for the half human. After traveling with them for a month Kasumi could see why.
Although the girl was ingenius with the way she veiled her devious personality, she had a profound and pure way of looking at things. She picked up on concepts that no one else could, and once Sesshoumaru had told him that she reminded him of a respected miko he once knew. A girl named Kagome.
Kasumi snapped out of his reverie when he felt a demon presence leave the village and speed toward the well. Kasumi faded into the shadows, both of his hands on his swords as he prepared for a possible battle.
He watched when the teenage kit, Shippo, stopped at the edge of the meadow. The fox watched Katashi with a curious gaze as the little girl hummed and continued to build up the well, which was almost to her waist and glistening in the moonlight.
The fox quietly approached her, the little girl paid him no heed and continued to hum, stacking the stones on top of each other.
"What are you doing?" Shippo questioned.
"Making a well." Katashi said as she hummed a bit more.
"Why?"
Katashi huffed. "Because someone has to take care of this thing or a bunch of scary things are going to come!" she lectured as she shook her finger in the fox's direction. "You should have taken care of this earlier," she added as she stacked another stone on her built up well. "It's stinking the whole place up."
Shippo watched the girl with an amused expression. "Why do you build up what your guardian ripped down?"
"Daddy never ripped no well down. That would be stupid, then we wouldn't be able to drink from it," she said as she retrieved another stone. "Sides, he was with me last night." she added.
"And where were you?" Asked the fox demon in a pacifying tone as Kasumi fought the urge to kill the insolent kit right then and there.
The child stopped working for a moment, her back to both Kasumi and Shippo. Her black brown hair pooled down her back as her little form bent over for a moment. "At Mommy's grave," she quietly said in a sad tone.
Shippo looked like he regretted his words and cleared his throat. "I'm sorry."
Katashi turned her golden eyes to the fox, the amber orbs seemed to peer into Shippo's very being. "No you aren't." She said as she placed another stone on the well, which was almost completed. "You don't believe me." She said as she turned to snatch up one of the last stones.
The fox demon looked uncomfortable. "Katashi. When you grow older, if you ever meet a girl named Kagome Higurashi, please take care of her." he said.
"Of course. Daddy has already told me about her. So has Inuyasha, and the evil priestess," Katashi said as set another stone down.
"Evil priestess?"
"Everyone calls her Kikyo." Katashi said as she set the last stone down and stepped back to survey her work.
Instantly the well exploded with pink and blue lights, shining fiercely, sending up a giant beacon of light. Both Shippo and an undetected Kasumi looked at it open mouthed while Katashi clapped her hands in delight.
It died down a moment later and Katashi ran up to it, kicking it. The well remained solid and Katashi giggled. "It's fixed!" she loudly announced before skipping over to Kasumi's hidden spot. "Let's go back now, I'm tired." she said as she reached out to take her guard's hand. "Good bye Mr. fox demon!" Katashi sang over her shoulder as she skipped down the path, Kasumi at her side.
Shippo stood in the clearing for several minutes, astonishment fixed on his features. The little girl fixed the well, and her guard had been there the entire time. Shippo paused, looking up into the star filled sky. Why did the little girl call Kikyo an evil priestess? She was now living person and would never hurt a fly.
Shrugging, Shippo turned to walk down the well worn path to the village.
An hour later a cloaked figure appeared with an entrance of black fire. The figure held out its clawed hand, and instantly black flames surrounded the well.
For a moment the stone structure smoldered before a brilliant blue light quickly flared and sent the cloaked figure flying. The figure howled before disappearing as the purification powers lightly burned its skin.
Kata opened her eyes and stared into the night sky with a cruel smirk from her position next to Sesshoumaru. "I knew they would try again," she muttered before she allowed her head to fall back onto her adopted father's stomach, falling asleep once more while Sesshoumaru gazed at the night sky.
"I can explain!" Kata brilliantly said as she pasted a huge grin on her face. Sesshoumaru fixed his charge with a stony glare while Kagome looked back and forth between parent and child. "Perhaps we should step into my office? Daddy, Kagome," Kata said, walking off toward the office section of the museum.
"DADDY?" Kagome loudly yelled.
Katashi cringed as Sesshoumaru gave Kagome a frosty glare while many of the museum visitors turned to look at her.
"Please come this way, Kagome!" Kata brightly said as she ran back to the girl and hauled her along, Sesshoumaru at her heels.
Kata blew through the office, ignoring Janna who was squawking to her brother.
"Jakken." Kagome said, pointing to the short imp who glared at her and was about to reply when they entered Katashi's office and Sesshoumaru firmly shut the door behind them.
Kata released Kagome and leaped toward her swivel chair. "WHEEEE!" she exclaimed, jumping into it and letting it whirl around.
"Katashi, start explaining. Now." Sesshoumaru icily said.
Kagome gulped, feeling the room lower several, make that many, degrees.
Kata winced, even she wouldn't go against him when he was this angry. "Yes Daddy," she meekly said as she sat down. Sesshoumaru leaned against a wall, in all his arrogant glory, while Kagome weakly sat on a chair, trembling a bit.
"Kagome!" Kata said, the miko looked up to meet her gaze. "I'm sure you've meet Sesshoumaru, my foster parent."
"Yes. We've… run into each other before." Kagome carefully phrased, glancing at the dog demon.
Kata nodded. "You haven't met me before. You missed me by about fifteen years or so. But you do know my mother!" Kata brightly said.
Kagome gave Kata a strange look.
"Her name was Rin!" Kat said, cocking her head to the side, giving Kagome a sweet grin. The smile was an exact copy of the one little Rin wore over five hundred years ago.
"How, how did you manage to survive so long?" Kagome stumbled, her throat a little dry as she found it hard to swallow.
"Hm? Well I thought you would have read about me in the display. I'm Katashi! Remember? Rin married a dog youkai, one distantly related to Daddy! Since I have demon blood in me it's easy to last this long," Katashi said, shooting a grin at her guardian who had calmed down enough to look at her without wanting to wring her neck.
"Why do you keep calling Sesshoumaru, um, ahem, Daddy?" Kagome asked, trembling slightly as she feared being decapitated by Sesshoumaru's claws.
"Because he is," Kata said with a blank look.
Sesshoumaru cleared his throat before speaking. "Rin died three days after Katashi was born. On her death bed she made me promise to take care of Katashi, while Katashi's older brother, Riku, stayed with their father. Katashi had plenty of contact with both her blood father and her sibling, but I was her main caregiver."
"Thus, receiving the title, Daddy!" Kata said with a bright smile as she took off her silver glasses and pulled her hair out of its tight bun. "Tada!" she said as she rearranged her sidebangs into a side ponytail like Rin's. Kagome stared at Kat with large eyes, without the glasses and her hair up, she looked like she was about seventeen! Obviously she had found some kind of fountain of youth.
Kata beamed at Kagome. "You're wondering why I look so young, huh?" she said with a sly smile. "Daddy doesn't understand it either!" she happily declared with a smug laugh. "It's probably my demon blood and my miko blood, Rin was a miko, did you know that!"
Kagome shook her head.
Sesshoumaru once again spoke while his charge evilly laughed. "In spite of her old age, she has the maturity of a four year old."
"Really?" Katashi asked, standing while she gave her parent a look of adoration. "A year ago you told me I was worse then a two year old! Wow, I'm getting better!" She happily exclaimed.
Kagome eyed the odd pair before speaking. "Whatever happened to your brother?"
Kata paused for the moment, her golden eyes getting a darker, more saddened look. "He died about eighty years ago from old age. He was happy and he was surrounded by those he loved. Our father died in a war about two hundred years ago." She sorrowfully said.
Kagome forlornly watched the girl when she heard the door open. She turned around to see the frost haired demon enter the room, bow respectfully to Sesshoumaru, and turn his attention to Kata. "Miss, will you be missing all of your appointments today?" He asked in a smooth, tenor voice.
Kagome had to keep from melting in a puddle before him, he was so hott! Although he couldn't beat Sesshoumaru, he was at least approachable! Kagome looked over to see Kata sinking so her head was barely peeking over her desk while she gave Kasumi suspicious looks sprinkled with irritation.
"Who's he?" Kagome asked.
"Kasumi," Kata declared with a childish pout.
"Why does he call you Miss if Sesshoumaru adopted you? Wouldn't it be Miss Taisho? Just Miss sounds a little weird," Kagome observed.
Kata paused, cocking her head as she looked thoughtful.
"Although we have it publicly known that I am her 'uncle'," Sesshoumaru smoothly stepped in as he shot Kata a warning glance. "She is known as Miss Taisho only to the demons who have survived and are on good terms with us. Although she has been marked as my…daughter," he said with a bit of distaste. "We try to keep people from knowing that she is Katashi Taisho, so her business name is merely Miss Kata."
"Why?" Kagome simply asked, her brain swirling as she expected herself to wake up from this strange dream at any moment.
"Not everyone, humans and demons alike, get along with me," Sesshoumaru delicately said.
Kagome slightly raised an eyebrow while she stared at the western lord, a feeling of nostalgia washing over her.
"Either way, Katashi, you have yet to explain yourself," Sesshoumaru said, turning to his child while Kasumi shifted his weight and entered the office, closing the door behind him.
Kata sighed. "Kagome came in, looking for a job. She told me her last name was Higurashi, and instantly I was curious. I had heard of you Kagome, from Dad as well as several other people who deeply cared for you. I carefully questioned you and discovered that you were well versed in the time of Shikon Shards. Little did you know that most of what you told me is unprinted. Very little is known about the Shikon no tama, and the information you told me proved that you had to be the time traveling miko."
"How did you know that I could be alive today? When I left I didn't tell Sesshoumaru, or even Rin, about my home," Kagome asked.
Sesshoumaru, Kata, and Kasumi exchanged glances. "We learned through a series of mistakes," Kata quietly said, gazing at her guard who stared back at her.
Kagome groaned, leaning in her chair. "My head hurts." She moaned as she cradled the ailed object in her arms. "This is all too much." She whimpered, then froze. "Wait, is Shippo alive? How bout Kouga? Kagura? Inuyasha? If you survived, could Inuyasha have, Kata?" Kagome eagerly asked.
The three demons froze.
"Kasumi, I'll be waiting in the parking garage. Escort Katashi to the car once she has finished here. We will be going home early." Sesshoumaru stiffly said as he was out the door a moment later, Kasumi bowing.
Katashi sighed and looked up at the ceiling. "Inu Yasha died quite some time ago. I think it was about 450 or perhaps 400 years ago. He was, content." Kata said with a great amount of hesitation.
"What about Shippo?" Kagome said, unable to keep the excitement out of her voice.
Katashi rose and walked over to the frost haired demon. "You're better off forgetting about him Kagome, as well as the others. I'm sorry, you'll have to come in at a later date for your training," she said as Kasumi gently tugged her out of the room.
Kagome remained sitting, staring at the desk for a moment. "Forget about them? But how could I? They're my friends…" Kagome asked herself.
Kata pulled her elbow out of Kasumi's grasp as they walked into the museum lobby. "Kasumi, touch me again and I will kill you and feed your entrails to the vultures," she threatened with a killer smile.
Kasumi didn't say anything and glanced at his young charge. He knew the subject of Shippo, Kouga, and many of Kagome's friends were a touchy subject for both Sesshoumaru and Katashi. "It wasn't your fault, milady." He gently said, knowing what she was thinking about.
Katashi glared at him, clenching her fists so hard they shook. "How wasn't it?" She spat, anger and self loathing filling every bit of her voice. A few salty tears trickled down her face as her body remained tense, her face in a twisted expression of anger and despair.
"Sesshoumaru doesn't blame you, you didn't do anything." Kasumi said, putting a hand on her shoulder.
"Exactly, I could have prevented it," Katashi stormed, breaking away from his touch before she ran out of the museum.
Kasumi watched her retreating back before he flexed his own hand. "One day, I will kill you, kit. For causing her so much pain." He vowed.
Kagome stumbled into her apartment, and threw her keys and purse onto the counter before turning to lock the door behind her. She staggered through her apartment, pausing by the wall where her beloved picture hung.
Softly touching the glass over the picture, Kagome allowed the tears to come. "How, how could I forget them?" She demanded in a mournful but spiteful voice. "HOW?" She yelled. "MY FIRST CRUSH, MY ADOPTED SISTER AND BROTHER… MY SON!" She moaned. "How could I forget them?" She asked in a broken voice as she touched the Shikon no tama with a trembling hand. "Why, why have I been cursed like this?" She asked, sinking to her knees before she broke out in harsh sobs.
Sesshoumaru stepped out onto the patio that connected to his adopted daughter's room. The girl herself was sitting on the ledge that was one floor above the beautiful garden.
The garden was acres of land, covered in beautiful flowers, breathtaking fountains, and tranquil lights. A plant demon that had been passing through constructed it for Katashi and Sesshoumaru many years ago.
"Katashi, next time I find you pulling any strings I will make you regret being Rin's daughter." Sesshoumaru firmly said.
Katashi's eyes were closed, but her skin gleamed with dry tears. She was poised and peaceful looking, perhaps even graceful. (Probably because she wasn't beaming angelically while thinking of some new, devious way to bring an early end to her adopted parent and her guard.)
"Yes, father." Katashi serenely said.
Sesshoumaru walked up to his charge and gazed into the beautiful sky. The moon and a great number of stars clearly shone through the dark night, and Sesshoumaru could smell the vast area of flowers, once again grateful that he had constructed his home away from the busy city of Tokyo. He turned and wiped a new tear off of Katashi's cheek.
"You could not have stopped it," he quietly said.
"Yes, I could have," Katashi stubbornly said as she turned her gaze to him. "There is only one miko, alive or dead, who has the potential to rival me in spiritual powers. I could have easily stopped it all."
"You were nothing but a child," Sesshoumaru reminded her.
"Why? Why Daddy?" Katashi sobbed, throwing herself into her father's arms. "Why didn't they look for her? Did you see her face? Did you see how excited she was at the thought of seeing them again? Why would they think that you killed her? She's right here in Tokyo and they are too blind to see her!" She wailed.
Sesshoumaru forcibly relaxed and gently patted Katashi on the back. (He had been improving over time with these impromptu hugs. The first time, when she was four, and she threw herself at him like this he had shoved her away. When she was ten he simply awkwardly patted her back. Finally he eventually learned to hug her back, Kata still has suspicions that he attended a class of some sort.)
"Perhaps now, it can all end." He wondered out loud, he paused to look down and see Katashi, sleeping peacefully.
"Kasumi."
"Yes?" The arctic wolf asked, materializing in the shadows.
"Take Katashi to her room. Stay with her for a while." Sesshoumaru ordered, passing his most precious possession off to Kasumi.
Kasumi paused and gazed at Katashi with a fond smile. "Yes milord." He said as he gently cradled the girl in his arms and walked off.
Sesshoumaru snorted while he watched the two disappear. He closed his eyes and faced the moon once more. He was no fool, he knew that Kasumi and Katashi deeply respected and cared for each other in spite of the great amount of fighting they partisipated in. Soon, probably within the next century, Kasumi would approach Sesshoumaru and ask a question. A question that Sesshoumaru was not looking forward to answering. Without Katashi, no one would be around to greet him when he returned home, or to talk to while he was eating his meals, or to laugh with and tease. (Of course, then there would also be no traps waiting in his bed, and no incessant begging for some ridiculously expensive trinket, no angelic smiles matched with plans of world domination.)
A sudden image popped up in Sesshoumaru's mind. One of Inuyasha mere weeks before the well incident. Sesshoumaru had searched out Inuyasha, (for once) asking his half brother for a favor. Katashi had been embarrassingly curious about where babies come from, and Sesshoumaru wished for a female to explain the process to the girl. So, Sesshoumaru had all but ordered Inuyasha to have his mate tell all to the young girl.
Inuyasha (Upon recovering from his five minute burst of laughter) had straightened up and eyed his older brother with a serious look on his face. "Sesshoumaru…" He had started. "You seriously gotta get a mate, not only are you running out of decent candidates, but one day Kikyo won't be around… and YOU'LL be stuck with explaining even worse stuff… like 'that time of the month'!"
Sesshoumaru had nearly killed his brother (although there was some wisdom to his words. Sesshoumaru had NO desire to explain ANY function of the female body to the young and inquisitive Katashi. Perhaps he could convince Kasumi to…)
Either way Inuyasha had done as Sesshoumaru requested. After spending the night with her uncle and aunt, Katashi came home, spewing things (to Sesshoumaru's chagrin) about a stork delivering her to Sesshoumaru. (It had taken weeks for Sesshoumaru to explain to Katashi that no, he was not her mommy, and no, the stork did not leave her at his door step.)
"Stupid brother." Sesshoumaru snickered, gazing up at the moon. "But perhaps, you are right."
"YOU LOST HER?" Kouga exploded at a man.
"I apologize," The man said with a wink. "She discovered that I was following her, and I became distracted for a mere moment when suddenly she disappeared," he explained, running a hand through his dark hair, his violet eyes shining.
"You mean you stopped to grope some woman," his accusing, younger sister said as she glared at him from across the room, a giant boomerang hefted over her shoulder. "You perverted sicko!" She said as she glared at him with cinnamon brown eyes.
Laughter filled the room and the three occupants turned to see the tall fox demon enter the room. "You two really are Sango and Miroku's descendants." He said, his face filled with a dark look of mirth.
"That aside… Her, the one that our entire family line has sworn to avenge… well, I know I never met her… but the girl I was following… Her aurora was very similar from what I've been told," the man quietly said.
Shippo stiffened. "We all loved Kagome, your ancestors included. However, we all saw her die at Sesshoumaru's hands, for the rest of our lives we will avenge her."
"Why don't we take out that Kata chick then?" Kouga demanded. "Sesshoumaru prizes her above everything! We kill her and Sesshoumaru is down for the count!"
Shippo turned to glare at the wolf. "Katashi is not at fault. Her guardian is. We will not punish her because of him." With this he turned around and stalked out of the room, his long red hair flaring out behind him.
"Suuurrreee." Kouga said once the fox disappeared down the hall. "He's just sweet on her," he said, rolling his eyes when suddenly his clothes burst into blue and green flames. Kouga cursed and took off running for the bathroom while the brother and sister sighed.
"Fox Fire." They said in unison.
A/N: NO, Shippo does NOT like Katashi that way. Upon more flashbacks, you'll see why he is… fond of her.
Skyla: Sorry, no Sess/Kag action yet, next chapter will probably have a TINY hint of it… I'm setting the stage for it though!
Pegasus Rider: Quite a few hints in here too though… And yes Inu Yasha died young. (To be honest I'm sure he would be grateful he died since…. Yeah. Not there yet.)
Skyla: Well I still think that no replies to reviews rule is still going… so sorry… no responses. (However I'll be sneaky and answer a few unanswered questions/give you a hint of what's to come.)
The main bad person is NOT a new character. They in the anime and manga, and they have been mentioned in my story. (I think… yes, I checked they have.)
Also, yes everyone knows Kagome is from the future… they all think she is dead though. (I'm thinking you'll find out why in like four chapters since I have a few more flashbacks I want to do before I do the flashback that will explain the 'Shikon Shamers'.)
Pegasus Rider: Again… Katashi nowdays isn't NEARLY as important as Katashi in the past. THE FLASH BACKS ARE IMPORTANT, BEAR WITH THEM PLEASE! In all seriousness… Really pay attention to Katashi's past… her powers, what she does, ect. I think that will also be explained in about three chapters. (Perhaps more like four now that I think about it.)
Man, I'm thinking that at the end of this story I'm gonna need a fact sheet so everyone will be able to keep it straight!
Well that's it, thanks for reading! PLEASE REVIEW!