A/N: I'm really sorry for how long it has been. I have had a really hard time doing this chapter. But I think it turned out okay. Please feel free to make suggestions! I really would like some feedback to help me out.

Shippo lifted a bit of fish into his mouth. It tasted bland and looked odd in the dim lighting of the room but that could have been because his senses were in a disarray from the D.A.S.

He looked up for a moment and saw Kagome's young daughter Sango staring back at him. He took another bite of food and looked back up. She was still watching. This little girl suspected something.

"I'm sorry I don't think I had gotten your name" Kagome took a seat at the other end of the table beside Sango.

"Oh sorry." Shippo swallowed the fish. "My name is Daisuke and what was yours again?"

"Kagome"

He felt his muscles tense up. If he were in his demon form then his fox tail would have appeared. She really was the Kagome from 500 years ago. The Kagome, who had left him and Inuyasha alone in the past, was now sitting right in front of him.

Pain rushed from Shippo's mind and into his entire body. He couldn't control the strange nervous energy that was welling up inside him, so he began to shake. How could she leave him? She had taken care of him throughout everything only to jump 500 years into the future and forget. Why would she do such a thing to everyone? If she had stayed everything would have been different. His hand shook as he attempted to lift another piece of fish to his mouth. '…why..'

"Is there something wrong?"

"No I'm fine…just a bit dizzy"

"mhm…" Kagome began to feed Sango, but Sango didn't seem to want any food. She pushed it away and continued burying her eyes into Shippo's soul.

"Who's this Kagome?"

Shippo looked up to see Miroku standing in the hallway. The shock forced Shippo to stand up and knock the chair over that he was sitting in. "What are you doing here?"

Sutoru stared at Shippo in complete surprise. "uh…what do you mean?"

Shippo rushed at Sutoru who braced himself, ready for a hit.

Kagome jumped between them and let out a bit of nervous laughter in an attempt to quell the circumstances. "This is my husband Sutoru." Sutoru put his hands onto Kagome's shoulders protectively and Kagome clasped his hand in response. "Do you two know each other?"

Shippo's breath stopped, realizing the conflict he had gotten himself into. It was clear by Sutoru's expression that he wasn't welcome here anymore.

"I-I'm sorry no I don't know you. You just looked like someone…" he stepped back and began to clean up his plate. Kagome came around the table to help him.

"Oh don't worry about that. I'll take care of it." She lifted the plates from Shippo's shaking fingers. Sutoru moved towards Kagome to take the plate from her. His eyes didn't leave Shippo.

"I should be going." Shippo took a few steps towards the door and then looked back. "Thank you for the meal."

"FOX!" Sango shrieked. There was a long pause as everyone wondered what to say. Shippo turned to face Kagome, wondering if she would recognise him and connect the dots.

Kagome laughed. "Sango's silly sometimes. I think she analyzes people's facial features and relates them to the animals she learns about in daycare."

She didn't recognize him. He hadn't changed all that much, just grown up a bit, yet she still didn't recognize him. "Here let me walk you out." Kagome moved towards the door but Sutoru grasped her arm. She shook him off.

Shippo and Kagome left the house in silence. They wondered what to say.

Shippo turned to face her. "I-I was really happy to stop by."

"Yes it was nice to see a… someone around here. We don't get too many visitors anymore."

There was another silence. Kagome smiled and turned as if to head back inside. "Well. Bye then-"

"-Wait!"

Kagome turned around once again.

"…M-may I stop by again sometime?" Shippo rushed out before stepping away. "I mean… I know I didn't make a good first impression, but I would love to…spend some time at this shrine." Shippo smiled to try and add some comfort to the tense atmosphere. "I guess I really need some help from the gods right now…"

Kagome laughed a little bit. "Don't we all…" She nodded. "Sure you can stop by again."

Shippo laughed and bowed. "Thank you. I'll look forward to it" and with that he turned to left the house and walked towards the forest once more. His mind raced through thoughts of the past. Kagome had left without a word and the well had closed behind her. Why would she leave them. Did she even care? Now she didn't even remember his face.

He leaned against a tree to regain his balance, the effects of D.A.S were still in his system and he couldn't help but feel his head spinning.

After regaining his composure he began to walk once more, only to be thrown onto the ground a second later.

Seiyuki's foot pushed his chest down. "How could you?!"

Shippo knew this was going to happen. "I'm so-"

She didn't give him time to answer. Seiyuki lifted him by the collar of his shirt and threw him into a tree. Her anger was uncontrollable. She released her energy whip and slammed it into his chest.

When the whip recoiled the energy transferred into her hands. She vanished and re-appeared in front of him, slamming her fist into his jaw. Shippo skidded across the grass and into a rock nearby.

Blood spattered from, his lips, onto the earth. The pain of a human was terrifying.

"Why don't I just kill you now!!?" She screamed as she raised her fist above him once more. Shippo saw her eyes flash red.

Shippo blacked out.

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The frequent screams echoed through feudal Japan. It was the only audible noise, piercing the silence that had engulfed the village. Shippo sat near a small hut, flinching at every shriek that came from the new mother. She wasn't one to scream. Throughout the 10 years he had known her, he had never heard anything like this.

It had been seven years since Kagome had left, and this was what Shippo was stuck with. Screaming, anger and destruction. The hate was hidden within this world, but it was everywhere. Inuyasha was hate. Although he hid it well, he could never keep it away from Shippo's keen senses. How could a child be raised by hatred in the flesh?

This new child would. Inuyasha's brother was the same. That was probably why the two brothers had begun to get along so well. They both had a scar in their personality. The only difference between the two brothers now was that Sesshomaru had love to dull the anger, although that love was now screaming in agony…

Shippo raised his arms to the sky, stretching his claws to the stars and then collapsing back onto the dirt. "Scream scream scream scream SCREAM!" He yelled, thumping his clenched fists upon the ground, bringing more force to the drops with each word. He sat up slowly, his red hair falling in front of his face. It now hung around his head in a mat, not constricted by a band like it used to be.

He stood up quickly and kicked some dirt on the fire. It shuddered, like he did with each scream. Shippo had grown. He was now at Inuyasha's chest in height. He snapped his finger and developed a small blue flame. Snapping the other hand, he clapped his hands together and his body engulfed in the flames. When they dispersed he was Miroku. He clapped his hands again and became Kaede, then Sango, then a mix of Sango and Miroku. Suddenly Shippo was stuck. He coughed a bit and stumbled around in confusion. Finally he clapped his hands and returned to his original form.

There was a large crash, like the sound of a bomb. Shippo stood completely still, neck extended, knees bent. He froze like a cat ready to pounce. He could see a large explosion far off on the horizon. He turned and ran into the hut.

"Miroku! Sango!"

Miroku didn't respond. All of his attention was on the birthing mother. Shippo stood frozen in horror as he realized how much blood was surrounding the girl.

Sango sat up from the girls side and put a hand on Shippo's shoulder. She tapped his face towards hers to pull his eyes away from the blood. "Shippo" She pushed him outside of the hut and into the fresh air. "What's the problem?"

"There!" Shippo turned and pointed at the horizon just as another explosion occurred. "There coming."

She stood for a moment. Letting out a sigh. "...It was only a matter of time." She pulled her small sword from its sheath. "Inuyasha and Sesshomaru can hold them for now. You keep guard over this part of the village and the hut…If anything happens to her…" Sango looked back at the hut. "We'll all be slaughtered…"

Sango ran back into the hut to tend to Sesshomaru's mate.

Shippo paced around the hut, snapping his fingers to create fire, clapping to bring it into both hands, and then extinguishing it with a wave of his hands.

Shippo walked off to a small shrine nearby, he knelt before it and lit a few of the candles around the grave, an ominous blue light emitted around the shrine thanks to Shippo's fox fire. It was just enough to read the name. "Kaede…If only you were here now…"

An eerie feeling enveloped Shippo as he sat by the shrine. Something had changed around him but he wasn't quite sure what. Then he realized that the screaming had been replaced by silence.

"…Oh no"

He slowly wandered towards the hut, afraid of what he would discover within. He couldn't hear neither baby nor mother.

"She isn't crying.."

Shippo walked into the hut and was met by Sango, holding a small baby in her arms. "She isn't crying but she is breathing. How strange."

Shippo sighed in relief and went to sit next to Sango to see the baby.

"I don't know…" Miroku wiped his hands and moved to the woman's side. "Rin passed out shortly after the baby was born…I can't tell what state she is in." He placed the cloth upon the ground beside him, it was drenched in blood. "She may not wake up."

A cold chill ran up Shippo's spine and Sango's body went tense. The breath of the baby grazed Shippo's cheek, turning his attention away from Miroku.

"She has dog ears." Shippo murmured, brushing a strand of silver hair away from her ear. It flicked in response.

"Are you really surprised?" said Sango, trying to lighten the mood.

He shook his head. "I guess not…and a crescent moon…" He outlined the moon with his finger. Her eyes flicked open quickly in response. He flinched as the baby's gaze met his.

"Her eyes!" He yelled. Sango looked down and saw the child staring at Shippo. Her eyes were a sharp gold, like her fathers, and wouldn't leave him. Her expression never changed. She wouldn't cry.

"I have never seen a baby born without at least a whimper." Sango shifted into a more comfortable position. "And the way she is staring at you Shippo. Her first gaze at the world and she chose you."

A scream was heard from outside, and then many yells. Shippo ran to look outside. Chaos had erupted within the village. Buildings were suddenly in flames and villagers were frantically running toward them.

Millions of giant spheres of energy began to rain down from the sky and one was heading straight for the hut.

"Shit!" Shippo ran to the middle of the room and grasped his hands together, creating a bright flame, which suddenly dispersed out in an explosion. It knocked Miroku and Sango back on its way outside of the hut. The explosion stopped in mid air, pausing to create a small barrier of blue flame around the outside of the hut. The sphere fell from the sky and broke apart when connecting with Shippo's barrier.

"I can't hold it!"

"You have to! We have no choice!" Sango yelled, gripping the child close to her body, the girl still did not whimper.

With each impact, Shippo's barrier twitched in response. "Everybody stay where you are!"

Sango gripped the baby close to her body. "Why?"

"I have to bring my barrier in closer. It's too much for me to hold." Shippo moved his hands closer to his chest, and with them the barrier began to fidget. The barrier slowly became larger and smaller in response to Shippo's movements. If any attacks hit it while it was in this state, it would be broken.

Finally Shippo was able to move the barrier in enough to surround just himself and the others inside the hut. He exhaled, letting some of the tension leave his body.

There was a large crash and the hut collapsed around them, pieces of wood and metal collapsing onto the barrier and then rolling off the edge. Shippo shuddered, and the barrier did as well, letting in a bit of the rubble.

"HOLD IT!" Miroku yelled while he shielded Rin.

Shippo raised his hands once more and erected the barrier.

Now they could see the area around them. Everything was burning as one large dragon like creature soared through the sky, firing energy blast at anything he saw. That was when the strange blue barrier caught its attention, and it started heading towards them, readying another blast.

The group braced themselves for impact and watched as the energy blast got larger within the creatures jaws, and then was hurled towards them.

But before it got to them, something got into its way. "Backlash wave!"

Inuyasha thrust his sword into the blast with all his might, forcing the energy to split and develop into a series of cyclones, which hurdled towards the creature. The dragon roared as the cyclones came in contact with its body, but still was not brought down. It slowly retreated back into the clouds.

The half demon landed upon the earth, bending both legs and placing one hand on the ground to hold himself steady. His blade, held above in his other hand, was covered in the crusted blood of other demons. His hair swayed in the bustling smoke of burned buildings and flesh. Inuyasha stood up, sheathing his sword. He scanned the area for movement and caught site of a smaller dragon like creature heading towards the barrier.

In one swift movement, Inuyasha lunged at the demon with his claws, and plunged his fist into the creatures stomach. He held the rest of the body in the air, fresh blood seeping onto his robes. With his other hand, he gripped the creatures head and pulled, breaking the flesh and ripping its head off in one slow, agonizing pull.

Inuyasha tossed the body aside and walked towards the others. His eyes were fierce, his hands and body covered in blood. If one didn't know better they would think he was the enemy. "Open up"

Shippo let the barrier fall for a second as Inuyasha walked in and sat in the middle of the group, wiping his hands on a cloth.

"Sesshomaru sent me. He knew Shippo was too weak to handle this." Inuyasha shot a glare at Shippo, who flinched in response.

Inuyasha covered his nose. "This place reeks of poison…"

"-I don't understand. Rin should be recovering fine, but instead she is bleeding far more than normal." Miroku interrupted, bringing the attention back to Rin. "I have never seen this before, her lower stomach is actually beginning to turn black."

Inuyasha moved towards the girl, who was now moaning in her sleep. Inuyasha covered his nose, almost unable to keep the stench from overwhelming him. "Was she attacked?"

"No we have been in this barrier the whole time!" Shippo called out in response.

Inuyasha looked back, catching sight of the baby. He walked over and looked down at the girl, who was now staring directly back at him. There was silence. The child glared at Inuyasha.
Sango brought the child closer to her, as if she felt the tension of Inuyasha's gaze would hurt her in some way. "What's wrong?"

"…Rin is going to die."