After my refreshing, yet cold bath with Entei as my guard, I began scrubbing Entei down to get the mud off his hooves and underbelly. As I was drying off my hair one of the demons that came at Sesshomaru's request came out of the woods.

"So, woman, you think some one such as yourself can defeat my master?"

"What do you mean 'Your master' who are you?"

"I'm one of the demons that Naraku sent out to kill you-" and before he could finish the sentence the tip of Tokijin was visible through his upper chest when it was then forcibly pulled through his sternum and out, when the body fell on the ground, quickly creating a pool of blood, a very pissed off Sesshomaru was visible.

"Can you do the smallest things, with out getting in trouble?"

"Were you spying on me?"

"No, I would never lower myself to spying on a human, I saw him leave camp and head in this direction, I figured it would be best to follow him."

"Well, thank you because I left my sword back at camp and it would have been hard to defend myself with out it. C'mon Entei! Let's go back to camp so I can set up the barrier."

"What barrier are you speaking of, Miko?"

When I didn't respond he continued asking the same thing.

"Maybe if you addressed my by my name, I would answer the first time you asked. But i'm going to surround the camp with a barrier to make sure no one can get in, or out at night, so the men better have their business taken care of."

"What business might the men have at night, that needs taking care of?"

"You know, bathroom business."

And with that we arrived back at camp.

"Alright men, If you need to use the bathroom then do it now, you all have ten minutes to be back here and where you plan on sleeping, when you get back here, you will not be allowed to leave, or if you are late, enter the barrier I will set up. Understand?"

When most of the men left Daitaro came up to me

"Lady Kagome, what happened to Inu-Yasha after you left?"

"Well he is with his mate, and they are expecting their first child."

"He moved on after Lady Kikyou?"

"Kikyou is alive again. A few years ago, a witch tried to steal my soul to bring Kikyou back, but she only manged to get part of it, and recently I was able to take my sould and parts of the other ones she has been stealing to create a soul for her so she could continue to live with Inu-Yasha, with the new soul her powers were able to create a stable body for her self."

When all of the men had returned and settled down in their spots I walked the perimeter of the group and put enough sutras up to keep a solid barrier up through out the night, standing in the middle I recited the incantation and felt the energy leaving my body and going to protect the group I was traveling with.

Once the camp had settled down, I tucked my legs under and began meditating to calm the restlessness that had invaded with the incident from earlier.

And two pulses later Midorioko had pulled me into the jewel.

"Kagome, the Kami have decided to grant you a favor, after you defeat Naraku, I will tell you what they have decided, that will be the last time you will hear from me. The jewel will disappear and it's power will be free for you to access. You will need to call on my power to defeat Naraku."

"What will happen to the jewel when I die?"

"It will cease to exist."

"Do you know if the well will open again?"

"I know for certain, that it will remain closed. I'm sorry." After that I was pushed out of the jewel and also forced out of my meditation when I felt a very powerful stare boring into my head when I peeked my eyes open I realized the moon had gone relatively high in the sky, also there happened to be a demon lord studying me.

"Do you not sleep, Kagome?"

"Not tonight, I'm restless after almost getting attacked. Thanks for killing him though. I figure that tomorrow it would be best to move out quickly to prevent Naraku from finding us before we are ready."

"How quickly do you wish to move out?"

"Breakfast will be eaten at dawn, after that we pack and leave. We need to stop by Edo when we get close enough Entei and I will go ahead and get what I need, then we will come back and meet you guys ."

"What is Edo?"

"It's the village by Inu-Yashas forest. You don't know of it?"

"I did not think my brother had a forest named after him. How did it come to be known as such?"

"Inu-Yasha was pinned to a tree in the forest for fifty years, didn't you hear the story of him and Kikyo? What did you think he was doing for the fifty years that he was pinned to the tree?"

"Inu-Yasha and I had not spoken for 150 years prior to him being pinned to the tree, even when he was a pup, his whereabouts were none of my concern."

"What about when his mother died? Who took care of him?"

"It was not a personal burden. I told him he was allowed in the fortress of the West, but he refused. So it was none of my business what he did."

"Sesshomaru, I know you hate him because he is a half demon, but that can't be the only reason, what else did he do to make you hate him so much?"

"You are trying to get information that has nothing to do with you and that I have no intention of telling you of." his voice held a little more sting in it than was custom for him, and I knew I struck a nerve.

"Sesshomaru, i'm sorry for attempting to pry into your personal life. Sesshomaru, if I don't make it through this war, can I ask you for a large favor?"

"What is it, Miko?"

"In about 498 years from today, I will need you to give my family the note I have prepared, that explains what happened."

"How will I know it is your family?"

"Higurashi, That's my family's last name, we own a shrine. You know of the bone eaters well?"

"My father built the well to seal Madame Centipede."

"My family's shrine is built very close to the well. Please remember this."

sliding over so I was sitting next to Sesshomaru I handed him a rabbit skin with the message I had sewn into it that was rolled up and tied with one of my hair ties. And he tucked the skin into his shirt

We sat in silence until just before dawn broke and the silence was broken by the camp waking up and the barrier being pulled down, once the men had eaten. We set off walking towards Edo, after the sun had passed the halfway point in the sky groups of three or four would go off, one group at a time and bring back a rabbit or two.

As dusk was falling I stopped all of the men.

"Ok, Entei and I are leaving for tonight, we will be back before the morning but you guys will need to figure out who is watching over camp. And how many groups there will be watching over. I think six men to a group and four groups should do, that way you only miss out on about two hours of sleep. Have a good night and be safe."

with that being said, I left Sesshomaru in charge and climbed up onto Entei and we took off towards Edo.

Not too long after my third year of going back and forth between times, Inu-Yasha, Sango, Miroku and myself had built a shed near Inu-Yashas forest to hold any supplies I wanted to keep with me just in case the well closed and so I could leave stuff for Sango too. But among all of the shampoo, 2-in-1's soaps, conditioners, and brushes, I had hidden one special gift from my mom, she found it among my grandfathers things. After searching in the shed for about fourty minutes I found the large rectangular box underneath most of the other things in the shed. Taking the box out of the shed I inspected the contents of the large metal box, that had a handle to make holding easier. A Large ebony bow that was just short of my body length, and the quiver held 75 arrows. I only meant to use this bow for the final fight. I got on Entei and left Edo only stopping to debate with my self weather or not I would stop and offer a short prayer to Kaede, I decided it would be safer to make my way back to camp.

After Entei and I had been traveling and were to the point where I could see a small orange glow that was the camp fire. The winds changed and a dark blue feather came down in front of me. When the rider opened up her fan and pushed a strong gust of wind and knocked me off Entei I knew I was in trouble. As I was falling I saw Entei fighting with her, trying to get revenge for his mate, and at that moment she disappeared and I hit a tree branch, cutting through my out fit and slicing open my back around to my side. When I hit the next branch down I passed out.

Omniscient POV

After the Wind witch made off on her feather Entei realized that his rider had fallen off and he could only see the white cloth that she wore strung up on one of the trees. With the speed that he was known for, he took off in the direction that he knew Lord Sesshomaru to be in. Carrying Kagome with out help was out of the question.

When Entei arrived at the camp, and no Kagome on his back, the men who weren't asleep took notice. Lord Sesshomaru being one of those who had stayed awake through the night to make sure that no trouble came to the camp.

When the horse walked up and nipped at his hand, began whinning and pulling at Sesshomarus clothing, He stood up ready to punish the horse. When Entei took off, He felt he needed to follow him, something about the horse showing up with out the Miko seemed all wrong to him.

Following the horse into the forest was not a difficult task by far, but when the smell of cucumbers and mint, mixed with the coppery smell of blood hit him full force, he knew he was right in following the horse.

Twenty feet a head of him lay the miko, clutching a large box, and sporting a broken bow and the whole side of her shirt had been torn showing the gash that the tree had created, with blood coming out of the wound and quickly, he rushed over to her side and with out much thought into it; took off her shirt and tore it in two wrapping one half around the wound with the other half covering the wound underneath.

He should have left her in the forest with the horse, and gone back to camp, but something tugged at his heart that made him turn around, pick the girl up and wrap his haori around her, and cradle her close to his body. He didn't sleep, there was something poking his leg through the haori that covered the girl.

Just before sunrise the realization hit him, her bow, she kept it on her back, and shards of it were now embedded into her back. And with that he turned her onto her side, and began the task of pulling each of the slivers of wood out of her back. After the first three she began to wake up and struggle to get out of his arm. He held on to her tighter.

"Get off me, I wanna get up.." and some other gibberish found its way out of the young mikos mouth.

"After the fall you took, If you want to walk around with parts of your bow in your back-"

"My bow broke? How did it get in my back?"

"You were attacked last night on your way back from the village, it was the wind witch. I'm going to assume she knocked you off while Entei was distracted, as for how it got in your back, you landed on your back."

"Damn, that was the only weapon I can use until we get there, and even then, I can't fight."

"Miko, what of the sword I gave you?"

"Well, I was never taught to use one, I just use it to scare your guards to let me into the castle."

"You have been with the half-breed for well over 4 years and he has not taught you to defend yourself close range?"

"His name is Inu-Yasha, he never taught me because, it was never an issue with us. If anything got close enough to hurt me it would fall by either his hand or Sango's"

"The slayer kept a sword, you were never interested in learning from her?"

"Sango always wanted for me to better myself as a miko, because to tell you the truth, I have never been a fan of killing, even in this war, I will only do the necessary amounts of killing. I can heal, cook, and protect, I shouldn't need to fight when they can. But now that our group is broken up, and it's a full war. I guess I need to learn, right? Sesshomaru, will you help me to become a better fighter?"

"Does this Sesshomaru look like a tutor?"

"Well no, but i'm tired of being a problem to everyone around, and always needing help, if I can fight then I won't need that."

"We will start tomorrow and continue every night until we reach Naraku."

"Can we do every other night?"

"I thought you wished to learn, since that is not the case, I will not waste my time."

POV – Kagome

Inching my way off of his lap I opened the metal case I had retrieved from the shed in Kaedes village

and I pulled out one long dark brown arrow, made of oak wood, with markings similar to several sutras on it. I handed it to Sesshomaru. When his fingers clasped the wood, he dropped it, immediately.

"What have you brought, woman?"

"I brought arrows that were given to my mother, they will hold the power of four mikos at once until they are shot into something, then at once they will release all of the power. My mother was a powerful miko and she gave all of these as much as she could, Kaede gave them more, and over the next few nights I will give them everything I can, along with the help of Midoriokos power. They will be the key in defeating Naraku."

When I looked in the case I realized that my mother had lied about how many arrows were in the case. There were supposed to be 25 but she packed 40.

"What makes you so sure that those will be the key to defeating him"

"You couldn't hold one with only two miko's power in it, and you are the strongest demon I have encountered with my power and Midorioko's power added to it, if I shoot the ground everything in range of the blast of unfocused energy, that is demon, will get destroyed. I've got a way to control the first 25. The won't release until the 25th is shot and hits."

Standing up I grabbed the arrows, and turned towards camp.

"If all goes well, we should be there within the week, C'mon Entei, let's go back to camp. The others should be awake soon."