"SHE"S WHAT?!?" Mom and dad said standing up. Ha!

"She's been telling the truth. All the blood's color works, the test's are positive. She is ye daughter." Kaede nodded.

"Th-that can't be..." Dad stuttered. I'm guessing this kinda dashed his hopes for Kikyo, but...wait, is that a small smile?

Holy cow, it is! He's trying to hide it, but he's happy! I can't help but give him a grin. He realizes I've seen his smile, and then looks away. He's trying to hide it...why now? Oh, wait...

"Are you guys...not together yet?" I asked.

Mom blushes bright red, then looks away. "Wh-what does that question have to do anything?" She says, avioding my eyes.

"You aren't? But...but....you have to be! Awe, come on! You guys always use to say that you fell in love with each other the first time you saw one another." Inuyasha blushed now, and seemed to be...angry? Or was it frustration? Oh, wait he was embarassed. "So that's it...you guys haven't told each other yet...well this is certainly awkward."

"I have no idea what you ar talking about." Mom states firmly.

"Oh come on! This is so stupid." I say, then get up and walk out. I look up...it's night. I sit down and clutch Tetsrya. I remember when dad got it for me....

"Kikia, I have a gift for you." Dad called. I had never been to the feudal era before, and I as walking along the tree's.

"A gift! Ooohh...gimme gimme gimme!"

"Ehem?"

"Oh...gimme please!" I said, bouncing up and down. He got something out from under his haori, it seemed like along stick, wrapped up in cloth. I grabbed it, sat down, and teared away the paper while muttering a quick "Thank you!" I opened the package and inside was a sword. "Oh! Is it like your's daddy?" I squealed.

"Yes, very much so. You see, it is also made from a fang of my father's." Je said, sitting down and pulling me close.

"Cool! WHat's it's name?"

"Tetsrya..." He whispered in my dog ears.

"Tetsrya..." I repeated. I felt the sword pulse in my hand, and I gasped. "It's magic..."

"Yes, demon magic. You must always be careful and use it to protect the ones close to you."

"Yes daddy, I promise...."

ANd ten years later, I broke that promise. I had failed to protect uncle Souta. I hadn't been careful. And now I would forever have the scars to prove it. Why had I been so foolish?

"Why did it all go so wrong?" I whispered.

"What went wrong?" My Mom's voice said, coming out of the hut.

"Oh!" I gasped. She couldn't know. "Just that, I got sent here instead into the present, er, I guess future feudal era." I stammered.

"Why did you come here?" She inquired. Oh, right, the visit had been strictly business.

"I...Something happened to the jewel. It got corrupted. I can't explain it exaclty, you have to feel it." I held out the purple crystal. It was so much darker then what it was suppose to be. I had gotten use to the burning. Mom reached out for the jewel, but an inch from the jewel, she pulled back hastily, and gasped.

"What was that just now? It was like an unbearable, disgusting heat. It feels...it feels..."

"It's basicly the solid form of a powerful demonic aura. I haven't the power to fix it. The Mom I knew in my time, the future you, could have fixed this easily. She said she had trained for a while...but...do you think you could?"

"I...I haven't the slightest idea how." She said, flaring at the disgusting evil thing in my hands.

"What about that old priest in there? She could help, right? And maybe Auntie Kikyo could..." my voice faded off as I saw the expression of pain on her face as I mentioned Kikyo's name. So, it all hadn't been sorted out yet. How early was this? She and Kikyo were still fighting? I couldn't be more then three years into the actual beginning! How strange it was to see my parents looking at each other with loving eyes, know how they end up, but know that they haven't excepted it yet. These to people were the two most in love souls I had ever witnessed, and neither of them had the courage to come out and say it! I guess we all need a little help.

"He loves you, you know." I say, sighing.

"Huh?"

"He loves you, has loved you, and will always love you. The love he has for Kikyo is gone." I say.

"Don't be ridiculous." She says, her eyes narrowing at the ground, as if it were the cause of her heart's ache. "I could never fill the place of Kikyo... he'll always love her."

"Of course you can never fill it, it's locked tight. But the space that's locked is just storage. He can't feel more for Kikyo, and the love that he had for her is a faded memory. It was basicly over the day she pinned him to that tree. That isn't even the real Kikyo. Just dust. Dust that belongs in storage."

"How could you possibly know that to be true." She sighs.

"Because he told me so, word for word." Her head shoots up. "Granted, maybe the Dad in there hasn't, yet. But when I was about eight years old, I asked him a question about Kikyo, and he answered." I said grinning. It was true. Those had been his exact words. "Can I ask you something?"

"Um...okay."

"What did you feel exactly when you found out I hadn't been lying?" I asked. She seemed shocked by the question, then blushed. I smiled as she told me...