Disclaimer: I do not own nor profit from Inuyasha. Now on with the show!

Author's Note: This story is rated M for the wonderfully colorful adjectives the characters in this story will use. I decided to post this chapter to make up for my lack of updating.

Chapter 7: The Binding

"Did this Fucker just say what I think he just said" Yelled Inuyasha. Kagome was actually surprised that Inuyasha had stayed that quiet throughout Daisuke's speech. However she was more than curious to know how Daisuke had been able to know exactly what she was thinking. In a way she could feel his aura lurking around her body and that didn't exactly sit well with her.

"When I kissed Kagome to gain access to her dreams I also gained access to her thoughts. The pull of the medeis in her body made the connection even stronger. I apologize if I invaded your privacy but it was not my intention to bind us that deeply." Daisuke bowed his head as he knew was customary when one was apologizing to another on this world.

"It's okay Daisuke really, there's no need to bow. I would however like to hear more about these clans you were talking about" Daisuke smiled and continued on with his story.

"One of the clans, the Auspices were notorious for their powers of sight but were also known for their desire to wreak havoc by plaguing our government with misleading information and visions. The Invokers had a variety of different powers but none were gifted with sight. Both of these clans wanted the artifact in order to increase the strength of their own clan. Our King came from a long line of Invokers but sought to bring peace between the clans so he called upon Marcus to study the artifact in order to successfully divide its power among the members of each clan. However, the King's council had a completely different idea. They wanted the element to belong solely to the Auspices. Our government began to crumble under the strife created by the artifact. That was when Marcus did the unthinkable, he destroyed the artifact. Both clans were in an uproar and demanded that Marcus be executed. To appease the council and save his friend the King banished Marcus to a planet that was worse than death."

"Is this Marcus the same one from my dreams?"

"Marcus was also the prisoner who discovered the rebirth element and the man who compromised the King's daughter" Daisuke said.

"Compromised?" Miroku sent a leer in Sango's direction and raised his eyebrows up and down. Kagome blushed and Sango was quick to punish the monk for his crude actions.

"So Marcus discovered this Rebirth stuff and was taken back to your planet to be studied. Do the clans you mentioned have anything to do with the protestors who were against it" Asked Kagome.

"Marcus was a powerful Auspice but the studies conducted on him revealed that he no longer had the power of sight. Controversy broke out about whether integrating this element was worth the risk of losing our medeis. The King decided that immortality was more important than magical abilities and decimated the protest. Everyone including the members of the protest groups were forced to accept the doses of rebirth material. However the rebirth material had another consequence on our people. We became sterile. Our numbers decreased dramatically. The children and elderly that we exposed to the rebirth element rapidly deteriorated. We soon learned that the rebirth element was exceedingly unstable when taken off its own planet. Our population dropped from thousands to about two hundred. Only the strongest of us survived until Marcus began to create a solution—

"Your King sounds like an idiot" Huffed Inuyasha. Daisuke ignored the fierce sense of loyalty that urged him to protect the name of his King but settled on glaring on Inuyasha instead.

"It was said that Marcus was creating a mechanism that would host our offspring until the females of our planet would be able to carry the infants to term. When I was young I had the good fortune of seeing this mechanism and I am astounded to say that it looked exactly like the egg in Kagome-san's dream."

"But if this egg solved all the problems your people were having why would Marcus just take it and run?"

"The egg was just a prototype, a practice run if you will and Marcus left out one crucial detail about the egg's inner workings. It ran off a combination of the medeis artifact and the rest of the Rebirth element. It seemed that Marcus had never really destroyed the artifact to begin with. Marcus tried to keep those details hidden but word soon reached the council. They demanded that the mechanism be destroyed so that the medeis artifact could be used by the clans. Seeing your dream makes the rest of the story clearer." Daisuke brought up the segment of Kagome's dream in which Marcus was running with Ariadne.

"I always questioned why he took Ariadne with him. Being the King's daughter she would have been safer in the castle. The council never would have been able to harm her. Unless—

"Unless what! Out with it ya damn monk!" Yelled Inuyasha.

"He was using the mechanism. The egg was carrying their child but that would have been impossible. Our people have not had a live birth in centuries!"