Years had passed and Inuyasha wasn't a little boy anymore. He was much more the grown, young hanyou his father said he would become. During the years he had remained to himself, often running into Sesshomaru. But never running into the one person he wanted to see. Today was no different as he sat up in his tree. His mind constantly wandering onto other things.

"Man, I'm starving." he thought.

He sat about to jump down when he heard some voices. The two men were clearly human, but he decided to listen in anyway. So there they stood a few feet below him, having no knowledge of him being there.

"Did you hear?" the tallest man asked.

"Hear about what?"

"The shikon no tama and its immense power. Man I would love to get my hands on that."

This is where Inuyasha suddenly became more interested. He listened for awhile as the men kept talking, but nothing else about the shikon no tama was spoken for awhile.

"Doesn't it also grant wishes?"

"Yes demons and humans alike want it, but some priestess is guarding it...um I think her name."

"Will you get to the point already?" Inuyasha yelled.

The two men looked up and saw him. Fear instantly coming over them, before Inuyasha knew it they were running off. Not that he was really surprised. Actually he wondered when they were going to notice him, and decide to run away. Soon his mind wandered to more important things. With all that talk about that jewel, he was starting to become more interested in it.

"Will I guess I'll just have to find this priestess, wont I?"


Meanwhile a young girl about 17 was running in the woods. A demon chasing after her, she had her weapon by her side.

"Give this up silly girl, hey where did she go?" he wondered.

"Hirakotsu!"

A large boomerang was thrown into the air, barely grazing the demon. Sango caught her weapon again, and the demon started to laugh. What kind of demon exterminator was she? The weapon had barely even wounded him.

"Foolish girl, you barely hit me."

Sango just smirked right back at him. He watched curiously as she jumped to the side. Clearly moving out the way of something.

"I did that on purpose. Kikyou!" she shouted.

Almost instantly an arrow was released and shot the demon directly. He was killed in no time, Sango came running over to her friend.

"Do you believe what a fool he was? We make a great team." Sango added.

"Yes we do." Kikyou agreed.

Soon they were walking again, Sango was accompanying her friend to another village. They really didn't see each other to often. Seeing as how Kikyou was a priestess now, and Sango was a demon exterminator. Yet it was a really nice day and Sango needed something else to do.

Kikyou glanced over at her friend. Wondering how she could carry that thing so easily. She swung it over her back, like it was the lightest thing in the world.

"Sango, I always wondered but I could never ask."

"What is it?"

"How can you carry this so easily, I mean it weighs more than you."

Sango just chuckled lightly. To be honest sometimes she wasn't even sure how she could do it either.

"I don't know, I guess I'm just used to it."

Soon Kilala came running over to Kikyou and Sango. Sango stopped instantly when she saw her cat, she was sure she left her back at the village. But she picked Kilala up anyway.

"Kilala, did you follow after us? Although she already knew the answer.

Kilala was clearly not going anywhere, unless it was with them. Not that it mattered anyway, Kilala would prove helpful anyway. Kikyou stopped soon when she felt a familiar presence.

"What is it?" Sango spoke.

Kikyou just readied her arrow aiming straight ahead. Sango decided not to say anything, and let Kikyou handle this one. The arrow was released and a snake youkai was killed.

"I just knew that something was out there." Kikyou responded.

"How do you do that?"

Kikyou smiled sadly and then they continued on. She was still trying to get used to her new life. Now that she was a priestess things would be different. Well at least she still had her friendship with Sango. Meanwhile not to far away a certain half demon was making his way threw the forest. He stopped when he caught a very familiar scent. But it couldn't be, could it.

"Kikyou? Nah, it can't be." he thought.


Kikyou and Sango soon decided to split up, there were just to many demons in there. They would have to split up and met again on the other side. Kikyou went on the right and Sango went to the left. Sango kept slicing her way threw the demons. Kilala following right behind her, but soon stopped and ran the opposite direction.

"Kilala?'

Thinking quickly she ran after Kilala. Soon Kilala stopped, and Sango stopped too.

"Kilala, I'll handle the demon I need you to go and find Kikyou alright."

Kilala nodded and went off to find Kikyou. Sango took a deep breath and went up ahead, she wasn't afraid. No demon could ever scare her. Although she wanted to make sure Kikyou was alright too. Not that she had much reason to worry, Kikyou could take care of herself. And Kilala would find her.

Sango looked up when she saw a flash of red.

"Hirakotsu!"

Inuyasha looked back at the voice. Before he knew it he was hit by the boomerang. It sent him flying into the tree, he was now pinned to it. Sango came running and stopped when she saw him. He was clearly not human, he looked strange with those ears on his head.

"Hey, what the hell is the big idea?" he yelled.

"Demon? What are you doing here?"

He sighed to himself wondering how long this would take. It didn't look like he would be coming anywhere to soon. So he just decided to talk his way out of this mess.

"I'm looking for a priestess."

"He means Kikyou." she thought.

Sango opened her mouth to say something else, but stopped when she saw Kilala above. There was Kikyou as well, maybe she could clear this whole thing up. Inuyasha looked up at the young woman heading towards them. She looked vaguely familiar to him. But he had to remember she was a human, she might attack him.

Kikyou did not attack, she seemed to freeze in her steps. There was no way she would try and kill him. First off she needed to get passed the shock of it all. It was clear who the young half demon was. Sango watched as Kikyou broke into a smile. It was unlike any other smile she had ever seen, happy yet sad.

"Sango, you can let him go."

"But?"

Inuyasha decided not to ask any questions. He fell to the ground when Sango took back her weapon. Then his eyes traveled back to the priestess.

"Inuyasha, are you alright?" he heard her say.

He blinked again, how could she possibly know his name. Inuyasha looked carefully at her, staring into her eyes. He got to his feet and slowly walked over to her.

"Kikyou?" he questioned.

All she could do was nod, she was at a lost for words. She never thought she would see him again. Now here they were years later.

"So, this is the Inuyasha you've told me about." Sango spoke.

"Yes he was my best friend when we we're younger."

"Funny, he doesn't look so tough."

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow and clenched his fist.

"Feh, and what about you coming at me with some flying board?" he asked.

There the two of the stood glaring at each other. Moments later the arguments continued. Kikyou just sighed to herself, wondering how long this would go on.

"This is not how I imagined my friends to get along." she whispered.