Chapter Ten: The Story and The New Demons

As he and the others followed Kikyo and Tyzen to where Nalika was waiting Inuyasha saw that they weren't the only one that had been fighting Naraku. He wasn't sure why but he had a feeling that Naraku wasn't really the biggest threat. Kagome looked over at her fiancé and knew he was thinking the same thing she was. What was really going and why was it so important to bring everyone who had fought Naraku nearly six hundred years ago together.

Kikyo looked back at Kagome and Inuyasha and sighed. Out of all of her friends only the two of them would know something else was going on. Something not even she knew and it was time that they learned what was really going on.

Kyrian and Nalika looked up as Kikyo led their friends through the portal to her home village in the past. She knew that it was dangerous to bring Inuyasha and Sesshomaru back to the past with the Sahado demons nearing but she didn't have a choice. If they were to return to the peace that they had once known then she needed her friends help and they needed their old weapons.

She knew that Inuyasha never parted with Tetsaiga because it controlled his demon half and once he obtained it Sesshomaru never left Bakusaiga out of his sight. Knowing this she went to the past to the time when Drazna brought Inuyasha and his friends, and gathered their weapons. That was why she was still in the past and why the door to the secret room in the villages was link to the past.

"Thanks Kikyo." said Nalika

"Sure but where are we?" asked Kikyo as her and the others walked through the door and looked around.

"This is what my village used to look like before we joined with the Sacred Beast Clan." said Nalika getting up and walking over to them. "But this isn't the time. We need to talk." It was then that Inuyasha saw exactly what Nalika had done and if he was honest with himself he was glad she went and got them.

Kagome had noticed them as well and she smiled. Looking over to her phoenix friend she noticed that Nalika was a bit awkward about the fact that all their weapons were there. "Thanks Nalika." said Kagome and Nalika smiled. At least Kagome understood the reason behind the sudden appearance of their old weapons.

"I knew that we were going to need help against Naraku and what better way than for you guys to use your own weapons?" asked Nalika but Inuyasha knew that there was more to the story than that. There was more to the reason Nalika called all of them there.

So did Kyrian and he knew that they needed to know the full truth. "Nalika…"

"I know Kyr." said Nalika then she turned to the others and Inuyasha knew that they were about to hear the full story. "Guys there's more to the reason I brought you guys here."

"Yeah we figured." said Sesshomaru. "So what's the reason Naraku is here again. I thought that Kagome and Inuyahsa destroyed him along with the Shikon Jewel."

"They did. How he's here I don't know but the real reason you were brought back wasn't Naraku but because of a threat that is much larger than that of the spider half demon." said Nalika and both Kagome and Inuyasha looked at one another. The feeling that they had both had coming up the mountain was one that they knew well

"It's the Sahado Demons, isn't it?" asked Inuyasha and Nalika was shocked that Inuyasha knew what it truly was.

"How did you know that?" asked Nalika "I didn't even know about them until my sister told me of them."

"Kagome and I have been feeling their presence since we remembered." said Inuyasha. "Before we met up with Shippo and the others we ran into a few of them."

"I didn't know that." said Nalika.

"That's because they never said anything." said a girl that looked just like Nalika except she was shorter than their black phoenix friend.

"Drazna why didn't you tell me that they knew of the Sahado Demons?"

"Because I didn't know that they knew." said Drazna then she looked at Kagome and Inuyasha. "It's not often someone can hide things from me. You guys are good."

"No we just didn't think it was necessary for anyone to know." said Inuyasha shrugging.

"So what's the deal with them?" asked Miroku.

"They're a group of demons that like us can transcend time and space." said Nalika "When they showed up here I had known that it was going to be bad. However I also knew that Kagome, one of the only ones that could fight them, had chosen to live on the other side which was why they decided to attack here."

"Damn that's why I had that dream." said Kagome and Nalika nodded.

"Once it was obvious to Hanuone, the leader, that Kagome had received a vision in the past he knew that she could have come to stop him. He also knew that she would bring the half demon and he couldn't allow that."

"So he came to the past to destroy us?" asked Sango and Drazna nodded.

"Luckily I saw what he was going to do and I stopped him. Well sort of."

"You were the reason we were brought here weren't you?" asked Inuyasha

"Yes. I knew that once Hanuone thought he destroyed you in the past that he would attack here. So I brought you all here."

"But why erase our memories?" asked Koga.

"Because I knew that Hanuone wouldn't be able to attack for a while because he had reached with his powers to destroy you in the past and it would take a awhile for his powers to return. However once they did you guys would have to be here with full powers and memory intact."

"That's why you brought us back as kids right?" asked Inuyasha seeing the wisdom behind the truth.

"Yes." said Drazna glad that the half demon understood her choice. "But things went in a way I did not expect."

"Naraku." said Sesshomaru

"Yes. I do not know how he returned but he does know of your connection to him and he knows that you can destroy him again. This time he doesn't have the Jewel in order to hide his aura."

"If I know Naraku he'll make a deal with Hanuone and use him to protect him." said Kikyo.

"Kikyo's right. There wasn't a time in the last fight with him that Naraku didn't use someone against us." said Sango remembering how he used her brother. At least she had him back again.

"He can't touch Kohaku Sango." said Nalika smiling. "Not if he wants to bring the whole Katagari demon clan on him."

"And believe us that is something he won't do." said Kyrian smiling.

"Why's that?" asked Inuyasha

"The Katagari demons are a group of much like us." said Talen walking in. "Their leader is Fury, but his daughter, Mira, is Kohaku's mate."

"I didn't know that she was a demon." said Sango though if she thought about it, Sango knew why Mira never said anything or did anything that would give her away as a demon in front of Sango. "So because Mira is the leader's daughter you think Naraku won't go after her?"

"I don't think I know. I was part of their clan for a while though I'm not Katagari." said Talen with his arms folded. "The Katagari are also protected by its brother clan the Arcadians and their strongest warrior is Fury's brother Vane, who is also mated to a human."

"Damn Talen." said Tyzen shaking his head at his wolf friend. "I assume the reason you stayed there was because you was a wolf?"

"Yeah at least until I found my true tribe." said Talen and Tyzen understood. There wasn't a demon in the clan that didn't know Talen's story.

"Anyway, Naraku would be a fool to attack them." said Kyrian. "The main question is will you guys help us against the Sahado Demons?"

"If you guys help us get rid of Naraku once and for all." said Inuyasha and Kagome knew then that Inuyasha felt the same as her and Kikyo. There was more to the fact that Naraku was back. She also remembered the threat that Koron had told them on the beach and if she knew Naraku he was going to take full advantage of the hatred that the half-demon felt for her and Inuyasha. And that scared her more than her vision did.