A/N: Chapter 10 is up, sorry this chapter is late I made it longer because of the way I want the story to go and I was going to end it after the 2 line break in the story, but I knew you guys would hate me if I delay some Sesshy time ^^

DISCLAIMER: I did not win the lottery, so I don't own InuYasha or the characters (I would If I could). It belongs to Rumiko Takahasi and their rightful owners. I only own the characters I create.

"Dialogue"

'Thoughts'

Chapter ten: It's good to see you again

~Kaname's eyes flickered open. She realized she wasn't inside of Kaede's hut surrounded by her friends, but in a never-ending field. The grass was the lushes of green she has ever seen, a scatter of every color flower filled the heavenly land. Kaname looked up where she lay to the sky to see there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. But one thing that stuck out to Kaname was the air. It was still, yet so inviting. Giving of a feeling of serenity and contentment, leaving Kaname in a state of rapt. The tall grass started to sway in the wind breezily. Kaname stood up and realize that she wasn't in the pajamas Kagome had lent her. She was in a soft, silk kimono. It was a plain pastel green with a hot, pink obi.

~"Where I am?" Kaname surveyed her surroundings. "How did I get here?"~

~"InuYasha! Kagome! Sango! Miroku! Shippo! Anybody?" Kaname received no reply. She sighed, 'What am I suppose to do now?'~

~"I see that you're awake now" said a familiar voice. ~

~Kaname whipped her head around and her voice got stuck in her throat as she saw a replica of herself smiling at her. ~

~"Ut-Utsugi? Is that really you?" Kaname stuttered as she walked closer to her. ~

~"Yes, my dear child, it is really me. You have changed a great deal."~

~"So have you Utsugi" replied Kaname as she took her grandmother into a hug. Kaname looked into her eyes and saw warmth and happiness now, unlike the time when she was a hitogata when her voice were void of anything. Her presence now was warm and welcoming. A nice change from the past. ~

~"It's good to see you again, Utsugi" Kaname said heartily.~

~"Hai, as it is for me."~

~"Utsugi, could you tell me where are we exactly?" Kaname gestured with her hands in the air.~

~"I have brought you to my spirit world so that I may speak with you."~

~" Speak to me? About what exactly?"~

~"Haven't you noticed your shikigami powers are getting stronger lately?"~

~Kaname hooked her thumb and forefinger under her chin and looked up in thought. "Well," she stretched out. "I guess... I've practiced so I figured I got stronger" she shrugged her shoulders.~

~Utsugi, not receiving the answer she thought she would get, asked another question. "Haven't you wondered how exactly you returned to this era?"~

~"At first I thought you did and dismissed the thought, but now I'm thinking otherwise."~

~"You are right, my grandchild. I use a spell to bring you back to this era."~

~"Why, Utsugi?" Kaname questioned. 'Does she have a task she wants me to fulfill?'~

~"Would you have prefer that I didn't?"~

~"Of course not!" snapped Kaname. She gasped at her own outburst. "I'm sorry, it's just that-" ~

~"It's quite all right child, I understand. I've watched over you this past year, my dear, and saw the heartache you have endured when you were away from this era. I could not stand by and watch you suffered. So I conserve my power till my shikigami was strong enough again to bring you back to your friend and your intended. Though it took some time for you to go back to the storehouse."~

~Kaname let loose a gust of air she didn't know she was holding, and tears started to brim the corners of her eyes. "Utsugi, thank you so much! You have no idea how much that means to me."~

~"It is the very least I could do for causing the trouble that I did. My actions were selfish."~

~"It's okay Utsugi, everything all right now."~

~"Alas, it is not. My time in this place is coming to an end, my dear; I have slowly been giving you my shikigami powers so that they don't go to waste. That is why you are getting stronger."~

~Kaname's eyebrows furrowed in confusion, "I don't understand. What do you mean by 'your time here is ending?' And why would you give me your power?"~

~The meadow the two were in was now turning fuzzy and distorted, and slowly disintegrate from the sky down, erasing the meadow once magnificent beauty, fading into blackness as it slowly creep closer to the duo.~

~"Oh no! I don't have enough time!" Utsugi panicked as she cupped Kaname's hands into her's. "Listen to me carefully. Your time in the Feudal era is ending soon my dear."~

~"What? What's going on Utsugi?" The darkness was closing in on them, closing the space between them. ~

~"If you want to stay in this era you must renew the spell I placed, I am no longer strong enough to do so."~

~"What should I do?" ~

~"You must go to the village of- to retrieve a-" Kaname couldn't hear the words Utsugi said as she slowly faded away her words seemingly lost, as Kaname started to fall rapidly into the darkness.~

Kaname's eyes open as her body lurched forward, her hand over her chest as she tried to catch her breath; sweat coming down the temple of her head. She looked around the hut to see everyone wasn't there except Miyako, still sleeping on her futon; her cat ears flickered slightly. Kaname looked toward the window to see bright sunlight coming through letting her know it was morning. The bamboo curtain of the hut opened while Kaname tried to remember her dream and what exactly Utsugi meant.

"Ai, I see that you are awake now." an elderly woman said. Kaname flinched and looked up, her eyes shone surprise and intense joy.

"Kaede!" Kaname gasped as she looked upon her old friend. She was holding a basket of what look like medicinal herbs. "I thought you were in Rindo!"

"I was, I have arrived this morning to see you here fast asleep. It was an indeed a pleasant surprise to see you again."

"Same here, It's good to see you again, Kaede" Kaname said, a small graced her face. "Where is everyone?"

"Out doing things around the village. They wanted to let you sleep, they said you had a quite a day yesterday" Kaede giving her a knowing smile.

"What do you mea-They told you didn't they?" Kaname said dully. Kaede simply nodded her head. She turn around and sat down to boil water for the herbs. A silent moment between the duo as the water reaches to a boil.

As Kaname got up to Kagome's backpack for some clothes she asked, "So, you're not gonna say anything?" Kaname pulled a pair of skinny jeans, a white camisole top, a wool scarf, and a rib sided cardigan. 'Glad Kagome packed for the weather since its getting kinda cold.'

"What is there to say?" Kaede asked back. "It is not my business to judge what you do in your personal life."

"Well I guess. But what do you have to say, Kaede?" Kaede put the herbs into the pot and stirred it for a few moments, and then put the medicine inside a metal container which Kagome must have given to her.

"There is nothing to say, my dear" Kaede said as she got up from her sitting position. "Now do not stay in bed all day, child, before you become too indolent. Go make yourself useful around the village." And with that, Kaede left.

'And again that was unexpected.' Kaname he sighed as she got dress in the clothes she pulled out, Kaname gave Miyako a glance to see that she was still asleep through her exchange with Kaede, and she left to see what everyone was up to.

"How do you suppose we get the onna alone?" One of the arachnid said. Jorogumo sent a group of her spider demons minions to retrieve the girl, and was now consulting on how to get the girl away from the village, and especially away from the hanyou. They were hiding in the nearby forest, far enough so that they wouldn't be detected.

"Simply wait until she's all alone. She won't be easy to take down when she's with the half-breed, but alone would be more tactful. If any of one of you do anything to ruin this mission, it will be your head" the new general of Jorogumo's army told his underlings.

"Yes, Sir" the group said.

He was determine not to disappoint his Lady like the previous general who died a miserable death by a half-breed and a ningen onna. He will capture this girl and deliver her on a silver platter.

Kaname was now walking around the village not knowing what to do next. She helped some of the village men by starting a fire with her shikigami, help harvested some vegetables with the women, and played with Shippo and village children for a little while. Kaname sighed; the rest of her friends was pretty busy though.

Kagome went back to their time to get a few things she forgot and some clothes for Kaname, Miroku was mediating and didn't look like he wanted to be interrupted, Sango was with Kohaku, brushing up on their taijiya skills. 'Though it was good to see him again; alive and well. Though I did found out he still has a jewel shard in his back. I wonder how we're going to take it out without killing him.' Kaname sigh heavily. 'Another one on the problem list.'

"I wonder where InuYasha is? I haven't seen him since last night" Kaname said to herself, her hands over her head. "I guess I'll check on Miyako" Kaname walked a few minutes to Kaede's hut and lifted the bamboo curtain and entered the hut.

"Miyako? You in here?" She looked to where she last saw the neko demon. Her bed's cover was disarray. 'I can't sense her aura anywhere.' Kaname concentrated her mind to stretch out her aura in search of her's. "She's near the bone-eater well" Kaname left the hut and ran in the direction of the well.

Miyako was sitting on the edge of the bone-eater well, contemplating her next move. Her eyes puffy and red from crying, but not of the pain of her injuries, but the hopelessness of her situation. 'What should I do now? Return to the village? I couldn't do that abandon her like that! But I can't rescue her by myself... Should I ask them?" Miyako shooed away the thought. "No, that's asking too much."

"Miyako!" Said person looked up to see the shikigami user running towards her. "Hey, what are you doing out here by yourself? You're still pretty hurt."

"I am a demon. I'm not that weak." she said a little rudely, not looking at her.

Kaname just smiled at her. 'Demons and their pride.' "I know, I never said you were, I'm just don't want you to worsen your condition is all."

Miyako still not looking at her said, "Why do you ningens help me? Why didn't you leave me to die? You got what you wanted."

Kaname sat down next to her, her eyes to the ground. "Because I wanted to, simply as that."

"You are not like other ningens" Miyako stated. Kaname snorted mirthfully, "You just figure that out? I wouldn't say I'm exactly normal."

Miyako stared at her, but soon smiled too. "I guess not."

Unbekownst to the two, they were being stalk by one of Jorogumo's subordinate. He looked upon them from the shadows of the forest. It was golden oppportunity. Not only the girl with the strange powers was here, but was with the neko demon who knew where the item his Lady wanted. 'Screw what the leader said, I'll capture them both, and reap the benefit from Lady Jorogumo for myself.' He creeped closer and closer as he use his inhuman speed to take down his targets. Jorogumo nor his leader said anything on injuring them as long as their alive. It would make capturing them that much easier. Just as he was about to attack, he was suddenly thrown back by a unkown force. He looked up to see he was back by a luminescent, green barrier that surround the women and the well they sat on. 'Where the hell did that barrier come from!'

Kaname and Miyako stared down at him clearly flabbergasted to see a demon attacked so suddenly. By now the duo was standing as they stared down at their attacker.

"Oh no! They come for me!" Miyako panicked, her expression bleak. Kaname was in her own head berating herself on how she didn't sense this demon eariler. She didn't sense any demonic aura nearby, even now for some inexplicable reason she couldn't sense this demon or even InuYasha's for that matter.

"How are you doing that?" Miyako turned to her and her face turn to shock.

"Doing what?" Then Kaname noticed that the outline of her hands and the rest of her body was the color the same as the barrier. "I put up this barrier?!" she said in bewilderment. 'It must be because of Utsugi giving me her power. I must have done it subconsciously.'

The spider rose from the ground slowly. He was clutching his chest. He took a good hit when he collided into the barrier. He started to chuckled darkly. "I can see why my Lady wants you" he said with a pained expression.

Kaname looked up from her hands to lock eyes with the arachnid with a puzzled look. "What does she want with me?"

He ignored her question. "I suggest to the both of you to come with me without a fight" he said memacingly as he flexed his claws and an evil smile appeared on his face. "Unless you want one."

Kaname grimanced not knowing what to do now. She's never produce a barrier before, so she didn't how long she could keep it up until help came, or if it will hold up if the demon attacked it.

Kaname whispered without taking her eyes from the demon, "I need you to go find InuYasha."

"Are you insane! No, I'm not leaving you!" Miyako stood by her. "We'll take him down together."

"You sure? You're still pretty wounded."

"Never underestimate a neko demon" she winked at her.

Kaname closed her eyes and focus her mind on one thought. The barrier slowly felled around them.

"I see you finally decide to surrender" the spider demon said triumphantly.

"Think again, you over-sized bug!" Miyako yelled as she put out her hands to unleash deadly, sharp earth roots to attack. He dodge them as the roots popped up as he close the distance between his victims. The roots were only scratching him, but he wasn't slowing down. Kaname held out her hands and release her fire shikigami. The fire engulf the spider as he was brought down to his knees by the blaze.

"CURSE YOU WOMAN!" was his last words as he pointed a clawed finger to Kaname; his life slipping away.

Kaname sighed in relief as she sat back down. 'That attack was as strong as when I say the incantation, but it was even stronger than that. How much power are you giving me Utsugi?' "Glad that's over" she said to Miyako, but when she looked to the neko her expression turned into worry. Miyako's eyes was darting throughout the field.

"We have to hurry. If there is one there's sure to be more that'll come after us" Miyako said warily. Kaname immediately stoop up and before she knew it, she was on the ground; her left arm clutching her right shoulder.

"KANAME!" Miyako screeched as she sanked to her knee to inspect her wound. Kaname lifted her hand from her shoulder to her face to see her hand imprinted by her crimson blood. She shuddered at the intense burning in her shoulder. Miyako was growling at her attacker as she stood protectively over her; her claws flexing and eyes flashing a daring red.

"It would seem my underlings really don't know how to follow orders" an unfamiliar voice said in a condescending voice, revealing himself from the forest.

Kaname used the rest of her strength to stand up to face where the voice was coming from. Her eyes took in his appearance;. His form was similar to the last demon she faced; beside him look were his followers, and Kaname and Miyako were clearly outnumbered. One of his many limbs retracted to him; her blood was dripping from it. And it made her sick.

"Now, I came all the way here just for you. I would hate to see your fragile body stains with your blood."

Kaname clench her teeth and her face turn into a scowl as she glower at him. 'He's patronizing me!'

"I would suggest you take that dirty look of your face before I-"

"WIND SCAR!" The well-known attack obliterated a few of the spiders, but the leader leapt into the air and gracefully landed on his feet.

"And the half-breed makes his appearance" he jeered.

InuYasha clutch his Tessaiga tighter, "Damn you!" He stood over Kaname and Miyako and looked over his shoulder, "Kaname are you alright!" his voice alarmed and panicky.

"Where were you, you dog!" Miyako shouted.

"I was hiding my aura, I needed to get away from the village, you stupid cat!"

Kaname's voice was weary, but she manage to say teasingly "Oh so that's how you were able to spy on me and Sesshomaru, huh?"

"Just answer the damn question already!"

"The wound is shallow, but I'm too weak to summon my healing shikigami." At that moment Kaname saw Sango and Miroku, with Shippo om his shoulders, running towards them. The spider general cursed underneath his breath about 'damn ningens interfering.' He commanded his soldiers to distract the ningens. While he watched his men fight them off he saw out of the corner of his eyes InuYasha charging at him; Tessaiga over his head swinging it downwards. He pulled out a hidden sword behind his back and met the hanyou with equal force with his blade.

"Who the hell are you and what do you want with us!" InuYasha bellowed as he gave him an abhor look across their meshing blades.

"I don't have time for you HALF-BREED!" He pushed back InuYasha and emitted a high amount of spider web that surrounded InuYasha into a cocoon.

"InuYasha!" yelled Sango and Miroku.

The spider general called to his followers and they quicky dispersed into the forest. In a blink of an eye he was by the well and swatted Miyako, and grabbed hold on the powerless Kaname and leap into the forest.

"Oh no Kaname!" Miroku yelled.

"HIRAIKOTSU!" Sango swinged her boomerang towards the fleeing demon, but he already vanished.

"Master Jaken, why is Lord Sesshomaru so gloomy?" Rin asked the imp; she was laying upside down on Ah-Uh's back, twirling a flower in her hand. Sesshomaru was sitting on a large branch of a tree; a crease between his brows and his lips curved downward into a frown.

"Silly girl, our Lord does not gloom around" Jaken scold her.

"Really? He seem sad when big sister left."

"Not be foolish, why would he missed that wretch?" Jaken didn't have the faintest idea who or what agitated his Lord. 'Thought it is strange. He first send me and Rin away, leaving him alone with that girl. Then we found him back near Tsuzumi without the girl with him. Then he brings us out here near Akebi without even a reason! It is most strange.'

"I think he's in love with big sister." Rin said interupting Jaken's reflection on the strange predicament. The imp nearly chocked on the water he was drinking on.

"Lord Sesshomaru is not in love with that onna!" he nearly screeched. While Jaken and Rin debated with each other whether or not if their Lord had any affection for the shikigami user, Sesshomaru was in his very own incessant debate.

"For the last time the answer is no" Sesshomaru thought to his Instinct.

"Sesshomaru, I do not want to go against her wishes any more than you do, but I would rather be safe then sorry." Sesshomaru and his Instinct has been going back and forth to see Kaname; to make sure she was well. A forlorn feeling over came them and he demanded that they go see her.

'And if you are simply overreacting?'

His Instinct growled menacingly. "I AM YOUR INSTINCT! I DO NOT OVER REACT, AND I DEMAND WE SEE OUR MATE!" he yelled emphatically.

Sesshomaru sighed, actually giving in, though he was hasty himself to go see her. He jumped down from the tree, and sauntered to the middle of the clearing.

"Milord, where do you plan to go now?" asked Jaken as he stood in front of him. Sesshomaru simply ignored him and end up walking over poor Jaken. He should know by now to never stand in Sesshomaru's way, or he literally got the boot.

"If you see big sister, Milord, tell her I said hi and to come see me!" Rin yelled from across the field to her Lord. Sesshomaru gave her glance letting her know he heard her. Sliver whips formed at his feet as his cloud began to take form.

'I will Rin' Sesshomaru thought as he left into the sky.

TBC…

I know I know I know not enough Sesshy, but I PROMISE there will definitely be more of him in the next chapter. R-E-V-I-E-W and I will surely love you! (^.^)