Author's Note: I will be changing the rating on this story… It occurs to me that with all the demon dismemberment I should have done that before but this one's gonna be a bit more risqué so here we go. I own nothing.

Unintentional

Inuyasha grumbled as she hopped down the small ridge and to the side of the small lake. She hated rain, it made her itchy afterwards. She sighed as she sat down by the water and pulled her few possessions out of her robe. There wasn't much, never really had been. All she kept on her was a small sea shell. It had been her mothers, and even now still had the rouge she would sometimes use to paint her face. Inuyasha had never learned how to use it herself. She'd been too young when her mother died but it was a small thing that kept her grounded when she thought of her mother. She gently squeezed it and sighed setting it on top of the robe of the fire rat. She set the Tetsusaiga down next to the shell and shook her head as she slipped into the water, making sure to stay within easy reach of her sword.

Kagami was lost. Again. He grumbled to himself as he walked.

"You would think by now I would know the way from the well to the village." He shook himself, he knew he was going in the right direction. He frowned as he heard a splash up ahead. He peeked around a large tree and his heart almost stopped. He knew this lake. It was where he and Inuyasha had first argued about him looking like Kiken, it was where he'd left Inuyasha when he'd first managed to make it back home. But it was not empty. Laying on the shore next to the clean, near clear, water was a very familiar sword next to a very familiar set of robes.

Kagami felt his face go bright red as a white head of hair popped out of the water. Her hair floating around her like that looked almost like a bright aura. She had her back to him, and he had to be downwind of her or she would have caught his scent by now, that or she had water up her nose. She pulled her hair around her shoulder and began running her fingers through it, cutting through the tangles with her claws. One of these days he was going to introduce her to the concept of a hairbrush. If dogs in general were any indication she was bound to enjoy it. His eyes wandered away from her and he was about to turn and make his way around the pool before things got more embarrassing. But then something caught his eye. A scar, it ran from Inuyasha's shoulder nearly to her spine. It looked old. He frowned. She had other scars too, most faded but several of them, the older ones for the most part didn't look like they would, almost like they hadn't been properly treated. And there were four claw marks down her back too. Kagami froze as Inuyasha stiffened and growled slightly making a move for her sword. Kagami turned around so he wouldn't see anything. He was the shade of a tomato by now and very concerned that he was about to lose his head when he heard Inuyasha huff.

"Sango." Kagami didn't dare peer back over the ridge but he heard Sango's voice.

"Ah, Inuyasha? How long have you been back in the area?" Inuyasha made a non-committal noise as the sound of water sloshing met Kagami's ears. As silently as he could he scrambled back to his feet and took off in the direction of the village. He knew how to get there from here. He wasn't sure his face would ever go back to its normal color though.

Inuyasha shook her head at Sango as she joined her in the lake. She sniffed the air, trying to catch a sniff of Miroku who had a very bad habit of following the ladies of the group when they bathed. Sango smiled.

"I told him I was working on some smoke bombs and poison powders." Inuyasha nodded slightly. Miroku didn't tend to be interested in things like that, at least not enough to follow Sango, she didn't smell him either so that was good. She frowned, she thought she smelled a whiff of Kagami but shook it off. She didn't miss him, he could stay gone for all she cared! She grumbled, sinking low in the water.

"I'm actually glad you're here Inuyasha. I wanted to apologize for what I said the other day. I have no doubt that you have no feelings for Koga. We were a bit hasty to jump to conclusions." Inuyasha nodded.

"Yes, you were a bit hasty, the lot of you." Sango nodded recognizing Inuyasha's usual antagonistic response to an apology. They were silent for some time but eventually they both dressed and Sango began to head back towards the village, Inuyasha hesitated. Sango frowned.

"You know the others are really worried about you." Inuyasha frowned.

"Even Kagami?" Sango frowned.

"He isn't back yet. But I'm sure he will be soon." Inuyasha nodded and followed Sango through the woods. After a while Sango spoke up again.

"Out of curiosity what was the promise you mentioned when you let Koga go." Inuyasha frowned again but sighed then spoke. She told Sango about how she'd woken up in the wolf cave alone and stuck. And about the boy Koga had left to guard her.

"He was like me. Except he'd had someone from the beginning. It sort of made me wonder if it would have been like that for me if my father had lived." Sango paused mid step, she hadn't really thought about Inuyasha's childhood. Truth be told before Inuyasha she hadn't met any half demons which given her line of work and how protective the demon parents seemed to be of their offspring wasn't surprising.

"I don't actually know who your father was…" Inuyasha nodded slightly, then shrugged.

"No I guess we just haven't really brought it up since you joined the group have we." She paused and frowned she put her hands behind her head intertwining her fingers. "It's a bit of a long story." Sango shrugged and sat on a nearby rock laying out some tools from inside her kimono.

"I have time." Inuyasha snorted lightly and sat down. They were both silent as Sango started to set up her tools. Then Inuyasha spoke. "His name was Inu no Taisho." This made Sango pause.

"The legendary general phantom dog demon?" Inuyasha nodded.

"Seems like everyone I talk to has at least heard of him. That was him, yes. But he died, the night I was born." She went quiet again for a moment. Sango didn't push, Inuyasha would open up when she chose to and not before. The fact that she was even sharing this much was an accomplishment. "My mother used to tell me stories about him, about how he'd found her after her party had been attacked by bandits and saved her. She said they got married, but I don't know if that's true. I'd like to think it is though." She lapsed back into a contemplative silence.

"That's why Koga called you Princess isn't it. The legend I've heard says that your father ruled a significant amount of land to the west. It was said that it passed to his children on his passing."

"His child. Not his children. Sesshoumaru got everything but this." Inuyasha laid a hand on the sword at her side. "And for the longest time I didn't even have that. After my mother died I was alone in the world. I didn't want that for Hatsu." Sango raised an eyebrow. "The kid. I know what it's like to be a half demon alone in the world." She left it there as her nose twitched and she leapt to her feet racing away. Sango barely blinked at this point Inuyasha must have smelled something more interesting than their conversation. What it was, that was anyone's guess though guessing the direction she'd taken off in Sango would guess Kagami was back.