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Rin stared down at the unmoving woman, her eyes shifted to her left to look at Kagome. The older woman whom Rin had thought of as a sister gave her a sorrow filled look as she returned her attention at the woman who they had came to the South to see, Shiori. Her body was still as a statue, it filled both girls with sadness. Shiori was in a prison, and that prison was her own mind and body. Her body was a sad site to be seen, her small frame contained an innocent life that had hardly even began. An innocent child that hadn't even taken a breath of air, had been attacked along with it's mother for no real reason other than to mess with her Mate, Miroku and his friends. Shiori herself was innocent victim, Kagome thought to herself 'If she hadn't Mated Miroku she would not be in this situation.'

Sesshomaru stood beside his Mate and stared down at the woman lying on a bed she was still as death and her heart beat was the only reminder she was alive, his sunny hues drifted to her hands that were folded neatly on her round belly. Rin looked at her Mate with a faint smile and just when Sesshomaru thought he would see tears he saw none from his Mate. She smiled and ushered him out of the room stating her and Kagome were going to give Shiori a sponge bath. It didn't take very long for both girls to carefully wash Shiori, next then went to her hair and slowly brushed any knots or tangles from her lilac colored hair. Rin looked at her friend Kagome that always seemed to be full of answers when she needed them "You are educated right?" The Lady of the West watched as the Lady of the East and of the entire wolf clan nodded "Yes, why do you ask?" The next question surprised Kagome "How knowledgeable are you in healing?" After a few blinks and her mind repeating the question that was asked of her she tried to find the words she needed "Um... Well… I Know some stuff more than most in this time. But I don't know what to do for Shiori here."

"Here?"Once done caring for their friend they left the secret room and walked out to see the four men looking at them, all waiting while they were washing the Lady of the South. The nodding ookami priestess nodded and then sighed as she carried on to explain "Yes, in this era the healing isn't very good. All we have here are medical plants and those can only do so much, But-"

Cutting off the older woman Rin smiled as she shut the door to Shiori's room "Kagome I have an idea." Once done caring for their friend they left the secret room and stood in front of the four men who were now looking at them, all waiting while outside while the two took care of Shiori's hygiene. Sesshomaru noticed the look his Mate wore, a smile. Not any smile, the smile of hope. She had an idea, smiling Rin watched as Kagome joined by her own Mate's side and nodded back to Rin. The Lady of the West stood proud and tall her mood was that of determination "Kagome and I have discussed Shiori's condition. There is little any of us can do, right now if she doesn't wake up soon… She will lose the child and will die of dehydration." She paused and looked at all of their faces to check their moods, Inuyasha was that of anger, while Koga's wasn't much different, Sesshomaru's was indifferent and Miroku's was of sadness and grief.

"However!" Once again she had all of their attention, no doubt they had all assumed there was nothing that could be done. Rin smiled and shared more "I have a plan! Kagome's era is much more advanced with healing, if we journeyed to her era Kagome says there will be resources to keep both Shiori and her baby alive for a longer period of time." Miroku was the first to speak he spoke in a tired and hopeful tone as he looked at Rin "How much longer?" Rin shrugged and looked at Kagome, who simply shrugged back. Taking in that her friend didn't know either Rin smiled and looked at Shiori's Mate "Does it matter? A hour, a day, a week, a month. Anything would be better than if we just stayed here and did nothing!"

Miroku was so happy by this news it meant Shiori and their child would have a chance after all, he felt the burning in his hand. It burned just as warm as his hope, however it gave him great pain. He grabbed his arm trying to suppress the pain as best as he could. Unable to hide his pain completely, he bit his lip and blood ran down his bottom lip as he cursed under his breath "Damn this curse."

Rin spoke up as she noticed the Dragon Lord's struggle "Inuyasha you should stay here with Miroku, he may need help and I'm sure he would like it if you were here to help keep Shiori safe." Inuyasha crossed his arms as he looked at Miroku who was in distress and sensing Rin wasn't done he let her continue. Rin finished with a statement as she turned her attention to the others "Sesshomaru, Kagome, Koga and I will get the medicine and any information that can help her." Inuyasha crossed his arms and had a frown set on his face "Feh. I've had enough of that place when I had to go get you back and forth all those times when hunting Naraku the first time."

Koga looked at the dog mutt with furrowed brow and a set jaw, his tone dissatisfied "You just never could be good to my Mate could you?" Inuyasha smirked accepted the challenged that Koga seemed to place in front of him "Oh I was good. I just never could stay at the Dump she called her era!"

"You dare insult her home?!" Koga seemed equally angered if not more so than Kagome, by his logic her home was his home."Yea the air stunk and her gramps was always so mean!" Kagome's former love defended his blunt comment with his own logic. Kagome jumped into the fight as well, her fists firmly on her hips as she defended her gramps. A man she loved and looked up too all her life despite his seemingly far fetched stories that no longer seemed far fetched now that she was living one, "Well if you didn't destroy his storage house!" The Central Lord that despite all his lessons in control still lacked to have total control over his actions and words, unlike his older brother. Inuyasha casted his heated glare that was on Koga now to the woman he still secretly loved and yelled in her face "Kagome stay out of this!"

"Inuy-"

"Besides you always sat me! I ain't your slave that can just do whatever the hell yo-"

"SIT!" Koga used his quick speed to jump out of the way just before Inuyasha succumbed to the charm around his neck, he did it just before he could be have been been added in the crater Inuyasha created with his body in the ground. After Inuyasha laid in the crater Koga chuckled smugly pointing at Inuyasha who would always be weaker and never win against his Mate "Ha serves you right dog turd!"

"Koga… be nice," Kagome warned. She silently wondered to herself if her Mate and Inuyasha would ever grow up, she sighed and told herself that was it was more likely that this was all a dream rather than that actually coming true. A million years would pass and those two would never grow up or act mature around each other. Koga seemed to understand his Mate's warning and spoke ignoring it "Okay… Serves your right Mr. fluffy ears or should I call you Mr. Fluffy tail?"

This caused the Inu yokai to growl and the Rin and Kagome to giggle, while Sesshomaru smirked in amusement to himself without anyone noticing. A few more minutes of arguing happened between the two canines who would never settle their differences. Kagome giggled thinking how he never got along with any canines. He didn't get along with Koga who was a wolf, or Sesshomaru a dog or Shippo a fox or Hachi the raccoon dog.

'Guess he is one moody pup.'

Everyone looked at her as she smiled nervously, she didn't know she had said it aloud. She wasn't sure what to do and did her back up plan, she yelled 'Sit,' before Inuyasha could do anything. While he was still down she and the three that had decided they would going to the future quickly left the palace before the angry Lord could pick himself up from the crater his former lover caused. The well led the way to the future was nearly a hundred miles away.

Rin had started out traveling side by side with her Mate, while Kagome lead the way with Koga by her side. But now about seventy five miles from the well Rin had replaced Koga at Kagome's side, while he got exiled to walk beside Sesshomaru in the back. Kagome smiled and looked at her friend whose belly was now showing more and more, almost as much as Shiori. Kagome's expression started out as a smile but descended into a frown as she spaced out looking at the belly that safely held another innocent life, 'I won't let what happened to Shiori and her baby happen to Rin and her-.'

"Kagome?"

The mention of her name cut off her thoughts, Rin smiled looking at her friend and waiting for a response. The name had jerked Kagome out of her distant thoughts and her attention back on her younger friend "Oh, um sorry. I-I just spaced out a bit. I'm such a ditz."

Rin smiled and let a giggle leave her mouth as she looked at her friend "What is a ditz?" Kagome laughed as well reminding herself that she needed to kick this bad habit of using future words and phrases that no one understood but her, "A Ditz, is a word from my era. It means I have too much on my mind and can't focus." Rin nodded and smiled as she understood "I like your funny words, like Ditz." The wolf priestess smiled as she sighed and looked up at the sky it was dusk and the sun would soon sleep for the night "When I use words like that it reminds me where I'm from, it keeps my old home close to my heart." Noticing her friend's somber mood Rin nodded and smiled sadly "Yes, I know what you mean. I remember my life back in the village with my family, those happy days so long ago. I hold those memories close. But if I had to choose to live in that village with my family or live the life I have now… I would pick this life. Even though Sesshomaru and I haven't been agreeing on a lot."

"Like this trip?"

Rin's face formed a pout as she glared daggers ahead on the path "Yes, Always acting like I'll break or something. I'm pregnant. Not glass!"

"It is my duty to protect my Mate and my heir," Sesshomaru said with little emotion.

"I agree with Lord Fancy Pants over here."

"Koga."

"Kagome, you have to understand his side of it. Don't just side with Rin, cuz she's a girl."

"Koga it's none of our business stay out of it," Kagome scolded.

With that the group once again fell into silence the women were at odds with their men both for their own personal reasons. Koga was wanting a family and believed he had nothing to fear if his Mate were pregnant. Kagome told him it was stupid to even consider children at this point, with the constant threat of Naraku. Koga's argument was there will likely never be peace and if they wait for it, they will be waiting forever. His argument also included how Shiori and Rin were pregnant and despite the risks they were having children, Kagome fought saying it was her body and her right. The two had been fighting on and off for a couple of days, Kagome would lie if she said she didn't want children at this moment too… but the time wasn't right, but instincts were driving their parenting drive into overdrive. Kagome just had a better control of them than Koga.

Rin's matter with Sesshomaru was more on hating how much he was overprotective and caring lately. She couldn't lie and say she doesn't understand, but she has always been in danger. Now is no different the only difference is their is a child, but she wouldn't be any safer locked away in a tower than she would being by her Mate and traveling in the open. One thing she learned was enjoy every day like it was your last, dying twice she knew that lesson better than anyone. Another lesson was what Naraku wants…

Naraku's going to get.

The group walked to a small clearing and they set up camp with the sun down it would be unwise to travel through the woods at night. Everyone did their part to quickly set up camp, they would be returning to traveling as daybreak. Kagome went to gather wood with Rin's help they also managed to find several close by wild and safe mushrooms to eat, as well as a few berries too. Koga took his sword and stated he was going to find some meat, he came back shortly with three rabbits. Sesshomaru took a little longer with his given duty, he looked for any possible threats and destroyed them. This included a close by snake demon and a few ogre demons looking for a late night meal. After setting up a fire, Rin went to cooking the rabbit that Koga had caught and the mushroom and berries she had found. Sesshomaru sat against a tree trunk one leg stretched out and the other pointed, he closed his eyes feeling relaxed.

This reminded him of how he and Rin had traveled in the past with Jaken and Ah Un. He opened his eyes when he heard grass beside him crunch under someone's feet, Rin kneeled beside him handing him some raw rabbit meat. He looked up at her and shook his head "You need to eat more than I." A pout grew on her face at his rejection "I eat enough to fill myself. What I really need is for you to eat, you want to protect me right? How can you do that if you don't eat?" The series of questions made him narrow his eyes and raise his left brow "You doubt my strength to protect you?"

"I do if you don't eat."

Sesshomaru refused to let the growl his inner beast was creating to leave his throat as he accepted the meat and ate it in haste. Not long after eating he closed his eyes again, Rin left after he ate the meat and went to cook her own meat and have some berries and mushrooms. After eating she rejoined him and asked if he would escort her to a place to bathe. He of course didn't deny his Mate her request to cleanse herself, he escorted her to a small spring and watched as she scooped up some water to drink before disrobing and entering the water. She dove underwater and came back up to see her Mate sitting against a tree looking uninterested. A frown formed on her face as she summoned up her courage to speak "Um… Sesshomaru?"

"Hn."

"Won't you join me?"

"This Sesshomaru doesn't require a bath at the moment."

She casted a glare in his direction and mumbled "Fine. Smell then." She sighed and looked down at her belly 'Doesn't he like me anymore? Is it because I'm fat?' Rin submerged again and came up to see her Mate gone, fear struck her as tears wanted to fall 'I hate how sensitive I've become. I thought pregnancy would be fun… but it's not. I'm moody and such a bother.' She sunk back in the water and held her breath under the cool liquid as she hoped it would absorb all her emotions and take them away. After coming up for air she felt something behind her and as fear spiked in her she noticed the clawed hands that were on her belly belonged to one man. A smile grew on her face feeling a strong pair of arms pull her close and lips by her ear whispered "I Sesshomaru do not smell." A giggle left her sweet mouth and a smirk grew on his firm lips the two both knew one thing, the love they had was still there. Rin and Sesshomaru rejoined the campsite holding hands as all between them had seemed to be forgiven.

Kagome and Koga were fast asleep cuddled up against one another, it seemed they two were made up. A smile remained on Rin's face as she too cuddled up against her Mate and closed her eyes, 'Tomorrow is going to be a good day. A fresh start, our fighting behind us and a new peace between each other.

Sango laid asleep, she had been struggling for hours to awake. She was awake in her mind, but her eyes were refusing to open and her body refused to move based on her will. Her ruby red eyes finally fluttered open, they made quick work to scan her surroundings. She noticed that she wasn't alone in the room, Naraku in the room as well. He had his back to her but she could tell it was him, their sons didn't have his wavy hair. She attempted to move to sit up and ask him what had happened and why he was here, but she found her body had no energy. At most she could move her arms and neck but that was about it, she wondered why she would be so drained of energy.

'I slept for a while so shouldn't I be full of energy.'

Naraku turned around and Sango's scarlet orbs locked onto what was in his arms, a bundle wrapped in black silk. He looked over at Sango with a smile on his face as he moved the bundle in his arms to the left and then the right in a soft rocking motion, Sango's mind clicked 'The devil child that was within me has been removed. I'm free.' She heard a grunt and her head jerked to a corner in the room where Goru sat cloth was wrapped on his right forearm, Sou had just finished washing a deep cut on his leg which caused him to grunt from pain no doubt. Nori had no shirt and there was an arrow in his shoulder and a trail of blood dripping down his chest with a cut from some sort of blade on his side. Sou had a blue light surrounding his hand and Sango paid no more attention to them and focused back on Naraku and the devil within his arms.

'It must have been an attack, from what though?'

" N-Naraku?" He held a smirk this one was different from any she had seen it didn't seem sinister, but something else. Before she could think too much about it he sat beside her on the bed and spoke with a calm peaceful voice that she only thought Rankasuka possessed "She is beautiful." He moved and lowered his arms to show her the little baby in the bundle. Sango felt her heart flutter as she looked at the being that she had once carried within her. The child was pale as the moon with ruby eyes that matched the rest of Sango's family and dark midnight hair.

Naraku handed the child to Sango, surprised Sango accepted the child and looked at the child in her arms. The child stared up at its mother a smile grew on the child's face as she let out a cooing sound. Seeing her child smile and cooe something in Sango seemed to come alive as tears welled in her eyes and poured down her cheek, 'She's not evil. She's not a monster either. She's so…'

Kohaku opened the door and fell on the ground in a heap, causing all in the room to pay him attention. Sango looked over at him and gasped "Kohaku!" Her mind raced with questions 'He's Alive? He was here? What happened?!' Sou jumped up from tending to Nori and he then tended to Kohaku's injuries, his hand once again summoned blue energy into his palm and began to work on his wounds.

"Sango."

Naraku looked at his Mate and explained "The palace was under attack, and you collapsed. When you were brought here you went into labor, Sou thinks the attack caused you enough stress to have you go in labor. You went into labor but refused to wake up it seemed one of them had attacked you with something to cause you paralysis."

"But Kohaku?"

"He has been here for some time you simply haven't crossed paths with him in your stay here."

"I see."

She looked down at the baby she held she moved her finger under her baby's hand, her daughter wrapped her hand around her mother's finger and made soft cooing sounds. Sango hated to admit it, but she loved this child. Sango felt the warm feeling in her heart, she had thought that when she had the child that she would have feel happiness and would look for a way to escape, or to try and kill it and the rest of her 'Family.' But just the opposite, she loved the child and didn't want to go anywhere. It may seem messed up but right now she felt at home, she had a beautiful happy baby. Her brother was alive and here, her sons had protected her and her Mate seemed just as happy as her with the birth of their daughter.

Sango felt confusion grab hold of her 'What happened to me? Why do I feel at ease here? Wasn't this what I was waiting for?'

Kagome had led her group of four to the well that had started it all before the sun set on the third day.

Sesshomaru carried Rin bridal style after she had mentioned her feet hurting, he set her down on her feet as they both stared at the well. They had both the heard stories about the magical well and it appeared as if it were any other ordinary dried up well. It had vines, some moss and the wood seemed to be rotting and splintering from the damaging wind, and rain it often received. Kagome smiled and walked up to the well and stared at it "It's had a lot of wear and tear it seems. I guess the villagers haven't been taking care of it." She bit her index finger and her thumb drawing a dot of blood from each, she then walked over to Rin and smiled "I'm going to put some of my blood on you, so you will be able to travel through the well. This way I can trick the well in thinking you are me."

She put some of her blood on Rin's cheeks and on her forehead and then utter a short spell, she next copied the process with Sesshomaru and then with her own Mate before turning back to the well. Kagome didn't miss the look Sesshomaru gave her, it was one full of anger. Sesshomaru didn't like the idea of her blood on him. If she had not explained and was not Rin's friend nor his ally she would of died, no one puts their blood on him. He mentally sighed to himself, he had become such a sentimental person these last few years. All credit went solely towards his Mate. Rin looked at Kagome and smiled "So I just jump in?"

Kagome nodded with a smile and then saw Sesshomaru walk towards the well "I shall go first." Rin pouted and sighed "But I asked because I wanted to be the first to go to the other side." Sesshomaru looked at his Mate and spoke again "I believe this is a first for Kagome, it would be better to test it on I rather than you." Rin looked at him hurt in her eyes "But if you get hurt-"

"Rin, trust Sesshomaru and trust me."

"Okay Kagome."

The Lady of the West watched her Mate approach the well he looked down the well with little emotion if any on his face. He stepped on the edge of the well and then he took a careless step into the well and fell down into its he jumped down the well, Rin ran to the edge of the well and looked down to see if her Mate had crossed over to the other side. The well was empty 'It worked.' A smile grew on her face as she thought of the new adventure they would share together, she copied him and jumped down the well. Koga walked over to the well and stepped on the edge as well he turned around and extended his hand to his Mate who smelt of fear and unsureness. She stood there staring not at him or his hand but at the well with a worried look on her face, Koga looked at her confused by her emotions. He put his arm down and stared at her 'Shouldn't she be happy or excited or something?'

"Kagome what is wrong?"

She sighed and looked up at her Mate "I'm afraid." He chuckled and Kagome's head jerked from the well to her Mate, surprise now coated her face "Koga?" He smiled and shook his head while he finished his chuckling "It's just you are afraid now? You became a demon and have led our packs for several years. You have challenged the elders and several males that hold high ranking in the clan. You fought Naraku once and lived. You have done things most people wouldn't dare, but now you are scared. Kagome sighed and smiled at her Mate, he always knew how to make her feel silly and cheer her up when she was in a funk. She walked closer to him so she was just a few inches from the well's edge as she looked up at him, her violet irises locking onto his own ocean blue ones as she confessed her fears "It's just… I haven't talked to my family in about four years. What if they are angry and don't forgive me for leaving the way I did. I mean I just left without any reason. I must have caused them a lot of worry and stress, I had no right to do that. Not to mention I broke my promise to mom that I would always come back. What if they-"

He smiled and grabbed both of her hands with his own, bringing them to his lips before he bent down and kissed each of them "How could you think that? They are your family, and if they are anything like you they are kind and understanding. They will love you and be happy that you are visiting, they will understand more after you explain why you did what you did."

She smiled and felt him pull her towards him, his arms surrounded her as he copied the cool Lord of the West and simply walked over the opening of the well, causing them both to be enveloped in the well's darkness before warm blue spiritual and dark purple demon aura swirled around them. When they came out to the other side Koga jumped out of the well and stood on the wooden floor of the well house. Kagome couldn't believe that was back, that she was 'Home.' Koga smirked when he saw Rin and Sesshomaru standing in a corner of the well house it seemed they had been waiting on the wolf couple.

Kagome didn't fail to notice Rin was covering her nose with her hand with a look of disgust on her face at the same time. Kagome's eyes rushed to check Sesshomaru's face only to find that he had remained emotionless other than his lips were in a finer line than normal. She wondered why they were acting like this then her mind flashed back to Inuyasha's first time and how he constantly complained about the way her era smelt, she wondered why she wasn't smelling it. Only then did she realize that she was still holding her breath, she smiled and let out the air she had been holding in. As the feudal era air left her lungs and the air in this world replaced it within her lungs. She found out why Rin had covered her nose and why Sesshomaru looked less than pleased by her era's scent, Kagome's hands quickly went to try and shield her nose from her home era's scent.

It smelt of dried blood, gunpowder, smog, death and many other terrible smells that burned their sensitive noses. She looked at her Mate, Koga and summoned up all her courage 'Something's not right.' She walked over the well doors and slowly slid the old squeaky doors opened only to reveal an unthinkable scene. Her home that was once full of life and joy, was lifeless and dull. Their old shrine where her grandfather had spent most of his day cleaning and giving small tours to the few guests they would sometimes have, now was crumbling. Half of the shrine building was destroyed leaving a big pile of the materials that had been used to build the shrine, like would, shingles, glass and many others. Her eyes darted over to the house where she grew up only to see the right corner of the first story where the kitchen used to be was gone, then the top right of the second story where her room used to be was entirely gone. Tears began to form in her eyes her home was destroyed, and if her home was destroyed then where was her family?

Kagome's knees buckled under her and she fell to her knees, tears rolled down her cheeks as her head tilted back to look up at the sky. The sky was a dark dingy grey and had no rays of sunlight, Kagome felt hopeful 'Maybe there was an earthquake or something like that. I bet they are staying somewhere else, well guess we can leave and look for them.' With reason in her mind Kagome pushed herself up and ignored the questioning voices of her Mate and Rin. She walked over to the edge of her shrine to walk down the stairs she had descended well over a thousand times before. When she made it to the edge of the stairs she stopped and stared. They were destroyed, and these were the only stairs down the hill. There were huge chunks missing it looked like someone had rolled boulders down the them, breaking and chipping them to where they looked like old ruins 'Doesn't look safe to use them. We would have to use our demonic powers to jump that eight stair gap and if we do that we will cause too much attention to ourselves.'

"K-Kago...Kagome?"

She looked away from the stairs to the city below to see how busy it was and how careful they would have to be to not draw too much attention. Her body frozen in shock and disbelief as her mind informed her they wouldn't have to worry about drawing any attention. Everything below looked just as bad if not worse than her house and shrine. Two words filled her mind 'Mass Destruction.' Her city of Tokyo looked lifeless, it was as if death and war had laid claim all over the city "What happened?" Sesshomaru looked at the city it was different than any city he had seen before, but the sights of ruins before him confirmed what he first thought when he smelt the air.

"You live in a time of war."

She knew it was a question or meant to be one if it were from anyone else, but when coming from him it was more like a fact or statement. One that wasn't true, her era did have their problems and some wars but never in her home country. The wars were mostly in the middle east or around that region, not in her beautiful Japan. Kagome shook her head with tears in her eyes "No, I lived in a peaceful land."

"You were away for four years, Mate. Perhaps war came in that time." Koga said with sadness in his voice, she had told him many stories of her family and her home. It sounded magical to him, but now it's hard to imagine that Kagome could ever come from a place so dark and broken. She sighed and wiped her remaining tears "Maybe we did something that caused this?" Sesshomaru narrowed his eyes and spoke in an emotionless and dull voice "You believe we are responsible?" She nodded answering his question and tried to explain her reasoning better "Yes, maybe we did something that caused my home to change. We call it the butterfly effect in my era, it means if you do something in the past something bad could happen in the future if you're not careful."

"How do you know what to do and what not to do?"

Kagome thought of how to answer Rin's question but couldn't think of a logical answer and so she gave her friend the only answer she could "Only fate knows what the future will hold."

Rin walked over to her friend and gave her a much needed hug, Kagome felt grateful for her friend's kindness and closed her eyes returning Rin's hug. Sesshomaru looked at her Mate and gave the wolf a look that made Koga walk over to his Mate and put a hand on her shoulder and ask "What is our next move?" Kagome thought about the question and turned to look behind her and when she did she saw her house and ran towards it "I got to get a better look."

She ran to huge opening on the first floor and made her way through the rubble and ruins to the stairs, she felt little joy as she climbed the stairs. She remembered how often she was tired her house's stairs, the stairs to the shrine and to her room annoyed her climbing both every day but they also kept her in shape, she wondered if it wasn't for that and her old P.E classes then she probably wouldn't have legs that could walk for miles and miles in the feudal era. She looked behind her to see the other three simply followed behind her by walking in at a normal pace, rather than running with her.

Koga's had stood and watched his Mate as she dug around in the rubble of her old house to get to the the stairs, she climbed to the top and stood on a little spot of floor that was about five feet by three it was the only spot on second floor was left from whatever had caused all this damage. She stared at all the destruction buildings that were still standing where up in flames, while many other buildings were just like hers, crumbling and in ruins, the streets were destroyed and all green life like grass and trees were brown and dead. There were no signs of life other than the distant explosions she saw near Mount Fuji and the area around the mountain's base. She took in a deep breath and her eyes narrowed as she looked in the distance, she turned and quickly ran down stairs. On her way down some rubble fell and she had to dig her way through the fallen debris that had blocked most of the hallway, she hissed when she cut her hands on a pieces of sharp stone and wood. She walked on a stairs and heard something she hadn't heard before…

Hollowness.

She bent down and found a part of the stair that she could move, when she did she realized it was like a secret door she opened it and stared at the darkness inside. She remembered how she used to play hide and seek in it when she was little, but then her mother sealed it, because it was dangerous and having it on the stairs and offered many problems. If someone had been in the hidden room and then someone was on the stairs when the person in the hidden room opened the door then the person on the stairs could be harmed. Kagome found herself ripped from looking into the darkness of the secret cellar, she looked up seeing Koga. Koga had hold of her arm and he had a glare pointed at her "Come on Kagome, try and be more careful. The rest of the second floor just came crashing down and it almost took you with it."

Kagome glared up at him "My family might have been taking shelter in that hidden space." Koga understood her anger and shook his head "If they would have I'm sure as soon as they saw light they would have yelled or said hey or something to let you know they were there. Is there any other place they ma-." Koga stopped talking when he noticed his Mate was gone he looked to his right to see her running towards a small building near the well house, he looked at the Lord and Lady of the West who were just standing there and staring. Like him they were unsure what to do or if they should stop her or not, their mission was to get medical help. But with Kagome being the only one who knows where and how to get it, they would need her. But the Lady of the East didn't seem like she was ready to complete the mission anytime soon, so the three demons just stood and waited.

Letting her feet use their demon speed Kagome sprinted to the storage house when she approached it she noticed the door was barely hanging on the henges. There was dust and dirt every where and many of the 'Precious' items that called her shrine home were no longer on the shelves. Many of the breakables could be found in pieces on the ground while other shelves were barely hanging on along with the few items that managed to stay on the shelf with little to no damage to them. Entering the storage house she looked at the ground and stepped carefully she wore no shoes anymore, living with the wolves she learned she didn't need shoes. She felt much more happy without them, and felt more at peace when she could feel the earth beneath her. Her feet have naturally toughened up, but not enough to where she could walk comfortably on glass and splinters and be fine with it. She looked around the room and saw the three selves still perfectly nailed to the wall, each of the shelves were covered in sutras and held charms that her grandfather had told her warded off demons. She reached out her hand and touched the sutra 'Gramps.'

Koga was standing at the door way "Mate, don't!"

She grabbed the top shelf and pulled when she did she saw it too opened 'Another cellar?' She opened it more and revealed some a few stairs in the darkness, that probably led to an underground cellar. She squinted her eyes to try and see better as she ignored her worried Mate's words. Before she could comprehend what happened next she stared dumbfounded with paper on her forehead, she crossed her eyes to look at her forehead and next she heard in a very hoarse voice "Demon…" a cough echoed and then a wease followed as the speaker finished "B-Be gone!"

Stunned Kagome didn't move as a woman in a in a black long sleeve shirt and a long tan came out with a baseball bat, Kagome noticed the women's clothing was tattered, covered in dust and dirt and had several small blood stains. The woman had several wrinkles on her angered face as she raised the bat back and then let it go swinging at the wolf demoness, before the bat connected with Kagome's head, Koga grabbed his Mate and jumped back setting her on her own feet just outside the doorway of the storage house. Koga turned towards the older looking woman who looked about fifty with brown and grey hair down to her shoulders, she was just a mortal. Anger grew in Koga a mortal tried to severely harm his Mate.

"How dare you try to harm My Kagome! I'll make you pay you worthless wench!"

"K-Kagome?" The tired old woman's voice registered in Kagome's ears, she jumped up back into the storage house not paying any mind to the glass on the ground. She stood in front of her Mate blocking his attack with a counter attack of her own, she stared up at him with tears in her eyes "Don't!" Koga stood there speechless and wide eyed from his Mate. She slowly raised her hands in surrender as she turned around and faced the woman who had dropped the bath. The woman had matted brown and grey hair to her shoulders, her wrinkled, light scarred and sunken in face was stained with soot and dirt. While her clothes that once fit her clung to her skinny, pale, dirt covered and malnourished body. The warm eyes of the woman made Kagome's heart stop as she stared at her and formed a word she hadn't used in years "Mom?" The woman's brown eyes watered as she blinked in disbelief at hearing a voice she had longed to hear for many years "K-Kagome?!"

An old man who had shouted in a hoarse and raspy voice used a long stick to lean on as he struggled to climb the few stairs to where mother and daughter looked at eachother for the first time in years. Kagome stared at he old man who struggled to stand as he had labored breathing, he was just as skinny and malnourished as the woman. He wore an old priest outfit it clung loosely to him, his clothes had many tears and patches to repair the holes made, the shirt that was once white was now a mix of brown and grey. The old man smiled with tears creating muddy lines down his dirt covered face, his lips curved in a open mouth toothless smile as she stared at the girl before him. She was no girl, but a young and grown woman.

Her hair was no longer a raven black that was always free and normally rested on her back. It was now a coal black with beautiful scarlet red stripes that reminded him of a summer rose, accompanied with stripes of dazzling electric blue and tied up in a high ponytail going to her midback. Her skin once pale was now a healthy peachy tan from long hours in the sun. Her once chocolate brown eyes were now a pair stunning violets. She had once been shorter than her mother and now she was a few inches taller, she had strange red markings. Her markings were a pair of single red stripes on each cheek and a circle on her forehead with a stripe pointing down between her eyes.

She wore snow white leg warmers that reached up to her knees and had red strings to tighten them, she had a white priestess shirt with a short mid thigh length red skirt. Covering her shoulders and back was a night black fur pelt that acted like a cape, a red obi was tied around her waist hiding where her shirt and skirt met. In her obi there was a beautiful sword nestled in his sheath, over her right shoulder she wore her archery bow and quiver holding around fifty excellently hand crafted arrows. The demon before them smiled and when she did they both saw her small fangs "Gramps."

Tears pricked in her eyes as she opened her arms and hugged her mother and gramps in one big loving bear hug. They stood there stiff at first unsure if they should hug back, they were both weary it could be a trick. However both family members returned Kagome's hug, tears ran down all of their cheeks

'Their scent makes me sick...'

Kagome slowly pulled away from her grandfather and mother, they looked like they had endured this destruction. But they appear to have survived through whatever happened here, however it seems they have suffered a great deal as well. Her nose scrunched up in displeasure at their scent entering her nose, she felt guilt when she looked at them. They only looked at her with love in their eyes while she scrunched her nose in disgust.

'They smell like...'

Tears fell from her eyes as she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked over her left shoulder and saw her Mate. She had nearly forgotten he was here but remembering that he, her two friends were here gave her much needed comfort as she finished her thought.

'They smell like, Death.'

Kagome's mother looked at the group and trusting her daughter she began to walk back down the stairs "Quickly come in, we can't draw any attention." Not hesitating Kagome nodded and turned towards Rin and Sesshomaru "Hurry you two." She turned around and slowly made her way down the stairs helping her grandfather down each step, Koga, Rin and Sesshomaru followed shortly after. He made sure to close the hidden door of shelves, and darkness surrounded all of them for a few short minutes before light appeared. Kagome and all her friends had stopped on the stairs as their eyes soon adjusted to the one light glowing in all the dark. Kagome's mom smiled setting the lantern on a small table in the middle of the cellar "Please do watch your step, the last step is a bit tricky." The group made it safely past the 'Tricky' step, Rin had to admit it was narrower than the rest. But all together not that tricky.

Kagome helped her grandfather over to one of the chairs at the table, she then proceeded to help him sit. After that she turned her attention over to her mother who smiled looking at Rin "Are you expecting dear?" Unsure what to do Rin simply nodded, which caused Kagome's mother to smile a smile that mother's only had. A smile of warmth and love of a child, "Please have my seat." Rin shook her head she wasn't sure if she should trust this human or not, Kagome trusted this human and claimed it was her mother but still. Sesshomaru looked at his Mate and spoke in a stoic voice "You need your rest." She turned and pointed a glare at her Mate "Then come help me." He knew she needed no help in sitting, she simply didn't want to be away from his side. He had to admit he felt the same. In an unfamiliar place he wished to remain by her side. Kagome stood beside her grandfather and looked down at him with a kind smile. Koga stood not far from her, he was standing in silent guard to protect her if she needs it.

"Mom are you and Gramps really okay?"

"Yes, you don't need to worry we are safe in here. You are the only ones to even check the storage house. Besides we have what we need in here." Kagome looked around and noticed other than the two chairs and table in the middle of the room, there were two cots in the corner for sleeping but that was it. There was a corner with a bucket that made the room smell. In the opposite corner there was a pile of cans and bottles of water. It looked more like a prison rather than a safe place.

"What happen to the city and to our home, just what is going on around here?" Her mom lost her smile as she walked over to the corner and got a bottle of water she picked one up and decided on how to answer her daughter's question "There was a man, he was a very famous and respectable ceo. I remember it was a friday and gramps and I were watching the talk show that he was going to reveal his latest achievement in his company. But he revealed something that changed the world… He-"

Gramps cut off Kagome's mother and finished the story quickly "He was a demon in disguise."

Kagome was surprised by what she had heard, as far as she knew there were no demons in the era she was born in "What really?" Her mother nodded and before she could speak, the old man spoke again "Many people were horrified at learning about demons living among us. We however convinced a few of our friends and neighbors that demons were not all bad, we told them about how we knew a friend of your's that was a demon. We told them that he was moody, rude and stupid, but he was still kind an-" A tickle in his throat wouldn't let Gramps continue, he brought the bottle of water to his lips and drank it slowly.

Kagome's mother smiled and took a deep breath knowing she would finish the story "Sadly many were upset and angered and many would have protests outside of demon companies, houses and even schools where demon children attended. Some places became human only places and with all our separations it's no surprise the soon demons and humans became violent with each other. The news every morning and night would show crimes like murder and rape that both demons and humans committed against one another. About a month or two there were large mass killings of demon children and human children in schools and this triggered enough hate on both sides to plunge Japan into a civil war between humans and demons."

Rin couldn't believe what she was hearing this place was worse than the feudal era, she remembered how Kagome spoke of her era knowing peace and harmony among their people. Feeling fear and homesickness bubble within her she looked over at her right to see Sesshomaru standing there, she timidly reached out and grabbed his hand. She soon felt his fingers curl around hers as if knowing how she felt, she looked up at him with a worried smile on her beautiful lips. Sesshomaru ensured his Mate that he was here and she would be safe with him, she nodded as if understanding his silent promise.

Kagome's mother looked at her daughter and smiled happy that her daughter wasn't home when their home was attacked by angry demons, who believed their shrine keepers were an active priest and priestess "Kagome, where have you been?" Feeling guilt nearly drown her she sighed and began to tell them of what had happened, she tried to keep it short and simple for them.

"Well we were hunting small demons here and there when he stumbled upon a injured Sesshomaru and his young ward Rin. We took care of him since he was a friend and Inuyasha's older half brother, his ward Rin was just a small human girl and he had hid her in his fur. When they were back to being healthy Rin was a demon and we had all thought it was crazy and impossible. But a not long after accepting it something happened to me and my friends. Kikyo's spirit visited us in our dreams. I saw her and dad… But in our dreams we all found out that we have demon blood within us though it was almost non existent anymore. But Kikyo activated it like a switch and when we woke up we were all demons and not only that we had had new duties that tore us apart."

"Wait what friends of yours? And where Inuyasha?"

"Um well I told you about Sango the demon slayer before and Miroku the monk, and you all met Inuyasha. But they were all turned into demons too. Inuyasha is now a full Inu Yokai and rules over what was once his mother's lands, known as the Central Kingdom. Sango became a celestial being and the ruler of the celestial beings in North. Miroku was changed into a dragon demon and he rules the lands in the South with his wife Shiori who right now is very ill and that's why we came here. We needed medicine for her."

"Okay that tells us about them but what about you? Are you ruling with Inuyasha?"

Koga seemed to stiffen uncomfortably at hearing how her mother knew Inuyasha and assumed that his Kagome would enjoy and choose to rule beside the dog. He knew that Kagome had loved Inuyasha and if she had chosen to rule with Inuyasha then he wouldn't have became her Mate. Kagome smiled apologetically at her Mate "No, Mother. I am a wolf demon and a priestess, so I rule the East and over all the wolf clans with my Mate. Mom this is Koga, he is my Mate." The older woman looked at the man who was very tan with bright blue eyes. He looked similar to her daughter, with a high ponytail and he wore pelts of fur and had a tail. She smiled and bowed her head in greeting, he was surprised and returned her greeting with a nod and did the same thing when the old man greeting him with a bow. Rin smiled and bowed her head and introduced herself "I'm Rin and my Mate Sesshomaru and I rule the West."

Gramps sighed and shook his head "I can't believe we are descendants of wolves, it should have been documented. I can't believe that it's in none of our shrines history books." Kagome couldn't help but giggle at her grandfather worrying about something so small when the world was in a civil war of species, "It was left out gramps. So where is Souta? Don't tell me he joined the war to be a hero?" He looked saddened at the mention of his grandson's name "Kagome."

Please stay tune, I'm afraid I'm add a few more Chapters but they are worth it trust me.