Chapter 45: Return To The Future

Two days later...

Sesshomaru stood with a heavy heart as he watched his beautiful future mate walk away with her companion Kemae and the other two annoying females... Kagome, sensing his sadness, walked back to him and gently placed her soft hand on his cheek...

" Sesshomaru..." Kagome said smiling warmly, " Please don't be sad... We will see each other again..."

Sesshomaru growled and grabbed her, pulling her into a gentle embrace... Then as she looked up at him, he surprised her by bestowing a gentle smile on her before kissing her one final time before telling her goodbye...

" I hope that I will not have to wait too long, before I can hold you in my arms once more..." Sesshomaru said, his eyes shining with love, " And Kagome ?!"

" Yes?" Kagome asked...

" When I get you in my arms again, I will never let you out of my sight... Understand?!" Sesshomaru growled...

Kagome smiled and kissed him on his cheek, before running back over to where the others are... Kagome had spoken with Kemae earlier, explaining to her that since she became so upset about what Rina had done to her, it had triggered her hidden powers and shot them far into the past...

" How exactly are we supposed to get back?!" Kemae said worriedly, " I'm a little afraid... What if I can't get us back?!"

" Don't worry..." Kagome assured her gently, " Just imagine being in inuyasha's arms and it should lead us back to him..."

Kemae nodded and took Kagome's hands, motioning for Trina and Rina to do the same... As the four of them began to glow, Jaken came running up to Sesshomaru...

" Lord Sesshomaru!" Jaken cried in shock, " Thank goodness I've found you! Who was that human with the long black hair?!"

Sesshomaru was quiet for a while until Kagome and the others disappeared in a burst of power before he answered his vassal...

" The female with black hair..." Sesshomaru said smiling softly, " is my mate from the future..."

Then Sesshomaru left Jaken to stare in awe as he returned to the western palace...

Meanwhile back in the normal Feudal Era...

" Inuyasha! We have to find Kagome!" Shippo said frantically, " That Kemae lady was the one that was mean to Kagome before, right?! What if she hurt her or something?!"

Inuyasha stopped suddenly and grabbed shippo up painfully by the tail...

" Kemae is not evil!" Inuyasha snarled, " She is beautiful and sweet and very loving! She used to not like Kagome, but that's in the past!"

Shippo wasn't convinced, and neither was anyone else... Except Sesshomaru...

" Calm yourself, little one..." Sesshomaru said as he patted shippo's head affectionately, " Inuyasha speaks the truth... The darkness that once resided in Kemae's heart has been obliterated... She indeed has changed..."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, but then they suddenly sensed something very powerful closing in on them... The sky suddenly became dark purple as silver and violet lightning crashed in the sky... The whole gang gasped as they saw two objects suddenly appear and began to fall from the sky... Inuyasha and Sesshomaru both gasped as they realized that it was Kemae and Kagome who had appeared and we're now falling from the sky! Inuyasha ran to catch Kemae as Sesshomaru quickly ran to catch Kagome... When Kemae landed in Inuyasha's arms and Kagome landed in Sesshomaru's arms, both women each emitted such an incredible blast of power that it blew Sango, Miroku, and Shippo several feet away, and incinerated most of the trees, turning them to ash!

" inuyasha! " Sesshomaru said worriedly, " We must take Kemae and Kagome to my castle to recover, as well as Sango, Miroku, and Kagome's pup Shippo... "

" Right!" inuyasha said worriedly, " Kilala is OK, so she can carry Sango, Miroku, and Shippo... "

Just then, the deafening screams of two females sounded and inuyasha quickly put Kemae down so that he could catch the two females in distress... As soon as inuyasha brought the two females safely to the ground, Sesshomaru snarled angrily as his eyes bled red...

" You two!" Sesshomaru snarled darkly, " Your the ones who hurt my mate!"

Trina and Rina cowered in fear as Sesshomaru advanced towards them, his sharp claws glinting in the sunlight... Suddenly, Sesshomaru stopped as a sweet gentle voice sounded from behind him...

" Sesshomaru... " Kagome said gently, " Do not harm them... I'm OK... "

Sesshomaru whipped around to see Kagome bathed in pure silver light, her eyes glittering with love as she smiled warmly at him... In an instant, Sesshomaru was in front of her and swinging her up into his strong arms... He kissed her so passionately that inuyasha blushed as he looked away to give them some much needed privacy... Inuyasha growled at the two females that were sitting on the ground, still shaking as he said in a deep voice...

" Do not wander off... " inuyasha said darkly, " There are a lot of hungry demons who would to devour the two of you... We will return you to your home era soon... "

Trina and Rina both nodded vigorously as inuyasha turned and quickly went back to Kemae's side... Inuyasha then gently picked her up and gave her a nuzzle as a deep rumbling growl emerged from his throat... Kemae's eyes fluttered open and inuyasha gasped in shock... No longer did she have sea blue eyes, but now her eyes were a deep breath taking violet with gold flecks in them! It was stunning! And her hair was a shining strawberry blond instead of the golden blond she had the last time he saw her! Her aura crackled around her as she looked at inuyasha with confusion at first, due to her vision being fuzzy because of how much of her new power she used... But as soon as her vision cleared and she saw who it was that was holding her so gently, Kemae smiled a sweet shy smile as she leaned up and kissed him on the cheek...

" I missed you... " Kemae said smiling warmly...

About two hours later, Sango, Miroku and Shippo woke up and bombarded Kemae and Kagome with all sorts of questions, which they really didn't have the answers to... Much to Sesshomaru's dislike, Kagome and Kemae both asked to return to they're era so that they could rest and so Kagome could restock her supplies... Reluctantly, they agreed, but both inuyasha and Sesshomaru asked if Kemae would like to start traveling the country with them...

" Inuyasha... " Kemae gasped, " Do you really want me to come back here with Kagome?! "

" Yeah... " inuyasha said blushing, " Kemae, your very powerful... If you would agree to it, I'd like to see if we could trace your heritage to see where your powers come from..."

" Yes... " Kemae said smiling excitedly, " I... I felt something strange inside me ever since I was a little girl... I never knew what it was, but I know I shouldn't be alive right now... "

Inuyasha looked at the others before leading her deep into the woods so that they could talk privately...

" Tell me why you think that you shouldn't be alive right now?!" inuyasha demanded as he sat down and pulled her into his lap...

" When I was just a small child... " Kemae said as her memory of that day came flooding back, " My mother and father took me to visit my grandma in North Carolina... She lived near crystal beach... It was named Crystal Beach because of the many types of quartz crystals that were found as you walked along the beach... I remember my parents as well as my grandmother warning me to stay out of the water when the rip tides came in because that was the time of day when the sharks liked to attack... Everyone was allowed to swim until the whistle blew, and then, once the rip tides calmed, the sharks would go back out into deeper water and everyone was safe to swim again... "

" What are sharks?!" inuyasha asked in alarm...

" Sharks are terrifying creatures with black eyes and razor sharp teeth... " Kemae said shaking at the memory, " I was about five years old... I had gone into the ocean to play in the shallows and was collecting the quartz crystals when the whistle blew... Mom, Dad, and grandma all yelled for me to get to the beach, but I refused to listen... I had found a giant golden quartz cluster buried in the sand, and o was wanting to get it before getting out... But when I finally got it out and placed it in my bucket, a rip tide pulled me from the shallows and washed me out to sea... I was sinking into the dark depths of the ocean when a huge great white shark spotted me and swam towards me with its jaws wide open, ready to tear me apart! I kicked as fast as I could until I surfaced about thirty feet from the shore and started screaming for help... The shark surfaced right next to me and began snapping it's jaws, trying to bite me... But each time it got near me, it would suddenly back off... Like something was keeping him away from me... It tried ramming into me several times, but each time, it would stop about a foot from where I was... It was really weird... The shark started to get angry as it increased the ferocity of its attack until what ever it was that was protecting me shattered... It hurt when it did... Mom and dad were in a boat by this time, speeding towards me when the shark grabbed my arm and yanked me under to drown me... I really thought I was going to die... "

" Damn!" inuyasha exclaimed worriedly, " What happened next?!"

" Something inside me burst forth as my fear took over me... When mom and dad got to me, they said there was a big spot about six by six feet that was nothing but blood and they feared that the shark killed and devoured me... " Kemae said as she recalled the vivid images burned into her mind, " But while the shark had me deep under the water, my body suddenly grew burning hot as the shark began to thrash around, trying to rip my arm off... My arm began to glow purple as the burning fire coursed through my veins, then all of a sudden, the shark roared angrily as he let go of me to temporarily to shake off the burning that it felt as well... My arm was bleeding heavily as I tried once again to resurface and get to safety, but the beast grabbed my leg just as I surfaced and gasped in some much needed air... Mom and dad screamed when they saw my arm bleeding badly and kicked they're boat into high gear, just as the shark dragged me down again... My whole body hurt as the burning intensified... I couldn't even feel the pain of the sharks teeth in my flesh, all I felt was the burning white hot pain... I was barely conscious when the shark suddenly let go of me and looked at me with its terrifying black eyes... It was trying to figure out why it got burned every time it grabbed me... It was so frightening... The shark and I stayed like that for what seemed like hours before I finally tried once more to get away and the shark grabbed me again... This time it was my thigh... I squeezed my eyes shut and held my hands up as the shark let go once again and came after me once more, ready to make the killing blow... But it never came... My body was engulfed in a brilliant reddish purple light and then the next thing I know, I was floating to the surface... While I was still under water, I could hear my mom and dad screaming frantically as they continued to search for me... Mom was screaming when the boat came to a stop right above me and when I opened my eyes a little, I could see why mommy was screaming... The water around me was dark red with blood... Then I finally surfaced... Mom screamed at daddy to hurry up and get me before the shark grabbed me again and daddy jumped into the water so that he could haul me into they're boat... Mommy screamed again when the shark surfaced right next to daddy, but it just floated there, it's black soulless eyes staring blankly ahead, like it couldn't even see daddy in front of it... "

" What happened to it?!" inuyasha asked, his eyes wide...

" Daddy tied a rope around it's tail and we dragged it to shore where a doctor who specialized in animals took the shark to her lab to find out why it died... " Kemae said staring off into space, " I was taken to the hospital since I had huge bites taken out of my arm, leg, and thigh... They were trying to stop the bleeding when the doctor that studied the shark came in with a look of pure shock on her face and started asking questions... I didn't understand back then, but I do now... She told me that the sharks insides looked like it ate a bunch of explosives... I was still bleeding a little, but not too bad to where they would have had to manually stop it, so the doctors had reluctantly left me alone with her so we could talk... She kept staring at me like I was an alien or something and I was starting to become very angry... "

" Then what happened?! " inuyasha asked, he was very excited to hear about her powers and he was anxious to learn more about her...

" I got so upset when she started talking about studying me that my wounds reopened... " Kemae said angrily, " My body began to burn again and when I looked at the mirror in my room, my eyes were glowing a deep reddish purple... The animal doctor was terrified, but in awe all at the same time... The monitors that were keeping track of my vitals went ballistic and when my doctors came running in to my room, they said I was floating and my body was glowing... They all looked at me in shock as my wounds knitted back together in front of they're very eyes! When my mom and dad came in to check on me, the doctors told them that my wounds had miraculously healed and mom and dad grabbed me and hugged me... We were about to leave, but the doctors refused to let us... They said I was the key to finding a cure for cancer and things like that... My dad became furious and pulled a gun on them and demanded that they release me... After that, we never went back to that hospital again... "

" Woah... " Inuyasha gasped, " That's incredible! Kemae... Do you want to find out where your powers come from?!"

" Yes... But Kagome and I need to get back and catch up on our school work for a while first... And we also need to get Trina and Rina back home too, as much as I'd love to just leave them here... " Kemae said angrily...

Inuyasha chuckled as he gently nuzzled her neck, causing her to shudder with contentment... After spending a little more time visiting with her, inuyasha helped Kemae to her feet and the two of them headed back to where the others were... After gathering what they would need for the journey, inuyasha, Kemae, Kagome, Sesshomaru, Sango, Miroku and Shippo all began heading in the direction of Kaede's village and the bone eaters well, Trina and Rina were both riding with Sango, Miroku and Shippo on kilala... A short distance away, a priestess with cold brown eyes and long silky black hair silently followed, her hatred burning in her eyes as she watched who was once her half breed lover carry another on his back, the girl with her head resting against his shoulder... Her aura masked and her scent hidden, Kikyo silently upped into the shadows of the forest, her hatred burning as she thought of ways to destroy inuyasha and the new happiness he now possessed... Soon, she would get her revenge...