It's been seven years since Kagome fell down the well. Seven years of trying to defeat Naraku. Now the Kamis have placed her under the protection of Sesshomaru. What happens when he is forced to train her in the art of war? Will the kamis' plan to use the two to defeat Naraku work? Or will the world be plunged into a never ending darkness? SesshXKags paring.

A simple request made by his youngest daughter gets a merchant into a sticky situation - displeased with his actions, the hideous lord of a cursed castle demands his life as payment. The merchant pleads for mercy - and the lord agrees to spare his life if he gives him his daughter instead... (feudal era, different setting)