The Princess of Time

News traveled faster than a blazing fire. The staff of two heads took the messenger towards it master, "Mi Lord! Your loyal servant comes!" After all, knowledge was power, and his Lord liked to be the first to know things, especially when it came to the subject of his half brother, or lack thereof of a half brother. Sesshomaru was often one step ahead because, like his father before him, he had eyes and ears everywhere, willing or not.

Sesshomaru didn't slow down or acknowledge the Imp who was rushing to him. He only gave pauce when he heard the staff laugh, the woman.

"Mi Lord, I bring news about Lord Inuyasha!"

Sesshomaru cast his cold gold eyes toward the Imp who came to a dead halt.

"I have no brother, and he deserves no title. Didn't a human girl seal him to a tree fifty years ago?"

The Imp shifted on his feet. "But, mi Lo- I mean Inuyasha has been set free!"

Sesshomaru turned fully to him, "Freed?"

The Imp shook his head,

From his understanding, the woman who sealed him died the same day she put that arrow through him. Sesshomaru had never bothered with trying to break it, he didnt care enough to try. Besides, his brother seemed fond of humans, so why not let him hang in their foreset. But the seal the Miko place should have held, unbreakable in death.

"How did he escape,"

"A young girl Mi Lord, she freed him!"

"Another Miko?" How odd, why would a Miko free him?

Jaken moved closer. "That's just it Mi Lord; I am told a mere girl just popped out of the bone eaters well!"

Miko's did not come from the well, but demons did.

"A demoness?"

Jaken shook his head "Shes a filthy human Mi Lord,"

Sesshomaru looked away; a human girl freed his brother? While interesting, it was not worth his time, and so he began to walk away.

"Mi Lord where are you going, Inuyasha's forest is that way,"

"Why would go I there Jaken, I am not my brother's keeper,"

"Because me Lord the girl, she holds the Shikon jewel inside her!"

Sesshomaru stopped dead and slowly turned his head to look at Jaken once again.

"She's not from this time, Mi Lord, she seems to have power beyond her control, and the jewel is inside her!" And Jaken had come as fast as the wind could bring him. He knew his master had to be the first to know. "She claims to be 500 years from the future!" Jaken waved the staff around to make his point clear.

"The old Miko claims many demons and human males alike will come for her,"

"Why does she not return?"

"She can't."

Before Jaken could utter anything else, his master was gone. Yes, news traveled fast, but Sesshomaru, he traveled faster. In a matter of minutes, blue light swirled and landed and right in the middle of a meanling fight.

Sesshomaru dispatched the girl made from a demon comb, took out his sword, and pointed it at the wells lip where it came face to face with a girl who had just been previously pushed down.

She gasped looked at the end of the blade before following it up to meet his intense gaze.

"What are you?" He asked,

She blew hair out of her face while hanging from the wells lip "My name is Kagome!" She said as if she had told him a million times before "I'm not Kikyo, I'm not an Imp, and I just want to go home!"

"Where is Inuyasha?"

She huffed, "Do you mind?"

He made no effort to move, so she pulled herself up. "I dont know," She said as she sat on the lip and then looked down the well. When she looked back, the sword was still in her face. "Look, buddy, I have been bitten by a centipede, almost had my head knocked off by dog boy, and I just saw a bird hatch its nest inside of a man's body!"

She took a break and pointed at her face, "And now I have a cut from some girl who was trying to murdered me, and now you!"

She was starting to glow slightly. "Let me guess; you want the jewel well to bad!"

"My power is my own,"

She rose an eyebrow, and he eyed her up and down.

"Um, then what do you want?"

He stepped closer, removing the sword from her face making her lean back. She almost fell, but he reached out a grabbed the shirt she was wearing stopping her fall, but he made no effort to pull her upright "You will mate with me princess of time,"

Knowledge was power, and being the first to know, well, it means you beat your enemies. He wasn't after the jewel so much as he was after her. She may not know it yet, but she was powerful, had knowledge of the future, and together he could claim victory over not only the humans but his whole race.

His house would be feared again; the West would stand once again. Their children, in theory, would be more powerful than any of their ancestors. She was clearly the future of his house, and the jewel that powered her body would also power her womb.

She would be his, willing, or not.