Sero Hour

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, but if I ever do I won't write a disclaimer on my next fic. Or a fanfic at all for that matter.

Prologue

WARRING STATES PERIOD, JUST OUTSIDE KAEDE'S VILLAGE

"KAZE NO KISU!" Inuyasha's voice echoed throughout the forest named after him. As the Tetsusaiga crashed to the ground it let loose a blast of energy rocketing towards its target: Naraku. He had acquired all the jewl shards, except for the three in Kagome's posession, and now he had come to claim them.

Everyone was relaxing in Kaede's hut after returning from shard hunting, when suddenly Inuyasha smelled Naraku. Kagome, Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Kirara went off to battle, leaving Shippo with Kaede. They found Naraku in Inuyasha's forest, standing right out in the open next to the Goshinboku. This was the final showdown, and Naraku was in no mood for running this time. No traps, no tricks, no detachments to kill. Just Naraku. And he was ready.

"Inuyasha, your attacks are much too weak for me," he gloated as he rose from the forest floor after taking the blow without much injury. Miroku reached for his prayer beads in hopes of sucking up Naraku in his air void, but Naraku saw this and lashed out, stabbing him with a sharpened appendage and sending him flying.

"Houshi-sama!" Sango cried as Kirara and her rushed to his aid. Naraku launched three appendages at Kagome, two shaped like blades, and one shaped as a hand. Inuyasha could not reach her in time as the blades stabbed her in the shoulder and stomach while the hand grabbed the jar she kept the jewl shards in.

"KAGOME!" shouted Inuyasha as he frantically ran to pick her up from the ground. "Shit, this is bad!" he thought as he looked at her wounds. "She's dying, and we're losing! Shit! Damn! Fuck! How the hell did Naraku get this damn strong?" He looked up just as Naraku devoured the last three jewl shards. "Aww, fuck."

"Kukukukukuuuu… I want to be a full demon, with a power like no other that's never been seen before!" Naraku shouted. Suddenly, there was a blinding light that blocked everything from view, and when it cleared, Naraku just stood there, his baboon skin replaced with an elaborate kimono, and everyone could notice the telltale aura surrounding him.

Kirara leapt at Naraku to tear his throat out, but he merely lifted his hand and blasted him away with an invisible force that made the air ripple around it. That gave Inuyasha an idea.

"Hey, shitstain, how about you try that over here, why don't ya?"

"I am not a fool Inuyasha, I know all about your Bakurryuuha technique," Naraku spat.

Miroku slowly started to unravel his prayer beads, but Naraku heard the sound of them tapping together. "Kazza-" *POW!*

Naraku had merely reached behind his back and fired off another shot of invisible energy. When the dust cleared, however, Miroku, Sango, and Kirara were found unmoving, sourrounded by a green, glowing barrier.

"MIROKU!" Inuyasha yelled. "I'm coming over there to bust that barrier, so just sit tight!"

"The monk cannot hear you, worthless hanyou. Neither can the other two. They are enclosed in a barrier that freezes all time and blocks those inside from the outside world."

"Well then," said Inuyasha as he put on a smirk, "I'll just have to break that barrier then, won't I?" Suddenly the Tetsusaiga began to glow red and Inuyasha got into a running stance. He broke into a sprint and got about ten feet before Naraku blasted the ground in front of him with invisible energy and then shot Inuyasha right in the gut with it. He could feel that he had broken some ribs, and had some troble getting up, but eventually made it to his feet. Then, he looked over at Kagome, and saw her lying in a pool of her own blood. She might not have much left, thought Inuyasha, and then he came to a conclusion.

He slowly sheathed Tetsusaiga, and made a break for Kagome, weaving in and out and dodging as he ran to escape Naraku and his ability to istantly make craters where people once stood. He hardly stopped for a milisecond to pick up Kagome, who had passed out because of blood loss. Inuyasha had a plan: run like his balls were on fire until he reached the well, and then get the fuck out of here. He'd be back to pick up Shippo at Kaede's later.

He made it to the well with Naraku close behind, and he didn't even stop to jump in, he just pulled off a flip and dove in. As he was falling into the well, he looked up to the top and saw Naraku standing on the edge of the well, with his hand outstretched. He saw air ripple around his hand. Then he saw nothing as he began to trancend times.

PRESENT DAY TOKYO: OLD DECREPID WELL HOUSE

He couldn't believe it. He just couldn't believe they lost. But above all, he couldn't believe how much blood Kagome had lost. When he reached the top of the well, he tore parts of his haori to bandage up kagome's wounds. Then, he entered her house. Her family was shocked, and called the hospital and readied the car, but also asked if Inuyasha would like to come. You know that he was going with them no matter what, even if he had to leap from rooftop to rooftop, but to offer to take him withought even reading a desguise? No new clothes? No HAT for christ's sake?!? Whatever… Inuyasha wasn't about to complain and offer to wear one of those head-covering things Kagome made him wear once. He was kind of skeptical about the car, however, but he reluctantly jumed in when his skeptisisim was met by astonished faces from Kagome's mother and brother. This was getting weird.

During the car ride, Inuyasha's fearful face looked out the window and was amazed. There were humans everywhere, as usual, but there was also youkai! Thinking he was just delerious from his horrid loss to Naraku, and the weight Kagome's wounds had on his conscience, and too tired to ask any questions, he took it in stride.

When they reached Kagome's room in the hospital, the doctor said she needed a blood transfusion, but needed a donor. "Ah, you brought a youkai, his blood should be fine." Said the doctor.

"Eh?" was Inuyasha's response.

Mrs. Higurashi wispered something in the doctor's ear and he nodded to her then put something behind his back. "Excuse me please," the doctor said to Inuyasha, "but is that the good year blimp I see out the window behind you?"

"Where is what and the hey now?" said Inuyasha looking behind himself, and then the doctor rammed a syringe full of sedative into his arm and hauled him off to donate blood.

They accidentally used enough sedative to tranquilize a youkai, not a hanyou, and Inuyasha was asleep for three days. He slowly awoke one morning on the couch in Kagome's house, to see Kagome actually watching TV on the floor in front of him. After sneaking behind her and scaring her, a stange silence fell over them. Eventually, she spoke, explaining everything about the new world they were in. It seemed as though the defeat of Naraku was supposed to bring about the destruction of all youkai, which obviously didn't happen. Her first suspicion when she saw a youkai was that Naraku had taken over the world. This was not true, seeing as most people and youkai alike didn't even recognise Naraku's name. It seemed as though Naraku just dropped off the face of the Earth after his victory. Youkai and humans interacted harmlessly together, and general peace was found throughout the world.

After her explanation, they went to check on the well, only to find that it didn't work. Naraku must have destroyed it, they concluded. They also found the place where Miroku, Sango, and Kirara were trapped in a barrier, only to find that it had grown a two-foot thick layer of stone over it, making it resemble a large rock. Inuyasha tried his barrier-break attack several times, but couldn't even scratch the rock. Defeated, they trudged inside. When they made it to the living room, Inuyasha noticed something about Kagome. She looked itchy, like she was hiding something, but before Inuyasha could ask about it, she slowly started talking.

"Inuyasha, I have something to tell you…." He knew that. He just wished that she would spit it out. "The doctor said that he did not know you were a hanyou, and that because of this it was dangerous to combind both of our blood. He was right, my genes have…changed. Your blood helped me regenerate my wounds quicker, but it left some lasting effects. The speed in which my body ages has been drastically slowed, meaning my life expectancy has increased. I'll live almost as long as a normal youkai." Okay, he could have waited to hear that.

Kagome suddenly hugged Inuyasha tightly, suprising him. "Inuyasha, I'm scared!" she said, not even bothering to hide the fear in her voice. "I'm scared of what else might happen!"

"It's going to be all right, Kagome." He held her like that for a while until fatigue overtook him. He must have lost more blood than he thought. He closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep with Kagome still in his arms.

YEAR 2045, HIGURASHI SHRINE, TOKYO JAPAN

Kagome finished high school and went on to tend to the shrine. There were no other effects due to Inuyasha's hanyou blood transfer. Two years later (she'd be twenty years old), she married Inuyasha, and in the year 2036 she gave birth to Sero, her son (for you math wizzes, if he was born in year 2036, and it is year 2045, that would make Sero 4). Inuyasha was well known and well respected throughout Japan for being the son of a great youkai lord, and that brought him much satisfaction. They also soon found out that people they knew in the Warring States Era were still alive today. People like Sessoumaru, Toutosai, Kouga, and Jinenji. They were all considered "friends," and while Kouga and Inuyasha have made up, Sessoumaru still retains some dislike for his brother, just not as much.

Inuyasha and Kagome were just enjoying a beautiful day outside when Inuyasha stopped, wide-eyed, and sniffed the air. He caught a familiar scent, a scent he had not smelled in forty-two long years.

"Naraku." he whispered.

"What?!? Said Kagome, astounded.

Suddenly, there was a shriek overhead, and everyone in all of Tokyo looked to the sky to find its source. A gigantic dragon-like creature with wings of bone flew overhead unleashing an earspliting scream. It seemed to be holding a small, circular creature rolled up into a ball. It flew high up in the sky, so high that it was almost invisible, and dropped the strange circular creature, and as the small thing flew towards the ground, it uncurled from its ball and let loose the familiar scream. But if you listen close to this one, you can almost make out the word: "INUYASHA!"

When it hit the ground, it exploded, and every living creature instantly evaporated and buildings were blown to pieces. People outside of Tokyo could look on the horizon and see a great cloud in the shape of a mushroom rising from their capitol.

YEAR 2060, TOKYO, ABANDONED SHRINE

Ashley was walking around her favorite spot, an old shrine that was never completely destroyed in the Awakening. She loved its old steps, and its well house that surely had many stories to tell, but what she liked most was the tree. In a time where sadness and fear prevailed, it was wonderous that something so beautiful could exist. It was gigantic, with flowers still blooming on it and a curious bare spot right in the middle of it. She liked to just sit there and imagine what the world around it must have looked like if one tree was this beautiful. A little strange it was, though, that it survived the Awakening. It was also strange that there were never any youkai near the shrine, as if the tree was creating a barrier.

It was getting late, and her father would be worried, so she got up and began to go home, when suddenly out of the corner of her eye she saw a pinkish glow hidden behind some bushes. She went to investigate and found a circular grove of small trees she never noticed before, and in the middle was a large stone. She reached out to it only to pull her fingers away at its touch. "This bolder is…warm!" she said. She then pressed her hands firmly against the rock and focused on the warmth, still not believing it was there.

Suddenly, before her eyes, the rock melted away to reveal a man dressed in robes, a woman in armor, and a small cat with two tails. They all stared at each other until the man spoke with a quivering voice. "Ka… Kagome-sama!"

Then, Ashley countered his question with a clever twist of words and amazing quick thinking: "AAAAAIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

What do you think? Am I going somewhere or should I quit while I'm ahead? The action starts soon, and then the story goes places, so review and give me some feedback here!

BTW: Sero is pronounced "seer-oh," like zero with an 's'.