Disclaimer: see last chapter ::sigh::

Author: ^_______^ im sooooo happy!!!

Shippo: Why's that?

Author: a lot of people agree with me on my theory and they like my last chapter

Kirara: mew!

Sango: PERVERT!!! ::smack::

Author: -_- wondering when that was going to happen

InuYasha: stupid monk

Author: Alright I'll get to typing away and now im very happy though please do not be disappointed if it's not as long as my other chapter. The last one just needed more explanation and besides I'll really try to get up to at least six pages promise!!!!!

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darkrose2006: thanks for your review!!! For the story maybe...maybe not ^_~; I got that idea or more of a hint of that when I was watching "Back/Return to where we first met" ^_^. And yes I hope that happens because they need to inherit the ears I mean ::thinks of little ears:: awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!*

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Kagome nudged the door open with her toe and shifted the trunk in her arms so she would be able to back up and close the door.

'What would be in this thing that's so darn heavy!'

She dropped the trunk onto her bed and sat down next to it. She ran a hand along the side of the weather hewn trunk and couldn't help but smile.

'Wonder what it has in store for me?'

She absent-mindly rubbed the prayer beads between her fingers and her palm as she unlatched the trunk and let it creak open. The scroll was near the front part of the trunk and she found odd packages in yellowed rice paper. There was a weird box like package near the top, she carefully picked it up and unfolded the package. There she saw was a mini-shrine, it had a weird aura to it as if held some mystical emblem or a power in it. She suddenly felt an urge to take the Shikon No Tama off and place it on the stand. It fell perfectly on the wood, the chin wrapped around two solitary wooden posts and the actual Jewel fell neatly about a inch off of the wooden base. Kagome smiled and placed the stand and the Jewel securely in her lap as she rummaged more through the trunk.

There was a bigger, and heavier, package that felt of fabric. She unfolded that paper to reveal a priestess kimono of white and dark blue. She smiled and was thankful that it wasn't red or white like Kaede's or Kikyo's. She ran her palm over the heavy yet light fabric and placed it next to the trunk.

Under the priestess kimono there was a package similar to the other, but it was much heavier than the kimono. She unwrapped that one and found InuYasha's red fire-rat kimono. 'I guess I should have expected that if I found the prayer beads'.

Under that there were little trinkets, sharpened arrow heads, feathers, sticks, and string. She arched her eyebrow puzzlingly as she realized that there was nothing for a sword in here.

'Weird'

Kagome decided to place it in the back of her mind and re-packed the trunk folding each one with ultimate care and with heart, it was like she was touching and finding pieces of herself, of her future, of her past, and was happy to accept it.

Kagome yawned and lifted the trunk to the floor right next to her bed. She leaned back and buried her head in her soft pillow.

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Kagome cracked open her eyelid and heard muffled yelling from downstairs. It sounded like Grandpa and Mom to Kagome. She moaned and got up from her very comfortable and soft bed to breakup the fight downstairs.

She walked out the door and closed it behind her hearing her grandpa yelling like he caught fire.

"HOW COULD YOU SHOW HER THE TRUNK? I PUT A SPECIAL SPELL ON IT FOR A REASON!"

"Dad calm down, she needs to know!" Kagome's mother replied calmly to the upset elder.

"WE DECIDED TO TELL HER WHEN SHE COULD TAKE IT!"

"She's taking it fine! Actually better than I thought she would but..."

"STILL IT ISN'T EXACTLY SOMETHING YOU ADAPT TOO IN ONE DAY!"

"Then let's talk to her!"

"Mom?" Kagome said asked uncertainly wondering why they were having that much of an argument.

"Kagome! I'm sorry dear, did we wake you?" Mrs.Higurashi said smiling at her daughter.

"I'm fine but why are you and grandpa arguing?" she asked walking towards her mother.

"I told your grandfather that I showed you the trunk and he got upset" she said still smiling.

"Why?"

"WHY?! I'LL TELL YOU WHY! YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT IT UNTIL YOU WERE READY?!"

"No need to shout gramps" Kagome said her eyes slightly narrowed with annoyance.

He didn't reply but gritted his teeth and started muttering to himself about "not enough time" and "hasn't she considered the family?!" and so on and so on.

Kagome sighed bitterly, a headache beginning to start within her skull. "What I so wrong about me seeing the trunk?"

He looked at his granddaughter hard in the eyes "that trunk is the balance of this family! If you know about the trunk too soon or too late then the balance of this family can be thrown off balance! It's like if the Sacred Tree was never planted or kept from destruction and for all we know, thanks to you mothers actions! Our lives are in all danger now!"

"No its not" Kagome said firmly "right now in the past everything in fine, we finished collecting the jewel grandpa and we destroyed Naraku like history intended! This if fate and Mom did the right thing in telling me about the trunk for I was deciding were I should remain-the past obviously!" Kagome's Grandpa interrupted her. Kagome smiled at him and for some weird oddness....she was reminded of InuYasha.

'Alright! That trunk is getting to my head!'

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Kagome walked back upstairs to her bedroom tired, her shoulders slumped. She wanted to take another nap before she prepared for her early morning leave tomorrow but she bumped into her little brother.

"Hey sis, why were Gramps and Mom yelling like that?!" he asked staring at the foot of the stairs from which the argument took place with wide eyes.

"Very long story Souta" she replied tiredly.

"Is it because you saw the trunk?"

"So you know?" she asked her eyes erasing the signs of tiredness.

"Yep! I....kinda heard you and Mom talking earlier.....Ain't it great sis?! Now I can have InuYasha as my brother!!!" he cheered.

Kagome sighed yet again 'just how many people know about this trunk and my relationship with InuYasha?!'

She left her brother to parading around the hall happily and closed the door to muffle his cheers. She climbed back on her bed and let her face hide in the pillow. She closed her eyes and then realized that she couldn't sleep anymore. She looked at her backpack that he mom must have brought up while she was taking her nap and went to it. She reached inside pushing her heavy textbooks and scraps of paper aside before finding the yellow paper- back copy of "The Demon and The Priestess". She picked it up and sighed heavily.

'Better than being bored I guess...'

She propped up her pillow against the head of her bed and flopped down on the mattress. She opened the book and smelled dusty pages and a bit of water stain from the cover of the book. She skipped over the foreword since she already read it in class and opened to chapter one...or as the book called it...Scroll one.

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A young woman sat on the green field, the wind playing with her hair. She smiled at the little children ran around her in a game of tag under this mothers watchful eye. There was an even amount of children, three boys and three girls all of different ages under the age of five autumns. One girl was the smallest and the odd one out; she was best friends to this family and was an eyeful to those of no open eyes. She was short indeed only coming up to ones knee and the weirdest thing of her was that she had dog ears! Two cute soft black triangles sat on top of her head and was currently being chased by a tall boy in green monk's robes. "Come and get me Yutoku!" she yelled playfully as she ran in a blink of an eye down the hill then up it again.
"Hey no fair!" he yelled. He was only but five autumns but kept tripping over his own robes. "We are not all like you ya know!" the mother laughed as she heard her son yell this to the little dog-eared girl. "You sound of your father!" she said standing up.
"I'm bored" said the little girl walking up to the boy's mother. "Your mother will collect you as soon as she's done with the village and your father will be back soon with Moteamasu, Kichona" she said as she laid back on the hill side. "I can't believe Father took Moteamasu with him to train when I'm stuck here!" she said letting herself flop down not noticing the twitch in her sitter's eye.
The other five children continued running around and wrestling each other but not hurting each other. "Would you like to hear a story since you're so bored?" the sitter replied. Kichona sat up and looked at her sitter in the eye seriously her eyes narrowed, trying to look but a little menacing. "Ok" she replied.

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"KAGOME! SUPPER!" Souta called up the stairs causing Kagome to come out of her trance that the book made her go into. She sighed sadly, wanting only to just conquer the first chapter but haven't even gotten past the first "Scroll". She slipped a tissue from her tissue box on her desk in-between her pages and put the box on top of her trunk and ran downstairs to find a steaming bowl of Oden and two Rice Balls on her reed plate. She sat down in front of the low table and picked up her chopsticks, very happy at the site of her favorite food. She thought about the book and its opening, finding it kind of ironic that the little had dog ears. She barely noticed her grandfather running on with another story and her little brother trying to get her attention.

"Kagome, dear, why don't you go up to bed? You did finish your food" she said smiling at her daughter who had a glazer to her eyes in deep thought and was circling her brightly patterned bowl that laid on her reed plate. Kagome pulled out of her thoughts and blushed as she nodded and placed her bowl and reed plate next to her sink and turning on the tap starting to rinse off her bowl.

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"RING!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kagome's clock went off pulling Kagome out of her dream. She sat up and stretched her arms and back. She immediately ran downstairs and grabbed a slice of toast before running back upstairs and pulling out her yellow backpack. She changed into her white and green school uniform before throwing her First Aid kit, extra clothes, spare food her mother gave her the day before, her brush, soap, shampoo, and a extra pair of shoes before latching the pack shut. She opened her trunk and sifted through it just to make sure she had everything. She saw the Jewel glimmering on her desk and smiled sadly as she took it off the stand and slipped it over her head. She placed the stand gently into the trunk before securing the lock yet again.

"Ready?" Kagome heard her mom say as she clicked the key-less lock closed. Kagome straightened and saw her mom in the door way looking at her daughter fondly.

Kagome stared at her mom in the eyes before approaching her and hugging her, letting small tears run down her cheeks.

"I love you darling and I will till the day I leave this world. I still believe in your choices my dear girl please know that" she hugged her daughter just as tight back "no matter what happens you'll forever be in my heart, and in your brothers and your grandfathers.....please tell me you'll remember this talk".

A look of confusion passed over her face before she went back to normal "I will mom.....I will"

Mrs.Higurashi helped Kagome carry the heavy trunk and the humorously large backpack down the stairs. She saw her little brother run up to her and hug her quickly before he smiled broadly "have you and InuYasha ne-chan (brother) visit soon!".

Kagome smiled and ruffled her little brother's hair, her grandfather approached with a weird necklace. He lifted it and settled it on her neck, its string was much longer than the Jewel's, and there was a small clear teardrop jewel at the end. He looked his granddaughter in the eye and hugged her tightly which she returned with but a little difficulty because of her backpack.

"Take care of yourself and let the god's be with you"

"It's not like I'm going to be gone forever Gramps" she replied yet returning his hug.

They all accompanied her to the well house standing at the balcony watching Kagome walk down the stairs, the heavy in front of her causing her to hunch over a little bit. With a huff she rested it on the ledge and sat next to it herself with a hand behind it, ready to push it in. she turned to her family and saw them all smiling and she was pretty sure she saw her mother's eyes glisten with tears, they were waving and she returned it, smiling at them all, eyes filled with love. She pushed the trunk while slipping off the edge, she closed her eyes out of habit and re-opened them but there was something different. Instead of the dark blue and the light blue mixed, there was purple and pink mixed. Her eyes widened a little thinking there was something wrong, but then she felt a little lurch in her stomache and she landed on all floors with her trunk next to her. She was breathing heavily still scared of the new color to the timeline.

"Kagome?!" she heard a familiar voice yell.

"Down here InuYasha! Pull me up would ya?" she said as she picked up the trunk and wrapped the vine around her arm gripping the shiny smooth natures rope and felt InuYasha pull her up like she was a bucket of water from the well.

She let go of the vine and through the trunk over before pulling herself over and rolling over the edge. She looked up and saw InuYasha sniffing the trunk with interest, "What's in here Kagome?" he asked slightly narrowing his eyes at it. Kagome giggled and picked the trunk up "you'll have to wait until later!" she said before running with difficulty to Kaede's hut.

InuYasha blinked "Wait up Kagome!!!"

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Author: wow!!!!!!!!!! Another long chapter!!!!! I feel so proud

Anywho, InuYasha is going to look in the trunk!!! Wonder what he will say!!! ^_~

InuYasha: duh wha- ::author clamps hand over his mouth::

Author: don't you dare ruin it!!!

Also I forgot to mention ~=story so yea ^_^*

Again -__________- my friend Erica, her grandpa died Tuesday at 11:30 Pm. This chapter is dedicated with much sympathy to her and her family as they mourn the loss of a loved one.