Chapter 2

Kagome reached the other side of the well to be greeted by a very hyper Souta. Souta pounced on a very unexpected Kagome. Kagome fell to the ground in surprise as Dawn came running outside to see what all the commotion was. Spike followed Dawn outside and he plucked Souta off of Kagome. Kagome thanked him and said "Ok we are going to have guests from the Feudal era" "COOL!" Souta yelled as he jumped in the air in excitement. "Anyways" Kagome half laughed. "Most of them don't know about me being the Slayer so I need to keep that part of conversations to a low point. They think there are no demons in this time" "Well I'll" "SPIKE NO" Kagome yelled as Sango and Miroku climbed out of the well, followed closely by Inu-yasha, Emiko, Kirara and Shippo. Kagome smiled as they looked at the scene. "Spike behave" Kagome snarled. Spike shook Kagome off and fixed his jacket. Kagome smiled weakly as Miroku and Sango looked at Spike.

"Ok from left to right. Sango, Miroku, their daughter Emiko, my adopted son Shippo, Kirara and you three know Inu-yasha. You guys this is Spike he is a friend of mine. And this is my sister Dawn and my brother Souta" Shippo made his way up to Souta as did Emiko. "Cool!" Souta said as he looked at Emiko and Shippo.

Sango smiled at Miroku as they watched their daughter make friends. Kagome smiled at the love birds then got back into a mode. "Ok Dawn can you show everybody their rooms. I'm going to be in the basement training" "For what?" Sango asked. "Gymnastics" she said quickly.

Dawn walked beside her and said "Good cover up" Kagome just nodded her and head and said "Thank you"

Dawn picked up the bags with a little help from Spike and they showed Sango, Miroku and Emikos' room. "This is where you will be sleeping. Inu-yasha and probably Shippo will be sleeping in Kagome's room" Dawn said putting the bags in separate rooms. "I'm going to check on Kagome you make sure that they are comfortable or the ring goes" Dawn said pointing at Spike. "We have a miniature Kagome on our hands" he mumbled under his breath. He watched her as she left to go check on Kagome then turned around to see the others. "Are you hungry?" he asked. His tone told them that he was bored but as usual they nodded and asked him "Do you know how to cook ramen?" Spike turned around and said "Who doesn't?" Inu-yasha raised a brow but then shrugged it off. 'In this time almost everybody knows how to cook' he thought as he followed Spike down to the kitchen.

Dawn opened the door to the basement and came down. She watched Kagome throw a few punches at the punching bag then came all the way down stairs. "Nice cover up Kagome. At least Sango, Miroku, Shippo, Kirara and that Emiko girl won't suspect anything" Kagome sighed and looked over at Dawn "Let's hope they won't but something tells me that something big is about to happen here" Dawn looked at her than asked attentively "Will it be worse than the Master?" Kagome looked at her and shrugged "Probably but I guess we will just have to wait and see" Dawn nodded and then looked at Kagome. "Let's go upstairs. I here Spike is going to try and cook" Kagome laughed "I have to be there for that" Kagome took her punching gloves off and followed Dawn up the stairs.

Kagome came into the room and laughed. "So Dawn is right. Spike is attempting to cook" Kagome was at the point of bursting in laughter but held the urge to in. Spike looked at her in a menacing way and said "Everybody can cook instant ramen" Kagome now started laughing. Sango and Miroku looked from Spike to Kagome seeming awfully confused. They looked at Inu-yasha who was trying so hard not to laugh but they could see the joy dancing in his eyes.

Kagome then went up to Spike and whispered in his ear "Even a vampyre?" Spike gave Kagome a death glare and retorted quietly so as nobody could hear them "Yes even a vampyre can cook" Then Kagome backed off and said loudly so as everybody could here "I've never see you cook before Spike. I won't be surprised if the ramen burns" Kagome's smiled didn't fade but it turned into a smirk, one that no one but Inu-yasha, Spike and Dawn had seen. Inu-yasha shook his head and said "You know Kagome is right I've never seen you cook but hey who knows" "Inu-yasha" "Yes my dear Kagome" he said politely, which was so unlike him. Kagome laughed and came up to him.

"You know about the party tonight right?" she asked hoping that he would get the hint. Inu-yasha looked up questionably but then got the hint after a second. "Ya are you going tonight?" he asked hoping she wouldn't. "I have to all my friends are expecting me" Inu-yasha sighed and said "Well I'm coming too" "And me" Sango piped in and Miroku raised a hand saying "Don't forget about me" "You can add me to the list" Spike agreed not helping in one bit. Kagome looked at Inu-yasha for support on making sure they wouldn't go but there was no success. "And don't forget me" Shippo said Kagome looked at Shippo than bent down. "Shippo I need you too stay here and take care of Emiko for Sango and Miroku. Don't worry Souta and Dawn will help you" "Why can't I come?" "Because your still too young now take Emiko and run along with Souta to the park alright?" Shippo nodded and took Emiko's hand. They followed Souta out of the house so Kagome could have a somewhat private talk with the rest.

Kagome sighed and said to Spike "If you going to take that ring off I suggest not in the sunlight" Spike looked at the ring and then saw he was directly in front of a window. "Right" he said and moved away from the window but the sun was still touching his skin. "Kagome" he cried and Kagome rolled her eyes. "Sango, Miroku can you shut the blinds on that side? Inu-yasha will show you how and Dawn and I will shut them from this side" They shut the blinds so Spike could take the ring off. He took the ring off and put it in his pocket. "You should be glad I let you keep that ring" Kagome retorted as Spiked looked at her with a death gaze. Kagome rolled her eyes and said "Ok Inu-yasha, Spike, Dawn and I have some explaining to do. I didn't want you to get involved but since I fear something big is coming up, I will probably need your help. Anyways in or time we have a thing called The Slayer. In each generation a girl is chosen to fight against the vampyres and the forces of darkness. I am the Slayer and Spike over here is a vampyre but he has a soul so he's good now.

When I said I was going to a party I meant go on patrol. Every night I go to the grave yard and fight a couple of vampyres hear and there maybe some demons. Anyways the reason I think that I will need your help because I'm seeing dead people. One of the dead people I saw earlier today was my father. The next person I saw was Angel. Now for those who know Angel might agree that with him I might be an easy target but I've gotten over him and I now have a mate who is sitting in this room, Inu-yasha. Dawn might now know Angel but if she does than she does. Anyways I killed him to save the world so it was for a good cause." Spike looked at her with the 'Ya right' look and she scowled at him. "Anyways Angel was my first boyfriend. He like Spike was a vampyre. We had a relationship that lasted for a couple of months. Well he had a curse on him. He also had a soul but if he had one moment of true happiness than his soul would be gone and his evil side would kick in. Well he opened a portal to hell and the way to close it was to kill him. It was the only way so I did. I fretted about it for sometime but I got over it quickly" Kagome looked at a shocked Inu-yasha. He didn't really know much about Kagome's past and now she was giving them some of the information about a sad past.

"My father I did know well. When I woke up on the day of my eighth birthday I found him dead. With a knife in his hand and a hole where his once beating heart was." Kagome looked down on the ground. "We had a police investigate the crime but from what they could tell it was suicide. No police officer would look deeper into the case. Dawn and I cried for months at a time. We stayed with our mother for as long as possible" "What do you mean as long as possible?" Miroku cut Kagome off. Kagome looked at Dawn who nodded for her to continue. "Well she had something called a brain tumour. Souta won't remember this he was only five at the time. Anyways a brain tumour is something that affects your brain and you may die from it. You also can have it removed but most of the time the surgery would go wrong and kill the person having it done. Our mom got the surgery done but she didn't live through it" Kagome was still looking at the ground. Her bangs were covering her tear stained face but Inu-yasha smelt the tears.

He went over to her and pulled her into an embrace. Spike did the same to Dawn and that made Kagome wonder. She pulled away from Inu-yasha but not far enough to stop his hold on her. "Since when did you two get together?" Kagome asked with widening eyes. Dawn giggled and looked at Spike who said smugly "About a month ago" Kagome gave him a death glare and replied "You better not do anything to harm her or I will personally go after you and kill you with my bare hands" Kagome threatened Spike lifted his hands like he had been caught be the police "I won't I swear" Kagome sighed and fell back into Inu-yasha's warm embrace. She smiled and then looked up at Inu-yasha's handsome, golden face. He smiled down at her and lifted a hand, slowly caressing her cheek. Her smile relaxed a bit more as she felt the world around her crumble so only her and Inu-yasha where there.

Then a voice came from behind her "Kagome you wretched thing. I never liked you as a daughter. You misbehaved and you where always dirty no matter how many times a bathed you. The dirt went into you blood making you a dirty piece of shit for the rest of your life" Kagome broke away from Inu-yasha and turned around to see her mother standing right in front of her. Kagome shook her head looking up and down at the image. "You are not my mother" Kagome's teeth were clenched when she said this but her mom shushed her before she could say more. "I don't think you want to talk because everybody will think you've gone crazy or have you forgotten only you can see me" Kagome's expression darkened but she still said nothing.

Inu-yasha looked around and saw nothing. It was like they were back in the forest again. Him wondering what the hell is going on? Kagome talking to an invisible person.

Kagome looked at her "mother" and her eyes narrowed. She turned away and looked back at a very confused Hanyou. The she looked around the room to see faces staring confused except for Dawn. "And you Dawn" it said looking at her with malice "You leave her out of this" Kagome sneered. Her mother looked at her and said with a smile that didn't belong on her face "And what will you do about it freak. Yes you are a freak I mean why in all of heavens why did both my daughters have to be something other than human. I mean Dawn is a fucking key and you are the Slayer" Kagome's temper was rising to a very dangerous limit. Her mother's smile got even bigger if it was possible. "I'm getting my Kagome angry am I. Oh well you can't hurt me. You can't even touch me" "And you can't touch me so that makes us even" Kagome smirked. Her mother was taken a back by Kagome's choice of words. "Now is that what you would say to your mother" she asked kindly. "No but you not my mother" Dawn and Kagome said in unison. The thing that took their mother's form now whisked away in a bunch of smoke.

"You saw it too?" Spike asked now even more confused as ever. "I did" was Dawns reply as she looked over at Kagome. Who just smiled back at her. "Dawn you did a good job not letting that think get too you. Oh and Inu-yasha you might want to get Sesshomaru over here" "WHAT!?" he yelled. Kagome looked at him and said in a very bored tone "Sesshomaru is also seeing the things me and Dawn just saw and if we don't get him here than I know what that thing will try to get him to do" "And that would be?" Inu-yasha asked quite annoyed about the idea of having his brother here. "To kill me" Inu-yasha's eyes widened.

"The thing when it was in Angel's form I asked it what it wanted and it told me one thing. My death and I'm not going to let that happen. So would you please" "Alright, alright already I will go but it will take me a full two days to get here and back" Kagome looked disappointed but whispered "Please" Inu-yasha nodded and gave Kagome a passionate kiss. Their tongues had quite a battle but soon Inu-yasha pulled away, much to Kagome's annoyance but she had to get him to do this job.

Kagome waved goodbye to Inu-yasha as he jumped down the well. Kagome looked back at the sky. The sun was setting. She sighed, she knew what the sun setting meant.

She walked into the house and yelled "SPIKE GET THEM WEAPONS AND THE SWORD IS MINE" Spike went up to the trunk and muttered under his breath "damn" Miroku was given an axe, Dawn got the crossbow, Sango already had her large boomerang so there where no worries there, Kagome got the sword and Spike got a stake.

They all headed towards the park where Souta, Shippo and Emiko where.

They all made it there and saw the three children on the swings. Kagome smiled and told Dawn to escort the three home and protect them there. Dawn nodded and but before she left she gave Spike a goodbye kiss and walked the three home hoping that they wouldn't get attacked.

Kagome looked around and said with a hint of hope in her tone "Well looks like there's not much activity around" But as usual Kagome was wrong.

Demons and Vampyres where starting to encircle them. Kagome looked around and sighed heavily "I guess I was so wrong" she shook her head and asked the Vampyres and Demons "Have you ever heard the expression Slayer?" That started the fight.

Kagome kicked a vampyre in the stomach making it double over in pain and then she sliced it's head off. Sango jumped in the air and threw her boomerang at the demons which quickly killed them. Miroku threw a couple of kicks, punches and did some slicing with his axe. Spike was doing the regular fighting with punches and kicks and staking. If Spike was faced with a demon instead of staking he probably would break their neck with that definite crack.

Kagome looked around and saw a vampyre starting to come out of their grave. Kagome went and stood in front of it. The vampyre looked up and saw Kagome but Kagome staked the vampyre and said "Sorry but it's my job" And then she returned back to the fight.

Soon enough all the demons and vampyres where killed.

Kagome looked over at Spike and asked "How many vampyres was that" Kagome was panting now as Spike looked at her. He was bent forward trying to catch his breath. "About 30" was his answer. "Is it getting worse every night?" Spike nodded.

"Kagome how many demons was that?" Sango asked. Kagome thought on it for a moment and then replied "About 27 if I'm correct" Sango almost fainted. She had never fought so many demons in her life. Kagome smiled weakly.

She looked up at the sky and said "Well we better get some sleep. We will need to call Willow, Xander, Anya and Tara in the mourning. We will fill them in and Spike" "Ya" "Can you see if you can get a hold of Giles while you do those things?" Kagome asked. Spiked shrugged and said "Sure whatever" Kagome looked at the rest and asked "Would you like to have a rest now?" Miroku and Sango could only nod.

Kagome then took one last look at the stars and then followed Spike back home.

Once they got home, Kagome ate supper and then went to bed. She saw a very much asleep Kitsune in her bed. She smiled down and snuggled up to Shippo. She looked around her room before getting up again. She walked over to a mirror and picked up the Shikon No Tama. She put it around her neck and smiled.

The jewel was almost complete. The only pieces that remained where the pieces that Naraku has and the two shards that Kouga have.

Kagome looked around and sighed a deep sigh. 'Looks like I'm going to have another sleepless night' she thought. She looked around the room, grabbed her house coat and walked down the stairs being careful not to wake anybody else.

Once downstairs Kagome made herself some coffee and sat in the family room. She turned on the T.V. and started flipping through the channels, finally deciding to watch a movie seeing as there was nothing on.

While Kagome was in the middle of watching her movie, Souta came downstairs. He was unable to sleep tonight but he had no idea why. He kept walking down the stairs until he heard the T.V. on. He slowly walks to the family room but only sees his sister sitting on the couch. He sighed in relief, the sigh caught Kagome's attention. "Souta what are you doing up at this time of night?" she whispered standing up and walking towards him. Souta's head was down in shame when he said "I couldn't sleep" Kagome smiled "You know what Souta I couldn't either. So do you want to watch a movie or two?" Souta's head shot right up and he nodded vigorously. Kagome smiled as she and Souta sat down on the couch and started watching another movie.