Okay, I forgot to do this for the first chapter, which I always do, so here it is...

I don't own Inu-Yasha, I wish I did, but I don't. Enjoy the story anyways.

Chapter 2: Ten Years Later

Ten years passed by and Iyasu still had not returned home. Kagome and Inu-Yasha gave up looking for her after three years, and now spent all of their time protecting Ketsuzen. Sango's children grew and Kibou had grown into a strong young man of seventeen. Yume had also grown and was becoming a better demon exterminator than her mother. Ayame and Kouga still came around, but not as often. "Mom!" Ketsuzen yelled for his mother as he ran from the forest.

"What is it, Ket?" Kagome asked her son as she and Inu-Yasha ran from their hut. Again Kagome was pregnant with a third child, hopefully a girl.

"Some strange women demon is trying to attack me!" Ketsuzen ran to his mother and threw himself into her arms for protection.

"Don't worry. I'll take care of this." Inu-Yasha pulled out Tessaiga and waited for the demon to appear. When it finally did, Inu-Yasha was surprised.

"What is it, Inu-Yasha?" Kagome asked when he didn't attack the demon woman.

"It's... Iyasu." Inu-Yasha dropped the Tessaiga and took a few steps forward, towards his daughter.

"I am not your daughter!" Iyasu yelled to him. Kagome almost died when Iyasu yelled that.

"Of course you're my daughter! Where do you think you got those ears from?!" Inu-Yasha yelled back.

"I don't care what I look like; you gave me up as your daughter long ago." Iyasu told him.

"We never gave you up! You ran away from home ten years ago." Kagome told her.

"He left me, and you wanted to send me away. You didn't want me, so I left." Iyasu lowered her head. "No one wanted me." a small smirk appeared on her face. "I guess because I'm a half demon people thought I was no good." Iyasu said.

"Iyasu, you're special. I knew that ten years ago. I wanted to send you away to help you, not because I didn't want you." Kagome tried to tell her daughter.

"You wanted to send me away because you thought I attacked the village!" Iyasu screamed at her mother. "But I didn't attack the village! Thanks for trusting your own daughter." Iyasu said as she turned to leave.

"Wait! What about the arrow you had in your arm? That was the same place I hit the child that attacked the village." Kagome told her.

"I was hit with that arrow as I was coming into the village."

"What were you doing in that part of the forest so late at night?" Inu-Yasha asked her.

"Now you wanted to be the concern parents? Well it's too late for that. I'm leaving." Iyasu said as she turned and disappeared into the forest.

"Inu-Yasha?" Kagome's eyes filled with tears. What was she going to do?

Elsewhere Kyou was making his way to Kagome and Inu-Yasha's hut. Every few months he would go out looking for Iyasu, and then visit her parents' hut to tell them of the news. He would hear all kinds of stories about a half demon girl that would save many lives and then leave with no reward. Hearing these stories kept hope alive that Iyasu would return home one day. On his way to Kagome's hut, Kyou past by a young girl, wearing a demon exterminator's outfit, but was a demon. "Why would a demon dress in demon exterminator's clothing?" Kyou asked himself. He thought this interesting, so he decided to chase after this girl. But to his surprise, the girl was too fast for him. "Can it be?" Kyou thought to himself as he finally caught up to the girl. "Wait!" he yelled to her.

"What do you want?" Iyasu stopped on a tree branch and asked him.

"Is it really you?" Kyou jumped over to the same branch.

"Who are you?" Iyasu asked him. Without saying a word, Kyou bent down to her and kissed her softly. "Kyou, you pervert!" without thinking Iyasu smacked him across the face and knocked him to the ground.

"I don't believe it." was all Kyou said as he looked up in the tree at his lost love.

"Kouga, have you seen Kyou? He was supposed to be home today, but he hasn't come home." Ayame said as she walked into the cave.

"No. Where's the other cubs?" he asked.

"We're not cubs!" Sumire said as she came into the cave, followed by her brother, Sentaku.

"Sumire, have you seen Kyou?" Ayame asked her daughter.

"No. I smelt him earlier today, but now his scent is gone." Sumire answered.

Iyasu didn't know what to say to Kyou. She remembered being younger and playing with him and the other cubs, but now, she didn't know what to do. Kyou sat at the bottom of the tree, watching Iyasu sitting on a branch. "Why did you leave?" finally he asked her.

"I wanted to." she answered him.

"If I left every time I wanted too..." Kyou began to tell her.

"What?" Iyasu shot him a look of pure anger.

"Iyasu, we have responsibilities, our families need us. We can't just leave our families because we want to." Kyou told her. She didn't know what to say to him. The more she thought about it, the more she wished she hadn't left. "But that's in the past, now you're home and I'm sure your parents will be glad to see you again." Kyou told her.

"Yeah, sure." Iyasu looked down at the ground.

"Have you already seen them?"

"Yeah. I don't want to go back!" Iyasu screamed at him.

"Iyasu... why?" he asked.

"They hate me! My father left me and my mother wanted to send me away." Iyasu told him. After a few minutes of silence, Kyou finally spoke.

"Why don't you come back with me?" he asked her.

"You want me to go back to the wolf den with you?"

"If you want to." Kyou's face turned red and he turned away.

"I would love you come with you." Iyasu told him. Kyou turned back to her and smiled.