Okay, this chapter is kind of short, but I wanted to get it done. The next chapter will be better, I promise. Enjoy it just the same.

Chapter 4: A Messenger from Sesshomaru

Kibou and Yume had been away from home for two years, on their own journey. They grew up listening to the stories their parents told, and, as expected, when they turned seventeen and fifteen. Sango and Miroku had another daughter, Ivory, and another child on the way. Ivory was four years old and looked just like her mother. She missed her big brother and sister so much, she could barely remember then anymore. "Kibou! Yume!" Ivory ran to her brother and sister as they appeared at the edge of the forest. Sango heard her small child's screams and ran outside to see if it was true. Miroku was already outside with Ivory when the appeared.

"Yume, Kibou." Sango couldn't believe it. "Is that...?" Sango thought to herself when she saw Iyasu.

"Mother, father, Ivory. We missed you so much." Yume picked up her little sister.

"Did you bring me something?" Ivory asked her.

"Of course we did. Kibou has it." Yume said as she sat her little sister down. Ivory ran over to her brother as Iyasu stepped forward.

"Iyasu! I don't believe it." Miroku was shocked.

"So you do remember me. Your children don't, but you still do. Where are my parents?" she asked.

"You know her?" Yume asked her parents.

"She is Kagome and Inu-Yasha's daughter." Sango told Yume.

"You...?" Yume was confused by this. Inu-Yasha and Kagome didn't have a daughter, only Ketsuzen.

"Sango, what is all the yelling about?" Kagome asked as she and Ketsuzen walked up to the group. "Iyasu?" Kagome almost fainted.

"Mother... I'm so sorry!" Iyasu threw herself into her mother's arms.

"Iyasu, I'm so glad you came back. Please don't leave me again." Kagome begged her daughter.

"I promise." Iyasu cried.

Iyasu stayed with her parents for the next few weeks, until she found out that she was pregnant. "I have to tell Kyou." she told herself, but she didn't know how. Kibou sent her away when his brother was killed. "Does he blame me for Sentaku's death?" Iyasu thought to herself.

"Iyasu, what's wrong?" Ketsuzen asked his sister.

"Nothing. Where is mother?" she asked.

"Inside. Her and Sango are talking. Mom thinks she's going to give birth in only a few days." Ketsuzen told her.

"I have to go. I will be back in a few hours, maybe longer." Iyasu told Ketsuzen as she stood up and left.

"Bye Iyasu! Don't forget to come back!" he added as he waved.

"But Kouga..." a wolf demon tried to tell him something, but he wouldn't listen.

"Shut up! I said we're attacking here and that's what were going to do!" he yelled.

"Kouga... that's the south lands. You can't attack there." Ayame told him.

"And why not?"

"My sister mate is the lord of the south lands." Ayame answered.

"That's where the demon that killed our son came from. I don't care who the lord is, where going there to look for that demon." Kouga told Ayame.

"You don't even know what the demon looks like." she said.

"But I know who does." Sumire stepped forward.

"You can't use Iyasu to get your revenge." Ayame told her daughter.

"Yes she can." Iyasu said as she stepped into the cave.

"What are you doing here? I told you to leave." Kyou grabbed Iyasu's arm and pulled her out of the cave.

Once outside Kyou and Iyasu were free to talk. "Why did you come here?" Kyou asked her.

"Do you blame me for Sentaku's death?" she asked him.

"Of course not."

"Then why did you force me to leave?"

"Because I knew my family would use you to get revenge. You're the only one that knows what she looks like." Kyou told her.

"I want to help."

"Why?"

"Because Sentaku was family, or would have been." Iyasu's face turned red and she turned away.

"What do you mean?"

"I'm pregnant, with your child." she told him.

Back at Inu-Yasha's hut and small demon paid them a visit. "What the hell do you want?" he asked as he picked up the small demon.

"Release me!" the small demon yelled.

"Not until you tell me what you want." Inu-Yasha demanded.

"Fine. Lord Sesshomaru has sent me here to gather you and your mate. He insist you come to his castle immediately." the small demon told him. Inu-Yasha dropped the little demon and began to walk away. "Well?"

"Well, what?" Inu-Yasha asked.

"Are you coming?"

"Why should I?"

"It involves your mother." the small demon told him.

"What did you say?"

"Your mother. She left something for you when she died. Lord Sesshomaru has it." the demon said.

"Inu-Yasha, I think we should go." Kagome told him.