Tie it Even Tighter

By: Fire0

Author notes: I finally got it up, probably because I got a break from work now that school is back in. Well, anyway I'm going to have to drop off reviewers response in the next chapter, it's a big rush to get this chapter out. So those of you who suspected it- no I am not dead- I'm not even in the hospital, and Raven hadn't caught some other deadly disease yet.

"Your mother and sisters? Where are they exactly?" Inu Yasha asked rather slowly as if confused or bewildered.

Kawayou stood up of his knees as to emphasized his point to hurry. Sango and Miroku had swung back to see what that blast was, and were arriving through the bushes around the same time.

"Do you think it was a demon InuYasha?" Sango asked shifting her boomerang strap on her shoulder. Kawayou looked back between them, picking up on the conversation.

"They have been known to attack villages near by, still searching for a trace of the Shikon Jewel." Miroku added to Sango's last statement. At the name of the Shikon, a growl rose from InuYasha's chest. He kept his eyes shut though.

"They'll leave once they find out it's not there. A few lives might be taken, but we can't fix every problem in the world." InuYasha said stiffly, still reminded of the events of the past.

"InuYasha!" "Come on!" They both said around the same moment. Sango and Miroku could have swore that he was getting better after they introduced the little hanyou boy, but as it seems they were wrong. Any reminder of the past would just get him to end up the same way, and they couldn't fix that.

InuYasha made no movement at all, with his eyes still clamped shut, and sitting in the traditional way, with his hands crammed into the opposite sleeves.

Sango frowned, seconds before looking down at Kawayou.

"Come on, how about you show me your village, Miroku and I would love to help." Sango said, signaling for him to give her his hand. With that, she spared one last glance at InuYasha, and took off.

Miroku stayed behind, a few seconds delayed.

"InuYasha." He said sternly, and seriously. "That boys mother and sisters might just be the only thing left he has in the world. He can't fight very well, and will no doubt be mocked because he is a hanyou. You grew up in a similar life, where everything was taken away from you. In one which you were put down because of being a hanyou. And now you have a chance to not sit back and watch it happen again to another. Will you really do that?" With those words, Miroku left to catch up with Sango.

~*~*~*~*~*~

Kagome had managed to force herself back up, and by sheer will power went on. She wasn't exactly sure where Kawayou would have wondered of and now she was thrown off track, a good two miles. She had to find a way to get back up the hill safely, and that wasn't going to happen for awhile.

So as she marched forward, almost like a solider going off to war, she just thought to herself. The Shikon no tama was far to dangerous to be in anyone's hands. So at the time, she did the only thing she could. Before the entire mess started the Shikon was in her body, and apparently not all demons could sense it. So she divide it up into five pieces. The center shard, and four other sections. Kagome herself held the center shard inside her soul, so even in death it would go with her, and no one else. The other four pieces were divided into her four children. There was just another thing she'd done to protect it. Incase the jewel was ever touched by evil, the one who had made the wish had to give something to the jewel in return. Life. (Apparently this Forlorn Hope mirror myth wasn't just in Yuyu for those of you who got suspicious.)

She took long strikes until she arrived to a narrow hill, that she might just be able to climb.

But something about that hill struck her odd. There was something for her to remember.....

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

"So where is your village exactly?" Sango asked after walking with the boy for a bit.

He didn't exactly know much about where he was heading. Kawayou paused for a moment to tilt his head up and sniff the air. His senses were getting worse. Kawayou's ears dropped slightly. He hated becoming human, it was nice to be lik Zel, and his mother but by instinct he always wanted that power. He always wanted to be able to protect them.

"I'm not sure but because we just moved.....but I can't even smell the spider anymore." Sango heard the wave of anxiety dripping though his voice.

"It's by a well! I think....."

Sango turned her head slightly. Could he have meant.........

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Kagome could remember it, fuzzy, but none the less.

She was running- to grab something from the grab. She was rushing- her heart was pounding.... She'd grabbed it, but someone stepped on her fingers- hard- crushing them. She didn't recall who it was, only that they were being controlled. She couldn't even remember by what, but they took a swing at her- with something, and caught her near the shoulder. Where the scar is now. She'd tumbled back, and down this small hill. Someone one was telling her- run- to run into the well, and not come back. It wasn't a command as much as it was a desperate call-

Kagome snapped out of her daydream shaking her head. It seemed like just that- a dream. Kagome hadn't remembered exactly how she'd left the time. Only the story her mother told her of her crawling out of the well, bloody, bruised, and dirty.

She looked up. She sensed something coming- something big was going down.

~*~*~*~*~*~

The sun was starting to go down, InuYasha knew that even though his closed eyes. He hadn't moved, taken occasionally sniffs at the air. Sango and the kid were still wandering. Miroku coming up not far behind. But that was when he smelt it. It didn't smell like just Sango, it smelt like Kagome. Kagome- and him.

InuYasha's eyes snapped open. Could she possibly be back after all these years- and who was the kid? Could he be....

InuYasha couldn't stop thinking about it, and because of that, he completely missed the dark aura heading their way.