Hey everyone! My name is Kristin. I hope you like the story! Granted I work on it at 12 midnight while listening to either my Inuyasha soundtrack, or my Good Charlotte/Simple Plan cds, so bear with me if it isn't always written great. Anyway, I would really love reviews, especially on how I can improve and if you guys want me to continue with this story, so please write me! Click either on 'Summit a review' at the end of this page, or email me!

Summary: Inuyasha never had friends when he was younger till he met Serenity and everything changed. But once Serenity is taken away from him, he loses the ability to love, and begins to grow deep with hate in his heart, wishing to become a full fledge demon for revenge. Now more than 50 years later, he still wishes that. Kagome's new friend, that may in fact be from Inuyasha's past, joins the group and brings back Inuyasha's suppressed memories. Together they try to help each other piece back their lost pasts, and heal from them too. Along the way they reveal their past's secrets. Hers possibly being the most shocking, from her identity to whatreally happened in thepresent.Secrets that change everything from the brewing relationship between Inuyasha and Kagome, to what they once thought to be the truth...

This chapter's summary: OMGOSH! I'm so sorry everyone. I don't know how but I ended up uploading chapter 4 :Kagome's Secret adn Kayla's surprising past as chapter 3. So do be angry! How that didn't confuse anyone. Ok, the summary: In this chapter we find out who Kayla really is. Inuyasha begins to realize that the likelyhood of Kayla really being Serenity is pretty big and close to it. We find out Kayla's true form, and somewhere in here there are a few answers...I kno, vage huh?

What Lies behind the crystal

Inuyasha watched the girls head for the river, all the while having that girl on his mind. Her name can't be Kayla…she's lying.

"Inuyasha, you seem deep in thought. Is something the matter?" Shippo asked.

"It's just…HEY WAIT A MINUTE! WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN?"

"I was just worried about you! STOP CHASING ME!" Inuyasha chased the kitsune around and around Kaede and Miroku.

"Inuyasha, leave Shippo alone. He meant no harm. We all are just wondering what is bothering you." The monk said calmly.

"Nothing." Inuyasha stopped chasing Shippo, and held him 5 feet in the air by his tail. "I just think there is something more to that girl." Shippo squirmed.

"LET ME GO!" Inuyasha finally dropped Shippo. "I'm going to find Kagome!" And he ran off.

"Let's go into the hut." Miroku suggested, and they all filed in.

"I sensed some demonic aura from that crystal. But never the less, it is fake."

" Fake? Lady Kaede what do you mean?" Miroku looked at her questioningly.

"Just like I said, it is fake. She claims it has been in her family for generations, which in fact it is only a replica of the real crystal. I don't know why this girl possesses even a replica of that stone though."

"Why do you say that old woman?" Inuyasha snorted.

"Well, that original stone is from a once powerful witch tribe."

Inuyasha's ear's perked up, and he picked his head up from leaning in his hand. "You mean the Danka Tribe?"

"Eh Inuyasha, you have heard of them?"

"Maybe…but how is this girl connected to them? I didn't sense anything unordinary from her."

"Ne, this girl's crystal is hiding something. Something that the world is not ready for, I assume. It seems to me to be a concealing spell.

"Or maybe she isn't the one ready for whatever that crystal hides." Miroku thought for a few moments. "Is there someway we can release whatever powers the stone is hiding?"

"Well, there is a short ceremony we can perform once she returns. It will break the crystal and release whatever spells or powers it possesses. But will the girl agree?"

"Force her." Inuyasha stared on straight at the door. "Force her to do it."

"Inuyasha! Ye can't have thee girl forced into the ceremony. She must participate willingly, or it will not work."

"I guess we'll have to just hope she is willing to." Miroku stopped talking as soon as he heard two girls giggling, their voices approaching.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha said, jumping to his feet. "You're wet."

"Thanks for the concern." Kayla, wet as well, said as she and Shippo sat down next to the hut's fire. "We got into a splashing contest. Kagome obviously lost."

"Child, I have a question for ye." Kaede tried hard to come to the question carefully.

"We want you to be in this ceremony thing." Inuyasha spitted out.

So much for easing into the topic. "The ceremony is just for my knowledge." Lady Kaede didn't know how else to put it.

"Um…well…" Kayla looked at the group suspiciously.

Inuyasha bent down, and was extremely close to Kayla's face. "What do you have to hide? We just want to find out about that crystal of yours."

Kayla was uneasy. She suddenly found herself reaching for the boy's dog-like ears. Then her whole body felt ridgent and it seemed as though time had stopped.

Flashback

A boy and a girl were tumbling and wrestling with each other in a garden.

"Hey!" The boy giggled. "That tickles!"

"He he, I know how ticklish your ears are!" The girl smiled.

"Well, if mine are, then so are yours!" He reached for her ears too, and they both began laughing loudly.

Two women off in the distance watch their son and daughter playing happily. They smiled together and prayed that their children could live in this moment forever, but both knew the truth of what lied ahead.

END FLASHBACK

Kayla smiled, as Inuyasha flinched by her touch. "Your ears were always your ticklish spot."

Inuyasha's eyes widened and he fell backward on his hands. How did she know that?

Kayla jumped up, rubbed her arms up and down, and looked at the floor. "I'm sorry. Excuse me." She pushed past Miroku and Kagome, who were both blocking the doorway.

"KAYLA!" Kagome chased after her. "Kayla wait!" She grabbed her arm. "What is going on…?" Kagome turned her wrist over, and saw what Mr. Harchu had been talking about. "Kayla…"

"It's nothing." She pulled back, rubbing her wrist over and over.

"But that's a tattoo, not scars. Right?"

"It's been there as long as I can remember. My grandmother said that it's a special spell thing past down in our family. She was going to teach me how to read the inscription here on my wrist, but… She died before she could."

Inuyasha and the others rushed out of the hut. Kayla lifted her head. She saw Inuyasha looking at her like she either was a complete and total stranger, or a ghost from the past.

"STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!" She yelled at him. "STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE I'M A FREAK!"

"He's not child." Lady Kaede said. "We are all concerned that's all. Has anything odd been happening to ye lately?"

"How did you know that?" Kayla looked at her suspiciously, putting up her guard.

"So ye have experienced some odd things yes? Like self healing?" Kayla nodded, her hand still around her other wrist. "Then let us child find out what that is that is causing it. We believe it has something to do with your necklace."

Kayla grabbed the crystal. "And what do I get out of it?"

"Answers." Miroku stepped forward toward her. "Isn't that what you want? Instead of just knowing that these things run in your family."

Kayla thought over the prospect of having answers to her questions. Things just seemed to be going extremely fast. One minute, she has been in the present time, a place she felt so incredibly like an outcast. And the next minute she is here in Japan's past, which oddly enough felt more welcoming. It had been a lot for her to take in everything that Kagome had spoke to her about.

She hardly could believe the things she said. But it made sense. What didn't were these flashbacks and premonitions of the past. Kayla had been getting them for as long as she can remember, normally triggered by a smell or by touching something. But never had these flashbacks been so long. Did her recent flashbacks have something to do with this time period? If only she could get a close look at the people's faces in the flashbacks.

"It's not going to hurt is it?" Kayla walked closer to the group.

"So is that a yes?" Miroku looked at her.

"I guess so…" Kayla was still hesitant.

A little off from the group, as they were beginning to get ready for the ceremony, Kagome approached Inuyasha.

"No one is telling me what is going on! I want the truth Inuyasha."

"The truth is that Kaede and I don't trust this girl."

"You haven't even known her for a day and you already think she is, what, hiding something? Is that it?"

"Kagome, I'm just looking out for you."

"Looking out for me…or doing this for personal gain?" Kagome walked off to Kayla, who was now being told to stand in front of Kaede and Miroku, about an 8 foot distance.

Women.

"Ready Kayla?" Kaede asked the girl, who looked incredibly nervous.

"Are you sure this isn't going to hurt?"

"Yeah, she's ready." Miroku said.

So Kaede and Miroku started to chant this prayer. Kagome stood a few feet behind Miroku and Kaede. Inuyasha stood in the far back, watching and waiting.

Kayla stood there in front of the priestess and monk, felling nervous with every minute passing. She just wanted answers though. Answers to why things have happened to her in her life. She didn't think that was much to ask for.

"Ready Kayla?" Kaede asked her.

"Are you sure this isn't going to hurt?" She responded, trying to keep her hands steady, and fighting a new urge to run like usual.

The monk mumbled something, and soon they began to chant. Outside, standing in front of them like that, she felt like a fool. Is this world even real? Then all too suddenly she felt herself lifted up into the air. The air in her lungs rushed out of her body. She felt these flooding of lost memories rushing past in her mind like a river. Her head flung back, looking up to the sky.

She tried hard to focus on at least one of the memories pasting by. But that soon ended and another rush of something flooded her. Only this one hurt…a lot. She felt total and complete pain, almost like a burning around her neck where the crystal lied, and a tearing pain in her body. As if hit with a bullet, the crystal shattered, ripping at her skin as the pieces flew around and around her. Her eyes blew wide open and the twisting pain stopped, only to be replaced with an excruciating pain in her back. It was almost like the skin was ripping apart. Kayla couldn't take it. She screamed at the top of her lungs. Her scream seemed to pierce every ear it reached. She couldn't stop. The burning and ripping pain intensified to the point where it was so unbearable, she began clawing at her clothes and skin.

And then, as though nothing ever happened, the whirling winds that surrounded her released her from the air, and she tumbled downward to the ground.

A/N: Mind you I am writing this as my mother is screaming at my 10 yr old neighbor boy who has this completely and utterly annoying-as-heck crush on me. Need I say that this boy broke my door handle, making it impossible to lock. So my mother had to spend another 20 bucks to buy a new one! Ugh, I despise this child, for the fact that he drives both my mother and I insane, especially when we have to sit for hours with him helping him with his homework. Ohterwise he won't do it. Ok, so the child has a pretty bad home life. But that doesn't give him the right to be knocking on my door every 5 minutes! Hence why I praise my heavenly father for my motehr who went and bought me a new lock. This one I will not let him break.

O.K. So again I must say how incredably sorry if my chapter goof mixed everyone up. (see This chapter's summary if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about.) Also, I'm sorry the update took so long. It's called procrastination, and I've been surfing AOL for Inuyasha pics to put in my locker. I have a rough sketch down of Serenity, and I could scan it in and everything, but I'd need a web hoster to place it on their website so as I could give you all a link and you'd get the idea of exactly how I, the author, have imagined Serenity to look like. Oh, and for all who didn't kno, Serenity's tattoo is in Japanese, so in the pic I have drawn of her, it's just random characters on her wrist. At the moment my art teacher, Mr. Morano (god bless that man's soul) is helping me out with her darn skirt! I hate ruffles! Anyway, look for the exciting chapter :The Two Share Their Plan, coming up soon. I think I'm changing the title because I don't think it really is describing the chapter. Oh, and that chapter will most likely be in parts, since I want to keep at least one chapter ahead of what I have updated here. See ya later allegatiors!