Eventually we were in a village, when they saw Kagome they started whispering things like, "She's back." "Who freed her?" "We must tell Kaede."

An old woman wearing Miko garbs and had an eye patch came up to us. She looked at Kagome wide eyed. "Kagome ye have been freed?" she just smiled.

"Yes Kaede I have been. This young man freed me." She then realized something.

"I never asked for your name." I smiled.

"My name is Suichi Minaminow, and I already know your name Kagome. Sango told me." I replied.

"Why don't ye all come inside." She said we followed her inside her hut.

"So you moved into a shrine, which one?" Kagome asked me.

"It is called Sunset Shrine." Her eyes flashed with recognition.

"I see, well that explains it to a point. Your not a priest so that's not it, you don't have any jewel shards cause I have the whole jewel so that's not it," She mumbled to herself, we were all listening intently. "Then it must be the fact that you're a demon. It's only reasonable." My eyes widened in surprised. I had concealed my aura so how did she know?

#this may not be a very good thing# Yoko was worried. Sango gripped her Hiriktos tightly. Kagome looked at Sango.

"Sango it's okay! If he wanted to kill us he would have! He's an S-class demon. Think about it if he wanted to kill us he wouldn't have listened to our blabbering!" Kagome said quickly. Sango let go of her large weapon but fingered her sword while eyeing me warily.

"How did you know I was a demon, much less what type?" I asked. She just smiled.

"I've learned how to do that kind of thing, I'm a priestess." I nodded in understanding.

"So ye were able to free young Kagome? Knowing my sister she might have made it difficult to free her."

"Yes Kaede she did, she told me that only a priestess or my soul mate could free me. But I don't understand the whole soul mate thing."

"Well ye not a priest so it must be the latter." Kaede reasoned. "And a soul mate is someone that a person is meant to be with. Though a person my never find his soul mate, it is rare when one does find his." Kagome nodded in understanding. "Why don't ye all rest here for the night. I'm sure that ye could all do for some rest."

"Thank you Kaede." I was getting worried about my mother; she must be wondering where I am right now. I have been gone before but I never disappeared out of thin air before, more like to another era.

Soon we started falling asleep one by one, Sango was lying on a futon and Miroku was sitting up against a wall dangerously close to Sango. I doubted he was asleep, Shippo was curled up with Kylala in the corner and Kagome sat on the opposite side of the fire that I was on.

She wasn't asleep yet but I wondered why she wasn't. "Suichi, have you ever heard about what happened to the family that used to live in the shrine?"

Why would she ask something like that? "They were killed, some people say by demons others say by thieves."

"Oh, I see."

"Did you live there Kagome?" she looked up at me, she looked sad and distressed.

"I did, but my family… I never knew, I bet some demon was going after the jewel and when they got in its way they were killed. But that's only a guess. Thank you for telling me Suichi, and thank you for freeing me."

With that she layed down and fell asleep. I soon found myself drifting off into dream land.

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