A/N: I don't really have anything to say so go read this chapter already!

Chapter Three

By: Mirei

"So wait one minute, Naraku is your father?" Miroku sat there in shock. "How is that even possible?"

"Well Onigumo was my father. He became Naraku. I never knew him. I used to dream of him, but I could never see him as being Naraku. The last memory I have of him was when I was about four or so."

Flashback

Four-year-old Kagome ran down the halls of their home. She didn't expect to run into anyone seeing as how her mother had left for the store with baby Souta. Onigumo. As she rounded the corner she ran into his leg. He looked down at her and she looked up.

"Hi daddy." He smiled at her and picked her up.

"Kagome what did I tell you about running in the house?"

"Only do it when mom isn't home." He laughed.

"Honey I'll be going on a business trip soon and so I want to give you something."

"But you've given me my earrings."

"I know but this is more special." He pulls out a ring embedded with small circles around the entire ring. Inside of it read 'to my sweet baby girl'. He took her tiny hand and put in on her right hand finger. "This ring will protect you from evil. I hope that you will do as I wish and ever take this off. I have already given your brother a gift as well so I want you to have this."

"Thank you daddy. It's so pretty."

"Just like you my child." She hugged her father and kissed his cheek.

"I love you daddy."

"I love you too dear. Now what do you say we go out to the temple and practice healing charms." He put her down and she followed.

End of Flashback

"So then you don't exactly remember his face, but you remember everything he said to you?"

"Yeah and when my mother mentioned the ring I remembered the earrings he had placed before the ring. The earrings were strong enough to shield my secret from mom but wouldn't last. He needed to create something stronger to hide this secret. But he then decided to tell her in a letter. When she removed the rings from me and Souta she got scared and told us never to remove them. I obeyed her and never touched it. Until just yesterday did I find why. While I was in the forest before we left I took it off."

"What happened when you took it off?"

"I became a dog demon. You see my father also had a sort of spell on himself. He did this so that my mother wouldn't know that she married a demon. But she never told him that she was actually Kikyo's reincarnation. My mother's actually name is Kikyo but mom never went by it and I never knew. My father used to call her it but I completely forgot about it as I grew up. Only recently did it occur to me that it made sense. I don't really look like Kikyo. My mother did when she was younger. When you think about it that must have been why Onigumo fell for Kikyo. He thought that it was my mom. Since he had a head concussion he had no idea where he was or what was going on. My father had brown eyes and long hair. He looks the same as Naraku does now. Its as if my father never changed at all over the course of my life."

"So you're not human? Why didn't you just tell us earlier?"

"Yeah take that ring off. If you do maybe Naraku will come and we can kill him sooner."

"So now I'm bait?"

"No, but you might be able to track him down without the ring on. Think about it. You're his child and when dog demons give birth to their pups they create a connection to them. This allows both to find each other."

"What if I'm not ready to find him? Because he's to die at one of our hands and if it's mine then I'd be killing the only man my mother ever loved. She believed up until her death that he was still the same man. I only have one memory of him and this picture I brought with me. My mom hid all the pictures of him and I had to do a mad search for them." She pulled out a picture from her pocket and handed it to Sango.

"What is this?"

"It's a picture; it's hard to explain really. But you can take pictures of people so that you have the memory of them in the picture."

"Interesting." Sango looked down at the picture. "It looks just like Naraku, except in his human form and he's smiling and holding a baby." Kagome blushed.

"Um that was when I was a month old."

"So are you going to remove that ring or what?" Miroku asked this as they all looked back at her again.

"Why? I really don't want to."

"You'll be the same person and we won't judge you at all."

"I don't know." She looked at Sesshomaru who crossed his arms. She sighed and stuck out her arm. "Please Miroku take it off." She closed her eyes as he slid it off her finger. She could feel all of her suppressed powers rushing into her body like warm liquid into her veins. She could feel her ears and tail making their appearance. Sango gasped in surprise. Kagome opened her eyes and looked up at them. They all had shocked expressions on their faces. Sesshomaru's remained the same but she could feel his emotions and he was also in shock. InuYasha made his appearance suddenly. He looked at Kagome and his eyes went wide. On her face was two stripes one on each side of her face. They were blue and started on each side of her jaw going in toward her nose. Her eyes had also changed; they were a gray color. Her tail was also blue and the tips of her bangs were also blue. She looked down at her hands and found that there were claws where normal nails used to be. She felt right for once.

"Wow what happened to Kagome?" InuYasha finally said looked amazed at her new look. "Did you bring a costume from your world or something?"

"Go to hell InuYasha, this isn't a laughing matter."

"So you're saying that you're actually a dog demon? How is that possible?" Everyone gave him the whole story again and he looked more shocked if possible. "So Naraku's your dad? Things keep getting weirder."

"Guys can I have the ring back I can't stand this anymore, I look horrible don't I?" They all shook their heads no.

"You look great as a demon." Said Miroku. Sango glared at him but agreed. Sesshomaru nodded his head as if saying he agreed, but no one noticed it but her.

"Fine but can you guys just stop looking at me like that? This is the reason that I didn't want to take it off. If I'm the same Kagome then will you people just pretend that I'm not different?"

"Fine, fine let's just go back to our journey."

"Wait Kagome can you feel him?" She closed her eyes and tried to picture him in her mind. Slowly a picture started to form and his energy began to fill her senses. It wasn't the greatest feeling in the world to have Naraku's evil energy rushing through your body. But before she knew it the energy and the picture disappeared from her mind but she did manage to get a general direction. She pointed toward the east. They looked at her and nodded. InuYasha had no idea what was going on but he didn't argue with her.

"Kagome are you sure it's this way?"

"Before his picture faded I could feel him toward this way. He knows that I'm looking but since he doesn't know what I look like now he can't as easily find me."

"So we won't be getting any visits from your dear old dad?" Sango joked.

"Not unless he knows what my name is and puts it all together. Then it would take him about two weeks tops to locate us. He doesn't have much energy as it is right now that's why the picture faded. I could see him in my mind. He was lying on a floor with thousands of demons lying on his body. He could barely move at all. So it is vital that we get there before he gets all his strength back. Maybe it would be best if we dashed there it should take about a week if we did otherwise we'd be walking for three weeks. InuYasha can carry Sango and I can carry Miroku or maybe Sesshomaru would like to do the honors." He gave her a glare. "Fine I'll carry Miroku. Then we'd save a lot of time." InuYasha looked a bit surprised by her logic.

"Feh," was all InuYasha said and had Sango climb on his back. Miroku grinned as he climbed on Kagome's back she gave him a warning about keeping his hands where she could see them. She held onto his legs while he placed his hands on her shoulders. Without warning she took off into the distance with Sesshomaru and InuYasha following. They both were shocked at how fast she was, neither of them could match her speed. What would have taken three days only took about eight hours. They had passed through about six villages on their journey and finally ended up in a small village with about forty humans. InuYasha, Kagome and Sesshomaru were worried at first that they wouldn't be excepted until someone from the village recognized Kagome. A young man that she'd met on their journeys. He was shocked to discover that Kagome was a demon then became overwhelmed with happiness to see her. He allowed them to stay at the hotel that he owned. InuYasha stayed long enough to eat; Sesshomaru stayed for the warm of the room but decided not to sleep. Kagome also didn't sleep. Something about her new form made it impossible to do so. She decided that staying in a room when she could be out testing out her new strength would be a waste. When Sango and Miroku finally fell asleep she left the room and sniffed around to find out where InuYasha was so that she wouldn't be disturbed. He wasn't far, just a few trees away. She went the opposite direction and found a clearing. She lowered her body and then sprung up to see how high she could go. She would have screamed but the sight was amazing. She must have leapt about one hundred feet. She felt like a bird, so free. Then sadly she started descend back down.

"Having fun?" She turned around and found Sesshomaru standing before her. He had his same expression plastered to his face. She felt sort of embarrassed about being caught fooling around. "You know that with your power you could be a ticking time bomb. Maybe it would be best if we stayed here and trained you up a bit."

"So you'd train me? Wow that would be great." She grinned.

"I'm not as young as you but I think that I can take you."

"And this coming from a guy who could kill with just one flash of his sword." He smirked when she said this. "Careful Sesshomaru your heads starting to grow. All that hot air must make it hard to think." He gave her a glare. She started to laugh. "Tag you're it." She ran up to him and touched his shoulder then dashed off into the forest. She could feel him following her. But she left up into the trees and started toward the village. She felt InuYasha up ahead and decided to pass by him.

"Don't think you can easily escape girl I'll find you!" Sesshomaru yelled. She laughed and almost hit a tree. InuYasha could hear them and feel them approaching. He wondered what was going on.

"You're too old to catch up!" she yelled back at him. InuYasha had a bad feeling that Sesshomaru wouldn't like that. In fact he wondered what Kagome could have done to get him all worked up for. Then he heard her laughing. He had a sneaking suspicion that Kagome and Sesshomaru might have started to become interesting in each other. But he found this hard to swallow. His half-brother had never taken to anyone, except for Rin. Kagome zoomed overhead and then a moment later a blur of Sesshomaru passed by. He thought that maybe he should follow them. The truth might hurt but maybe it would answer a few questions that he'd been pondering. He knew that he cared for Kagome but what she said earlier made sense. He had been treating her like a welcome matt and walking all over her kindness. He couldn't walk away from loving Kikyo but he's been with Kagome from the beginning of their adventure. His attractions to her weren't noticed until after Miroku joined their group. He hated to see other males near her. But she wasn't his at all and he knew he shouldn't treat her like a toy. She waited patiently for him and he failed her. He knew this also. Maybe if she explored more options she decide on what she wanted and give him time also to figure that out.

When he found Kagome and Sesshomaru they were fighting, physically. More like play fighting. Suddenly Kagome tackled Sesshomaru and knocked him to the ground. She held him down until he stopped moving. She let him up and they sat there for a moment.

"Don't tell anyone about this. I don't think the world needs to know that you actually beat me." He lay back down on the ground and looked up at the sky. She lay opposite of him. Their bodies were at different ends and only their heads made contact. They both just lay there for a while watching the sky.

"I've never just watched the sky before. It's amazing here."

"Don't you have this in your time?"

"Yes but it isn't the same. What with pollution and street lights."

"Pollution? Street lights? What are you talking about?"

"One day you'll find out."

"You're a strange one."

"Be that as it may I am a lot faster than you."

"That's because you're only twenty and I'm over fifty. You see the difference."

"Yeah, you're telling me that after all of these years, decades really, you've become weak." He glared at her or rather attempted to. "You're doing it again."

"Doing what?"

"That whole trying to glare but really just look like you just lost your favorite toy. I see it as more of a pout, but if you really work on it more it might develop into an actual scare tactic." She laughed when he made a face. He glared.

"You are the most insolent female that has ever been in my presence. Why do you torment me?"

"Torment you? I haven't done anything to you. You seem to be 'tormenting' yourself just find without my help." He growled in anger. "Come on now why not try enjoying the sights in front of you."

"I would be you're here." He stated only half joking. She didn't seem to get it and stood to leave. He grabbed her arm and pulled her back down. "Can't you take a joke?"

"Sesshomaru for as long as I've known you the only jokes that ever came out of you mouth were like 'I'm going to spare you life, just kidding here eat my poison'." He smirked at her. "You find it amusing?"

"I don't know why I'm sitting here actually having a conversation with you but it's strange." She looked at him weirdly. She wondered what he was talking about. There were signs showing that something had changed in him.

"Maybe it's because we're both dog demons."

"That part doesn't really matter. When you returned from your time I could already sense a change in you. I spent the whole year examining how you and your friends react to each other. I learned what I could about you and found that you intrigue me."

"Sesshomaru, are you saying that you want to be friends? Because if that's the case then I'm very proud of you for pushing so hard to get all of that out in the open."

"You can be a troublesome girl."

"This is going to take some getting used to."

"What?"

"Being a demon, looking this way. Feeling this way. Hey don't look at me like that it's creepy. Sesshomaru stop it I mean it!" She was getting ready to slap him. He was currently sitting in front of her with the creepiest grin on his face. He bent down so that she could hear him. He brushed his cheek against hers and whispered 'your it' and got up and dashed off into the sky. She watched him for a moment. He truly was a beautiful creature and she'd always known this. But he used to be a cold hard killer and now he was acting like a playful pup. She smiled and followed him.

InuYasha had watched them the whole time. He could see how his cold hearted brother opened up to her and didn't seem to mind her company. He was more surprised that Sesshomaru admitted that he was interested in Kagome but she took it as a declaration of friendship. He must have missed how Sesshomaru looked at her during their travels. He was over his hatred for humans; that InuYasha knew for sure about Sesshomaru. But of all the females in the world Kagome was the only one he was actually interested in. Sesshomaru wouldn't act on his attractions and InuYasha knew this. But maybe this would be best for Kagome. He sighed and decided that he'd talk to her. After this talk she'd be free from any obligation she felt toward him. He knew that he'd kept her even if it was unspoken. She never looked at other guys and always showed him affection and it was his fault now that he wouldn't be able to return it.

Now as he watched her she was up in the sky following his brother. She was yelling something about how she was going to kick his royal ass or something along those lines. He laughed a little. In all the time that he'd know his brother never has anyone ever challenged him and talked to him like that, minus him of course. More to the point Kagome wasn't one to be so sarcastic or challenging. Only in times of a dilemma or just when they argued; did she show these qualities. He sighed again and started back for his tree to sleep. It had become quite clear that Kagome had moved on, even though she had no idea she has.

A/N: I think that it's best that I finish here for this chapter. I'll wait until I have many more reviews until I post more. I don't really like to make the effort if no one's going to read it. Then I'd be wasting my free time right? I hope that you like this chapter. More Souta in the next chapter!