CHAPTER 1: THE MEETING

Kagome awoke to her stomach churning. It was still late into the night, so it was pitch black. She sat up in her sleeping bag. Shippo was curled at her feet. Well of where she felt his warmth. She tried to look around, but being as she couldn't see anything she pulled her knees up to her chest. Her stomach kept churning and doing flip-flops. This same routine had woken her up the past couple of nights. What was going on? She didn't feel sick. She moaned and laid herself back down. She rolled around until she slowly found sleep.

Inuyasha had been in his usual place above the others in a tree. He had smelt Kagome's pain and watched her down from his tree. Poor Kagome he thought to himself. I wish there was some way to comfort her. Pathetic human he thought. He heard her finally moan and lay back down. He sighed. He wondered what her deal was. She had done this the last couple of nights and it confused him. He couldn't sense that she was sick or that she was coming down with something, but he knew something was going on with her body that he didn't understand. Damn these senses he thought.

"Kagome! Wake up!" Shippo yelled jumping on Kagome.

Inuyasha got up and walked over to Kagome. He kicked the kitsune off her and returned and sat next to his breakfast. "Inuyasha what was that for?" a very confused looking Shippo said hoping onto Miroku's shoulder.

"Can't you see she trying to fucking sleep? I know you're not that dense kit!" he said turning his gaze to the ground.

Shippo whined some more until Miroku spoke up, "Inuyasha, wow I'm impressed are you actually letting Kagome sleep in?"

Inuyasha shot him a look that meant not to try him. "I was simply letting her get more sleep we're not leaving for awhile anyways!"

Miroku eyed Sango suspiciously and returned to his breakfast. Kagome opened her eyes. How could anyone get any sleep when everyone was arguing she thought as she leaned up in her sleeping bag. "Awe, Kagome your awake! Inuyasha kicked me!" Shippo said hoping into Kagome's arms.

Kagome turned to look at Inuyasha who was obviously fascinated with his own two feet. She yawned and then said, "Why did you kick him?"

He looked up at her and glared. "I was trying to let you get some more sleep! Now that you're up we can get goin' wench!"

He was letting me sleep in? Maybe I should apologize later. She however didn't have time to think about this because Inuyasha was already up and walking. She hurried to get her stuff together and follow the others.

It had been over a month since the destruction of Naraku. With Naraku's final breaths he had been able to make a powerful incarnation of himself. Before the incarnation could be given a second thought he had summoned his strength and formed some type of warp. No one really knew what it was really. He had just formed a large green circle out of thin air and jumped in. It was very odd if you thought about it. This demon had not been seen since. Kagome couldn't really remember what exactly it looked like, but it was a type of demon, well that's what Inuyasha said it was. The incarnation had taken the jewel shards and vanished. "If you ask me I think he's off getting more powerful," Sango had said at the time.

So, now they were searching for this mysterious being. This of course was very strange, because Kagura and Kanna had received their hearts and were free to do, as they liked. Kagura had taken Kanna and it was rumored that she was under the protection of Sesshomaru, but of course no one could prove this.

All of a sudden Kagome fell to her knees. Sango was kneeling beside her before she could blink. "Kagome what's wrong? Are you hurt? What happened?" Sango's worry was etched all over her face.

Kagome gasped for air. It had never hurt this bad. She groaned. Her head was spinning out of control and her stomach did a million turns. All her muscles tensed up all of a sudden and then finally after what seemed like forever the pain was gone. She whipped her sweaty forehead and got up using Sango as support. She looked around at all the worried faces. "Kagome are you alright?" asked Sango who sounded as if she could've cried right then and there.

"I guess. I just had this sudden pain, but it's gone now…so we can keep going now," she said.

"Kagome do you mind telling us what the hell is going on? You've been waking up in the middle of the night doing this. Now what the fuck is wrong with you?" Inuyasha demanded.

She looked at him with shock. "You know about that?"

"Yes! You wake me up every time you do that!" he said now yelling.

She looked down and began to feel tears well up in her eyes. She looked up at all of them and finally said, "I don't know what is wrong with me! I'm scared ok! I'm sorry I didn't tell you guys before I'm just…I don't know!"

She walked up ahead of them and kept walking not wanting to look back at them. Sango was the first to run up to her. She put her arms around her. "Kagome we're your friends! The next time something like this happens tell us! We'll help you find out what's wrong with you and help you get through this."

Kagome stopped and looked at her. She finally broke down onto Sango. Sango held her until her crying ceased. The women walked discussing how long this problem had been going on while the men followed enough behind to hear what they were saying.

The group came to a bend in the path. Suddenly out of nowhere a woman fell from the sky and landed on her feet in front of them. Kagome gasped. The woman was actually very beautiful. She had a tan figure and was very shapely. She sported a long grayish brown tail and long flowing tan hair with two ears peeking out of the hair. Her clothing clung to her like it was a second skin. Her clothing was a type of animal hide that had been colored a tint of very pale blue. Her blue eyes shot to Kagome's very soul and she somehow recognized this woman even though she couldn't ever recall meeting her. The demon was some type of wolf demon no doubt about that, and she seemed very calm having just jumped out of the air.

Inuyasha jumped in front of Kagome and drew his sword. The woman smiled showing rather large canines and very white teeth. She stepped forward but halted as Inuyasha commanded her to stop. She laughed. "Oh Inuyasha you have no need to fear me as I have no need to fear you," she said smiling.

"Oh yeah? What makes you so sure of yourself and how do you know my name?" he growled.

She smiled again. "I know all of you because of Kagome."

Kagome looked dumbstruck. She walked out from behind Inuyasha. "Because of me?"

The woman smiled and kneeled. "My how you've grown! Your becoming quite the fetch as looks go."

Inuyasha growled and the woman looked at him. "I'm sorry for not introducing myself to you all. I'm Natilruh."

"And this is supposed to mean what to us?" Inuyasha managed to say through his very loud growl.

"Well I don't expect the rest of you to know, but it might be important to Kagome."

"It seems like I know you, but I can't remember," said Kagome in almost a whisper.

The demon smiled yet again. "Kagome I'm your aunt."