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The dinner table was cleared away and when it was just Kagome, Inuyasha, and her mother sitting at the table her mother spoke, "So do you want me to start from the beginning or up to the point of when you were born?"

"Umm… the beginning I guess."

CHAPTER 3: REVEILING THE PAST PART 1

Kagome sat uncomfortably at the kitchen table. She had just realized that from the moment before meeting Natilruh her unknown aunt she had been living her life not knowing anything about her actual past. She thought she knew what her past was, but now she knew nothing of her past. A lie was what she was living. As the minutes clicked away on the clock above her mothers' head the angrier she grew. This woman who she loved and who had always been straightforward towards her was now (as Kagome felt) an imposter. She knew nothing about her own mother. How could her mother not tell her? Hadn't she asked enough times about her father? She had deliberately lied to her own daughter and this was pissing Kagome off the more she thought about it. Kagome cleared her throat, "Why didn't you tell me before? You have been lying to me my whole life!"

Her mother looked at her with a deep sadness. "It's not that I didn't want to tell you, it's just that I couldn't bring myself to tell you. Kagome dear my past holds so much pain, and I knew that telling you would bring back, so much hurt."

"So you didn't tell me 'cuz it would hurt you? I still think I deserved to know!"

"I know you deserve to know, and you have every right to be upset with me," she said as she gave her daughter a pleading look.

Kagome saw how desperate her mother's look was and it hit a nerve. As bad as her mother might feel she wasn't going to give in. She had every right to be upset and she wanted her mother to realize how mad she really was. "Ok, so tell me the truth of how I got here and all this mystery surrounding my past."

"One thing you must understand is that I was very young when I met your father. I was about your age when I married him or well when we became mates."

Kagome was now confused. Only demons mated unless…No, her father couldn't possibly be a… "But mom, only demons mate what are you talking about?"

Her mother nodded. "Kagome your father was a demon and a very powerful one at that. This woman that you saw, Natilruh, she was a wolf demon was she not?"

Kagome nodded, "Yes, I guess so I mean she looked like one. She had a tail and ears like a wolf does."

"Yes, those were the traits of your father as well. He was a wolf demon. He was also once the leader of that pack. Did you see any of the others?"

"Other wolves? No, it was just her."

"Yes, that's good some of the others in his pack disapproved of us, because I was human, Natilruh looked past that. She is a great demon you must learn this about her she has her own ways of classifying people and demons."

"Mom, you still haven't explained anything!"

"Yes, yes ok. Well Kagome I was once in the feudal era, as you like to call it. Your father and I met shortly after my 15th birthday. We were together for a long time before we decided to mate. You see it was a very hard decision for him, because everyone he knew and everyone in his pack disproved of him mating with a human. They said that his offspring would be weak and wouldn't be able to hold up as the alpha of the pack. Natilruh, which was the alpha- female of the pack told him that whoever he chose to mate with would no matter what have strong offspring no matter if it were demon or human. In the end we finally did mate. We had you Kagome. You were the cutest little baby…"

"Umm mom your missing a little detail! I'm human!" her mother's story didn't seem believable at all and she was about to get up and leave.

"Kagome would you please let me finish?! Not even after a month after having you your father was killed in a battle between another wolf pack. I knew that from that very point I was not welcome in the pack. Natilruh tried to talk them into letting me stay, but with the change in ranks after you father died they threatened to kill me if I stayed and they would surely make your life a living hell since you were a half-demon. So, I fled. Kagome have you ever wondered why your such a strong miko? Being Kikyou's incarnation has a little to do with it, but you even overpower her do you ever wonder why?"

She had never really thought about it to tell herself the truth. Then again how did her mother know about Kikyou? Strange she thought she made a note to ask her mom after she learned more about her past. She nodded a "no" to her mother.

"I'll tell you then. Kagome before I met your father I had trained as a miko. My mother before me and her mother before her had been very devoted in being miko's and I also carry that gene, as do you. Well when I ran from the den I had nowhere to go except my parents home. Natilruh took me to my home and then vowed to always protect you and me as we were what her brother cared for most in the world and he would want it that way. I stayed with my parents for little over a week when yet more disaster struck. The same wolf pack that killed your father wanted to kill you and me. They struck my families' small hut while I was bathing with you. When I came to the clearing of our small village everything was destroyed. I ran and ran till I stumbled onto an old well. I heard the voices of the demons that had destroyed the village and jumped into well. I huddled down there with you trying to keep you safe and to keep you quite, but that didn't help. They were wolves so they found us. In an act to save you I summed up all my energy to try to find some way to save you. As my energy exploded I somehow formed a time slip at the bottom of that well. When I opened my eyes we were still at the bottom of the well, but something was different I felt it. With what little strength I had I pulled us out the well. What I found astounded me. A young man was sitting on the step (of what is now the well house) looking at me. He was as scared as I was to see me. I don't remember much, but I passed out form using all that power."

Her mother excused herself to get a drink of water and said she would finish the story once she had re-hydrated herself. Kagome was shocked. Her mother had had enough power to form a time slip? This still didn't explain why Kagome was human. She was so confused, but she did feel a little more respect for her mother. She had endured so much! Kagome didn't believe how she could stand it. The love of her life had died and the only other family she had had been killed, and she herself had almost been killed poor mom she thought. Kagome's mom returned with a large glass of water and smiled. "All that talking made me thirsty! Now where were we?"

Kagome allowed a little smile, "Umm you saw a young man?"

"Oh yes, Souta's father."