Disclaimer: This is getting old…nope…The only Inuyasha I own is anime…(sobs)

Kagome: Be glad that is all you own…having the real one can grate on your nerves a little.

What? He's just so cute! I find him amusing…but I suppose if he acted that way toward ME…I wouldn't find it amusing though.

Kagome: Believe me…no, you would not. The whole... "Kagome you idiot, I am tired of saving you. Why can't you be more like Kikyo?" it gets a little old.

Yeah…as I saw put somewhere the other day…being the reincarnation of your true love's true love…must be pretty hard. Not that I think Kikyo is his true love or anything…just a saying. You are his real true love, which is why Kikyo is so jealous.

Kagome: TRUE LOVE? I NEVER SAID THAT!

Ahh yes…denial. What a wonderful defense mechanism.

Chapter 18

The group headed to the living room to sit and talk for a little while. Although Inuyasha found himself surrounded by somewhat familiar faces, he was still a little on guard. He may recognize their scents, but not any of them as persons. Even Shippo had changed; he definitely wasn't a kid anymore. In fact, the kit was now appeared to be a couple of years older than himself. Only a couple though.

They each took a seat, except Inuyasha. He chose to stand behind Kagome's chair and glare at Shippo and Makoto, who both stared at Kagome with awe. "Your beauty exceeds my expectations. I never imagined Shippo had been correct when he said your loveliness was without comparison." Makoto sighed, grabbing her hands and kissing one. Kagome turned scarlet as Inuyasha growled behind her. He would rip the man's throat out if he didn't release her hands instantly.

"I told you, she would be more beautiful than that woman with the gigantic…um nice body at the beach the other day." Shippo interjected to his partner in crime for the past decade.

Knowing his son's weakness for beautiful women, "Makoto, get your hands off Higurashi. NOW!" Mr. Hikotaki sighed, one of these days one of them would get slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit, he swore. In the beginning he had thought his son's behavior with women had been Shippo's influence. Lately, he knew he would have turned out the same way even if Shippo had not been around; it only gave him a partner in crime. "I am sorry for both their behavior, I attempted to instill manners in both of them, but have failed miserably."

Inuyasha still growled behind her, even with both of the perverts leaving her alone for the moment. She took a long look at Makoto, "You are Miroku's reincarnation, aren't you?"

Shippo laughed, "I told you she would know immediately." His green eyes sparkled at Kagome, "You got it, Sango has been reincarnated 4 times since she died, I think. This last time, I haven't seen the girl since she was small so I am not positive. Miroku, this is only the second time he has been reincarnated."

"Should have known it would be the lecher." Inuyasha grumbled, eyeing the newcomer with suspicion. He knew better than anyone how different reincarnations could be.

"Miroku?" Kagome gasped, "He's really Miroku?"

"Miss Kagome, I am as much Miroku as you are Kikyo." Makoto said with offense.

The comment elicited an expression of disgust from Kagome, who hated being compared to the powerful miko from the past. "Point taken, my apologies."

"Yeah, at least Miroku attempted to act innocent, no matter how bad he acted." Shippo laughed.

"That is enough, Shippo. We are not here to discuss reincarnations. We have other things to do tonight." Mr. Hikotaki sighed, looking to the kitsune for help.

"Well to start, we have to get you functioning in the 20th century." He said to Inuyasha. "To begin with, we need to hide your demon features." He yanked the simple necklace off his head, bringing forth his Fox tail and demon ears.

"Hell no! No more necklaces!" Inuyasha yelled. "The one I have has enough problems with it."

"You can't go walking around with all your features for the world to see, Inuyasha. Trust me; I have seen everything these past 500 years. There are very few people who actually know that demon's still exist, I mean it. There are plenty of places where demons can go and be their true forms, but in most public places humans can't know." Shippo placed the necklace around his head, as Inuyasha growled at him.

Everyone watched as the transformation took place over the hanyou. His hair darkened to black, his ears disappeared from the top of his head, the fangs receded to normal human canines, and the claws turned to normal nails. "You're human, Inuyasha. It is just like a new moon." Kagome gasped.

"Except one difference," Shippo added. "What is different from the new moon, Inuyasha?"

The hanyou grinned, yanking Tetsusaiga out. "I'm still a demon!" He growled, watching the sword transform. His senses remained as strong as ever too. He could get used to this, looking human but being a demon.

Kagome frowned, standing next to him. "Put that away before you hurt someone or something." She said yanking the necklace off his head. "You are not wearing that inside here either. I miss your dog ears!"

He transformed back into a dog demon as quickly as he had become a human. Kagome smiled at his appearance, obviously relieved. She reached up and briefly rubbed an ear, glad to have it back. "Oi, knock it off, Kagome." He shifted his ears out of her reach, as he glared at her. Her comment had made him smile inside; she wanted him to be himself, not human. If he hadn't already trusted this girl more than he trusted himself, that would have clinched it. Instead it just reinforced everything he felt for her.

"You can rub my ears, Kagome."

"Mine too."

Alright, he would kill them. Gut them, string them by their innards and then kill them. "Don't touch her." Inuyasha yanked Kagome behind him, growling.

"Inuyasha, stop it! I can handle them." She attempted to pry herself away from him, failing miserably. "What is your problem?"

"Yeah, what is your problem, Inuyasha?" Shippo repeated, forgetting he had just come on to Kagome again.

The hanyou growled, letting Kagome go, he lunged toward the kitsune to attack. "Why you little-"

"Inuyasha, sit!" Kagome said, sighing. This would get old quickly. WHAM!

"Kagome!" Inuyasha growled at the girl, as the others in the room tried not to laugh at the sight of the hanyou face first in the floor.

Shippo and Makoto failed miserably at the task. Between laughs Shippo said, "Don't ever take that necklace off, Kagome. I forgot how funny that was!"

"Be quiet Shippo or I will fashion one for you and think of something worse that the commands I use on him." Kagome bit out, making Inuyasha laugh in his hole. She rushed to kneel at his side.

"We have business to take care of Shippo. Did you not bring us here for a reason?" Mr. Hikotaki said in an effort to get the group back on track.

The kitsune sighed, "Yeah, to get you acquainted with Kagome's time, you will have to go to school with her. You will have your own classes to take separate from Kagome." He laughed, thinking about what the hanyou would find at school.

"What? I'm not going to that school of hers!" Inuyasha screamed at him, Kagome giggled next to him, the thought of him in a school uniform was a sight she found quite amusing.

"It will be fine, Inuyasha. There are other demon's there." Mr. Hikotaki said, trying to calm the hanyou down.

"Other demons? There are other demons at school?" Kagome screeched. The news was not what she had anticipated hearing. "How did I never know this? I have never sensed demons at school."

"They conceal themselves well, Kagome." Shippo said calmly. "Anyway, there is a real reason I speed up this meeting. I need your help. Sango's reincarnation is in trouble."

"What?" Everyone in the room yelled at once, apparently Shippo had kept this news from everyone.

"Let me start at the beginning. I have followed Miroku and Sango's decedents, watching over them for all of these years. It began to get more and more difficult as the years went on. The fact that they had almost 20 children, who in turn had too many themselves…well they practically founded Tokyo on their own."

"Get to the point, Shippo." Inuyasha growled.

"I am!" He shouted. "The story begins with the first child they had. The one Sango was pregnant with when you pinned yourself Inuyasha. It was a girl that they named Kagome. Her linage was protected by Kirara, I handled the rest of the family to my ability. These two," He pointed to Mr. Hikotaki and Makoto. "They come from Sango's second child, Mika. All of their children inherited either Sango's demon slaying ability or Miroku's spiritual powers, only one had them both. Kagome was a powerful warrior miko in her time. Her ability to make demons feel at ease was unrivaled, yet many demons wanted her dead. If she was gone, they felt they could control the land. She had done a decent job of ridding powerful evil demons from their advances."

"Inuyasha! They named their first two children after us." Kagome sighed with delight.

"Feh! They named their daughter after you. What are you talking about us wench?"

"Mika means new moon, Inuyasha. Don't tell me you don't think they were not thinking of you when they named him that."

"Keh, whatever. Just get on with the story, Shippo." Inuyasha growled, hiding his pleasure at the news Kagome had just said.

"Kagome had one child before the demons finally caught her. She was extremely powerful; she fought them for ten days on her own, before doing the unthinkable. She knew how the Shikon no tama had been forged, and forged one of her own. As with the Shikon, she is trapped within the jewel fighting the demons for eternity. The jewel was given to her daughter for protection from that day forward. The jewel is for equality. If it falls into the wrong hands, the holder will have the power to control the demons for their own purpose. If it remains in pure hands, it keeps the two worlds living together as one." Shippo paused, waiting for a response from his companions.

"Another jewel? You've gotta be kidding me? Like we don't have enough problems to deal with already with the Shikon…now there is another powerful jewel you expect us to protect?" Inuyasha snarled, grabbing the necklace around Kagome's neck and showing the kitsune the jewel.

"What do you need our help with Shippo?" Kagome asked calmly, removing the hanyou's grasp from the necklace as she waited for the response.

"The jewel has remained protected from child to child, each of her decedents have been miko's. This latest one is the exception; she has no miko ability, only demon slayers. The strange thing is she has the ability to purify the jewel. I believe she is Sango's reincarnation, her name is Shinju. I received a phone call late last night, Shinju had been attacked, and they got the jewel. She is hurt pretty bad I guess. I wanted your help in getting the jewel back."

"Sure Shippo! It will be just like old times!" Kagome said cheerfully.

"No! It won't be like old times!" Inuyasha would never be able to protect her here in her time. Everything was so different and confusing to him.

"She needs our help, Inuyasha. We have to go and help her, especially if she is really Sango's reincarnation." She turned to him, giving him pleading 'puppy eyes'.

"Stop that!" He growled, giving in quickly. "Fine, when do we leave?"

"Right now!" Shippo yelled grabbing Kagome's hands and dragging her outside with him.

"Where are we going?" She asked curiously, looking at the kitsune. "Besides, don't you need to be disguised again?" Reminding her to go inside and get Inuyasha's necklace for him.

"Yeah, Yeah…We are going to a small suburb just outside of Tokyo. It isn't far from here." He mumbled, taking another necklace out of his pocket and placing it around his neck. Kagome watched as the kitsune's tail disappeared. His short red hair was still tied back in a ponytail, without the blue ribbon that used to adorn it. His clothing was modern and well made. He looked like he belonged here, Inuyasha still did not.

She sighed, turning to look at her hanyou. He wore the modern clothes, but still didn't have any shoes on. "Shippo, can I strengthen the concealment spell? We might run into problems with Tetsusaiga. He can't walk around with it, but can't be separated from it either. I would prefer him wearing what he is comfortable in; I want to give the illusion of him belonging here."

"If anyone can, I imagine it would be you. We can take a little while for you to try it." Shippo answered thoughtfully.

Looking at the group that had followed her outside, she walked over to them, "We should be ready to go in just a moment." She said, grabbing Inuyasha by the arm and dragging him upstairs with her.

"Oi, what was that for?" He asked as they reached his room.

She didn't answer, just grabbed the necklace and began to chant some words to it. Satisfied with the spur of the moment spell she had placed on it, she placed it over his head. She took a step back to admire the handiwork of her spell, she had succeeded. Tetsusaiga was hidden on him; he wore jeans, shoes and a tee-shirt. "Success! Now change into your fire rat robes and meet us downstairs." She said, placing him in front of the mirror so he could see what she had just done.

He took a good look at himself in the mirror, "Damn…this might not be so bad." He mumbled before grabbing his fire rat robes and changing into them, heading back downstairs. They were going to help Sango's reincarnation. Miroku's was not too different from original; he wondered what they were getting themselves into going after another jewel when they would have enough problems dealing with the first.

Apparently the old man would be walking home, leaving the four of them with the metal contraption car. Inuyasha had seen plenty of them, but never been in one before. Kagome gave him a smile before letting him into the backseat of the car, she climbed in after him. She grabbed his hand and squeezed it as Makoto started the car, she could tell he was nervous. She just wanted to be supportive, he returned her smile.

He had to ignore his nerves about the car, Sango's reincarnation needed them.

Ahh…done. I hope everyone is enjoying it. I probably should have separated it into two stories…but oh well. I now have a plot (albeit not very original…they are going to be searching for a jewel) but getting Inu used to the modern world should prove to be interesting.

Kagome: Yeah…real original…searching for a jewel.

At least it is COMPLETE…I mean…I do need to get back to my novel soon.

Inuyasha: Go do that then. I don't want to be here any longer.

I know…I know…I promise I will get this finished soon enough. Besides…it should be amusing to have you at school…with Kagome's friends. Not to mention who your teacher will turn out to be.

Inuyasha: Who?!

I will not tell you.

Kagome: What about me? (Whispers) Bwhahahaha You're kidding me?

Nope

Kagome: He's gonna kill you!!

? Like we don'