Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Yu Hakusho or Inuyasha.

Author's Notes: Jeez that's a lot of reviews. I didn't know so many people were reading this. Ok, Explanation here. You all want to know why I haven't been updating right? That would be lack of energy. I get home at just before five o'clock now each school day, so I basically write weekends now. Next quarter it will hopefully lighten up and then next semester I probably won't be spending much time after school at all, if ever, so I'll hopefully be writing more. I also have this nice new obsession with Naruto.

Question and Answer Section: This section is to answer questions people had. It stops me from answering the questions over again in review responses and it also saves space at the bottom of chapters because I don't like just ignoring my reviewers and like to at least name you guys off and thank you.

What about those left over in the feudal era? Are they coming through the well?
Nope. They'll be hints about what happened to everyone and a few you'll eventually see, but obviously those will only be the demons or descendants of the others. As it is, a few of the demons from the feudal era will feature prominently, but it won't be for awhile yet.

Hey, does this mean Kanna and Kagura are good?
Mmmm. That's a hard one to answer, so I'm going to have to give the stunningly obvious and exasperating answer of: Wait and See.

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Chapter 2 - Accusations

Innocent green eyes watched the waiting teens from his place curled by the God Tree. They hadn't even noticed him. He was getting good at concealing his energy... as long as he stayed perfectly still and was near the God Tree. He had a suspicion that the tree itself had something to do with it, but who knew? The tree was old even in his time.

Shippo barely held in a sigh. Kuwabara looked confused at being pulled here directly after school but Kurama had simply said he needed to hear what was going on. Inuyasha had come home swearing, glared at Hiei and Kurama when they attempted to tell him something, or Kurama had at least, and then shoved a familiar brunette at them with a snarled, "Watch her!"

Keiko hadn't been very forthcoming with information, looking confused and a bit hurt, with anger drifting across her face as well. The small kitsune did shift this time, noting that they still hadn't noticed him. In fact they were looking opposite him and even Inuyasha was out now. Ah, this meant only one thing.

With a wide grin, Shippo ignored that everyone seemed to think his or her problem was important, that it should have immediate discussion, or that Inuyasha wanted to rant and did what he always did when Kagome came home. This time he just added a name. "Kagome! Yusuke! You're back!"

A blur of gold and russet flew through the group of teens who Kagome and Yusuke were facing with expressions of puzzlement and bounded into Kagome's automatically opened arms. He snuggled her briefly, then bounded up onto Yusuke's shoulder and grinned when the boy looked a bit confused and then began scowling at Shippo when he poked at his hair.

"Hey! Kid!" Yusuke patted at the kit's errant paws. He grinned at them both and took a sniff of the air around them, wrinkling his nose at the strange smells. School smelled weird. Too bad Kagome kept insisting he was eventually going to be going to it. Once they sorted out how to make him look human without someone having to concentrate an illusion on him all day.

Kagome was looking curiously at the gathered teens. Keiko was looking a bit thoughtful and confused. Inuyasha was apparently in one of his "pissed as hell" moods. She hadn't seen one of those in awhile. Irritation and annoyance were normal, but he was glaring at everything. Kuwabara looked similar to Keiko. Hiei and Kurama on the other hand, were giving her a sinking feeling at the hurt animosity rippling from their auras and Kagome almost squeaked in alarm.

She couldn't remember doing anything to them to hurt their feelings this way. She tilted her head and looked towards them worriedly, concern etched into her features. "Kurama? Hiei? What's wrong?"

Both seemed to shift slightly, eyeing her with confused suspicion at the totally innocent question. Yusuke's eyes narrowed as he watched them and the silence stretched out, getting impatient quickly. "Hey, you two going to answer or what?"

Kurama shook himself and hesitated slightly as all attention went to him. Hiei had deliberately stepped back into the shadows, allowing and forcing Kurama to take the spotlight. "There are a few places where portals are known to happen for slight trade between the Human and Demon Worlds. Usually only very important items and Reikai gives out certain times they will open these portals. We happened on to a strange package waiting one such portal. There were two familiar objects inside."

Here Kurama paused slightly as Kagome's eyes widened into a silent 'O' and she winced, her facing going slightly pale and a few heads turned their heads that way. "Fan and mirror?"

"Fan and mirror." Kurama agreed pleasantly. "We believe you know something about that?"

Inuyasha actually jumped slightly, remembering the two items he had assumed were replicas. He noticed Kagome's guilty expression, the slight evasion with Kagura when he and she had finally talked more about the final battle. The others had said Kanna had disappeared. "Oh. Fucking. Hell."

Everyone looked curiously at the hanyou who was staring incredulously at the squirming Kagome who was looking at anything but her friends. Yusuke peered in between them and crossed his arms over his chest, disliking the feeling that he was missing an important part of the puzzle. "Answers anytime now would be great."

"Well, um..." Kagome trailed off helplessly and made the mistake of looking at Inuyasha for help, which he took as permission to be blunt.

"A mirror and a fan were in that packet of gifts she received and apparently they were the real deal and neither Kagura nor Kanna are dead. And...and... You didn't say anything!" Inuyasha pointed his finger rather immaturely and accusingly at Kagome. She took offense.

"Well, excuse me. I wasn't even sure until I realized I had to take the chance! What was I supposed to say? 'Oh yes Inuyasha, Kagura and Kanna are finally free of Naraku and I'm pretty sure they've lived these past five hundred years. Let's go bake some cupcakes and visit them!' You would've been out the door and halfway to the nearest portal before the last syllable past my lips!" Kagome stomped her foot for emphasis as the two seemed to forget their were others who wanted answers around them.

"They're no good demons who tried to kills us!"

"They were enslaved!"

"I would have rather died than followed orders like that!"

"They knew nothing else! You'd let a pale shade of Kikyou harm you and your friends, but not those two, who were practically innocents? You hypocrite!" Hiei and Kurama were alarmed to find their skin burning slightly as Kagome didn't even attempt to reign in her powers that just seemed to grow stronger with the passing days. Shippo, despite the fact she didn't seem to be harming him accidentally yet, bounded away to safety. Inuyasha snarled and refused to admit being so close was hurting him. She didn't even know what she was doing!

"That was different! Kikyou was tricked! She thought she was betrayed!"

"And when she knew she hadn't been?" Kagome asked quietly. "What about then?" Kagome knew this was a difficult thing for him to hear. Kikyou hadn't even been mentioned after the final battle.

Inuyasha clenched his fists and couldn't seem to find the proper retort for any of this. Yusuke was staring at his girlfriend in shock and hoping she would calm down. He still needed to yell at her himself for what he'd just heard and he sure wasn't going to do it while she was in that kind of mood.

Keiko opened her mouth to say something, and then regarded the three violently tempered people in front of her, the two demons, and finally Kuwabara looking on in disapproval and sighed. Being left in the dark wasn't fun, but she was kind of used to it be now.

"How did you know where to send it?" Kurama asked, trying to steer the conversation back to its original purpose.

"I didn't actually, not at first. I just put Kagura and Kanna's names on it. Apparently it got where it was going." There was the slightest hint of triumph in her tone. Whether they approved or not, she had succeeded. She felt awful guilty about not trying to talk it out with them before.

"You're a fool," Hiei summarized coldly. Kagome turned slightly, bristling and opening her mouth to snap at him before struggling to reign in her temper and attempting to be calm. "It would be great if you could explain why."

Hiei "hn"ed and glared at Kurama who rolled his eyes and fixed her with a disapproving gaze. It reminded her of when she had done some her mother found disappointing, the gaze that said, "I thought you knew better than that" and she grimaced at him before he began speaking. "Whatever else they may or may not be, they were and could still possibly be enemies. You have alerted them, and anyone who may intercept the package or hear about it, that you are back in your own time with the completed jewel. You have put yourself and the jewel in danger."

Kurama stopped, then went on seriously, "I believe this is a matter to take up with Koenma. He seems to have his own interests in the jewel, and could help us defeat those who may be coming for the jewel. Yusuke if you could call-"

"Like hell." Surprisingly, it was Inuyasha who spoke, glaring at the kitsune and fire apparition. "We did not go through over a year of Naraku and barely scraping by just to hand it over to Koenma."

"Handing the jewel to anyone is the wrong path," Kagome murmured softly. At least, she could make that much out from the dreams. They were getting more urgent as the days went on.

Both Kurama and Inuyasha were staring at her. Kurama grimaced slightly. "Then they are the same dreams."

Kagome and Yusuke both stared at him, while Inuyasha looked at him in confusion. He knew Kagome was having them, and he himself. "Oi, you too?"

"No, not I. Hiei is having them," Kurama replied mildly. Three heads turned towards Hiei. Kuwabara and Keiko glanced at each other, both mirroring confusion.

"Um, guys, what are you talking about?" Kuwabara voiced the question Keiko was thinking but was too polite to actually say. Inuyasha's ears flattened but this brought Kagome's attention to Keiko, hesitant on saying anything more in front of the girl.

Inuyasha followed Kagome's gaze and half-snarled, glaring at a point between the two girls. "Keh. She can hear it all. She'll be around everything anyway."

"What? Why?!" Yusuke demanded, feeling protective of his ex-girlfriend who was still his friend, even if things were sometimes shaky and awkward. He didn't notice Kagome's eyes flickering between him and Keiko before apparently trying to shake something off.

"Stupid Koenma says she I have to guard her. Most of the time I'll be staying near her house. She needs protection or something." Inuyasha explained, ears still flat on his head, his voice barely mumbling.

"Ok, again, why? I mean, why would Keiko need protection?" Yusuke focused on the hanyou, who shrugged, a bit confused himself. Koenma's explanations hadn't made any sense and he'd had a feeling afterwards that the stupid prince was hiding something. But, hell, the pay check was steadier with this job, and he'd been ordered to do it.

"Something's stirring among the demons," Kagome murmured, almost to herself, shuddering as she did. Even Yusuke's presence didn't keep half smothered messages from the dreams from rising to the surface now.

"A good reason why you shouldn't have given those objects to their originals owners," Kurama pointed out shortly. Kagome turned angrily and opened her mouth, at the same time as Yusuke was about to demand a better explanation.

"You know, if you children are going to fight, perhaps you should have some food first. Fighting on an empty stomach is never a good idea. Right Atsuko?" Kagome's mother stood in the doorway of her house, a curious Souta peeking around her, his eyes brightening excitedly at the prospect of a fight. Kagome was used to her mother's distraction technique and was about to refuse when her mother spoke again.

"I made oden." Those magic words had Kagome sprinting past her surprised boyfriend and their companions and skidding towards the kitchen. Atsuko blinked as well, having been watching from behind the other mother. She snorted slightly. "You should remember this. If Kagome ever gets mad at you Yusuke, just make her some oden."

"Yeah, sis tends to forgive anything for oden. It's a good thing Mom can cook for me, otherwise I'd be dead!" Souta said enthusiastically, grinning as Shippo decided it was safe again and scurried towards them.

"And ramen's even easier to make, eh Shippo? Good for when Inuyasha's being prissy." Souta and Shippo exchanged looks, nodded wisely, and then bolted just as the statement sunk into the dog hanyou's brain. Amber eyes blazed and a low growl split the air.

"You fu-"

"Inuyasha Higurashi, don't you dare swear!" Mrs. Higurashi admonished before the third letter was formed. He gulped it down before glaring under the combined stares of Keiko, Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama.

"Kagome's Mom decided to adopt Inuyasha. It was easier to explain that he was a distant cousin or something than to make up an excuse on why he's living on the property. The whole thing was worth it to see dog-boy's face the first time she said his whole name. It was fu- freakin' hilarious." Yusuke said, changing the word he was going to use mid sentence when Mrs. Higurashi glared at him from where she was disappearing inside.

"Never thought I'd see someone who could control not only Yusuke but another boy even more ill-tempered," Keiko remarked with a smile as she followed the women into the house.

Yusuke managed to find offense in that; just not what any normal person would have been offended by. "Hey! He is not more ill-tempered than me!"

"Keh. Who says I'm ill tempered? I'll rip off the heads of anyone who does," Inuyasha growled out as he stomped off after them. Kurama quirked an eyebrow towards the fuming human teenager.

"Don't worry. The general population has no idea Inuyasha exists, so at least they think you're bad tempered." Hiei almost put out the effort to roll his eyes as Yusuke's glare intensified on the kitsune who was smiling winningly as he slid into the Higurashi and Urameshi household.

The smell of food drove Kuwabara into the house, leaving a scowling teenager and a blank-faced demon outside. Finally Kagome appeared in the doorway, took a fistful of the material on Yusuke's sleeve and proceeded to drag him inside. "Stop pouting, you're making me miss my oden. Mom won't let me eat any until everyone's sitting down!"

Yusuke smirked slightly. "Probably because she knows you'll scarf it down just like last time, leaving none for the rest of us."

"Hey, I didn't scarf it down, you guys just took so long to come to the table, and it looked so nice and it smelled so good..." Kagome trailed off, staring into space as they turned the corner of the hall towards the kitchen that was also the dining room.

"You're drooling, Kagome," Yusuke informed her before picking up the pace and taking his seat while Kagome absorbed his words. A few seconds later he was treated to an angry and fuming Kagome. He grinned at her smugly. In a few seconds she'd be as placid as a kitten anyway.

"Here's the oden everyone!" Mrs. Higurashi chirped. Bowls were set in front of them and the instant the signal was given that they were allowed to eat, there was a flurry of movement from Kagome and a happy sigh a few minutes later, followed by a begging look. Her mother chuckled while refilling her bowl for seconds.

"And she says I eat too much ramen," Inuyasha muttered, only half finished his first bowl of oden.

"You do," Shippo piped up from his place, licking at the remaining oden in his bowl. If it had been anything but oden, he knew Kagome would have been scolding him about table manners, but on these particular days, it wasn't much better.

Hiei was staring at the oden in consternation. He did not eat much human food. Yet obviously, he was expected too. He looked beside him to the kitsune, happily eating the food he was given, and more politely than most. With a suspicious glare around the table, the fire apparition took his first taste of oden.

Souta had finished his bowl quickly and neatly and was amusing himself by watching Kagome, and now the fire apparition devour the oden like it would be the last meal they ever had. He exchanged a snicker filled glance with the young kitsune as both mothers looked on in amusement.

"Ya know, Kagome's oden obsession was cute. That's just..." Yusuke trailed off, unable to find a word to convey how utterly wrong Hiei's rapid consumption of oden was. And apparently his mother had noticed just how rapid it was, because the pot of oden had been half filled a moment ago, now it was a quarter filled.

"Won't the shrimp get sick from eating that fast?" Kuwabara asked in fascination. Inuyasha snorted. "Demons don't get sick. Especially from something like overeating."

"Otherwise Inuyasha would be dead," Kagome mumbled as she stared down sadly at the empty oden pot. Then she frowned slowly and her eyes narrowed. "What happened to all the oden?"

Yusuke and Inuyasha exchanged exasperated glances. She'd just noticed that now? An instant later they scowled at each other, realizing what they'd just done. Inuyasha growled lightly while Yusuke smirked at the fire apparition before turning to Kagome. "Hiei ate it."

Kagome turned towards Hiei and glared. He glared back. Neither of them seemed inclined to say a word and eventually after a couple of minutes of awkward glaring, Kurama cleared his throat. "While I still disagree with your decision to send the mirror and fan back to their owners, since we are all finally gathered in one place, perhaps we can - briefly -put that aside. I think we all need to share as much information about these dreams as we can. Also, Inuyasha, you are the one most often in Makai. If you could, I would like you to tell us what the situation in Makai is. Any strange occurrences or mass movements of demon tribes would be especially helpful."

Kagome and Hiei turned blank looks on the kitsune and the miko girl frowned. "You shouldn't talk business right after having oden."

Kurama risked a glance at Yusuke and Inuyasha, his eyes confused and questioning, especially when Hiei nodded in agreement. Yusuke muttered under his breath something that sounded oddly like, "Oden made them go crazy."

"What dreams?" Keiko asked finally, her curiosity once again getting the best of her.

"Hiei, Kagome, and Inuyasha have all been having some strange and probably prophetic dreams. That all three of them are having them, especially Inuyasha who is lacking the powers to tap into prophecies, indicates that someone or something is sending them. Whether they are true prophetic dreams remains to be seen. Hopefully Inuyasha's reports of Makai will shed some light on that. If they are not, there will be many things to revaluate." Kurama looked meaningfully towards Kagome. She managed not to wince, returning his gaze levelly.

Shippo looked between the older kitsune and his mother figure, his gaze disappointed. He didn't want them to fight. Hadn't they had enough of fighting? His sigh was slightly depressed and he felt a hand ruffling his hair. He blinked, looking up into Atsuko's eyes. "Don't worry about it, kid. Everything will be fine."

Shippo didn't wonder how she could believe that, knowing what she did but still not really knowing the dangers they could be in. Instead, he nuzzled her palm lightly, sensing the worry she couldn't express. It was looking like they were going on another adventure soon, and that meant her own child would be in trouble again.

"But what's happening in these dreams?" Kuwabara asked curiously. Souta grimaced by Shippo's side. He could guess what at least some of them were about. The first few nights she'd had them, before she and Yusuke didn't even bother separating towards different rooms, most of the house, and Inuyasha if he was there, was woken up by her screams.

"Depends. It shows a few different futures and what paths lead to them, or at least the beginnings of the paths, which seem to be much the same. No future is perfect, but some are much better than others, the happy ones at least semi-peaceful," Kagome answered after a few moments.

"And the bad ones? Let me guess, the world ends?" Keiko asked, only half-joking.

Kagome's gaze was serious as she answered calmly, her monotone voice almost completely devoid of her usual cheerful emotions. "No. It's just overrun by demons."

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Ok, reviewer responses. Damn, there are a lot of you. And may I just say "Wow!" at the number of reviews. You guys are great. Now, first of all the, thank you to: InuyashaJunky, Addanc-TSC, IY and YYH lover, inu.-sess.fan, Cheeza-13, Shiroi Hikari, PriestessKikyoMarie, Kill-all-flamers210 and FoxylilRaven for being awesome reviewers! I know a lot of you have reviewed way more than once in TTMSD and I give you all cyber cookies for that. Now, for the other eight of you, and again, wow for being so many of you, here are some responses:

Winged Knight: Heh, Actually I was just posting a lot of new stories. A lot of them were already on the group, I just decided to post them on near TTMSD's birthday. I still have a lot of ideas, but I did try to focus on this, especially since everyone seemed to like it. The whole school thing just had to be put in, poor Kagome, and it's only the first day he was there! Then again, apparently they won't be getting many school days before they're off on another big adventure.

C4n4di4nG1r1535: Thanks! I'm glad you like it, as for other stories, I have plenty of those and they're all Yus/Kag.

Cyclonus1: Apparently everyone's been waiting for this! This is the most amount of reviews I've ever gotten for one chapter! As for Houjo, I like him uninjured, even if he is a bit naive, and even before Yusuke was a spirit detective people tended to be unconscious when he hit them. Lots of things are next, though it'll be a few chapters before they start really moving. First they have to figure out where they're going!

smile7499: Heh, most flamers are so silly, I'd be glad to get more of them. Flaming me for the pairing in TTMSD when the pairing was in the summary is just funny. And she was my first one! That was great! I could write Kagome and Yusuke fluffiness and be happy myself, unfortunately, some people just seem to want to have a plot. I mean, who needs a plot? Thanks for everything! I love it when you review!

Hinomi: I did try, but I got addicted to Naruto right after I posted everything and by the time it faded a bit, school had started! I hate school. It gets in the way.

ShaJen: Hello again you two! I noticed you two reviewing a lot of my stories lately and thank you for that! Thanks for saying it's a good start, though this one was a bit shorter than the last, this seemed a good place to stop this chapter.

gurlhushere13: Yeah, updates won't be frequent for awhile. Inuyasha and Keiko will(eventually) be a couple, but considering it took a whole fic for Yusuke and Kagome to be a couple, don't expect it overnight.

Water-Rose: I don't know if you reviewed the first one either. I'm too lazy to look! I don't think this could be called soon in any sense of the word, but it was here eventually! Thanks for everything you said and review again!