A Curse Can be a Miracle

by Danie7

The Curse is coming to fruition. How will it all turn out? KagInu MirSan Akiko & Kaori orgi. chara

2. The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Inte...

Chapter Two: The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions Disclaimer: I do not own Inu Yasha nor do I claim to. I would love to own it however but I doubt God is going to be that generous. Although I do acknowledge Rumiko Takashi owns Inu Yasha and all the characters therein except for Akiko and Kaori. They are mine. And they might be showing up in this chapter. They will definitely be in the next if not in here just as a warning. Oh and if you are a Kikyou fan you will not like any of my fic as I hate her and revel in having her in pain or portrayed as the witch I believe her to be. Please enjoy I put my heart into this.

Inu Yasha and company watched through the week as Kagome changed from human to hanyou as the days passed. During the daylight hours she was a human but during the night she was hanyou. She was dreading having to tell her family about the change and often cried herself to sleep without the others knowing.

Sango woke up just after the sun had set. She was still getting used to adjusting her sleeping patterns. They had changed to allow Kagome to get used to her demon side easier. Miroku was still asleep as was Shippo. Sango got up and roused the group. Once she was certain they were awake she said, "We need to see someone who would have a clue as to how to cure Kagome. I don't think she wants to be like this." She looked at the door afraid that Inu Yasha or Kagome would come in to shoot her on the spot for saying what she was thinking.

They were all glad Inu Yasha and Kagome were gone learning so that they could have this conversation. "Yes I think it is rather unfair for this to have happened to Lady Kagome also." Miroku commented. "But the thing is that the demon had said this was her greatest dream." He reminded her. His hands motioning in a way that said 'What can we do you know?'. She nodded in agreement. "Yes I know that but still. She shouldn't be forced into something like this. We should talk with Kaeda about this and see if she knows anyone who could help."

Shippo shook his head. "She won't know of anyone who could help us. The only one she might recommend would be Kikyou and she wants Inu Yasha dead. And I believe she would kill Kagome given half a chance as Kikyou believes that he loves Kagome. So no we can't ask her." Sango looked at the kit not expecting such words out of one as young as him. "Think about it you know I am right. Although I will say this, Kikyou probably will know a remedy. But the fact remains that Inu Yasha does care for Kagome like he never cared for Kikyou." He shrugged his shoulders.

"You are probably right Shippo. We know Kaeda can't know anything about it because she would've already offered to heal Kagome if she would've known anything about it. And the most she probably could do would be to suggest Kikyou." Sango reasoned.

Miroku nodded, "But if we do go to Kikyou we'd have to do it without the others knowing because if they did. Inu Yasha would insist on going along and then Kagome would be hurt because she will remember all her past experiences with the dead priestess. And we would end up with no answers at all because all Kikyou would want to do would be drag Inu Yasha to hell with her or to kill him herself. Am I right?" Miroku looked to Sango.

"So you don't think we should go? I do. I really want Kagome to be able to choose how to be. Not just be resigned to it because she has no other choices. But if anything I don't want to meet this Kikyou person at all. I just get this bad feeling from her." Sango looked to the door again wondering if all her blasphemy was going to draw the hanyou out of the woodwork.

"You get a bad feeling from everything evil Sango its natural. And I would say Kikyou has definitely gotten evil if she wasn't while she was alive." Miroku said.

"Which with the way she acts now it wouldn't be that much of a stretch of the imagination." Shippo commented. Miroku nodded once again.

"The way I see it we don't necessarily have a choice, but if you feel that she would rather be this way I won't go." Sango said.

"I know you don't mean what you're saying now Sango so I am going. I believe that if you are going Sango that you might be in danger sooner or later so." Miroku looked at Shippo. "You will have to stay here to stall for the others and tell them we got a lead on a shard and were going to see if the rumors held any truth before we come back and get the group so as to give Kagome ample time to adjust and do whatever else it is that she wants."

Shippo nodded, "Got it. I promise I will do my best to keep them here. But if they come after you what will we do?" He picked up Sango's habit of checking the door.

"I guess we could always go with the old saying: 'Honesty is always the best policy'." Miroku said a bit perplexed at the thought of failure. "But we had better pray to Buddha that that doesn't happen for I fear that Inu Yasha would likely have our heads. I think he finds Kagome very appealing in her new situation if you catch my meaning." He jokingly waggled his eyebrows suggestively.

'Well Miroku will be Miroku.' Sango sighed. "I believe that too. If you've noticed he looks at her slightly different and more frequently if that is even possible." Sango looked out the door again and Miroku had to squash the urge to tell her to stop that she was making him nervous also. "He seems to like her in this new form as she is more open and free in this state and he can relate to her more. She is no longer the lowly human. She is now one of the lowly hanyous in his mind's eye, his equal. But I know that he loved her even before this whole thing happened it's too bad he doesn't know it or even realize it in the least. I think its all instinct with him and that I think will hurt her in the end if he doesn't do something about it."

Shippo spoke up. "I think he knows it in the back of his head. But if he ever tells her. It doesn't matter how. just she is by what he's done to her before. she is a very forgiving girl. I think she loves him to just to get to the point."

Miroku began to believe that Shippo was lying to them when he said he was a child. With all the knowledge he was spitting out he would have to believe that the kit was lying were it not for the evidence of his eyes. "Shippo just how old are you in human years?"

"I don't really know I can't count that high." He explained quickly. Miroku nodded. 'That figures the kit might as well be older than I am.But if that's true.How old is Inu Yasha?' He frowned at that thought. 'Well if Shippo is any indication Inu Yasha must be really childish or a very good actor.' He shook his head the hanyou was definitely not an actor.

"Well we just have to figure out how we are going to set this plan into motion as we haven't heard of Kikyou's whereabouts for months now. Who do you think would be the best to go to? Or do you think we should just go from village to village asking?" Miroku asked Sango.

"Do you think Kaeda might know? But then how many people can we ask and expect Inu Yasha and Kagome to stay clueless and never start to wonder why we're asking questions like that when we are looking for shards. And I wouldn't put it past them to seek us out before we're through." Sango tapped her fingers against her temple. They heard a tree fall in the woods again.

"If they take another tree back I don't think the villagers will let them in. They already have enough to last through two winters and with extra for just incases." Sango grinned. "But Kagome is enjoying that aspect of learning with Inu Yasha." She let her smile grow. "She gets to shock him at every turn with her newfound strength although I think she feels alienated from us. Kagome is going to be a very special demon." They looked at her like she was an idiot then went on to something else.

"Well if you leave don't you think that may widen the gap?" Shippo asked. "If you leave without her she just may feel like you guys didn't want to be around her because you two never go off on your own to look for shards and without Kagome to be there it would be the luck of the draw if you find it." Shippo amazed them yet again for his words of wisdom. "She might feel you guys are disgusted by her or scared or something to not want to be around her."

"You are right Shippo but how else are we going to be able to do it?" Miroku asked. 'Gee isn't this nice having to ask children what to do so you know you won't screw up?' He thought.

"I think I am going to pry Kagome away from Inu Yasha and take a bath with her. Maybe I can find out some answers if I can get her alone to talk." Sango suggested. Miroku nodded his head, as did Shippo. "But you two will not talk of this without me present do you understand?" They nodded once again. She went over to Kagome's bag and dug out Kagome's bathing supplies. 'Unless that girl has been bathing with Inu Yasha, I think she will be appreciating this.' Thought Sango and smiled at the idea. Kagome and Inu Yasha taking a bath together yeah right he would probably be 'sat' until his back broke if he tried something like that.'

Kagome sighed. Inu Yasha was grouching again but she didn't listen. 'I wonder what Sango, Miroku and Shippo are doing.' She thought. 'It has been so boring without them around for entertainment.'

"Are you listening to me Kagome?" Inu Yasha broke through her daze glaring. 'I bet she wasn't paying attention again. That woman what would it take to get her to listen for at least five minutes without zoning out like she's been doing?'

"Hmm? Sorry I wasn't paying attention." She sighed and sat down. He followed suit and sat in front of her staring at her. "I'm sorry Inu Yasha I know I should be." She looked down at her hands and looked at the dirt that coated them. 'How long has it been since I had a bath?'

"Kagome what's wrong with you? You haven't been paying attention half of the time you're supposed to and you seem so out of it." He watched as she lay down on her back staring at the sky, as was her recent custom when she wanted to think. He played with her tail and stroked it for a while messing with the fur and trying to get her to say whatever it was that was on her mind.

"Tomorrow would you mind coming with me-" Her face had been serious and strained slightly until she heard Sango tromping through the woods and stopped. "SANGO!" She yelled a smile brightening up her features. She got up and launched herself into her friend. "I haven't talked with you in forever it seems like." She commented.

"I know that's why I thought you and I would go bathing as I figured you haven't in a while." Sango smiled and Inu Yasha knew that Kagome had probably been missing her friends. He would have to remember to let her do whatever it was she wanted for a little while. 'No not whatever she wants. but I should take her to see her family and then we will decide where to go from there.' He thought. 'But will she want to see her family? I guess I'll have to ask her once she gets back.' Assured he went to the village to find Miroku and Shippo to see what they had been missing in the village as of late.

Kagome settled Sango on her back. Sango held onto Kagome's shoulders laughing as they soared through the air. "Goodness Kagome is this what you've been learning to do all this time?" Sango laughed again as they landed on a branch and Kagome took a very high leap just to make Sango's stomach flip.

"Sometimes." Kagome landed next to the warm spring they had been to the last time they had taken a bath. They were quiet while they stripped and lowered themselves into the water. "What was really funny was when I had to try that with Inu Yasha on my back." She grinned and ducked her head under water covering her ears to keep the water out. When she came up her hair looked almost stark white from the damp while her tips looked like coal. She smiled reminding Sango of what she wanted to do for her friend. The fangs stood out in her smile making her appear the feral beast she had been transformed into. "He was so upset when he ticked me off while we were in the air and I used him so I could land."

Sango laughed imagining her friend using Inu Yasha like a trampoline. Kagome laughed too. "What was really funny was when I was practicing my swipe and I caught Inu Yasha on the back of the leg." She grinned and flexed her claws. She relaxed her muscles in the water certain that she'd be using them later on that night and wanted to be able to move without stress.

"What swipe? Can you show me?" Sango asked her demon hunter curiosity piqued.

"Sure." Kagome rose out of the water. Sango was amazed at the muscle definition her friend had acquired. Her stomach was now well defined with her muscles standing out and her arms had gotten toned and slightly muscled also. She looked like she had been lifting weights or something during all this time with Inu Yasha. And Sango couldn't help but notice as Kagome stood in her birthday suit facing a tree her tail shaking the water out of it unconsciously. She raised her right hand and poised her claws. Her arm came down so fast Sango didn't see it but she saw the aftershock in the air. Golden arcs rippled for an instant before Sango watched as the tree fell in a clean cut.

Sango had seen Kagome start it out and could now see the after math but the problem was she hadn't seen the attack. "Wow." It was all she could say in response. Kagome walked back to the stream and lowered herself back into the water sighing as the cleansing water coated her body once again. She took her bath bag and thanked Sango profusely for thinking to bring it. She scrubbed herself with the unscented soap after taking a cautious sniff of the scented before she passed it over to Sango not able to use it herself. Sango took it and gratefully scrubbed herself reveling in the dreamy scent it gave her skin. "Gosh you must be so happy to be able to do stuff like that Kagome." She commented hoping it came off nonchalantly.

"Its okay. Its not like I have a choice or anything so yeah its cool." Kagome said absently as she dug out her shampoo and lathered her hair mindful of her ears careful not to get soap in them. Her ears flicked back and forth. The strong smell of her shampoo got to her. The sticky sweetness of it was making her sick. She ducked her head under water trying to hurry up and get rid of the scent. Her ears were instantly filled with water giving her have a funny ache in her head. She ignored it and scrubbed her head free of the offending smell.

Kagome resurfaced only to find the smell was still there because it was soaked into her hair and the soapsuds had the aroma also. She glared at the bottle and was sorely tempted to hurl it into the bushes but remembered that Sango might want to use it. "Do you want to use this one or would you use something else." She sneezed the scent getting to her even more so as it swirled around her in the water.

Sango shook her head taking pity on her friend. "Do you have anything else?" She asked. Kagome was grateful and she dug out some other shampoo whose smell wasn't so offending. Sango took it and lathered up. Kagome tilted her head trying to dispel the water that was caught in her ears. 'Genius you have that aqua-dry crud in your bag. Why didn't you think of that before?' She grinned with her memory and dug out the tiny bottle. Tilting her head to the other way she put drops in her ear until it felt like her ear was full.

It smelled like vinegar but she took it not wanting to get swimmers ear or anything. Sango watched as her friend looked to be putting more water in her ears but this one stank something awful. "Kagome what is that stuff?" Her nose wrinkled. She could smell it from this far away and she could only imagine what it was like to Kagome's nose.

"Its special stuff made to dry up the water in your ears so that you don't get a virus from having it in your ears for overtly long periods." Kagome turned her head feeling the stuff run out of her ear leaving it empty. She grinned and did the same to her other ear. 'That was great thinking on your part to have left that in your pack after your trip to the swimming pool a few months ago.' "If you get water in your ears tell me and I'll let you use this okay."

Sango nodded but thought to herself, 'There is no way you would get me to use that smelly stuff in all your life Kagome.' This thought brought on a realization. "Hey Kagome. With you being part hanyou and all.. How will that affect your lifespan? Because I already know it affects your senses."

Kagome blinked at the question. "I don't know. I never really thought about it." She looked thoughtful. "Well to be honest, I think I will only live as long as Inu Yasha does."

Sango frowned. "Why would you say that?" 'What does she mean only as long as Inu Yasha does? Does she mean that if he dies she goes? Or does she mean that she will have about the same lifespan he does? Am I over thinking this? Putting too much into her words?' She thought for a while and decided that she was not over thinking it. Kagome could very well be thinking something else while she was talking.

Kagome thought on this for a while trying to figure out the best way to answer her without appearing stupid. 'If Inu Yasha dies I don't want to live.' It came into to her mind so calm and unbidden, startling her for its clarity. 'Is that true? Do I not want to go on if Inu Yasha dies?' She shook her head and said instead. "I think I might have close to the same lifespan Inu Yasha does. But then again I am human also so I just might live the same time frame for regular humans."

Sango nodded. 'Good for a second there I thought she was more engrossed in Inu Yasha than any of us have yet to believe. Boy would that have been a shocker.' She smiled. "Inu Yasha might be wanting you back now Kagome. I think we've been in here for a while now."

"Yeah we have been in here for a while.. But it seems like I haven't been able to talk with anyone but Inu Yasha for quite some time." She smiled. "I do enjoy talking with him as he seems to say more than he used to but I missed you guys. Shippo, I hardly ever even see him anymore. I know you probably don't want to hear this but I almost miss having to watch you clobber Miroku after he gropes you." She went for another dunk not too concerned for her ears and played in the water for a while more. She loved the way that her body reacted to the cool glide of water on her skin. The icy fingers of water over her skin felt so good to her as she had been taxing her mind and body all week.

Sango smiled and waited for her to surface. Then she nodded understanding fully what she had meant. "Yeah we've all been missing your frequent arguments with Inu Yasha. Getting to see him 'sat' is always fun." Sango swam over to her friend and climbed out of the pond. Once they were dressed she went to Kagome and hugged her. "Gods Kagome I missed you. We're all worried about you."

Kagome held her friend. "Thank you." They hugged for a while more missing the way things had been. "I think I'm going to ask Inu Yasha if he will let us go back to hunting the shards or something because I really do miss you guys. And I want to feel normal again." She laughed at the thought. "You know only a year ago I would've thought this was the most abnormal thing I could do and now I miss it. I guess his endless nagging was so ingrained in me that I do miss it."

"Kagome you take all the time you need to learn how to adjust. But. Don't worry about this we're looking for a way to see if it can be reversed so that you can have a choice. But don't get your hopes up because we're not too sure on where to go. Once we get back though I can promise you that we will have an answer for you." Kagome smiled down at her friend but couldn't help the clench of dread in her stomach. 'What if there was a way to reverse it? Would she want to go back to being a weak little human who held back the entire group and put them all in danger? No.' If she had a choice she would never go back to the way she was.

Inu Yasha was thankful that Sango seemed to be distracting Kagome enough that she didn't seem to smell him. 'What if there is a way for her to change back? Will she want to? Probably. I didn't really want to change for Kikyou after all so why would she want to change for me? Wait for me? I must be really tired.' He thought on this for a while. He felt guilty for not letting her stay long enough to not miss her friends so much but with only him around. 'But she had said that she enjoys listening to me talk. Feh with how she's been paying attention lately I seriously doubt that.' He had been teaching her how to hunt her own meals and all the survival skills he had learned when he had been young and for the past two days she had been sleeping in the trees with him during the daylight hours.

The entire group had adjusted their sleeping patterns in hopes of being able to talk with either of them. Inu Yasha had caught Shippo trying to find them. He felt bad for not letting Kagome know. 'I will go get that kit and let her talk for a while. after all she has been doing really well all week.' He smiled at the idea and instantly ran off to the village on a mission.

Shippo and Miroku were surprised to see the hanyou come to the village without Kagome in tow. 'Thankfully they hadn't summoned him earlier but this may be just as bad. "Another survival test Inu Yasha?" The monk asked making Inu Yasha feel even lower. 'Even the monk knows that I've only been training her and not anything else.'

"No. Her and Sango are taking a bath so I came to get the brat and you. After all Kagome hasn't been able to be with her friends for quite a while." Miroku and Shippo's jaws dropped and hit the floor. 'Inu Yasha is doing something nice?. Well it is for Kagome so I guess it wouldn't be that much of a stretch of the imagination.' Miroku thought.

Shippo however looked at the hanyou like he had grown another head. "Are you serious? I could've sworn you didn't want anyone around while you were-" He was cut off by Inu Yasha's hand clamping over the boy's mouth. He grabbed the monk by the arm and brought them to where Kagome would be. They instantly ran at her once she arrived, their relief evident on their faces. Shippo, as usual, was attached to her midsection while the monk was hugging her tightly crushing them both. Inu Yasha had to tamp down the instinctive action of throwing the monk into the bushes. "Oh we missed you so much Kagome!" The little kit squealed.

"It seems like ages instead of weeks since we've been able to talk with you or see you Lady Kagome. We might've thought you died on us were it not for Inu Yasha being the way he is." Miroku smirked and released her. "We wouldn't have found out about it in any case for quite a while."

Inu Yasha felt better for letting them visit. He looked down and was happy for her but he wanted to pound the monk for saying things like that. 'He just knows that I'm here and he's trying to rub it in.' the hanyou thought, 'We'll see if I let him visit again.' He threatened inside his head, but the thought melted when he saw the joy all over Kagome's face. 'She really did miss them.' He watched silently as they all sat together and talked of events in the village.

After Miroku and the rest had caught Kagome up, Sango burst out. "Kagome show them that trick you showed me while we were bathing." That statement caught Inu Yasha's attention.

Kagome blushed and stood up. Miroku being the pervert that he is wondered what kind of trick it could be if Sango saw it while they were bathing. Sango would've beaten him to death if she could've read his mind at that moment. He opted to risk it and opened his mouth. "While you guys were bathing? What 'kind' of trick is it Kagome?" He knew what was coming but it still surprised him at the rate the ground was moving at to meet his face. After saying hello to the ground he sat up and was quiet waiting on her trick.

They all watched silently as Kagome's arm raised up and slammed down so fast that none of them could catch it but Inu Yasha. Shaky streaks of power followed in the wake of her hand. Another tree was felled. "Wow." Miroku said stunned. "I guess I won't risk getting you to hit me any more Kagome." He smirked but his words struck a chord. She didn't let it show on her face but Inu Yasha could smell the difference in her scent. 'Kagome can do something like that?' He thought amazed. Sango laughed outright at him. "That is exactly what I said when I saw it."

Shippo grinned. "So is that all you've learned from being out here?"

Inu Yasha leapt down from his perch in the tree. "No that is not all she learned. Kagome I think you should take care of dinner for them or have you guys eaten already?" He wanted to hurt the monk severely for saying something that dense to Kagome.

They looked at Kagome. "If you want to you can. We don't want to impose on you." Miroku said ever the gentleman. Kagome looked at Inu Yasha and made a face. He knew she was going to do it even though she didn't want to.

"Yeah I'll do it but next time is yours Inu Yasha because you know I don't like gutting the things." She shot another look at him then took off. Once she was out of hearing range he glared at Sango. "You guys are thinking of a way to make her fully human again. And you stupid monk! How could you have said something so stupid to her?" Miroku's jaw dropped and Sango glared at him. Shippo laughed. "What's so funny?"

"You are Inu Yasha." The kit replied still smirking. "You want her like that don't you?" He burst into more peals of laughter when Inu Yasha's mouth just worked and no words came out. Embarrassed at not being able to come up with a retort he cuffed the kit on the head. Shippo ignored it and continued in his raucous laughter. "YOU DO!" he shouted.

Inu Yasha got mad. "NO I DO NOT! IF SHE WANTS TO BE THAT WAY THEN SHE CAN! I DON'T CARE!" Inu Yasha huffed and made Shippo burst out anew. Not to be made a complete fool he looked at Miroku. If he was going to look like an idiot so would the monk. "You though. You said that stupid comment about not letting her hit you anymore bringing up the fact that she's not like you guys anymore. How stupid can you get monk?"

Sango and Miroku exchanged looks. "Well if Kagome heard that I know exactly what she would be thinking." Sango said before she thought about it.

Inu Yasha fixed her with a glare. "You would. Would you?" He looked intimidating but she was so used to him it didn't bother her in the least. "Pray tell what would that be then?" His voice was mockingly sweet.

"I don't feel like talking about this with you. Besides if it weren't for your hentai mind you wouldn't be in this situation now would you? Shippo probably just stating that now that Kagome was a hanyou like you that maybe you wanted to be around her more. Maybe for a person to relate with." She let that sink in for a while.

Inu Yasha turned every shade of red at the implications. He had gotten indignant over something not even meant that way and practically screamed it out himself. " You're trying to change the subject monk. And well at least about that. now you know. I don't think of her THAT way." He said stressing 'that' as much as he could without shouting.

Shippo not possessing much foresight opened his mouth. "Yeah that is so believable Inu Yasha." Before he could add anything onto that he was being chased around avoiding all the blows aimed for his head. Miroku and Sango sweat dropped. "Just when you think Shippo is grown up and mature he pulls something like this." Miroku commented watching the demons dully. 'But did I really hurt her with my comment? I didn't mean to. It seems as though Inu Yasha has gotten closer to Lady Kagome. Even more so than we had formerly imagined.'

Kagome came back with a few rabbits. She quietly started up a fire and skinned the animals. 'This part isn't so bad as long as you don't remember that these things used to be alive... The skin almost feels like that Gak stuff that was so popular a few years ago.' Miroku watched as Kagome's facial expressions went from concentration to slight disgust then a broad smile. 'What in the world is going through her head to make her look like that? From what she said about the fish I'd be expecting her to be retching or something.' "Hey Kagome? What's so funny?" Miroku asked curious.

"Oh sorry. I was just thinking of how much this skin feels like that Gak stuff that was so popular in my time a few years ago." She pulled on the skin and heard it make a wet ripping noise as the skin separated from the muscle. Every so often she'd use her claws to separate the skin from the meat. Once she had skinned the rabbits she fixed them for everyone to eat.

"What's 'gak' I've never heard of it Kagome." Miroku asked curious. "Well its this putty like toy that you can play around with. It feels a lot like snot." She grinned at the comparison.

"And children enjoy playing with stuff like snot?" Sango said always interested in anything from Kagome's time as they were all so different from now.

The group was rather silent as they ate. All of them were lost in their own thoughts. Inu Yasha was contemplating what Shippo had said earlier. 'If I liked her I would've done something about it before now. So no worries there.' He coughed to himself but no one noticed. 'Well maybe I wouldn't have but that doesn't mean I do. does it? I know I really liked her before and now. I know I definitely like the way she changed. But. Well where else can you be honest but in your own head? Okay I like her but other than that I don't think its gone too far. has it? No it couldn't have. But I.. I feel like I know something and its itching the back of my head. There is something so familiar about her and I can't place it.' Not liking the way his thoughts were headed he decided to contemplate on what he needed to teach Kagome next.

Sango looked at her now demon friend. 'Do you really want to be this way Kagome? I know you feel strongly for him but do you want to be this way to be with him? Do you love him so much that you would give up your life, your family, and your home? Wait is she even staying like this for him? After all she wasn't changed for him.. Or was she? That whole ".her greatest dream" crap was really freaky as this is what happened afterwards. What if Inu Yasha doesn't want her to be this way? ' She snorted of course the hanyou wanted her anyway she came. Sango could feel it. And it had come out in tremendous waves tonight. ' She tried to prevent the derisive snort that wanted to come out. 'After all we were going to see if we couldn't prevent this from happening because he said so.' Sango popped another steaming piece of meat in her mouth and savored the taste. 'Kagome may not like being this way but she does pick better stuff to eat than Inu Yasha usually does.'

Kagome watched the flames crackle and snap. The green tinge to the blue caught her attention and she felt as if she were drowning in the flames. 'That is so pretty. I wonder if anyone else thinks so. Oh well colors are colors. Does Inu Yasha remember his childhood all that much? I wonder if what I did really happened because the rest seemed true enough-' "Hey do you guys know what happened to Myouga?" She asked. 'I really want to find out about that village and I have a feeling that Myouga will know about it.'

Inu Yasha shot her a curious look. "Why would you want that coward around anyway?" He thought for a moment. "I'm not too sure as I haven't seen him since I brought you here. What about you guys?"

Sango shook her head as did Miroku. "We haven't seen him for quite a time either. Last we saw of him was when we rested and he went into Kirara's fur we haven't seen him since." Sango answered wondering what use the flea could be to Kagome.

"Oh." Kagome said dully. "Hey Inu Yasha do you know how to get a hold of that flea?"

He frowned. "Of course I do. You pick him up when he's not looking or he's busy jabbering on or sucking blood."

"That's not what I meant. I mean how do you contact him? Or does he just show up?" She said trying not to get frustrated that she knew different meanings of words that they didn't and it sometimes clashed when she asked a question.

"Well as far as I know he just shows up but I think I could be able to track him if I felt like it. But it's been so long since any of us have seen him that the trail would be old or gone by now and I have no interest in hunting him up anyway. Why is it so important anyway?" He looked at her curiously. 'What in the world could that flea be good for that Kagome would want him so much as to want me to track him?'

"I just had a few questions I wanted to ask him but they're not that important so don't worry about it." She waved it off and continued thinking. 'I guess I'll just have to keep and eye out for the flea. It would really answer a lot of questions if I could figure out what it was I saw in my dream.'

Shippo sat and watched as Kagome ate and stared at the fire some more. 'She probably knows something and wants to ask Myouga something about it. Oh well it will come out sooner or later.' He munched some more not really deep in thought. After he finished he leapt off the log and chased after a moth.

Miroku sat farther away from the fire than everyone else. He watched as everyone was lost in their thoughts. He noticed that all of them but Shippo had at least one worry on their mind. He frowned watching them all. 'I don't think Kagome minds being like this much. Maybe she wants to be this way. Is she really doing this because of Inu Yasha like everyone seems to think? But Sango seems convinced that we should give her a choice as it appears Inu Yasha doesn't want her to have one.' He smirked. 'Shippo sure did hit the nail on the head tonight. I don't think I will ever get used to this new sleeping habit. Although my vision has gotten better in the dark but still what can you do in the night?' He grinned as a few hentai ideas came to mind. He looked at Sango and briefly wondered what it would be like to try them out with her. 'Probably wonderful but she would never. I would end up badly damaged and beaten for just suggesting it.'

"Oi Miroku!" Miroku tensed as he heard the hanyou bark out his name. 'This can't be good.' He thought and was greatly rewarded. "What's so funny over there? I'm certain the rest of us would like to know what's so nice as to make you grin like that." He stressed 'that' and Miroku seriously wanted to do him bodily harm.

"Oh its nothing." He tried to wave the hanyou off but Inu Yasha knew what it was that Miroku had been thinking and wanted to see him get hit. 'I guess he's still trying to get me back for my comment to Kagome.' Inu Yasha smiled. "No really. Whatever it is I think we all want to hear it right?" He looked at Kagome, Sango, and Shippo. They nodded oblivious to what Inu Yasha was trying to do to Miroku. "See? Everyone wants to know Miroku." He smirked.

Miroku thought really hard on what he could say and opted for the truth. "I was just thinking on what Shippo had said earlier Inu Yasha."

"And what was that Inu Yasha?" Kagome asked unknowingly while Inu Yasha shot death glares at Miroku. "Miroku what was it?" Kagome asked when Inu Yasha just turned red and said nothing pretending to be engrossed in his dinner.

Shippo grinned and started to laugh. Kagome looked at the group who were all laughing at Inu Yasha. "What's so funny, I missed it?"

Miroku smirked and opened his mouth but before he could say anything Inu Yasha was steamed and growling in his face. "You say any thing monk and I swear you will not have to worry about bearing a child any more as you won't be able to." He said with deadly calm. Miroku couldn't help but laugh even harder. "You think its funny?" He grabbed Miroku by the front of his robes intending to hit him.

"INU YASHA! SIT!" Kagome said quickly. Inu Yasha promptly took a face dive. Once he regained control of his body he grinned. Miroku had broken his fall and was currently knocked out from the force. "Oh Miroku I am so sorry!" Kagome exclaimed as she ran over beside the pair. "Inu Yasha what were you thinking?" She fumed. "That wasn't very nice."

"Hey you're the one who 'sat' me." He pointed out. "So don't go blaming me." He smirked as her mouth worked for a little while. 'She just might do it again but it'll be worth it this time. That serves that monk right for hurting Kagome.' He looked at the unconscious monk. 'Yep it was definitely worth it and if she wants to do it again I'll just get her back later when we're training.'

"If you wouldn't have been threatening Miroku I wouldn't have said that word." She rolled him off of Miroku and the monk breathed easier. 'It is so hard to pound him into the ground like that but sometimes I swear.' Inu Yasha could feel his limbs come back under his control and grinned as he got up. Pins and needles pricked his legs from where they weren't exactly awake yet.

"Well enjoy their company. I will be back in a little while. So don't do anything stupid." And with that he leapt off into the trees. Kagome watched as his bright red form disappeared out of her line of vision. She turned back to Miroku, the monk was starting to slowly regain consciousness. She was suddenly struck with an idea to make sure that tension didn't come up and she wouldn't be able to yell about Inu Yasha without him being there to hear her. "Do you guys want to go somewhere?" She asked after rethinking it for a while.

"Like where Kagome?" Asked Shippo looking around after having finished off all of his dinner. Sango finished too and Kagome had a feeling Miroku wouldn't be able to eat for a while without being violently sick. Kagome helped Miroku stand up and get his balance.

"Lady Kagome. I almost feel sorry for him. That impact is so hard." Kagome flushed and apologized again. She put a supportive arm under his shoulders but dropped him when she felt his hand stroke her tail. "I wasn't touching you perversely Kagome so what was that for?" He rubbed his sore backside. "Need I remind you I just had nothing but muscle slammed into me? And no matter how much he may have enjoyed the experience I by no means did."

"I didn't mean to slam him while he was holding you but I had a feeling he was going to hit you so I said it before I thought it through. And I dropped you because I don't feel like having you touch me like that. I don't exactly like it." She snapped at him as she looked at Shippo remembering his words and couldn't help but think that they were been equals and it was still wrong. "I think I want to go to this one place I've been going to while Inu Yasha was sleeping. I think you guys would love it but I'm only going to show you guys this once okay?"

They nodded and she picked up Shippo. "If you can transform Kirara we can get there faster." Kagome suggested looking at the little cat beside Sango. Sango nodded and told the cat to transform. Once Miroku and Sango were seated on Kirara because Shippo was in Kagome's arms, Kagome led the way making sure not to lose the demon cat as she was now faster than the cat.

They traveled for a while circling around sometimes to make sure Kagome was on the right trail. Until Kagome spotted the little path that led underground and told them to stop. Kirara went back to her kitty form and waited outside as the rest of the group followed Kagome as she led them underground into a maze of tunnels. They followed diligently even when they couldn't really see and were mainly relying on the sound of her steps. She finally stopped when they couldn't see anything at all. "Hold on guys there is something I have to do really quick. And don't worry you're safe down here. I'm the only other person around who knows of this place." They heard her footsteps move away slightly. She moved a gigantic boulder that had been erected and pulled them in. Light blinded them all temporarily. She closed the opening as soon as she was sure they were all inside not too worried about Kirara.

Sango looked at the brilliance of the sight before them. Crystals and other various rocks were glinting light every which way and shining rainbows along the walls making a dazzling sight to all their eyes. "Oh Kagome how did you find this?" She whispered still in awe moving in slowly afraid that this vision would fade and reality would set back in.

"Um I made it." That statement brought shocked looks from everyone. She pointed to the ceiling of the cave where a giant glistening stone was set and distributing the light around the room. "The light of the moon is being magnified a hundred times by that crystal up there. And as you can see-" she gestured around her. "The light is being reflected everywhere from these other crystals."

"How did you find all these pretty things Kagome?" Miroku asked looking around him. He walked slowly into the room and touched some of the stones feeling the warmth of the light from them. The colors were brilliant and reflected on their faces as they passed changing from red to green and to blue as they moved farther into the room. Kagome smiled to herself watching her friends move around as if dazed.

"I found some of them in the ocean and other various places. Some of these I cut myself." She picked up one of the prettier stones and handed it to Miroku. Shippo had long since leapt out of her arms and was currently gallivanting in a rainbow oblivious to the huge grin that looked like it was going to split his face wide open. His little body radiated all the happiness he was feeling in this mystical place and he just couldn't contain himself as he ran around.

Miroku took the stone she had given him and held it up to the light. "How could you have found the time to escape while Inu Yasha was sleeping? Surely he would've woken up and captured you before you got too far." He saw little girls running around playing in the sunshine and he felt utter peace steal over him. But the odd thing was the children had youkai and humans mixed together. And they were playing and getting along as if they had always been the best of friends. He got the feeling that they were and had always been that way. "That is my favorite stone there Miroku. Isn't it beautiful? Well one night this week Inu Yasha disappeared for a while and I found some of these pretty stones namely these." She held up an armful of beautiful gems. "And I felt drawn to this place as if I knew where it was and I was just remembering some place I loved to go although I know I've never been here before." He just nodded dumbly not able to speak. "I guess my feet just took on a will of their own and I ended up in here." She smiled at him.

She picked up a multicolored one and handed it to Sango. This one showed Sango brilliant colors and shades that she had never seen before, almost like the dream that Kagome had had the night of her being a full demon. She felt happy, extremely happy. "What is this magic? Is this something from your time Kagome?" She stared dreamily into the stone. 'I have never felt such a strong feeling of peace and happiness before.' She mused to herself.

"No. I found it in this time and it's just something that I love to watch a lot I can't really explain it. Its like a memory isn't it?" She smiled at Sango's face which was split in a wide grin. She looked at Shippo who was currently running through the color spectrum laughing as blues and reds crossed over his tiny body. He laughed gleefully.

Miroku tore his gaze away from the enchanting crystal. "Wow Kagome. Do you know who these children are?" Kagome bit her lip. 'They're the children from my dream.' She thought but kept it to herself instead shaking her head. "No but they are peaceful to watch are they not?"

"Do all the stones make you feel this way Kagome?" She didn't reply instead she picked up a deep purple stone and handed it to him. She didn't feel very nice giving him this stone but she knew he would be able to take it better than some others she might have let see. She felt that Inu Yasha for one would've said something less than nice about it and she knew Sango would be the same but Miroku did have compassion in him. 'And so does Inu Yasha but he would never show it.'

He held it up to the light. He saw the same little girls but they were grown women now in their prime. They were washing clothes in a stream near their village laughing together as friends. The youkai women were in their natural form but still more underdeveloped than the human ones. He smiled until he saw a shadow fall over them his heart clenched in his chest knowing the evil that was about to befall them.

An army of youkai leapt at them and Miroku watched as they were mauled and beaten to death staining the clothes in the stream with their blood. He saw the good youkai die at the hands of the bad ones trying to protect their human friends who couldn't do so well on their own. Once the battle was over he saw what little of the people were left shove out all the youkai believing that it was them who had betrayed them. He watched as some of the good youkai that had protected their friends look at the ones whom they had saved and such pain passed over their faces. They left the village sadly and alone.

He felt tears run down his face. He felt so sad for them that their friendship had been severed so horribly. Kagome took the stone out of his hands and replaced it with the one that had made him happy. But now that he knew what was to happen to them all he could feel was that gut wrenching sorrow. "I'm sorry for showing you that one Miroku." She apologized as she put the stone on a shelf behind her. She leaned against the wall and looked at her friends they were all in their own little worlds.

"Well I had asked if you had any sad ones. And I guess I got what I wanted. But you know who they are don't you?" Miroku looked into her eyes trying to get some answers. Sango took the purple stone out from behind Kagome and looked at it herself.

After she finished watching it she handed it back with a look of disgust on her face. "It would figure that something like that would happen to those poor people." She commented feeling a sadness come to her but ignored it. "Not all youkai are like Inu Yasha and that right there is a prime example.

Kagome sighed and looked away from them. "Its getting close to morning we might want to leave before I go back to being human and can't help you guys find your way out." She turned away from them and walked out waiting on them to follow her out. Once they were out the light disappeared and she slid the boulder in front of the door. She walked out silently and looked at Kirara.

She smiled at the cat as she transformed without being asked. To lighten the mood Sango chimed in. "Miroku you should take a ride on Kagome it is so fun. She is so good at pulling stunts in the air and as long as she doesn't mind doing that for you, its really cool." Sango looked at Miroku waiting for his answer she was certain that Kagome wouldn't mind and wasn't disappointed.

Kagome smiled and looked at him also. "I don't care. If you don't think it's too degrading to ride on my back you can." He shook his head saying he didn't mind. She pulled him onto her back. Shippo sat between Sango's legs as they settled on Kirara. They took off and after she got really good momentum, Kagome flipped a few times just to hear Miroku behind her take in a deep breath. She could hear his heart hammering against his chest and was almost surprised it didn't explode from the pace it was at. She landed in the village just as the sun rose and she turned human. She fell down under his weight and he quickly got off.

"Kagome that was so cool. I am sorry that I squashed you." He helped Kagome to her feet. She smiled feeling her exertions catching up wither body. It was just at that time that Inu Yasha came up to them. Miroku didn't notice however as he was babbling on about how he had to do that again if she wouldn't mind and how he loved the way that it had felt as she had flipped and he had felt like he was going to die. "That was just the most awesome experience of my life." He finished.

Kagome only smiled. "I just bet you would be a roller coaster fanatic." Before they could ask her what that was Inu Yasha interrupted.

"Where were you guys? I came back and no one was there." He glared at Kagome. "You know a lot of little tricks that I haven't taught you yet." She blinked at him. "Come on we have somewhere to be." He hauled her to him and waved at the group. "Get some sleep you guys. We'll be seeing you tonight maybe." He punctuated that by giving Kagome a stern look.

He leapt into the air holding her in his arms. "Where are we going Inu Yasha?" Her eyes closed from weariness as she rested her head on his chest.

Her weariness from hauling Miroku and whatnot was starting to catch up with her. He looked down at her briefly and landed by the well. "As soon as you get a little sleep, we're going to go visit you family so that they won't think you died on them." She yawned and curled further into his back.

"I know what you mean when you say that you feel weak while you're a human Inu Yasha. I can't smell anything and I have to get so close to smell you. And when your days activities catch up with you." She sighed as sleep came knocking but before she let it take hold she murmured. "Thank you, for letting me stay with them last night Inu Yasha." And then she was out.

He leapt into the God Tree and settled her on his lap while she slept. He watched her sleeping face and thought about what she had said. "Do you really like being a hanyou Kagome?" He asked her quietly.

He was shocked when she heard him and answered. "Yes I do Inu Yasha. I." And she was quiet again. He listened her breathing and her heart beat told him she was still sleeping. He tried again. "Kagome are you asleep?"

"Yes." She sighed in contentment and snuggled closer wrapping her arms around his waist. He looked down smiling. "Will you answer any question I ask?" she nodded. "Will you remember this when you wake up?" She shook her head in negation. He grinned. "Hey Kagome, do you want to stay a hanyou forever?" She nodded. "Why?" Her face scrunched up and she scooted closer to him.

"Because you don't think I'm weak like that and I like. not being compared.anymore to. Kikyou." Her eyes moved behind her eyes signaling that she was going to wake up if he wasn't quiet. So he stayed quiet. 'I never thought you were weak Kagome. I just said that to get at you.' He thought. 'And I don't mean to compare you to Kikyou it just comes out that way.' He thought a while longer. "So the main reason you want to remain a hanyou is because of me?"

She nodded. "If it weren't for you I wouldn't be here." Her breath evened out again and he snuggled down and went to sleep himself.

Kagome slipped into an unconscious slumber. All of a sudden Inu Yasha's childish face swam before her eyes. His face was set in horror and pain so deep she wanted to cry. She reached out not thinking that she shouldn't be able to touch him.

Child Inu Yasha saw the charred beaten mass that had been his mother. His tiny body shook as pain reverberated throughout his small frame. He felt a comforting presence surround him and he gave way to the tears that had been threatening to spill. Arms wrapped around him and he buried his small face into the stranger's chest. He didn't stop to think that it might have been an enemy come for the spoils of the battle that had taken place looking for the riches rumored to be abound in his village.

He cried and cried until he cried himself to sleep but before it took him over he looked to see who was holding him. It was his angel who had left that food for him earlier. He wanted to know just what she had looked like and here was his chance. She had black hair and compassionate blue- gray eyes. Her face was a mask of pain for him and he buried his nose in her neck again. She rubbed his back soothingly and stood with him in her arms.

He felt her stand up as she took him away from the sad scene and brought him into the woods far away from any danger that may have or could befall him. Kagome lay the child down in a tree as she sat and watched over him until he stirred. When he woke up he was silent but held out his arms for her to come to him. She went to him and cradled him in her arms. "I won't leave you." She assured him as she stroked his back again.

He curled into her comforted by her words. She rocked him as he fell back asleep. Before he could though he looked at her. His childish voice coming out rather roughly from the tears that he had shed earlier. "Why won't you leave me?"

"Because I love you." She answered him before she thought about it. She put him down and looked at him. "Are you hungry?" His stomach growled in response. She smiled. "Wait here for a bit okay? I will be back and don't worry no one can get you while I'm here." He nodded trusting his angel. She came back with a bow and arrows. He wasn't too sure where she could have gotten those but he didn't care at the moment. She took him by the hand and brought him with her. She spotted a boar and looked at him. "Is that something you would eat?" He nodded so she strung an arrow and let it loose. It flew and hit its target killing it instantly.

She moved over to it. "Did your father teach you how to hunt and prepare your dinner?" He nodded so she gestured to it and sat near him as he took care of it. She felt the tug of reality. She put a hand on one of his. "I will come back for you." She hugged him holding him tightly to her chest she released him.

Inu Yasha watched as his angel disappeared before his eyes. She gave him a beautiful smile before she left and he felt reassured that she would return as he turned back to the meal she had left him.

Kagome awoke in Inu Yasha's arms. "I'm done sleeping." She said her face betraying her nightmare. "Kagome are you okay?" She nodded looking away from him. She sat up and looked to the well quite a ways below them. "Would you carry me down." She looked at the ground then at him. He sighed and brought her to his lap and leapt down. She unwrapped her arms from around his neck and sat on the lip of the well. He crawled up beside her and put an arm around her waist before he pulled them in. The familiar blue light surrounded them.

He forgot to reposition themselves during the fall through the centuries so he landed on top of her. She was sprawled out on her stomach under him. He flushed red and hauled off of her while at the same time pulling her to her feet. "Sorry I didn't mean to land on you." He said quickly.

He picked her up and leapt out of the well. He set her down and quietly gestured for her to go inside her house. She walked up the steps and slid the doors open. She didn't see the car and she couldn't remember what day it was. She guessed her family might be out. She walked inside calling for them. "Mom, Sota, Jii-chan? Are you guys home?" When no one answered her she went to the kitchen. A note was tacked to the board on the refrigerator.

'Kagome Sota is at a school field trip and Jii-chan received a free trip to a spa from his chiropractor. No one will be home for a while if you come. There's always something in the pantry so help yourselves as I'm sure your little friend Inu Yasha will be along for you in no time. And just in case I bought another first aid kit for you to make use of. We all love you and hope that you will come back again when we are all home. Love Mom.'

Kagome finished reading it and sighed letting out the breath she had been holding in. She faced Inu Yasha and held out the note to him in case he wanted to read. He just shook his head so she explained instead. "We can stay here for the night. No one's home and no one will be for a while. I think Mom went with Sota on that field trip his school has been planning on since the first of the year. And Jii-chan is off at a spa." She looked at the pantry. "She said to help yourself if you feel hungry."

He nodded. "Are you still tired. You must have went a long way last night and I could imagine you might be." He looked at the stairway leading upstairs to her room. She just silently took his arm and brought him to her bedroom. She laid him down on the bed then she grabbed a towel. "I'm going to take a shower okay?" He nodded absently and she left.

He heard her start up the shower and rummage around on the sink for something. After a while he heard her draw back the curtains and step in. He waited until he could smell the shampoo she was using. "Has she already done something that would make her feel dirty? After all she had a bath just last night with Sango." He thought aloud as he sat up and looked down the hallway. "What is so appealing about a shower? She takes one every time that we come back. Does she think there's something nasty in the well? Did I do something?" With these things said he wandered down the hallway and into the bathroom opening the door quietly.

"Hey Kagome." He barked. Kagome squeaked not expecting him to come in there with her. "Yes Inu Yasha?" She squeezed out some of the suds in her hair. And rinsed her body.

"Why do you always take a shower when you come back? It never fails. Its like the instant you're on the other side you take a shower. Is there something in the well that makes you feel so dirty?" He sat on the toilet lid and pulled his legs up under him waiting on her answer.

"Well." She frowned. "I just don't like taking cold baths and that is about all you can take over there so when I get back I look forward to a nice steamy hot bath." She paused and looked out of the side of the curtains at him. "Would you like a shower? Just so you can see what's so appealing about it."

He frowned at his feet. 'She wants me to take a shower with her?' "Kagome I don't think it can fit us both in there. It looks rather small." He looked up when he heard her laugh. "What?" 'She was the one who suggested it not me so what's so funny?'

"I didn't mean together. I meant after I was done I would let the water keep running for you and I would wait in here with you if you wanted me to. Maybe so that I could tell you what to use so that you don't end up using something on places that you shouldn't or anything like that." She smiled at him.

He blushed as he let that sink in. "Oh. okay I'll wait." She finished up showering and her hand came out of the shower dripping. "Could you hand me a towel Inu Yasha?"

"Won't it get wet if you take it in there?" she bit her lip knowing he was right. Before she could say anything Inu Yasha realized what it was that was bothering her. "I won't look I promise." Just to prove it her turned around on the seat and looked in the heat fogged mirror.

Kagome pulled the curtains aside and picked up her robe tying it around her waist. She wrapped her hair up in a towel. As he waited he traced his name on the mirror just like Miroku had shown him. After that he continued on with hers then Miroku's he was starting in on Sango's when she said, "Get undressed Inu Yasha. You can't very well go into the shower dressed." He shrugged and shirked his clothes. "Now step inside the tub."

He followed her instructions and felt the steamy water pound against his chest. He moaned as it hit his skin igniting a fire in his body. "No wonder you love this so much Kagome." He groaned again and put his face under the stream of water.

Kagome smiled at him through the shower curtain. "Okay all you have to do is pick up the shampoo bottle and pour some of the gel in your hands so that you can lather it in your hair."

Inu Yasha looked at the multitude of bottles around him. "Ah Kagome you're going to have to poke your head in here and show me which one." He looked at all the bottles. 'Why oh why did I never learn how to read very well.' He shifted his shoulders under the shower spray. 'God this feels so good.'

Her head came through the curtain its towel missing and her hair rumpled from trying to dry it with the towel. She grabbed a green fish shaped bottle. He took it from her hands and she blushed when she saw him and quickly darted out. He heard the door open and shut. He blinked. "Kagome! Where do you think you're going? I'm gonna need your help." He heard her footsteps come back as she approached the door. She hesitated then stepped in. He poured some of the smelly liquid into his palm and lathered it in his mane. It took a lot of the bottle to foam up all of his hair as it came to his waist. "Hey Kagome what do I use now that I got my hair soapy?"

She leaned in again this time keeping her eyes to the floor of the tub. She groped along the wall until she hit the shelves. She went down until she put her hand on the slippery wet rock. She handed it to him and he sniffed it while trying to keep a hold of it. She laughed when it flew out of his hands and onto her head. He smiled as he took it back. "Just don't hold it so tightly okay?" She flashed a brilliant smile then darted out of the curtains again. He finished showering but stayed under the spray not used to the pleasurable feelings roaming through his body. He could think of two other things that might feel as good but decided to squash his hentai thoughts.

"Hey Kagome. I'm done how do you turn this thing off?" He stepped out not thinking. Kagome's eyes bugged as she saw him completely before her. She blushed quickly and threw the towel in her hands at him. He caught it and looked at it not too sure of what to do with it. He looked at her for a sign and she indicated that he should wrap up like she was. She sighed in relief as she went to the tub and turned the knobs so that the water stopped.

"Well as you're definitely staying the night." Kagome led the way to her room and closed the door behind them out of habit. She dug through her drawer and pulled out a pair of boxers she had borrowed from her friends brother but had forgotten to give them back. "Here you can sleep in these." She dug out the gigantic Nike shirt. It was black with the customary check under the name. He took it from her and slipped them on while her back was turned and she was in the dresser. She pulled out a white night dress and a pair of white cotton underwear. She turned around the white robe caught on the dresser. She quickly yanked it out and retied it. "If you're hungry you can eat."

He looked at her body then thought better of making the comment that had just run through his mind. He turned the covers on the bed down and lay in the clean sheets. He faced away from Kagome to give her the privacy she wanted so badly. His ears twitched as he listened to her robe falling and the soft whispers of the nightgown as it slid over her shoulders. He could hear her movements as she quickly jerked on her underwear. 'Doesn't she usually wear a bra?' He wondered at the smartness of asking her about it and decided that the least she could do was 'sit' him but she'd be breaking her bed in the process. "Hey Kagome. How come you're not wearing one of those 'bra' things that you always wear in our time?"

'Our time? When did he start thinking of it like that?' She pondered briefly before she crawled under the blankets near him. "I don't wear them to bed. They're uncomfortable and I don't like them." She answered simply. She curled up under the covers the smell of new sheets comforting her. Inu Yasha turned around on the bed and looked at her calm face. She was oblivious to his stare so he kept on. Her lips were slightly reddened from their contact with the waters heat. He wet his lips but looked at her hair which was still really damp. It smelled like her and her only. No more smelly shampoos for her as she can't stand it with her newly sensitive nose. He moved his face closer to hers and inhaled. He loved the way she always smelled like the aftermath of a thunderstorm. That calming clean filling scent. She scooted closer and he was forced to move his head back or risk her knocking their heads together. He watched amused as she shifted her nose closer to his neck and he heard her breathe in deeply.

She had to move closer. She could barely smell him and that was all the reminder she had of 'their' time as he so put it. She breathed in barely catching his smell with her weak nose. It was so nice. It was him. That was all she could say about it, the scent reminded her of the ocean the crisp saltiness of the sea even though he had probably never been and wouldn't either. She thought about it. He definitely smelled of the ocean and a little of pine trees but that was only because he was in them so often she reasoned. 'Maybe when I sleep again I will dream of him.' with that thought in mind she drifted off slowly.

Inu Yasha heard as her heartbeat slowed to a pace that said she was dreaming. He reached out a hand and traced her lips with his claws. They opened slightly and he could smell that mint smell that always came after she brushed her teeth with that funny paste. He turned away still uncomfortable with the thought of actually being in love with her as the whole group seemed to be suggesting he was. 'She seems so familiar now. I know that sounds odd but for some reason everything about her. Even when I met her and thought she was Kikyou there was something different about her that just didn't set right with me. Its like I knew her before. Something happened before she met me that day by the tree and I just can't put my finger on it.' He shook his head clear of those troubling thoughts and slept with her.

Kagome looked around her. She was laying on top of the fall's blanket of leaves. Inu Yasha was asleep in a tree beside her. She looked up at the sleeping child. His little outfit was the same as the one he wore in her time with him. "Inu Yasha are you awake?"

The little child started and instantly showed his claws. She sat up showing herself to him. Upon realizing who was there he launched himself from the tree and into her lap. He nuzzled her neck trying to convey to her how much he had missed her. She smiled into his hair. "Inu Yasha what happened that you are so wary while waking up?" She tilted his head back for her to look into his eyes.

His amber stare still disconcerted her but she no longer minded as she had when she had first met him. "Very bad demons came after you left. They tried to kill me but I got away." He assured her.

Tears filled her vision as she held him close to her. "That happened after I left? Oh God Inu Yasha, I am so sorry I left." She hugged him and felt his ears tickle her cheek as they turned this way and that listening to the tears roll down her cheeks.

"Why are you crying Angel?" His hands came up and cupped her cheeks. He looked her in the eyes trying to figure her out. "It wasn't your fault they came. They were just bad people my mother said so." He nodded to affirm what he had said. His claws wiped away her tears but they just kept coming. "I'm fine now that you're here Angel."

"Inu Yasha my name is Kagome, not Angel." She smiled. "And I'm crying because I don't want you to be hurt at all." Her tears started to slow down and she was able to breathe easier without the tears clogging her throat.

"Ka-go-me." He rolled her name around in his mouth a few times. She smiled at him and nodded. "I like your name Kagome." He curled up in her lap. "Sleep with me for a while. I'm still tired from those bad youkai." He yawned widely giving Kagome a good view of his fangs. She smiled at him some more. On impulse she kissed his forehead as she had done for Sota before he would go to bed. Inu Yasha snuggled into her arms even deeper and went to sleep with her curled around him.

She let him lay like that for what seemed like hours so she figured she still had quite a while before Inu Yasha would wake her up from her dream. Although the farter the dream progressed the stronger her conviction that it wasn't a dream but a glimpse of the actual past. 'Isn't that lovely? I'm in the past going to the past when I'm really from the present. I wonder how this will affect Inu Yasha if he remembers.' She sighed just as the child hanyou stirred. His childish eyes opened and peered into hers. She smiled at him again. "Are you my guardian angel Kagome?"

She smiled at him. "Do you want me to be?"

He shook his head. "If you're an angel that means that God will eventually have to take you back and I want to be with you forever Kagome. You came for me and I want you to stay with me." His little hands fastened themselves to the front of her nightgown and she smiled down at him. She looked into his eyes. "I am not an angel Inu Yasha but I will always be there when you're in trouble or really need me. Eventually I will be there." She smiled at him and hugged him again. "I am yours Inu Yasha always yours. That's the reason I'm here after all. For you." He smiled at her.

He took her hand and led her to a small cave that was nearby. "We can stay in here for a while Kagome. I think something's coming I can smell it." She held his tiny hand as it was almost engulfed by her own larger one.

"When will it be getting dark her Inu Yasha?" She looked at him as he scented the air trying to figure out what it was that was coming something was in the air that just didn't sit right with him. He glanced outside. "A little while why?" Kagome nodded. "You don't smell something coming. You smell me. I'm going to change so don't worry. I will only look different but it's still me." Just as soon as she said that the sun set completely and she felt the surges of power roll through her body like usual. Inu Yasha watched his childlike mind trying to comprehend what was going on around him.

Kagome looked at him her dual colored eyes fascinating him. In her hanyou form she looked very different but she still smelled the same so when she held out her hands he ran to her and held her. "Inu Yasha I'm still me." He clung to her waist as she stroked his hair. He felt her claws on her fingers and he looked up into her face. She smiled and he saw her fangs. She grinned when she realized he loved the way she looked so she twirled her tail around to the front and wasn't in the least surprised when his eyes bugged and he touched it gently. He ran his hands through the fur as he had before in the future. 'That's a confusing thought right there.' She mused to herself.

In Kagome's house however Kagome had turned hanyou with Inu Yasha right in front of her. He looked outside. It was still broad daylight. 'What is going on? Is she going to be hanyou completely?' He waited for her to wake up from her change but she stayed oblivious. Back in Kagome's 'dream' Inu Yasha was showing her around the cave. He led her through the caverns and little hallows. Kagome saw one of the stones that had been in the room she had completed. She took him by the hand. "Inu Yasha I know where we are." She pulled him out of the cave and brought the stone with her cutting it with her claws as she went. Once they were completely out she handed it to him. "In the morning hold this up to the sun's light. It will show you beautiful and enchanting things." She felt the familiar tug of reality and held him to her chest. "I have to go again. But there is a cave down there with a boulder blocking the entrance. Only you and I may go in there. A large gem is in the top of the cave which will magnify the light of the moon to make it appear as though it is day. Stay in there. I may meet you in there and that will be our room okay?"

Inu Yasha nodded and pressed a kiss to her temple imitating her from before. "I love you Inu Yasha." She said before she felt consciousness steal over her.

Child Inu Yasha felt her body dissipate in his arms. He sat down after he felt her leave and waited until her smell left the air but he could still feel her presence around him. He sniffed his clothes where she had been holding him her smell was there too. He stood up and walked farther into the cave looking for the place she had described. It seemed forever before he found it but he had to wait until morning before he could try out the crystal she had given him. 'Its just like Kagome said.' He looked at the light coming from the stone in the ceiling. It showed rainbow patterns all around him making him smile. 'Will she be coming soon? I hope so.' He looked to the door where he had to move the boulder as she had said. He smiled and closed it. 'She said she would appear in here after all and I'll just go out to get something to eat later.' He sat on the floor and with nothing better to do napped until the sun's light penetrated the crystal above and the light in the room diminished. Her face stayed in his mind even after he fell asleep in her hanyou form and her human form.

In Kagome's time Inu Yasha sat up and looked down at Kagome as she showed signs of waking up. 'Why did she say my name so often in her sleep? I was right beside her. I don't get it.' Her eyes fluttered open. He looked into them. "Kagome? Are you okay?" She blinked the sleep out of her eyes and he had to repeat the question to make sure she had heard.

She yawned and sat up. "I'm okay Inu Yasha really." She crawled off of her bed and started for the door. He could see her tail swishing under the fabric of her pajamas and he grinned. "What?" She turned around wondering why he hadn't made a move to get up and follow her.

He shook his head and followed her down the stairs his eyes always trailing back to her tail. "Well what were you dreaming of that made you ask after me so often Kagome?" he had that strange feeling of deja-vu that had been happening all through the week and it had only gotten stronger when she had turned into a hanyou just now.

She blushed and walked into the kitchen. "Are you hungry? I am. I think I'll fix some eggs or something." She rummaged through her pantry bending over making her tail even more noticeable as it poked out of the bottom of her night dress. "You know I've been thinking lately. How in the world does Sesshomaru stand his tail? I mean his is so long and I'm certain that it must get annoying because mine does too and mine is so much shorter than his."

Inu Yasha looked at her. 'Why is she avoiding my question? Its not that hard for her to answer is it?' Instead he said. "Well Sesshomaru really hasn't known what its like to be without his tail right? So of course he wouldn't get annoyed with it. Here why don't you try this?" He stepped up behind her and pulled up her dress. Taking her tail he wrapped it around her waist and over her shoulder to stick out of the neck of her dress. "Now it won't get in your way will it?" He smiled at her.

Kagome tugged down the hem of her dress and blushed badly. She dug in the pantry and pulled out the bread. She moved over to the refrigerator and brought out the carton of eggs. Turning on the stove, she brought out a pan to fix the eggs in. Inu Yasha watched as she went about the task. "Kagome? What were you dreaming about?"

She paused then continued on. "Inu Yasha may I ask you a question before I answer yours?"

"I suppose so." He regarded her warily from his perch on the counter. 'What could be on her mind that she wouldn't want to tell me about a simple dream?'

"Inu Yasha do you?" She paused. He waited for her to go on. "Do you feel like we met before? I mean, I know we met at the tree and please don't think I'm odd but. Do you think that we met before all that?" He was shocked. 'She feels it too?' "Um. Inu Yasha?"

He realized he hadn't answered her question. "Why? Kagome is something going on that I don't know about?" He stepped up behind her again leaving his seat on the counter. She stepped back and ran into the hard wall of his chest. He put his hands on her shoulders and looked into her eyes. "Kagome?"

She sighed as she saw his eyes bore into hers. "Inu Yasha I've been dreaming of the past. And. I um. saw what happened to your.. family and your mother." His hands let go of her shoulders and he stepped away. "I know and I. I want to take you somewhere after we eat. We can come back here later to talk with my family but. Would you come with me?"

He looked back at her from the doorway. "I don't care." Kagome flinched. 'You idiot you shouldn't have said anything. Maybe you should've lied to him? You really shouldn't have brought it up to him.' She continued fixing the eggs trying not to think on how she really lacked tact. She sighed as she brought him some eggs to the table for him. She set the plate in front of him and pulled out a few slices of bread placing them on his plate.

Moving back into the kitchen she took the eggs she was supposed to be eating and dumped them in the garbage having lost her appetite. She left and went upstairs not going into the dinning area where she knew he was. She opened up her dresser and dug out an old purplish shirt. Pulling the worn material over her head she fished out a pair of navy blue sleep pants and tore a hole in the bottom to make room for her tail to come through. She looked at the black pants she wore and walked downstairs. Inu Yasha watched as she came in the room her tail dragged the ground. Her shirt was really old and it looked like it used to be purple but too many rounds in the washing machine had faded it to a dark pink. Her pants were really loose and tied at the waist with a draw string. The pants covered her small feet as she walked over to him sitting beside him she waited until he finished eating.

In feudal Japan after Inu Yasha had taken Kagome away to the well, Sango and Miroku were already on their trek to find the dead miko. So far the only village they had passed hadn't said anything of knowing her but they looked as if they feared speaking of it. This only led them to believe that she was somewhere near or had run through this village sometime recently.

"Do you really think we should be doing this Sango? I don't think Kagome really minds being the way she is." Miroku said trying for the thousandth time that day to change her mind. "Sango?"

"So you side with him?" She asked referring to Inu Yasha. "He doesn't want to give her a choice either." She glared at him. "Don't you want Kagome to be like she was? As a human not a hanyou or a demon." She hadn't needed to clarify it for him but she was trying to stress the fact that she was changed and she wasn't capable of just letting it happen.

Miroku kept quiet. He didn't feel like going through with that argument again especially with her in her current mood swing. "Sango you know it isn't that. I just don't think that Kikyou will help Kagome. I would think that she would much prefer to see Kagome dead along with Inu Yasha for obvious reasons. I just." He sighed and tried to make her turn around. "Listen. How many times has Kikyou been helpful to us?" He tried to point out. "What would make her want to start now?"

Sango stopped and turned to face him. "I just. I want Kagome to have a choice. Maybe if she doesn't we won't have to worry about this but don't you want to know that at least we tried?. Or maybe. Look Miroku-" she put a hand on his arm. "If you were in her place would you want to change back?"

"No. I wouldn't." He looked into her eyes. He wasn't surprised when he saw her opinion. "Are you saying that you would? Kagome loves Inu Yasha whether she wants to or not I don't know. But she does and I do believe that with the way that demon cursed her it is something that she wanted or else I do believe she would've put up way more of a fuss than she did." Sango looked away from his gaze. "How many times have you noticed Kagome looked hurt after Inu Yasha told her she was weak or implied that she was useless? Don't you think that maybe she wanted to be this way maybe so that she wouldn't look so weak in front of him? After all he is always protecting her and she may want to be his equal for once." He scratched his head in frustration trying to get his point across to Sango.

Sango let go of his arm not wanting to see the truth in his words. "She should still have a choice." She murmured not really convinced any more. She turned from him and fiddled with her boomerang.

"Maybe this was her choice. But if it will make you feel any better, I will still go with you but lets just find out more about her condition and what she can do while she's in it now okay?" Sango nodded mutely. "We will still find Kikyou just to make you happy and see if there really is a way to turn this around okay?" He nudged her shoulder to get a reaction from her. "We never did get any sleep last night or this morning and it's turning that way for the afternoon also unless you would let us take a slight rest okay?"

She nodded again. He looked around at their surroundings. "Lets go over there." He pointed to a small copse of trees and moved toward it. She followed slowly thinking over what he had said. '"Maybe this was her choice"

How could that have been her choice? ".and her greatest dream." That's how it could be her choice.' She thought bitterly. That night she awoke to the feeling that something wasn't right. Miroku was already up and Kikyou was seated near him. 'Oh that's what's wrong.' She thought belatedly. They were already discussing Kagome. "Listen monk I am not exactly sure how this came about. I have only heard of this happening once before and that was from Inu Yasha himself when he wasn't fully awake."

She looked at Sango and her gaze hardened if that was at all possible. "Nice to see you have awakened. If I had been about to kill you, you would be dead by now. Only your monk friend woke up when I was near enough." She went back to looking like her usually cool and awful self making Sango want to strangle the dead miko for looking that way at her. She gritted her teeth.

"So what do you know about it?"

"I do know that she will probably out live you but she may not live as long as Inu Yasha himself because of her turning back to human every day." She stared blankly at Miroku again making him nervous and disgusted. Praying to every god he had ever heard of that she would just go back to hell where she came from he looked away.

"Is there any way that you know of that we could turn her back to being a human? Or to give her the ability to become a hanyou all the time?" He asked her calmly not letting his feelings show on his face. Sango envied his ability to keep his disgust hidden whereas she couldn't and it rolled off of her in waves. Miroku glanced at her before giving the dead miko his attention again.

"So you would like for her to be able to become a hanyou all the time if she's not able to become human again?" Sango nodded surprising Miroku. She pondered this for a while before answering. "I would know nothing of it besides the fact that because it was a death wish that meant a lot to that demon it won't be able to be reversed so no she will not be able to go back to being a human although there may be a way to turn her into a hanyou full- time." She stayed quiet for a while.

"So why is it that she may not be able to go back? Surely that wimpy inu youkai was not so strong as that?" Sango asked openly showing her hostility. Kikyou favored her with a glare for her tone. "Because if what the monk says is true and Kagome wanted this even slightly there is no way that we will even be able to reverse it as she wanted his dying wish to come true and therefore her miko powers combined with the power of the Shikon no Tama compounded that into her soul." The miko was quiet for a while before she stood and made to leave. "So no there is no way it can be reversed like that. That is not how the jewel works."

"Wait is there a way that we can find out more about her condition? After all we know so little about it and we want to help her in any way we can. " Miroku asked.

"And I suppose that Inu Yasha sides with you too in finding any way to help her.Yes there was a such a place but I am not so certain that it will work as the village that held such knowledge burned down quite a while before even I died." She smirked to herself. "I guess Inu Yasha will be having even more problems with my reincarnation."

"That doesn't mean he will leave her for you." Sango said smiling wanting to get in a parting shot for when she had first awoken and been insulted. The miko glared before she turned to leave again. "Where was this burned village located?"

"Why not ask Inu Yasha after all it was his home." She smirked then disappeared into the night.

"Are you satisfied Sango?" Miroku asked thoroughly upset with the entire situation. He looked in the general direction she had left. Sango watched as a shudder ran through his body that he had been suppressing. "I never ever want to talk with that thing again." 'That was definitely not what I would call a woman.' He thought to himself.

She was quiet as she got up and went over to the monk. She went down on her knees in front of him and hugged him. At first he thought she had read his mind but then she spoke. "Thank you houshi-sama. I really appreciate it. That you actually did this for me even though you didn't want to. Thank you." She released him and stepped back waiting for him to stand up with her. Miroku stood up and followed her as she made her way back to the village so they could give Shippo the news. 'Well at least Inu Yasha doesn't have to worry about her becoming fully human anymore and maybe she will be able to live as long as he will.' Miroku pondered on the way back.

"What do you think Kikyou will do with her new information Sango?" Miroku wondered out loud as he looked at the leaves and bushes rustling in the slight wind. He could hear the birds chattering in the trees as if nothing monumental ever happened in the world.

"How should I know and frankly I for one could care less. I do not like that woman and what I wouldn't give to personally deliver that 'rest' that Inu Yasha seems so intent on giving her." She cracked the knuckles of her fist. 'Yeah I would love to send her to where she belongs.'

"Well maybe we should care? What if she does something with that knowledge that puts Lady Kagome in even more danger? What would we do then? Because it would be all our fault as that woman didn't know of it before we asked her for her assistance-"

"Not that she gave a whole hell of a lot." Sango inserted. Miroku nodded. "Yes, not that she supplied us with everything we wanted to know but did you really expect her to? I know I didn't as she has feelings for our hanyou still." He tapped his chin with his fingers. "Though they do involve his death and to me are quite sick but none-the-less she does and knowing this just may make her want to figure out a way to destroy Kagome for good. How would we be able to take it if we found out it was our fault for blabbing what we knew to her biggest enemy? For all we know she could go to Naraku with that information and who knows what he'll do with it?"

"Miroku if you don't stop with those guilt questions I swear I will beat you over the head and leave you for dead without a second thought." Even though she wanted to deny it his words had struck home. 'Darn him for making me feel so guilty and nothing has happened yet!' She wanted to scream at him but she knew that wouldn't help in the long run as he would probably only bring the facts back up.

In Kagome's time she sat on her bed waiting for Inu Yasha to finish dressing. 'Is it really that hard for him to figure out what goes where?' She huffed as she faced her wall not wanting to face him no matter how much he said it didn't bother him as she had already seen 'everything' last night. She blushed at the memory. His body had been so toned from all that demon fighting. Much better than the models in those stupid magazines and that was saying a lot as so many girls drooled over stuff like that. And she had most certainly seen way more than those magazines showed. His stomach muscles were so defined that she was surprised that people in his time looked down on him so because of his body.'Maybe they're jealous? I know I would be if I were a man.' She started to think of running her hands over his muscles and realized what she was doing. That was definitely not something she needed to be thinking of right now.

"I'm done." He called from behind her. She turned around and saw that the shirt she had leant to him was a little smaller on him than she had imagined. It clung to his body but he had shredded the sleeves off of the shirt and they were laying in the floor. The sleep pants he was borrowing looked similar to hers except they were a dark blue. It was hard work to keep her jaw from hitting the ground. If she had been uncertain in her thoughts before she definitely knew now he was built. She nodded keeping her blush at bay. "Small wonder you took so long. If the tightness of that shirt is any indication I wouldn't have been able to get it on you." She stood up and went down the stairs to the laundry line outside where she had hung his clothing to dry after having them run through the washer.

She took them off the line and draped them over her arm. "Are you ready to go? We can leave these in the village at Kaeda's after all she won't mind. Plus they're not done drying yet."

He nodded and followed her into the well. He had to be careful when they went down the steps as her tail was still dragging the ground in her unhappiness. 'What could've gone wrong with her that would make her so unhappy?' He thought. Kagome sat on the lip of the well waiting for him. He stepped up behind her placing his hands on her shoulders he rested his chin on top of her head. "Kagome what's wrong with you? You didn't eat any of the breakfast you fixed for yourself. You threw it into the garbage in the kitchen before you got dressed."

Kagome sighed and looked into the depths of the well. Even with her enhanced vision she couldn't see the bottom of it in the dark. "There's nothing wrong with me Inu Yasha it's just your imagination." 'Even to my ears that excuse sounded lame.' She mentally berated herself for the thousandth time for ever bringing up the subject of his mother.

"Kagome it is not. I have been watching you all week long and I am not so stupid when it comes to stuff like that plus you are all but radiating unhappiness in your scent. Do you think I'm so stupid?" He tilted her head back with his chin and looked into her eyes.

Kagome sighed. "No I don't think you're stupid. I'm sorry Inu Yasha I didn't mean to bring that up this morning. I made you upset because I brought up your hometown and what had happened. I didn't mean to hurt you. I really didn't." She pulled away from him and dropped in the well. She quickly climbed out and waited on him. 'Oh well he can find me by following my scent if he wants to.' With that in mind Kagome moved off into the woods walking slowly so he could catch up with her easily if he wanted to.

'That was what was bothering her? She thought she had upset me? Well you must've looked pretty mad or upset for her to be like this.' He reasoned in his head. He looked down at where she had dropped their clothes on the ground. 'Well you need to tell her that you're not upset.' He paused. 'You could use this to your advantage.' He quickly squashed the thought and leapt through the well. He jumped out. "Kagome-" He cut off when he didn't see her. "Where did that girl go?" He scented the air. Following his nose and he went after her.

He caught up with her after about five minutes. "Hey Kagome wait up." He called and she stopped and looked at him. She stayed silent but once he got to her side she turned and continued walking. "You know I really don't like this whole silent routine. It's getting rather old." He grumbled as he grabbed her arm and stopped.

"I'm sorry I wasn't meaning to be rude. Its just you always complained that I talked too much so I figured as I have nothing to say I might as well listen for once." When he didn't answer her she continued on. "You know I've said this before but I really like these new enhanced abilities."

"No you've never mentioned it." He said as he followed. Her tail was off the ground now but still rather low. He trampled on the urge to take it in his hands. 'She may not like that you know.' He said to himself.

"With my new sense of smell I can catch your scent from up here and I can hear your breathing. It seems like you didn't run all that fast to get up to me. And with my new strength I don't feel the rocks or splinters that are biting into my feet right now. But-" She stopped and placed her hands on his face when he got close enough. "I can feel things a lot better than I used to." Her hand dropped and she continued walking.

"So where are you taking me?" He asked still not ready to let her off of her guilt trip just yet. "You've been there before but I don't know if you'll remember. Its really special to us both you won't know until we get there." She let her words sink in. "You know you don't seem so averred to talking of your father. Why don't you?"

"Um." He frowned. 'Where had this thought come from?' "I don't really know. I guess I just wasn't around him enough to know much of him. That was Sesshomaru who was close to him. I'm guessing that Sesshomaru was with father when we were attacked. I was-"

"I already know." She paused and looked at him. "You're mother was who you were with when your village was attacked. She threw you out the window to save you before the bad youkai came and murdered her amongst the flames that engulfed your home."

His jaw dropped and he was unable to say anything but, "How- how could you have known? You weren't even around then and I know Myouga didn't tell you as I would've killed him. Sesshomaru wouldn't have told you and even if it could've been him I would've smelled him around you if he would've gotten the chance to talk with you." His mouth worked a bit more but he stayed silent.

"I know that you stayed in the woods for a while afterwards but you don't remember much of it and I can't fathom why. Although I do know that you have to remember where we are going if only that and nothing else. You should know how I found out once we get to where we're going." She looked away from him still moving towards the cave. 'He has to remember if he doesn't I will die.' She thought. 'If he doesn't remember me I will be crushed. But it's only right that he doesn't remember you after all they're only dreams who's to say that they're real after all?'

"Hey Kagome?" He ventured after they had walked for about a half hour in silence.

"Yes Inu Yasha?" She looked towards him they were close not too much farther. "I wasn't upset with you this morning. It really didn't hurt me that you brought up my mother." He confessed and was satisfied when he saw her smile. Suddenly a wave of deja-vu hit him and he had to stop. 'That scent in this air is so familiar.' He looked around him and saw claw marks on a trees bark to the right of him. He moved over to it and looked closely. "Oh my God Kagome." He said quietly as he realized whose claws had made those marks. "That is my mark. Why is it on this tree?"

"Well maybe you put it there so that you wouldn't forget where I'm taking you." She said not looking at him or anywhere in particular. "Don't think too hard on it you should think of it soon."

Suddenly he was hit with a memory.

'Why don't you make a mark to signify where this place is so that you never get lost again?' The woman had suggested to him with a smile her pale hair bathed in blood the tips of it darker than the rest. "Kagome" He realized. Her body was equally soaked in the blood of the enemies she had just fought off for him. His little hands tore into the nearest tree making the familiar strokes he had always used. 'Like this?' He asked not too sure that was what she had meant. 'That is just fine.' She took his small hand in her own and smiled at him dazzling him slightly. He hugged her as he had grown accustomed to and put her scent into his memory never to be forgotten. 'You are my Angel Kagome.'

Inu Yasha came out of his memory with a start. "YOU!" He exclaimed. His eyes bugged as he looked at her. "You're my angel that I couldn't forget." She smiled softly at him and walked on. He ran up to her and wrapped his arms around her waist crushing her to him. He buried his face in her hair memories rolling over him in waves. "I came to you Inu Yasha but don't tell me of all that you remember as I don't know it all yet. I have only visited you three times to my knowledge and this last time I took you here."

"You're taking me to our cave." He stated. She nodded and he carried her the rest of the way to the cave. She rolled the familiar boulder out of the way. Once inside he looked around, "You've added a few things since we were last here."

He looked down and picked up the purple gem that Miroku and Sango had looked at. "No don't look at that one Inu Yasha." She took it out of his hands and picked up another one handing it to him. He looked at the one in her hand that she hadn't wanted him to see.

"Why don't you want me to look at that one Kagome?" He looked curiously at her hand. She sensed the gentleness that radiated out of him. 'Could him realizing who I was to him really bring about this great of a change? Not like you don't like this change.' Her mind taunted her.

"I just don't want to make you sad. This one is full of nothing but sadness." He still looked at it wanting to see it but to satisfy her he held up the one in his hands and looked into the crystal. It glowed briefly blinding him slightly. Once the light faded away he looked into the calming depths of the sea. Strange birds he had never seen were flying over the water their strange call echoing in his ears. He saw great mammoth gray beasts rise out of the water along with ones that were black and white. They made the most gorgeous sounds he had ever heard. "Oh Kagome." He whispered. "This is so beautiful. What are these creatures in the water?"

She looked at his face and the peace that was radiating from it. She knew she would likely never get this chance again. She stepped up to him, as he was completely absorbed in the little world in the crystal he didn't notice.

She placed her head on his chest and wrapped her arms around his waist and hugged him. "Those creatures in the water are called whales and those birds in the sky are seagulls. She smiled up at his face. He couldn't see her or feel her until he decided to pay attention to her but he could hear her words. Before he could come out of his trance she released him and sat down at his feet gazing up at him.

"Are those really whales? They make the most amazing sounds Kagome. Have you heard them?" He got down on his haunches to her eye level. "I have never seen anything so awesome Kagome."

"Would you like to see them up close? I could get you there you know to actually see them in person." She smiled at him as he sat in her lap like he had slept last time she wrapped her arms about his waist as he leaned back. "I would take you. You know that right?. It is so beautiful to see them at night. I could take you to the pier tomorrow night and you could watch them with me." She looked down at him. He looked forward with his head resting on her shoulder. His hands were folded on his chest and he was breathing deeply. She gave into temptation and ran her hands through his long hair.

"Hey Kagome?" She continued stroking through his hair waiting on him to say what was on his mind. "I- do you think that. How come I didn't recognize you when you came to me? You know when you came through the well that first time."

"Inu Yasha I don't really know. Maybe we agreed to make sure you wouldn't remember until now or maybe there was something that was blocking your memory or maybe. Maybe you just didn't remember because you had believed in your heart that it was Kikyou." He shook his head. ".as it didn't seem to be on the front of your mind. Either that or this is a new development and I changed the past. And that might explain it." She rested her hand on his forehead as she thought about it.

He stood up and paced around the room trying to remember. He clutched his head feeling the beginnings of a migraine that had been happening all week when he tried to place this feeling of deja-vu. She waited on him to lay down again so she could continue to stroke his hair and sighed. "Don't think on it Inu Yasha. I'm not hurt that you don't remember me as you think you should. Besides maybe you were remembering you just squashed it?" She suggested.

He looked into her eyes and fingered her light blue hair that was hanging in her face. He ran a hand along her cheek. "Kagome?"

"Yes Inu Yasha?" she mimicked him by stroking his jaw also. "Do you still-?" She looked confused by his question so he dropped it. "I really would love to see those whale things. Would we be able to go and do that later though?"

She nodded. "Sure we could do that when we go back to visit my mother and family." She looked at the crystals around her. "I suppose we have a whole night a head of us. is there anything you would like to do in particular?"

He shook his head. She smiled then stood up. "If that's the case then. Come with me." She grinned and grabbed him by the hand brining him to a small alcove.

Memories assaulted him again.

'Come on Inu Yasha we can sleep here for the night.' Her smile loomed over him. He smiled back slowly and nodded. 'Yes Kagome if you want to.' His childlike hands were wrapped up in hers. He could feel the warmth of her body through his clothes as she picked him up and tossed him in the air making him laugh at the feelings that were rolling around in his stomach. She smiled at him like she always did and he could see an inner light shinning out of her eyes when she looked at him. 'We'll sleep here for the night and then we'll go on an adventure in the morning.' She put her forehead to his and grinned at him making him feel giddy inside. 'Hey Kagome?' she looked at him again as she folded back the covers and climbed under them. 'Yes?' She held out her arms and he crawled into them curling up against her stomach. 'Why don't you act like all the other people I've met? You act like I'm no different from any other human and I've always been told that I was.'She cradled him close to her chest. 'Inu Yasha whoever said that is wrong you shouldn't have to change yourself to make other people happy. And besides you are beautiful to me just the way that you are. I don't want to see you any different from how I see you now.' He felt her lips in his hair as she spoke. He was comforted by her words and fell asleep in her arms in the small cave. He remembered collecting the crystals wither the next day. He came out of his reverie and jumped.

He looked at her. "You should be going to sleep now."

She frowned. "Inu Yasha we just got up before we came here? How am I supposed to just go to sleep?" She sat down on the blankets that still sat in the place they had left them. He sat next to her and looked at her still not able to believe her fully.

"Kagome how come you always.Why?" He couldn't really form the words so she didn't answer him. She just wrapped her arms around his shoulder and pulled him down to lay next to her. She radiated the comfort he needed and he was grateful. He turned in her arms to face her. He rested his forehead against hers and relaxed. "You always come when I need you. How in the world do you know how to do this to me?" But she was pretending to be asleep so he let her stay that way.

Authors Note: Okay people this is the second chapter but I put it out thanks to Heather so if you like this story then thank her first because I wouldn't have put it out at all with out her I forgot to mention that when I first put the story out and I want you guys to know that. Any one who reviews me whether bad or good.. I love you and thank you so much for sparing a few seconds to make a mediocre comment to help along a poor little girl. (hint hint) I really like reviews and I want to see them thank you. I tried my best but if anything seems off tell me and I will fix it okay? Once again thank you bunches for sparing the time to read this.