The Sands of Time

Disclaimer:As always I don't own Inuyasha of any of the characters therein. The characters of Curtis Higurashi, Julie Taijiya and the Magus Order are of my own creation. If you wish to use them for a sequel of this story feel free to. Simply ask me first at To those that reviewed my story you will be acknowledged at the end of this chapter.

Chapter 1 -- Inuyasha's Twin?

The young man stumbled down the road with the large wasps in hot pursuit. Each time one swooped at him is was repelled by a waek swing of a blood-stained blue-bladed sword. The six points of light in his gloved left hand pulsed again sending another surge of adreniline through his body urging him onward. The young man was in very bad shape, he stumbled as he shuffled along the dirt road, his clothes were bloodied, torn and punctured in various places and under the hooded cloak that hid his face from view there were corrosponding wounds on his body. His right arm hung limp and broken at his side, bent at an unnatural angle. The wasps continued to follow waiting for the man to fall from his injuries, from exhaustion or from the venom coursing through his veins like acid.

Meanwhile some distance away...

"Shippo! Come back over here," Kagome called, "If you aggravate Inuyasha anymore his going to start beating on you again." At the sound of the the young kitsune demon quickly scampered off the Inu-hanyou's shoulder and hopped up into the basket of Kagome's bicycle. She dropped her voice to a whisper, "You know how aggravated he gets when the new moon starts to come."

"Hey! In case ya hadn't noticed it ain't nightfall yet. I can still hear ya!" the slightly angry toned voice of Inuyasha rang out at them. His ears began to twitch suddenly, "Doe anyone else hear that?" He drew the Tetsaiga as the sound of insects buzzing became louder. Miroku the monk and Sango the taijiya stepped forward as they saw the young man come into view and stood ready to defend themselves. Inuyasha growled under his breath and asked, "Kagome do you sense any jewel shards on him?" The man stopped his advancing about 5 feet away and pointed his sword at them.

"Yes!" Kagome said able to make out the six sparkling points of light in the man's left hand, "He has six, in his left hand."

"Speak you allegience! Naraku or no!" the young man wobbled unsteadily on his feet. It was incredible he was standing much less weilding a sword which was shaking in his one hand.

Inuyasha narrowed his eyes and gripped the Tetsaiga tighter, "If yer with Naraku you picked the WRONG day to meet up with me pal."

Kagome, ever the peacekeeper, stopped Inuyasha from attacking, "Inuyasha wait, look at how injured he is...he could be running from the insects."

Miroku looked at Inuyasha considering this, "Kagome makes a good point," he turned toward the man, "Good sir, we are against Naraku, tell us why are you among his insects?"

The man gave no reply except pitching forward clutching at his ribs. The insects moved in for the kill before the taikiya cried out "Hiraikotsu!" and threw her giant bone boomerang killing most and causing the others to get the message that they were outmatched. The man got to his knees blood dripping from through his cloak and his hood fell back and there sat...another Inuyasha? Well, not exactly, but it looked like him right down to the dog ears and rosary necklace, but this one hand shorter hair and lacked Inuyasha's golden hued eyes and in their placed there wer a set of sienna brown eyes like Kagomes. Miroku approached the man and felt his forehead and looked him over. "He's burning up with fever and frowm the look of these wounds he's barely alive and filled full of venom. Kagome do you have any of your venom antidote?"

Kagome, just like anyone else, was shocked to her core at this new person. She snapped out of the shock and started going through her enourmous yellow backpack and got out her first aid kit and set to helping Miroku bind the man's wounds and give him a venom antidote. Shippo kept looking between the man and Inuyasha and asked, "Inuyasha do you have a twin?" That earned him a bop on the head. "Ow! Kagome!"

Kagome turned to Inuyasha and glared at him and called out, "Osuwari!" As Inuyasha crashed face-first into the ground the man did a similair faceplant into the ground. Miroku looked at this and spoke, "Perhaps you should hold off on doing that until this man is healed. It is too dangerous to stay out here overnight, we'd best go back to the village."

Miroku gently hositened the unconscious man onto Kilala's back as she tranformed into her large form. As Kagome climbed on with Shippo, Sango and Miroku her mind was whirling with questions. 'Who was this man? Is he related to Inuyasha? A long lost twin?A future version of him?' As they rode off back towards the village Inuyasha broke off into a run. The man rested silence being the only answer to Kagome's unasked questions for now.

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