Ok I know that I have not been giving you any new chapters that held any real content, but hey, can you blame me? … --' Of course you could, plus school is staring in a few days do I can't update that often unless I have a spurt of genius creativity.

Btw Kizu and Mizu are related to Kagome on her mom's side,

And they didn't mention anything about her being a hanyou, because

Seni told them and

Mutual pain.

Disclaimer: shouldn't even the word 'disclaimer' serve the purpose of the disclaiming?

CHAPTER SUMMARY: heritage, it binds all to a fate they didn't ask for, some readily take it, some curse it for all they are worth, to others it's goal to fulfil or a promise to keep.

In this chapter we will find out more about Kizu and Mizu's pasts.

On with the show,

Chapter 18: wow! 18 chaps already!
WITH THE INU-TACHI

InuYasha had yet to stop running and it wasn't doing any wonders for poor Kirara either. The two had been going on nonstop for the better part of 4 days only stopping to eat, or one time that they all simultaneously fell over in exhaustion. To which they readily complied, seeing as they were unconscious with their faces in the dirt, couldn't really do anything about that.

They had slept for a whole day, with no youkai attacking them; (Mysterious forces at work 0.o)

So technically they have been separated from Kagome for five days. InuYasha was really getting desperate, and off you looked close enough you could see the red bleeding into his eyes.

Not even Tetsuaiga could stop it if a feral demon was separated from his mate for too long AND his mate is in the clutches of evil. (Yes they are mates, I thought it would be obvious, though I hadn't said anything about it short of an inuendo… on with de story)

Sango and the other's were currently unconscious on Kirara's back, while Kirara was cantering with half-lidded eyes.

All was going as normal, when they came across a large clearing, so grass no building remnants, nothing. And this was were Naraku's castle was.

" I recognize this," Said Sango, who was for some reason awake now, "it looks like a castle ground, but it just lifted off or something, could it be Naraku's castle?"

" I can smell Kagome's scent, it is several days old, heading south." InuYasha said, a relieved voice.

WITH KAGOME

Kagome's eyes cracked open, but winced, quickly shutting again.

Whose fault was this? The sun.

Darn thing just had to give me a wake up call, at least I can snuggle back into InuYasha's arms and- oh, right I'm in a camp a million miles from any of the others, with two people who are my distant relatives.

Perfect way to start the day, sigh

Over the course of the last five days, we have stayed at the campsite waiting for InuYasha, and I have gotten to know Kizu and Mizu really well.

I went about the normal morning routines, except without InuYasha, and I noticed a low rhythmic humming coming from far away. " Hey Kizu, that humming sound is Mizu right?"

FALSHBACK "So you said something about showing me what the didgeri-du sounded like? " Kagome asked Mizu the day after she was attacked by the youkai.

" Yeah, here watch" and Kagome did. Mizu put the mouth peace up to her lips and started playing.

Kagome was awed at the sound coming from the instrument, she had heard a didgeri-du before but this one sounded sad, and full of emotion, which was nothing like what you usually heard from a didgeri-du.

And this one doubled as a kick-ass weapon cuz of the blade at the end of the bell.

END FLASHBACK
" Looks like Mizu is practicing again," I heard Kizu say. " Or is calling InuYasha and the others, they should be close enough to hear by now."

" What do you mean by that?" I asked.

" How else are your friends going to find there way here, besides scent, but Mizu is using the sound from Shaku to alert then to where we are."

" Ah" Kagome said as she stared into Kizu's bi-colored eyes.

FLASHBACK

Kagome was sitting up in a tree casually looking over the campsite, and her eyes landed on Kizu, something in his aura had been bothering her, and his brown bangs were covering his eye on the left side.

Kagome jumped down, landing in front of Kizu, who was polishing his halberd. Kizu looked up to Kagome.

Mizu looked over to them from where she was lounging on a fallen log, and narrowed her eyes. Something was up, but she just ran her hands through her short but femininely cut hair, and leaned back to enjoy the show.

" Can I help you." Kizu asked.

Kagome could smell it; he was trying to hide something.

" What are you hiding, I can smell that you are hiding something."

Kizu sighed deeply and lifted his bangs from his hidden eye.

For the first time she got a really good look at Kizu since the first night, it was too dark then.

The hidden eye was rich green outlined in an almost black; the other was a normal brown.

"I'm not all human." Kizu said, and smirked at the irony, " My mother was a Hanyou, I don't remember what kind though."

" Wow"

END FALSHBACK

All we have been doing the last few days was waiting, and that was all we can do. Wait for InuYasha.

I've had to repress some urges to just run blindly into the woods toward his scent, but the thing is I can't smell him, we are upwind of him so he would be able to find me but not me him.

Which in just as bad because I know I'm going into heat, no doubt catching the attention of some sex starved youkai male. I hate it that you can't smell that a female is mated. Danmit!

Oh InuYasha where are you?

END CHAPTER

I know you hate me! But I am not going to have them meet again just yet. You should be able to pick up some of the foreshadowing, in that last part, go ahead I dare you to guess what is happening next.

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