This Chapter is dedicated to the big nerd on campus for the review, and Sueric for the inspiration. Without you two this story would cease to exist!

Disclaimer: I own the newbies and the plot. The characters InuYasha, Kaede, Shippo, ect. belong to Rumiko Takahashi, NOT Kathryn Madarasz.

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In the Last Chapter:

"InuYasha, Sit boy sit sit sit sit sit!" Kagome couldn't stand it she hadn't sensed a hanyou other than InuYasha. Reaching out for her cousin's beanie she knew what she had to do. Inu hanyous have dog-ears jutting out of their head. Kagome's hand had slowly grabbed the red beanie and pulled it off Maeko's head…

Kagome pulled off the beanie with one sweep and looked at the top of her onyx hair covered head.

Nothing! There was just hair! There were no cute dog-ears atop of her head. Kagome handed Maeko her beanie back, and Maeko immediately returned it to her hair, which lay perfect as if untouched.

'Lucky!' Kagome thought, 'I would have had really bad hat hair!'

InuYasha looked confused, he knew what he smelt, Shippo smelt it to, yet no ears? He would have to figure this one out, one way or another…

InuYasha's thoughts were soon interrupted, "InuYasha?"

"Yeah wench?"

"SIT BOY!"

InuYasha hit the wooden floor of Kaede's hut with a large thump. "Say you're sorry!"

Quickly recuperating, InuYasha jerked up. "Look, I know what I smelled and it ain't no human!"

Maeko moved to the corner of the hut away from everyone except Kohaku who appeared to be sleeping in that corner at this moment.

"Kagome. Ye say she came from the yonder well, just as ye did yourself?" Kaede looked shocked.

Kagome nodded to the gray haired priestess before her without taking that, if-looks-can-kill-you'd-be-dead, expression off of InuYasha.

"What is her name child?"

"Her name is Maeko. She's my cousin, and she two years younger that InuYasha and me!" Kagome stated proudly in her matter-o'-fact tone forgetting to be mad at InuYasha.

"Kagome I'm much older than you." InuYasha growled at her but saw that heated gaze grow behind her eyes he retreated, "But in human years, I guess we're about the same age."

"Can she speak Kagome?" Miroku asked, all but forgetting the girl was in the room.

"Yes." Replied the girl who had defiantly been forgotten. Maeko's voice danced gracefully into the void as if unheard although the friends had stop taking to stare.

Kohaku kept quiet, 'She looks familiar.' He thought suddenly staring at her intently.

Sango watched as the fidgety Maeko silently walked out of the hut.

Sango watched her and silently slipped away from the group. Everyone was getting ready to sleep and Kagome had clearly forgotten that Maeko was supposed to be in Modern Japan.

"Maeko?" Sango called out as she reached the clearing Maeko had been sitting in.

"Yes?"

Sango slipped into a nervous wreck, the girl reminded her so much of Naraku's reincarnation Kanna, a small child of nothingness, with her monosyllable answers.

"I came to apologize for trying to attack you earlier."

"It's O.K."

"Maeko, Sango, it's getting cold, what are you doing at here?" Kohaku looked at them while searching the surroundings with his eyes, a habit he had received ever since he was released from Naraku's spell, as if afraid he would come back. The question was obviously pointed more towards his sister.

"Someone is coming." Maeko said flatly.

InuYasha dashed outside eavesdropping on the conversation, Sango was just arriving apologizing as he settled himself into a nearby bush.

All of a sudden Maeko said something about someone coming and InuYasha's nose got to work. Something familiar tickled InuYasha's nose as he discovered what it was… Sesshomaru!

"Kohaku, I thought you were asleep." "InuYasha came outside so I came to look for you two."

"We know, InuYasha is hiding right over there." Sango said pointing to the bush that held the said hanyou.

"Sango I want to talk to Maeko." And with that InuYasha grabbed hold of the wrist Kagome made sore and ran fast into a clearing as far away from the others, and Sesshomaru's scent as he could while staying in the woods.

"I know you're a hanyou! I don't know why you look as smell so differently but you're an inu hanyou! Why didn't you tell her?"

"What's your name?"

InuYasha looked at her and sniffed the air.

He was here!