Chapter 6-Suspicions of Love

Several days passed before Inuyasha and Callisto made it near Kaede's village where all of Inuyashas friends and family were. They walked along the road of the path that led passed farmers, worker, and peasants working or doing something important that was required of them. Finally they made it to the top of a hill where they could see the village from a birds eye view. Inuyasha was about to take another step down the hill, but found his foot had not touch the ground to continue the step as if he had just realized something terrible. "What's wrong my beloved? You look...troubled?" said Callisto as she looked in his direction.

"Its just I am...worried Callisto. I am worried about what will happen upon our arrival to see my old friends. I did not leave them on good terms and what I did to them while under the service of my former master Naraku I can never have undone...no matter how much I wish it could be," said Inuyasha as he stared at Callisto with worry.

"What kind of things?" Callisto asked curiously.

"I hurt them; I insulted them; and I humiliated them all in the service of my...former master. I broke Miroku's arm, took out my brother's eye, and in some way hurt everyone else around me. I hurt them physically, mentally, and spiritually when I should have seen the truth...even when it was right in front of me before hand," said Inuyasha as the feeling of guilt seemed to become an intense weight holding him back from advancing forward.

Callisto put her arm around Inuyashas embraced him with all her love trying to lessen the weight on his heart and soul as she stared at Inuyashas direction to face him. "Listen to me Inuyasha. From what you told me you stared into the heart of all that is darkness. You were offered strength, power, and all that a full blooded demon had in the body that was a half-demon. And what did you do? You turned away from such things. You saved those whom you had betrayed and nearly killed at your own hands and in turn betrayed your former master. To me that say's you saw the truth when you needed to see it when it counted the most. You showed strength where others saw only weakness. If they turn on you now...then they are no friends of yours," said Callisto who proceeded to give him a kiss on the cheek.

Inuyasha let out a sigh after he heard Callisto's words and could feel the weight of his guilt being elevated off of him. "Thank you Callisto. I feel that I...that WE can continue this journey. Let us go see them and see what fate as in store for us. To be embraced as their friends or do we become forced fight them as our enemies. Whatever our fate may be I wouldn't have it any other way with you...by my side," said Inuyasha who kissed Callisto on the cheek.

"I agree. If this is to be our destiny then I would welcome it to fight and die by your side," said Callisto who hugged Inuyasha in a loving embrace, which Inuyasha gave as well as received.

The two walked down the path of the hill and made their way down to the village where they were going to greet some old and soon to be very surprised friends.

(In the village itself)

"Kagome. What troubles ye child?" said Kaede as Kagome looked over to the path to her left.

"I feel something coming her. Something...familiar that I have not felt since..." Kagome stopped talking and then got up and walked toward what she felt.

"Yes. I feel it too. Only it's not the same as it used to be. It's almost as if it's...changed?" said Kikyo as she too started walking towards that feeling.

"What is it? Is it a demon or something?" said Shippo as the little Fox Demon got up and started running along with the others to see what Kagome and Kikyo did.

Kagome didn't answer as she went from walking to running when she saw a familiar looking figure followed by a new more female looking one beside it. She stopped and stared in amazement as did the others when they saw the two figures more up close and couldn't believe what they saw. "Inuyasha!" said Kagome in surprise as she ran up to Inuyasha and hugged him with all her strength.

"Hello...Kagome. It is good...to see you all again...both alive and...well," said Inuyasha who could only return a small friendly embrace with his one free hand while the other stayed in the embrace of Callisto's hands.

"Inuyasha we thought you were dead. Why didn't you tell us you were alive?" said Shippo who sounded almost angry.

"Up till now the time...was not yet ready for me to return. I was not...for the lack of a better word...complete. Though I can tell that none of you have changed since I've left except for some you, which is good to see," said Inuyasha in a darker then usual voice that Kagome and the others weren't use to.

Kagome let go of the hug and looked into Inuyashas eyes which she just noticed were red with the amber in the center and gasped in complete surprise as she noticed his other changes as well as the eyes. "What happened to you?" said Kagome as she tried to touch Inuyashas face, but surprisingly he grabbed it with his left hand to stop her as he shook his head.

The answer to her question came in the form the female voice next to Inuyasha wearing priestess clothing with brown air and pale white eyes that could not see. "I...happened Kagome. I did what neither Kikyo nor you...her reincarnation could do. I have healed the two sides of Inuyasha and made him...complete inside," said Callisto who turned to face Inuyasha as Inuyasha turned to face her.

"WHAAAAAT?" said Kagome who was completely infuriated at this moment who released her hand from Inuyashas loose grip and struck him with it.

The slap to his face didn't even faze him as if she had never hit him at all with her hand as blood rushed down his face from the spiritual power Kagome had unknowingly released from her hand. Callisto however, took exception to the attack by Kagome on Inuyashas face and repelled her away from Inuyasha with her own spiritual power. "I will not let you harm my beloved Inuyasha like that!" said Callisto as she continued to keep Kagome pinned on the ground with her powers.

"Be...beloved?" said Kagome not understanding as she found the more she tried to move the more she felt weight being pressed upon her that prevented her from moving.

The other tried to intervene, but Kikyo stopped them. However, she never took her eyes off of Callisto...or Inuyasha "It's all right my love. It's just a scratch. Besides I'm sure she didn't mean it. She never really could control or channel her power despite it being strong. Let her go Callisto. I think its time we all just sit down...and tell them everything," said Inuyasha who put his free hand on Callisto's outstretched hand and stared into the eyes of his love.

Her angry intense eyes turned into ones of soft and forgiving eyes that said they were sorry before she could even speak the words when she stared into his. "You are right Inuyasha. Forgive me," Callisto said as she hugged Inuyasha burying her face in chest crying.

"It's all right Callisto I forgive you. I would have done the same thing had she or any of the others hurt you," said Inuyasha as he wrapped his arms around her as Kagome got up from the ground.

Kagome didn't look to happy with Inuyasha when she saw him hug the priestess Callisto in loving embrace. She was about to say something, but Miroku cut her off before she got the chance. "So Inuyasha how did you two meet," said Miroku eyeing Kagome who was still fuming from obvious jealousy and was being kept silent with the help of Sango and Shippo.

"We'll tell you everything after we have settled down some place to rest from all the walking we did to get here to see you all," Inuyasha as he and Callisto walked hand in hand passed his old friends who could still not believe what they had seen.

Kagome walked over to Kikyo who had similar feelings about Inuyashas "beloved", but unlike Kagome she kept them hidden from everyone. "I don't like this. I don't trust her. I feel something is not right with this whole situation," said Kagome to Kikyo who nodded her head in agreement.

"We have to keep an eye on her so she doesn't endanger Inuyasha. She may seem innocent right now, but I sense something inside her that tells me she is not whom she wants us to see," said Kikyo as she and Kagome watched Inuyasha and Callisto being escorted by Kaede to a small, but still large enough hut for the two to enter together.

"Lucky dog," said Miroku smiling only to get a major hit in the head by Sango's giant boomerang.

"Lecher," said Sango as she put her weapon on her back again.

"OW! Jeez even when complimenting people and she hits me," said Miroku as he rubbed his head to lessen the pain.

"It's how you say the compliment that makes me want to hurt you Miroku," said Sango as she started walking to the small house Inuyasha and Callisto went into.

"Wait for me!" said Shippo as he left Miroku sitting on the ground trying get up from the blow Sango delivered to him.