Well, the last chapter was kind of short, but it had a big shocker in there. Didn't it? If you think not, then screw you. :P

Anyway, here's the chapter.

A Change in Our Future

Chapter Ten: Sesshomaru's Disguise

"N-Naraku?" I said, hardly believing what I was hearing. Yes, the clues that Sesshomaru had given me made me realize whom he was talking about, but I had refused to believe it was true. We failed? We failed the mission we set out to do? How... how could we have not defeated him?

I looked at InuYasha, who was as stunned as I was. He didn't even move the collar that I had just opened away from his neck. He just stared at his brother, his mouth hanging by its hinges.

I looked at InuYasha. "Inu... Yasha..." I muttered, tears forming at the corners of my eyes. InuYasha looked at me sadly.

The tears wouldn't stop, so I just cried, sitting there next to InuYasha. "W-we didn't do it! W-we never k-killed him!" I cried, my tears streaming down my cheeks. I leaned into InuYasha's shoulder and bawled my eyes out. All these emotions were running through me like water in a river.

"It all started with Kane! I wish I had never killed him, even if he did thank me! Then you got taken away from me! I thought I'd never get to see you again! All the pain that they put you through!" I shouted into InuYasha's haori. I backed off and looked at InuYasha through puffy eyes. "My home has become a hell. I wish everything would go back to the way it was."

InuYasha looked at me, his eyes hard. He didn't know what to say. He turned to look at Sesshomaru, who just stood there, watching us.

I turned to look at Sesshomaru also, and blinked a couple times. "Wait..." I sniffled, standing up. "How come you are the president of the Demon Hunters? Can't other people tell that you're a demon?"

Sesshomaru looked out the window.

"That is not your concern," Sesshomaru said, turning his head towards me. I frowned.

"We're caught up in this mess now, too! You owe us an explanation as much as you would owe someone else who discovered who you were, and could use it as blackmail," I said, hardly realizing what I was saying until I said it. Well, at least I did have blackmail. That was lucky.

Sesshomaru glared and sighed. "You're smarter than most of those other humans." Sesshomaru turned around to face the window again. He was bathed in golden sunlight from the setting sun. Was it that late already? Though I hated to admit it, Sesshomaru looked quite handsome standing there, the light shining on his silver hair... but the business suit just threw it all off.

He stood there for a while, but when he turned around, I gasped. The purple marks on his face and the crescent moon on his forehead were gone now, and his ears had become rounded and like a human's. Though, his eyes were unchanged.

"When the humans started to become more technologically advanced, I had realized that even though I would be able to defeat most everyone easily, the humans would just come with more reinforcements, and with their weapons. Not to mention I would killing needlessly," Sesshomaru said, telling his story. "Not too long ago I discovered a way to disguise myself as a human, or even to change my entire appearance. I didn't learn by myself, though. A fox demon taught me. It requires extreme concentration, and I'm sure that if you tried hard enough, little brother, you would be able to learn how to do this trick."

I looked at him, amazed. I tried to feel a demonic aura from him, but his super powerful aura was almost nothing at all.

I turned around to look at InuYasha when I heard Sesshomaru speak again. "Naraku is running this company, and anything to do with the demons being enslaved. I am gathering information for my own personal reasons... Though I do choose to share some with the resistance," Sesshomaru explained.

"Resistance?" InuYasha asked, surprised to hear that anyone would go against this company.

Sesshomaru nodded. "There are many branches of it, but there are two groups that they are in. Demons and humans."

"Oh," I stated. I didn't understand completely, but I went with it anyway.

InuYasha stood up; the collar that was still managing to stay on his neck fell off and hit the ground with a thud. "We have to go find Naraku," InuYasha said, clenching his fist and looking as determined as ever. I nodded and got on InuYasha's back. He started running and then jumped through the broken window, making people who were below (they were looking at the broken glass on the ground) look up and gasp or scream.

InuYasha ran across the tops of the buildings, the wind blowing through his hair and pushing it into my face. I was used to it by now, but it still sort of bugged me. I gripped onto InuYasha's shoulders a little bit tighter and frowned. The sun was slowly going down; the light from the city was taking over the sky so the stars were hardly visible.

I heard my stomach growl and I groaned a bit. "We probably should have went back home... Mama is probably very worried about me, and we can always go look for Naraku tomorrow... Not to mention it'll be harder to find him."

InuYasha growled and shook his head. "We're going to find him, and I don't want to lose any time on it..." I groaned and whined a little bit, and InuYasha looked back at me. He sighed. "We'll find some place to get food, alright?"

"InuYaaaaaaaasha," I whined. "Come on! I need a place to sleep, too..."

InuYasha was the one who groaned now. "Fine... We just have to find a decent person who will take us in for the night. People aren't as nice here compared to my time."

"Though my time doesn't have any demons, and it's relatively safer, there are still dangers. People aren't as nice as they used to be. There's more rape, more murder, and more attacks... Though, in your time there's a lot of murder, too," I said, sighing a bit.

InuYasha just listened to me blather on as he landed in an alleyway. I got off of him and we walked out into the street. This looked like a darker part of town... So much for finding a 'decent person' here. This looked like it was the bottom of the garbage can of the city.

"I hope we can find someone nice," I said, seriously doubting my words. Everyone we passed on the sidewalk seemed to have a dark aura about him or her, or maybe it was the smell of not having a shower or bath for weeks coming from each of them.

I looked at everyone who passed us carefully, trying to decide if they would help us or kill us. InuYasha put a hand on my shoulder and stopped me suddenly, and I looked out ahead of me, where he was looking. There was a woman standing in front of us, gaping slightly and holding a bag of groceries. She wore a fairly nice pair of shoes (cream-colored sandals) and a green skirt, along with a light pink button up blouse. Her black-brown hair was long and straight, reaching her lower back, and the color of her hair seemed to match her eyes.

She stared at us, and my mind seemed to tell me that I had seen her somewhere before. She took a few steps forward and then looked from InuYasha to me, and then back and fourth for a while. She almost seemed to be in shock.

"I've seen you before..." she said, looking at us.

I cleared my throat and looked at the girl carefully. "Uh... We were hoping to find someone to spend the night with... I don't suppose..."

"OH! Sure, of course! I was just walking home... Though, if you do stay, I must warn you that there are quite a few of us. We own our own building, though," the stranger said, starting to walk the direction she was going before. InuYasha and I followed her. She was pretty, and she had very little makeup on, just some eye shadow. She also seemed to be a year older than me, though she acted much older.

We followed her for about ten minutes until we reached a very large apartment building. It looked big enough to fit one of the villages in the Sengoku Jidai in it, with a couple extra floors to hold the land that the villagers lived on. To put it simply, it could fit a lot of people.

She took out a large set of keys from a black purse on her shoulder and started to unlock the door's many locks (I think I counted 23 locks, and yes, it did go really low on the door) and then she opened the door and ushered us in. I took off my shoes and InuYasha wiped his feet a little bit as the girl re-locked the door.

"What's your name?" I asked.

She looked at me and brought her hand up to her face and blushed. "Oh! I'm sorry. My name is Gosai. I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier," she said, scratching the back of her head.

Gosai... Now that's an interesting name.

Gosai led us through the building, our shoeless feet slapping on the ground. InuYasha's feet seemed to stick a little bit, even if they were a bit dirty. The floor was shiny, and the building seemed to be styled a lot like the Sengoku Jidai's villages. Small children popped their heads out of rooms, and they smiled when they saw InuYasha. I giggled as they ran back in the rooms. I took a glimpse through one of the open doors, and I saw it was just like a regular apartment. I thought they were just bedrooms. But it was just a lot of apartments.

"We're like a little miniature village inside this building," Gosai said, going over to a staircase. We followed her up eight floors, and she told us to wait while she put away her bag of food. This floor had the biggest room, and I assumed this was what would be like the 'headman's hut.' Gosai came back quickly and led us up another two floors.

"What is this place?" I asked Gosai. She smiled and put some hair behind her ear.

"These are the remnants of the most powerful demon slayer's village known. We live here now, and are all descendents of some of the most powerful demon slayers of the Warring-States Era," Gosai explained. She led us down a short hallway that started from the stairs, and opened up a door.

We entered a huge room, with quite a few people training.

"And as descendents of demon slayers, we must continue to train as them," Gosai said. Gosai started to lead us through the room and around everyone as they trained. They seemed to be just as good, or maybe even better, than the demon slayers that InuYasha and I had met. Gosai was talking again, now. "Though, we don't really slay demons even more, we still keep up the practice. Now we're fighting with the demons, and trying to free them."

"This is what Sesshomaru must have been talking about..." InuYasha said, scratching his head, moving the hat on his head slightly.

"I thought it was a little strange that you let us in here when you said that you still trained as demon slayers. I didn't think you'd let a demon come in here willingly," I said, looking over at InuYasha.

Gosai opened another door and pretty much shoved us inside. In this room was a small shrine; the only light was coming from candles around the room.

"I want you to see something. These two are the founders of our village, and their friends," Gosai said, walking over to a curtain in front of us. She pulled on the curtain, and it opened up to reveal quite a few pictures, painted by a monk. I gasped. They were the pictures from my schoolbook. The exact paintings that Miroku had painted of InuYasha and I, and in the middle it was one of Sango, and a painting of Miroku that was in a different style then the others. He apparently got someone to do one of him... And there was Shippo, and everyone was there.

I gasped.

"Sango... Miroku... Shippo..." I said. I looked over to InuYasha, and he was as stunned as I was.

I'm so tired. I need to get to bed pretty soon. But, by the time I get this up tomorrow, or whenever I get it up, it'll probably be in the morning or afternoon... Whatever.

Next Chapter: This 'village' of demon slayers... What are they doing? Is Gosai telling the truth? How can these guys help Kagome and InuYasha? Well, you'll only find out here, in the next chapter.