(A/N: I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA. I wish I did, but I do not. Sorry.)

Kagome looked ahead and sighed. As soon as the blue lights surrounded her, she could hear Inuyasha yelling. He'd been pissed that she took an extra day in her time. He didn't even ask why.

'If he was so damn angry about it, why didn't he come and get me?'

This was the third time the thought had crossed her mind and only once did she actually voice it.

"It's none of your business wench!"

She mumbled under her breath and watched him slam into the ground.

Now, she sighed again while plopping down beside Sango. Sango had bee indulging herself in a deep conversation with Miroku and seemed to be twinkling in delight. She looked over at Shippo, who was shoveling ramen into his mouth. Within the seven some odd years since she adopted him as her own, he grew into a handsomely cute young man. As he noticed his mother staring at him, he looked up and asked, "Hey, mom, do you know when I'll be able to see Rin again?" She smiled at her kit, "The next time we bump into Sesshoumaru, I believe." Shippo had gone back to his ramen, satisfied with her answer.

None of them seemed to notice; except Sesshoumaru, who happened to be 'bumping' into their group more often than not. He would simply state it was to relieve himself of Rin's constant pleading to see Shippo. She was beginning to think it might have something to do with herself.

She ran her thumb over her elongating nails -- she paused -- claws, that is. She smiled; these changes happened the four days she spent at home. Well, what she thought was home; she wasn't so sure anymore. Her new features replayed in her mind. Something was happening to her, and she didn't know why.

She awoke to the smell and sound of bacon cooking. Heavily, she breathed in, she could feel the stress being lifted off of her; she was home in her bed. She rushed downstairs to note that no one was home and there was no bacon around her at all, even though the smell was enticingly near. She grabbed her keys and put on her slippers. Now, she wanted bacon, and she was going to get it. She walked outside where the sounds of cooking bacon became louder. She started to follow the smell.

Five blocks and one screaming woman later, she had her bacon. To top it off, it was the one she smelled to begin with.

As she walked back home, she kept asking herself why could she track that bacon so well. She stopped dead in her steps. Did she just refer to herself tracking bacon? She sighed and silently rolled her eyes at herself. It wasn't as if she was a demon or anything… maybe she was just having a day. One of those days where everything seems to be slightly off kilter. That was it, she was having a day.

She rubbed the foggishness off of the mirror from her shower. Something was off. Her pores seemed huge! Her eyes too, they seemed like they were jumping out at her. Her eyes… she breathed in, they were different. Maybe she was in a mood; one of those moods where your eyes change color. They were a hard icy grey blue in comparison to her normal bright blue eyes. Blue, her natural blue highlights in her hair seemed to double in hue, almost like blue and black stripes in her hair. She rubbed her eyes and looked again, but they hadn't gone away. She sighed and walked out of the bathroom.

She screamed in frustration, nothing fit… except her panties that is. Her pants were too short, her bra was too small, and every single damn shirt looked like she decided to borrow it from Souta. She grabbed a sports bra, shorts, and a huge baggy t-shirt. She had to go shopping.

Her whole savings spent and a new wardrobe later, she came home.

"Demon! Be Gone!" And now she had an O-fuda attached to her forehead. "Gramps! I'm not a demon!" "Be gone Demon! Release my grand-daughter!" She snarled at gramps and her voice became low and deadly, "Gramps I'm Kagome and not a damn demon! Listen to me!"

Gramps saw her eyes tinting pink and knew something was happening to her, something that rarely ever happens. Almost unheard of. He carefully peeled the O-fuda off of Kagome's forehead and had her sit down to hear him out.

Three hours and one Kagome rocking back and forth later, Gramps had to pry her hands off of her arms. Her newfound claws were biting into her flesh and she was bleeding; she didn't seem to care. "Why me off all people?" drops of blood were slipping out of her eyes, she had begun crying. "I have to deal with so much already, why me?" He cleared his throat, "I believe, that your time traveling may have caused it, and if that is so, Kami, himself, has seen to you turning into a demon, Kagome." He kneeled down and looked her in the eyes; "Don't look at it as a downfall, look at it as a blessing. You are now more able to take care of yourself and now help others easily in your group when something happens. Am I right?" She sniffed up at him, her tears starting to recede. "I… I ... I guess you have a point." "Good, now get some rest before I start throwing my O-fudas at you again."

After three days of getting used to her new self, she decided to come back. It was a day late, but it was better then nothing at all.

She hadn't fully turned into a demon yet; she could smell human all over herself. She wondered when it would come and if anyone noticed at all.

"Sesshoumaru-sama! Sesshoumaru-sama! When can Rin," cough "I see Shippo again?" He mused. She started craving the kit's company about four years ago. "Hn. You will see him soon enough." They had been traveling for two weeks since the last time he took Rin to see Shippo.

With all truth be told, he wanted to talk to Kagome. There had been something off about her the last time he had seen her. Something about her presence. She didn't seem to be taking the Inuyasha's wench role as she usually did. She seemed to shine, and he wanted to know what happened. She had always been dull with a small spark to her, but, now, she was the spark. There was a fire about her presence.

He began to walk towards the essence of his brother's group.

She looked up from her claws; she could feel him coming closer. She abruptly stood and began walking west. "Kagome?" Sango looked at the woman she had come to know as her sister. "Kagome? Is there a shard?" Miroku stood up and reached for his staff.

She shot them both a piercing look. "It's nothing, don't follow." She eyes were tinting pink and Sango's pleas couldn't be heard. She ran, she ran with a speed Inuyasha couldn't' even dream about touching. Something clicked in her and the only thought in her mind became 'Sesshoumaru'.

"Inuyasha! It's Kagome! Something is wrong! Help us!" Sango was screaming at the top of her lungs. She knew Inuyasha was seeing Kikyo, they all knew. None of them would speak of it though. He made a whooshing stop in front of Sango. "What did the bitch do now?" As he said the words, he sneered out bitch across his fangs.

"Her… her eyes, they were changing into red… demonic… eyes… she ran… she ran faster then you!" He was taken back. His head even jerked back as if the information hit him like a ton of bricks. He turned and ran towards her smell, and using her name for the first time in months, he yelled out for her. "KAGOME!"

They all felt it… the earth shook with power.

Inuyasha and Shippo held their ears while a piercing scream penetrated them.

Sango started to cry.

Miroku held her.

Rin looked at Jaken.

And Sesshoumaru took off…

A blast of power came surging from the east of Sesshoumaru and west of the gang, blue and pink waves came crashing down upon everyone.

With the speed and grace as he always had, Sesshoumaru flew, he needed to know what created such power. After he found out what created it, he would harness it, and then use it–of course for his own gain.

It was as if everything stopped–nothing compared to it. He wouldn't believe it himself if he didn't see it for himself. There was his brother's wench, fighting against something in herself. Her eyes started cry, she was clawing up at the sky, and she was holding an inaudible scream.

But all of this wasn't right. She was just human, a human miko. Right? Her tears were of blood, she had claws, and ... if her scream was so high pitched it became inaudible... what was she? She couldn't possible be able to cover her own scent?

Her hands surged forward, wrists connected, as a ball of power and light emerged. She yelped at him, in Inu Youkai language, "Stay Calm, No Danger." He was frozen, she had what? And no danger? STAY CALM?

It seemed as if his reflexes weren't enough for this woman, the ball of light pulsed then slammed into Sesshoumaru. He didn't seem hurt, yet his pride got the best of him. A human could never catch him off guard! Then this had to mean, she was not human.

He smelled it, she wasn't. Her smell a calm tropical as it may be, started to fade. Sakura blossoms whirlwind into her scent, mixing with the calm of her miko energy. She was Inu Youkai.

She body limply fell to the ground; apparently this was not the easiest task that she had accomplished. Instinctively he caught her in his arms.

Wait, that wasn't right either...

He only had one arm, right?

One arm for Inuyasha cut off his other... yet he looked down again. There it was. He sighed as he picked her up and began walking west.

It's a new chapter of something I started a good while ago! Sorry if I upset any of you by not updating! I meant to! But, Life got in the way. That and writers block.

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--Teresa