I know, I know cliff hangers can be So suspenseful and annoying when you take forever to update for them, but I was in the heat of the moment. Anyways here's the next chapter. I hope you LOVE in and ENJOY it.

Chapter 17: Stories of the past

"Once when I was young..." Kagome began, but couldn't quite find the words to answer.

"Once when you were young... what happened?"

"Inuyasha, it's hard for me to place the exact event and I don't know how it happened, why I was there... who the people were."

"What happened? Where? Who?" Inuyasha asked.

"There was this.. place. It was beautiful on this particular day. The sun was out and high in the sky and all the grass was covering the ground, without a patch of dirt. It was... breath taking. I was little, around 4. I ran up and down this hill picking flowers..." Kagome was seeing the images in her head, trying to give Inuyasha a clear view. "For days there had been rumors of a kill... someone was going to die and the village people were going to help do it. I can't remember most of their faces."

"Who's faces?"

"The village people... I was to young to understand what they meant by kill. Soon I heard someone calling my name. I think it was my mother. I ran to her and she grabbed my hand leading me to our home... our home was different back then, but I don't remember how much, come to think of it I can't remember it at all, I only know it wasn't the same. Anyway, the skies suddenly darkened. I was sitting in the hut. When I asked to go out I was told no. I asked many times, but the answer was always the same. When I asked why she told me.. she said it's not safe. Her face was saddened and depressed. Soon I heard stomping and crying..." A tear dripped from Kagome's saddened eyes. "A baby was crying. The villagers were stomping through with torches and stuff. I peaked out the hut and watched as they headed towards the center of the parish. I listened deeper to the crying... and I think... I think the crying was somewhat familiar, which is why I got up with out my mothers wishes and ran. I remember hearing her call out to me. She called 'STOP, Don't go! Come back!' stuff like that. I kept running, until I found the hub of the village where they had brought the crying baby. The baby... the baby was my little baby brother..." Kagome gasped at the words. She was talking so much of this in and for some reason her memories were so clear, as if it had just happened.

"Sota?" asked Inuyasha.

"No... he was born after Sota. Sota was somewhere else being taken care of... I don't know where... The baby child... I remember loving him so and adoring him. I reminisced the nights I would tell him stories, short stories. I knew he didn't understand them, but he was always comforted by them for some reason... I watched as a man stood up to speak, he spoke solemnly. He said 'It is time for us to the rid the world of this tainted creature. We have allowed the others to live, but this makes to many. He will die, he will no longer exist from this world.' I ran through the crowd hearing his words clearer then day. I saw my baby brother... there on this log. He was crying and the man was standing over him, looking down at him. He held out..." Kagome had a few more tears drop.

"You can stop if it's to much." Inuyasha suggested. The whole situation was making him, himself sad.

"No, I'm fine. The man was holding a weapon... a sword over the baby. I screamed and tears dropped from me feared gaze. Then I felt a hand pull me back. It was mother. She was crying and trying to pull me away, I screamed 'NO!' and allowed tears to fall. I reached forward towards him... trying to save him. Mother pulled me harder, but nothing would make me budge father. I was meant to protect him, my brother. I was supposed to keep him safe. I then saw it, the sword was stabbed through his... through his... through his throat and sliced down his body. His crying stopped, but mine, mine wouldn't. The villagers.. they cheered." Kagome could help it any more. she burst into tears. Crying and sobbing. She missed him, her baby brother already. Why had hey done that? Why? Kagome cried. She felt Inuyasha's arms wrap around her. She was pulled close into his chest. He shushed in her ear, rocking her lightly back and forth.

"Cry... it's alright to cry." Inuyasha whispered so lightly into her eye and pulled her closer. He kissed her ear and then held her until she calmed. What had suddenly caused these memories to all come back? What was it that had broken the wall? Had Soshi's words been this much of an impact? Was she only crying because she missed her baby brother? Was she crying because of the horror of the whole thing? Or was she crying because she didn't want their child to have the same faith? It was probably all three. "Kagome I promise I'll never let anything happen to you or our pup." Then he remembered something about her story. "Kagome? Why... why didn't your mother stop them?" Kagome gasped. She never gave that thought. She had no idea.

"I.. don't know."

Later

Kagome and Inuyasha were sitting in the hut beside Kaede's pondering about the whole situation. Kagome was going to go back and talk to her mother about the whole thing and see what she knew.

Inuyasha was caught in a different thought now, though. Soshi's words were bothering him. 'Calm down and tend to your mate, fool.' Inuyasha could have sworn when Soshi spoke those words, there was a glint of concern in his eyes, but why? He looked over at Kagome. Her eyes were sad, but still beautiful. He pulled her into his lap and stroked her hair.

"Maybe you should get some rest. You can think about that stuff later." Inuyasha suggested.

"Inuyasha, I can't just take it off my mind." Kagome said.

"Well you know maybe you should pay more attention to your mate then the past. The past is the past, that's just how it is, no matter how much you think about it, it WON'T change. Concentrate in the future."

"But Inuyasha I am concentrating on the future too. What if the future turned out the same as the past?"

"It won't! I'll make sure of that, I swear it. Now get some sleep."

"I'm not tired."

"Then one do something more interesting?" Inuyasha asked grinning. Kagome didn't smile at him, she didn't frown. Her look was lost. She looked like she was in a whole other world. Then she leaned her head into Inuyasha's chest and sighed.

"Not now, maybe later... when your hips better."

"Damn hip." Inuyasha mumbled. Why the hell had that asshole Soshi had to go and ruin the mood. With the affection they had earlier for each other they were bound to get intimate, even with his hip like that. "Damn Soshi."

"Lets go." Kagome stood up and grabbed Inuyasha's hand and lifted him up to stand.

"Go?"

"We need to go to my time. I have to ask mom if she knows anything about this, or else I'll go out of my mind."

"You don't need to leave yet, we can go tomorrow."

"No, now! I'll never be able to sleep like this, with all these thoughts clouding my mind."

"Can't we get one day together! We always have to be here and there. We only got back yesterday and we're already heading back?" Inuyasha complained.

"Inuyasha it would mean a lot to me." Kagome's face was kind and asking.

"Feh, that ain't gonna work on me."

"Inuyasha..." Kagome's voice was seductive and she leaned down to his ears and whispered something causing him to freeze and blush.

"Hah, you already owe me, remember? You had to give your thanks."

"No one said I had to give my thanks. Fine then, if you don't want to come stay here, but I'm going and I'll be back once I figure this whole thing out."

"As if you'd be aloud to go alone wench."

"Inuyasha..." Kagome's voice was beginning to get angry. "Listen, I'm going whether you like it or not, I said you can come if you want." With that Kagome left the hut. With one last grunt Inuyasha stood up ready to go to her time with. 'She isn't going to get off that easy.' Inuyasha thought as he walked to the well.

I know you guys are mad I'm stopping here, but I'm sick so I can't write anything more right now. Sorry. I'll update soon. I hope you don't mind how short the chapter was.

You have some surprises for you later in this thing. What exactly was going on with Soshi? I wonder...