Disclaimer: this time two chaps left for real, sorry this is taking a long time midterms are coming up and I've been studying (or at least that's what my mom thinks XD)

Chapter 15:

Ichiro's Secret

Miruto reappeared into the room with a young boy at his side, "Where the hell am I?" Kouichi asked then ran over to his sister. The four human seemed to slowly creep away as they stared frightened at the demon.

"Are you sure you want them to fight with us, I mean they're terrified of me and I'm not even a threat, well at least not to them," the elemental snickered as Kirara walked between his legs.

"What are you talking about, you're a frickin demon. Of course you're a threat, how do we know you're not going to eat us or something," shouted Mineto at the demon.

"Eat you? That's been illegal for years," laughed Miruto as he lifted his demon cat into the air, "Silly racist humans."

"Racist?" a bewildered Ichiro asked in a ticked off tone.

"Of course, what other way is there to describe it. Though I suppose it's not entirely your fault, after all the last time demons did live in your realm they did kill a fourth of the human population but that was long before people started counting carbs," Miruto rambled on as the humans became more terrified then comforted.

"Maybe we should just start going?" Kagome suggested but no one seemed to comply.

"NO way I'm not doing anything, you guys are insane," Ichiro shot back.

Kagome was about to protest when Miruto grabbed her shoulder then held his index finger to his lips, "Your right, why should you care about our friends even if they are your past lives. I mean really as long as they die your existence is secure, of course though knowing my old master he'd probably want to keep them alive as hostages and to have someone to gloat to but of course they're human so they'll die anyway. Oh wait I forgot Ichiro's past life was half demon and still has twenty- three hundred years left to live. Oh well come on Kagome let's go, have fun slowly fading out of existence," the elemental smiled as he began walking away then mouthed the words, "Three Two One."

"Wait guys I'm coming with you," the teenager called then ran over to the two.

"Cool so you guys coming or is it just the three of us?" Miruto asked in a relaxed tone.

"Huh… fine I'm in but know I'm doing this for Ichiro," the raven haired boy told them as he walked towards them.

Sachi watched as her boyfriend moved away and, in an act of confusion, followed him, "Count me in too I guess, who knows what trouble Mineto will get in if I'm not there."

"You guys are nuts," Kouichi told them with a skeptic look on his face.

"You're probably right," Miruto smirked then walked towards the door followed bye the others. He opened the door then waved goodbye without looking back, "Have fun walking home alone in the dark."

"Uh wait for me." the twelve year old yelled as he ran after them.


10 Minutes Later

There is no way I'm going to jump down there, what if I break my leg?" Sachi shrieked as she looked down the bone-eater's well.

"I've jumped down there hundreds of times, I swear you'll be fine. Here just watch" Kagome told her then jumped down the well. As she hit the bottom she was surrounded by a blue light then disappeared.

"Whoa, that was awesome. I wanna try," Kouichi excitedly said then leaped in.

"Kouichi no wait!" Sachi yelled then jumped in after her brother. As she was about to hit the bottom she closed her eyes tight and started to scream.

"Sachi, Sachi stop screaming," Kouichi told his older sister as he began to shake her.

"Wait I'm alive?" asked the confused ash she opened her eyes and began looking around.

"No duh, now come on let's get out of here," the young boy said as he started to climb the vines that were growing on the side of the well. Sachi followed behind her brother. When she reached the top she looked around and saw unfamiliar scenery.

As the teenager climbed over the wall she caught a flash of blue light out of the corner of her eye followed by screams, "Ah what the hell is happening," "Mineto hold still you're gonna kill me." A second later Miruto appeared and was holding on tightly to the boy from behind as he seemed to clutch onto his right hand that somehow seemed to be pulling things into it.

'Oh great now what am I supposed to do,' the water demon sighed then notice something green partially falling out of his pocket and grabbed it, "Hold on Mineto!" he yelled as he pounced on top of the slightly larger boy. Once he fell to the ground the incarnation grabbed his hand then wrapped the green prayer beads around it.

"What was that?" Mineto asked astonished as he looked down at his palm.

"I guess you inherited more then your appearance from Miroku," laughed Kagome as the teen stared at her in confusion.

"Who's Miroku?" the reincarnation asked the girl.

"Never mind. Miruto, you think you could figure out where to go?" she asked the demon.

"Sure just give me a second to relocate the battlefield, after all it's been awhile since I was last here," the elemental said then cupped his hands. They became filled with water and an arrow of ice emerged from the liquid and began to float in midair. The boy closed his eyes then took a deep breath and the ice began spinning rapidly. When it finally stopped the point was facing southeast and an image of fallen trees and weapons left behind was in the water, "OK I found it let's go."

His human companions grabbed onto him and were teleported to the scene. "Here take these," Kagome said as she picked up Miroku's staff and Sango's boomerang and handed them over to Mineto and Sachi then began searching for Kohaku's scythe.

"What are we supposed to do with these?" Sachi asked as she looked over the weapon.

"You should be able to figure it out, they belonged to your past lives which means that the knowledge of how to use them is buried somewhere in your minds," Miruto informed him then unhooked the Tetsusiaga from around his waist, "Ichiro take this. It won't be much good to you without any demonic energy but maybe you might make some use out of it."

"Um thanks," Ichiro replied not quite knowing what to say. He turned around and slipped the sheath into a belt loop but suddenly caught a whiff of something. He looked behind him to make sure that no one was watching him then began to follow the scent to a nearby bush. When he pushed back the branches he found to his own misfortune a small demon, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh don't kill me," the young demon screamed back from fear as he clung to his tiny companion. The screams of the two attracted the attention of the rest of the group and they hurried over.

"Ichiro what's wrong? Shippou I thought you were taken with the others," Kagome said when she saw the young fox demon.

"Oh Kagome me and Kirara were so scared, we saw Inuyasha and Kohaku get sucked up and we thought we ran away," Shippou cried as he hugged the girl's leg.

"It's alright Shippou I brought some friends back to help," smiled Kagome as Mineto and Sachi started to examine the demon cat.

"Do you really think those weaklings could held, Naraku now has the powers of Inuyasha and if he could kill them what chance do the humans have," whined Shippou as Ichiro silently sneered.

"Don't worry Shippou they weren't absorbed, if they were I would have sensed it, after all I live amongst him for the first nine months of my life, I know how to sense the energy signature he gives out when he absorbs someone, what attacked you was probably a golem," Miruto informed him, "Besides I've already lived through this before so I know they'll be ok."

"Oh wait you're future Miruto? Then where's ours?" the fox demon asked.

"Oh he's back in Kagome's time watching Michio, but let's not worry about that now. If I remember my old master he'd probably want us to find him so he could get his prize. Help me look for a clue."

"Well I know he went that way," the small demon whimpered as he pointed toward a path of broken trees.

"That'll have to do, let's go," the elemental replied then walked off in that direction with the others trailing behind him.

Ichiro watched the young demon walking in front of him and began wondering, 'Where have I smelt that scent before?'


Half an Hour Later

"Hey is that it?" Kouichi asked pointing towards a shrine.

"Of course not, why would a demon hide out there?" Sachi told her little brother with a look on her face that said, "What an idiot."

"I don't know about that, I'm getting the strangest feeling about that place," Mineto told his girlfriend as he concentrated on the shrine, "Also the fact that something very big is coming this way."

"Well I guess you can't argue with that, I guess it's time we got started," Kagome responded then aimed an arrow at the demon then released. It disintegrated the demon on contact but only made a clear view of the horde of demons that were quickly approaching.

Sachi lifted her boomerang and was surprised when she managed to through it though it ended up missing the target. By the time it had reached her again the demons were already upon them. "What am I supposed to do with this?" Mineto asked holding out the staff.

"Swing it, it's a holy instrument so it can damage demons," Kagome told him as she took down another demon with her arrow. The teenager followed her directions and slew his first demon.

"Well it seems you guys should be able to handle it from here, seeya," Miruto yelled over the shrieking demons then ran into the horde, quickly vanishing from sight.

"The nerve of that guy just leaving us here," Sachi complained as she tossed the boomerang again.

"I think he's going to the shrine, don't worry about him though he can handle himself," Kagome smiled then launched another arrow that went through one demon and into another.

While fighting a demon it used its tail to knock the staff out of Mineto's hands. He was about to make a run for it but turned back around and began unraveling the prayer beads off of his hand, "Screw this I'll just take them out the easy way," the teenager said to himself then release the wind tunnel.

"Woohoo go Mineto!" cheered his girlfriend as she watched the demons get sucked into his hand. Unnoticed by her friends, Kagome spotted the poisonous wasp in the air.

"Mineto no, close it up," she yelled as she ran towards him.

"Kagome I'm fine," he respond right before he sucked up his first wasp. A shooting pain ran up his arm as he absorbed more and more poison and shakily he wrapped the green prayer beads around his hand again.

"I told you you should have closed it, hold still I need to check out your hand," Kagome said then began examining his hand, not noticing the demon coming towards them until there was no time left to defend. She reached for an arrow but before she could withdraw it from the quiver the demon burst apart.

When she looked to see where the attack had come from she saw Ichiro with a fully transformed Tetsusiaga held out in front of him. Once he realized she was staring the boy ran over to her, "Kagome are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine. How did you do that?" asked the dumbfounded girl.

"I uh don't know. I just kinda wanted to protect you then suddenly this thing just changed," Ichiro partially lied then began blushing.

"Well whatever you did good job, now just swing the sword and yell 'Wind Scar', hopefully that should work," she advised/ordered her friend.

"OK…" the raven haired boy skeptically replied though still held the Tetsusiaga out in front of him then began swinging, "Wind Scar!"

A burst of energy was released from the blade and destroyed everything in its path, "Good job Inu, I mean Ichiro. Come on let's help out Miruto," congratulated Kagome then she immediately ran down the hill with Shippou and Kirara running behind her as the others stared in awe.


Meanwhile

Miruto opened the sliding door after dodging the last of the demons then quickly ducked inside the shrine, closing the door behind him. The demon took a moment to rest then quickly scanned the room. Almost immediately he spotted what he was looking for. On the opposite wall Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango and Kohaku were hung by the chains clasped around their wrists and had cloth tied around their moths so they couldn't scream, "Don't worry guys I'll get you down." He began to walk over to Miroku when his ears began to twitch and the demon leaped into the air, narrowly dodging the tentacle that was launched at him.

"I see you have not brought me the child," the golem spoke with Naraku's normal confident smirk.

"Child? Oh right Michio, no I didn't but don't worry he's safe," the incarnation smugly replied as he slumped on one leg.

"Well I suppose I no longer have any use for you then," the golem answered then sent out its tentacles and wrapped up the water elemental and was surprised/disappointed to find that the demon was not only not struggling but seemed to be bored even in the moment that he was finally absorbed. "Hmmm well now that my creation has been defeated as well I suppose there's no reason to keep you alive anymore," it told Inuyasha and his companions as it crept over to them but as he did his skin began to shine blue then he burst apart and they saw Miruto standing where the golem had just been with a wooden figurine crushed in his hand and a jewel shard in the other.

"That was just to easy, I thought that he'd at least be a bit of a challenge, I guess five hundred years it must have gotten a little rose-colored," Miruto depressingly sighed to himself as he grabbed a key that was on the wall. He turned back to his old friends to find them staring at him strangely. It took him a moment but he finally remembered that they still thought he was the Miruto from their time, "Oh sorry I forgot to tell you, I'm not the Miruto you know, I'm from the future. Kagome asked me to help out and I figured it would be fun to fight my old master again so here I am."

As the sorrow demon inserted the key into Inuyasha's manacle he heard a pounding at the door then turned around to see Kagome and their friends, "Miruto we're here to help," Kagome yelled but then looked around the room and suddenly felt embarrassed, "Oh I guess we probably should have gotten here earlier."

"You think, what in hell took you so long and why the fuck did you bring those useless humans," Inuyasha snarled after Miruto finished untying the gag in his mouth.

"Oh shut up Inuyasha, if it wasn't for them I would have been killed by those demons outside. Besides they won't remember anything afterwards anyway," Kagome argued back as Miruto walked over to Sango and released her.

"Whoa this is so strange, they look like older versions of us," Sachi said half afraid and half excited as she clung to Mineto's arm.

"Oh I almost forgot, these are your past lives, Mineto meet Miroku, Sachi this is Sango, Kouichi your past life in Kohaku and Ichiro this is Inuyasha, he's half demon," the girl informed them as Miroku and Kohaku were released from the wall.

Each person from Kagome's time greeted their past life and handed over their weapon, except for Ichiro who had the Tetsusiaga swiped away from him, "Kagome what the heck is a stupid human doing with my sword?" the hanyou growled.

"Inuyasha SIT!" Kagome yelled then turned to Ichiro, "I'm sorry about that, Inuyasha's just really over protective."

"It's ok I don't really care but do you mind if we go home, I'm kinda tired," the teenager told her then yawned.

"Of course, come on guys huddle up," the girl said then Miruto grabbed onto them and disappeared.

"Hey was it just me of was the kid wearing Michio's beads?" Miroku asked his companions and received a stare of confusion from his bride.


15 Minutes Later

"OK Kouichi's safe at home in bed and has no memory of what happened," Miruto informed his friends as he reappeared in Kagome's living room, "OK guys now it's your turn."

The three of them removed the amulets from their necks then they all seemed to be in a state of confusion, "Hey how did I get over here and why is it so dark outside?" Sachi asked.

Mineto looked down at his watch and was shocked, "Ah Sachi I'm way past curfew, we've got get out of here. Seeya guys," he panicked then grabbed his girlfriend's hand and ran out the door.

Once they had left the only remaining friend awkwardly walked over to them, "I don't understand, I thought it was supposed to wipe my memories so why didn't it work?"

"Wait you remember what happened, but that's impossible well unless you were a demon but I doubt that," Miruto laughed as a look of pain went across Ichiro's face for a second though still long enough for Kagome to notice.

"Hey come to think of it Ichiro was able to wield the Tetsusiaga before," Kagome remembered and then watched as the guilty look reappeared on the boy's face, "OK Ichiro spill it."

"I don't know what you're talking about," Ichiro lied badly as the two 'cousins' glared at him, "Hm fine you got me, I'm one eighth demon on my mother's side."

"Wait if your part demon then why did you get so freaked out about Miruto earlier?" Kagome asked confusedly.

"Well I've never seen a full demon before and I was always told they were pure evil you see my family didn't end up this way by choice. About one hundred and fifty years ago my great grandmother met a demon late at night in a dark corridor and he… he… well let's just say about nine months later my grandma was born and ever since then life has been very hard for my family. You see the truth is I'm not really seventeen years old I'm actually forty and because of our slow aging we constantly have to move from place to place so that no one has the chance to catch on though a lot of people have been wondering how my mother keeps herself looking so young and is still living with her father, well actually he's mine," the 'teenager' explained holding back tears.

"Wow I've read articles about people like you, see that was about the same time that the demon's managed to escape from our dimension and come here and there was a mass immigration and well demon's hadn't seen humans in a long time and wanted to have a little uh… you know uh… fun," Miruto awkwardly informed them.

"Oh my God that's disgusting," Kagome screeched.

"That may be true but we can't do anything about that now. So Ichiro tell me do you know anything about the demon?" the elemental asked.

"Well my grandmother told me that he was tall and had long white hair kinda like mine is naturally. The only other thing I know is that he had a symbol on his forehead that has been passed down through each generation," he told Miruto then began to rub his forehead slightly revealing something but not enough, "Damn makeup I can never get this stuff off!"

"Here let me help," Miruto said then put his hand on the spot. When he removed it they could see a blue crescent moon on the boy's head then stared at each other in shock.


Finally I thought I'd never finish, I have absolutely no free time any more but I really hope you enjoyed the chapter and also if you can't figure out who Ichiro's great grandfather is think really hard. Well seeya later and R&R (I mean it I'll cry if you don't XD)