Chapter 5

InuYasha and the gang were once again spending the night in a village after Miroku performs his "exorcisms" at the biggest and riches looking places.

The monk then talks sweetly with the women and gives them his usual, "Will you have the honor of baring my children?" speech. This in turn earns the devious monk a glare, and a hit on the head from Sango.

InuYasha and Kagome still continue in their brutal and pointless circle of good days and bad days. InuYasha yells at Kagome for something dumb, Kagome gets angry punishes the young hanyou. From the day they meet Lady Kaded put pray-beads around Inuyasha's neck and told Kagome to say a word to bind his sprit.

Because of InuYasha's dog demon side and doggy ears, Kagome said "Sit."

InuYasha is only afraid of Kagome when she gets an angry look in her eyes; the angrier she is, the harder the pray-beads around his neck force him to the ground.

InuYasha hates it when everyone treats him like a dog, but it is hard to forget when he sits, sniffs and growls like a dog. Especially when the hanyou lands in water and shakes the water off on all four.

JoAnna arrived home from school, wondering what was so urgent that Sesshomaru had to leave so quickly. Walking up to her room she could hear Sesshomaru's voice in her head, "JoAnna, I had to leave suddenly because a village near my castle was attacked, and my ward, Rin, was in danger."

"Oh. Is she okay? Are you going to come back here?"

"Rin will be fine. But I will not be returning. I have some things that must be taken care of here. I will come for you on your birthday."

JoAnna smiled, "Okay."

JoAnna made herself some dinner and sat down to watch InuYasha. After her show was over she went to bed.

As she slept she dreamt again.

Kira was still at Sesshomaru's castle, having no place of her own to go to. While she was there Kira helped Rin make a garden in the back so the child won't have to go so far to find food, as well as help her make her own food inside the castle. And at night the demon put Rin to bed. The role of mother almost came naturally.

Kira stilled possessed some of her powers, but since the attack she had forgotten how to use them. Sesshomaru tired to help Kira master what she had, but without the other half of her soul, she couldn't conjure up anything powerful.

A year and a half past and Kira's mastery over her powers grew.

JoAnna yawned and stretched. It was the day before her birthday and she wondered if Sesshomaru remembered his promise to return. She quickly dressed and headed downstairs; greeted the family and sat down to eat breakfast. JoAnna was glad it was the weekend and that she'd already finished all of her homework that was due on Monday, now she could relax and enjoy her birthday. After breakfast JoAnna told Kohashi and her parents she was going to the Higurashi Shine to enjoy the sunshine.

JoAnna ran back upstairs to pack up her art book and art kit. She wanted to show Sesshomaru more things about her time. As soon as she finished getting what she needed she said goodbye and headed out the door to the shrine.

Arriving at the shrine JoAnna said good morning to the monk and walked over to the Tree of Ages. Sitting down next to it, she pulled out her art book and kit and started on a picture of the shrine. She was enjoying herself so much she didn't realize how late it had become. Looking up she was surprised to see the sun had almost completely left the sky. Quickly gathering her things she bowed and said goodbye to the monk and rushed home. Once she got home they all sat down for dinner and JoAnna told them about the pictures she drew.

After dinner JoAnna went straight to bed, excited for her birthday, and to see Sesshomaru.

It's has been two years now since Kira first came to Sesshomaru's castle. Rin and Kira's garden has been growing well with vegetables and herbs. Kira has a better understanding of how she can control her powers. Jaken is being a nuisance as usual complaining about every possibly problem that there is.

Sesshomaru calmly sat in a corner and watched Rin and Kira make some small toys for Rin to play with; a rag doll and long ribbon on a stick, similar to the energy whips Sesshomaru and Kira have. As Sesshomaru watched them a small smile tugged at the corner of his mouth and he asked himself "Why does Rin make me feel like this?"

That night after dinner and training Kira put Rin to bed and made her way to bed herself. She was tired as well after such a long and tiring day.

That night Kira dreamt that she was a human going to school and she met Sesshomaru. On her 18th birthday Sesshomaru came to see if she will go with him to his time of Feudal Japan. She replied yes and they made their way to the Bone Eaters Well in a shrine.

Now, the reason JoAnna and Kira were dreaming about each other was their soul was trying to get back together. When someone's soul is parted and in two different dimensions, the soul sends messages through dreams to the other half. In order for this to happen the mind in one dimension must work with the soul in the other; it picks an object of admiration and makes it a connection point. JoAnna's dream was to meet Sesshomaru; while Kira just wanted to remember who she was, and Sesshomaru is helping her with that.

The more dreams JoAnna has the more she wants to go with Sesshomaru, but she doesn't realize she may not be able to return.

If JoAnna were to go down the well, she would become Kira, and JoAnna would cease to exists, because the souls were back in the same dimension. But if she were to remain in Tokyo both she and Kira could die, because it's not the real world, only a dream.

A/N: Ok I was not sure how to add this in my story so here are the five elements that Kira can control

Wind: can conjure up any time, numerous strong forces, tornadoes and wind storms.

Water: can conjure up any time, numerous strong forces with water, summon a water serpent.

Earth: can conjure up any time, numerous strong forces, ground to collapse and cause avalanches along with ground demons.

Fire: can conjure up any time, numerous strong forces, cause anything to burn along with throwing fire balls and summoning a giant dragon demon.

Kira can conjure up these abilities once she has her other half soul back. So Kira can only practices at least the energy whip and to conjure up small rumbles of the ground floor, small amounts of control of the wind, fire and water.

While practicing and training with Sesshomaru all the techniques are tried on Jaken because Sesshomaru can always bring him back to life if Kira just happen to kill him, but mostly she just uses him as a practice dummy.