Hi everyone! (If anyone is still reading this) My computer is broken and I'm currently on my parent's. Oh well. Here's the next chapter!

Chapter 4

Kome walked back to camp ahead of everyone else. "I can't stand him!" she shouted to herself. And I hope he heard that. She thought.

When she arrived back at the camp, Kome set up a fire, well at least she tried. Until Kagome and the others returned, she had been scraping sticks together like she used to in the slave camp.

"You need some help?" Kagome said and crouched by her.

"How could you?" Kome asked.

"Like this, look"

Kagome took a long lighter out of her pack and stacked a few logs. She lit them and made a full fire. Kome was amazed!

"Whoa! How did you- What was that!" she said and jumped to her feet with excitement.

"It's just a stupid lighter," came an unfortunately familiar voice from behind. Kome could tell he was looking for trouble, but decided to respect Shippo's wishes and turned to walk into the forest.

"I'll be back soon, guys," she said with out stopping.

"Wait, Kome!" Sango said. "Good going, Inuyasha!" She followed after her.

"Inuyasha, we have to talk," Kagome said without emotion. He was about to just ignore her when they made eye contact. His heart melted and he decided to listen.

"Now, I have to ask you something," she began. "Do you remember your family?"

"Kagome, we already talked about this," he said quietly and sat next to her.

"Well, not exactly,"

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember anything about, oh say a, sister?"

"Um… yes,"

"Really! Now we're getting somewhere. And her name?"

"Yeah, Ko-"

His eyes grew large as he realized that Kome was his sister's name as well.

"We'll get back to that. Anyway, what happened?"

"Wow, I can remember everything now. When Ko- my sister, was born we spent a lot of time together. Until one day, my mother was with her. We all heard noises outside so I went to check what it was. When I stepped out of the door, I was swept up. There was a big, I think, bird demon of some kind holding me by my shirt. "No, too old!" it said and threw me aside. I lay there in shock when I heard my mother scream. I got up but was knocked over again as I saw those demons running away with my sister, and other younger children," Inuyasha said. He sighed.

"Um, Inuyasha?" Kagome said quietly. Her jaw had dropped while she heard all the things that Inuyasha mentioned.

"What? Are you alright?"

"I think we found your sister!"

"No way! It's a coincidence!"

"Oh yeah! I'll prove it!"

They sat quietly, waiting for Kome and Sango to return. When they saw two figures emerge from the darkness outside of the fire's glow, Kagome stood up.

"Kome? Who did you say, ran your slave camp?" Kagome said and winked at Kome. She decided to go along with it. "The bird demons," she said and stared at the dirt.

"And what was your brother's name?"

"Well, actually I had two!" Kome said and looked up, trying to avoid the question. That actually made Inuyasha even more suspicious.

"Really? Ok then, what were their names?"

Kome sighed heavily and whispered,"Inu-"

She paused. It all came back. She remembered. Kome had spent almost all of her free time as a slave, trying to remember her family. She finally did. Inuyasha.

"Inuyasha," she said with newfound confidence.

"And?" Kagome asked persistently.

"Shes- Sesh- Seshomaloo? No, no! Seshomaru!" she said triumphantly. Inuyasha stood and walked over to Kome.

"You, are my sister," he whispered in her ear and wrapped his arms around her. She leaned on him heavily. Kagome and the others all looked at them together by the fire, seeing brother and sister reunite.

"I finally remembered your name," she muttered.

"I missed you," he said and pulled away. He stared at her intensely.

"I never could," Kome said sadly.

Inuyasha turned to the others and said, "I think that my sister and I should talk for awhile, alone," With that they walked off into the forest alone. They walked in silence, glancing at each other every so often through watery eyes. A while later they stopped. Inuyasha said, "Here," and climbed up a tree. When he reached the top he offered her his hand.

"It's alright, I can do it," she said and skillfully settled in a branch next to him. First Inuyasha said, "So, do you remember me or our mother at all?"

"Only vaguely", she admitted. "But, I always remembered the names until I was struck on the head by a slave driver and knocked unconscious. I spent a lot of my time trying to remember,"

She saw his expression grow dark.

"What kind of slave encampment did they take you to? What did they do to you?" He started searching her for scars.

"Well, it was abusive, but you can't get angry! At least not yet," she whispered the last part.

"Yet?" he said and raised an eyebrow.

"I'll tell you later. And besides, you aren't going to be some over-protective, sister-stalking older brother, are you?" she returned.

"I have a feeling that's what you want," he said and put a hand on her shoulder.

They continued to share their pasts when Inuyasha brought up their quest to find the sacred jewel shards.

"Hey! I uhh… know someone who has a lot! Almost half!" Kome said excitedly.

"Who?" he inquired.

"Well, his name is Naraku. The leader of my slave camp,"

"We have to get back to camp," he said urgently and jumped down off of the tree. Kome followed him back to camp. On the way back Inuyasha said, "We're hunting that jerk,"

"Why?" she asked.

"I'll tell you later"

"Oh, Inuyasha! Where's our mother? I bet she'll be excited to see me!" Kome said hopefully. Inuyasha stopped abruptly. "What's wrong? Are they too far away?" she said, her hope sinking.

"Kome, she… died," he said and stared at the ground.

"Don't be, I didn't even know her. There's nothing to miss," she said coldly and continued to walk. Inuyasha stopped her.

"Yes, but you loved her," he said.

"I did, but how can I love someone I don't really know?" she asked innocently. Inuyasha just continued walking. Kome followed.

They arrived back at the camp and everyone was asleep but Kagome. She came over to them and said, "Is everything ok?"

"Yes," Kome said.

"But we have to talk about something," Inuyasha interrupted. They sat up discussing what they should do with Naraku. They finally came to the conclusion that the whole group should agree on a solution.

"Then it'll just have to wait until tomorrow," Kagome said and yawned.

"I guess so," Kome said and got up. "I'm pretty tired so I think I'll just get some sleep," She found a nice spot and was about to transform for warmth for a fur coat when Kagome said,

"Wait, you must be hungry. Do you want something?"

"No. I'll just have a big breakfast tomorrow morning!"

"Alright. Well, do you need a blanket or are you going to sleep like your brother?"

"I'll just transform," she said simply and did so.

"Kagome?"

"Hmm?"

"Thanks,"

Kagome, Inuyasha, and Kome silently drifted off to sleep.

There it is! So, is anyone reading this? I haven't been getting reviews so I'm not sure. Oh well!

- Jacqui