Thank you for all of your continuing support! I'm making my Friday post a little early, maybe I'll get another one up sooner than next week! Enjoy!

-----------------------------------------------

It was the middle of the night and everyone was asleep, even the two people who had always had trouble sleeping, InuYasha and Kaede, were soundly snoozing. They were all invited to stay the night in the cabin of the family that Kaede had saved the day before and it made for a warm and cozy sleep.

-------------------------------------------------------

"Where are you going, Kagura?" Kanna asked as she noticed Kagura leaving their safe house in the middle of a forest.

"I'm going out, I can't stand being cooped up in this place anymore... I'll be back..." Kagura said as she began her way out of the house.

"Do not be gone for long, Kagura.. We have plans to carry out soon," Kanna warned.

Kagura scoffed and then walked out of the house and threw her feather up in the air, taking off flying.

------------------------------------------------------

Kaede had felt so safe and relaxed that, for once, she had let her guard down in order to sleep. But now something was shaking her out of her sleep. Still half-asleep, her senses began to come into focus.

"Hey kid!" a voice loudly whispered.

"Mmm-hmmm?" Kaede started to wake up and her eyes opened slowly.

When she looked up she saw the familiar face of the wind sorceress, which caught Kaede off guard and she stood up quickly, ready to sound the alarms.

"Wait!" The sorceress whispered angrily, "I just need to give you some information that you might want to hear..."

Kaede looked around and saw that everyone was still sleeping. She then motioned for Kagura to leave the hut and she then followed her.

They walked to the river banks where their conversation would not be heard.

"So, what could you possibly want?" Kaede asked.

"Well first I just wanted to say that I know all about you now... that you're from the future... and that you are, of course, InuYasha's daughter..." Kagura started.

"Yeah? Anything else that will be of interest or help to me?" Kaede was beginning to think that Kagura had nothing of interest to offer her.

"I just thought that you'd like to know what Naraku was up to as well..." Kagura said in a taunting tone.

The dog demon looked up at Kagura with questions running through her head and wide eyes.

-----------------------------------------------

Kaede made it back to the hut before anyone had awaken, and the sun was beginning to rise. The girl sat down where she had when she was asleep, but she couldn't fall back to sleep this time. It didn't take long, though, for the others to start waking up.

Soon enough, everyone was awake and they were all enjoying some breakfast, everyone except Kaede. She had gone outside and was sitting on top of the hut, contemplating to herself like her father had done on many occasions.

Kagome walked outside and looked up at her daughter and asked, "If you're going to eat, then you better come and get some food before everyone else eats it all!"

Kaede looked down at Kagome with a gloomy look in her eyes.

"What's wrong?" Kagome asked, beginning to wonder what was on Kaede's mind.

The woman demon jumped down from the top of the hut and stood with her back against the hut, looking down at her feet. At that point, Shippo and Kirara walked outside as well.

"There's still a little bit left, Kaede! You better get something to eat before InuYasha finishes it!" Shippo advised with a smile.

InuYasha quickly sprinted out of the hut and gave Shippo a knock on the head saying, "What was that?!"

Although this would normally amuse Kaede, she couldn't help but have a certain issue keep her from even giggling.

"Come on, Kaede, what's wrong?" Kagome asked again, this time getting the attention of the other three outside with her.

"Listen... I think I'm going to have to go back to my era..." she began.

"What? Why?!" Kagome pressed on.

"I just... I need to check on something and I have to go now... I'll be back as soon as I'm done, I promise, but I have to go do this..." Kaede finished, looking up at her young parents.

InuYasha and Kagome looked at each other and then to Kaede.

"I'll go with you then!" InuYasha said confidently.

"No... I'm sorry, I can't let anyone go back with me, it's too dangerous," Kaede said firmly.

"Why are you needing to go back so bad, all of a sudden?" Kagome asked, now very worried.

"I'm sorry, I can't go into more details until I confirm everything for myself..." Kaede said looking back at the ground.

Miroku and Sango walked outside, now wanting to know what was happening.

"What's going on out here?" Sango asked.

Shippo jumped up on Miroku's shoulder and said, "Kaede wants to leave us!"

"What? But why?" the demon slayer asked again.

"I...I can't say for sure yet, but I need to go back to my era and check on something..." Kaede repeated.

"Did something happen yesterday?" InuYasha asked.

Kaede looked up at him and said, "No, everything here is fine... well, at least I think it is for now anyway..."

"Why don't you just tell us what's on your mind? That way we could offer our help," Miroku asked.

"Well, like I said, I think I need to look into this myself, I'll explain everything when I get back, I promise. I just need to do this on my own," the girl said as she went back into the hut and grabbed her own yellow backpack.

"I wish you would let us help you..." Kagome tried to reason.

"Believe me, if it wasn't so dangerous there I'd take every one of you with me. But it doesn't work that way, at least right now it doesn't. I'll be back soon, I promise!" Kaede said as she sprinted off.

The family of four joined the others outside and watched as the girl ran off from them.

"Where's Kaede going Mommy?" Satoru asked.

"I don't know sweetheart," she answered.

"I guess this means that you will all be leaving us?" the man asked.

"I'm afraid so. We'll just need to gather our things and we'll be on our way," Miroku replied.

"Thank you for letting us stay here for the night, we really appreciate it!" Kagome said with a smile.

"It was no trouble at all! We were more thankful that your friend had saved us!" The father said, patting his young daughter on the shoulder.

"Tell Kaede that we'll miss her!" Saiya said with a wave as the travelers left.

"So why do you think that Kaede left us so soon?" Sango asked.

"I'm not sure... She sounded worried about something, that's for sure, "Kagome replied.

-------------------------------------------------------

Kaede had sprinted as fast as she could to get back to the village, and had made it there in exceptional time. As she ran through the village to get to the well, old Kaede noticed her, as did the other villagers.

"What's going on? Why isn't InuYasha and Kagome with her?" the old woman wondered.

Young Kaede tore through the forest until she came upon the well. She sat her backpack down on the ground and rummaged through it, pulling out the little remote that she had used once to get through the well the first time. She pulled her backpack back over her shoulders and programmed the remote. The well lit up with the same bright orange that it had before and she placed the remote in a hidden zipped pocket to keep from losing it.

Kaede almost decided to turn back. She didn't want to go back to her own era because she knew how dangerous it was and she had almost gotten used to not having to fight for her life every day. But under the circumstances she had no choice. She stepped onto the lip of the well and jumped in. Soon after, the light disappeared.

It was morning on the other side of the well. Kaede appeared inside the old wooden well and looked up. It was so quiet. She had never heard this side as peaceful as it was. Jumping out of the well, Kaede looked around the old hut to make sure that her nose wasn't failing her in recognizing any hidden demon scents. She became in a constant awareness mode, just as she had before she had left this era. As she opened the door to the shed, she poked her head out to look around the courtyards.

"Well, everything looks the same..." Kaede said as she slowly walked the rest of the way out of the shed.

Sprinting through the courtyards, she ran up to the house that she had left just weeks earlier.

"Uncle Sota? Uncle! Are you here?" Kaede said as she walked through the door.

Kaede could smell his scent, but it was starting to fade so he had been there recently, probably checking to see if she had returned.

"Well I better just stick around for a little while and relax after all of that running. I'll just have myself something to eat before I go and check everything out," Kaede said with a growling stomach.

Kaede opened some of the remaining cabinets in the kitchen and saw some of the stored away food that Sota and her had left whenever they had decided to come back and spend time in the house and try to make repairs to it. As the starving girl pulled some of the food down from the cabinets, she heard some noises from outside and a new scent.

"A demon!" Kaede put the food down and put her hand on the hilt of her Tetsusaiga.

She quickly rushed to the back door of the house and opened it slowly, listening for what was outside. After not being able to pick up on where the scent was, she walked outside and looked around.

"Who the hell are you?!" A voice called out as someone swiftly kicked Kaede from the side and knocked her over, sending her sliding into a storage shed and busting a wall out of it.

"Damn! Whoever it was they were fast!" Kaede thought as she got back to her feet.

Picking up on the scent again, Kaede looked and saw that the demon was right above her about to attack. Because she was at such a disadvantage, Kaede put up a spiritual barrier and the demon stopped the attack, jumping off of the shed and onto the other side of the courtyard, to face Kaede.

Kaede had rebroken the same ribs that she had broken just a day earlier in the other era so they were already still just finishing up healing so this made the girl somewhat angry as she transformed the Tetsusaiga and almost had trouble holding it up.

The demon stood up all the way and walked towards the girl a little with wide eyes.

"K-Kaede? Is that you?!" The demon asked.

--------------------------------------------------

For the Next Chapter!

"Do you really think that we should return to the village?" Sango asked.

"Well, I think I would feel better if we were closer to the well. That way when Kaede returns, we'll know it," Kagome replied in a worried tone.

"And it will give us time to prepare for any upcoming battles. Let's just take this opporitunity to relax. With all of the searching we did yesterday, we're pretty tired out as it is," Miroku added.

InuYasha just walked along with his normal annoyed look, but if you would have asked him, he would have agreed all the way, for once, that it was time to go back to the village. He was just angry that Kaede told him to stay behind. And of course, the occassional worried thought would cloud his mind.