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It was early the next morning and Shippo, as well as Kaede had already made the long trek back to the shrine. After running the whole way there, they caught their breaths as they slowly made their way across the courtyard. They walked to the well and stood at it's lip.

Kaede and Shippo faced each other and smiled.

"Well, I guess I'll be going now," Kaede said sighing.

Shippo chuckled and grabbed the girl bringing her body close to his.

"It will only be for a while... And I'll know for a fact that you'll be safer there than you were here," Shippo said quietly.

"Hey, stop that! I was never in any danger! You were here to protect me... Just like you said you'd do!" Kaede pointed out.

"Oh! Before I forget, I want you to take this with you," Shippo pulled away and untied the Tenseiga from around his waist.

As he handed Kaede the sword she pushed it away.

"No...You should take it..." she insisted.

Shippo started to get frustrated with the stubborn girl and shoved it back towards her.

"You'll be safe if you keep this with you!" he scolded.

"There's no reason for me to take this, when I'll be surrounded by the people who will keep me safe. Besides, If you don't take this, then the next time you guys are attacked, there's a chance that none of you will live... Please, just keep it here. There's no need to have more than one of these in the past if it doesn't bring the future much good," Kaede pleaded.

Shippo sighed and retied the sword around his waist saying, "You know I'd feel even better if you weren't so stubborn all the time..."

Kaede hugged Shippo tightly and he hugged her back just as tight.

"Don't you go dying on me now..." Shippo said as he reluctantly let go of the girl.

Kaede took out her small remote and programmed it again. The well did its usual thing and lit up a bright orange color. The girl then placed the remote back in her zipped pocket and looked up at Shippo.

"See you in the past!" she said as she stood on the edge, then jumping into the well, disappearing.

Shippo looked over the edge and said, "You can do it Kaede... You can save us! All of us!"

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"We're glad to see that you're feeling better Kagome," Sango said cheerfully.

"Yeah! We were worried for a little while!" young Shippo said as he bit into his breakfast.

"What's wrong InuYasha?" Miroku asked.

InuYasha had debated as to whether or not he should tell them what Kagura had told him the previous night.

"I think I need to tell you guys something... Something important..." he began.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked to InuYasha.

"Last night... I went to the well and..."

"What is it InuYasha?" Kagome asked.

"Well... I-"

"Hi guys!" A cheerful Kaede walked into the hut.

"Kaede! We're so glad that you've returned!" Miroku said with a bright smile.

InuYasha stood up quickly and rushed over to the girl, looking her over.

"What's his deal?" Kaede asked the others.

"Who knows? He's been a pain ever since you left!" young Shippo commented.

InuYasha gave the young fox demon a knock on the head and asked, "What was that?!"

Kaede looked to the group and said, "Ah, it's good to be back!"

Everyone besides Shippo and InuYasha began to laugh watching the two squabble.

"So did you find what you were looking for Kaede?" Kagome asked happily.

Kaede set her bag down and then sat herself down for a good rest.

"Well yes, and it seems as though there are already changes in the future," Kaede replied.

"What kind of changes?" Sango asked.

"Well it's kind of a long story..." Kaede looked around at the others who had all stopped to gaze at her.

"Well, it looks like the sun has just come up, so we have plenty of time to listen!" Miroku said cheerfully.

Kaede sighed and said, "Well, okay.. So here's what happened..."

Kaede explained her story from beginning to end, leaving out the part where she had been killed by one of Naraku's puppets, and revived by the older version of Shippo with the Tenseiga.

"So... Sota is okay?" Kagome asked.

Kaede smiled and said, "Yeah, he's fine. Don't worry."

"Why, Kaede?" InuYasha said in a low growl.

They all looked to him and Kaede asked, "Why what?"

"Why didn't you just tell us that Naraku had joined forces with himself here... And why didn't you tell us that Kagura had come to tell you?..."

Kaede looked away.

"It could have been a trap! You could have been killed and we would never have known!" InuYasha scolded.

"Well then it wouldn't have been the first time..." Kaede thought to herself.

"I don't see what the big deal is... I trusted my instincts and here I am!" Kaede said frustrated.

"All that we're asking is that you allow us to help you when needed. And for you not to be so quick to need to do things on your own," Miroku added.

Kaede looked up and smiled saying, "Well I'm not going to promise anything but... I promise that I'll try."

"That's all that we ask," Kagome said in a quiet, but happy voice.

"But you all have to promise me something as well! Stop treating me like if I have five minutes to myself that I need someone to hold my hand, all right?" The girl pleaded.

"Well we're not going to promise anything, but we'll try," InuYasha mocked with a sarcastic voice and a half smile.

Kaede sighed and asked, "So, anything interesting happen while I was gone?"

"Things were actually pretty mild actually. It was good for recuperation for our quest," Miroku replied.

"So are we going to start on our quest today or wait?" Kaede asked.

"Yeah! Let's go already! We're running out of time to do kill Naraku!" InuYasha agreed and insisted.

"Well then, why don't I go to the river and fill up our canteens with some water," Kagome said rummaging through her bag for some bottles.

"I'll go with you!" Shippo said happily.

"Me too, come on Kirara!" Sango said with a smile.

Miroku saw Sango leaving and then asked, "Are you coming you two?"

Kaede looked at him and said, "No, I traveled quite a bit today so I'll just sit for a while."

"InuYasha?" Miroku then looked to.

"I'll stay here until you guys come back," he replied.

As the others strayed away from the hut, Kaede knew that something was up with her father.

"Can I ask you something?" InuYasha said suddenly during the long silence.

Kaede looked up at him and asked, "What is it?"

"Why does your kimono reek of your blood?" he said finally.

Kaede was shocked to hear him ask this question. Hadn't she washed her kimono well enough to hide the odor of her blood?

"But... I... What?" she asked, trying to think of a way out of this.

"Your kimono, it smells like you've soaked it in your blood, and lots of it... Why is that?" he asked again, looking up at her this time.

Kaede knew, full well, that lying to InuYasha was a bit hard to do.

"But I thought that... I cleaned it so that you couldn't smell it!" she said with a little trouble.

InuYasha gave a sarcastic smile and said, "You may have cleaned it to where you can't smell it anymore because you're already used to the scent of your own blood. But it pierced my nose as you entered the hut. You can't hide it from anyone but yourself. Now tell me... Why do you smell this way?"

Kaede looked down at the ground and said, "I guess it's... hard to explain. A lot happened in the few days that I was gone."

"Well then, start from the beginning, and this time why don't you fill me in on all of the facts?" he demanded.

"Naraku sent many demon puppets to find me in the future, and I ran into all of them... I took a few hits, but I'm fine..." she explained.

"Don't try and fool me! Tell me what really happened!" his frustration was getting enormous.

"And why don't you start with why a male demon scent is on you as well?!" he finally blurted out.

Kaede was truly shocked at this comment. Really, more shocked at the comment than she was shocked at the idea of knowing that he could smell all of the scents on her.

"That male demon that you speak of... is Shippo... The older version of him..." Kaede finally decided to tell him.

"What?! I thought it smelled familiar... What else?" the boy continued to press on with his questions.

"I did more than take just a few hits... I was killed..." she explained.

"Killed?! You were killed and you failed to mention that to us?!" InuYasha didn't quite know how it was that he wanted to ring the girl's neck yet, so he waited for the rest of the story.

"Yeah... Shippo revived me though... He saved me..." she added quietly.

InuYasha was unsure how the fox demon had managed to revive the girl from death.

"Don't ask..." she said suddenly. She didn't want him to ask about how the boy revived her because then she would have to explain about the Tenseiga, and how they ended up with it.

InuYasha looked up at the girl, who was still staring at the ground and asked, "Ask what?"

"Can we just leave it as, I died, and he saved me?" she asked in a frightened tone.

InuYasha looked at the girl, who had her eyes closed and her heart beating rapidly. He smiled a true smile and said, "Hey... It's okay... It's like what you said earlier, sometimes it's best that we don't always know everything about the future, right?"

Kaede looked up at him surprised. Was he really willing to not ask another word of her ordeal? She then relaxed her facial expressions and nodded.

"We're back!" young Shippo announced as he walked in the door carrying large bottles of water.

Kagome and the others walked in as well and she put the bottles in her bag and closed it up.

"Are we all ready?" Kagome asked in a confident tone.

Kaede and InuYasha stood up along with the others and they each nodded.

"Let's be off then!" Miroku said cheerfully as he and the others walked out into the bright sunlight of the past.

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Older Shippo was sitting outside of the cottage that Sota, Rin and Jaken were also residing in. He sat right outside the door with his arms crossed and his eyes shut. He wore the same look on his face that InuYasha would always have when he was waiting for Kagome to return from the present. As the quiet pastures calmed the boy, he felt a small prick on his face and quickly slapped at it.

"Oh Shippo, how could you?! After all of these years!" the voice of a small flea demon fell upon Shippo's ears.

"Hmm?" Shippo opened his hand as the demon fell into his palm.

"Myoga? Is that really you?" the fox stared down at the flattened demon in his palm.

"Shippo! I thought that your tasty blood was familiar!" Myoga said happily as his little body reformed into it's rightful shape.

"How did you get here?" the boy asked.

"I traveled on your furry tail when you traveled through the well back to this time period, but I had no idea it was you!" the flea answered.

"I traveled back to this time, days ago, why didn't you make yourself known then?" Shippo asked confused.

"Like yourself, I was merely taking in the surroundings of where we had gone, and I didn't realize that it was you until a certain young girl arrived here as well!" he replied.

"Hmm? You mean Kaede?" Shippo realized.

"Yes, InuYasha and Kagome's daughter!" Myoga said to make his point.

"Well then, why didn't you say something then either?!" Shippo was beginning to get frustrated.

"I was going to! But then when you two started to battle, and you were knocked unconscious, I saw something... Something very dangerous indeed.." the flea began to explain.

"We defeated the demon, Myoga! It was safe to come out and tell us that you were there afterwards!" Shippo pointed out.

"It was not the demon that I feared... It was Kaede.." Myoga finally said.

"Kaede? But why?" Shippo asked in a worried tone.

"She became very angry at the demon after watching you become harmed by it -" Myoga explained.

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-Flashback-

"S-Shippo!" she yelled as she landed on the ground, and he next to her.

Kaede turned to him and he looked up at her and gritted his teeth.

"I...thought I told...you to... get the hell... out of...here..." he said just before he passed out.

Kaede's anger grew in intensity. Her eyes flashed red for a moment as she turned to the demon, who was coming back at them.

"I said... YOU'RE GOING DOWN!" Kaede swung her sword again and yelled, "BACKLASH WAVE!"

The intensity of the backlash wave was too much for the demon and it was smothered under the technique, completely destroying it.

-End Flashback-

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"Her eyes flashed red? So what does that mean?" Shippo asked confused.

"Do you remember being in the past with her? Even as a child you should remember the day that she had transformed into a full demon, just as Lord InuYasha had," Myoga asked.

"Oh yeah! I remember that! She tried very hard to fight against being in that state and InuYasha managed to get her to touch the Tetsusaiga and transform her back into a half demon," Shippo suddenly remembered.

"You are mistaken Shippo... She is not a half demon. Her demon blood was enhanced by Kagome's strong spiritual powers. She the closest thing to a full blooded demon that someone with human in their blood could possibly come to. She's a one-of-a-kind demon. The only demon that can perform spiritual powers without purifying herself to death," Myoga explained.

"She's... the only one?" Shippo suddenly realized that this was true. He had never thought about it but it was a strange situation indeed.

"Thinking about that, Myoga, how exactly did Kaede survive something like that? I mean, a demon with spiritual powers really should have died in the womb, right?" Shippo asked, now completely confused.

"That's what confuses me as well. I am glad that she turned out the way she did, but something like this should not have been able to take place at all! She is truly her own miracle!" Myoga seemed just as confused about this as Shippo did.

"So what happened when you saw her eyes flash red?" Shippo wanted to know the rest of the story.

"Well I'm not sure, but I think that just for a moment, Kaede was floating between her full demon mode, and her full priestess abilities!" Myoga said, confusing Shippo even more.

"Floating? But if she had transformed into a full demon, she would have lost all self control... And she didn't!" Shippo tried to make sense of all of this.

"Exactly... For a moment... Kaede knew just exactly how to control both sides of her being... You see, when Lord InuYasha transforms, he has no choice but to succumb to his full demon part. A person with extraordinary spiritual powers, like Kagome, would have to pull him out of this state. But Kaede has both the spiritual and demon parts of herself working at all times. Which is why she was fighting so hard not to attack your group. She was fighting this side of herself because she couldn't find the medium between these two elements," Myoga added.

"So if you knew that Kaede could control these sides of her, why were you afraid?" Shippo wasn't sure how to make any of this out yet.

"Because... with a power like that... she could have gone either way... She could have permanently transformed into a full blooded human with enormous spiritual powers, or... She could have permanently transformed into a full demon and killed us all..."

"What?!" Shippo realized just what Myoga was speaking of.

Shippo stood up quickly and ran into the cottage yelling, "Sota! Sota!"

Kaede's uncle appeared tired as he shot out of his bed and ran to the fox demon.

"Shippo! What is it?!" he yelled.

"I need you to do something for me!" Shippo started in a frantic tone of voice.

"What is it already?!" Sota yelled frustrated.

"I need to know how long it would take for you to create another one of those remotes that Kaede has!" the fox demon yelled frantically.

Sota looked at the fox confused. What did he need one of those for?

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Chapter Teaser!

InuYasha had traveled all around within a couple of miles of the village and still hadn't seen one sign of a demon or even a scent of a spider.

"This is all just a big waste of time... Why did I even bother?!"

About to turn back to the village, InuYasha finally caught a small scent.

"Huh? What was that? Was that the scent of a spider demon?"

He then turned towards the scent and went after it.