SL: Hello to all of my reviewers and, hopefully, to my new readers who has made it this far and have not thought my story is not dull, boring, or stupid because of the NarakuxKagura sex scene. Sorry that it has taken me forever to update but i have been getting ready for college, and while im excited it will take me longer to update...

S: (snuggles up to me) Well i'm just happy that your finally updateing, i've been wondering when you would...

SL: lol, well you know me it takes me forever to do anything

S: hmmm, yes its true, say how is topaz and kurama?

SL: huh? oh they are fine i think topaz is expecting again. Hey can you do me a favor and say the disclaimer?

S: Sure...Sesshomaru'sLuver does not own inuyasha or any of the inuyasha charecters, she only owns Akira.

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Celestial Blood

Chapter 9: A Journy Starts

The gang woke as soon as there was light in the sky. Sango began to warm the stew from the other night, Miroku was collecting the things needed for the journy, Kagome was brushing her hair and was going to apply some makeup on. Inuyasha and his brother walked out side, Akira was going through her purse looking for a tube of lipstick, Rin and Shippo was out back chasing the last of the fireflies while Jaken watched them, and the two tailed neko called kilala was lieing on Kagomes' backpack watching the three girls. Akira stopped looking through her purse and leaned against the wall, she knew with this plan she would get to see her father but would she also be putting him in danger as well? She didn't know, but had to help somehow. Akira thought of her mother, how she gave up being a maiden to live with her love. Akira sighed as she pulled her hair into a messy bun, and added blood red lipstick to her lips, along with a little blush.

Kagome looked over at the girl with the black hair and blond highlights, and gasped. She was beautiful, the lipstick made her pale while the blush made her look rosey. The young miko continued with her makeup applying a mauve color lipstick, lilac eyeshadow, black eye liner, and a little blush. She looked at herself in her compact mirror, she thought she looked breath takeing. Sesshomaru had never seen her in make-up befor and she wanted to surprise him.

Sango told everyone that breakfest was done. The children came inside stateing that the two brothers were not hungary, and Jaken would not lower his-self to eat human food. They all grabed a bowl knowing it would be noon before they would be sble to eat again. Hurridly they ate ate so they could start moving, once they were finished Kagome rinsed the bowls out, grabed her bags and went out side, followed by her friends. Akira gasped as she looked up at the sky as she watched the sun rise she notice the different hues of pinks, blues, and purples. The young girl was tapped on the shoulder by Sango who told her to follow.

The odd ball group walked through the still sleeping town. No one said a word as they entered the forest, Kagome kapt her head down waiting for the right moment to show Sesshomaru her make-up. Inuyasha led the group on a path they traveled often. It was shadowed by the trees, leaves and twigs covered the path. It wasn't long till they came to a clearing. Akira looked around at the grassy feild. It was picture perfect, a place only to be found in the country of her and Kagomes time. In the middel of the feild was a well, a well she knew from before. Akira gasped, a smile on her face maybe she could go home, and forget all about this. Akira ran to the well followed by her friends.

"The well!" she exclaimed.

Inuyasha nodded," Yea, we figured you could go home, its not your place to be here."

They all nodded, Akira nodded as well. This had nothing to do with her, besides her father wouldn't know who she was and most likely would kill her. Akira sat on the side of well, and looked into the inky darkness. The young girl let out a breath and looked at her friends as they smiled at her, she smiled back and jumped into the well. Her eyes closed, as she felt the air around her. A hollow thud was heard, followed by an 'ow'. The gang looked in and saw Akira standing dusting herself off. Inuyasha jumped into the well and took Akira out. The girl stood slightly cussing the well for not letting her go home. But now she knew she had to stay here...and help.

"Now what?" she asked.

"Feh," Inuyasha replied and walked away.

Kagome laughed," Don't worry Akira, that's just Inuyasha's way of saying follow us."

Akira nodded as she followed her friends. The group was quite, only the sound of birds chirping could be heard. Kagome walked along side Sesshomaru, still looking down at the ground. The young Miko was silently thinking, wondering about the last two days on how Akira showed up, then her beloved Sesshomaru. The young girl felt eyes looking at the back of her head, she looked up and found her love looking down at her, looking over her face and body but study her face the most. Sesshomaru's breath had gotten stuck in his throat. The paints on Kagome's face made her look somewhat older, and made her even the more beautiful in his eyes. The stoic Lord leaneddown and whispered into her ear, then he quickly licked the lobe, this caused her to blush like crazy. He smiled, to his-self, pleased of the affect he had over his miko.

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It was high noon when the group stopped by a smile stream. They were making great progress, Sesshomaru told them they should be at Mavericks castel by mid-morning. The group smiled knowing once they got to Maverick the closer they would get to Naraku. At the moment they were discussing what they should have for lunch. Rin and Shippo wanted fish, but that would take too long to cook. Stumped as to what to eat Inuyasha suggested that they eat Ramen(A/N the best food ever, including POCKY!). Kagome readily agreed, while Sesshomaru wondered what this 'Ramen' was. Miroku gathered wood and made a fire so Kagome could fix nine noddel cups. Sango called Kilala over and opened a can of cat food, which the neko yokai hungeraly ate. Akira on the other hand sat by the stream watching the sun's ray's being reflected off of the water. The girls' amethist eyes ran over the flowing water, a voice in her head told something was there, to look, to find it. 'But, what is it?' she thought,'Where is it?' As if on cue a strong breeze started to push the water back from the shore. Caught off gaurd Akira looked down to see something shining brightly in the dirt. tilting her head she reached down to pick the object. LIfting her hand out of the water and shakeing the dirt off Akira was surprised to see that the object was indeed a golden ring with the symbol of Ra, an egyption god, in the middel along with a ruby stone. Her eyes widen as she slid the ring onto her right ring finger. The ring gave off a soft glow, but it soon stopped. Akira looked around to see if anyone was watching her, luckily no one was paying attention to her but to Kagome and Inuyasha. She sighed as she stood dusting the dirt off her legs and skirt. She walked over to her friends now hearing the yelling of Kagome and Inuyasha, soon the yelling was followed by a dull thud. The girl smiled, she thought it was funny when Kagome 'sat' the hanyou. The young Miko looked over at her friends a smile on her lips," Luch is done."

With that said everyone, including Jaken, grabed a cup of ramen. Kagome explained to Sesshomaru, Rin, and Jaken that ramen was just noodes from her time. Rin was the first to try them, she took a littel bite at first but soon began to chow down. Jaken ate slowly afraid that it might be poison, Sesshomaru sniffed at it, then looked at Kagome who smiled and nodded her head. Still Skepitcal the InuYokai Lord held the bowl in his right hand, and the chopsticks in his left, thanks to Kagome he had it back. As he ate the noddels he found out that he enjoyed them. Everyone finished their lunched with littel talk, and if there was any talk it was mostly chitter chatter by the childeren. Inuyasha finished his launched first and looked at his friends and his new friend Akira. Inuyasha smiled, he liked her. She was nice,friendly, pretty, and smelled good. Inuyasha looked down as he blushed from from his last thought. It was true though she was pretty, no scratch that, beautiful, and she smelled like orlander. He looked down at her hands and noticed gold glissing in the sun. Before he could even think, he spoke," Hey where'd you get that ring? I didn't see it before."

Everyone looked at Inuyasha as he looked at Akira, whose hand was in mid-air, with food on her chopsticks, and mouth open to eat. The young girl closed her mouth and placed the noodels back in the cup. She smiled as a thought came to her," My grandmother gave it to me when she came back from Egypt.Pretty huh?"

They all looked at the ring as she held her hand out for everyone to see. The two girls from the future talked about Egypt, and how they would like to visit the place. Inuyasha still looked at the ring, there was something strange about it. Like an unseen force surrounded the ring, and felt as if it was trying to cover and protect the girl. The hanyou shook his head, he was really over thinking about this girl. Another ten minutes passed when it was annouced that it was time to leave, and continue on their journy.

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He sat by the window looking out at the sunny day. His long curly, midnight black hair blowing in the afternoon breeze. He placed his head in the palm of his hand, while he tapped on the window seal with his other. This morning when he woke, he remembered that this was the day of his daughters birth, even though she would be considered old in human terms, she would still be young because of the blood that flowed through her veins. The man let out a long sigh, why think of the past, when his present life was right in front of him? He looked up at the sky, after the death of his beloved and child, his childhood friend was killed while saving his mate and child.(A/N: ok i had to put this in, its important, even though it doesn't make sense!) He never found out what happen to his friends mate and child, or whatever ever happen to his other child. He couldm't remember if he seen him, he just remembers hearing about him.

"Akira, my daughter happy birthday," Naraku said as his violet orbs looked into the sky.

"Master Naraku.."

"Yes Kanna," he replied not even looking around.

"Lord Maverick has asked when you need a place to stay..."

"Tell him, two nights from now."

"Yes Mi'Lord..."

With that the demon child known as Kanna left to deliver the message. Naraku continued thinking on his past. Like he couldn't remember much about anything, about his past life, the names of his mate and child, he couldn't remember his best friends' name or even his mate, even his friends childerens' names. He couldn't even remember what they looked liked, he just knew he had them...once. The demon stood to prepare for his depature, Kanna wouldn't be back till tommorrow evening, for all of his incarnations power slows during his regeneration. Naraku was strting to leave when the smell of freshly picked strawberries came to his nose, it was the same scent of his mate. He turned and found no one in the room. The scent had vanished as quick as it had came, he turned and left the room.

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It was late in the evening when the gang stopped for the night. To the girls luck they stopped by a hot spring. It had been awhile since Akira had last had a bath, and was greatful that she would be abel to have one. Kagome had an extra pair of pajamas she could use, and undergarments. Akira was glad that her new friend was the same size as she. The three girls left with the childeren to the bathe, the guys were left at the camp site to start a fire, and get some of the fish they caughted cooked. When they reached the hot springs the childeren quickly undressed and splashed into the hot water. The girls undressed and stepped into the spring. Akira let out a long sigh as her body sanked into the hot water. She went under to wet her hair, she came back up takeing air into her lungs. Kagome passed the shampoo and conditionar over to Akira, who was glad to wash her hair. The girls and childeren were cleaned in no time, the girls then started to talk.

"What a day," Kagome commented.

"I agree, we weren't attacked by any kind of demon today," Sango replied.

"Are you guys always attacked by demons?" Akira asked.

"Only when we travel," answered Sango.

"Oh..."

The conversation quickly changed to Kagome and Lord Sesshomaru, and their growing relationship. Kagome kept saying there was nothing to discuss, and that their relationship had not progressed to the next level. She blushed at this statement causing the others to laugh, and causing her face to change to beet red.

"So, Kagome how long have you been going with the Lord?" Akira asked.

"Well I've been traveling back and forth since i was fifteen, I'm seventeen now," Kagome replied," so I've been with him since the begining of this year."

"When did you turn seventeen?" Akira asked.

"Two weeks ago."

"How old are you Akira, and when is your birthday?" Sango asked.

Akira laughed," I'm sixteen and my birthday is...uh..wait how long have I've been here?"

"Well," Sango started," you were knocked out for two days, and you woke yesterday."

Akira was shocked, speechless. She had been in fuedal Japan for four days, when to her it had felt as if she had been here for only two days. She sighed and looked over at her new friends," My birthday is today, I'm seventeen."

Kagome and Sango looked over at their friend, who now looked depressed. She had missed her birthday, and most likely her party. Kagome looked over at Sango, a plan had formed in her head. She would have a party at the next village they would stop at. Kagome annouced that it was time to head back. They all dressed and headed back to camp. Kagome was dressed in black silk like shorts, with a white spagetii strap shirt, Akira was dressed in a pair of black pajama pants, and a black spageti strap shirt. Sango and the childeren were dressed in normal night attire. Once at camp the childeren ate, then went to bed. Sesshomaru had just pulled Kagome into his lap, whispering into her ear, causing her to blush and laugh at the same time. Inuyasha looked over at them and sighed, he no longer had a chance with Kagome, he didn't want Kikyo. Even though he had explained that it was not him with Kikyo it was Naraku disguised as him, even his brother told Kagome it was ture, for Inuyasha didn't smell like the dead claypot known as Kikyo. Inuyasha's eyes wondered over to Akira who was sitting by the fire, her knees pulled up to her chest, her arms wrapped around them as she shivered from the cold.

Inuyasha stood and walked over to her. When he reached her he took his red haori off, leaving his undershirt on, and placed it around her shoulders. Akira looked up from the fire as she felt the warm clothing placed on her. She looked over as Inuyasha sat, crossed legged, right beside her. She blushed as he caught her staring at him. The hanyou smiled, for some unkonown reason, he felt protective of her just sitting by her made him happy. Akira whispered a thank you to the hanyou who just nodded his head. The girl placed her arms in the slevees of the haori catching his scent waft off it, he smelled like the forest after it rained. As she wrapped her-self up, she felt a tugging, pulling her in Inuyasha's direction. She scooted close and laid her head on his shoulder. Just like him, for some reason having him by her made her feel safe. The heat from his body felt right, being this close to him felt right. The hanyou then took the arm she was laying on and wrapped it around her. Akira let out a sigh as she snuggeled into him. Inuyasha smiled as he laid his head a top of hers. The sat there. the others watched what was going on. Kagome smiled knowing Inuyasha had finally found someone.

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Akiras Dream

Akira found herself next to a koi pond. She smiled as the fish came up and ate the food that was on top of the water. The girl looked up when she heard movements behind her, There standing was her mother, her blonde hair blowing in the breeze. Akira stood and wrapped her arms around her. Harmony hugged her back, rubbing her daughters back. The two sat down smiles on their faces. Harmony wrapped her arms around her daughter," Happy birthday darling, you smell different like a forest after it rains."

Akira blushed," Must be Inuyasha, he let me wear his haori to sleep in."

"I know, I've been watching you as you've been traveling."

"Oh, so you know I found a strange ring then?"

Harmony laughed," Of course, that ring was mine, it was a gift by a god, who was courting me."

"Really? Was this before or after you met dad?"

"Before and somewhat during, but when I finally got to tell him he already knew, he was hopinh it was just a childs crush..."

"Who was he?"

"Isn't it obvious. It was the Egyption god Ra," Harmony said.

Akira's jaw dropped," How did you meet him?"

Harmony laughed," Through the gods and goddess's, every god or goddess you know of live in the Celestial Valley."

"Wow," Akira replied," why didn't he take the ring back then?"

" Well he invoked the ring with a power to protect my child, and help her when she uses her power."

"Oh..."

"Honey, when your around Inuyasha do you feel safe protected, and just being near him feels right?" Harmony asked her daughter, as she looked at her. The girl started to blush and Harmony smiled.

"How did you know that? Are you intuned with my thoughts and feelings now?" Akira asked.

"No actually. Before either one of you was born your father and his father, the InuYokai Lord InuTashio, betrothed both of you to be mates."

"Whoa, wait a sec...I'm betrothed to Inuyasha? Akira asked turning slightky pale.

"Yes but sadly your father has put his memories of the past behind him, he remembers us, but his friend InuTashio as well as his mate and childeren are gone from it. But when you come back to him his memory will return."

Akira groaned," Does Inuyasha know about this?"

"No after I died Izoyo assumrf it was off, since i died and took you with me, and her mate had died shortly after Inuyasha was born, as did Narku," Harmony shook her head," but whatever bond our mates made for you both is still there."

Akira groaned again," Should I tell my friends?"

Harmony ;looked into her daughters eyes, that was starting to tear up," It's your choice, but if I was you, I would."

With that said Harmony took her daughter into her arms, and comfort her as she cried into her kimono. There were still things she nedded to know, but that could wait till another night...

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Inuyasha's Dream

Inuyasha was standing by the god tree, the sun's rays were comeing in thourgh the leaves, he had no idea how he got there he just walked there. He heard the sound of leaves rustling from behind, he turned sharply, to see his mother standing there, smileing at him. Inuyasha just stood there his mouth wide open.

"Did I not teach you that is impolite?" She asked.

"Mother?" Inuyasha asked

"Yes, my darling it is me, I came to talk to you."

"But why?"

"You smell like olander."

Inuyasha blushed," Thats Akira mother."

" Yes I know, thats why I'm here."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, long ago before you were born, your father and Akira's Father betrothed both of you."

"WHAT?"

Izoyo laughed at her son," That girl is your brtrothed, meanin darling she is your mate."

Inuyasha turned pale," but how? she is not from this time."

"Actually she is, her mother brought her back. Akira her-self just found out."

"But why is she back?"

"Her mother wants to see if she can save her father before its too late."

"Well whos that?"

Izoyo's smiled disappered," The one your fighting."

Inuyasha paled," Her father is Naraku?"

She nodded," yes, but over 60 years ago, he was nothing like he is now, and he was your fathers friend, and stayed his friend even after he mated me."

Inuyasha sat" I dont understand,"

"Onigumo promised Naraku the jewel shards to get his family back, in turn Onigumo would let Naraku reside in his body. Onigumo's evilness won out over Naraku, now Akira is back she'll be able to save him, but darling Akira is sincere, be kind to her and do not tell no one, she'll tell them soon enough."

"How do I know she wont betray us?"

" If she was to betray you wouldn't she have done that by now?''

He nodded, as his mother came and sat beside him holding him in her embrace. Inuyasha hugged his mother hopeing she was right.

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SL: hey all i know this is the longest chapter ever for me! but hey what can i do college is very time consuming...

S: yes Tara is right, she has little time to do anything...

SL: yea so i have to figure out how to update this and study at the same time, oh not to mention takeing care of Min as well!

S: dont worry love, i'll help too.

SL: you will?

S: yes i promise...

SL: Aww your sweet...

S: i try...

SL: Well every one so long i got school tommorrow,ugh, i got to get up at 9 though so happieness

S: Review the story, flames welcome