TuT You people love me! Hehee! Maybe one day I'll have my own manga yet!

Good news; I'm not gonna bother making those tweaks...just go with anything that doesn't fit in the future and rest assured that I would have changed it for that benefit. Also, since I FINALLY got to see the Inuyasha movie I got for Christmas with my best friend, I AM INSPIRED AGAIN!

Now, I was gonna wait a while longer, but since everybody's been DYING to find out where Inuyasha is, I'll let you guys in on it in this chapter. Are ya happy now? YA WEEDLED IT OUT OF ME! Walks off mumbling gibberish, cuddling her new Fluffy Plushie

Takashi stared in horror at what lay before him. His face was a grimace, hesitant as the wolf demons pushed him.

"Go on! What are you afraid of?"

"No! I am not doing this!" He shook his head fiercely, knowing that they must be crazy if they expected him to face this...

"For the love of..."

"...-JUST EAT THE DAMNED MEAT!"

Takashi stuck out his tongue in disgust, gagging at the wild boar corpse plopped in front of him.

"But...it's not even cooked! It's all nasty and sweaty and covered in bugs and-"

Upon hearing that he didn't want it, the wolves lunged at the meat and began sinking their teeth into the boar. Takashi let out a dry heave, and ran outside by the water. Gagging one last time before sighing with relief, Takashi remembered his hunger and clutched his growling stomach.

"I don't know what's worse; dying of starvation or food poisoning..."

"You don't have to worry about little things like that, you know..."

Takashi turned around to see Kouga, who was carrying something under his arm.

"I knew you wouldn't eat that, being human and all, so I swiped something from a village nearby."

He tossed him a slab of cooked meat, the steam wafting the scent into Takashi's nose, causing him to salivate. He sank his fangs into the meat and ripped out a chunk, chewing it ravenously as he tore it apart. He growled a little in satisfaction as he tugged at a piece, the juices running down his fingers. Kouga chuckled at the site, shaking his head a little.

"Aside from the whole raw meat thing, you sure do EAT like a demon..."

"Give me a break...I haven't eaten anything in two days."

"Kid, I've gone a pretty long time without food before...and I haven't eaten like that."

Takashi hesitated in mid bite and removed the meat, wiping the juice from his fingers.

"But look at you...one fourth dog demon and you hardly even look it. Sure, you've got the fangs and the claws...but you certainly don't have the other traits...yet."

Takashi stared at Kouga, a little juice drizzling from the corner of his mouth.

"Dog demon?"

"Yeah, your old man was a mutt, but he still had quite a bloodline...I heard that his mother was a fair woman to humans, but his FATHER...well, everyone knows about HIS old man."

"What?"

"The great ruler of the Western Lands; he was one of the most powerful demons to have ever lived. Then he fell in love with a human. Some say she made him weak, but I have to say, there was definitely something between your mother and father that made him stronger..."

Takashi pondered this as he wiped his face.

"...Dogs, demon or not, seem to feel deep loyalty towards humans. He didn't even want Kagome to leave his side..."

Kouga looked up at the stars, sighing.

"You really cared about her, didn't you?"

"Ah, it's alright. Truth is I got a mate now." He slapped his hand on his forehead and shook his head laughing.

"Sixteen pups and counting."

Takashi stared wide-eyed.

"...And...counting?"

"Eh, she likes children; can't get enough. She's been due for three more, soon...But, as the alpha male, can't complain! Hehe!" Kouga winked at Takashi, who just shuddered.

"...Wait, if you live in this time, how can you tell how many she's gonna have?"

"...-I'm a demon. We can sense, it even during conception..."

"So you knew when...it happened, that you were gonna...uh..."

"Knock her up?"

Takashi flinched at the phrase.

"Uh...yeah."

"Well, she wants 'em...and every leader needs an heir..."

"-Or twenty...-Wait, that means..."

"What?"

"What about half-demons? Can they...er, sense it?"

"Yeah. How come?"

Takashi felt a little happy. He had always thought that his father had just left his mom to raise him; but if he knew he be born because of their actions, then that meant that he had wanted him, maybe even more than his mom. He pulled out the rosary and pulled it over his neck, wearing it with a little pride.

At Naraku's lair, Kanna's mirror glowed a light gold, causing Naraku to come over. She handed it to him, and he looked in for the source, then smirked.

"Heh. You're very proud of him, aren't you? To see your side of him emerging."

The mirror glowed a light tinge of blood red, pulsing a little.

"Getting angry at me isn't going to change anything. You know I will kill him eventually."

The color turned darker, bursts of electricity spurting out, the pulse strengthening. Naraku laughed as the mirror shook in his hand.

"Just you wait. Slowly his demon heritage is seeping back into his being. When the time is right, I'll snap what's left of the barrier and his demon blood will flood through his veins. And then you know what happens next."

The mirror changed color again, this time to a dark blue.

"Now sadness and desperation. Come now, he doesn't even know you're-"

Naraku recoiled in pain and clutched his burnt hand, Kanna quickly catching the mirror as it pulsed dark purple and red, then settled. Naraku looked at the burning wound on his palm, smirking. He looked in the mirror again at the huddled figure curled up in the fog, hopeless.

"Like it or not, you will have to watch your son die as your soul remains trapped in this mirror."

...Takashi...

Inuyasha curled up on the ground, the pain inside destroying him. He first laid eyes on his son only a few days ago when he came through the well. After years of imprisonment, seeing him comforted him beyond measure. He could see him now, whenever he closed his eyes. Just looking at his face made him long for Kagome.

He remembered that night so many years ago. He and the others had thought they had defeated Naraku in battle. A few days after, he and Kagome opened up to each other. They became mates on that same night. He remembered the next morning when he held Kagome close as she slept and pressed his hand to her belly the moment his child's life sparked within her.

That was the last he'd know of him or Kagome.

Naraku had faked his death by destroying Miroku's Wind Tunnel along with any other traces of his influence in the world. He had in fact waited for Inuyasha and Kagome to give in to their affections and mate, the first step in his longest, most complex and cruelest plan ever. As Inuyasha fell back to sleep under the sacred tree, Naraku snatched the Shikon Jewel and destroyed it. The reaction forced Kagome back into her own time, and Inuyasha woke up to find her vanishing into thin air.

When he realized the well wouldn't work, he was so desperate that he clawed at it until his fingers bled and his nails were dull. He wandered off away from the village, trying to find some way to bring her back.

After a long time of searching, he gave up. The Shikon Jewel was gone; as was Kagome, his life along with her.

Naraku found him, weak and heartbroken, lying by the sacred tree. Inuyasha tried to resist, but Kanna pulled his frail soul easily into the mirror, where he had been trapped ever since.

He closed his eyes again and looked at Takashi, studying his features carefully. He was with that dumb wolf Kouga, who looked irked. He couldn't help but smirk as a little part of his old self thought, "hee hee hee-hee hee, I got Kagome..."

But just as he finished this thought, he sensed a jolt of pain surge through his son. He looked over to find him lying on the ground, clutching his arms to his chest. He shook his head and sighed, knowing what was happening.

Kouga knelt down and shook Takashi, trying to help him up.

"TAKASHI! SNAP OUT OF IT!"

"I...can't! Something...really...HURTS!"

Kouga's eyes widened as he saw Takashi change. Both his fangs and claws lengthened. He cried out and writhed about on the ground, his muscles twitching. A streak of white ran through the part of his hair and around the back left, shining in the moonlight. When it was all over, he let out a long breath and began to hyperventilate, then crawled over to the water and splashed it on his face.

"Damn, look at your fangs! I've never seen a set like that on a part-demon... Hardly even any pure demons, for that matter!"

He opened his mouth slightly to look at the reflection. They were longer and sharper than both Kouga's and Shippo's, his own teeth scaring him out of his wits. He stood up and looked at Kouga.

"Uh, what just happened?"

"...It wasn't just the one transformation? Oh no...I'm gonna keep changing."

"...Hey, kid, being...being a demon isn't that bad...you can do a lot of things humans can't do..."

Takashi sighed.

"Like?"

"Like...well, there's strength, there's speed, there's longevity, and there's acute senses."

He grabbed the food he'd been eating, and noticed with frustration that his new fangs cut through the meat effortlessly as he bit into it.