Sesshomaru

"K-Kagome! What are you doing here?"

She grinned. "Mamma came to pick me up today. I get to come back home!"

My eyes widened. "Permanently?"

She nodded and I felt a smile tug at the corner of my lips.

"That is great, but it doesn't explain why you are wandering the forest alone."

"I'm waiting for Kaede-sama to return so that she can take this off of me," she said, gesturing towards the necklace she was wearing. Then, her eyes widened and she said, "Oh no! I'm late!"

Smirking, I swept her up bridal style and began making my way through the trees, bumping into Jaken along the way.

"Lord Sessho-!" he began but was interrupted as I blew right by him.

Struggling to catch up, he shouted, "Wait! Lord Sesshomaru! Where might you be going?"

I laughed and slowed down a bit, picking him up.

"Why hello there, Lord Jaken," said Kagome sweetly.

"Lord Sesshomaru! What are you doing with this filthy mortal? Do you-"

I cut him off with a growl.

Laughing, Kagome pat me on the cheek and said, "It's okay, Sess-chan. It's not Jaken-dono's fault that he doesn't recognize me.

"Why you cheeky whench! How dare you speek to Lord Sesshomaru in such a familiar way? Do not you know who he is?"

I ground my teeth together and Kagome rolled her eyes. "Really, Jaken-san, you should stop talking before you dig yourself in too deep."

"Quiet!" he shouted.

By now, we had arrived back at the village and I headed back along Kagome's scent trail, heading towards where I knew Kaede-sama's hut would be.

Kaede-sama was standing in front of her hut when we arrived, and when I put Kagome back onto the ground, she ran up to the old lady and threw her arms around her. "Long time no see, Kaede-sama!" she said enthusiastically.

The old miko chuckled. "It is good to see ye too, child. Come now, it is time to remove the seal. Your mother is waiting inside.

As the two of them went inside, I waited outside with Jaken.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" said the small youkai. "Why are you ferrying mortals around!"

Picking him up by his head, I looked him straight in the eye. "You really are an imbecile, Jaken. That was no mortal, and now that she is no longer here to protect you, I shall pound your skull in for daring to insult-" I would have continued, except that at that moment, Kaiya walked out of the hut, closely followed by her daughter.

"Sesshomaru! Put the poor thing down!" said Kaiya and I immediately let go.

"Yes, Kaiya-ba-san."

Hearing a tinkling laughter, I looked back at Kagome and my breath caught in my throat. She was still wearing the clothes from before, but she looked completely different.

Her eyes had changed from chocolate brown to their natural bright gold. Her hair was now waiste-length, and a beautiful silver instead of black, and her face markings had returned, including the crescent on her forehead.

"L-Lady Kagome!" yelped Jaken.

"Jaken-dono," she said sweetly, nodding at him.

He looked as if he were about to faint. "W-were you? Th-the woman from...?" he didn't continue.

She nodded and he fell back in a dead faint.

I couldn't help but chuckle and Kaiya threw me an amused look.

"Sesshomaru dear, will you be travelling with us from here? That is, to assume you are heading back to our village?"

I nodded. "I am indeed returning back home, and it would be a pleasure to travel with you and the Lady Kagome."

"Wonderful! Now, let us find somewhere to transform, hm?" she said, walking off in a certain direction, picking up Jaken along the way.

Kagome fell into step behind her and I looked over at her. "You look gorgoues," I said.

She blushed. "Arigatou, Sess-chan!" she said.

I would have replied, except that we had arrived in a wide open space, and Kaiya had already leapt into the sky.

"Come on," I told her, and yet, she hesitated. "Kagome?" I asked, worried.

"Sess-chan," she said worriedly. "I don't remember! I forgot how to change!"

I chuckled lightly, saying, "Kagome, changing isn't something that you can forget. It's instinctual. You are born with the knowledge of how to do it. Just go with your instincts."

Kagome

I bit back a cheeky retort. He was obviously just try to help, but he had no idea how I was feeling.

These past seven years spent living as a human had desensitized me. Now that the chains of mortality had been lifted, my newly heightened hearing, sense of smell, and sight all felt so strange. What Sess-chan had said, though was correct. All of our kind were born with the knowledge of how to change, and so it had been with me. All I had to do was find that knowledge.

Closing my eyes, I looked inside myself, and almost immediately felt the well of power at the very core of my being. All I had to do was draw upon that well, and the next moment, I felt power coursing through my limbs as my bones liquified and re-shaped themselves, growing several times larger.

Within moments, I had grown larger, almost the size of my mother, and I leaped into the sky alongside my mother, Sesshomaru following close behind.

As we flew through the heavens, my heart rejoiced, for this was one of the things I had longed for most whilst trapped in that human body. I had missed the freedom of the open sky.

Inuyasha

I was sleeping in a tree when my best friend, a kitsune named Miroku, claimed my attention.

"Inuyasha! Look! Up in the sky!"

I opened my eyes to look at what he was pointing at, and almost forgot to breathe.

"Isn't that Sesshomaru?" asked Shippo, Miroku's little brother. "But who are those two with him?"

The other two with my brother were both female. The elder female, I easily recognised to be Kaiya, but the younger, I couldn't quite place.

Then, with a sudden rush of joy, I recognised her.

"Kagome-nee! She's back!"

DemonicEmbrace: What did you think? Did you like this chapter? I decided to make Miroku a kitsune 'cause that would make more sense. I mean, this is obviously and AU, which means no Shikon no Tama or Naraku, so it would be strange for Inuyasha to be hanging out with a human. Anyways, please review and tell me what you thought, ne?