Kagome woke up early the next morning because something crashed very loudly beside her. She jumped up ready to attack. Then she began to panic when she looked around her new surroundings. It took a few seconds for the day before to sink in. It was the large, broken gun that lay before her that brought reality back to a screeching halt. She was captured, by the Demon standing over her, who was going back down the stairwell to carry more parts up.

Damn… It was early. The sun wasn't even up yet. Demons never did sleep a lot…

The electric hum of the lights strung over head already had gotten on her nerves. The foot falls that came from below her signaled the Demons return. Indeed he carried more gun parts.

"This…" He spread his arms out to imply everything before him, "is the Tetsusaiga, a gun that my mother had designed."

Kagome looked at the chunks of metal below her. A Demon? Mother? Designed? These things did not go with the gun lying in the floor. Demons did not design. They did not have parents, at least not any his age. He was a Demon, what would he want with a gun? He took care of that cow quicker than most guns could.

"Uhh…"

He smirked and began to pull out a piece of paper out of his pocket. He handed it to Kagome and she read over it. Her eyes grew large.

"This… is amazing."

"Yeah, it sure is. And it's the only thing that can take down Naraku."

"Who is Naraku…"

He whirled on her so fast she thought maybe she had spoken a word that reverted him back to the mindless beings that he so obviously killed…

"Naraku is the one who did this! He was the human that contaminated the experiment and caused the pathogens to change humans to Demons. He later infected himself with a serum of all the different type of Demon types tested to give himself an advantage. Now he runs the country, in a bloodlust."

"Oh… So what does this have to do with you? Do to him like you did that cow…"

"Trust me, that won't happen."

"Well, then who designed that gun really?"

"My mother?"

Kagome sighed. He was not going to help her out after all…

She kneeled to the floor and began picking up parts and looking at them. It was a very advanced piece of equipment, she had to admit. It was old, but it still looked like it could take a life, and in the end that's what really mattered. She did not know who this Naraku person was, but she would ask Keade. That was if she ever saw Keade again.

"What does this thing actually do?"

She looked at him and he came and sat down beside her.

"Hell if I know."

Kagome almost fell over. He drug her all the way out here because of this gun and he didn't even know how to use it!

"Excuse me! You don't even know what it does!" She turned on him and grabbed onto the long hair that hung over his shoulders. She jerked him a little closer and his eyes grew large.

"I have been kidnapped by a guy without a plan! You want to take down someone with something you have no idea about! This thing could blow bubbles for all we know."

Inuyasha pulled back and glared at her. Kagome grew slightly afraid him. Demons did not have a very good track record with patience.

"My mother knew what she was doing."

With that, he turned and stomped down the stairs. Kagome felt her heart pounding against her ribs. That was a scary situation, even for her. She felt as though she had lost control. Losing control was the most dangerous scenario that Kagome had been taught while in her training. Once you lost control, you lost your life. That is what was drilled into their heads from the age of five.

Training was not going to help her in this situation. No one had ever ventured out this far from The Well. It was dangerous to be out by yourself as it was so there was no chance on her making it back to home without running into Demons along the way. Inuyasha was the only one who could save her….

Inuyasha would not be her saving grace. Kagome knew this cold hard fact. Demons had lost their sense of compassion. They cared for no one but themselves. They would kill anything that got in their way. She would have to find a way to get back on her own. Maybe if she could get the gun put together…

The more she looked at the schematics; she realized that there was something missing.

Inside of the gun, a small compartment was empty. It was where the main power came from. The gun's whole purpose surrounded around this one part, and it was not here. She looked around the room, thinking the part had to be here.

She gave up and sat back down. There went her plan. There was nothing called the Shikon Jewel laying around in this building.

Kagome then grew sad. This was not good. Her plan was crushed and she wondered how long it would be before Inuyasha realized she would not be able to help her. He would get rid of her.

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Inuyasha later came up from down stairs, and Kagome noticed he had changed his cloths. His hair was pulled back and he looked like he had been doing something that made him sweat. There must be some kind of training center down there.

"Figure it out yet?" He looked down at her.

"No." She answered honestly. There was no point in lying.

"Its missing a part, I looked but couldn't find it. It is something important, it powers the gun."

Inuyasha grunted but didn't say anything. He was still stand-offish.

Kagome looked down at her lap, and thought how she hadn't had a bath in two days. She was feeling gross.

"Hey, do you have s shower…"

"Yeah, and you need one."

Kagome was taken back by his comment. Insulting her as the closest thing to conversation he had attempted to make.

"Well excuse me, I was kind of kidnapped."

"Most humans don't smell as bad as you."

"Well then you haven't been around a lot of humans then."

"Sure I have. I saw you a year ago and you stuck as bad then as you do now."

Kagome narrowed her eyes at him. A year ago? She would have remembered seeing him had he been close enough to cross her path.

"I don't remember you."

"Well of course not bitch, I was watching you."

Now she grew scared. Had he been stalking her?

She backed away from him, with disgust on her face.

Inuyasha must have put two-and-two together.

"Oh! No! Not like that!" He waved his arms around trying to disperse her bad thoughts.

"Then like what you pervert!" She crossed her arms over her chest. Damn, perverted Demons…

"Hell, I was looking because I needed someone who knew how to use a gun good."

Kagome still didn't trust him.

"Why me? There are many better snipers than me. I know you have to know that."

"Yeah, but I have my reasons."

"Listen you, I'm not going to be frightened because I have no idea what you have in store for me."

"Feh, I don't owe you a thing. I just know what I was told, and you match the description."

Kagome blinked. Description? Nothing was making sense when it came to this Demon. His story was broken and scattered. He wouldn't tell her anything.

"You were told to find me."

"No, not exactly. You just matched the description."

"You are not making any sense."

"Well sorry, but I didn't ask for this and were stuck in this together. We are the only ones who can defeat him." Inuyasha crossed his arms.

"You keep saying that but I have no idea what you mean!"

"You are what I was supposed to be looking for. I was told you would know how to kill him."

Kagome threw her arms up in the air. It was so pointless. He wasn't going to tell her anything. He rolled his eyes and began to go back down stairs, mumbling about stupid humans under his breath. She was glad to see him go. This was so stupid…

Once he was gone, she stood and began to snoop around the small enclosure. Papers and contraptions covered desks. She picked up some of the papers and glanced at the writing. Some had drawings of the gun, more like rough drafts with notes in feminine hand writing. She put those down then pushed some of the papers away and found a small black book. It looked very old and the pages had yellowed.

Kagome looked over her shoulder, to make sure Inuyasha wasn't coming up the stairs, then opened the little book.

The first page had the name Izayoi and the date was March 2007. That was about twenty years ago. She scanned the first couple of pages and realized that this diary held descriptions of Demon testing. Her heart began to pound when she ran across a familiar name.

Takisho Higurashi…. Her father…

She flew through the next few pages, learning more about her father than she ever had known. Her father had been the leading scientist in the Demon projects. She had known he worked on it, but had no idea he was the leader… Did this mean he had a hand in the takeover?

The trials were failures from what the journal was describing…

"What the fuck do you think your doing?" A sharp voice came form behind her.

Kagome dropped the book and turned. She looked at the floor guility, knowing she had been caught snooping…

"Sorry, I got curious since you won't tell me anything."

"Well stay out of this stuff. Its personal."

"Ok.."

Inuyasha muttered under his breath some more, and Kagome knew it was probably the same old stuff. He shuffled some papers back around, that is back into the same piles they came from, and picked up the book off the floor where she had dropped it. He carefully closed it and placed it back onto the table almost gently. She had to wonder why that little book meant so much to him.

"Inuyasha?"

"What?" He said hatefully.

"Who was the woman that wrote that book."

He turned and looked at her. His look held no anger or contempt for the first time since she had met him.

"The person who wrote that book was my mother."

Kagome didn't know exactly what emotions came over her. Disbelief was not one of them.

"If she was your mother, then do you know my father?"

He looked away now. He shook his head. Kagome felt her heart drop.

"I was much too young; I was born right before the Demons escaped. My mother talked about him often. She is the one who told me I needed to find you. She gave me a picture and told me to find a girl who had the eyes of the man in the picture."

"So… that was me?"

"I guess, or else you wouldn't be here now would you?"

Kagome didn't know what to say. Her entire life she had been told to seek and destroy those who were not human. Killing had become something she relied on when she even ran across Inuyasha's kind, but now with his standing in front of her, she questioned everything she had ever been taught. Something about him made her feel different. He was dangerous, she knew that, but there was also something underneath that gave her the feeling that he was just like her…

"Yo, bitch. Lets go, we need food."

Kagome sighed… Well, he might be just a tiny bit different.

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Kagome had spent much of her adult life on the outside. She was always scouting and searching for Demons all throughout the city ruins of Tokyo. Her only experience with grass and trees were the few that had sprouted up from the hard concrete. She had seen pictures of the land before the Demon takeover, but nothing compared to what lay out before her now.

Green surrounded her. Grass, trees, and flowers all grew around her. Everything was alive and clean. She did not even see any traces of old human civilization. It was amazing. It really was as beautiful as her mother had told her. The smells were unbelievable, and so completely different than what she was used to. She tried to keep it together as he searched, for what she didn't know. She found it almost comical to see him sniffing the ground like a dog…

Suddenly he jumped up and told her to wait here and bounded off into the trees. She blinked at the sudden movement. Then she got bored.

A breeze flowed through the trees and she watched them gently sway back and forth, as though they were dancing. It was sad that the ones her age had never experienced this kind of beauty. It was calming to her.

She soon lost control and threw up her hands and really let go. She laughed and fell back onto the soft grass. The bright blue sky stretched over her as soft, fluffy white clouds floated by. The grass smelled sweet and the breeze kept her cool. It was the most amazing experience Kagome had ever been apart of. It was like a dream. It was not fair that humans were denied this lovely world.

Kagome plucked a small flower beside her and began pulling its petals off one by one. With each one she made a wish. To make it back alive. To be able to see this again in her lifetime. Not have to kill Inuyasha…

That last one bothered her, because she knew what the rest of her human race would expect her to do. No exceptions. That was a law. She was breaking a law by not killing the Demon at first glance.

Kagome stood up and dusted her backend off and looked around for any traces of Inuyasha. The sun blinded her, and made the surroundings less visible.

The tingle running up her back was not a fast enough sign before it was too late.

One second Kagome turned her head toward the source of her discomfort and the next she was on the ground with claws digging into her neck.

For a brief moment in the air, she thought Inuyasha had brought her out in this clearing to kill her. Instead, she discovered a completely new Demon staring down at her.

"What the hell is a human doing out in this neck of the woods?" The Demon growled loud enough to vibrate her body.

"I… uh…" Kagome trailed off when she felt the grip tighten. She gazed, wide-eyed, at the Demon hovering over her. At first glance, she did not know what type of Demon this one was. His steel gray eyes and brown, wild looking hair made her think of something wild. His fangs put him into the canine species. This meant that he had to be some sort of wolf Demon. That would mean she was in tons, and tons of trouble.

First off, wolf Demons were very unpredictable and liked a fight. Second, they were one of the Demon types that liked the test of human flesh. Third, they traveled in packs.

"You smell funny."

Kagome was taken back by the comment. The Demon began sniffing her face, then worked his way down to her chest, then lower to her stomach. He stopped there and was about to say something when a familiar presence made itself known.

As quick as the hand closed around her throat, it left again as Inuyasha tackled the Wolf and they rolled across the grass beside her. She quickly jumped up and ran as far away as she could from the trashing Demons. This made no sense to her. In all rights, they should both be tearing her apart. Instead, Inuyasha was protecting her against his own kind. Her head was dizzy watching the scene unfold before her. Nothing that she had ever been taught made any sense in the clearing on this day. Could everything she had been taught been wrong?

Demons worked together, and they wanted to kill humans. They had no other brain process than to wipe-out all human kind.

Obviously both those postulates were dead wrong, or else she would be dead right.

"Beat it mutt! This has nothing to do with you!" The wolf yelled at Inuyasha.

"This girl is none of your concern wolf-breath, so I advise you to tuck your tail and run before I rip it off!"

The two clashed again.

"Can't you smell it!" The wolf tried again.

"She smells funny, dangerous funny."

Inuyasha smirked.

"I know, and that's why she is still alive."

The two went round and round and Kagome noticed more and more blood covered them and the ground. This had to stop. Though the wolf grounded her, he did not kill her and neither did Inuyasha so she felt as though she owed it to them to save their asses once.

"Stop it!" She shouted over the snarling Demons, and the two stopped in mid punch.

"Stay out of it wench, this mangy wolf don't need your pity."

"Your little human companion has hold over you then Inuyasha?"

"Kouga, shut your face!" With that the battle started again.

Kagome sighed. This had to stop. She picked up a rock and slung it. She didn't really care which one it hit, or where but felt accomplished when she heard the crack of rock on skull. Inuyasha yelped, almost dog like, and rubbed the back of his head. The other Demon, Kouga, looked at her with a strange look in his eyes.

"This human is different." He stated and quickly lost interest in Inuyasha, who was currently rubbing his head to make the sting go away.

"Uhhh…." Kagome did not know exactly what to think when Kouga took her hand and smiled at her sweetly.

"Come with me. Be my woman." He asked so sincerely, Kagome felt shell-shocked.

The shock didn't last long, because Inuyasha intervened.

"Stay the hell away from her!"

Kouga smirked handsomely and jumped back toward the trees.

"I'll be back little human and you will come with me." With that he took off faster than Kagome ever though Demonly possible.

"What just happened?" Kagome looked at the now bloody Inuyasha.

"Stupidity, that's what." Inuyasha said. He then turned and walked back to the woods. He disappeared for a moment then came back with a wild pig thrown over his shoulder.

"Ever roasted a pig before?" He asked.

"No."

"Well, you humans just don't know what you're missing out on then."

It took Kagome a moment before following him. Her entire being screamed run away fast and hard. The retreating Demon went against everything that had been ground into her head all her life. The questions kept rising into the back of her mind…

Were Demons all that evil? Or did humans create them out to be?