It all started with a Nameless Beauty

~~~Chapter 7~~~

After trekking through the forest for several hours, Kagome was tired. Was she even heading in the right direction? The quiet and monotony of her jogging were wearing on her, but the lack of disturbances was also putting her on edge.

Out of nowhere, she had picked up a scent, something familiar but also very foreign. She silently jumped up into to the trees and hopped from branch to branch until she was able to get a good view of the surrounding area. When she was far up enough to be hidden by the foliage, she began hopping from tree to tree. She would find the source.

Cleverly, she leapt onto a large branch with an unobstructed view into a clearing of the forest. There, she waited. As if on cue, she began to make out sounds of murmurs and bickering. And not before long, two dark figures appeared from the edges of the trees.

"What the hell! I thought you knew where we were going!" a feminine voice said accusingly.

"But Sango, I swear this is the right way," another voice whined.

Kagome immediately perked up, Sango? Was it her Sango?

The voice continued, "Don't be scared. I promise I will protect you. I swea- , "

Suddenly, a loud slap echoed through the entire forest.

"KYAHH! HENTAAAAIII!" the woman yelled.

Even if that wasn't Sango, that slap was definitely for Miroku!

Kagome continued to stare into the clearing. She could only make out their silhouettes, but when she looked further back she could see two smaller figures, a kitsune cub and fire cat youkai. It HAD to be Miroku and Sango!

Kagome beamed and giggled, inadvertently bringing the attention of the group to her. Kagome saw the four of them tilt their heads upward, and immediately realized her mistake. Their demeanor had quickly transformed from light-hearted to defensive.

Shit! She needed to tell them it was her!

With her demon hunter instincts, Sango already had her weapon out of its sling and in her hands ready to attack. Kagome quickly tried to raise her arms to surrender, but as soon as she budged, Sango had swung the giant boomerang hiraikotsu.

Kagome deftly jumped from her high perch just as the weapon had cleanly sliced off the branch. WOW Sango was scary!

Again, Kagome raised her arms, but every attempt she made to make peace led to either Sango's boomerang or Miroku's charms heading straight for her head. She could not get close enough!

With the constant onslaught of attacks, Kagome quickly fled. She needed a plan. When they weren't so determined to kill her, she would come back and tell them who she was. As she took to the branches to leave, she made one last look to avoid being hit, only to come up the sight of Sango on Kirara's back following closely behind.

"What the hell!", Kagome thought. What was she supposed to do now?

Kagome continued to flee, but Sango seemed determined to not let her go. UGHHH!

There was nothing left to do, Sango was not giving up. She would just have to hope for the best.

Coming up on a larger clearing with no more trees to protect her, Kagome came down from the branches, and landed directly in front of Kirara's path. As quickly as she could, she raised both of her hands up and held up two fingers in the shape of a V and smiled.

Immediately, Kirara halted in her steps and Sango yelled, "KAGOME!"

Thank GOD, Sango could tell it was her. No one else in this era knew anything about posing with peace signs, so it had become Kagome's signature.

"SANGO!" Kagome ran up to her and pulled her from Kirara's back. Sango could only now see the school uniform Kagome was wearing. It was the same red, green and white shirt, and too-short skirt she had always worn.

Sango stood there in disbelief. The resemblance between Kagome and the demon in front of her was uncanny, "Is that really you, Kagome? What happened?"

Kagome couldn't put much into words at the moment, she was just too happy to see a familiar face and pulled Sango deeper into a HUGE hug, "Nothing much, just changed into a hanyou by a flowe-HENTAI!" She whipped around and smacked the owner of the hand that had groped her.

There stood Miroku, with matching red handprints on his cheeks, smiling with a glint in his eye. Recovering quickly from the impact, he took up both of Kagome's hands and spoke in a loving voice, "Will you please bear my child?"

Kagome looked on in amusement and slight annoyance, "Miroku-sama, you already asked me this once before and my answer is still the same. NO!"

Miroku stared at the demoness before him in confusion, "Excuse me, but have we met before?"

"Didn't you hear what she JUST said, Houshi-sama?" Sango butted in.

"I was too far behind to hear anything. When I reached this area, I found you two embracing," he whined.

"Ugh," Sango sighed, "It's KA-GO-ME!"

"Eh?" Miroku stared at her with doubt. "But this youkai's body is fuller," he said while holding out both of his hands skimming Kagome's hourglass figure, emphasizing his point.

"HENTAI!" the girls shouted simultaneously, both slapping him again, giving him darker handprints on both sides of his face.

Kagome laughed, but then quickly quieted and blushed. She had noticed changes in her body, but she hadn't realized it was so obvious! Her breasts were bigger and her hips were fuller, making her already revealing school uniform, even more scandalous. She sighed, no wonder youkai were going after her like crazy.

"Miroku-sama," Kagome started, "it really is me. Kagome from the future, the bone eater's well. Can't you tell?" She waited for his reaction, "I think the transformation from human to hanyou changed my figure as a side effect. But other than those slight alterations and my enhanced senses, I'm still the same old Kagome!"

After the information processed through his head, Shippou popped out from the bushes and stared at her. "Kagome! Kagome!" He leapt into her arms and pulled himself into her. "I missed you!" he cried. "Shippou? You still recognize me?" Kagome asked. "Of course! You still smell the same," he breathed her in deeply, "Actually, you smell better!" He laughed.

"And you, Shippou," she sniffed, "smell like the forest on a rainy day, and like a…. fox." She chuckled. "Do all youkai have a certain scent?" she asked, genuinely curious. Shippou nodded and snuggled into her chest, closing his eyes and breathing her in.

With a lot of new information to swallow, they all decided to set up camp and to rest up for the evening. Sango and Miroku had learned about Kagome's transformation and Kaede's search for a cure, and Kagome learned that Inuyasha was accompanying them, but had taken a detour to search for more news about jewel shards.

By the time they finished exchanging information, the sun had begun to set and the night quickly followed. Miroku and Sango prepared their sleeping arrangements, while Kagome volunteered to go hunt. With her new enhanced night-vision, she would be the best candidate to hunt in the dark. Letting Shippou down onto a sleeping bag, she set off into the denser part of the woods hoping to find a boar or deer.

As she came upon the scent of some game, she crouched down low behind some bushes. They were around here somewhere. She could smell them close by. All she had to do was wait.

After only five minutes did she hear a rustle to her right.

~~~End of chapter~~~

~~~^~~~^~~~Author's Note: Sorry… I thought this chapter would be longer… _ don't kill me. AGAIN! I need help on how to end this storyyyy! D: ~~~^~~~^~~~