Chapter 12- Mystery Solved

"So you want to play do you," Aoi said floating to the ground, "Fine, now that I have my powers back."

Mirouku, Sango, Inuyasha and Kagome watched surprised at Aoi. Aoi's hands were turning into huge claws and she began to grow in form. She began taking the shape of a lizard which ended in a mighty tail. Her face changed into a snout which her two brilliantly blue eyes rested upon. To complete her transformation, wings shot out from her back and flapped to her sides with awaited freedom.

She had changed into a rusty colored dragon which snapped threateningly and growled.

"Aoi's true form," Miroku whispered to himself.

Aoi turned to Inuyasha and Kagome and decided to start with them. Inuyasha's frowned as he readied his sword in front of him, standing protectively in front of his family.

"I'll rip you to shreds you ugly beast," Inuyasha said glaring down his rival. He lifted up his sword just as Aoi was almost to them, "Wind Sc…"

"Huh?!"

Inuyasha looked up to see that Aoi had flown into the sky. Aoi threw back her head.

"Oh no," Inuyasha said, quickly covering Kagome and Naoke with his body, having no time to get out of the way. From Aoi's mouth came a line of fire which hit Inuyasha in the back.

Aoi threw back her head again, but this time with a victory growl.

"I think not," Inuyasha said standing back in front of Kagome and Naoke and readying himself for another attack.

Aoi snarled as she glared down at Inuyasha. Flapping her wings, she dove straight towards the ground at the half demon.

Inuyasha's eyes widened, then as quickly as he could, scooped Kagome and Naoke in his arms and leapt out of the way of the coming dragon.

Aoi touched ground and did a sharp turn at her enemies, snarling in rage.

Aoi ran towards them, hoping to kill Inuyasha once and for all. When she got to him, she began snapping violently. Inuyasha quickly dodged all her attempts.

Beside Miroku, the girl in the blue kimono slowly opened her eyes weakly and saw the battle ahead.

Sweat began to pour off of Inuyasha's forehead, finding it more difficult to dodge Aoi's attacks which she delivered one after the other.

Kagome watched worriedly.

'I won't be able to use my wind scar and she's moving around too fast to attack her without her getting me,' Inuyasha thought mentally, knowing he couldn't jump around forever.

Miroku looked over and saw the girl trying to sit up, it was obvious she was in pain. Finally she managed to get onto her knees, breathing heavily as she focused on Aoi.

Miroku frowned wondering what she was trying to do.

The girl slowly brought her hand in front of her, holding only her index finger and middle finger towards the sky. The girl shut her eyes tightly.

'Please,' she begged mentally, 'give me the strength to help, give me the strength of my father, grandfather and all those before them.'

She concentrated hard, keeping her eyes closed.

'Please.'

Suddenly Aoi stopped in her tracks, confused. She looked behind her as her back legs seemed to glue to the ground. This made Aoi very angry and she tossed her massive head from side to side and began trying to break away from the invisible hold, digging her front claws in the ground and pulling.

The girl in the blue kimono began to shake and sweat, but didn't break her concentration.

Miroku began to get worried.

Aoi finally managed to break the hold some and claw furiously at Inuyasha, hoping to strike him.

Inuyasha seemed to be in awe about what was going on.

Miroku turned to his half dog demon friend, "Inuyasha," he yelled, "hurry and use Tesaiga."

"Right," Inuyasha nodding and turning back to Aoi.

Aoi still tried with all her might and was just about ready to pounce on Inuyasha.

"Hurry," Miroku ordered looking over at the poor condition of the girl.

Aoi snapped one last time before Inuyasha raised his sword and shouted, "Wind Scar."

Aoi let out a painful growl as the wind scar devoured her, leaving nothing behind.

The girl began to faint and Miroku quickly caught her. Inuyasha went back to Kagome's side to check on Naoke and Sango went over to Miroku and the girl.

It was about an hour before the young girl opened her brown eyes to see Miroku and Sango looking down at her. She glanced over to see Inuyasha and Kagome waiting for Naoke to revive. The girl rose up quickly in a sitting position, remembering what happened.

"Where's Aoi?" she asked panicky.

"Don't worry, she's gone. You were very brave," said Miroku.

The girl simply nodded her thanks. She looked from Miroku to Sango.

"Who are you?" Sango asked.

The girl stared at the ground as if debating to tell her, "I'm your daughter."

Miroku smiled, he had some sneaking suspicion of her identity. He looked over to see Sango's shocked expression.

"What?" was all Sango said in reply.

"It's kind of a long story," the girl told them chuckling slightly as she looked back at Inuyasha, Kagome and Naoke.

She looked back at her parents and knew they deserved some sort of an explanation.

She let out a deep breath before beginning, "Well I guess it all started fifteen years from now, Aoi was a powerful demon in my time, she spent most of my lifetime gaining power until one day she attacked, we didn't really know why, but father said that it was because we would stand in her way of ultimate power.

I mean with all of us having spiritual powers and learning to fight demons and of course our friends, Inuyasha who is powerful for a half demon and when Naoke realized her own strength, we could have all wiped her out, but she wanted to build an army and knew she couldn't risk us coming after her, so she got demons together as many as possible and killed my family, our friends, I was the only one left, I still don't know why, but I had to do something, I found out this way I could travel back before all this happened,"

She looked down at Sango's stomach, "before I was born."

" I thought maybe I could stop it from happening, possibly warn my past family of her, but she found out and followed me here, we battled, I barely came out alive, but something happened, I got this weird feeling and before I knew it I realized I had this power,"

Miroku frowned, "What kind of power?"

"I don't know, I was able to take Aoi's powers away, but then it got all blurry and all I remember is her taking control of my body and she imprisoned me inside of her to use my powers, mainly so she could use the staff because only a relative can use it, with it she could use my powers through it and reclaim her own, but only by doing something horrible like tainting Naoke's feelings with hatred could Aoi return to her full strength, we were lucky, if I hadn't used all that stregth to bind her, Inuyasha probably couldn't have used the wind scar, he couldn't in the future."

The girl lowered her head, "I'm sorry I messed up."

Miroku put a hand on her shoulder and smiled, "Well I'm proud of you."

The girl looked up at her father and smiled.

Sango took in a deep breath, "So that's why when I got hurt…"

The girl nodded, "Aoi could feel it, I could feel it too."

The girl looked over to see Naoke waking up, "But I do have to go, the future needs me, besides, it would be nice to get Kagome to use her special remedies from her time to treat me when I get back, even binding a powerful demon like Aoi was difficult, I can't wait to be able to control my spiritual powers."

Sango nodded with a sad kind of smile, "I'm sure you will done fine, by the way, what is your name?"

Her daughter smiled with a small laugh, "I think I will leave it up to you two to decide that one," she said coyly.

"Take care mother, father," the girl told them before getting up and closing her eyes. She held her hands together and

Before they knew it, the girl vanished. Miroku and Sango looked at each other proudly.

"Naoke," Kagome smiled as she saw her daughter waking.

"Mom," she said as her vision focused. Inuyasha helped her up and Naoke hugged her mother.

"I'm so glad you're ok," Kagome said.

"What happened?"

Kagome explained everything.

Naoke gasped, "Did I hurt you?"

Kagome shook her head, "I'm ok."

Naoke looked over at Inuyasha, confused.

"Naoke, I know that you've been feeling that I've let you down, and I'm really sorry, but I would like to make it up to you," Kagome told her.

Naoke frowned, even more confused.

Kagome sighed, "This is your father, Inuyasha."

Naoke turned her head to Inuyasha, looking at him skeptically, was she in some sort of weird dream?

"My father?"

"Mmm hmm, you remember that well that you went in?"

"I think so," Naoke answered, it sounded vaguely familiar.

"Well about fourteen years ago I went inside that well and it brought me here, this is Japan, but five hundred years in the past, the Feudal Era."

Naoke's eyes widened as she looked from her mother to the strange looking man.

Kagome began explaining everything. Demons, half demons, sacred jewel, Naraku, spiritual powers, demon slayers, it was all making Naoke's head spin.

"I should have told you all of this," Kagome finished.

"Is all this for real?" Naoke questioned.

Kagome chuckled, "Of course it's for real," Inuyasha said only slightly rough, "Don't I seem real to you?"

Naoke cocked her head to the side. She then hesitantly reached up and felt of Inuyasha's ears.

Inuyasha looked a little annoyed, just like her mother, going straight for the ears.

"Wow," Naoke replied, "this is so cool."

Naoke looked down at Inuyasha's sword, "So if I'm your daughter, you can teach me to use that cool sword."

"Um, no," Inuyasha said placing his hands protectively over the sword.

"Naoke, I hope you're not too mad, I did all of this to protect you, I was afraid if you knew about this place you would come here and get hurt by some really bad demon," Kagome explained.

Naoke looked down in thought. Kagome lifted her chin so that Naoke looked straight at her, "But I should have trusted you more."

Naoke smiled then hugged her mom again. Kagome smiled at Inuyasha and he smiled back.

Naoke pulled apart, "I want to know all about where I come from," she said mostly at Inuyasha, "I've missed so much, do you think you could give me a piggy back ride back?"

Kagome looked surprised at her daughter though she smiled, she was seeing a whole knew happier side of her.

"A piggy what?" Inuyasha asked with one eyebrow raised.

Naoke laughed, "You know, ride on your back."

Inuyasha looked at her weirdly, but rolled his eyes, "Fine, if you really want."

"Cool, I've never rode a half demon before," she joked jumping on his back.

Inuyasha stood with a little grunt.

"Your father's a little sensitive about being a half demon," Kagome told her.

"Why?" Naoke smiled then gave him a hug around his neck, "I think he's awesome."

Kagome smiled overjoyed at Inuyasha, this was exactly what she always wanted.

Inuyasha hid his face from her though, he felt teary-eyed over his daughter's words, but tried his best to mask it.

Miroku and Sango went up to the others, happy to see the scene before them.

"What happened to that girl," Kagome asked.

Miroku explained to them what had happened and who she really was.

"Wow, your daughter, how do you feel about that," Kagome asked.

Sango smiled and decided to answer, "Very lucky."

Kagome nodded.

A/N: sorry it's been so long since I updated, I hope you liked this chapter and that everything was explained, please review and I'll try to update asap, I think they'll be about 2 more chapters to this story.

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