Past returned

Kagome POV

Every bad moment, every bad thought seemed to flew from my mind as I stared at who was in front of me. How was it he could look so calm and in control, the last time we had seen each other, we had been fighting Naraku in a war over the Sacred Jewel and both of us had watched as our companions died.

"Sesshomaru…" I could only whisper his name as I felt the tears start to work their way to my eyes. I fought them down, we had just been reunited. It had been five hundred years for him and just a few weeks for him, if either on of us were feeling emotion it should be him not I. Then again when was Sesshomaru ever open to his feelings, when we had first met I had believed him to be completely devoid of all emotion. It had only been during later encounters that I realized that his eyes held emotion. When he was angry or annoyed his eyes were cold and hard, if he were feeling indifferent his eyes were sharp and focused and if he were happy or some what amused his eyes had a slight shine that could only barely be seen.

He smiled in amusement as he watched me, and waited for me to say something. I started to look him over and realized that nothing had changed about him. Except that he had his left arm, how that was possible I had no idea. 'I wonder how he got that back, when would also be nice to know.' I thought he must have realized what I was thinking.

"My arm slowly started growing back around a week after the final battle with Naraku. In all it took maybe a month for it to fully grow back, my only thought is that when you blasted Naraku with that one shot that had grazed me it must have triggered something or your miko powers acted on their own.

'Well that would make sense seeing as I didn't want to harm Sesshomaru. I can easily remember that second when it had grazed him, my heart had stopped. I had prayed that nothing would happen and that he would be okay.' Still confused I looked at him in the eye and got ready for a very long reunion.

Kurama POV

After two hours, Botan finally got the call from Koenma to open the portal to Spirit World. When I reached the other side of the portal I looked around and saw everything as it normally looked, orderly office Koenma sitting behind a desk that s much to large for his toddler appearance. The only difference was that Kagome and the Lord of Demon World who were standing just to the left of his desk and they seemed to be happy just basking in the each others presence. I had heard her story and I believe it but it was still so unbelievable that the most powerful demon in all of Demon world could have a long standing friendship with a powerful miko who just happens to be the guardian of the Sacred Jewel of Four Souls.

'Red, this may be our lucky day. Not only are we in the presence of one of the most beautiful and powerful woman to exist, but we are also in the presence of the Lord Sesshomaru. Few have ever been this close to him uninvited without losing their lives.' Yoko was never one to show respect to any one so that just spoke of how powerful Sesshomaru truly is.

'Yoko if he is here in Spirit World with Koenma he must have something valuable to say. He most likely has given consent to us being here, we have achieved no great victory or anything, so settle down.' That seemed to silence him for a moment. I hated it when he was overly excited, for I could almost feel him pacing around in my head. I was also able to feel his so called movements and it would normally end up the cause of a huge headache. A headache I didn't need now least of all. What could be happening that was so important that Lord Sesshomaru would be here. Nothing of the magnitude had happened in at least two hundred years.

"Yusuke, Kurama, Hiei, and Kuwabara I am very glad that you are here. Now some thing has occurred to both Lord Sesshomaru, myself and all of Spirit World. It seems that a higher level demon has come across a very powerful artifact called the Orb of Sosei (rebirth). The Orb of Sosei gives the wielder the ability to absorb the powers of any who are it with its beam. We need all of you to go to demon world and stop this demon before he becomes to powerful to stop. The Lady Kagome and the Lord Sesshomaru will be going with you. You are to go home and pack your things then met back at the park so that we an open a portal to Demon world for you. Understand." He said the last word with a look that screamed 'Don't you dare ask for information, just gets your lazy buts out of here and start the mission.'

We all nodded our heads and stepped through the portal. When I reached the other side I looked back and saw Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei and finally Kagome walk through. I wanted so much to talk to her but she just started walking the other way towards her shrine with a look of deep thought upon her face. During the mission in demon world we would have plenty of time to talk so I left it at that as I headed home to gather my stuff and explain some thing to mother as to why I would be gone for a while and to why I had no idea as to how long I would be gone.

Several hours later, Kagome POV

When I had finally reached home I went straight to my mother and told her everything and started packing. I had even called Kaitou and told him that I was deeply sorry about having to cancel, and I was. This wasn't how I had pictured my life after the Sacred Jewel was complete, I know that I can't have a normal life but I would love to just be able to have a weekend were I could go on date, hang out with my friends and spent time teasing my younger brother. I don't want to have to make my family worry about whether or not I'll come back alive this wasn't right. Sighing I looked up to see Yusuke and Kuwabara finally entering the park. I had gotten tired of being here alone being able to feel Hiei eyes upon me as he studies me. A few minutes later Kurama appeared and it was time to go, I gave one last sigh before I followed everyone to demon world and I said a quick prayer that my family would not have to worry over me for too long.

When we reached the other side it was to some sort of battle. It seems that the demon had sent some of its minions after Sesshomaru, hoping to stop him. To say that there were only a few demons was a severe understatement, for were hundreds. Sesshomaru was up ahead taking care of twenty demons with his poison whip. Yusuke fired his spirit gun, so I took aim and fired my arrow allowing a great amount of miko energy into the arrow so that it I was able to take out thirty demons with one shot. Kuwabara gave me a quick look of surprise before were all launched in our own smaller battles. Even my dear Sai had transformed and started in on the ever increasing mass of demons.

Five hours later we all were still fighting the multitude of demons. All of us showed sign of tiring. I had long ago ran out of arrows and now I was using Kumori, with the power of Kumori I was able to use Twilights Shadow, a huge blast of energy that was black in color and killed what ever came in contact with the ball of glowing black energy. From what I had studied about it, the energy of the darkness in the souls of those near by. It was so damaging because no ones body is supposed to feel the effect of the dark thoughts they carry. We had been pushed together so that our backs were facing each other in a perfect circle and the demons only seemed slightly smaller in numbers. I doubt that we will be able to get out of this mess without the help of some great miracle. I watched as the demons readied for what would be the final attack.

Well this seems like a nice place to leave for the day, tell me what you think. What will happen, who could come, what miracle will present itself or have I decided to end the story early so that I could focus on my other fanfics in the making. Will the next chapter be the end?