1Chapter 4

Kagome slowly woke up from her slumber, she look around her surroundings when she realized she wasn't at Kaede's village. She remember she was crying over Inuyasha choosing Kikyo and them verbally abusing her before she decided to head back to the village. 'That's right... when I started to had back someone came from behind and knock me out. But why? It can't be about the jewel...or is it?' Then she heard footsteps coming from the hallway, coming closer to the room she was in. Kagome stood ready to see who was the person responsible for her kidnaping.

The door opened, to her is as if time slowed down as the figure came out of the shadows once the door was opened. Kagome gasps in both shock and surprise of seeing someone who she thought to be dead by under Inuyasha's sword. 'How is he alive?'

Closing the door behind him, he look at her stun expression. "I see you're awake now. What's this? Are you so shock of me being alive that has made you lose your voice?" 'Is she going to start ramping or angrily demand why I brought her here? Surely discovering me alive shouldn't have caused her to be this shock, could it? Kagome getting over her surprise did something she would have never usually did with an enemy...she fainted. 'I guess it did' Bankotsu thought as he caught her before she hit the floor.

Bankotsu sighted as he placed her back on the bed, Shippo came running inside the room and landed on the bed next to her bed. "So did she woke up yet?" he ask as he look at Bankotsu's face.

"She did, but fainted once I appeared and said a few words of her being so stun that she can't talk or utter a single sound" he said without looking at the kit, his attention still remained with the girl that caused bewilder emotions he feels in his heart.

'Mmm...I guess it's a good sign. I wonder what Bankotsu would do if he found out a little secret mother wrote in her dairy. I hope mom doesn't get mad at me if Uncle Sota wrote me a note for me hidden away from the box of candy he send to me. He was right the dairy she carries around for the feudal era is interesting. Especially about the events we face everyday, and about how someone I know who she was attracted to when he faced Inuyasha. Nope I won't tell him then he won't be able to sort out or have the courage enough to tell Kagome on what he feels about her' Shippo thought over as his head lay on his hand when he was sitting Indian style next to his mother.

"Bankotsu, why don't you take this as a good sign. Every time mom gets kidnaped by the enemy because of that idiot Inuyasha's bad leadership, she would start screaming or arguing with her captors until they threatened her life to shut her life. To pass the time until she wakes up, why don't you explain to me how exactly do you have the scent of a demon? Or were you a demon when you were alive?"

"There were several things the priestess Midoriko tole me in my dreams after I was brought back to life. She said that the jewel had turned me into a Black Timber Wolf demon to better guard her on the task she given us before Kagome must leave to her home world if she chooses to"

"Maybe by then you have your feelings about my mother sorted out. I hope you don't expect to get any assistance from that idiot hanyo or clay bitch, even if that thing is alive she still has the smell of graveyard soil in her scent."

"Quite true, I even smelled it from the Goshinboku tree where I got Kagome from. And the wind was not helping either when the smell was blown towards us. How can you stand that stench when she traveled and fought along with your group after you defeated Naraku for good?"

"Believe me it wasn't easy, Inuyasha being a hanyo his sense of smell is not that good and possible he's use to it. But because Kirara and I are full demons we try to be upwind to her or stay or be near Mother as much as possible. Her scent overpowers that of that miko, Mama's scent is much nicer, don't you agree? since you're a demon now your able pick up her scent with ease"

Bankotsu sniffed the air, catching the smell of wild flowers and pine coming from the slumbering girl. "Yes, it's very soothing and relaxing. She smells of wild flowers and forest pine"

"That's nothing, wait when she get's angry because it smells of a winter storm and sometimes cinnamon if she's embarrassed or something that causes her to blush. Why do you think I keep picking on Inuyasha that when he hits me and Mamma sits him out of anger it sweetens her scent, but you have to wait to experience it"

"Alright, but why don't you wait here with her so she feels less upset. I'll see you in the morning, go to sleep and not go wonder off by yourself or you'll upset your mother"

"Ok. Night Bankotsu" as he curled himself beside her, and was fast asleep.

"Goodnight Shippo...Goodnight Kagome" he whispered in her ear. He look at the pair, Shippo had grown since he last saw him he was seven barely passes his knee, now he's 10 and he reaches a few inches' pass his waist. He got into his room and fell into exhausting sleep, his mind on a certain girl, who slumber down the hall with her son.

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Well, whoever thought that the jewel would turn Bankotsu into a Black Timber Wolf to better protect its guardian from a final task before Kagome could return home if she wishes to.

But what is the task Midoriko implored to complete before Kagome is done with Feudal Era? Do you think I should have Sango and Miroku help them on their final task? Should I turn them into demons as well or they are able to travel through Kagome's time? Do you think Inuyasha and Kikyo will hinder on Kagome's final quest in th Feudal Era? Tell me what you think so far and what you may want to happen next. Till then, See-ya