I DON'T OWN INUYASHA OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS! I ONLY OWN THE OCS! THANK YOU! And if you'd be so kind to leave a review for me? That'd be great thanks!
To Awesome Guest From Dark:
No problem! Now to answer your questions. :)
1. Masaru is a half demon, because of InuYasha's demon side being more prominent than his human side. I'm pretty sure I explained it in 'Another Inu Fic or is it?'
2. It's in Kagome's time due to the fact that there was trouble in the Feudal Era. Lol it followed them anyway.
As for the ending? Well...let's wait and see.
To BraziaRios From Dark:
Yep! Haha
`.`.`There's an A/N at the bottom for you!
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"What's going on?" Kagome asked as she and Hohen were trapped in a small alclove while humans and demons aliked mulled around below them. As soon as the howls had started the halls had become cluttered with humans and demons alike. After only a few steps it reached the point that Hohen was forced to pull them into a nearly hidden room that had a small balcony overlooking a large cavern, reminding Kagome of an opera house room she had seen in an old movie.
"I think they're going through with the ceremony." Hohen whispered before shooting looks behind them at the closed door. "I need to get you out of here now." He said just as the sound of something angry and rabid could be heard coming from a tunnel below them
"What is that?" Kagome asked as she narrowed her eyes and tried to focus on the slightly familiar growls coming from below as the crowds grew quiet. Her understanding of the Inu language wasn't the best but it was still good enough for her to understand whatever was coming was in a deadly rage.
"We need to leave." Hohen tried again and moved to pull Kagome away from the edge just as three oni and Suzume came out of the tunnel with a trapped demon between them.
"Oh my God...Akari!" Kagome gasped in fear as she looked down at her daughter, seeing her with her full demon released as she was dragged forward with chains and steel rods.
"Followers of the Netherworld and our great Lord Yakumo! Many of you know of the battle that nearly destroyed our great Lord." Suzume was explaining as Akari was pinned to the floor on top of an intricate seal that Kagome couldn't identify from her current distance. "Our Lord lost his body but now with the finding of the Heir our Lord will return!" Suzume said, waving her arms to Akari as the mob broke into loud roars that hurt even Kagome's ears. She watched as Akari arched up in an attempt to free herself, Kagome's eyes glued to her daughter as two of the oni moved forward and shoved her face first into the ground and pinned her arms behind her back.
"As of this moment the so called Great Sesshoumaru and InuYasha are on their way here and we will be able to open a path to the Netherworld, allowing our Saivor passage to us and his new body!" Suzume yelled out over the crowd that was going crazy at the news. "It is time for the barriers around us to fall! Long live Lord Yakumo!" Suzume screamed, her cry echoing out around the cavaran as it was repeated by all below her.
"Lady Kagome! We have to leave!" Hohen said, seemingly oblivious to the actions below him.
"Not without my baby!" Kagome growled at him and shoved past him, knocking the young man to the ground as she ran out of their hiding spot and began her descent.
"Now I know what that warning meant." Hohen muttered as he pulled himself up from the floor and chased after the enraged priestess.
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Meanwhile the boys were trying to find the hidden entrance inside the whore house and having no luck.
"Jeez! You'd think one of these idiots would know what's going on around here." Yusuke said as he kicked one of his unconscious opponents away from him and glared around the room. It looked worse for wear, the walls that had once been a deep cream color were now red and most of the carpeting had been ripped up to reveal old bloodstains beneath it and the furniture now laid scattered around the room in a haphazard way while many of the unconscious customers laid in impromptu piles to take their naps.
"Maybe if you hadn't come in guns blazing we could have found out something!" Kuwabara snapped as glared at his friend while Kurama looked up from a nearby untouched table full of papers.
"Tch," a familiar voice said causing Kurama to turn his head and smile at their smallest team member as he walked into the room with clear disapproval.
"Welcome Hiei," Kurama greeted the boy as Hiei looked over the destruction before walking past the two brawlers in front of him and opened what seemed to be a private bedroom door.
"Idiots." Hiei muttered as he started down the hidden staircase with a softly chuckling Kurama and two bruised boys.
"Where have you been anyway, Shorty?" Kuwabara griped as the boys walked down the spiral staircase.
"None of your business." Hiei growled making the carrot top look at him in confusion.
"Perhaps it involved a certain little girl?" Kurama asked innocently and smirked when Yusuke-who was leading the group at this point- and Kuwabara froze and looked an obviously irritated Hiei.
"I didn't know you liked them young." Yusuke said in a slightly surprised tone as Kuwabara flushed red in anger.
"Don't you have any sense of honor you evil little mushroom!" Kuwabara growled, grabbing Hiei by the back of his black cloak and pulling him up to Kuwabara before throwing him down on top of the stairs, pinning the boy down with his knee in Hiei's chest. "At least have the decency to go after a grown woman!" Kuwabara snapped and moved to punch Hiei in the face.
"See what you've done?" Hiei asked Kurama irritably, seeming oblivious to his uncomfortable predicament. "For your information, the 'little girl' is that stupid pup Akari. I moved her and two other's to Genkai's Temple." Hiei snapped and shoved Kuwabara off of him.
"Why would you do that? And what did you mean two others?" Kuwabara asked, easily getting to his feet and looking at Hiei in confusion and curiosity.
"Our objective's targets weren't actually the targets. The real target was Akari." Hiei said, already feeling awkward as he started to explain everything he had learned since separating from the team earlier in the mission. "Our battle with Yakumo wasn't enough to kill the Netherworld demon. It appears that Yakumo slipped back into the Netherworld and used a small crystal called the HÅseki Sebun Jigoku, or the Jewel of Seven Hells to keep himself alive until he could find a new suitable body for himself. Somehow during his search he learned of the Shadow Inu and then of someone called an Heir." Hiei told the group and looked over at Kurama when he hummed and crossed his arms in a thoughtful pose.
"But Kagome said all of this began in the Feudal Era, we defeated Yakumo a little over a month ago. How is it possible for this to be?" Kurama asked and Hiei closed his eyes for a moment before standing up, shoving Kuwabara off of him in the process. "Is it possible for time to flow differently in the Netherworld?" He asked and Hiei shrugged his shoulders in reply.
"Who cares? If we defeat Yakumo then everything will go back the way it was right?" Yusuke asked and smirked at his friends when they looked at him.
"Yes, in theory Yusuke is correct." Kurama spoke up with a small smile.
"But what about opening up a portal to the Netherworld? Wouldn't Koenma have found one?" Kuwabara asked, scratching his head in confusion as he tried to figure it out.
"That is where part of our information was proven correct." Hiei said calmly. "Sesshoumaru and InuYasha, both can open portals to the Netherworld, or Underworld as they know it as. If a portal opens I believe Yakumo will be freed and we will have to deal with a stronger demon than before." Hiei said and immediately the group's thoughts darkened. If Yakumo made it back to their world he would have a new body, and that new Yakumo would have to be killed for all of this to end. Which all lead to one final thing. Would they have to end Akari to right everything?
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"This is ridiculous!" InuYasha growled as he paced back and forth in a clearing roughly three miles from Genkia's Temple.
"InuYasha, trust me. This is faster than running," Kouga told the hanyo as he growled and muttered curses under his breath. Sesshoumaru and Kouga couldn't really blame him since it was his mate and one of his pups in danger.
"I don't care how fast it is! I could have been there already!" InuYasha snarled before his attention was snapped over to Masaru and Shippo. "Hand him here, Shippo." InuYasha said, his voice softer as he looked at his two sons, one of which was whimpering for his mother.
"How long has he been away from Kagome?" Kouga asked softly as Masaru was put in InuYasha's arms and rocked softly.
"I don't know, either way we need to find her and Akari before anything else." InuYasha said as he pulled his modern day jacket off and tossed it to Shippo. "Here, Kagome's going to kill me if she sees what happened to your shirt." He told the kitsune, who gave a small smile and nodded before pulling the jacket on.
"Our ride has arrived." Sesshoumaru spoke up and nodded up at the sky where a sleek looking jet like vehicle had appeared. It was roughly the size of a helicopter but was designed to be silent and was run on a cross between fuel and yokia.
"Is that the prototype you've been working on?" Kouga asked with a low whistle as the thing landed in front of them, kicking up dust and such but not making much noise; to a human it was silent but to any demon it had a soft hum to it. As soon as it landed completely Masaru began to wail loudly.
"Yes," Sesshoumaru said, ignoring Masaru's cries as he walked forward and pulled out three bags. "You will need these." Was all he said as he tossed first one bag to Kouga, then the other two to Shippo, who juggled them in his arms before they settled.
"What are they?" Shippo asked as he sniffed one of his bags while Kouga opened his and pulled out what looked like a Kevlar FBI chest piece.
"These are upgrades." Kouga said with a grin before walking off to change into it. Shippo looked up at InuYasha in confusion before opening a bag to find InuYasha's normal clothes along with a similar chest piece and a smaller set of woman's clothing presumably for Kagome.
"I do not have all night and neither do you." Sesshoumaru said lowly, causing InuYasha to glare at his brother as he pulled his own clothes out and left the vest inside.
"Cool!" Shippo exclaimed as he pulled out a smaller version of the vest and a set of modern day clothing that could fit him. "There's even a set for Masaru and Akari!" He added as he pulled out a small red Robe of the Fire Rat and a pair of loose jeans and normal navy blue shirt for both Masaru and Akari. Grinning like a kid on Christmas, Shippo bounced off to change, putting the other clothes back in the bag before he did.
Once everyone was dressed they all loaded up into Sesshoumaru's jet, which was currently being called the PYOD or Prototype Youkia Operating Device until the gang could come up with a better name for it. Shippo was dressed in a pair of yokia made dark blue pants tucked into enchanted boots that also had hidden daggers in the toes, with a similarly made long sleeve navy blue shirt with his small vest pockets bulging with the supplies for his illusions. Kouga wore a bulletproof vest over a muscle shirt and a pair of yokia made pants and his own pair of boots with his usual short sword on one side and a gun on his other side with the ammo hidden inside his vest along with two small knives. Sesshoumaru had somehow managed to switch out his business suit -which was already in tatters- for a crisp white button up shirt, khaki pants, a pair of plain ankle high boots that reminded InuYasha of the ones he used to wear, and his own vest with his three swords already at his sides. InuYasha was in his normal clothes, with Masaru wearing his matching set though the young toddler also had a small hood attached to it that was enchanted to mute any and all sound to a tolerable level for the wearer.
"Who made the clothes?" Kouga asked after the jet had lifted up off the ground and starting flying towards the city.
"Lady Inuoe but they were sent by my pack members." Sesshoumaru said calmly just as Kouga found the symbol of the seamstress stitched onto his bag.
"Haven't heard from them in a while. They still working on that whole home thing?" Kouga asked with a smirk as Shippo looked over at them curiously. "Did that idiot ever learn how to drive?" Kouga asked with a snort of laughter that made Shippo frown in confusion. InuYasha meanwhile was trying to figure out why Masaru was fussing.
"Yes, it would seem they found a young pup earlier this year. I have not spoken with them since their oldest son visited last month." Sesshoumaru said and calmly pulled a small bottle of milk from a nearly hidden fridge beside him. "Here." The older brother said while tossing the bottle to InuYasha. InuYasha looked first at the bottle than at his brother before giving him a slow nod and feeding his son, letting his shoulder slump in relief when Masaru stopped fussing.
"Who's Lady Inuoe, and what pack members?" Shippo asked in the silence, his curiosity peeked.
"An old yokia seamstress that lives on the continent." Kouga said, answering half of Shippo's question just as a green light came on above them.
"Sir, we've arrived at your destination. Do you want us to wait here?" The pilot said over the intercom, making Shippo's eyes widen while InuYasha tensed slightly.
"No, report back to the hanger and have one of our cars come pick us up in an hour." Sesshoumaru said calmly as he opened the jet door and looked down at the small whore house below them. It was probably a sixty foot drop to the roof but for demons -or half demon in InuYasha's case- it was nothing.
"Shippo, I want you to stay out of the fighting. Protect Masaru and if you can, get Kagome or Akari out of there do it." InuYasha said as he passed a much calmer Masaru to Shippo.
"But what abou-" Shippo started only to have InuYasha dive out of the doorway with Kouga and Sesshoumaru with him. "Oh great!" Shippo muttered and jumped out as well, transforming into a small bird with Masaru clinging to his back.
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"This way!" A voice called out from up ahead of me as I walked down a small abandoned street filled with empty huts on both sides.
"W-wait!" I called out and started to run towards the sound of laughter as I saw something vanish behind one of the buildings.
"Come on Slowpoke!" A second voice laughed as I turned around the corner of the building to find a small deer path and the scent of fresh water. I listened as closely as I could and was relieved to hear the sound of a small waterfall off in the distance.
"Wait...Does this mean I'm...?" I asked myself as I hesitantly lifted my hands up to the top of my head and felt two small triangular ears with floppy tips. "I'm me again!" I thought with relief before snapping back to attention when laughter filtered through the air.
"Come on already!" A third voice, this one sounding like a young boy, called out in annoyance and my feet began to move on their own, walking, then running down the path with ease.
"Give her a minute." The first voice spoke and for some reason I felt I should know the people talking.
"You're here!" Another boy cried out as I came into a small shadowed area with the waterfall and looked around at the fireflies.
"It's about time," a voice huffed in irritation coming from a boulder that hang half way into the waterfall.
"Come over here." The second voice called out and slowly I made my way over to the boulder, jumping from stone to stone with caution even though I felt myself wanting to go forward. "Look there." The voice said once I stood atop the boulder, looking around at the shadowed area in awe at it's misty beauty as the sunlight trickled in like water itself, with small fireflies dancing between each small beam. Slowly I could feel myself getting lost in the peace and serenity, watching the peaceful scene as the waterfall rushed down a few feet away.
"Beautiful isn't it?" A new voice spoke up and I spun around, losing my footing and falling back towards the water. My fall was stopped though, when a hand grabbed the front of my shirt and suddenly yanked me forward into a set of unfamiliar arms.
"Let go of me!" I growled and raised my hands to shove the person away only to freeze when one arm moved and began to lightly rub my ears as the scent of sweet flowers I couldn't name and a trace of smoke filtered through my nose.
"Oh my beautiful Akari," the woman whispered tearfully as she pulled me closer and held me as salt mixed into her scent. "My baby girl," she whispered as my eyes widened and shock as I saw a tall man wearing smith tools around his waist and farmer's clothes standing below us looking up at me with a small smile and twinkling dark brown eyes.
"Get off of me!" I finally growled and pushed the woman away from me while still trying to maintain my balance. "Who are you?" I snapped at the demoness as she looked at me with a strange look of disbelief and awe.
"We don't really have time to explain." The man said causing the demoness to turn around with a smile and grab the hand he held out for her. "Right now we need to get you out of here. This is no place for the living or the dead." He said and I growled in anger at him for ignoring my question.
"Shut up and tell me what's going on right now!" I snapped at them and felt my instincts rise up when the demoness shot me a glare and growl that reminded me of Kagome's glare whenever she was starting to get angry. "W-who are you?" I demanded trying not to bow under the harsh silver blue gaze as the man sighed and stepped forward.
"Akari, right now you are standing between life and death. You can either move on and we will lead you or you can leave here." The man said looking up at me with a calm face that told me nothing. "The choice is yours." He added after a moment of silence only broken by the sound of the waterfall.
"You never answered my question. Who are you?" I said, my voice rising into a yell that resounded through the area like a crash of metal.
"I am Toshiro of the Higurashi Clan and this is my mate Hitomi of the Kuro Inu Clan." The man said I noticed the resemblance Souta had to this man for the first time before the second name and title registered in my mind.
"Kuro Inu?" I whispered and turned my gaze onto the woman in surprise, taking in her features; the light skin, and dark blue strips with the bright blue star on her forehead while her silver blue eyes watched me with that same look as before.
"Yes, we're your parents." Hitomi said with a hesitant smile as I looked at her in dumb shock.
"I look like her. I have her eyes and hair and her face I guess, but whenever I'm human I look like him. Does this really mean they're...?" I asked myself as I looked at the couple and noticed small things that I shared with them both. Before I could think about any more shared traits a familiar voice echoed through the area.
"Akari!" I heard Kagome's voice scream before I fell to my knees as the worst pain I had ever experienced began to rush through me like a river made of fire. It hurt to much to even make noise, and it was steadily getting worse with each passing second.
"Remember the choice is your's to make." I heard Toshiro say faintly as something hot and wet fell out of my eyes and fell to the rock I was on.
"...Ch...oice?" I whispered in silent agony as the scent of copper began to flow over me and a rushing sound filled my ears.
"Live or die." I heard him say over the roaring in my ears as a woman crying echoed for a moment before fading again.
Okay guys, I've got some serious news. I'm going on a trip Monday and I'm not sure if I'll be able to update as often where I'm going. I will try and update when I can though so don't panic! Thank you to everyone that reads this and leaves a review! I love you guys!