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We fell back into our old routine as we traveled, walking from sunup to lunch, eating then walking till sundown, making camp and eating dinner, and my practicing before sleeping. The only difference was now 'my practicing' turned into 'Nozomi training'. Though Ebony would help if Nozomi's life was in a lot of danger, I wanted to make sure that Nozomi would be able to fight well if she needed to. Miroku and Inuyasha were a huge help in training her. By the time we met up with Kouga again, a bit over a week later, Nozomi could hold her own against me in short bouts. Kouga hung around for about an hour before Kagome sent him on his way but we did learn that Naraku was stationary in the North.

"So we're going to head North until we find something?" Nozomi asked.

Inuyasha nodded over his bowl of food. "Since we know what direction he's in we're just going to walk until we get a new lead." Suddenly his head jerked up.

A little girl laughed in the woods next to us and then came through the bush and stopped in her tracks staring at us. She wore an orange kimono and had part of her hair tied up on the side of her head. Out of the woods behind her a small green imp with a tall staff carved with two heads stumbled and fell on his face. "Rin! You foolish girl, you shouldn't run off." He said then he saw us and jumped to his feet.

Rin smiled at us and walked forward. "Hello again."

"Hello Rin. How are you today?" Kagome said smiling at her.

"I am very well lady. What are your names? I don't remember." Rin said, sitting between Kagome and me. "May I please have some food?"

I pressed my bowl of ramen into her hands and handed her my chopsticks. "My name is Dawn."

"Thank you very much Lady Dawn." She said as she ate.

I laughed. "Not 'Lady' just Dawn. This is my daughter Nozomi." I said pointing at her. Nozomi smiled and waved then continued to brush her hair. Sango, Miroku, and Inuyasha were all quiet just staring at the woods behind us. Kagome was introducing herself and the others when I finally turned my head to see what they were looking at. They weren't staring at the green dude though he was there. They were staring at the two tall demons that stood next to him. The one that seemed to be the focus of the stares had long white-silver hair and gold eyes like Inuyasha. But he had normal ears though they pointed at the top and two stripes of light purple on each cheek. On his forehead between the bangs that fell forward was a dark purple crescent moon. He wore a white haori with red pentagons along the sleeve edges and on the left shoulder. He wore a breast plate and a yellow and blue sash. His hakama was completely white and he had a fluffy fur wrapped around his right shoulder and his left sleeve lay empty. His face was calm as he watched us and Rin.

The demon next to him was very different. He had knee length hair as that was the baby blue of a cloudless sky and his eyes were a warm forest green. His face was curious and his clothes were the same style as Inuyasha's but were a green to match his eyes with a pale blue undershirt. He had a pale green leaf on his forehead and two deep blue stripes on his cheeks. I was the only one to move strangely enough, but I stood up and turned to face them, one of my hands going to my knives. The demon with amber eyes narrowed them a bit on me and I could see a red line that crossed his eyelids almost like eye-shadow. "Can we help you?" I said.

Rin looked up when I spoke and turned to look at what I was talking too. "Lord Sesshomaru! Lord Mamoru! These nice people are sharing their delicious food with me!" She said happily as she ate.

Sesshomaru's gaze moved from me to Rin and his eyes relaxed a little as he watched her. But then his eyes moved to Inuyasha. "Hello brother."

Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were sitting across the fire from each other. Kagome explained to me that they were continuously at each others throats but it seemed that this night was a truce. The other demon who Rin had called Mamoru was sitting beside me and Nozomi in between the two brothers.

"Naraku dropped his shield for around an hour last week. I know that he is in the North. He has a new castle now I imagine." Sesshomaru said.

Inuyasha nodded, "Probably, the thing is, why since we damaged him so badly last time, didn't he keep his shield up? Its like he wants us to find him."

"He probably does." Sesshomaru said.

I had been following the conversation closely when Nozomi grabbed my hand. Her eyes went the milky white of her old blindness for a moment and I gasped. The three demons turned to look but it wasn't loud enough for anyone else to hear. Miroku and Sango had gone back to the river to catch more fish and Kagome, Shippo, Jaken and Rin were on the other side of the clearing playing a game. "Nozomi…" I whispered worriedly.

Slowly her eyes changed back to the mirror image of my own and focused on my face. "Mom."

Mamoru's eyes narrowed and shifted to me. Inuyasha quietly explained our true relationship while I comforted my shaking daughter. "Did you have a vision?"

"Yes. You and I need to leave with Sesshomaru and Mamoru when he goes." Nozomi said quietly.

"Why?" I asked just as quiet. I stared into Sesshomaru's eyes and found myself shivering, he so did not like humans. I turned my face to look at the newer demon and was unable to break away from his eyes.

"If we don't…you'll die." Nozomi whispered as tears fell down her cheeks. I rocked her gently and smoothed her hair as I murmured reassuringly to her. When she had cried herself to sleep I wrapped her in her blanket and moved closer to the fire.

Inuyasha watched me. "What did she See?"

"If Nozomi and I don't go with Sesshomaru and his friends when he leaves; I will die." I said looking deep into the fire.

Mamoru looked back at my daughter. "She can see the future?"

I shook my head. "Her mother could and so Nozomi was born blind. When we found her though, she said that she could see us and slowly her eyes began to change, to heal. If you look closely at her eyes they are exactly the same as mine. If she does get a vision, though she has only had a few that we know of, her eyes go back to the blindness in which she was born. It's as if to see her visions she cannot see the world." I met Mamoru's eyes when he moved his gaze back to me.

"You can follow us, just stay out of my way." Sesshomaru said and went over to Rin.

She nodded and came to sit beside me. Inuyasha went to Kagome, Sango, and Miroku who were now settling down to sleep, Mamoru went to join Sesshomaru. "Lord Sesshomaru said that you are going to go to be joining us for a while."

"Yes, Nozomi and I will be going with you guys when you leave." I said.

"Oh goody. It will be nice to have some company." Rin replied smiling at me.

I couldn't help but smile back even though I was a tad nervous about traveling with this demon who seemed to notice everything. Even worse, every time I glanced at the other demon I found his eyes on me and my heart fluttered. I moved closer to Nozomi and laid out my blanket and the extra one beside her. "Rin you can use this blanket to sleep if you need to." She skipped over and lay down rolling the blanket around her before falling into a deep sleep. I rolled myself into my own blanket. The last thing I saw was Sesshomaru and Mamoru talking to Jaken before I followed her into sleep.

When I woke at sunrise the next morning, Sesshomaru and Jaken were still in the same place as they had been when I fell asleep but Mamoru was sitting against the tree behind me. I sat up and stretched my arms above my head. Gazing around the camp I saw that I was the first to wake so I rebuilt the fire then grabbed my bag and stepped into the woods to change. When I came back to the clearing, I was wearing mud brown pants and a forest green shirt; I was almost invisible if I stood still. The others had woken and were in the process of organizing their things. I tossed my bag beside Nozomi and began to shuffle through it. I pulled out the upper arm sheath, one of the wrist sheaths, and one of the waist sheathes and a blade to go in each one. The one that went in the waist sheath was almost long enough to be a short sword and I used one of my extra ties to secure the bottom of the sheath to my thigh. I put the black blade into the sheath on my wrist and one of my old blades into the sheath on my arm. As I was doing this I looked up and met Mamoru's gaze. He seemed to find all my knives interesting. I stood and slung my bow and its quiver across my back and slung my bag over my shoulder after packing the blankets and a few first aid objects Kagome gave me. I glared at Sesshomaru as I went to say goodbye to everyone.

"Why are you going with him?" Kagome asked shocked.

"Nozomi had a vision that if I don't I will die." I said. "I'll try to meet up with you in two weeks if we don't run into each other along the way okay?"

Kagome nodded and hugged me fiercely. "How will I know if you're okay though?"

I took out my black blade and pricked one of my fingers and ran the drop of blood that swelled from the cut on Kira's bowstring. "Kira will be able to tell you. Be careful." I hugged everyone else good bye and when I got to Inuyasha I held him longer to whisper into his ear. "Watch over Kagome for me." He nodded and returned my hug though hesitantly. I went back to Rin while Nozomi said her own goodbyes to the group and I smiled down into the child's innocent face.

As we turned to follow Sesshomaru Kagome called out to him. "Sesshomaru!" He stopped though he didn't look back at her. "Take care of Dawn and Nozomi for me." She said her eyes full of worry. Nozomi linked her fingers with mine as I blinked away tears. Sesshomaru didn't answer but just started walking again. That seemed to satisfy Kagome because she didn't say anything more. I turned my back on the friends that I had been traveling for so long with and followed Sesshomaru and Rin into the woods leaving Mamoru to follow us.

The first day and a half traveling with Sesshomaru was uneventful. He and Jaken walked a few feet ahead of all of us. Mamoru stayed by Nozomi, Rin, and I and entertained us with stories about his travels. It was nearing dinner time on our second day a while after we had lapsed into silence when Nozomi broke the silence. "Mom? Could you sing to me?"

I looked over at her in surprise. "What?"

"The last time you sang was the first night you met me. I would like to hear you sing again." She said. She looked down at the girl who I held in my arms. Rin had tripped over a root a little while ago and twisted her ankle, Jaken said that once we reached a certain clearing Rin could ride on Ah-Un but until then I said I would carry her. "What about you Rin? Do you want to hear my mom sing?"

Rin nodded enthusiastically, "Oh yes Nozomi."

I sighed, "Do I really have to?"

Mamoru said softly from beside me: "I would also like to hear you sing."

I shivered slightly at his husky voice and turned to face him, his eyes were the leaves on the trees beside us and his hair was the beautiful blue of the sky, his name was really so accurate, he really was the earth. "I will sing only if Sesshomaru says that it is safe to do so. I don't want to attract demons with my horrible voice." The last part I said while tickling Rin's side. "And I want to know how you came to travel with Sesshomaru."

Mamoru nodded as Rin called to Sesshomaru. "Lord Sesshomaru is it okay for Lady Dawn to sing?" I still hadn't gotten her to drop the Lady though she had no problem using only Nozomi's first name.

"She may sing if she wishes." Sesshomaru said then fell back into his normal silent state.

All three turned their faces to me, the two girls looking expectant and Mamoru with a curious expression, I groaned as I decided what song to sing. I have just the perfect one! I thought and smiled at them before beginning.

"Anytime you want to be right here
Just imagine me and all this will appear
You can keep this moment all your life
Forever near
A dream worth keeping
When you're feeling lost
I'll be your star
Just reach out and touch me
No matter where you are
In a world where precious things are disappearing overnight
Just keep my star in sight
I believe we found a dream that's worth keeping
For more than just a day
And even though the winds of change may come sweeping
It's still a dream worth keeping
Don't let it fade away
Maybe you'll be in some distant land
Feelin' all alone, but I'll be close at hand
And everytime you see a rainbow paint the sky behind the rain
You'll be here again
I believe we found a dream that's worth keeping
For more than just a day
And even though the winds of change may come sweeping
It's still a dream worth keeping
So don't let it fade away
Someday you might be thinking
When life has passed you by
Your spirits might be sinking
With hope in short supply
And that's the reason why
That's the reason why
Love has dreams worth keeping
As long as it will stay
Even when you see the darkness come creeping
A dream worth keeping
Can never fade away..."

I trailed off as the song ended and Nozomi and Rin smiled happily. "Nozomi has a much better voice than I do." I said to Rin. "Why don't you get her to sing to you?" Beside me Mamoru still gazed at me but his face had lost its curious look, it was now a calm almost considering expression.

Rin turned her face expectantly to Nozomi. And Nozomi protested. "Mom I don't know any songs."

"Just vocalize. I like to listen to it." I said calmly.

And with a great sigh, Nozomi took a deep breath and began to sing. She didn't use words because that's not what vocalizing is, she just sang notes and her voice was beautiful. It flowed like honey, sweet and smooth, as its sound surrounded us. I wasn't being modest when I said she sang better than I did. I meant it, I had a better than average voice but Nozomi…she had a voice worthy of a goddess. Suddenly Sesshomaru and Mamoru stopped and looked at the sky. Nozomi stopped singing at the same time. "Demons." She said clutching her staff.

I set Rin on the ground and pushed her at Nozomi. "Stay together." I said and turned to face the dark sky ahead of us. The cloud of darkness that flew towards us revealed itself to be a whole army of demons. I dropped my bag, pulled my bow from my back and notched an arrow in it.

"Jaken." Sesshomaru said and the little imp darted behind me and stood guard over the girls. Sesshomaru didn't draw his sword yet, he seemed to think that he wouldn't be needing it.

Mamoru watched the coming cloud and fletched his claws. I stepped a bit to the left and up before releasing the first arrow. It slammed into the first demon and through it and into the next. I reloaded and fired until they were a few yards in front of me before I tossed my bow and arrows to the ground behind me. As I watched their wreathing bodies come closer, I drew the long knife from my side and the black blade from my wrist and waited for them to reach me.

Sesshomaru held up two fingers that glowed bright neon green and slashed the air in front of him. A length of light flew from his fingers like a whip and sliced through the first group attackers. They fell to the ground in pieces, back and forth he flung the whip cutting down more and more of the attacking demons. He had killed many when they surged forward in force and blew past him.

Mamoru joined in the fray battling more like Inuyasha than the powerful lord a few feet away. He tore through the demons with his claws and kicked and punched. He was unbelievably fast and graceful as he fought.

I stabbed my black blade forward into a giant flying eye and my whole hand went through the soft flesh and out the other side. I shook it off my arm and slashed at a bat-winged demon that was at my side. And so I began my 'hack and slash dance' as Kagome had dubbed it, spinning, ducking, stabbing I moved back and forth in front of the girls and Jaken trying hard to kill all the demons before they could get past me. I was struggling with a large centipede on my left and another of the bat-winged creatures on my right when suddenly they fell to the ground in pieces. I hadn't had the time to braid my hair back so I had to gaze up at my hero through blood and gut splattered hair.

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