We spent the whole day and half of the next traveling up the mountain toward the cloud and finally a little before sun down, we reached the entrance to a cave. The cloud was rolling out from inside so we knew we had reached our destination. Inuyasha and Kagome led the group followed by Mamoru and I. Nozomi, Shippo, and Kirara were behind us and Miroku and Sango brought up the rear. It was pitch black in the tunnels out of range of our torches but we saw no one. It was probably around ten when we turned a corner and stepped in to a large cavern. It sprang to life when we entered and in seconds we were all grabbed and held immobile as the new body of Tamasine and Raku strolled towards us. No one was able to move and the demons who held us spread out to circle the edge of the cavern and a wall of rock blocked the entrance.

"Oh goody, you came." They said.

"What do I call you now that you two share the same body? I mean you guys no longer can say each others name when you talk so I have no idea what I should call you." I said. A second later Tamasine's dagger slashed me across the face. My head snapped sideways and I felt blood rolling down my cheek. I looked up into Mamoru's red eyes and shook my head slightly. I straightened to look back at them.

"We are now Leiko." They hissed in their two voices.

God help me I laughed. I really wasn't trying to but their name meant 'arrogant' it was so ironic. My laughter got me another hit across the face. I could hear Inuyasha and the others struggling to free themselves but a quick glance told me they wouldn't get free soon. Inuyasha and Mamoru had four huge demons holding them. Everyone else had two, only my two favorite guys seemed to be a threat. I fixed my eyes on Leiko, as they now named themselves and began to smile. "You know…I once promised to repay all you did to me tenfold. I mean to keep that promise."

"You can't, you can't move." Their voices were really eerie and annoying. "We can smell something different about you. I wonder what it is."

My blood ran cold as Leiko drew the poker from the sash that held it to their waist. She came closer and placed the tip of the poker against my belly. No. No way in hell are they going to hurt my pup! I screamed in my mind and I let my face show the anger and hate I felt towards the creature in front of me. They laughed and pulled their arm back so they would have better leverage and the same second they stabbed forward I darted sideways pulling one of my guards into the way. The demons who held me dropped me and I landed on my knees and hands and growled up at Leiko. I could feel the dog in me screaming to tear their throat out but I knew it would only make my belly a better target. I shifted to my toes and began to stalk them. None of the demons attempted to recapture me and I moved so I was in front of Inuyasha before I straightened to my feet. My fangs and claws had grown and my eyes were blood red but I didn't allow my body to change more than that. I knew as angry as I was now I wouldn't be able to take care. So I stood and drew my long knives and shifted one foot back and crossed the blades in front of my face. "I hope you are prepared." I said, I barely recognized my own voice with the rumble of anger that underlaced it.

Again they laughed at me. "What can you do? You come to close and we will cut the baby from your womb. It won't kill you but it certainly will kill the child."

I grinned at them and slammed my arms out behind me and let the knives go. They flew into the skulls of the guards on either side of Inuyasha and went all the way through to the two behind them. Leiko screamed and rushed at me and I dove sideways pulling the knife from my boot and killed the guards holding Mamoru.

Inuyasha ripped out the throats of the guards that held Kagome and Mamoru went to help Miroku and Sango who were fighting their own guards. I was dodging the slashes that Leiko was aiming at me so the others would have time to free Nozomi, Shippo, and Kirara. When Nozomi was free she grabbed my knives from the floor. It was weird, no matter what was happening, Nozomi always grabbed my knives to make sure I didn't lose them. Leiko had blocked the cavern entrance so we couldn't escape but now they couldn't escape either and they knew they were about to die: they just wanted to take me with them.

I stumbled over a dead body and watched in horror as the poker dove down at me. A second before it would have hit a sword slammed into the side of it and the poker shattered.

Inuyasha stood beside me the Tetsusaiga held out beside him. He pointed it at Leiko and the wall that blocked our exit. He slashed it sideways and shouted "WINDSCAR!" Leiko screamed briefly before she was engulfed and destroyed. The wall that had blocked our exit blew away with them. The ceiling rumbled ominously above us. "Run!" Inuyasha yelled and swung Kagome onto his back. I grabbed Nozomi and Shippo and Kirara lifted Sango and Miroku onto her back. Mamoru held my hand tightly as we fled from the collapsing cave. We reached the outside just as the entire structure caved in and collapsed on the ground panting for breath.

I raised my hand in the air and everyone looked at me. "High five me somebody."

Kagome grinned and slapped my hand as we both laughed. In moments we were all laughing and cheering, we had defeated them! Two more of Naraku's incarnations were out of the way. "You know what?" Kagome said looking in the direction of the village. "Even though I know that Naraku will probably send more incarnations after us, it feels good to know we defeated some of them."

Inuyasha nodded. "Yeah, Naraku wont stop sending incarnations. He seems to be stuck on the thought that they will kill us for him yet he hasn't managed after how many?"

"Well there was Kagura and Kanna, they are still around though, Goshinki, Juuroumaru, and Kageroumaru you killed and Musou was reabsorbed by Naraku." Sango said counting on her fingers. "So you have killed five." Miroku edged closer to Sango and a second later her face turned bright red. "PERVERT!" She screamed and slapped him.

"You know…I was actually starting to wonder if he had changed." Kagome said placing a fingertip on her bottom lip. "It's been so long since he last did that." She shrugged and helped me to my feet.

We all started trudging down the mountain and Nozomi stumbled slightly. I caught her and sat her on the ground, her eyes were white. "She's having a vision." I called and everyone gathered around us waiting for her eyes to return to normal. Minutes passed and she still did not waken. "Kagome…she isn't coming out of it! What do we do?" My heart was pounding, my daughter what is wrong with her?

Suddenly a shaft of pain shot through my head and I was unconscious before I hit the ground.

"Hello Dawn." The beauty before me said.

"Mai what's wrong with Nozomi?" I asked rushing up to her.

Mai sighed and touched my face gently. "She was pulled into a vision. But she cannot get out."

"How can I help her? Please, she is my daughter." I whispered.

Mai's face twisted angrily. "She was my daughter first! Don't you think that if I knew how to help her I'd do it myself?"

I leaned away from the anger she radiated. "She loves you and has never forgotten you. She knows you are her real mother." I said calmingly.

Mai sighed and turned away, her kimono rushing on the invisible floor. The place I was, was pearl colored and smoky but though there was no walls or floors or anything, you didn't get the feeling you could see far. It was like being in a dark room. You knew that there was something around you, you just couldn't see it. "I only know of one way to get her mind out. But it is not a pleasant thing. You have seen it's effect yourself." She said turning back to me.

"What do you mean?" I asked, I didn't like how this was starting to sound.

"I can use you to get into her mind and pull her from the vision but I might be stuck inside her body. Just as Tamasine and Raku became Leiko, Nozomi and I would be stuck like that." Mai explained.

I stared at her, if she was to get out Nozomi's mind her soul would get sucked into Nozomi's body. "What if you had someplace else to go?"

"Where?"

"I am pregnant. It's at an early stage though so if you anchored your soul into the egg you could split the egg and I would have twins. My true pup would have his own body and you would have your own."

Mai stared at me. "You would allow me to be born to you? I would still be your and your mates' child, my soul would just migrate."

I held her hand in mine. "I would be honored to have you as a daughter Mai. Come meet your twin brother." I began to flee the smoke room pulling Mai with me. As the world went black a single shining tear fell from Mai's cheek.

I opened my eyes and felt a wrenching in my gut. I grabbed Nozomi's hand and screamed. I felt Mai flow down my arm into Nozomi and a second later she fled back into my womb and the new body that had been created. Nozomi opened her eyes and gazed at me dreamily. She managed a weak smile before falling back unconscious. I looked up at Mamoru who held me in his lap and Inuyasha who squatted at his side. I whispered, "Get us home," before I also passed out again.

I woke and opened my eyes to see a wooden roof above my head. I turned over and stared into Mamoru's face. He was asleep beside me, he looked exhausted. I leaned forward and pressed my lips to his. His eyes flew open and with a soft sound he sat up and pulled me into his lap. "Oh my little mate! We were so worried!" He said as he stuck his nose into my neck. "Nozomi had woken up while we were running to the village and she couldn't remember anything once we left the cave and you still wouldn't wake. We didn't know what was wrong."

I felt a few tears strike my shoulder and I ran my hands soothingly up and down his back rocking him against me. "Everything is fine my sweet. Everything is fine." I said. When he had calmed down we walked out of the hut and saw the random of the group whispering to each other standing about. "Hello." I said. I was ambushed. First Nozomi ran into me pulling me into a hug then Kagome, then Sango. I actually was knocked to the ground with the force of their hugs. I laughed as they disentangled themselves from me and helped me back to my feet. Miroku and Shippo came over and hugged me and I patted his back while Sango watched his hands. They stepped away and I was drawn into another pair of arms. Inuyasha was hugging me! Oh my god it was a miracle. When he pulled back I patted his cheek gently. "I'm okay." I whispered.

Inuyasha gazed down at me for a second then nodded. "What happened?"

I grasped Mamoru's hand in my left and Nozomi's with my right before explaining. "Nozomi was dragged into a vision that she couldn't pull out of. My brain was pulled into the meeting place between the realms of the dead and the realm of the living by Mai, Nozomi's birth mother." I felt a tiny kick in my stomach and let go of my family to splay my fingers across my tummy. "She told me that she could get Nozomi's mind back but it would be dangerous because it would cause Mai to be trapped in her as well."

Nozomi's head whipped around to me. "But Mother isn't in my body!"

I nodded. "I know. Because she is in me."

I swear the expressions ran the whole range: confusion, worry, anger, curiosity, and fear. Kagome asked the question that was on everyone's mind, "How?"

I ran my hands over the small bulge that was beginning to grow in my stomach. "I am pregnant, but there is a stage early on in pregnancies where the egg can split and create twins. Mai's soul entered my egg and split it. So Mamoru and I will now be having twins; one will be a boy and one a girl."

"Mother…will be my little sister now?" Nozomi asked.

"Yes, your mothers soul will be reborn in my daughter." I said smiling at her.

Mamoru grabbed me by my waist and twirled me around in the air. "We are having twins!" He cried and danced around the clearing with me.

I laughed and threw my head back to look up at the blue, blue sky. Around us our friends were hugging and cheering themselves. Babies were extremely special and twins were even more so. I gazed down in time to see Inuyasha looking at Kagome longingly, the expression disappeared almost at once and he met my eyes. Oh Inuyasha…I thought, if only the two of you could admit how you feel for each other. I know the two of you will make a great couple one day. You just have a few things that you need to take care of first.

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