Chapter 25: The Southern Lands

"So, you want to go see your father?" Inuyasha asked once they were away from Sesshoumaru.

"I guess, but what the heck am I gonna tell him?" Kagome asked.

"I don't know. Don't ask me!" Inuyasha told her.

"Well, so much for being a helpful mate." Kagome told him. They started to head South. "I don't think we should see him tonight. Let's see him tomorrow, he may be more accepting then."

"Come on then." He told her and found a tree for them to sleep in.

Kagome woke up to Inuyasha still asleep. That was unusual, because he usually woke her up. She snuggled closer to him and he tightened his grip on her.

'I wonder what my father is like…' She thought.

"Kagome…" Inuyasha moaned and then did some sort of growl.

'What the heck was that noise? I know Inuyasha made it…'

"Inuyasha? Oh mate? Wake up…" She told him and turned in his arms which was really hard with his grip on her. She kissed him lightly on the lips. His eyes fluttered open and it took him a second to realize what was going on, then he kissed her back. It turned out to be really passionate at the end.

"Good morning." He said to her.

"Morning."

"Want to get going?"

"Yea, I guess. I'm still thinking of what to say to him."

"You want me to carry you?"

"No, I need the exercise."

They arrived at the end of the Western Lands. There was some sort of fence to signal that was the boundary. They went through it. Soon after the reached the shore of the ocean. Kagome and Inuyasha couldn't stand the smell of that much salt.

"I'm glad I didn't go to the beach on that school trip I had this year. It would of killed me!"

"I'm just glad your out of that 'skool'."

They arrived at a castle just as he said that. It was heavily guarded. They reached the front gate.

"Who goes there?" Asked a voice.

"Alphas of the Western Lands." Inuyasha said.

"What is your business here?" Asked the voice again, it was coming from inside the gate.

"We would like to meet with the Lord of the Southern Lands."

"As you wish. Come in." The voice said and the gates swung open. "Come, this way." There was a guard there that was going to lead them to the Lord. "The Lord will be with you shortly, please. Make your selves comfortable."

"Thank you." Kagome said and bowed to him. They sat down in the room. Inuyasha hung onto Kagome's waist; all was silent. After a few minutes they heard foot steps and stood up.

"Oh, I was expecting Sesshoumaru and someone else. I am Lord Inunan. And you are?"

"I am Inuyasha, brother to Sesshoumaru, and this is my mate Kagome."

"Hello." He said and bowed to them. "Leave us." He said to the guards and they walked out. They sat down. He indeed did have the crescent mark. He looked much more like her than anyone else. He had the same green eyes, purple stripes and hair as Kagome.

"What concerns do you have for me?" He asked. His voice was deep, deeper than Inu no Tashio's.

"They are not really concerns sir. More like… well… Let me just give it to you straight." Kagome told him. "I am your daughter."

"My daughter? You look nothing like Kijo."

"Kijo? I am from the future, 500 years in fact."

"How is that possible? You don't even have my mark!"

"Yes I do father, look." she moved her bangs aside again for him to see.

"My god. You are my daughter then. But… How did you get into this time?"

"Have you ever heard of The Bone Eater's Well?"

"Yes I have."

"Well, one year ago, I was pulled down and found out I was the reincarnation of a miko named Kikyo who guarded the Shikon no Tama. It came out of my body and I released Inuyasha from The Tree of Ages. I was the one who shattered the jewel and until about 2 weeks ago we searched for the shards. I was turned into a hanyou because I mated with him, but Naraku had turned him against me and he almost killed me. So I wished on the jewel that we would be inu-youkais. So here we are. Crazy as it sounds, its true. I went back to my time and found a story about us."

"This is crazy. How come you do not know me? I can smell it on you."

Kagome's eyes widened. "Well, I think you were killed before I was born. So I never knew you… My mother has 5 scratch marks on her back that look like claw marks, and she has a mark on her shoulder that looks like a mating mark. She said when she was little a dog bit her, but I think you went berserk and tried to kill everyone. Including her."

"I wouldn't kill my mate."

"That's what everyone says. But they never consider what might happen if they loose too much blood or their youkai comes out." Kagome looked at Inuyasha at the word or. He sensed her looking at him and looked the other way. She looked back at her father.

"I can't imagine why you would look like me though if you were human."

"I still had some traits from you while I was human."

"My hair was dark blue, with a silver touch to the highlights. I have your face shape. My mom even said I had you intellectual skills."

"I'm intellectual? You've got to be kidding me."

"Well, my mother thought you were. She always told me stories about you when I was little, that is until she had my brother."

"What's wrong with your brother?"

"He's human, but his father was a pain in the ass. He always was getting on my mom and she had to lie to him about you or else. They don't have many youkais in the future. I'm protecting most of the full bloods that I know then."

"How do you know that?"

"I met my mate's older self. He told me about it."

"You have had a lot of weird things in your life miss."

"Yes, including adopting a kitsune youkai when I was a human. So it was a hanyou, miko, and a kitsune, traveling with a perverted monk and a youkai sureiya."