A.N. This I can tell might be a fun story to write. Hope the first real chapter goes on as well as I think it will.

Chap. 2: Phoenix

"Hey Ally," Kagome said into the telephone, "do you have any classes today?"

Kagome, after she decided to move to America went to the state of Arizona. Many people had told her to go to New York or California, but she found that the people there weren't mainly Japanese decent; but Chinese. So she moved to Phoenix and settled easily enough in a few months.

"Hey Kagome," said the girl on the other line, "no I don't have any classes. My history class was cancelled because Prof. Juno got sick again."

Kagome laughed, the odd professor of history was always getting sick it seemed. He was every old, and had been teaching at the ASU for as long as anyone could remember.

Prof. Juno's Class

Kagome had taken his course when she moved to the states, but got upset when they started on early Japanese history which had focused on the 'Warring States Era'. Juno had brought up the two sons of the Lord of The Western Lands, InuYasha and Sesshomaru and how they were battling for just about anything they came across. He mainly focused on InuYasha though, as he had stayed the Lord until he disappeared from history in the 16th Century A.D. The professor spoke of the two women InuYasha had cared for, a young girl who no one knew her name, and a priestess by the name of Kikyo. When the slide of a painting showed up, the class all looked at Kagome. She remembered the day that was drawn…

-Feudal Japan- 500 yrs ago.-

"Kagome," whined a boy with white hair and amber eyes, "must we sit for this man?"

"Yes," she replied angrily, "he says this is all he can do for us after we saved his village from Naraku. You ought to be happy, we defeated the guy once and for all. We should be happy, this is a way to remember it."

Kagome and InuYasha were left to slay Naraku by themselves in the village when Sango and Miroku had been badly wounded in their last battle with the half-demon. The headman of the village was a skillful artist, and wanted to paint a portrait of the two as a payment for ridding his village of such a horrible creature. Kagome was more than thrilled to have such a offer, InuYasha on the other hand wanted to leave with the now complete Shikon Jewel and find a way to use it without making Kagome angry.

"Fine, I will sit for the dumb portrait" he grumbled.

"Good, because its not like you had a choice anyway," Kagome said smugly as the man led her and InuYasha into his mansion to sit for the painting. He decided that her clothing was too strange and had his wife bring her a dress more suitable for a portrait. InuYasha was stunned as Kagome emerged from another room in a Kimono of red, white and black. 'she looks like a angel' he thought to himself.

The man had painted the portrait so carefully and accurately, you could see the love in the girl's eyes as she was told to stand next to the sitting half-demon and look down upon him over his shoulder. InuYasha was told to look in the direction of the door, almost as if he didn't notice the girl.

Juno's class

"… this is the only known painting of InuYasha and his mysterious lady friend," the professor had said, not noticing that the whole class had their eyes on the new foreign exchange student. When he had noticed why it had gotten so quiet the older man himself looked at her. "Ahh, Ms. Er… Higurashi, you're from Japan. Do you know the legend of the young lord?"

"Um…" the girl said slowly. "The story of the young lord is well known in Japan. As it says, he was a half-demon, or as we say 'hanou', he was accompanied by five companions; a young girl, a lecherous monk (not in the American history books), a Demon Exterminator, a hell cat, and a child fox demon." Kagome didn't know if she should tell the whole story, Or just summarize it. She knew that people would think it weird to know too much, so she asked the professor.

"Would you like to know the whole story yourself or just tell the class?" she asked slowly, knowing they had plenty of time to hear the whole thing.

"Why don't you tell everybody," he said smiling. "It will be like having a guest speaker, and to make it more like that, why don't you stand up here at the podium and I will take your seat for the lecture."

The girl nodded and got up slowly.

"InuYasha had met the girl fifty years after he was sealed to a sacred tree by a arrow shot at him by the priestess of the village he lived in. After being sealed, the woman had died. She thought InuYasha had betrayed her, so she in turn betrayed him. Unbeknownst to her though, InuYasha hadn't betrayed her. A half demon by the name of Naraku had shape shifted into InuYasha and clawed her in the back leaving fatal wounds. After that, the man went to InuYasha and attempted to kill the other man with a bow and arrow, but missed; he was not the archer the priestess was." Kagome couldn't bring herself to say Kikyo's name, so she used 'priestess' and hoped no one noticed. They didn't, all eyes and ears were on here though.

"InuYasha was enraged, and went to the village to steal the Jewel, almost getting away he was sealed to the front of a huge tree that still stands today. The priestess had used the last bit of power she had to seal the demon before dying herself. But before perishing from her wounds, the priestess told her younger sister, who would be taking over protecting the village, to burn the jewel with her body." Kagome sighed and continued with the story. "Fifty years had passed when a girl wandered into the village, she had the faint powers of a priestess, and many thought she was a reincarnation of the dead priestess of the past. The new head of the village was the younger sister of the betrayed woman and herself was fooled at one point. They soon realized their figuring was correct when in the forest InuYasha was revived at being in the same area of the girl. I… er…I mean she had never seen anything like him before and didn't notice that he wasn't just sleeping. But when he awoke trouble ensued. A demon at that point had tried to kill the girl, and almost succeeded by slicing a hole in her side. At this fresh wound, a small jewel had popped out of her body. The jewel was the Shikon jewel." New memories aroused in Kagome's mind as she tried not to cry.

"InuYasha asked the girl to remove the arrow from his chest and he would help her defeat the demon that was threatening them. The girl obliged and pulled the arrow loose. This being a mistake soon, after slaying the demon, InuYasha turned to the girl. He now knew that she was not his fallen love, and still wanted the jewel to become a full fledged demon. The village priestess noticing this put a rosary around the boys neck telling the girl that if she said the words of subjugation he would regret making her angry. They say that the word spoken was 'sit' which was funny as the half demon was a dog demon. He would fly flat into any surface face first at the words. Later, another demon had attacked and succeeded in consuming the jewel. The demon was a crow, and all that was done to him by InuYasha was his foot got clawed off. The girl had tried her hand at archery and failed, but then succeeded in shooting the demon when she attached it's foot to a arrow, subsequently shattering the jewel into a million shards across the area."

The class were so wrapped into the story that they never noticed how well she knew this.

"The pair had gone on in search for the jewel making many enemies, and a few friends in the process. The child fox demon was the first they met. They helped him in destroying two thunder demons who had killed his pack. The girl thought the child adorable and was able to get the half demon to allow the boy to go with them on their adventures. The monk, as I said was surprisingly lecherous, he had a wandering hand, and although they never say this in any books I have read here, it is written in detail back in Japan. He also contained a wind tunnel in his right hand, a curse placed on his family by Naraku; this made the monk want to search for the demon and defeat him to rid himself of the burden. The demon exterminator, on the other hand was a young woman. She managed to slightly tame the monk, along with loose her entire village and family in a extermination battle. Naraku had used them as puppets, only her and her young brother survived. Unfortunately the boy perished when the jewel shard that had kept him alive was removed from his back by Naraku. The hell cat was the pet of the exterminator and turned to be very useful in battle. The group traveled for many years working to destroy Naraku. Much of the battles ended with bad wounds, but always they came out victorious. The team had defeated Narakus 'incarnations' who had consisted of a wind sorceress, a demon that was similar to what is said a void and held no presence, along with many other terrifying creatures. With the use of InuYasha's sword, Tetusiga, he and the girl succeeded in slaying Naraku after many years. Although their companions were wounded, they later got better and then mysteriously disappeared after that. Many think the monk and exterminator ran away and got married adopting the young fox demon. Others say the perished from their wounds. No one really knows. The girl too disappeared and was never seen or heard from by anyone. As most historians know, InuYasha searched for his largest foe after defeating Naraku, his brother Sesshomaru the 'Lord of the Western Lands' at the time and sought to defeat him once and for all. The young half demon fought his brother and won. Inheriting the title 'Lord of the Western Lands' himself, InuYasha stayed a half demon. They say he used the Jewel to just help strengthen himself to be a little more powerful rather than a full fledged demon as he had wanted. And that is all anyone knows of the story." Kagome finished her story and the professor stood up eyes shining.

"Well done young lady," he beamed coming down to the podium. "she is right class. But I think the story sounded much better coming from her than me. She is a native of the land after all. Any questions?"

One person had raised their hand, "yeah."

After that many raised their hands. Kagome knew what was up.

"I already know your question," she said looking around and then down at her feet. "You all want to know why I look almost identical to the woman in the painting. Right?"

Everybody nodded. Many just sat there looking at her, and the picture, and back at her before nodding.

"Well that is another thing," she said. "She turned out to be my ancestor. I do not know how my family knows this, there is no documentation of her anywhere other than this portrait. But the family legend says that there was a powerful priestess that helped defeat a terrible demon in the 'warring states era'. They just put two and two together and assumed it."

-Back to reality-

"Kagome are you alright?" Ally said on the phone.

"What?" Kagome said quietly, "oh yeah sorry."

"No problem," her friend said. "Do you want to do something then? Neither of us have plans tonight."

"Yeah, what do you say you meet me at the mall in fifteen minutes and we can catch a movie?" Kagome asked her friend.

"Yeah that sounds good. I've spent to much time in class already."

"I know the feeling."

The two girls laughed and then hung up. Kagome decided to get ready to leave. Pulling on a pair of blue jeans and a loose green tank top and pulling her hair up into a ponytail Kagome grabbed her wallet and keys and set off to meet her friend.

He had a funny look on his face as he snuck up on the woman in front of him. Slowly walking in her direction he made sure he made as little noise possible he crept closer, finally snatching her up and whirling her around.

"WHAT THE FU-" she screamed until she saw who sneaked up behind her. "Oh, InuYasha! WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?"

A.N. Thought I would leave that as it is. Hope you like it! More to come soon. For both stories.