Chapter 7: Back to the Past

500 years earlier….

Kagome climbed out of the well, InuYasha right behind her, to be greeted by her friends, Sango, a demon slayer, Miroku, a monk, and Shippo, a kitsune (fox demon).

"Hi Kagome! I missed you! Where were you? Do you have…." Shippo tapered off.

"Wings?" InuYasha offered, hauling himself out of the well, "Yea, she got herself some demon blood."

Kagome laughed nervously, looking at the faces of her friends, all in various states of shock. Sango recovered first.

"You have a lot of explaining to do, miko" she said. Kagome agreed, leading the party back to the village and old lady Kaede's hut to tell her story.

"So you're telling us you're a hanyou now?" Kaede asked.

"Yup" Kagome replied, "I have demon and miko power now!"

"Can you fly?" Shippo asked.

"I think so…. Let's go find out!" Kagome said, jumping up and running outside to an empty field. She kept running and began spreading her long, silvery wings and flapping. With one last leap she took to the air, giggling hysterically with joy and adrenaline. Banking slowly, she swooped down and grabbed InuYasha by the wrist, lifting him off the ground and onto her back. She quickly compensated for the extra 180+ pounds of hanyou. InuYasha cursed vehemently and shouted that he wanted down. He was smart enough to know that a jump from Kagome's back at this speed and height wound not end prettily. Kagome giggled and glided lower, letting the frazzled hanyou off before she herself landed a few yards away.

"That was AWESOME!!!" she screamed.

"Was not! I thought you were gonna drop me!" InuYasha fumed, getting up shakily from where he landed.

"Oh InuYasha, you don't trust me?" Kagome teased.

Kagome felt a tickling on her wings and turned around. She found Shippo burying himself in her feathers.

"Can I have a ride?" the little kitsune asked.

"Sure Shippo. Come on InuYasha, I'll beat you to the village!" Kagome shouted. And in a rustle of feathers she took to the sky.

" Yea right Kagome! Good luck!" InuYasha taunted, taking off after the half-demon miko.

"Come on, monk." Sango said, " We'll be left behind."

Weeks passed, and Kagome slowly discovered and mastered her youkai power. The lives of the demon-slaying group continued, just as the lives of their new friends in the future, Shicanto and Sangya, continued, connected yet separated.

Fin

(For now)