Chapter 21

That morning, Kagome and Inuyasha, along with Shippo, joined Sesshomaru for the meal before taking their leave. While Shippo ate quietly so that the other could talk, Inuyasha looked at his brother with a grin on his face while Kagome just waited to be spoken to. Just as she had finished her meal, she placed her chop sticks down and said, "Well we've waited long enough but I really need to get going, we'll bring Rin back once we meet up with the others."

"If that is the case then I suggest that my brother goes and you wait here." Sesshomaru requested.

"Why do you wish to keep me here?" Kagome asked in a cold voice. "You best make it clear otherwise I'll just take that arm of yours back."

"I believe my mother will be going after you and I do believe that there is much worse than take your memories again." Sesshomaru answered.

"If that bitch gets to close I'll kill her." Inuyasha growled out in anger.

"I need to get home and speak with my family. I need to tell them that I'll be closing the well soon." Kagome explained.

"What?" both Inuyasha and Shippo asked in a shocked voice?

"It would be best if you waited until I can speak to my mother so that she may let this go." Sesshomaru suggested.

"What do you mean closing the well?" Inuyasha asked.

"I'm going to be staying here. I'm going to stay and raise my son. You can be happy with Kikiyo once the jewel is completed and I'll be able to protect the village." Kagome explained. "I'd figured it was something less you would have to worry about before going with Kikiyo to hell."

"If my mother can take your memories, what makes you think that she would not be able to do anything else. My mother as herbs that humans nor demons can grow. She has plants that she gets from hell its self. I do not trust her to just let things go." Sesshomaru explained.

Inuyasha looked at Kagome and Shippo with worried filled eyes before asking, "What makes you think that she won't come back here?"

"Because it'll take her time to get the herbs ready, she'll go straight to the village to look for us." Kagome answered as she took in a calming breath.

"What will you do now?" Sesshomaru asked.

Before Inuyasha or Kagome could say a word, the doors were opened and in walked in Sesshomaru's loyal servant with Totosai close behind her. After giving a low bow, she locked eyes with her lord and said, "I will create a sword that will reveal both the Tetsusiga and the Tenseiga for this girl."

"Feh, what the hell are you talking about you old man and what the hell are you doing here?" Inuyasha growled out.

"It would seem that he will have to since this hanyou now has miko powers. She is unlike any hanyou or demon alive." Sesshomaru added.

"That and she is able to wit stand the strongest of poisons." Shippo pointed out.

"Totosai, what are you doing here?" Kagome asked in a confused voice.

"Myoga went to get me and it is a good thing that he did. I can make a sword that will keep the herbs that woman used on you trapped within your weapon. However I have no idea how it will react with the weapon that I have chosen to make you." Totosai answered.

"Feh, so how long is it going to take this time?" Inuyasha growled out.

"It is not as simple my lord." Myoga was heard.

"Myoga, what are you doing here?" Kagome asked. "I'd figure you'd be long gone with the danger that is bound to catch up to me."

"You wound me my Lady…I would not abandon my lord and lady." Myoga stated in anger as he jumped up and down on her shoulder.

"Oh shut up." Kagome growled as she threw him off of her and onto Inuyasha.

"How long are you going to take?" Inuyasha asked.

"I will need a two of her fangs and a tooth in her human form." Totosai answered.

"We don't even now the night of her human form." Shippo answered.

"That won't be needed." Sesshomaru was heard.

"It better not hurt old me." Kagome growled as she sounded more like Inuyasha.

"Starting to sound more like a hanyou I see." Totosai stated as he walked over to Kagome to pull out her teeth.

"Wait, how is she going to give him her human fang?" Inuyasha asked.

"I can use my miko powers to force myself to take my human form." Kagome answered as she opened her mouth so that she allow Totosai to take what he needed.

As they all watched Kagome, Inuyasha turned to Shippo and told him to said, "You are going to stay with her and make sure that bitch doesn't get near your mother. I'll go and get the others."

"No, I want to go, Rin…she needs me." Shippo whispered only to look away when Sesshomaru turned to growl at him.

"I shall have Jaken go with you so that he may bring Rin back to me." Sesshomaru growled.

Once Totosai had taken her two fangs, Kagome let out a long sigh before saying, "I never said that I would stay."

"What the hell are you talking about bitch? You're staying where it's safe." Inuyasha growled.

"No, I am not going to let her try to harm my pups again. I see Rin as my pup also and I'd be damn if the bitch gets it her way." Kagome growled out in anger as the jewel began to glow.

"Uh…Oka." Shippo tired.

"Feh, like hell, I'll bring the girl back if that's what you want but you're staying where it's safe and that's it." Inuyasha growled back.

"I will be leaving shortly. Whatever you deiced to do make sure to send word to me at my mother's castle." Sesshomaru growled.

"We won't have to…" Kagome answered with a grin on her face as she handed the jewel to Inuyasha.

"What are you doing Oka?" Shippo asked in a worried voice.

After taking in a calming breath, Kagome look at Inuyasha and said, "Hold that for me, I'm trusting you to keep it safe until I need it."

"What are you talking about wench?" Inuyasha asked.

As she turned to her human form, Kagome locked eyes with Sesshomaru and said, "I'll be going to your mother's home on my own. I will speak with her. I have a feeling that all she wants of me is to bear you a strong son…just like your father used her."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Inuyasha yelled out in rage. He loved her but if she was going to be talking bad about his father he wanted to know why and what the hell she was talking about.

"How did you find that out? Only my mother knew about this." Sesshomaru growled out in anger as Kagome appeared in her human form.

"I read about it in her castle, she left her books around all over the place. It's rather interesting. She only has all this power because of the power that she was given by your father." Kagome explained as she turned to face Totosai, "I read the whole deal she agreed to. If he were to have a second son, and if that son was to find a mate and have an heir before you, the first born and her son, she was to lose all power that was given to her."

"What do you think you can do? What will a human say to my demon mother to convince her to let this go?" Sesshomaru growled out in anger.

He hadn't wanted anyone to know about this. He had only been enraged when had been told after a he had been old enough to handle the truth. He didn't want his mother to be seen as the whore she had been just for the power she had always longed for. All was quiet as Kagome got her tooth pulled out. And just as she had returned to her hanyou form, Inuyasha turned to glare at Kagome and said, "you are not going in alone."

"I won't, I'll be going in with your father." Kagome answered with a grin on her face.

"My Lady, you must not do this, this will only endanger your life…wait how do you know of this? How do you know such a dangers spell." Myoga growled as he began to jump up and down again.

"I know of it and I will, Totosai take my weapon to Kaede's village. Inuyasha I'm going to need you to wait here, I'll be coming back here before going back to the others." Kagome explained.

"I'm not going to be left behind like some pup." Inuyasha growled.

"Hey…" Shippo growled.

"Shippo you're to stay with Jaken here in the castle, unless you want to go back to Kaede." Kagome replied as she ignored Inuyasha's outburst.

"Inuyasha you can't be there, I won't give her the chance to distract me…besides, you're the only one that can protect the pack…you know how to find them the fastest." Kagome explained.

"Feh, if you're not at the village by the time I get back, I'll come after you wench." Inuyasha growled as he picked up Shippo.

"No! Oka!" Shippo cried.

"Sesshomaru, I trust that you will do as what you can to make sure that Rin will be alright while I go and speak with your mother." Kagome replied.

"This Sesshomaru has other matters to attend to; I shall send Jaken with my brother to make sure that Rin is safe."

"I'll go with you my lady, I cannot allow any harm to come to in while you are away from my lord." Myoga was heard.

"I must warm you girl." Totosai was heard in a serious voice. "Until your weapon if finished you have a higher chance of transforming and not coming back to your normal self."

"I know, but I also know that Inuyasha will be able to do what I did for him. Please Totosai, just make my weapon and wait for me at Kaede's village." Kagome stated as she turned to leave.

"How do you know how to get there?" Jaken asked.

"I know because I was in one of her castles already, I found lots of books, some of which that held the location of her other castles…I'll be there on my own…please just make sure that everyone is waiting for me at Kaede's village." Kagome answered.

Giving them no chance to go after her, Kagome took off to go and face the inu demon that threatened to take everything she cared for from her. After taking her leave, Kagome took in a deep breath and tired to sense any of the remaining jewel shards that were not with Kikiyo or any of her allies. Meanwhile, Kikiyo, Sango, and Miroku all waited for Kohaku to get back. Just as they were about to travel a bit further, Sango stopped when she heard Kirara roar and her brothers call. After landing and hugging his sister, Kohaku looked at her and said, "You don't have to worry any more sis, Lady Kagome is alright…she is fine…she remembered you…she remembers us all."

"I'm glad to hear that she remembers everything, I'm glad that she is alright." Kikiyo stated.

"I am also glad to hear, then shall we go to Kaede's so that we may meet her there?" Miroku suggested with a smile on her face.

"I don't know, I think we should continue to find more of the jewel shards. She is going to need them now more than ever to get to her own time. I don't think the well is going to let her going to her own time since she is not a inu hanyou." Sango was heard.

"It would be wise to do so, it will not recognize her at first so she will need more of the jewels help to help her get back to her time." Kikiyo added.

"Well while they finish whatever that needs to be done, why don't we just try to gather a bit more of the jewel." Miroku stated.

"I sense some jewel shards toward Kaede's village." Kikiyo was heard. "I sure they are about two or three, we should heading back either way. I don't want them to think that something has happened to us."

"I agree. I want to see my Oka and Otu soon." Shippo was heard.

"Alright than, to the village." Miroku agreed.

"Kirara, can you make it?" Sango asked her two tailed demon cat.

"I think we should let her rest, she helped me fight off some demon in the western lands." Kohaku answered.

"I see, well how about we set up camp further away from the western boarders and then we'll all get some rest." Miroku suggested.

"That sounds like a good idea." Sango agreed.

"I'm sure if Inuyasha was here he would say we could make it." Kikiyo mumbled.

"Yeah, but Kagome would sit him and then we'd rest." Sango answered with a grin on her face.

With everyone on the same page, they began to make their way back to Kaede's village in hopes of seeing Kagome soon. They had no idea what was to come, they had no idea what they should expect. The only thing that they did know was that they would soon see their friend again. They would soon see her and know that she was alright, that she would be alright and nothing else.