Chapter 2: Who's Kagome?

After those twenty five years of Kagome gone from fuedal Japan for the final time, there was something terribly wrong with our hanyou friend. His eyes had lost their shine, his personality had lost both its spunk and asshole-ishness, his once shining silver hair had become a dull grayish color, and he had lost the will to do anything. Not even Chirii could get the inu hanyou to do anything.

Just when Inuyasha's friends had thought it couldn't have gotten worse, they were wrong. Because, guess what? It did.

"Chirii? Where are you going?" The former demon slayer wondered to the inu youkai.

"I'm gonna go see Kagome for a bit." Chirii said as she paused in front of the exit to the hut that belonged to the old miko Kaede.

Inuyasha had a confused look on his face.

"Who's Kagome?" Inuyasha asked dumbly as everyone's eyes widened in shock. "What?" Inuyasha looked around the room staring at his friends he had considered family.

"Inuyasha? Are you feeling all right?" Miroku asked his long-time friend.

"Yeah. Why?"

"Are you sure?" Chirii asked the hanyou with her own question. "Do you truely not know who Kagome is?"

Inuyasha shook his head.

"I never met a woman called Kagome. The only person I know as Kagome are Miroku and Sango's daughter. Why what's so special about this woman?" Inuyasha questioned the inu.

Chirii took in a deep breath.

"She's your mate Inuyasha. Why else would there be a mate mark on your neck?" She continued.

Inuyasha snorted as he rolled his eyes and crossed his arms across his chest.

"What mate mark?" He said as he pulled back some of the his haori to show his left side of his neck then repeated the action on the right side.

There was no mate mark on either side of his neck. And this had Chirii panicking. So much that she practically hyperventlating.

Inuyasha was getting rather annoyed with all of the stares that were directed towards him. So he stood up and ran out of the door.

Chirii starting crying.

"Chirii? What's wrong?" Sango quietly asked the inu youkai.

"This is not good. Since Inuyasha does not remember Kagome then that means not only does that mean he no longer has a mate mark but that if this is happening to Inuyasha then it is most likely happening to Kagome. Only worse."

"How is it worse for Kagome?"

"If a mate mark disappears then only the female of the bond will go through a lot of pain, where as the male of the bond will feel nothing only lose the memories of his mate." Chirii said grimly, making everyone in the room cringe.

"What kind of pain would Kagome go through? Would it kill her?" Miroku was worried for the miko that had been dead for many years now.

"Kagome's body would first begin to reject Inuyasha's blood that is well missed with Kagome's own blood by now, since Kagome is a strong miko, her powers might possibly go out of control and cause her to kill anything on sight...and no. It wouldn't kill her, she will only go through hell." Chirii answered the monk's question.

"Does it always happen?" Shippo finally spoke, worried about his surrogant mother.

"In very rare occasions does the female of the mating bond feel any sort of pain." Chirii explained.

"I cincerely hope that Kagome is one of those rare cases." Miroku admitted out loud.

The others in the room nodded in agreement.

Soul Society...

Captain Ukitake was sitting in his quarters with Captain Kyoraku when he heard Kagome screeching 'PERVERT!' followed by a loud sound that was very familar to a slap.

"Was that Kagome?" Jushiro's friend, the captain of squad eight, asked Jushiro.

The white haired man nodded, smiling a bit.

"I wonder what happened." The eighth captain scratched the back of his head..

Then the door swung open, revealing a girl with waist length silver hair, dressed in a deep blue kimono, had golden eyes, and dog-like ears on top of her head. As soon as she entered the room, the silver haired girl quickly shut it closed.

She had a panicked look on her face.

"Is there something wrong Kaori?" Jushiro asked the hanyou girl that looked about 11 years old now.

"Uh." Kaori tried to gather her thoughts. "Izuru accidentally walked in on Mama while she was bathing."

Both of the captains sweatdropped and felt terribly sorry for the poor fukutaicho.

"Well, that explains that loud slapping sound and Kagome's yelling." Shunsui announced, letting out a slight chuckle.

"Do you guys mind if I stay in here until Mama cools off?" Kaori wondered.

Then Kaori sniffed in the air and looked at Jushiro.

"Uh, Jushiro? Are you feeling all right?" The inu hanyou girl asked the thirteenth taicho.

"Why do you ask?" He answered with a question of his own.

"Because your giving off a smell of illness." She tilted her head. "Have you not been feeling well lately?"

Jushiro's eyes widened.

"That's some sharp sense of smell you got there Kaori." He complmented the girl. "And yes I haven't been feeling well lately."

Kaori moved closer to the white haired man and touched his forehead with her index finger as well as her middle finger and closed her eyes as she concentrated her spiritual powers.

Her hand glowed a bright purple for a moment and stopped. Then she removed her hand from his head and smiled at him.

"How do you feel now?" She asked him.

Jushiro blinked for a moment.

"Remarkably well. How did you do that?"

"I've heard that Yamamoto-sotaicho had announced that Mama was a miko when she was alive and still is. Since my father has inu youkai blood I'm half inu youkai and half human. The human part of me has spiritual powers that not only help balance out my youkai powers but they can also heal myself and others as well." Kaori explained.

Both taichos were amazed, never hearing of such a thing able to happen.

"That's amazing Kaori." Shunsui complimented the silver haired teen.

"Thank you." Kaori smiled as she quietly went to sit down by the two shinigami.

It was quiet for a couple of minutes before Jushiro decided to speak.

"So Kaori. What do you plan on doing later on in your life?"

The golden-eyed girl sighed.

"I honestly don't know. I was thinking of maybe joining the Gotei 13 and try and be in the Unohana-taicho's division since I'm more talented at healing than fighting really." Kaori shrugged.

"Well that sounds good to hear." Shunsui said to the girl. "And who knows, you could be Jushiro's personal bandage." He chuckled and pointed to his friend.

Back in Kagome's quarters...

"Little pervert..." Kagome grumbled, blushing, to herself as she was getting dressed. "He should really learn to knock before entering a room. Geez."

Then a few moments later, the left side of Kagome's neck began to burn terribly hot. So hot that it was more than Kagome could bare and she groaned and fell the floor unconscious.

Izuru stood outside of Kagome's door with his arms across his chest, his head slightly bowed, and his face bright red.

The image of Higurashi-taicho standing completely naked before the poor fukutaicho was too much and now since Rangiku just so happened to pass on by the woman was bound to tell everyone what had just happened to him.

Absentmindedly, Izuru went to touch his right cheek and flinched at the sting when his hand made contact with his cheek.

Then he heard a groan and a solid thud in Higurashi-taicho's room and he panicked and slid the door open and saw Higurashi-taicho colapsed on the floor and unconscious. And the mysterious mark on her left side of her neck was glowing an angery red.