" I want to see if you can wield this...."

Kawayou cocked his head to the side in disbelief for a moment.

"Are you crazy, why would I want to touch that. It's all rusted and old." Kawayou said in a small voice, still in mild shock about InuYasha's comment.

InuYasha snorted. "If you are a hanyou, you will understand why I carry it with me."

Carefully Kawayou picked up the sword. It was against most of his beliefs to even use one. His mother had always taught him that he should only fight to protect instead of becoming evil and corrupted.

"Now swing it." Inuyasha commanded him making sure he faced the opposite direction of people.

Kawayou closed his eyes, and swung with mild might. Opening his eyes, it did nothing but slice through the air. Without being told he tried again, focusing as hard as he could.

A tingle ripped through his hands, and he could feel the sword transforming. It hit the ground, and sent a big tremor through the land.

~*~*~

Kagome muttered insolence under her breath as she looked down from the ledge. She hadn't been here for six years, but everything was pretty much the same. The last memories she had of it made her sick. It was a big fall, but at least you'd be rolling instead of just dropping.

"I should have known better. Oh lord, Kawayou will be turning human tonight. I bet his appearance is already starting to change, but if he loses his powers.....Urg, I have to rush." She muttered to herself aloud. She hadn't expected what was coming, but a big tremor in the ground sent her forward.

'No-' She thought, when she found herself tumbling against the wall at alarming rates. She wrapped her arms around her head during the time.

Jagged rocks sliced her, and everything else she seemed to land at on the wrong time. It took a minute for her to hit the bottom with a resounding thud.

Her eyes fluttered open seconds later when she also managed to feel a wave of pain. She forced herself to get up and look around.

She was definitely at the bottom, and injured. Blood oozed slowly out of an open cut on her arm, but the wound didn't look that deep. She moved gently to see if she'd broken anything.

She gave herself a second before standing up straight. Her mind returned to the mission on hand and she absently thought 'I can't let this slow me down.'

"Midoriko!" She heard a nearby voice.

Turning she saw what she'd feared. Another demon waiting to fight, and this one didn't look to friendly. "Not again! Can't you come back later?" She'd run out of her only arrow. Stiffening her stance, she readied her hands.

"Don't even think about it Midoriko! You'll never find that little boy again." It laughed.

"Are you fighting me to find yourself worthy because your being pretty shameful." She retaliated as its words burned.

It erupted into another annoying laugh session.

"Or no, nothing personal. Quoting him to you, 'I know your back Kagome. It's a shame I couldn't see the look in your eyes as the last drop of life was sucked from your body, but now it is just important you die.'"

Kagome gasped, she knew exactly who would have done that. Biting her lip another memory came that she'd suppressed for too long.

She had stepped up to the dying man they had just fought with.

"Don't let him live!" Inuyasha shouted from behind her.

"No! Inu, he spared my life. Maybe there is still hope!" She shot back defending him.

"Kagome, don't!"

Kagome ignored him determined on helping him. It was love that had saved them all from the evil. She wasn't going to give in to his evil tendencies. That's what she had thought at the time anyways.

She lifted his head into her lap, and he looked at her with those eyes.

Her breath had left her, her mind arguing over what to do.

Kagome snapped back into reality. When things seemed like they were going right, absolutely everything turned wrong, and just kept getting worse.

"I have a message for you to give him. Then you can come back to kill me. Tell him, perhaps I deserve death, but I refuse to die until I see my children off safely."

"I don't take requests." It shot back. Kagome looked up to meet its stare with a deadly cold glare.

"If he doesn't hear it, he might just kill you himself."

The demon pondered what to do for just a moment.

~*~*

Kawayou cracked his eyes open to look around. Inuyasha was standing next to him with eyes open wide. "Did I do good?" Kawayou asked nervously.

InuYasha nodded his head taking this sword out of his hands.

"Maybe you could stay with us...." He shivered at the thought of a youngster being tattered and teased about being a hanyou, and then cast away from society.

"Oh, but mister, I have to get back to my mother! She and my sisters might be in trouble!"

~*~*

The demon pondered what to do for just a moment.

"For now I shall spare your life, but I will be back. If you try to run you will only die quicker." It warned her, and with a last snort, it turned to leave.

Once it was out of sight, Kagome dropped back to her knees, shutting her eyes to hold back tears. She knew why she never came back. She didn't want to deal with these problems anymore, and now it was like she was dragged into the worst of it.

A lone tear managed to escape from her eyes. This wasn't destined to end well, but perhaps she could just finish her end of the bargain of keeping her children safe.

Kagome expected it to be bad, but she never managed the high extents of it. She was in for some trouble yet.