This chapter is a little longer, but that's just an exception and the following chapters will be shorter again. I know you would like longer chapters, but I won't write them longer. Not in this story.

Chapter 08 – Questions And Answers

She already ate up the food which was brought for her and now she waited for Inu no Taisho to come back and question her. She looked out of the window at the courtyard and saw a group of children playing there. Most of them were probably demons, judging by their appearance, but some of them were humans and none of them seemed to care about that fact.

She smiled and continued watching them. They all were smiling and even though, that the demon kids were surely much stronger and faster than the human kids, they didn't try to make use of it and instead they tried to keep in similar level of abilities with the humans.

Sometimes they used their speed to escape from the grasp of the humans, but it seemed to be more just an innocent teasing, than that they would want to win at any cost. Just now, one of the human girls toppled one of the demon boys to the ground and they both laughed. Something about that boy caught her attention and she looked more closely at him, when he and that girl were removing the dust from each other.

He was about the size of seven years old boy. He had not very long white hair and he had some blue ornament on his forehead. He was too far for her to see it well, but she was sure what kind of ornament it was. The blue crescent. The same mark she knew from his older self. She was now in his father's castle, so it was logical that he was here too, but she would never even dream that he would be part of this group. She leaned against the window frame, still watching the kids outside and sighed.

"How could you change so much, Sesshoumaru."

"What do you mean?" A voice of Inu no Taisho, who was too close behind her for her liking, asked and she jumped in surprise and turned at him.

"Please, don't scare me like that. I didn't notice you're already here." She told him, placing her hand at her chest to calm down her heart.

"I didn't mean to scare you, I just asked a question." He answered and she sighed.

"I know, but humans are easy to scare, especially when they are lost in thoughts, which I was just seconds ago." She explained and added with a slight blush. "What did you ask."

"I asked what did you mean by your statement." Good, he doesn't mind to repeat himself, why can't be Sesshoumaru a little more like him? She thought but quickly returned to his question.

"I was just surprised, that Sesshoumaru plays with all those children." She answered and turned to the window to look outside again.

"I don't see anything strange about it, he was always playing with them."

"But for me it is strange. In the future he is completely different from what I can assume after seeing him here. He claims that he hates all humans and half-demons and whenever we meet him, he and Inuyasha are always fighting. He hardly shows any emotions and doesn't talk much, especially to us, so most of what I will tell you about him are just my own opinions."

He patiently listened to everything what she was saying and when she paused, he asked another question.

"Who is this Inuyasha?" She turned at him again and bit her lip in nervousness.

"Uhm, he is..." She paused and lowered her head. Am I supposed to tell him this? What if I say something wrong and Inuyasha won't be even born. He deduced why she paused and raised her head, so they were looking at each other from face to face.

"I assure you, whatever you'll say will stay only between us two. And no matter what you say, in your time this conversation was already done, so everything will stay the same, like it was before you left." She looked into his deep eyes and she trusted him. It made sense what he said. After all, she was also interfering into the events in Inuyasha's era and her own time was still the same. She nodded to him and continued.

"Inuyasha is your second son." She made a short pause to let him take it in and then continued again. "He's a half-demon and right now we are traveling together with a few more friends in effort to destroy our enemy, who caused us a lot of trouble already. Sesshoumaru is tracking him down too, but we go in separate ways."

She stopped and waited for his response. She wondered if it wasn't too much information at the same time, but he was the one who wanted answers, so she wouldn't hold back anymore.

He thought about everything, what she told him until now. This only raised more answers in his mind, but there was one thing, which bothered him the most.

"You said earlier, that Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha are always fighting. What would make them to act like that and why wouldn't I stop them." He already made his guess for the last part, but he wanted to be sure.

"As I already said, Sesshoumaru claims that he hates all half-demons and maybe he even blames Inuyasha for your death." She paused, expecting him to react somehow, but when he didn't, she continued. "As for Inuyasha, well, he is just Inuyasha. He always rushes into the fights without thinking and he is probably irritated by the fact, that Sesshoumaru is looking down on him and insults him for his impure blood." She stopped and looked at his emotionless face. He wasn't looking at her, but instead somewhere into the distance.

"How could be Inuyasha responsible for my death?" He really takes it quite easily. She thought, but returned to his question.

"You died while you were protecting him and his mother, so it's probably because of it."

"I see." It took him quite a while to actually respond, but she didn't mind. She just told him that he will die and why and what problems it will cause to his sons, so it was no wonder.

They spent almost whole day by talking. Kagome told him about her adventures with Inuyasha and encounters with Sesshoumaru and answered all his questions as truthfully as possible. When he got the answers for everything he wanted it was already almost dark, so he offered her to stay during the night in one of the guest rooms. She accepted without hesitation and with thanks she followed the servant who led her to her room.