Chapter Eight

Kagome's Point of View

"Mom, What is it that Toga gave you?"

"Hold on a second, dear. I have them put up in the safe."

"We have a safe?" replied Kagome.

"What is a safe?" asked Sesshoumaru.

"It's like your vaults. Only in miniature."

"Hn."

*Sigh*

After a few more moments of silence, Kagome's mom came back carrying two items. One looked like a dagger while the other was a mirror. She handed the dagger to Sesshoumaru, who offered a nod of thanks, and the mirror to Kagome. "Thanks mom. I already have a compact though."

"Kagome, this isn't just a mirror."

"OH. What is it then?"

"It's a looking glass." Said Sesshoumaru.

"A looking glass. Isn't that another name for mirror."

"Not in the demon realm." replied the mirror.

"EEEEEEPPPPP IT TALKED!"

"Does she always react like this?" said the voice again.

"Unfortunately." replied the daiyoukai.

"Sesshoumaru, my son. I am glad to see you are well."

"Indeed father."

"WAAAAIIITTT HE'S YOUR FATHER!"

"Enough with the screeching you banshee wench." Sesshoumaru growled.

She could only growl in response.

"Feisty, then, isn't she? Well, to be honest, my dear, I am only a piece of Toga's soul. After I deliver my message, I will be released."

Kagome only looked more dumbfounded. Sesshoumaru snorted at her and turned back to his father's essence.

"Speak."

"No pleasantries, Sesshoumaru?"

"None. Say what it is you wish."

"My message is this,

Trust is a hard thing. It takes a measure of courage. It has an easily overlookable heart. Holding trust's hands is not an easy task. For its hands are stone cold and fragile. You can find all these ingredients here in Kagome's time. It's just a matter of looking. Remember my ingredients."

"Ingredients? What are we making, soup?"

"No. You will be making a talisman that will open the well. But you must gather all these things first."

Kagome grabbed a pen and paper.

"Alright, say it again."

"One measure of courage, and easily overlookable heart, hands of trust that are stone cold and fragile, These are your tasks."

"…stone cold and fragile…alright! Got it!""I suggest you began searching in the downtown area."

As he said that, his image began to distort.

"Hey! Get back here! I wanted to ask you how you ended up with two jerks for sons!"

They could faintly hear laughter as the image of the once great demon lord disappeared completely.

"Come wench."

"Nuh uh. I am not going down town at night. So not happening."

Sesshoumaru growled at her.

"And what about a measure of courage."

*Gulp* "Why is it always me?" she asked no one in particular.

"Let's go."

"Ffine but we are sooo stopping at Wacdonalds!"

"Whatever."

Sesshoumaru almost dragged Kagome out of the house as her mom was handing her money for the fast food place. They walked out of the shrine house and further into Tokyo when Kagome suggested they take a sub way. She was getting tired of walking.

"You walk further than this in the feudal era."

"But in the feudal era, you don't have concrete. It's really hard to walk on for a human. It does a lot of long term internal damage to your legs and feet."

Sesshoumaru reached over and grabbed her with his arm and leapt in the air. Kagome, who was only a little startled, loved the view of the city from Sesshoumaru's cloud.

"Oh! Look, there is a restaurant there!"

Sesshoumaru started his decent. They landed behind the place and walked around to the entrance. Immediately the smells hit his nose. He curled his nose in disgust. He couldn't understand how even humans could eat this stuff. He watched as Kagome became excited as she ordered her food. She lead him over to the soda fountain. She explained what it was and its purpose as she made herself a drink. She offered him a sip. Again, he curled his nose. She made him an ice water instead. This he did take a drink of and said something about the water not being pure.

"None of the water is pure like it is back in the past. With all of this 'evolution' came pollution."

She told him then what she had learned in her Environmental Science classes. He then became curious as to what else she knew. She told him of all of her classes and he listened. Once she told him she was actually educated in many ways, he paid her more positive attention. She even offered to tutor Rin. That was an offer he gladly accepted. They began to discuss many things. One of them was InuYasha's lack of education.

"I have tried numerous times to tutor him. And all the others. Shippo will learn to read and write but he won't learn anything to do with arithmetic. He knows a little, like how to count how many enemies we have in battle, but I'm afraid with InuYasha's influence, he doesn't want to learn." She lamented to the Demon Lord.

Who would have thought that Ice Demon Lord Sesshoumaru and Priestess wannabe Kagome would be having dinner together at Wacdonalds?

She broke out of her thoughts when she saw Sesshoumaru's features almost contort into annoyance.

"What's wrong?"

"Your human companions of this era are coming."

"Oh no! We have to hide!"

Sesshoumaru just picked her up and she grabbed her food and held on to it. She knew what he was going to do. He took off running at a speed invisible to a human eye. Once they made it outside, he leapt into the air again and set her down on his cloud. Kagome sat down and finished her meal. Once again she was caught admiring the view of the city with a somewhat wistful look.

"What is it?" Sesshoumaru asked in his characteristically cold baritone voice.

"Just thinking about how different the beauties of the eras are. Tokyo may look pretty from up here, but I bet the view in the feudal era is better."

"You ride on my brother's back. Do you not see the view from there?"

"The only view I see is me trying not to throw up. He is like an unbalanced horse at a full out canter."

Sesshoumaru almost laughed. This girl was a lot different then any one in the feudal era believed.

Sesshoumaru's Point of View

I noticed that when she is actually in intelligent company, her entire demeanor changed. She is not that brash little wench who could almost mirror my brother. I am almost amazed at how different she is here than in the feudal era.

Sesshoumaru looked down at the girl again.

"I suppose, to thank you for tutoring Rin, I could let you ride on my cloud."

"Domo arigato, Lord Sesshoumaru."

I definitely like this Kagome better. When did her name actually matter to me?