So as you all know I don't own Inuyasha. I want say that I am happy so many like my story. And I wouldn't have gotten so far so quickly with out your reviwes. ^_^

The Yōkai Child

Everything changes for better or worse

As Kagome lay injured, Shippo ran up to the stranger. He ran up and started to hit him with his tiny fists.

"Why did you hurt Kagome-chan!" he wailed as the silver-haired yokai turned away from him.

"Hn." was all he said before he started to walk away. That is when Shippo latched his teeth to something, and that something was his mokomoko. He turned to the bratty little yokai and growled. He was in no mood to play games with him.

"Let go." he said smashing Shippo's tiny body to the ground. He had places to be and so little time to do it in. The boy refused to do so as tears formed in his eyes.

"That pup is different and so I found the answer." after he said this Shippo released his tail and looked up at him. Sesshomaru took this moment to leave before the child could do anything more.

He had made it back to where he had left Jaken and A-Un, in a short time. He was still bleeding from two of his wounds but they where nothing to him. When Jaken caught sight of his lord he started to run around in circles.

"My lord who dare do this to you!" he cried out as he came to stand in front of him.

"Who do you think." he said biting out the sarcastic remark. The light of understanding lit up in his eyes.

"So she did this to you! Why that lowly beast!" A-Un took the chance to hit him with a tiny zap of electric.

"Jaken I will be gone from the Western lands for a time. I will be back soon, and then thing will become interesting." he said in such a way that Jaken became confused.

Kagome looked at herself through a window as she played in the snow, she could have been no more than two at the time. She was with her father who was smiling and full of life, tears sprung to her eyes. Suddenly the scene changed she was about five and walking up the steps of the family shrine. She busted her head on the stairs. She remember it as the day she was to get a new baby brother, she was so happy she fell. Suddenly it changed once more to her around the same time she had gotten out of bed and moved down stairs and then outside. Finally she open the well door, and she was grabbed by that crazy yokai. As she fell down the well she seen her hand change in to a clawed one.

Before she blacked it all out she heard a whisper, "I will always love my baby girl."

She woke to a broken sob of Shippo's as he rested his head on her stomach. He had two handfuls of her kimono in his hands. She couldn't move right than but she put a hand on his head. "Shh, it okay Shippo don't cry." she said with a cracked voice.

"But...but...you were lying here not moving!" he cried into her side. "And that mean old yokai hurt you. And you both turned in to big scary demon dogs!" he said not wanting to believe his own words. Kagome struggled to sit up when she heard the last part.

"What do you mean by demon dog Shippo?" she said wanting to know but still not ready to accept the reality.

Shippo sniffed and rubbed his nose with his sleeve. He looked up in to Kagome's blue eyes that looked as troubled as his. "You turned into a black dog demon and that man you called Sessy turned in to a white one." this confused Kagome but she knwe he spoke the truth. Which most other adults would put it as an over active imagination.

"Did I scare you Shippo." she asked in a more collective tone. Saddly on the inside she was trying to understand how she a normal fifteen year old from the twenty-first century, managed to get kidnapped and brought to the past and also be a monster.

Shippo wanted to cry and tell her she made him unable to move. But he didn't want her to leave him either, he shook his head. "No you were amazing Kagome, you had him at every turn. He went from bare hands to a sword and then when he lost that he transformed. And even than you were overpowering him." he said like the child he was tell the person he looked up too most in the world how cool they were. Kagome giggled as she had never thought of herself before now as cool.

Pulling Shippo in to a big hug she thanked him. His smile was unseen as he returned his hug. He vowed to always stay at her side no matter how scary she got.

After this Shippo had went to look for some things to start a fire. He left it for Kagome so he could find some twigs and small things he could carry. Kagome had a small fire going as Shippo returned with his prizes. He laid them down in front of Kagome. He than went back to find something that could pass as a snack. By the time they were ready to sleep Kagome's wounds had all but disappared from her body.

Around this time Kikyo had finished purifying another low-level yokai when a thought hit her. She fell to the ground as she could not believe she could be so blind.

"How could I have missed it! She was the one I sealed the Shikon no Tama in." She said grabbing a fistful of grass. She didn't know yet what she would do but one thing for sure was she needed to get her back to the well before the seal broke. The miko decided to return to Inuyasha's forest. It was time to face the past, she thought a she clung to the beads of Subjugation. She didn't want to use them on him but this time there was no time for petty arguments with the hanyo. They could talk, yell or kill each other after they had found the girl. But one question still lingered, "Why didn't she feel like a demon?"