Okay so I know I've been updating this one story a lot and that's due to two things, one I've actually got a lot of inspiration thanks to my friend FMG (flying monkey girl) who helps me out a lot when i get stuck on a part. She is also the one that uploads all my stories 'cause my parents would kill me if they new I was on this site, something about it wasting time and adds money on to the ever growing bills. Anyway she's been sick and posts my chapters when ever they're ready, which means she's been neglectful to her stories for a bit. Anyway the point of this message was to say I might not update as fast once she gets better, so I apologise.

Thank you to all who read my fic and added me to favorites or alerts, but a big huge thank you to the two others who reviewed:

xXAngle AlliXx: I'm glad you like it thus far, and I'm not sure if it was an accident or Fanfiction glitching randomly, but the double review made my day. So thank you and I hope you keep reading.

Rhianna224: I'm glad you like it and I'm trying to make it as unique as possible and I hope my story continues to live up to your expectations.

Warning: There is a character death, and it's one of my favorite characters, it's not graphic although there will be times where some discriptions especially about bodily injuries will get a little graphic, I didn't want to do it here though.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, and am forever greatful to the actual creator(s) for letting us imagineative people do what we want with them.

Chapter 3:

The first few minutes of the drive was spent in a haze for Kagome, her mind filtered everything that just happened and Kagome did her best to come to grips with what had happened. She was over joyed at being able to return to the past but something was nagging at her, something she had failed to realize when Susuki was talking.

Kagome silently berated herself for being too caught up in the female's presence, so she went back to the beginning of the meeting. Groaning a little at how much of an idiot she must have seemed, but she quickly passed the unimportant things.

Thinking back on the conversation about this 'Itoe-sama' Kagome's heart stopped for a moment and her face paled. She had this thing called selective hearing and at times it was a gift, but now she thought otherwise. The wish granting demon had the ability to cure illnesses, an illness like cancer, an illness like her mother had.

The first whisper of that thought brought complete happiness to her, her mother could be saved all she had to do was ask. That's when the previous ignored information reared its ugly head; this amazing and powerful demon had placed a restriction on the amount of things you could ask for. One wish and she had one to many.

Images of her mother flashed through her mind ranging from her first memories of the woman to the images of her mother unable to walk without support. Then images of the past and her friends streaked through her mind, her friends' faces and even the faces of her enemies. Her longing and her guilt battled inside her head driving her to near insanity, she had a duty to her mother and to the past. Which was she willing to give up? Which mattered more at that very moment? She knew, she knew what she would pick and forced her mind to dwell on it no longer.

"Susuki," Kagome started the sudden shattered silence surprising her a little, even though it was her own voice that broke the spell. Said companion gave a slight nod as confirmation that she was listening, "What happens to Rin?"

Susuki smiled and Kagome assumed that it was in memory of the child, "She became a demon so she could live forever with her Lord Sesshomaru. That didn't happen though, she mated. Sesshomaru-sama wasn't her only family though. She had many siblings, her older brother being adopted like herself. The rest were Sesshomaru-sama's biological children, and they got along wonderfully. There was Sesshomaru's mate, Rin's mother. She has one uncle that's related, two not, and an aunt who is unrelated. She has a very large family now, and a very strong family."

Kagome smiled a little but remained silent as the drive continued. She allowed her mind to turn to thoughts of the little girl under Sesshomaru's care. She was surprised the first time she had spotted the girl walking beside the stoic demon lord. Whose hatred for humans was well known, but the first time she had talked to the girl it was clear she was unlike any human she had known and after reading what she did for Sesshomaru she understood the relationship a little better.

Susuki stopped and Kagome looked around her new surroundings. In front of her stood a large house, with the traditional Japanese style, only much larger than most houses built in feudal Japan. It was beautiful to say the least and Kagome turned her attention to all that surrounded her, if she had to spend her life in modern Japan she would want to do it here.

There was a stream barely visible just under the horizon and the house was nestled into the start of a heavily wooded area, nothing close to the forests of the past but it was close. The aura of the place brimmed with the distinct historical feeling, as if this house and the immediate area were in a world of their own.

"Come, Milady," Susuki called softly and motioned slightly with her left hand, "I'm sure he's expecting you."

Kagome nodded and followed stepping in line slightly behind Susuki, who lead the odd miko through the house as if it was a regular occurrence. The house twisted and turned and Kagome was glad that she wasn't left alone, she would have gotten horribly lost and when that happened she ran into trouble. Trouble just happened to be demons with sharp claws and glinting teeth that were very eager to taste her human flesh.

Susuki stopped in front of a rice paper door, the silhouette of a man barely distinguishable in the dark hall way. Susuki dropped to one knee and sent a greeting that Kagome couldn't here, the woman than turned to Kagome and motioned her to kneel.

Kagome did so, and waited for the demon on the other side to speak.

"A miko seeks my help?" the demon asked curiously tainting his otherwise cool voice.

"Hai," Kagome said and ducked her head unconsciously.

"A miko with two desires?" disbelief was even more apparent and Kagome noticed Susuki's almost inaudible gasp.

"Indeed two desires, but I seek you for only one. Your conditions were mentioned to me before we came." Kagome said attempting to make her actions clear and begging silently for the demon to understand that she didn't expect much more of him than he was willing to give.

"Very well. Susuki what is special about this human other than her powers being awake?" The demon asked the shadow of his body shifting in a way that Kagome assumed he had turned his head.

"She is the Miko Kagome, she travels to the past and collects the jewel shards with Inuyasha," Susuki responded her head bowed toward the ground.

"Miko Kagome. Tell me of what events have transpired of late in the past."

"Well the most recent, that I know of, is Inuyasha destroying the well and my way to the past. Other than that I now have half the jewel including the shards from Prince Koga. And Lord Sesshomaru has just returned Rin to his castle after she was taken, again."

"So you are here to find a way back into the past?" it wasn't a question, it was an assumption one that he presumed to be correct.

"That was my intention when I first came here. However my want to go back conflicts with another situation in my life, and as of five minutes ago I had to decide which was more important. I know my duty to the past, but my mother is ill, dying of cancer."

"Which do you choose?" Kagome was momentarily shocked by the gentleness of the question and tears suddenly sprung to her eyes.

"I choose for you to save my mother. I know that my duty has an impact on the future, but I know that my wish to go back is selfish. I wish to go back because I couldn't handle living in the present, but my mother. . ."

"Very well, bring your mother here tomorrow and I will heal her." It was a dismissal, but Kagome paused.

"And what of your payment?"

"It will be discussed tomorrow."

The demon left and Kagome stood to face Susuki. For a moment they just stared, and Susuki turned slowly and lead the sad miko back down the maze of hallways. Soon enough they were standing outside again and Kagome headed toward the car.

'I'll never see them again. . .' Kagome thought as her friends faces flashed through her mind and a single tear slid down her face, finalizing her decision.

0.0.0.

Sesshomaru glared at the abomination before him, hatred and disgust apparent in the demon lord's eyes. Had the male in front of him been a demon, human, or a normal hanyou he would not care and would have probably let him live. Naraku was not any of the above he was a human who gave in and allowed his body to be taken by lower demons. to become a hanyou, with intentions of becoming a full demon. Any power this being had was false and the one thing he hated more than pathetic humans were those who were fake.

There was another side to the hatred as well, one less selfish even though the demon lord hated the thought. Had Naraku kept his distance Sesshomaru would have ignored him, but he had taken Rin, scared her, and threatened her. That was his death warrant

"Is Lord puppy still upset about having his favorite toy taken?" the puppet of the hanyou mocked his focus entirely on the stoic demon before him, he didn't even notice the second demon.

Sesshomaru said nothing, but watched from the corner of his eye the approach of the kitzune pup that traveled with his half-brother. Why the kid was there was of no real concern, as long as he stayed out of the way. He even ignored the thoughts that wanted to rise at the child's appearance , most having to do with his weak brother.

"Shall I take your silence as an agreement or has the-" Naraku finally noticed the last presence, the child that was constantly around the Kikyo reincarnation, "Kit got your tongue?" with little movement Naraku's puppet slashed through the small Kits body, taking the young boy's life.

Something happened and Sesshomaru wasn't exactly sure what, but the next instant the puppet along with a few surrounding trees were burnt to a crisp. His powers had reacted suddenly and strongly to the death of his brother's pack member. In the next instant Sesshomaru was hovering around the boy Tenseiga pulsing at his side.

The sword thrummed excitedly as Sesshomaru pulled it free from its sheath and waited for the carrier demons to appear. Recalling the same motions he had used on Rin Sesshomaru sliced through the underworld demons and the Kit gasped his first breath of air.

His eyes opened slowly and looked into Sesshomaru's golden, slowly the demon child stood and bowed to his savior. He looked up again gratitude clearly shining in his eyes as he waited for the demon to move, to speak.

"Kit," he said void of emotion although his thoughts swirled around in his head, "come."

With that he turned and walked away the sound of small footsteps behind him was his only clue that the small demon boy had decided to listen. There were facts to every situation, and the current facts about the current situation were simple. His brother was clearly not taking proper care of his pack, sealing the human as she had sealed him, allowing the child to run away, and even the two other humans were on their own.

Sesshomaru shook his head of any questions related to the facts; all that mattered was what was obvious. There was no emotion and no time for asking questions that there wouldn't be any answers to. He didn't waste his time on pointless things; he would not be weak in that manner.

The kit was silent, much like Rin had been, but he never knew Rin to be talkative until she started traveling with him but the kit tended to talk a lot especially after being with humans for such a long time. Sesshomaru was almost sure the child had no idea how to act in demon society, no one was around to teach him and the one that should have taught him knew little because he foolishly got himself pinned to a tree.

"How familiar are you with demon ways Kit?" Sesshomaru asked suddenly surprising the kit.

"Only a little, I was too young to learn when my parents died, and mama knows only so much about the demon world," the answer was void of emotion, the kit was in shock.

"I thought your parents died?" it bothered Sesshomaru that the kit had no scent of deceit on him despite what his words said.

"Hai, but Kagome takes care of me, she is my mother or at least she acts like one towards me,"

The demon lord paused and looked curiously at the kit, well stoically but there was much confusion in his mind, "Who is Kagome?"

"The miko that normally travels around with us," Shippo answered easily, he had thought Sesshomaru knew since he tried to kill her.

"Is she not the one that pinned my brother to a tree?" there was a slight twitch to the demon lord's eye, which was the only indication of the oncoming headache and he had a feeling it wouldn't be the last time.

"No, she just looks like the woman. Kagome is the one who freed him."

Had Shippo not just been resurrected he would have laughed at the previous stoic lord, because his face had fallen into a look that said 'oh shit' as Kagome would say. Sesshomaru may have learned little from the kit, but the kit had learned a lot about Sesshomaru.

The stoic façade was soon put back in place and he turned toward the small demon, "I believe I have tried to wrongly kill your mother," Sesshomaru wasn't wrong often, but when he was he would admit it, "You shall tell me of your travels."

Shippo knew what the demon lord really wanted, he wanted to know of the woman he had mistaken for Kikyo because he had made the same mistake as others. Shippo was unsure how since his nose was much better than Inuyasha's he should have noticed the difference.

There was some belongings of Kikyo's that had not been touched in many years and the dead woman's scent still clung heavily to them, and the scent which Shippo had picked up was almost completely different from Kikyo's. Most reincarnations tended to have the similar scents, or so Kagome had explained to him when she explained why Inuyasha had thought she was Kikyo. This didn't help Shippo understand Inuyasha's mistake any more, Kagome's sent changed often and regularly depending on her emotion, she smelled like rain constantly.

When she was in a good mood the normal rain scent would be accompanied by lilacs, when upset it tended to smell like unshed tears and ever scent she emitted was laced with the smell of her powers. Kikyo didn't even have the same constant scent as Kagome, her scent was earthier like the herbs in a forest and the power embedded in the scent was almost unnoticeable.

That was another thing that had always bothered Shippo, Inuyasha constantly called Kagome weak and often said she didn't have strong enough powers like the other woman. Kagome was much stronger any one could sense that, what she lacked was training.

Shippo kept all his thoughts in the forefront of his mind ready for the tale he was going to deliver to the Western Lord, whom was different than everything Inuyasha had described. It was obvious that the lord did not hate blindly, and if he was mistaken he was strong enough to admit it. Then again Shippo could just prefer the demon lord at the moment, who wouldn't respect and like the demon that brought you back to life with little reason too. Especially compared to the half-demon who sealed his mother on the other side of the Well.

The calmly walked into what Shippo assumed to be their campsite, he'd never been there before and wasn't sure what he was expecting whatever it had been he hadn't expected it to be so normal.

"Rin come back here with my staff!" a Kappa yelled as it chased a young girl around who was laughing and running away. The girl he assumed was Rin, he remembered Kagome talking about her.

Sesshomaru was about to open his mouth but it turned into a smirk as the end of a Kusarigama hit Jaken in the back of the head, 'causing the kappa to squawk as he fell to the ground. Rin turned at this time and saw them, well Sesshomaru and rushed over discarding the staff she was holding

"Sesshomaru-sama, Rin missed you! Rin is glad you are back!" The girl sang happily and Shippo smiled, he often acted the same way when Kagome came back from her time, "who's that?"

Sesshomaru smirked slightly when Rin's attention turned from him to the fox demon behind him, "Do you remember the young woman who was with you in Naraku's castle?" The memory of not killing the half-demon still caused him to growl.

"Hai, Kagome-chan!" Sesshomaru was a little shocked that his ward knew the girl's name.

"This is her kit." Sesshomaru left after that to sit under a tree, but Rin's questioning eyes followed him and Sesshomaru bit back the urge to sigh.

"So he's like Rin?" Rin asked blinking innocently at the demon lord.

"Hn." That was a question, although most would not know it as such.

"Well Sesshomaru-sama took care of Rin and Rin had no parents, and Kagome-chan said that he," here she pointed slightly at the demon kit, "had no parents. . . So Kagome-chan takes care of him like you take care of me!"

"Indeed." Sesshomaru said not wanting to really admit he had anything in common with a human especially a miko.

"Hi I'm Shippo," Shippo said quietly and bowed his head in greeting.

"Hi! Rin is Rin!" Rin replied not nearly was quietly, and enveloped the kit in a hug instead of a bow.

End chapter.

Alright so there is chapter three, and it killed me to kill Shippo but it does actually relate to the plot. So I hope you all enjoyed it and I hope it's not going to slow for you readers I know you all must be dying for the actual SessKag stuff to start, but I hope you're all interested enough to keep reading.

Thank you all for reviewing: I can take questions and comments all you have to do is review, I'll be here all week-maybe.

Ja!