Note: As always I own nothing but my original characters and the plot. Also for all you Reboot fans out there the character Andrea is pronounced like the Andrea in the show.

Kyou and Andrea

All was quiet as the people in the group absorbed the sentence Kyou had blurted out. The young man in question simply stood at his cousin's side as he stared at the girl before his who looked exactly like his sister, Hotaru but smelled like his mother. Eyes moving to her side Kyou's eyes went the size of saucer plates as he looked into his father's eyes in a much younger face. "Holy Mother Mary." Kyou finally said as he used one of his favourite sayings. "We really did go back into the past."

"You think, Moron. Of all the times for you to get something right for a change it had to be this time." Andrea said with a roll of her eyes, drawing attention onto her for the first time. She was the same height as the dog demon she'd come with only she was unlike anything anyone from that time period had ever seen. Her hair was a dark blue with forest green streaks through it, her hair short and Sesshoumaru was surprised to notice that it was as short as the monk's without the ponytail. She was wearing white robes that were slightly transparent in places, and she was obviously uncomfortable in it from the way she kept tugging at it. Her eyes were slanted and a deep blue, her face reminding Kagome of an elf, especially with the girl's really pointy ears.

"Quit calling me a moron, Andrea." Kyou said as he looked at her with a dark scowl. Andrea was always blaming everything on him, this had not been his fault and there was no way he was letting her say it had been. "I wouldn't have got here if it weren't for you, ya know. You told me how to pronounce the damn thing."

"How did you get here, have you figured out how to get Ferio and I back to our time period?" Sora asked eagerly as she looked from one to the other. She was eager to get home before something else happened to screw the timeline up, lord only knows what kind of damage could be done accidentally by the three of them.

"No, and its not my fault we got here either." Andrea said shooting her companion a dark look of her own. "When Celine prophesised that Ferio would start a fight that would result in you being transported with him I set off for your father's lands immediately bring what books and scrolls I thought might aid us in getting you back. While Rin was talking to your father Shippou and I were discussing possible strategies while Kyou looked at the scrolls. Then the stupid dog asked me how to pronounce a word and when I answered he began to speak the spell out loud. I tried to get the book away before he finished, knowing the danger but all I succeeded in doing was get sucked in with him!"

"Well if you hadn't told me how to pronounce the word it would have never happened. And besides, how was I suppose to know that we'd get transported back here huh? I'm not the mind reader, you are!" Kyou said with a dark look before turning back to Kagome with what could only be described as puppy dog eyes. "It wasn't my fault, Mom. I didn't mean to do it, honest."

"I'm sure you didn't." Kagome said hesitantly, not sure what else to say. He was so cute though Kagome said with a smile as he smiled back at her, just like his father only with her hair and ears.

"Hey Uncle Sesshoumaru, how come you're chained up to Aunt Sango that way? Did I miss something here?" Kyou said as he looked at Sora in confusion as he finally noticed the fact that his aunt and uncle were chained together and looking none too happy about it. "Hey wait a minute, is that you, Rin?" Kyou added in delight as he caught sight of the little girl hiding behind his uncle's leg. "Wow, you look so little, now there's a change." He added with a laugh.

"You're, you're Sora's cousin?" Rin asked hesitantly as she looked up at him curiously.

"Yours too last time I checked. Course usually I wouldn't have to look this far down." Kyou said with a friendly smile as he looked at his older cousin who smiled back at him shyly. Too bad Triton wasn't here; Kyou would love to see the look on the water demon's face to see what his wife looked like in this time period. "You don't look much older then your own daughter. How far back have we gone, Sora?"

"I'm not born yet and my father hates my mother, keep that in mind. Your mom's eighteen right now." Sora said giving him a measured look, hoping he'd get the message she was trying to get across. Kyou might act like a moron a lot of the time but he was actually very smart and surely he must realize what a delicate position they were in. It had been bad enough with her here to screw things up but now all three of them were there the damage they could accidentally do wasn't hard to imagine. She was going to be born God damn it.

"You have got to be-of all the times to send us to it had to be this one!" Kyou said with a shake of his head, understanding her completely. In other words he couldn't refer to Sora's mother at all and it would be a really good idea to tone down the affection with his uncle, as he was likely to send him into the dirt for it. "Never mind about the chain thing, I remember."

"So Kyou, right? Who's this lovely lady?" Miroku asked as he slide towards Andrea with a charming smile on his face. "It's a pleasure to meet such a beautiful creature. My name is Miroku miladddddddddyyyyyyyyy." Miroku finished with a scream as she drew her hand back, palm out and as quickly he was flying through the air like a spear, flying back and into the rocks on top of the hill. Instantly the only sound to follow was sound of Andrea's fingers cracking as she controlled her anger.

"Ouch, that's got to hurt." Kyou said in sympathy as he looked up towards the hill. Andrea had sent him flying on more then one occasion and he could feel sorry for his Uncle Miroku who hadn't yet learned to watch his thoughts around female water demons. With a smirk he remembered a particular wall near his home that still bore the imprint of his uncle after Miroku had been introduced to Triton's female soldiers for the first time.

"How did you do that?" Sesshoumaru demanded to know as he stared at her with a hint of curiosity that didn't show overly.

"I'm a water demon, our power is in our minds, we're not solely dependent on our body strength to protect ourselves." Andrea said with a dark look at the top of the hill. "We all have varying degrees of telekinetic, empathy and mind reading, it comes in handy when dealing with land demons as well as humans."

"Ah, that would explain why you hit him with that mental blast." Sango said with a smirk as she looked up to the hill where Miroku was likely trying to recover from his flight. "It's not hard to guess what was going through his thoughts." She added with a chuckle, wondering how many more times this girl would send Miroku flying before he caught on to the idea of not looking at the girl like he wanted to eat her.

"It would appear that none of you were exaggerating when you said that he was very perverted when he was younger, here I thought he couldn't be any worse then he was in our time." Andrea said with a dark look that was even darker then before. "I'm Andrea by the way, since you have as yet no memories of me."

"Pleasure to meet you Andrea." Kagome said with a warm smile, liking the girl who'd come with her son already. "I take it you know everyone here?"

"Of course, Lady Kagome, as well as my own family. Sesshoumaru-sama, as always I am at yours and your kin's service." Andrea said with a low bow, before straightening, a warrior's look in her eye. She was not pleased to be here without her weapons and had she not been in Sesshoumaru-sama and Lady Rin's presence she would have happily strangled Kyou. Of all the times for him to send them here it had to be when she wasn't armed with even a dagger to protect herself. Not that she depended on weapons of course but still, it was the principle of the thing. She was on land and land demons loved to hunt water demons, those that could recognize a water demon that was. Some of the stupider races had been raised to believe that to drink a water demon's blood was to gain their knowledge, hence water demons avoided the land. Sesshoumaru was the only demon of land that the water demons of her line held any sort of pact with and had Rin not married Triton that pact might have never occurred.

"At my service?" Sesshoumaru asked as he raised an eyebrow. He knew of water demons though he had never faced one. They were suppose to be truly great demons with unimaginable mental strength, how had he acquired one and one who obviously bore him great loyalty.

"Yes, it is my duty to protect Lady Rin with my life and through her the lives of those she holds dear and calls kin." Andrea explained with a nod, realizing that Sesshoumaru didn't know that they were kin through marriage. "In my time I am her personal bodyguard, it was only due to an illness in my family that I was not with her when Ferio attacked. Had I been there then perhaps we would not be in this current situation."

"Oh quit beating yourself up, Andrea. Who's to say your presence would have made any difference." Kyou said gently as he moved over to place a hand on his shoulder, his entire personality shifting as he read his best friend correctly. They might fight like dogs on a regular basis but he wasn't going to let her beat herself up. "Besides, think of this as a good learning experience."

"He's right, for once." Sora said with a smirk, hoping to get a smile out of the water demon she'd known since birth. "Besides, had you been there you would have been with Rin, not with us down at the field. Anyway I take it from your clothing that you guys came here at night in our present."

"Yes, I suppose I can't take this blasted thing off can I?" Andrea said motioning down to the white robe. She'd only worn it because there had been other demons besides her mistress's family and so she'd been forced to cover up. She hated land clothing with a passion and she was pretty sure she was going to be stuck in them for a while.

"Unfortunately, I have a feeling that we'd only be asking for more trouble if you were to wander around in your own clothes." Sora said with an apologetic smile, knowing how uncomfortable water demon's tended to find land clothing. Her eldest brother's wife often refused to wear the clothing, cause her brother constant frustration. Then again Keely was Andrea's sister, even if Keely wasn't as hot headed as Andrea they both weren't big fans of the land. "How long have you been out of water for?"

"About thirty hours, I feel fine though." Andrea said with an accepting sigh. Knowing that there was really little that could be done about it. She would need to get into some water within the next ten hours but she wouldn't mention it until it became a problem. Looking around she'd say it was early afternoon at the very least, when night fell she could find a small body of water to regenerate as her body required her to have a lot of water in her system at all times.

"We should be heading out, we still have a while to go before we intend to stop for the night." Inu yasha said roughly as he tried to ignore the boy who was apparently his son who appeared to have a personality somewhere between Kagome's and Shippou's. Shaking his head at the thought Inu yasha looked up the hill and hoped that he wouldn't have to carry the monk very far.

"Then let's go." Sora said with a nod, motioning towards the hill where Miroku was likely still unconscious. "Kyou and I can handle Uncle Miroku if he's still unconscious."

"I knocked him out, I'll carry the moron." Andrea said with a sigh as she began to walk up the hill, the others following as the three time travellers argued over who was going to carry their uncle leaving their parents and kin staring at them with varying degrees of surprise and shock. This was definitely getting weirder and weirder as the days went by.

It was well on its way to getting pitch black when the tired group finally hit the camp site they'd been aiming for. The site was relatively sheltered from the elements and had a small lake near it, which made it perfect in Andrea's opinion. Soon they had a fire going and as she watched the others set up camp Sango realized that she was going to have a hard time getting any sleep at all since she was chained to the demon lord. Demons didn't require sleep at all and it was doubtful he'd see the need to take into account her sleep requirements. Groaning inside Sango looked at him out of the corner of her eye and bit back another groan as things just seemed to be getting worse and worse. The demon lord was watching her out of the corner of his own eyes and Sango figured he was thinking of disposing of her in order to be free of the chain.

Actually she would have been really surprise to know that he was thinking of how to go about letting her get the sleep she'd need to keep up with him as oppose to simply killing her to break free. He was pretty sure that the sorceress would have thought of that anyway so there would be some unforeseeable backlash to such a manoeuvre. Deciding he might as well simply let her have her way without argument Sesshoumaru moved closer to the fire then sat down, yanking the chain slightly to get her to follow him.

Thoroughly confused Sango moved forward and sat down beside him, her eyes staring at him openly. With his clothing and tail he had no need of the fire's heat, why would he move closer to it. She wanted to ask but something in his profile warned great trouble if she did so. Out of the corner of her eye she watched Rin rush over with several berries she'd found in her hands. Without any worry or hesitation the girl plopped down beside Sesshoumaru and held out her hands. Despite the fact that he didn't need to eat anything the demon lord picked up one of the berries and ate it, refusing to Rin's offer of more. The girl then got up and tried to offer some to Jakken who refused to even look at the berries. With a sigh the girl moved over to Sango and held out the berries, which were getting more squashed by the second. Accepting two with a smile Sango popped them in her mouth and felt her stomach rumble in hunger.

"Are you hungry, Rin?" Sesshoumaru asked when she sat back beside him, her usual bright smile on her face as she finished off the berries, which were practically nothing more then stains on her hands now.

" A little Sesshoumaru-sama." Rin admitted as she licked her fingers, enjoying the sticky juice that was staining her hand purple. "But I'm okay, those berries were good, weren't they?"

"Yes. Jakken, go get something for Rin and the rest to eat." Sesshoumaru ordered, wanting to take back his words as soon as they left his lips. What did he care if the others starved, they were nothing to him.

"AH!!!!! I can't find it! I can't find it Sora, Andrea, have you seen it!" Kyou yelled from the other side of the fire, turning attention away from Sesshoumaru's strange remark and over to him. The boy looked quite upset as he paced in front if the fire, jabbing his hands in and out of his pockets frantically.

"What can't you find?" Sora said with a roll of her eyes, figuring that he'd dropped his lucky penny or something trivial like that.

"I dropped my sketch book somewhere, it had my present for grandmother's birthday." Kyou said with a look of pure puppy misery. "I was working on it before I started looking through those books. I couldn't have lost it, I need that book or else I'll never get it all done! What if it fell out of my pocket when we were transported, what if I never find it or even if I do find it what if I never get back in time to paint it for her? The present was suppose to be from Mika and I, she'll kill me slowly and painfully if I don't get it done!"

"Mika?" Sesshoumaru asked as he raised an eyebrow. If he wasn't mistaken the name meant new moon in Japanese.

"My older sister, the evil one." Kyou said shooting a pleading look up at the sky. "Picture dad only more violent and you've got Mika, everyone with half a brain is afraid of her in our time! She's going to kill me, skin me and wear me for a coat."

"She's not that bad, he's exaggerating." Sora said with a shake of her white hair. "Though most people are scared of her."

"I am not exaggerating, what about the time Ronin pissed her off by telling her she couldn't try to cross that really bas bridge? She just about killed him!"

"She did not almost kill him, it would take a lot more then a tree thrown at his head to kill my brother." Sora argued, standing up for her second oldest brother. "And she did nearly break her neck crossing that bridge you know."

"Is this it?" Rin asked as she pulled something from her kimono. "I found it near the berry patch, it has pretty pictures in it."

"Oh thank you thank you, thank you!" Kyou said jumping over to take the sketchbook from her, flipping through to make sure it was his and that everything was still in place. "You're the best, Rin." Kyou said stuffing it into his pocket before picking her up and giving her a big kiss on the cheek. "Next time you need a babysitter, I'm your guy."

"Get your hands off my property before you lose those hands." Sesshoumaru ordered in a voice that broached no argument.

"Yes sir." Kyou said as he set her down on the ground, adding a salute just cause it seemed like the thing to do. "Letting go now."

"Land demons." Andrea said with a shake of her head. "Who can figure them."