~I think I've gone over this one enough to be posted, here is the second chapter to twists and turns! I hope you enjoy and please r & r!

(I don't own inuyasha)

Noise, so much noise it was unbearable. It was nonstop. How could anyone live with this much noise in their ears? And that smell! It was like long time rotten flesh in mid summer sun. It clogged her nose and her senses until she couldn't focus anymore, a painful whimper escaping her mouth. Her head throbbed with every pulse of blood in her veins. She could feel the veins in her skull, each one screaming in agony with the simple effort of pushing the blood through her system. She wanted it to stop, she wanted it all to go away. Her arms were violently shaking as she held her precious bundle to her chest. Another small whimper managed to reach her ears over the noise around her, and Taya forced her eyes open to look down at her pup.

The small pup, blue eyes wide and rounded, looked around with fear and awe at their surroundings. Taya too dared a glance around them to see what she saw, and was even more baffled by their surroundings. It appeared to be a shrine, old and withered, but still very well kept. But something seemed off.

The walls were not of wood and stone… They looked to be made almost of marble. In the most strange shade as well. And there was so many buildings, it was almost an impressive shiro. But the unfaltering aura of the lands did not lie that this was definitely a well protected shrine.

Taya glared at her surroundings, her eyes not wanting to focus properly with the pulsing pain in her head. Still though she tried, the place reeked of humans of all ages, but different all the same. Yet there was no one in her sight. If she was not in so much pain, she might have flared her aura to sense her surroundings better, but she did not want to draw attention to herself while she was in such a state. But when her dark eyes landed on a familiar sight, her cry of relief would have probably alerted any humans nearby.

Hoisting her pup up properly into her arms and stumbling to her feet, Taya made a mad dash for the sacred tree. Old and beautiful, tall and strong, she would recognize that tree anywhere. It was where she had first met Minato, a collision on a hunt for the same prey. Led into a fight and a brawl, ending in the most romantic evening of her life. Minato and she often returned to the tree, despite it's closeness to a growing human village, to pray and bond together. It was under those branches he offered his courtship, asked for her to be his mate and not just his wife, and where she announced their growing pup in her belly. If she was near the tree, Minato would not be far away.

Skidding to a stop a few feet away, Taya's face fell as she approached. Minato was not sitting upon the roots awaiting her. Not only that, but in the middle of the tree was a large scar. Her lips pouted out as she got closer, reaching out a hand to brush along the worn bark. But the energy that hummed through the wood confirmed what she believed, this was the same tree. It had aged quite a bit though, upon closer inspection she could tell it was far taller than the last time she stood under it. Not to mention the energy it gave off was now far stronger.

"Quite a beauty eh? That is our sacred tree!"

Taya jumped, turning to face the stranger with her teeth bared. Sliding her pup to the ground and moving her behind her legs, Taya let out a dark warning growl, her eyes turning red at the corners. The man blinked owlishly at her, though short and not exactly the vision of fitness, Taya did not mistake the aura of purity that surrounded him.

"DEMON!" The man yelled, leaping back in fear, his arms flailing in shock. He glared at Taya and the small one behind her, reaching into his robe to pull out a handful of sutras.

"Return that human child at once and I may let you live!" He hollered, waving the sutras around wildly. Taya growled once more but froze, wondering what the mad monk was yelling about. That was when the scent hit her.

Slightly turning to look behind her, Taya looked over her pup once more, using all of her strength to focus on only the pup and not so much the crazy man. Her pup looked up at her with fear and worry, her blue eyes still the same shade, but lacking the demonic tell point at the corners of her eyes. And her ears…. They were once pointed but now they sat rounded. Taya's eyes widened, fear slowly gripping her. What had the Jewel done to her? The pup still smelled the same, just like herself and Minato, but the demonic aura that once surrounded her was now almost non existent. In it's place was something more… Pure.

"I said leave her be!" The man hollered at them once more, making her ear twitch in his direction, but she could not take her eyes off of what had become of her pup… The jewel had turned her human?!

"I warned you!" He yelled, chucking his sutras at the pair with vigor. Taya flinched and ducked to cover her pup, unsure if this was just all an illusion. She wasn't going to risk her pup's safety to find out. The young pup watched as the sutra's came flying at them, and when her mother had her arms around her once more, she shut her eyes in panic. Taya barely looked in time to see the sutra's hit a barrier, burning up harmlessly inches from her face. Shock filled her, as it obviously did the monk as well as he started yelling as well, his face turning red. His voice though faded as everything around them started turning pink once more before she felt herself get pulled in all directions at once, the same feeling she had right before she was pulled from the shiro of the west.

The sudden silence in the air was deafening. It was as if the world had swallowed her and her pup whole a moment ago, and now sat holding it's breath. Taya hesitated before opening her eyes, looking up once more at the sacred tree. This time though, when she breathed in the air it did not burn her senses. It smelled amazingly clean and fresh, as if the world was anew again. Her brows furrowed in confusion. What on earth had happened?

"Taya?"

Her ears twitched, and Taya spun around quickly to stand on her feet once more. Her pup peeked around her leg and let out a bubbling laugh of joy before running around her.

"Minato?" Taya whispered, her voice cracking with uncertainty as she looked upon her mate, drinking in his appearance as her pup ran to his legs to wrap her small arms around his knee.

"Papa!" The pup sang happily, kissing his clad knee, glancing between him and Taya with a brilliant smile on her face. Minato seemed frozen in place, his eyes wide and disbelieving. Taya stumbled for a moment before following her pup, throwing herself into her mate with a wail. Though she was by no means a large demon, she easily toppled Minato who still remained in shock. Taya couldn't help herself and burried her nose into the crook of his neck, inhaling his scent as if she needed the smell more than oxygen to breathe. She would never mistake that musky midnight scent, it was definitely him. The smell of dew on grass late a summer night, Minato's scent was heaven to her.

"Taya…. How?" His own nose ghosted over her, his arms wrapping around her tightly, pulling the pup next to them as well. "You… Look exactly the same… The pup…." He glanced at their pup who happily giggled in his embrace, his voice fading as he noticed the same changes as Taya had a few moments ago.

Taya sniffed, resisting the tears that rested in her eyes. "I do not know… She… The jewel must have done something to her. I'm not sure what…." Taya nuzzled under his chin, only desiring to be closer to him.

"Not only that… Taya…. You have not changed a day… From the moment you disappeared…." The quiver in Minato's voice drew her eyes to his, a little confused as to why he seemed so much more concerned than overjoyed at her return.

"What is the matt-" Taya's brows furrowed, her eyes widening as she stared at him, her fingers reaching up to brush under his eyes. The dark circles, the paleness of his skin, if she looked even closer, she could see one or two silver strands at his hairline. "Minato?" She whispered, suddenly frightened at the change in him. She had been gone maybe an hour!

"My love…. You've been gone a century…." He whispered, pushing his claws through his mate's hair, pulling her close enough to rest his forehead against her's. "Tell me please…. What happened? Where have you been?"

Taya let out a choked sob, throwing her arms around him and pulling him as close as possible. A hundred years of emotion, whether she had been gone an hour or a hundred years, their bond allowed her to feel everything he felt in that time span they spent apart, and it shattered her from the inside out.

"It seems the jewel transported you two to a 'safe place' when you made your wish. And transported you back when she felt frightened. That is the best assumption I can make." Tashio brushed his thumb across his chin, contemplating the story over once more. Minato, Taya, and the pup sat curled at the base of the sacred tree, the pup fast asleep across her parent's laps.

"As for becoming human… Or the aura of purity, I am unsure. It seems the Kami's have a special plan for your pup, including this strange method of travel."

Tashio's words made Taya pull her pup closer to her. Human or not, she still bore this pup. And would have another soon she learned once Minato and herself had calmed down enough. "Strange travel indeed..." Taya murmured, brushing her pups bangs out of the way. "I think I have a name my love…" She whispered, not taking her eyes off of the sleeping pup in her arms.

Minato wrapped her tighter in his arms, not taking his eyes off of their pup either. They both had seen the glowing star when the pup laughed, when she smiled and became overjoyed. The pure energy and joy radiating from her had caused the light to shine.

"Kagome. My little Kagome the mystery." Taya cooed, nuzzling her pup with love and adoration, though worry still danced in her eyes. She wished for the jewel's protection of her pup, she never could have imagined such an outcome, or what the future may hold.

"Alright I'm off to go meet my friends!" Kagome called, knowing her mother would hear her no matter where she was in the house. 'Mom sense' is what she always called it, and probably the biggest reason she never tried to cause any trouble, her mother always seemed to have eyes in the back of her head. Souta was still learning about that however, and got into trouble quite frequently.

"Sweetheart, will you be back for dinner? I'm making your favorite for your birthday!" Her mother peeked around the doorway to the kitchen, drying off her hands on a hand towel. Kagome smiled and nodded at her. "Of course! I can't wait mom! I'll see you later." Kagome tucked her shoes over her heels and stepped outside onto the shrine grounds. Taking a glance back at herself in the window's reflection, she smiled. Her mother and grandfather had splurged on her wardrobe for her birthday and she had every intention on showing off her new jeans and tribal crop top. Maybe she would even get a haircut while she was out and about. Turning eighteen was a huge deal for her, she graduated the previous year with flying colors, got accepted into university, and had the next year all planned out to travel. Kagome couldn't be happier!

"Buuuuyooooooo!"

Kagome's thrilled thoughts were distracted by her little brother's voice. Following his calls to the old well house, Kagome tilted her head as she approached.

"You know you can't play over here, mom gets mad." Kagome stated plainly, hearing a crash off in the distance and the yelling that sounded like her grandfather. She shook her head and knelt next to her brother, peering into the darkness of the wellhouse.

"The cat is down there… But it's so dark and creepy." Souta muttered in explanation. Kagome sighed, resting her chin in her palm. "Just go down and get him."

"Why me!?"

"Because you're the one looking for the cat."

"Yeah because mom wants me to feed him! Why do I gotta do it!"

Kagome let out a scoff and shook her head. "Fine ya scaredy cat, I'll go get him." She said, marching down the stairs into the darkness.

"Careful sis…. I think I hear something down there!"

"Gee I wonder what… Maybe the cat?" Kagome rolled her eyes at her little brother, her voice dripping with sarcasm. Her eyes scanned the darkness, seeking out their fat calico cat. A soft noise drew her further in, right next to the well, but she saw no sign of their cat.

"Buyo! Breakfast kitty kitty!" Kagome gently called, peering into the darkness of the small shrine.

The scratching continued, making her burrow her brows in confusion right before a fluffy ball rubbed against her leg, making her yelp and jump in surprise.

Souta screamed in surprise as well, falling back on his rear as he glared at her "Ha see! You called me a scaredy cat! Listen to you!" He pointed at laughed uneasily as she picked up the cat, glaring at him in return for his laughter. Souta paused in his laughter and his arm went slack, the color draining from his face.

"Sis…"

She felt it as he said it, the rupture in the air behind her, the suction of the aura of the well as it retracted then exploded in the wellhouse, making her breath flee from her lungs. The sheer pressure of the wells aura kept her from screaming as she felt several ice cold hand wrap around her body, yanking her backwards into the darkness.

"Kagome!" She could hear the echo of her brother's frightened call before a strange low began to illuminate below her, lighting up the incredibly long body of what looked like-

"Aaaaaiiiiiiieeeee!" Kagome began thrashing, trying to get away from the elongated oversized centipede, feeling like she was going to throw up as the head of the body twisted around to crawl up her front, making every inch of her skin crawl in disgust.

"I sense it! Yes you have it! My body returns…. Give it to me!" The centipede woman thing leaned in, licking her face.

"Gross! Get off my you hag!" Kagome let out a snarl, bundling up her power as her grandfather had taught her into her palm and thrusting it towards the creature, only singeing it's flesh and removing a limb before it retreated into the darkness, cursing her the whole way.

'A demon in the well? But gramps has kept it sealed forever!' Kagome frowned until she suddenly hit ground, scuffing her elbows and knees into the hard pebbled ground of the well. "What the hell just happened… Why am I even thinking about this Demons aren't real!" Kagome shouted to herself, frantically rubbing herself down as if to brush off the essence of the damnable creature from her. 'I must have hit my head. Cripes this sucks… Mom's going to send me to the hospital for sure.'

"Souta! Get me a ladder!" She shouted, grabbing whatever she could to haul herself out of the well, grumbling about her chicken shit brother for running off. Finally hauling herself over the lip of the well, Kagome gaped at her surroundings.

"The hell have I gotten myself into now?" She muttered to herself, unaware of what was really coming to her.

Kagome sat inside Kaede's hut once more, nursing a cup of tea in a dazed manner as the priestess and her mother conversed. Her mother! Who by the way, sat there as if nothing was wrong with her ears or the markings on her wrists, the same that adorned Kagome now as well. Inuyasha, the half breed, sat not too far off sulking still from his situation. Why he was still here she couldn't imagine. But looking over the half demon in concern, she couldn't help but remember the whole incident once more.

"Look out!" Kaede had called right before the centipede demon slammed into her side, a blinding white hot pain flaring through her side as the fangs ripped through her flesh, pulling something more than just her skin and muscle away.

Kagome had been engulfed in a blinding quick flash of light the second the jewel had been torn from her body, falling back to the ground in a painful heap, Kagome was left disoriented for several moments, her ears ringing with far too much noise and her eyes unable to focus further than her arms. It took her what felt like several moments to be able to focus enough to notice the lavender stripes that wrapped around her wrists.

Still disoriented, she shakily stood to her feet right as Kaede yelled for her once more. She turned in a flash, and saw the demon heading her way once more, and she tried to leap out of the way, successfully projectiling herself like a rocket face first into the sacred tree, sliding down in front of inuyasha.

"The hell is with you wench!? You smell different! The hell is goin on?!" Kagome, still dazed, looked up at him as the wicked centipede wrapped itself around her, Inuyasha, and the tree.

"Damn! Girl do you want to live?!"

That had been the question, when the pressure on her lungs was starting to make her see stars, when she worried about ever seeing her family again, Kagome could only respond with one answer, she wanted to live.

And thus led to the half demon sitting with them now. Her mother, apparently jumped through the well to fetch her daughter when she returned from the market to Souta screaming his head off about his missing sister. Missing demon sister, half demon. She wasn't even sure anymore. And her mother's terrible explanation to Kaede was not helping.

According to Tayo, The jewel had merged with her 'pup' when she was young and her mother had made a wish for her to be protected, hoping it was a good enough wish to rid the world of the jewel after the war for its possession with Ryukotsusei, a dragon demon who sought its power and tried stealing it from her mate. The wish however, apparently sent them into what Tayo learned was the future.

After their first sporadic jump in between eras, her grandfather as they now knew them, had taken them in, thinking that Kagome had been sent by the gods with a demon protector to learn under him the ways of a miko. The miko gifts the jewel had given her when it joined with her. The thought made her scoff.

Now Kaede and Tayo were discussing logistics of her powers and the jewel's influence. Kaede was sure that some how in between the ages, her sister had become a reincarnation of the futuristic girl, for they looked so much alike that even Inuyasha was fooled. In addition, Kaede was convinced that Kagome was to be the jewel's protector.

All of this was beginning to be too much, the flow of time was still a concept still not fully understood in her time, how was any of this to make any sense to a girl fresh out of high school?! The most comprehension she had of this crap was in movies! Back to the future, the Time traveller's wife, The terminator. Tayo and herself found comfort in long movie nights, but never did she think she would be a part of something like a movie. She had to be dreaming.

Kagome pinched her arm, blinking slowly and frowned. Nope she was still here. The smell of the half dog demon was more than enough to tell her that.

"The young lass still has the aura of a miko, but now I can also detect her demonic power. 'Tis strange indeed." Kaede hummed as she poured herself another cup of tea and one for Tayo.

"But her markings… And her true scent have returned. We never thought it was possible, and now her powers are too strong for her previously human body… We never thought you would be back…" Tayo's eyes landed on her daughter with concern. How was she to help train her now almost fully grown daughter?

Ah yes, the spectacular moment of launching herself face first into a tree with her inhuman strength. And then running right past her mother and into another tree when she went for a hug. If she weren't so durable, Kagome would be wandering around with a completely broken face like one of those poor head on car accident victims. The thought made her close her eyes in a small tidbit of fear. The conversation continued around her as she slowly brought herself back to focus. Channeling her hearing to only the one room and not the conversation five huts down was finally getting easier.

"Feh! If she can't even fight as a real demon what use is she anyways?" Inuyasha snorted distastefully, scratching at the wood below him.

"Sit boy." Kagome spat, rising from her stupor in time to punish his insult on her person. The half demon went plummeting into the ground at the entrance of the hut, causing Tayo to giggle.

"My Inuyasha you sure did grow up to have some spunk!" She mused, giggling mostly to herself even as Inuyasha sputtered his confusion and anger. Spunk certainly wasn't the work Kagome would have used, especially considering her mother had come along when Inuyasha was in the middle of attempting to kill her for the jewel.

"Wait you knew me as a pup?!" Inuyasha snarled, pushing himself from the ground to pay attention to the older youkai.

"But of course, you were brought to the western shiro right after you were born, Minato and I were there to recount the battle details and take account of the casualties for your father… We were worried he wasn't coming back…" Tayo trailed off, thinking of that evening with a far away look in her eye. The night that started it all for her. Kaede shook her head, Inuyasha hadn't remembered her either at first. Tayo shook her head and grabbed something from her pocket, Kagome barely took note it was a talisman in her grandfather's handwriting. (grandfather- mentor? What was she supposed to call him now?)

"Grandpa made these for us through the years. Of course Souta and I were the only ones that needed them. But this may help you move around for a bit, you'll be at least more comfortable."

Tayo turned and tapped the talisman to Kagome's forehead, smiling as it glowed a gentle green and vanished into Kagome's skin. With the evaporation of the talisman, her markings faded away as well, silencing the distant noises across the village and the scents that assaulted her from the moment her demonic power surfaced.

With the dizzying powers sealed, Kagome came back to full clarity, eyeing her markings on her wrists as they too disappeared. Her headache dissipated, even if fractionally, as well enough for her breathe easy.

"There you go, I must admit I feel a little overwhelmed too when I don't stretch my senses often enough. I can't imagine how you must be feeling sweetheart, een in this era." Tayo relaxed and took another sip of tea, catching Kaede and Inuyasha's shocked stares.

"Grandpa isn't the best monk by far, but his talismans hold some weight when he can actually focus and not rage his way through it. When I explained who I was and what Kagome was to me, he decided to help us and later Souta when he was born, so we may be more comfortable where we are from."

"Wait…." Kagome murmured softly, her eyes starting to go wide as everything was slowly falling together for her. Though not in the proper order she should be asking questions.

"Your mate…. Minato… My father?" Kagome bit every word out, her blue eyes turning to lock on her mother with a blinding fury previously unthinkable. "My father…. Who went overseas never to be seen again?" Kagome's breath's were ragged and uneven, struggling to make their way in and out. Whether it was the stress of the past day or the weight of everything finally crushing her, this was the last straw.

Kagome jumped from her sitting position, gripping her fists tight as she stared down her mother who had the nerve to look perturbed that Kagome was reacting so.

"Kagome, sweetie, you have to understand-"

"No I don't! Because I'm going home! I have friends and university and my whole life ahead of me! To think I'm staying here or letting you get off with telling me my papa is gone forever-WHEN HE IS NOT- is beyond ridiculous! I won't sit here one more minute!" Kagome stomped around Inuyasha, ignoring his sputtering about the jewel. The half demon jumped up to follow her but paused when Tayo called him to stop.

"When she's like this she needs a few minutes to breathe. Some space. Otherwise there's no talking to her without repercussions." Tayo arched a brow at the half demon, clearly referring to the small crater he had left in the ground.

Inuyasha's ears flickered and he snorted in anger, plopping himself down and watching through the crack in the screen as the girl disappeared over the hill.