Her name is Kagome Higurashi-Taisho, adopted sister to the Western Lord. Up until she was fifteen, she was a very normal girl. All she had to worry about was her grades and boys. Normal everyday teenage girl stuff. That all changed when that centipede demon pulled her down the well. Her worries after that were filled with demons, jewel shards, and staying alive. She suddenly had to master archery, learn to hone her ki, and learn all about herbs and medicines. She made a good group of friends and they traveled around searching for the remaining jewel shards. Kagome jumped between feudal Japan and modern Tokyo, trying to balance time between her two families. All of that lasted two years until tragedy struck. Her mother, grandfather, and little brother died in a lethal car crash that claimed a total of seven people. After that Kagome didn't see a point in returning to the future. So, Kagome made a vow to stay in the past.

She threw herself into learning all the skills to destroy Naraku. She got fighting lessons from Sango, along with learning how to make different types of poisons and weapons. Miroku taught her how to make ofudas, and how to better control her Ki. That worked well for a few months until Kagome had had enough. Enough of Inuyasha insulting her, telling her she wasn't good enough, that Kikyo would always be better than her. She had given him the 'sit' command about ten times to give her enough time to simply get away. She told them that she needed a break from the demeaning half-demon and that she would be back eventually, hopefully.

Shippo chose to go with her while Sango and Miroku stayed with Inuyasha. Shippo was tired of being Inuyasha's anger relief, the poor kid had gotten hit on the head one too many times. There were many people who thought Shippo and her had a mother-son relationship. They didn't though. Shippo reminded her a lot of her little brother. They had a very close-knit sibling relationship. Kagome didn't really have a destination in mind as they walked. Usually when something like this happened, she would just go home to cool off. This time she didn't have a home to go back to and she had no plans on simply forgiving the half demon this time. In her mind he had officially ran out of 'second' chances. The small party of two traveled by themselves for a few days. They helped out a few people and listened to any rumors that could be about a jewel shard. Not that they were many loose shards left. If she had to guess she'd say about ten at the most were left out there. Naraku had most of the jewel, mainly thanks to Kikyo's doing. Then after about a week of traveling by themselves they had a very random encounter. Kagome saved Rin, Sesshomaru's ward, from being eaten by a low-level demon. Kagome had escorted the child back to Sesshomaru who she had sensed a way away. She still isn't sure how it happened, mainly nobody being able to say no to Rin's puppy dog eyes, but they stared traveling with Sesshomaru.

Sesshomaru had been wary of traveling with another human, as he remembered her being loud and rather annoying. But the death of Kagome's family had mellowed her out quite a bit. She was no longer an annoying teenage girl. Once she started getting to know Sesshomaru, who was much nicer when Inuyasha wasn't around, she actually got along really well with him. A new dynamic started with the new group of six. They traveled together peacefully, even finding a few jewel shards, for three months. Sesshomaru taught her how to fight better during that time and she was getting rather proficient. After those three months Inuyasha finally found them. Inuyasha had been less than happy, to put it lightly. He yelled at her for a few minutes, spouting off nonsense. Mainly how she was betraying him by helping his brother. She was getting to her limit of listening to his bullshit, when to her surprise Sesshomaru stepped in for her. One second, he was by Ah-Un the next he had Inuyasha by the throat. She remembers his words clearly.

Sesshomaru bared his fangs at his worthless half-brother, "The Miko is now part of this Sesshomaru's pack. You have lost any claim you think you had on her. This Sesshomaru protects his pack as a proud member of the Taisho clan with his life. Leave." He had then tossed Inuyasha away. The half-demon had flew through two trees before falling into a deep pit of his own making.

She had firmly told Inuyasha he could piss off and she was staying with Sesshomaru from now on before following after the Daiyokai. She had never felt as free as then, finally escaping her verbal tormentor.

About eight months after that Sesshomaru brought up a ritual he wanted to perform. It could only be done once every ten years and only by Daiyokai level demons. It was almost a lost art at this point as many thought the ritual pointless. Sesshomaru's library was very extensive however and the Taisho clan tried to keep track of everything. He wanted to perform a blood adoption. 98% of demons looked down on humans so the last documented case of the ritual taking place was over three centuries ago. The castor of the ritual could welcome any human into the family in whatever way they saw fit. Sesshomaru planned on making Rin his daughter, and if Kagome was willing his younger sister.

She had to think on it a bit. She really wanted to do it. She had the utmost respect for Sesshomaru and was honored he wanted her part of his dying family line. The Taisho line was one of the oldest families in Japan. The past few generations had seen to less and less pups being born however, which was why Sesshomaru was the only pureblooded one left. Kagome wanted a family again. While she did think of Sesshomaru, Shippo, Rin, Ah-Un, and even Jaken as family… it would be nice to be related by blood to someone again. It had been over a year since her family died and she missed them terribly. So, while she really did want to accept, she still had a duty to fulfil. Naraku was still out there, word of the villages he attacked reached them constantly. She had a strong feeling that she would need her Ki to defeat the vile half demon.

Eventually when it came down to it, she simply said screw it. She would practice her abilities as a demon to beat Naraku. Sesshomaru had almost beaten the spider himself a few times, if she was fighting with him they could possibly get him for good. She agreed to the ritual. Less than a month later both Rin and herself were made in full dog demons. The process had been painful, but she was changing species so she guessed that was only natural. Both of their appearances changed during the process.

Rin's hair changed to a brilliant white. Her chocolate brown eyes got a pretty golden shine to them, through the brown was still there. Markings appeared on her face similar to Sesshomaru's only instead of two stripes on her cheeks she only had one. Sesshomaru explained that a second set would appear when she got older. She even had a tiny crescent moon on her forehead, indicating she was Sesshomaru's heir.

Kagome's hair had also changed to a snowy white. Gold had tried to take over her eyes but her natural blue had fought back. She had equal amounts of both coloring her eyes. She had the two sets of stripes on her face, however she did not have the crescent moon. She could feel fangs poking her bottom lip, those would take some getting used to. They both got pointed ears as well. A fluffy white cloud-like thing had appeared around her, like the one Sesshomaru always has draped over his shoulder. He explained that it was a visual of how much yokai they possessed. It was a trait exclusive to silver dog demons. They could also control it with a mere thought and it could be used to fight with. Hers was a little under half the size of Sesshomaru's. Rin would gain hers when she gained her second stripes.

Shippo had thought it was the coolest thing that the two humans he thought of as sisters were demons now. He wouldn't have to watch them age and die! He couldn't wait to play with Rin now that he didn't have to hold back.

They spent the next four moths in Sesshomaru's castle. Sesshomaru taught them how to control and utilize their yokai. Kagome found she could form the same acid whips as Sesshomaru. He spent a lot of time showing her how to control it. She could limit the amount of acid created with the whip, it could go from a pretty harmless whip to cutting something in half instantly. Both Kagome and Rin found they had an inner beast, which meant with training they could bond with it and eventually turn into giant dogs like Sesshomaru. Kagome was nowhere close to that however. During that time Kagome turned nineteen and her new family had thrown her a nice birthday party. Sesshomaru had gifted her a sword, made from his own fang. He started teaching her how to use it that very night. Kagome was a quick learner.

They learned something very interesting that night. Somehow, against all odds. Kagome still had her Miko-ki. By all means the ritual should have purged the holy powers from her body. How the two opposite powers resided within her without destroying her body she had no idea. She wasn't going to complain however. In her mind she had just gotten the golden ticket.

Unfortunately, they couldn't stay at the castle happily, they had to go back out there. There were still shards to find and a nasty spider to kill. They had been traveling again for about a month when Kagome's powers stated acting weird. She had been fighting a demon by herself. Sesshomaru had been off to the side watching, if it looked like she was going to lose he would step in. She went to purify the demon when her Ki burned her hands. She immediately locked her Ki away and jumped back from the demon. Sesshomaru who witnessed what was going on swiftly beheaded the demons. The two shared a look, something was wrong. It wasn't simply the two powers being together, if it was that then her ki would have burned her the first time she used it as a demon. No, her two powers had blended perfectly together. Then as if an answer to her question she saw a soul collector fly into the woods behind them. Kikyo was close. It was possibly the other half of her soul was trying to 'fix' the 'taint' within her.

Sesshomaru had demanded she not use her ki until he said it was safe to. Then he had disappeared in a blur. Even for her now enhanced senses that man was still amazingly fast. Not even five minutes later a burst of light lit up the woods. Dozens of souls escaped towards the heavens, but a smaller bit came straight towards her. The last thing she remembered was the other half of her soul coming for her.

When she woke up her yokai cloud had grown longer and she could feel her increased strength already. She glanced over to Sesshomaru who nodded, Kikyo was dead. She carefully tried her ki and it responded eagerly, happy to finally be whole again.

It was shortly after that that she ran into her old group again. Inuyasha had been livid at seeing her transformation. She had gotten what he longed for and her mind was still intact. Not that the ritual would have worked for the half demon anyway. It only worked on humans. Sango and Miroku had been shocked to see her not only as a demon, but alive. Inuyasha had apparently told them that she had died. Sango and Miroku had finally had enough of the half-demon as well. Inuyasha lying to them about Kagome's 'death' was the last straw. They very politely asked Sesshomaru if they could join his group. Sesshomaru had been wary about it but reluctantly agreed to let them travel with them. Mostly likely to piss of Inuyasha and please Kagome.

A year passed rather quickly. There were fights with Naraku and his incarnations. Finding the last of the loose jewel shards. They ran into Inuyasha quite a bit, Kagome was pretty sure he was following them. Which wasn't creepy at all, nope. During that year Kagome got rather proficient with her sword. She wasn't a master by any means but she could definitely hold her own. Even against Sesshomaru she could keep up with for a bit before he over whelmed her. Finally, the moment came to pass. Their showdown with Naraku.

It had been a long, tough, battle. Many people had joined them to finally take down the foul spider. Throughout the battle there were some who fell and others who had to retreat. In the end it had been a bit of a letdown. While Kagome had somehow gotten the entire jewel, Naraku escaped. The coward had run before they could finish him off. Once a coward always a coward. Kagome fused the jewel back together, using the last of the ki reserves. Now the jewel had a tiny bit of a sentience to it and it chose to go to the once place it new it would be safe, back inside of Kagome. If Kagome's ki reserves hadn't been completely empty she was sure she would have been able to stop the pesky jewel. Circumstances as they were however, the jewel once again resided in her hip. Well at least this way she could protect it better, she thought dryly. Now all that was left to do was slay Naraku once and for all. Naraku was patient however and knew how to hide. The entire 50-year gap between Kikyo dying and Kagome entering the feudal era for the first time Naraku had been practically inactive. The spider could be very patient when he wanted to. She had a feeling this was one of those times.

Before she knew it, she had turned twenty-three. Miroku and Sango settled down in Edo and currently had a set of one-year old twin girls. Kagome had been named godmother of them, which she agreed to eagerly. She was pretty sure Sango had another bun in the over, if her hunch was right this one would hopefully be a boy. Inuyasha had disappeared, she was pretty sure he was trying to find Naraku to avenge Kikyo. The rest of them settled back down to Sesshomaru's castle. Kagome spent most of her days training, playing with the kids, and making friends with people within the castle. She had started bonding with the beast in her mind, she was getting closer to being able to transform into it. She hasn't made her first transformation quite yet but she was getting there. Life was nice and peaceful, even with the threat of Naraku's reappearance looming over them. Little did she know was about to take a drastic change.