Hello guys, this is my first Inu Yasha fanfic and I hope you will read it. English isn't my first language so exotic grammar might occure. I usually write stories for W.I.T.C.H. (hope you will look at my profile page and read them too). This story will be centered around Kirara and her meeting with Kagome's friends and family in the 21 century, will she fit in?
Disclaimer: I don't own Inu Yasha.

Welcome to the future

Kirara had fought hard today. The gang had been attacked by a nasty ogre youkai with a jewel shard embedded in its huge body and Kirara had to fight extra hard because the monk had been knocked out cold early in the battle, leaving them short of one fighter. They had beaten the ogre in the end, but the group was exhausted, Inu Yasha not included. Therefore, after some convincing words (threats) from Kagome's side, said hanyou agreed to let them go back to Kaede's village and rest for a couple of days.

"Can't you just knock it off for once!" Kagome's voice sounded through the village. "I will only be gone for a couple of days, just long enough for the school and my friends not to declare me dead!"

"But if they did that, then you wouldn't have any reason for going back to school and would have no more tests to complain about." Was Inu Yasha's answer.

The half-demon and priestess continued yelling at each other like an old married couple, entertaining the entire village with their colorful words and foreign arguments. All Kirara wanted was to get some well deserved rest and sleep, but those two would continue until the next morning if Kagome not gave him a sit command. Unfortunately, the girl from the future decided to go easy on him this time and therefore the argument just kept on.

Kirara who had been riding on Sango's shoulder, jumped down and started walking to Kaede's old hut where hopefully their voices couldn't be heard that well.

"Where are you going?" Sango asked.

Kirara looked up at her human companion and yawned, signalizing she was tired and wanted some rest.

"Tired, huh?" Sango said. "I guess we all have deserved some days' rest. You fought hard today Kirara, just go and rest or do whatever you want. I shall ask Kagome to bring back some of the food you like."

"YES! YES! YES! YES!"

"NO!NO!NO! NO AND ABSOLUTELY NO!"

"After she has finished arguing with Inu Yasha of course." Sango added and gave a sigh. "I think I will look at the monk's wounds first, he said he wasn't badly hurt, but you know how boys are. They try to downplay things in order to impress us girls of how tough they are. But we are not going to let that fool us, are we?"

Kirara giggled, something that sounded like chocked hissing for the human but Sango understood. She knew the girl truly cared for Miroku and had deep feelings for him. Sango only used his wounds as an excuse be close to him and be the girlfriend who cared, but without revealing it.

"Stop laughing!" Sango said. "I know what you are thinking but it isn't that."

Sometimes her friend was too obvious. Kirara gave the demon slayer a happy "mew" and wagged her tails, telling she wasn't fooled the least.

Sango mumbled something under her breath and walked over to the tree the lecherous monk was resting under.

Kirara waited until the demon slayer began talking with Miroku before she headed back to the hut. Kaede wasn't inside, neither was Shippo and that meant she had the hut for herself. She found a spot beside the fireplace and curled herself together to sleep. But the unwelcome voices from Kagome and Inu Yasha still penetrated the thin walls, and not long thereafter she heard a loud slap and another argument rising between Sango and Miroku. The issue seemed to be a familiar one.

The nekomata opened her eyes again; this wasn't the place to rest. She stood up and was about to walk outside looking for another place, when she caught eye of Kagome's huge yellow backpack.

She tilted her head. Perhaps that would do.

Kirara went over to the backpack and jumped on top of it, managed to find an opening and squeezed inside it. The inside was dark, but the demon cat had excellent eyesight. Soon enough, she found some of the thick extra clothes that Kagome always carried around in case it got colder. She made a nest inside them and to her delight, discovered that the thick clothes quiet effective muted all sounds from the outside.

And inside the soft, dark and warm nest, she fast fell asleep.

"Mom! I am home." Kagome yelled as she opened the front door and kicked off her shoes.

"Welcome home my dear." Mrs. Higurashi greeted her from the kitchen. "How are you?"

"I am fine, but a bit tired. Are we going to have dinner?"

"Oh, good timing I am working on dinner right now, it will be finished in just a little while so you can go and unpack and change your clothes. Will Inu Yasha going to join us tonight?"

"No, not this time," Kagome said, gave her mother a kiss and went up to her room to find some clean clothes.

Kagome put her backpack down beside her bed, but before she could open it, a small head stuck out from under the lid.

"Mew?"

Kagome's eyes grew wide. "Kirara! What are you doing here; did you hide in my backpack?"

The nekomata tried to push herself further out to get a better view of Kagome and her new surroundings. She was clearly not in Kaede's hut anymore. This was very unexpected indeed.

Kagome's initial surprise quickly changed to exited friendliness. "Oh my, I didn't know you had the ability to travel through the well, I thought only Inu Yasha and I could do it. But since you are here, you must see my family, they will be happy to meet you. Especially Souta."

Kagome opened her yellow backpack to let Kirara out and the neko didn't linger. She jumped out and started looking around the priestess's room. Even though she was a full-fledged demon she was still a cat, or related so them far back some place, and curious of nature. Never before had she seen so many things in one room. People in the future obvious had access to great many more object than back in here time, but this she already knew from what Kagome brought with her and what she had told Sango.

There was a bed and a tall chair with an equally tall desk, on the walls there were bookshelves filled with books of which some of them she had seen the girl been reading during their travels.

Kagome watched the little demon looking around and said, "Well Kirara, I guess I should welcome you to the twenty-first century, and as you probably can see this is my room. We will be having dinner downstairs in a few moments; I hope you will join us."

Kirara looked up at Kagome with her huge red eyes and mewed while wagging her tails eagerly.

"Great" the priestess said and clapped her hands, "I will just change my clothes first then I will introduce you to the others.

As said as done. Kagome put on a new jeans and a red sweater and went, but when she came to the door she stopped and said with laughter, "I shall leave my door open so you can come and go as you please, but when Inu Yasha comes it is usually through the window! Just so you are aware of it."

At this comment, Kirara snickered too, but exactly what she thought of that she didn't need to share with Kagome.

Kagome went out of her room with Kirara following close behind, they walked down the corridor and stopped in front of the last door before the stairs.

"This is my brother's room," Kagome said and knocked on the door.

"Dinner is ready in five minutes!" Kagome said.

"Kagome! You are home!" Came Souta's voice from the inside. The sound of fast footsteps then followed before the door opened and revealed her little brother. "Is Inu Yasha with you?"

"No, not tonight, but I have brought another guest!" Kagome sang playful.

"What. Who?" Souta said excited.

"Kirara" Kagome said and lifted her up so her brother could see.

Kirara greeted Souta with a "Mew" and wagged her two tails rhythmically.

"Oh isn't she the cutest thing" Souta said, took the neko out of Kagome's hands and gave her a hug. "I thought you said it was only you and Inu Yasha who could travel through the well?"

"I thought so myself. Shippo can't, but no one else have really tried. Or perhaps the well took her for some of my backpack stuff."

"Hey sis. Kirara can transform, right?"

"Yes, and I have shown you pictures of her when she is transformed, so don't nag her about showing you. Besides, we are having dinner now. What are you doing in your room anyway?"

"I have just got the coolest videogame ever." Souta said while petting the little demon. "It is a fantasy game where you can fight demons or choose to be one," he continued excited.

"So what you say basically is that you have been up here playing the entire day?" Kagome said flatly.

"Not when I was at school."

Even though Kirara liked being pampered by the kid and had absolutely no idea of what a videogame was, she recognized the beginning of an argument when she heard it. After all, she had seen countless generations of children growing up during her time in the demon slayers village, Sango and Kohaku included. Therefore, before the two humans forgot about her, she let out a mew and looked towards the stairs from where a heavenly smell was coming. Then she jumped out of Souta's arms and walked to the stairs, which she jumped down, one step at a time.

Kagome watched the feline disappear down to the first floor, "I guess she is hungry. But then again so am I. You tend to be that if you walk around slaying demons the day long."

"Oh come on sis. I am practicing slaying demons too now," Souta said, referring to his videogame.

"Yes," Kagome said, clearly not impressed, "But the difference lays in the fact that the demons I meet are real, yours only exist on the screen."

"Can I see Kirara transform later? Please?"

"What did I just say? We are having dinner."

Souta pout his tongue at Kagome, "I will come as soon as I have finished this level."

"You better not be late!" Kagome warned.

"Don't worry," Souta said and went inside his room again, "I am soon finished."

"Yeh," Kagome said to herself, "Where have I heard that before?"

Kagome walked to the kitchen and found Kirara sitting in the doorframe looking at her mom who were busy setting the table.

"Hi mom, it seems we will have a guest to dinner after all!"

Mrs. Higurashi turned surprised around to look at her daughter.

"Did Inu Yasha decide to join us after all?" She said with a smile.

"No. But when I arrived back to this time it seems that I had a stowaway the well didn't detect."

"And who might that be?" Mrs. Higurashi said curious. Kagome's smile clearly showed that it wasn't an unwelcome guest she had brought so there was no reason to worry.

"Mom, I want you to meet Kirara." Kagome said and lifted up the feline so her mother could see.

A bright smile spread across Mrs. Higurashi's face when she saw who it was. "Hello Kirara," she said and bended over to pat her head. "How nice it is to finally meet you. I have heard so much about you from Kagome, would you like to join us for dinner?"

Kirara mewed happily, nodded and licked Mrs. Higurashis hand as she was petted.

"She can't speak human language." Kagome said to her mother, "But she is sentient and understands perfectly well what we say so you can talk to her like any other person."

"That's good, will she be staying here for long and is there anything she prefer to eat?" Mrs. Higurashi said and looked at her daughter.

"She can eat both boar, serow and deer," Kagome said in all seriousness. Then she added quickly with a clever smile, "But that's in her full demon form, usually she eats what we eat and I know she loves fish."

"That's good." Mrs. Higurashi said, "We are going to have fish for dinner tonight. I was afraid for a short moment I had pay the butcher a late visit."

Kagome laughed, "Mom, if you can have enough food to feed Inu Yasha then you won't have to worry about feeding Kirara. None can eat as much as he does, even Kirara in her full demon form."

"Very well then," Mrs. Higurashi said. "Perhaps you would be an angel and set the table for me and get grandpa and Souta."

"Of course" Kagome said. "And if it is okay for you, can Kiara stay here until I leave again?"

"She is welcome to stay as long as she please Kagome. Any friend of you are." Then Mrs. Higurashi turned to Kirara, "Just make yourself feel like home, if there is something you need or want, just give me a hint and I will try to figure it out."

Kirara gave her the cutest mew she could, jumped down to the floor and watched as Kagome and her mother put the last hand on tonight's dinner. She had never smelled anything as good at this, Kagome's mother had to be an excellent cook. Strange Inu Yasha didn't chose to come over her for dinner more often, but then again the half demon was way too stubborn for his own good.

Soon everything was finished. The table was set and the dinner was upon it. Kagome had even given Kirara a platter(!) on the floor and piled it with fish and other things that made her mouth water. Kirara however, in stark contrast to some other demons she knew, had manners to wait until the rest of the family arrived.

Kagome went into the hallway and shouted dinner's ready and soon after an elderly man came walking in. Kirara understood this had to be her grandfather who where the only other person living in the household besides Kagome's mother and brother.

From the half demon's horror stories, she had half expected to be greeted with bunch of fake sutras and conjurations from him, but upon meeting he turned out to be a polite old man. Kirara suspected Inu Yasha's regular meetings with the sutras was more a result of his bad mouth than anything else.

By now four of five, when Kirara was included, were ready to eat. That left them one short.

"Souta! Dinner is ready!" Kagome shouted.

No response.

"SOUTA!" Kagome shouted even louder.

Still no response.

"Ugh. It must be that new game he was talking about." Kagome complained to all and none. "Believes himself to become a demon slayer by playing a stupid video game. If he…"

Kagome stopped saying whatever she was going to say and turned to Kirara.

Kirara looked up at the human girl and saw an impish smile take form on her lips. Somehow, she knew what was coming.

"Hey Kirara," She said, "Could you do us a favor and get that wannabe demon slayer away from his game and down here?"

Oh yes, she had guessed right. She let out a mew and rushed out from the kitchen and up the stairs again.

Upstairs she found the door to Souta's room just like Kagome had left it, half-open. Soundless she slipped inside and walked up behind the priestess' little brother, sat down and watched this "videogame" for a few seconds. It was a blur of forms and colors that moved on a window plate. She could recognize some of the fighting figures as humans and demons but Kagome had said they were fake. The boy was so occupied with tampering on a strange gadget with his fingers and staring at the screen that he didn't see her. Kirara decided to try to get his attention, "Mew." She said.

No response.

She mewed one more time and gave him a pat on his leg with her paw.

But his response wasn't like she expected. "Not now Buyo, can't you see I am busy."

She mewed louder and tried to pull his sweater but to still no use. The boy was lost to this world. Maybe another approach was needed. What was he playing again? Demon slayer? Kirara secretly snickered for herself as she suddenly understood the impish grin Kagome had given her.

The nekomata let go of the sweater and instead walked up right behind the boy's back. She gave a last warning mew that Souta still didn't address properly. Then she transformed.

The boy jumped frightened around by the sudden burst of flames, but all he got time to see was a huge jaw with two enormous fangs that descended down upon him.

Downstairs, inside the kitchen the Higurashi family suddenly heard a scream followed by the sound of struggling before something heavy started walking around upstairs. Mrs. Higurashi looked half worried at her daughter, but Kagome just smiled satisfied and said, "Just wait and see…"

Something huge came down the stairs as they creaked and screamed under the weight and a few seconds later a bear sized Kirara stood in the doorframe wagging her tail while she carried Souta in her mouth as a mother cat would hold her kitten by the neck.

Kagome laughed of her brother's predicament, "It seems the mighty demon slayer finally was defeated. And now as you have seen Kirara transformed and everything, do you mind join us for dinner before you become one yourself?"

Souta grumbled something unintelligible as the cat demon put him down on his chair. She then transformed back and dug into her dinner. It tasted wonderful.

Please, give me a review and tell me what you think, praise and critism are welcome : )

More of Kirara's adventure will follow next week so stay tuned.

Updatet the grammar on the 21.04.18.