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PREFACE

After the destruction of the Shikon no Tama, Kagome was transferred back to her own time for good. She made many attempts to travel back to the Fuedal Era without success. Kagome eventually came to terms with her permanent predicament and tried desperately to surrender to her new life in present day Japan. However, she found it hard to forge a connection with the world that she was currently stuck in, being meant for so much more than the mundane life of a simple high school teenager. When a secret international agency, known only as 'R.O.O.T', seeks her out and invites her to join them, Kagome accepts the invitation wholeheartedly. In the many years that followed, she undergoes special training, learning not only to hone her spiritual powers for tracking, but to use them to assist her in her physical development as well. Advancing through the ranks and becoming team leader of her own reconnaissance unit, she seeks out and destroys those who would threaten the safety and peace of the world. Now a hardened agent, a stark contrast to the weak and feeble child she once was, she can finally protect herself. But all that changes when she is assigned to a mission to gather intel on an rogue agent named 'Sleeper'. It seems that the fate of the world rests solely on her shoulders, until an elusive assassin, codenamed 'Fang', is sent in to help her. Little do they each know how much they have in common – dead memories of the past now alive in the present. Can the duo work together to track down Sleeper before the start of a new world war?

Chapter 1

Feet, moving at a brisk pace, quickly made their way through the winding corridor. The clicking of high heels on the lacquered tiles was the only tell of her presence. The woman, focused on her end destination, wasted no time in crossing the well-lit hallways, recalling the path through the winding maze from memory.

Kagome, code name Wraith, had been summoned directly by General Yamada to participate in a retrieval mission. She absently clenched the mission brief under her arm as she marched to the General's office.

Excitement sent a crackle of electricity up through her body and she took a deep breath, willing her powers to subside. She was going to need them for this mission.

She had worked with Sleeper on several different missions in the past. She could effectively zero in on his spiritual essence and find him; she just needed to be within a close enough radius in order to do so. Idly, she wondered if there was presently enough intelligence gathered about his last known location.

She smiled to herself.

Knowing the way R.O.O.T operated, she was sure there was a book of information already put together for her, along with a fueled plane ready to whisk her away.

Kagome was no stranger to the inner workings of R.O.O.T, she had been a dedicated member within the organization for the past ten years of her adult life. Apparently the agency had been monitoring her since she was a young child.

Her mother had often sought help with her ever growing, and sometimes uncontrollable, abilities. At that time, her gifts only presented themselves out of sheer instinct, making their first appearance in the car accident that killed her father. Kagome didn't remember the accident, but her mother would tell her the story, going as far to say that upon impact, Kagome's spiritual essence engulfed both her and her mother, effectively protecting them from harm. Both escaped injury. Unfortunately her father, who had been sitting in the front of the car, had been killed upon impact. On several other occasions, her spiritual pressure would appear. Whether it was a childish argument at the playground, an embarrassing situation at school, or a stubbed toe at the grocery store, her condition bewildered doctors and healers. It was when Kagome started to get alienated at school, that her mother stopped seeking answers and making a fuss. However, all the commotion that usually surrounded Kagome and her inability to control her gifts is what eventually brought two R.O.O.T agents to her doorstep when she was ten years old. Kagome wasn't privy to the conversation that her mother had with them, but they left shortly after their arrival. Her mother did not share her discussion with Kagome, nor did she ever speak of it again.

At the age of sixteen, soon after Kagome's permanent return from the Fuedal Era, she was approached directly and offered the chance to join other gifted members like her, all under the promise of using those powers to assist in maintaining world peace.

She did not hesitate to accept.

The training was twofold – physical and niche.

The physical training she underwent was brutal, comparative to solider training, and she struggled. Being a clumsy sixteen year old, she bumbled through the first six months of training, wanting desperately to give up. However, after a year she was finally able to find her groove, and her dedicated trainer refused to give up on her.

The second part of her training was specific to her abilities. She was put through many simulated and real life situations which would elicit emotional responses from her. It was hard work and traumatic to say the least, but through time, and under the guidance of others with similar abilities, she was not only able to control her spiritual powers, but also to command them. Her greatest talent was being able to use her spiritual pressure to locate others with whom she had previously come in contact – distance being within reason of course.

The training, and her dedication to it, paid off in spades. Ten years in, and she was a proud master of Krav Maga and Taekwondo and the head of the R.O.O.T reconnaissance unit, leading teams with similar gifts for finding key people for the organization.

Finally approaching the General's office, Kagome was rustled from her musings. She knocked on the thick redwood door and paused, waiting for permission to enter.

"Come in." Came the booming voice from the other side of the door.

Kagome took a moment to flatten the imaginary wrinkles on her slacks with her hands before entering the room.

She walked with confidence into the General's office making her way to his desk. The room smelled of brandy and freshly cut wood. The florescent lighting was in stark contrast with the warmth otherwise exuding from the room.

She straightened in front of Yamada's large desk and saluted.

"At ease agent." Said the large man, a genuine warm was smile painted on his face.

"Agent Wraith, it is a pleasure to see you again. I always wish that our meetings were under better circumstances." He sighed and absently rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I trust you have thoroughly read the mission brief that was delivered to you?"

"Yes, sir. Agent Sleeper, formerly from the Intel group, has gone rogue as of 18:00 hours yesterday. He was working on information that is directly related to newly discovered bio warfare tactics being used in the Middle East. His last known whereabouts are speculative." She cleared her throat before continuing. "My assignment is to go to the last known location and track Sleeper down. Upon locating the target, I am to call in for backup and at that time, will receive new orders. I am not to engage with the target unless it is absolutely necessary…"

The General watched the girl as she rattled through the mission brief. Wraith was one of his top agents. He had enjoyed watching her grow up within the organization, all the while becoming one of his biggest assets. Today she wore her long raven hair in a tightly wound bun, long bangs framing her soft and angled face. Deep, serious brown eyes hid behind her thick long lashes. Absently, she would worry at her short nails while she spoke, a small habit that she had never seemed to outgrow during her time there. She was tall and lean, with well-defined sinewy muscles that would slightly roll under her vest as she inhaled between sentences. A perfect balance between soft and hard, yet utterly feminine and beautiful all the while. She was the perfect enigma.

The present silence jerked the General out of his private thoughts. Wraith was staring at him expectantly.

Did she ask me a question?

"I'm sorry, Wraith. What was that?" He asked.

"Do you have any updated information on Sleeper's last known location?" She repeated. "If he has been missing as of 18:00 hours yesterday, he could be as far as Russia right now. The closer I can get, the better my chances are of finding him".

Paying attention this time, he quickly responded. "Yes, as of about an hour ago, we have information that someone fitting Sleeper's description had been spotted in Osaka. The plane is ready to take you there at once. Once you have landed you are to proceed to the city's train station. You will be under the guise of a civilian and are to blend in and stay out of sight. Report back if or when you know something."

Wraith nodded her head and saluted, in which the general reciprocated, thus concluding the briefing.

As she approached the doorway, he called out to her.

"Wraith."

She stopped and looked back in his direction.

"Please be careful. Sleeper knows you. You both have worked together in the past. He probably already assumes that you'll be the one to go after him."

The General paused and seemed to struggle with something internally before going on.

"The information that he has been working on, could very well start a world war if it finds its way into the wrong hands. If this new bio-weapon could be used on a grand scale, there would be too many dead bodies to even begin to count. It is highly imperative that we get Sleeper and any information he has on this bio-virus intact. We cannot afford to allow any iota of information to leak."

The man ran a worried hand through his hair.

Kagome studied the General for a moment, processing this information before turning to leave, a resolute, "Understood" falling from her lips.

The General watched her go, unease making its way across his hardened features.

He trusted Kagome and technically she was well qualified to handle this mission alone, but something about this particular mission just seemed off. Sleeper's recent disappearance coinciding with the recent intel about a new biological weapon seemed way too convenient to him. As of late, there had been way too many 'coincidences' and fallen agents to simply brush off as nothing.

The General stared off into the backdrop of his office for a moment before seemingly coming to a decision and picking up the phone currently stationed on his desk. The man didn't get to where he was today by ignoring his instincts.

His secretary picked up on the second ring.

"Umi, get a hold of agent Fang immediately and put him through to me directly. I have a mission for him." Boomed Yamada.

"Right away, sir." Retorted his secretary, and with that, hung up the line.