Promises Through Time

Disclaimer: I Own NONE of these characters featured in this fanfiction. Except the few OC's in there... Therefore, all familiar characters have no relation to me.

Summary: It was a fleeting glance, yet, when they looked into eachother's eyes, they knew. However, time has separated them and now they search for eachother in hope of being together once more.

Chapter One: A Mere Memory Of What Was...

~Flashback~

June 5th, 1884

A young woman stared out into world around her. She had never been so far away from home, but the trip to North America seemed like an adventure getting ready to unfold. Upon looking at her, you would believe her to be of asian decent with her almond shaped eyes and pale skin with flowing blue black hair. Yet with the unique blue colored eyes she had sense birth, one would rethink.

Yet that was not the matter.

Said young woman was wearing a blood red dress that ruffled at the ankles and had scuffed brown boots on her feet. The collar of the dress was laced as were the sleeves, and the dress buttoned down towards the waist area, where it opened up over the hips. The sleeves ended at the wrists, flowing out near the hands. Coming off the ship in disgust as she walked towards the small town, she looked around. Taking out a white handkerchief to cover her nose as she sneeze she once again looked around her surroundings.

"The Americas is less than what they seem." She replied before nodding towards a young woman behind her, wearing a long black, dress that touched the ground, with black boots. The dress was buttoned from the collar to the mid waist, and had puffy shoulders with narrow sleeves. She wore black leather gloves and wore a small black top hat over her beautiful chesnut brown hair. She carried four large suitcases, one in each hand, and one underneath each arm.

"Hai Mistress, however, with such slowness compared to our cities in England and Japan, and with greater area compared to said countries, we should not boast on their less than obvious status in advancement." Replied the chesnut haired woman as her 'Mistress' sighed in defeat.

"Well, then we must continue on our journey to Uncle's house. He does live not too far from here right?" She replied turning blue eyes towards hallow black ones.

"About a four days walk from here Mistress... but if you want other means of transportation..." She replied as her Mistress nodded her head as to continue.

"Then I would gladly fly you there. My connection towards Lady Koyuki is still as strong as the day she was born." She replied with a smile.

"Then onward, my Ayashina!" She giggled as the two females walked through the crowded town of Viriginia and began their journey west.

Upon arriving in a desert area in the forest, Ayashina and her Mistress stopped. Eyes darkening into black orbs, Ayashina released her demonic aura, her features changing slightly, showing an even taller woman with sexfully tasty bodice and long brown tail. Her pointed ears twitched a bit as she closed her eyes. Winds began to surround her form as she was lifted into the air, flour black orbs appearing out of thin air began to twirl around her at such fast speeds that you could only see their shadows. Seconds turned into minutes until one orb stopped its twirling as the other three continued, but at a slower pace.

"They be in this direction, Mistress." She said eyes opening, yet still levitating in the air.

"Oh goody!" Her Mistress replied, clapping her hands in excitement. Grabbing the suitcases and chanting a simple spell that caused the cases to be shrunken into sizes that she easily could put into her purse. Once suddled she walked over towards her servant, who landed on the ground, the wind ceasing. Her servant grinned, licking her lips as she eyed her mistress. Before playfully looking at her like was a sexy piece of meat. Her Mistress, giggled at her servant, hitting her playfully, before her servant picked her up, bridal style.

"Remember-"

"Don't move." Her Mistress said, and they shot up into the air, flying at speeds faster than one could imagine. To the people the past underneath them, they were nothing, their speed could not be caught by human eyes.

"Oh, Kagome dear! You look so beautiful!" Cooed a mid-thirties woman with blue black hair and almond colored, almond shaped eyes. She wore a white long-sleeved shirt, sleeves rolled up, with a spotted gray long skirt that ended at her feet.

"Arigato Oba. Do you remember Ayashina?" She replied as the female demon was inspecting the house. It was a white cottage, with five bedrooms, a outhouse, a stable, a barn and a lake not so far.

"Do I ever! Ayashina you still look the same as you did when I was young." She giggled as Ayashina gave a small smile at the woman.

"Yet, you will always be my little Koyuki-chan." Ayashina smiled.

"Anyway..." Kagome began as she looked at the old-fashioned kitchen. "Okaasan was wondering how you were, and I volunteered my services as well as Ayashina in helping you and Uncle William with the farm here. Is Eleanor and Daisy here?"

"Aww, those two, they're off man-hunting again. You know, at your age, you should be too." Her Aunt said as she began to clean the house.

"I'm only a 121 years old, Oba. I think I have more than enough time to find me a man. " Whined her niece as Ayashina, in a robotically fashion began to help clean the house as well. "Besides, Eleanor and Daisy are seventeen and are not true Higurashi's. They'll age much faster than us."

Her Aunt sighed, and was about to say something when a young male came barreling into the house.

"Koyuki I was just about to-" His voice was caught as he stared at Kagome who was beginning to sit down. He blushed as he stared at her.

"Oh, hey there Tom. Tom this is my niece Higurashi Kagome, Kagome this is my nephew Tom Philis. Tom lives not too far from here." She replied not looking at the young male with ruffled up brown hair wearing a white dirty long sleeved button up shirt that was opened a bit, and dirty black overalls that would have ended at his feet, if it weren't for the fact that he rolled them up at the knees.

"Hello there." Kagome replied with a smile as the boy blushed even darker. She giggled before turning her attnetion towards her servant who appeared out of nowhere in her traditional wear of servant clothing, of golden yellow dress with a white apron. The sleeves were rolled up, her hair was tied up, and she her feet were covered in worn black shoes.

"Mistress, I am going to set up your room now." She replied as Kagome nodded her head. Ayashina nodded her head, and then turned to Tom who was looking as if he was going to have a nose bleed.

"Excuse me for the interruption young sir. Continue on." And with that, she took Kagome's purse and disappeared down the hall.

Kagome giggled at Tom's expression as he tried to calm himself down.

"Wow, she sure is pretty. Anywho, welcome to the familiy Higurei-"

"Its Higurashi, but you can call me Kagome. And if she could, my servant, Ayashina would have gladly thanked you for the compliment." She replied getting up and smiling.

"So..." He began looking elsewhere, as he scratched the back of his head.

"What do you do for fun around here? Being that I am to stay here now, I am merely wondering."

"Oh! That's what I was going to say when I was coming here! Koyuki there's a party going on near the lake, and I was going to fetch Eleanor and Daisy... Do you want to come Kagome? It will be fun, there I can introduce you to our friends." He replied as Kagome nodded her head.

"That would be fun."

"What of Ayashina dear?" Koyuki asked as she cleaned her hands and then began the evening meal.

"I don't know, I'll go ask." She replied as she walked down the hall and disappeared. Walking towards the room that she heard her servant walking around in she walked in. Ayashina immediately stopped her working, turning around on heel and bowing to Kagome.

"Is there something you need of me, Mistress?" She asked not wavering from her bowing position.

"Well, I was wondering if you would like to accompany me and Tom to the lake. I'm not requesting anything, I just feel like you need some time with other people... to you know, alleviate the pain from travelling here." She replied as Ayashina stood straight eyes wavering a bit and mouth slightly agap. Her eyes turned downward as her hand rested on her abdomen.

"My koinu..." She whispered, she raised her head smiling a bit. "I guess it is my fault that I did not prepare for a ship trip.. then maybe I would never have lost him." She replied before she began to set up Kagome's room. "No, it is okay, the pain isn't as bad as it first was, so all is fine. You should go with Master Tom and have fun. I work to serve Kagome-sama." She replied as she picked out a white and brown outfit. It looked similar to a sailor outfit except it was like a short brown dress that ended at thigh, with a stripped brown and white shirt underneath. The dress was short sleeved as was the shirt underneath. Brown pants accompanied the outfit.

"Your swimming outfit, Kagome-sama." She replied before getting behind her mistress and began braiding her hair.

Kagome gave a sigh and relaxed a bit as she felt her servant's hands caress her head.

"I will change and leave, but be good to Koyuki-san." Kagome said.

Her servant gave a giggle. "How can I not?"

Upon arriving at the lake, Kagome, along with her cousins whom were excited to have seen her, practically hanging off her arms as Tom told them to behave themselves. The party was pretty crowded. It was mostly teens, yet there were some adults.

"What type of party is this?" Kagome asked.

"Its a graduation party for Taylor Thompson! He's enlisting in to the army after today." Eleanor replied. Eleanor and Daisy were twins, Daisy was the eldest by five minutes. Eleanor and Daisy both had short cut, black hair with slight almond shaped green eyes. Like their cousin, they had heart shaped faces, and were a couple of inches shorter than Kagome. Eleanor was was extroverted while Daisy was introverted, but they were both sneaky. Both were wearing identical swimming outfits of dark blue with a white and blue stripped shirt.

"Oh... So how are you two invited?" Kagome asked knowing her cousins don't go to school but be homeschooled.

"Well, Tom said we could go!" Eleanor replied giddly.

"And here we are." Daisy replied as Kagome giggled.

The trio left Kagome to meet up with friends as she looked around, many were swimming and others were just lounging about talking to others, and even more were eating and dancing around a small band. Sighing as she felt slightly nervous she walked over towards the lake and sat down, getting her feet wet. A slight splash alerted her that she wasn't the only one sitting as she turned to her left and looked at a guy wearing a muddy white shirt with patched up blue overalls, both his pant legs and his sleeved were rolled up. He was muscular, had a square jaw and had matted dirty dark bluish black hair. His eyes was closed as he just sat, but it could easily been seen that he was relaxed, even though he had a slight scowl on his face. His arms rested on his knees, his fingernails were gritty, as were his feet. But in all, he looked pretty handsome.

He opened slight silverish blue eyes at her and sighed.

"Hey." He said as she gave a quiet 'hello' back.

"Names, James Howlett."

"Kagome Higurashi." She said giving him a smile before looking at the sky. Silence spread around them until-

"I haven't seen ya in these parts." Kagome just smiled again, closing her eyes.

"I'm new here. I recently came here from England to live with my Aunt and Uncle. I'm here with my cousins Tom, Eleanor, and Daisy... Well, I think Tom's my cousin." She replied scratching her chin in though. James gave a chuckle.

"Family business makes no sense to me. Its just me, my ma and my pa. But England... Is it nice there?"

Kagome nodded her head. "Yes! I was there with my younger brother and our servants-"

"Servants?" He asked eyeing her up and down. "You don't look like your rich."

Kagome sighed. "Well, they're like family servants. Been in the family for years. My servant, Ayashina, resides back at my Aunt's house. She's pretty nice, a little crazy, slightly perverted, and a perfect maid. She can cook and sew and do lots of things! She's teaching me how to make soap and other things."

"Wow." He replied before watching a butterfly land on his hand. "I work on a plantation two miles from here. We don't have much money to have servants or schooling so its just me and my pa working out in the fields-"

"Ayashina likes labor!" Kagome practically blurted out, even though it sounded quite weird. "Well," she blushed as James gave her an odd look. "Back at home, in Japan, Ayashina used to work the gardens. But when I began travelling she's stopped. Plus I think she might enjoy it..."

"Plantation work is no joke." He chuckled shaking his head. "You are one weird girl Kagome. Yet, plantation work is pretty tiresome. You got to be built for such a task." He replied as moved his arms, butterfly flying away because of the movement as he stretched his feet in the water.

"Like yourself Mr. Howlett?" Kagome giggled as he grinned flexing his left arm, pumping out his muscles.

"Yes." He chuckled as the two had quiet laughter before turning to look at the sky. "You are different than the other girls and you are pretty nice, even if you are related to those sex addicts known as the Philis twins. Maybe I'll let this, Ayashina help me out. But only if she pasts the test by my father."

And with that the two continued talking throughout the rest of the party, talking of family, lives, and the future.

~End of Flashback~

"Arriving in San Francisco, California in 10 minutes. Passengers please turn off all electrical devices as we begin our decent. Thank you." Replied the flight attendant, as a female was shaken awake.

"We begin decent soon, Kagome-san." A masculine voice replied as the female nodded her head, shaking herself awake. The date on her ipod, of which she was listening to, was read the date, June 5th, 1998.

"Hai, arigato." She replied as he nodded his head.

Feeling the plane descending, she sat up, watching as the male stayed silent after his mentioning.

Once the plane descended, the two got off... well, rather... the male glared at almost everyone halting their movements as to let his mistress walk smoothly. After going to baggage claim they left the rather loud and busy airport and got into a very expensive limosuine. When inside the male gave an annoyed sigh before relaxing as he closed his eyes, as his mistress took out a labtop and turned it on. Putting in her internet USB she opened up her email and smiled.

"Ayashina-san wants to know how our trip was." She replied aloud as the male gave a shrug as Kagome giggled as she began typing in her response. An hour later she was done as well as the small trip. Clicking 'send' she closed her labtop as her male servant moved closer to the door and got out as the limo driver nodded before he helped out Kagome.

"Welcome to the Hilton, I will take your bags mi'lady." He replied as she nodded. As she stared at the wasn't as extravagant as the ones in England... but this would have to do. She watched as celebrities seemed to stare at her as they walked in and out of the very busy hotel. Once her servant had all bags, he led the way into the hotel, Kagome following close behind as the limo and limo driver drove off. Inside, was beautiful, but still... It seemed to hold not as much charm as the ones in England... or the other European hotels.

A famous couple stood infront of the two as the walked in, many of the rich and famous stopped and stared at Kagome and her servant who was inwardly growling. Shaking her head, she did not realize a male coming up to her and almost touching her if it weren't for her overprotective servant.

"Yes, sir?" He purred with a voice as smooth as silk yet as cold as ice.

"Uhm... I was wondering who this miss was, I mean, well-" He stuttered at the cold glare the male was giving him as Kagome sighed.

"Sesshoumaru!" She muttered loudly as he gave a look at his mistress. "I'm sorry, he doesn't like males...or humans." She muttered the last quietly. " I am Lady Kagome Higurashi, of the Higurashi-Crowley Family of England. Nice to meet you-"

"Oh! I'm Thomas Levi! Sorry, for.. what happened earlier. Wow! Higeeraishee-Crowley! I heard that family own estates all over the world, and own almost every museum in the world! Wow, and I'm terribly sorry, Sesshoumaru. I just... she looks very stunning." He replied blushing as Sesshoumaru just rose a delicate brow at him before humphing and looking away. Kagome and Thomas talked for a few more minutes before her servant beckoned her to follow him, as he had gotten the key for her room. Once arriving at the suite, Kagome gave a large groan as she saw the rather large queen sized beds infront of her. Before Sesshoumaru could say anything she was laying ontop of one and moaning at its softness.

"The humans have grown... slow in their years of existence." Sesshoumaru replied as he glared at the door before moving his mistresses baggage to a more suitable area before sitting down in a chair. " Are you even sure you can find him here? Its been 114 years, I do not believe a human even of his stature can live that long."

Kagome looked the male from her bed and sighed. "He is hanyou Sesshoumaru. Like your half-brother. But not completly half, yet close enough that it could be said that. And if Inuyasha is still living, then I do believe He is as well."

"If you believe so, then I will hold no doubt. However, if he is...dead. Then-"

"We will visit his gravesite and continue on... I know Sesshoumaru, I know." She replied as she rolled on her side, looking at the window near her bed. "I just don't want his memory to be a mere memory of what was..." She whispered before falling back asleep.