(( Neither ThreeHoursOfSleep or Kinz.911 own Detective Conan, Magic Kaito, or Inuyasha))

"...When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

-Sir Arthur Conan (Sherlock Holmes)
British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930)

Kagome stepped onto the subway with her three friends. It was taking some time getting used to the new time and being at least a year older than her friends. The subway was packed with people getting on, getting off, and waiting for their stop. The raven-haired girl sat down with her friends, Eri, Ayumi, and Yuka. The three were deeply involved with their own conversation. It was strange how much Kagome had grown up in the time she had been away. She had known it had to have happened, after all she had been going for a year. Her friends chatted nonstop about boys and up coming movies and the latest t.v. shows. Kagome did notice a new topic they seemed particularly fond of. A thief. He had been in the news. Kagome grimaced at the thought of all the fangirls that guy had. How could anyone like someone who steals as a hobby?

"I'm so worried about the next exam!" Yuka fretted.

"Exam?" Kagome blinked. Her friends blinked.

"Oh that's right! You haven't heard! We're taking our pre highschool exams next week!" Kagome blinked. She didn't remember taking that exam, even if she did, she probably had failed it anyway.

A bright side. She could concentrate on her schoolwork and get into a decent highschool, without the distraction of Inuyasha's and his annoying, persistent whine about school not being as important as looking for Shikon shards and killing Naraku.

School was her future, and everyone in Japan knew how important their future was. She had, had to decided upon her career when she was in fourth grade. How could he say school wasn't important? Last time she checked you needed a college degree to be veterinarian. And an archeologist. Both could only be achieved by earning that degree, which required school.

Everyone had been so shocked when she changed her choice of career. It was to be expected though, wasn't it? She had traveled back in time several times, even if to her family it was only a few short weeks, the career was made for her. She had, had a hard time deciding between archeology and a historian.

"Which movie should we see?" Eri was asking. "Ne, Kagome-chan, which movie would you like to see?"

"Eh?" the girl blinked. "I… I haven't really kept up with the movies, anything's fine, she grinned sheepishly.

"Of course you haven't!" Ayumi exclaimed, glaring at Eri. "You couldn't have with amnesia, you must have been focused on regaining your memories, ne?"

"A-Amnesia!?" Kagome blinked. "I never had… Jiichan…" A vein throbbed in her head.

"Kagome-chan! You're not having a relapse are you?" Yuka asked, putting a hand on Kagome's forehead. "Do get a fever from amnesia?" She blinked. Kagome sighed.

"No. You don't." An unfamiliar voice drifted past her ears. "Amnesia can be brought on by fever, but if you hit your head and get it. A fever will not follow." Kagome turned to face a small boy with over sized spectacles with slightly narrowed eyes.

"Him…" She breathed. It was the same boy from her dream.

"Eh?" The small boy blinked. "D-did I know you?" he asked. Kagome blushed and shook her head quickly.

"Gomen! I just thought you looked like my little cousin." She invented.

"But, Onesan, you sounded a little shocked when you saw me." He pointed out. "Did something happen to your cousin?" He inquired. Kagome blinked, this kid was sharp.

"Ah hai… he died last month in an accident." She fibbed expertly. "So it was a bit of a shock." The boy nodded in understanding.

"I'm sorry for your loss." He said politely.

"Kagome-chan! You didn't tell us it was a cousin!" Eri exclaimed.

"Eh?" Kagome blinked.

"You were out for a funeral last month!"

"W-was I?" Kagome was slightly grateful for the reasonable absence but then something became known in her mind. Her mom said she'd only been going to Senguku Jidai for a few weeks. Now she remembered, before the well she had been out for a funeral.

"It's the amnesia again!" Yuka said worriedly. "Kagome are you okay?"

"It's not." The boy answered for her. "If it was she would be experiencing a headache about now.

"He's right, it just slipped my mind." Kagome laughed nervously.

"How do you know so much?" Ayumi wanted to know of the little boy. He smiled with a look of childish innocence.

"I'm detective!" He said happily. The four girls blinked.

"Tantei…?" they inquired.

"Ne, tantei-kun, what's your name?" Yuka asked.

"Edogawa Conan!" Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi changed glances.

"I thought you looked familiar!" Yuka exclaimed. "You're the kid who's in the paper for stopping Kaitou Kid, ne?"

"A-ah… that's right." Conan blinked.

"Kawaii!" Ayumi hugged him.

"Conan-kun is quite the ladies man I see." A new voice came. Kagome looked up to see a tall blonde with brown eyes, he certainly wasn't bad to look at, apparently the other's thought so as well. Ayumi released Conan and he took a breath he probably hadn't been able to take while in her iron grip.

"Was he bothering you ladies?" The blonde asked. Kagome shook her head.

"Not at all." She watched as the guy grabbed Conan's hand and pulled him to a seat. She noticed a silver band on his left ring finger. He was married? But he couldn't have been more than eighteen!

"Conan-kun, I have something to take care of while we're in Beika, I hope you don't mind playing with your friends for a few hours." The blonde addressed him.

"Why would I mind that?" Conan blinked. "But, what do you need to do?"

"I have a case."

"What kind?"

The teenager sighed.

"Murder."

"I want to come!" Conan exclaimed.

"You can't come." The older decided.

"Demo Saguru-niiiichaaan!" Conan whined. The blonde, Saguru, sighed.

"Absolutely not."

Kagome watched them, the park the murder happened in was beika, the boy was wanting to investigate the crime scene with the pool of blood. She stood up.

"Kagome-chan, what are you doing? Our stop isn't until we reach Shibuya." Eri informed her.

"I just remembered! I forgot to feed my cat!" She lied.

"But subway is still moving."

"A-ah…" Kagome sat back down and waited for the subway to come to a stop in central Tokyo, which was not far from her family's shrine. She picked up her purse, bid her friends goodbye, and hurried off the subway. The girl ran as fast as she could back home, she didn't wait for the light to change when it turned red in stead she used the walkway overpass, which would save her time in the long run.

Kagome ran past the market place where people were eagerly purchasing the ingredients needed to make miso soup, Takayaki, and the most known dish in Japan, Curry for their evening dinners. She ran past the general store with two teenage workers, probably on break chatting happily.

She ran past her school and had to skid to a halt as she nearly plowed into a boy who was about to greet her.

'Great… I don't have time for him right now…' Kagome thought as she recognized Hojou.

"Ah Higurashi." He started. Kagome quickly side stepped him and continued on her way.

"Gomen Hojou-kun! I don't have time to talk right now!" She hurried away, leaving him to blink. Kagome saw the shrine coming into view and quickly dashed up the stairs, taking them three at a time.

"Ah Kagome!" Her mother greeted.

"Mama! I need a bow and arrow." She exclaimed. Her mother blinked and then shook her head.

"What on earth would you need one of those for?" She inquired. Kagome groaned.

"I don't have time to explain, please tell me where one is!" The teenager said desperately.

"Th-there should be one in the storage shed." The older woman informed her.

"Arigatou!" Kagome ran around the corner and pulled the shed open searching frantically for her weapon of choice, pottery, pottery, pottery, some sorts of relic, ah ha! A bow! And some arrows! The girl let out a triumphant noise and then left the shrine again, heading straight for Beika district.

Conan grinned, as any other seven-year-old boy, who had managed to escape their niichan in order to investigate a murder case, would. Therefore, his grin was slightly manic. Conan or better known to some as Kudo Shinichi, highschool detective of the east let out a sigh as he reached the area in question.

As one would expect, the park was closed off with yellow police tape, the one in charge of the investigation was, of course, inspector Megure. Conan looked around the scene closely, inspecting it's every detail. The body, which had been found with no head, had already been taken away and white masking tape now marked the position it had been in. A small pool of blood was where, about, the head was. Several miscellaneous articles of clothing were strung out near the large pool of blood. Shinichi then decided to find out what he could from the leading inspector, how he had had managed to trick Hakuba would give him at least another five minutes. Conan ducked under the police tape and ran up to the inspector.

"Megure-Keibu!" The little boy said happily. The large inspector looked down and recognized Conan almost immediately.

"Oh Conan-kun!" He bent down level with the boy. "It's been quite a while." He smiled at the younger.

"It really has!" The small boy chirped. "Ne, Keibu-san, what happened here?" Megure looked thoughtful for several, long, seconds.

"Murder, although we have no suspects, except for the man who found the body, he claims to have witnessed it but his story in not possible." He explained. "Shouldn't you be off playing?" Megure seemed to realize the child's age. Conan grinned sheepishly.

"I'm fine." He assured. "I'd much rather help you." He smiled at the inspector. Megure blinked and then shook his head.

"This kind of thing should not be investigated by kids. Run along and play with your friends."

"Demo!" Conan objected.

"Conan! You heard the inspector!" The familiar voice of the detective he used to live with rang in his ears.

"Ojisan?" Conan turned to face him. Mouri Kogoro glared down at the younger.

"You should know this is no place for a kid." He declared. Kogoro had gained a proper amount of respect from Shinichi, enough so that the young detective was actually happy to see him when he did, which was often. Kogoro had become a decent detective in Shinichi's book. But it was to be expected. Even if Ran and Hakuba were working it just wasn't enough to take care of two children and pay off a loan they had taken out to help pay for Conan's heart transplant several months ago. Kogoro had, had to shape up and jumping to conclusions so he could get the money to give to Ran and Hakuba to live off of, and he still needed his booze and cigarettes. Shinichi was not so proud of that factor.

"Gomen!" Conan started to back away to investigate some more on his own. He bumped into someone's legs. He looked up and found a not-so-thrilled Hakuba Saguru staring down at him.

"K-Koniichiwa?" Conan offered pathetically. Hakuba sighed and shook his head.

"You're grounded." He stated.

"From what?" Conan blinked. Hakuba eyed him.

"What are you always grounded from?" Conan sulked and Hakuba turned to the inspector.

"Sorry I'm late, Conan-kun pulled a small trick to get away." He gestured to the small boy. Conan glared and allowed the 'grown ups' to talk while he went and investigated the pool of blood more thoroughly. It was certainly blood. But where were the bodies? There was no sign that they were carried off, if that were the case the pool would smeared. The blood, in such large amount, still wasn't dry. Shinichi estimated it would dry up within the next three to four hours. Blood dried within thirty minutes, at room temperature for every 44cc. He touched it with his finger, getting an almost dry section.

Shinichi examined it closely. There was nothing strange about it, just that it was pooled near a merry-go-round in such large amount with only body several feet away. The other, smaller pool of blood, had since dried up.

"Inspector! The photo's have come in!" one of the forensics came up with an envelope, Shinichi was able to guess, was filled with crime scene photos.

"Ne! I want to see!" He snatched the photo away from the guy and examined it closely. He gasped.

"Oi!" The man objected. "Conan-kun!" Conan paid him no mind, staring in awe at the picture. It was of the body that had been found, the place where the spine connected with the cranium, and little below that looked, not as though it had been chopped off, but bitten off.

"Conan-kun..." Hakuba took the pictures away.

"A-ah!!" Conan tried to get them back. "I was looking at those!" He huffed. Hakuba shook his head.

"And you're supposed to be playing with your friends." He stated.

"I'll walk him over to the professors, and then come back." Mouri answered. Hakuba nodded.

"Arigatou Mouri-san." Hakuba started to look at the pictures, having the same reaction Conan had, had. Mouri made a nonverbal movement with his head to show Conan they were going now. Conan sighed and followed after him. Shinichi knew that if he refused, he'd be hit on the head, and that. Was painful.

Shinichi made the mental decision to return to the scene later, that evening, when his movements weren't restricted, either by apparent age or adult shooing him away. He pretended not to mind having to walk with Kogoro and chatted happily about useless things like soccer and Sherlock. Of course, these things weren't useless to Shinichi. Conan heard a steady sound of feet, running feet it sounded like. He turned around to face the same girl from the subway, if she was following him, she was doing a terrible job being discrete about it.

He then noticed she now carried a bow and arrow, a strange thing to be carrying around Tokyo.

"Onesan!" He said brightly as she stopped in front of him to catch her breath.

Kagome blinked and then noticed he was not with the same person he had been at first. She smiled at the small boy, unable to do anything else, due to her lack of breath.

"Did you know this girl?" The other man inquired the boy. Conan looked up and nodded.

"I met her on the subway!" He said happily. "Demo… she didn't have a bow and arrow with her then." Kagome smiled sheepishly.

"I had archery practice, and I live around here." She lied.

"If that's the case." Kogoro started. "Be sure not to be around here after hours." he advised.

"Hai! I will!" She smiled at the much older man. "Ne, Conan-kun, I wanted to tell you to not come near here again." he blinked.

"Eh? Doushite?"

"It's very dangerous, you heard what happened to the teenagers last night."

"A-ah… but why are you warning me? I live on the edge of Tokyo. Not in Beika… anymore." He added. Kagome blinked and then shook her head.

"Even then, you said you were a detective ne? How about you leave this to police, and don't come back at night either." Conan seemed shocked, probably wondering how in the world she knew he'd be back at night.

"H-how did you…"

"I-.." She couldn't very well admit that it was in her dream could she? They'd lock her up and ship her off to a loony bin. Not something she needed. "It's just a feeling." She decided. Conan looked thoughtful for several seconds, his expression all too readable.

"Okay Onesan! I won't!" He clearly lied. Apparently the older realized the fib as well.

"I'll be telling Saguru about your evening plans." He stated.

"Ne, Onesan, what's you name?" Conan wanted to know of Kagome.

"Higurashi Kagome desu." She smiled. "W-well… I had better get to archery practice." She straightened up nervously. "Ja ne Conan-kun!" She said happily, turning and walking in the opposite direction.

Kagome let out a sigh as soon as she was out of earshot. She'd have watch the park all night if she had too. She had to keep that horrible dream from coming true.

Night fell and Kagome was anxiously pacing the outside region of the park, waiting. She knew that if he was indeed coming from Tokyo he would be coming from the west side, there fore she paced the east side to avoid being seen. She could hear the pitter patter of small, child, sized feet. He must have found someway away from his niichan's clutches. She hid behind hind a tree and noticed the noise had not been Conan, but another person, a boy yes, but this boy was about Souta's age. She sighed, children really didn't pay much attention to curfew, did they?

Kagome leaned against the tree, maybe Conan had heeded her warning, if not maybe his niichan knew exactly how the young boy worked, and was able to keep from leaving the house.

"Ah.. I know… just cover for me. Ja matte!" She heard the detective tone he had used while explaining about the amnesia on the subway. Conan was here now. She watched him closely as the boy picked his skateboard up and ducked under the tape that read 'Do not cross' in black bolded letters. Kagome let out a silent sigh and followed after him.

Shinichi looked around the crime scene with new freedom. No adult to shoo him away now. And he was sure that the culprit would come back to admire his, 'perfect' crime, Which would undoubtedly be the man's undoing. Shinichi approached the now dried pool of blood and looked around. He then noticed a piece of paper sitting a under a rock. The culprit had already been here. He sighed and then walked over to the sheet of paper, he lifted the rock and looked down at a blue print for a nearby construction site. Some blood was smeared on a section. Shinichi folded the paper up and shoved it in his pocket. He then set his skateboard down and headed off in the direction of the construction site in question. This paper was a notice. He just knew it.

Kagome's jaw dropped. That was one fast skateboard. Where in the world had he gotten that thing? Last she checked they didn't go -that- fast. Then she remembered her mission.

"Matte! Conan-kun!" But it was far too late. He was gone, completely out of ear shot. Now how was she supposed to save him from a horrible fate? Damn it why couldn't she drive? Her mind then reminded her she wasn't eighteen.

"Oh." She breathed aloud and then shook her head. She'd have to follow the dust trail Conan left behind for her, before it started to fade. The girl took off at a run. The scary thing was, she knew exactly what demon it was, the really scary thing was that, last time she had, had Inuyasha to kill it. Now she'd have to do it on her own. She could remember where it had stored the shards, maybe if she got them out everything would be okay.

A new thought occurred as she continued to run after the little boy. Why hadn't she met him before? The only logical answer filled her head and she pushed away. He must have been killed in the past. If that were the case Kagome was going to be sure to change his future. Kagome then decided she should probably think about how to save Conan and kill the demon, while coming out of everything unscathed. That last part might not be possible, she realized.

Shinichi reached the construction sight and looked around, eyeing the detail of every little thing. He walked quietly across the site, pausing only when he found traces of dried blood on the ground. A sudden chill ran down his back and looked up. Someone was watching him. Conan spun around quickly to see who it was. His eyes fell on a mass of, what looked like dead bodies, all connected together as one, a Noah mask sat atop the display. Shinichi shivered. How had this gotten here? It wasn't there before. He stood up slowly. What was this, some sort of sick science experiment? He set his skateboard down and slowly walked toward the… what ever it was. He felt a sense of foreboding as he got closer. He could feel someone's eyes on him, but he couldn't tell where it was coming from. He shivered again, ignoring the part of his brain that was desperately trying to get him to turn away from it.

'Baka!' His mind screamed. 'Don't you get it? That wasn't a notice that was an invitation to be the next victim!'

Suddenly the Noah mask looked at him. Shinichi froze. He must have gone insane. He shook his head and looked again. No, it was definitely staring at him with hungry eyes. He felt himself take involuntary step backwards. His body was recognizing the danger and was starting to fight back, much like suicidal people's body's do before they kill themselves.

"What in the…?"

"I need more bodies…" The thing had a voice? Shinichi was sure he had gone insane now. Not that his body cared, it was now carrying him as fast as it could towards the stairs.

"Matte…" It's eerie voice called him back. 'Yeah right!' Thought Shinichi, 'listening to your hallucinations is good way to get killed!' He climbed up the stepped as fast as possible. Luckily the thing was too large and it couldn't climb the steps. Shinichi sighed as he reached the second story. Now… how to get away? Suddenly something made the structure rattle. The mask had latched it's massive teeth into an I-beam and was pulling itself to his level.

"Shimata!" Shinichi cursed, getting his suspenders and latching them on to a different I-beam. He then made sure he had a firm grip before starting to descend. Something shook him as he realized his hallucination had hold of I-beam he was on and flung him skywards, opening its mouth for Conan to fall in. Hallucinations couldn't do that. That meant that this… this thing was real! Suddenly a purple light streaked beneath him and shot half of the mask off the large monster. It closed its mouth to see who had caused the disturbance in its meal just as Conan hit the ground with a loud thump. It took him several seconds and one too late to remember the I-beam had also been flung upwards.

"Itai!" He hollered as the metal object fell on his small leg, crushing it. Another streak of purple went above his head and knocked the monster backwards. Apparently it had tried to eat him while his back was turned. Shinichi desperately tried to shove the I-beam off but it seemed to be of no use. He then looked up to see who had saved his life. It was that girl from earlier.

"Onesan!" He called out. "Run!" He then noticed she was armed with a bow, with an arrow aimed at the horrible monster. She fired another arrow and quickly reloaded.

"You leave him alone!" She demanded. The thing looked at Conan and then started to crawl toward Kagome.

"Bodies…" It said. Kagome was about to shoot it again but it's head lashed out and bit into her arm.

"Itai!" Kagome winced. She couldn't help but think about how the exact same thing had happened to Inuyasha, just as the thought filled her mind a blast of purple light shot out of her and the creature burst into nothing but dust. Kagome took several deep breaths. If she had known to do that the first time around, she never would have depended on Inuyasha. Her heart saddened at the thought of never seeing them again. She then remembered Conan and shook her head, rushing over to get the metal structure piece off of him. It was surprising easy. Her work out in the Senguku Jidai had really made her strong. Conan crawled out and then looked at his injured and rapidly swelling leg.

It didn't take a doctor to tell it was broken. Kagome knelt down and scooped him up in her arms. The boy seemed to find this awkward as he started to squirm and blush. He stopped squirming when he hurt himself though.

"You need a doctor." Kagome said decidedly. Conan didn't like idea.

"Onesan! Can't you take me home? I'm fine it doesn't hurt anymore!" He tried. Kagome blinked but did pay it any mind. Why did little boys have to play it tough?

"Your leg's broken. You need to see a doctor." She countered.

"Demo! I go to the hospital too often! Ran-neechan and Saguru-niichan can't afford another trip! Onegai!" Kagome stopped for several seconds. Somehow it wasn't surprising this child was in and out of the hospital.

"Then I'll pay for it." She said brightly, continuing on her way. Conan objected to this as well.

"You can't!" Kagome seemed indifferent to his pleas.

"I owe it to you, I wasn't able to save you faster." She stated as she reached the hospital. Conan gave a defeated sighed and pulled out his cellphone, speed dialing, probably home.

"K-Konbanwa Saguru-niichan…" Conan said, as Kagome set him in a chair so she could fill out paper work. She sat down next to him, she could hear the angry voice on the other end.

"Conan?!" It demanded. No use of the honorific 'kun.' This boy was in serious trouble. Kagome finished all the paperwork she could, asking Conan about things as she had too and paid for everything as she had promised to do.

"Well Conan-kun, I better get home before I get in trouble." She smiled and winked. "Get better soon!" She walked out the door.

"Matteo!" Shinichi called after her as she disappeared into the night. Who was that mysterious girl? Maybe, when he could walk again, he'd go find her. He had her name. Higurashi Kagome…

((Yeah… that's the longest chapter I've ever written on my own… and in the original there was a little bit more too it. It was just Hakuba talking to the doctor though.))