Author: Well good morning sunshine! The world says hello! Haha wow that was stupid. So yea …I haven't updated in FOREVER! But I edited those chapters of this story and made this one so the story is more realistic and sound better so u might wanna go and reread it. If not then no lose. I have to finish "sucks to be alone" soon so I can start something else and then get this one done too. Hope everyone enjoys these stories…I know I do. Well…..enjoy!

Pound…Pound…Pound… Pain through out my skull. I don't want to think the worse…but I did. I couldn't remember anything. Where am I? WHO am I? Ok so maybe it's not THAT bad not to know my own name but bad enough that I don't really have any clue where I am. I do know I had the weirdest dream though. It had a ….fox boy, dog demon man…a sexy monk….a chick named Sango and a giant black panther. Then that's when it hit me. It wasn't a dream. It was all very real. I remember. How will I ever get home? Will I ever be able to see my fam-….wait…I have no family. Well…what about chief? I'll miss that A-hole. Nothing will be the same again if I can't get back to America! Oh well. Is it really that big of a deal that I can't get back? No more taking crap from the other cops, no more getting in fights with blonde bimbos sucking face with they're dumbass boyfriends. (I wish I had a dumbass boyfriend) But wait…hold the phone….Miroku! I…I saved him I think….is he ok? I don't remember did I get him out of the way in time?

I try to pull my self up but I couldn't move. I felt paralyzed. I tried to move my fingers, no such luck. I looked around. I was in that stupid wooden hut thing again lying on my back with a wet cloth and a bandaged arm and all my clothes missing and the only thing on my body was a white kimono robe. I noticed all of the things were in my bag and lying neatly in the corner of the room. What's happened to me? Why am I so weak all of the sudden? Get up….GET UP! Now! I pushed myself as hard as I could to get up and with luck, my legs began moving as well as the rest of my body but then a sharp pain ran through my arm. I wanted to fall down but I kept pushing myself harder and harder to get up and I finally stood on my own. I limped out the door with all my might and when I looked out side, all I could see was everybody asleep: Kagome leaning against Inuyasha, Sango on the ground with Kirara on her lap, and Shippo the lap of Kagome. The last one I saw was Miroku, sound asleep against a tree with his arms folded and his staff clenched in one of his fists. Since everyone was asleep, this would be me chance, my only hope to get back home. Who knows if these freaks would keep me here hostage or let me go but I'm not waiting to find out.

I slowly walked with my bag containing all of my guns and other items in it and began tiptoeing to the magic well. I stepped over Inuyasha being careful not to stomp on him, then slowly past Sango. Last but not least, I walked with ease away from Miroku but just when I thought I was home free I was caught.

"Not so fast…" a voice said behind me. Damn it. So close and yet so far.

I slowly turn around.

"And where do you think you're going?" Asked Miroku quietly, being sure not to wake up the others.

What's the use? I was caught. So I dropped my stuff next to him and sat down on the grass beside him with my legs folded to my chin.

"I was…thinking about going home." I responded with my head buried into my knees.

"Why do you wish to go home so soon? You miss your family don't you?" He asked me looking into my eyes.

"No. That's not exactly it. I don't really have any family. They died when I was real young."

"I'm so sorry to hear that. But please enlighten me. I would like to know why you wish to leave us." He said with a smile to me.

"Well, its just, I'm on the brink of losing my job because there, in America, I'm not good enough for anybody there, and in the modern day Japan, I don't fit in there either, " I said as I held my injured arm and began massaging it, hoping the pain would go away.

"And you think you don't fit in here as well, am I correct?" He said finishing my sentence for me.

"Yeah…exactly. I feel like such an outcast here like a misfit." I exclaimed.

"And what exactly makes you feel like that, Kate?"

"I'm just so different…" I said then I peered over and he was laughing at me! What a jerk, I'm sitting here, spilling my heart out to him and he has the audacity to laugh at me!

"What's so damn funny?"

"Haha nothing. It's just very strange that you would say that after all that you have seen."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"What I mean is, look at Inuyasha. He is a half demon. Not like the rest of the demons, he actually has somewhat of a heart and cares very much about innocent lives." He said as we both peered over to Inuyasha, sound asleep. We watched as Kagome, took her arm around him and pulled him closer too her in her sleep.

"It doesn't seem it; the way we treated me wasn't the most welcome and didn't show me that he does have much of a heart." I said.

"That's just how Inuyasha is. Think about it. Regular demons would have jumped at the chance to kill you for no reason at all. And a regular demon would not bother with a human girl like Kagome. He is much, much different from the rest which gives reason only for the rest of the blood thirsty demons to mach and make fun of him," he began.

I was starting to see what Miroku was getting at.

"And Kagome, she's not like all the other girls where she comes from either. She is skipping out on her school work to come help us fight this evil Naraku demon that terrorizes our world. She was blessed with the gift of a priestess."

"What kind of gift is that?" I asked poking the fire with a long stick I found beside me.

"She is the reincarnation of the Priestess Kikyo. She seeks out these jewel shards so we can defeat him." He responded. I then saw him look right at Sango's sleeping body and he smiled. He has feelings for her, I could tell. Maybe I shouldn't get in the middle of it. That's probably why Sango gives me such dirty looks all the time. They are together, and he's just a flirtatious womanizer all the time but he is committed to her. That's fine. Not like he would want me anyway.

At this point he must have realized what I was thinking because I could feel his eyes staring at me. I turned my head and surely enough he was. I wanted to say something, but nothing came to mind so I just turned my head and looked at the flames dancing in the fire ring.

"You know, Sango has no family either." I just stayed quiet to that comment he gave me. My mom always said "If you don't have anything nice to say don't say anything at all".

"She is a demon slayer. Her whole village was killed by naraku except her and her brother, Kohaku. Kohaku has been taken over by Naraku by embedding a jewel shard in his back so he is forced to do everything Naraku says. That shard is the only thing keeping him alive. He has no recollection to who Sango is or the fact that he is her own brother."

Silence again. I noticed Miroku stare at my bloody, wrapped arm.

"By the way, thank you." He said smiling at me.

"Thank you for what?" I asked. I knew what he was talking about, I'm sure but why not play innocent dumb girl for a change right?

"Saving me. You know u didn't need to right?"

I smiled at him. "It was no problem. You were in trouble, besides, I wasn't about to let a stupid panther kill you and Sango."

"Still, I am in total gratitude to you. Is there anyway I can repay you?" he asked taking my hand. I felt my face turn a beat red, and then I remembered him and Sango.

"No, no don't worry about it." I said sadly taking my hand away.

He frowned, "why do you turn from me, Kate?" I felt a tear form in my eye.

"I-I-don't know what you're talking about, Miroku." I should probably say something about what I was really feeling, but I wasn't about to get involved with a man that might be taken. Besides, I was only going to be there till tomorrow, might as well just let matters lay.

He sighed and laid his hand on mine and watched as my tear rolled down my cheek.

"Don't lie to me, Kate. What is this really about?"

"Nothing…don't worry about it," I said giving him the fakest smile I could come up with. He's not stupid. He could totally tell I was faking. If I wasn't a couple more black tears ran down my face.

"I must be going. I have to return home tomorrow if you won't let me pass and leave now." And I slowly got up, taking my things and began to turn back to the cabin.

"Kate, wait!" Miroku said. I turned around. He looked like he wanted to tell me something very important. I was hoping it was what I was wishing for him to say.

"Um…..Thank you….yes. That's what I wanted to say, Thank you again for saving me and Sango. I owe you my life."

Disappointed I put on that infamous fake smile and nodded. "Really, it was nothing. You do not owe me anything." And I began walking again.

"Wait, wait!" He said once more. I quickly turned around again. "Promise you will be here in the morning. Please don't try to leave again." Once more I nodded with a embarrassed smile.

"Oh, and …maybe if you would like, maybe you could come with us. I have seen your skills, you're a good fighter. Would you? Please join us?"

Me? Join them? Fighting DEMONS? This now HAS to be a dream. Then again, that would be pretty bitchin' awesome to fight these supposedly mythical creatures.

"I don't know, Miroku. I don't think the rest of your gang likes me very well. Especially Sango."

"Don't fret. I will talk to them if they have any problems and Sango…I can understand her feelings. Just promise you will sleep on it."

"I will sleep on it. But I can't promise anything." I said and I began walking again.

"Oh, Kate?" He said once more and once more I turned around. "Good night."

"Night, Miroku. See you tomorrow."

I returned to my hut and laid down in my already prepared bed. I lied there and tried so hard not to think of Miroku but he was the only thing on my mind. I rolled over and finally went to sleep.