Chapter Three: Kagome's Visit to Sango

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The doorbell rang in Sango's apartment. She got up to answer the door. She found a bedraggled-looking Kagome leaning against the doorframe. She nearly fell over when the door opened suddenly.

"Hello!" Sango exclaimed as she helped her friend regain her balance, "I hate to say this, but you look like hell incarnate," she continued, closing the door.

"I feel like it too, strange things have been happening lately," Kagome said, collapsing in an overstuffed chair near the window.

"Do tell," Sango said, sitting down on the footstool that matched the chair. "Why haven't you called in the last week? Shippou, Miroku and I have been trying to get a hold of you for a while now. We were wondering if you'd like to go out to lunch or something at that new restaurant down the street…" she stopped talking when she realized that Kagome wasn't listing to her anymore. She was staring off into nowhere somewhere out the window.

"I've been having strange dreams lately," Kagome said simply, still looking out at nothing.

"What kind of strange dreams? Are they nightmares or just odd? Good or bad?" Sango bombarded Kagome with questions until she got some answers. Kagome sat passively, answering all of them, but Sango knew her friend was leaving some pretty important details out of her responses. Several hours later Kagome was sleeping peacefully in the comfy old chair, and Sango was calling Miroku to get his opinion on all that she had learned.

"Did she have any idea who it was?" Miroku asked, his voice slightly muffled by static because of a bad connection on Sango's cordless phone.

"She didn't tell me, but I think she does. She said his presence felt familiar, but that's all…" she stood up from the kitchen chair she had been sitting on and looked over the counter into the main room of the apartment where Kagome was sleeping. Sango missed what he said in response because the sleeping girl, who had just said a name that was barely audible, caught her attention instead.

"Uh, Miroku?" Sango interrupted whatever it was that he was saying. "I think you should talk to Inuyasha. I'm going to see if I can get Kagome to tell me more about these dreams and whatever else it is that is going on. Call me back," she hung up the phone in a daze.

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Author's Note: (I think I've put in too many squigglels… but they're supposed to set off the dreams and notes and such.. I hope it's not too confusing.. this is my first attempt at an Inuyasha fanfic, please keep that in mind… and REVIEW!!!

~Avi