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"Kagome?" Inu-yasha whispered. He crept forward, not even daring to hope what he saw.

She looked up at him from over the tops of her arms. Her eyes were red and puffy, and she looked oddly pale, but it was defiantly Kagome. When she saw him, her eyes went wide, as if she didn't expect to see him there.

But Inu-yasha did not even notice these odd gestures. His mind was too confused by the idea that Kagome was sitting in front of him. He stood up slowly, letting her copy fall to the ground with a thud, but he just continued to watch, nothing wavering his attention from her. "Kagome?" he whispered again. He took a slow step forward.

"Inu-yasha?" she whispered back, as though she was shocked by something. She began to stand also.

"Is that you?" he asked. When she nodded, he put his hand over his mouth and Kagome would have sworn she saw more tears dribble down his cheeks.

He started running towards her, arms outstretched, to grab her in a huge hug. As he neared her, she too opened her arms to hold him.

Then before either of them even realized it, something went horribly wrong. Instead of falling into each other's arms, they fell THROUGH each other. Inu-yasha fell onto the root on the opposite side with a huge WHACK! Kagome though, fell to the ground silently. They both turned around to look at each other.

Then Inu-yasha realized something. Kagome was sitting on a huge pile of leaves, and yet none of the leaves had moved at all as she landed there. Her foot crackled none of the rough leaves that Inu-yasha's feet crunched. It was as though she couldn't touch the physical world at all.

Then, Inu-yasha saw her grave behind her. He saw her body lying on the ground next to it; her REAL body, which was covered so filthily with dirt and grime. Not this perfectly ordinary copy that sat across from him.

It then hit him what was going on. He looked over at her wide-eyed. Kagome's eyes widened then too, just from his scared look. "M-m-Miroku!" Inu-yasha cried, crawling franticly backward a few feet. "Miroku! Come here quickly!" he yelled as loud as he could.

He heard feet pounding from his left. Miroku came from behind the trees, running quickly in his direction. He looked ridiculously silly, running around his pajamas, but Inu-yasha was too sidetracked to say anything.

"What? What is it Inu-yasha?!?!" he asked hurriedly. Then looking in the direction Inu-yasha was staring, he saw her. Her hand was clutched around a perfect copy of the Shikon necklace she wore. Her other hand lay behind her supporting her body, with her feet lying out in front of her. Her expression was as shocked and terrified as the other two's. "Good Lord," he whispered.

Sango and Shippo came bounding out of the woods behind him, Shippo holding onto Sango's shoulder like a bird would. "What? Where's the fire?" he asked, glancing around hastily. When he saw Kagome, his eyes lit up.

"Kkkkkkkaaaaaaaaggggggggggoooooooooommmmmmmmmeeeeeeee!!!!" he squealed, hopping off Sango's shoulder and over to Kagome. "You're alive!" He bounded over to her, throwing his arms out to give her a small (but in his point of view, huge) hug.

It had the exact same effect as Inu-yasha's hug had. He flew right through her, landing flat on his head.

"Shippo!" she cried, wheeling around to where he now lay in a daze. She got down on her hands and knees to peer down at him. "Are you okay?" she asked quickly and concerned.

"You-" Miroku began, taking a step toward her. She turned around and looked over at him, eyes wide and innocent. "You're a ghost."

"Wwwwwaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!" cried Shippo, regaining his normal manor. "Kagome's dead again!!!"

 "Shut UP, Brat!" Inu-yasha snapped, tiring of Shippo's eccentric comments. "How could this happen?" he asked Miroku urgently.

"Well, my guess is that it would have something to do with a certain someone digging up her grave and removing her body from its resting place." He said pointedly to Inu-yasha with his eyebrows raised, noticing the upturned dirt and the body lying on the ground.

Inu-yasha blushed furiously. "Well, maybe I overdid it a little," he mumbled.

Kagome then forgot her odd, partly see-through position. She stood up furiously. "Overdid it?!?! My grave is in ruins, by body is covered in mud and blood, I'm now a ghost who no one can touch, and you say you overdid it a LITTLE! Sit!!!"

Inu-yasha winced, waiting for his body to go pummeling to the ground. But as he waited there for his painful trip to the ground, nothing happened. It was totally quiet. He peeked out of his right eye, and then his left. He was still standing, as through she had never said THAT word at all. They were all looking at him a little surprised and expectantly. After a few seconds, Miroku sighed.

"Actually, it doesn't terribly surprise me. Now that Kagome's out of her body and she has no 'life-force' per say, she's lost a lot of her abilities that involve using her physical and life energy. And obviously, the use of a material body."

"Don't I have anything left?" cried Kagome.

Miroku cocked a small smile, which was slightly surprising considering the occasion. "Actually, your powers involving, effecting, and changing the spiritual world and manipulating spiritual energies are probably quiet normal. In fact, if I am to judge by my intuition, it has actually skyrocketed. Your abilities from being a Miko have also greatly increased it."

"Well, that's completely great and all now that Kagome is a full fledged Miko, but what good is that going to do now that she's a ghost?!?! I certainly don't think that it's a fair trade," Inu-yasha said angrily.

"Yes," Sango agreed, saying something for the first time. "But how do we change her back? How can we put Kagome back into her body, or in the very least send her to the next world or life or whatever?"

"Hey, don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Kagome said crossly, already upset from the encounter. The three ignored her completely.

"Well," Miroku began thoughtfully. "To be completely honest, I have no idea."

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Hey my fans!

Dream Fox here to tell you what's up! Actually, I'm posting this on the same day I put up chapter two, only one day after I first put this story up. Thank you everyone for the reviews! Actually, quite a few people reviewed before they even saw Chapter two, so I apologize for not thanking you guys before. And to Icefire, I would love to put up longer chapters, but I get so EXCITED to put up a new chapter, I can't help but cut myself slightly short. I will try and update fairly often though. Unfortunately, I can only update at one of my houses, but I'll try and update at least once a week, but if I stay this excited about it, I'll probably update a lot.

To be completely honest, I don't really know where this story is going. I don't even have a rough outline, even if I have a few ideas. Encouragement through reviews would be a great help.

Love and Kisses loyal fans,

Dream Fox