^-^ Yay! Next Chapter! I'm sorry if the last one was so boring—things will look up in this one, I promise!

To keiman and kei: Omgah! That's exactly what I thought at the begging, when my lovely friend Kao-Sama let me barrow her Inu-Yasha mangas (my mom thinks they're evil ;-_-). But then, if you really thing about it, it would be impossible. I mean, that would mean Kikiyo would of gotten half of her soul, then Kagome would have only had half a soul, then when half of it when back to Kikiyo, she would have one fourth, and then probably would of died or become a vegetable or something. O.o To Lady of the Deadly Dance: I sure will! Right now I'm trying to finish reading all of Maiden Of The Moon's storied there are so many of them! But they are all good (so far!). M'kay, on with the story!

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Kagome disappeared into the well.

"What the hell- - ?!?" asked Inu-Yasha. "What - - who was that?"

Was it...

Kikiyo? No. It couldn't of been.

...

Could it?

"It looked like Kagome - - maybe Kikiyo?" asked Shippo, hopping over to the well.

"That was not Kikiyo," said a voice behind them. "Nor was it Kagome. It was the reincarnation before them."

They turned around, Miroku grabbing his beads, ready to open the wind tunnel, Sango hoisting up her boomerang, and Inu-Yasha pulling out his Tetsiga.

There stood what might have been Kagome when she was a little girl. She was wearing a long black dress with long sleeves and a turtleneck collar. The only think she wore otherwise besides the dress was a silver cross hanging on a leather chain from her neck. Her hair was up in two buns.

"That was Kasaru. She was right before Kikiyo - - she was drowned in the bone eater's well, when it had water. By her mother. She thought that Kasaru was a witch," said the little girl.

"Who are you?" demanded Inu-Yasha, stepping up to the child.

"I am Kouta. I think I came before Kasaru," she said. "I was murdered by a priest, because I knew what he was doing to my little brother." Her eyes glazed over, as if she was thinking about something far away from the present day. "It was snowing when I was killed..." He eyes snapped back to the present.

"I should not be here," she said, walking past Inu-Yasha and the other three, towards the well. "The others would be upset if I told you anything."

"The others?" asked Sango.

"The other reincarnations," she said. "You didn't think Kagome was the only one, did you?"

"You mean," said Miroku, "That Kikiyo was also an incarnation of some one?"

Kouta nodded. "As am I. It goes far back. Very far. I'm sure that even before Kagome was spawned into her present day, there were some before her, between Kikiyo, and her."

She stopped at the well.

"The place were she's at..." she said. "You can't go with her. Or help her. She has to face herself. And others. That is how it always was. I even did it too, but it was right before I died, because I was so young."

"What do you mean?" asked Inu-Yasha.

"Some things are better left to those who are their own," said Kouta.

"Wha- - That made no sense!" said Miroku. Kouta shook her head.

"It did," she said, "think about it. Maybe you'll get it, monk."

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Aieee! I wanted to make it longer, but my dad just came to pick me up from the library! I promise promise promise that I will write more tomorrow instead of going to my friends house! Keep those reviews coming! Ja ne!!!