Disclaimer: I don't own Inu Yasha or Kagome, though I do own Agent Smith, Tsubii, all the strippers, and Kiki.

A/N: I'm so sorry, minna-chan! My laptop crashed, you see, so the chapter I was working on was lost! I just got my laptop back up a few days ago... I had to get a whole new hard drive!

Agent Smith's past shall be revealed now! (Oh, and I promise to update A LOT more, since it's summer!)

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Look behind and see how we used to be,

Look at us now, and maybe you'll see,

That if you look at the future, you won't find me.

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Kagome sobbed in the darkness of the nightmare, struggling weakly to free her wrists. 'Why is this happening..? Have I finally snapped?' She tried to wipe her cheeks on her shoulder, only to find it bare. 'N-nani?! Now I'm naked!' A few more tears flowed down her cheeks and she began to choke on her tears.

Then, an image began to materialize before her. It was light that pierced the darkness. Kagome looked up from her misery to watch the image, even though she knew it would just be something else to destroy her emotionally. The light took on the form of Inu Yasha's hanyou state, his silver hair billowing around him with a mystic air. He looked sad and serious, with pain filled eyes.

The dream Inu Yasha bent down to her level and lifted a claw to her cheek, wiping a tear away. "Gomen nasai.." he whispered.

'A...a ghost?!' she wondered, her eyes widening. 'No.. He's in hell with Kikyou, not visiting me! This is just a trick from my sleep-deprived, mentally unstable mind!'

"Inu Yasha..." She whispered, gazing into his eyes. She knew it wasn't real, but she could still find a small relief from the despair in her dreams. He took his haori off and wrapped it around her shoulders, his hands going down to the thorn ropes around her wrists. He cut the thorn rope from her with his claw, and she stretched her arm around automatically to lift to his cheek.

She'd had so many of these dreams in the past- where he felt so real and she swore she could smell his scent on the haori.. Which is why she kept his haori wrapped in a plastic bag. As the dream Inu Yasha began to pull away and fade, she reached forward, gasping and choking on a sob.

"Inu Yasha.. Please.. Come back..." She pleaded weakly, surprised when his image seemed to stop. She lunged forward and clung to his chest, tears running down her cheeks as she heard, "Shh, it's okay... I'm right here, Kagome..." It sounded like he was right there, right in her ear.

Kagome clung tighter, the tears coming more rapidly. "Please don't go away again... Don't be dead.. I love you.."

"...Open your eyes, Kagome."

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Agent Smith, now Inu Yasha, held Kagome tighter as he noticed she was crying in her sleep. He wiped the tears away, his own eyes watering at the sight. 'I screwed up so badly back then... I hurt Kagome so much...Will she forgive me?' He blinked and snapped from his thoughts as her hand clenched in his shirt.

"Please don't go away again.. Don't be dead. I love you.." He heard her weak mumble as she sniffed, and stiffened. He glanced over at his badge, which was glowing faintly, and then back down at the girl in his arms.

'Should I pick up the badge and become Agent Smith again..? Or should I stay as the man she loves and confess everything..?' He pulled her over, more into his lap. 'She said she loves me.. Of course she does.. She wouldn't have been that upset if she hadn't... But she.. still does.. even after what I did..?'

"...Open your eyes, Kagome." he whispered against her ear. "Open your eyes, so I can make up for everything..."

He was rewarded with a weak groan as she began to slowly open her puffy eyes, blinking as she tried to focus on him. Inu Yasha's eyes were brimmed with tears as he cradled her in his arms, trying to force a small smile on his face.

"Inu Yasha..." Kagome blinked. 'A dream inside a dream? How weird..' She then noticed the glowing on her nightstand. 'A..shikon... No, wait..' Her eyes went wide and she snapped at attention. 'It's a huge chunk of the Shikon no Tama! Almost a third of it!' She glanced back at Inu Yasha. "A-agent Smith...?"

Inu Yasha shrugged, purposely twitching his ears. "Kind of. But.. Kagome, it's me.. Inu Yasha."

Kagome's jaw dropped slightly, her eyes brimming with tears. "Another dream?" she whispered. "But.. In my dreams, I've never seen a shikon shard like that.."

"I can explain everything..." Inu Yasha began, running his hand along her back, before pulling the haori closer around her. "But.. This is no dream."

Kagome was stunned.. She felt like she was about to faint, but tried her best to hold on. She must have imagined seeing him again a thousand times; daydreamed of it, dreamed of it., had nightmares of it... But now, she had forgotten just what she had planned to do.

Instead, she did the first thing that came to mind...

She clung to him for dear life, sobbing. "Don't leave me again! Please..!"

Inu Yasha wrapped his arms around her, running his claws gently through her hair. "I'm here and I won't.. I promise." Kagome sniffed again and nodded, pulling back enough to reach out and gently tweak his ear. He tilted his head slightly towards her hand, instead of pulling away like he normally would. She looked into his eyes, then let her hand to fall from his ear to turn on her lamp beside her bed.

She blinked as light illuminated her room, looking over him to make sure it was really him. She reached for his ear again, feeling it flick against her fingers. "This is real.. This is really you.." She took in a shaky breath, trying to put off the questions running through her mind. She didn't want to bring up what had happened in Sengoku Jidai with Kikyou, yet she knew she'd have to mention it soon. "I.. I've missed you so much, Inu Yasha... I.. I..." her lip quivered and a tear ran down her cheek again as she fought to keep her composure. "I lo-...lo-..." Kagome choked on the words as she sobbed, afraid of the real rejection. 'He left me for Kikyou... He wouldn't return those three little words.'

Inu Yasha stroked her hair, pulling her head against his chest as he buried his face in her hair. "Let me explain, Kagome..." He took in a deep breath. "I'll.. start from the beginning.."

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500 Years Ago...

"As you know, I had went after Kikyou's shikigami again... We had met up in the clearing that you stumbled upon..."

Inu Yasha ran after the shikigami, going through the forest at top speeds. 'Kikyou.. Why must you still roam this plane in that form?!' He bursted into a clearing, where Kikyou sat in a tree, one of her soul snatcher shikigami on her finger. She watched him with hardened eyes, before dropping down from the tree to approach him.

"Inu Yasha.. The Shikon no Tama has been completed and Naraku is no more.. My death has been avenged. What shall you do now?"

Inu Yasha stiffened as she advanced until she was within an arm's length. "Find out what to use it for to purify it, I suppose. Probably become a full youkai."

Kikyou laughed, long and confidently. "Baka! You think a wish like that would purify it? No, it would still exist in this world." She smirked and took another step towards him, placing an arm around his neck. "But... Have you forgotten your promise? You said if I wished, you would go to hell with me."

"She did her usual hell speech..."

Inu Yasha stiffened. "I..I won't. Kikyou, you should just go to hell without me. I have avenged your death– can't you be satisfied with that?"

Kikyou let her exhaled breath out in a hiss between her teeth. "No.. You promised me. And you promised to always protect me.. Have you forgotten?"

Inu Yasha clenched his jaw. "I haven't forgotten... But without Naraku, there is no one to protect you from. If you went to hell anyways, then you wouldn't have to have me protect you from anything.. I can't go with you.. I promised to protect Kagome.."

Kikyou's grip tightened on his haori as she leaned forward. "Fool, that carbon copy doesn't belong in this era! She has her own to live in. Now that the Shikon no Tama was been completed, her duties here are nark!" She leaned closer, so her lips gently brushed his. "It's time... Who do you love, Inu Yasha? My carbon copy, the girl that slowly healed your heart, or the original, the one you promised forever to?"

"...I love you." And with that, Kikyou pressed her lips to his. At this time, Kagome had started to cry and began to back away from the bushes. Kikyou rested her chin on Inu Yasha's shoulder and looked over, right at Kagome. As they locked eyes, Kikyou smirked a purely maniacal smirk, proving that she had known exactly where Kagome had been all along.

"It's true that I said those words to Kikyou... But I just wanted Kikyou to have peace without malice."

Kagome had stumbled when she was trying to back away and snapped a stick. That caused Inu Yasha to turn around fast, and call out to her, "Kagome!"

Kagome slowly stood up to expose herself, and stepped over the bushes, closer to Inu Yasha and Kikyou. Her hands were outstretched slightly, as if to grab onto him, and her liquid, chocolate eyes were locked with his. He distangled Kikyou from him, then stepped slightly in front of her, towards Kagome.

"You were watching, hn?...I'm sorry, Kagome..." Inu Yasha's eyes were soft and full of regret and his ears were lowered like that of a puppy being scolded. The soft breeze that swept through the clearing caused everyone's clothes to sweep to the side. Inu Yasha's haori sleeves billowed to the side, his long, silver hair flowing like a curtain that was trying to obscure Kagome's view of the Ice Bitch from Hell behind him.

"S-sorry..?" Kagome was now holding her arms across her chest, fighting back tears as she shook with sobs. "Inu Yasha... What do y-you have to be s-s-orry for?"

Kikyou stood there with a confident smirk on her face– as if she had just single handedly defeated Naraku. Her bow was gripped in her hand, the tip resting on the ground and her quiver of arrows resting on her left shoulder. She miko kimono and long hair flowed much like Inu Yasha's clothing and her pale complection showed up quite nicely against the darkness of the forest.

"For breaking the promise that I'd always be there to protect you...." Inu Yasha's voice was thick with emotion that he was trying to keep back.

A tear slipped down Kagome's cheek and she looked up at Inu Yasha with an emotionally pained smile. "Is this what will make you happy?" Her voice came out stronger than she felt.

Inu Yasha nodded shortly. "It's not really a matter of that.. It's that I need to repay this debt with my life..."

"But you love her. So, it must make you happy..." Kagome stated, a smile on her face that didn't quite reach her eyes. Kikyou walked up from behind him and clung to his arm, kissing his cheek, and Inu Yasha stiffened slightly, his eyes slowly fixing on the moving clay statue attached to his arm. His eyes fixed back on Kagome's, seeing the tears gleaming in her eyes as her smile slowly widened, full of emotional pain, yet support. "And whatever makes you happy.. Is what I want for you.."

Inu Yasha's fist clentch and unclentch several times, his eyes refocusing on Kagome. "I'm sorry, Kagome..Tell the others I said goodbye... and just...try to forget about me.."

"I couldn't do that... You'll always be a major part of my life and I'll always hold your memory in my heart..." Kagome tilted her head slightly, smiling up at him, her eyes still gleaming with unshed tears that were ready to start cascading down her cheeks at any moment.

"Try to... Try to forget how I hurt you... I'm sorry, but this is goodbye..." Inu Yasha took a step forward and hugged her shortly, pulling away at Kikyou's audible growl behind them. Kagome had taken off his rosary when he hugged her. Inu Yasha took off his haori and handed it to her. "Well.. It's a bit bloody from the last battle.. But your gramps likes those legends... And it's made of hair from the fire rat, after all.."

When he pulled back, Kagome smiled, her eyes closed as she waved, Inu Yasha walking back to Kikyou..."You're free from me.." Kagome whispered, opening her eyes slightly to look at the worn rosary in her hands.

Kikyou opened the pits of hell... and flames licked around the clearing...

"Goodbye I-Inu Yasha!" Kagome's voice cracked as she waved. When the pair began to descend into the pits, she turned away and ran as fast as she could through the forest, her hands to her eyes as she sobbed, hitting every low branch and tripping several times as she ran blindly for the well. She was sure to hurl the rosary at the Goshinboku on her way.

As Kikyou's lips met Inu Yasha's, he reached up to grab her shoulders, pulling her back enough to look into her eyes. "I'm sorry..." and with that, he shoved her back into the pits and ran after Kagome..

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"N-nani?! You went back after me?!" Kagome pulled away from Inu Yasha's chest to look at him.

"Hai.. I did. But you had already sealed the well behind you, so I couldn't get through.." Inu Yasha stroked her cheek gently. "I wanted Kikyou to go on to the other life... But I didn't want to have to destroy her clay body..."

"So if I hadn't sealed the well..." Kagome started, her eyes watering all over again.

"No crying. You know I hate it when you cry.." Inu Yasha shook his head slightly. "But I wrote 'gomen' on the tree.. I hoped you'd find it. It was my fault.. Kissing her and confessing my love... I don't blame you at all."

Kagome bit her bottom lip. "Wait... If you're Agent Smith, then why didn't you just tell me who you were in the first place? And what's with the huge shard in your badge?"

Inu Yasha sighed, shifting a bit so he was more comfortable with her on his lap. "I'm getting to that. You see, when you left, there was still the matter of what to do with the Shikon no Tama. Shippou was devestated when he found out you were gone and Miroku and Sango weren't much better. So, we made an non-pure wish in order to come here. Which is why you can see the shard now.. But you can't see it when I have it on. Effect of the wish."

"Oh, so those officers I saw -were- Sango-chan and Miroku-sama.."

Inu Yasha nodded slightly. "Yeah, even though, I've only seen them once in this form."

"Form..?" Kagome tilted her head slightly.

"Hai, we made the wish to come to this time... But that would mess up the time-space-contin-mathingeh.. So when the wish was made, we arrived here as agents. I can't exactly explain why... I know that my badge was knocked away from me as Agent Smith and next thing I knew, I was back to a hanyou... It just felt as if I had just made the wish.. But my badge started glowing, and when I touched it, I was back in the form of a human agent.." He sighed. "My human side only retained a few memories from the past, but just kinda thinks he's losing his mind.. But, taking off the badge always turns me back to hanyou.. So whenever I get a new memory as Agent Smith, I take off the badge. It's usually in a vital time.. Like, finding you just a while ago."

"Oh... So, you don't know about your past that much as Agent Smith..." Kagome stated, looking at the badge. "Wait.. When you found me a while ago?" She looked back to him.

"I don't know.. I remember finding you in my hanyou form, then picking the badge back up. You'd have to ask Agent Smith about that."

"Oh, I see... So, um.. Since it wasn't a pure wish, the Shikon no Tama still exists.. All we have to do is find Sango-chan, Miroku-sama, Kirara, and Shippou and get the rest of the shards to purify it back into it's completed form... Then, we can think of a pure wish to purify it once and for all."

Inu Yasha smiled and pulled her back against his chest yet again, resting his chin atop her head. "What'll we do after that?"

"I don't know.. I don't even know what will do tomorrow... But it's been a long night... And for the first time in so long.. I'm happy." She yawned and snuggled closer to him. "Thank you.. For coming back." She closed her eyes, sighing softly. "I.. I love you...."

Inu Yasha stared off for a moment, before tightening his hold on her slightly. "I love you too, Kagome.."

And with that said, he drifted asleep..

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A/N: Another chapter completed! I have to say, it got a little bit fluffy at the end, but all is not well yet.. I happen to be an author where things are never okay until the very end. But now, the question is, where is Shippou and Kirara? What all has gone on with the modern-day members? What'll the wish be? What'll they do about the missing agents when the shards are purified? And when will Agent Smith get the rest of his memories, so Kagome can cuddle up to him in either form?

Til' Next Time,

Ja na!