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PT 1: MIROKU'S TALE TO TELL

Last Time:

Kurama stood there shock. "Kagome? Are you sure that's her name?"

Kuwabara glared at him. "Yes, that's her name! Your cousin is the one who did that!"

"Nani?!"

This Time:

A dark cave. Cold and wet. But, this did not bother Kagome as she inhaled the cold, crisp air. She slowly breathed out, surveying what happened. "I wonder…" A masculine voice. Cold yet not. "Why did you let the houshi live?"

Kagome was silent. "Answer me!" She remained silent. The voice, it belonged to some man-wearing a black cloak over him.

"Why are you being harsh?" avoided Kagome, as she sneered mentally.

The cloaked man roughly pushed Kagome against the cold cave's wall, making her cry out in pain. "Tell me…" His voice commanded as his face was close to hers.

"I…" She was uncertain really. She had no clue why. Maybe it was because he was her friend? "…do not know."

"You don't know?" He asked, as if almost disbelieving what she had said. "You don't know?!" Anger filled his voice, as he repeated it. "I gave you direct orders, miko, my miko." Kagome shivered as the man's crimson eyes bore on her… glaring.

"I'm not your miko," Her voice cracked a bit. She cursed mentally. Her voice had betrayed her!

She would have seen an amused face, but his eyes. She could see amusement dance in them. "Remember, miko. The deal."

Kagome meekly nodded. How could she forget the deal? Probably because of Miroku? Who knew, but it is for sure she did not follow orders.

"Need I remind you, about the deal?" He let his voice sound annoyed and irritated. "The one we made five hundred years ago." Kagome opened her mouth to reply, but her mouth immediately shut as she felt the cave's rocks dig into her back. "Especially, since we made it at the hot springs a bit far for that hanyou's hearing range."

Kagome nodded, while tears streaked her face. "Good."

YYH GANG

Yusuke stirred a bit, as if he were having a nightmare. He was sleeping on a bed that was put beside Miroku's. "Houshi-sama, tell me what happened." Koenma's voice rang a bit. Everyone was there BUT Hiei.

Silence filled the room, until Miroku finally said, "Kagome-sama…" He took a deep breath and let it out. "She came here to kill me." Silence again took over.

"Why would she want to kill you?" asked Kurama. He seemed to be confused a bit.

Still, bedridden, Miroku sat up, while lifting an arm covered in prayer beads. "You see this. These are what restrain my wind tunnel."

"What is this wind tunnel?" asked Botan.

Miroku smiled a bit at Botan, happy to see a pretty girl. "This wind tunnel is a curse, passed down from my grandfather to my father to me. I am forever cursed with this, yet this wind tunnel helps me fight in battles. It's both useful and harmful, for every year it grows to consume me."

Again with the silence. Kuwabara began to feel nervous for some odd reason. "Hey, how is that related to Kurama's cousin, Kagome?"

"Aw, yes, Kagome, how she was willingly there to help us, Sango, Shippou, Inuyasha, and I. We were companions. I had met her after taking her bicycle," Miroku laughed a bit. "However, she knew that I had taken a liking to Sango, and she tried her best to put me and her together." He smiled at the sweet memories, as if it just happened yesterday. Though, his facial expression looked grim now, as he was pulled out of his sweet memories. "In the end, we had fought our arch foe, Naraku. He, who cursed me, was finally killed." Miroku paused, taking another deep breath. "As for Kagome, she had given Inuyasha the Shikon no Tama."

"Eh?!" exclaimed Kurama, as his eyes widened a bit.

"Kurama, do you know what that thing he's saying?" asked Kuwabara. He obviously had no clue what the Shikon no Tama is.

"The Shikon no Tama, Kuwabara. The teachers explained it in history, which you probably weren't listening to the legend." Kurama continued on. "The Shikon no Tama is a powerful jewel that could grant anything to the heart's desire. Though, I only thought of that as a myth, even in my youko years."

"Yes, and that was what Inuyasha did. He had wished Kagome's soul to be placed in Kikyou or what seemed to be Kikyou." Shock and anger filled the air, and Botan hid behind Koenma at the scary feelings she felt.

"Calm yourselves," said Koenma. "That won't help Kagome. Houshi-sama, go on."

"You do not have to call me "Houshi-sama". Call me, Miroku." Koenma nodded.

Miroku smiled and continued, "You must be thinking 'How could she be alive, if her soul was taken?' and 'Who is this Kikyou?'. Kikyou, first of all, is a priestess that was the former guardian of the Shikon no Tama and lover of Inuyasha. Kagome so happened to be her reincarnation, but that never had put her down." He paused a bit and resumed on. "Kikyou, from what I heard of, was brought back however in a clay body. That did not stop Inuyasha from loving her, and that had not stop Kagome from loving Inuyasha." His voice trailed off a bit.

"Go on," persuaded Kurama. He was interested, especially since Kuwabara had said that Kagome is involved with this whole fiasco.

"How Kagome is alive, I am not sure. But, my theory is that the unclean soul of Kagome that resided in Kikyou was thrown back towards her."

END OF CHAPTER