Howdy y'all! Welcome back to the Midoriko series! And I'd like to present to you the first chapter of the new season-Time and Time Again! Please enjoy!

Disclaimer- If I was the owner of Inuyasha... If I was Rumiko Takahashi... I wouldn't be writing this, right now... Heck, I wouldn't have written the whole story, I'd be working on the original series right now... Nor, I'm I getting any profit from this... This story is only for entertainment purposes or whatever... Nor, do I own Cole Blade or Ms. Youkai... So, um, on with the third season!

(I'm starting off with the Sesshoumaru chapters again, so the Inu chapters will be 2,4,6 while the Sess chapters will be 1,3,5, get it? This is the Inuyasha starting chapter!)

Chapter 2

The Times of Denial

It was a cold, almost freezing day in feudal Japan. In contrast to the mean, freezing weather, the snow blanketing the surface of Earth is a beautiful site to behold... But, not as beautiful when looking at it from the cold, windy outside instead of the warm, heating, steady temperature inside of your own home.

You shiver pulling the oversized gi over your head, while trying to secure it around you. You and Inuyasha decided to prowl around the castle ruins to look for any signs of the shikon jewel, of course. Though the search wasn't going too well, the weather was just making it worst! You glance behind you observing the trail of footprints in the soft snow. You sigh and frown seeing your breathe slowly disappear in front of you. You casually approach the dog boy from behind pouting.

"Ne, Inuyasha, maybe we should call it a day... I don't think anything's here." You say sniffing.

"No... This bastard is still here..." He replies stepping backwards.

"What?" You ask and walk beside him to see the left behind object. "Holy shit!" You mutter looking down at the untouched and pale body of the castle owner. "It's-it's Blade!"

Indeed it is the body of the castle owner... Lord Cole Blade... His stiff, maybe frozen body is nestled on top of a thick blanket of soft snow and as more snow falls he's bound to be in a white coffin any minute now...

"Should I check?" You ask stepping towards the body, but the dog boy stops you.

"He's still breathing; even if he's unconscious you still shouldn't approach him..." He replies glaring at the body.

"...I wonder how he got there..." You mutter gaping at the rigid looking body.

"(your name), I want you to go back to the temple, I'll be coming, too in a few minutes..." He says observing the body.

"Why? You said he isn't-"

Before you can finish your sentence the body of Blade suddenly springs to life jumping to its feet. His red eyes and blood dripping fangs were directed only at you as you step away recovering from shock.

"You thought I was dead... You thought I'd never be back... But, always you're just to naïve to realize, vampires are immortal, Midoriko... You can't kill me, but right now you're life is in my hands!" Blade growls spitefully.

Blade lunges at you and you scream out of pure fear closing your eyes... The impact of his lunge pushes you backwards, until you lose your balance and start to fall. When you open you're eyes again... Blade's gone, you sigh in relief... But, everything else is gone, too... You frantically look around at the world around you, to see nothing, but white around you, pure, plain white and despite the absence of the snow it was still cold...

"... Inuyasha! Inuyasha!" You call out into the big white unknown, but you receive no reply as you continue to fall.

'Oh god, where the hell am I now! And where's Inuyasha!' You ask yourself inwardly feeling your dazed heart ready to jump right through your chest.

"Shit..." You mutter looking around. "Inu!"

Splash! You gasp, feeling yourself submerge into a pool of cold liquid, falling below the surface. You quickly emerge from below the surface, gasping for air and thrashing against the water's waves.

"I-Inuyasha!" You yell thrashing against the waves trying to stay above. As more and more waves crash over you desperation becomes you. "Sangoo! Naomiii! Mirokuu!" A wave overcomes you and you sink, but luckily resurface. "Anyone..." You whimper, coughing and closing your eyes, not wanting to see the innocent white skies anymore. Giving in to the tough waves, you slowly loose consciousness while submerging.

"Inuyasha..."

Warm... Soft... Fluffy... It must have all been a dream... A sick, twisted dream with a horrible ending...Since that Blade guy turned out to be vampire, with big sharp teeth, and especially since you drowned in the end... It all had to be a bad dream... You roll over in your futon to lie on your side and frown when a loud beeping sound cracks the silence.

"What the hell...?" You groan and cracking your eyes open.

Your eyes roll around the room, and finally landing on the source of the buzzing. '...An alarm clock...' You tiredly sit up and turn the thing off yawning. 'But, what's an alarm clock doing in the feudal era...? They shouldn't have been invented yet...' You wonder standing up and stretching. 'Wait...!' Your eyes widen as you fully take in the room around you. A nice-sized, fluffy western-style bed, posters of various things on the wall, a lamp, a computer... Your laptop! A bathroom!

This is your old room, in your grandfather's temple! And all your stuff is still here, plus a few new things... As you proceed farther into the room, in a slight daze, reality hits you in the face again, when an image of your favorite dog boy comes to mind. 'Inuyasha... This has to be a dream, a very twisted dream... And if I stay here any longer I might not want to leave...' You muse to yourself looking at the modern day electronics in the room. Pinching yourself, you frown at the slight pain. 'Alright, time to wake up!' You think to yourself digging your fingernails into your arm.

"Shit!" You mutter looking at the red, crescent marks on your arm. "Why aren't I waking up?"

You wince as the small crescent scratches start to pool with red liquid. 'I'm not supposed to be feeling pain... This is a dream... This is a dream and any minute now I'll wake up and see Inuyasha... and then everyone else...' You think inwardly as your eyes pool with tears. 'This-This is a dream! Why am I crying?' You stiffly walk to your bed and sit down hugging yourself tightly. Your head snaps up in horror as a few gentle knocks come from your door.

"Tadpole, are you still in bed?" A raspy, deep voice asks from behind your door. "It's a wonder this kid passed middle school..." The voice mutters.

Your bedroom door slowly creaks open and in pops the head of your... Grandfather. His eyes unexpectedly widens when he takes a full look at you and he suddenly rushes into the room.

"(your name), you're not-you couldn't be starting that again, are you?" He asks uneasily staring down at your barely bleeding, scratched arm. As a few tense seconds pass by the old man suddenly pulls you into a bear hug. "(your name), I know you've been through a lot, but sometimes you just have to forgive and forget or you'll never be able to grow and pass on properly!"

"Uh... Grand... Pa... I'm fine; this was an accident, really! I just scratched myself..." You say tensely as a bead of sweat slides down the side of your face. The old man finally pulls away, but still holding on to your arms.

"I could call Ms. Youkai, to come talk with you if you want, she's paid good money to do that stuff ya' know!" He says shaking you softly.

"No, grandpa, I'm fine... It was just an accident..."

"That was how it started, tadpole..." He says gravely before backing way. "But, anyways, hurry up and get ready for school! You already missed your ride and if you're not ready in the next ten minutes... I don't know, but you better be!" Your grandfather says exiting and closing the door.

At the old man's departure you sigh loudly, before standing up stiffly and walking to your bathroom. Yep, it was your old bathroom... With different decors anyway, with how much time has pass, this "parallel you" must have better style. "Parallel you", must have been the you that was here while you were in the feudal era, since obviously present time hasn't paused for you, somehow...The faucet squeaks as you turn the dial and water rushes from the pipe allowing you to wash your face. 'By the way the old man looked when he saw my arm... That must mean that I've must have been trying to... Commit suicide or something... But, there aren't any scars on either of my arms that prove that...'

You turn and dry your face with a conveniently close towel. 'No... I may have only known him for two months or so, but who'd lie about something like that?' You toss the towel in the laundry basket and sit on the rim of the bathtub. '...Inuyasha...' Your eyes widen when an important memory slaps you in the face. Jumping up you approach the mirror and push your shirt away to find the infamous scar your favorite dog boy gave you after losing control that one day...

Caressing the scar you leap for tearful joys leaving your pained denial behind. 'This scar could mean that somehow I'm not the same girl as I was present day yesterday because I don't have the scars the girl present day yesterday had! And now someway I can find a way to get back to the feudal era!' You grin as you turn towards your school uniform. 'Yosh! Inuyasha, Shippou, Sango, Naomi, Miroku, Tetsu... Watch out, because I'll be back in no time!'

What a really embarrassing day... Matter of fact, worst day experienced in a school building ever... Sweat still mingled with the locks of your hair as you treaded from a shallow snow into the forest farther away from the evil high school. To start off your bad day at such an evil school, you got lost on your way to class, but you ended up at the wrong class when you got to class, so you had to locate the office and ask... Sadly, when you got to the office, the office workers seemed to have gotten up at the wrong side of the bed...

However in the end, you got to your classes, but to make things much worst you were no longer a freshman, but a bloody senior! And do explain how one was suppose to do grade 12 work when one was totally new to half the material? Thou art correct, one can't, and plus one couldn't ask anyone because one was supposedly the second best in the whole school! So, this one might need to cram a bit... Though, thankfully the year was almost over and there weren't any major tests approaching except college entrance exams, but this one will be back in the feudal era before such a thing approaches...

You smile softly when you reach your destination... There it is the same well you climbed into to save your half-pint fox and ended up drinking sake with a dog boy a year later. You dust the snow off the rim before sliding onto it. 'Feudal era, here I come!' You slide off the rim plunging into the murky depth of the well... Just as soon you reach the bottom of the cool pit. Taking a deep breathe, you slowly climb out of the well and slide onto of the rim. Your gaze ascends to the snowy sky and to a passing flock of birds.

"Shit!" You cry noticing an airplane passing above the birds. This was nothing but a bad dream! A nightmare!

The scent of hot cocoa has taken over the smell of your grandfather's quaint sized living room. As you examine the room's attributes your eyes land on the calendar, which had a woman in a bikini for a picture. Ignoring the woman, the date was supposedly January, something, 2006...

"I thought you didn't like that calendar." Your grandpa says entering the room carrying two cups of cocoa and onigiri.

"Huh? That calendar?"

"Yeah, you said the next time you see it, you'd take it and burry it somewhere!" The old man says taking a swig of cocoa.

"Really now? Well, uh, I forgot, so the next time I see it I'll burry it then..." You reply taking a sip of your steaming cocoa as a bead of sweat slides down the old man's forehead.

"I-I never should have said anything in the first place..." The old man mutters starting to sulk.

"...Speaking of the calendar, is the date right?" You ask fidgeting a bit with your onigiri.

"Yeah, it's exactly January 27, 2006... You're not suffering from Alzheimer disease, are you Tadpole?" The old man says chuckling.

'You're one to talk, gramps...' You muse frowning at your grandfather. 'Though, I may actually be...'

The stars above glued to the sky, shimmered brightly in the dark, night of Kyoto. They gleefully twinkled down at you, as if mocking your horrid situation that you still haven't found a steady answer to... When a cold breeze rushes in, you quickly close your window and go back to your prior activity. Sinking down in your seat before your computer, your eyes scroll down the screen. The mouse glides expertly in your hand as you double click and printer starts to print the selected info. You pick up the printed sheets of paper, grinning as look at the sheet.

"There definitely has to be one well in Kyoto that takes me back to feudal Japan... And if that still doesn't work... I'll just have to somehow get to Tokyo and find that and find some more wells!" You say with a determined blaze in your eyes. "I'll definitely get back..." You mutter turning toward your window just in time to catch another shooting star. 'And until then, I'll just play it cool around here, so no one will get suspicious... Since this era isn't too bad either...'

"I'll definitely be back... Inuyasha..."

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Notes

Yeah, well, I had this idea for the you character to somehow get back to your own time the hour before I started writing The Return, I didn't think it'd work out, but everything's coming together smoothly... Oh, and based on the school system in Japan the you character is supposedly graduating from high school in March, I suppose if there aren't any tests approaching (sans college examinations) and if there are, you're... Screwed... If, of course you find a well, before those evil tests comes and bites you in the ass... Excuse my language, but miss school, miss out, dudes! Kukukukuku! (Though, I'm not sure what that saying really means...-)

Yes, and it was a bit unoriginal for your gramps to call you "tadpole", but he doesn't (presently) teach you karate or any of the likes, so it couldn't be that uncreative could it? So, if you don't understand how the "you" character is in the present, it should be explained eventually in future chapters. (Is that a pun?)

Yeah, well, later!