Back to the day I met you

Rated PG-13 for Inu-Yasha's supreme potty mouth.

Disclaimer: See previous chapter.

AN: For the reviewer who so kindly offered to help me I thank you ahead of time. It would help me allot to have the episodes that Miroku, Sango, Shippou, and Sesshomaru first appeared in as well as the episode where Kikyou is first brought back to life. Please email me at Thanks again and enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 2: The unexpected change of plans

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Pain. Mind blowing, excruciating pain. Nothing previously experienced could compare with this current pain. Everything was jumbled and distorted.

He knew where he should be, but he was not in that place. He was further away, too far to have come there in his haze from before. He remembered the fight, remembered the pain. Then there was darkness and a swirling of time and space. Nothing was as it should be. He could feel the difference not only in himself, but in the world around him. His injuries from the before battle were no longer there.

He had to leave this place, had to find out what had happened. Perhaps his answers lay with the miko Kagome. He needed to get up, to track her down. Maybe then everything would make sense again.

(AN: Lets see if anybody can figure out who this is.)

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(Kagome)

Everything had started over. This wasn't just a bad dream. She was back to the beginning of her adventure with Inu-Yasha. All the pain and fear and loss she had suffered by his side those two years had never happened. They had never met.

Everything had been reset to that fateful day. She could change it. She could prevent all of it from happening. She knew what was going to happen. She could save them.

Some things had made them stronger, but others had made them doubt each other. She could prevent Kikyou from ever coming back, thus making sure Naraku couldn't get that large piece of the Shikkon he used to create his minions and kill Kouga's clan members. She'd have to figure out how to help Sesshoumaru get the Tokijin even without the demon whose fang it was forged from. They would need his help against Naraku in the end.

Kagome looked carefully at her surroundings. She was being brought to Kaede's village. She was about to meet Kaede for the first time. It was happening over again, but how? How had this happened?

Tears were still swimming in her eyes as the village men dragged her further into the village. Inu-Yasha had not been released yet. He was still held by a spell fifty years old. He would think she was Kikyou when he was awakened later. Everything was going to repeat exactly as it had two years ago. He didn't know her, couldn't know her. They had never met.

Kagome came back to herself as the villagers threw her to the ground. She had to be strong now. At least now all of her friends were alive and well. She could stop Naraku from killing them all. She would have the chance to see her precious kit again. She'd be able to reassure Sango when Naraku brought Kohaku into the fight. She could help Miroku when he finally figured out he had feelings for Sango. She could make everything right again.

Her eyes widened and filled with tears as the village priestess, Kaede, approached her. The old miko had been one of the first people Naraku had killed when they first reassembled the jewel. He had been trying to draw them out, but instead he had only given away his element of surprise. They had not been expecting him that night, but dying warning from Kaede had saved them and given them the time they needed to gather their forces.

Kaede threw some sort of special dust in Kagome's face making her flinch and fight back a sneeze.

"Demon be gone!" She shouted as she threw more dust on the other miko's face and body.

Kagome waited until the old woman stopped in confusion before she stood up to face the other woman.

Carefully choosing her words she said, "I'm not a demon."

"If ye are truly not a demon then why were ye in the forest of Inu-Yasha?"

Kagome had to think of a plausible excuse to give the old woman before she spoke her next words or she may end up with a sutra on her head. Before she had a chance to answer, though, Kaede grabbed her face and turned it first one way then the other while saying, "Could it be? (turns Kagome's head) Look sharp girl! (turns Kagome's head again)"

Kagome knew what she was doing. She knew that the old priestess could see her similarity to the dead Kikyou. She was Kikyou's reincarnation, thus she was also her exact copy. This was going to be one strange day.

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Something was happening. He could feel the miko's power closer now, but somehow it seemed subdued. It was as if she knew someone was searching for her and was trying to hide herself. She was smart, he'd admit, but even she could not hide her true power from one who had known the feel of her power for as long as he had.

He could sense her confusion now. He'd figured out some time ago that if he really concentrated he could sense the emotions of others when they were at their strongest. If what he was sensing was correct, and it usually was, she didn't know any more of what had happened than he did. That was quite vexing on its own, but combined with the fact that she also seemed to be purposefully trying to get herself into trouble....Well, lets just say that he wasn't very pleased.

The miko had no sense whatsoever. Without someone there to protect her, she seemed to draw danger to her. Carrying the Shikkon no Tama around probably didn't help any. If he had not seen her prowess while in a battle himself countless times before he would think she was trying to commit suicide.

He quickened his pace along the ground as he felt the distinct flare of Naraku's power close by. If the dark hanyou was still alive then Kagome was in more danger that he had first realized.

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(Inu-Yasha)

He could feel himself starting to become coherent. Someone was coming and that someone was weakening the spell that bound him to this damn tree. Awareness ran though his body, making everything become pronounced and sharp. He was definatly waking up. As soon as his eyes opened he found himself staring at the one person whom he had never wished to see again, Kikyou was there and she looked like she was being chased by a centipede demon. Something seemed off about her to him, but he ignored the feeling.

A smirk found its way onto his face as he said, "Hello Kikyou, playing with bugs now are we?"

Kikyou looked up at him and all the color drained from her face. A strong feeling of protectiveness swept over him for a moment before he shoved it away. Kikyou could take care of herself, he didn't need to protect her.

"Why are you taking so long to kill it? Just do her like you done me."

Kikyou still looked stunned. It was like she had not expected him to speak to her. Something was wrong. Why was Kikyou acting this way? Why did he care?

Feh! I don't care one way or another about the stupid bitch! If Kikyou wants to act stupid its her own choice.

His mind threw this at him, but for some reason he couldn't stop the feeling that this was somehow not Kikyou, at least not his Kikyou. She was different somehow. He shook his head as he stared at the miko's slight form sitting there on the ground.

"You look pretty dumb there, Kikyou."

He saw her tense in agitation. Finally he was getting some form of response from her. She still looked too pale though.

"The Kikyou I know wouldn't waist her time."

The girl finally stood up to glare at him. He'd gotten her attention.

Her hands fisted at her sides as she said, "That does it! Kikyou! Kikyou! Whoever she is she's not me 'cause my name is-"

He interrupted her as he said, "She's here."

The centipede had arrived. The demon seemed to be intent upon the miko's destruction. He watched dispassionately as Kikyou was thrown back to the ground by the low class demon.

"You're pathetic, Kikyou."

She climbed up onto the branch in front of him before she said, "I'm not Kikyou! Look I'm telling you, I'm not her!"

His ears twitched as he heard her next words. "Whoever her is."

It was then that the villagers arrived to drag away the rampaging demon. He saw Kikyou's eyes widen in surprise at the intervention. He heard her murmur, "That's not right. They did it too soon..."

He didn't want to know what the stupid bitch was blabbering on about so he said, "And I'm saying you gotta be her! Cause if you're not there's no way that you could smell so- " He sniffed at the woman before him then raised his eyebrows in surprise. She wasn't Kikyou. "You're not her."

He watched as the Kikyou clone brought one hand out and poked him in the chest as she spoke her next words.

"I know. My name is Kagome. Ka-go-me."

He looked away from her in annoyance. "You're right, Kikyou was cuter. Much cuter."

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This wasn't right. Inu-Yasha should not be still pinned to the tree. He'd been freed some years ago by the very miko now getting ready to shout profanities at him. She also appeared younger to him somehow. It was hard to tell with Inu-Yasha, but Kagome was definatly younger.

He watched silently as the events of years before unfolded before him. News traveled fast in the circles he traveled in. Every time any demon was killed everyone knew who did it and how within a days time. This was how a miko's reputation grew or diminished. Kagome had a very grand reputation to uphold and yet here she was having trouble with a low class centipede demon.

He had to completely hide his presence when Inu-Yasha was released. The hanyou could take care of the miko, but right now he seemed more interested in harming her himself. It was strange. Inu-Yasha usually protected the miko Kagome, even when he had his rare bouts loosing himself to his demon blood.

This was starting to give him a migraine. The complexities of what exactly was going on were starting to become out of his depth. He needed to go somewhere to think for a little while. Somewhere nobody would think to look for him should those that knew him wish to find him. Time was the one thing he did have on his side. These events would play out as they should. He didn't need to interfere here. Kagome could control Inu-Yasha. If he showed himself it would only complicate matters more. With that thought in mind he took off to find a place he could retreat to until everything made sense to him again.

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