Chapter One

Japan, Feudal era, just out side of Naraku's castle 9:30PM

An old woman chanted slightly as she worked inside a dark, musty hut. Her gnarled old hands moved with more ease then one thought a women her age should posses. Her dark brown eyes focused intently at the task before her, ignoring the man that stood but inches from her.

Naraku smiled as he watched the old witch work. Soon his plain would be in effect, and the wench Kagome would be out of the way for good. And if all went according to plain, he would have all he had ever wanted. "Hag, how much longer until the spell is completed?"

"Calm yourself. The spell is nearly done. Give me what you promised, and I shall say the final incantation." her voice sounded like that of a young women, not fitting the image before him. Shaking his head, Naraku dismissed the issue as an illusion.

Instead, he grabbed the small pouch at his waist and tossed it carelessly onto the table where the witch worked. "It's all there. Now finish this. I want that girl gone from here now."

"I say again, calm yourself. All you asked for will be done." closing her eyes, she started to chant, softly at first, but soon her words were echoing off the walls of the small hut. The bowl before her began to glow red, the contents held within seemed to explode into the air, creating a circle.

An image of a girl, at first blurry, then as sharp as if she stood in the room before them appeared. She had long, silver-blue hair and midnight blue eyes. Her smile was almost as acidic as Naraku's often was.

"That, is not the girl I spoke of hag."

"No, it is not. She in the one to hold young Kagome within her. The girl's mind is strong and she is from Kagome's time. The others will not find her. Watch as the two become one...." as she said this, an image of Kagome appeared next to the other girl. Slowly, the two images moved toward on another.

"This was not what we agreed upon!" without thinking, he slammed his fist down onto the glowing bowl, crushing it and the remaining contents in it. He had been so close to achieving his goal.

The screech of the old women brought him out of his thoughts. The image of the girl and Kagome had come together just as he had smashed the bowl, they where passing through one another then a blast of light filled the hut. What ever had just happened, was not good....

//**//

America, present day, small motel in New York City, 9:30 PM

She smiled down at the man beneath her as she pinned his hips down to the floor, her silver-blue hair forming a curtain about her body. Her unbuttoned gray shirt grazed against his skin as she leaned down to lightly bit his ear, her breasts inches away from his chest. "Now, would you mind telling me what I want to know John? I'm getting board just sitting here like this...."

"Okay! I'll talk! Benny was the one who sold me the stuff. He gets it from some guy in his building. Now, can we get onto more.....entertaining things?" the man muttered, his voice slightly slurred, shivering slightly as he felt her tong slide down the side of his face.

"Yes, lets move on to something more entertaining. Like locking you up for a year or two, hmm?" that got a response. The man below her stiffened as if she a punched him. As he shook his head in denial, a crooked smile appeared on Kali's face. "Why do you think I'm here?"

reaching behind her, she withdrew the gun which had remained hidden in the holster at the back of her belt. "That's right love, I'm the one that's been tracking you since you got into the city. Put your hands above your head! Ned, he's all your's buddy!"

static sounded before Ned's reply came from the small pendent shaped radio about her neck. "Thank's Kali, you know, you should start to think about joining the force, you'd make a good agent."

"I make a better bounty hunter, but thanks. And hurry up, I'm getting cold up here." the only reply she got was a chuckle before the door was shoved open.

A man with short black hair and laughing green eyes stepped into the room. With his gun pointed at the head of the man beneath Kali, he began to laugh when he saw him struggling as if his life depended on it to get out from underneath the half clothed girl. "Fast enough for you?"

shrugging her shoulders, she finished the last button on her shirt before replying. "Yeah, I -- hold on, I feel dizzy. Something isn't....right....." Kali William's image began to fade in and out slightly before vanishing completely from the room.

//***//

Japan, Feudal era, on the outskirts of the bone eater's well, 9:30PM

Kagome was going to kill them. Koga and Inuyasha had been standing there for an hour snarling at one another. "Will you two cut it out? God, this ridiculous!"

"Just shut your mouth! This is between me and Koga, it has nothing to do with you!"

Kagome say red, standing to her full height, she marched over to Inuyasha and poked him in the chest with her index finger. "Is that so, Inuyasha? So if I choose to leave with Koga right now you'll have no problem with --"

"Over my dead body will that stinking wolf put his flea ridden paws on you!"

"What right do you have to say things like that? You picked Kikyo, remember? You have no right to decide who I do anything with!"

As the two continued to argue, Koga began to get impatient. Before he could step into the argument however, Both Sango and Miroku stepped in his way. "Before you go, we would like to ask your intentions toward Kagome. As you can see, Inuyasha's seem to be....shall we say less then honorable at this time --"

"I heard that monk! And like your one to talk!" Inuyasha called over his shoulder before getting back to his argument with Kagome. But when he looked at her again, she noticed, she was grasping her stomach in pain and her face was unnaturally white. "Kagome, what's wrong? Kagome, talk to me! What's the matter?"

"I don' know -- I feel dizzy, something...isn't right...."

"Kagome!!" both Koga and Inuyasha called out her name just as her form began to deteriorate into thin air. A split second later, a flash of light filled the sky, and the smell of spearmint washed over the aria. On the ground where Kagome had just been, a girl with long silver-blue hair sat. Her midnight blue eyes stared at them focused and glazed.

"Who are you and what have you done with Kagome?!" At Inuyasha's voice, the Kali looked up and gasped. Standing on shaky legs, she staggered back and did what she always did in situations like this. She pointed her gun at the sky and fired once, then pointed it at the monsters before her.

"Stay back or I'll blow your brains out! Where the hell am I?" her words came out slow and awkward sounding It had been a long time since she had last needed to speak Japanese and her speech suffered for it.

Ignoring her questions and her request, both Inuyasha and Koga moved toward her. Without a second thought, she pulled the trigger, only to feel a sharp pain in her left shoulder and chest. As she went crashing into a nearby tree, Kali realized her gun must have backfired.

"Wench, if you do not tell me where you have taken my Kagome I will tare you apart!"

"I don't know anyone named Kagome. And I think I've done a rather good job of ripping myself apart, don't you think?" with that, her head went limp against the tree she leaned on, blood slowly dripping down from the gashes over her upper body, coating her clothing and the ground.