A Third Chance at Life

An Old Friend and Fun with Railroad Spikes

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma or Inuyasha, they are the property of Rumiko Takashi and some companies I can't remember, I also do not own Shadow Hearts, I am making no money of this work.

Author's notes: Sorry about the stopping where I did, but it just seemed to be the perfect place to end the chapter and it didn't have anything to do with a sadistic pleasure in making people wait. 'Smiles innocently,' cough. Anyway, thank you to everyone who reviewed and as always all reviews are appreciated.

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What the hell is going on here?" Inuyasha exclaimed as his hand went to grab for his sword hilt before he realized Kagome made him leave it at the shrine.

"Is she a demon with Kikyo's form?" Kagome questioned as she reached for her bow.

"Calm down and I will explain everything." Kikyo said as she held her hands out in front of her

"Calm down, CALM DOWN, your, you died back in our time, twice. Now you're here in Kagome's world and you're alive with, unless my nose has decided to be completely confused by the scents coming from these booths, a body of flesh and blood and you reek of some guys scent, and you want me to calm down." Inuyasha growled

'I knew he would take this badly' Kikyo thought miserably.

'Think he smells me.'

'Probably, these are your clothes I'm wearing so I probably have your scent all over me.'

"Yeah and… Inuyasha, why would it matter if she has someone else's scent on her, your going out with me remember." Kagome's glare switched from Kikyo to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha flinched and took a step back, "It doesn't I was just noting things, so er you would know too." Inuyasha gulped.

"Please, let's just all sit down and I can explain everything." Kikyo said interrupting the brewing argument.

"She doesn't smell like a demon, but I don't trust this." Inuyasha growled.

"Hey sis what's up?" Souta said as he and Kagome's three friends all walked towards the confrontation.

"Nothing, we just ran into an old friend is all." Kagome lied as her face stretched into a fake smile.

"Oh when we noticed you and Inuyasha had run off we thought for sure we were gonna find you two going at it in a janitor's closet again." Souta smirked causing Kagome and Inuyasha to blush while Kikyo's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates.

"Now that's not true. Not everyone thought that." Eri grinned, "I said it would be in a tree."

"And I said it would be the gym locker room." Ayumi laughed.

"Hey we never did nothing in the locker room." Inuyasha shouted then paled as he realized what he just acknowledged doing.

'You didn't tell me those two were that close.'

'Well last time I saw them they were not together like this.' Kikyo's thoughts whispered painfully.

'You okay?'

'I knew back then, even if he would have decided to go with me, it was because he felt a duty that he had to for the blame he felt he had to take up for believing so easily that I would betray him. It was Kagome he was in love with, he was just denying it or maybe he even accepted it and pushed it aside regardless, because he felt he had to. Now seeing them, obviously together, hurts.'

'I'm sorry Kikyo, I don't know what ta say, but if you need to talk, my offer to listen about things is still there.'

'Maybe later for now though I think I'm going to have to fill them in on what happened.'

"Um excuse me, I will be sitting over in that section if either of you would like to know what happened." Kikyo said as she pointed to where a bunch of food booths had been erected and a food court was set up.

"Who was that? She looked a lot like you." Yuka asked. (1)

"Hey, that wasn't the girl he used to two time you with is it?" Eri glared at Inuyasha.

"It couldn't be, she was from the past remember. And she was killed by the Naraku guy Kagome told us about." Ayumi stated.

"Hey Souta, you mind taking those three around for a bit me and Inuyasha need to go talk to that girl." Kagome said ignoring her friends.

"I guess, but I'm still trying to find the others." Souta frowned

"Thanks Souta you're the best." Kagome smiled as she mussed up her brother's hair causing him to smack her hands away.

"Inuyasha come on." Kagome said as she pulled her boyfriend away from her friends who were currently trying to pump him for information on the 'old friend.'

"We need to talk to her an find out what's going on." Kagome stated as she walked towards a table piled with a ton of food that Kikyo was sitting at.

"Whoa, look at her eat." Inuyasha looked on in shock as the once quiet and reserved priestess began to shovel a massive amount of food down her throat.

"Kikyo, can you please explain what is going on." Kagome asked as she sat down.

"Alright, but it's a long story." Kikyo sighed.

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Ding went the railroad spike Megumi smashed with a rubber mallet through her current patient's kneecap. "Hmm, now where should I put the next one? Oh I know" Megumi grinned evilly.

"NO wait I'll tell you anything just don't do what your about to do." The man screamed in terror.

"Oh poo, it was just getting fun too." Megumi pouted as she dropped her rubber mallet and pulled the tip of the rusty railroad spike out from the man's rear. "So, spill it."

"I wasn't at my scheduled location when the demons were activated, if I was I could have intercepted them before they attacked Ranma." The man cried

"Where were you?" Megumi asked.

"I was at a strip club." The man whispered.

Megumi's eye twitched, 'This moron blew of his post, which caused Ranma to be attacked by demons, which made the Master angry, which caused Vlad to be injured, All because he had to go and get a lap dance immediately rather then wait for work to end. Megumi lifted up a railroad spike twice as long and three times as wide as the original and glared and her victim.

"OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW"

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"Oh my, Ranma's life is certainly an interesting one." Kasumi laughed.

"Now, remember you can't tell anyone about it." Nabiki said.

"Can I talk to Ranma about it?" Kasumi asked.

"Yeah, I'll just tell him that I couldn't say no to you or it would have made you upset." Nabiki responded.

"I'm happy to see your being honest." Kasumi smiled.

"Hmm, it looks like we got sometime before they start the competition, you want to walk around some?" Nabiki asked.

"Sure, I might as well make the most of the day, because I'll be using most of the night to clean up whatever culinary monstrosity Akane looses upon my poor kitchen." Kasumi mumbled causing Nabiki to laugh hard.

"heh, what's gotten into you lately sis, you seem a bit darker then usual." Nabiki smirked.

"I have been?" Kasumi asked worriedly, "I haven't meant to be."

"Hey I like it, it seems to me you're finally opening up your shell a bit." Nabiki said.

"You seem to be nicer to Ranma lately yourself what's with that?" Kasumi asked

"Huh, I don't know what you mean." Nabiki waved off the question.

"Oh what about during the picnic the other day when you saved his life by waking him up before Akane could see the position he was sleeping in." Kasumi smirked back.

"Y-you saw that? So it was you who had laughed. I must be wearing off on you because you're being sneaky lately." Nabiki smiled.

"Don't change the subject, now why have you been so nice to Ranma lately?" Kasumi asked.

'Subject change failed.' Nabiki thought. "Well the big jerk's kinda grown on me, and honestly, I've done nothing, but caused problems for him ever since he got here so I decided to ease up a bit." Nabiki responded.

Kasumi grinned at Nabiki and then turned her head to a booth, "Oh those look pretty." Kasumi said back to her usual slightly spacy self.

'Kasumi's got a better acting and bluffing face then I do, when the hell did that happen?' Nabiki thought to herself.

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"Hey Orobas, while we fly towards Nerima I'm gonna meditate for a bit." Saki said.

"Need to go to the graveyard of souls again?" Orobas asked.

"Yeah, I need to clean out the malice that is building up or the gate of darkness will open up." Saki frowned.

"Just be careful, I can't help you while you in there and the four masks may try something if you're not careful." Orobas said.

"I'll be fine, don't worry." Saki grinned before she went into a meditative trance.

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Omake- for Shinji the Good Sharer (Don't know how good this is)

"I must have them both." Exclaimed Inuyasha as he took Kikyo and Kagome into his arms.

"What?" Kikyo asked in shock.

'Oh boy I think we found one of Kuno's ancestor's'

"Inuyasha." Kagome twitched…with excitement "What a great idea we haven't had a three way since Miroku got mad that his and Sango's first born was a hanyou."

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There's the chapter, it's pretty short sorry about that, but I couldn't get into the swing of things today and since I'm going home early to crappy non-chapter uploadable internet in five minutes I'd rather get what I have up now then be forced to wait until Thursday to post the next chapter.

(1) One of Kagome's friends name is Yuka, this is not the Yuka that was in the story earlier.