Disclaimer: As previously noted, I'm not Rumiko Takahashi nor do I own Inuyasha.

the third chapter is here, with more of Kagome's memory block, more of Sesshomaru's crazy antics, and more of whatever's going around... read it.

Chapter 03: A New Land.

((--- again, Kagome's P.O.V, all hail the crazy woman ---))

Kanna, the girl said the name Kanna. Defiantly, there was no mistake.

Why haven't I noticed it earlier? The eyes were exactly the same as they once were, and the mirrors spread all over the house should have been a dead giveaway. I tried to calm my head from any 'Naraku is back' thoughts, telling myself that it was impossible, that we destroyed him many years ago, that the worst case scenario was that his offsprings came to the future to take revenge on me, it isn't impossible, youkai's could travel through the well, just like I could.

I tried running that idea through my mind again, it didn't make sense this time, if Kanna has truly traveled through the well, then it would have happened many years ago, shortly after Naraku's death, not years past it.

"so" I asked myself again, "What is it?".

The second option was also there, they didn't travel through time, they just lived through those 500 years just so that they could kill me, not a pleasant thought, but better than the possibility of those demons going through the family shrine and killing everybody.

Still, something was missing, where was I? why did they bring me here? I was fairly sure this wasn't Japan, I haven't felt hungry enough to justify a 12 hours trip to either Africa or south America, so that meant I was somewhere near Australia.

"no time for this", I reminded myself, I couldn't feel my gun, nor the hidden knife in my shoe, I looked down to my feet, those weren't even my shoes. I was kidnapped, that's one thing I knew for sure, so my next objective was to escape my capturer's trap, and then make contact with HQ and await further orders, they could trace me and send help, and even if that fails, at least someone would know where I was at the time of death.

"No, Kagome, don't think like that, Remember who you are" I told myself, there was no reason to give up yet, Kanna wasn't at the immediate room, I had no type of weapon, not even a quiver of arrows. The room I was in didn't have a window, but the room next to it had something of the sort, it was a magnifying glass, it had a few smaller mirrors and lenses directing light to it, and it itself spread the light to other mirrors. It was still rater early in the morning, so I had space to squeeze into between the lenses, just about enough to escape from the house without making any noise, I mentally patted myself on the shoulder, all those lenses must have had something to do with her powers, perhaps magnifying it many times over? It was the best thing to do, I told myself, get far from her stronghold, if I must be a subject to Kanna's attack, at least let it be on natural ground.

I took a look at the house, it seemed like a regular suburban household, one store high, a nice green garden, with red fences between the neighbors.

I took a second look at the neighbor's house, it had an charm against rain tied next to the door, a Japanese charm. "Great!" I screamed to myself, even if I don't know where I am, at least someone here knows Japanese, so I could get them to help me. I tried silently knocking on the back door, no answer, I looked at the windows, everything was closed, I couldn't do anything without my breaking tools kit.

"don't get too depressed, it's only one option that failed" I said to myself, if everything else fails, I could always run around the street shouting for help in English, someone ought to call a police officer on that sort of thing, right?

I started walking behind the houses, it seemed that the lane was leading to the center of town, there must be someone there who can help me, I was sure of it.

The town center was just as I expected: a lot of locals doing their locally oriented shopping, it meant that I stood out in the crowd, I took comfort in the fact that at least my cloths were fit for the occasion.

I spotted a news stand, it was all written in English, "New zealand news" was the best seller, "I guess I'm in NZ then" I said to myself, at least that was clear. The date on the paper indicated that I didn't miss out on any days, except last night, which I still didn't know what happened in.

"public phone, cellular phone, any kind of phone". Nothing. Not a single communication device, what was wrong with this place? A woman entering a fruit shop. Some guy reading something at another newspaper stand. And a teenager standing next to a vending machine.

The teenager looked Asian, at least that, I knew it didn't have any real meaning, but perhaps I could pose off as a troubled lost woman and use him to get to a phone. "won't work" I told myself "maybe if I was five years younger, or he was ten years older… he'll probably ask me for help if we engage conversation", just then, he started walking towards me.

"So you're finally up, ah? Did Kanna take you on a tour in the city?'

Well, he spoke Japanese, and he mentioned Kanna, didn't take more than half a second to figure out he was one of the badguys. Escape routes didn't matter at that time, he already noticed me and I didn't have any real knowledge about the town roads, so I just ran, away from him while trying not to return to Kanna's place.

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"Where did Shippo go?" Kagura asked while still looking at the kites in the air, as always, anything capable of flying fascinated her.

"It seems that Agent Kagome got over the mental block she has been experiencing lately, she left Kanna's house and is now running away from Agent Shippo, I assumed that convincing her to come with us would be easier if us two weren't around" Sesshomaru answered, barley moving one muscle face.

"liar. You just wanted to stay with me a bit longer"

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"How many times do I need to repeat myself? Dog face, I know what I'm supposed to do, your ideas aren't very complicated to follow, you know" Kouga shouted at Inuyasha, it turned out that he wasn't as fine with planes as he though he would be, so ever since getting down from it, he had to relay on Inuyasha's help even for walking. Of course, that made him even angrier than usual.

"and, don't forget, A. people are talking a different Japanese than what you remember, B. Tokyo is one of largest cities in the world, there are gonna be a lot of smells, and C. raise your youki as much as you can, that way, Kagome will come looking for you soon." If anyone else would have seen Inuyasha now, he would have known something wasn't right with the big smile on his face. Kouga, however, failed completely to notice it.

"what I don't understand yet, dog stench, is what you are gonna do while I'll be meeting Kagome" he asked.

"how many times do I have to repeat myself, I'm going to one of my brother's offices, it's right next to the airport, to secure our way out of Japan, as I told you earlier, twenty western dragons are coming here to attack Kagome. Since you can dash faster than me, you need to get Kagome here as fast as possible so we could take her to Mexico. What part of this didn't you understand?" Inuyasha asked, faking anger at the wolf.

"I'll bring Kagome back with me in less than an hour, dog shit, so be ready" Kouga said to Inuyasha, just before starting his run.

Inuyasha turned backwards, secretly whistling to himself, had this been a movie, this would be the part where a building collapses behind him along with a gang of evil do-ers which were after his hide.

But since this wasn't a movie, he could only look at it as what it was, a plot that earned him about a day or two before Kikyo reaches him, and would make Kouga even angrier than before.

"not that I care, I won't be visiting Japan for a few good years" he smiled to himself, he walked to the counter, next stop for him was Hag.

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again, Kagome's P.O.V – I'm gonna keep doing it for a while, it seems)

When is the right time to scream for help?

I never thought about it, I wonder if anyone did? Maybe some guy wrote a paper on the subject for the university sociology department? Is it appropriate to scream for help when someone you don't know approaches you? Maybe it's just someone from high-school or an old neighbor? Won't screaming for protection not only cause them embarrassment, but also might get them in trouble? And what about one-way relationships? Not stalkers or anything, but what if you happen to see a co-workers family member walking down the street? You know them from pictures and from stories, but they don't know you at all.

Does the place matter? Of course screaming in a dark parking lot makes sense, and so does screaming in backdoor alleys at nighttime, but what about the middle of the street? And if I'm in a different country with a different language? Won't people think I'm just a crazy tourist with some friends and we're just fooling around?

What about size difference? Can a 6'7 man call for help if he's running from a 5'2 man? Can an adult woman plead for protection from someone who isn't likely at the legal age to even drive a car yet?

In short - if I scream, would someone help?

Probably not. Life now was different than how it was 500 years ago. No helpful strangers around, no trustworthy lecherous monks, no Inuyasha.

The boy kept coming closer, and yet, nobody seemed to notice him, I tried running, he kept walking but somehow the gap between us was shrinking, "now's the time to stand up to him" I told myself. Launching myself on him and trying to beat him senseless was one option, but it was the final choice, so I had to secure myself a weapon first. A gun or a bow if possible, but even a big stick would be enough, I decided.

I kept running, the gap between us was now less than ten meters, meaning that now was my final chance, I jumped into a house ware store, pushing some people while doing so, I ran to the kitchen section. Around me were an impressive collection of spoons and pots, had this been another situation, I would have picked up some for my mother, but for now, my attention was focused on the knives section. Over thirty kinds of knives, with sizes that vary between the average 'get food on the fork' knife to the 'fork over the money, or I'll stab you' knives, I picked up the later one.

One second later, the boy finally came to me, I took a moment to inspect him, he was clearly much younger than me, wearing some lame jacket that had the manufactures name on it, he had quite a long hair, not as long as mine, but it covered his ears and half of his face.

"Not again, Kagome" ha started saying "drop the knife and lets speak on this peacefully". I looked to my sides, the other customers have run away from the department by now, I guess they figured that staying in the same space as a woman with a knife was a bad idea.

"Please put it down, you should now by now that I can disarm yo…" I stopped him from talking with a stab, he managed to move a bit so I only got his shoulder, "never mind" I told myself "next time I'll get him".

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"Sesshomaru speaking, state your will" the dog demon answered the cell phone as soon as it rang, usually he would let it ring at least four times, but today he felt that each ring was taking too much precious time, so he answered immediately.

"…."

"I'm fully aware of that, Agent Kanna, but I was under the impression that it was under you guidance".

"……."

"Honestly, You know I also like that family, but you shouldn't have let her out of your sight. The girl seems to have lost her mind".

"…,………,.."

"Agent Shippo has gone to take care of her, I believe they'll be back as soon as he gets her to face reality".

"…"

"I'm positively sure that he can handle her, she's only human". He closed the phone.

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Shippo has managed to dodge the next strike, and also the one afterwards, but the forth slash cut him again, this time his hand. It became quite clear for him that without putting his all into it, he wouldn't be able to disarm her and take control of Kagome.

On the other edge of the knife, Kagome was also getting worried, she had already cut the boy two times, and yet he didn't seem to be experiencing any serious panic symptoms, the look in his eyes was still clear.

By the time she began the fifth slash the boy took a step backwards, usually a step backwards meant that the enemy was looking for an escape route, but Kagome sensed it was different this time. Not just sensing by the look in his eyes and the movements he made, this time she sensed something else, something that she couldn't put in words yet.

Shippo put his hand on his forehead, searching for that one leaf he's been using for the last few years, he knew that it'll crumble to dust once he takes it out of his body, and that he'll have to spend a few days hiding his appearance until would get hold of a leaf with similar power. But in this situation, he decided that having his full power was a necessity.

Kagome watched the boy taking some object out of his head and crumbling it, the sensation just got ten times worse than earlier, she couldn't tell exactly what it was, but most likely a bad omen. A moment later, she nearly dropped the knife when she saw the boy's body starting to change, his hair was getting longer, his ears turned almost into those of a beast, and suddenly he was holding Japanese short sword.

"A youkai" she said to herself, and by the looks of it, a rather large one, perhaps a tanuki or another small mammal, maybe even a cat. This turn of events wasn't what she expected, she wasn't train to deal with youkais on her own, nobody in her unit was.

"I guess it's time for my feudal ages experience to prove useful" she told herself, she tried remembering what she did with the bow and arrows, somehow enchanting them with mystical power, it usually proved to be more than enough to pierce the skin of any youkai.

But now, she reminded herself, not only has it been so long since she last done so, she was also missing the weapon she had confidence in. "no, what am I thinking!" she screamed in her own mind, "I can do this with just a knife, my years of working for the night hounds were not in vein", those thoughts gave her confidence, she felt the strangely nostalgic power purging to the knife she held.

"all I need is one hit" she thought, one hit was enough, either to completely eradicate him or at least to make it clear for him that she was dangerous and cause him to retreat.

Again, on the sharp edge of the knife, things didn't look as good. Shippo never considered himself to be a fighting type, he could handle his own against humans by tricking them with illusions, and most youkais who were alive these days were either weaker than him or afraid of getting on the night hound's organization bad side. But now, against a human with vast amounts of spiritual power, he could only relay on his physical abilities, which so far seemed to be countered by the girl usage of the knife.

He tried analyzing his position again, he held now a short sword, and she had a knife. It gave him one chance, he decided to swing the sword and once she blocks the attack to punch her, he hoped he had enough strength to make that one punch count.

Kagome reacted on pure instinct when the sword came, it was a bet, she knew very well that the knife put her at a disadvantage when it came to clashing weapons with him, if this was any normal situation, then her knife would break and the next slash of the youkai will cut through her skin.

This, however, was not a normal situation, the moment the weapons met, a strange yet familiar light emerged, when the light faded, only her knife was there, the sword has vanished. She got ready for a last stab, this time to kill the youkai, but this time, the knife only cut through the air. The youkai has already escaped, leaving his jacket behind.

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"This wasn't supposed to happen" Shippo screamed at himself, the original plan was clear as daylight. Meet Kagome at Japan, have a mushy-mushy reuniting with her, fly to Kanna on Kagura's menace machine, and then fly to meet with Inuyasha, where Kagome will have an even more emotional reunion. Fighting with her wasn't what he expected, and defiantly not losing to her.

"Sesshomaru! Kagura!" he ran towards them, earning lots of suspicious eyes, not just because of the shouting in Japanese, but mostly because he now seemed completely youkai.

"What happened, why isn't the girl with you" Kagura was the first to inquire, he told them the story quickly, even the shameful part of him losing.

"Silence, I trust that you have kept the cell phone in your jacket, did you not?" Sesshomaru asked the question, Shippo nodded in agreement. The dog youkai took out his phone and started dialing, somewhere in Japan, a green toad youkai answered a call.

"Jaken speaking, how may I serve you?"

"Sesshomaru here, get your ass off the phone and let me speak to Bossuke, I believe that he should be able to already"

"Immediately, Sesshomaru-sama"

"Agent Bossuke here, what should I do, commander?"

"…."

"I see, I'll have my phone next to me"

"….,.."

"Of course, if Higurashi won't call, I will"

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(Kagome's P.O.V – when will it end?)

The boy left, it was my victory, for a moment, I felt some sort of happiness. Then reality kicked in like the bitch it was, police sirens.

I had no time to waste, I picked up the boys jacket, he had a wallet, a breaking in kit and a cellular phone in it, I took them all.

I searched the floor; I figured that there had to be a fire exit somewhere, I found one on the right end of the store. I used my newly acquired tools and picked the lock open, it opened up to a side street, luckily it was void of people. I took a second turn into an even smaller side street, then I took the cell phone and started dialing, the number was the emergency number of my commanding officer back in Japan, I hoped that he could provide me reinforcements.

"Agent Higurashi here. I need your help, Bossuke commander" I whispered to the phone.

"Higurahsi, I'm aware of your situation, there some reliable friendlies very close to your position" the ever confident voice of my boss, I wasn't surprised the least when he said he knew what was going on, but something bugged me, he sounded a bit dosed off, I wondered whether he was taking medications or something of that sort.

"are you alright, commander? You don't seem too healthy" I questioned him.

"I'll be just fine, it's you who you should be worrying about. Tell me, Higurashi, since when did you know my name?"

I couldn't find an answer, I opened my moth but no sound came out.

"Exactly. You don't remember anything that happened last night; but some info does pop up in your head, it's probably from the shock. I've verified it a minute ago. You didn't remember that we were attacked last night and I was injured".

"We were attacked? By who? When? Why?" I spitted the questions before I realized it.

"I don't know, my officer won't tell me, and he's not a man that I'm planning to ask the same question twice. However, it might have something to do with the promotion we had planned for you, it involved exposing you to some secret sections of the organization"

Secret sections? How could there any secret sections inside a secret organization? Wasn't every section of it secret by default?

"What about the friendlies, sir?" I asked.

"Listen, Higurashi, as you most likely know by now, you're at New Zealand, from what I've been told, it was merely a night stop, so there shouldn't be any hostiles there. I repeat, the area is hostiles-free."

"that isn't true, sir, I've been attacked a few moments ago" I almost screamed to him.

"I'm fully aware of that, he was one of our own men, your currently using the phone you got from his jacket, right?"

I couldn't say a word.

"I'll take that as a yes, he told that to the big boss, the big boss called me and told me to expect your call"

The big boss? He couldn't have meant the commander of the night hounds, could he? I thought it was ridiculous, it was the first time I've even heard about him, what would he have to do with me?

"anyway" he continued "you should reach out to our safe house, it belongs to a youkai" he silenced for a moment. "Kagome, this is gonna come on you as quite a surprise, but most of the higher ups in the business are youkais themselves, so get used to it, we can't have you attacking any of them".

Youkais? I've been told that most youkais have been wiped out; the only ones which remained were either criminals or under surveillance.

Then it struck me, they weren't under surveillance, they were watching as surveillance, the most influencing youkais were running Japan from the shadows, and they used smaller youkais to watch over humans.

'"Wait a second" I told myself, "then is the toad youkai in my desk job monitoring me?".

"How long have you known about it. Bossuke?" I asked.

"Long enough, Higurashi, long enough. Now listen, the youkai you should meet is called Kanna, she is a bit older than you. Oh, and it seems that she is related to the big boss girlfriend, so don't get on her bad side" it was then that I stopped listening, I dropped the phone to the ground.

I was betrayed, again.

The sirens silenced out, perhaps they realized it would only alert me, perhaps something bigger happened and they had to divert their attention, I started walking. I didn't know where to, I hardly cared, it seemed that the universe didn't forget about me after all, existence remembered to kick you once in a while, and if it involved shaking your entire world, even better.

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Inuyasha was getting restless, by his count, his brother should arrive in Europe anytime between the upcoming night to the next week, and then they still had at least a week until they would find him. "So" he tried doing the math, "anything between next week and the next month", normally, he would have think that if he managed to live 500 years without so much of hearing of the girl, another month won't make a difference. But now, when the time was so close, every hour seemed like a day.

He spent that past 450 years traveling, first it was to establish connections with youkais in Japan, then he had business in China, that was the first time he left Japan. Since then, he spent more time in planes and on ships more than he ever spent at one place.

The first few centuries out of Japan were great, he felt like a kid again, he and Shippo explored half the world together, they would have usually stayed in one of the suburbs, and spend a year or two just living like humans in the city. It kept them entertained for quite a while, until WW2, when Shippo had to return to Japan to help rebuild the country, and Inuyasha spent time aboard trying to influence as many people as possible to contribute to its rebuilding.

Now, all of the memories seemed void of meaning, Hag, a city where he spent almost five years of his life, was now limited to the area around the airport, an agent would come, they'll say the code words to each other, and then the agent will leave, but Kagome would stay there with him.

There would be a lot of explaining to do, of course, tell her about the past 500 years, tell her that he's sorry, and tell her that her life is in danger once again, because of him.

"What am I about to tell her?" He asked himself, should he just say "hey, Kagome, you might not remember me or believe I'm real, but I'm the hanyou from 500 years ago, last time we met I threw you back home so I could get married. But anyway, I'm still alive, and my wife decided to go after you and try to kill you, but don't worry, I've got an army of secret agents to protect us, but they won't do us any good, since Kikyo can kill just about anything, you and me included"

He told himself quietly that this wasn't what she deserved, if life had any sense of fairness, then Kagome would have forgotten about him and been married by now, living happily in her shrine with two kids and a cat. He had no right to drag her into this mess again.

Chapter 03 - end.

next chapter should be a blast, alot of flashbacks, and reality sinking on on Kagome's mind. also, the end of the annoying ammensia.

however, seeing as how i've got zero reviewes to two chapters, my motivation to update the story has lessened, and if things continue as they are now, who knows when the next chapter will come.. The solution is quite simple, it involves nothing more than pressing the mouse and then the keyboard, I urge you to do so.