Disclaimer: I do not own Gundam Wing or its characters; that right belongs to Katsuyuki Sumizawa and Masashi Ikeda. Nor do I own InuYasha or its characters; that right belongs to Rumiko Takahashi.
Author's Note: I give my sincerest thanks to all of you who have read this story from beginning to end. It has been an exciting and quirky trip as I wrote this random idea into a multi chapter story. But all things have to end unless it is ONE PIECE!
Quatre felt queasy and disorientated. Then again, Kagome had warned him. So he could not complain.
"Trowa! Heero!"
Blinking his eyes, Quatre saw the cockpit of Sandrock. Smiling as he recalled seeing a similar pink-tinted black hole when he jumped down the well on Kagome's property.
"Hey, Quatre? Are you in there? Alive, preferably!"
At Duo's words, Quatre laughed and opened the hatch. There, on the ground below, stood all four of his companions. A sight for sore eyes, as the saying went.
"Hello, everybody," Quatre said as he unfastened his harness.
"Really, that's all you can say after being sucked into a black hole? Then reappear unharmed a month later?" Duo mocked him.
Quatre smiled sheepishly as his mind caught that Duo said he'd been missing for a month. Yet he spent one year with Kagome and her family in Old Earth's Tokyo, Japan.
"Let me come down, and you can see for yourself I'm okay."
Moving easily, Quatre climbed out of the cockpit and used the lift down. Though he smartly stepped to the side, Duo rushed him.
In seconds Duo was in his cockpit doing a diagnostic check. Not surprising.
"Explain."
"To be frank, Heero, I don't know how," Quatre said. "I was sucked into the black hole, and then I was here. But I can say I had a vivid dream."
"Dream?" Trowa spoke up.
"Hey, Quatre, who's the babe in the picture?"
Frowning, Quatre looked up at Duo, who was waving a small five-by-three. Then he recalled how Souta had been messing with Chibi Sandrock, as Kagome called his Gundam.
He waved for Duo to come down. Curious as to what photo the boy snuck in.
"Here! She's pretty. You've got good taste, Quatre."
Rolling his eyes, Quatre went to take the picture from Duo. Only to pause and look stunned as Wufei snatched it and glared at him. The muted murderous intent leaking from his gaze had Quatre going still.
"Why do you have a picture of my cousin Kagome, Quatre?" He asked in a low, cold, and demanding voice.
Blinking, stunned, and confused, Quatre stared dumbfoundedly at Wufei.
"Cousin? Man, you're stingy, Wufei," Duo complained.
"Let me explain how he does, Fei-Fei," A familiar female voice floated in the air.
Quatre whipped his head around so fast he felt(and heard) his neck pop. There stood Kagome, yet not.
"It's both me and not me," The young woman explained. "He went through the black hole, but it was a waypoint according to my divinations. He met another me in another world. And now he has answers to help stop this war faster and with fewer casualties."
Quatre saw Trowa, Duo, and Wufei's jaws drop as his did. Heero's face just looked like an empty Noh mask.
But it was the friendly, knowing smile this world's Kagome sent him that had heat rushing to his head.
TBC!
