A/n: totally giving up keeping this Tom's point of view. Just going to be super random.

A/n: maybe some of you are wondering why Kagome doesn't easily remember her dreams of Tom. I'm going to assume that most people don't remember their dreams very well, sometimes not at all. And if they do, unless they're constantly thinking about them, people easily forget what they dreamed about. Personally, I think I remember a lot of my dreams in detail, but maybe that's because I live in my head. But sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and am like 'I'm totally gonna tell my friend about this dream!' and then I go back to sleep and later I remember that I wanted to tell my friends about my dream but forgot some details or most of it. I also ask my friends about their dreams and apparently, I'm the odd one out because they all can't remember anything from their dreams...

A/n: from now on, italicized words equal Japanese.

"So….youkai jyanai desu ka? Oni?"

"No, I am not a youkai or oni, if you are referring to those monsters. I am a wizard." Tom calmly wrote.

"Ghost?"

"Wizard. Human." Tom repeated to the suspicious girl for the fifth time.

"So...the book is like a jail for your soul?" Kagome was kneeling next to the well staring down at the pages of an apparently abnormal book she had been toting around for months.

"The diary does trap my soul, yes, but it also protects it. If the diary is destroyed, I die."

Kagome nodded to the diary as if a real person was speaking to her. "Who put you in this diary?"

"Someone I trusted and thought was a good man. My professor, Albus Dumbledore." Tom wished his tone of betrayal could be conveyed through the words. Right now, he feared it would be lost in Kagome's bad translation.

"Danburudoa? Why your teacher want to hurt you?"

"Professor Dumbledore was already a strong wizard, but he desired more power. He chose to gain it through evil means. He was working with another student named Hagrid to control a giant snake that ate people."

He waited a little bit for the girl to absorb this information before continuing, "I discovered their plan, and Dumbledore tore my soul out of my body and put it in my own diary."

The girl tilted her head to the side. "Why not kill you?"

"Well...I don't like to brag, but...I myself am a pretty powerful wizard."

Kagome looked skeptical.

"Okay. I got lucky and, instead of killing me, his spell broke a piece of my soul off and it ended up inside my diary that was nearby." It's not like this muggle Japanese girl knew how spells worked anyway. "Unfortunately, my body and rest of my soul don't remember that Dumbledore is a bad man. Or maybe fortunately, since the professor let me live because of this. Dumbledore threw this diary into a fire pit and thought he destroyed me. Since then, I became lost in random exchanges between scared children for many years before coming here."

"So you are not a whole soul?" The look on Kagome's face was sympathetic. Out of all that writing, that's what she focused on? Tom wanted to sigh.

"Can Tomu-san in the diary and Tomu-san's body…" she clapped her hands together and intertwined the fingers, "together?"

"I would think I could reunite with the rest of my soul but I don't know where I am right now. For all I know, I could be dead, and only the confines of this diary are keeping my soul from moving on." The girl frowned at this then narrowed her eyes.

"Matte! I saw you here! The time I fall asleep on outside! But not real sleeping." She was gesturing wildly and Tom took a guess she meant when he first materialized on the battlefield in Edo.

"I have a theory. That being around magical people makes my soul fragment stronger, and when I'm strong enough, I can make myself a body and appear in the real world. I also believe, from past experience, that if one person writes often enough in my diary, I feel a stronger connection to the material world, Maybe, if you write to me, I can manifest myself more easily and be free of this cursed diary."

"Matte! Slow please!" She dug into her backpack and pulled out some electronic device. "Dictionary. Dictionary."