Chapter 3: Reminiscent

Sango stared at the woman in front of her. She couldn't believe her eyes at first but there's no denying that someone's real when they're sitting across from you in your own spacious Upper East Side apartment. Coughing to clear her throat and get her thoughts in order, Sango sat up straighter and began. "So you want me to keep quiet for now about you being back in town, eh?"

Smiling the woman nodded her head. "Inuyasha can't know yet that I'm back. I want to surprise him in a way"

"By leaving dead bodies for him to find? That's a hell of a greeting"

"Well since the judicial system is so uptight about individual rights and privacies, there's no relying on them. I have to take matters into my own hands to get things done. I will not let Kikyous killer or anyone associated in anyway with the murder get away with it."

Sango sighed loudly; there was no deterring her friend from her goal. "Why do you have to risk your freedom for justice? What about karma?"

Getting up, the woman walked towards Sango's door and opened it, without turning her head she said "There's no such thing as karma, only vengeance" with that she stepped out and closed the door behind her.

Staring sadly at the closed door Sango hoped that her friend knew what she was doing and wouldn't risk her life for her cause.

Miroku didn't want to do this but he knew he had too. Buddha help him, Sango was going to kill him. Resolving himself, Miroku knocked on the door before he could rethink his actions. At first he thought that no one was home and was about to jump for joy when he heard shuffling behind the door and watched as it opened with Sango staring at him murderously.

"What do you want, Miroku?"

Gulping audibly Miroku straightened his spine and got to the point. "I'm here to talk to you about Kikyou Sato and Jonathan Witsbury"

Sango seemed confused at first but then Miroku saw how something clicked in her head because her eyes widened with recognition and then narrowed again. "What about Mr. Witsbury and Mrs. Sato?"

"Mr. Witsbury was found murdered a couple of days ago in a warehouse in Brooklyn and we have found evidence that a call was placed to you on the days that Mrs. Sato was murdered." Miroku chanted to himself to not let Sango intimidate him as he stared at her, waiting for her reply.

Sango stared Miroku down and told him flatly "I had nothing to do with Mr. Witsbury's murder and refused his job offer. Did you really think that I would kill Kikyou?" Sango's voice shook with rage. How dare Miroku even think that she would do something like that?

"I had to ask Sango, you know I have to investigate every lead." Miroku pleaded

"Don't worry Miroku, there's nothing you have to explain to me anymore, after all we're over aren't we?" with that said Sango slammed the door in Miroku's face.

Walking into the apartment that Kikyou and him had shared made Inuyasha feel as if he'd step back in time. Everything was the same, except of course for where the EMTs and officers had been looking for evidence and trying to save Kikyous life. He couldn't believe that it had been two months ago today that he had come home and found officers outside his door with one of his neighbors. One look at the elderly Mrs. Rodriquez and seeing the pity in her eyes had Inuyasha rushing past the officers that tried to restrain him from going in and seeing his wife on the floor covered in blood with the EMTs trying to stop the bleeding and restart her heart.

Seeing her open soulless eyes just staring straight at him was enough to tell Inuyasha that Kikyou was already gone, even before all the efforts were stopped and the time of death called. He'd broken down and collapsed to the floor crying his eyes out. Thinking back to it now Inuyasha remembered just laying there in a hospital bed after he'd been taken in suffering from shock. He thought while he laid there that Kikyou had seemed to stare at him almost accusingly.

He probably would have fallen into depression and never pulled himself out if it wasn't for Kagome. Just thinking about her made Inuyasha smile. Kagome Higurashi had been Kikyou's fraternal twin sister and Inuyasha's childhood friend. The three of them had grown up together in Japan. Inuyasha had always felt close to Kagome but when she had left when she was 18 to New York to visit her father, Inuyasha and Kikyou had ended up spending more and more time together until they ended up dating.

Inuyasha winced inwardly. It had been his fault that Kagome never came back to Japan. He remembered when she'd called one day to find out how everything was, he'd been hesitant to tell her about Kikyou and him, since they had always been talking about how when they got older Kagome and him would get married.

He'd been a coward and Kikyou had ended up telling her. After that Kagome didn't come back to Japan and Inuyasha had felt liked he betrayed her since they had both held some feelings for each other but how could he have known that he would have fallen in love with Kikyou?

Shaking himself out of his thoughts Inuyasha was about to walk away from the apartment and the painful memories when he heard noise coming from the bedroom. Pulling out his gun he walked cautiously towards the bedroom. Pressing his ear against the door Inuyasha listened for a moment until he pinpointed the location of the person inside. Having the apartment layout in memorized, the moment Inuyasha heard the opening of a drawer across the room from the door, he quickly kicked the door opened and leveled his gun "FREEZE!"

The barrel of a gun pressed between Inuyasha's eyes had him hesitating. Was he really going to die in the same place as his wife and on the same day! Closing his eyes Inuyasha resounded himself to his fate.

Inuyasha waited expecting for a bullet to rip through his brain and have those two seconds of pain and then oblivion, but it didn't come. Instead the last thing that Inuyasha expected happened, the gun was pulled away. Opening his eyes Inuyasha found himself staring into deep chocolate brown eyes. Next came the moment of recognition, followed by shock. "Kagome!"

A/N: Hey guys! This chapter would have actually been up sooner but my dorms internet was down for almost 3 days! But yes I felt like making Kikyou and Kagome fraternal twins instead of just regular sisters or cousins since they've been compared so much in having similar appearances. But yea hope you enjoyed the chapter. I think this is the longest one that I've written. Also if you're wondering why I put the Author's Note's last is because I like jumping into the story instead of reading what the Author has to say. So yea, why I write this then I have no idea but I do!