Chapter 5

When Kagome stepped on the plane she thought she knew the English language fairly well, she had taken advanced classes in high school. She had even taught Inuyasha some as well. But when she fell down on her bed in the cheap hotel she found out the hard way she had no idea what the English language was let alone if she could speak it.

I need a map she thought; tomorrow I will get a bus ticket to wherever I am supposed to go. On the plane she felt the aura move to a different location. It was sill moving and Kagome needed a map to tell her where it was going.

When she went downstairs she had a hard time trying to understand what exactly she was being asked of. Finally both the clerk and Kagome gave up and she went back to her room with everything the clerk thought was a map.

Most were city tours of London, a few were about the greatest walks of Scotland, and even one was called the finest breweries since Germany, whatever that meant. Kagome sighed and was about to go back when her hand flipped over the last paper The United Kingdom at a Glance. Kagome hopped up and down in glee. Now if she only had something to write with.

After another furiously confusing battle with the clerk Kagome was back in her room five minuets later a large black pen in her hand. (The only way she had got it was because she took it off of the clerk's desk.)

Kagome sat and tracked the aura's movements the rest of the afternoon, she saw that it was moving far north, and then it suddenly stopped. Kagome woke as if she were in a stupor for the last half hour her hand had been as if someone was pulling it with string. There was a large black dot in the upper center of the page. Around the dot Kagome had made no sense. There were drawings and symbols all around the spot. The signs seemed as audience members gathered around a artist. The lines made no sense, they weren't Japanese, but nor were they English, some of the symbols seemed hybrids of both languages, there was almost the word for anger but it had the letter B attached to the side of it.

Kagome was certain when in doubt take a bath. After a while with the steam issuing around her just as it had only a day before (AN time difference) when she had been at home. Kagome decided it was time to go to the bus station and try and get a ticket for northern Britain near Eli.

When she went down to the lobby the desk clerk looked as if he was about to cry at the sight of her.

"All I need is a phone number." She said quite clearly.

"Wha's tha number fer?" He seemed to try and speak as clearly as she did. Kagome understood one of the words he said and that was number so she thought they were on the right track.

"I need to get on a bus and go to Eli." She said and the boy nodded. He then went to the phone book and called a number. The conversation that followed was one of the fastest most confusing Kagome had ever heard.

When the boy hung the phone up she turned to her and said.

"Ya goh a bus fer tomorrah at nine." He said looking pleased with himself. Kagome looked dumbfounded but then said;

"I have a bus for tomorrow at nine?" Both of their faces lit up, the cultural gap bridged. The boy started to say more but Kagome stopped him, maybe the gap had only slightly lessened but it still was there. "Where is the station? Oh and you should write it down." The boy smiled and wrote everything down.

Kagome's trip on the bus was even less eventful than her plain and train ride. When she was dropped off at the station, it wasn't even a station mostly just a slab of concrete off of the main road, there were railroad tracks going along the side of the slab so Kagome guessed this was a stop of all trades. Kagome giggled at her joke and closed her eyes to try and find the aura.

It was easy enough to find, she started walking down a dirt path until she felt the aura as if it were an arm grabbing her. When she opened her eyes she saw nothing at first, then when she turned her head she saw him.

She was standing on the edge of a cemetery. It was a simple place, mostly for the family of the residents in the small town. It had no fence but there was a gardener because the place was well kept. Kagome felt that if she crossed the threshold then she would be transported into a different place, a place where there were two kinds of people, the grievers and the departed. It seemed like both the dead and the living could cross ground in this holy place.

There was a young man standing over a headstone. Kagome could tell he was one of the people who couldn't feel the presence of the spirits all around them. If he had Kagome felt he wouldn't feel as hopeless as he was. He was completely dressed in black, he had a long black shirt on, even though it was hot outside, this man seemed not to notice. Everything about him seemed to be in mourning, his skin was pale and his hair was the deepest of ebony. It was just him standing all alone above the grave, like a tree trying to stand tall when the rain and wind was blowing against it.

After a long time the man turned to look at Kagome, whether he had felt her presence or he had heard her he stopped in his grief to stare at her.

Kagome realizing she had been staring for a long time stopped looking at him and started her usual habit and looked down at her feet. When she looked back up the man was still staring at her. She did something she never did; she looked straight into his eyes.

His eyes were the color of emerald, and Kagome could feel like she could look into his soul if she looked for too long. Feeling like they were doing something taboo they both broke their gaze at the same time.

"Um, I was uh I think I'm lost." Kagome lied; she was used to not telling anyone about her abilities.

"Uh yeah, where do you need to be?" He started walking towards her, and when he got next to her she saw that he was just about the size of Inuyasha, except he seemed much nicer. But then again Kin seemed really nice as well. Kagome was about to back away but then she felt the powerful aura again.

It was so powerful that she almost fell over, the man caught her and asked if she was alright. But the second he touched her she forgot everything and was transported to a different time.

She was standing in a graveyard, not like the one she had just left but one even more sinister, it was a graveyard that would appear in the movies she would scare her little brother with. She saw the young man and she called out to him but he didn't hear her. He was a few years younger but still recognizable as the person he was now. There was a flash of green light and another young man fell to the ground. He had the same color of hair as Kin and his skin was the color of pale birch wood. He fell and the first guy went over to him. After that all went black and Kagome found herself on the ground with the genuine guy knelling over her.

"I asked if you were alright. You don't look so well Miss….." He seemed greatly concerned for her.

"Yeah I'm fine I just saw… Never mind, I can do that a lot, faint I mean. Oh uh Higurashi, my name is Kagome Higurashi. I'm babbling aren't I, I don't mean to Inyu….. Well I don't have to say any more." Kagome began busing herself with her shoelace. The young man became very interested at something in the cemetery.

When he saw Kagome was better he said; "Well Miss Higurashi I think we should get something to eat." Right at that moment Kagome's stomach gave a growl. The man laughed and said "Well you can tell me everything and in payment I will give you the best food you have ever had." At this Kagome's eyebrows shot up a few inches.

"Oh you cook? I wouldn't see you as the whole gourmet chef type, but whatever." Kagome flicked her hand back and forth; an act she knew drove Inuyasha crazy.

He smiled and held his hand out, Kagome was afraid to take it but she thought it might be rude to not accept it so she grabbed his hand and he pulled her up.

There is something every girl knows, and that is when they feel a complete connection with someone, Kagome felt it with this morning fragile young man standing holding her hand. He seemed to think what she was seeing because he blushed and dropped her hand.

"I'm um ah; well my name is Harry, Harry Potter." He felt as flustered as ever. Why did this girl with raven hair make him so disconnected? With one look she could make him forget everything and they had only met a few minuets ago. And why, Merlin's beard did she not react to his name, Harry hated the thought the second it popped into his head, he wasn't some kind of pompous idiot, but why didn't she recognize his name? But then Harry thought of another problem, what would he do when he brought her back to the Weasleys and she sees all of them with their wands out doing magic?

An action happened so suddenly Harry almost fell out of his thoughts. After he registered what had happened he knew brining a muggle into the Weasleys house would be no problem. A great lizard had instantly appeared in the path between them. It was a giant ugly thing, with potion green skin stretched over every inch of its body. Ugly purple splotches covered different areas of its scales. It's eyes were an orange brown, which seemed to glow when its eyes flicked over to Harry. It stuck its tongue out to test the air and it stomped toward Harry.

He almost laughed; Fred and George had been testing out this new spell. Kagome obviously had no idea that this was a fake lizard. Harry saw out of the corner of his eye her closing her eyes and muttering under her breath. The lizard decided Harry didn't seem scared enough so it turned his head at Kagome. It was about to charge when a bow and arrow suddenly appeared in Kagome's hands and she shot an arrow right between the lizard's eyes. Her aim was true and the lizard disappeared the second the arrow hit it. Kagome muttered something else, and the bow disappeared. She looked around her how in the world am I going to explain this?