(A/N: To all those that wished my Dad well, thanks! He's out of the hospital and at home now! He's doing SO much better after the surgery! He just has 6 weeks of Medical leave to get through now…)

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On the way home, Kagome, aka "Miko" was having another long conversation with her younger brother, Souta. It lasted a good hour with promises to take more pictures and send them home. Souta was also told of their plan, so were he, Mama Higurashi, and Jii-chan questioned about Kagome and where Miko came from they had the same answers to give.

As well as with some help from Cyborg while they were there… Kagome would now be leading a "triple-life", where she would play the civilian, the hero and the hero's "real identity". Miko would also be known as Kikyo. Cyborg only addressed her as Kikyo or Miko the entire time they were at the Shrine, or in the T-Plane; so that Kagome could get used to being called it.

Kikyo wouldn't stop heckling Kagome about it either. 'Stupid previous incarnations who live in your head torturing their current incarnations consciousness…' was something that she always ended their mental verbal bouts with.

As a whole, Kagome was getting used to being called Kikyo; she was already used to being called miko from back in Sengoku Jidai… So no skin off her nose.

While Kagome was conversing with her brother, Cyborg had called Robin via commlink. He also made sure that it had not been hacked, luckily it hadn't or their entire plan would have gone down the drain.

"Yo Robin! We're about an hour out of Jump City. You should head back to Sickbay, Miko is gonna be In da House!" Cyborg declared with a wide grin.

"Roger that Cyborg. Anything else I should know?" Robin asked grinning back at Cyborg.

"Just that Kagome's family knows what we're doing and her family sent a care package that is sitting in three of the five seat that we use."

"That's a lot of stuff…" Robin said.

"Yeah I know- oh! And Kagome's mom is a fantastic-ultra fabulous-stupendous-out-of-this-world COOK! Her Mom made this dish called-"

"ODEN!" Kagome/Miko/'Kikyo' shouted over the T-Plane comm. system.

"Yeah Oden." Cyborg confirmed as he witnessed a frazzled Robin picking himself off the floor of the Multi-purpose room. "We'll see you when we get there Robin… I'll fill in you guys then; Cyborg out." With that, the comm. system was closed.

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They landed in the docking bay and she was 'introduced' to the rest of the Teen-Titans before Raven welcomed her to the tower and led her to her 'two patients'.

Miko 'Kikyo' bowed in respect and would have removed her boots had not Raven and Beast Boy stopped her. She nodded in understanding and soon was in the room with her 'two patients'. She grinned at Robin and motioned for doll-Kagome to go to sleep, then she had Cyborg open the drapes and then pop open the window by about an inch. He complied, and her hands glowing a blue, she placed them on Robin's ears and bowed her head slightly chanting in Japanese. Within a minute she removed her hands and smile slightly before speaking in a low clear voice in perfect English:

"Are you experiencing any ringing in your ears?"

"No- I'm…" He paused, his eyes behind his mask widening "I- I can hear you…" Had he not been the leader Miko 'Kikyo' had no doubt that he would have swung her around in a circle as he hugged her, laughing, (had he not been already healed). "Who are you again?"

Beast Boy made a show of mouthing, asking Robin : 'Dude- can you hear me?'

Raven gave Beast Boy a withering look and smacked him upside the head with a bit of her power. "Her name is Miko Kikyo, Robin. We found her in Japan… She came here to help heal you and BB's cousin Kagome."

"How is she? And yes I can hear you just fine BB…" Robin said grinning. "How were things while I was out Cy?"

"She has been in and out of consciousness for the past week. For us, things haven't been bad-"

"Perhaps, you should tell the truth Cyborg?" Star-Fire suggested. "It is not so Robin… We have been… Getting our cans served with, a platter of butt whoop-inns? Yes?" She turned to BB to verify if she got it right.

"Ah- well, you see Robin…" Cyborg started.

"No problem guys…" Robin said as he stood and stretched. "I'm back and we can serve that can of butt whoopin' back with gravy… That is, if Miko would care to join us…?"

"I should be so honored…" she said bowing slightly. "I shall lend aid whenever I am available from helping this sick 'patient'." She placed a blue glowing hand on the forehead of 'Kagome'. "It shall take a long amount of time for myself to be able to find what ails your cousin, Beast Boy… Is there somewhere I may stay?"

"Come, I shall escort you to where you shall stay." Star-Fire said, leading the way out of the sickbay to the room where Kagome had been staying before Operation: Bait-and-Switch had started.

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"Tell me Star-Fire, what is your planet like?" Miko asked as she left the room following Star-Fire.

"Any luck finding Aquaman or Aqualad?" Robin asked the remaining Teen Titans.

At their negative answers, Robin frowned. "What could have possibly have happened?" He muttered to himself before turning to Raven. "Any response from the JLU?"

"None… It's as if they don't even exist."

"Any chance that the entire city could have been brought to an alternate dimension where there are No Superpowers and everyone is average?" Beast Boy asked his thinking face on. "Oh Man! We could be famous! Our fan clubs will be all over us! What should I do? I need to sweep the ladies off their feet! There's no way I can do that without some serious-"

"Be Serious…" Raven said placing her hand over his mouth before BB got even more excited. "There's no way we would have been brought to another dimension without One of us knowing that we have been brought to another dimension…" She mentally reminded him of his and Cyborg's unauthorized trip through her mind.

"Oh yeah…" BB said rubbing a hand across the back of his neck, a flush coloring his cheek bones.

"Were there any fish in the bay?" Robin asked suddenly.

Beast Boy thought a moment before frowning in concentration. "No there weren't… Star should know more… But there was also no response on the DP comm. channel… There's something going on… Robot-man would have answered me… And I checked to see if our comm. channels were being jammed too. Nothing wrong on our end…"

The three others looked at Beast Boy with 'What the Heck?' painted across their faces.

Robin looked at Beast Boy before letting the thought: 'So this is what BB looks like when he's serious…' cross his mind.

Cyborg decided to switch subjects, considering at BB oddly. "Dude Kagome's home is awesome! I mean she practically lives on a Museum's grounds!"

Beast Boy grinned at him as he closed the window and locking it shut, with a bio-metric finger scan.

"Yeah Cyborg, a lot of traditional Japan is like that where a family tends the shrine, in this case and it's passed down through the family…" Robin said, luckily for him Batman, had taken him to Japan once or twice, thanks to the device though he now was able to speak, and understand Japanese. He was going to download some Japanese teaching programs so he could read it too.

"Yeah but I was getting some pretty weird readings when I was there… Do you realize that those memories we saw were 100% accurate? I mean, Kagome has pictures of all her friends! And the well? It really was a time-portal! It's dormant now though." Cyborg said thinking it over.

"You didn't believe her?" BB asked. "Cyborg that's low… Here 'she' is lying on the bed and you're talking over 'Kagome' as if she wasn't even there!"

"Sorry about that little-lady!" Cyborg said, grinning mildly at doll-Kagome.

'She' smiled back, softly in forgiveness.

"I need to go unload the T-plane. Kagome's mom packed her one heck of a care-package! Come on BB! You get to help! She is your aunt!" Cyborg said grabbing Beast Boy around the neck and dragging him out of sickbay, leaving Raven and Robin to stand there before they decided to leave as well.

There was no longer any need for Robin to remain, and Raven had meditating to do.

Doll-Kagome understood and decided to lay in bed.

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Once Kagome/Miko/'Kikyo' was in her room, Star excused herself. Apparently there was a documentary on WWII she wanted to record.

Sighing she flopped down on the bed. Kikyo had been coaching her through being serious and when she entered the room she had to stop herself from screeching when she saw that had it not been for the mask she was an almost exact replica of Kikyo. Kikyo had snorted in her head, of course they were alike! Part of the spirit and resemblance was carried over into the next incarnation.

When she'd left Japan once again, she carried a bow and a quiver filled with arrows on her left shoulder not ready to put them on until needed. In her hakama, sewn and laced onto a purse string, she carried several packets that would confuse the senses that Sango had helped her make. The charms on her sleeves, were actual ofuda that she'd sewn into her haori, which would accentuate her abilities in battle, and as a miko overall. She also had several other ofuda placed in her sleeves ready to throw, which were penned with the symbols: barrier, freeze, truth, peace, illusion… as well as several others.

A knock on her door sounded and with a phrase the person behind it opened the door wider, enough for her to see into the hallway.

"So- Kikyo…" It was BB, and he was grinning. "We still have a lot of time on our hands for the rest of the day, what do you say to a little tour of the city?"

The surprised look on her face, showed for only a second before she heartily agreed and followed her cousin, Beast Boy, out of her room and to the launch bay where the rest of the Teen Titans were waiting.

After a couple minutes of speaking about seating arrangements, it was agreed that they all squeeze into the T-Car. BB would transform into one of his smaller animals, and Miko 'Kikyo' would seat herself between Raven and Star-Fire.

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Hours later, the Tour of the City was over and Miko was sipping her milkshake, as the T-Car entered the hangar.

"Friends! It is finished!" Star-Fire exclaimed as she leapt from the car to spin delightedly in the air.

"Um- what is, Star?" Cyborg asked, an odd look on his face as they exited the T-car.

"I have recorded a Documentary for us to watch!"

"It's not another Bugs and Hotdogs documentary, is it?" Cyborg asked queasily.

"Oh No! It is about the last war of your entire world! Please- is it true that Japan attacked America, to involve it in their conflict?" She asked the room in general.

"Um-" Robin started before the Tower alarms blared. "Trouble!" He declared and they raced to the Multi-purpose room.

After a quick review of the facts, they ran for the T-Car. Miko 'Kikyo' wasn't too sure if she was to follow, and it was noticed.

"Miko, you coming?" Raven asked. Miko perked up and grinned running alongside Raven to the T-Car and R-Cycle.

It wasn't too much longer before they found their enemy. It was Cinderblock, and the fight was over within ten minutes. With bricks for Brains, Cinderblock really didn't have the head for strategy.

They returned to the tower, the WWII documentary forgotten for the moment, with several pizzas in hand. Beast Boy wanted to have Miko try a traditional pizza. When she tried to explain that even Japan had pizza, he merely told her that Japanese pizza was nothing like American pizza.

True to his word, American Pizza was nothing like Japanese Pizza, and Miko 'Kikyo' truly enjoyed the cheesy deep dish with pepperoni, olives, pineapple, and bell-peppers.

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It was early afternoon and they boys had left the tower sometime after 10, to do… something…. Miko 'Kikyo' really didn't know, but she and Raven were meditating when Star-Fire interrupted.

'"Raven, Raven? Please forgive my interruption, but have you seen Robin?"'

"'No."'

'"Perhaps you have seen Cyborg?"'

'"No."'

'"Beast Boy?"'

'"My eyes are closed Star-Fire. I haven't seen anyone."'

'"Oh, they must be doing the 'hanging out' someplace."' Star-Fire stated as she walked away.

Since Miko was used to interruptions like that from Inuyasha and Shippo, she was easily able to overlook the interruption and continue meditating as if nothing had interrupted her.

She only caught the tail-end of the almost one-sided conversation.

'"You… wish to be alone?"' Star-Fire asked semi-rhetorically as she witnessed the black flames of Raven's powers shooting around her in agitation, anger and annoyance.

'"How could you tell…"' Raven asked, soothing her nerves and allowing the black flames of her powers to re-integrate back into her core. As Star-Fire made for another part of the tower, Miko and Raven got back to their meditating.

'"Azarath. Metrion. Zin-"'

'"MAIL CALL!"' Cyborg shouted as he, Robin, and Beast Boy entered the multi-purpose room.

Startled wasn't a word that would have described their surprise. But Freaked-Out and Alarmed fit the bill pretty well, as their concentration was broken and they hit the ground from their position of meditating, three feet off the ground.

"Gee- thanks guys, we needed broken tailbones…" Miko said as she glared at their forms in front of the door.

'"Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy. You are back!"' Star-Fire stated joyously. '"It was… quiet while you were gone."'

'"Not that quiet."' Raven said brushing herself off, as they witness Cyborg place a large crate on the dining room table.

'"Check it out. This was sitting by the front door. Fan mail. Probably a gift from one of my many admirers."' Beast Boy said wiggling his eyebrows at Raven and Miko.

Raven rolled her eyes in a 'Yeah… sure…' equivalent.

'"Actually, it doesn't say who it's from."' Robin said bending to consider the tag on the crate.

'"Well, one way to find out."' Cyborg said as he opened the crate with one hand. '"Whoa!"'

'"Cool."' Robin agreed, and Star-Fire giggled at the contents of the crate.

Beast Boy, who was doing an impersonation of "Kilroy" over the corner of the now opened crate. (A/N: Look it up! Kinda cool to see where you find him!) '"Honestly, I was kinda hoping for chocolate…"'

'"Isn't that cute?"' Cyborg said rhetorically. "'Puppet Cy has a light-up eye."' He said as all the Teen Titans, minus Miko who was without a puppet, investigated their miniature marionette selves.

'"Yeah. They got al the details just right."' Robin said as he pulled and released the mini grappler on mini-Robin's belt.

'"Speak for yourself."' BB said as he snapped the shorts on the mini-him. '"I'm way better-looking than this… And taller."' He added as a secondary thought.

As the Teen Titan Boys started having a 'Three Stooges' marionette battle, and Raven left to meditate, leaving her marionette with Star-Fire; Miko inspected the crate.

"But who sent them? Back home, if someone were to go through all this work, they send a signature card at the very least with the package…" She then tried to find that aura of the maker. But there was nothing, just a hollow feeling that echoed and rolled, against her.

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Later that night, 'Kikyo' suddenly found herself awake. As she tried to find out the reason, for her sudden inability to sleep, she found herself searching for the auras of her new friend and cousin. For some inexplicable reason, their auras were smaller, concentrated and confined… As she concentrated on that feeling, Miko felt that rolling, hollow, echoing feeling that she found when she concentrated on the crate from earlier.

Hearing one of Robin's devices explode, Miko ran from her room, not even pausing in her flight to grab her bow and arrows, and up two flights of stairs where she peeped out of the stairwell to see Raven and Star-Fire laying on the ground with the rest of the Teen Titans crumpled around them and an extremely large string-less marionette with a crown on his head reaching for a control that lay just beyond his reach.

She then saw Raven and Star-Fire's auras exit the control and land, not in their correct bodies.

"This is bad." Miko 'Kikyo' said understating the situation. She saw Raven and Star-Fire run away from the crowned puppet and his marionette Teen Titans, and witness them enter the sub flooring which housed the pipes and secondary controls in the basement. She waited for the male Teen Titans to run over the grate before after a secondary thought, removed two Kanai Anzen omamori from her sleeve, one purple, the other blue, and stealthily attached them to Star-Fire and Raven's switched forms.

(A/N: "Special purpose Japanese Shinto kanai anzen are a special type of omamori luck charm which is blessed with the spirit and power of a Shinto shrine (jinja) and designed to ensure health and wellness and recovery from disease and illness. Religious omamori are available from many Shinto shrines in Japan and are purchased and carried by believers seeking the blessing of god (kami)." gotten from: shinto-religion .com -Interesting, facts huh?)

She then applied two ofuda to herself, one was for stealth, another was to make the light bend around her form rendering her invisible; something she learned from Shippo and Lord Sesshoumaru when she had returned to Sengoku Jidai.

She followed Raven and Star-Fire through the sewer system and into part of the city. Where she witnessed Star-Fire try to summarize their situation, and while she was freaking out she was unknowingly allowing Raven's powers to run amok. She had to find a way to get her to calm down.

(A/N: This is getting confusing for me to try to write so… Raven in Star-Fire's body will be "Raven-Fire" and Star-Fire in Raven's body will be "Star-Raven"… Does that work for everybody to help clear things up? I hope so… My head hurts…)

When Star-Raven tried to, unsuccessfully, calm herself down by chanting: "'Peace, quiet, tranquil-"' Raven's powers exploded underneath the car parked next to them in the street to land on it's roof.

'"We are so doomed."' Raven-Fire said watching the wheels of the car spin.

'"Beast Boy."' Star-Raven said pointing up where all three of them saw the body of Beast Boy, in Hawk form circling above them in the luminescence of the full moon.

'"You mean Zombie-Beast Boy…"' Raven-Fire said, grabbing Star-Raven's arm and jerking her toward the alley. '"Run!"' and all three of them took off into the alley.

She was able to keep up with them until she witnessed Raven and Star-Fire cornered by their Zombie team-mates. She had been about to remove the sutras when Star-Raven shouted: "'Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"' And she and Raven-Fire shot up out of the alley and into the night sky, out of sight.

Miko 'Kikyo' sighed as she raced after the Zombie-fied Teen Titans, knowing that they would be able to follow Star-Fire and Raven. Sure enough they found them, and she quickly cast an barrier to cover Star-Fire and Raven. When she heard that the Puppet King was planning on destroying Robin, Beast Boy and Cyborg's spirits that were encased in the puppet's, she focused on protecting them knowing that Raven and Star-Fire would be able to figure things out. They had been a team for over a year before Kagome had shown up after all…

So she followed the Puppet King and the Zombie Teen Titans to the Bijou theater where she witnessed the Puppet King grab the necessary ingredients for his spell. Unfortunately, she was unable to get any closer to her new teammates as the Zombie Cyborg and Zombie Robin stood guard.

She flicked some of her power at Robin to get his attention, before a loud crash from above them sounded. The Calvary was here. Finally she was able to remove the ofuda and join in with keeping their teammates safe while only marginally bruising their bodies. Star-Fire and Robin landed on the ground followed by Raven.

'"I am me!"' Star-Fire exclaimed as she glanced at her form. '"And you are you!'" She said gesturing to Raven.

'"And we're us!"' Cyborg said relieved.

'"Thanks to you two!"' Robin declared.

'"You go girls."' Beast Boy said with a 'woot-woot' motion of his gorilla formed right arm.

"And Kikyo…" Raven said, bringing their attention to their newest member. She held up the Kanai Anzen. "Did you really think that I wouldn't be able to feel this?" She said holding up the small drawstring bag.

"What is it?" Robin asked Raven.

Miko answered. "It's a good luck charm designed to ensure health and wellness and recovery from disease and illness."

"Does it really apply to soul-switching?" Raven asked Miko.

"It couldn't hurt…" She mumbled. Before they witnessed the Puppet King turn lifeless as all the magic left him.

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Miko yawned as she entered the T-tower again. "Another, long night…" She said stretching her arms above her head.

"Eh- you get used to them… kind of…" Beast Boy said as he made his way to the elevator that would take he, Robin and Cyborg to their floor.

"Alright… But we need to find out where all the fish have gone and why the JLU still isn't responding…" Robin cautioned. "Not to mention: Slade." He growled.

"Then why did you… -forget it…" Miko said, not wanting to instigate a verbal spar this early in the morning. "Night all. See you later today!" And Miko then climbed the stairs and made her way back to her bedroom. "This schedule is worse it was during shard hunting!" Miko declared disgusted, as she flopped down on her bed.

(A/N: I tried to get this chapter to make up for the previous short one. Did it work? Oh! My dad's doing great! And by the beginning of February he should be able to go to work again! YAY!)

Thanks all!

JoWashington