"Koga!" Masao called. Koga was speaking with Kagome inside the cave on the mountain.

"Mutt!" he shouted back. The three landed and Kirara changed back, jumping onto Yomi's shoulder.

"Why are you here?" Kagome asked.

"That's my line," InuYasha said.

"Koga just needs… help," she said. "He says there's a ghost in the cave."

"I did not!" Koga said. "They did!" He pointed to two wolf demons.

"You can handle this yourself," Masao said. He took Kagome's hand. "Kagome doesn't need to be with the likes of you." Kagome pulled her hand away.

"I apologize if someone wants my help," she said. She walked into the cave, bow in hand. "So, where's this ghost?"

"I sense a strong demonic aura," InuYasha said. "It's not a ghost, it's a demon." Yomi looked at Masao nervously.

"No," Kagome said. "This aura isn't demonic. I can't tell what it is."

Find me…

"Who's that?!" Koga yelled.

I'm right here…

"Spirit!" Yomi called. "Where are you?" She felt cold air all of a sudden.

Can't you see me? InuYasha looked up. While everyone else looked around, he saw a boy a lot like him in front of him. Silver hair. Dog ears. This was that boy from his visions. It looked just like him, only his colors were really sparkly and pastel colored, like he was some kind of dream.

You can see me now, can't you? Spirit asked hopefully. InuYasha nodded. Spirit smiled and waved a hand. The others faded as the cave quickly became black nothingness.

"Hey!" InuYasha said. "What are you doing?"

So close. Just one more step. InuYasha blinked. One more step? What? Soon, we'll be able to become one again.

"Whoa!" InuYasha said, holding up his hands. "'Become one?'"

Of course. Have you forgotten what you look like too? You're case is worse than I thought.

InuYasha stared.

Allow me to explain. I'm, of course, a spirit. I was once alive too. We spirits die brutal deaths and came back as this. The most normal scenario for us is when someone, normally a child, forgets a dream. Like if a little girl wants to be a doctor and forgets about it, I'd come back as a doctor version of her and stay with her. Sometimes kids will just throw the dream away, but we usually get through to them and they realize that dream.

But your case is very rare. You've forgotten who you are. That's what I've come as.

"So…" InuYasha sighed. "I am that boy?" Spirit nodded. "Why am I not surprised?" Spirit looked at him sympathetically.

I can come with you now. You've freed me. I can never leave wherever I first end up in this world unless you come get me. Because, you know, this is such a rare case.

"Um, sure," InuYasha said, still not fully understanding. "Will the others be able to see you?" Spirit nodded.

Alright, then. They were back in the cave and everyone was now staring at Spirit. He waved.

"What's that?" Koga said.

"I'm a Spirit," he said. He pointed to the exit. "I'm gonna go." He smiled happily and went towards the exit and started… walking on air. He turned back to InuYasha. "Let's go!"

"No way!" Koga shouted. "You're a demon." Spirit stared at Koga. "Yeah, I'm a demon too. But you're evil!"

"Me?"

"Him?" said Yomi. "But Spirit's nice."

"Yeah, and I haven't been killing your pack," Spirit said. "Dragon did it."

"'Dragon?'" Koga repeated.

"Yeah!" Spirit pointed behind him. "Dragon likes to play jokes. I'll tell him to leave you alone."

"Why you…" Something about Spirit ticked Koga off (probably because he looked like the "mutt") and Koga lunged.

"I'm really getting sick of you." Spirit waved a hand and they were no longer in the cave. Kagome, Yomi, Masao, and InuYasha were back at the hut. "I'll leave you alone for a while. Remember, one more step." He exploded into tiny stars and they flew away.

"InuYasha!" He turned to see Kasumi. "You're back." Chinatsu came up behind her with a happy expression unlike Kasumi's sad one.

"Hey!" she greeted. "Good news! Sango and Miroku and Shippo (God knows why they brought him) went to slay a demon that'll pay well! We're eatin' good tonight… or whenever they get back."

"Shut up," Kasumi snapped. InuYasha flinched. Kasumi never told anyone to shut up. "So you really do like Kagome better?"

"No, I…"

"I'm just another Kikyo to you," she said looking down. "You don't really love me." Chinatsu saw that Kasumi realized the truth and ran for cover behind Kagome. Kasumi took her ice girl form with her solid hair and cold eyes.

"Die," she said. "Just die." She threw some ice shards, blizzards, everything she had.

"Crud," Chinatsu said. "Guess this was a good time to activate it."InuYasha looked at her strangely with his arms blocking his face. "This is what Naraku wanted. Remember?" She eyed Yomi and Masao. "Naraku's recreated the time when Kikyo 'betrayed' you."

"InuYasha!" Kasumi shouted over the winds. "I… I don't want to do this!" She snapped out of her violent state for a minute. "You can stop me!"

"What?" InuYasha said. "How?"

"Kill me!" Kasumi shook her head and her eyes went cold again. The blizzards picked up. An ice shard hit InuYasha's arm. He could feel it become wet.

"Do it!" Chinatsu ordered. "She'll be fine. This'll be better for her!"

"No!" he said. "I can't." He turned to Kagome to say something, but he couldn't when a shard entered her side.

"Kagome!" Masao and Yomi rushed to her side. It was like nothing else existed except Kagome. She wasn't moving. Could she be…? InuYasha glared at Kasumi. He knew what he needed to do, but did he have the heart to kill his best friend?

*It's been so long! I'm really sorry! I'm going through a pretty tough time and I've been trying to do my best. Again apologies for the wait.*