When she awoke, it was dark out. The moon was high in the sky, lighting the area around her. She clearly wasn't in the Feudal Era, it was too modern like. "Am I home?" she thought as she forced herself up. "Was it all a dream?" She made her way out of the alley way and sighed. "I guess not." She did not recognize a single building from her home. It was much different from her time. She had no money and no shelter. Her backpack had been left behind along with her weapons, so now she was defenseless in a city that could be very dangerous.

She sighed as she roamed the city, she had nothing better to do after all. She roamed the city, taking random streets. How long she was out there, she didn't know. A few hours maybe. The moon was already beginning to sink and the sun was getting ready to peak over the horizon.

She kept her gaze to the ground, avoiding the eyes of the soldiers dressed in blue. She wasn't paying attention and ran straight into something hard. She stumbled back and held her head in her hands. "Ouch."

"I'm sorry! I wasn't paying attention to where I was going!" the thing she ran into said. Kagome looked up to come face to face with an armored person. He sounded like a young boy.

"N-no. It's fine. I wasn't paying attention either." She smiled up at him. "I'm Kagome!"

"A-Alphonse Elric."

"Well, Alphonse, would you mind telling me where I am exactly? I'm a little lost." Something about this armored boy set her on edge. It was like he was there and at the same time he wasn't.

"You're in actually near Central Headquarters. HQ is just a few blocks over that way." Alphonse pointed off to the side.

"Ah. I see." She really didn't and he must have caught on to her terrible lying because he laughed.

"Have you never been in Central before?" he questioned her.

Kagome sighed. "No. This is my first time being here."

"Come on I'll show you around!" He took her wrist and dragged her off somewhere, giving her a tour of the city, despite it being so early in the morning. It was close to noon when they decided to stop by a small restaurant to eat.

"Ah, I have no money," she admitted sheepishly.

"Don't worry! I'll pay." He said as he held the door open for her and ducked inside after her. The two of them sat at a table by a window that out looked the city.

"Hey Alphonse," Kagome said after a waitress took their order. "Why do you wear that armor?" she asked him. Alphonse visibly tensed, she noticed. "If you don't want to tell me you don't have to."

"Maybe another time. Sorry." He said softly.

It was odd. A young boy wearing a suit of armor. He was obviously hiding something. As she sat there in her thoughts, she was unaware of the waitress set a plate of food in front of her.

"Kagome?" Alphonse waved a hand in front of her face. "Your food is going to get cold if you continue to space out like that."

She blinked and thanked him. She picked up her silverware and dug in. "Why didn't you get anything?" she asked. He tensed again.

"I-I wasn't hungry." he was lying she noted, but said nothing. As the two of them continued their tour around the city, she told him stories of her time with her friends, leaving out the part that they weren't human. She found that his boyish laugh mellifluous.

As the day ended, Kagome found herself rather exhausted. "Well, Alphonse, I had a lot of fun today! Thanks for the tour of the city. Let's hang out again!"

"Sure!" He waved goodbye as Kagome ran off in a random direction and then turned and headed back to HQ. "Brother must be worried."

Kagome made sure she was out of sight of Alphonse before slipping into an alleyway. She didn't have any money, so how could she afford a place to stay? She'd have to figure out how to shower before she began bothering people around her.

"I really don't want to have to resort to breaking and entering." She thought as she dug through the alleyway looking for at least a blanket to use for the night. As she ventured deeper into the alleyway, she discovered an old worn out couch leaning against the wall. It wasn't a bed, but it beat laying on the cold hard ground. "I wonder if I'll see Alphonse tomorrow." she yawned as she settled herself onto the beat up couch. She pulled her legs up to her chest in attempt to keep herself warm and quickly fell asleep.

The next week went on like that. She was unable to find a place to shower and people around her were beginning to notice. Either Alphonse did too and was being and not saying anything or his sense of smell was off.

It was late one night when an incident happened. She was heading back to her 'home' when she saw a large man standing beside her couch. She was ready to tell him off when he turned to her and grinned. Kagome felt the fear crawl up her spine as the man stalked towards her. She took a few steps before turning and fleeing. She heard his footsteps pounding behind her and they were quickly catching up to her.

She urged herself to continue to ran as fast as she rounded a corner. Unfortunately, by that time, the man had caught up to her and grabbed her by the back of her shirt, slamming her onto the ground. Her head hit the pavement and her vision became blurred. Blood mixed with her raven locks. Kagome groaned and stood back up on her feet. She held onto the wall for support as the world around her began to spin. The man before her became three, but she wasn't about to go down with out a fight.

He laughed as he lunged at her. Kagome managed to step to the side and attempted to swing her fist at him. That resulted his knife making contact with left arm. Blood poured from the wound as the man licked her blood off the blade. She huffed as she held onto her bleeding arm. The blood dripped between her fingers and onto the ground. He advanced towards her again, knife twirling in his hand. Just as he was about to hit her with it, a large stone fist that literally appeared from nowhere barreled into him, sending him crashing into a nearby wall.

She barely caught sight of a young boy running towards her. His golden hair and matching golden eyes were the last thing she remembered before falling unconscious.

She dreamed that she was in the Feudal Era. Everyone was happy. Sango and Miroku were happily married and expecting a baby, Kagome and Inuyasha were in love with each other. Kikyo was but a distant memory in the back of Inuyasha's mind. All that matter was the one before him. Kagome. Not Kikyo.

The scene shifted and Kagome and Inuyasha were strolling through a field of various types of flower, hands clasped together. He turned to her, taking her other hand in his. "Kagome."

"What is it?" she asked looking up at him in quizzically.

Inuyasha gripped her hand and pulled her close to him. He leaned towards her. "Kagome Higurashi. Will you marry me?"

Kagome put her hands on his chest and pushed him back so she could look into his golden eyes. Her eyes filled with tears as she nodded her head. Her hands went to her mouth to cover up a sob. Happiness filled her entire being. Everything was perfect.

But then his face twisted into a smirk. "That's what you want me to ask you right?" Kagome's tear suddenly stopped as she stared at him with wide brown eyes. He let loose a laugh. "You're an idiot. You think that I actually love you? That I'd actually want to spend my life with you?"

Tears fell from her eyes again, only they were tears of sadness. "Why...?"

"I never loved you. It was always Kikyo. It will always be Kikyo." The said woman approached Inuyasha's side. He wrapped his arms around the undead priestess. "You are just a reincarnation. A copy cat of the real thing." And with that he kissed her. Kagome felt her heart shatter into a thousand tiny pieces.

Her eyes snapped open, a single tear fell from her eye. "Just a dream."