I keep having all of these awesome story ideas so I have another story that I want to post while I am waiting for my beta to get back to me with my latest chapter for TFBH! This is another Kag/Touga pairing, and it is also a time travel fic! Anyways let's get started! I DO NOT OWN INUYASHA!

Kagome swiped the sweat from her brow and turned to Kaede who was busy gathering herbs beside her. It had been three years since she had come to the feudal era and they still had not completed their journey. Naraku had been scarce as of late so she had taken advantage of the break in battle to get back to honing her miko powers. In the last three years she had trained every spare moment with Miroku, and Kaede and she was now proficient with her powers. At first it had been hard because her powers had been sealed by something, but through constant training and practice she had worn down the seal until it had finally snapped releasing the full extent of her power. After that she had progressed quickly in her training. In fact she had been asked by Kaede to become the High Miko after she passed. The thought of Kaede passing made her heart ache, but she was happy that the older woman trusted in her abilities when Inuyasha had put them down for so long. "You can go back inside Kaede, I will finish up."

Kaede looked at her gratefully and nodded. "Aye thank ye child. It be much too hot out here on this day. When ye finish I will have some stew ready for ye to eat." The elder smiled before standing and walking to the door of her hut. "Oh Kagome were ye going to return home to gather supplies today?"

She perked up instantly and hurriedly finished her herb gathering. "Yes I had forgotten about that! I should hurry and get that taken care of." She stood and hefted the large basket of herbs into her arms before she wandered into Kaede's hut and deposited them near the fire.

Kaede trailed after her and sat down to begin sorting them. "Ye should get going so that ye do not have to linger there. Lest Inuyasha get thrown into a tizzy about your absense."

She chuckled at the mental image Kaede painted for her. Inuyasha certainly would throw a fit if she were gone too long. "Yes he would." Bending down she retrieved her bow and quiver along with her empty black backpack. Everything she needed in hand she turned and headed out towards the well. She headed onto the well worn path towards the well senses trained on the surrounding area for any hostile youkai. In the last three years her abilities had progressed to the point that she did not have to rely on her friends to protect her. She could cast powerful barriers, purify demons with her bare hands, cast various spells, reflect curses, and various other things. Three years in and already she was on the same level as Kikyo not that Inuyasha would admit it. At that moment she came upon the clearing where the Bone Eater's well sat and she paused. The well was pulsing in an odd manner, blue sparks drawing her to the edge to peer down into it. It almost looked as though small bolts of lightning were shooting about in the darkness of the wells depths. Her brows furrowed and she went to step back from the well. It was not safe to use it at this moment she was sure of it so she was not going to chance it. Well that was the plan but fate had other plans for her in the form of something crashing into her back and tossing her into the well. She turned startled blue eyes and caught sight of red and white. Blue eyes locked onto brown and she opened her mouth in a silent scream. Kikyo had pushed her! The look in the undead miko's eyes was sad, yet determined. That was the last thing she saw before the darkness enveloped her.

When she came to she was laying at the bottom of the well. She sat up and rubbed her head with her hand. "Ohh what happened to me?" Peering around the well she grimaced before she stood and started climbing up the vines on the side of the well. As she ascended the well she thought back to how she had been pushed down the well. At least it looked as though it had not accepted her into the time slip, or she would be looking up at the well house roof. She breached the lip of the well and swung a leg over it to hop onto the ground. "Inuyasha is going to throw a fit when I tell him what Kikyo did... Maybe I should not say anything." As she started off towards the village she noticed several differences such as the lack of a path that should have been there. She furrowed her brows and continued on until she breached the village and when she did she froze in shock. There was no village! Her jaw dropped and she stumbled back nearly tripping over her red hakamas. "What the hell is happening? Where is the village?" Of all the things that could have happened in her life she would never have expected this to happen! So she had only one choice, turn back around and jump through the well to where the world made sense. "Sounds like a good idea to me!" She turned and scrambled back the way she came. Tearing through the trees and stumbling over tree roots she made her way back to the well and nearly sobbed in relief when she burst back into the clearing. She shot towawrds the well and vaulted over the side and into the depths. Her feet hit the ground with a jarring impact and she winced. "OW!" She cried and flopped onto her butt so that she could rub her sore ankles. It was while she was in the midst of doing this that another prescence made itself known.

"Is there a reason that you jumped into an empty well miko?" A deep masculine voice rumbled with concern, and amusement.

She stiffened and slowly looked up to rove her eyes over her new companion. The first thing she took note of were the rich gold eyes, and the long silver hair that was held up in a high pony tail. His face was masculine, yet refined with a dark blue stripe on each cheek. She jolted when she connected all of the pieces.

"OH MY GODS! HE'S INUYASHA'S DAD!" She screamed internally before she slammed her eyes shut and counted to ten. When she opened them he was still there peering down at her and she actually whimpered.

"How long were you there?"

"Since before you first climbed out of the well. How did you get in there in the first place?" He asked cocking his head to the side.

Squealing internally at how cute he looked like that she nearly forgot that he had asked her a question. "Oh I am not sure... I was pushed and that's the last thing I remember." She looked around and grimaced at the dirt clinging to her. "Could you uh help me get out of here? I need to bathe." Her eyes locked with his gold ones and she put on her best pleading look.

He chuckled and leapt deftly over the edge to land next to her. "What kind of male would I be to leave a beautiful female at the bottom of some dank well?"

She eeped when he lifted her into his arms and leapt from the well in a fluid practiced movement. There was no jarring impact when he landed on the ground and she had to peek to make sure that they had landed. "It must be convenient to be able to move like that." She mused peering up at his face.

"Perhaps. Can you stand?"

"Uh I think so." Internally she was berating herself for doing something so stupid. But that being said it wasn't the first time that she had hurt herself jumping into the well. The last time being when Inuyasha had sealed the well and she had repeatedly tried to get back through it. She hadn't been able to walk then. He lowered her to her feet and she hissed slightly when her ankles jarred with the weight. A strong arm steadied her until she was able to stand properly. "Um thank you for the help."

"It was no problem. Now where are you from... I never got your name. Mine is Touga."

She looked up from her feet and she had to crane her neck to peer at his face. Damn he was tall she barely came up to the top of his chest. "Uh Kagome... My name is Kagome." She stammered a blush coming to her cheeks. And he was hot too... He was like the perfect combination of Inuyasha, and Sesshomaru... Two hotties combined into one made for one mega hottie!

"Kagome." He smirked one of his fangs showing. "Well Kagome where shall I take you?"

His question brought up her current dilema. The well would not let her through... She had nowhere to go that was familiar to her. So the question was what should she do now? Meeting his gaze she decided to be truthful. "I don't have anywhere to go..."

His brows furrowed and he stared at her sympathetically. "Was your village destroyed?"

"Not exactly..." She sighed and shifted her feet nervously despite the pain in her ankles. Should she tell him? Maybe he would be able to help her get back home. "Have you ever sensed any magic from the bone eater's well?"

He peered over his shoulder and gazed at the well through narrow thoughtful eyes. "Yes I have. The bodies of powerful mikos were cast into its depths, along with the bodies of many youkai. It is always alight with magic. Why do you ask?" He finally turned back to peer at her.

"Well you see... I don't come from this time..." She scrunched her eyes shut and waited for him to either laugh at her, or kill her for being mad. But when none of that happened she slowly cracked her eyes open and looked up at him.
He looked thoughtful and not at all surprised as she expected him to be. "So you traveled through time? Through the bone eater's well?"

"I know that it sounds crazy but I swear it's the truth! I was traveling from the 20th century, back to the 15th century Sengoku Jidai. But something happened and I was sent back to... what year is this?" She asked feeling stupid for not asking sooner.

"It is the year 1213."

Great so she had been sucked back almost 300 years farther... "I see... Well I was traveling back and forth between my era, and the Sengoku Jidai in order to fight a hanyou that was collecting shards of the Shikon no tama in order to become an exceedingly powerful full youkai."

At this point he interupted her with a question that stumped her. "What is this Shikon no tama? I have never heard of it before."

She barely resisted the urge to pass out at the question. If he did not know then it was safe to say that Midoriko was most still alive, and had not yet created the shikon no tama. And if that was the case... Then she could find Midoriko and prevent her from battling the horde of demons alone. If she could preserve the miko's life then she could prevent the Shikon from ever existing. A throat clearing drew her attention back to the patiently waiting Daiyoukai. "Oh sorry I was thinking of something. Anyways the Shikon no tama is a small jewel that contains the soul of an extremely powerful miko, along with the souls of many youkai. It is said to gift great power to those who possess it and legends say that it can even grant wishes. Any youkai who possessed the completed Shikon would become so powerful that they would be nearly unbeatable."

"So they would use it to augment their own power like a bunch of cowards?" He sneered disdainfully at the thought.

"Yes! My companions and I were attempting to collect the shards of the jewel after it was shattered, so that the hanyou would not be able to complete it. But he was exceedingly difficult to find even with reiki. So the search was not going over as well as we had hoped. I was going to take the opportunity to return to my time and stock up on supplies when I noticed the well was emiting a strange kind of magic. And when I peered into it a miko named Kikyo pushed me into its depths. That is how I ended up here."

"I see... And the well will not accept you again." He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose between two large clawed fingers. "Perhaps you should come and stay at my private shiro until we figure out a way to return you to your time."

"Private shiro? You mean the Western Shiro?" She asked shuddering at the thought of seeing Sesshomaru's cold countenance.

"No I mean my private shiro. I tend to stay away from the Western shiro as much as possible." A disdainful look morphed his normally handsome features. "Of course I must return from time to time in order to ensure that my heir is running things accordingly."

"So you are looking to pass it on to him soon?" She nearly cringed at the thought of Sesshomaru... Sure he was an ally of hers in the future but... He was still cold... Like he made the mountains in Algeria look warm, kind of cold.

"Yes I am though I am hesitant to do so at this point. His intolerance for humans is a concern that I have not been able to rectify. I blame it on his mother..."

"Well maybe that will change one day! There is always room to change and improve!" She clapped and gave him a cheerful smile. Only to stop dead at the scrutinizing look he was shooting her. "What?"

"Wait until you meet him." Was all he said before he pulled her into his arms and gathered his youki cloud beneath their feet.

Little did he know, she already had. And she knew that even Sesshomaru could change with a little help. She smiled at the thought of what Touga would think if he saw the Sesshomaru from the future. But he would not see it, because he would die in the next century. That thought saddened her and she quickly masked the scent before he caught onto it.

He watched her limp around the room her thigh length raven hair bouncing with each step. She had donned a simple pink kimono with cherry blossoms decorating it. Her bow sat against one wall the quiver resting at its base. A small tansu sat next to it with several small combs and ribbons littered across the surface. A good sized armoire sat on the wall kiddie corner to where the tansu was. A large platform futon sat in the middle of the room where he now sat waiting for her.

"You didn't have to give me such a nice room you know." She stated plopping down across from him.

He waved her off with a careless gesture of his hand before crossing his arms over his chestplate. "I rarely have company that I can stand Kagome. So it is no problem to give you a room closer to mine. That way whenever I wish to converse with you I can come to you easily." And with a quick once over of her countenance he decided that he rather enjoyed her appearance as well. She had long raven hair that pooled around her thighs, large bright eyes of the most unusual color for a human. Their dark blue depths were an open gateway into her soul, long black lashes ghosting over them with every sweep of her eyelids as they closed. Her face was shapely with delicate cheekbones and pink pouty lips. She was most definitely beautiful though she seemed not to know it.

"Well that makes sense..." She mused fidgeting nervously with her hands. "So was there something that you wanted to talk about? Or...?"

"What do you intend to do since you are trapped here?"

"Well I was thinking of preventing the Shikon no tama from being created. But to do that I need to find the miko who was responsible for its creation. She should be alive at this point in time... Either that or she will be born soon."

"Do you know of her name?" He kept a close tabs on any holy person in his domain for obvious reasons. So if this miko existed at this point in time, and she was as powerful as this girl claimed then he would know of her. Though as he brushed his aura against hers he doubted that there was a miko as powerful as this one.

"Her name is Midoriko."

The name did not sound at all familiar to him. "What do you know of her?"

"I know that she had the ability to purify the souls of demons... She was a master swordsman... or swordswoman... And I know that she had long dark hair..."

"There are no warrior mikos that I know of... Perhaps she has not yet been born."

Kagome huffed and buried her face into her hands before dragging them down exasperated. "Perhaps... If only I could ask my grandfather. He would surely know the answer..."

"Your grandfather? He still lives?" From what he knew humans did not live much past their fourties, and Kagome looked to be around twenty. That would put her grandfather around the age of fifty. Could humans live that long in her world?

"Oh yes he's still alive! He just turned seventy actually." She giggled and turned sparkling eyes full of mischief on him. "He always runs around throwing faulty ofuda at everything while he yells "youkai begone"! I swear he's getting worse every year."

He chuckled at her and his shoulders slumped in relaxation. "Humans live to be so old?"

"Yeah some even live to be in their hundreds. Our medicine is very advanced where I come from so things that are fatal here are only a nuisance where I come from."

"I wish I could see these things that you speak of." Of all the times for the well to act up... Not that he could travel through it in the first place.

"Yes I wish I could bring some... I have a feeling that I am going to need things that aren't available here in this time. Maybe at a later date we can return to the well and see if it will allow me passage to my home."

The thought of her leaving displeased him immensely so he would put it off for as long as he could. "Perhaps... Though there is much that you can busy yourself with here. Waiting for that miko to come into existence is one thing that you need to be present for. She will need your protection."

She snorted at that and flopped onto her back. "Me protect her? I was the most useless miko in existence until recently. Midoriki does not need my protection as she will be worlds more powerful than me. All I need to do is warn her not to walk the same path."

The self depracating tone of her voice nearly made him flinch. So this female had problems with self worth? What could have caused so much internal turmoil? "Why do you speak of yourself in such a way? And why do you doubt my words?"

"It's not that I doubt you! It's just that I'm nothing special. I discovered my reiki late in my life, and for the longest time it was faulty and would only come when I was under extreme duress. It had been sealed when I was born so I could only utilize a small fraction of my full power. After a lot of rigorous training I finally managed to break the seal and unleash more of my power. But my companion still saw me as useless and he was right. For all of the skills I learned I am still weak."

It seemed as though her companion had a detrimental effect on the little onna's mental state. Perhaps he should be the one to give her a lesson in reality. Standing to his feet he grabbed onto a startled Kagome dragging her to her feet, before he grabbed her weapon and dragged her out the open shoji door.

"Where are we going?"

"To the training grounds." He answered simply as he turned the corner to the training courtyard. Thankfully it was empty at this time of day so he did not have to worry about interference. He dragged her over to the archery range and sat her on her feet before thrusting the bow into her hands. "Shoot at the target and do not hold back."

She looked at him like he had lost his mind and opened her mouth to protest.

"Shoot the target and do not hold back." He ordered again cutting her off.

Sighing Kagome slipped an arrow from her quiver and notched it onto her bow before lining it up at her target. "Inus and their need to demand things... Making me embarrass myself..." She muttered darkly before she focused her reiki into the arrow and released it. Only to stumble back and drop flat on her ass when the arrow shot forward in a bright pink torrent that was easily twice as large as it used to be. It impacted the target and exploded taking half of the training grounds with it.

He whistled impressed with the display when the dust settled to reveal a massive crater in the ground. "Weak?" He mused while surveying the damage. When he looked back down at her she was gaping her jaw hanging off its hinges.

In a second she was flailing around squealing, and gasping like she had killed someone."Wha-Wha- I... Never happened like that before... Way brighter... Torrent was huge..." She muttered incoherently never ceasing in flailing about.

"Kagome?"

"The look on his face if he saw this!"

"Kagome."

"Don't understand this!"

"Kagome..."

"She did something! She had to have! There's no way!"

He sighed and proceeded to allow her to flail about stuttered phrases spilling out from her mouth here and there. The most repetative things beings, Inuyasha, Kikyo, and oh my gods. And he let her go on for several moments before he finally pinched her lips between his clawed fingers. "Kagome calm yourself."

She pushed his fingers aside and all but screamed in his face. "CALM DOWN?! DID YOU JUST TELL ME TO CALM DOWN?! DID YOU SEE THAT ARROW?! MY ARROWS HAVE NEVER BEEN THAT POWERFUL BEFORE EVEN AFTER I BROKE THE SEAL ON MY POWERS! AND YOU ARE TELLING ME TO CALM DOWN?! YOU CALM DOWN!"

He cringed and clamped a hand over her mouth to cease her screams. "Calm down. There must be a reason for this and panicking will not help us figure it out."

She nodded and pushed his hand away to fall to the side. "Ok... Do you have any ideas about that?!" She asked gesturing over to the crater she had created.

He glanced at it, and then her before sighing. Of course he had a theory and she was not going to like what he had to say. "Your soul was not complete before. If anything you possessed half of it at most."

"No I possessed most of it! Kikyo only possessed a small portion." She corrected him irritably.

"I am not following you."

"She was dead... and then some ogre witch brought her back to life through black magic... She was my incarnation and she stole a part of my soul to reanimate herself... And then I took most of it back... Do you follow me now?"

Rather then commenting on her attitude he pondered the words she had spoken. The situation she spoke of was not possible as even the undead needed a larger portion of their soul to remain animated. And Kagome would not have been able to draw her soul back from the original incarnation from a time that was closer to the original, then her. So the soul that the undead one took was not Kagome's soul, it was in fact her own. Kagome had merely scattered it so that the undead miko could not completely reabsorb her soul. She most likely had to steal dead souls to ensure that her soul remained tethered to her body. "She was obviously not your incarnation Kagome."

"Yes she was! I was in a near death state when she was reanimated! We could not exist at the same time until after I took my soul back!"

"If it were your soul you would have died instantly. Now I am not saying that you were not weakened by having a soul your body was carrying torn from you, but I am saying that it was not your soul. You merely wrenched her soul from her body and weakened her. But it did not come back to you did it?"

"Yes it did."

"No your soul did. Let me give you a little insight into the way black magic works Kagome. Souls are needed to bind other souls to reanimated bodies. Your soul was used to reanimate the miko's body and when you called it back she was weakened. I am guessing that she had to resort to stealing the souls of the dead to maintain her existence yes?"

"Well yes but I thought that it was because of the fact that I took our soul back..." She whispered realization finally dawning on her.

"No she needed to do that to supplement that soul that was used to bind her. Without it her soul would have departed from its body and crossed over. Without a strong soul to bind it, she had to resort to stealing masses of souls to supplement the missing element of the magic."

"So a small portion of my soul was used to bind her? And I drew it back into my body dispersing the magic?"

"Yes."

She slumped down and released a huge breath. "So I am not her reincarnation... So whose am I?"

And to that question he had no answer.

Ha I love this pairing so much that I have like a million story ideas! So I decided to post another one! R&R and let me know what you all think! SHould I continue or not?