Another long chapter! I'm am on a roll XD I'm glad the traffic on this story is picking up a little. Thanks for reading! This chapter has a lot happening so I hope you take you time and enjoy it!

So that whole waiting thing? Inuyasha wasn't very good at it. He'd lasted about an hour staring intently at the apartment building before his patience ran out.

"Grr, there's no way I'm going to get answers just sitting here!" He shouted. There had to be someone who could explain this girl's appearance. His thoughts immediately flitted to one of his father's friends, an old flea demon named Myouga. "Perhaps that annoying tick would know something," he mumbled to himself.

The problem was, Inuyasha hadn't seen him since the last time he'd run into his brother Sesshomaru and that was about 450 years ago. It'd be very difficult for him to find the little bug in a city this size. That is, if he was even in Tokyo. Still, if he knew anything about the flea, it was that he loved tasty blood. And where else could he find a blood bank of this size other than the capital city of Japan?

The largest gatherings of people that Inuyasha knew would probably be at the clubs. Inuyasha took off in the direction of the nearest one and hoped that his nose would do the rest.

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Inuyasha was getting ticked off. He'd been searching high and low for the damn flea but he'd had no luck. He had missed the first day of school too, not that he cared much. He just didn't like dealing with annoying humans harping on him about attendance.

He'd been to almost every club in Tokyo. He was on the verge of giving up and going back to staring at the girl's apartment when he finally caught a whiff of the tiny mongrel.

"Feh. Finally!" He took off in the direction the scent was coming from and soon found himself standing outside, not a club, but a movie theater. He could almost hit himself. He'd been searching in all the wrong places. What a waste of time. Determined not to lose another second, Inuyasha burst into the theater and startled an unfortunate teller at the ticket counter.

"Wou-would you like to see a show?" He asked. Inuyasha normally would have ignored him and walked right in but the trick to blending in with humans is that he sometimes had to act like one.

"Keh. Sure. I want a ticket to whatever show is playing…" he paused to sniff the air and then held up a finger to point to the right, "…in that direction."

The teller looked bewildered but he quickly printed out a ticket that read, "Legend of the Shikon-no-tama" as Inuyasha shoved a handful of bills at him. He tried to return the change but by the time he'd sorted it out, the strange teenager was gone.

Inuyasha found the theater quickly enough. The smell was so strong now, he was sure he'd find the flea in an instant. He walked into the theater just as a loud explosion happened on screen and instinct sent him into a fighting stance at the noise. When it had passed, he growled at himself for being startled. Now where was that dang flea?

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Myouga was living the life. Now that the human population was so huge, he never had to go hungry. There was no end to the amount of delicious blood he could consume! His favorite dining venue happened to be movie theaters. There he could drink blood and catch up on the latest flicks. It was dinner and a show.

Tonight they were showing a movie that Myouga was particularly interested in as the subject matter directly pertained to him and some choice events that had happened 500 years ago when the Shikon-no-tama disappeared. So far the movie had disappointed him. It was very loosely based on the tale of the jewel and there were so many plot holes and historical inaccuracies that it rendered the tale nothing more than a cheap romance flick. Myouga sighed. Oh how he wished for the good old days when his master, Inutaisho, had roamed the earth. Never a dull moment was had at his side.

His interest lost in the movie completely, Myouga jumped onto a large woman's shoulder and stuck his nose into her neck. Oh that tasted good. It wasn't long before the woman slapped at her neck and Myouga fell away. He was just about to jump to the next person when an explosion happened on screen. In the sudden illumination, he noticed a boy with silver hair, dog ears, and a red haori crouched near the entrance. Master Inuyasha, he thought. He was certain it must be he. It had been a long time but Myouga knew the son of his beloved master when he saw him. But what was he doing here? Perhaps to see the movie? Or…he thought as Inuyasha started in his direction…perhaps he is here for me?

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Inuyasha made his way down the aisle following his nose. It was relatively easy for Inuyasha to see in the dark but Myouga was such a small target that it was harder for him to use his eyes to find him. Fortunately, the little flea seemed to have noticed him first. He felt a small prick on his neck and slapped the spot. When his hand came away, there was a tiny demon in his palm. The flea looked a lot fatter than Inuyasha remembered but he realized the glutton had probably been gorging himself on human blood for a long time.

"Keh, saved me the trouble," he said. A man nearby shushed him. Inuyasha growled at him and left the theater before the man could really register that a teenage boy had just made the sound of an angry dog.

"Master Inuyasha! What a surprise! It has been a long time," the flea spoke. Inuyasha walked out into the street and jumped to the nearest rooftop so they wouldn't be disturbed.

"I didn't could find you so we to chit-chat, Myouga," he said. His patience was gone. If he had any to start with, it would have vanished after wasting an entire day looking for a flea.

"Of course, Master Inuyasha. What is it that you need?"

"Yesterday I met a girl—"

"Why Inuyasha! Why didn't you say so? I'm sure an experienced flea like myself can solve your woman troubles in a jiffy!" His gave a dirty chuckle and Inuyasha squeezed the tiny demon between two fingers.

"Spare me, Myouga," Inuyasha said. "That's not it."

"Then what..is it..that you…need to know?" Myouga spoke through constricted windpipes. He breathed easier when Inuyasha released him.

"I met a girl yesterday and she looks, smells, and sounds exactly the same as someone I knew 500 years ago." He paused for a painful moment. "Someone who died."

"Could it be the priestess Kikyo that sealed you to the tree?" The flea caught on quick.

"Feh. I could care less about that woman. I'm glad she died," he said but his eyes told otherwise. "I just want to know why there's some girl walking around like an exact replica of her."

"Well Master Inuyasha, there's a rather simple explanation for this occurrence," Myouga said. "I'm surprised you haven't thought of yourself."

"Oh yeah? And what's the simple explanation supposed to be?"

"Master Inuyasha, have you ever heard of reincarnation?"

"Reincarnation? I've heard about it but I don't know anything specific," he said. "Doesn't it involve a soul being born again?"

"Right you are. When a person dies, their soul goes on to the afterlife until such a time where they can reborn in another body, as another person. However, not all souls are granted this opportunity. Only those who have done much good in their lives can be reincarnated."

"So that girl…is Kikyo's reincarnation?"

"If she is indeed how you describe her, than I believe so."

"But what does that mean? Are they the same person or not?" Inuyasha was having a hard time processing this new revelation.

"It is my observation that those who are reincarnated hold all the core values of their past lives but their personalities may vary greatly. For while a soul can be reborn in another body, it is ultimately that individual's experiences in life that will shape them."

Inuyasha was quiet. So this Kagome girl may have Kikyo's soul but she could be a completely different person. If that was the case, was there any reason to involve himself in her life? His questioned had been answered, he should have no more interest in her life.

"Master Inuyasha?" Myouga asked hesitantly. It wasn't like Inuyasha to be so deep in thought.

"Thanks for the help, Myouga," he responded as he set the flea down. "See ya."

Inuyasha didn't know what he was doing anymore. His mind said to drop it. Go back to what he'd always been doing. But what kind of life had that been? She may have been a different person but for the first time since he'd been sealed, he felt like he had a purpose again. And so while his mind tugged him in one direction, his feet carried him in another. Soon he found himself exactly where he had started the night before: waiting in front of an apartment building and hoping to catch a glimpse of the girl who resembled the woman he loved.

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"Show yourselves demons!" Sango shouted. She had finally tracked the three cat demons to a cave in the forest behind the school. Just as she had expected, the lair was littered with human bones. There were even more than she had originally thought. But just when she felt confident she'd cornered them, they decided to play hide-and-seek with her and it was testing her patience. She was getting ready to smoke them out when the tan cat demon lunged for her in the dark. She sensed his movements with the ease of a skilled fighter. She slashed her sword at his middle and heard him hiss in pain as the blade cut through him. She could tell it was deep from the way the sword had slid through his flesh but she knew a seemingly mortal wound wasn't enough to end a demon. She pressed her advantage while the demon was weakened but a second cat demon, the grey and white one, launched himself out of the darkness and tumbled into her. She fell to the ground with the demon on top of her. Unfortunately for him, she had managed to get her blade up and in between them before they'd collided. The force of his own attack plunged the sword even deeper through his chest then she could have with her strength alone. She kicked him off of her and pulled hard on the sword to dislodge it. Now that was a killing blow.

She turned back to face with one she had wounded, conscious of the fact that there was still a third lingering somewhere in the murky depths of the cave. She made quick work of the one before her as she cut off his head with a powerful stroke of her sword. He had been too weak to put up any sort of defense.

"So, it's only you left." She spoke to the air around her. "You seem content to watch your comrades die."

"I prefer to watch first and then act," the third demon said. "It helps me figure out my enemies' weaknesses!"

Sango felt her sword leave her hand as the demon rushed her and purposely went after her sword arm. She clutched at the wound his claws had made where they'd brushed her. They weren't deep but they were enough to cause her considerable discomfort.

"What a coward," she said as she reached for another weapon on her back. It was a small boomerang. Her father had given it to her as a gift in honor of her first kill years ago. It was made of demon bones and had been imbued with spiritual power by a gifted monk. A deadly combination. "You watched your comrades die as you hid yourself away."

"If it keeps me alive, I have no sh—" There. She threw her boomerang in the direction of the demon's voice and heard a choking sound as it hit. She reached up and plucked the boomerang out of the air on its return trip. Then she picked up her sword and walked carefully towards the demon. When she got close enough to see him, she smiled. He was dead. Her boomerang had caught him right in the neck, making two decapitations. She almost laughed. She'd been training to slay demons since she was a child. There's no way she'd let a group of cat demons get the better of her. She turned and walked outside the cave where she then paused and took out her smartphone. Tapping the first contact in her favorites, she waited three rings before he picked up.

"Sango," her father said. "What were they this time?"

"Three cat demons. They've got a lot of human bones in their lair. You could probably wrap up quite a few missing persons cases."

"Well, that's a relief. I'm glad they won't be killing anymore. What were they disguised as?"

"Students." She heard an exasperated sigh on the other end.

"That's a lot of paperwork. I'll send your brother over to help you out with clean-up. It looks like I'm going to have a long night," he said.

"Sorry father," she knew he had to be busy but it was the nature of their work and they rarely took breaks.

"It's fine. Good work," she could just picture him smiling proudly as he said it. She hung up the phone and sat down to wait for her older brother. The sun had just touched the tip of the horizon when she'd started on the demon cat's trail. Now it was full on dark and the moon was a bright crescent in the sky. By the time she'd finally get home, it would be well past midnight. She'd be dragging herself through morning kendo practice and she couldn't even think about paying attention in class. She couldn't wait to graduate and start training for the police force like her dad. She wanted to spend all of her time out there protecting the people from the dangers they were so ignorant of. She was in her third year already so it wouldn't be long now but a year might as well be ten to her. She was tired of trying to balance school with demon-hunting.

At the thought of school, Sango recalled her earlier run-in with the strange girl from America with the spiritual powers. Kagome, she reminded herself. The girl would be safe for now. It had been a while since she'd last met a priestess, she mused. Perhaps school might be a little bit more interesting now.

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Kagome woke the next morning and completed the same routine as she did the morning before. She hadn't mentioned anything to the Fujimotos about being attacked by demons at dinner last night and when questioned about the small cut on her neck, she said she'd scratched herself with a pencil. She felt a bit guilty for lying but it was easier then telling the truth. They'd think she was crazy.

When she fetched her bike from the rack outside the building, Kagome got a distinct feeling someone was watching her. She looked carefully around her. Maybe it was just her imagination but also she thought she'd seen a flash of red and silver on nearby rooftop but there was nothing. She shrugged to get rid of the feeling and started her morning ride.

Just as she'd promised Sango, she completely avoided any and all demons without looking at them head on. It was a bit harder than she thought because her curiosity kept wanting to draw her eyes towards them but she was able to resist the temptation lest she wind up in the same situation as yesterday.

The cat demons, she remembered. What was she going to do about them? Kagome pondered the matter as she got closer to the school. She just couldn't think of a way to avoid them without missing class, something she hated doing. Falling behind in school was one of her worst nightmares. She'd once been absent an entire week when she got her wisdom teeth pulled and she'd drowned in the amount of make-up homework she'd had to do. She was just going to have to deal with them. They wouldn't attack her in the classroom, right?

Kagome was almost to the school when she spotted a familiar head of brown hair. She thought it was Sango but seeing as she'd only met the girl yesterday, she wasn't sure. She got off her bike and walked up next to the girl.

"Sango?" She called. The girl turned and Kagome saw that it was indeed Sango but she had large bags under her eyes and her demeanor was more subdued than yesterday.

"Oh, Kagome. Hi," she said tiredly.

"Are you all right?" Kagome asked, worried.

"Yes, I just had a late night is all," she waved her hand as if to dispel Kagome's concern.

"Oh." Kagome didn't know what to say next and she realized that she hardly knew anything about Sango. The only thing she knew they had in common was that they could both see demons. That wasn't exactly a conversation topic she'd want to bring up in broad daylight with students from her school all over the place so they travelled in silence until they reached the gates.

When Kagome caught a glimpse of a certain teacher up to his shenanigans for the second day in a row, Kagome groaned.

"What is it Kagome?" Sango was immediately on alert.

"Oh, it's just that lech who calls himself a teacher again," Kagome explained.

"What are you talking about?" Sango asked, confused.

"You didn't run into him yesterday on your way to school?"

"I usually go in early for morning kendo practice. Today I overslept."

"Oh, well, it's that teacher there," she pointed to the man and the pair watched as her held the ruler up against the girl's skirts, his gaze lingering a little too long on their rear ends. Kagome looked at Sango and saw her fists were clenched.

"If he comes anywhere near me," Sango left the threat dangling. Kagome really hoped for the teacher's sake that he stayed clear of them. The two were walking past the man when suddenly the teacher was standing in front of them.

"Good morning, sir," Kagome said, taking pleasure from his wince. "There's no need the check our skirts' length every day. It's not like I'm going to run out and by a shorter skirt if you don't." She wanted him to just let them go. Sango didn't look to be in the mood for any sort of harassment.

"What a pity! You're a sight for sore eyes," he said. He gave his charming smile again but Kagome didn't change her expression even one bit. "But please, call me Mitsumori-sensei. Enough with the 'sir."

"Sorry sensei, I was just being polite," she said. When she saw Sango fidgeting impatiently, she added quickly, "we're just going to go to class now." She tried to walk around him but he blocked them again.

"But who's your lovely friend? I haven't seen her before. I need to make sure her uniform is up to standards," he said as came closer.

It happened so quick that Kagome couldn't even try to stop her. As the teacher came to stand right in front of Sango, the girl had reached out and slapped him across the face. A lot of heads turned in their direction at the sound and Kagome noticed a shocked silence had fallen over the school yard.

"Sango, he's a teacher," Kagome squeaked. Said teacher was clutching his face where Sango's hand hit and she could see the redness between his fingers. She'd felt the strength in Sango's arms. That must have hurt. Mitsumori-sensei just stared at Sango, shocked.

"I don't care. He's a pervert and he needs a lesson in respect," she said. She didn't even wait for the man to say anything before she walked off. Kagome glanced worriedly at the teacher before taking off after Sango. She really hoped Sango didn't get in trouble for this. She'd hate to lose her first friend because of a lecherous teacher.

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Kagome parted with Sango at the lockers just inside the main doors where students left their shoes. It seemed like Sango's exhaustion had disappeared as she stormed off toward the third-year classrooms with her back ramrod straight and furious. Kagome shook her head. Her new friend had some temper.

Now, as Kagome stood outside of her own classroom, she let those thoughts go as she tried to steel her nerves. How would they react to seeing her? They hadn't looked very happy when they took off yesterday. Would they take it out on her? When Kagome had finally had enough of her anxious thoughts, she slid open the door and went in.

The cat demons weren't there. Their three seats were empty. Confused, Kagome went in and took her seat. Sango had hit them pretty hard, maybe they were recovering? But she wondered if demons healed quicker than humans. Would it make sense for such powerful creatures to take a day off because of a bump on the head?

Kagome got her answer when the teacher walked in with a somber face.

"It seems that three of your classmates have decided to drop out of school," she said. Drop out? Had Sango scared them that much? Wow, her friend was fearsome.

Kagome looked to the other demons in the class to see their reactions. The toad demons looked scared for some reason and the fox looking one seemed uninterested. The difference may her wonder if perhaps Sango might have a reputation around school with their demon classmates.

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Kagome had resolved to talk to some of her classmates during the lunchbreak now that her demon problem was taken care of but it was proving more difficult than she'd hoped. As she'd feared, a lot of them had already formed groups based on mutual interests and she couldn't seem to find one that she liked. She didn't really want to spend her year abroad being the class outcast but if she couldn't make any more friends, she'd just have to stick with talking to Sango outside of class.

Resigning herself to isolation, Kagome ate at her desk by herself. That is, until she felt someone standing over her. She looked up into a pair of green eyes shaded by unkempt ginger bangs. It was the fox demon. She put a conscious effort into keep her heart rate slow and not give herself away.

"Hello," she greeted. "Is there something you need?"

"Hi, my name's Shippo. It's nice to meet you!" He said with a goofy smile. He stuck out a hand for her to shake. Kagome hesitated for a second but he seemed friendly enough so she took it. Her hand felt really warm all of a sudden and she looked down to see that her hand was on fire.

"Ah!" She yelped. She automatically bashed it on the desk trying to put it out. Why would he set her hand on fire?! But then she realized that it wasn't actually hurting her. Her hand was a little warm, but that was it. In fact, her fingers hurt more from banging them on the desk than anything else. She turned to look at the fox demon and with increasing annoyance she noticed that he was doubled over in laughter.

"What kind of trick was that?" She demanded. It seemed to take forever for the demon to stop laughing and stand up straight. But he still kept an amused grin on his face.

"Fox fire," he said. "I was testing to see if you could see it."

"See it?" Oh no, she thought. She'd given herself away again. But in her defense it looked like her hand was really on fire. She'd just reacted instinctively.

"Yeah, I heard you talking with the smelly cat demons yesterday. You can see us." he said. He'd heard her? What now? Was he going to attack her?

"Yeah, I can see. So what?" She tried to act tough. There were a decent amount of kids in the classroom at the moment so she didn't think he'd try anything.

"Oh nothing, I just thought it was interesting is all." He said. "And I couldn't help noticing that you were sitting all alone."

"What does it matter to you?"

"Well, I'm not very fond of befriending humans when they can't even see me. But for someone like you, I wouldn't mind being your friend." He had a silly grin on his face but Kagome was surprised to find sincerity behind the words.

"But you're a demon! Don't you want to, I don't know, eat me or something?" She asked. The fox, Shippo, laughed.

"Not all demons go after humans, you know. I just like playing tricks on them," he said with a wink.

"Well that was a mean trick," she said, still a little annoyed. Especially since her fingers were still throbbing.

"Ah, sorry, sometimes I can't help myself," he shrugged apologetically. She thought for a second. She really didn't want to be alone but she wasn't sure about befriending a demon. There was chance it could come back to bite her.

As if he read her thoughts, he placed a toy snake on her desk and said, "Here, a peace offering."

"Thanks, I guess," she said. It was a strange gift for sure but a gift nonetheless. Finally making her decision she said, "Sure, we can be friends."

"Excellent!" He said. He had a really cute smile, she thought. He felt faintly like a younger brother to her. "Then you'll have to forgive me really easily, ok?"

Before she could figure out what he meant by that, the bell rang and everyone went back to their seats. As the teacher walked in to start class, Kagome looked down at her gift and found that it was no longer a toy snake but a real, slithering, hissing snake. She jumped out of her seat with another yelp and as the whole class turned to stare at her, the snake had already changed back into a toy.

"Sorry," she said with embarrassment. She took her seat again as her face flamed. The class turned back towards the front with a few looks over their shoulders as if to say 'crazy girl'. Kagome was pissed. She looked over to see Shippo silently chuckling at his desk. Oh when she got her hands on that brat! She was going to choke the life out of him!

So by now you must have realized that Sango and Miroku have reincarnated. However, both Kagome and Inuyasha had never met them in the feudal era so it's like they're actually more like new characters than old. I decided to change their names a bit because that's what happened to Kagome when she reincarnated from Kikyo. Mitsumori-sensei is Miroku, if you haven't guessed. There's actually another reincarnated character that I've already introduced you to. I wonder how many people caught it? Perhaps I was too subtle? Brownie points if you figure it out! Well, I hope you liked this chapter! I'll start on the next one later today!