In a peaceful and sunny meadow, close to a public school, was a small crowd of children surrounding a beautiful young woman with raven hair with blue highlights. The children scooted closer to her seated person totally enraptured by her diligent hand movements, Kagome giggled as they squealed in surprise that the coin she had in one hand magically reappeared in the other.

"Miss Kagome how is that possible?" asked young Molly while sucking on her little thumb.

"It's magic right?" Rena asked just as eagerly.

"No it isn't! Lady Kagome just quickly moved the coin to her other hand when we were not paying close attention!" shouted an older boy with dirt smeared over his face. Standing up to defend her belief as usual, Rena stood nose-to-nose to him. "No, Lady Kagome uses magic because she said so right Lady Kagome?" Sparkling eyes beamed at Kagome with so much faith and love that it almost blinded her. But Kagome calmly replied with a smile, "This is magic Rena, but it isn't real." Kagome glanced at the group to see that Michael had a smug 'I told ya so' look on his face while Rena was on the brink of tears. "-but it doesn't matter if this trick is real or an illusion."

Intrigued, both Rena and Michael and the rest of the kids looked at Kagome as she absentmindedly did one disappearing coin trick after another while she talked. "All that it matters is that it brings a bit of joy, wonders, and laughs into your life. Having a chance to believe that something is real for even one second has a wonderful feeling to it. Letting your mind wander can create new ideas, inventions, and maybe lead you to a gateway to some amazing place in your future. Magic is an opportunity to rest your weary bones from reality and have time to be entertained by fiction. This is the true meaning of magic."

With that said, Kagome did a grand finale kind of coin trick that made it the coin to appear to be jumping and hiding all over the place like behind Molly's ear, or in a nearby flower. Finally the coin landed in Kagome's open palm and suddenly popped into a dozen little butterflies. Again the children gasped in awe and surprise trying to reach the sky for escaping insects.

"Where did you learn how to do magic?" Molly asked still suckling on her thumb.

Bright eyes abruptly darkened; her eyes were edged with sadness and happiness from a long almost forgotten past. The wind sweep by and Kagome's hair obscured her face of what expression she must have been portraying.

"Well, there was a young boy who I traveled with that he taught me. If you ever see him you would see that he had eyes as green as grass in early spring, and he had the most unruly fiery orange hair. He was such a sweet child, but he was such a trickster at heart because loved using magic to prank his friends. Not only was he a great prankster, but he was great with coloring. He was especially good at drawing rainbows and flowers with the crayons I brought him, and-"

Suddenly, a small hand touched the young woman's cheek.

"Lady Kagome, what's the matter?"

Blinking puzzled Kagome turned to a worried girl with honey hair and blueberry eyes. "What do you mean Rena?"

"Why are you crying Miss Kagome?" asked Michael flicking his emerald eyes up at her. His eyes looked so much like his.

"Oh, I am- I'm so sorry children. I should not be crying like this on such a beautiful day. It isn't proper." Kagome laughed as if the tears weren't cascading down her rosy cheeks like water falls. Embarrassed Kagome continued to cry despite her weak attempts to hide her vulnerability.

Suddenly, a small body collided against Kagome's chest and almost knocked the breath out of her if she had not caught the little bundle of joy in the nick of time.

"Don't worrie Miss Kagome! Molly is here to protect ya from the meanie bullies!" Molly bravely declared as she beamed up at Kagome from her breast while sucking her thumb.

"Ya same here! If someones is a giving ya trouble we'll beat the crap outta them! Right guys!"

"YAY!" shouted all the children as they rallied up preparing for their attack on Kagome's tormentor. They all began formulating strategies of how to follow out their plan. Stunned into a stupor Kagome watched the children for a brief moment before an amused grin graced her lips. Soon enough Kagome was rolling in the grass dying from unbearable laughter that penetrated the sweet summer evening. The children halted in their chaste argument and drifted their bewildered wide eyes toward Kagome's laughing form. Kagome's laugh gradually shrunk down to a little giggle; giving her enough time to breath.

"I just love you all so much!" Kagome cried as she gathered the children into a gentle hug that filled their hearts to the brim with a feeling that they couldn't describe into words; they embraced the moment either way.

That every moment felt so magically sincere and pure, but the spell was broken with the late evening bell vibrating the air that was signaling all the stray children back for the night. Despite the disturbance, the magic they all felt was still tingling in the depth of their hearts. Even as they went their separate ways back home, the children turned back to wave Kagome good-bye. Kagome waved enthusiastically back till every last one of them disappeared to their respectable homes.

The charade was no longer needed, so Kagome abandoned her previous expression for a duller and less energetic face that didn't even resemble the bubbly young woman from a few seconds ago. Turning at her heel, Kagome stared blankly at the setting sun hovering over the forest the stretched for miles.

"What do you want?" Kagome demanded coldly.

"~Oh, you noticed me? That is a keen sense you have there dearie~"

"Get down here now, or you get to experience how hard the ground feels from a hundred foot drop." The oriental woman threatened, who didn't bother to look at the figure high up an oak tree.

"~Well, aren't we pushy today." Instantly the young woman with bluish hair felt arms seize her petite waist and a hot breath warming the shell of her ear.

"What is so important that you have come all the way to the countryside to see me?" Kagome asked neutrally as the person behind her nuzzled her neck.

"~Aw, can't you believe that I came here to see my old friend and say hello." The Japanese woman response to that was just breaking free from the man's arms and turned to face him.

"Just get to the point already."

The man in black's smile flipped into a slightly crooked frown at the sight of the grumpy woman.

"~Aww. You are not any fun. You used to blush and squirm in my arms like a little squirrel."

Kagome's eyes narrowed. "That's because I am not as naive or as stupid as I once was."

"Now-" Kagome marched up to her strange companion, grabbed the front of his black cloak, and stared up into his unearthly green eyes.

"Tell me what you want."

The man just smiled. "It's not really about what I want, but more that I have something that you want. Something that you have been searching for for a very long time, my dear."

Kagome's eyes widened in utter shock. "You don't mean to say that you finally found him do you?"

"Not in the slightest my dear. But I have a job that may lead you in the right direct." As he stated this, the green eyed man handed her a waxed sealed envelope that she wasted no time in tearing open. After reading the content of the letter, Kagome wasted no time to start marching down the hill toward the road.

"You can fill me in about the rest of the details on our way to London."

A crazed grin slithered across the man's face as he skipped along to join the woman. The older individual couldn't help, but feel that up coming events are going to be the most amusing years, his infamous Cheshire cat smile covered up his face the entire bottom half of his face.

"With pleasure."