Hello, this is MangaFreak15. Thank you all of you who reviewed, and I bring you the second chapter of Once Caught, Always There, Never Gone. Enjoy! Oh, and I noticed that some of you thought Inuyasha was a little OOC and actually smart for once. I apologize for not writing down that I did make him a little smarter, but it has been three years, after all, and Kagome has some influence on him.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Inuyasha characters, but I wish I did own some of them

Pairing: ItachixKagome

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Chapter Two

In the training grounds Team Seven watched as Kakashi faced the mysterious girl they'd found in the forest. "I wonder who'll win?" Sakura whispered.

"Kakashi-sensei, of course!" Naruto said. "That woman looks weak."

"Dobe, that girl is a miko, a legend thought of as a myth because no one has ever truly seen one. And none of us have actually experienced her power beforehand, so we don't know how strong she is," Sasuke said.

"Geez, Sasuke, that's the longest sentence I've heard you speak in a long time," Naruto replied sarcastically.

"Shut up, they're fighting!" Sakura hissed.

Kakashi had made the first move. He stood in a guarded stance and threw five kunai at her. Kagome dodged them with ease and did a series of complex flips into a tree. Naruto's jaw dropped. Sakura stared. Sasuke remained indifferent.

"Suiton: Ryukufu no Jutsu!" Kakashi said, performing a sequence of hand seals.

Although there was no water anywhere, a giant dragon rose up and headed for Kagome. "Pathetic…is this really a ninja?" she muttered.

She concentrated on her finger and created her energy whip. With one single fluid motion, she slashed through the dragon and created a barrier to shield herself from the droplets of water that rained down.

"Miko Junsei Bakuha!" she shouted, facing Kakashi with her open palms.

Kakashi's eyes widened, but before he could move, a huge blast of sizzling pink chi descended on his frozen form. "Holy crap!" Naruto and Sakura gasped.

Even Sasuke was amazed. The girl was indeed quite powerful. No wonder she's a miko, she could beat all of us any day, he thought. His eyes wandered further down her body from her face and alluring blue eyes. And she's got a nice body, too. He shook his head, snapping out of his perverted thoughts.

However, when the dust cleared, there was a charred piece of wood on the ground. Neither Kakashi nor Kagome were in sight. Kawarimi! the three thought. They shuddered as they stared at the burnt wood on the ground. Scary, they thought.

Kagome sensed the real Kakashi hiding in the trees. "Come out, Kakashi, you can't hide from me," she growled. She created her energy whip again and aimed it at the place where Kakashi was.

The silver haired Jounin barely managed to dodge her attack. Where he once stood, there was a smoking hole in the branch. I'm in some serious shit.

"Chidori!"

Kagome quirked an eyebrow when Kakashi charged at her with some bright, chirpy lightning attack. She raised a strong barrier and Kakashi slammed into it. He fell over backwards, the weird lightning disappearing from his hand.

She repelled the Chidori? thought Sasuke in shock.

"Ugh…" Kakashi groaned. That barrier was like a giant boulder of steel. He sat up, his head pounding. Might as well use the Sharingan.

He was about to pull up his Hitai-ate, but Kagome moved first, grabbing his wrists and twisting his arms behind his back. "One move and I'll break your arms," Kagome warned.

Kakashi moved and Kagome snapped his arm bones. Or so she thought. Kakashi turned into a log. Kawarimi again? Sakura thought.

Kagome seemed to be irritated. "Fine, be that way," she said, unsheathing her second sword. "My Tenseiga will be more than a match for you."

Kakashi appeared behind her and held a kunai to her neck. She, however, was unfazed by this and rotated her sword so the tip was aimed for Kakashi. The Jounin barely registered what was happening as she plunged Tenseiga into his stomach, pushing it all the way through and slicing out one side.

"Kakashi-sensei!" screamed Naruto and Sakura, horrified at what Kagome had just done.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes. Something wasn't right. There was no blood on her blade, nor were there any visible, blood-gushing wounds from Kakashi's body. Naruto and Sakura gasped when Kakashi got up from his fallen position.

"Your sword's not normal…it didn't kill me," Kakashi stated.

Kagome rolled her eyes this time. "Well, I couldn't kill you because you're only testing my skills. And I say I surpass you, so will your Hokage give me one of those hitai-ates?" she asked.

"Why didn't your sword kill Kakashi-sensei?" Sasuke inquired.

Kagome regarded him coldly. "What business is it of yours?" she countered, sheathing the Tenseiga.

"No normal sword can do that," Sasuke said.

"The Tenseiga was given to me by a friend of mine, who trained me in swordsmanship. It is a sword that saves lives, not kill them. This sword cannot kill," she explained.

"I'll be giving my report to the Hokage now, so all four of you are dismissed," Kakashi said, poofing away. Kagome looked at the spot he'd been a moment before.

"How does he do that?"

The unexpected question caught Sasuke off guard. "It's a jutsu of instant transportation to any place you want to go," he answered.

"Oh…"

And with her question answered, Kagome began to walk away, aware of three pairs of eyes drilling into her back. "You know I'm aware that all three of you are staring at me?" she said, not looking back nor stopping.

Sakura and Naruto blushed at being caught and quickly looked away while Sasuke averted his gaze to something else. Kagome disappeared into the trees, leaving Team Seven alone.

"I'm leaving," Sasuke said, walking off.

"Wait, Sasuke-kun!" Sakura called, getting up to run and cling to her crush. "Um…don't you think we…uh…should train together?"

Sasuke roughly shook her off. "Don't follow me, Sakura. I don't like you in that way," he said rudely, walking ahead.

"But, Sasuke-KUUUUUN!" the pink-haired girl whined, catching up to him and latching on to his arm.

"Sakura…" Sasuke said in a threatening tone of voice, turning his angry, touch-me-and-die glare to her. She quickly shrunk away, letting go of him, for she was afraid.

"But…but, Sasuke-kun…" she mumbled. "We…are meant for each other…aren't we?"

"For the last time, Sakura, no," he growled. He quickly left, wanting to get away from her annoying presence. That bitchy, pink-haired leech was so obsessed with him it wasn't even funny. She even stalked him.

Now, where's Kagome? He thought, scanning the crowd for the familiar silver haori top and blue hakamas. In those clothes, she easily stood out from the regular shinobi and Konoha civilians. Not to mention she had a quiver of arrows and a bow on her back while two swords were tucked to her side by a blue sash.

He walked further, trying to find the mysterious girl whom had caught his interests.

Tch, that Sasuke, he's looking for me…why, though? Why would he come looking for me? I'm not an interesting specimen to be examined by some avenger with hair like a duck's ass…Kagome thought, watching Sasuke weave through the crowd from the rooftops.

"Saaaaaasukeeeee-kuuuuuuuunnnnn!!!!!!" screamed Sasuke's millions of fangirls as he passed by. He promptly ignored them with an impassive face.

Frustrated with her disappearance, and having a crowd of insane, crazy, screaming fangirls on his tail, Sasuke wanted to destroy something.

He jumped on to a roof and raced across them to get away from his fans as quickly as he could. The screams and chants were left behind as he jumped from roof to roof.

As he ran, he felt someone's eyes on him. And instantly, he stopped running. It was her. She was gazing at him with those deep blue eyes. He shivered, but he wasn't cold or frightened. It was just that those eyes were so…so soulful. Like they could see through him.

"Why did you come looking for me?" she asked.

"I have a question I need an answer to, about you," he replied.

"What is the question?"

"How are you so strong? We know you're not a ninja, and that you're a miko, but a miko does not usually wield swords, especially life-giving ones, nor does a miko wear garbs of those colors," Sasuke somehow…blurted out.

Kagome was quiet. Then she said, "That is private information. Please do not pry into my past."

"No, don't hide yourself," Sasuke said suddenly. Kagome stared at him, coldness swimming in her eyes. Yet something flashed, an emotion Sasuke often felt, but never showed.

Loneliness.

She sighed. "Can I trust you?" she whispered.

He nodded, but only slightly. She turned away from him, and began to walk away, gesticulating for him to follow her. Sasuke understood the beckon of her hand, and started off.

They reached the wall that surrounded Konoha. Kagome easily leaped over in, disappearing over it in a flash. Sasuke climbed up the wall, using chakra to stick his feet on it. He joined her in a few moments.

Kagome walked to the well, where they'd found her. "Why all the way out here?" Sasuke asked.

"I'm not from this world. I may be a miko, but I traveled with a kitsune, whom I adopted as my son, name Shippo, a demon slayer name Sango, who wields a giant boomerang made of demon bone, a lecherous Buddhist monk named Miroku, and a half-demon named Inuyasha, who had a sword called Tetsusaiga," she explained quietly.

"A half demon who wields a sword? A demon slayer?" Sasuke was downright puzzled, but then again, what did he really know about this girl and her past?

"Yes…please do not tell anyone what I have told you. I shall return shortly," she said, swinging over the edge of the well and jumping in.

Scared that for a moment she'd broken a bone, he had to shield his eyes from the bright blue glow that erupted from the depths of the well. When he looked back in, Kagome was gone.

What the hell? Did she just disappear? Sasuke swung over and jumped in too, but no blue light came for him. Nothing happened. How did she do it? he wondered, climbing out of the well.

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Inuyasha sat in the branches of the Goshinboku, watching the well. Where did Kagome go if she wasn't in her time? Sango and Miroku have this super stupid theory that the well opened a new di…dimurnshuk for Kagome to pass into.

As if interrupting his thoughts, a bright blue glow flashed from the well. Inuyasha leaped down, ready to confront Kagome if she came up.

"Looks like I made it back…"

The voice was totally, utterly, incredibly, not-so-disbelievingly familiar. "KAGOME!" Inuyasha yelled, as the time traveling teenager climbed out of the well.

"Hi, Inuyasha," she said.

In the blink of an eye, Inuyasha had gone to her side and hugged her. "Where'd you go, Kagome? You didn't go back to your era," he whispered. "And Sango and Miroku have a dumb idea that the well sent you to some new alien durmunshen."

Kagome looked at him blankly. Then she burst into a fit of giggles. "What's so funny? Miroku's stupid idea?" Inuyasha demanded.

"A-alien d-d-dimension!" Kagome was laughing uncontrollably. When she calmed down enough to speak properly, she said, "I didn't go into an alien dimension! The well sent me to a new era that's slightly different than this one. That era has people called ninjas in it. And they're nice…"

"Well, it appears that you didn't get killed in that other dimunshen, wench," Inuyasha snorted.

Steam billowed from Kagome's ears and she was about to punish him for the latter comment, but…

Suddenly the well flashed blue again.

A second later an angry voice cursed, "Now where the fuck did this demented well transport me to?"

Kagome was too shocked to say anything. When the familiar brunette head appeared over the edge of the well, she said uncertainly, as if it were a question, "Sasuke?"

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He glared at the well. Why? Yes, indeed, why would someone like Uchiha Sasuke glare at a well? Because the fucking stupid well would not let him through to the same place where Kagome had gone.

Frustrated mentally because this was something that tried the thin threads of the Uchiha's patience, Sasuke tried jumping in one more time. Nothing happened. He just landed at the bottom of the well, kicking up a small cloud of dust.

"Fuck this old piece of shit," he swore angrily.

He looked at the bottom to find something to amuse himself because he was tired from climbing up the walls of the well and then jumping back down again.

There was nothing that caught his interest. However, before he could return to his spot next to the well in the world above, the well flashed blue and Sasuke felt himself being pulled into the dimension of time. It felt like he was floating in water.

When the sensation stopped and he landed back on dirt floor, he looked up to see what had happened. Instead of the light forest canopy that let you see bits of the sun and sky, he saw clear blue sky right above him.

"Now where the fuck did this demented well transport me to?" he growled angrily.

He noticed the vines draped over the sides of the well and he helped himself climb up the sides. When he appeared over the edge, he noticed one thing was different.

Where he ended up was nowhere like the Konoha Forest at all.

"Sasuke?"

He turned his brunette head towards the sound of the familiar and surprised voice. Obsidian eyes clashed with brilliant aqua-blue and molten amber.

"Kagome, who the fuck is this guy and how do you know him?" a man with long white hair and two…things on top of his head asked.

"Inuyasha, don't be rude, he's one of the people I met in the other dimension," Kagome reprimanded the half demon…er, thing.

She walked over to him and helped him out of the well. "How did you get here?" she asked.

The Uchiha wondered, How did I get here?

"Don't know how," he answered.

Inuyasha eyed him distastefully. His hair was black and stuck up in the back like a bird's ass. Those deep, cold obsidian eyes concealed a painful past that he wished to forget. He wore some kind of shiny metal plate on cloth on his forehead. He had a circular high collar blue shirt and khaki shorts with bandages on his legs and a pouch strapped on his right leg. He wore weird blue sandal shoes. Inuyasha had seen a fan on his back, the top half red and the bottom half white.

"Who the hell are you?" he blurted out.

The human regarded him with a furtive glance. "Uchiha Sasuke," he replied warily.

"Guys, cut it out. Inuyasha, can't you be nice for once?" Kagome said.

"But that guy just came out of the well, Kagome! How do I know he's not after your life?! Inuyasha shouted.

"If I was going to kill her, wouldn't I have tried to attack rather than let her help me up?" the Uchiha said dryly. This inhuman guy was kind of stupid, in his opinion.

"That's true, Sasuke. He's not after my life, Inuyasha. Even if he was, he wouldn't be able to take it. I have Tenseiga and Teikiatsu, remember?" Kagome said.

Inuyasha snorted and began to walk away. "Come on, Kagome. The others are waiting for you. They're worrying their heads off," he said. "And you, Ucheeha Sazgay, can come if you want."

"It's Uchiha Sasuke, and fine," he grumbled, following the two. Kagome shot an apologetic look at him as she walked beside the half demon.

They arrived at the village in a few moments. Inuyasha called, "Oi, Sango! Miroku! Shippo! Kagome's back!"

Instantly three shapes burst out of a hut and ran towards Kagome.

One was a woman wearing a pink and white striped kimono with a green skirt that went down to her ankles, carrying a huge boomerang. Another was a man wearing black and purple robes and carried a staff. The last…was a child with a bushy tail and fox paws.

"Kagome-okaasan!" the child squealed, leaping into Kagome's waiting warms.

"Shippo! Were you worried about me?" she asked, cuddling the fox demon. He clung to her to make sure she was real.

The woman and the man stopped. "Inuyasha, who's that behind you?" they both asked, looking at Sasuke.

"Sango! Miroku!" Kagome hugged them both, but felt the familiar sensation of Miroku's hand creeping southwise. Angrily she pulled away and slapped him hard on the cheek while Sango whacked him on the head with her boomerang.

Sasuke sweatdropped at their actions. "Are they always like that?" he asked.

"That lecherous monk won't ever change," Inuyasha answered gruffly.

"Anyways, you guys were right. The well opened a new dimension in time and I was transported to it. This boy you see came from that dimension. His name is Uchiha Sasuke," Kagome said, introducing the three to him.

"Hello, I'm Sango. Nice to meet you," the demon slayer said, smiling.

"My name is Miroku," the monk said, holding out his hand to shake. Sasuke hesitantly took it and shook it.

"And I'm Shippo!" piped up the child in Kagome's arms.

An old woman came out of the hut. "Kagome, ye are back?" she said, walking slowly up to them.

"Hello, Kaede. This is Uchiha Sasuke. The well opened a new dimension and he came from it. I was transported into that new dimension," Kagome said for the third time.

"Kagome, were you fighting with Kikyo?" Inuyasha brought up the subject abruptly.

The air was suddenly thick with tension. Kagome cast her eyes downward so her bangs shielded her eyes. Sasuke assumed that this was a taboo subject for her.

"Yes…" her answer was so quiet, so dark, so empty…Sasuke barely caught it. "And…I killed her…"

The pain was suddenly so evident in the Inuyasha's eyes; Kagome flinched when she looked into them. "But only because…she tried to kill me," she whispered.

"So Kikyo's finally dead?" Miroku said.

Kagome nodded. "Her ashes and bones disappeared into the well with me, but they weren't there when I returned," she replied.

"Kagome, why don't you tell us what happened when we go back inside the hut? I'm sure your friend knows a lot about the era the well threw you into," Sango said.

"All right. Come on, Sasuke," Kagome sighed, turning to the hut. She didn't know if she could bear facing Inuyasha anymore after killing his former love. Well, that rotten old clay pot deserved it, she thought darkly.

They headed inside Kaede's hut so Kagome could tell her brief tale of what happened when she appeared in the ninja era.

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Hi guys! How did you like this chapter? Was it good? I made it kind of long because I like long chapters now. Please review and don't just put me or this story on your alerts and favorites. I'll be happy if you review. Thank you very much and Happy New Year!!!!

Suiton: Ryukufu no Jutsu – Water Style: Dragon Waterfall Technique

Miko Junsei Bakuha – Priestess Pure Blast

Kawarimi no Jutsu – Replacement Technique

Chidori – One Thousand Birds

Sharingan – Copying Mirror Wheel Eye

Okaasan - Mother

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