Umm...well here's chapter three. Like I said at the end of chapter two I'll try to get this one to be longer.

  New beginnings

 Chapter three: The meeting

By: Felicia Robinson

She was waking up a little but she heard voices so she acted asleep.

"Miroku will you help explain why she looks like Kagome? She also got rid of all of those youkai with one swipe and she hovered above the ground like...." InuYasha was telling Miroku.

"Magic." They both said in conclusion. They both looked over at the girl asleep on the mat in front of the fireplace.

"I'll run some spiritual tests to find some answers." InuYasha just nodded his head at Miroku's idea. They both looked at the girl and she was standing up.

"No one is gonna touch me. I am a mystery and I like it that way." Stated the girl.

"I just wanted to check your mana level." Miroku told her. InuYasha looked at him and was surprised at how intelligent he seemed at the moment.

"That is why I'm letting you do it." She said taking a step back as if to flee the room. InuYasha knew he wouldn't be able to stop her he looked at Miroku as to see what he was gonna do. Miroku started muttering something under his breath. InuYasha looked over at the girl her eyes widened when she realized what the monk was doing. She screamed 'no' and tried running out of the room but when she reached the doorway an invisible barrier stopped her and she hit the floor hard. When she got up to look at Miroku he was smiling as if he found a new discovery. InuYasha heard Sango announce that she was home and he walked to the doorway but he was stopped. He got up from just being thrown to the ground and spun around to face Miroku.

"What the hell did you do?" InuYasha asked.

"I put up a room binding spell. No one can get in or out." He said smugly looking at his surroundings. He then looked to the door as Sango came to it and was thrown back.

"Miroku take the spell down quit foolin' around. Who is she?" Asked Sango getting up.

"The spell isn't coming down till I get some answers from her." Miroku pointed to the Amazon looking woman.

"I will tell you nothing." The girl spat.

"Well then we'll all rot in here then won't we." Miroku stated sitting down.

"No you'll rot then the spell will come down the hanyou over there will live longer and so will I." The girl laughed taking a seat on the mat she was sleeping on earlier.

"But your human. I can smell it." InuYasha sniffed the air a little. Miroku looked at the girl questioningly.

"Even though I'm human I can outlive even you, InuYasha." She said smugly.

"How do you know my name?" Now it was InuYasha's turn to be confused.

"My question is how can you outlive him?" Miroku asked gesturing to the very confused InuYasha.

"I know InuYasha only by reputation. I can use magic for anything. Even to get myself out of this barrier." The girl admitted.

"If you can get out then why haven't you done it already?" Asked InuYasha with an eyebrow raised.

"Because I wanted to see what you'd do." She yawned.

"Take down my barrier than." Miroku wanted to see what she could do.

"Ok not a problem." She stood up and walked to the middle of the room. She lifted up her hands to the ceiling and hovered. Her toes just barely touched the wood plank floor. Miroku stared wide-eyed at her. A breeze swept through the room. Miroku looked surprised. She landed on the ground.

"Wow! It's gone!" Miroku exclaimed. InuYasha walked over to the door and walked through to see what Sango got at the market. The girl sat down on the mat and looked up to see Miroku stare at her.

"I won't go anywhere. I'll answer your questions." She sighed.

"All of them?" Miroku insisted. She nodded her head and Miroku was satisfied so he left to go see his wife and kick InuYasha out of the bags of food.

*Later*

She watched as five people and a fairly large cat settled themselves in the room she was to sleep in.

"Well let's start with names. Mine is Miroku. This is my wife, Sango." He pointed to the girl next to him. *She has an aura of...wait...*  " And this is our son, Yamasaku. The little fox is Shippou." He pointed to the little fox that was examining her from afar. He snapped out of it when he heard his name. "And the hanyou you referred to earlier I believe you already know his name is InuYasha."

"Yes my name is...." She side glanced to Miroku. He nodded his head signaling to her that it was okay. "My name is Ayame." She sighed in relief. Everyone just looked at her.

"How did you know my name?" InuYasha broke the silence.

"I've heard of a white haired, pain in the butt, weak, hanyou named InuYasha." Answered Ayame.

"Hey I'm not a pain and I am not weak!" Exclaimed InuYasha.

"Who did you hear that from?" Asked Sango messing with a loose hem on her kimono.

"I heard it from a youkai who claimed to be Sesshomaru." She answered remembering how annoying that demon was.

"Feh, that figures." InuYasha rolled his eyes.

"Why were you in contact with that loser?" Asked Shippou.

"He found out my powers and asked me to be his queen. But I thought you were gonna be annoying well so far he was by far worse than you, InuYasha." She told them truthfully.

"He wanted you to be his queen?" Asked Sango.

"That means you must be pretty powerful for my brother to consider you as a wife." InuYasha added.

"And if your a powerful witch-" Miroku was interrupted.

"Sorceress." Ayame corrected.

"If your a powerful sorceress than Sesshomaru will try to use you against InuYasha." Miroku was thinking aloud.

"Well that probably was his plan because he hates you with a passion, InuYasha. But I wouldn't join him so...." She trailed off.

"Well from my past experiences with him he won't take 'no' for an answer." Miroku told Ayame.

"Yeah well he'll have to get over it. Because I'm with you guys, now." Ayame crossed her arms as if that was to seal off her final answer. Miroku and Sango looked at her surprised. Shippou was smiling at how much she was like their old companion, Kagome. Yamasaku was asleep cuddled next to his cat. Miroku glanced at InuYasha...he was smiling-then it disappeared.

"Well only if it's okay with you guys." Ayame added.

"It's fine. I could use another girl around the house." Sango said. "I'll go get you a kimono to wear so you'll be more comfortable in front of them." She got up and walked out of the room.

Ayame looked down at her outfit then felt someone staring at her she looked at Miroku--no he was looking at his sleeping son. She looked at InuYasha...yup he was staring at her. InuYasha realized she noticed him staring he blushed and looked away. Sango walked back into the room with a dark blue kimono with little purple flower designs and a purple sash to fashion around her waist.

"You can have it. I'll get some more for you later but for now you can have that one and wear some of mine." Sango pointed out a room where she could change in. Sango looked at her husband carrying their son to bed since it was late. And she saw InuYasha sigh in annoyance. She walked over to InuYasha and kneeled down. "What's wrong?"

InuYasha looked up at his friend. "She looks just like Kagome." His eyes started to water but a voice stopped him.

"Get a look at our new roommate." It was Miroku's voice. Sango and InuYasha looked up to the doorway and saw Miroku standing there. "Ready guys?" He asked before moving aside to let Ayame in with her midnight blue kimono.

"Now there's a pretty girl." Sango whistled. Shippou nodded in approval from where he was sitting. Miroku winked at Ayame. Ayame looked like an angel in that dress. InuYasha could only stare. "I'll go make some ramen for all of us." Sango said as she left the room.

*)20 minutes later(*

"So uh...what’s your story?" Miroku asked Ayame as she sat down on her mat as Sango announced the food was done.

"Well let me tell you the entire story of how much I remember." InuYasha looked interested. Shippou went to help Sango with the bowls of soup. Miroku shifted on his pillow to put his feet underneath him. "I don't remember anything of my life before my dream but I woke up in a small hut in the middle of a large forest. An elder woman took care of me. I later found out that she was an outcast, shun from her village because of her sorcery. She told me stories of how she was taught. And by my own opinion she wasn't evil. She told me she had a premonition that she'd find a girl in the bottom of a dried up well. She said she was walking through the forest searching for some herbs when she heard me yelling for help. She was near a well and since she had that premonition she checked the well first and there I was."

"She found you in a well?" Asked Shippou licking some spilled soup on his sleeve.

"Yes." Ayame answered blowing on a spoon full of hot ramen.

"Did the old woman by chance tell you what the name of the well was?" Asked Miroku too involved in her story to eat at the moment.

Ayame put the spoon in her mouth and swallowed the warm liquid. "Ummm. I can't remember but the title was a strange one it had the word 'bone' in it." She put another spoonful in her mouth.

"The bone eaters well." InuYasha's voice suggested from his corner. He already wolfed down his portion of food.

Ayame nodded her head. "Yeah that was it!" She looked at InuYasha he appeared depressed. "How'd you know?" Ayame asked.

InuYasha set his empty bowl aside and stood up. "A lucky guess." He turned to look at the girl whose presence tormented him. "I'm going for a walk." And with that he left the room. The door to the outside could be heard sliding open and quickly closed.

"Did I do something wrong?" Ayame asked bringing everyone back to reality.

"No. You didn't do anything. It's just that...." Sango looked at Miroku.

"It's just that you remind us all of a girl that was a good friend of all of us. InuYasha fell in love with her. But she wasn't meant to stay in this time." Miroku explained.

"Wasn't her name Kagome?" Asked Ayame shocking everyone in the room.

"Yes but how do you know?" Sango was the first to speak.

"At first when Sesshomaru saw me he mistaked me for her. I later convinced him that I wasn't Kagome but Ayame." Miroku just sat there waiting for more. "After he believed me he told me stories of her and InuYasha always getting in his way." Sango was playing with her kimono. Ayame continued. "Then when I first encountered InuYasha he looked at me as if he knew me. He was shy. I got the sexual vibe if you know what I mean."

"Yeah I used to get that from girls all the time." Miroku bragged.

"No you didn't you leecher. You went around asking women to bear your child." Sango said hitting Miroku on the head with her boomerang.

Miroku's face got red. He decided to change the subject. "Why did you bring that out of the closet?"  He asked referring to the weapon his wife used to give him a growing bump on his head.

"Ever since InuYasha told us that there were demons near the village." She answered patting the  boomerang.

"But they were taken care of." Miroku said standing up and stretching.

"No there are more. Only a little farther away. About four days walk from here." She said putting catching Miroku in surprise.

"What how can you tell?" He asked sitting back down.

"I can sense them. My powers are back." Sango said with joy in her eyes thinking about the old days.

"Oh." Miroku said walking to the doorway. "I dunno 'bout you guys but I'm tired. Come on dear lets go the bed." Sango looked back at her husband standing there at the door. Then she looked at Ayame. She broke eye contact by getting up.

"Ayame if you need anything just ask. Goodnight." Sango followed Miroku into their room. They left Ayame to herself.

*Man there is something odd about her. I should go ask InuYasha.* Ayame got up and walked out of her room and out of the hut to find InuYasha. Ayame was on her guard. No telling what could be hunting her this time. She walked until she reached a large ceremonial looking tree. It seemed familiar in a way yet she'd never been here before in her life. It seemed like de-ja-vou from a dream. She turned around and took a deep breath.

"InuYasha, I have a question for you." She said to the silence. "I know your here I can feel your spirit energy." She waited...leaves in the big tree above her rustled and InuYasha jumped from the branches to land in front of her.

"What’s your question?" He asked leaning up against the big tree putting his hands in his sleeves.

"Your friend, Sango I believe her name is." She started.

"Yeah what about her?" InuYasha sighed.

"I think she is pregnant." Ayame stated.

InuYasha was caught off guard and his reaction showed it. "How...how....Why do you say that?" He recovered shakily.

"Well she has three spirit energies instead of one." Ayame told him thinking of only one other reason why she'd have more than one spirit. "Or instead of being pregnant she could be possessed."

InuYasha's mouth dropped. "That could explain why she's been acting weird lately." He said sitting down in an indian-style.

"I could do an exorcism just to see if she is possessed. But I really hope she is pregnant because it will be really hard to get two souls out of her. I'll need some things though so it'll be a couple of days until I can do the actual ceremony." Ayame told the very solemn looking hanyou. InuYasha looked up at her and nodded. She told him a list of items that she'll need. "But the thing is I'll have to go with you to get most of the stuff cause some of the youkai I need it from will be too hard for you to beat by your self even with the Shikon jewel you have." InuYasha was surprised but then he realized that she could sense it.

"Ok we'll tell everyone that we are going on a little trip. Just the sorceress and the hanyou." InuYasha said getting up and walking in the direction of the hut.

"Wait." Ayame stopped him. "There is one item I need that comes out only at night. And it grows near here." InuYasha looked at her realizing what she was talking about.

"Are you talking about nightshade seeds?" He asked as Ayame nodded. "Ok hop on my back I'll give you a piggy back ride there. It'll be faster." He turned around and she got on his back. And they were off to the Valley of the Deadly Nightshade.

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Phew! That was long. Stay tuned for Chapter four.