Hi there! I'm Ichigo and this is my crazy alter-ego Kaori!

Kaori: This is the original One Soul published two years ago on inuyasha. net, which apparently no longer exists. If you remember us, we'll finally be updating this story, but not just yet.

For those of you who haven't read our story before, here it is:

Kaori: We don't own Inuyasha!

A golden-eyed hanyou.
A beautiful miko sitting in a tree.
A high school girl from the future.
A vengeful wolf demon.

Everything hangs in the balance.

"Inuyasha! Behind you!"

"What? Aaaaah!" Inuyasha was flung into the air by a large tentacle. The stinging suction cups burned marks into his skin. He raised Tetsusaiga high and chopped off the end of the tentacle that clutched him. He fell to the ground with a thud. The severed tentacle writhed on the dry ground. "Okay, now I'm really mad!"

The tentacle belonged to a monster squid that had risen out of a lake. Sango flung her boomerang at the gelatinous giant. It struck its mark and returned to its master's hand. This seemed to do nothing but further anger the monstrous foe.

Kagome let her arrow fly. The shining head struck the squid's eye. It writhed and squirmed in the water, spewing its dark ink everywhere.

"Kagome! Where is the jewel shard?" Inuyasha yelled.

Kagome scanned the monster for the gleam of the jewel shard. "It's in the head!" she shouted.

Inuyasha leapt into the air and raised Tetsusaiga for the kill. He brought the sword down on the monster's head. Inuyasha caught the shard in his clawed hand and landed on the ground. The monster fell into the water and began to sink. "Good work, Kagome," he said.

"Is everyone all right?" Kagome asked.

"Yes, we're fine," Miroku said. Inuyasha nodded.

"Good," said Kagome. Suddenly a roaring splash attracted their attention. The monster had reared back to life. With a mighty swell, the squid sprayed its last reserve of ink into Inuyasha's eyes. The squid then crashed down onto the land.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome screamed.

"Is it dead?" Sango asked.

"I'm not taking any chances," Miroku said. "Everyone out of the way!"

Kagome and Shippou helped Inuyasha out of the way of danger as Miroku removed the prayer beads on his right hand. "Wind tunnel!" Miroku yelled. A great wind roared as the giant squid was sucked into the small hole in Miroku's hand. Miroku closed his fist and quickly wrapped the prayer beads around it.

"Inuyasha! Inuyasha, please open your eyes!"

Inuyasha had his back to a tree. He was shaking his head, rubbing fitfully at his eyes with the heels of his hands. He tried to open his eyes, but they stung like mad and he couldn't force them to open.

His friends bent over him. "Can you hear me, Inuyasha?" Miroku asked.

"Of course I can hear you," Inuyasha said angrily. "There's nothing wrong with my ears."

"I think we passed an empty cabin not too long ago," Shippou pointed out.

"Inuyasha, we're going to take you to a cabin," Miroku said.

"I told you, I can hear just fine. And no thanks, I can walk by myself," Inuyasha said. He stood up and promptly walked into a tree. He turned around and walked into another tree. Sango and Miroku tried not to laugh. Shippou didn't try at all.

Kagome took his arm. "Come this way." She led him away from the lake and back into the forest. "Watch your step, there are a lot of roots," Kagome said. "You have to duck here or you'll get clotheslined by a tree branch."

Step by step, Kagome led him back to the abandoned cabin. Sango and Miroku searched it first to be sure that it really was abandoned, and then Kagome led Inuyasha inside.

"There's a wall here," Kagome said. "You can take a seat." She was careful not to accidentally say the word 'sit' and make the situation worse.

"Do your eyes still hurt, Inuyasha?" Shippou asked.

"Yeah," Inuyasha said, rubbing them with his palms again.

Kagome opened a bottle of spring water that was in her backpack. "Lie down," she said. Inuyasha, with Kagome's help, lowered himself to the floor. Kagome laid his head on her lap.

"Can you open your eyes just for a second, Inuyasha?"

"What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to rinse your eyes out," she said.

Inuyasha screwed up his face and opened his eyes just a sliver. Kagome poured the spring water into his ink-filled eyes. Inuyasha winced but allowed the water to carry the ink out of his eyes.

Inuyasha sighed and allowed his head to rest in Kagome's lap. He had never noticed how soft and warm she was, or how nice she smelled...

Kagome shifted. "You can get up now, Inuyasha."

"Kagome," he said, "will you... let me stay like this for a while?"

Kagome stiffened in surprise, but then relaxed. "Sure," she said. "As long as you need to."

Inuyasha smiled. "Thank you," he said. He felt himself falling into sleep. He remembered how Kagome had led him through the forest, and how she had rinsed the stinging ink from his eyes. He asked himself if Kikyo would have done this for him.

Of course she would, he thought. Kikyo loves me.

But Inuyasha could not silence the voice that came from deep inside him.

No, the voice whispered. No.

And that's Chapter One! We hope you liked it.

Kaori: We've been straining our minds, but we can't remember what the original names of the chapters were. So we're just going to make it up again.

Come back for Chapter Two, in which Sango will say, "Shippou, how long have you been in that tree?"

Read and review! Thank you!