This is a story that mainly deals with sci-fi more that action, which is weird for Inuyasha. He is in his own place in the world but soon, things take a very odd turn.

Retrieval

Feudal Japan; morning : "Damn this rain." It had been raining for three consecutive days, and Inuyasha was by himself in a cave with nothing to do but wait out the storm. "The rest of the gang is God knows where by now, and I'm stuck in this cave. I mean, I barely have any food left to eat. Like Kagome says,this just sucks."

Meanwhile, Sango was on her search. While she and the rest of the group were separated from Inuyasha, her job was to find out where he was, as well as find any of the Shikon Jewel shards. Unfortunately, she had no luck on either. As a cloud passed by she petted Kilala, her faithful, fiery fox demon.

"Lower, Kilala." They descended only enough to see the ground, but they were still high up. Sango scanned what she could of the terrain, but couldn't see any signs of Inuyasha or any Jewel shards. "Where on earth can Inuyasha be? He is stubborn, but he shouldn't want to wait out this rain." Then she had a sudden thought, "Unless he is waiting for Kagome to show up." At this thought, she laughed to herself for a brief moment, for she had to keep her mind on her task. Although, she could not help but to wonder…

Miroku was awake now. He got up from his makeshift bedding to tend to the fire. Looking to his left, he saw that Shippo was still asleep, snoring away lightly. Miroku now looked in the fire and just sat there, thinking. They had lost contact with Inuyasha days ago, and now Sango was on the lookout for him. As indifferent as he could be, Miroku was worried slightly. Oh, well; no time for that. Time to make breakfast. He went into their things and prepared some food, he started cooking it over the fire. Soon enough, the smell of it woke Shippo up. He yawned rather noticeably, stretched and bounded over next to Miroku.

"Mornin', Miroku! Whatcha cooking?" There was a bright sort of tone in his voice typical of a child just getting a present from their parent; he was hungry.

"Good morning, Shippo. I am just cooking breakfast, rice with pork. Does that sound good?"

"Yuck! I would rather have some of those cheeseburgers that Kagome gave us instead. Those were really good, you know."

"Yes, they were very tasty, Shippo. But they are not for breakfast; besides, we don't have any more. So you are just stuck with what I am cooking. It's either this, or you can go without eating."

"Fine. I'll have some of the rice. But, do I have to like it?"

At long last, he had been spotted. Kilala had keyed onto Inuyasha's scent and followed it to the cave in which he was sitting. Seeing him in the cave huddled in a ball made Sango laugh.

"Shut up, Sango" The sound of his voice was enough to know that Inuyasha wasn't happy. He was wet, cold, and he didn't have any food with him. On top of that, he had been in the same spot for three whole days. In short, he was, for the moment, grouchy.

"Sorry. It's just that, we have gone through worse storms, and even worse battles, and here I find you sitting in a cave curled up into a ball, just trying to stay dry, unsuccessfully I might add, in a moderate storm. I just find it kind of funny."

"You would; you're the one who has a flying fox that take you over the damn rain clouds. Of course you're going to find it funny. Can you just take to where the rest of you are?" For being what was hopefully grateful, he was very irritable.

"Sure, Inuyasha. I can do that for you." With that, Sango and Inuyasha climbed aboard the back of Kilala and they took off without one more word. In time, they were at the campsite.

"Ah, you're both just in time for breakfast," said Miroku. He smiled as he said this, it was good to see his friends again. Shippo jumped on Inuyasha's shoulders just he had received his breakfast.

"Inuyasha!" Shippo immediately jumped on Inuyasha's shoulder and hugged his neck. "We were so woried about you! Are you okay?"

"I was until you jumped on me. If you don't get off, I may consider making you my breakfast."

Shippo did not need telling twice.

Modern-day Japan; 8:30 a.m.: "Inuyasha!"Kagome was running through a thick wood, and Inuyasha was leading her on. He appeared to be in a state of worry, even panic. Just as she was beginning to catch up with him, a light began to form in the distance. It started out as a small, dim orb of whiteness, but soon it grew into an immense mass, almost to bright to even look at. As she looked on, there seemed to be what looked like a hole or tunnel in the center of the light. Seeing this she tried to headtoward it, Inuyasha kept pulling her along.

"We have to keep going, Kagome! Wecan't juststop." Inuyasha's voice issued a note of stress mixed with panic and fear. Itbecame apparent that no matter what all that they did, stopping for a break was not an option.

"What's going on? What are we running from? Please tell me!"

"We don't have that kind of time, Kagome! We must keep moving!"

The white light was now gaining on them with incredible speed. No matter how fast they ran, the light kept its pace. Soon it was right behind them. Kagome's running caused her to trip, the light engulfing her. At that point she was ripped back to reality.

Kagome fell out of her bed onto floor. She had been dreaming the whole time, yet it was so real. She looked at the clock and went into "panic mode."

"Oh no! I'm gonna be late for school! I have to hurry." She got dressed in record time, and then headed down the stairs to grab something to eat. As she headed down, she nearly tripped on the stairs; one of her brother's shoes was in the way and proved to be a hazard. "What was that?" Kagome asked herself as she turned to see what it was. Upon seeing it she became agitated. "I'm gonna have to remember to kill him when I get home." She told herself irritably. She didn't have time for this kind of thing. She finally made it to the kitchen and grabbed a small portion, just enough to hold her over until lunch.

"Kagome! What are you doing, dear? School's out for today."

"I woke up late! I have to get- What did you say?"

"I said that school is not in session today. You get a sort of "day off", if you like. But you needn't be in any hurry this morning. So please, sit, eat."

Oh. "Right, I remember now." Kagome let out a nervous laugh, not wanting to admit that she had forgotten about this out-of-school day some time ago. "I find something to keep myself occupied. Thanks for remembering." She went back to her room and changed into more casual clothing. As soon as she had done so, she went to the well on the grounds of her house. She knew what she could expect, seeing as how she had done it numerous times. She made sure that she had her bicycle, as well as her bow and plenty of arrows. Seethat she had everything, she went down into the well and along the steps. She reached the spot to jump and did. As she fell towards Inuyasha's time, she saw the light that came to take her there.At first she was glad to see it, but suddenly became confused. The light usually had swirls of light colors all about it, whereas this time it was just pure white. Odd, Kagome thought. It looks just like the light that I saw in my dream. Without another thought or word, she became part of the light and then she had arrived. But as she opened her eyes, she saw that she was not where she was supposed to be.