Title: Followed
Author: Tsubasa Kya
Disclaimer: I do not own anything. Okay I will tell you now, I happen to prefer the Japanese names for the characters better than their American names, so that's why I use them. A brief breakdown of who is who in America versus Japan will be provided on the first chapter only. Unfortunately I do not know every character's name, and so will be making up some class-A bull apart from the usual crap you'll find in my stories.

Case Closed will begin after CC Volume 14, and Inuyasha… I just randomly chose a spot for… the story goes on forever anyway…

Bold names will be used throughout the story:

Jimmy Kudo is Shin'ichi Kudo
Conan Edogawa (aka Shin'ichi) remains the same
Rachel Moore is Ran Mori
Dr. Herschel Agasa is Dr. Hiroshi Agasa
Richard Moore is Kogoro Mori
Booker Kudo (Shin'ichi's father) is Yusaku Kudo
Vivian Kudo (Shin'ichi's mother) is Yukiko Kudo
Harley Hartwell is Heiji Hattori
Martin Hartwell (Heiji's father) is Toshiro Hattori
Mrs. Hartwell (Hieji's mother) is Shizuka Hattori
George Kaminski is Genta Kojima
Mitch Tennison is Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Amy Yeager is Ayumi Yoshida
Titan Elementary School is Teitan Elementary School
Titan High School is Teitan High School


Chapter One

Kagome's staring contest with Inuyasha ended with a harshly spat out 'sit' after which he did, five feet under the normal level of where the ground should be. Usually she felt slightly bad about such a powerful spell, but he'd dragged her hither and thither for four years now and she promised her mother she would return to her time today.

'Fat chance of that actually happening,' her mind supplied as a persistent Inuyasha followed her again. She was halfway to the well, so if she sat him one more time and all out sprinted to the well, she might even make it. "Inuyasha," she opened her mouth to say it, but he literally tackled her and covered her mouth, keeping her from saying it.

A furious blush spread across her face as she realized he was pinning her to the ground, his hand to her mouth to keep her from yelling, and there was a rock poking into her back in a very annoying manner. "Don't say it!" Inuyasha said hoarsely. "Don't scream," he told her seriously. He carefully removed his hand from her mouth; no one was around, but both knew she had a mighty set of lungs that would bring Sango and Miroku running.

She finally realized the seriousness of the situation. Inuyasha had gone crazy. Or she was having a really bad, painful nightmare. That rock in her back felt very real, and her yellow pack was a few feet away in a state of disarray as all her things were now as sprawled around as she was.

At this point, she didn't dare sit him; doing so would only make him crash head first into her and they'd both be stuck in a pit. She knew from experience how much it hurt to have a one-hundred-sixty pound inu-hanyou crashing down upon her person in an involuntary manner. She'd made the mistake once, and didn't need a repeat lesson to make it stick.

"Inuyasha, what are you doing?" Kagome demanded in a panicked tone. "Whether or not you want me to, I have to go home! My future depends on it!" 'Oh please, oh please get off of me,' she thought, more panicked in her head than she was aloud. The fact was, she was being straddled, and ready to freak out about it.

"It's not like I'm gonna kill you!" Inuyasha groused at her.

'Stupid as usual, and that is so not why I'm uncomfortable!' Kagome thought. 'I swear, him thinking would be a miracle! Get off, get off… yeah, screaming internally at him is really gonna work,' her mind provided sarcastically. "Tackling me could have really hurt me!" she snapped, but really just wanted to scream 'Help! Murder! Rape!'

"Just let me say what I gotta say!" he told her.

She stopped struggling and gulped. This was not happening, it couldn't be happening, if it was happening, she was a fish on land—which, given the evidence of evolution, wasn't all that impossible. She nodded slowly, feeling the twigs and leaves tangling in her hair.

"Geez, Kagome, you gotta make everything hard don't you?" he demanded. "All I wanted to say was I got a bad feelin' if you go back!" he pushed himself off of her, sitting on the ground to glare down at her prone form.

"Well, what about my future, Inuyasha?" she demanded heatedly. "The jewel's not the only responsibility I have!" She sat up so fast it made even Inuyasha dizzy watching her. Her hands raked through her disheveled hair, turning it into a rat's nest. "I have school too!"

"But I got a bad feelin' somethin' bad's gonna happen if you go back. That's why I don't want you goin' back!" Inuyasha insisted, folding his hands up in his sleeves.

She glared at him. "You always have a bad feeling! And you never want me going back! I'm going back and you better not stop me," she told him seriously, scrabbling over to her backpack and shoving her things back in it.

When she finally had it all back in the bag, she started storming toward the well and he let out a sound very similar to what Jaken voiced when Sesshoumaru started leaving him behind. "Grawk!" Inuyasha cried, scrambling to his feet. "Kagome, a bad feelin'! I got a bad feeling! You can't go back, or somethin' bad's gonna happen!"

"It's like the boy who cried wolf, seriously!" Kagome said, with her very own inu-hanyou in tow. "You've been saying that for a long time now, and nothing bad happened when you've said it."

"Fine then!" Inuyasha growled. "Why don't you just go home and stay there if you can't commit yourself to this?" he stormed off into the forest as tears threatened to spill out of Kagome's eyes. "Useless wench!"

"Jerk! I didn't even say anything!" she yelled before taking off for the well. "And you'll see!" she said as she stomped in her direction. "I won't come back, if I'm so useless to you!" Angry by his behavior toward her, Kagome jumped into the well without another word said.

Modern day Tokyo was dark when Kagome left the well-house. Even her home was dark and as she trudged toward it, she let thoughts of a nice hot bath and a long rest filled night in a comfortable bed fill her mind and shove Inuyasha out of it. As she fumbled with her shoes by the door, she heard steps coming down the stairs and light flooded the hall as the switch was flipped.

"Whose there?" her mother called out hesitantly before seeing Kagome. "Oh, it's just you…Thank goodness…" Kagome looked at her mother and saw the woman pulling her bathrobe tight to her form. Her mother explained, "Grandpa went north to visit some friends last week and since he's been gone we've been robbed twice!"
Kagome dropped her bag by the front door with no real intention of carrying it all upstairs. Her mother would want to wash the clothes in it anyway. "Twice?" Kagome asked. She began wondering what if Inuyasha was right and there was something bad going on?

"It's no big deal… but you promised to come home this morning… I had the whole family here for a surprise birthday party but you didn't show."

Kagome was unimpressed. "Mama, 'the whole family' includes me, you, Souta, Grandpa, and the Hattori's. That's not a very big surprise, since you do it every single year." She sighed though. "I argued with Inuyasha all yesterday and he said I could come home, but then this morning we ran into Naraku and that was a big mess in itself and after that Naraku said something to Inuyasha which made Inuyasha's determination to keep me there come back ten-fold."

Mama smiled a little. "Well, your brother Heiji was disappointed he didn't get to see you. I told him you went to a friend's house and decided to stay an extra day. Perhaps on your way home from school tomorrow, you could stop by and see him?"

Kagome wandered into the kitchen, in search of something to snack on. She hadn't eaten much all day because of the unfruitful battle with Naraku. "Mama, the Hattori's live down in Osaka. I don't think popping in for a visit after school really is an option."

Mama crossed the kitchen and went into the cupboard. She pulled down a box of cheese crackers—Kagome's favorite. Kagome had a hard time keeping from squealing loudly as she snatched them and hugged them and then began to tear into the box. Mama chuckled. "Well, your father wanted to move back up here so he could be close by, and see you more often."

"Really?" Kagome felt excitement (not cheese cracker induced) burbling just beneath the surface of her flesh. She always did love seeing her dad, but the opportunity didn't often happen. Twice a year he would make the trip with his wife Shizuka and Kagome and Souta's half-brother Heiji. There weren't any hard feelings between Mama and their father; the two had simply fallen out of love and decided to part ways, to be 'just friends' and that worked better than being together did.

"Yes, really." Mama took out the makings for tea and set herself to work preparing two cups of it, despite the late hour. "He's not terribly close, because Shizuka was uncomfortable with the move, but he's close enough that you could ride the subway."

"Has dad been told of my 'illnesses'?" Kagome asked her mother, though she was pretty sure he hadn't been if Heiji didn't know about it. Her mother shook her head and set two cups of tea on the table. "But mama, it'll be real hard if I 'get sick' while he's close enough to come see me, and finds that I'm conveniently missing. He might even freak out and begin a full-born investigation."

They shared a smile. "I know, dear, I know. Not only that, but Heiji's as much a detective as your father. But don't you worry. I'll take care of talking to your father, but as of yet, he doesn't know. So," she swiftly changed the subject. "How long are you going to be home for this time?"

Kagome stood in great irritation. "Forever!" she scowled. "I am never ever in my life going back! We'll see how useless I am when I'm not there!" Kagome stormed out of the kitchen and tromped upstairs, leaving a glass of tea and her cheese crackers behind. Mama raised an eyebrow at Kagome's retreat but cleaned up the mess and went to bed. Kagome would break down in a week or two and go back, in other words.


End.

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