AiShi: Hello peeps! This is my first published fanfiction that I wrote, so tell me if it sucks. I can tell you that it will be updated at least twice a month (unless I notify you otherwise) and other than that...I think a disclaimer is in order!

AiShi84 does NOT own InuYasha or YuYu-Hakusho, it'd be awesome if I did, but considering I don't...eh, well. Just enjoy the story!

Inuyasha glared at the thick blanket of fog that surrounded him. First appearing a couple of hours ago as a light mist, it had steadily developed into the what seemed endless scenery of white. He held up his hand to his face and waved it, only seeing its dark shape.

'Damn,' he cursed in his head. 'If this stupid fog would clear up, we could actually be doing something!'

His thoughts were interrupted, however, when something slammed into him, making Inuyasha fall flat on his face. Whipping around, he grabbed his Tetsusaiga, ready to fight the dark shape standing over him…

"Oh! Sorry Inuyasha!" Kagome's voice floated out of the mist.

Inuyasha let go of his sword.

"Watch where you're going next time!" the half-demon growled.

"Well SORRY! I can't exactly see in this mess!" Kagome retorted.

Just as Inuyasha was about to respond, another voice was heard from the white.

"It's not her fault," a female voice pointed out. "No one can hope to see with mist as thick as this."

Recognizing the voice to be Sango's, Inuyasha looked through the fog until he saw her faint outline.

"Indeed," another voice added, "you can't blame Lady Kagome."

Seeing Miroku's blurry outline as well, Inuyasha snorted.

"Feh," he responded, getting up off the ground, "How can we be sure this isn't one of Naraku's traps? It's unnatural for fog to be this thick!"

"I told you," the monk said sighing. "There's no demonic aura anywhere around here."

"Yeah!" Shippo's voice rang out, coming from Miroku's direction. "Even Kagome can't feel anything!"

The young fox demon was right, Kagome didn't sense anything suspicious.

"Well, there's nothing we can do about it, let's just keep moving." Kagome told them, walking a few steps ahead. "Come on InuyashAHHHHHHH!"

"Kagome!" they all shouted as her shadow disappeared.

Inuyasha ran to where Kagome had vanished.

"Kagom-"But he was cut off as he disappeared too.

"W-What's going on?" Shippo yelled, crawling on top of Miroku's head.

Before the monk or demon slayer could answer, however, they both vanished on the spot as well.

"Oh no!" Shippo yelled as he fell to the forest floor. Now only he and Kilala were left, both staring at the place where their friends had been seconds before. Running to see where they had gone, they both disappeared into the white.

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"Oh dear oh dear oh deardeardearydear."

Inuyasha stirred.

"The hell…?" he questioned groggily, sitting up slowly. This was a big mistake, as his head felt like it was going to split in two from the sudden movement. Holding his head, he tried to focus his vision as he looked around. His sight clearing up, he was able to see Kagome, Sango, Shippo, Miroku, and Kilala laying to the left of him. Inuyasha let out a relieved sigh, Kagome was safe. Suddenly, he tensed up. Quickly, he whipped around ready to fight, and came face to face with a girl with blue hair.

She blinked.

"Hello there."

Inuyasha stared at her. Regaining his composure, he glared at her suspiciously. She wasn't a demon, he was sure of that, but something about her just wasn't right. Deciding to take no chances, he reached for his Tetsusaiga…his Tetsusaiga! It wasn't there!

"You need this?" the girl asked him, holding up the Tetsusaiga. "I figured you would try that."

Inuyasha growled at her.

"Who in all the hells are you?" he asked, still glaring.

Not seeming to have heard him, the girl walked over to the others and examined them.

"Hm, just fainted, they'll be a-okay!" she exclaimed cheerfully.

Inuyasha was getting annoyed.

"Hey! I'm talking to you!" he yelled at her.

The blue-haired girl turned around. Smiling, she responded,

"I'm Botan, a guide of departed souls, at your service!"

Inuyasha stared.

The short silence was broken by his friends coming-to.

"Uhhnnn…" Kagome moaned, sitting up. Gazing around, she saw she wasn't in Kansas anymore.

"Hey Inuyasha… where are we?" she asked, absorbing their new surroundings. She noticed that they were out of the fog, and sitting on a grassy bank across from a large river.

"A river…weren't we in a forest before?" Kagome questioned, failing to notice Botan.

By now Sango, Shippo, Miroku, and Kilala had revived and were looking around also.

Inuyasha, getting impatient, scowled. Turning to Botan, he asked her,

"Where are we?"

"Well…" she started thoughtfully, "Right now you're along the River Styx."

Kagome, Miroku, and Sango stared at her. (yes they finally noticed her) Inuyasha, not being one for fairy tales, and Shippo, who had never heard of it, just looked at her questioningly. Suddenly, Kagome started laughing.

"That's…funny!" she gasped between giggles.

Botan sighed and scratched her head.

"Well, that's one way to take it."

"But, no, we can't…" Sango stuttered, trying to find a loophole. No loopholes were to be found.

"That's another way to take it."

Miroku just kept staring.

"Another way…"

And Inuyasha and Shippo both looked completely clueless.

"And, wow! I think you all just reacted to death in nearly every way possible!" Botan exclaimed, smiling once again.

"DEATH?" Shippo and Inuyasha yelped, falling over.

"Biting the dust, kicking the bucket, retiring permanently, whatever floats your boat," she continued.

Kagome was now on the ground, clutching her sides, and laughing manically.

"Oh dear..." Botan said, shooting a worried look at Kagome.

"So you're telling me," Kagome laughed, "that you're the Grim Reaper, and you're wearing pink!"

Botan blinked.

"The Grim what?" she questioned.

This snapped the poor girl from her hysteria.

"Oh, well," Kagome started, "you'll probably hear of it later…"

"Ah!" Botan realized. "You're the amazing time-traveling priestess!"

"Huh? How did you know about me?" asked a taken-aback Kagome.

"Oh, you're the talk of the Spirit World! Always jumping into that portal and traveling between times, everyone's heard of you! It takes a good bit of people working to keep your well up and running."

Kagome blushed.

"Wow, sorry to be so much trouble…"

"It's no trouble at all kiddo, that portal keeps the dimensions balanced out," she explained.

Shippo and Inuyasha, clearly panicking, started bombarding the poor spirit guide with questions.

"WADDAYA MEAN 'DEATH'?"

"I can't die! I'm too young!"

"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"

Sango, who had stopped searching in vain for a way out, asked a very reasonable question,

"How did we die?"

Botan sighed.

"Well, it seems you stumbled across a portal to the Spirit World, but falling through it…well…destroyed your bodies from what I've gathered."

"Why was there a Spirit World portal?" asked Kagome.

Botan sweatdropped.

"Uh," she started, "that was a blunder from us I'm afraid…So your deaths were basically completely pointless!"

This is not what Inuyasha needed to hear, and showed it by advancing towards Botan with his talons. Just as he was about to strike, he was interrupted by laughter.

Everyone looking around, they were shocked to see Miroku laughing and holding up his cursed hand.

"Amazing," he laughed, "amazing that I was doomed to die at the foolish actions of another realm instead of this hellhole I possess."

As he continued laughing, the group shot him a worried look.

"I don't think he's taking this too well…" commented Shippo.

Botan sighed.

"They usually don't, I just handle it like this…" Then, making an oar appear out of nowhere, she walked right up to him and whacked him on the head with it.

"OW!" Miroku yelled, clutching his head.

"Better?" Botan asked.

"Not really… NO DON'T HIT ME AGAIN!" he yelped as he dodged the very dangerous oar.

"Just doin' my job," said a smiling Botan.

Sango looked at Botan.

"Is my father here?"

They turned to look at her.

Botan gave her a warm smile.

"Yes," she answered, "and Shippo's parents and Miroku's grandfather and father, they're all happy," she responded.

Inuyasha, having calmed down a bit put on a grave expression. (Ha! I made a pun!)

"And what about my mother? What about her?" he demanded.

"Your mother is fine," Botan explained.

"Where is she? Is she across here?" he asked, pointing to the river.

"Well, yes…hold it kiddo!" Botan exclaimed, grabbing the hanyou's ear just before he leaped.

"DAMMIT WENCH!" Inuyasha cursed as he struggled. "LET GO OF ME!"

"Not quite yet! Set foot on the other side and there's no going back!"

This kept Inuyasha at bay for a moment, for he stopped flailing.

"What the hell do you mean by 'going back'? We're dead aren't we?"

"Technically," she started, "but you can return back."

"How?" asked a desperate Kagome and Shippo.

"Well, I could-what do you think you're doing Sango?" Botan yelped, seeing the demon slayer wading through the water.

Sango turned to the group.

"I'm going to see my village," she said simply.

"Didn't you hear what she said Sango?" Shippo asked her.

"I've lived long enough, and death is pretty fine from what I've seen. Kohaku…" she paused, trailing her finger through the water, "Kohaku won't live much longer."

They all stared at her.

"But there's so much to live for," Miroku said, trying to change her mind.

"Sango…" Kagome started, but was interrupted by Inuyasha.

"Listen Sango, you do what you want, but we can't save you if you change your mind! Got it?"

She nodded.

"I'll be seeing you," Sango smiled at them. "Hopefully not too soon." And with that she waded the rest of the way through and stepped out on the other side.

Kilala, not wanting her friend to leave, also stepped into the river.

"Kilala, get out!" Sango yelled at her companion, wanting Kilala to have another chance at life.

Surprised at the demon slayer's actions, the cat demon stepped back out of the water. Meowing mournfully, Kilala looked across at Sango. Shippo went up to her and gave Kilala a hug.

Inuyasha turned back to Botan.

"Well? How are we going to come back alive?" he demanded.

"Usually you have to take a test, but Koenma doesn't know about the runaway portal and probably doesn't have a test at the moment, so I'm going to open a portal to the future and I'll make sure he has something ready for you then."

"Wait, what?" Kagome and Inuyasha exclaimed.

Botan slammed her oar into a tree. The tree cracked open, developing a wide hole, just enough for them to fit through.

"Wait a second, you're not-"

"Bye! See you soon!"

And with Botan waving good-bye, the hole grew rapidly and soon engulfed Inuyasha, Shippo, Kilala, Miroku, and Kagome. Blinded by the white flash, Sango opened her eyes to see her friends had disappeared.

"Where did they go?"

"Oh," Botan replied, "about five centuries into the future. C'mon, I'll show you around the Spirit World."

Sango backed away from Botan.

"Uh, no thanks, I'll explore by myself."

Waving to the seemingly crazy spirit guide, Sango ran into the forest as quickly as she could.

"Odd," Botan commented, "they never asked about Hell, usually people do that…"

AiShi: Well, end of chappy one. The next chapter should actually get the story rolling with the main characters. And for all you Sango fans, she will be back! Don't worry! Please review!

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