I've always wanted to do a story mixing these two manga, but I could never find a way to mix them together like I wanted to. Then, I had this idea, and I think I will have managed pretty well. Please enjoy my story, because I think it'll be fun.

Disclaimer: I own neither Naruto nor Inuyasha. If I did, I wouldn't be writing this FANFIC.

Jewelled Bonds

Chapter 1

Falling

Kagome Higurashi grumbled wordlessly as she went around the God-tree and approached the old well house. Really, she should have expected that of her grandfather by now. She knew how unlikely it was for him the ever give her a birthday present that might appeal to a teenage girl, but giving her a mummified hand? Maybe it was time to look at those pamphlets again, there was that one retirement home that seemed promising…

She shook her head, refocusing as she opened the door, regretfully shoving her idle daydreams of a grandfather free life to a join many other in a dark corner of her mind. She would need some of her concentration for the task that was to follow.

"Buyo!" she called out as her brother pushed her forwards into the hut. "Here kitty! Buuyooo!" Hearing nothing, she turned back to Souta.

"Are you sure he's in there?" A rattling sound emerged from the well in response, causing the girl to sigh and slowly go down the stairs. The cat ran out between Kagome's legs, tripping her. She let out a frustrated huff as she got back off the well which she had fallen on. Turning back to her brother, Kagome started to scold him about letting the cat get into the well house in the first place. Neither of them noticed that the seals adorning the well's cover were damaged, and were slowly fading away.


Deep within the well itself, the voices of the two humans echoed, as an influx of energy slammed into a pile of jumbled skeletons. Ancient bones stirred as they recognized the presence of the shikon no tama, the jewel they had once owned and that could fully bring them back to life. They, barely slowed down by the magic of the well, started to reassemble, organs forming as skin appeared to cover them, finally forming the head of a beautiful lady.

"Yessss," she hissed sibilantly "ssoon the jewel will be mine. And I will finally be whole again." Feeling her strength returning bit by bit, the head was propelled by an ever lengthening column of bones, as it advanced upwards, shortly joined by a torso and six arms, crushing all the other reforming skeletons as she advanced. They were not worthy to be revived, let alone have her jewel.

The seals, which had held for several centuries, were faced with an untenable situation. Losing power due to damage was a common occurrence—they were self-repairing after all. But when faced with a construct possessing the sheer overwhelming power of the shikon no tama, while in an unstable state? The magic present in the damaged seals gave one final push, causing the rising torso to fall back to the bottom of the well, before finally giving out in front of the far superior power of the jewel, failing and letting the woman climb up again with no further resistance.

And over five hundred years after her death, Mistress Centipede was finally free to rejoin the world outside, reborn as the power of the shikon jewel revived her. She would let nothing stand in the way of her gaining back the shikon and her freedom. Absolutely nothing.


Souta stared blankly at a point behind Kagome as he pointedly ignored his sister's rant, a skill he had perfected over the years.

"And you never change his litter box," Maybe he should just go back to the house. Kagome probably wouldn't notice if he just slipped away, and she probably would be going on for hours. Besides, there was that new video game he desperately wanted to try.

"You should clean your room. Do you think I like sharing a house with a total slob like you? Do you? Hey are you even listening to me? Souta, listen to me!" Kagome continued, looking sharply at the boy in front of her.

He made a brief noise that could maybe be translated as interest as he stared at Kagome. She sure could talk. Souta idly wondered if it was worth it to just run away and hide from his sister for the next few hours before deciding that she would just hunt him down later.

Suddenly, Kagome's speech was interrupted by the creaking of wood, which she ignored, too caught up in reprimanding her brother. Souta, however, clearly saw what happened next.

A woman emerged from the well, splinters of the cover being flung around the hut before she grabbed Kagome with all six of her arms. The victim's mouth opened in shock as the monster whispered something in her ear. Panicked, Souta fell over and watched helplessly as his sister was grabbed by the woman, who retreated back into the hole with the teen.

The boy stared in shock for a few moments before he was able to process what he had just seen. Reluctant to stare into the well which had just claimed his sister, he finally started running back to the house in a panic, where, after a brief search, he managed to find his grandfather surrounded by a glass ball and a mummified hand.

"Grandpa, Kagome was just kidnapped and dragged into the well!" he let out in a single breath. "We've got to do something!" The old man looked pensive as he replied

"Ah yes, the bone eater's well. Its history begins with…" Souta ran out of the room, trying to find someone who hopefully wasn't senile.


As hands wrapped around Kagome's body, a soft voice whispered into her ear.

"It has come back to me. I will not lose it now. The shikon no tama…is mine." Before the girl could try to break free, she was yanked into the well, which suddenly seemed a lot larger than usual.

"Mine!" the creature snarled as she opened her mouth wide, revealing enormous fangs which had most definitely not been there before. Kagome noted detachedly that she probably wouldn't survive a bite from that jaw.

Under Kagome's disgusted gaze, the creature's lower body reformed over a skeleton that was much too long from the inside out, her pulsating organs on display before being covered by layers of fat and muscle. The raw flesh was finally masked by a layer of dark purple carapace, revealing itself to be a centipede's segmented body.

The young girl shrieked in terror as the demon lunged for her throat, missing by inches as Kagome jerked backwards at the last second. She refused to be killed by a random monster that had just popped out of a well!

Kagome grabbed two of the centipede lady's arms, forgetting for a moment about the four others. But that moment was enough for Mistress Centipede to grab the girl's head and immobilize it as she readied herself to devour the girl who, pulling on a strength she did not know she possessed, managed to release a bolt of energy, forcing the youkai to release her before it could lose its arm to the pink energy.

As Mistress Centipede was separated from her prey, she released one last yell before being swallowed by the vortex that was the well.


Now that she was alone, the fear and exhaustion caught up to Kagome as her adrenaline left her. Relieved that the centipede lady was gone, Kagome let herself drift into unconsciousness among the vortex of otherworldly energies…only to be awakened by being roughly deposited on her ass in the middle of a pile of bones. Stunned, she lay there staring up at a blue sky.

It was a testament to how rattled she was that it took her nearly a minute to realize that, being in a building, she should not be able to see the sky at all, and that, on top of having undergone the strangest experience of her life, she probably had no idea where she was.

Deep within the woods that the humans had named Inuyasha's forest, all was silent and still. No animals moved about, no birds sung among the ancient trees. Suddenly, against one of the most ancient trees in the forest, a pair of eyes snapped open as their owner felt a power that it had not felt in half a century. Someone had entered the forest, and he could feel its limitless power. His mouth slowly formed into a vicious grin. After fifty years of absence, the shikon no tama was back.

Done! This story has been in the back of my mind for a while now, so I just decided to go ahead and write it. I haven't planned very far ahead yet, so I guess I should get to that. I don't have any pairings yet, and hopefully the next chapter will be coming out soon. Also, I'm just setting the stage, the crossover elements will appear, hopefully next chapter. Review, and please tell me if you see any plot holes or obvious mistakes. I would really appreciate that.