Here it is- finally. I've been working on this thing for ages, and at first, I figured I'd just lump it into a single chapter and see how it goes from there, but common sense hit me, and I discarded the idea.
Fleshed out summary: Apparently, the well doesn't like letting full
demons through. When one does, something is taken from it, as a sort of
lesson. Sometimes their powers, their clothes (hehe) or something they
don't normally function without. When Koga had the 'bright idea' to
follow Kagome on a return trip, his sanity is taken from him. Now he
must get it back before the female teenage population of Tokyo is
jeopardized. The AU part is that Ayame doesn't exist in the Feudal Era.
She is a student at a different high school than Kagome (with better
uniforms!). She also lives in a different city. Her last name is
Kobayashi.
Hikari- Ohayo gozaimasu! I am proud to present to you my next, but most
certainly not my last, fan fiction. This one, as you may have guessed,
is an Inuyasha... well, fan fiction. No other word for it.
Ani- Stop your yappin'! They read the summary already!
Hikari- Ohayo gozaimasu Ani! to audience This is Ani, and she has an
account here. Just search around, you'll find her.
Ani- Why did you say it was morning? It's well past noon.
Hikari- But A-chan, it's always morning! throws hands up
Ani- Then it's obvious I'm not a morning person.
Hikari- Your loss!
Ani- You are insufferably cheerful- and it's making me twitch. See?
(twitch twitch) Cut it out already!
Hikari- (gloomily) I hate the world. Nobody likes cheerful people...
Ani- (slightly happier) See there, now I won't have a headache!
Hikari- (cheerful again) Was that a good impression!
Ani- Ugh... my headache's back.
Saikyou- Hi, I'm another friend who puts stuff on this site. Hii-chan's
busy trying to cheer Ani up, so I'll just do the disclaimer-
Disclaimer- Nobody but the people who own Inuyasha own Inuyasha. Try to
steal the show, and may frogs and other gross disgusting things like
worms and lawsuits and Hii-chan's Uncle Mark rain down upon you.
Hikari- (pokes head in) Uncle Mark's a lawyer!
Ani- Read the story already!
Day and Night
ChapterOne
Something Bad
Where was he? Nothing made sense in this place. It was too bright, and too cold, and it was strangling him just to breathe. He barely knew where he was. Kouga only knew that he wasn't in his world anymore. This place was completely alien to him, and he barely knew how he got there.
Kouga reflected on what had happened in the past hour. He'd been running around the countryside, minding his own business, when he had caught a scent. Kagome's scent. It appeared that she was trekking through the forest alone. He was about to let her know he was there, but she had two black circles on her ears, with a band stretching across her head to connect them. She was humming a tune, and appeared to be oblivious to the world. And she didn't really seem to care that Inuyasha wasn't there. Still, Kouga felt that it was better that he protect her should any harm head her way. It was the least he could do.
After a time, Kagome strolled right into a clearing in which was the old bone-eater's well. He reckoned that it was her destination, for she went straight for it. He was surprised, however, when she just hopped over the edge and plummeted down into the darkness. So of course, with canines being far more curious than their feline counterparts, he jumped in directly after her. It was found to be quite possibly the worst mistake he had made his entire life. Even before eating that acorn on a dare. Boy, had that been bitter.
A blindingly blue flash made him temporarily blind. When he recovered, he found that above the edge of the well, there was a wooden roof. Strange, he had expected something more, well, alien. Perhaps flying objects and people wearing idiotic clothing similar to what Kagome often wore. Wood, however, was probably one of the last things he expected to see. Certainly something unfamiliar. And wood was anything but unfamiliar.
Kouga looked around him to confirm his surroundings. It didn't seem as though the inside of the well had changed. He jumped out, and found himself in a shed. He pulled back the wooden door and was met with confusion. Though he was fairly certain that he had come out in the same place as Kagome, he couldn't smell her clean scent. None of the smells were familiar in any sense of the word. They were mostly sour, or salty, or just generally displeasing. They were also all strangely bitter, and he almost gagged. To him, it smelled like burning tar, with an underlying scent of death. How could Kagome live in a world that had such a barbaric scent was beyond him, for sure. he knew that she probably couldn't smell it as well as he could, but she must have noticed some sort of difference.
Even what he could see didn't make sense. He knew what the sun was like, but this one seemed more unforgiving, as though it wanted to burn every living thing off of the face of the earth. It was hot, piercing, and horribly bright. That was by far not the most abnormal thing, however. Strange, metallic, horse less carriages were coursing down a hard, black-looking road. There were so many colors of them, greens, blues, reds, all going at speeds rivaling his own. He had never seen such a perplexing mode of transportation. And to add to their appearance, each and every one of them were spewing noxious fumes into the air. Some of the exhaust made him wonder if they burned wood, it was so black.
The trees flanking him were all sick, diseased, and dying from the quality of their air. This was a pitiful bit of forest, not even a square kilometer, from what he could see. Too few trees, with too many dwellings nearby. He thought that maybe this was a place where half the country lived. There certainly seemed to be enough apartments. Surely more than one family lived in each house, they were so big. His entire tribe could fit in one. Not that there were that many left anyway.
There was another section of trees across the road. It was, if at all possible, even more pathetic than the one next to him. He could see yellow spots on the leaves, and entire branches were devoid of leaves. Nothing could possibly live, so it was amazing that all the trees in sight weren't brown and dead already.
Everything in this world made him angry. There were too many people, and too few healthy trees, and he couldn't smell anything, and so many dead things, and his thoughts weren't making sense anymore. Surely, this was Hell. And if this was Hell, he did not want to be here. So he did the only thing that his distressed brain could think of.
Kouga ran.
I really have been working on this story for a really long time. I'm always writing during school hours, but I tend to put off typing up what I write, so the end result is fifty pages of written, and twelve of typed. I hate it. Really, really, hate it. Not the story, just the length of the typed.
Pleasde review, by the way. I want to know what you people think about my writing, because I am my own worst critic.