Trancending Time

Chapter One

Perhaps Another Time

"What is it with falling down Japanese wells? Either you have to fight hordes of demons - or you die in seven days. Horrible. Not that we'd recommend falling down wells in any other countries." Adult Swim

Suboshii stifled a yawn as Kagome's grandfather rambled on and on about the history of the shrine Kagome's family owned. After hearing this story at least three times in the past hour, they had both grown weary of it and wished he had something even remotely interesting to talk about. But alas, the other thing that crossed his mind was history lessons. Suboshii breathed in deeply and glanced over at Kagome. While Kagome's grandfather had his back momentarily turned toward her, Suboshii waved good-bye to Kagome and ran to the front door before Kagome's grandpa tried to force another Shikon no Tama keychain on her. When he turned around again, Suboshii was halfway home and Kagome was sitting at the table with an innocent look plastered on her face.

The first thing Suboshii saw when she stepped into her house was her mother standing in the middle of the room with her arms crossed. "Uh-oh, what did I do this time" Suboshii asked, slipping off her shoes.

"When you get home from school tomorrow, I want you to sweep out the 'chibi shrine'." She smiled at Suboshii cheerily. Suboshii rolled her eyes and sighed at the name her Mom decided to give that building. When her Mom first moved to Tokyo and married Suboshii's father, she had stopped by a neighboring shrine to pray for good luck with her soon-to-be born baby, Suboshii's older brother, Akito. She spotted the little building and instantly fell in love with it. The plans were drawn up and in a few weeks, she had a well and a little shrine to go with it. That was close to twenty-one years ago and since it was built, Suboshii's brother told her many a horrifying tale. But now that you were 17, she was too mature to believe in old, worn out stories, right?

"But Mom..." Suboshii started to protest but Mom shot her a death glare that could make a cow keel over.

"You should be excited to clean such a cute little house" Her Mom smiled again, all her previous anger gone in a millisecond. Suboshii sighed as she accepted the defeat and headed up the stairs, but before she was even halfway up, her Mom called her down again. "You can't even kiss your mommy good night" she asked, clapping her hands together with little stars in her eyes. Suboshii sweat dropped as she gave her a quick peck on the cheek before dashing back up the stairs.

"Safe at last" Suboshii cried as she flopped on her bed. She meant to change into her pajamas but as soon as her head hit that pillow, she was out like a light. After all, it was a Monday. In fact, it was the first Monday of the new year.

It felt as if she just shut her eyes when her Mom burst into herr bedroom, almost ripping it apart with her morning happiness. How she could be so...so happy this early in the morning was beyond Suboshii's level of understanding. "Time to get up, sweetie" she sang as she pulled the blankets off Suboshii and her bed.

Suboshii opened one eye wearily and blinked a few times before she could focus. "Wh-what time is it" she yawned, pulling her pillow over her eyes.

"Almost 7:45" Her mom responded, completely clueless...as usual.

"What" Suddenly awake, Suboshii jumped out of bed and ran into her walk-in closet. "Why didn't you wake me up earlier"

"I did. You told me you were getting up."

Suboshii poked her head out of the closet and stared blankly at her. "Mom, I can't believe you believed me! I wouldn't have believed me! You knew I wouldn't get up at the crack of dawn! Wahh" Suboshii fell out of the closet with her shirt trying to strangle her head. After finally defeating the evil shirt that's making you more late than she already was, ran to the front door, slipped on her shoes and took off down the street. "Later" she called over her shoulder.

Well, Suboshii's first day of school started off bad and just got worse. First, she was late to her class and found out that no one had seen Kagome all day. Then she tripped and fell on her face in front of the hottest guy in school...ran into a pole...knocked the head cheerleader into a mud puddle and had the entire football team and cheerleading squad chasing after her...well, maybe that part wasn't so bad. When else was she gonna have a dozen guys chasing after her? Okay, maybe it was that bad... And FINALLY, she missed the bus and had to hoof it home. Now, she was tired and had to clean that stupid well after she did her mandatory 3 tons of homework.

Why? was all she could think.

This was just a perfect start to a new year.

Slowly, Suboshii hiked up the hill to her house. Of course. It has to be at the veeerry top... When she reached the top of the hill, she found her Mom standing in the middle of the driveway. "Uh, Mom" Suboshii raised an eyebrow at her Mom's always clueless smile. "How long have you been standing there"

She blinked like the question caught her off-guard and looked at her watch. "About 8 1/2 hours." She looked back at Suboshii and smiled.

Suboshii face faulted and decided to continue to her room with no more questions asked. Upon reaching her room, she dumped her books on her and changed into her favorite pants and T-shirt. Two hours later, she finished putting her books away and before going to the well, made a pit stop in the kitchen to grab some dinner.

Suboshii made her way down the path that led to the well and pushed open the old rusted door. She reached to the side to flip on the lights but instead her hand met a nest of spider webs. Freaked out by the sudden crawly feeling on her hand, she ran back outside, screaming like a moron and tried to shake the webs off her fingers. She took a deep breath, went back inside and was relieved to find no more spiders. She grabbed the broom leaning against the wall by the door and began the tedious task of sweeping the cement floor.

After what seemed like an eternity, she finally finished and laid the broom back against the wall and sighed. "So far, so good" she said to herself. She climbed the four stairs leading to the door and grabbed the knob, twisting it left and right.

The door didn't open.

"Grrrr..." Already pissed with the amount of homework she had to do, she backed up a little and kicked the door. The door didn't budge but she grabbed her foot and hopped up and down, trying to get the throbbing to stop. "Ow...ow...ow..." Unfortunately, she hopped a little too close to the stairs and down she went. She bounced off the floor and landed on the two wooden planks of the well covering that her brother put there last summer and breathed a sigh of relief "That could've been worse..." The planks can't support her weight and began to bend and crack. This is gonna hurt, you thought as the planks snapped in half. "AAHHHHHH"

Yep. This day just kept getting better and better.