"Bye Casey! See you tomorrow!" A girl yelled as she headed down a separate street as her friend.
"Bye Aeron!" Casey yelled back as she started running down her street. The sun beat down on her legs and back as she slowed down near a forest. "What the heck?" she looked over at the edge of the forest and saw a small glint of something in the sun. She walked over and bent down and picked up a small pink shard of some kind.
"Where did this come from?" Casey asked herself as she stood back up to see that she wasn't on the edge of the forest by the street.
She was now in the middle of an open field of grass. "Where am I?" she asked to the air as she turned around.
"I sense a jewel shard over there!" a girl's voice drifted over to her before a man with long silver hair and dog ears stood in front of her.
"Ahh Kagome? This girl looks like she is from your time!"
"What?" the same girl's voice as before said before a teenager around Casey's age came out of the line of trees. She was wearing a green and white sailor uniform. "Oh my gosh, she does look like it!" Kagome said as she put a hand to her mouth.
"What the hell are you guys talking about? Where am I?" Casey yelled impatiently.
"What year is it?" Kagome asked her.
"Are you crazy!? It's 2007!"
"Oh geese, umm, how do I explain this? You are in feudal Japan."
"How can I be in Japan? I was just in Texas 2 seconds ago!"
"What is Texas?" The man with dog ears asked.
"It is a state in America Inuyasha." Kagome replied before walking over to Casey. "Let me see what is in your hand." Casey held out the hand that held the pink shard. "That is a jewel shard from the Shikon no Tama. It must have brought you here when you picked it up, which is strange because normally I have to jump in the well to get here. Where were you when you found this?"
"I was at the edge of the forest that is near my house. How do I get back?! I have school tomorrow!" Casey seemed to panic now that she had said those words. "Aw shit, I'm going to miss school and then I will get kicked out of another school and then mom will get pissed at me! I told her it wouldn't happen again!"
"Calm down, we will try to find a way to get you home." Kagome said as she wrapped an arm around Casey.
"How is she supposed to get home? She appeared out of no where!" Inuyasha yelled.
"what is with all the yelling?" a man in purple robes along with a woman in a black and pink skin tight outfit came out of the line of trees.
"This girl picked up a jewel shard and appeared here. She wasn't even in Japan!" Kagome said.
The man came over to Casey and held her hands, "you are beautiful, will you bear my children?"
"What the hell!" Casey yelled before a loud smack was heard through out the forest.
"I would take that as a no Miroku." The woman said as she walked over to them. "My name is Sango."
"Hi, I'm Casey Leighman, I came from America."
"Well, we have to do something about Casey; we can't just leave her here." Kagome said as a little boy with a tail jumped up on her shoulder. Casey gave him a weird look before she walked over to him and touched his tail.
"Is this real?" Casey asked as she pulled on it.
"Yes! It's real!" the little boy yelled, Casey quickly let go on him and looked at him with her head tilted to the side.
"What are you?"
"I'm a fox demon, my name is Shippo."
"Hi, my name is Casey." She shook his tiny hand and then looked over to Inuyasha. "Now what is the deal with the ears?"
"I'm a dog demon!" Inuyasha yelled.
"Only half dog demon." A cold voice said from behind him. They all turned and looked at the new comer. He was tall with silver hair and golden eyes. He slightly resembled Inuyasha.
"What do you want Sesshomaru?"
"What I always want, the tetseiga."
"Well you can't have it!" Inuyasha yelled as he pulled out a sword that transformed into a bigger one. Sesshomaru pulled out his own sword and sent an attack at him. Inuyasha jumped out of the way and the attack was heading strait for Casey.
"Casey! Get out of the way!" Kagome yelled but as soon as the attack reached a certain point it bounced off a barrier that had suddenly formed around her. Everyone looked at her wide-eyed, she looked shocked as well.
"Where did that come from?" she asked herself quietly.
"Interesting" Sesshomaru mumbled under his breath, meant for no one to hear him but Casey looked up at him after he said it. He was shocked that she had heard him but did not show it on his face. "Well little brother, it seems you actually have someone who is interesting in your group. I will return for the tetseiga later, along with the girl." Sesshomaru said before he disappeared. Everyone looked at Casey, shocked that Sesshomaru had taken an interest in her.
"What does he want with me?" Casey asked.
"Who knows, come on, we need to start moving again." Inuyasha said. They all nodded except for Casey who just stood there, wondering what she should do.
"Are you coming Casey?" Kagome said as she turned back to look at her.
Casey looked up, "sure, it's not like I have anywhere else to go." She ran over to the rest of the group and they continued their travels.
"So Casey, what is it like in your time where you live?" Sango asked Casey after they had been walking for a few hours.
"well, in Texas it gets really hot which is why I was wearing shorts today, I always ride the bus to a certain stop and then me and my friend get off and walk to our houses."
"Do you have a boyfriend?" Kagome asked as they continued walking.
"No, I had to dump the last one because he was a jerk and decided that his hat was more important than I was."
"That is terrible, if you were my girl I would cherish you more than anything I own." Miroku said as if what she had said was an outrage.
"Yes well, not all guys are like that, I am just good at picking out bad ones. Well, not true, bad ones just go after me."
"That sucks." Kagome replied.
"You have no idea."
"So what are your friends like?" Shippo asked.
"Well, first there is Aeron, she is crazy, we have been friends forever and we never get in fights, all our other friends do but we never do. Dana is boy crazed and is bummed out lately because the guy she likes just graduated last year. Alicia is has serious problems, she is obsessed with all things anime and she loves the color black like me. Phoenix loves smiley faces and loves drawing them on everyone's hands; she is short and loves poking people."
"Wow, sounds like you have some weird friends." Sango said as she pet the sleeping Kilala in her arms.
"Yea, I don't normally make friends with people unless they are at least weird to a certain extent."
"We're going to stop here for the night; there is a hot spring in that direction." Inuyasha said as he pointed to the left.
"Okay, come on Casey, let's go clean up." Kagome said as they walked to the hot springs.
"Wow, we don't have places like this in Texas; we just have our baths and showers." Casey said as they started undressing to get in.
"So what do you have in your bag Casey?" Kagome asked as they settled themselves in the warm water.
"Just what I take to school, my CD player, my binder, my sketchbook, my cell phone, my CDs, my spirals, some extra batteries for my CD player, pens/pencils. That's about it."
"How do you fit so much stuff in that small bag?" Sango was shocked that she took all those things to school every day.
"It's a gift." Casey says smiling, "this feels good, I haven't had the time to take a shower in 2 days." About 45 minutes later they were heading back to camp when Casey stopped. "You guys can go back; I am going to go take a walk."
"Are you sure you don't want us to stay? Around here it can get pretty dangerous." Sango said as her and Kagome looked back at Casey.
"It's okay, I'll be fine, I know how to protect myself." Casey said with a smile.
"Alright, just yell if you are in trouble." Kagome said before they continued back to camp.
The smile dropped from Casey's face as she turned in a different direction and started walking. 'I wonder why I was sent here, why did I end up here?'
"What's this? A little girl wandering around all on her own." Casey looked up and saw a large bear demon standing in front of her. "You look tasty."