Disclaimer: I dont own Naruto or InuYasha. So the monkey king is gonna go beat his Plegisbwenugget with a Spork now. BAGELPASTE!

Chapter One

Washed Away

I groaned, my eyes fluttering open to see a face only an inch from mine. "Ahh!" I yelled and almost fell off of my inner tube. "Who are you?" I exclaimed, expecting she would speak English.

It was a little girl, not much older than me. Even in the shallow water, her long, light pink hair touched the rushing water. "The question is, who are you?" she said in an innocent little voice and batted her long lashes.

"I ask first." I pouted.

She giggled sickeningly sweet. "I'm Nikoli."

"Well... Nikoli," I said, "my name is Ivory." I looked around and had the feeling I wasn't home anymore. "Where..."

"The Fae Village." Nikoli said before I could finish my sentence. Ah, a Fae. No wonder she had such long, pointed ears.

I jumped out of my inner tube. "I can't be here! I have get back to Konoha!"

Nikoli giggled again. "I dunno where that is. Come, I show you to my family. Maybe they know."

I shrugged. It couldn't hurt.

The Fae girl grabbed my wrist and pulled me out of the river. She'd already seen me in hybrid form, so that didn't matter, but if the village saw me, I'd surely be banished. Quickly, I stuck my hand out and water wrapped around me, transforming me from a furry, leopard printed human with a tail and cat ears to a normal, pale skinned human.

We ran into a hole in a gigantic sycamore tree with oddly shaped windows and doors. There were bird houses and wind chimes hanging everywhere and little doors and hollows where animals had made their homes.

The house was bigger than she expected on the inside, with a huge spiral staircase going on for what seemed like forever and many different colored doors. The only things in this room were a coat rack stacked with sweaters, jackets, and winter coats, shoes of all colors and shapes lining the lightly stained walls, and a table with some freshly baked cookies. They smelled delicious- probably chocolate chip macadamia.

"I'll show you my oldest brother first... He's seven." she said to me, then turned her head up. "Kankuro! Kaaankurooooo!" she yelled.

A loud voice sounded from up stairs. "WHAT DO YOU WANT? I AM TAKING A CRAP!"

I blinked a few times.

"I found a girl that got washed down the river! Can I keep her?"

I blinked again. I did not like being treated like a pet.

"WHAT?" A boy dressed in all black with a hat that made it look like he had cat ears came out of the bathroom, toilet paper still in hand. He clambered downstairs, tripping once and cursing. "Why did you bring THAT here?" he gestured to me without looking me directly in the eye.

I could feel my fangs sharpening. "Listen here," I growled through clenched jaws, "all I need is to get back to Konoha. So I would like to speak to whoever's in charge here."

He pondered this for a few moments. "TEMARI!"

"Yes, oh annoying one?" I heard a low but feminine voice.

"Someone's here to see you..."

"Alright... Be right there..." she mumbled not loud enough for a regular human to hear. But none of them were regular humans, were they?

A blonde, spikey haired girl stepped gracefully down the stairs. Kankuro rolled his eyes. "Can't you get down here any faster?"

The nine year-old pretended that she didn't her baby brother. "Well hello, hello. What can I do for you?" she asked me.

I was hoping for an adult, but I guess this would do. "Yeah, do you know where Konoha is?"

She pouted. "Never heard of it. But you're welcome to chill here till you can find it."

"BUT MAAARRIIIIII!" she heard Kankuro whine loudly.

She glared at Kankuro smacked him on the back of the head, then turned a smile to me. "We have lotsa extra rooms- take your pick."

"Thanks!"

"OH! Ivory! You still haven't met my twin brother, Gaara!" remembered Nikoli, and grabbed my hand, dragging me away from her siblings.

"Nice to meet you all!" I said very quickly as I slipped around the corner.

We went up three floors, circling and circling until we found a black door with a silver lion knocker. Nikoli reached up and rapped hard. "Gaara! Get out here!"

A noise that sounded like a mixture of a moan and a growl sounded from the room and a little red-haired boy wearing way too much eyeliner opened the door. His expression looked between bored and annoyed. Looking up at Temari, he said, "What do you wa-" but then he caught sight of me and stopped, eyes wide.

"Did you get into Temari's eyeliner again?" asked Nikoli smugly.

He glared and ignored her. "Who's your friend?"

"I'm Ivory." I said, eager to introduce myself.

A smile spread across his face and his cheeks got a little red. "I'm Gaara."