What's this? I can't believe it. Posting another unfinished story! How dare I! Weeeell…anyway, this just cried to be written, and I'd like some feedback on it. WDYL is currently being revised (I didn't like the way it was going, hopefully it will be better the second time around.) Read, review, ya'll know the drill. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, Oz, or anything along that level. The storyline, however, you can totally blame on me.

The Miko of Sengoku Jidai

Chapter 1: Be Careful What You Wish For…

Kagome looked around the shrine grounds once more and sighed. Her life was dull. She had lived all of 15 years -tothe day,in fact -on this small shrine, the so-called Sunset Shrine. For being a sunset, it was awfully colorless. Happiness had been a fleeting dream of childhood, long gone since she had begun working long hours tending the shrine; the hours she didn't spend at school. There was no time for friends in her busy schedule, and the loneliness slowly stole the color she had left. Her mother and grandfather also worked hard to make a living and were already gray from the difficult lives they had led. Her brother was the only one with any color left in his life. He constantly abandoned his chores on the shrine to spend time with friends and enjoy himself. Not a good thing for the family; they needed all the help they could get, but Souta kept some light around them, so perhaps it helped in more ways than they thought. Unfortunately, Kagome and the rest could not follow in his footsteps, or maybe they just didn't know how. And now our story begins, on one special, gray day.

Kagome swept the shrine steps, for lack of anything better to do. The customers had long since left, her mother was baking dinner, and Souta had once again gone gallivanting off on some adventure or another. Grampa was nowhere in sight, but probably off making more useless sealing spells. So she was left to do the rest of the cleaning up.

"sigh I wish things weren't always so boring around here!" She said, looking up at the only thing that had retained its color through the years; the Goshinboku tree. Sometimes it seemed almost magickal…But that saying isn't just there for fun; be careful what you wish for…

The next moment the wind began to howl, and a dark, funnel shape appeared in the distance. Her mom ran out of the house, frantic.

"TORNADO! Everyone in the basement, now!"

'A tornado in Tokyo?' Kagome thought incredulously. 'Now I've seen everything! But she was still curious to see what would happen with the tornado, and wanted to figure out this strange occurrence. As her family all ran inside the house and slammed the door, she stayed out as the tornado wreaked havoc. It seemed to collect little specks of dust as it went along, but those specks soon were revealed to be bits of houses, and sometimes a stray animal. At this point, Kagome knew that the twister was getting dangerously close.

She turned to go back inside her house, but the door wouldn't open! ' It must have gotten jammed shut when Mom slammed it!' She thought frantically. 'Now where do I go!' She scanned the shrine-grounds with a panicked gaze, and her eyes lit on the well house. Well, it would be much safer then standing outside.

Kagome dashed inside without a second thought. She stared into the depths of the dry well and gulped nervously. It would be safer inside the well, logic told her. But staring into that deep, dark pit was sapping her courage. 'Better jump, or I'll get blown away by the twister.' She told herself. So she drew in a long, slow breath; shut her eyes tightly; and jumped.

The next few moments seemed to last all of eternity, and yet at the same time, took no time at all. As Kagome plummeted into the depths of the well, the sound of the storm suddenly vanished. She seemed to be floating or floating (she was too disoriented to know which it was) through a cloud of purplish blue light.

When the motion and lights stopped, Kagome found herself at the bottom of the well, along with Buyo the cat, who looked slightly dazed.

"Wow, I'm glad that's over." She said aloud, startling herself with the sound of her own voice. "Am I dreaming?" She pinched her forearm. AOW! Nope, not dreaming. I wonder what all that light was..." As she said this, she realized that the wind had stopped blowing. "Hmm. I guess the tornado's stopped now! Buyo, we need to get out of here. It's dirty!" She brushed dust off of herself and stood up.

She looked up, expecting to see the roof of the well house above her head, and instead found herself gazing into a deep blue sky. The tornado must have blown away the well house then... She thought. Kagome grabbed onto the vines that were hanging from the sides of the well, and pulled herself up the side. She was immediately blinded by color. When her eyes adjusted, she found herself staring into a vibrantly green forest. The trees towered well above her head, and when she tried to get a glimpse of the leafy tops by craning her neck, she almost fell back into the well.

"Wow..." She said breathlessly, looking now at the multi-colored flowers on the forest floor as she pulled herself completely out of the well. "Buyo," She said to the cat that jumped out of the well beside her. "I don't think we're in Tokyo anymore."


Short and sweet, sort of a prologue thing. Whether or not you liked it, review. If you totally love Wizard of Oz and think I'm a heretic for doing such an incredibly horrible thing to the story, I will tell you…I could do SO much worse damage! Mwahaha…