Wolf: Hi there, everyone! It's a bit of an altered timeline story, so enjoy! (Also, I don't own Inuyasha and I don't like spamming. Reviews, please!)
Kagome looked around in surprise. She had a horrible feeling running down her spine, making her brown eyes widen. Inuyasha saw her stiffen and walked over hesitantly.
"What's wrong?" he asked, looking where Kagome's gaze was moving. It was toward the Bone Eater's well and the God tree. She seemed disturbed by something and he didn't know why. Truthfully, she didn't know either. It was just a sudden dread.
"I just got a really bad feeling," she replied. "Could you take me to the well so I can check up on my house?" Inuyasha was confused, but he waved to Sango and left with the girl. Kagome went home and her feeling grew worse. Something was happening but she didn't know what it was.
The house seemed fine and Souta and her grandfather were working on some spells of some sort. No one she thought could have died had died, so what was it? Nothing was burned down or broken beyond repair, but the feeling of dread kept getting worse and worse.
Once she walked into the kitchen and caught sight of her mother and her guest, she froze. It was worse than she could have imagined, even with all that anticipation. Her cousin was sipping tea and looked up. It was the cousin they never talked about, the troublemaker.
"'Sup?" the girl asked, smirking. She looked annoyingly like Kagome did, but her eyes were a mismatched purple-and-green pair and her hair was cropped and spiked, with red tips. She had piercings running up and down her ears, a fact Kagome hated. Plus, she was a tomboy with a fondness for cargo pants and tank tops, particularly black ones, like now. Her pants were grey, covering her shoes. As an American, she hadn't taken the shoes off at the door. It didn't really hurt anything because they were clean, but it seemed so rude to track dirt into the house.
"Mom?" Kagome asked uncertainly. Her mother knew for a fact that the two girls, although the same age, hated each other with a fiery passion and seemed to make the fiery pits of Hades shiver. Their fighting certainly proved that they aggravated each other to an unhealthy extent.
"Sentry will be staying with us while her parents are here in Japan," Mrs. Higurashi said, silently apologizing. Even her unfailing likeableness couldn't soften this blow.
"They want to get away from me for a bit," Sentry explained further. She smirked as she said it, standing up. "Your mom said I could bunk in your room for the next few weeks while my parents get a break." Sentry tipped an invisible hat to Mrs. Higurashi and said something in English that Kagome didn't catch. She was so behind in her language studies it was no surprise Sentry would resort to that.
Later that night (Because I'm lazy)
Kagome might have hated her cousin, but she was a good girl at heart and offered to share her bed. Sentry declined and unrolled her sleeping bag. It was probably more comfortable than the bed, anyway, she told the Japanese girl.
After a fight over that, which Souta had to help break up, Kagome and Sentry were sent to different sides of the room and tried to sleep. It would do no one any good for Sentry to break her cousin's arm, after all.
Kagome just plotted and waited for her chance. Unconsciousness claimed her too soon, though.
Sentry woke up with a strange feeling in her stomach. She shook her head and saw that Kagome was sleeping peacefully. That fact made her really want to draw something on her face, so the girl took out her trusty marker and scribbled the English letters for 'Prep' and walked out of the house.
The whole house was weird, Sentry noticed. It was nothing like her apartment back in America. But there was a certain beauty about it, even if she wouldn't admit it. The tree was particularly interesting, with the rope around it. It seemed to radiate an ancient power, a power that felt familiar somehow.
Something caught her eye and she turned toward a weird building not connected to the house, too big to be just a shed. The door was open, which was another strange thing for Sentry. She always kept things locked up tight. It seemed to have something glowing inside and Sentry thought Souta was awake and messing around. Immediately, her attitude returned and she tossed her head.
"Kid, you better get out here," she called, looking inside. "Your mom is going to kick your butt for being up this late on a school night. And I'll kick your butt first to annoying me." She huffed at that, walking toward the building and not hearing anyone scramble away. Either Souta was really quiet or he hadn't been there.
Instead of finding any trace of Souta, Sentry found that the glowing was inside a weird well in the ground. She wondered if there were a flashlight or something stuck down there and went down the ladder to check. Then, everything went black and she felt the strangest sensation of going home.
Next chapter will be up in about a week.