Disclaimer for all chapters: I don't own it so don't ask.

Okay…so I know all of the characters are way OOC, but that's how I wrote it. So if you don't like it I'm sorry, but there's no need to tell me.

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Chapter 1

He stopped and turned as he heard his name. Who was calling him? He knew no one in this strange, new place. "I never should have stepped through that door. Mother always said my curiosity would be the end of me," he mused aloud.

"InuYasha!" He turned around again. It was coming from the corridor to his right. He ran down the hall following the frantic calls. They were coming faster now and seemed closer than before. He stopped as he reached a door, not sure if the calls were coming from behind it. "Hm, this seems to be the only door in this maze of walls. I must have walked into some building, but I've never seen anything like this before," he thought. The call came once again and he knew that whatever, or whoever, was calling him was definitely behind this door. He stretched his hand out and touched the doorknob. An electric shock ran through him and he quickly let go.

"InuYasha! Hurry!" He thought no more and slammed open the door. A very bright, white light blinded him and when he could see again he was on top of a grassy hill. He shook his head and turned around. The door he had come through was no longer there, and in its place was a cliff wall.

InuYasha looked around and noticed that for all its beauty and sunlight this new place was very cold. He drew his jacket closer around him, glad that he had remembered to grab it before walking through the door. Thinking back he realized that he had been drawn to the door, unable to look away even had he wanted to. It was almost as if an entity, or something similar, had guided him through it.

He felt someone looking at him and turned. Behind him was a girl about his age. She was looking at him strangely and before he could ask her anything she said, "I'm glad you came."

"what are you talking about?"

"My sister died a few days ago, at 20 years old, and her last words to me were 'Call InuYasha. He'll help…"

"Call me?" he asked, confused.

"Yes, call you. She said "Find InuYasha. Find him for me…he'll know…" What does she mean? Do you know?"

InuYasha shook his head, more lost now than before. As he was about to ask her where she lived she told him about a cave nearby that had stores of food and blankets. "My sister must have been preparing for you to come, and, since one can only 'call' at dusk she knew that you'd have to stay here, my home is too far away. Follow me, I'll take you there." She led him to the cave, pointing out landmarks on the way. Once they arrived at the cave she showed him where the blankets, food, and tinder were stored. She then said she would be back tomorrow to explain things a bit more.

The next morning he woke up early, made a fire, and decided to check out his surroundings. However, when he went outside he could hardly see. He was about to make himself comfortable so he could wait for the girl when he saw a shadow in the mist. The shadow materialized into the girl and he saw a small ball of light floating above her head. "Wha-?" he started to say when she shushed him.

"Okay, I know there are differences between your world and mine, but you can't tell me that you don't' know what this is," she said in response to his questioning look.

"yes, I can. I have no idea what that is," he said pointing to the light. "where I come from random lights don't just appear."

"You don't have magic in your world?"

"Magic? No we don't. In my world it's only a parlor trick to please the children."

"How do you live? Magic is the essence of life, at least here. I thought it was the same everywhere," the girl sat for a moment, her head cocked to one side, obviously thinking. "well you should be able to use magic here. All you have to do is think it. Everyone has the ability, it's just the amount of discipline and will power you have that decides how powerful you are."

"Well, since we're obviously going to be working together for some time may I know your name?" InuYasha asked.

"Oh, my name is Kagome. Hm, it would be very suspicious of you to not know magic, so you'll spend today learning the basics. Oh, don't tell anyone where you're from. I'd get in so much trouble. It's against our laws to call anyone from another world. I only know how to do it because I spend so much time in the filing and supply rooms of the Learning Center reading the forbidden books instead of doing work," Kagome said sheepishly.

Kagome made InuYasha practice magic for hours.

"Okay, to call fire what you have to do is imagine a fire burning whatever fuel you have. A good mage can call fire with out any hand signals or words, and he can call fire to burn anything, even stone or in air." InuYasha nodded and turned to the bundle of wood at his feet. He stared at it for a long time before a wisp of smoke slowly appeared.

"Look! I've started it!"

"Yes, now keep thinking hard and make a flame." InuYasha continued to think at the wood and soon there was a tiny lick of flame. He redoubled his efforts and only a few moments later fire was licking up the sides of the pile and consuming the wood. "There you go! Now if I'm correct your main element will be fire."

"Main element?"

"Yes, every person has a main element that is easiest for them. I'm fire as well, and this means that for me, calling water is harder."

"Because water and fire are opposite elements right?"

"Something like that. But that doesn't mean you should give up on water. Everyone can call every element, just some are more drawn to certain elements than others. Okay, to call water just imagine this bowl filling with liquid," Kagome said as she handed InuYasha a clay bowl.

"Okay, just like the fire, but water. Right?" Kagome nodded and InuYasha bent over the bowl, imagining the water. After an hour of nothing Kagome called for a break.

"Come on, I know you can call water. Just make it fill the bowl. Imagine the bowl filling up with water. Don't worry where the water is coming from, it'll ruin your concentration."

"Where is the water coming from?" InuYasha asked, looking up from the bowl in his lap.

"It's condensing from the air. Where else would it come from?"

"Oh, that makes sense. I think I'll be able to do it now. If I imagine the water condensing from the air…" InuYasha stopped talking and closed his eyes. His brows furrowed and the bowl slowly started to fill with moisture.

"Keep going InuYasha! You're doing great." After a few more minutes the bowl was completely full and InuYasha opened his eyes.

"Man, that's harder than it looks. You make it look so easy."

"Well, I've been practicing since I was a baby. It's almost lunch time, want to take a break?"

"Heck ya, I'm starving and my brain hurts from this concentrating." After eating Kagome had InuYasha practice calling light.

"Just think of the light filling an imaginary sphere." InuYasha concentrated hard and after a half hour or so he had the faint wisp of light above his head. "There you go. There's lots more magic you can do, but I'm not very good at it yet. I'm still in training."

"Can you tell me the other kinds?" InuYasha asked.

"Of course. There's manipulating the weather, scrying, earth magic."

"Scrying? What's that?"

"Well, technically it's considered earth magic, but it's different than most. Pretty much it's using magic to speak to other people using a natural medium."

"What?"

"Okay, so using magic to speak to other people using something from nature. The most common are white crystals, fire, and water. But the really experienced people can scry the wind."

"When do you learn that?"

"Let me see. My sister just learned about 6 months ago, so in your twenty-second year. They tried teaching it earlier, but people would use it to play around. Magic isn't made for that. It can backfire on the user if not treated properly."

"Ah! It's getting late. I need to get home. My parents are expecting me back and it's a half hour walk. Do you want to stay here another night or do you want to come meet my parents?"

"Well, as comfortable as this rock is, I think I'll opt for something a little softer. Is it alright if I come with you?"

"Of course. Come this way."

"Can I ask why you called me? I mean, I know your sister asked you to, but why?"

"Well, Kikyo, my sister, died two days ago. The elders said it was of 'natural causes' but her fiancé, Naraku, and I believe it to be poison."

"Poison?"

"Well, she was perfectly healthy and then right before lunch break she went into convulsions. She died about an hour and a half later."

"She's never had convulsions before?"

"No and she wasn't allergic to anything that we know of."

"Hm, very interesting. Not to worry, InuYasha is on the case."

"I'm glad. I was hoping you would help us. Come, I have something to show you." As they reached the top of the hill from yesterday Kagome stopped. InuYasha saw her village. It was surrounded by green grass and to the south and west, where they were; there were hills and mountains.

Inside the village there were about 20 houses surrounding a large central structure. Kagome told him that the central building was the Learning Center. There all of the community members learned their magic. The four houses leading to the Learning Center were larger than the others and belonged to the village elders and family. After Kagome had explained all of this they started walking again. They talked about magic and the differences between their worlds.

InuYasha noticed that the grass and trees were greener here than anywhere he had ever been in his world. The grass was a deep color and the leaves on the trees were an emerald green. This was so different from the sickly yellow green that he was used to, and he told Kagome so.

"We never have that color on our trees. They go from green to red and orange during fall, but those you see are pine trees, so they stay green all year round." As they neared the village InuYasha saw the walls and gates were very tall and very thick. He asked Kagome about it and she told him that the village bad been build to withstand many months of siege and attack; the walls were about 6 feet thick and very tall, they had their own farmland and water source inside the walls. They reached the gates and they slowly opened. Inside the walls were towers to control the gates. "Come on, I'll show you around.

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Well, that's all she wrote. I'll write more soon. Leave a review if you feel like it.