Notes: I own neither Inuyasha or Doctor Who (sadly) but really wanted to do this crossover! I hope folks like it.

Chapter One: Stuck in the Rabbit Hole

The TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) was squealing as once again the Doctor had forgotten to take off the parking break. He held onto the controls and came to a ragged stop before the control panel sparked a few times at him and the lights dimmed.

"Hmm." was all the noise he made as he frowned at it. He'd waited too long to come back to earth and recharge her. He was lucky she'd made it back to Cardiff at all. With Amy and Rory off to enjoy their honeymoon in Rio he felt it best to leave them to it in their own time. He didn't want to think on it too much, he'd competed for Amy in his own way and didn't want to stick around and watch the two of them together.

It was just as well he was alone, now that he had let the TARDIS run so low on power, he could picture her yelling at him and didn't want to deal with that just at this moment. He opened the doors and paused just before he bounced off a stone wall.

He hadn't checked what was outside other than it being a survivable atmosphere, they were suppose to be on the crack in Cardiff after all. With a vague frown he looked around, noting there was more light coming from above. He smirked some, a bit of adventure was just what he could use now, using the outside of the TARDIS as leverage he pushed himself up and then blinked as he saw there was a ladder inside the circular pit on the opposite side of the door.

"That's unexpectedly convenient." He said thoughtfully before using it to climb out. He looked over the inside of the shack where it was placed. It was dusty, there were cobwebs under the stairs, but a lot of small prints on the floor going from the steps by the door to the well itself so even if they didn't really dust it off it was obviously used.

He climbed over the edge of the well and straightened out his jacket and bow tie before walking himself up to the door, opening it and raising a curious brow at where he found himself.

A Japanese shrine? He was fairly certain that was the skyline of tokyo during the twenty-first century. He didn't tend to favor traveling to the eastern areas of earth, but that was just because he'd always possessed a fondness for Britain and over time had come to favor it over several other places in time and space.

"Why did the TARDIS drop me here?" He commented to himself, rubbing his chin and glancing about the place. There was a old tree, older than most but he couldn't tell the exact years, given that it lacked most of it's leaves and a large portion of it's branches. There was a small fence around it, which offered a visual show of reverence. Nearby there were other buildings for the shrine itself and closer to a long staircase leading down into the city there was a two story home that was common for the era.

Something was off but he couldn't quite place his finger on it. The TARDIS was feeding it's power from something near here and that would make it impossible to place what that was until it was finished. So he had a day to let it repower, he was starting to think it made him do things like climb out of that pit, or the pool, on purpose.

He noted that the door had a warning that the inside was dangerous, it went on to state it was dangerous and not the fault of the caretakers if one entered and got hurt. He was still reading when he heard people from the stairs.

"Souta, I dunno why you wanna race me, you don't have a key." A young woman's voice called. The doctor ducked behind one side of the building, wincing as the door slammed shut loudly, that couldn't be good. He peered through a hole in the buildings side toward the stairs.

A boy, around ten years of age, moved into view and was watching the door of the shack he'd just exited, which left any hope it might have gone unnoticed gone. He dug around his inside pocket for his psychic paper, it was back to the usual inspector act.

He stepped from the side as if he was looking at the building skeptically, frowning when the boy called back to the first voice. "Hey Kagome, there's some weird foreigner here."

"Be nice Souta." The girl coming up the stairs was likely the one named Kagome then. She was frowning a bit at her brother then tugged out her keys and tossed them to him. "Here, go on inside, I'll deal with it."

"Sure." Souta snagged the keys from the air and took off toward the house while Kagome made her way over to where the Doctor was pretending to be interested in the shack.

"Hello." She greeted, and when he turned to face her there was a smile on her face. "I'm Kagome, my Grandfather isn't here today but can I do something to help you?"

"I'm here as an inspector." He showed her the psychic paper before closing it again. "This building is in great disrepair, there should be a lock on the door and..."

"Wait." Kagome interrupted him, hands on her hips and her expression changed to serious. "Is this a joke? That paper was blank."

"Um...yes, hahaha." He said without much conviction. "I just wanted to see everything while I was here."

"Sure..." Kagome stated with a skeptical glance. "Well, the shrine isn't open today with my Grandfather gone. You should come back tomorrow and he can help you with it."

"Oh tomorrow..." The doctor commented, still staring at the girl, she seemed human enough but she was able to see through the illusion made by the psychic paper. "..I don't have a place to stay in the area yet. Anywhere you'd recommend?"

He smiled his best charming smile at her and she rolled her eyes a little. The gesture was tiny enough that he probably wouldn't have noticed if he wasn't a time lord. She offered a less sure smile and spoke again. "There are a few hotels just down across the street. I've heard good things from a few tourists about the Crane."

"Oh, you've never stayed there?" He figured he was making polite conversation.

"No...I live right here, why would I stay in a hotel across the street?" Kagome asked, this guy was weird even for some of the tourists they got sometimes. "What's with that outfit anyway? It's like he walked out of some old 60's film."

He was wearing suspender's on his pants over his shoulders, a simple dress shirt, a light brown tweed dress jacket from a foregone era, and a red bow tie. He was cute enough when you put the clothes aside. His hair was ragged but seemed to work for him, and he had the most stunning green eyes she'd ever seen.

"Why not?" He asked, frowning a bit. "It's a totally different perspective."

Kagome chuckled as she shook her head at him, the guy was odd but he seemed to mean well. She held out a hand as he introduced herself. "I'm Kagome Higurashi, my grandfather runs this shrine but I stay here with my family."

"Oh...good to meet you." He stated holding out his hand and frowning as he shook her hand, once he'd touched her it was immediately obvious, she was a time traveler. It could all be something else but it was bad that the TARDIS was sitting at the bottom of a well inside a shack. She eyed him curiously at the stare he was giving her, oddball somehow didn't quite cover her thoughts on the guy. "So um, the Crane is over there." She motioned for him to follow and pointed out a building that seemed nice and quaint across the street. "There are a few others, and if you catch the train there are a lot of places downtown."

"Could I stay here?" He asked on a whim, blinking at her as she offered him a momentarily surprised expression. "There is a inn here?"

"No, no." Kagome shook her head negatively. "We don't actually run anything on the shrine itself. Most of our customers don't even stay near here. We're aren't really the most visited or nicest shrine in Japan, there are many other better places."

"Well thats not very kind, it seems pleasant here, a quiet in the cacophony of a large city like this one." He stated calmly, looking around, there was obviously something here that had drawn the TARDIS to refuel over Cardiff but he wasn't sure what it could be.

"I suppose it is sometimes." Kagome answered, glancing toward the shack where his time machine was currently being housed and then back to him. "Why were you in there? It states it's dangerous."
"Not living without a little danger." He stated cheerfully, which would have been more believable in almost any other outfit.

"Right..." Kagome answered. "Well, I guess you can come by tomorrow mister?"

"Doctor." He announced.

"Mister Doctor?" She raised a brow, starting to wonder just what she'd walked into. "Why isn't Grandpa here to deal with this?"

"No just the Doctor." He replied.

"The Doctor of what?" She asked, dead-panning a little as she was expecting him to say 'love' or something equally as lame.

"Just the Doctor." He said, voice more insistent. "Most people just call me 'doctor'."

"Uh-huh..." She commented. "You know that's a little strange?"

"Not really." He answered, despite the fact he heard that all the time.

"Sure okay." Kagome shrugged, not wanting to deal with it. "Well, have a good time tomorrow doctor."

He spoke quickly, and the final question came so fast she didn't even recognize what was said until a couple seconds later. "I'll try, I mean, it seems really nice here, and I suppose it would be a good time to look around in this area as it's been such a long time. Are you a time traveler?"

End Chapter

I hope folks like it. It's sorta a strange combination but I like it. Both parties ended chapter one feeling very: wtf? I have further pondering's but no point working on it if I don't have folks interested.

-Aura

P.S. R&R please ;)