Kagome struggled with her calculus homework, not understanding a thing and
sweating profusely under the mere concentration she was exerting.
"Auuuuugh!!!!!! I don't GET IT!!!!" she yelled, frustrated. Just then, Mrs.
Higurashi popped in her room.
"Kagome, dear. I think we should take a trip to China and visit the wonderful Jusenkyo Springs! Look at these wonderful brochures!" she thrust a bunch of shiny brochures in Kagome's face. There it was. The Jusenkyo Springs – with mist all around its pretty waterfalls and uhh…….poles sticking up from the water? "You can bathe in the springs to relieve you from your stress, Kagome! What do you say? I'm going to start packing our things and I'll leave Soto with a babysitter. This will be a mother- daughter trip!" Mrs. Higurashi said dreamily. "I'll be enjoying some quality time with my daughter……" she mumbled as she walked out the door. Kagome stared at the brochures. 'It does look pretty nice,' she thought. 'Looks like a place called Palm Springs I heard my friend talking about….except Palm Springs is in the States…..I wonder if Inuyasha'd want to come with us….. oh wait……' Kagome rolled her eyes. 'Mother-daughter trip. I'd have to go and tell Inuyasha that I'd be gone for more than a week….' "Mom! I'm going down to Feudal Japan to tell Inuyasha that we're going on a little trip!"
"All right, dear! Don't be too long!" her mother called from a few rooms next to hers. Kagome bounded down the stairs and jumped into the well. She found Inuyasha sleeping outside the well. 'Was he waiting for me!? Ohhh, Inuyasha!' she smiled. She knew how to wake him up without yelling in his ear. "SIT!!!!!!" Inuyasha's eyes ~~ @_# "AUUUH!! What was that for, wench!?!?!!!!!" he screamed, obviously very mad.
"Just to wake you up!" Kagome said, pertly, giving Inuyasha a wide grin. Inuyasha grumbled and fell back asleep. "Uh Inuyasha……?" Kagome said timidly aware that Inuyasha was dead to the world and couldn't hear a word she was saying. "I'm going to go…….on a little trip to Jusenkyo Springs with my mom and I won't be back for about….. three weeks! Bye!" She quickly escaped into the well, hoping Inuyasha wouldn't come after her. "Come on, Mom! Let's go!" she yelled through the shrine to alarm her mother. "All right dear. I've got all the train and boat tickets ready! Let's go! Off to Jusenkyo Springs we go!! We're going to have a blast of a time, Kagome. I'll see to it. This trip will change your life FOREVER!" Mrs. Higurashi said, with a look of pride on her shiny face. 'Seems like she put a little too much foundation on,' Kagome thought. Once they arrived at the train station, Kagome felt nervous. What if I get home sick? Will Inuyasha miss me? Mrs. Higurashi looked down at her daughter. "Don't worry about anything, Kagome!" she whispered excitedly as the train rang its bell. "Come on! We've got first class seats!" The clamored onto the train just as it was moving its great iron wheels. The seats were so comfy and it was better than anything Kagome had ever sat on. Kagome's mother looked out the window to look at the passing scenery just as her daughter was dozing off. 'I'm glad to get her mind off that Inuyasha once in a while. I hope this trip will make her forget about him……at least for some period of time!' In a while, Mrs. Higurashi fell asleep too. As they pulled into the dock, Kagome woke up with a start. "Mother!" she said cheerfully. "Let's go onto the boat!"
Inuyasha's back hurt with pain from the recent sit Kagome had given him. He looked around – but where was Kagome? "Kagome?" he jumped into the well only to discover he was still in the past. After Kagome had left the shrine her grampa secretly put a binding scroll over the well. "Why curse it!" he yelled. "What's the moron up to now!? How am I supposed to know if she's in danger!" Just then, a familiar *tink tink* of Miroku's spiritual staff reached Inuyasha's sensitive dog ears.
"Where is Lady Kagome?" he asked.
"Somewhere in her own home," Inuyasha sighed frustrated. 'When is she ever going to learn that danger is in her way when she possesses part of the Shikon jewel!?'
"I hope she is all right," the monk said spiritually. "Let us pray for her Inuyasha!"
"YOU MAKE IT SOUND LIKE SHE'S DEAD!" Inuyasha snapped. Miroku was taken aback.
"Inuyasha ….I meant to pray for her safety!" he said with a totally innocent look on his face.
"I'm not the spiritual type and I DON'T PRAY! Go and pray your stupid prayers with Shippo or someone else who believes in you!"
"Well, well, that's a little harsh," Miroku said solemnly and walked away murmuring his 'Ah-mi-do-fos.'
"Look ahead!" Kagome cried excitedly. "It's the waterfall that we saw in the brochure!" Kagome said to her mother who was throwing up over the side of the boat. Suddenly, Kagome noticed something oddly strange. There was nobody on the boat except for her mother and her. Did nobody want to go to Jusenkyo Springs? It looked like a fairly wonderful dreamland to her. Then she also noticed the ferry boat driver looked a little strange…..she shook her head to clear her thoughts. 'I'm just seeing things,' she thought with a little smile. Suddenly the boat took a violent jerk and something scratched underneath it. It was a huge rock embedded in the sand. The sand was glittering with what seemed like miniscule pieces of gold. "Are we here?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.
"You bet we are!" Kagome yelled and jumped off the boat leaving the ferry boat navigator to take care of the luggage. Kagome sprawled herself over the warm sand when something struck to her attention. 'Why is this sand warm? The sun set over three hours ago……' "Uh… Mr. Driver? Will you kindly please tell me what the weather was on this ….island today?"
"Of course, m'Lady. It was about in the mid 70s but it should start getting warmer later on in the week." He winked at her. "Have fun, you two!" He jumped back in the boat hurriedly as if afraid of something leaving the Higurashi's luggaged half soaked in the water.
"Are we the only people on this island?" Kagome asked herself aloud. All of a sudden, she heard a voice. "TAKE THAT, POP!!!!" It was a voice of a male teenager…..battling with his dad, it seemed.
"Ranma, my boy!!!!! You're not going to get away with this!!!"
"Uh……mom….? I'll be right back. You rest here in the rocks. Ok?" Mrs. Higurashi nodded tiredly. Kagome scrambled over the rocks to see the lake she saw in the brochure… with sticks sticking up from it. There she saw an oddly handsome boy with a pigtail fighting a ….sort of weird looking old man with half broken glasses.
"That's enough training for today, son. Let us eat." The old man said. "We must also bathe in cold water for health!" He held in his hand two buckets of cold water and handed one to his son. *WHOOSH* They splashed water onto themselves. Then Kagome's eyes widened until she felt her eyeballs would pop out. 'Did they… what the hell!? Are those …..different people? They only…..splashed themselves with cold water…." The handsome boy had turned into a buxom girl with eye-piercing red hair…..and real boobs! And the guy had turned into a panda carrying wooden signs communicating to his…..half son half daughter? She decided to ask what was going on.
"Um…..excuse me?" she asked timidly. The girl/guy and panda/father both screamed at once and grabbed for hot water in a split second and poured it over them. They instantly changed back. "How did you….. do that?" The father and son laughed nervously. "Oh…it's nothing but a……a….." the boy named Ranma twiddled.
"A trick of the eye!!!!" the father, already introduced as Genma finished with his finger sticking up in the air, as if suddenly overcome by a great idea. "We shall go to sleep now. I hope to see you later on." Ranma said. In the tent that the Saotomes were staying in, Ranma whispered to his dad, "That girl is pretty!"
"RANMA!!!!!" Genma said angered. "You're engaged to Akane!!!!" Ranma sighed.
"Yea, yea………" Just as he said that, Kagome stepped into the Jusenkyo Springs for a little bath…..
"Kagome, dear. I think we should take a trip to China and visit the wonderful Jusenkyo Springs! Look at these wonderful brochures!" she thrust a bunch of shiny brochures in Kagome's face. There it was. The Jusenkyo Springs – with mist all around its pretty waterfalls and uhh…….poles sticking up from the water? "You can bathe in the springs to relieve you from your stress, Kagome! What do you say? I'm going to start packing our things and I'll leave Soto with a babysitter. This will be a mother- daughter trip!" Mrs. Higurashi said dreamily. "I'll be enjoying some quality time with my daughter……" she mumbled as she walked out the door. Kagome stared at the brochures. 'It does look pretty nice,' she thought. 'Looks like a place called Palm Springs I heard my friend talking about….except Palm Springs is in the States…..I wonder if Inuyasha'd want to come with us….. oh wait……' Kagome rolled her eyes. 'Mother-daughter trip. I'd have to go and tell Inuyasha that I'd be gone for more than a week….' "Mom! I'm going down to Feudal Japan to tell Inuyasha that we're going on a little trip!"
"All right, dear! Don't be too long!" her mother called from a few rooms next to hers. Kagome bounded down the stairs and jumped into the well. She found Inuyasha sleeping outside the well. 'Was he waiting for me!? Ohhh, Inuyasha!' she smiled. She knew how to wake him up without yelling in his ear. "SIT!!!!!!" Inuyasha's eyes ~~ @_# "AUUUH!! What was that for, wench!?!?!!!!!" he screamed, obviously very mad.
"Just to wake you up!" Kagome said, pertly, giving Inuyasha a wide grin. Inuyasha grumbled and fell back asleep. "Uh Inuyasha……?" Kagome said timidly aware that Inuyasha was dead to the world and couldn't hear a word she was saying. "I'm going to go…….on a little trip to Jusenkyo Springs with my mom and I won't be back for about….. three weeks! Bye!" She quickly escaped into the well, hoping Inuyasha wouldn't come after her. "Come on, Mom! Let's go!" she yelled through the shrine to alarm her mother. "All right dear. I've got all the train and boat tickets ready! Let's go! Off to Jusenkyo Springs we go!! We're going to have a blast of a time, Kagome. I'll see to it. This trip will change your life FOREVER!" Mrs. Higurashi said, with a look of pride on her shiny face. 'Seems like she put a little too much foundation on,' Kagome thought. Once they arrived at the train station, Kagome felt nervous. What if I get home sick? Will Inuyasha miss me? Mrs. Higurashi looked down at her daughter. "Don't worry about anything, Kagome!" she whispered excitedly as the train rang its bell. "Come on! We've got first class seats!" The clamored onto the train just as it was moving its great iron wheels. The seats were so comfy and it was better than anything Kagome had ever sat on. Kagome's mother looked out the window to look at the passing scenery just as her daughter was dozing off. 'I'm glad to get her mind off that Inuyasha once in a while. I hope this trip will make her forget about him……at least for some period of time!' In a while, Mrs. Higurashi fell asleep too. As they pulled into the dock, Kagome woke up with a start. "Mother!" she said cheerfully. "Let's go onto the boat!"
Inuyasha's back hurt with pain from the recent sit Kagome had given him. He looked around – but where was Kagome? "Kagome?" he jumped into the well only to discover he was still in the past. After Kagome had left the shrine her grampa secretly put a binding scroll over the well. "Why curse it!" he yelled. "What's the moron up to now!? How am I supposed to know if she's in danger!" Just then, a familiar *tink tink* of Miroku's spiritual staff reached Inuyasha's sensitive dog ears.
"Where is Lady Kagome?" he asked.
"Somewhere in her own home," Inuyasha sighed frustrated. 'When is she ever going to learn that danger is in her way when she possesses part of the Shikon jewel!?'
"I hope she is all right," the monk said spiritually. "Let us pray for her Inuyasha!"
"YOU MAKE IT SOUND LIKE SHE'S DEAD!" Inuyasha snapped. Miroku was taken aback.
"Inuyasha ….I meant to pray for her safety!" he said with a totally innocent look on his face.
"I'm not the spiritual type and I DON'T PRAY! Go and pray your stupid prayers with Shippo or someone else who believes in you!"
"Well, well, that's a little harsh," Miroku said solemnly and walked away murmuring his 'Ah-mi-do-fos.'
"Look ahead!" Kagome cried excitedly. "It's the waterfall that we saw in the brochure!" Kagome said to her mother who was throwing up over the side of the boat. Suddenly, Kagome noticed something oddly strange. There was nobody on the boat except for her mother and her. Did nobody want to go to Jusenkyo Springs? It looked like a fairly wonderful dreamland to her. Then she also noticed the ferry boat driver looked a little strange…..she shook her head to clear her thoughts. 'I'm just seeing things,' she thought with a little smile. Suddenly the boat took a violent jerk and something scratched underneath it. It was a huge rock embedded in the sand. The sand was glittering with what seemed like miniscule pieces of gold. "Are we here?" Mrs. Higurashi asked.
"You bet we are!" Kagome yelled and jumped off the boat leaving the ferry boat navigator to take care of the luggage. Kagome sprawled herself over the warm sand when something struck to her attention. 'Why is this sand warm? The sun set over three hours ago……' "Uh… Mr. Driver? Will you kindly please tell me what the weather was on this ….island today?"
"Of course, m'Lady. It was about in the mid 70s but it should start getting warmer later on in the week." He winked at her. "Have fun, you two!" He jumped back in the boat hurriedly as if afraid of something leaving the Higurashi's luggaged half soaked in the water.
"Are we the only people on this island?" Kagome asked herself aloud. All of a sudden, she heard a voice. "TAKE THAT, POP!!!!" It was a voice of a male teenager…..battling with his dad, it seemed.
"Ranma, my boy!!!!! You're not going to get away with this!!!"
"Uh……mom….? I'll be right back. You rest here in the rocks. Ok?" Mrs. Higurashi nodded tiredly. Kagome scrambled over the rocks to see the lake she saw in the brochure… with sticks sticking up from it. There she saw an oddly handsome boy with a pigtail fighting a ….sort of weird looking old man with half broken glasses.
"That's enough training for today, son. Let us eat." The old man said. "We must also bathe in cold water for health!" He held in his hand two buckets of cold water and handed one to his son. *WHOOSH* They splashed water onto themselves. Then Kagome's eyes widened until she felt her eyeballs would pop out. 'Did they… what the hell!? Are those …..different people? They only…..splashed themselves with cold water…." The handsome boy had turned into a buxom girl with eye-piercing red hair…..and real boobs! And the guy had turned into a panda carrying wooden signs communicating to his…..half son half daughter? She decided to ask what was going on.
"Um…..excuse me?" she asked timidly. The girl/guy and panda/father both screamed at once and grabbed for hot water in a split second and poured it over them. They instantly changed back. "How did you….. do that?" The father and son laughed nervously. "Oh…it's nothing but a……a….." the boy named Ranma twiddled.
"A trick of the eye!!!!" the father, already introduced as Genma finished with his finger sticking up in the air, as if suddenly overcome by a great idea. "We shall go to sleep now. I hope to see you later on." Ranma said. In the tent that the Saotomes were staying in, Ranma whispered to his dad, "That girl is pretty!"
"RANMA!!!!!" Genma said angered. "You're engaged to Akane!!!!" Ranma sighed.
"Yea, yea………" Just as he said that, Kagome stepped into the Jusenkyo Springs for a little bath…..