Chapter 1: Akita and Jinku

((A/N: Hey guys/girls! It's me! Rishiyo(not the one in the fic... I WISH!)-chan! Hopefully this isn't really crappy and it makes sense to you all... lalalala... okay, just so you know, I'll be popping up in these things ((...)) just so that you don't get sonfused... Alrighty, have fun! Ja ne!))

mid-morning near the Bone Eater's Well

"Nani?!" A girl's voice was carried out of the well. A head of auburn pigtails poked itself out of the well as the girl climbed onto her friend's back. She pulled herself out and grabbed her friend's hand, hoisting him out after her. "BAKA! JINKU!" The girl fell over, when her friend was out, and her blazing red hair flew around her head. ((still in piggy tails, duh!))

"Shippo," a male voice asked. The girl shook her head and looked up to see a confused hanyou. She smiled and held up two fingers.

"I'm Akita. This is my friend, Jinku. Who are you?" The girl dusted off her turquoise pants and lighter teal shirt.

"InuYasha. What kind of demon are you?" He sniffed the air and got all confused.

"Kitsune," the boy answered for her. "She's a kitsune and I'm an altar boy." He stuck his hand out for a hand shake but was interrupted by a lady's voice calling out.

"InuYasha?" A woman with a giant boomerang came into the Goshinboku clearing with a slightly dazed houshi following. "Who're you talking to?" The lady, who looked like and probably was a taijiya, knelt by Akita.

Another red-haired person came from the bushes. He shook his head and sniffed the air again. His head tilted to the side when he looked up.

"I'm Akita and this is my friend, Jinku." Akita swished her multi-colored tail and grinned.

"I'm Sango, the kitsune is Shippo and the henta- I mean, houshi, is Miroku. We're waiting for our friend Kagome." The taijiya noticed that the little kitsune girl's eyes lit up when she mentioned Shippo.

"Sh-shippo? OTOU-SAN?!" Akita squeeled and pounced on the larger, unsuspecting kitsune.

"NANI?!" Shippo's eyes got huge as plates and he fainted.

lalalalalalalalalala... etc... at Kaede's hut

It was nearly suppertime and Shippo still hadn't awoken yet. That was strange in itself, since he fainted in mid-morning. Jinku sat with his avatar staff; much like Miroku's staff... only smaller and with four rings, not six; in his lap. His head was bowed and he looked in prayer with his eyes closed and his bangs hiding them. Yet Miroku, heedless of privacy reached over and ruffled the boy's hair. Jinku had reached for his staff but realized that it was only Miroku.

"Hey kid," the houshi said. "What's your story?" Miroku smiled at the boy.

"Umm... Akita? Can I tell them?"

"SURE!" Akita was munching on a carrot stick that Kaede had made earlier.

"Weeeell, Akita and I were playing by Auntie Kagi's well. We were playing tag. I ran over to her and lightly poked her with the end of my staff and ran for my life. She tromped up to me and tapped me, possibly it was the wind, too hard and I fell in the Bone Eater's Well. I thought I was gonna land on my head but, instead a purple-ish light swallowed me and I ended up at the bottom of the well. Akita must've jumped in after me because she was sitting on my non-dead head. I smiled and gasped for air when she got off but groaned again when she climbed onto my shoulders. I heard her say, 'Nani?!' as she climbed out of the well and grabbed onto my hand. She fell when I let go of her hand when I was out and that's when she met InuYasha-san."

All of the adults sweatdropped.

"You were playing by the well?" Miroku asked after another ten seconds of gawking and gaping. Jinku nodded solemnly and bowed his head. His next sentence was rushed and caught everyone off guard.

"Iknowyou'vetoldustoomanytimesnottoplaybyitbutwe'rerealsorryOtou-san!" Miroku blinked twice to make sure he heard all of it.

"Reapeat that slower, Jinku," he replied.

"I know you've told us too many times not to play by it, but we're real sorry, Otou-san," Jinku repeated. They all blinked twice with wide eyes. InuYasha's attention switched to his nose when he caught a familiar scent.

"Kagome's here," was all he said before speeding off towards the well and help Kagome out.

"Jeeze, InuYasha! What's got you all worked up?" Kagome held onto his hands a bit longer as he hoisted her up out of the well. They lingered there for a few minutes before the familiar purple-blue-white glow of the well lit up and a female's voice called out.

"Akita?! Jinku?! Rishiyo's here!!! C'MON YOU GUYS!!!"

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((Okay, that was the first chapter... hope you liked. I'm going to tell you a few things:

1: It's been eight and a half months since Sesshomaru killed the great Panther demon.

2: Shippo is now about Kohaku/Souta's size and more mature... except where pocky is concerned.

3: Kilala left for a while after she had a transformation... into a fire-cat-youkai-humanoid kinda thing... she walks on two feet now and can talk!!! You get it?!?!?! JEEBUS!

4: I'm fast forwarding everything to happen when Kagome is 17/18... not 15/16.

5: Kilala comes back, don't worry! And instead of using Kilala now, they use a two-headed dragon like Sesshy's Auh-Nuh... only it's name is Otsu-Yo.

6: Since everything is all sped-up and such, that makes Rin-chan maybe... 10, not 8. And she set a miko's spirit free from a daisy that was locked in a box, so she got to make a wish that was becoming an inuyoukai... like Lord Fluffy of the Western Lands! lmao... that's always funny to bring up. Ja ne... read the next chapter! -Risho))