I'm sticking my author's note here for now – until I get things situated. This is my first fan fic ever stuck on this site before, yippee. Yes, this is a Tales of Symphonia Inu Yasha crossover; I haven't seen any yet so I decided to be the one to cross the untrodden roads or whatever…anyway, my disclaimer…erm…I don't own either Tales of Symphonia or Inu Yasha. There.

Yuan: That should be good enough for them.

It's not funny though!

Yuan: It needs to be?

Ye…sniffs the air I smell something burning. Hey, weren't you baking?

Yuan: EEP! MY COOKIES! dash

Clash of Worlds

It was a warm day. The sky was bright blue with only a few puffy white clouds to paint the background. A soft breeze played across Lloyd Irving's face as he flew along in his rheaird ahead of his companions. He wasn't really thinking about anything particular outside of steering; they were heading back to Tethe'alla now – Regal need some ingredients for certain dishes from the Sybak Cafeteria.

As the group neared the dimensional fissure, Lloyd checked momentarily to make sure that everyone was following. "Ready guys?" he called over the sound of the whirring engines. "Yeah! Let's go!" Genis shouted back, enthusiastically punching the air with one fist. "On to Sybak then." Lloyd replied, with a half shrug at the Professor, whose eyebrows were twitching upwards. Little did he know that they wouldn't be seeing Sybak for a very long time…

CRASH!

"Ouch…" Genis tumbled out of his rheaird onto the grass, putting his arms over his head protectively. Panic ensued as everyone else's rheiards followed suit. "Look out beloooooow!" called Zelos's cheerful tones, two seconds before falling on top of the silver haired half elf.

When Genis was able to regain a sufficient oxygen supply he looked around. Sheena was putting pressure on a cut on her knee with her palms, Raine was rubbing her elbow, where a bruise was sure to form, and Regal's hair was…Genis shuddered. Colette was dusting her self off; she and Presea seemed to be the only ones unharmed, and Lloyd had managed to tangle himself up in his transport vehicle. He ran over to help his friend.

"Where exactly are we? This isn't snowy, like the area surrounding Flanoir," asked Sheena worriedly.

"An unknown region, neither of the two known worlds. We must move forward with caution." Presea responded in a slight monotone. Colette brightened. "Ooh, a new world!" Zelos's eyes lit up with an all too familiar, almost hyper look. "Hey, we're going on an adventure, aren't we!"

Raine looked like she was about to say something, but she was interrupted when Colette suddenly exclaimed, "I hear footsteps!" Instantly everyone tensed up, hands on their weapons, except for Zelos, who had taken the opportunity to creep up on Lloyd.

"BOO!"

"Ahhhhh!" Lloyd shouted, leaping three feet in the air. Immediately a group of figures appeared, running up the hill towards them. A faint female voice could be heard shouting to the other people, "Hurry, someone's in trouble!" Colette's eyes widened. "Someone's in trouble? Are there monsters around here, Professor?"

Raine sighed, slightly exasperated, exchanging glances with Regal. "No, Colette, I think they heard Lloyd's cry and assumed we were in trouble. It does not sound like they are hostile, however…" Lloyd turned on Zelos, furious, only to find that Zelos was gone, suddenly striding forth to meet the newcomers with an even more familiar expression to the group. "Oh no…" Sheena muttered, and moved quickly after him, but as fate would have it, the purple haired summoner was not quite fast enough to stop what happened next.

The people could be seen clearly now; a dark haired girl in a conspicuously short skirt and unusual top holding a small…furry….fox, a silver haired fellow dressed completely in red, a monk, and another girl with her hair up in a long ponytail carrying a huge boomerang. The last was the one that Zelos approached, beaming happily. "Why HEL-LO, my voluptuous beauty!"

It was at the same time that the monk, dressed in purple robes and with his black her in a mini ponytail ran to meet Sheena, "Oh most honorable and fair lady, would you bear my child?"

Identical looks of half-alarm, half-rage were plastered on the female's faces before, moments later, there was a resounding SMACK and both men were sent flying into one another. Time seemed to be frozen for a moment, everyone looking from the womanizing perverts lying in a heap on the ground to the twin pillars of fury that stood in their wake.

Then Sheena and the other woman seemed to come to themselves. Sheena angrily smacked Zelos over the head. "You stupid Chosen! Must you come onto EVERY STRANGER WE MEET!" The other female was dragging the monk by his ear. "Lech…"

The fellow in the red outfit was the first to speak, though even he seemed to have trouble with it. "Miroku, get away from those humans, we have to keep pace with those soul searchers or we'll lose Kikyo's trail!" The fox in the female next to him spoke, suddenly reminding Sheena of Corrine, "Inu Yasha, that was really tactless of you." The female herself was looking fit to kill, but the silver haired one was too slow to react. "SIT BOY!" the girl shouted and he fell to the ground, almost like magic. Then she turned to the Symphonians.

"I'm really sorry about this. My name is Kagome Higurashi, and this is Inu Yasha, Shippo, Miroku, and Sango."

Colette smiled and bowed,happy at the discovery of a potential kindred spirit, "Greetings Kagome, I am Colette, and these are my friends Lloyd, Sheena, Genis, Professor Sage, Regal, Presea, and Zelos!"

Zelos grinned and stretched out his hand towards Kagome. "Kagome is it? Well aren't you a sight for sore eyes!" Miroku twitched, momentarily stunned out of speech by the fact that Zelos was sounding too much like him…but then, "Hey, watch it!" Inu Yasha yelled out, looked a bit peeved...well, that was an understatement, but Kagome quickly restrained him with another command.

Everyone seemed to be looking towards Lloyd for leadership, though Raine was looking close to bursting out with her own shpeal. The brown haired swordsman, however, seized his opportunity. "Listen, is there any shelter near by? It seems we have a great deal to talk about; I know everyone has lots of questions." Everyone seemed to nod in ascent, and Inu Yasha took up the lead. Kagome sighed. "It's a long walk to the village, though. Be prepared to pace yourselves."

Zelos shrugged. "I wouldn't worry about that too much, our expheres will do the hiking for us!" Sheena groaned and shifted through the line to get as far away from Tethe'alla's Chosen as possible. "Expheres?" asked Inu Yasha, looking lost and cross, "Are they some kind of shards of the Shikon Jewel?" Kagome looked puzzled. "I don't sense any…" Genis scratched his head. "Is the Shikon Jewel another type of Cruxis Crystal or something?"

It was Presea who answered Genis's question, as Raine gave him a cuff over the head. "It seems to be a stone with magical properties similar but not quite the same as expheres." "Like, how?" Lloyd piped up. "I sense soul-like mana, that's for sure…" muttered Raine to herself.

Kagome's group was looking lost, and Lloyd's group was looking mystified. What exactly had they all stumbled into?