A/N: Hey all! Another new story because I love Inuyasha and Akatsuki no Yona so of course I had to make a crossover! Chapters will follow along with the story of the manga starting from the Awa arc in Akatsuki no Yona and will be my spin on things if Kagome was magically transported to that world.

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Akatsuki no Yona. I want to make it clear that I in no way mean to plagiarize, especially Mizuho Kusanagi's Akatsuki no Yona as I will be using the manga's actual plot as a base and integrating Kagome's character into it, adding new material.

Chapter 1

Kagome looked to the door as two more girls were forced into the cargo hold. One of them had surprisingly vibrant, red hair and the other had long, strawberry blonde hair. The two looked like they were friends and the red head also appeared to be injured, but before Kagome could even think of going over to help, the door slammed open again to reveal a large, burly looking man dressed in expensive robes. Kagome quickly deduced that he was the lord of the town and the one responsible for crime running rampant in Awa, Lord Yang Kum-Ji.

"It was a better catch than I thought. Awa isn't half bad either," Lord Kum-Ji stated with a satisfied smirk that made Kagome's stomach churn with nausea.

One of the girls addressed him tearfully, "Lord Kum-Ji, what is going on here? I heard we could find a job here…"

He chuckled sinisterly and said, "There is a job. A very important job. You all need to wait here until tomorrow night."

Suddenly, he reached forward and yanked up the red head from before by her hair. He looked her over like he was inspecting the quality of a product.

"Red hair… I see. How very unusual," he chuckled in that same evil manner, "Her face is quite beautiful too. She'll sell high. No… It would almost be a shame if I sold her. They wouldn't mind if I took just one to be mine, would they?"

Kagome's eyes widened at how disgusting one human man could be. She had encountered hundreds of demons in the Feudal Era of Japan, but none of them made her want to vomit as much as she did now. In the past too, there were times when she was faced with the cruelty and selfishness that humans were capable of, and she couldn't help but be horrified by the fact that they were her own kind and they were worse than the demons they condemned. She shifted to stand up and intervene, but stopped when the red head's friend stood up first.

"I-I can do better! I can satisfy you better than that woman, Lord Kum-Ji."

Lord Kum-Ji looked at her and mockingly asked, "Oh?"

The strawberry blonde steeled her nerves and replied with what she hoped was a convincingly seductive look, "So drop that girl and let me be beside you."

The lord leaned forward and grasped her chin in his free hand, "You're right. You're quite a fine jewel. But―"

All of a sudden his leg swung forward, kicking her harshly. The girl fell to the floor coughing in pain.

He continued, "Don't interrupt me when I'm having my fun. I despise women who are impudent."

The man who brought the two girls in earlier spoke up. "Lord Kum-Ji, please stop. You'll damage the merchandise."

Lord Kum-Ji lashed out at the man knocking him to the floor as well as he shouted angrily, "Don't interrupt me!"

A couple of the girls screamed in fright as Lord Kum-Ji started grinding his foot onto the strawberry blonde's head and asked, "Got it? The best women are those that are obedient. If you tremble and keep your mouth shut like this red-haired woman, then―"

Kagome could see only the back of the red-haired woman's head so she couldn't tell what was happening, but Lord Kum-Ji was obviously startled by what he saw as his eyes widened in fear and he quickly threw the red head away from his person. But as he stared at the girl's form slowly rising to all four's, he seemed to realize something. Surprisingly, he asked her if she was someone called "Princess Yona". Kagome recognized the name only vaguely from the gossiping of the Earth Tribe citizens in the various towns she had been to since she was mysteriously transported to this strange world. All she could put together was that this "Princess Yona" used to be the princess of the Kouka Empire, but has been on the run ever since a rebellion where the previous king, her father, was overthrown. Kagome found it hard to believe that the fugitive princess would be captured and held on the very same boat that Kagome was on. What were the chances? Then again, Kagome's track record for attracting trouble was quite high, even when she wasn't purposely being "captured" to board a ship of merciless slave traders all to save kidnapped women.

The red-haired girl bowed her head in a submissive stance that would have been appalling if she was the princess and stated in an even voice that she was merely a merchant's daughter. Lord Kum-Ji seemed convinced by her claim and actions, promptly leaving the room to which Kagome was thankful for. In his wake however, the women began to fret as their worry only heightened. One of the women started banging on the door frantically begging to be let out. Kagome quickly went to the woman and set a gentle hand on the crying girl's arm to stop her movements.

"Please, you'll only injure yourself by doing that," Kagome said in pacifying voice.

Another woman sitting against one of the walls spoke up. "It's impossible. I was put in here two weeks ago. Nobody came to get me out. To Lord Kum-Ji, we're no different than objects. Awa has always been like this hasn't it?!"

Kagome's eyes hardened in anger at Lord Kum-Ji and in pity for the woman with the long black hair who seemed as if she had completely given up.

The red head questioned the cynical woman, "Haven't you ever… wanted to change this town?"

"What?" The black-haired woman asked.

"Have you ever thought about fighting to overthrow Kum-Ji from this town in order to let everyone live freely?" The red head clarified.

The black-haired woman's face twisted into a scornful smile as she said, "Who are you? Are you really from this town? The only people who say things like that are outsiders and the pretentious. Both of whom are downright idiots."

The red head replied with a soft smile on her face, "Although they can be a little pretentious sometimes, I know people who are fighting while risking their lives to change this town."

"I'm currently helping that group of idiots. Though there's a less competent girl here too," The strawberry blonde chimed in with a confident smirk. The red head looked to her friend confused as to whether or not she was just insulted.

"What are you saying? That someone is going to come help us?" The black-haired woman was questioned doubtfully before saying, "There's no one stupid enough to try it."

Having heard enough, Kagome interrupted, "You don't know that. If there are people who are risking their lives for people like you and me, I refuse to let you belittle their efforts. You may be resigned to die in a place like this at the hands of greedy, selfish men, but I am not willing to let it all end here. Not for any of us."

Everyone in the room was stunned into silence. The black-haired woman more so than the rest as she looked away from Kagome's piercing gaze unsurely. Kagome took that to mean that at least some part of her little speech had impacted the negative thoughts swirling around the other girl, hopefully in a good way. Kagome locked eyes with the red head and nodded in acknowledgment. They all had the same goal, and if the other two girls actually had people that could aid them from the outside, it would definitely be in Kagome's best interests to team up with them.

One day later.

"Everybody out!" One of the men yelled as their eyes were blindfolded and their hands bound.

They were herded onto a ship and stashed in the cargo hold. Sometime after the door locked with a click and they were left alone, Kagome heard loud banging noises and then one of the men came barging into the room to see what all the racket was. There was a thud as Kagome could only guess someone had fallen to the floor, the man yelled again, there was a sound like a sword was being unsheathed, another thud, and then silence. Kagome started slightly as she felt something furry brush against her tied hands and then suddenly she felt the bindings loosen. She immediately pulled her blindfold off to look behind her only to see a small squirrel which scampered off to chew threw another girl's bindings. Deciding that it definitely wasn't the strangest thing she had seen in her lifetime, she turned her attention to the front of the room where a couple women were closing the door and the red head seemed to be conversing with the black-haired woman.

As Kagome walked up to them, she heard the red head say, "Letting my comrades know where this boat is located is my job. Just hold on. We'll… help you without fail."

The red head was obviously in pain, but got up to join her friend to try to make their way up to the deck.

"Wait. I… I will help too," the black-haired woman stopped them.

Kagome stepped forward saying, "Me too."

They told the other women to stay below deck where it was safer as they moved just outside the door. Kagome commented when they noticed no one else was below deck, "We're lucky. It looks like all of their main fighting forces are on the other boats."

The others looked at her in surprise.

The strawberry blonde asked, "How did you know that there were other boats?"

"I've been planning to infiltrate this ship for a while now. Usually their shipments are only the boats that carry the captured women, but I overheard some of the mercenaries say that Lord Kum-Ji was going to have a whole fleet tonight to try to get rid of the pirates that have been attacking his ships once and for all. When I realized that you two had others helping you from the outside, I figured we could all help each other out," Kagome admitted.

The strawberry blonde seemed a little suspicious of her, but the red head and black-haired girl just nodded in acceptance.

"I'm Kagome by the way," Kagome introduced herself.

"I'm Yu-Ri," the black-haired woman said.

They both looked at the red head expectantly.

"I'm uh… Lina," she replied as if she was unsure of her own name.

Kagome figured that the girl was probably lying about her name, but since Kagome had plenty of things that she wanted to keep hidden too, she chose to ignore it. The strawberry blonde introduced herself last saying, "And I'm Yoon. Don't do anything to mess up our plan."

Kagome and Yu-Ri suppressed their irritation at the arrogant remark as Yoon went off to lure a couple of the men standing guard to the back room. The other three girls were there waiting and as soon as they caught sight of the men, they let loose a stack of barrels that went rolling into the men. Before Yoon could render them unconscious with poisoned darts, the ship rocked suddenly throwing them all off balance. Yu-Ri fell within reach of one of the men who had managed to escape from under the barrels and quickly locked Yu-Ri into a choke hold with his sword at her neck.

The man holding her captive said, "No Awa woman is going to make a mockery of us," as his fellow guard got up from the barrels as well.

Before he could say anything else, Kagome rushed forward with surprising speed from a human woman. The man instinctively pointed his sword at her to try to stop her headlong charge, but Kagome knocked it out of his hand with a well-placed kick and grabbed Yu-Ri pushing her back towards Yoon and Lina. The man recovered unsteadily and lunged at her. Kagome used his momentum to grab his arm and flip him over her shoulder onto the floor where Yu-Ri knocked him out with a makeshift bat. The other guard lunged at Kagome trying to catch her off guard, but she turned quickly and kneed him in the stomach hard enough to knock him unconscious instantly. As he dropped to the floor, the other girls looked at Kagome in shock.

Yoon's narrowed on her even more suspiciously, "Who are you? How do you know how to fight so well?"

Kagome just looked at her calmly, "We don't have the time for me to answer that, but I promise you that I don't mean any of you any harm."

Yoon looked like she wanted more of an explanation, but Lina intervened saying, "Yoon, she's right. We need to go."

Yoon nodded reluctantly and they all made their way up to the deck except for Yu-Ri who stayed back to protect the girls below deck. They ran into several other armed men as soon as they reached the deck. Luckily Kagome had grabbed a sword from below and Lina had grabbed a bow and some arrows, which Kagome could only hope the girl knew how to use. Kagome moved to stand in between the incoming men and the two girls.

"Go! I'll hold them off!" Kagome called out as she brandished her sword at the men.

Kagome could've easily taken out one or two of the human men, after all the speed and strength of a human was no match for the demons she was used to fighting, but five or six of them all at once were a bit much. Not to mention, she wasn't exactly a master swordswoman. Everything she knew about swords was what she had managed to learn by watching her friends in the past fight and a few sparse lessons from Sango. When the demon slayer had trained her, they had focused mostly on hand-to-hand combat that could supplement her archery, not on alternate weapons. Through her struggle to fend off her attackers, Kagome heard the distinctive sound of a firework going off and let out an internal sigh of relief even as she narrowly dodged a sword aiming for her neck. The dodge unfortunately forced her to move into the thrusting blade of another mercenary which sliced through the skin of her arm cleanly. She winced in pain, but nevertheless brought both arms up to block the downward strike of yet another mercenary. Suddenly the guy dropped to the ground, an arrow embedded in his stomach. Kagome briefly smiled in gratitude at Lina who was supporting her from behind. There were still so many of them though and Kagome was starting to get tired. Another one managed to cut her on her thigh, impairing her movement for just enough time to deal what would have been a fatal blow.

Abruptly, a series of daggers rained down from the sky downing the majority of the guards around her, including the one that was about to kill her. The daggers were immediately followed by the arrival of a tall man with green hair. He landed in front of Kagome, hastily and confidently dispatching the rest of the men with a ferocity that was so distinctly reminiscent of a demon that Kagome flared her reiki outwards just to make sure. What she sensed was not the aura of a demon, but it certainly felt similar to it.

"Jae-Ha!" Lina called out to the man who Kagome assumed was one of the allies Lina and Yoon mentioned before.

The man called "Jae-Ha" addressed Lina with a smile, "You really pulled it off. How cool is that?"

Lina smiled back and was going to reply, but was interrupted by more mercenaries boarding their ship.

Jae-Ha yelled, "Yona!"

Kagome made note of the name mentally, but she didn't have the time to indulge her suspicions. She moved to help Jae-Ha get rid of the other men calling over her shoulder to Yoon and Lina, "Stay back!"

As her blade crossed with one mercenary, she saw in her peripheral a few others being taken down all at once by a strangely dressed man with a mask over his face. Lina seemed to know him too as she called out to him, "Shin-Ah!"

Kagome could sense the same demon-like aura coming from him as from Jae-Ha, but where the energy emanating from Jae-Ha seemed to be focused in his right leg, Shin-Ah's was focused around his eyes. Kagome didn't get it at all. She had never in all of her travels come across something like this. The only thing she could compare it to was Inuyasha who was a half-demon, so his demonic energy was smaller than a full demon's like Sesshomaru, but Kagome could almost sense Inuyasha's bound demonic energy concentrated in the Tetsusaiga at his hip.

After taking care of all of the mercenaries on their boat, Yoon directed Jae-Ha and Shin-Ah to the next boat over that Lord Kum-Ji was most likely holed up in. Kagome and Yoon started tying up the beaten officers and mercenaries, but Lina seemed distracted by something when Yoon called out to her. Kagome and Yoon joined her at the ship's helm looking out at the ocean and saw what she had been staring at. Kum-Ji was fleeing like a coward on a smaller boat, but Jae-Ha was trying to stop him. Jae-Ha managed to take out the boat-man, but took an arrow to the shoulder in the process and fell into the water. Kum-Ji was pulling back the string of his bow to shoot a killing arrow at Jae-Ha who had nowhere to go. Kagome's eyes widened and she instinctually moved a hand back to reach for an arrow from her quiver only to remember that she didn't have any on her, let alone a bow. But then Lina drew back an arrow with an eerie calm, releasing it to kill the corrupt lord. The look in her eyes sent chills through Kagome's entire body. This girl… She was definitely more than what she appeared at first glance.

The fighting ended with Kum-Ji's death and everyone made their way back to land for a night of joyful partying. The next morning, Kagome went in search of Yona and her friends who Kagome had yet to be introduced to but last night she had already sensed that there was another one of them who had the same weird aura about him. She figured it was finally time to satisfy her curiosity, only to realize that the group had already left the port. She hurried to catch up with them using their auras as a guide.

She reached them just as Jae-Ha finished saying, "I'm the beautiful monster that carries the dragon within his right leg. I hope we'll get along from here on out."

Kagome moved forward as soon as he was done talking, "Um… So I take it your name's not Lina is it?"

The whole group froze. How the heck had this woman snuck up on all of them without even Shin-Ah noticing?

"Lina" brushed off her surprise first saying confidently, "No, it's not. My name is Yona."

Her friends all gaped at her in shock. Yoon grabbed her shoulders whispering, "Yona! What are you doing?!"

Never mind Kagome could hear clearly everything Yoon was saying, Yona laid a reassuring hand on Yoon's saying, "It's alright everyone. Hak put down your sword."

"Hak" as she called him, lowered his huge spear-like weapon but continued glaring at Kagome in an assessing manner. Kagome took it all in stride, but that probably just made him more suspicious.

"I trust her. She helped Yoon and I make it up to the deck and set off the firework safely. We wouldn't have been able to do it without her," Yona stated gratefully.

Kagome nodded and smiled back, "My name is Kagome and I'd like to travel with you all."

Everyone was once again stunned into silence.

Then it was chaos. Everyone was speaking at once.

Hak and Yoon said in sync, "No way."

The silver-haired one, whose name she still didn't know, flailed about nervously yelling strings of broken sentences that all seemed to jumble together.

Jae-Ha smiled and clasped her hands in his in a very Miroku-esque manner saying, "I'm afraid the journey we are partaking in is unfit for a beautiful woman like you."

Shin-Ah stayed silent through it all with the squirrel from before resting on his shoulder, which oddly enough made him seem considerably less intimidating, even with the mask that Kagome had yet to see him without.

But it was Yona whose words quieted everyone saying, "I'm not sure that you really want to join us, Kagome. The journey that we are on is dangerous."

Kagome pulled her hands out of Jae-Ha's with a practiced ease replying, "Well, I figured traveling with a fugitive princess wouldn't be the safest option, but if you all are attempting to do what we just did in Awa for the rest of the country, then I'd like to help. Plus, I don't really have anywhere else to go."

Yona seemed to be considering it, and then she said, "Alright. You can join us as long as you are aware of the risks."

Hak added on in a threatening tone, "And if you tell anyone about her majesty, I'll have no choice but to kill you."

Jae-Ha looked at him appalled, "What a heathen. Threatening such a beautiful young woman so crudely."

Kagome sweat-dropped, "So… Mind telling me all of your names?"

"I'm Yona," she said with a friendly smile.

"Yoon."

"Hak."

"You may call me Jae-Ha, my dear. And this is Shin-Ah," he bowed and gestured with a flourish to the man with the mask who merely nodded silently.

"I am Kija. It's a pleasure to meet you," the silver-haired one said politely.

Kagome cocked her head to the side staring at Yoon curiously. "So, are you not actually a girl?"

Yoon turned his nose into the air replying haughtily, "I am a pretty boy and a genius."

"Oh. You make a very pretty girl too," Kagome stated causing Yoon to smile haughtily pleased that someone else acknowledged his beauty.

As they all set off on their merry way, only Shin-Ah wondered at how the newcomer failed to comment on Jae-Ha's remark about the "dragon within his right leg", Kija's right hand that was really more of a claw, or his admittedly strange mask. All of which would have baffled any normal person in Shin-Ah's experience. If no one else was going to question it then he wasn't, so with a shrug he followed everyone else down the trail.

A/N: Hope you all enjoyed! I've kinda been obsessing with this manga/anime lately, plus my other ongoing story's not getting a lot of love, so updates should be fairly often with this one. Depends on the feedback I get so review/favorite/follow if you want more!