Hi everyone! I've been playing Outlast and just had to cross it with my favorite anime. Please review and give suggestions. I have a general notion of where the story will go, but it's still kind of open ended so if you have a good idea, tell it to me :)

I hope everyone likes it (especially my fellow Sesshomaru fans). Enjoy! :3

*UPDATE* - I want everyone who has just found this story to know that I only keep a complete focus on the Inuyasha characters in this first chapter. If you don't know about Inuyasha, it doesn't really matter once you get to chapter 2. If you want, you can do a quick Wiki/Google of the Inuyasha characters to keep from getting any names confused. But trust me, reading this story will be worth it regardless of your knowledge of the anime. :)

Kagome sat against the side of the wooden bone-eater's well, smiling into the soft sunset as she watched Miroku and Sango's twin children playing tag in the deep expanse of the forest before her. They would be ten this coming year. Her own child, a girl of six that she and Inuyasha had named Kayoko, was no doubt nearby on some sort of adventure with her restless father. How quickly those years were going by. Everyone had been caught up in routine ever since the Shikon-no-tama had been purified and Naraku destroyed. Still, Kagome appreciated the peace. It was beneficial for all of them; that was for sure. The only one who seemed to have preferred their days of conflict and battle was, of all people, Rin. At 13, she was honing her talent for sword-fighting, and had already defended the village against multiple assaults from lesser demons, alongside Inuyasha, of course. She loved to show off her skills, especially when Sesshomaru paid his occasional visits. Kagome supposed that Rin's violent nature was natural; the girl had been reborn through Tenseiga, a demonic weapon, awakening to find herself covered in blood, with a half dead daiyoukai to support her. At an early age, all the superior figures in her life were either killers or the killed. It was obvious that Rin had set her sights on being a killer as opposed to the contrary.

Kagome's train of thought was interrupted by a strong feeling that pulsed from deep within her consciousness. For a moment, it was as if she was still struggling to locate Shikon-no-tama shards, but then she remembered that that chapter in her life had been completed. The Shikon Jewel was no more.

Then what was this dark feeling?

"It's getting dark, kids," Kagome called to the twins. "Go back to the village with Kaede." They immediately complied, innocently waving goodbye as they ran through the woods.

Now alone and free of distraction, Kagome strained her inner senses and felt the source of the evil power more clearly. It was coming from beyond the bone-eater's well! Lunging to her feet, she whirled around and looked to the bottom of that so-familiar hole. The power was coming from her world; her time. It felt…far away. Outside of the well, outside of her home, across the ocean from Japan. It was far, far away, but it was strong. A mountain in… America? Mexico? No, it had to be America. Deep under one of the vast, snow-capped rocky mountains….

There was a rush of wind from beside her and suddenly, the silver-haired daiyoukai by the name of Sesshomaru skidded to a halt at the edge of a well. His golden eyes locked onto hers, then fell to the darkness at the bottom of the pit.

"Sesshomaru-"

"What is that disgusting stench?" He hissed as a clawed hand dug into the wooden frame of the well. Kagome watched his bleach-white nails, simply watched as they seemed to lose their point.

And watched as they turned blunt and harmless as a human's.

Kagome looked up to Sesshomaru's face to find that he'd completely lost his demonic markings and the golden sheen in his eyes. Even his hair was charcoal black. Slowly, he raised his plain, human hands before his eyes, realizing the sheer gravity of what had just occurred. Raking his fingers through his blackened forelocks to hold them up and check their color, his disbelief was further shattered, replaced by a harsh reality. Lastly, he grabbed for his Bakusaiga, most likely to unsheathe it and commit a thorough, self-pitiless sepukku on the spot, but found that it, along with all else that marked him as a demon, had completely disintegrated.

And then Kagome realized that she too had been changed. As if spiritually blinded, she could no longer sense that dark power that she knew was still there.

"…What…?" The miko held a palm to her forehead, then turned to exchange a stare with the equally surprised former-daiyoukai.

"Kagome!" Inuyasha's voice rang from the forest. "Something's wrong!"

In a burst of leaves, the hanyou sprinted into the clearing with a wide-eyed Kayoko on his back. Tetsusaiga, like the Tenseiga had Bakusaiga, had vanished from his side, and just like Sesshomaru, Inuyasha had also been transformed into a human. His hair hung black and his claws and ears had been replaced with human versions. It was as if tonight the moon was new; however, it was full.

"Could you feel it, too?" Kagome asked, pointing to the well. "Something evil lies beyond the well. I can't sense it anymore."

"I could smell something, too…" Inuyasha was suddenly distracted by the sight of his human brother. His jaw relaxed in disbelief and, with sudden hysteria, he barely stifled an explosive laugh. "Is that…you, Sesshomaru?"

The daiyoukai only rolled his eyes in response. "It seems that there is a curse upon us all," he observed, glancing curiously at the well.

Again, more figures crashed into the clearing. It was Miroku the monk, followed closely by Sango and Kirara…or at least what should have been Kirara. In the great cat demon's place was a little black and white kitten, being cradled in Sango's arms.

"I was trying to undo the disease that plagues an old tree," Miroku explained, "and then this happened. My sacred sutras seem to have completely lost their effect."

"Kirara's been affected, too, obviously," Sango added. "Not to mention, I think my Hiraikotsu has lost all of its demonic energy. It doesn't feel much more useful than a club."

"What the hell is going on?" Frustrated, Inuyasha turned to Kagome. "We've got to get through that well and get to the bottom of this. I could smell something bad out there, I know I did! Is there any way we can pass through without the Shikon-no-tama?"

"I don't know…" Kagome replied, turning away as she began to think of a plan. "…Maybe…here, grab onto my hand. I can get my bike back and forth this way; maybe it will work with a person."

The moment Inuyasha grabbed onto Kagome's hand, Sango grabbed onto his.

"I'm going with you," she insisted. "I might be able to help."

"You're sure?" Inuyasha asked.

Sango grinned. "Of course. It's about time I visited this alternate world. I'm actually looking forward to it."

"Then I'll be coming, too," Miroku declared, clasping his hand in Sango's. "I wouldn't want to miss out."

"And while you dawdle in awe of this 'land beyond the well,' I'll slay whatever beast has dared to steal our power by myself," Sesshomaru stated with a confident, almost arrogant gleam in his brown human's eyes as he grabbed Miroku by the wrist.

Kagome smirked amusedly as she watched the chain grow, then finally announced, "All set, gang? We'd better get going if we want to stop that aura."

Inuyasha was just beginning to nod when a voice called out from the forest.

"I'm coming, too."

And from the evening shadows stepped the thirteen-year-old Rin, with her newest, freshly-forged katana sheathed and slung across her back.

"Rin, are you serious?" Kagome asked. Despite how Rin had changed, Kagome still saw her as the innocent little girl, just a bystander to the violence that had once plagued them. She felt it wrong to have Rin, still young, involved in such conflict yet again.

"I overheard everything. Now I want to help. I have the skill to do so. That wasn't taken away."

Two silver flashes magnified the evening light. Kagome's eyes were momentarily blinded, but when they refocused they found that Rin's katana had been unsheathed and now rested in her outstretched hand.

And then two great branches from the trees on either side of her thudded to the forest floor, cut with perfectly vertical strikes.

"That reperesents the arms of whatever vile creature lies on the other side of that well. Whatever it is that took your powers, it obviously failed to take mine." With an arrogance that Inuyasha immediately recognized as his half-brother's, Rin smirked deviously, plucking a leaf from one of the mutilated trees to wipe its sap from her blade. Only Sesshomaru smirked back; discreetly, but perceptible. The smirk never left as Rin walked forward with even, elegant strides, sheathing the katana as her free hand met with Sesshomaru's.

"You'll keep her out of trouble, Sesshomaru?" Kagome asked.

The daiyoukai nodded. "Of course."

"Then lets go!" Inuyasha exclaimed. And with that, the six of them plunged in a great chain down the bone-eater's well.