~Charmed~

Chapter One

ChristieLea54

~Feudal Japan~

Inuyasha was giving Kagome a ride to the Bone-Eaters Well, and as usual, fighting over when she'd be coming back.

"I'll be back in two days, " Kagome told him cheerily.

"What could you possibly have to do that'll take two whole days?!?!" an annoyed Inuyasha asked, no shouted, at her.

"I have a test tomorrow," she replied as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"So why are you leaving today?!?!"

"I have to STUDY! Do you want me to flunk out?!"

'Actually YES,' he thought viciously, but knew that with Kagome, that would be the wrong thing to say. "What's so important about these test things anyways?"

"Well," she said, calming down. "They show us how smart we are, so that we can get a good job and support ourselves."

"Feh! You don't need a stupid test to tell me that you're smart!"

'Did he just call me smart?' she thought incredulously, but then smiled.

Before Inuyasha could say anything to cover up the fact that he had indeed just called her smart, the two of them became engulfed in the strangest pillar of smoke that began forming out of thin air. They felt like they were being pulled apart from every possible direction at once. By the time the smoke had cleared, they were gone, vanished into thin air.

~San Francisco, 2003~

Piper, Phoebe, and Paige Haliwell were eating a hurried breakfast which Piper had slaved hard to make for them, when all of a sudden, there was a bang. A giant pillar of swirling smoke formed in the middle of the Manor's kitchen.

Piper rolled her eyes. "Not again!"

"My God! What is that?" asked an awe-struck Paige.

And then, as quickly as the smoke had appeared, it vanished, leaving behind two confused looking strangers gasping for breath.

One was a boy of around nineteen years old. He was wearing the strangest old-fashioned Japanese style clothing the three sisters had ever seen, along with some sort of beaded necklace. He had two golden colored eyes that were narrowed suspiciously at them, long pure white hair, and cute, fuzzy, dog ears on top of his head. From what the sister's could see, they looked real.

The other stranger was a girl around sixteen years in age, wearing a green and white school uniform. She had beautiful long black hair, and was on the boy Piggy-Back style.

Inuyasha and Kagome looked at each other.

The Charmed Ones looked at each other.

"Inuyasha?" came the girl's quiet voice. "Where are we?"

"When are we?" he answered her.

"2003," Piper answered with her fake smile. "Who are you? And what are you doing in my kitchen?"

The dog-eared boy completely disregarded her politeness, and a low growl emerged from his throat. "Who are YOU?" he answered her. "How did you bring us here?"

Phoebe stepped forward. She glanced back at her two sisters; they looked as clueless as she felt. "We didn't bring you here. We're the Charmed Ones,"

No response.

"You know,' she continued. "The three sisters who are charmed with powers to save innocents." Still no response. "Witches," she furthered, while wondering what kind of demon didn't know who the Charmed Ones were.

"Urasae was a witch!" Inuyasha shouted, and with that declaration, he set Kagome down and leapt at them, his old beat up sword unsheathed. But it didn't change into his father's fang.

"Inuyasha! Stop!" Kagome cried. He landed softly, ears tense and alert. "What?"

"Don't hurt them! The Tetsusaiga didn't transform! They must be good witches."

"Prove it," he simply stated.

"Well, we haven't tried to vanquish you yet," Paige said sarcastically.

Kagome pushed in front of Inuyasha. "Hello," she said brightly. "I'm Kagome Higurashi. This is Inuyasha. I'm from Tokyo... but we're not in Japan anymore, are we?" she finished sadly.

"Afraid not," Piper said.

"This is San Francisco, California." Paige added on.

"In the States?" Kagome asked, awed.

Paige nodded.

"Where's he from?" Phoebe asked with a nod towards the dog demon.

"Tokyo," she answered, "...500 years ago."

They looked a little stunned, but then Piper put on her fake smile again and asked, "So you travel time frequently?"

Kagome nodded, ever cheerful. "There's an old dry well on the shrine house's property where I live. It's a time portal. It's take me from my home, to Inuyasha in the past. I've never left Japan before though," she said with a glance around the strange room.

"So the question is: How did you get here?" asked Phoebe.

"No idea. Inuyasha was giving me a ride to the well, and then the smoke, and then here."

"Hey Piper?" Phoebe asked. "Remember when we went back in time to save Melinda?"

"We didn't go, THEY sent us," she replied with a gesture to the ceiling.

Kagome looked to Inuyasha curiously, as if he might know what the ceiling held, but he just shrugged back indifferently. This exchange did not go unnoticed by Phoebe, and she said, "The Elders. The Powers That Be, blah blah blah."

"But why would the Elders send us two teenagers from Japan?" asked a confused Paige.

"Beats me," answered Phoebe.

"Leo???" called Piper while walking into the living room. A man appeared out of no where with a shimmer of white lights.

"What?" he asks calmly, then turns around, and says bemusedly, "Who are they?"

Piper sighed. "We were hoping you would know."

"I'll go check." Another shimmer of white lights and he was gone.

"I'll go check the Book of Shadows, " says Piper, as she climbs the stairs to the attic.

Paige turns to Inuyasha. "So dog-boy, what's with the ears?"

"Feh. Haven't you ever seen a dog demon before?"

"Half dog demon," Kagome corrected.

Phoebe looked up at him sharply. "You're half human, half demon?"

"What of it?" he asked defensively.

She laughed nervously. "Oh, it's nothing. Just knew someone like that once."

"How come he didn't have such cute ears Phoebe?" complained Paige. "Can I touch them?" she asked excitedly.

Inuyasha looked like he was going to storm out of the room, except that he didn't know where in the world he was. So instead, he went over to Kagome and plopped down next to her on the couch in defeat. She was the only familiar face on the this side of the Earth, and he's never say it, but he was glad she was with him. He could always think better when she was with him.

"Touchy, touchy," Paige muttered under her breath, but Inuyasha could hear her quite well.

Piper came back downstairs. "Nothing."

A white shimmer of lights and the man named Leo reappeared. "The Elders didn't bring him here."

"Then who did?" asked an exasperated Piper.

"The Elders think that a force of evil summoned them to San Francisco, but his magic was a little off, as they ended up here, and not with him."

"Why would evil summon them?"

Leo looked at Inuyasha and Kagome pointedly. "It seems that they carry something of great power."

All three sisters turned and looked at the two expectantly.