Hello there friends! If this is your first time reading one of my stories, welcome! And if you've read them before, welcome back! So I wrote a story similar to this before, but I wanted to switch it up a bit. The overall concept is going to be the same, but a lot of factors are going to be very different. It's called Princess of the Night if you want to check it out, but I'm going to actually be revising it soon. Hope you all enjoy, and don't forget to drop a review if you enjoyed so I can know what you guys like/dislike about the story! I'm always open for criticism and compliments, hehe.

Yoru No Hime

Chapter One

Disclaimer: I own nothing about InuYasha.

If you were to ask me, I would say my life is average. I'm eighteen years old and about to graduate high school. Every day, pretty much the same. I have a group of friends whom I can pretty much rely on for anything and everything, except for one. She was always missing somehow, and her family said she was sick, but my intuition told me otherwise. I found myself walking throughout the city, and came upon her house with some flowers in hand.

It had been a while since I had visited her family, and I knew Kagome's birthday was coming up. What did they say she had last time I talked to her? Some sort of Ebola virus or something? I shook my head, biting my lip, and walked up into the temple. My long hair blowing in the wind, as I stood there. It came to the small of my back, black as night in color. I felt overcome with emotion as I walked up the stairs to her property. I had been here countless times before, but there was something in the wind that made me feel that this time was different. It was almost as if the wind was whispering my name... Koyoko. I looked over, feeling drawn to the well, but I shook my head, continuing to walk up to her door.

Shaking my nerves off, I knocked on the door. "Just one second!" I heard Kagome's mom's sweet voice as she hurried over. She opened the door with a smile, and I couldn't help but return it.

"Hey Mrs. Higurashi, I brought some flowers for Kagome's birthday." She motioned me to come inside, and I kicked off my shoes by the door, handing her the flowers.

"Wow Koyoko, these are beautiful! I'm sure Kagome will love them when we bring them to her." She sniffed the flowers, closing her eyes, and then smiled once again at me.

"She's still in the hospital?" I raised my eyebrows, and Mrs. Higurashi nodded, sighing. She began to enter into the kitchen, digging through a cabinet searching for a vase.

"I wish she would come home, but there's nothing we can do, I'm afraid."

"Is that Koyoko?" I heard from above us, and tilted my head, hearing Sota rush down the stairs. I always had an inkling that the kid liked me. He smiled widely, seeing me and I opened my arms for a hug. "Yay Koyoko! I'm so glad you came to visit." I giggled softly, feeling him hug me tight. He was definitely getting bigger, he had to be almost..what? Eleven, maybe twelve now? I sighed, patting his head.

"You're getting too big, kid." I smiled and he crossed his arms, huffing.

"I am not a kid!"

"Koyoko, would you like to stay for dinner? It's actually almost finished." Mrs. Higurashi started taking down some plates, and I nodded.

"That would be wonderful, thank you ma'am." I set down my bag, and rolled up my sleeves, helping her. Looking out the window, I frowned as I still felt drawn to the well. What was going on with that? As if on cue, Kagome's grandfather joined us at the dinner table, having prepared another crazy tale to entertain us with.

A few hours later, we were cleaning up the dinner table, and I was preparing myself to leave. "Mrs. Higurashi, are you sure I can't go visit Kagome? I'm sure she would like some company. I feel like it's been years since I've seen her." I frowned, and Mrs. Higurashi sighed, and shook her head.

"I-I'm sorry Koyoko, but the doctors advised us that she's too sick to allow anyone to visit." I nodded slowly, picking up my bag, slinging it over my shoulder. "Thank you for coming to visit, and the flowers. It really means a lot to know that you still care about Kagome." She smiled, and I sighed softly, grabbing her into a hug.

"I can't imagine how hard this must be on you. And if you ever need any help with hospital costs, you know my family can always help out.." She pulled back from the hug, shaking her head.

"Believe me, Koyoko. It's not necessary." I nodded, walking out the door as the cool breeze tickled my skin.

"Well I'll be seeing you all."

"Bye Koyoko! Come visit us soon!" He smiled. Poor kid.... I thought to myself. I couldn't imagine how hard it was on him either. I wave and started to walk away as I heard them close the door behind me. I rubbed my arms, and looked around as it was completely dark outside.

Coming closer to the well, I gasped as I heard my name being whispered again.. I looked to the well and my eyes widened, as it was... glowing? I ran over to the well and dropped my bag, looking inside. "What the hell..." I whispered and gasped as it felt like multiple pairs of hands, grabbing me and pulling me in. I tried to fight it by grabbing onto the side of the well, but no vice.

Gasping at what looked like I was surrounded by stars, my brown eyes were sparkling at the sight. Before I knew it, I was sitting on some sort of dirt inside the well. What had happened? "Hello...?" I called out, standing on my toes to try and get out. I reached up and grabbed onto some vines which definitely weren't there before and lifted myself up. Pulling myself out, I looked around confused. This definitely wasn't Kagome's house... "You've gotta be kidding me! Where the hell am I?!" I took a few steps from the well and looked down. My fingers felt kind of fuzzy, and weird.

"Did you guys hear that? It sounded like a wench! Heh heh.." I heard a voice coming from a distance, and gasped hiding behind a tree. I couldn't be sure that they were talking about me, but it was better to be safe rather than sorry. I bit my lip, looking around to see if there was anything to defend myself, and much to my dismay... there wasn't.

"Let's go find her, and bring her back to master! Maybe he'll let us have some fun!" Another voice chimed in, and I knelt to the floor, sighing. A second later, I heard some trees rustling, and felt the ground shake slightly, seeing a red hakama-haori combination, standing in front of me. I gasped, feeling my heart beating fast as I looked up. Long white hair with ummm, were those cat ears.. and bright golden eyes, staring down at me. Did I interrupt a celebration of some sort? Why was he wearing clothes from five hundred years ago?

"Please don't hurt me, I don't have anything to offer you..." The guy tilted his head, and rolled his eyes, kneeling to my height.

"I'm not gonna hurt ya. Hey, you have funny clothes like Kagome! How the heck did you get here?" He offered a... clawed... hand, and I took it apprehensively, standing.

'Kagome..?' I gasped, looking at him. "How do you know Kagome?"

"I hear her over here! Let's get 'er!" The first man yelled, and InuYasha growled looking over. "Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" He called out, as he used his claws to attack the guy.

I felt hands grab my shoulders, and turned sticking my hand out, making the man stop in his tracks. He had a fu manchu styled beard on his face, as well as medium-long black hair pulled back into a ponytail. He was also wearing a hakama-haori combination, but a blue-gray color. What was with these people and their style? I twisted my hand and heard something crack as he fell to the floor.

"Woah..." I heard the man say from behind me, and turned to look at him before running. "Hey, wait! Get back here!" I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, gasping. I wasn't gonna let him tear me apart like he did that one guy.

I started to see lights, and breathed a sigh of relief. He wouldn't dare attack me with other people around... although truthfully I knew nothing about the place I was in.

"Kagome stop 'er! I think I scared 'er!" The long haired man called from behind me as I ran into the village, stopping as I saw a familiar face.

"Koyoko?"

"Kagome?" We both said at the same time, gasping. I hurried over and grabbed her into a deep hug.

"What.. what are you doing here?" She asked me.

"Please don't let that weird cat-eared person hurt me.." I whispered, and I felt her shake with laughter. I pulled back from the hug and saw the cat-eared man staring at us, with his arms crossed, and an eyebrow raised.

"I heard that, ya know." He glared.

"Koyoko...what.. what are you doing here?" She bit her lip, wincing looking at me. "You know, you don't exactly look like yourself either." She whispered.

"What do you mean, 'I don't look like myself?' and I wish I knew, honestly." I shrugged, sighing. "Where are we? Last I knew I was at your house, and your families' well was like.. glowing."

"What's going on?" A woman with long brown hair yawned, in a sleepy voice, coming out of a little hut. She rubbed her eyes, and a little cat sat beside her, mewing.

"Koyoko, you're... how do I explain this without freaking you out." Kagome crossed her arms, and bit her lip. "You're five hundred years in the past. Sango, can you get some reflective glass so I can show Koyoko herself, please?" The sleepy woman nodded and ran back into her hut.

"I'm sorry, what did you say? Am I like, hallucinating or something? Did your mom like, feed me some type of weird mushroom or something." Kagome laughed nervously, scratching the back of her head as the woman came back over.

"Hello, I'm Sango, Kagome's friend." She smiled, handing the mirror to me, backing away slowly as I took it from her. There was just enough light so I could see my reflection, as I looked in the makeshift mirror and gasped.

"Wh..." I could barely manage any words as I touched my face. Where there had been brown eyes before, were now blood red eyes, as well as a lavender colored crescent shape on my forehead, and as I opened my mouth there were fangs. My eyes darted over to Kagome and she gave me a nervous smile, and shrugged.

"I wish I had answers for you, but.. I don't. I'm sorry."

Alrighty, so I'm stopping here for now. I will probably update soon. Let me know what you guys think, as I'm very curious! Don't forget to follow the story so you can get a notification when I update! Thanks for reading! Also, this probably won't stay in first person, just a fyi!