Chapter 2

(I claim no ownership of either 'The Labyrinth', 'Inuyasha', nor their affiliated characters and plots)

Inuyasha peered warily over the lip of the well, Kagome had promised that she would visit this morning and yet she never came. Even if she had that 'skool' thing, she needed to come today, she had promised.. Hastily he lept the distance of the well and the stairs to the entrance. He peered out superstitiously just in case Kagome was around, there had been something going on around her lately or maybe him specifically as it seemed whenever Kagome and he were together in her world something terrible was soon to happen to him. It was quiet possible that it was all coincidence but he was taking no chances especially with that odd smell that seemed to cling to her, it was like a demons only where an aura would be there was nothing to suggest that she had been in close contact or quarters with one.

Inuyasha sped across the lawn blurring as he went to the house the last incident that had happened to him still fresh in his mind and he was sure everyone else's as Kagome's mother had threatened to tear off his ears and shove them some where unpleasant should he ever show himself again or if he ever dared to come near her or her family again. It had been a misunderstanding of the highest sort it wasn't like he had meant to send her father to the hospital nor appear to be sniffing at her under her dress it was just.. he had smelled that scent again that always seemed to be clinging to Kagome strongly and before he knew it or anyone else for that matter he had been tracing it and along the way well...he had ended up losing the trail as he ran for his life barely missing being impaled by the carving knife that had some how found it's way into Kagome's mothers' hand.

Safe to say he hadn't come back but then again he had, had no need to, as Kagome always came when she said she would. Sango and Miroku were waiting on the other side of the well for his return with their beloved friend, so with all the silent grace his heritage gave to him Inuyasha slipped inside the house it was in times like these his enhanced senses became ever the more useful to him and he was suddenly glad he had not chosen to give up his humanity when the chance was presented to him. Kagome's mother was humming in the kitchen cooking something that smell absolutely wonderful, yet he ignored that for now as when he found Kagome he knew he could talk her into getting some for him.

Inuyasha lept again landing as silently as a cat and raced to Kagome's room it was only as he began to approach it that the hair on the back of his neck began to stand up the closer he came to her door the more his nose twitched in protest. Something had been there.. and what's more the thing smelled. The stench had him gagging, temporarily forgetting that he was trying to be silent to prevent Kagome's mother from coming up there and de-earring him, it was with much effort that he was able to regain his composure, holding a sleeve to his nose to help to filter the scent he pushed her door open and his senses thrummed with an unknown and unfamiliar power source lingering the air, the undercurrent told him all he needed to know, even as his heart dropped to his feet just mili-seconds before he was out the window, the sound of it shattering leaving a hollowed echo behind him to alert the rest of the house if only unintentionally. Then again it didn't matter now this was the worst thing to have happened but how could it have without that bastard's permission? The tainted smell of oil and the indescribable stench that could only exist in one place, could only originate from one place. A silent snarl built up in Inuyasha's throat, nothing was ever suppose to happen in Kagome's world..ever.

It was suppose to have been safe here, he never would have let Kagome come back here without him if he had known that Their kind existed here. In once graceful leap Inuyasha had crossed the entire distance to the well house ignoring the shouts now coming from the house as another leap had him encased in a glowing blue light taking him back to his friends.

Inuyasha appeared at the lip of the well so quickly he knocked himself right into an awaiting Miroku sending them both tumbling backwards in an undignified and hazard lump. Once extracted and not a breath too soon Inuyasha all but gasped out his lungs seemingly too empty to shout.

"Kagome has been kidnapped!" Shippo's cry of surprise was quick to follow as was Sango's own cry of dismay, ok so it probably wasn't the wizest of things that could have first come from his mouth but you must give him some due considering the temporary cut of oxygen to his brain no?

"Well! Why aren't you looking for her Inuyasha!? You should have the scent of her attacker go get him!" Sango demanded of him as she grabbed him by his lapels and lifted him above her head and off his feet shaking him ruffly.

"Wait! Wait you stupid wench!" Inuyasha jerked himself free of her stronger than it should have been for a comrade strangle hold, once released he continued.

"Kagome has been kidnapped by goblins, you can't just go and get one such goblin, there are millions out there and Kagome was kidnapped by one powerful enough to send her straight into their world!" Miroku gasped in surprise drawing attention to himself immediately.

"Then it's true that in order to go there you need the Goblin King's permission." It was a statement nothing more but Inuyasha's grim nod of confirmation was enough to fill the monk with much trepidation.

"What? What are you talking about?" Sango asked looking between the now grim two.

"Long ago there were demons and goblins who ruled upon the world and then when humans came they butchered many of the goblins mistaking the relatively weak creatures for demons, so the king of goblins gathered up his life force as he was the most powerful of all these creatures, and used the whole of himself to create a parallel world in which these goblins could exist in peace and a world in which no other could leave, nor enter without the Goblin Kings permission he died as he appointed his successor."

"So you're saying that if we want to rescue Kagome we need to find this Goblin King and gain permission to enter his world? How on earth are we support to find him?" Sango asked in frustration or at least before she became instantly wary as Miroku suddenly became stiff beside her as if he had suddenly realized something and began glaring at Inuyasha as he never had before, Inuyasha for his part was ignoring the monk trying to murder him with his eyes should he even dare to suggest what he thought he was thinking, in favor of all but leering at Sango.

"No." Sango and Miroku said at the same time but before Sango could question Miroku's own refusal Inuyasha interrupted.

"It has to be Sango there is no way that pompous bastard of a Goblin King will go for Keada, besides Sango can take care of herself, all she has to do is butter up to that ass and ask for a temporary pass." Sango was thrown over Inuyasha's shoulder before anyone could find the words to protest and as she struggled to free herself from Inuyasha's hold thumping at him as hard as she could in her awkward position she was shocked into silence as she listened to Miroku curse rather actively behind them stunned as he threatened the hanyou with bodily harm if he did not release her this instant. He was lost soon as Inuyasha easily out ran him, Kirara took pitty on him and quickly swooped to pick up the poor disregarded monk along the way when he trailed too far. However Inuyasha would not be deterred, he was going to save Kagome and murder the one stupid enough to try and take her away from him.

'Wait for me Kagome I'm coming.

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Jareth watched Kagome as she continued on, she would be here soon he knew maybe an hour or more unless she was redirected, gently he lifted his crystal of her image to his lips and kissed her, it was a horrible parody of the real thing he knew but he settle for this now. She had not realized, he knew and due to her own lack of understanding he had purposefully lead her to believe that if she rescued her brother she could leave. Yet being the Goblin King gave him one great asset, he had never said she could leave and his word above all was law. No one could leave nor enter his realm without his say so, *Princess Mizumi did not seem to understand this, but she would come to know it well soon enough.

A clock ticked away on the far wall and he wished he could speed up time nine hours and twenty four minutes, whether she succeeded or failed didn't matter, then again there was one way she could leave but-no she would never leave she would be his forever. To himself he said quietly, with his minions gone for the time to either see her, this girl who had so captured his attention or to redirect and trick her, he look forward to see which one's she would remember when she came to rule them, it was a loud whisper merely for the simple fact that he liked to hear his own voice nearly as often as he enjoyed hearing hers.

*"In nine hours and twenty three minutes you'll be mine,.. Kagome."

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Kagome struggled as she tried to climb over this newest upheaval currently she found herself deeply immersed within trash much like a giant dumpster and worse still, not only did large and small piles move seemingly by themselves but it seemed as if eyes were watching her. More than once she was sure she had spotted..something in the distance that was as quick to disappear as she was to turn her head and yet something was still caught in sight of her peripheral vision and it was happening more frequently she was beginning to think she was being followed and what's more by something with less than honorable intentions.

Kagome shifted her weight in preparation to leap to her next perch and in fact she had just made to jump upon a particularly steady looking foot hold when said perch Moved. It was all Kagome could do to keep herself from landing on the slowly moving pile and in doing so she ended up falling backwards and as a small scream exited her lips mostly in shock to see the trash move than to actually fall, after all had she not taken a many painful dive and badly construed back flip back in the feudal era? But though she could not be sure it seemed as if she slowed down just briefly before impact, then again, it could have felt that way as she didn't land on anything she could have described other than at one point she was sure it had been an old mattress. Wide eyes took in the large trash pile as it started to turn towards her.

It was a tiny deformed and utterly goblin face that appeared from a tiny bent and struggling body surrounded by and attached to the large moving mountain of junk that peered back at her, in its hands was an apparently largely coveted piece of some lamp by the way she or he or it was holding it in caressing hands. The shriveled and old face glared at her contemptuously.

"You can't have this! No this is mine! I need this!" The voice was decidedly feminine and Kagome held up her hands in the position of surrender.

"You can have it, I won't try and take it from you." The glare lasted a minute longer before the goblin seemed to dismiss her but not before deliberately adding the newly acquired piece of trash to the growing pile on her back. With this done she moved again to the surrounding mountains of trash and began to dig threw the rather large mountain in front of her and Kagome watched in horror as a tiny shriveled up arm large with decay was uncovered and yet the goblin ignored this and continued to dig threw an obvious grave the crushed body of the other goblin not slowing the greedy hands in the least. It looked Kagome didn't dare give thought to the idea that the large mountains of trash around her could have under them the crushed forms of many a goblin that had added one too many a piece of trash to its body and had been unable to continue to hold the amounted amass of junk and gave away to die away under that which it had so coveted.

On fast legs did Kagome rush from the junk goblin bumping into several more that seemed to be mysteriously appearing in her way. Intellectually Kagome knew that they were not mysteriously appearing in front of her but after the frightening thought her body seemed to act on its own. It was only when the trash she had been traveling upon gave way under her that she screamed her fear as she fell her mind abound with a thousand thoughts but only one truly made way to her mind and that was the one that finally seemed to sink into her now. Now for the first time in her life when danger was present and the lives of others and her own depended upon her quest she had no one in which to save her. No Inuyasha to call for in her time of need for here in this world she had no doubt that he would never hear her and never be able to reach her in time as they where now for truly and surly worlds apart. He would have no idea where she had been taken, that is if he had any idea that she had been taken.

There would be no one to save her this time for something that was again entirely her fault. This thought seemed to make her landing even more jarring than it would have been otherwise, and in being so it took her a minute to regain her composure tears burned at her eyes but had yet to fall. She couldn't give up, Souta needed her. It was too soon she needed to be strong for surly the labyrinth wasn't so terrible, then again she would be completely mental if she didn't at the very least consider the possibility. Kagome stood as her breathing returned to normal and it was then that she noticed the muffled shouting. Her head turned to see legs kicking themselves in a panic and a white and gray dog digging almost frantically at the sight but with each inch it gained the more layers of trash where disturbed from the top of the heap and came crashing down around the frantically struggling creature that was buried.

Kagome rushed to help immediately holding up the trash surrounding the creature with one hand while the other went to lose the trapped being. Once freed the dog like creature went flying or more like Kagome had pulled just a little too hard and her grip had not been the best.

"Aieee!" Called the dog like being as it was sent across the way. While the other dog that had been frantically digging to free its counter part now sat beside her as if waiting for the other to return, and return the dog did a cane held threateningly in its paws swinging rapidly back and forth as the dog like creature began to bark his challenges.

"Come forth so that I might smite thee where thee stand you foal ruffian! I shall make thee pay for daring to spring upon my person so spiteful a trap! Where be-..Oh! A maiden! My dear hast thou seen a scoundrel about? He would be of the more fearful sort to have thought to entrap me! But fear not sweat maiden for I Sir Didymus shall protect thee! Come out ye blackguard! Face me like a man and I may consider giving you quarter after I have taught thee manners!"

"I'm sorry!" Kagome cried out as soon as the apparent knight paused in his overly energetic speech and search, she quickly gained both dogs attention and she quickly continued bowing in her apology.

"I think I may have been the one who knocked that trash on you when I fell I was trying to pass threw to reach to Bog of Eternal Stench and I didn't mean- well I am truly sorry to have done that to you and for throwing you I miss judged my grip when I tried to free you." Stunned Sir Didymus paused his cane falling limp to his side as he stared at her before his mind finally caught up with her words.

"Young maiden I must warn thee of the perils of the bog! It is not a place for a lady such as yourself! On what quest are't thou that thine so young would seek out a place such as that?" Kagome smiled sadly at the knight ensnaring yet another heart with her sorrow as she began to explain to him her reason, more of her story spilling from her lips than she had intended with her newly added sorrow.

"I am trying to save my brother. I-he is here on my behalf, if I had not refused Jareth, Souta would have been spared and now if I cannot get to the place just past the Bog of Eternal Stench where *Princess Mizumi has taken my brother and get him back home before thirteen hours is up he will be trapped here forever as a goblin!" Tears fell from her eyes as this rushed from her lips of both frustration and self hatred, and Sir Didymus unable to resist any a maidens tears immediately sought to comfort her.

"Well then my lady know now that you have company! For I my faithful steed Ambrosius and my brother Ludo shall accompany thee for the bog is no place for a maiden such as yourself, mores especially by yourself. By my word as a knight I shall st see thee to the end of thy quest my lady." Didymus bowed before her elegantly his hat in his hand before he stood once more and replaced it upon his head. Kagome head lifted her tears drying in her shock at his bold statement.

"I couldn't possibly ask you to come with me I-"

"Non-sense my lady it twill be a pleasure to accompany such a fair maiden, and besides it is far time that I returned to my post for it is my sworn duty to never let a person past without my permission upon the only bridge within the bog! So my lady we need only stop to grab mine brother and be off on our way. Come Ambrosius, follow me my lady." Kagome followed quickly pacing behind the two canines her gratitude shining in her bright eyes and now bright smile, she listened to Sir Didymus continue on upon his reasons for helping her, for his knightly duties, of his brother, of his mission to help any and all damsels in distress, of his previous quests and as she listened she was comforted for she had found a new companion, she was no longer alone in an unfamiliar place, she had found a new friend.

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Chapter 3 (Preview)

"I don't think this was the wisest of idea's Inuyasha." Sango stated in a rather monotone sort of voice, she was now dressed in Kagome's spare sailor fuku feeling rather bare and more exposed than she had ever wished to be, Miroku was unconscious in the corner of the hut courtesy for once of Inuyasha when the monk had thought to protest by telling Sango just what she 'might' be getting into. He was quick to reassure Sango that he was sure that half of the things they said about the stupid per- er bastard were not true. Mind you he had never let Miroku finish with his warning before he had knocked him out and 'reassured' her then proceeded to tell her that if it at all got out of hand she just needed to get the permission and then knock the bastard into the seventh hell. He had been tight lipped when she had asked for clarification on his 'out of hand' and what was 'not really true.' Maybe Miroku was right about this..

"Don't worry it'll work, I seen it done plenty of times.. before..." He trailed off suspiciously and Sango felt her eyes narrow as her ire was raised and then she looked down, she stared suddenly blankly at the piece of parchment that Inuyasha had handed her, wondering if she had some how forgotten to read in the time in which she had learned and then stopped in favor of training with her father and learning the skills one needed to know to become a slayer, for there was no way that it said what she thought it said... Inuyasha would never be that stupid.. Then again..Inuyasha turned to stare inquisitively at her when a dark aura lept from her shoulders like a living entity, danger making the hairs on the back of his neck stand up and his ears flatten back.

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Yo! I love chapter previews don't you? This chapter turned out a lot worse than I had originally imagined it..go figure it sounds so great in my head and yet so lame on template what's up with that? Anyway I would like to thank the reviewers it is because of all of you that this chapter is getting out to you all so quickly. Supply and demand I'm asked to supply the story's in demand so therefore I must deliver. Also if there is one thing that I love in a story it is the unexpected, in this story I was asked if Kagome had never met Inuyasha and I really thought about it and had to change my original plot line as this one seemed more light hearted. So...

FYI: * Means that the change occured on the simple fact that I posted the wrong to begin with and instead of changing this one it's just to let you know that it is a change of the first chapter and Queen Mizumi has been demoted because of some confusion brought on by the Queen queen thing. Moving on..Also Kagome has been to see Inuyasha and everything has happened as it should save that instead of Kagome being a teen she is but a child, therefore love triangle solved as Kagome was too young at the time this does not mean that Inuyasha chose Kikyou in the end instead she departs peacefully departs the world taking to hell with her Naraku before he soul returns to the young Kagome and Inuyasha continues to live on with his new 'pack' or family. The jewel returns to Kagome as no one would be fool enough to wish upon it. It rejoins with her flesh and by doing so the well remains open to her and as the prayer beads remain around Inuyasha's neck to him as well. Kagome visits every now and then but Jareth nor his minions have noticed because it is usually for short periods of time and Kagome had met with Inuyasha before he started his 'active' stalking. Which leaves me a couple years to play with.

Lastly I would like to know who would like to keep the first chapter as I sort of accidentally up loaded the wrong version and so discrepancy's may be found later. Nothing major so I'll leave it to a vote for any of you who actually read what the author later writes. This is not to insult those that do, I just know that I usually don't so I'm not blaming those like me. Moving on, don't forget to review though as remember supply and demand the more you demand the more I supply!..or try.

Anyway tell me what you think! Everyone of you who review upon my stories even if it's just asking me to update soon help to inspire me. So people please help to inspire me. P.B. :)