"She's not going anywhere with you," Grandma said, now trying to physically push me back into the house. "Suzu, listen to me, get back into the house."

"What do you want with my mother?" I asked, ducking under my grandmother's hands. "Why are you here? Where did you come from?"

"The Wolf Demon race is dying out. Our Alpha needs a mate, but... well, it's a long story."

Grandmother gasped. "How dare you be so suggestive?"

"It's not really our decision lady. Kagome told us this scepter would bring us to this time, like the Shikon Jewel allowed her to do before." The wolf-man pulled a dainty staff out of a satchel he wore at his belt, and gently placed it back in.

"Kagome?" Both my grandmother and I asked at once. Were these the first people to claim that they had direct contact with my father's sister?

"Yeah, Kagome. She said that Sachi was the last woman with Wolf Demon blood. But, if she's her daughter, she should work just as well." The spokesman of what I think I was supposed to believe to be Demons said.

Grandmother paused, seemingly to think. I was also trying to think, but I was drawing a blank. I felt like I was trying to play connect the dots, but the numbers didn't make sense.

"So," I started, managing to slip under Grandma's arm at last. "You're looking for a wife for your 'leader' or something? You wanted my mom to be his wife?"

"Yeah, but since she's dead, you'll do."

It was like I was punched in the stomach again. "No way! You're so disrespectful!" I said, getting angry at the way they were speaking of my deceased mother.

"What do you mean 'no way'? We aren't leaving without you."

With that, the spokesman leaped forward, and grabbed a hold of my arm before I was able to jump away.

With one arm apprehended, a second member of the Demon Wolf pack grabbed a hold of my other arm, and the third snatched my legs right out from under me.

If I had a hard time believing these men were who and what they said they were, this moment seemed to make it very real. They were physically trying to kidnap me to take me to their leader.

In my shock, I didn't fight back the way I should have, but the men were so strong, I don't know if I could have escaped even if I had tried my hardest. I tried to kick my legs and flail my arms to deter them, but to no avail. I heard my grandmother buzzing around the group, but the men seemed to make a circular shield around me, so I couldn't see her.

"Grandma!" I shouted, my last ally in this situation. The men were dragging me toward the old family shrine.

"Suzu, find your Aunt Kagome. She'll find a way to get you home, she has to!"

"She has to?" I asked. "Where am I going? Where-" I was cut off by the shock of the echo of my voice as we drew nearer the well that sat in the middle of the building.

I started crying. Whatever was happening here, I couldn't go into the well. I would never come back, I felt it.

Despite that thought, I was being swung, and I was released right over the mouth of the well.

I was falling.

When I opened my eyes, I was laying flat on my back, panting.

Hyperventilating was probably the more precise word. I thought I was all alone, so I shot up with a scream when I heard a voice above me.

"Are you ok?" Came a question from above, a man's voice.

I looked around, and there was no one at the bottom of the well with me. I then looked straight up, and where I should have found the shrine rafters, there was sunlight and trees.

"I said, are you ok?"

It wasn't any of the Wolf men, but I didn't know if that was a good or a bad thing.

"Hello?" I called up.

I screamed again when a person stuck their head over the edge of the well. Half of the reaction was pure surprise, the other half was caused by the fact that this person didn't seem to be a normal person. I could make out a head of silver hair, and were those animal ears?

"Shut up, what are you screaming for? Now for the last time, can you get up here or not?"

"No, I'm not going anywhere! I want to go home!"

I heard a loud, long sigh. The figure disappeared, and I breathed a little sigh of relief, thinking he had lost patience and left.

I was wrong.

Suddenly, all I could see was a cloud of red falling in front of my eyes, and I head a light 'thud'. It turned out that the cloud of red was some kind of clothes, and the clothes contained a man, presumably the same one that had peeked over the edge.

"Are you the girl those stupid wolves went to get? Kagome is so pissed, do you have that scepter?"

I was still looking this creature over, head to toe. The dog ears, the silver hair, the ember eyes and extended eye teeth. It was only when he said 'Kagome' that I snapped my attention to what he was saying.

"Kagome? You know my Aunt Kagome? Where is she? I need to see her."

"Aunt Kagome?" The strange, dog-man asked. "What are you talking about?"

I was starting to hate all these questions, and wish someone would start from the beginning, maybe answer some of mine.

I sighed in frustration, grinding my teeth. "You aren't apart of those stupid wolves or whatever, are you? Where are they?"

"I am not a damn wolf, and how am I supposed to know where they are? Kagome just sent me out here to come get you and bring you to the village."

I didn't know what to do. Here I was sitting in the dirt at the bottom of a well, looking at this… creature.

However, Grandma had said to find Aunt Kagome. As long as she hadn't completely lost her marbles, or I hadn't lost mine, it seemed like my best bet, to do whatever I needed to do to make this end.

"Yes, please take me to see her."