I was sitting at my bedroom window waiting for my parents to get home. They'd been away on a business trip and left me in charge at home. After a few minutes, their car pulled up to the house. My parents walked into the house and didn't even bother calling up to me to let me know they were back. It was just another day that they didn't care at all about me.

"Rima…" my younger sister stood in the doorway. "Mommy and daddy are back."

I ignored her and stared out the window at the pouring rain. There was a bright flash of lightning and I suddenly wasn't in my room anymore. I was standing in what appeared to be a feudal era castle courtyard. I saw a boy with silver hair wearing a red kimono lying unconscious a few yards in front of me. Kagome was kneeling down beside him crying. There was a man with long black hair standing between them and myself. He turned toward me and I opened my mouth to scream…but nothing came out.

My eyes flashed open and I shot upright. I was covered in sweat and my hands were shaking violently. What was that just now? Who was that strange man?

I looked around and saw that I was no longer in the forest but in an old hut. I also was not alone in the hut. Sitting in front of me was a monk with short black hair and a small ponytail. He looked over at me and saw that I was awake.

"Oh, you're awake." He said. "That's a relief."

"Who are you?" I asked. "Where am I?"

"I am Miroku and you are in Lady Kaede's home." He replied. "You must be from Kagome's time, judging from your clothes."

"Kagome's… time?" I asked confused as a black haired woman wearing a purple and white kimono with a green skirt over it walked into the hut with a two-tailed cat thing and a small child at her feet.

"I thought I heard you talking to someone." The woman said.

I stood up. "I don't know what is going on here, but I'm going to go home now." I walked over to the curtain and stepped outside. Right outside there was the boy from my dream standing there. "You're…"

The images of him from my dream flashed in my head and I grabbed my head as it began to throb in pain. I took off back toward the forest, tears flying from my eyes. I didn't know where I was going once I had entered the forest, but I knew I had to get away from that boy.

"What's happening to me? Why does my life keep getting stranger and more complicated? Why can't I just be normal for once in my life?" I screamed as I came upon the clearing where the well was.

There was a gust of wind around me. I heard a man laughing and turned to see someone wearing a white baboon skin walking out of the trees. I backed away from him and toward the well, hoping that by some miracle it could take me back home and wake me up from this nightmare.

He gave a soft laugh that sent a shiver down my spine. "You wish to be normal, do you?" he asked. His voice was so cold and lifeless that I was afraid to respond. "I can help with that…" he began to walk toward me and I backed up against the well. "No need to be afraid, I am not going to harm you. Before I help you, I shall give you a piece of advice. Those people you were with earlier—they are not to be trusted."

Another gust of wind blew around me and I shielded my eyes from the dust. When I opened my eyes, the man was gone and I felt something in my hand. I opened my hand to see a small piece of glass.

"What is this for?" I wondered to myself as I sat on the edge of the well. I looked it over before I heard someone heading in my direction. Almost instinctively I jumped up and ran behind a tree to hide.

"I'm sensing it over in this direction Inuyasha." The man named Miroku said as he walked into the clearing.

Did he say…Inuyasha? Wasn't that the name of Kagome's boyfriend? I cautiously peered out from behind my hiding place and saw the group from before looking around the clearing. I saw the boy with silver hair and the red kimono first and realized that he had small white dog ears on his head.

"Where is it Miroku?" the boy asked.

"I'm not sure exactly, but it's nearby…" Miroku replied.

"What should we do about the girl from before?" the woman asked walking over to Miroku. "If she's from Kagome's time, shouldn't we try to help her go back before a demon finds her?"

"How'd she get here in the first place?" the young boy asked jumping up on the woman's shoulder. "I thought only Inuyasha and Kagome could pass through the well."

I am now extremely confused. I said as my mind tried to wrap around everything I was hearing. I must be dream or something… that must be it! This is all a big dream that I'm having from hitting my head too hard when I fell into the well.

"Well obviously the jewel shard isn't here anymore." The silver haired boy said grumpily. "Let's go back to the village, there's no point staying here if there's no jewel shard."

"Inuyasha, you are so impatient." The woman sighed. "But alright,"

That boy is Inuyasha? I thought curiously. I wonder how Kagome's boyfriend—whom I've never met before—got into my dream.

I watched as the group left and waited until I was sure they were gone before dashing over to the well. "My dream started when I fell into this well… maybe… maybe if I go back in I'll wake up!"

I took a deep breath and prayed to the god that I doubted even existed that I would wake up safe and sound in my bed before leaping into the well.