dG: thanks again to all my reviewers! –waves- And everyone who actually took the time to read this too! You've made this authoress happy! –grins- And here are my replies to my reviewers!

KawaiiSess68: I feel loved. My first reviewer! Thank you! I'll try to keep writing!

animewolfgurl: Thank you! I honestly didn't expect such kind reviewers! Of course, not that I'm complaining.

Suntiger: eh…thanks! I think… I'll try to get better and here's the update!

Crazy Hyper Lady: Thanks!

ShadowStar09: Thanks! Eh…I don't even think I mentioned Kagome being a kitsune! sweatdrop Did I? Wow, you're good! But you'll find out soon!

Kags: Ok, I wrote more! Here ya go!

Bloodcherry: Thank you! You do seem hyper. Don't worry, I get hyper too! SUGAR! LoL.

Legend: 'thoughts'

"talking"

Disclaimer: Why oh why must you torture me so! shakes fist at sky

A/N: This chapter will have a lot of switching POV's I suppose you could call it, until they meet up. Sorry for that…it was necessary.

Also…shall I introduce my lazy muse? Whaddya think ppl?

Chapter 2(A Chance Encounter--part 1)

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"Where were you?" The chimera asked.

"I was in the guild square of course." The fox replied. Catching his partner's glare, he hastily said "Hey! You're not blaming ME for this are you? It wasn't my fault!"

"Kurama…"

"Kuronue?" The person now identified as Kurama replied grinning once again.

"sigh you're impossible." Kuronue said shaking his head.

The two found some of their band there at a table near the back, and took their seats not too far off.

Not too soon after, someone entered the bar, and almost everyone in the tavern looked up. Noticing, this, the two thieves looked up in time to see a raven-haired beauty walk in.

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Kagome felt stared at. Well, technically speaking, she was. And it made her nervous. But it didn't stop the people from doing it anymore than they were now. It was really starting to get on her nerves too. She decided to find a seat for now and try to get information out of the bartender. All eyes followed her to the bar counter (A/N: is that what that's called?) and she just couldn't take it anymore, unfamiliar place or not. These people were rude!

She turned around and faced the stare-ers…and gave them a taste of their own medicine. She stared back. Hey, they started it first!

At this, they all seemed to snap out of their trance-like state and quickly turned around, though many of them kept stealing glances at her when they thought she wasn't looking.

Kagome sighed. 'Well, it's an improvement from before.'

Meanwhile

Kurama was impressed. That didn't happen very often, so that was saying something.

'This hanyou girl just stared down a bar full of youkai, some being twice her size. She's either stupid, brave, or both. I wonder which though?'

"You know, she's not all that bad for a hanyou." voiced Kuronue.

This snapped Kurama out of his thoughts and he shook his head slightly and agreed. He glanced at Kagome to see her chatting with the bartender who seemed thoroughly confused, smirked, and then told Kuronue what he had thought of her just moments before.

"Well, only one way to find out, ne?"

Kurama grinned. "Oh, I suppose."

They turned to where she had been just moments before to see that she had disappeared. The pair looked at eachother, and sweatdropped.

"Er…well, she's fast, isn't she?" Kurama asked. Walking over to the bartender, he asked, "Did that girl that was just here say where she was going?"

The bartender replied "Well, she did mention somethin' about going to the Festival—"

And before he could even finish, the thieves were already out the door.

Back to Kagome

'So, I'm in Makai then? I didn't even know such a place existed. But then, I didn't think much of the Sengoku Jidai when I was back home either…and I STILL have to find out how I turned into a hanyou too!' As Kagome thought to herself, she didn't notice that two pairs of eyes were following her and trying their best to keep up with her through the thick crowds.

Looking up and noticing that the Festival had already started, she began to make her way to the town square in search of food.

When she reached the square, she began to walk around and explore the stalls, looking for a food she thought might be good or looked familiar. She went around sampling this and that, and when she found something she liked, stopped to make a little snack of it. Afterwards, she went on to another vendor to repeat this process until she had eaten her fill, and then headed off to the center of the square.

As Kurama finally caught sight of her, he began to lead Kuronue through the mass of people swarming the area. As they followed Kagome, Kuronue said,

"Look, Kurama. It looks like she's heading that way."

"Hm?"

Kurama looked where Kuronue was pointing and noticed that Kagome was indeed going to the center square. They moved toward her and saw her watching the dancers and looking around. Kurama looked at Kuronue, grinned, and went off to speak to hanyou beauty walking in front of him while Kuronue, who had experienced this type of thing before, went off to find a good place to watch as the fun began.

Okay, I'm sorry I left off at such a bad place and that it's so short. But I just wasn't getting anything, and I didn't want to keep u guys waiting for too long. Notice that this is part 1, so part 2 of this chap will be posted soon. P I'll try my best to update every 2 weeks, but since I also have my deviantart account to manage and joined an oekaki board, I may be a bit late. Thx! DG