Darkpriestess66: I promise these chapters will get longer, believe or not, I'm using paper and a mechanical pencil to write this...

Kagome and Rin were in Inuyasha's forest collecting herbs, when Kagome looked up as she sensed something coming from the Bone Eater's Well.

'It can't be the well hasn't worked since I returned to this era!' Kagome thought, as she looked in the direction of the well.

"Kagome?" Rin asks

Kagome looked at the girl. "Sorry, I just thought I sensed something."

Rin looked up at her teacher. "Should we go look?"

Kagome nods together the two of them went to the meadow where the well just to see the well come to life.

"Somehow, I don't think I'm in Tokyo anymore." a girl's voice came from inside the well. Maria continued to stare up at the sky, confused. She decided to climb up and out to see where she was now.

Kagome's jaw dropped as someone dressed in her old school uniform climbed out. Blue eyes met hazel and stared in open shock.

"Where am I and why do you look like my foster mother's married daughter?" Maria questions

"This is Edo in the land of Musashi." Kagome answers, she debated before turning. "Follow me."

Maria had no choice, she was confused, slightly scared, and needed answers, she followed, her eyes swept across the land.

The villagers looked up as their Priestess entered, followed by Rin, and a strange girl that wore the clothing of Kagome's strange time.

Kagome lead the way to her home, hers and Inuyasha's where a pot of stew was on the fire to heat. "Please sit down." Kagome went in and sat down, and tended to the fire and meal. Maria sat down, she was unsure.

"You are five hundred and three years in the past." Kagome states, "but I want to know why you were on my family's shrine grounds?"

"Because I live with the Higurashi family, they're my foster family." Maria answers

Kagome's eyes widen at that news. "I'm Kagome Higurashi."

"Maria."

Kagome served the stew and passed a bowl toward her guest trying to figure out why another modern era teenager to travel back in time to the feudal era, Maria was quiet, soft-spoken when only someone spoke to her, she never ventured any questions, only spoke when spoken to her.

"Lord Sesshomaru!" Rin's voice called out bring the attention of the two females in the hut. Maria stood up when Kagome did and followed her host out into the afternoon sunshine.

There she caught sight of a tall well armed man that the child was talking to and non-stopping.

"Big brother!" Kagome greets, much to the annoyance of the man, er..was he even a man?

Maria followed Kagome as she walked up to the man, and see that no human could look like this guy did.

Rin just giggles a little and Maria moves closer to Kagome.

Sesshomaru caught a scent that wasn't meant to be in this village and his eyes widen at the sight of the new person, by his half-brother's woman, and his ward.

Rin skipped over and grabbed Maria's hand and dragged her over to Sesshomaru.

Maria didn't know what to do, she was unused to such scrutiny, so she just did what came natural, she grabbed one side of her skirt, performed a curtsy.

Sesshomaru nods before asking. "You do not smell like a human, why?"