Ok Chapter 1 is on. I hope everyone liked the prologue and I can only hope that I can continue with the same quality for this and every other chapter I write for this story.

Enjoy!

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Kagome ran through Inuyasha's Forest, her breathing getting harsher and more labored. Bruises and scratches covered her bared skin and her school uniform was torn, missing a sleeve. The bare arm had blood dripping down it at an alarming rate.

Breaking through the tree line she comes out into a clearing, in the center of which is an old dry well. Hardly pausing she puts the last of her energy into running toward the well, her bloodied hand clenching tightly around a small pink jewel. She reaches the well and pants as she looks over her shoulder to the forest from which she has just emerged, terror clear in her eyes.

A roar rips through the clearing, birds take flight as a red clothed figure lands in the clearing.

"Kagome!" The figure growls her name and she steps back, bumping into the well, her hand clutching the jewel to her breast.

"Inuyasha..." Her voice sounds broken as she speaks his name and looks into his blood red eyes. He stalks closer to her like a predator approaching cornered pray. She trembles, hesitating to jump into the well. "Inuyasha, you don't want to do this..."

The demon gives her a feral smirk, "Oh but I think that I do, Ka-go-me." He taunts her just before pouncing the rest of the distance between them.

She doesn't scream, but a gasp and a flinch as she waits for the demon to grab her, rip her. But it doesn't happen, instead she hears a cry of outrage from Inuyasha. Looking up she sees Shippou scratching at Inuyasha's face and biting his ears. "Kagome! Jump! you have to get away!"

The urgency in the boy's voice snaps her out of her stupper and she leaps over the edge of the well, allowing its cool, calming blue light to carry her to her era.

She lands on the other side of time and begins to climb out of the well, but stops.

What if he came through?

She knew that Inuyasha would be after her quickly if she didn't do anything to stop him. Climbing even more quickly, her shoulder aching as the flow of blood increases down her side. She hops over the ledge and runs to the storage shed on the shrine. Flinging the door open she grabs an arrow from the bin by the door and rushes back to the well. Once there she jumps the steps to the bottom and stands next to the well. Channeling her power into the arrow she thrusts it into the old wood of the well, thus sealing it from her side.

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Back in the feudal era Inuyasha rips the nuisance from his face, throwing the young demon into a tree recklessly, knocking the boy unconcious. A feline growl rumbles Inuyasha to a stop before Kirara pounces him. He throws the large cat off of him, and straight at the well. She crashes into it and the side cracks slightly, splinters showing on the more strained planks.

Getting to her feet the cat shakes its head and growls again, but instead of attacking Inuyasha she rams the well again, shattering the side she had struck and damaging the two adjoining sides. One more barrage and the well is a pile of broken splinters.

Inuyasha roars his fury and attacks the fire cat that had sealed him off from his prey.

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Kagome staggers in front of the well, a small pool of blood is growing beneath her. Fighting off a swoon she turns and stumbles up the steps, knowing she has lost a lot of blood. Leaving the well shrine she gingerly reaches a hand up to the wound on her shoulder, wincing as she touches it. Not broken, the deep wound goes to the bone, just missing the main artery to her arm. Tears well in her eyes as she thinks of her mother's reaction to seeing her like this.

Thinking to not upsetting her mother Kagome heads towards the shrine steps and leaves for the park, the herbs in their secret garden would help her. She only hoped she could make it in time.

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Kurama entered the office of the acting lord of the dead, noting that he was the last one there. Kuwabara was sitting on the couch looking bored, while Hiei leaned against the wall opposite him. Their leader, the half demon Yusuke was fuming over the toddler that was their boss.

"This had better be good you damn toddler, I just got back from Makai and I was supposed to be going on a date with Keiko." He nearly growled at boy, who looked extremely nervous.

Stepping up to Yusuke's side Kurama lays a hand calmingly on his shoulder. "Yusuke, I'm sure it is. Please calm down so we can hear what he has to say." He looks at Koenma, signaling him to begin the meeting.

Cough "Yes, well we've just had reports that an artifact that went missing around 500 years ago has suddenly resurfaced. We need you to find it before it falls into the wrong hands." He pauses as he turns on the screen behind him to show a purplish pink jewel that sparkles unnaturally in its dark background. "This is the Shikon no Tama. It is a powerful jewel that can grant anyone that holds it their greatest desires, for good or evil. Right now it is in ningenkai, in a western district of Tokyo. I want all of you to go there and find it."

The urgency in his voice stilled any comments that Yusuke may have made and all of them nod before heading off to find the dangerous jewel and keep it from any demons that may have sniffed it out.

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He had decided to search his own district first while the others split up to search the neighboring districts. Normally Kurama would have walked as he searched, calming surveying his surroundings, but this situation was different. Urgency and speed were important and as such he was leaping through the treetops of the park he had often played in while young.

Stopping suddenly he gets a whiff of something that unsettles him greatly. The smell of blood, lots of blood. Changing direction her rushes towards the source, only to come upon a clearing with a slightly overgrown herb garden and a girl, just a year younger than him, laying in a pool of blood. The pool wasn't getting larger and that worried Kurama even more. A trail of blood lead off in the direction she had come from. Stepping closer he saw that her hair was matted to her shoulder where a large wound made up of several deep gashes was cut into her. He was surprised when he saw that in her hand was a few leaves of one of the plants, one not normally found in ningenkai. At this observation he notices that the girl seems to have passed out while gathering the herbs, though she had not been attacked here. Fearing who it may be he gently rolls her over to see the pale and nearly bloodless face of his one human friend from his childhood, her lips colorless from the blood loss.

A sparkle from the hand that had been clenched beneath her causes him to gasp in surprise. The same jewel that he had seen in Koenma's office was clenched by her hand in a deathgrip. His eyes hardening, if only to prevent himself from becoming unfocused, he takes the herbs from her hand while gathering a few other and applies them to her shoulder wound.

"Kagome... How did you come to get that in your possesion? Did you know it was as dangerous as this?"

His worried tones were the only thing heard in the garden before he lifted her and ran off, wanting, needing to get her to Genkai's where he hoped she could get help from those that lived there.

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Wow, that was rather... grimm. Uh I hope you all liked it, I'm kinda winging it as it is. Anyway if you have any questions about things in the story just ask them in a review and I'll answer them when I post chapter 2. Well that's all for now.