Chapter 2 ~The World of Demons ~
Chihana's scream came to an abrupt stop, with a nasty sounding thud.
"Owww..." Chihana muttered rubbing her rear end. She was just noting to herself that she had fallen down the well when she silenced herself upon hearing voices above her that were barely audible, but she did recognize one of the voices. "Kagome?" she muttered then louder, "Kagome!" as she swung her head straight up at the opening of the well only to find her friend's face peering down at her.
"Chihana? How did..? Ok, just stay calm and grab onto one of the vines and climb out." Kagome instructed while her face was warped by confusion.
Chihana looked around the well and sure enough there were indeed vines, she picked herself up off the floor of the well, walked over to the nearest vine, checked it's strength, once satisfied it wouldn't snap because of her weight, she used it to climb up the wall of the well that is deeper than she thought originally.
Once out Kagome crowded her and began to question her. "How did you get here? Are you hurt? What happened?"
"Easy, Kagome, one question at a time! No I'm not hurt. I must have fallen in the well when I tried to see where the colored lights came from." came Chihana's response.
"Colored lights?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, I saw these lights of different colors come out of the well when I went into that little shrine, after the lights it was dark and I must have tripped and... Hey! Wait a minute! Why is it no longer dark!?" Chihana realized just then that they were suddenly outside in the middle of a clearing with a forest surrounding the clearing and there was a weird looking guy with them, glaring at them with his arms crossed. He was wearing an old fashioned red kimono, had golden colored eyes, long silver hair and... were those dog ears on the top of his head? Chihana was so absorbed in staring at the weird looking guy trying to figure out why he looked so weird that Kagome's mutterings barely registered in her mind.
"You tripped while trying to look in the well for these different colored lights... Oh! The different colored lights must be the space time continuum, the very thing that allows me and Inuyasha to cross between the worlds but I thought only I could see the space time continuum..."
"Space time what? Wait! Did you say Inuyasha? Your boyfriend? You mean this weird guy is your bad boy boyfriend!?" Chihana demanded pointing at the silver haired, golden eyed boy.
"Boyfriend?" asked the boy as though he were genuinely confused. "What the hell's that?"
Kagome looked at the boy with a slight blush, and said "Oh, uh... Chihana this is Inuyasha. Inuyasha this is one of my friends from school, Chihana."
"SAY WHAT!?" Chihana and Inuyasha said at the same time.
"Listen, Kagome, I ain't babysittin' a puny human, even if she's a friend of yours! We got to go after Naraku!" Inuyasha, the silver haired boy in all red said cockily.
"Humph! I don't need a babysitter, I'm in the 9th grade! And what do you mean 'puny human'!? What the hell you think you are, you weird cosplay maniac! God, Kagome! Since when do you have such poor taste in boys! I didn't realize you liked to date lunatics! No wonder Hojou never had a chance!" Chihana huffed.
Inuyasha looked at Kagome with confusion. "What the hell is she talking about, Kagome?" he asked.
"Wait! You mean to tell me he really doesn't know!?" Chihana asked Kagome.
Kagome looked between the two of them and just when it seemed like she would finally answer, as she looked between them again she stopped in the half way point between them and her eyes widened and she pointed then shouted "INUYASHA!"
He spun around drawing a sword Chihana hadn't noticed he had and growling then rushed forward shouting behind him "Kagome! Take the girl and run to Kaede's village! Get Miroku and Sango!"
Chihana spun too and saw what had them shaken up. There was about hundred of them, these weird looking animals, in different colors, sizes and shapes. Before she could do or say anything Inuyasha was fighting the animals and even killed some, then something grabbed her arm and tugged her backwards, Kagome, and pulled her along behind her.
Chihana's lungs burned. It seemed like they'd been running for hours. "God, I need to work more in P.E." she thought as Kagome continued to pull her along behind her. They reached another small clearing where Kagome stopped for the moment to, Chihana supposed, get their bearings. Chihana was bent over holding her knees trying to catch her breath when a sinister and somehow sensual laugh rang through the clearing. Goose bumps of awareness broke out on Chihana as she snapped upright to find the source of that silky laugh. She didn't have to look for long because the source was right in front of her, she had enough time to register that it was a man before Kagome stepped in front of her and successfully blocked her view. Kagome's head was darting to and fro and it made Chihana follow her gazes. That's when she noted that they were surrounded by creatures straight out of old paintings of demons. A chill traveled down Chihana's spine at the word "demons". "Oh my god. Where the hell am I?" she thought.
