-1Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairytale
Into the Well
Chapter Three: Mixed-Up Memories
Note: I apologize for how long chapter three's took. Hopefully it's worth the wait. It's a bind mind screwy towards the end. Sorry. Everything will eventually, hopefully, be explained...maybe. Don't worry if you don't understand the Japanese (in fact, it might be a little off in colloquialism/dialect for one of the characters), there's a reason that it's being used and you don't really need to understand it. If anyone DOES feel like they need to know the translation, I can edit it in. (Hint: 'Shippo" isn't hearing Inuyasha say "kuso")
"This is all your FAULT, you two fleabags," Sango scolds, "and if you two had only BEHAVED yourselves, we would have already reached Kaede's Village!"
The group has set up camp. Inuyasha and Koga are sitting with their backs turned against one another and their arms folded. Sango stands condescendingly over them, seemingly awash with angry flames. She berates both 'boys' on their bad behavior. Little Shippo is left to take shelter behind the lecherous monk, Miroku. "It's gonna be alright, Daniel. Selena's not really a mean person. I'm sure she'll never be angry at you. She only hurts those who deserve it."
"Like you when you touch her in her naughty spot," the little boy turned fox demon inquires while their demon slayer friend continues to chew out the two canines.
Miroku's face turns a violent crimson. "Wha-wha-what?! I...I've never done such a thing! She...she would hur-hurt...no...KILL me if...if I even so...so much as...thought about that!"
"Oh please, you're lying! I've seen you touch her naughty place plenty of times, and other girls' too!"
Sango whirls around upon hearing their conversation. For the moment, Inuyasha and Koga are spared her wrath. A dark piercing glare, with an almost demonic glint, bores through the young pervert's defenses. Michael, as Miroku, suddenly becomes deathly pale. Never before had he seen Selena so angry. To him, it would appear that some of Sango's jealousy and violent tendencies has seeped into her, making her far more violent and far stronger than she was before she entered the well into this anime world.
"He's touched WHAT girl in their naughty spot?!"
"No, Serena, you...you know me...I...I would never...it's...it's Daniel. It's just a misunderstanding you see...no need to get angry over it," the pale faced monk stutters, pleading for his life.
"Oh, REALLY? Now why would this dear, sweet little boy lie about something like that? He's not like his rotten older brother. To be honest, I'm surprised. I knew you were a bit of a perv, but I always thought you were just a little shy around girls you didn't know. I can't believe you would dare go near a lady's private, especially in front of a young impressionable boy."
"Feh. Sango's really overreacting this time," Inuyasha remarks to himself.
"Yah, she is. I've never seen her like this. She thinks that little brat over there meant that he's touched girls in their hanky-panky place, when he's just really saying that stupid perv's been grabbing girls in the butt," Koga unintentionally responds.
"I better go and stop her. We won't be able to find Kagome or even defeat Naraku without Miroku's help."
"Heh, what for? I say we watch her cream him. I doubt she'll kill him. She IS kind of sweet on him."
"Well, you've got a point; Sango loves Miroku so much that she won't kill him. However, she's pretty jealous and petty, so he's still going to get hurt and bad," the silver-white haired half-demon notes.
Sango whirls around and stares down at the two canines. "Could you, repeat that for me," she begins in an attempt to hide her overwhelming fury, "I didn't QUITE catch that comment you made."
"It wasn't me, whatever it was! It was that dumb dog over there! It was all him! He said it, not me," Koga immediately accuses Inuyasha, pointing vehemently at him.
With the years of martial arts training and practice, Selena could be rather intimidating to those who did not have any training. She was only a green belt, but since her friends had no training, she was often seen as someone who shouldn't be crossed. Even Rachel, at times, would find Selena's combat abilities to be awe inspiring, yet ever intimidating all the same. Rachel and Selena have lived across the street from one another since middle school, and thus, out of the group, Rachel has spent the most time with Selena even though David has known her for the longest.
Up until now, Selena never really had any violent tendencies and only used her training outside the dojo for self-defense and the occasional display to ward off attackers, although primarily she had to take a stance to let Michael know to back off from her behind.
"It probably is a good thing that Rachel isn't here. Seeing how violent Selena's becoming in Sango's body...well, it might upset her," Miroku whispers softly to Shippo.
"You said that she's only mean to those who deserve it. I think they really deserve a beating," the little fox boy retorts.
"Well, your brother obviously could use the discipline, but Inuyasha's merely a character here. He's not a real person like us. Furthermore, Inuyasha normally receives his punishment from Kagome. The only one of us who has the right to punish Inuyasha is...Rachel. Here she is, starting a fight with them, when she was just complaining earlier about how their bickering is slowing us down. Selena isn't petty like that...nor so hypocritical. I'm actually starting to worry, seeing how Selena is behaving now, that if we stay here too much longer, we'll forget that we're ordinary people, and get lost in the roles we are playing. Of course, she might not be so violent to everyone in generally, but better them than me."
"So, you think if we stay here too long, we're forget who we are," little Shippo inquires.
"Hey, HE started it! It was that stupid wolf who said you were sweet on that corrupted monk!"
"I don't really care! I've just started my period today, so I'm more than a little irritable! You two are giving me a headache, that pervert over there...I'm not really worried about him now! You two are causing the most trouble, and are thus the most annoying ones here!"
Inuyasha stands up defiantly. Sango should not be getting on his case, especially since everything is Koga's fault. If they had not let that mangy wolf tag along, everything would be going a lot more smoothly. "Why don't you just shut up? Quite yer yapping already. You're complaining that me and this dumb wolf over here are holding us up, but you're doing the same exact thing! I don't what this period thing has to do with anything, but you're a demon hunter for crying out loud! What kind of weakling lets little trivial stuff get the better of her?"
Taking the half-demon's cue, Miroku reluctantly stands up to face Sango, his knees trembling in fear of a possible retaliation. "He's right...Se...Sango. None of us should be fighting with each other. Inuyasha and Koga have never gotten along, but unless we all stop bickering and fighting amongst ourselves, we're never going to get anything accomplished. What would Rach...I mean, what would Kagome think if she knew how terrible we've been acting here? She'd be very upset, that is for certain. We mustn't forget what we're all here for. We're here to find Kagome, and if she's been captured by the enemy, then it is imperative that we all work as a team and get along if we ever hope to be reunited with her."
Sango spins around and turns to face the young monk. She hangs her head in shame, her eyes water and fill with sorrow and regret. "You're...you're right of course. I'm...I'm sorry. I just...got...carried away. I...I forgot for a moment...I forgot who I am...who I used to be. I'm really sorry. It's just that...no, never mind. It doesn't justify it either way," Sango apologizes.
"Hmph...glad that's over with. I'm beat. See ya guys in the morning," Koga remarks as he lets out a yawn.
"Yes, let us all get some rest. In the morning, we should go immediately to Kaede's and ask her about Kagome's whereabouts. After a good night's rest, we should all feel better," Miroku suggests.
"Feh, do whatever you want."
Everyone starts to settle in for the night. All but Inuyasha awkwardly attempts to lie down and sleep upon the cold ground. Sango grumbles to herself about how horrible it is to have to sleep on the naked ground and how if only they had reached the village before nightfall, they could be sleeping inside a hut, and perhaps even on a bed of some sort, or at least have a blanket or something to keep them warm. Little Shippo, curls up close to Sango, partly because he is cold, but mostly because he is afraid of creepy crawly things crawling all over him while he sleeps. Miroku rests half-asleep near the fire while Koga isolates himself by reclining against a tree. Eventually, they finally drift into sweet slumber.
Two boys sit at desks during detention at an elementary school. One is a boy with long silver hair wearing a red fur robe. Dog-like ears stick out from atop his hair. He sits in his desk, arms folded defiantly as he stares with his yellow eyes at the blackboard before them. The other is a scruffy looking little brat with messy black hair and arrogant brown eyes. A girl with short chocolate brown hair and deep brown eyes enters the classroom. She is wearing a green pleated skirt and a cute sailor top that matches it. She walks up to the teacher and asks to speak with her. The teacher turns to the two boys and instructs them to behave themselves, for she is only going right outside the door and will still be able to hear them if they act up.
The sailor-suited girl and the teacher in charge of detention head outside the classroom. Waiting for them, just outside the door, is an older and agitated man with dark brown hair, green eyes, and freckles. A few moments later, the girl comes back into classroom.
"I can't believe you! You should be ashamed of yourself," the young girl scolds the dark haired boy, "your mother is having a baby, and you're here in detention!"
"Like I care. I didn't want no stinkin' little brother anyway. No one asked me!"
"I don't care! You're dad should be at the hospital with your mom, but instead he's here trying to get you out of detention because your mom wants the whole family to be together when the baby's born."
"Well maybe he should have just stayed at the hospital them. I want nothing to do with that little brat."
"You don't understand at all, do you? Your dad hasn't even BEEN to the hospital yet. When your mommy felt the baby coming, my mommy took her to the hospital. She told me to tell your daddy that your mommy was having her baby and to make sure both of you get to the hospital. When your dad got home, I told him and he asked where you were at. I didn't know because I didn't see you on the bus, so we had to come up here and get you."
"Sorry, but that baby's none of my business. I don't care about it. You and my dad can just go up to the hospital yourselves and watch that doo-doo laying little chicken be born. As for me, I'd rather stay in detention. I'd rather receive hundreds of whoopins than have anything to do with that 'thing' mom and dad wanted to dump on me."
The white haired dog boy turns to look at the two squabbling ten year olds.
"Will ya just shuddap? You two are givin' me a headache. If you hadn't picked a fight to me to begin with, ya stupid wolf, than neither of us would be here," the little Inuyasha interrupts.
"Hey, if you didn't act like you were so much better than me then I wouldn't have had to prove you otherwise. Why don't you just leave us all alone, you little freak."
"Koga! That's exactly why you always get in so much trouble. Why do you have to be such a bully? You're always picking on me, or him, or someone else. Why do you have to be such a meanie?"
"Hey! I've already told you I'd stop picking on you so much!"
"Don't wasted your breath on him Kagome," Inuyasha remarks, "idiots like Koga just can't behave themselves."
"What did you just say, dog breath?!"
"You heard me!"
"SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU!!"
The little girl suddenly starts crying after screaming at the both of them. The teacher and Koga's father both open the door to see what's wrong.
"What's going on here," the teacher demands.
"DAVID! What did you do to make this young lady scream?!"
"Nothin'!"
"Oh quite yer cryin, Kagome. No need to waste your tears on him," Inuyasha comforts in a cruel, and harsh kind of way.
"Hey, who said you're allowed to talk to Rachel? You're the one who's makin' her cry?"
"Shut up you smelly wolf's butt!"
The teacher turns back to Koga's father.
"I'll let him go today, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to assign him detention for the rest of the week."
"That's perfectly fine. And I'll be sure to follow it up with some punishment of my own."
Nathanial, Koga's father, places a hand on Rachel's shoulder.
"It's alright. There, there. No need to cry. Once we get to the hospital your mother will take you back home. So dry them tears, okay?"
"Uh...huh," the little Kagome-dressed Rachel sobs quietly.
Inuyasha jerks awake. He shakes his head in disbelief. He is just waking up from a bizarre dream about Kagome. "I wonder...I wonder if Kagome's dreaming about me tonight too. I hope she's alright."
Just as the half-demon is about to go back to sleep, he spots something out of the corner of his eye. He instinctively goes to investigate. As he gets closer, he notices a near invisible image of a girl in strange garbs. "Kagome!"
The girl looks at the half-demon and raises an eyebrow. "Inuyasha? Uso! Inuyasha desu yo!"
Inuyasha runs up to the near invisible Kagome. He barely manages to refrain from wrapping his arms around her and holding her in a deep embrace. "Kagome! Daijoubu desu ka? Doko ni imashita ka?"
"Mochiron, daijoubu, daijoubu desu. Yare yare, Inu-kun. Ii desu ne. Ima wa koko ni imasu," Kagome comforts.
Meanwhile, Sango is tossing in her sleep...
A young girl in a green fuku is surrounded by a group of demons. The demons look fierce, but their voices sound like immature little brats.
"Rachel likes Inuyasha! Rachel likes Inuyasha," one of the demons tease.
"So, what if I do," a little Kagome retorts back.
"Don't ya know that he's a freak?"
"He is not!"
"Is too! And if you like freaks then that makes you a freak too," another demon taunts.
"Am not a freak!"
"Are too!"
"Yah, and we don't like freaks!"
Meanwhile, a blonde haired little demon hunter enters the playground where the demons are bullying this little girl.
wait...that's rachel...isn't it?
i remember this...but then i don't
that girl...with the blonde hair...is that me
do i have blonde hair?
no...this can't be right
it's so familiar, but it's...
wrong
this happened
but not like this
did it?
The little demon slayer is about to unleash her big boomerang upon the demons when a half-dog boy with white hair suddenly leaps out and begins pummeling them.
"Inuyasha!"
"Feh, don't bother thanking me, Rachel."
rachel?
who is he calling rachel?
isn't that girl...
isn't her name...
what was her name?
was it...kagome?
something doesn't feel right still
i don't remember inuyasha...
was he really there?
i think i remember...
a girl
being picked on
i was about to rush in
but someone
someone else came
came and save her
it was...
inuyasha?
who...
who am i?
my name is
se...
se...
sango?
"Inuyasha...daijoubu desu ka?"
"Ee? Boku wa? Kagome!"
"Inuyasha wa...kotaete...onegai."
"Yare yare. Doushite, Kagome?"
Inuyasha is still half asleep while talking to Kagome, and still hasn't realized that she is semi-see-through. "Ano...eto...sore wa," Kagome stutters blushing, then quickly becomes annoyed, "Osuwari!"
Immediately, Inuyasha falls face down to the ground in the infamous 'sit' position (which isn't much of a sit). "Gomen nasai, Inu-kun," Kagome apologizes, teary eyed.
Meanwhile, even Miroku seems to be having a disturbing dream.
A light breeze lingers in the air. Autumn is here, and winter lies around the corner. A young man with dark hair wears a mask and a tuxedo. He rings the doorbell to a house.
A beautiful young girl answers the door, her flowing blonde hair is put up in two pigtails and she is wearing a white gown. Painted on her forehead is a crescent moon.
"Miroku! You jerk! Are you suppose to be Tuxedo Mask?!"
"That I am, my sweet Sango," Tuxedo Miroku replies and quickly sneaks in a quick pat to 'Princess Serenity's' butt cheeks.
"Rachel told you, didn't she?"
Waving from across the street is Kagome. Next to her is her neighbor Koga and his little brother Shippo, who is dressed up as a pirate. Sulking about is Inuyasha, dressed in street clothes, refusing to dress up.
"What's Inuyasha doing here," Sango wonders noticing the silver-haired boy from across the street, "I didn't know he was apart of our group."
"Rachel brought him along. I think she's trying to keep him on a short leash. I heard he gets into a lot of trouble even when he's not at school."
Miroku and Sango head across the street to meet up with the others. Koga seems particularly less than thrilled that Inuyasha is tagging along with us.
"Inuyasha," Kagome begins, "I got something for us to wear while trick-or-treating."
"Feh, I don't wanna dress up," the half-demon pouts with his arms across his chest.
"Candy, candy, candy! I wanna get sum candy! Ret's go, ret's go!"
"Shut up you little brat, I don't know why I have to be the one to take you trick-or-treating anyway," Koga complains.
Kagome brings out a two Halloween headbands. One is a set of black cat ears, the other is a set of dog ears. She sets the cat ears atop her head and the dog ears on top of Inuyasha's. She also pins a black cat's tail to the back of her skirt.
wait a sec...
this isn't right
he's already got dog ears
why would she put another set on him?
isn't that unnecessary?
"Shall we be on our way," Sango asks dressed up as Princess Serenity.
"Of course," Kagome replies and immediately grabs Inuyasha's hand.
Koga is furious when he sees this, but no one notices. Little Shippo, only 3 and a half years old, runs up to Kagome and takes her spare hand.
"I wanna hold your hand...Rei-chi."
"Sure, I'll hold your hand, little Danny," Kagome replies gently.
Inuyasha looks away from Kagome and snorts. Unconsciously, he grabs tighter onto her hand.
wait a second
what's going on here?
why are we all dressed up for?
koga looks pretty made that kagome's holding inuyasha's hand
and inuyasha seems to be blushing being held by her hand
no
this isn't right
this isn't real
this isn't what happened at all
wake up miroku!
no
no
that's not my name
that's not my name
my name that's not!
what's my name again?
i mustn't forget
we mustn't lose ourselves here
this isn't real
this dream isn't real
i'm not real?
no
no
wake up
wake up you
wake up you perverted
perverted
person!
Miroku suddenly jerks awake. He begins muttering to himself, almost as if he has gone insane. "My name is Miroku Moore. My name isn't Miroku! It's Michael...Michael Moore. My name is Michael Moore. Michael Moore. That's my name. I'm a monk. No I'm not! I'm only a high school student! This is just an anime. I'm from another world. I'm from the real world. My name is Michael Moor and I'm a high school student. That girl sleeping over there is Sango. She's...she's...she's not a demon hunter! She's a high school student too! I really like her. She's study some sort of martial arts. Her...her name is...wait, the dream! Her name was in the dream! She was dressed up like Sailor Moon. Princess Serenity! That's it, her name is really...Selena! Selena Brookhaven! She lives across the street from Kago, Rachel, Rachel Wells. That scruff wolf over there is her neighbor, Koga, I mean...his name isn't Koga."
Michael takes a deep breath, then continues to remind himself of who he is and who is friends really are. "My name is Michael Moore and I am a high school student. Selena Brookhaven is the really cute girl that I like. She's lives across the street from our friend Rachel Wells, who is currently missing. Rachel's other neighbor is...David Smith...yes, and Shippo's really his little brother Daniel. Inuyasha is...well, Inuyasha. He isn't one of us. Okay, I think I remember it right now. I am really Michael, Sango is really Selena, Koga is really David, Shippo is really David's little brother Daniel. and we're all looking for Kagome, who should really be Rachel. Man, I really need some paper and a pencil to write this all down. Next time I forget, I might not remember. Man, I really hoped that had just been paranoia earlier. I guess I really was right. If we stay here too long, we'll forget who we really are!"
While Michael is trying to remember who he really is, David, who is Koga, is having a nightmare of his own.
"Inuyasha..."
Kagome looks at the half-demon sadly.
"Don't look at me like that! You make it look like I've done something wrong!"
"I'm sorry, but...I'm going to miss you."
"You'll get over it."
"But...you're my friend," Kagome speaks as she wipes a tear from her eye.
"Friend? Who ever said we were friends? Put that nonsense out of your mind!"
"Sit boy!"
Inuyasha doesn't move. Her words have no effect on him.
"Don't tell me to 'sit boy'!"
"I'm sorry," Kagome apologizes.
"Oh, it's alright," the half-demon comforts, "you're just so emotional. Well, it can't be helped."
"So...when's your last day," Kagome asks trembling, her eyes overflowing with tears.
"Tomorrow, then I move in with my new foster family," Inuyasha answers.
Inuyasha takes the sleeve from his fire rat coat and dries the rest of Kagome's tears.
"So don't cry, Kagome. We still have one more day together. Tomorrow's Saturday. I'll get up early so we can spend some time together."
"Really?"
"Yah, sure, whatever. Heck, you're into Inuyasha aren't ya?"
"Of course I am," Kagome happily replies.
"Good, then I got something special to show you. I'll call you tomorrow in the morning. Don't take your time getting ready, I won't wait forever."
"Sure! Of course!"
inuyasha
that freak
i hate him
stealing my girl
she's mine
i like her
you can't have her
i'll never let you have her
hurry up and disappear already
go away
she's mine
she's going to be my girlfriend
Inuyasha finally recovers from being 'sit' by Kagome. He gets up and finds that she's no longer around. He searches the area, but is unable to find any trace of her. He eventually gives up, realizing that it must have been a dream and that he was sleep walking. He reluctantly makes his way back to the camp as morning is starting to break. The perverted monk is already awake, muttering quietly to himself. Koga, to Inuyasha's delight, appears to be in the middle of a horrible nightmare.
