AN: The curse follows them to the Feudal Era.
THE GRUDGE: Inuyasha Style!
Day Three: Wrong Era
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Dear Mama,
I am taking Souta down the Well because we found a convenient loop-hole—I mean, plot-HOLE—plus we were cursed by this malevolent spirit from that haunted house down the street, so we're hoping we could keep it low in the Feudal Era for a couple days until the spirit gets bored looking for us and attack another innocent foreign visitor.
With much love,
Kagome
"And I am done." She stuck the note on the fridge. "Alright! Let's go!"
Miroku stuck one foot out the door when he froze. He poked his head out and checked his right side and left side twice. "It's all clear. Shippou and I'll go first. Sango and Kirara will follow once I give the OK sign."
Sango and Kirara nodded, crouching low to the floor and ready for the battle.
Miroku took a slow, deliberate step onto the front steps. Then he took off at an incredible speed. He was going to make it!
…until he slipped on something and screamed like a girl.
"MOTHER OF PEARL IT'S GOT ME!" Miroku and Shippou screeched as they were dragged away by their ankles, their nails digging into the ground.
Sango turned back to Kagome, Souta and Inuyasha. "I don't know if that was the sign…"
"FOR THE LOVE OF—THERE'S MORE!"
"Oh forget it!" Sango and Kirara leapt out with a loud, "CHARGE!"
Kagome and Souta watched from the doorway. She turned to the half-demon and said, "You think they'll be all right—"
"Mayday, mayday!" Kagome's walkie-talkie cried, conveniently.
"Sango? What's wrong?"
"We are under heavy tentacle-fire! We need backup! I repeat, we need backup!"
"You heard the woman!" Kagome jumped onto Inuyasha's back and cried, "Mush doggy, mush!"
"…WHAT?"
"Just go!"
Inuyasha flew out the house with Souta under one arm and Kagome on his back, before politely remembering to gently close and lock the door like a gentleman, and charged into battle. Somewhere someone cried, "OH, MY SPLEEN!"
Thirty minutes later…
The breathless group was in the Feudal Era and collapsed all around the Well. Miroku lay on his stomach, unmoving, and Shippou sat beside him, rocking back and forth and back and forth, muttering, "He came and took my baby, my baby, my baby." Kirara was draped over the side of the Well, looking like a wet rat, and Sango's feet lay on the side of the Well, sticking out into the air and twitching every now and then. Inuyasha, Souta and Kagome were panting nearby, holding their sides or clutching the ground as if they would be dragged back into the modern world any minute.
"I love you sweet, sweet ground," Souta said, a stupid grin on his face. "Oh how I adore gravity…you are my life…"
Kagome fell beside him. "My lumbago…"
Suddenly there was a great rush of air above them and everyone on the ground relished the cool night breeze. Until a snide remark broke the serenity.
"Get up and fight, Inuyasha." Kagura said, standing on the lid of the Well. She looked down and saw what looked to be a cream-colored rat mewing. She nudged it away with her foot and looked to Inuyasha again. "Hey, I'm talking to you!"
"GO AWAY!" Everyone shouted from the ground.
"But…"
"LEAVE!"
"Naraku said…"
"WE DON'T CARE!"
"Well I never," Kagura huffed. "I come all the way out here to fight on my master's orders, a man I should remind you I hate very much, and you all treat me like—GAAAAARGHHHHHHH!"
They all looked up from the ground as a pale, blue faced woman shot up out of the well and latched onto Kagura. The wind witch took out her fan and began to demolish everything around her.
"GET—FUUJIN NO MAI—AWAY—RYUUJA NO MAI—FROM—OH HELL!—ME!"
Kagura threw her feather on the ground, which promptly enlarged, and she moved to jump on it. Souta, who was unconscious nearby, magically woke up and hopped onto it first. "Take me with you!"
"Get off!"
Kagome also magically got to her feet. "We need to get in the air! Fly Inuyasha, fly!" She propped Inuyasha on his feet and got on his back as Miroku, Sango and Shippou got on Kirara.
Five minutes later…
"Tell me again why I'm following you guys." Kagura grumbled, looking over her shoulder to glare at Souta, who was clinging to her shoulders for dear life.
"Because you're cursed too." Kagome chirped in from Inuyasha's back. "We're all cursed by the spirit of an angry housewife that was brutally murdered by her husband inside a grudge-filled house."
"Oh."
"Let's rest there," Miroku pointed to the village they were nearing. "I could use some red bean buns in my belly."
The cursed group stopped at the outskirts of a village. Kagura went to buy some makeup, Sango went to clean Kirara's fur, Souta followed Shippou to a food stand, and Inuyasha and Kagome rested on the bank of a stream.
Miroku went to stock up on their dwindling rations and came across an elderly man playing peek-a-boo with an infant in a pink crib.
Miroku smilingly peeked into the crib to look at the cute little baby. His smile dropped when he saw the blue faced child.
"MOTHER OF PEARL THAT'S HIDEOUS!" He screamed like a banshee and ran away with his arms in the air.
As Miroku ran a blinding flash engulfed the background and two people stood in front of a DMC-12 sports car.
"Ah, Doc?"
"Yes Marty?"
"I think we're in the wrong era. Again." He looked at the blue child in the crib. "…IT'S THE BUBONIC PLAGUE!"
Doc dove for his car. "Well then Marty, we'll just have to go back to the future!"
Two villagers watched the carriage and two foreign men disappear in another bright light. They looked at each other, nodded, and went their separate ways. This would never be spoken of again.
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AN: Next Naraku, Kanna, Sesshomaru, Jaken, Rin and Kouga enter!
