Author's Notes: Back once again with a new chapter. I apologize but the chapters will be coming out rather slowly because I have other fanfics to work on and I can't possibly finish chapters all that quickly with so many to work on. I haven't even posted some up yet. But keep an eye out for a Pocket Monster fanfic anyway.

Warning! There WILL be shounen-ai. If you don't like it, you can leave. Don't bother with stupid reviews trying to insult me for writing how I want. This is FANFICTION; it does NOT have to go by the storyline.

Disclaimer: I do not and never will own Inuyasha or Yu Yu Hakusho. How sad, huh?

Timeline Change: I know Yura's part doesn't come in until later, but I'm reversing the crow and shikon no tama shattering and Yura parts. I have some things planned, that's why I'm doing this. ; Then again, the plans might be scrapped. XD

Important Changes: As I said, this will be a rewrite of the Inuyasha storyline with Yu Yu Hakusho characters. And what I mean is I'm rewriting the entire thing and changing a lot of things.

One change is: Taisho-sama will have one child that's alive, and the other is dead! That would be Sesshoumaru being the living one. The fight for the sword will be cough very different.

I think someone mentioned something about the Tetsusaiga and Kurama looking really weird with it. I'd like to say something regarding that. Tetsusaiga will exist, but it won't belong to Kurama contrary to what you may think since I too believe Kurama will look really odd carrying a giant-ass sword and swinging it around like a toy. XD Well, Inuyasha looks that way to me anyways.

'Sesshoumaru' will still have Tenseiga and will still have a 'rivalry' but NOT with Kurama. You'll see why and who when I get to that part.

BIG NOTE ABOUT CHANGES: Things will change to however I wish it to so what I wrote above may get changed too depending on what ideas pop up into my head. So far, the story is pretty darn similar to the original Inuyasha story, right? Well, that won't last long. Not with all of this stuff popping up in my head.

Unwavering Fate – Chapter 2

clowangel

A bright and clear morning greeted the odd trio the next day. Hiei was already wide-awake at dawn practicing his swordsmanship. Kurama was sitting high up in the Goshinboku gazing at the steadily rising sun. Genkai busied herself with preparing breakfast that consisted of stew and rice.

Hiei could not have slept more even if he tried. His mind was buzzing with new information from the previous night. He had found out he might be the reincarnation of Genkai's passed sister, he had indeed traveled back in time, and he was now the guardian of a cursed jewel called the Shikon no Tama which was hanging from a chain around his slim neck.

Scowling, Hiei sheathed his blade, entering the hut; he left his cloak, a black pile in a corner. The morning was much too warm despite it being so early. He decided to stop training that morning. He had too much on his mind. He would get sloppy if he were preoccupied with confusing thoughts. Deciding not to dwell on the insanely annoying information, he started to wander. Eventually, he found himself standing before the Goshinboku. 'How irritating. He's here.' Kurama was still perched in the tree. The redhead seemed to be asleep. Mentally shrugging, he turned to leave. He seriously did not want company right now, especially when the redhead was one of the annoying pieces of crap floating around in his head.

"Ah, Hiei-kun. Ohayo," the redhead murmured just loud enough for Hiei to hear. He sounded half asleep.

The vertically challenged young man stopped and twitched. 'Hiei-kun?' He felt like throttling the demon. He had never before in his life been called 'Hiei-kun'. It was degrading in his opinion and too familiar. "Ohayo," he bit out, agitated.

Kurama couldn't help but smirk to himself in amusement. The black-haired human got easily upset over such small things. But then again, he did call him rather familiarly and they had only met yesterday. "Ogenki desu ka?" he asked, keeping his amusement expertly hidden from his voice, once he fully woke up.

"Hn" was the short reply.

Kurama raised a brow. "Not much of a talker, are you?" Amusement was thick in his voice this time.

"So you noticed." Hiei's brow was now ticking. This guy was trying his patience. Really, really trying his patience.

Kurama frowned, mirth shining in his emerald eyes. This guy was just not any fun, was he?

Turning away, Hiei stalked away outwardly calm, inwardly raging. 'That damn demon.' He finally stopped in front of the old well and peered into it. The bones of the centipede youkai were in there. Supposedly, the bones disappear after a while. Thus, it was named the Bone Eaters' Well. 'Weird name if you ask me.' Shrugging to himself, he hopped onto the rim of the well and jumped off. Before he could make a landing, a bright blue light engulfed him once more allowing him passage through time.

Kurama's eyes widened slightly. 'Heh, so that's how he came here.' The demon was now really curious. It was in his nature after all. Hopping gracefully off the branch he was sitting in, he landed lightly on his feet and made his way to the old well. Peering down, he sniffed once. 'Souka…' He could smell remnants of the magic lingering in the soil and wood of the well.

A small breeze blew into the clearing, ruffling his blood red hair slightly. Kurama frowned. He smelt blood. Human blood. He immediately took off for the village. Something must be wrong. The scent of blood was thick and heavy in the air.

Modern Time

Hiei landed lightly on his feet at the other side of the well. Glancing around him, he took in his surroundings and recognized it as his own home's well house. Abruptly, a bunch of liquid was upended on his head from above. His brow once again ticking, Hiei looked up and glared at the perpetrator. Unsurprisingly, it was his grandfather.

The old man believed in the weirdest things and often spoke of legends in which powerful youkai usually roamed the earth or something. Now, he realized maybe the stories weren't so weird after all.

Taking a delicate sniff of the air around him, he growled. The old man had poured sake on him. "Jiji, what in hell was that for!"

"Maa maa, Hiei! It was a ritual to bring you back! And see? You're back! You should be proud of me!" The old man was practically beaming at his 'success' of bringing back his grandson from the bowels of hell.

Shura and his mother who were standing besides the hunched over old man could only blinked.

"Wow! Jii-san! You brought back nii-san!" Shura was practically beaming.

Hiei grit his teeth, fists clenched at his sides, a vein throbbing on his temple. Did his little brother seriously think the mentally unstable old man could bring him back by simply pouring sake over his head! However, he decided not to argue about it.

"Hiei, you must be tired. You've been gone for a day already, practically two." His mother had been worried sick although she didn't show it. Instead, she drank more sake than ever before. "Let me make you a warm meal. You need to take a shower too. You stink!"

Hiei suppressed a sigh and did as suggested while his mother strolled back into the kitchen with his deranged grandfather and prepared a meal for him. He only hoped it didn't have sake in it. If he were lucky, he'd get ice cream for dessert. (Yes, I've decided to bring his fan-made love for the sweet dessert into my fanfic.)

"Ne, onii-san?" Shura was staring at the ground meekly twiddling his fingers.

"What?"

"Grandpa didn't really succeed in bringing you back, did he?"

Hiei almost felt like rolling his eyes. His little brother didn't really think the old man could've done something like that, could he?

"Onii-san, what happened to that… thing?" The violet-eyed boy didn't really know what the ugly bug-like woman was.

"It's dead."

Shura gasped, gaping at his brother. "Y-you killed it? Really killed it?" His eyes were comically wide.

This time, Hiei did roll his eyes and sighed, plucked a piece of string off his hand letting the thin strand fall to the ground forgotten, idly wondering where it came from and walked over to the Goshinboku, sitting on the bench by the ancient tree, Shura following his example. "Yes, we killed it."

"Really? Wow! Wait, we?" The boy blinked. "Where did you go anyway?"

Hiei really didn't mind talking to his brother, but this was a lot of questions and he still wanted to take a shower. "Yes, we. I met a few people over there. And that well led me to ancient Japan, five hundred years into the past."

Again, Shura could only blink while digesting the information he just received. His brain stumbled a few times and his mouth refused to work for a few long seconds, but he eventually looked up at his brother in disbelief before exclaiming loudly. "WOW! That must've been some adventure!"

"That's one way of putting it," Hiei grumbled, getting up and stepping into the house leaving Shura outside alone still giddy with excitement.

An hour later, Hiei had showered, ate, and did some of his boring homework. He didn't even know why be bothered doing his homework. It wasn't like he'd need most of the crap in the future. Throwing his pencil back onto his desk, he left his room and went downstairs to the living room and joined the rest of his family in watching television.

The entire family looked up when there was a loud bang and some shuffling noises. They exchanged glances except for the old man, who got up immediately, took a handful of ofuda out of seemingly nowhere and plastered them all on the walls with lightning speed impossible for a man his age.

"Be gone, devils of hell, youkai of makai!" he chanted while doing a little weird hopping dance.

Hiei, Shura, and Atsuko sweat dropped as they watched the old man's actions.

The sliding door slid open and the old man immediately plastered a thin strip of ofuda on the unsuspecting person's head before anyone could blink. Everyone blinked.

Hiei frowned. 'What is Kurama doing in my house?'

"Who are you? Why are you in our house?" Atsuko quickly stood and took one sword of many off their wall, unsheathed it and stood in front of her family poised to attack if the stranger made a move. Despite appearances, Atsuko can very well take care of herself having been part of a gang years ago.

"Eto… I apologize for intruding, but I haven't any time to explain."

Atsuko blinked. It was a pretty redhead dressed in ancient Chinese clothing. Sheathing her sword, she relaxed slightly. "Who are you and what is your purpose for being here?"

"I go by the name Kurama and I am looking for Hiei-kun," he replied calmly and removed the strip of paper from his forehead.

Hiei twitched at being called by that nickname again. 'Did this man live to annoy him?'

Atsuko's eyebrow rose. 'Hiei-kun?' Was her son finally making friends?

Shura just barely managed to withhold a loud giggle, covering his mouth with his hand, shoulders shaking from quiet laughter. Someone had just called his brother 'Hiei-kun'! 'Onii-san's face is priceless right now!' The boy was dearly wishing for a camera right then.

Hiei's face was twisting into a funny looking expression that was a mix between a frown of embarrassment and a glare. The end result was a red-faced Hiei with narrowed eyes and a ticking brow while a vein throbbed on his forehead.

"Oh, Hiei-kun, here's your cloak. In your haste to leave, you left it behind." Kurama tossed the black article of clothing over to the shorter man who caught it and put it on with one fluid movement.

"How did you get here? I thought the baba said only I could pass through."

"Apparently, I can too. Except, I must have something that could connect me to you somehow. In this case, it was your cloak." Kurama smiled slightly when Hiei's eye twitched.

"Tch. What are you here for?" Hiei glared up at the red-haired fox demon. He didn't trust the man one bit. Why should he? After all, he barely knew anything about the other man other than his name and species.

"An emergency." Kurama was suddenly all business, eyes serious, and lips thin. "We have a problem on the other side. The villagers are under control of some sort like puppets. We have no time."

Hiei snorted. "And you're telling me all this because?"

The forgotten family members listened intently to the conversation wondering what was going on.

"Because Genkai and I need your help."

Hiei raised a single eyebrow. "You need my help," he repeated. It was stated blandly and with disbelief clear in his tone of voice.

"Yes, we need your help. Urgently. She's trying to retrieve as many villagers back from under that youkai's control because she can see the threads. However, I cannot and simply cannot help. I was asked to come and hopefully persuade you into helping."

"Threads?"

Kurama merely nodded.

"And how would I be of any help in a situation such as this?"

"Genkai believes you have the eyes necessary to see the puppeteer's strings."

Hiei sighed uncharacteristically. Looking up, his eyes widened, gaze directed behind Kurama. "Kurama, move out of the way!"

"Nani?" Although seeing nothing out of the ordinary, he ducked and rolled out of the way anyway. A pair of confused emerald green eyes turned to the shorter man.

"Threads. It passed the well. Before, I had a piece on me and figured it was nothing although I knew I didn't wear white clothing. I found it slightly suspicious, but didn't think much of it. Obviously, that one piece of thread allowed more to come through." Hiei growled low in his throat. Turning to his family, he started giving orders. "Kaa-san, Jiji, Shura, lock the door once Kurama and I leave. Close all windows, shut all entrances, and tape all cracks. Understand?"

Although confused, they nodded and each ran off to do as told. Hiei unsheathed his sword, focusing the power Genkai mentioned into the katana, his blade glowing a dark red; he sliced through the threads, the now useless material falling to the ground. However, more seemed to be replacing the now harmless string.

"Hiei-kun, we have to get to the other side as quickly as possible before it's too late."

"I know that, damn it."

The pair immediately ran out towards the well house and was faced with a tremendous amount of writhing masses of thread.

Hiei turned his sharp eyes to Kurama. "Kurama, how the hell are we going to get through this? That shit's all over the place!"

"It is? I can't see any of it, remember?"

Hiei groaned. He had completely forgotten. How uncharacteristic of him. "If only we could burn it all."

"Burn? Not a bad idea." A graceful hand reached into his hair and pulled out something small. A seed.

"…" Hiei blinked. "And where are we going to find fire to burn all of it? We can't get back into the house or we'll risk my family."

"You'll see." Within seconds, the small seed in his hand began to grow, red vines growing and stretching. The ends of the vines formed vicious snapping flowers. Acid flowed freely from the snapping snarling mouths, burning holes into the dirt floor.

Hiei's eyes were wide. (OO)

"Hiei-kun, step back."

Without much thought, he obediently stepped back, watching the snapping, writhing, vicious plants and flinching when acid burned holes into the ground with a hiss.

Stretching his arm forward, Kurama let the vines grew longer, the many heads of the blood-red plant spitting acid in random directions which immediately reduced masses of writhing thread to nothing but a pool of hissing bubbling liquid.

"Are they all gone?" Kurama's smooth voice broke Hiei out of his trance-like state.

The shorter man stiffly nodded once and walked over to the well, peering down into its dark depths."Let's go," he gruffly announced.

"I need an item of yours," he replied calmly while he returned the plant to the form of a small seed.

"Forget it." Hiei grabbed the fox's hand, tugged, and the next thing they knew, a blue light had engulfed them bringing them to Feudal Japan.

Kurama blinked once, looked around, took a sniff of the air, and having confirmed this was indeed his time, he leapt out of the well with ease and landed softly on the green grass.

Hiei, with surprising agility for a human, leapt out of the dry well as well causing Kurama to wonder if the shorter man really was a human.

When Hiei finally took a good look around him, his ruby eyes widened drastically. "Holy shit," he muttered as his eyes took in all the white fibers that were strung up everywhere, lying on the grass, winding around tree branches, and more. It looked like a giant spider web that stretched for miles.

"What is it, Hiei-kun?"

Hiei twitched at the name. "Stop calling me that. And that white string stuff is everywhere now. And I mean everywhere."

The next thing the pair new, the threads moved towards them, forcing Hiei to roll away, and Kurama following suit having sensed the movement although he could not see the squirming masses.

"Kuso… If only I had fire," Hiei muttered while he carefully avoided the writhing fibers that were so desperately trying to grab onto him.

"We must get back to Genkai-chan."

Hiei stared at the redhead and pointedly raised a brow.

"Well, we must clear a path first."

Hiei growled. "And how do you supposed we do that, smarty-pants?"

Kurama raised a brow at the unfamiliar insult. "Well, you did mention fire."

"And where in hell do you see fire?"

Kurama shrugged and his hand was lost in his mane of red hair once more. Pulling out yet another seed, he held it in front of him, concentrating his youki into the small seed.

"A little acid won't do much against all this."

"Of course not. Therefore, I'm using fire."

"Fire? A plant made of fire? Does something like that even exist? Even in this time?" Hiei asked, disbelief clear in his voice.

"Why, of course it exists. I just didn't feel I should have used it in your own time. After all, it would've risked burning down the odd well house and your home. Fire spreads."

Hiei rolled his eyes uncharacteristically and stepped aside to allow the fox spirit space to 'work'. The next thing he knew, a tall flaming plant with 'mouths' was spitting fireballs everywhere, quickly setting the thin flammable threads on fire.

Now that the sharp fibers were flaming and the fire spreading, Kurama could see where he shouldn't step and the pair quickly made their way to the village. Once they reached there some ten minutes later, Genkai was nowhere to be seen, and the duo soon found themselves to be surrounded by villagers under control of the unknown enemy, all of them shaking in fear and crying for help.

"Ara…? What do we do now?" Kurama smiled good-naturedly.

"The hell if I know!" Hiei snapped, irritated at the expression on the redhead's face.

Review Replies:

Kiharu-sama: Nope, Keiko isn't Yura, but she is someone else. ) In fact, Yura won't even be female. -

hiei/kurama pycopatic fangrl grlfrnd wannabe: 1. About Tetsusaiga and Kurama, Kurama will definitely NOT be the one to own Tetsusaiga. There will be a whole new twist to the entire storyline regarding that particular rivalry. Since the rivalry will not be between Fluffy and Kurama-sama. Haha.. You'll have to wait and see who it's between. -

2. About the transformation and new moon. There WILL be a transformation, so you'll have to wait and see. XD And there will be the 'Sit' command as well..just not the command sit. Oo; I wonder what Hiei will think of! Why would Kurama need a sit command when he doesn't go out of control? - You'll see.

flit: Unfortunately, Eikichi will not be Kirara. Oo; That kitty looks too ordinary. -

darksaphire: Well, I would've replaced him with Kuronue, but that would've been no fun! You'd all assume Kagome would be male then right? Then you wont be too surprised when Hiei shows up!

disturbed66-rose: Unfortunately, Yusuke is already in use. :(

Miss D: Some of your suggestions were actually what I was going to use! OO Wow, are you psychic? Unfortunately, Karasu is already in use as well. Teehee...!

Blue Moon Fox: Thank you! I'd appreciate the help.

darkangel68: Sadly, Kuronue will not be in this story. He doesn't show up much so it's impossible for me to write his personality. (

KaraKurama: No thanks. - I'd like to stick with the characters that exist already. But thank you anways.

shadow dragon: Yusuke is already in use. Thank you anyway! And Youko will be Kurama's full demon form. It ought to freak Hiei out!

And as for everyone who reviewed for my previous chapters, thank you! You've inspired me to keep writing this story and updating more than once a year. Teehee. It's a laughing riot too, huh? Hiei being Kagome. - Well, I'm sure no other story out there will have that twist to the Feudal Fairytale! Haha!

Author's Notes: Uh oh. Brainwashed villagers surrounded the two! What will happen to them? You'll see in the next chapter but you probably wont be too surprised if you've seen or read Inuyasha. And kudos to whoever guesses who replaced Yura!

) Sorry it took so long to post this chapter, but I wanted to update all my fan fictions at once. If you have time, take a look at my other work too. They're not shabby either.

And review if you have time. Reviews give me inspiration.