Chapter 3

Do we really have to?

Shit...shit...shit...SHIT! What the fuck am I supposed to do!? Inuyasha and Koga are passed out and wounded! And Kagome is nowhere to be found. Shit um...I flipped Koga over onto his back and I put my head to his chest to listen to his heartbeat. It was there and I started shaking him.

"Koga wake up!" I kept shaking him and he was coughing bad and there was a black smoke coming from his chest. It was that Miasma stuff that I smelled when I passed out that Inuyasha was yelling. Shit he breathed in too much of it. I put my lips to his to blow some air into his chest that wasn't the miasma. No I don't know CPR, no I don't know what I'm doing but I need one of them to wake up and tell me what the hell is going on so they can help me move the other. He started coughing and that seemed like a good sign so I kissed him again and blew more air into his mouth. His lips were actually kinda soft, okay Risu keep your mind on task. He opened his eyes soon and looked up at me and I breathed a sigh of a relief.

"Thank Kami you're okay." I said softly and he jumped up making me fall backwards on my ass. The hell a Thank you would have been nice. I growled lowly and looked up at him and he was looking around frantically.

"Koga the hell was that for!? A thank you would have been nice you know dick." I said lowly and he just kept looking.

"Shut up Alright? Wheres Kagome?" He looked at me and I just shrugged.

"I just woke up and she was gone. But we need to help Inuyasha maybe he knows what happened." I said and Koga looked annoyed but he knew I was right and he looked down at Inuyasha.

"The head priestess at the village can help the mutt." He said before throwing Inuyasha half heartedly over his shoulder.

"Koga you could at least be more gentle with him. He's bleeding from the head don't be a dick." I wasn't going to admit it but I was worried about Inuyasha and I went over and looked at his face I wiped some of his blood off his forehead away and looked at it. There was a bump and a small cut but nothing serious.

"You wanna complain about how I carry him then you can. This mutt will get what he gets." Koga said coldly and he started walking back to where the hut was that I had met them again before. I walked with him and I held Inuyasha's head to keep it upright so he wouldn't get worse. Koga grumbled about the dog smell from Inuyasha and I just rolled my eyes. I've got news for him, this is the feudal Era and they both smell bad.

OH FUCK THAT MEANS I CAN'T SHOWER ANYMORE! Wait I should still have that shampoo I bought at the mall in my bag. I checked my bag and breathed a sigh of relief. That should help me for some time. Thank god...I hate not being able to bathe. We kept walking until we were in the hut and I helped Koga lay Inuyasha down gently, otherwise he would have thrown him and then he ran out of there complaining about how he smelled like a mutt. I rolled my eyes and I saw the priestess Koga was talking about staring at me. She was much older and she had long white hair and she had an eye patch. Wonder how that happened...anyway she was looking at me and I gulped.

"Um hi my name is Risu." I said softly and she nodded at me.

"I am Kaede…" She said and looked at me up and down. "are ye from Kagome's time?" She asked me and I nodded. "Ahh...that would explain ye clothes...though I've never seen Kagome wear anything other than that 'school uniform' of hers." Wait are you serious? In this old times she decides to wear that instead of something functional? No wonder Inuyasha and Koga both want her so bad. They've probably never seen a woman dress so scantily clad like that and then seem modest.

I say seem modest and not actually say she's modest because she's got three guys pining after her. She's a player and honestly I'm being nice right now with how I'm describing her. Now I may be reading too much into this and she might actually be a sweet and caring person more than I know but from what I've seen and with what my gut is telling me, I am not wrong.

"Yeah well I tend to dress in what makes me comfortable." I said and she nodded and was tending to Inuyasha and I was thankful now that there was silence. I then saw something behind Kaede that made me cock an eyebrow. It looked like a fluffy tail and I'm pretty sure this priestess wouldn't have a fluffy tail and I leaned and looked. It was a small little boy with the tail and he had tiny pointy ears. He was sleeping and I walked over to him. He didn't look that old maybe about 7 or 8 but he looked so fricken cute! He looked like a little fox and I smiled softly. I don't have a soft spot for kids or anything but they are cute when they are quiet and calm and I love animals…animals are my weak spot. I guess he's a demon too and he's so adorable! He opened his eyes slowly and he looked at me.

"Hey...you're a wolf demon...did you come here with Koga?" OH MY KAMI THIS KID IS FUCKING ADORABLE! I smiled softly at him hiding my inner excitement.

"Yes I am apparently...and no sweetie...I guess you can say I came with Kagome...well from her time at least" He nodded at me and looked around.

"Well where is Kagome?" He looked up at me and I could see a little bit of worry in his eyes.

"Ouch fuck.." Inuyasha groaned as he sat up and he was holding his head. I quickly turned my head to look over at him and Shippo jumped over my lap to go to Inuyasha. Aww…

"Inuyasha you idiot I thought you were going to get Kagome!" Little Shippo yelled at Inuyasha and I giggled softly. Not at the situation but about how cute this little guy was. Inuyasha growled and he went to reach out for Shippo like he was gonna hit him and I felt anger well up inside me. I grabbed his wrist roughly and gave him the look of death and he shivered and grumbled and looked away from me and stopped. I don't where the hell that came from. Inuyasha then sniffed himself and groaned.

"Oh dammit I smell like wolf!" And with that Inuyasha had run out of the hut and ran to the lake nearby where Koga was also in and they had both just jumped in and was washing themselves and groaning about how bad they both smelled like the other.

Men. Demon men. Even more annoying than regular men.

I rolled my eyes and walked out to both of them who just kept complaining. I clapped my hands to get their attention to me and they both blinked and looked over at me.

"Alright you two I'll be quite fucking honest, you both stick and you both just gonna smell like wet dogs after this which is worse, and Koga don't even ducking start about being a wolf cause wolves are related to dogs! Inuyasha could be your cousin for all you know." I crossed my arms and they both looked to each other and growling. Ugh are you kidding me. I threw rocks at both of their heads and then they looked at me growling.

"Why are you being such a bitch!?" Inuyasha growled and I saw Koga snicker.

"Well technically she is one now." He had a smirk and Inuyasha was about to laugh until he saw the look on my face and then he was quiet as he was carefully getting out of the water and walking away from me. Koga was still laughing until he looked up at me and he saw how angry I was. I guess I looked terrifying because he just rubbed the back of his head and was laughing nervously.

I'll give you a hint, I wasn't laughing. And once I punched him in the face he wasn't either.

"Damn wolf and dog…" I grumbled under my breath and I saw Inuyasha's ears twitch. I guess he heard me but he wasn't going to be doing anything about it. I sighed and breathed in.

"Okay you two are we going to talk about what the fuck happened? What happened with that smoke and with Kagome?" I had my arms crossed over my chest. I noticed both of them turned a little pink and they turned their heads away from me. I looked down and saw I had some cleavage showing. That's kinda cute that they both got embarrassed. I fixed my shirt and zipped up my jacket.

"Alright now you two explain." I stood there tapping my foot.

"The smoke was called Miasma...its poisonous and I had blown some of it away but you were already passed out...I got hit and knocked out by Naraku." Koga grumbled and looked at me and I looked at him confused.

"Alright who is Naraku?" And oh fuck once I asked them to explain who Naraku was it was almost never ending with the explanation.

So let me see if I got this down. Naraku is this weird spider tentacle octopus or whatever demon that can expel lesser smaller demons from his body. He has this bugs that are like demon bees that are poisonous as well as that Miasma stuff. But apparently Naraku used to be this guy who was called Onigumo. He apparently had a giant scar on his back in the shape of a spider but there was some accident and he was badly burned all over the rest of his body and it completely made him immobile. Some woman named Kikyo, who happens to be Kaede's older sister and apparently Kagome's the reincarnation of this great priestess took care of him. Apparently he had demons devour his flesh in exchange for power to win Kikyo but once he had this power he was blinded by it. He turned Kikyo and Inuyasha against each other to get this sacred jewel but then Kikyo had it burned with her body so it would disappear.

Yeah that didn't exactly work out in her favor I take it. Maybe since it's the jewel of four souls it connected with Kikyo's soul and when the soul became Kagome's soul that's how it was with her when she came back in the well.

From what I can understand this jewel is a fucking mess. It causes too many problems than what it is worth. But basically since then Naraku has done some fucked up shit. Like there's this monk who has this wind tunnel that can suck up everything and that will eventually consume him. And then there's this village of demon slayers that we're completely slaughtered because of him. The only demon slayer left honestly sounds so fucking badass I wouldn't mind meeting her.

But she's pregnant with the monks kid. I thought most monks were celibate but I guess not. And since the monk could possibly not have much time left because of the wind tunnel they aren't fighting the fight anymore. I guess that makes sense. Apparently this monk is a pervert who likes ass. Guess I'm kinda glad I'm not meeting him. And yes I realize I say apparently a lot and I don't care. But anyway.

Narakus also killed many of Kogas tribe...Inuyasha wants to avenge Kikyo and he has to be stopped from collecting all of the sacred jewel. Once they finished explaining him in detail I nodded my head.

"Okay...now why is Kagome gone?" I breathed in and Inuyasha looked angry not really at anyone in general but in himself.

"She was taken by Naraku.." Inuyasha looked away and Koga growled at him.

"You stupid mutt! I knew you couldn't protect her!" I whipped my head so fast at Koga I heard it crack. I walked closer to him and smacked him in the face that there was a red hand print and he looked pretty shocked.

"Don't you dare blame him! It's not like you did any better now is it!?" I scolded and he continued to look away from me. I turned around and looked at Inuyasha. He looked at me surprised and then he nodded at me. Maybe that was his way of saying Thank you but I nodded my head back at him as well.

"Well wolf you're gonna have to help me save her." Inuyasha crossed his arms and Koga who was now rubbing his cheek and wasn't looking at me nodded.

"Yeah whatever mutt." He grumbled and I saw Kaede walk over.

"Child what did ye say your name was?" Kaede looked at me and I breathed in.

"My name is Risu." I looked at her and my expression was soft.

"I believe you should go with them...keep those two in line and besides perhaps with Kagome back we can figure out the well to get you home."

Home. Is that what the future is to me? I shook my head.

"Why me?" I crossed my arms.

"Because you can keep them in line it seems even better than Kagome ever could." She whispered in my ear and I turned my head to look at them. They were being quiet and not looking at me. But….do I have too…

I mean I don't really know Kagome or them and I don't really care but...I guess she's right. And okay yes I realize it's bad she got kidnapped and what not.

You know what fine. I'll do it for Kagome's family. Her nice family who was always sweet to me every time I had run into them. I breathed in and sighed. "Alright...I'll go." Kaede nodded and smiled at me before walking back into her hut. I looked at Koga and Inuyasha and they were growling lowly at each other and I sighed. This started to remind me of how one of my foster families dogs would fight over territory. I walked over to them with my hands on my hips and I stood between them. They both stood straight up and looked at me confused. I looked at Inuyasha and then I turned my head to Koga. I flicked them both in the nose. They yelped and rubbed their noses and looked at me growling and I looked at them both and they stopped and hung their heads low.

"Good...have to treat you both like I'm training puppies.." I crossed my arms and looked at them. They didn't look like they liked that but they turned away from me. Maybe they see me as their alpha I don't know.

"Look I know you both don't like each other and while I know for a fact it's cause you both care about Kagome, that's the very reason why you both need to work together now." I stated. They both looked annoyed but they didn't say anything to refute my point. Now that I think about this more clearly that story really must be about these two saving Kagome.

And dammit if I'm apart of the story then how come I'm not mentioned!? Oh whatever.

"You both may not want to do this but frankly I don't want too either. I don't know Kagome very and to be quite honest I'm not a fan of her either especially not at the level you two are." I breathed in. They had a blush and while it was cute the thought of being their love for Kagome being the cause of their blush just annoyed me. "But I know her family would miss her and it's not right that some creepy demon thing should take her away. So I'll go with you guys."

"Not without this ye won't." I looked up and saw Kaede walking towards me. She had two daggers and she handed them to me. I looked at them and they shined with how sharp they were. The hilts were black with red rose designs. They looked awesome to be honest and I looked at her. "Why me?"

"Inuyasha and Koga already have their weapons, and until they can help you get in tune with ye demon abilities ye will need something to protect ye self." Kaede explained and I nodded. I twirled them a little in my hands before she handed me a belt that had two sheaths. I handed her the daggers while I put the belt on my pants. Thank Kami for modern day belt loops. I put the daggers into the sheaths and smoothed down my hair. "Thank you...Lady Kaede." I bowed to her and she bowed back at me and I smiled softly before looking at Koga and Inuyasha.

"alright you two! Let's get going." I said triumphantly and while they looked annoyed they followed me. Only thing is...I don't know where the hell I am going.

"Okay guys where are we going?" I looked at them and they started running ahead. Well shit. I started running after them, I was fast but I'm not fast like them.

"Hey! Wait Assholes!" I yelled and Koga looked at me and he growled and ran back to me. "Get on my back then until you can learn to keep up."

"Why you little…" I growled annoyed but got on his back it's not like I had any other options. He started running with me on his back and I gotta say, I've never felt so free and I could feel the breeze through my hair and this was much better than riding with them in my jeans. I could help but laugh and smile and I saw Inuyasha and Koga both look at me. They seemed to both be annoyed but their eyes were soft. Koga even smirked at me and started to run faster.

Maybe this time and this mission to save Kagome may be good. I mean it's a good thing to save Kagome but maybe being in this time will be good for me.

Because even though this isn't home, it already feels like it is.