Koga goes into the Bone Eater's well hoping to bring Kagome back for himself but instead of ending up in Kagome's time, he is transported 500 years after—to the next sacred embodiment of the Shikon Jewel. Unable to resist the draw of the jewel, Koga in an endeavor to save his own life Koga causes the Gundam pilots to go back into the past.
This story is rated T. It has bits of smut, various POV's, humor and some horror. I tried to keep it in the true context and characterization of Inu Yasha and GW. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. The original stories belong to much more creative people. This was written in the spirit of fun not profit.
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Once Upon a Shrine
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Chapter 11 Combing Well
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Heero stared at the young woman in the pre-colony school uniform. Kagome's explanation was wild crazy even yet he knew she wasn't lying. The group around him was proof enough.
Heero noticed that it was daylight outside. His friends must be worried. His friends, he thought frantically. They had fell with him, he was sure of that. They could be hurt. He must have looked troubled because he noticed the group was sharing worried looks. Only, he had to get home, he didn't belong here.
"So I can travel back like you did?" he asked.
"As soon as you're ready to travel," Kagome told him. "Inu Yasha will take you."
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Heero stood by the well. The clearing was beautiful, a nature preserve that could never have been duplicated in his time. The trees were all hundreds of years old and healthy. Heero stared at the sky realizing that it was later in the day than he first suspected. The clear and clean sky made the day seem earlier. The sun was actually started to set behind the trees. It would be dark in a few hours.
Heero saw Kagome carrying a pack. She had said that she traveled between the two time zones quite often on her mission to gather the shards of her broken Shikon no tama.
Heero suddenly had a crazy idea. He looked hard at Kagome. Could she be her? Is that why Dr. J left him the property? Could this be his real inheritance? He had to know. This was the only chance he may get. The dog guy Inu Yasha was ready to take him back.
"Kagome, are you an only child?" Heero asked.
Inu bristled at Heero's forward tone. Kagome looked at him mystified. The others watched curiously.
"Are you an only child?" He repeated.
"No, I have a younger brother," Kagome told him glancing at her companions.
She might not be, yet she too had the jewel, Heero thought quietly. She was a tall healthy and appealing woman. A woman close to child-bearing years.
"Are you arranged to be married?" He asked. He thought he had asked the questions as causally as possible yet that Inu guy seemed angry.
"What!" Inu growled. "Why is he asking you that?"
"No, I'm only sixteen," she huffed back looking embarrassed.
"I know," Heero nearly snapped. "Only, I thought that marriages were arranged in your time—I mean in some families still."
Kagome frowned at him. Heero didn't know why but he was reluctant to reveal that he was not from her time. Maybe it came from years of being a spy, or just not trusting anyone.
"Do you two know each other?" Sango asked.
"I never saw him before in my life," Kagome stammered.
Not that she wouldn't have mind. Heero was really handsome but she didn't have any feelings for him. Anyway, she was still confused about her relationship with Inu.
"Kagome sure is popular," Shippo stated bluntly. "Inu Yasha, Koga, and now him."
"Are you this popular in your time?" Miroku asked Kagome.
"Inu Yasha? That dog guy," Heero said turning to see the pale hair guy glaring angrily at him. He thought he was going to faint. "You're involved with him."
"Well kind of," Kagome confessed.
"Please tell me you two don't—won't have children," Heero ground out.
This time both Inu and Kagome looked at him stunned. Miroku started to laugh. Then everyone started talking at the same time.
"I must have hit him harder than I thought," Inu snapped.
"I'm too young to be having children," Kagome declared.
"Not true," Kaede contradicted. "Many girls in the village you're age have children."
"They must be carrying on in Kagome's world," Shippo uttered. "Cause they sure play the innocents over here."
The group looked at Kagome and Inu suspiciously. Kagome's face turned red. Inu glared at Shippo and gave the rest a scathing look. Heero thought he might throw up.
"Kagome, if this is true then Inu Yasha must do what is right," Sango told them. "You two must be married."
"I agree with Sango," Miroku added. "You two should be married right away."
"No," Heero shouted.
"No way," Kagome shouted.
"Never," Inu snapped. Then he stopped and looked at Kagome even more annoyed. "Wait, why are you protesting? Are you saying you wouldn't marry me?"
"Married who?" Koga growled.
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It would be dark in a few hours and they were hungry and tried. The trio waited for their friend just outside the village's borders. There were several huts dotting the landscape and a few fields planted with crops.
The villagers were terrified of them, yet Wufei had managed to speak with the village elder since there was enough interaction between China and Japan that he wasn't an unknown foreigner.
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"They think you are foreign demons," Wufei told them when he returned.
"Are we in any danger?" Quatre asked.
"No, I told him that you were under my control," Wufei said with an embarrassed shrug. "They think I'm some kind of warrior houshi, warrior priest."
"Did you get any food?" Duo asked.
"No," Wufei said again looking embarrassed. "They don't believe in giving hand-outs. In trade for food their leader asked if we could slay a demon that has been tormenting them."
"He wants us to kill something?" Quatre asked warily.
"Yes," Wufei said. "A demon."
"A demon?" Duo snorted. "You told him no, right."
"I told him yes," Wufei answered annoyed.
"What, why?" Quatre asked.
"We're not that hungry," Trowa said softly. "Yet."
"Speak for yourself," Duo snapped.
"I said yes, because the demon he was talking about could have been the thing that took Heero," Wufei defended. "And yes I'm getting pretty damn hungry too."
"What makes you think it was that thing that took Heero," Quatre asked shrewdly. "And why would he believe us?
"I told him that a friend of mine was grabbed by a creature. I ordered my demons to grabbed him and instead we all got pulled along." Wufei explained. "That place, the mountain we came from is called the combining well. Demons get pulled into that place to fight."
"Then that thing that grabbed Heero was no monkey," Duo said. He knew it had looked too human.
"The villages have been plague with creatures coming from that well," Wufei said with a nod. "Others have disappeared."
"Could these demons actually be foreigners?" Quatre wondered.
"At this point, I'll believe anything," Trowa said.
"It's demons," Duo told them.
"Ok, let's say its demons," Quatre stated. "How do we fight it, fight them?"
Before they could discuss further a couple of the villagers came running up to them. The men were out of breath and very frightened.
"Youkai!" he shouted running towards them. "Houshi-sama, it's here the youkai."
"Our leader said that you agreed to help us," the other man said eyeing Duo, Quatre and Trowa fearfully.
"Lead the way," Wufei told him.
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They raced through the village to the field beyond passing several men who had been hurt. When they reached the field they saw it standing at the edge of the forest. It was a bull and it was huge. At first, the group thought it was a normal bull but then it turned towards them, they saw fire blew out of its nose. This was no normal bull.
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tbc
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The fall is such a busy time. I hope you are all still reading. I wasn't able to post for a while but since I had some time I did manage to double up on the posting.
Enjoy
Ani