Big Bad Wolf

The hell was a horrible, horrible place. Inuyasha couldn't move, he could just stare at the tree limbs moving above him while he was carried in a transparent box covered in sutras to Naraku's lair by a bunch of singing mercenaries (almost all of them as tall as Shippou) while all he wanted to do was to chase after a certain time-travelling miko and shake her stupid ideas off her pretty head before kissing the girl.

Could his life be any worse?

"Heeeey!" a high-pitched voice screeched from nearby.

It could.

Inuyasha knew only one kappa could produce such a sound - Jaken. And sure enough, as soon as he thought his name the everyone's favourite kappa jumped from behind the bushes on the road and slammed his staff of two heads in the ground to intimidate the seven mercenaries who were trying to sneak Inuyasha away. They were standing on a road leading up a steep hillside, Jaken standing a few ,eters above them.

"You fools! Do you really think you could run away from lord Sesshomaru with the hanyou he and only he can kill and devoid of his sword?! Leave the hanyou and I'll let you go free!"

"Can I kill him?" asked Suikotsu.

"Please, do," Inuyasha mumbled from his box, a few of the mercenaries nodded their agreement. The men put the box on the road and attacked the kappa - it seemed they didn't want Suikotsu to have all the fun because all of them rushed to slay Sesshomaru's retainer. A flash of white later Sesshomaru himself entered the picture and engaged the band of seven in a serious battle.

Inuyasha kinda regretted he couldn't see it, but he could hear curses and shouts and feel youki of his brother flare as he was screaming "Off with the heads, Jaken! Off with their heads!" Jaken was screeching like an idiot he was, trying to seet everything on fire. Inuyasha saw Rin on Ah-Un flying above the treetops, waiting for the battle to end. She waved to Inuyasha, but he couldn't wave back, subdued as he was.

Suddenly something crashed against the box's front (just as if someone was pushed against it) and Inuyasha frowned. The scenery above him started to slowly... Move... Slide up smoothly... And it seemed everyone was so occupied with the battle to notice their prisoner was... Well, fleeing.

With a quiet 'shussssh' the smooth glass box started to slide down the silky grass path, gaining momentum as it was going further and further down the hillside. The unwilling passenger of the box just rolled his eyes, resigning himself to his cursed fate.

Could it get any worse?

It could.

It definetely could and the universe was about to show Inuyasha how much.

Inuyasha felt the box shake violently and stop abruptly when it hit a tree growing by the bent of the path near the foot of the hill. He groaned and ran his hand throgh his hair before he realized that something was missing. At least half of the sutras placed on the books had been blown off during his unexpected journey down the hillside. He placed both his hands on the lid of the box and pushed. A low growl escaped his mouth as the lid practically didn't move. Inuyasha closed his eyes and tried to contain his urge to claw at something - anything - in pure rage. He tried to bent his legs, but his knees soon came to cotact with the lid. He used his knees and hands to push again, scowling at the damned contraption.

Suddenly he felt a foul stench and growled a little louder. A figure approached his prison and easily pushed the lid off the box. Inuyasha cringed when the stench of 'manliness' hit his sensitive nose. The man bent down to peek inside the box and grin at the hanyou.

"Oi, mutt face, where's my wo- Gah!" he said when Inuyasha's fist sprang up and met his nose, knocking him to the ground. "Oi, dog shit!"

Inuyasha jumped off the box, shook himself and sprang to his fastest run without any glance or a word to his rescuer. The man stood up, curious and a little worried at that unusual behavior. Inuyasha was supposed to engage him in an insulting and yelling match. The wolf youkai looked up the hillside where a battle was still raging on. Then he frowned because a herd of roe deers with bunches of flowers and birds sitting on their backs ran past him to follow the inu hanyou. A gentle breeze brought Kouga the scent of his two followers coming closer to this place, running after him.

"There's something odd," Kouga murmured to himself, totally missing the eerie glow around him. He looked after Inuyasha and ran after him to get answers. He had followed his scent to see Kagome and she was nowhere around, so the wolf decided to ask Inuyasha where his woman was.

"Oi!" Kouga easily reached the running hanyou, it took only a few minutes. Keeping up with Inuyasha was pretty easy for him. "Oi, red kimono, where are you going?"

"To see my granny, wolf shit," answered Inuyasha with usual amount of politeness, his eyes trained at the forest path in front of him. "Get lost."

"Fine, but tell me where's Kagome," Kouga pressed the hanyou. Something in his face was really worrying the wolf youkai. He looked ahead and saw they were reaching Inuyasha's territory. "Is she in the village you stay so often? I'll go ahead and see her," he grinned at Inuyasha. "Don't worry, I'll keep her company until you come. It can take hours if you want to run so slowly."

Inuyasha's patience - always rather thin - evaporated. He really didn't need a pesky wolf around right now. When a few minutes later he ran onto the meadow where the dry well was he was scowling fiercely. He didn't stop to sniff around to make sure Kagome had been there - the flowers adorning the woodden structure were enough for him to know she had been there. Without thinking he leapt on the lip of the well and jumped down five centuries into the future.

Meanwhile in the forest behind him Ginta and Hakkaku stopped abruptly upon finding Kouga sprawled out on the forest floor, a rather fat tree trunk laying across his back.

"Kouga! What happened to you?"

"Why are your eyes so big?"

"Take..." Kouga breathed out. "Take it off of me! That mutt's gonna regret it!"

A/N: So? How is it so far? What do you think is going happen next? What fate will befall the Well? And will Inuyasha find Kagome in the future?
And look, I posted two chapters at the same day! Wooohoo, I'm proud of myself.