Chapter 6

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'Ok, the gold eyes may be sexy but the attitude is not,' Ami concluded as she leveled her gaze to a smoldering glare. Neither of them was about to back down. The blue eyed girl, standing beside her white-haired companion, was getting quite bored with them both and smacked her friend upside the head. "Snap out of it, Inuyasha." She then turned to the two sitting on the ground. "Konnichiwa. I'm Higurashi Kagome and that's just Inuyasha, who are you?"

Ami smiled, glad to see that one of them had some semblance of civility. "Mizuno Ami, and this is Yui Heero. It is nice to meet you." She stood and shook hands with the other girl, who smiled broadly, letting her eyes light up. Inuyasha and Heero just glared at each other until Ami turned to help him to his feet. He accepted her hand and stood, wrapping an arm securely around her when he saw the dog-demon's gaze flicker across her. "Where are we?" she asked.

Kagome looked at her, puzzled. "Ancient Japan, the Warring States Period. How did you through the well?"

That shocked them both. "What?" Even their voices were in unison.

Kagome blinked several times, trying to sort things out. "So you traveled time but not through the well?"

Heero looked at Ami who looked back at him. She was the one to speak as he fell back on his old speech patterns. "We have another method of travel." She scrutinized Kagome's clothing, an old school sailor uniform much like what she had worn at Jubaan. Very similar, save for coloring and length. "Your clothes are late twentieth century, are they not?"

"Yeah, how'd you know?"

Ami smiled politely. "I went to school during that period, I remember it." Kagome opened her mouth to speak, but Ami cut her off. "Don't ask, it's a long story. But might you perhaps have a place we can stay for the time being?"

'A place to stay.' Kagome rolled the thought over in her mind. Certainly not at her house, but then again they couldn't get through the well. They weren't demons, but they could be working for them. Nothing was out of the ordinary about Heero, but Ami had an aura of power about her, not too unlike that of the youkai she had come across. Could they be trusted in Kaede's hut? Kagome looked over at Inuyasha who stared back at her. With a stifled sigh, she nodded. "There is a village nearby. Inuyasha can take you, but I have to go!" Then, with a delighted grin, she hopped past them and into the well. When Heero looked after her, she was gone.

Inuyasha's face had dropped considerably. "She left," he whispered softly, staring at the well in disbelief."

"Um," Ami tried to interrupt politely, "Could you perhaps show us where this village is?"

"Hum?" He looked back over at them, almost as if seeing them for the first time. "Fine, follow me."

And so they did.

The village was not far, after only a few minutes' walk they reached it. The people there stopped and stared, not at the hanyou but at the two people walking behind him. No one had seen clothing quite like theirs, even Kagome's was different. And Ami's blue hair attracted it's own fair share of attention, but she paid it no mind as she made her way to what must have been Kaede's hut.

Inside sat four people. One was older, pale skin wrinkled and white hair pulled into a loose bun. She wore the clothes of a miko and a patch covered one eye. Beside her sat a little boy with fox ears and a fluffy tail, wearing a blue vest and matching pants. On the other side of the small room the other two people sat, their arms around each other. The taller of the two was a man dressed in the robes of a houshi, with dark hair tied in a tight ponytail and a rosary wrapped around one arm. The other was a girl dressed in a ordinary kimono, her black hair loose and a cat demon curled in her lap. They all started as the three heads poked in through the door.

Inuyasha just grumbled as he sat down. "Feh. Kagome said they could stay."

Ami stepped inside, ushering Heero in behind her. "Konnichiwa, minna. I'm Mizuno Ami."

"Yui Heero." He offered his own name this time.

The dark-haired girl smiled. "Nice to meet you, Mizuno-san, Yui-san. I am Sango, this is Miroku, Lady Kaede, and Shippo." She gestured to each in the room. "If Kagome said that you could stay, you are welcomed by all of us." Much to the demon-huntress' surprise, Miroku made no pass at the lovely young girl standing in the doorway. Then again, ever since they had admitted their love for each other, he had kept his hands and comments to himself. (A/N: read 'Only In Dreams', by moi, to know what she's talking about.)

"Arigato, Sango-san," Ami told her, taking a seat facing the door and Heero sitting beside her. "We only need a place to stay for a day, maybe two but that's stretching it. We could be gone in a few hours."

Miroku made a somewhat puzzled face. "Why do you not know exactly?"

She smiled. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

Shippo laughed. "We've been through a lot of weird shit, lady. I doubt your story's much more."

Heero raised a sardonic eyebrow as he settled his gaze on the young fox-youkai. "Okay then. We're being chased by an insane maniac who controls time and space. She wants Ami dead and is sending her minions out after us wherever we go. Our only escape is to jump realities and ditch the hounds until they find us again. An hour ago we were in Ami's past and now we're in a completely different dimension. That weird enough?"

Jaws hung open all across the room. "I must say, that tis quite an adventure," Lady Kaede admitted.

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to all my readers:

how long do you want this story to be? Each reality is 2-3 chapters, so just tell me how many realities you want me to have and I'll average it out!

fluffy pink bouncy bunny: actually, i've got an idea for putting in the outers with the g-boys--coming soon, in fact!

rogue angel barton: confusing?? oops. glad it was funny though, that was my main objective.

Sakura: and i will keep writing.

kaiya: i think all my chapters are about that short, i have some disability that won't let me write long chapters. oh, and, 'clothes make the man. naked people have little to no influence on society.'

fate's child: inuyasha is my main anime love, glad you liked how i'm writing this.

violet eyes: you love my fics? COOL. anyways, i am writing more. i love writing more. it's an obsession.

petra: i had a whole hell of a lot of fun on spring break but now i'm back and in business. inuyasha already has his own infatuation (read Only In Dreams, by me) so there will be no love triangle. and i'm so seriously glad you like the story.

serena yuy: i updated as often as i can

sapphire taylor: inuyasha isn't going to think much of them, they aren't staying long but glad you like the story so much!