A/N: I'm gonna start rating this story NC-17, instead of PG-13 cuz my brain
is starting to think bad thoughts. Quite possible there's OOC-ness. Enjoy anyway.
Disclaimer: You should know I don't own Inu-yasha or MKR, because if you think I
do, you need lots of therapy from living under a rock too long for your own good.
Summary: The half-demon is lead to the Magic Knights.
Chapter One-'The Meeting'
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Hikaru sat up with a start in her room breathing heavily. She put her
forehead on the palm of her hand, trying to slow her breathing. It had
been months since Princess Emeraude had dies and Hikaru had gone through
the ordeal of finding the new pillar. Who had, in the end, been Hikaru
herself.
She glanced over at the clock; it's slow ticking helping to calm her
nerves. It was 3 o-clock. /I haven't had a nightmare like that in a long
time.../ She thought.
The dream had been of Emeraude...the final battle with Emeraude...the
anguish she had felt. Hikaru was trying to push the painful memories
aside, even though she knew she didn't want to.
But she had Lantis now, to make her all the more happy...and Eagle...
She loved them both very much, as well as everyone else in Old Cephiro.
Of course, after Mokona had revealed himself as the Creator of both
Earth and Cephiro, he had disapppeared. Hikaru missed Mokona; he was
such a delight to have around.
Sufficently calmed, Hikaru lay back down and stared at the ceiling. A
smile spread across her face, it was summer now and she planned to
spend a lot of it in Cephiro, which needed a new name, now that she
thought of it. She hoped that there would be more people to meet...and
she needed to par a visit to the little girl she had met awhile ago.
Hikaru was leaving today anyway. Fuu and Umi were going to meet her at
Tokyo Tower today at around 10 in the morning; she couldn't wait. But
she eventually fell into a light doze before her alarm went off.
*~^~*
Umi was walking to the nearby train station to meet Fuu and go with her
to Tokyo Tower. She was quite happy. She was excited to see Fuu and
Hikaru-and Ascot, Clef, and Presea, as well. Umi was carrying a basket
with her baked sweets inside. Everbody in the castle seemed to enjoy
them greatly. Her shiny blue hair bounced happily as she walked down
the street.
Umi started humming as she got closer to the station. It did feel wierd
to be not wearing her school uniform, but she had improvised. She was
wearing a light blue silky summer dress that flowed softly with her
movements and came to about the same place on her thigh that her uniform
did. It had little pink cherry blossom petals scattered in the fabric as
well, to add to the color. She had her little blue boots on as well; the
outfit didn't look half bad.
She looked towards the train station windows and, seeing a familar head
there, she quickened her pace, almost to a small skip.
*~^~*
Fuu was sitting in the station waiting for Umi. It really wan't that far to
Tokyo Tower, but Fuu liked riding the train with Umi. Just to talk to her
was nice, especially since they lived far apart, however, closer together than
either of them lived to Hikaru.
Fuu checked her watch. It was 8:45 in the morning; the train would arrive
in five minutes. /Where is Umi-chan?/ As if on cue, there was Umi, skipping
happily up to her, looking as if she was ready to go on a picnic. Fuu smiled.
"Hello Umi-chan!" Fuu stood and hugged her friend. Umi returned it.
"Hi Fuu-chan! I've missed you." Umi smiled.
Fuu nodded happily to show she had missed Umi as well. They sat down to wait for
the train talking lightly. When it came they, of course, got on and were whisked
away towards Tokyo Tower.
Fuu looked down at herself and smoothed her her skirt out where she sat. She
didn't like it so short to tell the truth, but...Ferio seemed to like her skirts
that were like this. Fuu blushed. Umi looked over.
"Are you Ok Fuu?"
Fuu looked up and stuttered, "I-I am fine...I-I was j-just..." Fuu blushed a little
brighter.
"Thinking about Ferio?" Umi asked suggestively.
Fuu turned an even deeper shade of crimson. "Well..."
Umi giggled. "It's Ok Fuu, I know you can't wait to see him, I think he'll
like your outfit too."
Fuu hoped he did; it had been nearly a month since she last saw him, and she
wanted it to last.
She had put on a short green skirt ((as short as you want it readers)), with
a light green tank top and see-through over shirt. She was wearing dark green pumps
that looked rather nice on her, and her hair had a few tiny braids in it.
Fuu looked up and saw the next station approaching; the one they needed to get off at.
*~^~*
Hikaru was waiting patiently inside Tokyo Tower for the others to arrive. She had
had a somewhat uneventful morning after waking up from her nightmare. When she
got up, she walked Hikari, bathed, dressed, and had made for her brothers before
anybody was really awake.
Her brothers had been getting on her back about where she was going when she
said a different world and they got into long, dramatic speeches about what they
would do to anyone that hurt their little sister; so she decided to make them a hot
breakfast to calm their nerves for her departure again today.
Hikaru loved her brothers deeply,--even though their speeches usually included Hikaru
gettings smashed against them as they hugged the air out of her--but they were just
too much sometimes.
Little Hikaru was wearing her umiform--without the scarf, ((really...I don't think
she owns any other clothes that aren't robes))--nothing too different. Hikaru suddenly
heard a familiar laugh coming from behind her as she continued to watch the sky. She turned
around to see Umi and Fuu coming in her direction smiling and talking.
It made Hikaru so pleased to see her friends happy--not suffering. They waved, and she jumped
and waved back, waiting until they got closer before jumping on them in turn and hugging them.
"Umi! Fuu! I'm so happy to see you!"
"I'm happy to see you too, Hikaru."
"Me as well, Hikaru-chan." They both smiled at her sweetly.
"Are we ready??" Kikaru asked, nearly jumping with excitment.
"I believe so. Are you ready Fuu?"
"Yes. I do believe I am."
"Great! Let's go!" Hikaru exclaimed, reaching out her hard to form a
circle with the other girls. The road opened and they were enveloped in
a dome of light.
*~^~*
Clef was sitting on his little thron-like seat with chin in his hand. He was waiting for the Magic
Knights...the girls from another world. Something told him they might show up today, he had sent
his flying Fish Monster to go and retrieve them, so they didn't fall out of the sky onto something
damgerous.
He also had sensed that something else might be turning up today, he wasn't sure waht, but it
felt as if they would have some new visitors. Someone knocked on the door.
He looked up. "Come," The door opened. It was Presea; he grinned slightly. "Hello Presea, is anything wrong?"
Presea was smiling at him. "The girls are back!"
"Good," He said smiling. "I think I'll go meet them."
*~^~*
Kagome looked around. /I'm definitely in the bottom of a well, and it
looks like theres's light coming from up above./ Inu-yasha dropped silently
onto the ground nest to her. She, like normal, had fallen flat on her
face. She was about to get up when a small fuury ball hit her in the
back. "Ouch! Shippo..." She moaned.
"Gomen Kagome-san! I didn't mean to!" The little ball squeaked.
"I...it's ok Shippo." She stood, with help form Inu-yasha to her amaze-
ment. "A-Arigato Inu-yasha."
"Feh." Was his only response.
Kagome looked around again and touched the walls, finding a vine she
sighed in relief. She was starting to feel trapped and wanted a way out...
Now. She started pulling herself up, out of the well by the vine.
Surprisingly she made it to the top without incident, only to bring her
head above the rim of the well, straight into the face of a beaked
monster. She screamed and lost hold of the rim.
"Kagome!" Inu-yasha jumped up the wall nimbly, catching her and pulling
her out of the well and setting her on the ground. "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine...," Kagome assured him, her heart pounding in her chest. That
thing hscared the shit out of her. She looked past Inu-yasha and saw it was
still there. Unaware of its intentions, she backed up quickly becoming
panicked again.
Inu-yasha turned around and pulled out the Tetsusaiga, holding it in the
direction of the bird monster, strangly, it looked to have the body of a
man..., just a very large one with wings. Inu-yasha was about to charge
it when a tall, young man came running from off to the right and yelling.
"No! Wait! Please don't hurt him! Don't hurt my friend!!" Inu-yasha looked
in the direction of the voice and back at the beast; he was hesitant.
"MATTE!" The tall man finally made it to them, he was breathing heavily
and looking at them, at least...Kagome thought so.
His eyes were covered by long brown bangs; he was wearing a large poufy
hat on his head, and a strange robe-like garment that looked to be tucked
into his boots. He walked over to the monster; which promptly lowered its
head as the man walked closer. The young man stroked its head and spoke
softly to it. The monster nodded and the boy did something that made it
disappear.
Inu-yasha and Kagome stared in awe watching the stranger as he walked back
towards them. Inu-yasha sheathed Tetsusaiga cautiously, unsure of what
to think of the boy. Kagome stood and suddenly remembered Shippo.
"Oh!" The boy stopped abruptly, suddenly unsure of himself, as he watched
her run back to the well and peer inside. "Shippo?? Shippo! Are you down there?"
A little piping voice echoed up the sides of the well. "Kagome-san??
Kagome-san! Get me out of here! I'm scared!" Kagome looked around. She
hadn't brought her trusty pack with her. /Damn!/ She turned imploringly
towards Inu-yasha.
"Inu-yasha...Could-"
"No."
"But-"
"No."
"Don't make me say-"
"Ok! Ok! Damn wench, I'll get the stupid fox!" Inu-yasha climbed down the
sides of the wall again to reach Shippo. Kagome to the new person; she walked over,
bowed, and held out her hand.
"Hi! My name is Higurashi Kagome." He looked at her for a little while
before taking her hand; his voice was kinda soft and childish when he spoke normally.
"Ascot. Are you from Earth?"
She looked at him confused. "Aren't we on Earth?"
He shook his head. "No, this is Cephiro. Or...it_was_Cephiro."
"Huh?"
"It's a long story."
"I see."
"...Your friends are back."
Kagome turned around and looked at them; Inu-yasha was sitting on the rim,
while Shippo was dusting himself off on the ground. Inu-yasha stood and
walked over.
"You don't seem too surprised to see a worthless human, a inu-youkai, and
a kitsune-youkai come out of a long-forgotten well."
Ascot simply looked at him with a huge, bright smile. "Master Clef told
me to expect some newcomers today. Plus, I haven't the slightest idea what
those last two things are!"
"Master...Clef...?" Kagome asked. "Wait! Worthless human!? Inu-yasha!" He looked
away.
Ascot nodded. "If you want I can take you all to him. I think he would like
to see you all. Although, he may have a bit on his mind...what with the Magic
Knights returning."
"The...Magic Knights?" Inu-yasha asked this time, looking back over at them.
Ascot nodded. "I should let Master Clef explain it to you." He turned and started
walking; he was really very tall. And as they walked, he kept saying something
about wanting to see a girl name Umi.
*~^~*
Everyone was gathered in the little courtyard nest to the fountain. Fuu and Ferio
were sitting on the rim of the fountain, Ferio had his arm around Fuu, and she
was blushing lightly. Umi was talking to Clef and Presea on the ground to the
right of Ferio. Sitting across from them was Hikaru, Lantis, and Eagle. The two
men were lounging back on the grass with Hikaru talking excitedly to them about
stuff on Earth that they didn't know yet. Caldina was sittin gon the ground in one
of her skimpy outfits with Lafarga behind her, holding her loosely as he leaned
against a tree-trunk.
The picnic they had eaten had been delicious, they all thanked Umi for bringing the
food, they also felt about ten times heavier. Ferio leaned closer to Fuu and
whispered something in her ear. She immediately blushed a deep crimson, but smiled at
him. She whispered something back to him and her smiled widely. Clef had opend his
mouth to say something to Umi about using the Water Dragon to do more than destroy things
when the door to the courtyard swung back slowly, and Ascot stuck his head in.
Clef looked at Ascot. "Ascot, what are you doing here? I thought I asked you to-"
"Oh, but I did, and they're here like you said they would be Master Clef."
"Really?" He stood up. "Well then, let them in Ascot."
"Oh! Y-Yes sir!" The tall boy stood back and swung the door open farther. The
first thing anybody saw from the other side of the door was a little face coming around
the corner and running in to explore the surroundings.
Everyone in the courtyard stared at it--it was like a little girl with a fox tail. A girl
with black hair then turned the corner to see what was so interesting.
She immediately ran over.
"Shippo! Stop that! You're probably frightening the nice people with the way you're acting all
possessed-like!" She yelled.
"Aww...but Kagome-san! I'm not hurting anyone..." His little voice came from the now-still
kitsune child.
"AWW!" Everyong looked at Hikaru, who was staring at Shippo with heart- eyes. "KAWAII!!"
Shippo looked at Hikaru, then Kagome. "See?? I told ya so!" Hikaru picked up Shippo and started
petting her.
"You didn't say anything of the sort Shippo!"
Inu-yasha came skulking around the corner with his arms crossed. "It's your fault we're here
anyway Kagome..."
"What??"
"_You_jumped into the well."
"And_you_followed me."
"I didn't have to y'know!"
"Then why did you!? Why didn't you stay and look for your precious Shikon no Tama shards, ne!??"
"You...stupid...girl! You know I have to follow you!"
They continued to argue in front of the group of strangers. Hikaru was showing Shippo to Lantis
and Eagle.
"Are they going to be okay?" Eagle asked Shippo.
Shippo looked at the two glaring electricity at eachother. "They'll be fine. They always argue
like this, but everyone knows they love eachother."
Kagome and Inu-yasha then turned to Shippo and at the same time hollered,
"WE ARE NOT IN LOVE!!" They had veins popping out of their foreheads and
a small sweatdrop or two. Kagome turned to Inu-yasha.
"Don't yell at Shippo that way!"
"I'll do what I like wench!"
Shippo shook his head sadly, "Baka..."
"What? What's wrong?" Hikaru asked. Shippo looked at the fighting adults.
So did everyone else.
"No, wait Kagome, I didn't mean anythi-!"
"SIT!!!"
The necklace glowed; everyone sweatdropped a little ((except for Kagome))
as they watched Inu-yasha take a face-dive into the ground.
"Excuse me..." Clef was walking towards them.
Kagome looked over at him and was shocked for a moment. She had expected
all the men to be the same size as Ascot, but...this one was very short.
All the others looked tall though, even if they were on the ground. "Yes?
Oh, I'm terribly sorry for our behavior." She bowed deeply.
"That's alright. I would just like to know why you are here."
She looked up and blinked, standing straight. "Well," she put a finger to
her lips and glanced up. She spoke rapidly. "I don't know, it's not like
we meant to invade on you or anything. It's just we found a well on Earth,
in the feudal age. Oh! But I'm really from the current time. Anyway, we--
well Inu-yasha, on the ground over there, found it--we found this stone
shrine thing with a well in the center, and since there's another well that
takes me between the feudal age Japan and the Modern day Japan, I thought that
maybe this would do sorta the same thing so I jumped in--after testing it of
course, with a rock, for no reason whatsoever--and the others followed
me. So you see, it really wasn't on purpose." Kagome smiled as she finished
her story.
"Well...I guess to start off we should introduce ourselves...," Clef said.
He was a little surprised by what circumstances these strangers had got
here. He went back to his seat with Presea. Ascot had joined Umi, and Kagome
helped Inu-yasha up, apologizing. Shippo was comfortables in Hikaru's
arms and Clef started everything off.
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A/N: Ok. So there's Chapter One. I don't know exactly where I'm going with
this story , but I have a couple ideas for later on. Suggestions? Flames?
Questions? You know what to do....*quietly pulls out an AK-47,* and if you
don't I hope my friend here helps jar your memory. REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please.
is starting to think bad thoughts. Quite possible there's OOC-ness. Enjoy anyway.
Disclaimer: You should know I don't own Inu-yasha or MKR, because if you think I
do, you need lots of therapy from living under a rock too long for your own good.
Summary: The half-demon is lead to the Magic Knights.
Chapter One-'The Meeting'
_______________________________________________________________________
Hikaru sat up with a start in her room breathing heavily. She put her
forehead on the palm of her hand, trying to slow her breathing. It had
been months since Princess Emeraude had dies and Hikaru had gone through
the ordeal of finding the new pillar. Who had, in the end, been Hikaru
herself.
She glanced over at the clock; it's slow ticking helping to calm her
nerves. It was 3 o-clock. /I haven't had a nightmare like that in a long
time.../ She thought.
The dream had been of Emeraude...the final battle with Emeraude...the
anguish she had felt. Hikaru was trying to push the painful memories
aside, even though she knew she didn't want to.
But she had Lantis now, to make her all the more happy...and Eagle...
She loved them both very much, as well as everyone else in Old Cephiro.
Of course, after Mokona had revealed himself as the Creator of both
Earth and Cephiro, he had disapppeared. Hikaru missed Mokona; he was
such a delight to have around.
Sufficently calmed, Hikaru lay back down and stared at the ceiling. A
smile spread across her face, it was summer now and she planned to
spend a lot of it in Cephiro, which needed a new name, now that she
thought of it. She hoped that there would be more people to meet...and
she needed to par a visit to the little girl she had met awhile ago.
Hikaru was leaving today anyway. Fuu and Umi were going to meet her at
Tokyo Tower today at around 10 in the morning; she couldn't wait. But
she eventually fell into a light doze before her alarm went off.
*~^~*
Umi was walking to the nearby train station to meet Fuu and go with her
to Tokyo Tower. She was quite happy. She was excited to see Fuu and
Hikaru-and Ascot, Clef, and Presea, as well. Umi was carrying a basket
with her baked sweets inside. Everbody in the castle seemed to enjoy
them greatly. Her shiny blue hair bounced happily as she walked down
the street.
Umi started humming as she got closer to the station. It did feel wierd
to be not wearing her school uniform, but she had improvised. She was
wearing a light blue silky summer dress that flowed softly with her
movements and came to about the same place on her thigh that her uniform
did. It had little pink cherry blossom petals scattered in the fabric as
well, to add to the color. She had her little blue boots on as well; the
outfit didn't look half bad.
She looked towards the train station windows and, seeing a familar head
there, she quickened her pace, almost to a small skip.
*~^~*
Fuu was sitting in the station waiting for Umi. It really wan't that far to
Tokyo Tower, but Fuu liked riding the train with Umi. Just to talk to her
was nice, especially since they lived far apart, however, closer together than
either of them lived to Hikaru.
Fuu checked her watch. It was 8:45 in the morning; the train would arrive
in five minutes. /Where is Umi-chan?/ As if on cue, there was Umi, skipping
happily up to her, looking as if she was ready to go on a picnic. Fuu smiled.
"Hello Umi-chan!" Fuu stood and hugged her friend. Umi returned it.
"Hi Fuu-chan! I've missed you." Umi smiled.
Fuu nodded happily to show she had missed Umi as well. They sat down to wait for
the train talking lightly. When it came they, of course, got on and were whisked
away towards Tokyo Tower.
Fuu looked down at herself and smoothed her her skirt out where she sat. She
didn't like it so short to tell the truth, but...Ferio seemed to like her skirts
that were like this. Fuu blushed. Umi looked over.
"Are you Ok Fuu?"
Fuu looked up and stuttered, "I-I am fine...I-I was j-just..." Fuu blushed a little
brighter.
"Thinking about Ferio?" Umi asked suggestively.
Fuu turned an even deeper shade of crimson. "Well..."
Umi giggled. "It's Ok Fuu, I know you can't wait to see him, I think he'll
like your outfit too."
Fuu hoped he did; it had been nearly a month since she last saw him, and she
wanted it to last.
She had put on a short green skirt ((as short as you want it readers)), with
a light green tank top and see-through over shirt. She was wearing dark green pumps
that looked rather nice on her, and her hair had a few tiny braids in it.
Fuu looked up and saw the next station approaching; the one they needed to get off at.
*~^~*
Hikaru was waiting patiently inside Tokyo Tower for the others to arrive. She had
had a somewhat uneventful morning after waking up from her nightmare. When she
got up, she walked Hikari, bathed, dressed, and had made for her brothers before
anybody was really awake.
Her brothers had been getting on her back about where she was going when she
said a different world and they got into long, dramatic speeches about what they
would do to anyone that hurt their little sister; so she decided to make them a hot
breakfast to calm their nerves for her departure again today.
Hikaru loved her brothers deeply,--even though their speeches usually included Hikaru
gettings smashed against them as they hugged the air out of her--but they were just
too much sometimes.
Little Hikaru was wearing her umiform--without the scarf, ((really...I don't think
she owns any other clothes that aren't robes))--nothing too different. Hikaru suddenly
heard a familiar laugh coming from behind her as she continued to watch the sky. She turned
around to see Umi and Fuu coming in her direction smiling and talking.
It made Hikaru so pleased to see her friends happy--not suffering. They waved, and she jumped
and waved back, waiting until they got closer before jumping on them in turn and hugging them.
"Umi! Fuu! I'm so happy to see you!"
"I'm happy to see you too, Hikaru."
"Me as well, Hikaru-chan." They both smiled at her sweetly.
"Are we ready??" Kikaru asked, nearly jumping with excitment.
"I believe so. Are you ready Fuu?"
"Yes. I do believe I am."
"Great! Let's go!" Hikaru exclaimed, reaching out her hard to form a
circle with the other girls. The road opened and they were enveloped in
a dome of light.
*~^~*
Clef was sitting on his little thron-like seat with chin in his hand. He was waiting for the Magic
Knights...the girls from another world. Something told him they might show up today, he had sent
his flying Fish Monster to go and retrieve them, so they didn't fall out of the sky onto something
damgerous.
He also had sensed that something else might be turning up today, he wasn't sure waht, but it
felt as if they would have some new visitors. Someone knocked on the door.
He looked up. "Come," The door opened. It was Presea; he grinned slightly. "Hello Presea, is anything wrong?"
Presea was smiling at him. "The girls are back!"
"Good," He said smiling. "I think I'll go meet them."
*~^~*
Kagome looked around. /I'm definitely in the bottom of a well, and it
looks like theres's light coming from up above./ Inu-yasha dropped silently
onto the ground nest to her. She, like normal, had fallen flat on her
face. She was about to get up when a small fuury ball hit her in the
back. "Ouch! Shippo..." She moaned.
"Gomen Kagome-san! I didn't mean to!" The little ball squeaked.
"I...it's ok Shippo." She stood, with help form Inu-yasha to her amaze-
ment. "A-Arigato Inu-yasha."
"Feh." Was his only response.
Kagome looked around again and touched the walls, finding a vine she
sighed in relief. She was starting to feel trapped and wanted a way out...
Now. She started pulling herself up, out of the well by the vine.
Surprisingly she made it to the top without incident, only to bring her
head above the rim of the well, straight into the face of a beaked
monster. She screamed and lost hold of the rim.
"Kagome!" Inu-yasha jumped up the wall nimbly, catching her and pulling
her out of the well and setting her on the ground. "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine...," Kagome assured him, her heart pounding in her chest. That
thing hscared the shit out of her. She looked past Inu-yasha and saw it was
still there. Unaware of its intentions, she backed up quickly becoming
panicked again.
Inu-yasha turned around and pulled out the Tetsusaiga, holding it in the
direction of the bird monster, strangly, it looked to have the body of a
man..., just a very large one with wings. Inu-yasha was about to charge
it when a tall, young man came running from off to the right and yelling.
"No! Wait! Please don't hurt him! Don't hurt my friend!!" Inu-yasha looked
in the direction of the voice and back at the beast; he was hesitant.
"MATTE!" The tall man finally made it to them, he was breathing heavily
and looking at them, at least...Kagome thought so.
His eyes were covered by long brown bangs; he was wearing a large poufy
hat on his head, and a strange robe-like garment that looked to be tucked
into his boots. He walked over to the monster; which promptly lowered its
head as the man walked closer. The young man stroked its head and spoke
softly to it. The monster nodded and the boy did something that made it
disappear.
Inu-yasha and Kagome stared in awe watching the stranger as he walked back
towards them. Inu-yasha sheathed Tetsusaiga cautiously, unsure of what
to think of the boy. Kagome stood and suddenly remembered Shippo.
"Oh!" The boy stopped abruptly, suddenly unsure of himself, as he watched
her run back to the well and peer inside. "Shippo?? Shippo! Are you down there?"
A little piping voice echoed up the sides of the well. "Kagome-san??
Kagome-san! Get me out of here! I'm scared!" Kagome looked around. She
hadn't brought her trusty pack with her. /Damn!/ She turned imploringly
towards Inu-yasha.
"Inu-yasha...Could-"
"No."
"But-"
"No."
"Don't make me say-"
"Ok! Ok! Damn wench, I'll get the stupid fox!" Inu-yasha climbed down the
sides of the wall again to reach Shippo. Kagome to the new person; she walked over,
bowed, and held out her hand.
"Hi! My name is Higurashi Kagome." He looked at her for a little while
before taking her hand; his voice was kinda soft and childish when he spoke normally.
"Ascot. Are you from Earth?"
She looked at him confused. "Aren't we on Earth?"
He shook his head. "No, this is Cephiro. Or...it_was_Cephiro."
"Huh?"
"It's a long story."
"I see."
"...Your friends are back."
Kagome turned around and looked at them; Inu-yasha was sitting on the rim,
while Shippo was dusting himself off on the ground. Inu-yasha stood and
walked over.
"You don't seem too surprised to see a worthless human, a inu-youkai, and
a kitsune-youkai come out of a long-forgotten well."
Ascot simply looked at him with a huge, bright smile. "Master Clef told
me to expect some newcomers today. Plus, I haven't the slightest idea what
those last two things are!"
"Master...Clef...?" Kagome asked. "Wait! Worthless human!? Inu-yasha!" He looked
away.
Ascot nodded. "If you want I can take you all to him. I think he would like
to see you all. Although, he may have a bit on his mind...what with the Magic
Knights returning."
"The...Magic Knights?" Inu-yasha asked this time, looking back over at them.
Ascot nodded. "I should let Master Clef explain it to you." He turned and started
walking; he was really very tall. And as they walked, he kept saying something
about wanting to see a girl name Umi.
*~^~*
Everyone was gathered in the little courtyard nest to the fountain. Fuu and Ferio
were sitting on the rim of the fountain, Ferio had his arm around Fuu, and she
was blushing lightly. Umi was talking to Clef and Presea on the ground to the
right of Ferio. Sitting across from them was Hikaru, Lantis, and Eagle. The two
men were lounging back on the grass with Hikaru talking excitedly to them about
stuff on Earth that they didn't know yet. Caldina was sittin gon the ground in one
of her skimpy outfits with Lafarga behind her, holding her loosely as he leaned
against a tree-trunk.
The picnic they had eaten had been delicious, they all thanked Umi for bringing the
food, they also felt about ten times heavier. Ferio leaned closer to Fuu and
whispered something in her ear. She immediately blushed a deep crimson, but smiled at
him. She whispered something back to him and her smiled widely. Clef had opend his
mouth to say something to Umi about using the Water Dragon to do more than destroy things
when the door to the courtyard swung back slowly, and Ascot stuck his head in.
Clef looked at Ascot. "Ascot, what are you doing here? I thought I asked you to-"
"Oh, but I did, and they're here like you said they would be Master Clef."
"Really?" He stood up. "Well then, let them in Ascot."
"Oh! Y-Yes sir!" The tall boy stood back and swung the door open farther. The
first thing anybody saw from the other side of the door was a little face coming around
the corner and running in to explore the surroundings.
Everyone in the courtyard stared at it--it was like a little girl with a fox tail. A girl
with black hair then turned the corner to see what was so interesting.
She immediately ran over.
"Shippo! Stop that! You're probably frightening the nice people with the way you're acting all
possessed-like!" She yelled.
"Aww...but Kagome-san! I'm not hurting anyone..." His little voice came from the now-still
kitsune child.
"AWW!" Everyong looked at Hikaru, who was staring at Shippo with heart- eyes. "KAWAII!!"
Shippo looked at Hikaru, then Kagome. "See?? I told ya so!" Hikaru picked up Shippo and started
petting her.
"You didn't say anything of the sort Shippo!"
Inu-yasha came skulking around the corner with his arms crossed. "It's your fault we're here
anyway Kagome..."
"What??"
"_You_jumped into the well."
"And_you_followed me."
"I didn't have to y'know!"
"Then why did you!? Why didn't you stay and look for your precious Shikon no Tama shards, ne!??"
"You...stupid...girl! You know I have to follow you!"
They continued to argue in front of the group of strangers. Hikaru was showing Shippo to Lantis
and Eagle.
"Are they going to be okay?" Eagle asked Shippo.
Shippo looked at the two glaring electricity at eachother. "They'll be fine. They always argue
like this, but everyone knows they love eachother."
Kagome and Inu-yasha then turned to Shippo and at the same time hollered,
"WE ARE NOT IN LOVE!!" They had veins popping out of their foreheads and
a small sweatdrop or two. Kagome turned to Inu-yasha.
"Don't yell at Shippo that way!"
"I'll do what I like wench!"
Shippo shook his head sadly, "Baka..."
"What? What's wrong?" Hikaru asked. Shippo looked at the fighting adults.
So did everyone else.
"No, wait Kagome, I didn't mean anythi-!"
"SIT!!!"
The necklace glowed; everyone sweatdropped a little ((except for Kagome))
as they watched Inu-yasha take a face-dive into the ground.
"Excuse me..." Clef was walking towards them.
Kagome looked over at him and was shocked for a moment. She had expected
all the men to be the same size as Ascot, but...this one was very short.
All the others looked tall though, even if they were on the ground. "Yes?
Oh, I'm terribly sorry for our behavior." She bowed deeply.
"That's alright. I would just like to know why you are here."
She looked up and blinked, standing straight. "Well," she put a finger to
her lips and glanced up. She spoke rapidly. "I don't know, it's not like
we meant to invade on you or anything. It's just we found a well on Earth,
in the feudal age. Oh! But I'm really from the current time. Anyway, we--
well Inu-yasha, on the ground over there, found it--we found this stone
shrine thing with a well in the center, and since there's another well that
takes me between the feudal age Japan and the Modern day Japan, I thought that
maybe this would do sorta the same thing so I jumped in--after testing it of
course, with a rock, for no reason whatsoever--and the others followed
me. So you see, it really wasn't on purpose." Kagome smiled as she finished
her story.
"Well...I guess to start off we should introduce ourselves...," Clef said.
He was a little surprised by what circumstances these strangers had got
here. He went back to his seat with Presea. Ascot had joined Umi, and Kagome
helped Inu-yasha up, apologizing. Shippo was comfortables in Hikaru's
arms and Clef started everything off.
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A/N: Ok. So there's Chapter One. I don't know exactly where I'm going with
this story , but I have a couple ideas for later on. Suggestions? Flames?
Questions? You know what to do....*quietly pulls out an AK-47,* and if you
don't I hope my friend here helps jar your memory. REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
please.
