Chapter 7

They made it to the mall with little else much happening. Inuyasha did stay about 20 feet behind Sesshoumaru, really not trusting him. Sesshoumaru and Angel were both trying to figure out why what happened happened.

'He smells sooo good.'

'Her lips tasted fruity. How does she do that?'

Among other things.

'My fucking bastard brother has my sword; we're all gonna die,' just to give you some idea of what Inuyasha's thinking.

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Meanwhile, back in the Sengoku Jidai. (No, I haven't forgotten about our friends there.)

"Master Sesshoumaru? Master Sesshoumaru, where did you go?" Jaken stuck his head down the well. "If that dark miko's spell failed, he could be anywhere." (A/N: this is before Rin and Toutousai, therefore this story would change the course of "Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairytale".)

Just then, he heard voices coming closer.

"They would have come back to camp by now. Perhaps Kagome went back to her own time," Miroku was saying to Shippou as they went to check to see if they had gone through the well.

"Kagome was really angry at him for- Hey, isn't that that toad thingy that travels with Sesshoumaru?" Shippou spotted Jaken who was trying to run and hide.

"Yes, and if he's here, that must mean Sesshoumaru."

"Who, or what are you talking about?" Sango hasn't met them yet.

"Sesshoumaru is Inuyasha's older, full-blooded youkai, brother, and Jaken is his servant," Shippou explained quickly.

"But I don't sense him anywhere," Miroku said, a bit surprised.

"Do you think-? Oh, I hope he didn't somehow go through the well," Shippou said. (Wow, good guess, Shippou-chan.) "Uh, he's getting away."

"Why don't we ask him where they went, he must have seen," suggested Sango. Sango managed to stop Jaken with her giant boomerang, miraculously without knocking him out.

"I won't tell you anything!" Jaken screeched.

"Alright then," Miroku said.

"What? Are we just gonna let him go?" Shippou ask, stunned at Miroku's reaction.

"No Shippou, if we can't get information from him, we might as well put him to good use as Kirara's new chew toy," he explained.

"Ack! No, wait, don't hurt me!" Jaken pleaded. (He's so pathetic.)

"We won't hurt you (much) if you tell us what happened," Sango said as she tied him up so he wouldn't run away.

"I d-didn't s-see a-anything," Jaken lied, stuttering.

"Liar," Shippou said, obviously not believing him. "Kirara."

"Eep! They all jumped into that well!" (What a sellout.)

"Damn. Does anyone want to imagine Sesshoumaru in Kagome's time?" Miroku asked his two friends. Both shook their heads. "Didn't think so."

"But Inuyasha's there, right? So we have nothing to worry about, right?" Shippou asked, trying to make himself feel better.

"Shippou, do you have that shard Kagome asked you to keep for emergencies?" Miroku obviously had an idea of some sort.

"Yeah, why?"

"Because, even though Inuyasha never takes help from us when he's fighting his brother, in Kagome's time, he might need some backup," Miroku explained.

"Do you really think we can all get through the well?" Sango asked.

"It's our only shot," Shippou Said, trying to be optimistic. "But what are we gonna do about him?" He gestured to Jaken.

"Take him with us, I guess. If all else fails, we'll at least get to watch Sesshoumaru beat the stuffing out of him," Miroku replied, making an attempt to be cheerful. "That is, unless he and Inuyasha have already killed each other."

"Enough hanging around, let's go," Sango said, not wanting to waste any more time.

"Right," both guys nodded, and they all headed for the well. They dragged Jaken along, and into the well with them. Yes, Kirara came too. They jumped in and a few moments later, were standing on the bottom of the well in broad daylight.

"It must have worked," Sango said, the first to break the silence.

"Wait a minute, in Kagome's time, the well is inside a shrine," Shippou said getting a little worried.

"Does that mean it didn't work?" asked Miroku.

"I dunno, it was just night a couple seconds ago, so something must have happened," Shippou reasoned.

Then they saw a shadow over the top of the well. They recognized the ears to be Inuyasha's, but there seemed to be something different. The person called down and the group realized what was different: it was a girl.

"What're you doing down in the well? Are you more people from that place my cousin and those two guys came from?" she asked from above them.

"Hold on a moment, we'll be right up," Shippou called up. With Miroku, Sango, and Jaken on Kirara and Shippou in his pink bubble form, they all got up in a matter of seconds. (It must be a really big well to fit Kirara)

"Are you guys from that place my cousin and those two guys came from?" the girl asked again.

"Who's your cousin?" Sango asked the young hanyou.

"Kagome, the two guys were Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru. They all went out with my sister and her friend," she explained.

"Who, what? Did Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru try to kill each other?" Miroku was shocked that they were both still alive and together.

"Only once, but Angel yelled at them and they stopped," she seemed very cheerful.

"They stopped? Is this Angel a goddess of some sort?" Miroku was even more shocked.

"No she's my full-demon older sister, unfortunately," she wasn't so cheerful anymore.

"What kind of demon is your sister?" Sango asked her.

"Inu youkai, like that creepy Sesshoumaru guy. I'm a hanyou, like Inuyasha."

"..." total shock paralysis.

"Are you guys ok?" the girl asked waving her hands in front of Shippou's face.

Unfortunately, it was Jaken who regained his voice first. "Where is my lord, Sesshoumaru-sama?"

"No offense or anything," the hanyou said, speaking to the rest of the group. "But got one funny looking, and funny sounding, pet."

"I am not their pet!" he cried indignantly. "They are keeping me hostage."

"Oh, okay then," she tossed it off as nothing. "Did you know that you smell funny? I mean, you stink really bad."

"Yes he does," Shippou said covering his nose. "What's your name?"

"I'm Jessica."

"Hi, Jessica. I'm Shippou, that's Miroku, Sango, and Kirara. The stinky one is Jaken."

"Hi everybody," she responded with a big smile. "Let's go back to my house."

"Now Miroku doesn't have to go to someone's house claiming that there is a dark cloud over it," Sango teased.

They walked for a few minutes until they came to a large house, about three stories tall.

"Is this your house?" Shippou asked in complete awe.

"Yes," she answered.

"It's so big. Is your family nobility?" asked Miroku, staring at the house.

"No, and it's not that big," she didn't want to seem snobby. "Let's go inside."

As they walked in, Jessica called into the house, "Mom, more weird people came through the well. They're friends of Kagome."

"I'll be right there," the group heard a woman call. She came out of a room a bit down the hall carrying sheets and towels piled in her arms so high they couldn't make out her face.

"I'll take those," Miroku offered. (He probably only wants to see if she's pretty)

"Thank you," she said, sounding very relieved.

"What are all those for?" Jessica asked her.

"The guest rooms," she answered simply.

"Guest? You mean they're spending the night? Mom, I don't exactly feel safe with that Sesshoumaru guy in the house when I'm awake, let alone asleep," Jessica sounded a little panicky.

"Excuse me. Sorry to interrupt, but where would you like these?" Miroku asked at what seemed like as good a time as any.

"Oh, I'll show you," the woman said, turning to go up the stairs. "Thank you for carrying them. I'm sorry, I don't know your name."

"I'm Miroku. The woman with the boomerang is Sango, the kitsune is Shippou, and the kat [my simple way of spelling whatever Kirara is] is Kirara." All were smiling, except for Jaken of course.

"It's nice to meet all of you," she smiled as well. "I'm Tara, and you've met Jessica."

"So I can bring them to the mall to meet up with Kagome and the others, right?" Jessica asked hopeful.

"Nice try, but you still aren't allowed to go. Maybe tomorrow," Tara said.

Jessica pouted. "Can I watch some TV, then?" she asked.

"Have you finished your homework?"

"Yes." she said. 'Almost,' she thought.

"You get homework as well?" Sango asked. "I know that when Kagome has homework, she has a bit of a harder time concentrating on fighting sometimes. Is it that terribly stressful?"

"Yes, I hate it," Jessica answered truthfully. "And having all Angel's former teachers doesn't help any 'cause she was such a 'wonderful student'." When Jessica complains about here sister, well, don't bother her unless you aren't fond of having all your limbs intact.

"Why don't you go watch TV with your new friends?" Tara suggested quickly.

"Okay," Jessica responded cheerfully, as if she completely forgot about her sister. "What do you guys like to watch?"

"What's tee vee?" Shippou asked.

::sweatdrop:: "Spongebob Squarepants it is." They walked into the living room where Jess hit a button on a large black box. Suddenly, sounds like music came from it and there were moving pictures on the screen.

"Something about a tiny yellow demon?" Shippou asked.

"It's a cartoon. Completely made up from somebody's imagination," Jessica explained. "Just watch. It's funny."

A few minutes later, Miroku came back downstairs to find everyone staring at the TV, even Jaken, who was still tied up. For a moment, he thought it was some evil demon that had hypnotized them. (He would, you know. Oh no, I'm starting to sound like Chichiri. Run for your lives, *you know) (Anyway.) He tried to get their attention by doing the first thing that came to his (dirty) mind. Can anyone guess what it was? The hentai decided to grab Sango's butt. At least he found out she wasn't hypnotized.

"Lech," Sango said. Then she added, "I'm trying to watch 'Spun-bob with square pants'."

"Actually, that's Spongebob Squarepants," Jessica said, turning her head but not taking her eyes off the TV.

"It's funny, Miroku," Shippou said.

"What is it?" he asked.

"Um, I'm not really sure."

::sweatdrop::

"I know something you'll understand," Jessica picked up a small rectangle. She hit some buttons on it and the screen changed to something Miroku definitely understood. It wasn't in Japanese, but it was in universal guy- language: MTV2.

"What is that?" he asked, already totally transfixed by 'Dirrty'.

"That's Christina Augulara's video, Dirrty," Jessica said, feeling totally in control. (She has the remote)

"It certainly is," Sango remarked.

As the video was ending, Jessica realized that Sango and Shippou weren't enjoying themselves as much as Miroku. Then she remembered that there was something on that they could all agree on. "You know what, there is something much better on," she said as she changed the channel. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It's in Chinese, but there's lots of really cool fights and battles."

Miroku was about to protest when Sango clocked him with the Hiraikotsu. "You had your turn," she said. "And so did Shippou. Now it's mine." Jaken doesn't get a turn.

After a very short time, all were sitting transfixed by the action. One of them had to occasionally reach over to stop Jaken from trying to escape when he thought no one was looking. And of course, Miroku got a whack on the head during the love scene for wanting to act it out.