Oh, wow, it's been over a week. Bad me. Bad, bad me. It's been pretty hectic, though, and I still have to write an essay and do a math project this weekend. Ouch. Well, hopefully I'll be done with this soon, no offense to those who like it, but I'll be glad when I don't have to write it any more.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this.except Raal.cause I made him. You can use him if you want him, but I can't think why you would..

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Kagome shouldered her backpack, which was, as usual, huge, and stuffed with junk she would never need. She wondered what Inu-Yasha was up to. Usually he followed her through the well, but he just hadn't this time. It really was weird. It had been almost a week, and she hadn't heard from him at all. She shook her head. Why should she care what he did?

She sighed, and headed for the well. She walked as quietly as she could, since it was very early in the morning. She'd woken up early, to be sure she wouldn't have to deal with everyone asking her questions about the feudal era. Sota had been bugging her all week about Inu-Yasha, and it would be good to get away now.

Checking to make sure she had the big shard of the Shikon Jewel on the necklace she wore, she stepped into the well house. As usual, it was dark and musty. She walked quickly down the steps, and jumped into the well.

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Inu-Yasha walked stealthily down the street, followed by Buffy and Giles. The scent of demons mingled with that of death floated on the wind to him from the graveyard. He ignored it, and continued on past, following the scent of the demon he'd picked out from the library earlier. He wondered yet again to himself why he was bothering with this.

Suddenly, his ears pricked up as he caught a completely different scent. He stopped where he was and looked around, eliciting a sigh of boredom and frustration from Buffy.

Without any more warning, he dashed off in a new direction.

Buffy rolled her eyes and threw up her hands, and Giles frowned.

"And that's why you don't trust demons," said Buffy blandly.

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Kagome sat where she had found herself, dazed and confused. One moment, everything had been going normally, and the next, the Shikon Jewel had started glowing, and yanked downwards, dragging her with it by her neck. At one point, the necklace had broken, but she'd managed to grab and hold on to the jewel.

She slowly opened her fist and stared at the thing. It was still glowing a bit, but now it just sat there. He fingers were bruised and sore from hanging on to it, and she still could not figure out what had happened.

She closed her hand around the gem once more and looked around. Instead of being at the bottom of the well, she was in a clearing, with a few trees nearby. Off in front of her, she could hear the sounds of a street.

She shook her head to clear it, and stood up. Wherever she was, she would just have to find a way home.

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Inu-Yasha leapt, and landed in a tree. He looked down from it, and nearly cried out in shock.

He had been right! It was Kagome! He grinned, and hopped down from the tree, landing behind her.

Kagome whirled around at the sound. She yelled the first thing that came to mind when she was shocked.

"*SIT!*" she yelled.

"*Oomph!*" said Inu-Yasha. Kagome blinked in surprise.

"*Inu-Yasha?*" she asked.

"*Who else, wench?*" he said, sitting up and spitting out dirt.
Buffy and Giles made their way in the direction Inu-Yasha had run off in. Buffy grumped under her breath about untrustworthy demons, and Giles pretended not to hear. After a few moments of surprise and anger, they had agreed to try to follow him. If they didn't find him, they could always continue in the direction he's been leading them, but they both knew it would be easier if they had his help still.

Just as they were both about ready to call it quits and go on, they heard Inu-Yasha's voice, speaking rapidly in Japanese. They pushed on, and soon came to the little clearing he was in.

To the great surprise of both Buffy and Giles, he wasn't alone. Inu-Yasha sat cross-legged with his back against a tree, and, only a few feet away from him, sat a Japanese girl, who was listening to him with a confused expression on her face. Nearby, a humongous brown pack lay on the ground, forgotten for the moment.

Inu-Yasha stopped talking abruptly, and both he and Kagome looked at Buffy and Giles as they crashed through the bushes. Inu-Yasha stood up, and pointed to Kagome.

""*Kagome,*" he said.

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The vampires Raal commanded came back one by one, carrying the corpses of those they had made into vampires, and immediately leaving to find more. The future vampires were left in a corner of the warehouse Raal was occupying. There would be no burial for them. Better to have them awake here than be scattered throughout the graveyard, and possibly killed by the Slayer before Raal could even find them.

Raal himself rested, confident that he would be obeyed. Tomorrow would pose difficulties, since the Slayer would no doubt be aware that too many people had disappeared in one night. He needed to have all his strength available to him, since she might come during the day, while his current vampires were still tired, and his new ones not yet awakened. He sincerely hoped she would not, since it would be so much easier to battle her with his army instead of his own body.

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Buffy, Giles, Kagome, and Inu-Yasha sat around the table at the library. Everyone except Kagome was tired, and rubbing sleep from his or her eyes. It was almost five in the morning, and Buffy was not looking forward to the rest of the day. If she even went to school that day. It wasn't like she would do well if she went, anyways.

Giles had been able to find out from Inu-Yasha and Kagome that they knew each other, and that Kagome possessed some sort of sacred jewel. Kagome was still trying to figure out just what exactly had happened, but she did know vaguely where she was, at least. She could recognize English when she heard it. She just didn't know what part of the English-speaking world they were in.

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Mmyep, there ya go, Kagome's there, stop bugging me about it. There's a dead fly under my keyboard, and it's really gross looking.