Well, the response for this has been somewhat encouraging, so here goes chapter two, in which everybody talks, Kurama is pretty, and Yuuske and Inuyasha yell at each other a bunch. Yay! Also, I apologize for the sometimes-excessive Japanese vocabulary. Really, there's just no excuse besides showoffy-ness. And... no new chapters for a while yet... until I work out the story a little more. In the long term, see. Don't want to screw it up like my last long story. Please review. I make no pretense at owning these characters. Enjoy.
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Part Two
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"What the HELL just happened? Where'd it go?"
"It's like the reiki we were tracing just disappeared..."
"Maybe it's dead."
"It's not dead!"
"There's no body, no evidence at all that it died."
"But MAYBE it's dead. Urameshi hit it pretty good."
"Baka, it was flying just fine."
Kagome was still staring in a daze at the hole in the roof of the well's little home when she realized that there were some complete strangers having an argument next to her. Shocked, she turned around and looked at the strangers. There were four of them, four boys who looked roughly her age or a little older, and they were all watching where they had last seen the bird youkai, obviously baffled by the complete disappearance of the bird's jaki.
Inuyasha stepped between her and the newcomers, brandishing Tetsusaiga threateningly. "Who the hell are you?" he growled.
The boys looked at him like they hadn't noticed him before, and one of them, the one Kagome instinctively thought of as their leader, stepped forward with a challange in his eyes. "Who the hell are YOU?" he replied. The others were also clearly ready for a fight, and Kagome had a bad feeling about what might happen if she didn't step in to diffuse the situation.
"Ne, ne, Inuyasha, let me handle this," she said gently, stepping out from behind him and waving her hands lightly in his direction until he put his sword away. She stood as tall as she could in front of the strangers, determined not to feel intimidated by them, and, squaring her shoulders, she spoke. "I'd like to ask you one question: what is your connection with the youkai that was just here?"
The lead boy, the one in a baggy green school uniform, gave her an incredulous look. "I'm not here to grant interviews to junior high kids with youkai lapdogs."
"NANI? What did you just say?!" Inuyasha demanded, fists raised.
"Inuyasha," Kagome interupted, in a warning tone that made him freeze. It was the way she said his name before she said "Osuwari," and so, ears flat, he quieted and glowered at the boy. "Now, I'd really like an answer."
"Well I don't think I have to-"
"We're going to kill it." The first boy was interrupted by a soft voice from another of the strangers, a tall and slender boy with long red hair. When he looked at her, Kagome couldn't help but blush. He was really beautiful; too beautiful for him to be human. Was he a youkai?
"A- Ano..." She faltered for a moment, her cheeks getting warm under his deep green eyes. Inuyasha's pointed "KAGOME!" brought her back to the present and she nodded her head briskly at the gorgeous bishounen and turning her attention back to the now smirking leader of the group, added, "Then we're definately on the same side. I don't know what that was, but if you're its enemies, then you're my allies."
"Yippie," snarked the boy in green. "Look, that's great and all but we don't really need your help."
"Oh? Then how will you find out what happened to the youkai?" She cocked her head to the side and grinned, then raised on finger in the air in her sweet lecturing way. "We know where it went, and you don't. You know what it is, and we don't. At least, I'm assuming you know what it is. Ne?"
"Yeah, we do."
"So we need each other, then. Ok!" Kagome smiled, and the boy nodded his assent.
"I guess so," he said reluctantly.
"Ok! Higurashi Kagome desu!" she bowed from the waist. "And this is Inuyasha," she gestured to the hanyou who kept his arms crossed and glared fiercely. "Hajimemashite!"
"Urameshi Yuusuke, Reikai Tantei."
"Reikai Tantei? I've never heard of a spirit world detective before."
"Then you must not leave Ningenkai much," Yuusuke cracked his knuckles. "I'm pretty famous." Inuyasha snorted, and Yuusuke clenched a fist. "You got a problem, Inu-youkai?" Kagome put a hand over Inuyasha's mouth and smiled brightly, assuring Yuusuke there was no problem. "Yeah, well, this is my team, anyway," he jerked his head towards the others, and the stunning green eyed boy stepped forward to take Kagome's hand and bow politely and formally.
"I am known as Kurama," he said as he bowed. Kagome's cheeks went scarlet at the soft touch of his fingers on hers.
"Ha-hajimemashite," she faltered. She could actually FEEL Inuyasha freaking out behind her, and she quickly stepped away from Kurama.
Yuusuke introduced the other two. The first was a tall, clumsy-looking human boy in a uniform like his, but blue, who went by the name Kuwabara Kazuma and acted awkward and shy around Kagome. The other was a short youkai boy all in black who merely nodded acknowledgement when Yuusuke called him by the name Hiei, and regarded both Kagome and Inuyasha with a cold, calculating stare that reminded Kagome of nothing so much as Inuyasha's half-brother Sesshomaru.
"Ok, then," she said when the introductions were complete. "Let's not waste any time. I don't like that thing. What can you tell us? What is it?"
"Well, it's a giant, evil bird," Yuusuke pointed out helpfully.
"That thing is an agent of a Makai king," Kurama began.
"Makai?" Inuyasha interrupted. "What's that?"
"The demon world?" Yuusuke looked at him doubtfully. "What kind of a youkai are you?"
"He's a hanyou," Hiei observed matter of factly.
"And I could kick your ass any day, twerp!"
Kagome sighed. This wasn't going very well. What had happened to her beautiful day? Wasn't she supposed to get one gorgeous afternoon before things got annoying and complicated again? And with that strange youkai on the other side of the well... she trembled to imagine, and quietly knelt there on the ground. Could Kaede and her villagers be safe? Perhaps Miroku and Sango could handle it, but the blast of power Yuusuke had used against it had barely seemed to do anything, and it had been formidable.
Inuyasha turned away from Hiei suddenly, sensing Kagome's distress. "Kagome?"
"Tell me." She directed the order to Kurama. "What does it want?"
"The youkai king who controls it is after a lot more power than he's already got, and he's sent that bird to look for a way to get it."
Yuusuke nodded. "Yeah, so he's looking for some ancient jewel."
"Jewel?" Kagome felt a sinking feeling in her heart. 'Please don't say Shikon no Tama,' she thought hopelessly.
"It's called the Shikon no Tama," Kurama clarified. "It can grant immense power to the possessor. But five hundred years ago, it was shattered into pieces."
"Oh yeah," Yuusuke snorted. "I remember that part. Some stupid miko broke it."
Kagome bit her lip.
Kurama went on. "After that time, there aren't any definate records of what happened to it. But this king thinks he's found a way to travel through time and get the intact jewel."
"And our job is to stop him from getting it!" finished off Kuwabara, the first time he'd said anything since meeting Kagome. He was less shy when discussing battle plans.
Kagome nodded thoughtfully, processing the information she'd been given. Her hand strayed to the Shikon no kakera on a chain around her neck.
"Well, that's easy," said Inuyasha. "There's no way he can get the whole Shikon no Tama if he sent it through the well."
"The well?" Yuusuke asked.
Kagome sat up straighter. "That youkai bird went into the sacred Bone Eating Well, which leads into a time in the Sengokou Jidai, about five hundred years ago." The boys didn't look that surprised. "Sometimes," she amended. "Not everyone or everything can go through."
"So if it's really in the past, why did you say it can't get the jewel?"
"Because," explained Kagome. "At the point where the well would have brought it to, the Shikon no Tama has been broken. And most of the pieces are in the hands of Naraku, and nobody knows where he is, or how to find him."
Silence. They stared at her, and she stared back at them. "So... I guess we go and kill it?" she said weakly. She really didn't want to go face that creature without the strength of these tantei strangers.
Yuusuke shrugged. "If it can't get the jewel, I don't see why we should bother."
"But you know that thing feeds on human flesh!" shouted Kuwabara.
Hiei flexed his fingers. "I was looking forward to killing it. If you don't want to waste your time on it, I can go alone. It's strong but stupid; it won't be that hard."
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's wrist and dragged her to her feet. "We don't need these idiots anyway," he growled. "I'll take care of it with my Tetsusaiga."
"Yeah, you sure had it taken care of back there," laughed Yuusuke. "You couldn't even hit it"!
Inuyasha turned. "If I had, my attack wouldn't just bounce off it like yours!"
As the two boys got into a shouting match, Kurama stepped close to Kagome. "I will go as well. Hiei is right, it's quite stupid, but it does take a lot of force to bring one of those down."
"A- arigato, Kurama-kun." She sighed deeply. "I've never felt anything like that jaki, and the more people fighting it, the better off Kaede-bochan and everyone will be." She furrowed her brow worriedly. "I'm not sure if the well will let you through, though."
"Well, I will try, at least." He winked at her and went to talk to Hiei.
Kagome didn't want to say it, but she didn't know how else to get Inuyasha's attention. She knew he'd be furious at her for making him lose face in front of these others, these boys that he obviously didn't trust. And she wasn't sure about some of them, either, but Kurama seemed trustworthy, so for now she'd believe them. So she opened her mouth and let loose Inuyasha's least favorite word: "Osuwari!"
He slammed into the ground so hard he saw stars. "Kuso..."
"Ne, Inuyasha!" she ran up and dragged him away from Yuusuke. "Let's get ready to go, you need your real clothes and I have to get our food in my bag!" She pushed him towards the house, and quickly turned and bowed to the others. "If you don't want to try to come with us, that's your decision. But we have to go as soon as possible. It's our duty. We'll be back in a few minutes. If you're coming along, be ready then." And with that she ran towards the house.
"You are flirting shamelessly," Hiei informed his friend.
Kurama laughed. "I'm just being nice. You might try it sometime, it's wonderful. You too, Yuusuke," he added. "People respond remarkably to it."
"Especially girls," Yuusuke rolled his eyes.
Kurama smiled. "Anyway, I'm going along with Kagome-chan. Hiei, you're coming too, right? The Sengokou Jidai was before the youkai retreated from Ningenkai, you couldn't take two steps without running into someone to fight. You'll love it."
"How do you know so much about it?" Kuwabara asked doubtfully.
"I'm old," Kurama said cheerfully. "So are you guys coming?"
"What makes you so sure we can trust these people?" Yuusuke asked. "I don't like that Inuyasha guy. Guy like that just gets everybody into trouble."
Kurama and Hiei's eyes met for a moment as the same thought occurred to both of them that Inuyasha had reminded them a LOT of Urameshi Yuusuke.
Yuusuke sighed. "But I guess we don't have much of a choice at this point. So we go along with these guys for now, but only as long as we have to."
"I don't like getting girls involved in this kind of thing," Kuwabara said doubtfully. "Maybe someone should talk her into staying here."
"Without her, I think that hanyou and Yuusuke would rip each other's throats out," pointed out Hiei. "And though that would be entertaining to watch..."
"Ha! I could take that guy blindfolded and asleep!"
"Maybe if I were already dead, lousy ningen," growled Inuyasha, who had reappeared, dressed all in red with Tetsusaiga strapped to his side. He was considerably more impressive this way.
Kagome popped up from behind him, hands waving to diffuse the argument before it escalated. "Hai, hai, we're all very strong, that's why we're going to work together, ne?" She patted Inuyasha's head, which made his ears droop with embarassment and frustration.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to treat me like a dog?" he hissed at her.
"Gomen ne!" She smiled at him and turned to the Reikai Tantei. "We're going now; are you coming?"
"Yeah, we'll go along with you. It is our job to take care of that thing, after all," Yuusuke agreed.
"Good. I just hope the well will let you through," Kagome led the way towards the well, waving to her mother who stood in the door of the house looking worried. "Ja ne, Mama! Tell Sota I'm sorry we couldn't say goodbye! And thanks for the bento!" Turning back to the boys, she explained "My 'kaasan made us a little meal for tonight. You never know what you can find over there, so it's always nice to bring something, and Mama is a great cook."
Yuusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama were all privately impressed by the girl's apparent fearlessness at the dangerous situation they were facing. Hiei wondered if she was stupid. Inuyasha hoped the packed lunch didn't include curry.
Kagome pushed open the door and peered in. The shrine building that housed the sacred well had always given her the creeps. It was so dark and dank, and what kind of a well needed a holy building and a seal on it, anyway? Of course she'd found out the answer to that question on her fifteenth birthday... It looked much different now, with sunlight pouring through the jagged hole that the youkai had left in the roof. The light seemed shifting and eerie. She shivered a little as she climbed down the steps to the old well, and touched the rope ladder she used to climb out of it, to reassure herself. It was the same well it had always been. She'd done this countless times before.
"So?" Yuusuke demanded, impatient. His voice sounded horribly out of place in the eerie quiet.
Kagome shook her head and cleared her thoughts. "We just jump in, and it does the rest on its own. When you land, you'll either be at the bottom of the well in the Sengokou Jidai, or you'll just be at the bottom of the well." She put one leg over the edge of the well, and immediately Kurama stepped forward to lend her his arm, making her cheeks go pink once again. Inuyasha's eyes narrowed, but Kurama had followed Kagome over the edge almost immediately.
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Part Two
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"What the HELL just happened? Where'd it go?"
"It's like the reiki we were tracing just disappeared..."
"Maybe it's dead."
"It's not dead!"
"There's no body, no evidence at all that it died."
"But MAYBE it's dead. Urameshi hit it pretty good."
"Baka, it was flying just fine."
Kagome was still staring in a daze at the hole in the roof of the well's little home when she realized that there were some complete strangers having an argument next to her. Shocked, she turned around and looked at the strangers. There were four of them, four boys who looked roughly her age or a little older, and they were all watching where they had last seen the bird youkai, obviously baffled by the complete disappearance of the bird's jaki.
Inuyasha stepped between her and the newcomers, brandishing Tetsusaiga threateningly. "Who the hell are you?" he growled.
The boys looked at him like they hadn't noticed him before, and one of them, the one Kagome instinctively thought of as their leader, stepped forward with a challange in his eyes. "Who the hell are YOU?" he replied. The others were also clearly ready for a fight, and Kagome had a bad feeling about what might happen if she didn't step in to diffuse the situation.
"Ne, ne, Inuyasha, let me handle this," she said gently, stepping out from behind him and waving her hands lightly in his direction until he put his sword away. She stood as tall as she could in front of the strangers, determined not to feel intimidated by them, and, squaring her shoulders, she spoke. "I'd like to ask you one question: what is your connection with the youkai that was just here?"
The lead boy, the one in a baggy green school uniform, gave her an incredulous look. "I'm not here to grant interviews to junior high kids with youkai lapdogs."
"NANI? What did you just say?!" Inuyasha demanded, fists raised.
"Inuyasha," Kagome interupted, in a warning tone that made him freeze. It was the way she said his name before she said "Osuwari," and so, ears flat, he quieted and glowered at the boy. "Now, I'd really like an answer."
"Well I don't think I have to-"
"We're going to kill it." The first boy was interrupted by a soft voice from another of the strangers, a tall and slender boy with long red hair. When he looked at her, Kagome couldn't help but blush. He was really beautiful; too beautiful for him to be human. Was he a youkai?
"A- Ano..." She faltered for a moment, her cheeks getting warm under his deep green eyes. Inuyasha's pointed "KAGOME!" brought her back to the present and she nodded her head briskly at the gorgeous bishounen and turning her attention back to the now smirking leader of the group, added, "Then we're definately on the same side. I don't know what that was, but if you're its enemies, then you're my allies."
"Yippie," snarked the boy in green. "Look, that's great and all but we don't really need your help."
"Oh? Then how will you find out what happened to the youkai?" She cocked her head to the side and grinned, then raised on finger in the air in her sweet lecturing way. "We know where it went, and you don't. You know what it is, and we don't. At least, I'm assuming you know what it is. Ne?"
"Yeah, we do."
"So we need each other, then. Ok!" Kagome smiled, and the boy nodded his assent.
"I guess so," he said reluctantly.
"Ok! Higurashi Kagome desu!" she bowed from the waist. "And this is Inuyasha," she gestured to the hanyou who kept his arms crossed and glared fiercely. "Hajimemashite!"
"Urameshi Yuusuke, Reikai Tantei."
"Reikai Tantei? I've never heard of a spirit world detective before."
"Then you must not leave Ningenkai much," Yuusuke cracked his knuckles. "I'm pretty famous." Inuyasha snorted, and Yuusuke clenched a fist. "You got a problem, Inu-youkai?" Kagome put a hand over Inuyasha's mouth and smiled brightly, assuring Yuusuke there was no problem. "Yeah, well, this is my team, anyway," he jerked his head towards the others, and the stunning green eyed boy stepped forward to take Kagome's hand and bow politely and formally.
"I am known as Kurama," he said as he bowed. Kagome's cheeks went scarlet at the soft touch of his fingers on hers.
"Ha-hajimemashite," she faltered. She could actually FEEL Inuyasha freaking out behind her, and she quickly stepped away from Kurama.
Yuusuke introduced the other two. The first was a tall, clumsy-looking human boy in a uniform like his, but blue, who went by the name Kuwabara Kazuma and acted awkward and shy around Kagome. The other was a short youkai boy all in black who merely nodded acknowledgement when Yuusuke called him by the name Hiei, and regarded both Kagome and Inuyasha with a cold, calculating stare that reminded Kagome of nothing so much as Inuyasha's half-brother Sesshomaru.
"Ok, then," she said when the introductions were complete. "Let's not waste any time. I don't like that thing. What can you tell us? What is it?"
"Well, it's a giant, evil bird," Yuusuke pointed out helpfully.
"That thing is an agent of a Makai king," Kurama began.
"Makai?" Inuyasha interrupted. "What's that?"
"The demon world?" Yuusuke looked at him doubtfully. "What kind of a youkai are you?"
"He's a hanyou," Hiei observed matter of factly.
"And I could kick your ass any day, twerp!"
Kagome sighed. This wasn't going very well. What had happened to her beautiful day? Wasn't she supposed to get one gorgeous afternoon before things got annoying and complicated again? And with that strange youkai on the other side of the well... she trembled to imagine, and quietly knelt there on the ground. Could Kaede and her villagers be safe? Perhaps Miroku and Sango could handle it, but the blast of power Yuusuke had used against it had barely seemed to do anything, and it had been formidable.
Inuyasha turned away from Hiei suddenly, sensing Kagome's distress. "Kagome?"
"Tell me." She directed the order to Kurama. "What does it want?"
"The youkai king who controls it is after a lot more power than he's already got, and he's sent that bird to look for a way to get it."
Yuusuke nodded. "Yeah, so he's looking for some ancient jewel."
"Jewel?" Kagome felt a sinking feeling in her heart. 'Please don't say Shikon no Tama,' she thought hopelessly.
"It's called the Shikon no Tama," Kurama clarified. "It can grant immense power to the possessor. But five hundred years ago, it was shattered into pieces."
"Oh yeah," Yuusuke snorted. "I remember that part. Some stupid miko broke it."
Kagome bit her lip.
Kurama went on. "After that time, there aren't any definate records of what happened to it. But this king thinks he's found a way to travel through time and get the intact jewel."
"And our job is to stop him from getting it!" finished off Kuwabara, the first time he'd said anything since meeting Kagome. He was less shy when discussing battle plans.
Kagome nodded thoughtfully, processing the information she'd been given. Her hand strayed to the Shikon no kakera on a chain around her neck.
"Well, that's easy," said Inuyasha. "There's no way he can get the whole Shikon no Tama if he sent it through the well."
"The well?" Yuusuke asked.
Kagome sat up straighter. "That youkai bird went into the sacred Bone Eating Well, which leads into a time in the Sengokou Jidai, about five hundred years ago." The boys didn't look that surprised. "Sometimes," she amended. "Not everyone or everything can go through."
"So if it's really in the past, why did you say it can't get the jewel?"
"Because," explained Kagome. "At the point where the well would have brought it to, the Shikon no Tama has been broken. And most of the pieces are in the hands of Naraku, and nobody knows where he is, or how to find him."
Silence. They stared at her, and she stared back at them. "So... I guess we go and kill it?" she said weakly. She really didn't want to go face that creature without the strength of these tantei strangers.
Yuusuke shrugged. "If it can't get the jewel, I don't see why we should bother."
"But you know that thing feeds on human flesh!" shouted Kuwabara.
Hiei flexed his fingers. "I was looking forward to killing it. If you don't want to waste your time on it, I can go alone. It's strong but stupid; it won't be that hard."
Inuyasha grabbed Kagome's wrist and dragged her to her feet. "We don't need these idiots anyway," he growled. "I'll take care of it with my Tetsusaiga."
"Yeah, you sure had it taken care of back there," laughed Yuusuke. "You couldn't even hit it"!
Inuyasha turned. "If I had, my attack wouldn't just bounce off it like yours!"
As the two boys got into a shouting match, Kurama stepped close to Kagome. "I will go as well. Hiei is right, it's quite stupid, but it does take a lot of force to bring one of those down."
"A- arigato, Kurama-kun." She sighed deeply. "I've never felt anything like that jaki, and the more people fighting it, the better off Kaede-bochan and everyone will be." She furrowed her brow worriedly. "I'm not sure if the well will let you through, though."
"Well, I will try, at least." He winked at her and went to talk to Hiei.
Kagome didn't want to say it, but she didn't know how else to get Inuyasha's attention. She knew he'd be furious at her for making him lose face in front of these others, these boys that he obviously didn't trust. And she wasn't sure about some of them, either, but Kurama seemed trustworthy, so for now she'd believe them. So she opened her mouth and let loose Inuyasha's least favorite word: "Osuwari!"
He slammed into the ground so hard he saw stars. "Kuso..."
"Ne, Inuyasha!" she ran up and dragged him away from Yuusuke. "Let's get ready to go, you need your real clothes and I have to get our food in my bag!" She pushed him towards the house, and quickly turned and bowed to the others. "If you don't want to try to come with us, that's your decision. But we have to go as soon as possible. It's our duty. We'll be back in a few minutes. If you're coming along, be ready then." And with that she ran towards the house.
"You are flirting shamelessly," Hiei informed his friend.
Kurama laughed. "I'm just being nice. You might try it sometime, it's wonderful. You too, Yuusuke," he added. "People respond remarkably to it."
"Especially girls," Yuusuke rolled his eyes.
Kurama smiled. "Anyway, I'm going along with Kagome-chan. Hiei, you're coming too, right? The Sengokou Jidai was before the youkai retreated from Ningenkai, you couldn't take two steps without running into someone to fight. You'll love it."
"How do you know so much about it?" Kuwabara asked doubtfully.
"I'm old," Kurama said cheerfully. "So are you guys coming?"
"What makes you so sure we can trust these people?" Yuusuke asked. "I don't like that Inuyasha guy. Guy like that just gets everybody into trouble."
Kurama and Hiei's eyes met for a moment as the same thought occurred to both of them that Inuyasha had reminded them a LOT of Urameshi Yuusuke.
Yuusuke sighed. "But I guess we don't have much of a choice at this point. So we go along with these guys for now, but only as long as we have to."
"I don't like getting girls involved in this kind of thing," Kuwabara said doubtfully. "Maybe someone should talk her into staying here."
"Without her, I think that hanyou and Yuusuke would rip each other's throats out," pointed out Hiei. "And though that would be entertaining to watch..."
"Ha! I could take that guy blindfolded and asleep!"
"Maybe if I were already dead, lousy ningen," growled Inuyasha, who had reappeared, dressed all in red with Tetsusaiga strapped to his side. He was considerably more impressive this way.
Kagome popped up from behind him, hands waving to diffuse the argument before it escalated. "Hai, hai, we're all very strong, that's why we're going to work together, ne?" She patted Inuyasha's head, which made his ears droop with embarassment and frustration.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to treat me like a dog?" he hissed at her.
"Gomen ne!" She smiled at him and turned to the Reikai Tantei. "We're going now; are you coming?"
"Yeah, we'll go along with you. It is our job to take care of that thing, after all," Yuusuke agreed.
"Good. I just hope the well will let you through," Kagome led the way towards the well, waving to her mother who stood in the door of the house looking worried. "Ja ne, Mama! Tell Sota I'm sorry we couldn't say goodbye! And thanks for the bento!" Turning back to the boys, she explained "My 'kaasan made us a little meal for tonight. You never know what you can find over there, so it's always nice to bring something, and Mama is a great cook."
Yuusuke, Kuwabara, and Kurama were all privately impressed by the girl's apparent fearlessness at the dangerous situation they were facing. Hiei wondered if she was stupid. Inuyasha hoped the packed lunch didn't include curry.
Kagome pushed open the door and peered in. The shrine building that housed the sacred well had always given her the creeps. It was so dark and dank, and what kind of a well needed a holy building and a seal on it, anyway? Of course she'd found out the answer to that question on her fifteenth birthday... It looked much different now, with sunlight pouring through the jagged hole that the youkai had left in the roof. The light seemed shifting and eerie. She shivered a little as she climbed down the steps to the old well, and touched the rope ladder she used to climb out of it, to reassure herself. It was the same well it had always been. She'd done this countless times before.
"So?" Yuusuke demanded, impatient. His voice sounded horribly out of place in the eerie quiet.
Kagome shook her head and cleared her thoughts. "We just jump in, and it does the rest on its own. When you land, you'll either be at the bottom of the well in the Sengokou Jidai, or you'll just be at the bottom of the well." She put one leg over the edge of the well, and immediately Kurama stepped forward to lend her his arm, making her cheeks go pink once again. Inuyasha's eyes narrowed, but Kurama had followed Kagome over the edge almost immediately.
