Note: I don't own InuYasha. I can never hope to own InuYasha. I love everything by Rumiko Takahashi. I'm not stealing. I'm revering.

Hanyou from Abroad

Ch. 1

"Kogome? Where are you?" called Kagome's mother.

"Coming...just let me finish this problem..." Kagome replied tiredly.

"Well...hurry up! I have a surprise for you!"

Kagome rolled her eyes and went downstairs to the living room. She saw her mother, Souta, Grandfather and...a very strange looking foreigner. The girl looked to be about her age but was, by the looks of it, American or English. She was shorter than Kagome, and had strange hair with all different reds, browns, blondes, and even some white (which she assumed was dyed), and was pretty. Not as pretty as Kagome, but had a uniquness about her that was nonetheless attractive. The girl wore a very long, very flowing black skirt and a t-shirt, as well as a hat. She looked nervous.

"Kagome, honey. Remember your penpal project from school? I made arrangements for her to come to visit with us for a while. She'll be attending school with you and everything!"

Kagome looked overjoyed for a moment, but the smile quickly faded from her face. "Mom...what about...the well. I told her...er, you...wait. It's Rea right?"

The girl smiled. "Close enough." She knew that there were no "L"s in Japenese, that it was a combined sound with "R".

"Anyway..." Kagome continued,"do you think she can come with me? What excuses can I make up for her missing as well?"

"Um. If I may say something...I can make up my own. That I'm here to help you...that it turns out we're related somehow...maybe. They're just suggestions. And I would love to go through the well if you don't mind. I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself."

"Oh!" Kagome had told Rea all this in her letters, never expecting to meet the girl, thinking that her penpal was just playing along when she asked questions about yukai and hanyou.

"I really, really want to go. I need to...because...you see..." and with that, she took off her hat and took out her contacts. Her eyes were not the hazel they had seemed at first, but were golden 'like InuYasha's' thought Kagome. Under the hat she revealed...ears! Not exactly like his, but very doglike. They were bigger, more expressive, and furrier.

Kagome's eyes widened. She had not expected this. Her mother was calm, haveing had this explained to her earlier.

"I have a tail too," Rea said quietly.

"This is great! You can go with me and meet InuYasha and Sango and Shippo and Miroku!" she laughed. This was wonderful. Never had she expected to meet a hanyou in her own time!

"Come on!" she said, grabbing Rea's clawed, but dainty hands. They raced up to her room and Kagome found her huge backpack. "Here," she said, "Do you have a bag you can put clothes and extra stuff you might need in?"

"I already did that. Your mother told me to. She thought you might do this," and smiled. Rea felt so at home here. It was so much easier to breath...and she like speaking Japanese so much better than English. It just...tasted better. She was more fluent in Japanese than her native language!

"Even better!"

So they raced back downstairs and Rea swiftly grabbed up her bag by the door, not pausing once. They pounded to the Well House and slammed through the open door, stopping just in time to keep from hurtling down the well.

"Okay...Ready?" Kagome asked.

"Ready as I'll ever be."