Chapter 2 - Where Am I?
BRRING! BRRING!
Jill woke up to her alarm clock ringing. Unlike most people, she got up right away and looked at her clock. 4:25am She stretched and yawned, then climbed out of her bed. She loved to get up early when no one was awake so she could walk around in the peace and quiet.
After she took a shower and got changed, she left the house and made her way around the property. A shrine caught her eye and she read a sign nearby it. Bone-Eater's Well. Being her usual curious self, she walked into the shrine. She walked down the stairs and leaned forward, looking into he well.
She was about to turn around when a motion caught her eye. She looked back down into the well and saw a scurrying mouse. Jill always was a sucker for small, furry creatures and jumped down into the well to try to catch it, but to no avail. It scampered off with new speed at the sight of a giant in his space.
Jill just shrugged and climbed out of the well. What she saw when she leaped out, wasn't what she was suspecting.
Birds were chirping and there were numerous cherry trees which were in blossom. There was also tons more foliage, but she noticed the same big tree that she saw before she had entered the shrine. She raced towards it out of instinct, but when she got there, all she saw was more trees and bushes.
She continued to walk for a few more hours, but was too tired, so she stopped walking and slumped against a tree. Once her eyes closed, she was asleep in an instant.
******
Kagome woke up and rubbed her eyes. She could smell breakfast all the way from her room. She jumped out of bed and ran downstairs. The enticing smell of bacon and eggs was even stronger now. She sat down at the table and began to lift her fork to eat when she felt two pairs of eyes staring at her. She looked up.
"Aren't you going to wake Jill up?" Her mom stated.
"She does need to eat." Her grampa added.
"Oops! Silly me!" Was all Kagome said as she pounded up the stairs.
Kagome knocked on Jill's room. She waited a minute.
Then two. And starting to grow impatient, she slowly opened the door. She walked over the bed to wake Jill up.
"Come on Jill, it's break-" But she stopped in her tracks when she realized that Jill wasn't in the bed, or even her room.
She ran back downstairs and searched outside for her and she stopped in her tracks, when she saw, well, Jill's tracks in the mud. She followed the trail until it stopped at the well in the shrine. 'Oh no!' She screamed in her head. 'I better go in and look for her before something really bad happens.' She jumped over the rim of the well and landed in Feudal Japan.
She climbed out of the well and started walking towards Kaede's village.
Suddenly, a figure jumped in front of her.
"You're, you're early... and you don't have your big pack thing." The figure spoke.
"Surprised Inu-Yasha?" Kagome replied
"Yes." He stated. "But, come on and start walking, wench! We have business to do!" He snarled.
"Unthankful mutt." She muttered under her breath.
Inu-Yasha spun around and looked Kagome square in he eye. "I heard that!"
"Whatever!" Was all she muttered and she followed Inu-Yasha to Kaede's village.
Kaede appeared out of a hut and walked with a limp over to Kagome. Kagome noticed the limp and she looked down at Kaede's leg and noticed it was wrapped up in cloth.
"What happened, Kaede?" Kagome asked the old lady.
Inu-Yasha jumped in and answered for Kaede. "While you were in your 'world', Sesshomaru came and stole a jewel shard from the village that we had just retrieved from a cat demon when you were also gone."
Kagome was fumed at what Inu-Yasha said, blaming her. "What would Sesshoumaru possibly need a shard for?"
"Methinks that it is a way to draw Inu-Yasha to his home turf where he has more of an advantage in beating Inu-Yasha." Kaede suggested,
"Well, Inu-Yasha. I should of known not to leave you unprotected." Kagome mentioned to him.
Inu-Yasha became very infuriated. He didn't need a babysitter. "No, he was just stronger than normal."
"So, you need my help to get it back, huh?" Kagome asked.
"I don't need anyone's help, but Kaede says you have to come with me."
Kagome shook her head. "Fine. Well, let's go." And she walked off in the direction she came from.
Inu-Yasha followed along with Shippo, Sango and Miroku behind him. They headed in the direction of Sesshomaru's castle.
When the sky started turning dark blue, Kagome started slowing down. Inu-Yasha noticed this.
"Come on. If we are going to get there before he leaves, we have to keep moving. Now pick up your feet."
"You know, Inu-Yasha us humans and Shippo can't keep up with your demonic pace!" Kagoem tried to mix in a compliment in with that. and she could tell it worked.
"Good point. Fine, but only for the night. First thing in the morning, we leave then."
Kagome silently cheered and unrolled her sleeping bag.
In moments, everyone but Inu-Yasha were asleep.
******
Jill woke up to the night skies filled with stars. She rubbed hr eyes and stood up. She glanced at her watch. 11:25pm. She had slept for quite awhile. She wasn't at all tired, so she continued to walk down a path in the forest. `Forest? What? Since when was I in a forest?' Then she remembered. `Oh, yeah, I fell down that well at Kagome's house.'
She kept walking, trying to find the well so that she could go back. But after two hours, she still couldn't find it. But, being a very persistent person, she continued her search.
******
Inu-Yasha still hadn't fallen asleep. He never liked to let his guard down and sleeping surely did that. He sniffed the air and smelled something.. different. It smelled like coconuts and raspberries. 'What an odd concoction.' He thought to himself and with that, he leapt from his branch on the tree and followed the scent.
After a few minutes, the scent had grown stronger and he caught sight of what was giving off the scent. It was a girl. About Kagome's age and she was walking around like she was lost or something. Her eyes darted back and forth and they suddenly looked towards where he was standing and he quickly darted into some bushes.
"What was that?" The girl thought aloud. "Oh well, must be my imagination."
So, she continued walking and unknowingly, having Inu-Yasha follow her. She reached a clearing and saw some people sleeping. She was looking from person to person and suddenly her eyes fell upon a girl.
"Kagome?"
`She knows her name?' Inu-Yasha thought to himself.
He crawled out of the bushes and stared at her and without any warning, pounced on her.
"W-what?! Get off me! NOW!" The girl screamed, but Inu-Yasha had her pinned down. And he didn't get off her.
"What do you want, wench!" He growled.
"My name's not wench! It's Jill. Jill Charmen, in fact. Now, get off me!" And she threw him off her.
"How dare you! I can call you a wench if I like and I chose to call you wench and you will answer me!" He crept towards her slowly.
Jill backed up as he came nearer and ended up with her back towards a tree. `Great! Just great!' She thought. Then she noticed something different about this boy. "Hey! You-" She started.
"It's Inu-Yasha to you, girl."
"Well it's Jill to you..." She began to say and looked at him to think of a mean name and her eyes fell on his ears. "..Cat ears!"
"Cat?! Cat?! How dare you!" With his claws, he punched her.
"No! How dare you!" She screamed and she walloped him on the head.
Inu-Yasha drew the Tetsusaiga from its scabbard. "Now, bitch! You die!" And he bounded at her.
"Inu-Yasha! Stop! SIT, SIT, SIT!"
Followed by the sits, Inu-Yasha's face was buried in the dirt.
The girl who had spoken came into Jill's view and Jill sighed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, hi Kagome! Umm, where exactly are we. And who's he?" Jill pointed at Inu-Yasha.
"We are in Feudal Japan and that." She said also pointing to Inu-Yasha. "Is Inu-Yahsa. He's half demon and half human. Let me tell you everything as I can tell you're here anyways and you might as well know what is going on."
So Kagome told her everything and ended with. "And now we are going to Sesshomaru, who is Inu-Yasha's half brother who is pure demon to take back a shikon shard he stole from us."
Unlike what Kagome thought Jill would do (sit down with a confused look), Jill smiled at Kagome and offered her hand to Inu-Yasha, who actually took it and he stood up. "Well, in that case, can I come along?" She asked Kagome.
Kagome mused over this for a second. "Sure!"
BRRING! BRRING!
Jill woke up to her alarm clock ringing. Unlike most people, she got up right away and looked at her clock. 4:25am She stretched and yawned, then climbed out of her bed. She loved to get up early when no one was awake so she could walk around in the peace and quiet.
After she took a shower and got changed, she left the house and made her way around the property. A shrine caught her eye and she read a sign nearby it. Bone-Eater's Well. Being her usual curious self, she walked into the shrine. She walked down the stairs and leaned forward, looking into he well.
She was about to turn around when a motion caught her eye. She looked back down into the well and saw a scurrying mouse. Jill always was a sucker for small, furry creatures and jumped down into the well to try to catch it, but to no avail. It scampered off with new speed at the sight of a giant in his space.
Jill just shrugged and climbed out of the well. What she saw when she leaped out, wasn't what she was suspecting.
Birds were chirping and there were numerous cherry trees which were in blossom. There was also tons more foliage, but she noticed the same big tree that she saw before she had entered the shrine. She raced towards it out of instinct, but when she got there, all she saw was more trees and bushes.
She continued to walk for a few more hours, but was too tired, so she stopped walking and slumped against a tree. Once her eyes closed, she was asleep in an instant.
******
Kagome woke up and rubbed her eyes. She could smell breakfast all the way from her room. She jumped out of bed and ran downstairs. The enticing smell of bacon and eggs was even stronger now. She sat down at the table and began to lift her fork to eat when she felt two pairs of eyes staring at her. She looked up.
"Aren't you going to wake Jill up?" Her mom stated.
"She does need to eat." Her grampa added.
"Oops! Silly me!" Was all Kagome said as she pounded up the stairs.
Kagome knocked on Jill's room. She waited a minute.
Then two. And starting to grow impatient, she slowly opened the door. She walked over the bed to wake Jill up.
"Come on Jill, it's break-" But she stopped in her tracks when she realized that Jill wasn't in the bed, or even her room.
She ran back downstairs and searched outside for her and she stopped in her tracks, when she saw, well, Jill's tracks in the mud. She followed the trail until it stopped at the well in the shrine. 'Oh no!' She screamed in her head. 'I better go in and look for her before something really bad happens.' She jumped over the rim of the well and landed in Feudal Japan.
She climbed out of the well and started walking towards Kaede's village.
Suddenly, a figure jumped in front of her.
"You're, you're early... and you don't have your big pack thing." The figure spoke.
"Surprised Inu-Yasha?" Kagome replied
"Yes." He stated. "But, come on and start walking, wench! We have business to do!" He snarled.
"Unthankful mutt." She muttered under her breath.
Inu-Yasha spun around and looked Kagome square in he eye. "I heard that!"
"Whatever!" Was all she muttered and she followed Inu-Yasha to Kaede's village.
Kaede appeared out of a hut and walked with a limp over to Kagome. Kagome noticed the limp and she looked down at Kaede's leg and noticed it was wrapped up in cloth.
"What happened, Kaede?" Kagome asked the old lady.
Inu-Yasha jumped in and answered for Kaede. "While you were in your 'world', Sesshomaru came and stole a jewel shard from the village that we had just retrieved from a cat demon when you were also gone."
Kagome was fumed at what Inu-Yasha said, blaming her. "What would Sesshoumaru possibly need a shard for?"
"Methinks that it is a way to draw Inu-Yasha to his home turf where he has more of an advantage in beating Inu-Yasha." Kaede suggested,
"Well, Inu-Yasha. I should of known not to leave you unprotected." Kagome mentioned to him.
Inu-Yasha became very infuriated. He didn't need a babysitter. "No, he was just stronger than normal."
"So, you need my help to get it back, huh?" Kagome asked.
"I don't need anyone's help, but Kaede says you have to come with me."
Kagome shook her head. "Fine. Well, let's go." And she walked off in the direction she came from.
Inu-Yasha followed along with Shippo, Sango and Miroku behind him. They headed in the direction of Sesshomaru's castle.
When the sky started turning dark blue, Kagome started slowing down. Inu-Yasha noticed this.
"Come on. If we are going to get there before he leaves, we have to keep moving. Now pick up your feet."
"You know, Inu-Yasha us humans and Shippo can't keep up with your demonic pace!" Kagoem tried to mix in a compliment in with that. and she could tell it worked.
"Good point. Fine, but only for the night. First thing in the morning, we leave then."
Kagome silently cheered and unrolled her sleeping bag.
In moments, everyone but Inu-Yasha were asleep.
******
Jill woke up to the night skies filled with stars. She rubbed hr eyes and stood up. She glanced at her watch. 11:25pm. She had slept for quite awhile. She wasn't at all tired, so she continued to walk down a path in the forest. `Forest? What? Since when was I in a forest?' Then she remembered. `Oh, yeah, I fell down that well at Kagome's house.'
She kept walking, trying to find the well so that she could go back. But after two hours, she still couldn't find it. But, being a very persistent person, she continued her search.
******
Inu-Yasha still hadn't fallen asleep. He never liked to let his guard down and sleeping surely did that. He sniffed the air and smelled something.. different. It smelled like coconuts and raspberries. 'What an odd concoction.' He thought to himself and with that, he leapt from his branch on the tree and followed the scent.
After a few minutes, the scent had grown stronger and he caught sight of what was giving off the scent. It was a girl. About Kagome's age and she was walking around like she was lost or something. Her eyes darted back and forth and they suddenly looked towards where he was standing and he quickly darted into some bushes.
"What was that?" The girl thought aloud. "Oh well, must be my imagination."
So, she continued walking and unknowingly, having Inu-Yasha follow her. She reached a clearing and saw some people sleeping. She was looking from person to person and suddenly her eyes fell upon a girl.
"Kagome?"
`She knows her name?' Inu-Yasha thought to himself.
He crawled out of the bushes and stared at her and without any warning, pounced on her.
"W-what?! Get off me! NOW!" The girl screamed, but Inu-Yasha had her pinned down. And he didn't get off her.
"What do you want, wench!" He growled.
"My name's not wench! It's Jill. Jill Charmen, in fact. Now, get off me!" And she threw him off her.
"How dare you! I can call you a wench if I like and I chose to call you wench and you will answer me!" He crept towards her slowly.
Jill backed up as he came nearer and ended up with her back towards a tree. `Great! Just great!' She thought. Then she noticed something different about this boy. "Hey! You-" She started.
"It's Inu-Yasha to you, girl."
"Well it's Jill to you..." She began to say and looked at him to think of a mean name and her eyes fell on his ears. "..Cat ears!"
"Cat?! Cat?! How dare you!" With his claws, he punched her.
"No! How dare you!" She screamed and she walloped him on the head.
Inu-Yasha drew the Tetsusaiga from its scabbard. "Now, bitch! You die!" And he bounded at her.
"Inu-Yasha! Stop! SIT, SIT, SIT!"
Followed by the sits, Inu-Yasha's face was buried in the dirt.
The girl who had spoken came into Jill's view and Jill sighed a sigh of relief.
"Oh, hi Kagome! Umm, where exactly are we. And who's he?" Jill pointed at Inu-Yasha.
"We are in Feudal Japan and that." She said also pointing to Inu-Yasha. "Is Inu-Yahsa. He's half demon and half human. Let me tell you everything as I can tell you're here anyways and you might as well know what is going on."
So Kagome told her everything and ended with. "And now we are going to Sesshomaru, who is Inu-Yasha's half brother who is pure demon to take back a shikon shard he stole from us."
Unlike what Kagome thought Jill would do (sit down with a confused look), Jill smiled at Kagome and offered her hand to Inu-Yasha, who actually took it and he stood up. "Well, in that case, can I come along?" She asked Kagome.
Kagome mused over this for a second. "Sure!"