Author's note- An early update. To Midorimiki- Depends on the fic, actually. If the story is filled with angst/horror/tragedy, then my updates are slower because I am trying to make the plot realistic. But when it's comedy, my updates are faster, for some unknown reason. ^_^

Oh, who else thinks the IY cast can be perfect in Final Fantasy 8? Inuyasha sounds EXACTLY like Squall, and Kagome sounds perfect as Rinoa (wears clothes a lot like Rinoa's, too)! And the freakiest thing is - As Kouga is Inuyasha's rival for Kagome's love, and in Final Fantasy 8, Seifer is Squall's rival for Rinoa's love. O.o Freaky...

Disclaimer- Oops... keep forgetting this.. hehe... "Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale" © by Rumiko Takahashi.

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Chapter 4

Return Through The Well!


Shortly after Souta's and Inuyasha's tricks on Kagome, she, Inuyasha (who received a lot of 'Sit's, thank you very much), and Myouga all walked outside to sit underneath the Goshinboku tree. Kagome wasn't too happy with the time, though. Usually she was still asleep now.

"You must believe in the saying, 'The early bird gets the worm,' ne?" Kagome asked Inuyasha.

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Inuyasha asked, confused with the saying. Kagome just shook her head.

"Never mind..." She muttered. "Anything you wanted to tell us, Myouga?"

"Hai, Kagome-sama," Myouga said.

"Drop the - sama, please," Kagome said.

"Yeah, it's not like she's royalty," Inuyasha said, with a smirk.

"SIT!" Wham! "Baka. Go on, please, Myouga," Kagome said, smiling.

"Ahem. Kagome, what is the shrine containing? Since of course, Inuyasha-sama appeared in there after falling in the Bone Eater's Well," Myouga asked.

"Uh... a well..." Kagome said. "You don't think... the well that my shrine protects can go back in time?"

"Perhaps. Maybe you should try it," Myouga said. "I'll be waiting here."

"Heh. Coward," Inuyasha said.

"I am no coward, Inuyasha-sama. I just would prefer not to go through a well, unless I am sure it can work," Myouga said. Inuyasha raised an eyebrow. "Now go, Kagome, Inuyasha-sama!" Kagome, sighing and muttering things like, "Youkai and hanyou... what next?!", got up and walked towards the shrine.

"Oi! Where are you going?!" Inuyasha asked, running up. "You're not leaving me behind in this crazy world."

"Oh, is the ickle puppy scared?" Kagome teased. "If you're so scared, then come on. We might be able to clear your name."

"Feh. I'm not scared," Inuyasha said, dusting off invisible dirt from his haori. "You just assume that."

"Ha. Just come on, Inu-chan," Kagome said. Inuyasha growled.

"Don't.call me that."

"All right, Puppy-chan," Kagome said, smiling, as they walked into the shrine. Myouga was watching the entire scene, and he grinned. He remembered talk like that. It was almost exactly like Inu-Taisho and Akane (that's gonna be Inuyasha's mother's name - Nikki) before they started courting.


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In the Sengoku Jidai...


"The hanyou is attacking the village!" A villager yelled. "Get Kikyo-sama!" Kikyo ran out of her hut, looking around for Inuyasha. Why was he attacking the village? He promised he wouldn't! She caught sight of him running into the Shikon no Tama's protective shrine, and him leaping out, grinning when the shrine exploded. "Stop!"

"Heh. Try and stop me, foolish humans!" Inuyasha growled. He ran into the forest, with Kikyo following. 'What happened to him?!' She ran through the forest, and finally reached him in a clearing.

"Inuyasha... why?" Kikyo asked. "You were going to turn human... to purify the jewel..."

"You actually believed me? You're stupider than I thought, ugly wench," Inuyasha said. "I'm using this to become full youkai. And then I'll destroy this entire village out of the country. You'll be the first to die." He raised a clawed hand to cut through her shoulder, barely missing a vital artery. Kikyo reached out to grab the Shikon no Tama from the hanyou's bloody fingers.

"Why did you betray me?!" Kikyo asked, holding her wound with one hand, and steadying her bow and arrow in the other. "Why?"

"I thought I already answered that," Inuyasha said. Suddenly, the arrow Kikyo tried to shoot at him disintegrated. "Go. Run away, you coward. I'll get the Shikon easier with you gone."

Kikyo ran off back to the village, barely reaching her younger sister.

"Kaede. Burn the jewel with me in my pyre... never speak of the name Inuyasha again..." Kikyo said, before it all went black.

"No! Kikyo!!" Kaede yelled, as her sister died.


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"No! Kikyo!!" Inuyasha heard from the distance.

"You hear that?" Kagome asked. Inuyasha looked at her, surprised. "What? It's impossible to miss. Something happened to Kikyo, and I wanna find out what." They already came through the well, and Kagome's curiousness of the place quickly died down. Until that yell. Kagome dragged the reluctant hanyou to where the yell was located.

When they reached the village, Kagome first noticed a burning building. Then someone pointed at her.

"Look! It's Kikyo-sama!" One said. He ran up to Kagome, and then noticed the hanyou she was dragging. "Kikyo-sama! You've caught the hanyou who stole the Shikon!"

"Wait! That's not Kikyo-onee-sama!" A young girl's voice yelled. "That's her impostor!" The girl who was yelling it came out, one eye covered by a eye patch. "Look. Kikyo-onee-sama would never wear something that revealing. And," She wiped a tear from her working eye, "Kikyo-onee-sama is dead."

"Who did it, Kaede?" A villager asked. To Kagome, it seemed like they were making small talk, while to Inuyasha, it seemed like they were surrounding him.

"Him," Kaede said, pointing at Inuyasha. "He killed her!" Suddenly, the villagers were literally surrounding him.

"STOP!" Kagome yelled. "He didn't kill Kikyo!"

"How do you know?" Kaede asked. For an eight year old, she seemed rather intelligent. "You didn't see what happened."

"Inuyasha was with me the entire time!" Kagome said.

"Impossible. A couple of minutes ago, he was stealing the Shikon no Tama," Kaede said. "Which is being currently burnt with my sister in her pyre."

"She... did die," Inuyasha said, his breath catching on each word.

"Hai, she did. You are the one to blame. You must die!" Kaede said, angrily. "You killed my sister!"

"I did not!" Inuyasha said. "I wasn't even here!"

"Where were you?" Kaede asked, unbelieving.

"He was with ME," Kagome repeated. "In my time."

"She's delusional. I think the hanyou fooled some stupid woman into lying to us," Kaede said, narrowing her eye at the two. "Get them."

Inuyasha and Kagome backed away from the group, and suddenly, she felt a clawed hand on her arm. Kagome looked up to see Inuyasha trying to force her onto his back.

"GET ON!" Inuyasha commanded. "NOW!" She did as she was told, and he leapt off.


Kaede watched them, in slight confusion. Who was the girl who looked so much like her older sister? And... why did Inuyasha help her?


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A/n- I'll stop it there for today. Not much comedy, but I had to lay down a few bricks of my story. I'm sure it's gonna be long, and yes, I will introduce Miroku, Sango, Shippou, and Kouga (^_^;) in. But I don't know when.


Next Chapter- Mistress Centipede, and The True Owner of The Shikon no Tama (long chapter name, ne?)