Inuyasha walked down the castle halls. He'd been searching for ten minutes and was wondering if they'd fallen into one of the castle's many hidden passages. "Miroku! Sango!" He yelled and his voice echoed back to him. A few minutes later, he found them typing on a computer in the hallway. "Hey! Don't ignore me like that!" He scolded them angrily as he got closer to them. "We were coming when this thing started beeping and blinking. It wouldn't stop and we're trying to figure out what's wrong!" Miroku defended his and Sango's actions. "Beeping! Shit! Come with me, we need to get the others!" Inuyasha explained to them as he started to run or the library with the two following him. Inuyasha burst into the library a few minutes later. "Hey! We got enough supplies here to write a thirty page report!" Kagome chirped happily. "Screw the report! Follow me now!" He ordered as he ran out with everyone following him. They all ran into a room down a well-lit corridor. Inuyasha opened a portion of the wall which Kagome noticed to be a sliding door. They entered a room that was filled with very complex looking computers. On the far wall was a huge screen. Inuyasha ran up to the set of buttons underneath the large screen. "Damn! Hurry up!" he yelled at the computer and a few moments later the screen hummed to life. "Okay. This is the control room for my database. That beeping meant that a source of demonic energy is too close to the city. There's a demon somewhere with an energy reading of around.....HOLY SHIT! NINETY THOUSAND!!!" He gasped as the screen as some numbers flashed in the corner of the screen. "Wait. It's not one demon. It's around thirty with 3000 a piece. I suppose I can deal with that..." his voice said as it trailed off. "Here are the images I can pull up." He told them as around twenty windows opened on the screen, each one showed a different view of a group of cat youkai. They were heavily armored and had many weapons. "Well. They look ready for battle." Kagome began. "Wait a minute! Is that the school in the background?! If they keep walking that way, they'll end up at the shrine!" Another window opened up in front of the pictures. This one showed a grid like overhead image of the city. Kyoken pushed a few buttons on another keyboard and the shrine's symbol started to glow. Then another key and another symbol appeared that was marked 'Neko' appeared. Then the Neko sign started to move closer to the shrine. "Come on." Inuyasha ordered as he pushed a few buttons on the keyboard and the screen went black again. Then he walked out of the room followed by the others. "Kia. How did you know about my system? You ran it back there like you've been using it your whole life." He asked her. "Hey! You think that all I know about is cutting up demons?! I resent that!" She said in with one of those fake gasps behind her words. "Feh! Whatever." He replied as he started to walk faster toward another room. "Hey! Lighten up!" Kia said as she ran to catch up with her brother as he pushed open a door that was marked 'Safe house'. "We'll be grabbing some supplies here. Then we're going to your dimension to move the portal locations to this dimension. Then we'll either get back to this dimension or get out of the city. Either way, the neko won't find us and we'll avoid a battle." He explained to them as he grabbed a couple back-packs, and then walked back out again. "We need to get some weapons for all of you. Sango, Miroku. Hiraikotsu (is that proper spelling?) and the staff is still here as well." He told them as he walked to the weapons room. They all walked into the room and Inuyasha pulled his weapons sash off the wall. He tied it around his waist and attached the Tetsusaiga and his Multi Zaber to the belt. "Hojo. Yuka. Ami. Do any of you skill in any type of weaponry at all. I mean, Hojo isn't half bad with a sword. Are any of you good with anything?" Inuyasha asked three of his audience. "I know a bit of archery." Yuka said. Ami nodded in agreement. "Okay. First. This's for Hojo." He said as he pulled a silver sword off the wall shelf and sheathed it, and then handed it to Hojo along with a weapons sash. "Yuka and Ami. Hmmm. A regular bow and arrow has too many things that could go wrong. Hnnn, I wonder...Ever shot a cross- bow?" "Nope! Never used a weapon in my life." Yuka and Ami said at the same time. "Damn." Inuyasha moaned as he considered exactly what he could do. "Ummm. Don't we have something that we have to do!?" Kagome reminded them. "I don't have time for this! Here!" He yelled as he threw them a couple of crossbows and some arrows to Yuka and Ami then ran out leaving them to catch up. "Hey!!!!" Sango screamed at Inuyasha as she caught up with him. "That wasn't very nice." She said with a pretend pout on her face. "Shut the hell up." He replied in a dangerous tone as he opened the door to the portal room. Within a few minutes, everyone was caught up and waiting. "Okay. Through the portal." He said as he opened a door revealing a spiraled portal. "Come on." He ordered as everyone jumped through the portal. They landed in the front yard of the shrine. Inuyasha took out his PDA and activated the portals so that they were visible. Kia went around with Inuyasha and spelled the portals so that they vanished. They were about to jump into the portal to Inuyasha's dimension when the neko started to appear around them. They stopped the portal and proceeded to fight with the best of their ability out of the city. Everyone had their concealing spells down so that their full energy could go to their attacks. They were just outside of the shrine when everyone heard a scream. "Damn! My family! I thought that you said that they were after us! Not my family!!!" Kagome yelled as she turned around and ran as fast as she could toward the shrine. They were now fighting their way back into the shrine grounds when Kia stopped and pointed a finger into the air. A ball of light appeared on the tip and exploded into beams of light. The neko were blinded for a while so Kia joined her friends in the run for the shrine. "MOM!" Kagome yelled as she opened the door to see a lone neko with its claws dangerously close to her mother's throat. It wasn't there for long as Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga cut through the cats back. They all ran out only joined by Kagome's family. Inuyasha was the lucky one with the old man on his back to help the pace. They saw that the rest of the neko were beginning to get their sight back so they dove into the well house. "It's only a batter of time before they track us down and we can't quite run out now." Miroku stated the obvious. "Give the man a prize for most blaring statement." Inuyasha mumbled as he thought of a way to get out of here. "Hey." Kyoken interrupted her brother's thoughts. "Why don't we use this portal since the others are closed? "NO!" A new voice said as they all noticed Myoga, Shippo and Kirara waiting in a corner. "How did you get here?!" Inuyasha gasped in actual surprise. "That's not important! You can't take them through the well! They will be attacked!" Myoga hissed. "Too bad. Die here or stand a chance there?! The answer is obvious to me. There's no portal to my house in here and anyway, they would see the light it gives off before it would be finished enough to use!" Inuyasha hissed in reply. "Shuddup and stay here if you want to." Inuyasha finished as he stood next to the well. "We need to hold hands to let us all through. Everyone has to be touching Kagome, Kyoken or me in order to get through." Inuyasha instructed as he walked up to the well. Everyone grabbed a 'key to the past' and jumped through the well. They were surrounded by blue light and Kagome looked up to see a neko-youkai snarling down the well before the time travelers were swallowed by the light and were transported 500 years into Japan's past. "Ouch! I landed on my head!" Kia yelled out as they landed on the bottom of the well. Kia looked up and saw a blue sky looking back down at her. "Yes! I'm home!" she yelled as she started jumping up and down. The problem was that she was jumping on her brothers back. "Damn!" Inuyasha groaned as his already short temper finally snapped. "GET OFF ME!!!" He yelled as he transformed to his true form and the whirlwind of energy pulled everyone else up and out of the well. "OUCH!" Kagome gasped as she hit the ground hard around ten feet from the well. She got up and started to look around when a hand rather roughly pulled her back. "Did I say you could walk away?!" Inuyasha reprimanded the girl. "Hey! I can defend myself! I've got demon powers and I can do whatever you can once I get some training! It's not your business what I want to do!" She yelled as she was pulled to the group. "I can beat the youkai that might attack me!" She tried fruitlessly to fight his hold but he held firm. As if on command, a snake youkai came out of the ground and charged straight at Kagome. 'This should teach him to think that I'm a weakling.' Kagome thought to herself as she broke out of a distracted Inuyasha's grip and ran at the snake. "DAMN!" Inuyasha yelled as he ran after her. "BURST!" and with that he shot forward. 'SHIT! She's fricken fast when she's got a reason to! I'm using the Burst and I'm barely catching up with her!!!' were the thoughts running through his mind as he continued after Kagome who was now holding a Tenkyoken Saber and cutting furiously at the snake. Kagome was doing okay until she ended sent flying due to a hit by the snake's tail. Inuyasha caught her but wasn't even fast enough to turn away from the snake since he was still using burst. Inuyasha stopped the Burst and skidded toward the snake's open fanged mouth. He waited for the fangs to spear themselves into him but it never came. "HIRAIKOTSU!" they heard as Kagome and Inuyasha heard a cutting sound and the huge boomerang shot ahead of them and cut the snake in half. Inuyasha skidded into the bloody body of the snake, and then it turned to dust and was blown away. "You had to do that! Go and cover me and Kagome in blood!" He yelled up at her from the ground. "You'd rather be covered in your own blood?" Sango replied calmly as she retrieved her oversized boomerang. "It...Well...I..." he fumbled for a response that would beat Sango's but ended up empty-handed, errr, headed. "Damn." He muttered in defeat. "Heh. Can't think of anything?" She said as she walked back to the group who were still grumbling about being thrown out of the well "Hey! Inuyasha! What was that jewel marble? The snake ate it before it was cut in half." Sota informed Inuyasha. "WHAT!!! That snake swallowed the jewel?!?!?!?!?!?" Inuyasha bellowed. "Ummm. Yea." Sota finished. 'Why's he so angry?! It was just a big marble! I'll get him another one if it's that important.' Sota tried to figure out why his hero was so pissed.

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Hey guys! Sorry about how long it took to update and how short this chapter is. Stupid High School got in the way again! I've been hit with so much school work that I didn't have the energy to write much less stay up late writing. (I tried it a few days ago and fell asleep in my chair with the computer still on!) My mom was a bit, errr, angry. I felt that I had to update something for the sake of my readers....even if the chapter is a bit of a shrimp! I'm gettin' back to writing now so I'll update again soon. Sorry again and enjoy the chappie! (Add that word to my new list of favorite terms! 0.~)