***Wow! Thankies to all my reviewers,( Katra, lyn, Senay, Emiru, and Kagome-chan) for all the feedback! Not a lot of people reviewed, but the ones that did were all very positive! I'm so happy! And to everyone else, review! Yay!***
***Selph, who has to stay at her grandparents house for the weekend and is really, really, bored.***
Double LifeBy Selphine
Chapter two
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, and neither do you. Therefore, you can't sue me! Mwahaha!
Either way, it was dark. But even darkness cannot conceal the moon, and the moon hung high in the sky, casting an eerie shadow over the two teenagers in the open well. It had not occurred to Kagome to look up, in her mind, she and Inuyasha were stuck in a well in modern Tokyo, on a day when they had skipped school. The sky had been dark gray and gloomy, as if it were about to rain.
However, instead of seeing the dark wood of the wellhouse above her; there was sky. A blue blanket of sky, filled with dozens of tiny twinkling stars. Somehow, although Inuyasha had fallen first, he was somehow lying on top of her, facing the ground. Although he was a great deal heavier than her, she had to admit that it felt somewhat nice.
She rid herself of the thought and focused on the space above the well. Stars… night…just how long had they been laying there, anyways?
But then there was the obvious fact that there was no roof above her head.
Confusing. Very confusing.
Had Kagome been like one of the brainless bimbos at her school, she might have assumed they had been mystically transported to some other dimension, but instead she was the granddaughter of a priest, and had grown up with a plethora of legends, myths, and fairy tales circling around her head, which, after a while, become subject to doubt, then finally, disbelief. The wellhouse was the sort of place that her and Inuyasha had spun stories about when she was five, things like "Maybe there's a witch or a demon in there," or "Monsters live there!"
The sky was what she couldn't figure out. She wasn't clueless, just skeptical. And while a dumber person would have come up with some ridiculous explanation, such as " Maybe they dismantled the roof while we were sleeping!" , she, Kagome Higurashi, was completely puzzled.
Inuyasha wasn't much help. He continued to lie on top of her, sound asleep. And although this wasn't that big of a problem, his weight was.
Great, Kagome thought. How on earth am I gonna wake him up?
Simple, a voice in the back of her head said. The ears.
Kagome smiled. Of course, his ears. Inuyasha had always had sensitive ears. Back in the days of Popsicles and co-ed sleepovers, Kagome had figured that a surefire way of getting his attention was to pinch or rub his ears.
She opted for the latter. Her hands weren't blocked by him, so she reached up, towards his head, and to the part where his ears were.
Except, they weren't there. In the place of hears, there was only skin.
There must have been a mistake. Kagome fiddled around for a while, attempting to find the misplaced ears.
There they were. Kagome placed her thumbs and forefingers on opposite sides of his head, and began rubbing in a circular motion.
However, she did not expect to come in contact with fur. A small layer of hair was on Inuyasha's ears. It was quite soft, actually.
But Kagome wasn't thinking of that. Instead, she screamed.
Inuyasha jumped at the high pitched sound coming from the girl beneath him. What the hell was Kagome so riled up about?
There was no time to think about that. Instead, he focused on the sound of what seemed like a thousand footsteps directly above him.
Calls echoed through the well, and a sudden brightness was felt over top of them, along with a cry of "Youkai! There's a youkai in the well with a young girl!"
Someone waved the torch back and forth, and there was a loud call, "Go get Kaede!"
Kagome swallowed. Whoever Kaede was, she desperately hoped it was someone who could tell them where they were.
Inuyasha had now gotten off of Kagome, and stood in the well, glaring at the men above him. "It's just us, Asshole," he yelled.
The men backed away. "It talks!"
"Of course I talk!"
One turned to another. "Methinks it must be a youkai of high intelligence!"
"Anyone's intelligence would be higher than yours! Now, like I said, there's no youkai!"
The two men stepped backwards. "A delusional Youkai!"
"Inuyasha, stop that! Calm down!"
An old woman peered over the edge of the well. "Inuyasha, I have no idea, how after fifty years, you returned, but there's no need to cause such a racket!"
A lantern on a stick was extended. "Inuyasha? The village protecter?"
"Me pa told me stories about him!"
"I heard he was in love with the village priestess!"
"Kaede?"
"No, the older one, you idiot!"
"Kikyou?"
"No, the middle sister!"
"Oh, Kagome."
"Yes, I heard there story was a tragic one. Died, the both of 'em."
Kagome, who had been in a state of utter confusion, finally popped back into reality.
"Listen," she said loudly. "I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm Kagome, and I'm alive!"
***I know, it's not very long, and it's not a cliffhanger, but I think it's a good story break!
And there's some more stuff, that I'll explain in the next chapter. For instance…
Inuyasha's ears. (Yup, they're doggie ears now! Confused? You should be!)
The 'sister' thing. (More in chapter three. We get to hear Kaede's rambling!)
The 'youkai' thing. (To be explained with the ears.)
I'd also like to apologize for all the poetic language in the first couple of paragraphs. Why? Because I felt like that, and I like that kind of stuff! Yay!***
***Selph, on overdose of reading waaaaaaaay too much of the jar. (Note: The jar is not mine, but it's incredibly good. Go to = www.montroseacademy.com/jar/) ***
