Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or any characters/places/objects/whatever from the series. I do own Joujin and Ayumi. Here we go!

Cold Shoulder - Chapter 1

Joujin Daibo and Ayumi Kazura are out on a camping trip for their school. Joujin is a tall, lanky teen with short-cropped black hair, crystalline blue eyes, and an enchanting smile. He always dresses in the monotone blue uniform of the school. Ayumi, however, is a different matter entirely. She's the same age as Joujin but has long red hair, and dresses in a violently pink blazer and skirt. Her pet ferret, Fukai, follows her everywhere.

Anyway, they were out on a camping trip on one of the islands to the south of Japan. Joujin was trying to build a campfire and failing miserably because the hyperactive Ayumi kept zipping around, prancing and singing a most ridiculous and annoying song. Finally he repressed the urge to crack her over the head with one of the tent poles and growled, "Aya, why don't you take that bucket and find some water?" Ayumi, or Aya as she preferred, grumbled and got the bucket, trodding off. "I'll get your freakin' water, Jou..." Jou grinned to himself and started up a fire finally.

Aya had Fukai perched on her left shoulder, the albino pet swaying in the gentle breeze. Quite suddenly the forest she was in ended and she came upon a small stone well in the middle of a clearing. (Reminiscent, no?) She attached the bucket she was carrying to a rope conveniently located there and lowered it, bringing it back up full of water. She happily exclaimed, "Yay! Come on, Fukai, let's go show Jou we're the bosses!" With that, she made off for the campsite.

Jou had successfully set up the tent by the time Aya and Fukai got back. He turned to her and nodded. "Great! Here, pour some into our canteens, would you?" She smiled and filled each of the two proferred containers to the brim. She lowered the bucket and each took a long drink. Aya, being the considerate one, quite literally gave her ferret a bath in it.

Later that night, after a meal of berries and a rabbit (Which Aya had held a small funeral for), the two friends laid down in the tent, each in their own sleeping bag. Slowly, a creeping white light worked its way from the feet up on all three bodies in the tent. There was a brilliant flash, and the three would-be campers were gone.

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Inuyasha was at the small river just outside Kaede's village collecting fish and plopping them into a bucket. "Thirty three, thirty four, thirty five....huh?" The empty patch of ground next to him began to glow with a violent white light, then vanished altogether, leaving a small deep hole. Two teenagers and a ferret were expelled forcefully from it, like corks shot from a bottle, and the hole closed itself once more.

The hanyou started, catching Ash and Jou, but Fukai landed with a plop in a patch of snapdragons. The two kids, still fast asleep for some reason, were laid out on the grass as Inuyasha dashed to the village. "Kaede-babaa, you might want to see this....."

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How'd I do? This is my first Inuyasha fic, but I hope to have a chappie a day unless I get really swamped. R&R please!