Well, I almost made my goal of two chapters before the end of break. I just hit a wall right near the end of the chapter and couldn't get it done in time. I knew exactly what I wanted but I couldn't get how I wanted it on the page. Now I'm not going home for three weeks. I guess I'll just have to find a computer somewhere on campus to upload it during the week.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, but if I did, I'd be very happy.

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Ch 5: Down the Well Once Again

"What?! I do not get depressed whenever I look at the tree and well!" Kagome said as she got a sad look on her face.

'Just when I think of everyone,' she thought as she put her face in her hands, 'there is no way I could tell him about the well, he wouldn't believe me. He'd probably just laugh and call me crazy. Then again, he might believe me. Oh, I just don't know!'

"Tell you what," Adam said seeing that he had upset Kagome, "I'll go ahead and tell you about the dream, and you can think about telling me what is bothering you. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to, but I want you to know that I'm here for you, and you don't have to try and hide it."

"Alright, thank you Adam," Kagome said as she looked up, "Is it really that easy to see through me?"

"Kagome, it's so obvious that even Hojo would notice," Adam said with a big smile.

"Oh, you are so mean!" Kagome said as she hit Adam on the arm and smiled.

"Ha ha, I know, but it got you to smile again. Anyways, my dream, I'll tell you the abridged version because it's kinda long. I'm walking around in the middle of nowhere and I hear a voice calling out to me. I try to follow the voice to where ever it is coming from. I eventually find the voice coming from a square hole in the ground, along with a strange glow."

"A square hole with a strange glow?" Kagome interrupts. 'That sounds kinda like the well,' she thinks to herself.

"So, I walk over to the hole and try to ask the voice what it wants, but all it says is 'Adam, save me.' I jump into the hole and float to the bottom to find nothing there. I look up, the glow is coming from the top of the hole now, and the voice is still calling to me."

'Ok, now it really sounds like the well,' Kagome thought as she continued to listen.

"I climb out of the hole and look around and find the glow coming from only a little ways off. When it comes into view, I see that it's a girl standing there with her back to me, engulfed in flames."

"Oh my! Is the girl burning?"

"Well no, it's more like everything immediately around her is. Anyways, she hears me walk up and turns to face me. The only part of her that I can clearly see is her eyes, but just from them I can tell she is very beautiful. They're greener than anything you can imagine, but they're so sad it makes my heart ache. She holds her hands out to me, starts crying, and says 'Adam, save me please.' For some reason I reach out and grab one of her hands. As soon as I touch her I'm burned; then I wake up, and I can still feel the pain of the burn."

"And that is why you are wearing the bracelet?" Kagome asked after she was sure that Adam was finished, "Because you are scared by the dream?"

Adam sighed as he leaned back and looked into the sky. "I'm not really scared by it, but I feel like I have to hurry and do something afterwards. Every time I have the dream, the feeling gets more and more urgent, but I can never figure out what it is I have to do."

"Maybe... It's not the right time," Kagome reluctantly said.

"Huh?" Adam grunted, giving Kagome a confused look.

"Something you said about your dream reminded me of something," Kagome slowly started, "and, well, it is pretty much why I get depressed."

"Really what was it that I said?" Adam said with an interested look on his face.

"This might make more sense if I said it somewhere else," Kagome said as she stood, "Follow me."

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Miroku walked through Inuyasha's Forest, the rings on his staff jingling with every step, looking for the stubborn hanyou, despite the fact that he knew exactly where Inuyasha would be. As soon he reached the clearing that held the well, he saw that the dejected hanyou hadn't move from his tree branch above the well. Miroku simply shook his head and walked to the tree.

"Inuyasha, please come down so I may speak with you," Miroku said up into the tree. When Inuyasha didn't even acknowledge the monk's presence Miroku sighed. "Fine, all I wanted to say was that Sango and Lady Kaede are almost finished with dinner, and you should come eat."

Inuyasha's only answer was he shifting on the branch.

"Inuyasha you need to get out of that tree," Miroku said becoming irritated, "You've been up there for weeks, and only the gods know when the last time you ate anything was. Sitting there and watching the well will not make Kagome comeback any sooner. Besides, do you not think she would wait until morning to return when she does?"

"Feh," Inuyasha murmured as he crossed his arms and continued to stare at the well.

"Fine, do whatever you decide Inuyasha, the food will be waiting for you. I'm going back to the village."

Miroku started down the path toward the village leaving the hanyou alone in the clearing once again.

"That hanyou is more stubborn than anyone else I know," Miroku grumbled to himself as he came to the rice fields that surrounded the village. He walked the rest of the way to Kaede's hut, dragging his staff. As he entered, Sango greeted him from across the fire.

"Welcome back Houshi, did you have any luck with Inuyasha?"

"No, he still refuses to leave the tree," Miroku said as he sat down by the fire.

Sango sighed, while she stirred the pot on the fire, "I wish he would come back to the village once in a while, at least for Shippo's sake," she looked over at Shippo who lay in a restless sleep, in the corner on a blanket, "Kagome not returning bothered us all, but the little kitsune was hit the hardest. Shippo had already lost his family once, and then losing Kagome broke his little heart. The little bit of time Inuyasha was here Shippo was halfway happy again, they were almost able to console each other, though Inuyasha would never admit it."

"Yes that is true," Miroku said, scratching his chin, "Where are Lady Kaede and Kirara?"

"A villager came saying his wife had taken ill and she went to care for her. Kaede said to go ahead and eat with out her, it would probably be a while and she might even have to stay through the night. I sent Kirara with her."

"Then let us eat," Miroku said, standing up, "I hope you are hungry, it will only be the three of us,"

"Alright Houshi, would you please wake Shippo up while I finish getting dinner ready?" Sango said taking the pot off the fire.

"Let me do it," came a voice from out side the hut door. Inuyasha pushed the doormat aside and entered the hut.

"Umm, go ahead Inuyasha," Miroku barely said, and rushed over to help Sango finish getting dinner ready.

Inuyasha walked over to Shippo and lightly cuffed him on the head. "Hey twerp, wake up."

"Oww... What the heck was that for?" Shippo said as he sat up rubbing his head and looked to see who had assaulted him.

"Feh, it's time to eat brat, get up," Inuyasha said smirking at Shippo.

"Inuyasha!" Shippo excitedly yelled and pounced on the hanyou's head, "You came back to the village! Does this mean Kagome is back?"

"Sorry Shippo," Inuyasha said apologetically, "I just came to get something to eat."

"Oh," Shippo mumbled as he slid to Inuyasha's shoulder.

"Alright you two," Sango said dipping some stew into a bowl, "quit pouting and come eep!" Sango's train of thought was interrupted by Miroku's roaming hand rubbing on her bottom. "BAKA HENTAI!" *SMACK* *SPLAT*

A minute later Inuyasha, Shippo, and a fuming Sango were eating their dinner. Miroku, however, was laying unconscious on the other side of the room with a red handprint on his face and a bowl of stew on his head. Inuyasha had quickly finished off his first and second bowl well before Miroku finally woke back up. Sango berated Miroku while Inuyasha dipped himself another bowl and Shippo giggled at Miroku's misfortune. A lazy breeze blew open the doormat and allowed a few leaves to flutter in. As soon as the wind hit Inuyasha, he froze; his ears shot straight up, and he got a disbelieving look on his face. He dropped his half-eaten bowl of stew, and bolted out the door with all of his speed tearing the mat from the door, and leaving everyone else confused.

"What the heck was that about?" Shippo questioned as he sniffed the air for any clues for the hanyou's sudden actions. Immediately Shippo also got a stunned look on his face. He got a shaky smile on his face and looked like he was about to start crying.

"Kagome?" the kitsune whispered, just before he also ran out the door.

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"Okay, so let me get this straight. You fell down this well and were transported five hundred years into the past, and the reason you get depressed is because the well doesn't work anymore and you miss your friends there." Adam said while sitting on the edge of the well looking down into it.

"Yes, more or less, that's the short side of it," Kagome said with a frown.

"Wow, that is some story," Adam said as he stood, "It's a little hard to believe..."

"I just knew you wouldn't believe me," Kagome said, interrupting Adam, and looking like she was about to cry.

"Hey now, I never said I didn't believe you," Adam said, walking over to Kagome and trying to calm her down, "As I was saying before I was interrupted, it's a little hard to believe, but I have no reason to not believe you."

"Oh, thank you Adam," Kagome said as she hugged him fiercely.

"Heh, what are friends for?" Adam said as he grinned hugely, "now, what was the connection to my dream?"

"The well sounds like the square hole that you jump into in the dream," Kagome said, waving toward the well, "but I have no idea how to get it to work."

"How did you use the well to go back in time before it stopped working?"

"Well, the first time I was pulled down the well by a demon that wanted the Shikon no Tama, and after that I, more or less, just jumped in."

"More or less just jumped in? What do you mean by that?" Adam said, giving Kagome an inquisitive look.

"Umm... some times I was carried through the well by Inuyasha," Kagome mumbled, blushing with embarrassment.

"Heh, this Inuyasha guy sounds pretty rash," Adam laughed, "anyways, how long has it been since the well stopped working, and when was the last time you tried?"

"It's been half a year since I was there," Kagome said looking down at the ground, "and actually the last time that I tried the well was just before I met you for the first time."

"Wow, a half year, no wonder you miss your friends," Adam said, walking back to the well. "Well, there's no time like the present to see if it's working again."

With that said Adam jumped into the well and fell to the bottom rather quickly.

"Adam!" Kagome yelped as she rushed over to the well to see Adam sitting on the bottom rubbing his head.

"Ow... I guess it didn't work did it," Adam said standing up and dusting the dirt off himself.

"I'm sorry Adam," Kagome said, leaning over the well, "I forgot to tell you that Inuyasha and I were the only ones that could travel through the well." Adam face faulted.

"You know that little tidbit of information would have been helpful," Adam said irately.

"I said I was sorry," Kagome mumbled.

"I know it was my own fault for just jumping in," Adam sighed, looking for a way to climb out, "How did you get out of the well?"

"On the other side there are some vines growing down into the well, here I had a rope ladder until it..." Kagome stopped suddenly with a puzzled look on her face, "Adam look at your bracelet!"

"Huh?" Adam held his arm out in front of him to find that the gem in the bracelet was glowing bright red.

"What the hell?" Adam whispered, as the well enveloped him in a blinding white light. He covered his eyes with his other hand trying to block out the radiance to no avail. When the light finally died down Adam uncovered his eyes and looked back at his bracelet, which had stopped glowing.

"Gak, my eyes, what the heck was that light," Adam said as he rubbed his eyes. When he didn't get a response, he stopped rubbing his eyes and looked up to find he was still in the well but not in the well house. He was staring at dark blue evening sky, with the first few stars beginning to appear.

"Kagome? Are you up there?" Adam yelled. When she once again didn't answer, he started looking for a way to climb out of the well. When he saw the vines growing into the well, he tried to climb them.

"Man I hope that these things can hold long enough for me to get out," Adam said as he started to climb. He got about halfway up when the vines started to break.

"Oh crap, this... will hurt," Adam mumbled to himself as the vines gave way under his weight. Adam fell back to the bottom of the well with a loud thump.

"Ow... I was right. To hell with the vines anyways, I'll just use the rocks... to climb... out," Adam slowed when he looked at the wall that the vines had obscured mere moments earlier, "Impossible. The rocks are the same as in my dream."

Adam used the rocks to climb out of the well and was finally able to see where he was. The clearing he was standing in was breathtaking to him.

"Amazing, this forest is so beautiful, it reminds me of home," Adam said to himself as he wandered around the clearing, "I wonder where exactly I am. Hey, a path. Great, it probably leads to a town."

Before Adam could take a single step, the sounds of something crashing through the woods started coming from in front of him. A second later Inuyasha burst out of the trees and skidded to a stop. He looked around the clearing quickly, as if searching for something. As soon as he noticed Adam, he got a terrible scowl on his face. Inuyasha walked up to Adam sniffing the air as he did.

"Oi, who the hell are you, and why do you have Kagome's scent on you?"

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Another cliffy ending. You all probably hate me for taking so long to post this chapter. I beg your forgiveness. At least I finally put Inuyasha and the others back into the fic. I'll eventually get one out quickly, I promise. On another note, when I first got the idea for this fic way back in October I wrote down a page of notes and I've finally gotten them written out. I'm amazed that I've gotten about 29 decent pages of story out of a half page of notes.