A New Reincarnation, Chapter 3 (THREE!!!!!!!!!!): Our Alice Returns Once
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Inu Yasha sat under the God Tree watching the kitsune child chase
butterflies again. It had taken much for the child to stop mourning after
the death of his surrogate mother, but he and Inu Yasha mourned together,
and formed a tight father-son type bond from it, where before they had been
quite jealous of each other.
"Inu Yasha, I almost caught it that time"!" yelled Shippou, laughing, to
his foster father, as he ran towards a new one in the field.
"Keep trying, runt," replied Inu Yasha, shaken from his thoughts by the
high-pitched voice of the young demon. 'I wish Kagome were here to see him
growing up,' he thought, watching Shippou begin chasing a different
butterfly. 'I miss you, Kagome-chan. Please return to me, soon, no matter
what form it's in.'
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"Kumiko-chan, we're going now!" yelled Mitsumi, pulling Souta and Suki out
the door behind her. The couple was quite wary of leaving their new charge
home by herself, fearful of the trouble a 17 year old girl could get into.
"Hai, Obaa-san, be careful! Sayonara, Obaa-san, Okaa-san, Otou-san!"
yelled the young hanyou girl, waving down the stairs to her new parents and
grandmother.
"Ja ne, Kumiko-chan!" the said, almost in unison, walking out the front
door. It had been decided that Souta, Suki and Mitsumi would let Kumiko
write a list of her favorite bands, colors and such, and that they would go
to the local stores and get her some new posters, curtains, bed linens, and
other supplies for her room. Now Kumiko was left alone to explore her new
home and it's grounds. A sly look came over her face as she remembered her
Obaa-san's warning about the well.
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"Stay away from the well house," said Mitsumi, sternly.
"Why, Obaa-san? What is so special about the well house?" asked Kumiko.
"Just don't go there! It's very dangerous, especially for demons and girls
your age! I don't want what happened to Kagome. just stay away from the
well, Kumiko-chan! Please!" said Mitsumi, almost yelling.
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'I wonder what's so dangerous about that well house,' thought Kumiko,
excitedly, as she walked out the back door, and spotted it across the
grounds.
Opening the door, the amount of dust inside was overwhelming to her dog-
like nose. Kumiko was an Inu-hanyou, half dog demon. She started sneezing
almost instantly, and as she did so, only kicked up more dust. When her
nose finally calmed down and got used to the dust, she looked around, only
to see an old, dusty dried up well, with a ladder going down inside.
'Why the ladder?' Kumiko thought to herself, looking down into the well.
She could make out the bones in the bottom with her demon sight, and
shivered a bit. Something was pulling at her, something big. It felt like
her heart was made of steel and a magnet was pulling it down into the well.
'What could it hurt to go to the bottom?' she thought, as she prepared to
jump into the long-forgotten well.
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"Be careful, Shippou, don't trip," said Inu Yasha, calmly, to the child
demon, right before a cold shiver ran down his spine. 'Something's not
right here,' he thought to himself. 'That smell. that smell shouldn't be
here anymore. Kagome. Could it be?' "Shippou, go to the village and stay
with Miroku-sama and Sango-san, alright?" he yelled to Shippou, as he took
off for the well. Shippou nodded and sniffed the air.
'Kagome-okaa-san?'
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Kumiko landed at the bottom of the well perfectly, and cringed as the light
around her suddenly got brighter. A sinking feeling hit her stomach, and
though her feet remained on the ground, she still felt as thought she were
falling. She opened her eyes and saw a purplish light surrounding her, but
it suddenly disappeared and the sinking feeling stopped. Looking around
her, she noticed that the ladder was gone. 'Shit, Souta and Suki must be
home. they're going to be pissed,' she thought to herself, looking up.
'Oh, crap. where's the well house?'
Kumiko climbed up the sides of the well quickly, trying vainly to figure
out what was going on.
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Inu Yasha approached the well warily, carefully sniffing the air to try and
understand what was going on. It didn't make sense, the air smelled like
Kagome, his Kagome, but with demon blood in her. He looked around to see
if he saw any demons nearby, but it was painfully obvious that the scent
was coming from inside the well.
Inu Yasha flinched as the tell-tale light flashed deep inside the well, and
the sound of someone starting to climb up the side. 'Shit!' he thought,
running for cover. 'I've got to sneak up on this one, the Gods only know
who it is.'
He waited, silently, watching the well and waiting for whoever was inside
to pop their head over the top.
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Kumiko paused halfway up the shaft of the well. 'That smell.' she thought,
sniffing yet again. 'It's another hanyou! Half dog demon. but the other
half smells so familiar, too. Who is that? Why do I feel like I might
know them, like I've done this before?'
Continuing up the side of the well, Kumiko peeked her head up over the side
and looked around. Suddenly a bright flash of red and silver was upon her,
and she screamed.

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This is my first real fanfic, so please review and tell me if there is
anything I should be doing differently. Inu Yasha is going to wind up
being a little OOC at some point (hopefully not too much!) and I might put
a lemon in it near the end. Please
review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it is muchos
importante!!!!!
*HUGZ* -Arisha-chan