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It was almost nightfall by the time Usagi and Setsuna reached the Higurashi shrine. "Oh, my parents are going to be so angry at Me." moaned Usagi as they approached the house.

"Now, Usagi, I want you to let me do most of the talking so as not to upset Hotaru's aunt." Instructed Setsuna.

"Okay." Said Usagi as she reached out to ring the doorbell.

"Wait," said Setsuna. "Pluto planet power, make up!"

Usagi watched as Setsuna transformed into the senshi of time before her eyes. "I think it would be better to explain the story to them as the guardian of time," explained Sailor Pluto and rang the doorbell herself.

A dark haired girl in pyjamas, a little younger than Usagi answered the door. She blinked at Sailor Pluto and didn't say anything as she was obviously quite taken aback. Usagi tried to suppress her giggles at the look on the girl's face.

"Are you Kagome Higurashi?" asked Sailor Pluto.

Kagome nodded slowly, quite bewildered.

"My name is Sailor Pluto, guardian of the gates of time."

Kagome eyes grew so wide that Usagi really thought her eyeballs were going to roll out of their sockets. Usagi again suppressed a giggle.

"To get straight to the point," continued Sailor Pluto. "Your cousin, Hotaru, has fell down your well and has been trapped in the feudal era."

"But that's impossible!" cried Kagome, breaking her silence. "Only Inuyasha and If can travel back and forth through that well!"

Sailor Pluto sighed. Obviously someone had been tampering with the time flow or...

"Kagome," she said suddenly.

"Uh yes?" asked Kagome.

"I would like to see if you can still travel through the well." Said Sailor5 Pluto.

"But why wouldn't I?" demanded Kagome. Usagi who had said nothing just as she had promised Setsuna, looked at Sailor Pluto curiously.

"Please, just do it." Kagome, just a bit confuzzled (one of my made up words :p) walked into the enclosure in which the well was contained. Usagi and Pluto followed. Kagome looked at them.

"Go on." Urged Pluto.

Kagome nodded and just as she was about to jump in Usagi burst out, "Oh Pluto! Can I go too?"

Setsuna shook her head. "Usagi this is no time to play around.:

"Aww." Said Usagi disappointedly

Kagome giggled. "Shall I go now?"

"Yes."

"Okay," said Kagome before jumping into the well. Usagi and Pluto peered down after her.

She was still there.

"Eh?" was all Kagome managed to get out.

Usagi looked at Pluto who was staring at the well gravely. She faintly heard her whisper the name, "Echo." under her breath.

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Naraku was sat in front of the window watching the sun go down. Kagura walked into his quarters. "Naraku, you called?" she asked bowing.

"Get me Kikyo, and be quick about it!" he ordered sharply.

"But sir..."

"Now!" he barked. Kagura quickly fled from her master's quarters.

"What eating his ass?" she pondered grouchily.

Naraku rubbed his temples. "How could this have happened right underneath my nose?" he thought. "All my plans are ruined all because of a betrayed miko? At least that's what I think she was. Only someone with great powers could have done this."

FLASHBACK

Naraku held the large shard shikon no tama in his hands. But what was this? There was no glow about the stone. It just seemed like an ordinary jewel. Naraku frowned.

What's the matter, Naraku?" came an eerie voice. "Something the matter with your precious jewel."

Though he could not see the entity in which the voice was coming from, Naraku could sense it smiling at his confusion. Anger surged through him. "Who is it that dares play around with this Naraku?"

"To put it correctly you have been the one playing with the shikon no tama." Replied the voice. "Using it for your petty mind games, putting it to no real use. I am simply borrowing its power."

"You can't just borrow its power!" spat Naraku scornfully. "The power is sealed within the jewel and you need to have its shards to use it correctly."

The voice laughed. "Correction YOU need its shards to use the power, a weakling like yourself with no magical ability whatsoever. You are inferior to me and should never have been allowed access to the jewel."

Naraku did not reply. Who was this person who dared show him this insolence? I searched the dark room for signs of life other than him but did not succeed.

"Where are you?" he demanded.

"Why I'm right here." Laughed the voice. When the voice laughed Naraku could decipher the sex of the voice. Female.

"Don't take me for a fool! I have eyes! I can see that there is no one else here but myself!"

"Then you are a fool for thinking that a voice needs life to talk!"

"What the hell are you talking about damn woman."

"Listen here!" said the voice, angry now. "I don't need to explain myself to the likes of you! I will use the power for my revenge then I shall return it to you when I am finished simply because I won't need it."

"And what is it that you desire from the shikon no tama." Demanded.

"Revenge."

A cold wind blew and Naraku sensed that the voice was gone.

END FLASHBACK

"How could she extract the power from the shikon no tama?" wondered Naraku. "How dare she take it from me. Whoever this person is, they will pay dearly."

******************************************************************** "What's going on?" demanded Kagome. "What did you do?"

"Kagome please just come up from the well and I'll explain everything I know." Pleaded Pluto.

Kagome looked up at her for a moment then nodded. She felt too weak and worried to argue. "Will I be able to see Inuyasha again?" she asked in a frightened whisper.

"If everything goes well then yes." Pluto replied.

"Thank God." Whispered Kagome before fainting.

"Oh no Kagome!" cried Usagi catching the poor girl. "What's wrong with her Pluto?"

Pluto muttered something about side affects before telling Usagi to bring her back to the house. "I have some business to attend to, I'll return in the morning."

"Um, okay but what will I tell Kagome's mother?" Usagi asked.

"I will explain things to her in the morning tell her to put her to bed." Pluto replied. With that's she used her staff to conjure up a door and she went through it.

Usagi blinked at the door before it disappeared. "Huh weirdness." She said to herself. She started to walk back to Kagome's house with Kagome still in her arms. "Whoa I'm not cut out for this!" she muttered almost dropping the sleeping young woman.

Halfway up the garden she realised something and stopped dead in her tracks. "Whose going to bring me home?!" ********************************************************************

La la la there's another chapter. I think it might be a bit short and not good writing quality and for that I'm sorry. Hangs head in shame

Btw I've only seen the Japanese sub of Inuyasha because, well, they don't show a lot of anime in Ireland therefore I haven't seen the American dub. So I'm sorry if some of the words or names are different.

Oh and another btw I'm really lazy and never proofread properly so sorry if anything's misspelled and what not. Till next time. BYE!!!!!!!!!!!!