Chapter 5 – Who's Who?

Kameko opened her eyes. She was on the bottom of the well. 'Maybe it was all a dream?' she thought. 'Maybe I did have some kind of Alice in Wonderland dream.' She looked down at her arm where Inuyasha had grabbed her. It was red. She could see his hand print. "Or maybe not," she whisper as she put her hand over the impression. It was much too big to be hers. "Yup, wasn't self inflicted."

'Too weird,' she thought as she climbed out of well. Kameko knew she must have hit her head or something. There was no way she could have really seen those people. Sure, she could have imagined the boy with the earrings, or the girl that helped her. If it were only that, she'd be fine. She knew though that the guy with the animal ears and the little boy with the tail she couldn't have met.

She stepped outside of the shrine. It was still sunny and in the distance she could hear Jii-chan talking to the tourist. Her clothes were dirty and she needed to change. She was going up the stairs in the house when something struck her.

"His eyes!" she exclaimed. "Inuyasha's eyes were golden." Just like in her reoccurring dream.

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"Come on, Kameko-chan!" Kagome called to her friend. They were at a beauty supply store looking for something to strip the dye from Kameko's red streak.

"I'm coming, I'm coming. Don't get you panties in a ruffle," Kameko said a little irritable.

Kagome gave her a look and laughed. She had come home bogged down with schoolwork. Kameko had offered to help her with it so they could have more time together. Kagome had given her math, both the girl's favorite subjects.

"You little devil! You gave me math!" the American girl had said.

"You did volunteer," Kagome had said with a smile.

After speeding through her work (Kagome didn't care if it was right, so long as it was done) they had gone off to get Kameko's red streak back.

Kagome was holding two product strippers, deciding which would be better.

"What does Inuyasha look like?"

Kagome nearly dropped the products. Her eyes were wide as she turned to her friend. "Huh?"

"What does Inuyasha look like?" Kameko asked again, looking at the floor. She looked up. "And don't give me 'You're normal Japanese boy' crap either. I want to know what he looks like."

Kagome gave nervous laugh. "Heeh, heeh." Gulp. What did she know? "Mind if we talk about this on the way home?" Kagome looked around the store. All she needed was for someone from school to hear her describe Inuyasha. They'd go run and tell somebody and next thing she knew she'd be locked up.

Kameko gave a firm nod. "Ok. Pick one and let's go."

Kagome nodded and put one back on the shelf. They were quite as they walked to the front to pay. Kameko didn't say anything till they were outside.

"Talk."

Kagome sighed. "Ok, just don't thing I'm crazy. Inuyasha is, well, different looking than most boys in general. He has long white silvery hair, golden eyes, his ears look like a dogs and are on top of his head. He also has claws, walks about barefooted and his-"

"Kimono is red. Yeah, ok, just making sure," Kameko finished for her, rather calmly.

"What!" Kagome started at Kameko. "How would you know?"

"Because I met him today, along with some other interesting folk. He also gave me this." She rolled up her sleeve to reveal a handprint that had turn into a light bruise.

Kagome touched it lightly. "Inuyasha did that?"

Kameko nodded. "Yes. Though not on purpose, at least I hope it wasn't on purpose. I also thought he was dressed as a cat."

"A cat! Inuyasha! Hello! His name does mean 'dog demon'!"

Kameko stared at her for a moment. "You know, I forgot about that. HA!"

"Did you meet anyone else? Like Shippou or Sango?"

"Which ones are they?"

"Shippou is a little kitsune youkai, he's pretty young. Sango is a girl around our age. She may have had a large boomerang in tow."

"Oh, yeah. Shippou. I thought he was a girl at first. Heh, guess I was kind of wrong about Inuyasha and Shippou. Sango nice, she helped me with Inuyasha."

"You thought Shippou was a girl!" Kagome exclaimed.

"Well, yeah! I don't see to many little boys this day and age with long hair and bows in it!" Kameko defended herself.

Kagome sighed, might as well tell her everything. "Look, Shippou and the rest aren't from 'this day and age'."

"Qué? Come again?"

Kagome stopped walking. Kameko knew it was serious. "The well, the Bone Eater's Well you went down, it transports me (and apparently you also) to the Warring States Era."

Kameko looked confused. "I repeat: Qué? Come again?"

Kagome gave her a look. "Think Back to the Future, Kameko. It's kinda like that, except it only goes one place and time."

A light bulb went on. "Oh, I get it!" Kameko said. "So you travel between the two times? Hasn't that effected anything now?"

Kagome shrugged. "Yeah, I think so. When I first went back the Jewel was whole. When I came back once a fragment of the Jewel was inside an evil mask."

"So how'd you find out you could time travel?" Kameko asked.

"On my fifteenth birthday. I was pulled down the well by a centipede woman because I had the Shikon no Tama in my body."

Kameko raised an eyebrow. "You have my attention. Now you must tell the whole story."

Kagome sighed and started to walk again. She told her friend everything as they walked slowly back to the house. It felt so good to get it off her shoulders. Sure her family knew some of it, but they know how she felt. Finally, someone who could understand. Some of the of the stuff she was telling Kameko she hadn't dare tell Sango, one of her closes friends.

"Wow," Kameko said when Kagome was done. "That's crazy. I would never have guessed. I mean; it would never had crossed my mind at all."

"Yeah, tell me about it. Like I said I thought it wasn't real, at first," Kagome said. Those days seemed ages ago. In a sense they were.

"The Jewel is almost complete though, right?"

"Yes, but . . ." Kagome looked away.

"You don't want to leave. I understand." Kameko smiled softly. "It's always that way when it comes to guys." Kagome looked at her in shock. "I only have two question for you. If you can go down the well because you're a miko and have Jewel shards, then how the heck did I get down the well? Second, what are the stats again on you monk friend, Miroku?"

A/N: Well? C'mon. I want to hear speculations! Oh, and thanx Divine-Heart (::jumps:: I have one review! Yippe!. I really appreciate it! 'Course the more the merrier! FYI: "Qué?" means "What?" in Spanish. He he! I'm thinking of making a dictionary for all the words I'm using on here! Remember: READ AND REVIEW!!!! And please excuse any minor spelling &/or grammar mistakes. I never said I was perfect. ^_^