Author's Note-Guess what! New chapter! Aren't ya'll happy? ^ ^ Anyways,
yes, I know, it's been too long. . .but oh well! Be happy! By the way,
Chibi Horsewoman/A.k.a Shinimegami, here's your prize! *hands Chibi
Horsewoman a crate containing a year-supply of tangerines and a coca cola
with extra sugar* Now, on with the fic!
***At camp***
"Let me out! Let me ouuut!" Raylin yelled. Everybody except Miroku- who was giving her sympathetic looks-ignored her. "Pleeeeease?"
Kisike took another piece of duct tape and stuck it over Raylin's mouth.
"Hmmm! Hmm hm hm hmmmm!" Raylin tried to say, but the duct tape put up too much of a battle and won. Raylin resorted to glaring at the others, then staring at Kisike without blinking.
Kisike felt eyes that were wishing for her head to explode focus on her. She sweatdropped, took one more piece of duct tape, closed Raylin's eyes, and duct-taped that too.
Kisike dusted her hands off. "That's better. . ." she said. She froze and twitched when she heard a sniffing aimed towards her. Raylin was just too stubborn. . .
Kisike took out one more piece of duct tape to put on her nose when Bridget grabbed her wrist. "No, 'Sike. She won't be able to breath."
"Good!" Kisike said.
"Not good."
"Well. . .she could breath out of the hole I make in the back of her neck. Like a dolphin."
". . .She ain't a dolphin."
"Oh really? Okiedokie then." Kisike said, sitting back down.
Inuyasha walked slowly back to the camp. Everybody looked over at him to see him carrying Amanda. Bridget started to get up.
"It's okay, it's okay. . .she's just asleep." Inuyasha said.
Bridget nodded and sat back down.
"Um. . .Are we going to camp out here?" Bridget asked.
"It's already morning. . ." Miroku pointed out.
"So? Who doesn't sleep in the daytime and travel at night?"
"Well. . .Me, for example. Most normal people do."
"Whoever said we were normal?! Was it yooou?!" Kisike demanded, pointing to the sleeping Kouten.
"Shippou-Chan. . ." Kouten mumbled, turning over.
Kisike sweatdropped. She then rounded on the sleeping Shippou. "How about yooou?!"
"Wasn't me. . ." Shippou muttered.
"Why are the brats asleep?! Oh well." Kisike said, flopping down to the snow-covered ground and falling asleep in a matter of seconds.
"Wait a second! We still. . .need. . .to. . .untape Raylin. . ." Bridget said, her voice trailing off as she sweatdropped.
Inuyasha laid Amanda down on a blanket they had managed to salvage from the fire that was the highest pile of leaves, then walked over to Raylin. He sliced the tape with his claws, some of it sticking. He shook his hand frantically, trying to get it off. Raylin-with Bridget's help- managed to get the rest off. Raylin slowly pulled the tape off her mouth and then soaked the tape over her eyes in a nearby stream to loosen it and pulled it off. She sat against a tree and fell asleep. Miroku had fallen asleep a while ago. Inuyasha had jumped up in a tree.
Bridget sighed and sat down on a mossy rock, wearily leaning her head against a tree. She looked back at her comrades and smiled weakly. 'They didn't even bother to set up an actual camp. . .they're all going to catch pneumonia at this rate. . .' she thought. She closed her eyes. 'Let's just hope it doesn't snow. . .'
She began to drift to sleep when she heard someone land in the snow next to her. "Sesshoumaru, Kagome, evil fire dude, I don't care who you are, just let me get some sleep. . ." she groaned without even opening her eyes.
A finger prodded her forehead. ". . .Okay, you're not going to kill me. What do you want?" Bridget finally said as she slowly began to open her eyes after a minute of prodding. She looked up at Inuyasha to see that his eyes were troubled. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"I have a question. . ." Inuyasha said uneasily.
Bridget blinked. "Yeah?" she asked.
Inuyasha began to pace, making Bridget feel like she was being interrogated by a police officer or something. She sweatdropped, until Inuyasha said, "That gash on Amanda's arm. . .did I give it to her?"
Bridget sighed and looked down at the snow, now fully awake. "I'm afraid so. It's really not your fault-you were poisoned with Yage." She said.
Inuyasha sat down in the snow. "Yeah, but still. . ." He said. He looked up. "That's no excuse. I shouldn't have tried to kill her." He said.
". . .Inuyasha, you can't blame yourself. Seriously, she knows what happened. And if she doesn't, we'll tell her. All and all, she knows the truth, or she will, and when she wakes up, you can apologize." Bridget said. She sighed again. "To be honest, I'm not that great with giving advice. Why didn't you annoy one of the others?"
". . .Think about it. What are my choices?" Inuyasha asked. "Shippou and Kouten are brats, and the others are just completely out of the question."
Bridget sweatdropped. "Good point. . ." There was silence for a moment. Finally she said, "You. Go. Let me get some sleep." She sat down on the ground and got some wet leaves and shaped them into a bed in the snow. She laid down. "I need to get a math project done and the other me is wondering what the heck's goin on over here."
Inuyasha nodded and went over to Amanda. He leaned against a nearby tree and fell asleep.
*back in the other dimension*
Kisike looked around. It was definitely science class. She got her CNN update. Ms. Olsen-the science teacher-walked around, checking if everybody was actually doing their experiments with their table and not fooling around. There was a glass bottle, a yellow balloon the size of an egg, a piece of rolled up paper, and a box of matches lying on the table. "Ooooh. . ." Kisike said, taking extra time to glance at the box of matches. The kids at her table gave her odd looks and raised an eyebrow; she was visiting their table, so they weren't used to her insanity. At least. . .not yet. . .
"Okay. What we have to do is light the piece of paper and stick it in the bottle. Then we put the balloon on top." Sydney said, reading the worksheet they were given.
"I'll light the paper!" Kisike volunteered.
"Okay."
"I'll put the balloon on the bottle." Sang said. He was an exchange student from Korea.
"I guess I'll hold the bottle. . ." Rachelle said. She looked over at another table to see them cutting up. She giggled. . .like she usually did.
"Okay." Sydney said. Kisike then struck the match and lit the paper, which she dropped into the bottle.
"Oh my god!" She yelled. "It's Inuyasha's house!"
"Say. . .what. . .?" Sydney asked, blinking. Rachelle began giggling.
"Poor Inuyasha's house. . .he's definitely going to notice that." Kisike said as she watched the paper begin to smolder.
"You American girls are weird. . ." Sang said, raising an eyebrow.
"Kisike! Out into the hall!" Ms. Olsen snapped, pointing to the door. Kisike sighed.
"Okiedokie." She said, standing up and going out into the hall and preparing to be yelled at. She waited for about five minutes when Ms. Olsen came out into the hallway. Ms. Olsen glared at her.
"You are not supposed to be-" she started.
Kisike found herself curled up in a ball in the snow.
***
Amanda twirled her pencil as she tried to figure out the next math problem. She got her CNN update and checked her arm. It was fine. It was as if she'd never been in a battle, in fact. Well, there was that battle with her little brother Matthew yesterday, but. . .that wasn't the point. Mrs. Woodward sitting at her desk while the students got into groups and pretended to do math when the boys were really talking about perverted stuff and the girls talked about boys.
'That's right. . .I fell asleep, didn't I?' she thought. 'I hope Inuyasha's okay. . .'
She put away her math book. She really couldn't concentrate at the moment. "Shoot, I'll just finish it for homework. . ." she muttered.
For the rest of the class, she pondered the recent events. 'Who was the guy that started the fire? We never really found out. And who is this all-knowing person? Kagome and the guy never said who it was. . .just called him the all-knowing.' She sighed and laid her head down on the table.
". . .My brain hurts. . ." she mumbled.
***
Raylin got her CNN update and looked down at her book. "Outsiders? Again?" she asked unhappily. She'd read the book four times. . .twice for fun, the other times for school. She liked the book but she'd just finished reading it for fun two days ago.
She read through the chapter (more like skimmed. . .) and answered the all-too-easy question sheet. As the literature teacher- Mrs. Stephens- started making the class take turns at reading the next chapter, Raylin thought about all that had happened lately.
"Raylin." One boy said as he finished reading. Raylin looked up. "Huh?" she asked.
"You have to read now." The boy said.
"Um. . ." she started.
"It's right after Ponyboy gets jumped by the Socs." Mrs. Stephens said.
"Oh. . .um. . .yeah. . ." Raylin said, skimming the chapter. She began to read. She just got to the part where Soda asked Pony if he was okay when she found herself leaning against a tree.
***
Bridget blinked as she got an update. She was in social studies class. Mr. Mathis-the social studies teacher-was giving notes on the Civil War. Bridget yawned. 'Sheesh. . .I'm tired in this dimension too. . .they really should start showing adult swim earlier. . .' she thought. She looked up at the overhead, then down at the papers on her desk.
She was trying to take notes and work on her math project at the same time. . .not working. She wasn't able to pay attention to either and had ended up drawing doodles of the Inuyasha gang on the side of her paper. She looked over at Dwayne (Sigaru), who was sitting in the next row a couple desks away. The class all began talking at once, so she took that chance to talk to him.
"Hey. . .you do know what's happening to your other half, right?" she asked.
Dwayne looked over at her. ". . .Yeah. And for that, I'm going over to your camp to cut all your ears off." He said.
Bridget blinked. "Wait a second. . ." she started. Her eyes widened. "We forgot a guard for the camp! Oh, shit! Now anybody could attack us! Even the evil fire dude!" she began ranting.
"Um. . .I think it's me you have to worry about more. . ." Dwayne started, sweatdropping. Bridget looked over at him.
"Oh, who cares if you come? You'll probably just trip and wake us up and then my friends end up killing you. No, I'm worried about an intelligent bad guy, unlike you, who's really not even supposed to be a real bad guy, but Inuyasha's rival." She said.
". . .Thanks a lot."
The class's chatter began to die down and Mr. Mathis went back to teaching. Bridget went back to doodling. That is, until Mr. Mathis called on her.
"Bridget, what was the general that led the March to the Sea?" he asked.
Bridget looked up and blinked. "Hm? Well. . .well, uh. . ." she heard a few of the preps snicker and she glared. 'As if they could answer in record time. . .' she thought.
"Do you know the answer?" the teacher asked.
Bridget thought for a moment, then nodded. She remembered reading from her history book last night. At two o'clock in the morning. "It was General-"
***
"Sherman?" Bridget asked, opening her eyes.
". . .Who?" Kisike asked.
"General Sherman?" Raylin asked. Bridget nodded. "Yeah. . .he led the March to the Sea." Raylin continued.
". . .I know that. Or at least I do now. Maybe I'll actually bring my 'B' up to an 'A' on my next test." Bridget sighed.
"What are we doing in social studies?" Raylin asked. "Since I'm assuming that you just came from there."
"Um. . .basically just taking notes and stuff about the Civil War. . .but unless you go to sleep again really soon, I doubt you'll make it back to our world in time for social studies. Who's already been?"
"Me." Amanda replied.
"Good. Then I need to copy your notes. I didn't get all of mine."
"Okay."
Inuyasha looked over at Miroku cluelessly, who shrugged. "What are you people talking about?" he questioned.
"Oh. . .you wouldn't know. . .American history and all. Yeah. . ." Kisike said.
"What time period is this anyway? I mean, I've just noticed that we don't even know what time period this is." Raylin said.
"Feudal Era. . .The Warring States period." Shippou said. "Even I know that."
"Yeah, but. . .what century?"
"Century?"
"Never mind." Raylin sighed.
"So anyways, what'd we wake up for again?" Kisike asked.
"That." Kouten stated, pointing to Sigaru, who was blackened with ash and lying in the snow.
"He tripped and Inuyasha heard him." Amanda said.
"I told him. . ." Bridget muttered.
"I can't believe this. He isn't dead yet?" Inuyasha asked, nudging Sigaru with his foot. Suddenly Sigaru's hand shot up and grabbed his ankle. "What the. . .?"
"Hah! And you thought I was dead. I'm going to cut your ears off, Inuyasha." Sigaru said. He pulled Inuyasha's ankle, making Inuyasha lose his balance and fall, then sat up.
"Why you. . ." Inuyasha growled. He jumped up. "I can't believe you're still alive! And you tried to kill Kagome, too! Even after I said not to! Fight me, but leave Kagome outta this."
The rest of the group exchanged glances. They all had the same thought running through their minds; they had tried to kill Kagome too. Shippou and Kouten-who'd been asleep the entire time-blinked and looked confused.
"Uh. . .huh?" Kouten asked.
Shippou shrugged. "Don't bother asking. I've found that usually they won't answer, or just say 'I'll tell you when you're older.'" He said.
"Okay, Shippou!" Kouten said.
"Yeah. We'll tell you brats when you're older. Now shut up!" Kisike said.
Kouten sniffed and looked up at the sky. From the position of the sun, she guessed that it was probably a little after noon.
"Now! Let's finish this!" Sigaru exclaimed, jumping into fighting stance.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Why do you even bother? You know I'll just beat you." He said.
"Oh, please. I've fought tougher squirrels than you."
"Wha. . .What?! Why are you even fighting squirrels in the first place?!" Kisike demanded. "That's. . .kind of a lame insult. . ."
Sigaru sweatdropped. "Hey, I have to eat too, okay?"
"Poor squirrels. . ." Amanda commented.
"You must fight a lot of squirrels. There isn't a lot of meat on a squirrel, ya know?" Raylin said.
"Well. . .I more like-" Sigaru started.
"Shoot them with your peashooter?" Kisike asked brightly.
". . .No. Anyways, I don't really fight them. . .you can't really fight squirrels."
"Exactly. So why did you say that you were fighting them? You were really contradicting yourself." Raylin said.
"Well. . ."
Bridget sweatdropped. "Kinda like that guy on unsolved mysteries that said 'I don't believe in ghosts. . .but I know they're here.' When they were talking about an inn."
"Oh yeah. . .I saw that one. . ." Raylin said.
"Wha. . .?" Sigaru asked, not understanding at all.
"I get it. I see how it is." Kisike said.
"You always see how it is." Bridget said.
Sigaru shook his head. "Look, are we fighting or not?!" he demanded. He smirked. "Or are your friends just stalling because they don't want you to die?"
"Look! Inuyasha was at the point of dying last night and now you want to fight him?! Give him a break already; he'll fight you when he's ready!" Amanda shot back.
"Nah, don't worry about me. I'm fine." Inuyasha said, stepping up. "Besides, with my house burning down and everything else that's come with the recent turn of events, I need to kill something."
"You sure?"
Inuyasha grinned. "Definitely."
"Alright! It's about time!" Sigaru said.
The two half dog demons got into fighting stance. "Your move." Inuyasha said.
Sigaru nodded and charged forward, swiping at him. Inuyasha dodged easily. Sigaru did a flying roundhouse kick to Inuyasha's head but Inuyasha ducked. "I'm going to defeat you. . .just like I defeated that girl that tried to kill you!" Sigaru said.
Inuyasha growled. "Why you. . ."
Bridget, Amanda, Kisike, and Raylin sweatdropped. ". . .Your head was stuck in the wall the entire time." Kisike pointed out.
"Well. . .uh. . ." Sigaru started.
Inuyasha snickered. "Your head was stuck in the wall?" he asked.
"Only for a couple of seconds! Then um. . .then um. . ."
"-.- Then we had to get you out." Raylin finished.
"You call whacking me with a priest staff 'getting me out?!'" Sigaru demanded.
"Well. . .technically. . .it was us that got you out." Amanda said.
"And into a tree."
"Um. . .I don't mean to interrupt your argument and everything, but. . .I'm a monk, not a priest." Miroku pointed out.
"We don't care, Priestman!" Sigaru said.
Inuyasha continued to snicker until Sigaru finally turned back to him. And even then, he couldn't hide his smirk. "So, you got defeated by a wall, did you?" he asked.
"I did not get defeated by a wall!"
"How many paper cuts did you get?"
"Fiv- Wait! That's not the point! Stop stalling and fight, cowardly weakling!" Sigaru ordered.
"Fine, fine." Inuyasha said. He ran at Sigaru. "Iron Reaper Soul Stealer!" He yelled. Sigaru jumped back. When he landed, they could see slashes in his shirt. "Well, I suppose you have gotten better since last time we fought. . ." Inuyasha said.
"Of course I have! Aside from my job, what else would I be doing but trying to get stronger than you?"
Raylin turned to the others. "Why are they fighting anyways?" she asked.
"Hey. . .I don't think they ever told us that. . ." Kisike said.
"Probably just some guy thing. Probably best not to even ask." Bridget said with the wave of her hand.
"Yeah. . .you're probably right." Kisike sighed. She grinned and took a pack of cards out of her pocket. "So who wants to play cards?" she asked. She turned to Raylin. "And you still owe me money from a few days ago."
"I know, I know. I'll pay you back. I probably already have back in the other dimension, anyway. Besides, it was just fifty cents; I was only buying ice cream." Raylin said.
"Okay then. We could play Go Fish." Kisike suggested.
"How about War?" Bridget suggested.
"Eh. . .good idea. That game lasts forever and their battle will probably be over by then. Deal the cards." Amanda agreed.
Miroku walked over as the girls sat on logs and rocks and stuff. "What are you four doing?" he asked.
"Playing War." Raylin said as she watched Kisike deal out the cards.
"Could you teach me how to play?" Miroku asked as Shippou and Kouten walked up to the group.
"Sure. The brats can play too. This could take awhile. . ."
*two hours later*
"I win!" Shippou cheered.
"Again?" Raylin groaned.
"Hey, are those two done fighting yet?" Amanda asked.
Miroku looked over at the still-battling Inuyasha and Sigaru. "Apparently. . .not." He said.
"Oh. Okay."
"I'm bored." Kouten whined.
"Yeah. So am I. Let's break up this fight and get moving again." Raylin said.
"You think it's right to break up a battle that these two must have been preparing themselves for decades?" Bridget asked.
"Yeah. We do. Now, grab a snowball, and prepare to throw." Kisike said.
Everybody made their snowballs and took aim at whichever person they hated most, which of course, was Sigaru. . .well, except for Kisike who threw her snowball at Inuyasha just to annoy him.
Inuyasha and Sigaru looked at the group of attackers. "What do you guys want?" Inuyasha asked.
"We're bored. Let's go." Shippou said.
"Yeah! We still need to get my flute!" Kouten reminded them.
"Oh yeah. . ." Inuyasha said. "Well, give me a few more minutes. I want to say goodbye to somebody." He walked off, back towards the house.
"He wants to say goodbye?" Amanda asked, confused. She looked around to see if anybody knew what he was talking about and saw a bunch of clueless faces. She decided to follow him.
***
"Hey, Mother, I'm back. Sorry about the house. . .I know you would kill me if you were still around." Inuyasha said softly. He decided to visit his mother's grave one last time before he left. "Anyways. . .I met four girls not to long ago. I'm going to help them get home." He said. He smiled sadly. "Well, I've got to go. . .My friends and I have lots of places to go. Bye, Mom. Until next time." He found a flower that seemed to have survived the snows and placed it on the grave.
He then turned and left. About halfway back he ran into somebody. He looked down to see Amanda.
"Oh. . .sorry about that. . ." Amanda said.
Inuyasha blinked. He'd been wondering what to say to her since he found out about her arm. He wanted to apologize, but his voice wouldn't let him. There was an uneasy silence. "Uh. . ." he started.
This time Amanda blinked. "Um. . .How's your back?" she asked. "Did your wound heal all the way?"
"Oh, uh, yeah. Yeah. I'm fine. . .and your arm?"
"It's been better, but the bleeding's stopped and everything. . ." Amanda said, smiling.
"Well, that's good."
"Yeah. . ." Amanda agreed.
They stared at each other for a moment. "Well. . .I guess we should go back now, right?" Inuyasha asked.
"Not yet." Amanda said. Inuyasha blinked. Amanda walked over to the grave; Inuyasha followed. Amanda placed a flower on the grave and began to walk back. Inuyasha again followed. While they walked, Amanda spoke up. "Inuyasha?"
"Yeah?"
"Who was-" Amanda started. She stopped and glared. She picked up a snowball and threw it at the bushes. "Go away!" she yelled. There was the crunching of feet in snow as the rest of the group ran back to the camp.
Inuyasha blinked. Amanda turned back to him.
"Who was Kikyo?" she asked.
Author's Note-*the answering machine comes on* *Raylin's voice* Hey, I haven't been online much and just got the news about the results on the poll. . .thanks for voting for me! ^ ^ *Kisike's voice* Pi-ti-ful human! Just because you won doesn't mean you get to do the answering machine this time! *Raylin's voice* Um, I'm an elf, and yes, it does. *Kisike's voice* Awww. . . *Raylin's voice* Anyways, thanks again and congrats Chibi Horsewoman for being our fiftieth review. And whoever reviews at the sound of the beep gets a tangerine. *beep sounds*
***At camp***
"Let me out! Let me ouuut!" Raylin yelled. Everybody except Miroku- who was giving her sympathetic looks-ignored her. "Pleeeeease?"
Kisike took another piece of duct tape and stuck it over Raylin's mouth.
"Hmmm! Hmm hm hm hmmmm!" Raylin tried to say, but the duct tape put up too much of a battle and won. Raylin resorted to glaring at the others, then staring at Kisike without blinking.
Kisike felt eyes that were wishing for her head to explode focus on her. She sweatdropped, took one more piece of duct tape, closed Raylin's eyes, and duct-taped that too.
Kisike dusted her hands off. "That's better. . ." she said. She froze and twitched when she heard a sniffing aimed towards her. Raylin was just too stubborn. . .
Kisike took out one more piece of duct tape to put on her nose when Bridget grabbed her wrist. "No, 'Sike. She won't be able to breath."
"Good!" Kisike said.
"Not good."
"Well. . .she could breath out of the hole I make in the back of her neck. Like a dolphin."
". . .She ain't a dolphin."
"Oh really? Okiedokie then." Kisike said, sitting back down.
Inuyasha walked slowly back to the camp. Everybody looked over at him to see him carrying Amanda. Bridget started to get up.
"It's okay, it's okay. . .she's just asleep." Inuyasha said.
Bridget nodded and sat back down.
"Um. . .Are we going to camp out here?" Bridget asked.
"It's already morning. . ." Miroku pointed out.
"So? Who doesn't sleep in the daytime and travel at night?"
"Well. . .Me, for example. Most normal people do."
"Whoever said we were normal?! Was it yooou?!" Kisike demanded, pointing to the sleeping Kouten.
"Shippou-Chan. . ." Kouten mumbled, turning over.
Kisike sweatdropped. She then rounded on the sleeping Shippou. "How about yooou?!"
"Wasn't me. . ." Shippou muttered.
"Why are the brats asleep?! Oh well." Kisike said, flopping down to the snow-covered ground and falling asleep in a matter of seconds.
"Wait a second! We still. . .need. . .to. . .untape Raylin. . ." Bridget said, her voice trailing off as she sweatdropped.
Inuyasha laid Amanda down on a blanket they had managed to salvage from the fire that was the highest pile of leaves, then walked over to Raylin. He sliced the tape with his claws, some of it sticking. He shook his hand frantically, trying to get it off. Raylin-with Bridget's help- managed to get the rest off. Raylin slowly pulled the tape off her mouth and then soaked the tape over her eyes in a nearby stream to loosen it and pulled it off. She sat against a tree and fell asleep. Miroku had fallen asleep a while ago. Inuyasha had jumped up in a tree.
Bridget sighed and sat down on a mossy rock, wearily leaning her head against a tree. She looked back at her comrades and smiled weakly. 'They didn't even bother to set up an actual camp. . .they're all going to catch pneumonia at this rate. . .' she thought. She closed her eyes. 'Let's just hope it doesn't snow. . .'
She began to drift to sleep when she heard someone land in the snow next to her. "Sesshoumaru, Kagome, evil fire dude, I don't care who you are, just let me get some sleep. . ." she groaned without even opening her eyes.
A finger prodded her forehead. ". . .Okay, you're not going to kill me. What do you want?" Bridget finally said as she slowly began to open her eyes after a minute of prodding. She looked up at Inuyasha to see that his eyes were troubled. "Hey, what's wrong?"
"I have a question. . ." Inuyasha said uneasily.
Bridget blinked. "Yeah?" she asked.
Inuyasha began to pace, making Bridget feel like she was being interrogated by a police officer or something. She sweatdropped, until Inuyasha said, "That gash on Amanda's arm. . .did I give it to her?"
Bridget sighed and looked down at the snow, now fully awake. "I'm afraid so. It's really not your fault-you were poisoned with Yage." She said.
Inuyasha sat down in the snow. "Yeah, but still. . ." He said. He looked up. "That's no excuse. I shouldn't have tried to kill her." He said.
". . .Inuyasha, you can't blame yourself. Seriously, she knows what happened. And if she doesn't, we'll tell her. All and all, she knows the truth, or she will, and when she wakes up, you can apologize." Bridget said. She sighed again. "To be honest, I'm not that great with giving advice. Why didn't you annoy one of the others?"
". . .Think about it. What are my choices?" Inuyasha asked. "Shippou and Kouten are brats, and the others are just completely out of the question."
Bridget sweatdropped. "Good point. . ." There was silence for a moment. Finally she said, "You. Go. Let me get some sleep." She sat down on the ground and got some wet leaves and shaped them into a bed in the snow. She laid down. "I need to get a math project done and the other me is wondering what the heck's goin on over here."
Inuyasha nodded and went over to Amanda. He leaned against a nearby tree and fell asleep.
*back in the other dimension*
Kisike looked around. It was definitely science class. She got her CNN update. Ms. Olsen-the science teacher-walked around, checking if everybody was actually doing their experiments with their table and not fooling around. There was a glass bottle, a yellow balloon the size of an egg, a piece of rolled up paper, and a box of matches lying on the table. "Ooooh. . ." Kisike said, taking extra time to glance at the box of matches. The kids at her table gave her odd looks and raised an eyebrow; she was visiting their table, so they weren't used to her insanity. At least. . .not yet. . .
"Okay. What we have to do is light the piece of paper and stick it in the bottle. Then we put the balloon on top." Sydney said, reading the worksheet they were given.
"I'll light the paper!" Kisike volunteered.
"Okay."
"I'll put the balloon on the bottle." Sang said. He was an exchange student from Korea.
"I guess I'll hold the bottle. . ." Rachelle said. She looked over at another table to see them cutting up. She giggled. . .like she usually did.
"Okay." Sydney said. Kisike then struck the match and lit the paper, which she dropped into the bottle.
"Oh my god!" She yelled. "It's Inuyasha's house!"
"Say. . .what. . .?" Sydney asked, blinking. Rachelle began giggling.
"Poor Inuyasha's house. . .he's definitely going to notice that." Kisike said as she watched the paper begin to smolder.
"You American girls are weird. . ." Sang said, raising an eyebrow.
"Kisike! Out into the hall!" Ms. Olsen snapped, pointing to the door. Kisike sighed.
"Okiedokie." She said, standing up and going out into the hall and preparing to be yelled at. She waited for about five minutes when Ms. Olsen came out into the hallway. Ms. Olsen glared at her.
"You are not supposed to be-" she started.
Kisike found herself curled up in a ball in the snow.
***
Amanda twirled her pencil as she tried to figure out the next math problem. She got her CNN update and checked her arm. It was fine. It was as if she'd never been in a battle, in fact. Well, there was that battle with her little brother Matthew yesterday, but. . .that wasn't the point. Mrs. Woodward sitting at her desk while the students got into groups and pretended to do math when the boys were really talking about perverted stuff and the girls talked about boys.
'That's right. . .I fell asleep, didn't I?' she thought. 'I hope Inuyasha's okay. . .'
She put away her math book. She really couldn't concentrate at the moment. "Shoot, I'll just finish it for homework. . ." she muttered.
For the rest of the class, she pondered the recent events. 'Who was the guy that started the fire? We never really found out. And who is this all-knowing person? Kagome and the guy never said who it was. . .just called him the all-knowing.' She sighed and laid her head down on the table.
". . .My brain hurts. . ." she mumbled.
***
Raylin got her CNN update and looked down at her book. "Outsiders? Again?" she asked unhappily. She'd read the book four times. . .twice for fun, the other times for school. She liked the book but she'd just finished reading it for fun two days ago.
She read through the chapter (more like skimmed. . .) and answered the all-too-easy question sheet. As the literature teacher- Mrs. Stephens- started making the class take turns at reading the next chapter, Raylin thought about all that had happened lately.
"Raylin." One boy said as he finished reading. Raylin looked up. "Huh?" she asked.
"You have to read now." The boy said.
"Um. . ." she started.
"It's right after Ponyboy gets jumped by the Socs." Mrs. Stephens said.
"Oh. . .um. . .yeah. . ." Raylin said, skimming the chapter. She began to read. She just got to the part where Soda asked Pony if he was okay when she found herself leaning against a tree.
***
Bridget blinked as she got an update. She was in social studies class. Mr. Mathis-the social studies teacher-was giving notes on the Civil War. Bridget yawned. 'Sheesh. . .I'm tired in this dimension too. . .they really should start showing adult swim earlier. . .' she thought. She looked up at the overhead, then down at the papers on her desk.
She was trying to take notes and work on her math project at the same time. . .not working. She wasn't able to pay attention to either and had ended up drawing doodles of the Inuyasha gang on the side of her paper. She looked over at Dwayne (Sigaru), who was sitting in the next row a couple desks away. The class all began talking at once, so she took that chance to talk to him.
"Hey. . .you do know what's happening to your other half, right?" she asked.
Dwayne looked over at her. ". . .Yeah. And for that, I'm going over to your camp to cut all your ears off." He said.
Bridget blinked. "Wait a second. . ." she started. Her eyes widened. "We forgot a guard for the camp! Oh, shit! Now anybody could attack us! Even the evil fire dude!" she began ranting.
"Um. . .I think it's me you have to worry about more. . ." Dwayne started, sweatdropping. Bridget looked over at him.
"Oh, who cares if you come? You'll probably just trip and wake us up and then my friends end up killing you. No, I'm worried about an intelligent bad guy, unlike you, who's really not even supposed to be a real bad guy, but Inuyasha's rival." She said.
". . .Thanks a lot."
The class's chatter began to die down and Mr. Mathis went back to teaching. Bridget went back to doodling. That is, until Mr. Mathis called on her.
"Bridget, what was the general that led the March to the Sea?" he asked.
Bridget looked up and blinked. "Hm? Well. . .well, uh. . ." she heard a few of the preps snicker and she glared. 'As if they could answer in record time. . .' she thought.
"Do you know the answer?" the teacher asked.
Bridget thought for a moment, then nodded. She remembered reading from her history book last night. At two o'clock in the morning. "It was General-"
***
"Sherman?" Bridget asked, opening her eyes.
". . .Who?" Kisike asked.
"General Sherman?" Raylin asked. Bridget nodded. "Yeah. . .he led the March to the Sea." Raylin continued.
". . .I know that. Or at least I do now. Maybe I'll actually bring my 'B' up to an 'A' on my next test." Bridget sighed.
"What are we doing in social studies?" Raylin asked. "Since I'm assuming that you just came from there."
"Um. . .basically just taking notes and stuff about the Civil War. . .but unless you go to sleep again really soon, I doubt you'll make it back to our world in time for social studies. Who's already been?"
"Me." Amanda replied.
"Good. Then I need to copy your notes. I didn't get all of mine."
"Okay."
Inuyasha looked over at Miroku cluelessly, who shrugged. "What are you people talking about?" he questioned.
"Oh. . .you wouldn't know. . .American history and all. Yeah. . ." Kisike said.
"What time period is this anyway? I mean, I've just noticed that we don't even know what time period this is." Raylin said.
"Feudal Era. . .The Warring States period." Shippou said. "Even I know that."
"Yeah, but. . .what century?"
"Century?"
"Never mind." Raylin sighed.
"So anyways, what'd we wake up for again?" Kisike asked.
"That." Kouten stated, pointing to Sigaru, who was blackened with ash and lying in the snow.
"He tripped and Inuyasha heard him." Amanda said.
"I told him. . ." Bridget muttered.
"I can't believe this. He isn't dead yet?" Inuyasha asked, nudging Sigaru with his foot. Suddenly Sigaru's hand shot up and grabbed his ankle. "What the. . .?"
"Hah! And you thought I was dead. I'm going to cut your ears off, Inuyasha." Sigaru said. He pulled Inuyasha's ankle, making Inuyasha lose his balance and fall, then sat up.
"Why you. . ." Inuyasha growled. He jumped up. "I can't believe you're still alive! And you tried to kill Kagome, too! Even after I said not to! Fight me, but leave Kagome outta this."
The rest of the group exchanged glances. They all had the same thought running through their minds; they had tried to kill Kagome too. Shippou and Kouten-who'd been asleep the entire time-blinked and looked confused.
"Uh. . .huh?" Kouten asked.
Shippou shrugged. "Don't bother asking. I've found that usually they won't answer, or just say 'I'll tell you when you're older.'" He said.
"Okay, Shippou!" Kouten said.
"Yeah. We'll tell you brats when you're older. Now shut up!" Kisike said.
Kouten sniffed and looked up at the sky. From the position of the sun, she guessed that it was probably a little after noon.
"Now! Let's finish this!" Sigaru exclaimed, jumping into fighting stance.
Inuyasha rolled his eyes. "Why do you even bother? You know I'll just beat you." He said.
"Oh, please. I've fought tougher squirrels than you."
"Wha. . .What?! Why are you even fighting squirrels in the first place?!" Kisike demanded. "That's. . .kind of a lame insult. . ."
Sigaru sweatdropped. "Hey, I have to eat too, okay?"
"Poor squirrels. . ." Amanda commented.
"You must fight a lot of squirrels. There isn't a lot of meat on a squirrel, ya know?" Raylin said.
"Well. . .I more like-" Sigaru started.
"Shoot them with your peashooter?" Kisike asked brightly.
". . .No. Anyways, I don't really fight them. . .you can't really fight squirrels."
"Exactly. So why did you say that you were fighting them? You were really contradicting yourself." Raylin said.
"Well. . ."
Bridget sweatdropped. "Kinda like that guy on unsolved mysteries that said 'I don't believe in ghosts. . .but I know they're here.' When they were talking about an inn."
"Oh yeah. . .I saw that one. . ." Raylin said.
"Wha. . .?" Sigaru asked, not understanding at all.
"I get it. I see how it is." Kisike said.
"You always see how it is." Bridget said.
Sigaru shook his head. "Look, are we fighting or not?!" he demanded. He smirked. "Or are your friends just stalling because they don't want you to die?"
"Look! Inuyasha was at the point of dying last night and now you want to fight him?! Give him a break already; he'll fight you when he's ready!" Amanda shot back.
"Nah, don't worry about me. I'm fine." Inuyasha said, stepping up. "Besides, with my house burning down and everything else that's come with the recent turn of events, I need to kill something."
"You sure?"
Inuyasha grinned. "Definitely."
"Alright! It's about time!" Sigaru said.
The two half dog demons got into fighting stance. "Your move." Inuyasha said.
Sigaru nodded and charged forward, swiping at him. Inuyasha dodged easily. Sigaru did a flying roundhouse kick to Inuyasha's head but Inuyasha ducked. "I'm going to defeat you. . .just like I defeated that girl that tried to kill you!" Sigaru said.
Inuyasha growled. "Why you. . ."
Bridget, Amanda, Kisike, and Raylin sweatdropped. ". . .Your head was stuck in the wall the entire time." Kisike pointed out.
"Well. . .uh. . ." Sigaru started.
Inuyasha snickered. "Your head was stuck in the wall?" he asked.
"Only for a couple of seconds! Then um. . .then um. . ."
"-.- Then we had to get you out." Raylin finished.
"You call whacking me with a priest staff 'getting me out?!'" Sigaru demanded.
"Well. . .technically. . .it was us that got you out." Amanda said.
"And into a tree."
"Um. . .I don't mean to interrupt your argument and everything, but. . .I'm a monk, not a priest." Miroku pointed out.
"We don't care, Priestman!" Sigaru said.
Inuyasha continued to snicker until Sigaru finally turned back to him. And even then, he couldn't hide his smirk. "So, you got defeated by a wall, did you?" he asked.
"I did not get defeated by a wall!"
"How many paper cuts did you get?"
"Fiv- Wait! That's not the point! Stop stalling and fight, cowardly weakling!" Sigaru ordered.
"Fine, fine." Inuyasha said. He ran at Sigaru. "Iron Reaper Soul Stealer!" He yelled. Sigaru jumped back. When he landed, they could see slashes in his shirt. "Well, I suppose you have gotten better since last time we fought. . ." Inuyasha said.
"Of course I have! Aside from my job, what else would I be doing but trying to get stronger than you?"
Raylin turned to the others. "Why are they fighting anyways?" she asked.
"Hey. . .I don't think they ever told us that. . ." Kisike said.
"Probably just some guy thing. Probably best not to even ask." Bridget said with the wave of her hand.
"Yeah. . .you're probably right." Kisike sighed. She grinned and took a pack of cards out of her pocket. "So who wants to play cards?" she asked. She turned to Raylin. "And you still owe me money from a few days ago."
"I know, I know. I'll pay you back. I probably already have back in the other dimension, anyway. Besides, it was just fifty cents; I was only buying ice cream." Raylin said.
"Okay then. We could play Go Fish." Kisike suggested.
"How about War?" Bridget suggested.
"Eh. . .good idea. That game lasts forever and their battle will probably be over by then. Deal the cards." Amanda agreed.
Miroku walked over as the girls sat on logs and rocks and stuff. "What are you four doing?" he asked.
"Playing War." Raylin said as she watched Kisike deal out the cards.
"Could you teach me how to play?" Miroku asked as Shippou and Kouten walked up to the group.
"Sure. The brats can play too. This could take awhile. . ."
*two hours later*
"I win!" Shippou cheered.
"Again?" Raylin groaned.
"Hey, are those two done fighting yet?" Amanda asked.
Miroku looked over at the still-battling Inuyasha and Sigaru. "Apparently. . .not." He said.
"Oh. Okay."
"I'm bored." Kouten whined.
"Yeah. So am I. Let's break up this fight and get moving again." Raylin said.
"You think it's right to break up a battle that these two must have been preparing themselves for decades?" Bridget asked.
"Yeah. We do. Now, grab a snowball, and prepare to throw." Kisike said.
Everybody made their snowballs and took aim at whichever person they hated most, which of course, was Sigaru. . .well, except for Kisike who threw her snowball at Inuyasha just to annoy him.
Inuyasha and Sigaru looked at the group of attackers. "What do you guys want?" Inuyasha asked.
"We're bored. Let's go." Shippou said.
"Yeah! We still need to get my flute!" Kouten reminded them.
"Oh yeah. . ." Inuyasha said. "Well, give me a few more minutes. I want to say goodbye to somebody." He walked off, back towards the house.
"He wants to say goodbye?" Amanda asked, confused. She looked around to see if anybody knew what he was talking about and saw a bunch of clueless faces. She decided to follow him.
***
"Hey, Mother, I'm back. Sorry about the house. . .I know you would kill me if you were still around." Inuyasha said softly. He decided to visit his mother's grave one last time before he left. "Anyways. . .I met four girls not to long ago. I'm going to help them get home." He said. He smiled sadly. "Well, I've got to go. . .My friends and I have lots of places to go. Bye, Mom. Until next time." He found a flower that seemed to have survived the snows and placed it on the grave.
He then turned and left. About halfway back he ran into somebody. He looked down to see Amanda.
"Oh. . .sorry about that. . ." Amanda said.
Inuyasha blinked. He'd been wondering what to say to her since he found out about her arm. He wanted to apologize, but his voice wouldn't let him. There was an uneasy silence. "Uh. . ." he started.
This time Amanda blinked. "Um. . .How's your back?" she asked. "Did your wound heal all the way?"
"Oh, uh, yeah. Yeah. I'm fine. . .and your arm?"
"It's been better, but the bleeding's stopped and everything. . ." Amanda said, smiling.
"Well, that's good."
"Yeah. . ." Amanda agreed.
They stared at each other for a moment. "Well. . .I guess we should go back now, right?" Inuyasha asked.
"Not yet." Amanda said. Inuyasha blinked. Amanda walked over to the grave; Inuyasha followed. Amanda placed a flower on the grave and began to walk back. Inuyasha again followed. While they walked, Amanda spoke up. "Inuyasha?"
"Yeah?"
"Who was-" Amanda started. She stopped and glared. She picked up a snowball and threw it at the bushes. "Go away!" she yelled. There was the crunching of feet in snow as the rest of the group ran back to the camp.
Inuyasha blinked. Amanda turned back to him.
"Who was Kikyo?" she asked.
Author's Note-*the answering machine comes on* *Raylin's voice* Hey, I haven't been online much and just got the news about the results on the poll. . .thanks for voting for me! ^ ^ *Kisike's voice* Pi-ti-ful human! Just because you won doesn't mean you get to do the answering machine this time! *Raylin's voice* Um, I'm an elf, and yes, it does. *Kisike's voice* Awww. . . *Raylin's voice* Anyways, thanks again and congrats Chibi Horsewoman for being our fiftieth review. And whoever reviews at the sound of the beep gets a tangerine. *beep sounds*