Well, here's Chapter Three!! Just a warning… I'm assuming since I'm posting this in the Sailor Moon section that more people will be familiar with Sailor Moon than Inuyasha, so I kind of explain some things about (the show) Inuyasha in this chapter. If you already are familiar with the show, then you can skip over those parts. :) If you do plan on reading the parts, I must warn you I *really* cut the story down, for the sake of time.

Sadie Joyce Myst Lady: Yay, you're my first reviewer (and second!)! Thank you!! :)

I forgot to mention this before hand, but yes, all couples will be traditional.

Err… yeah, I flew from Narita to Detroit and it was a *long* flight! It wasn't too bad though, I was sitting next to this cute old Japanese guy who kept on feeding me these… things. I'm not sure what they were, but they were good!

I'm babbling, I know. I apologize! On with the story!!

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Kagome returned in forty-five minutes. While she was gone Serena, Darien, Sango and Miroku had sat around in relative silence, neither pair sure of what to say to the other. Inuyasha had disappeared to a tree to impatiently wait for Kagome's return.

"I'm back," Kagome said with a grin once she had returned. "Boy Serena, you sure know your friends. They were exactly as you described them."

"Yeah, they're pretty predictable," Serena said with a grin.

"What had the black haired girl so fired up?"

"That I wasn't there. I'm normally late for get-togethers, and Rei gets angry when I do." Serena shrugged. "She has a violent temper, but underneath it all she has a good soul."

"Yeah, well all the same I wouldn't want to anger her!" Kagome said. She was about to say more, but a loud grumbling interrupted her.

"Sorry," Serena blushed. "I haven't eaten all day."

"Hard to believe."

"Shut up Darien!"

"We should get Lady Serena some food then," Miroku interrupted before an argument could ensue. "Pretty girls should not go hungry."

Serena blushed. Kagome and Sango rolled their eyes. Darien glared. Miroku caught the glare and gulped.

"Come on, there's a village not far from here where we stay," Kagome said. She began leading the way. Serena caught up with her.

"What is all of this Kagome? Why are you here? Why does the well allow you to come here?"

"Long stories are best told when eating," Kagome said with a grin.

"All right." Serena's stomach grumbled again. "Don't mention food right now."

Kagome laughed.

The group spent the rest of their walk in amiable silence. Serena and Darien were too busy taking in their new surroundings to talk much anyways.

They reached the village in good time. Serena and Darien were introduced to Kaede and their short story was told. They also met Shippou and Kirara, the two full demons of the group. Kagome made a big batch of Ramen and soon they were all well fed and sitting in a circle, staring at each other.

"Well, now is as good a time as ever to tell you why I'm here," Kagome said.

Serena sat through the whole story silently. The story was unbelievable, but she was forced to believe it. All the same, it was an interesting one.

On her fifteenth birthday Kagome had entered the shed that held the well in order to retrieve her cat for her brother, who was too scared of the well to do it himself. She got pulled into the well by a centipede-demon who claimed that Kagome had a jewel called the Shikon Jewel. She managed to escape the demon but ended up in the Feudal Era. She had been drawn to tree that looked familiar where she found a young boy attached to the tree by an arrow. The boy was Inuyasha.

She was interrupted by a flurry of arrows from the village men, who took her to the village elder, Kaede. Kaede saw a resemblance in Kagome to her sister who was killed fifty years ago, and so took her home. Kagome was told that Inuyasha had been attached to the tree for fifty years also. While they talked though the same demon that had pulled Kagome into the well attacked the village. Kagome knew that the demon was after her, so she ran towards the forest to lure it away from the village. But she could not run fast enough. She called out for help as the demon closed in on her. Inuyasha awoke, but could not escape the arrow.

The villagers managed to restrain the demon, but it was Kagome who injured her, mysteriously blowing off all her arms. It did not kill the demon though, for she slashed at Kagome with her teeth and out from the wound in her side came the jewel. The demon ate the jewel and regenerated, becoming stronger. She pinned Kagome onto the tree using her long body, but she happened to pin Kagome onto Inuyasha at the same time. Inuyasha told Kagome that he could kill the demon, but she would have to pull out the arrow. She figured her choices were either death or pulling out the arrow, so pull out the arrow she did.

Once released, Inuyasha killed the demon in no time and Kagome retrieved the jewel from the body before it could regenerate again. Then Inuyasha threatened to kill Kagome if she did not give him the Shikon Jewel. She had no choice but to run. He probably would have gotten her if Kaede had not shown up and attached the rosary to Inuyasha's neck. The same rosary that crashes him to the ground whenever "sit" is said by Kagome. Therefore, Kagome could prevent him from harming her.

The next day the jewel was stolen from Kagome by a bird-demon. She attempted to shoot it down with a bow and arrow, but failed. Inuyasha attacked it and ripped it to shreds, but it began to regenerate because it had swallowed the jewel before Inuyasha had reached it. Kagome grabbed a clawed foot that was nearby and attached it to an arrow. She shot at the bird, and since the foot was drawn to the bird due to regeneration, the demon was hit. The bird-demon was killed, but the jewel had been directly hit by the arrow and was shattered. The shards flew off into all different directions. Since then she and Inuyasha had been trying to gather the shards again, making new friends along the way but also new enemies.

Serena knew that Kagome had told just a small percentage of her story. The closeness she sensed between Kagome and Inuyasha differed dramatically from the story she had just told. But there would be plenty of time later to hear more.

"What do you tell your family when you're here?" Serena asked.

Kagome gave her a strange look. "They know I'm here, of course. I couldn't just keep something this big from them. Besides, I need them to give excuses to my school," she grinned.

"Don't they worry about you though?"

"Of course they do. They know I fight demons, but they also know that my friends won't let anything happen to me. We all watch out for each other."

Serena nodded. "It makes sense," she said softly and then heaved a sigh. "I'll be right outside." She got up and quietly left.

"What did I say?" Kagome asked, worried.

"I don't know," Darien said, looking at the door where Serena had just left.

"These are dangerous times, someone should look after her," Miroku said, beginning to get up. His tone was serious, but his eyes betrayed his intent.

"I'll keep an eye on her," Darien said, scrambling up and was out the door before the lecherous monk could even stand.

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Serena walked to a clearing behind Kaede's hut and sat down, looking up at the moon. Thoughts began to tumble through her mind.

"Kagome told her family about the biggest thing in her life, but I can't? Sure she disappears for days at a time, but I disappear in the middle of the night all the time. If my parents were to find me gone, how could I explain? Should I tell them about being Sailor Moon? Mom would worry so much though, and Dad would freak out. Don't my friends watch out for me too though? If that could comfort Kagome's family, would it comfort mine? We watch out for each other, and Tuxedo Mask has never failed to come to my rescue. But what if he does? What if one day I die in a battle and my family finds out after my death that I was Sailor Moon? Would they hate me for not telling them? Should I tell them when I get back? Will I get back? Why am I here? What if I'm here forever? What…"

Serena shook her head, getting rid of the thought. She stretched her arms over her head and then lowered herself until she was laying in the grass, still looking up at the moon.

"Are you okay?" Serena looked up and saw Darien looking down at her.

"Yeah, I'm just thinking." She waited for the expected retort. It did not come. Instead he sat down next to her and turned his head to the moon.

"Serena?"

"Hmm?"

"What do you say we call a truce? We're stuck here together in a different time, we probably should at least be amiable to each other."

"Okay," Serena agreed. "It will be a comfort to have someone from my own time around."

"There's Kagome," he pointed out.

"Yeah, but she's at ease here. Comfortable here. I don't know if I can be."

"I guess you're right."

Serena chuckled. "I love those words coming from you."

Darien laughed a little, but then went quiet.

"Darien?"

"Yeah?"

"What are we going to do? Do we stay here or do we go and try to help them with those jewel shards?"

"I don't know. What do you think we should do?"

Serena thought for a moment. "Go with them. I doubt Inuyasha will be happy with it, but I just have this feeling that our place is with these people, not stuck in a village."

"All right. I was feeling that way too."

They lapsed into silence again. A few minutes later Darien looked down and saw Serena curled up, sound asleep. With a soft smile he got up and picked her up. She cuddled into him in her sleep with a sigh. A slight flush graced his cheeks, but he forced it away as he headed towards the hut.

When he entered the hut, Miruko was already asleep, Inuyasha was gone and Kagome and Sango were still up, talking. They both threw him a worried look when he walked in with Serena in his arms, but relaxed when he smiled. He put Serena down gently on the blanket set out for her, then lay down on his own blanket and promptly fell asleep.