Heh... Only one review for this chapter! Oh well.
Mockingbirdflyaway: Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, around 1 AM. That's when we get it here. But I can't stay up till one and still expect to be up by 7 (for Beyblade) so some sacrifices must be made. Alas. And thanks for the info on Sango! I don't think I'll be including her, but it's helpful. Now I can watch the movie without being utterly confused. BTW: your penname sounds incredibly familiar... Have we met before, like on a message board or something? Anyway, thanks for reviewing!
I realized I forgot a disclaimer... As usual. So here's one now: I do not own InuYasha, however much I wish I did. I co-own him with Catty and Nicole! Sesshomaru is co-owned by me and Nicole, and if you honestly belive that the preceding is anything but teenage-hormone-induced fantasy on the part of several otaku, you're a lunatic. Here. (hands u a strait jacked) Join the club!
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Ginger was leaned up against a tree, staring at the fire, around which Kagome was translating her story for the benefit of the three who spoke no English.
"I don't trust this girl." InuYasha said. "She knows too much about us."
"She said it was all a TV show where she comes from!" Kagome protested.
"A TV Show? You never did explain what that was..." Shippo broke in.
"It's... Like a big box that puts on plays behind glass." Kagome said. Shippo nodded. "Anyway, I think that it would be best to just try and get her back home." She finished.
Ginger, meanwhile, was bored out of her mind. The four had been talking for a while, and she couldn't understand hardly a word of Japanese. She reached into her pocked and searched for something to do. Nothing in that pocket...nothing in that one... ah-hah! Here: another cross-stitch sampler.
She usually carried one around just for this purpose. Not falling into Feudal Japan, but occasions when she had nothing to occupy herself. Holding the needle between her lips, Ginger turned her MP3 player(which had remained clipped to her belt) on and spread her work over her lap, separating strands of red thread. Carefully, she began working on what would eventually be a ring of flowers that she could put a name inside. She planned on putting her baby sister's name, Alexandria, in it.
"Ginger?" Kagome approached her. Ginger looked up, still working on the last four stitched in the row. "Are you hungry?" Kagome held out a rice ball for her. "I don't have any American food with me, but you're welcome to what I do have." She said. Ginger smiled.
"Thank you." She said, carefully rolling her work up, replacing in the bag and accepting the food. Kagome sat down across from her.
"Do you have any clue whatsoever how you got here? As far as I know, there is only one well through which you can come here, and even that you need a jewel shard to get through it."
"Nope... I mean, I have nothing out of the ordinary with me. MP3 player, cross-stitch, necklace that I've worn for three years, poison ring my grandmother gave me..." Gigner trailed off, searching her pockets. She then looked in her socks and pulled out a small felt pocket of about 2 by 3 ½ inches. She pulled out a small picture of her holding Alexandria. "Picture of myself and my sister..."
"Oh, she's so cute!" Kagome said, grasping the picture. Gigner laughed.
"Yeah, until you have to change her diaper, give her baths, feed her, and wake up at two AM to comfort her." Ginger said, taking the picture and tucking it back into her sock so that it wouldn't fall out. "But none of that has any mystical value whatsoever!" Ginger lay back against the tree, munching on the rice ball. Once it was finished, she sighed. "How will I get home? I mean, no offense, but I can't be gone too long, and even if I could, a feudal Japan riddled with demons isn't my choice of location."
"None taken. But how will we get you home if we don't know how you got here in the first place?" Kagome sat, silent for a moment.
"We could just drop me back down the well. Surely that could work." Ginger suggested. Kagome looked at her, then hit her forehead.
"Of course! Why didn't I think of that in the first place! We could have had you home hours ago!" She said, jumping up. "Guys, I'm going with Ginger back to the well. We're going to see if she can get back home." She turned to Ginger who stood and dusted herself off. They walked into the woods and nearly cried out when InuYasha jumped down in front of them.
"You can't go out alone, Kagome." He ordered. Kagome sighed.
"Are you going to come and help out then?" InuYasha nodded. Kagome grinned. "Come on then!" She said. Ginger smiled at the obvious attraction between the two, even if she couldn't understand what was being said. The walk was silent, for the most part, and sooner than Ginger expected, they had arrived at the well. Ginger took a deep breath and sat on the edge.
"If this works and I'm gone, I wish y'all luck and all." She said with a grin. "Here..." She took off her necklace. "To remember me by. I can tell my friends I lost my necklace in feudal Japan! Ah well. Adios!" She looked down into the hole. "Hakuna Matata!" She said, jumping down into the hole. This time she was expecting to fall, so she was positioned so that she could cushion her own fall. She landed in a crouch, eyes closed. She silently prayed that it had worked.
"Ginger?" Ginger sighed, looking up to where Kagome was peering down in concern. Ginger located the vine that she had used to climb up before and grasped it tightly. Kagome and InuYasha pulled her up. Minutes later, she knelt by the well, arms propped up on the edge, staring in.
"Maybe... It's your necklace?" Kagome suggested.
"Can't be." Gigner said, still glaring into the now inky depths of the well.
"How come? You came though with it on, you couldn't go back with it off."
"Well one, it's not a jewel shard. And two, well, the reason I have it is because it brought a friend of mine bad luck kind of. She was wearing it when she fell down mountain biking and twisted her ankle. She was wearing it on that one date she had that turned out to be a disaster. But the clincher was that she was wearing it when she fell down this same well... Or the American end of it, at least, and broke her leg. She was going to throw it away when I took it." Gigner glanced at the silver chain from which hung a silver, many-pointed star.
"Oh... And she didn't come though." Kagome finished. Ginger nodded.
"Exactly."
"Well... What could it be then?" Kagome cried in frustration. She then sighed. "You could come with me home. We can call your parents and let them know what happened."
"We should hurry, before they report me kidnapped. That could complicate things a lot." Gigner said thoughtfully. She glanced at her watch, which was still set for her time.
"It's about seven o-clock at home. I've been gone for four hours. If at all possible, I should call by ten or eleven. Is that possible?" Ginger asked.
"We are kind of close to my well..." Kagome said. "But it's several hours walk... Unless..." Kagome looked at InuYasha.
"What are you looking at me like that for?" He demanded, irritated at not being to understand their conversation.
"InuYasha, could you take Ginger to the well?" Kagome asked sweetly. InuYasha looked disgusted.
"No!" She said. Ginger giggled, having caught the gist of what was being said, and InuYasha's firm but outraged 'iie' was too funny.
"I'll let you listen to your theme song!" Ginger said, grinning. InuYasha looked confused until Kagome translated. He looked at her.
"I have a theme song?" Kagome translated this for Ginger, who nodded.
"Were you not listening to my story? You're part of an anime series!" Ginger said, laughing and pulling out her MP3 player. Not having been introduced to this yet, and not understanding what Ginger was saying, he jumped when she turned it on and it began playing 'Hella Good' quite loudly. Kagome giggled and told him what Ginger has said. InuYasha glared. Gigner turned off the MP3 player.
"I still won't." InuYasha said, folding his arms and looking the other way.
"Sit boy!" Kagome ordered. As InuYasha slammed into the ground face-first, Ginger grinned.
"Feh. Stupid girl..." He muttered. Finally wising up, he consented. "But only if I get some more ramen." He added. Kagome sighed.
"Fine. Ramen. Gotcha. Just get her home and quickly!" Kagome ordered. InuYasha grumbled and walked over to Ginger, who jumped on his back. He gave one last glare at Kagome and took off, leaping at incredible speed.
"EEP!" Ginger cried, tightening her grip on her own elbows so that she felt more secure, but didn't choke InuYasha. She closed her eyes tightly and tried to ignore the fact that she was going almost as fast as a car would without a seatbelt, airbags, or any sort of safety measure whatsoever. He finally set her down in a clearing with a square well in the middle.
"Wow... this is too cool! I mean, this is..." Ginger shook her head. "I need to stop. Anyway...YIKES!" She cried when InuYasha picked her up again.
"You couldn't get through alone without a jewel shard." He said, knowing full well she couldn't understand. Ginger's shock was the only thing keeping her from screaming as they fell down the well.
Finally, Ginger stood on wobbly legs as InuYasha jumped straight up and out of the well. She sighed and reached for the ladder, gingerly climbing up it.
"I'm going back to get Kagome. You stay." He pointed at the ground. Gigner caught the word Kagome and worked out that he was going back for her. She settled down on the floor behind the well, out of sight should anyone peek in. InuYasha jumped back into the well. Gigner sighed and pulled out her cross-stitch. By the time InuYasha returned with Kagome she was about halfway finished.
"Come on, Ginger." Kagome said. She led the still slightly stunned girl to her house and into the kitchen.
"Kagome! You're home early this weekend. Oh? Who's this?" Kagome's mom caught sight of Ginger.
"Mom, this is Ginger." Kagome said in English. "Ginger, this is my mom."
"Nice to meet you." Gigner said slightly shyly. Kagome's mom smiled.
"Welcome, dear. Where are you from? You have an American accent." She noted.
"America. Something weird happened, and I'm now... well, I don't rightfully know." Gigner trailed off.
"She fell down a well where she's from and ended up in feudal Japan." Kagome said. "We don't know how, or why, but we were wondering if she could call her family from here until she can find a way to get back."
"Oh! Of course she can. Here you go." Kagome's mom said, handing Ginger the phone.
"Thank you." Ginger smiled. She dialed her home phone number and waited anxiously. Instead of ringing, she got a message saying that the number didn't exist. She gaped slightly before hanging up and the quickly dialing her mom's cell phone. When that 'didn't exist' she dialed her dad's. Then her dad's work. Her best friend. Her best-friend's ex-crush. None picked up, or they weren't in existence, or something like that. Ginger, who had been pacing, collapsed to her knees.
"I should have figured. His is some weird alternate universe, I can't call home..." se said, tears welling up behind her eyes. She closed her eyes and buried her face in her hands. Kagome knelt beside her, trying to soothe the poor girl.
"I can't believe this... It'... outrageous! It's impossible! I have to be dreaming! That's the only way!" Ginger whispered desperately. Finally she couldn't help it and hot tears rolled down her cheeks. "This is impossible..."
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Erm... Wasn't intending that to be so emotional. But oh well! It will get more humorous once I work through this here... Naturally this will wind up with a happy ending, I can't help it. But there will be trials. And I'm the judge! Yay for me! Anyway... let me know if this is being read peoples! Is peoples a real word, spell check didn't say it wasn't... hm. Oh well.
Mockingbirdflyaway: Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, around 1 AM. That's when we get it here. But I can't stay up till one and still expect to be up by 7 (for Beyblade) so some sacrifices must be made. Alas. And thanks for the info on Sango! I don't think I'll be including her, but it's helpful. Now I can watch the movie without being utterly confused. BTW: your penname sounds incredibly familiar... Have we met before, like on a message board or something? Anyway, thanks for reviewing!
I realized I forgot a disclaimer... As usual. So here's one now: I do not own InuYasha, however much I wish I did. I co-own him with Catty and Nicole! Sesshomaru is co-owned by me and Nicole, and if you honestly belive that the preceding is anything but teenage-hormone-induced fantasy on the part of several otaku, you're a lunatic. Here. (hands u a strait jacked) Join the club!
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Ginger was leaned up against a tree, staring at the fire, around which Kagome was translating her story for the benefit of the three who spoke no English.
"I don't trust this girl." InuYasha said. "She knows too much about us."
"She said it was all a TV show where she comes from!" Kagome protested.
"A TV Show? You never did explain what that was..." Shippo broke in.
"It's... Like a big box that puts on plays behind glass." Kagome said. Shippo nodded. "Anyway, I think that it would be best to just try and get her back home." She finished.
Ginger, meanwhile, was bored out of her mind. The four had been talking for a while, and she couldn't understand hardly a word of Japanese. She reached into her pocked and searched for something to do. Nothing in that pocket...nothing in that one... ah-hah! Here: another cross-stitch sampler.
She usually carried one around just for this purpose. Not falling into Feudal Japan, but occasions when she had nothing to occupy herself. Holding the needle between her lips, Ginger turned her MP3 player(which had remained clipped to her belt) on and spread her work over her lap, separating strands of red thread. Carefully, she began working on what would eventually be a ring of flowers that she could put a name inside. She planned on putting her baby sister's name, Alexandria, in it.
"Ginger?" Kagome approached her. Ginger looked up, still working on the last four stitched in the row. "Are you hungry?" Kagome held out a rice ball for her. "I don't have any American food with me, but you're welcome to what I do have." She said. Ginger smiled.
"Thank you." She said, carefully rolling her work up, replacing in the bag and accepting the food. Kagome sat down across from her.
"Do you have any clue whatsoever how you got here? As far as I know, there is only one well through which you can come here, and even that you need a jewel shard to get through it."
"Nope... I mean, I have nothing out of the ordinary with me. MP3 player, cross-stitch, necklace that I've worn for three years, poison ring my grandmother gave me..." Gigner trailed off, searching her pockets. She then looked in her socks and pulled out a small felt pocket of about 2 by 3 ½ inches. She pulled out a small picture of her holding Alexandria. "Picture of myself and my sister..."
"Oh, she's so cute!" Kagome said, grasping the picture. Gigner laughed.
"Yeah, until you have to change her diaper, give her baths, feed her, and wake up at two AM to comfort her." Ginger said, taking the picture and tucking it back into her sock so that it wouldn't fall out. "But none of that has any mystical value whatsoever!" Ginger lay back against the tree, munching on the rice ball. Once it was finished, she sighed. "How will I get home? I mean, no offense, but I can't be gone too long, and even if I could, a feudal Japan riddled with demons isn't my choice of location."
"None taken. But how will we get you home if we don't know how you got here in the first place?" Kagome sat, silent for a moment.
"We could just drop me back down the well. Surely that could work." Ginger suggested. Kagome looked at her, then hit her forehead.
"Of course! Why didn't I think of that in the first place! We could have had you home hours ago!" She said, jumping up. "Guys, I'm going with Ginger back to the well. We're going to see if she can get back home." She turned to Ginger who stood and dusted herself off. They walked into the woods and nearly cried out when InuYasha jumped down in front of them.
"You can't go out alone, Kagome." He ordered. Kagome sighed.
"Are you going to come and help out then?" InuYasha nodded. Kagome grinned. "Come on then!" She said. Ginger smiled at the obvious attraction between the two, even if she couldn't understand what was being said. The walk was silent, for the most part, and sooner than Ginger expected, they had arrived at the well. Ginger took a deep breath and sat on the edge.
"If this works and I'm gone, I wish y'all luck and all." She said with a grin. "Here..." She took off her necklace. "To remember me by. I can tell my friends I lost my necklace in feudal Japan! Ah well. Adios!" She looked down into the hole. "Hakuna Matata!" She said, jumping down into the hole. This time she was expecting to fall, so she was positioned so that she could cushion her own fall. She landed in a crouch, eyes closed. She silently prayed that it had worked.
"Ginger?" Ginger sighed, looking up to where Kagome was peering down in concern. Ginger located the vine that she had used to climb up before and grasped it tightly. Kagome and InuYasha pulled her up. Minutes later, she knelt by the well, arms propped up on the edge, staring in.
"Maybe... It's your necklace?" Kagome suggested.
"Can't be." Gigner said, still glaring into the now inky depths of the well.
"How come? You came though with it on, you couldn't go back with it off."
"Well one, it's not a jewel shard. And two, well, the reason I have it is because it brought a friend of mine bad luck kind of. She was wearing it when she fell down mountain biking and twisted her ankle. She was wearing it on that one date she had that turned out to be a disaster. But the clincher was that she was wearing it when she fell down this same well... Or the American end of it, at least, and broke her leg. She was going to throw it away when I took it." Gigner glanced at the silver chain from which hung a silver, many-pointed star.
"Oh... And she didn't come though." Kagome finished. Ginger nodded.
"Exactly."
"Well... What could it be then?" Kagome cried in frustration. She then sighed. "You could come with me home. We can call your parents and let them know what happened."
"We should hurry, before they report me kidnapped. That could complicate things a lot." Gigner said thoughtfully. She glanced at her watch, which was still set for her time.
"It's about seven o-clock at home. I've been gone for four hours. If at all possible, I should call by ten or eleven. Is that possible?" Ginger asked.
"We are kind of close to my well..." Kagome said. "But it's several hours walk... Unless..." Kagome looked at InuYasha.
"What are you looking at me like that for?" He demanded, irritated at not being to understand their conversation.
"InuYasha, could you take Ginger to the well?" Kagome asked sweetly. InuYasha looked disgusted.
"No!" She said. Ginger giggled, having caught the gist of what was being said, and InuYasha's firm but outraged 'iie' was too funny.
"I'll let you listen to your theme song!" Ginger said, grinning. InuYasha looked confused until Kagome translated. He looked at her.
"I have a theme song?" Kagome translated this for Ginger, who nodded.
"Were you not listening to my story? You're part of an anime series!" Ginger said, laughing and pulling out her MP3 player. Not having been introduced to this yet, and not understanding what Ginger was saying, he jumped when she turned it on and it began playing 'Hella Good' quite loudly. Kagome giggled and told him what Ginger has said. InuYasha glared. Gigner turned off the MP3 player.
"I still won't." InuYasha said, folding his arms and looking the other way.
"Sit boy!" Kagome ordered. As InuYasha slammed into the ground face-first, Ginger grinned.
"Feh. Stupid girl..." He muttered. Finally wising up, he consented. "But only if I get some more ramen." He added. Kagome sighed.
"Fine. Ramen. Gotcha. Just get her home and quickly!" Kagome ordered. InuYasha grumbled and walked over to Ginger, who jumped on his back. He gave one last glare at Kagome and took off, leaping at incredible speed.
"EEP!" Ginger cried, tightening her grip on her own elbows so that she felt more secure, but didn't choke InuYasha. She closed her eyes tightly and tried to ignore the fact that she was going almost as fast as a car would without a seatbelt, airbags, or any sort of safety measure whatsoever. He finally set her down in a clearing with a square well in the middle.
"Wow... this is too cool! I mean, this is..." Ginger shook her head. "I need to stop. Anyway...YIKES!" She cried when InuYasha picked her up again.
"You couldn't get through alone without a jewel shard." He said, knowing full well she couldn't understand. Ginger's shock was the only thing keeping her from screaming as they fell down the well.
Finally, Ginger stood on wobbly legs as InuYasha jumped straight up and out of the well. She sighed and reached for the ladder, gingerly climbing up it.
"I'm going back to get Kagome. You stay." He pointed at the ground. Gigner caught the word Kagome and worked out that he was going back for her. She settled down on the floor behind the well, out of sight should anyone peek in. InuYasha jumped back into the well. Gigner sighed and pulled out her cross-stitch. By the time InuYasha returned with Kagome she was about halfway finished.
"Come on, Ginger." Kagome said. She led the still slightly stunned girl to her house and into the kitchen.
"Kagome! You're home early this weekend. Oh? Who's this?" Kagome's mom caught sight of Ginger.
"Mom, this is Ginger." Kagome said in English. "Ginger, this is my mom."
"Nice to meet you." Gigner said slightly shyly. Kagome's mom smiled.
"Welcome, dear. Where are you from? You have an American accent." She noted.
"America. Something weird happened, and I'm now... well, I don't rightfully know." Gigner trailed off.
"She fell down a well where she's from and ended up in feudal Japan." Kagome said. "We don't know how, or why, but we were wondering if she could call her family from here until she can find a way to get back."
"Oh! Of course she can. Here you go." Kagome's mom said, handing Ginger the phone.
"Thank you." Ginger smiled. She dialed her home phone number and waited anxiously. Instead of ringing, she got a message saying that the number didn't exist. She gaped slightly before hanging up and the quickly dialing her mom's cell phone. When that 'didn't exist' she dialed her dad's. Then her dad's work. Her best friend. Her best-friend's ex-crush. None picked up, or they weren't in existence, or something like that. Ginger, who had been pacing, collapsed to her knees.
"I should have figured. His is some weird alternate universe, I can't call home..." se said, tears welling up behind her eyes. She closed her eyes and buried her face in her hands. Kagome knelt beside her, trying to soothe the poor girl.
"I can't believe this... It'... outrageous! It's impossible! I have to be dreaming! That's the only way!" Ginger whispered desperately. Finally she couldn't help it and hot tears rolled down her cheeks. "This is impossible..."
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Erm... Wasn't intending that to be so emotional. But oh well! It will get more humorous once I work through this here... Naturally this will wind up with a happy ending, I can't help it. But there will be trials. And I'm the judge! Yay for me! Anyway... let me know if this is being read peoples! Is peoples a real word, spell check didn't say it wasn't... hm. Oh well.