Chapter 2: Higurashi Shrine
"Yusuke," was all he heard as he groaned, "Yusuke!!!!" Yusuke's eyes snapped open to find Keiko leaning over him with a big grin, she kissed him on the cheek.
"What is it?" He asked with a yawn.
"Botan has a little job for you," she replied.
"Let me guess, she's right outside waiting for me?" He proposed. Keiko responded with a nod.
"Oh boy," he said as he got up and walked outside, he had been so tired the day before that he fell asleep in his cloths, he walked outside to find Botan floating above him on that stick thing. "What now?" He asked impatiently.
"Just something that you might wanna check out, the Higurashi shrine," she responded. Yusuke rolled his eyes, "Kowenma asked me to check it out, I saw a girl jumping into a well, after about five minutes she didn't come out, so I checked the well and she was gone, according to the files her name is Kagome Higurashi, and she's been having some strange sicknesses for a while that were supposed to be gone a few hundred years back, that's why Kowenma asked me to look, and now he wants you on the case," she finished in almost one sentence.
"Damn Botan, do you breath much?" He asked with a laugh, getting a glare in response.
~~~~~~~
Botan and Yusuke were walking all the way across town, lets face it, Yusuke would look kind of weird talking to a floating nothing, so she was in her human form. "So what's with Kuwabara lately?" Asked Yusuke.
"He has the flu, and Hiei and Kurama are doing something personal, so you're in this one on your own," she responded with a smile.
"Oh, great," he said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
"Don't worry Yusuke, it's probably just a false alarm," she lied, she didn't want him upset. They had finally reached the shrine and didn't even notice they had gone up the stone stairs as Botan knocked on the door, it flew open and an old man with scrolls tapped around his fingers and wrists answered the door. "Hello, we're from Kagome's school, and we'd like to do a documentary on the lives of students," covered Botan.
"Kagome has Insuphimia," said the old man, slamming the door in Botan's face.
"What the hell is Insuphimia?" Snapped Yusuke. He got a shrug in response, "There's too many windows on the sides so we can't go around, so we have to go.."
"Above," Botan finished his sentence as her stick appeared(A/N I need the name of that thing too) and she hopped on and forced a protesting Yusuke with her. They flew over the house and landed in front of the well house without a sound.
"So, do you think anything is really going on here?" Asked Yusuke.
"Well, we're about to find out," she said as she opened the door silently. Yusuke walked over to the well and looked in, no water was in it.
"Hey, there's no water in here," he said as he jumped in. After about thirty seconds Botan started to get worried.
"Yusuke, are you down there?" She asked as she looked down the well, he wasn't there, she sighed and jumped in herself as well.
~~~~~~~
Inuyasha smirked, 'Gods I'm so evil,' and he began to tickle her, her eyes snapped open and she started to laugh uncontrollably, he stopped after her begging a good few times.
"What was that for?!" She snapped in a more playful tone than anything else, Inuyasha shrugged and jumped up into the tree.
'What is with him lately?' Kagome asked herself as she walked back in the hut
Kagome woke up to the bright sunrise and smiled at the elderly Griffy who was snoring louder than Shippo, but wait, Shippo wasn't snoring, uh oh. "Kagome!!!! You're awake!!!" The little kitsune yelled, jumping onto her face. After plucking off the fox youkai she put him on her shoulder, "When'sbreakfastKagome?" He asked in one word, she took a while to process it.
"Oh, I'm gonna work on it now," she answered with a yawn as she got her bag and set up a fire. Five minutes later the bacon and eggs were burning over a fire with Kagome continuously keeping an eye on them as to not burn them. Inuyasha woke up to the scent of cooked pig and chicken eggs, he smirked as he jumped out of his tree and walked into the hut.
"I see that you are awake Inuyasha," said the overly happy monk, who was sitting by Sango but apparently not doing anything perverted.
Inuyasha took a seat, "Damn Kagome, how much can that back pack handle?" He snapped.
"A lot," she responded, then she realized what had happened, he had the tone of voice in which he usually called her wench or woman, but he didn't, before she could open her mouth about it Miroku was already on it.
"Inuyasha, pray tell what this strange behavior signals for us, in Lamen's terms, what the hell is wrong with you?" Asked Miroku, he ended up with a big bump on his head and an angry hanyou standing over him. Inuyasha sat back down.
"Nothing, ok?" He exclaimed as Kagome handed him his food and he scarfed it down.
After everyone finished they said their goodbyes to the polite Griffy and set out, they were heading back to Keada's village to rest from their adventure and to tell tale of it as well. Inuyasha stuck by Kagome even if she did walk slow, he paced himself to match her, meanwhile, another interesting conversation erupted between the Houshi and the demon slayer. "You notice?" Asked Miroku.
"Huh?" Sango said in a dense way.
Miroku sighed, "Don't you see how Inuyasha is respecting her more, isn't it obvious that he l..." Miroku was cut off by Inuyasha glaring back at them both, showing that he could hear the blabbering monk's prediction. Sango nodded back to Miroku, showing that she understood.
"Inuyasha, you've been acting strange lately, is something wrong?" Kagome asked him.
"No, I already told you, talking is slowing us down," he said, even though he kept pace with Kagome all the way, she looked at him suspiciously.
~~~~~~~
Yusuke landed in the well, but everything around him felt different, there were weeds that weren't there before, he pondered it as he climbed out of the well. As he surfaced what he saw almost made him fall back down the well. He stepped out and looked around in amazement, "Where is this place?" He asked himself.
"Feudal Japan," said Botan from behind him, she had a smile on her face as usual.
Yusuke almost jumped out of his skin, "Damn Botan, you scared the shit out of me, can you try not to sneak up on me like that?"
"No, it's my job," she said, walking over to him.
Yusuke walked on with Botan behind him, they eventually ended up at a village and knocked on the door of one of the huts he presumed to be safe. An old woman with one eye answered it and examined them for a minute. "What business do ye have here?" She asked them. Botan couldn't come up with a cover this time, "Are ye not from here?" She asked, Yusuke gave a firm nod, "Come in, come in," she invited them. They merely complied and followed. "I know the future, and I know that ye are from the future," she hurriedly explained to them. Just then our favorite Inu-Hanyou stepped in and caught eyes with Yusuke.
Yusuke raised up his hand in the shape of a gun and gathered his spirit energy, luckily Botan jumped in front of him, "Yusuke, stop," she commanded.
"Why, he's a demon," he said, getting a glare from Inuyasha.
Botan rolled her eyes, "He is 'the' demon, I have been around forever and I'd recognize this guy anywhere, believe me Yusuke, you do not want to kill him," she said.
"Whatever," he responded, withdrawing his spirit gun.
"Who the fuck are you?!" Snapped Inuyasha as Kagome and the rest of the gang stepped in.
"I'm a spirit detective," responded Yusuke proudly.
"Feh," said Inuyasha, walking over to Keada. Yusuke stared ahead as if he had just been dumped by Keiko.
"Yusuke, it's not that big of a deal," said Botan with a giggle.
"Not that big a deal, this guys a demon and he doesn't know who I am!!" He yelled desperately.
"That's because this is the past," said Botan, giving him a duh look.
Shippo leaned forward on Kagome's shoulder, "I'm confused," he said, "Who are they?"
Keada sat them down and Yusuke told them everything, including what a spirit detective was. "So you're from the future too?" Asked Sango, Yusuke gave another one of his firm nods. Just then Inuyasha picked up a scent in the air.
"Damn it, it's Kouga again," snapped Inuyasha.
"Let me handle it Inuyasha, you'd probably kill him," said Kagome as she got up to go outside and shoo Kouga away, and for some odd reason Inuyasha didn't protest at all.
Kagome stepped outside and Kouga smirked, "Ah, Kagome, I've been looking all over for you," he said in a smug tone.
"Kouga, please try not to bug Inuyasha," she said.
"Has that mutt-face done anything to you?" He snapped.
"To tell truth, no," she responded, "Kouga, I'll invite you later ok?" She offered.
Kouga's face fell, but he got the message and gave a firm nod, he stormed off and Kagome breathed a sigh of relief. Just then she remembered something, she had to go shopping for Sota, her mom gave her the money for his birthday, "Uh oh," she said. She ran back into the hut, she wasn't going to ditch Inuyasha this time, she had something else in mind. "Inuyasha?" She said innocently.
"Hmm?" He wondered, coming out of his trance.
"Come here for a second," she said, walking outside.
Inuyasha sighed and followed her, a loud slap and a screaming Sango could be heard behind him, he walked up to Kagome, "What now?" He asked impatiently.
"I need you to come to my time for Sota's birthday, he wants you there, and you could help us around the house," she said, Inuyasha grunted, it's not like he had a choice.
^_^
Cloud: Uh oh, what will become of our poor Inu-Hanyou? And how did a spirit detective and the grim reaper come through the well?
Cagri: Will you be quiet?
Cloud: Anyway, I'll update as soon as possible, so long.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha nor do I own Yu Yu Hakusho.
"Yusuke," was all he heard as he groaned, "Yusuke!!!!" Yusuke's eyes snapped open to find Keiko leaning over him with a big grin, she kissed him on the cheek.
"What is it?" He asked with a yawn.
"Botan has a little job for you," she replied.
"Let me guess, she's right outside waiting for me?" He proposed. Keiko responded with a nod.
"Oh boy," he said as he got up and walked outside, he had been so tired the day before that he fell asleep in his cloths, he walked outside to find Botan floating above him on that stick thing. "What now?" He asked impatiently.
"Just something that you might wanna check out, the Higurashi shrine," she responded. Yusuke rolled his eyes, "Kowenma asked me to check it out, I saw a girl jumping into a well, after about five minutes she didn't come out, so I checked the well and she was gone, according to the files her name is Kagome Higurashi, and she's been having some strange sicknesses for a while that were supposed to be gone a few hundred years back, that's why Kowenma asked me to look, and now he wants you on the case," she finished in almost one sentence.
"Damn Botan, do you breath much?" He asked with a laugh, getting a glare in response.
~~~~~~~
Botan and Yusuke were walking all the way across town, lets face it, Yusuke would look kind of weird talking to a floating nothing, so she was in her human form. "So what's with Kuwabara lately?" Asked Yusuke.
"He has the flu, and Hiei and Kurama are doing something personal, so you're in this one on your own," she responded with a smile.
"Oh, great," he said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
"Don't worry Yusuke, it's probably just a false alarm," she lied, she didn't want him upset. They had finally reached the shrine and didn't even notice they had gone up the stone stairs as Botan knocked on the door, it flew open and an old man with scrolls tapped around his fingers and wrists answered the door. "Hello, we're from Kagome's school, and we'd like to do a documentary on the lives of students," covered Botan.
"Kagome has Insuphimia," said the old man, slamming the door in Botan's face.
"What the hell is Insuphimia?" Snapped Yusuke. He got a shrug in response, "There's too many windows on the sides so we can't go around, so we have to go.."
"Above," Botan finished his sentence as her stick appeared(A/N I need the name of that thing too) and she hopped on and forced a protesting Yusuke with her. They flew over the house and landed in front of the well house without a sound.
"So, do you think anything is really going on here?" Asked Yusuke.
"Well, we're about to find out," she said as she opened the door silently. Yusuke walked over to the well and looked in, no water was in it.
"Hey, there's no water in here," he said as he jumped in. After about thirty seconds Botan started to get worried.
"Yusuke, are you down there?" She asked as she looked down the well, he wasn't there, she sighed and jumped in herself as well.
~~~~~~~
Inuyasha smirked, 'Gods I'm so evil,' and he began to tickle her, her eyes snapped open and she started to laugh uncontrollably, he stopped after her begging a good few times.
"What was that for?!" She snapped in a more playful tone than anything else, Inuyasha shrugged and jumped up into the tree.
'What is with him lately?' Kagome asked herself as she walked back in the hut
Kagome woke up to the bright sunrise and smiled at the elderly Griffy who was snoring louder than Shippo, but wait, Shippo wasn't snoring, uh oh. "Kagome!!!! You're awake!!!" The little kitsune yelled, jumping onto her face. After plucking off the fox youkai she put him on her shoulder, "When'sbreakfastKagome?" He asked in one word, she took a while to process it.
"Oh, I'm gonna work on it now," she answered with a yawn as she got her bag and set up a fire. Five minutes later the bacon and eggs were burning over a fire with Kagome continuously keeping an eye on them as to not burn them. Inuyasha woke up to the scent of cooked pig and chicken eggs, he smirked as he jumped out of his tree and walked into the hut.
"I see that you are awake Inuyasha," said the overly happy monk, who was sitting by Sango but apparently not doing anything perverted.
Inuyasha took a seat, "Damn Kagome, how much can that back pack handle?" He snapped.
"A lot," she responded, then she realized what had happened, he had the tone of voice in which he usually called her wench or woman, but he didn't, before she could open her mouth about it Miroku was already on it.
"Inuyasha, pray tell what this strange behavior signals for us, in Lamen's terms, what the hell is wrong with you?" Asked Miroku, he ended up with a big bump on his head and an angry hanyou standing over him. Inuyasha sat back down.
"Nothing, ok?" He exclaimed as Kagome handed him his food and he scarfed it down.
After everyone finished they said their goodbyes to the polite Griffy and set out, they were heading back to Keada's village to rest from their adventure and to tell tale of it as well. Inuyasha stuck by Kagome even if she did walk slow, he paced himself to match her, meanwhile, another interesting conversation erupted between the Houshi and the demon slayer. "You notice?" Asked Miroku.
"Huh?" Sango said in a dense way.
Miroku sighed, "Don't you see how Inuyasha is respecting her more, isn't it obvious that he l..." Miroku was cut off by Inuyasha glaring back at them both, showing that he could hear the blabbering monk's prediction. Sango nodded back to Miroku, showing that she understood.
"Inuyasha, you've been acting strange lately, is something wrong?" Kagome asked him.
"No, I already told you, talking is slowing us down," he said, even though he kept pace with Kagome all the way, she looked at him suspiciously.
~~~~~~~
Yusuke landed in the well, but everything around him felt different, there were weeds that weren't there before, he pondered it as he climbed out of the well. As he surfaced what he saw almost made him fall back down the well. He stepped out and looked around in amazement, "Where is this place?" He asked himself.
"Feudal Japan," said Botan from behind him, she had a smile on her face as usual.
Yusuke almost jumped out of his skin, "Damn Botan, you scared the shit out of me, can you try not to sneak up on me like that?"
"No, it's my job," she said, walking over to him.
Yusuke walked on with Botan behind him, they eventually ended up at a village and knocked on the door of one of the huts he presumed to be safe. An old woman with one eye answered it and examined them for a minute. "What business do ye have here?" She asked them. Botan couldn't come up with a cover this time, "Are ye not from here?" She asked, Yusuke gave a firm nod, "Come in, come in," she invited them. They merely complied and followed. "I know the future, and I know that ye are from the future," she hurriedly explained to them. Just then our favorite Inu-Hanyou stepped in and caught eyes with Yusuke.
Yusuke raised up his hand in the shape of a gun and gathered his spirit energy, luckily Botan jumped in front of him, "Yusuke, stop," she commanded.
"Why, he's a demon," he said, getting a glare from Inuyasha.
Botan rolled her eyes, "He is 'the' demon, I have been around forever and I'd recognize this guy anywhere, believe me Yusuke, you do not want to kill him," she said.
"Whatever," he responded, withdrawing his spirit gun.
"Who the fuck are you?!" Snapped Inuyasha as Kagome and the rest of the gang stepped in.
"I'm a spirit detective," responded Yusuke proudly.
"Feh," said Inuyasha, walking over to Keada. Yusuke stared ahead as if he had just been dumped by Keiko.
"Yusuke, it's not that big of a deal," said Botan with a giggle.
"Not that big a deal, this guys a demon and he doesn't know who I am!!" He yelled desperately.
"That's because this is the past," said Botan, giving him a duh look.
Shippo leaned forward on Kagome's shoulder, "I'm confused," he said, "Who are they?"
Keada sat them down and Yusuke told them everything, including what a spirit detective was. "So you're from the future too?" Asked Sango, Yusuke gave another one of his firm nods. Just then Inuyasha picked up a scent in the air.
"Damn it, it's Kouga again," snapped Inuyasha.
"Let me handle it Inuyasha, you'd probably kill him," said Kagome as she got up to go outside and shoo Kouga away, and for some odd reason Inuyasha didn't protest at all.
Kagome stepped outside and Kouga smirked, "Ah, Kagome, I've been looking all over for you," he said in a smug tone.
"Kouga, please try not to bug Inuyasha," she said.
"Has that mutt-face done anything to you?" He snapped.
"To tell truth, no," she responded, "Kouga, I'll invite you later ok?" She offered.
Kouga's face fell, but he got the message and gave a firm nod, he stormed off and Kagome breathed a sigh of relief. Just then she remembered something, she had to go shopping for Sota, her mom gave her the money for his birthday, "Uh oh," she said. She ran back into the hut, she wasn't going to ditch Inuyasha this time, she had something else in mind. "Inuyasha?" She said innocently.
"Hmm?" He wondered, coming out of his trance.
"Come here for a second," she said, walking outside.
Inuyasha sighed and followed her, a loud slap and a screaming Sango could be heard behind him, he walked up to Kagome, "What now?" He asked impatiently.
"I need you to come to my time for Sota's birthday, he wants you there, and you could help us around the house," she said, Inuyasha grunted, it's not like he had a choice.
^_^
Cloud: Uh oh, what will become of our poor Inu-Hanyou? And how did a spirit detective and the grim reaper come through the well?
Cagri: Will you be quiet?
Cloud: Anyway, I'll update as soon as possible, so long.
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha nor do I own Yu Yu Hakusho.