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"I'm
telling you Kagome, it's nothing!" growled Inuyasha. His
dog-like ears
twitched in the wind, moving back and forth to
catch the slightest sound.
One hand fiddled with a strand of
grass. Lying on his back, he stared up at
the fluffy clouds
directly overhead. His free hand found the strange
necklace
around his neck and clung to it.
He didn't pay his companions
any attention.
Beside him were the two smaller members of their
group. The fox youkai,
Shippo played with Kirara, a cat youkai.
Shippo was the youngest of the
group and was always get into
fights with Inuyasha. Despite the fact that he
was male, he wore
a blue bow in his hair.
The females of the group, Sango and
Kagome, sat a little ways off. Sango
was an expert demon slayer.
When she and Inuyasha first met, she had
obviously tried to kill
him. But since then they had become good friends.
Kagome, on the
other hand, was completely different. Opposite to the
clothes of
the others, she wore modern-day school clothing. She looked very
out of place in the middle of the forest and yet she belonged
there just as
much as the others did. Kagome was from modern
Japan, not the feudal era
that she was currently in. Her archery
was deadly, particularly because she
could power the arrow to do
more damage than usual.
Standing next to the tree at the edge of
the clearing was Miroku. One hand
on the tree, one hand on his
staff, he watched the others. Or more
importantly, he watched
Sango and Kagome. The monk was a lecher and every
chance he got
he would touch Sango's rear. That always got him slapped
across
the face. Despite his obsession with Sango, he was a nice person and
always very helpful in battles. Like Sango, when he had first
met Inuyasha,
he had tried to kill him. That was over and they
were friends now. Well,
they had as much of a friendship as
Inuyasha would admit.
On Kagome's shoulder sat Myouga, the flea
demon. As the word Flea
suggested, he was very, very small. He
was constantly trying to suck
everyone's blood, especially
Inuyasha's. He was wise but tended to flee any
battle
Inuyasha and company got into.
" I'm sure something is
wrong," replied Kagome, fiddling nervously with a
strand of
grass. Her brown orbs were laced with worry and concern.
Her
black hair flowed over her shoulders, straight and clean
despite the fact
that she had been lying on the ground.
" I
keep on sensing something coming from the well, it's danger I'm
sure of
it!"
" Kagome, you have gone back five times
already. You just returned
yesterday," said Sango, her
soft voice hesitant. "It's summer. You said
that
your 'school' wouldn't be starting for another month.
Relax."
" I can't help it," said Kagome. "I just keep
on thinking that my family is
in danger?" Kagome trailed off.
Her eyes rested on the well on the other
side of the clearing.
"
Don't worry –" Miroku started, but he stopped speaking
suddenly. His staff
glowed a faint white as the color drained
from his face.
" Miroku?" Sango asked after a moment of
silence.
"There's an evil presence," Miroku said quietly.
The other's had to strain
to hear his soft voice. "Around the
well."
Kagome went pale. "I knew it!" she exclaimed,
leaping to her feet. The
others did the same. "I've got to
go back!?
"Then I"m coming with you," Put in Inuyasha. "If
there's a fight I don't
want to miss it."
Kagome opened
her mouth to argue but gave up without a word. She nodded
then
picked up her pack and ran to the well. Inuyasha followed.
They
stood on the edge of the well, preparing to jump. The others went to
the edge of the well to watch. While they couldn't follow
Kagome and
Inuyasha down, watching them pass through the portal
was amazing.
Taking a deep breath, Inuyasha and Kagome leapt down
the well head first,
like they always did. The last thing they
heard from the feudal era was
Shippo saying "Good
Luck?"
Kagome slammed into the ground, raising a cloud of
dust. Coughing, she got
to her feet. Brushing her skirt off, she
looked around.
Inuyasha was standing beside her. The hanyou
sniffed the air, sorting out
the smells.
"Are we back in
modern times?" asked Kagome, not sure.
"Guess?" was the
hanyou's rude reply, before he sprang out of the well.
Kagome,
who didn't have Inuyasha's powerful legs, climbed up using the
ladder.
"You didn't have to be mean about it." Replied
Kagome, as she opened the
door leading out of the well house.
Inuyasha, without answering, leapt out
and sniffed the
air.
"Anything?" Kagome asked anxiously. If there were any
demons around, her
favorite hanyou would smell them.
"Nothing."
Inuyasha responded shaking his head. "You'd better go check on
your family."
Kagome nodded, and ran inside the house; her
house. The family would be
right in the middle of lunch if
nothing had happened. She checked the dining
room, not expecting
anyone to be there.
Her mother looked up from her meal. Souta
peered up at his older sister
then resumed eating. Her
grandfather didn't even look up.
"Good afternoon Kagome,"
her mother said. "Worrying about us again"
Everything's
fine dear." She got up and walked over to the counter. She came
back with a big sack. "I've packed lots of Ramen for
Inuyasha, some soda,
and Candy for Shippo!" She smiled at her
daughter.
Kagome was frowning slightly. What was it Miroku had
sensed she wondered.
Inuyasha burst into the room
"Another
false alarm," he grunted. "I've got a few choice words for
that
lecherous monk when we get back." Kagome's Mom handed
him the pack she had
been holding. He shouldered it.
"Come
on Kagome!" He said before running out of the house. After saying
a
quick good bye to her family, Kagome followed.
Inuyasha was
already at the well. "Hurry Up!" he growled as he leapt into
the
well. Kagome looked over the side and watched him vanish. Leaping
onto
the rim, she let herself fall into the well. Waiting for
the sunlight and
Inuyasha to appear, she failed to notice that
the well hadn't activated.
She slammed into the dust and dirt.
Coughing, she stood. A quick look around
told her that she
wasn't in the Feudal Era. She was still in modern times.
Why
hadn't the well activated?
Magical aura made the bottom of the
well glow. Kagome was suddenly very
dizzy. She climbed out of
the well and opened the shrine door.
She hadn't taken two steps
when the well
exploded.
Inuyasha
landed in the dirt with a soft thud. Once having leapt to the top
of the well, he scowled at Miroku who was sitting with Sango and
Shippo
nearby. Undiminished fury radiated from him.
"Idiot!
There was nothing there! You sent us back for no reason at all and
Kagome-" He turned to glare at Kagome but she wasn't there.
"H-huh?? Kagome?"
He looked down the well. Kagome wasn"t
there. "I'm sure that she followed
me-"
Then without
warning, the well exploded.
Inuyasha was hurled to the opposite
side of the clearing. A sturdy tree
stopped him from flying
further.
"Kagome!" he yelled. Pulling himself to his feet,
the hanyou ran to the
well. The others were already
there.
"Kagome must not have been able to follow you," Sango
said staring at the
remains of the well. "She's trapped in
her own world."
"And where's Myouga?" Miroku wondered
aloud.
Even though the hanyou was worried for Kagome, he wondered
the same thing.
