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Summary: Inuyasha/Ranma ½ Crossover… Inuyasha is confused with Kagome's going to a new school, high school was it? And… Ranma and the gang get suckered into going into the past by Cologne to defeat Naraku who threatens the present.
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Big Trouble in Sengoku Jidia
Episode 5—The Ultimate Team Up
"Gee, that's cold." Ranma-Chan pulled herself out of the river, walking slowly as she came to the edge of the water, kneeling on the bank she wrung out her blue shirt from the water.
"Ranma!" Ryouga was running towards Ranma-Chan, and stopped right in front of her. "How dare you say that to Akane!" He pointed his index finger at Ranma-Chan, accusingly.
"Shut up Ryouga, it ain't any of your business!" Ranma-Chan growled at Ryouga, as water was dripping from her still wet clothing onto the ground.
"Like hell it is!" Ryouga swung his fist at Ranma-Chan but she avoided his punches by ducking and moving out of the way. "I'm gonna punish you for her own good." Ryouga kicked and punched at his opponent but the red headed girl kept avoided being struck.
"Cut it out Ryouga!" Ranma-Chan did not really fight back with everything she had, she was wet and cold and was not in the mood for this. Ranma-Chan took a glance around as they were drawing attention to themselves. Taken off guard Ryouga then surprised Ranma-Chan by grabbing her in a headlock and smashed his fist into her face.
There was a gasp in the crowd. "Hey you there," a masculine voice tried to interfere, but he didn't get to say more as the red head jumped up with her head still locked in that boy's arms into the air and twirled them around, and came back towards the Earth. She smashed the boy down into the ground first and landed on him.
"Ryouga you idiot," Ranma-Chan glared down into Ryouga's face which was contorted in pain.
A man wearing purple and blue robes ran up to the two of them. "Are you all right miss?"
"Eh, you talkin' to me?" Ranma-Chan asked the man, giving him an odd look.
He nodded. "Yes, that boy should not be hitting you, its very inappropriate." He pointed down to the boy with the yellow and black cloth around his head, then walking over to the beautiful young woman.
Ranma-Chan shrugged. "It happens, why should ya care?" She got up off Ryouga and dusted off her clothes.
"Ranmaaa…" Ryouga slowly got to his feet, hanging his head, his bangs covering over his eyes. "Ranma you can't keep treating Akane that way, I won't let you."
A small smirk form on Ranma-Chan's lips. "Is that so P-Chan, whatcha gonna do about it?" She crossed her arms over her breasts.
Ryouga threw his face into Ranma-Chan's and snarled, his fists clinching tight at his sides. "Who you callin' P-Chan?!" Lifting his fist he bashed Ranma-Chan on the head.
"Ow!" Ranma-Chan complained.
The man stared wide eyed, anger starting to cloud his normally calm exterior. "How dare you sir, how dare you hurt a beautiful girl like this."
"Excuse me?!" Ryouga bellowed at the man. "Just who are you anyway?"
The man's eyes narrowed. "Miroku is my name, and I have had just about enough of you treating this beautiful young woman this way."
Ryouga looked between the man who called himself Miroku and Ranma-Chan he saw the man wink at her. Coughing, Ryouga pounded on his chest with his fist trying to clear it. "Heh, you think she's beautiful huh?"
Miroku nodded. "That I do," He turned to Ranma-Chan. "Will you be all right miss?" He bent down and captured one of her hands in his.
Ranma-Chan's brow arched. "Hey!"
There was snickering coming from Ryouga's general direction, his mouth opened wider and he started laughing really hard. "Oh don't let me interrupt." He laughed harder and harder and he started walking away.
Gasping, Ranma-Chan called out to the boy walking away from her. "Ryouga, come back here. Don't leave me here with this guy."
Spinning around Ryouga snickered. "Oh but Ranma, he thinks you're beautiful."
Miroku smiled down at the girl. "Why don't you let me help you with your bruises?"
"Not on your life pal," Ranma-Chan said to Miroku, her blue eyes narrowing in annoyance. "And could you let go of my hand." It wasn't a request as she tried to pull her hand from his grasp, but Miroku's hand tightened around hers.
A blur of blue and pink disrupted what Miroku thought was going to be a beautiful moment between him and this lovely young lady. It was that one girl, Shampoo, she had come leaping over and interrupted Miroku and Ranma-Chan, looping her arms around Ranma-Chan's neck. "Ranma, I find you." She purred.
"Shampoo! Let go." She struggled in Shampoo's hold.
The blue haired Amazon, snuggled into Ranma-Chan, sighing. "Oh Airen."
Miroku's eyes nearly bugged out, not to mention he nearly passed out. "What are you two girls doing, shouldn't something like this be done in the privacy of ones home, preferably with someone who needs a son?"
Looking over at Miroku, Shampoo growled. "Ranma this pervert man, touch Shampoo's backside. Ranma defend Shampoo's honor."
"I ain't gonna, so let go!" Ranma-Chan tried pushing the ever tightening arms of Shampoo away from her body.
Hot liquid poured over Ranma-Chan's head and red hair changed to black, her breasts seemed to sink in and vanish and her height shifted upwards, and hips changed from more voluptuous to more of a male shape. "Ranma!" It was Genma. "How dare you carry on with this girl when Akane ran off into the woods." They did not notice the absolutely stunned and disgusted look on Miroku's face. "You would abandon your fiancé, Ranma!? What a pathetic son I have." Genma exaggerated
"What in the…?" Miroku said then three faces turned in his direction. This was bizarre, completely baffling. Perhaps he really was what Inuyasha suspected. A demon who wanted the jewel shards that Kagome had, "What kind of demon are you?!" He was upset this girl turns into a man! Miroku shuddered, it was disgusting!
Shampoo let go of Ranma as she saw his eyes blaze in anger.
"I ain't no demon!" Ranma said gruffly, while wondering what was the matter with these people thinking that he was a demon, and what was that about Akane? "Akane did what?"
"After your little disagreement," Nabiki said appearing from behind Genma with Kasumi. "She ran off."
"You know Ranma," Kasumi started. "It wouldn't hurt for you to be a little nicer to Akane." She said much like a mother who was scolding a child.
Ignoring Kasumi, Ranma rolled his eyes and threw clinched his fists he said: "That idiot, she's gonna get herself killed." He raced off towards the woods.
Nabiki watched and then turned to Kasumi. "Well look at him go, it must be love."
Ukyou could feel it, all around her. Something was not right, looking around in all directions, she called out for her lost friend. "Akane?!" She shouted. "Where can that silly girl be, she couldn't have gone that far."
Blinking, Akane was face to face with a very frightening being, even she could feel that this… being was not human. He had the most intense yet frigid amber eyes she had ever seen, his hair was long and silver, two magenta stripes on either side of her face. He was tall and Akane couldn't really tell how he was built for he was wearing a white kimono with red flowers and armor over it, strapped to his side were two katanas. "W—who are you?" She asked trying not to be afraid, but for some reason fear seemed to course through her wildly.
His elegant brow arched. "Do not play ignorant with me, girl. You know very well who I am." Was she some kind of witch, he thought for sure he had killed Takara. In fact he watched her take her last mortal breath and even buried her in the ground. How is it possible that this girl, the human girl is still alive fifty years later and looking a little younger rather than older. What struck him odd was the fact of her appearance, it was completely indecent! She was wearing strange garments around her legs which resembled a hamaka, but the material which was a dark bluish color and looked relatively rough to touch, the hem stopped at her thighs revealing her creamy legs to his eyes, his gaze moved downward to find the strangest shoe, it was white and it had ties on the top. He lifted his eyes to the rest of her garments, her half kimono only seemed to reach where the beginning of her hamaka started, and it was a rose pink, her arms were bare.
Another thing that caught his attention was the length of her hair, the color was slightly off than he had remembered, and had she always had brown eyes? He could have sworn that he remembered her having a really dark shade of blue. This girl had to have been a witch, who else would have been able to enslave his mind but a witch, and right now she was in disguise, just subtle things. He snorted, to think that with a just a few subtle changes and she would be able to fool him, preposterous. He must try to get rid of her now, before there was a repeat of what happened fifty years ago.
Akane watched as this being lifted his hand, his claws sparkled in the sunlight that shone through the trees. She felt the air move and noticed the quick speed that his hand was coming down and on her and she jumped out of the way, then ducking down in a fighting stance holding her hands in front of her. "What do you think you're doing?!" She shouted.
"Bothersome human," His tone was cold.
This thing just tried to hurt her, Akane's eyes narrowed. "You tried to hurt me, didn't you?!" She shouted, her anger blazing. She stared the attacker dead in the eye and she saw his brow arch. Akane was not going to be taken by surprise, she was a martial artist and she would need to defend herself.
"Takara, your human intelligence is mind boggling." He said slightly sarcastic.
This infuriated Akane more, he was insulting her. Why you—" She stopped suddenly in her rant, Takara? Who was that? "Uh…who's Takara?"
Feeling a twinge of annoyance, he approached the girl as she took a careful step away from him. "You forget your own name?"
Akane watched his every move. "That is not my name, my name is Akane." She saw something spark in his eyes, was it annoyance?
He did not speak for a long moment, they merely watched each other to see what the other one was going to do. Then suddenly he said. "You lie, and for that, you will die."
Inuyasha sat with his arms folded across his chest, while Kagome was fixing the hem of her uniform skirt, it was a good thing she brought these shorts that she was wearing with her, just in case of an emergency. "Kagome, I can get the shard from them."
"No Inuyasha, let me do it. You're a bit rough and they are nice people, well at least Akane is." Kagome said, remembering what that Ranma guy had said about her, especially about her not being honest. "I will get the shard from Akane."
"How do you know them?" Inuyasha laid down on his side, propping up his head on his hand.
"I go to school with them, in fact you can say I know of who the other ones traveling with them are, I haven't really met them though. That guy the one you were fighting, he seems to win every fight he is up against." Kagome tied off the end of the thread. "I've seen quite a lot while attending high school."
Inuyasha rolled onto his back. "He don't seem so tough to me." His tone was sour.
Kagome laughed. "Aw Inuyasha are you pouting, I tell you although Ranma and Akane are not demons, they seem to have the strength of one, and they can do all these interesting techniques with their, what is it called?" Kagome thought, her eyes narrowing curiously.
"Ki," An old man said appeared sitting against Kagome's side, sipping tea.
Startled Kagome screeched. "Hey! You're the guy that stole my underwear."
"Happosai is my name," He turned and winked at Kagome. "You had such lovely panties I couldn't help myself." He grinned, then his eyes narrowed instantly, irritation flooding him. "Ranma that little punk, always manages to stop me from stealing my lovelies."
"What this about ki, old man?" Inuyasha growled, he did not like this little pervert at all, he reminded him a lot of Miroku, without the underwear stealing part of course. 'Uh…what was underwear again?' Inuyasha thought to himself.
"There are special martial art techniques that focus on the using of your ki, your bodies energy."
Inuyasha jumped onto one leg, still bend over. "I know what ki is old man, I just didn't know humans could use it!" Sitting down in an Indian style, he crossed his arms in front of him.
"You sure have a temper," Happosai said, sipping at his tea cup calmly. "You remind me a lot of Ranma."
"What!?" Inuyasha was furious. "You dare compare me to that pathetic human!" He growled clutching his fists.
Snickering, Happosai then looked as calm as the ocean after a storm. "Ranma is a strong martial artist, of course he's no where near as good as me." He drank down some of his tea.
"You!?" Inuyasha snarled in Happosai's face. "You seem too puny to have any kind of strength little human."
Kagome gasped. "Inuyasha, that was rude."
"So, look at him," the half demon pointed to the little guy. "This old man is all pruney and wrinkly, there is no way he can stand up to a demon in a fight."
Happosai's eyes narrowed. "Is that so?" He lifted his long pipe into Inuyasha and the half demon went sailing through the air.
"Wow!" Kagome clapped. "That was amazing, and you're so little."
Feeling proud, Happosai sniffed and sipped at his tea. "I am the founder of the School of Anything Goes Martial Arts. It is over three hundred years old. I am the best."
Inuyasha fell to the ground a few feet from the forest, on his head, groaning. "Why that little…" Lifting himself off the ground, Inuyasha suddenly grew completely serious. There was a familiar scent, what was he doing in these parts anyway? Jumping to his feet, Inuyasha ran the few feet into the woods and to where Sesshomaru currently was.
…He grabbed the hilt Toukijin and started to draw it, he watched the girl's eyes narrow in concentration, she was studying him. Why? He paused, his sword only half way out of its sheath. The scent of an unknown human was running towards him, the girl's eyes only left his for a moment to look behind him, and they widened with recognition.
"Ukyou!" Akane shouted.
Ukyou skidded to a halt. "Akane, are you all right?" She stared at the back of who was in her way. "Who is this, a new friend?"
"No!" Akane growled in bitterness, "this whoever he is, is trying to kill me!" She was wondering why this being wasn't moving, she could tell he was listening to what it was they were talking about so she decided to be a bit more discreet.
Walking cautiously around the being, Ukyou slowly approached Akane, standing by her side. "Why don't you just leave him here and run off back to the village?"
"I tried that." Akane's eyes were on his, holding. "He is unbelievably fast." She whispered, not really counting on the being in front of her to have heard what she said. "And I thought Ranma was quick, he's got nothing on this guy."
Ukyou groaned. "Didn't I tell ya not to run off?"
"Yeah well, that is not important right now." Akane sighed, but did not let her guard down. "The thing to do now is get away."
The trees and branches rustled and there was an annoying, high pitched voice which shouted. "Lord Sesshomaru, Lord Sesshomaru." A little toad Youkai came through the brush. "Rin ran off, I couldn't stop her." He stopped short seeing the two humans and his master. He automatically recognized one of them, he pointed his staff at the girl with the short hair. "You there, girl, I thought you were killed Takara."
Akane growled and stomped her foot, she was getting tired of this. "That is not my name! My name is Akane, A—ka—ne!"
"And why are you dressed so indecently!?" The little toad blurted out, he saw the girl's cheeks tinge red.
"Why you…" Enraged, Akane's anger aura flared and she pulled her foot back and kicked the little toad hard and he flew threw the air.
"Enough." A terrifying cold voice said extremely calm, he saw the girl with long hair hold a very large object in front of her, and Takara who said she was someone else, angled her open hands in front of her. "I grow weary of this, die."
"Akane!" Another male's voice shouted. "Watch out."
Sesshomaru moved forward towards her having quickly drawn his sword, ready to slash her in half when she was pushed rather forcefully to the side to avoid getting hit with his attack.
Having hit the ground so hard, Akane groaned, her hand reaching up to cup the back of her head which was now sore from her hitting the ground so hard. She saw Ranma above her lying on top of her, she blinked, her cheeks tinting pink from how close he was. "What did you do that for?!" She shouted out of reflex.
"Would you rather have been sliced in half?!" Ranma glared down at her, feeling a little more than irritated that he wasn't thanked for saving her life. "Geeze you're uncute."
Akane sat up, pushing Ranma from her a bit. "What did you say? Would you care to repeat that Ranma?!" She growled, her eyes held nothing but anger and hurt.
Ukyou rolled her eyes. "This is no time for an argument you guys." She was actually hinting to the fact that Sesshomaru was walking towards them, slowly, but still towards them. She whipped out a few of her smaller spatulas and hurled them at the being, but with lightning speed Sesshomaru's sword came up and blocked every single one, he did this without sparing Ukyou a glance.
Ignoring Ukyou, Akane groaned. She did not even notice the impending danger as it moved closer to them. "I can take care of myself you know!" Akane yelled at Ranma.
"Well you could have fooled me!" Ranma shouted in Akane's face. He was breathing hard, she was doing the same. Something in her eyes sparkled and he swallowed, finding himself lost within her chocolate gaze. Suddenly everything seemed not so important. They were staring into each others eyes not moving an inch. "Akane…" Ranma's voice sounded thick, but hearing a twig snap behind him alerted his senses to danger, he jumped up, wrapping Akane in his arms and pulling her up with him as a wave of demonic aura moved a little too close to them, Ranma landed up in one of the nearby trees with Akane, glaring down at who it was that was that was now standing there. It was that idiot Inuyasha and he had his back to them, his Tetsuiga which was enlarged and held out was in his hand, the dog eared boy was facing the one that tried to kill Akane and Ukyou.
"Hey you!" Ranma shook his fist down at Inuyasha, not that the stupid, idiot could see his threatening gesture. "Watch where you're swinging that thing, you could have hurt Akane!"
"Then she stay out of my way," Inuyasha said to Ranma even though he was faced away from him. He gave all of his attention to Sesshomaru. "What are you doing here?"
Sesshomaru stood motionless a few feet from Inuyasha, this fool interrupted his killings. "The reasons do not concern you, little brother." He would have to do this another time. Sesshomaru without a word turned on Inuyasha and started walking away.
Scratching the back of his head, Inuyasha thought that was very odd, while he sheathed his sword he turned around and saw both Ranma and Akane jump out of the tree to land in front of him. Inuyasha pointed his sheathed sword at Akane. "You stupid woman, what were you thinking, fighting a demon like that?"
"Hey, you can't talk to her that way!" Ranma wasn't going to let some weird, dog boy talk to Akane like that.
"I didn't want to fight him!" Akane growled at Inuyasha. "He just appeared out of no where and wouldn't let me leave. He tried to kill me!" She saw his right ear twitch on his head. "Whoa, did that just move?" She pointed up to the ears on Inuyasha's head.
Inuyasha's face squished up in confusion. "Yeah, those are my ears." He rolled his eyes. "Stupid human."
"Well excuse me, I didn't think they were real ears." Akane said slightly irritated, but when the left one flicked this time, she smiled, her eyes still on his ears.
"What are you looking at?!" Inuyasha's voice deepened, he was about to say more to this idiot girl when he stopped abruptly, his eyes widening as her hands had quickly shot up, her fingers were stroking his ears tenderly. A small blush stained his cheeks.
"Wow, they are real. And soft too," Akane said her thoughts out loud.
Ukyou moved over close to Akane. "Oh really, let me feel." She reached up and also started stroking Inuyasha's ears. "Hey, you're right Akane."
Inuyasha just stood there, he wanted to make these girls stop touching his ears, he tried to growl, but they put a sudden delightful pressure near the tip of both of his ears and moved downward towards the base of his ear where it met the top of his head. Inuyasha's eyes were closing and his face was increasing in color. They really should stop doing that…but…oh right there…that's the spot. Yeah right there girls, that's nice… Was all Inuyasha's mind was capable of at that moment.
Ranma silently seethed, watching the reaction the dog boy had to Akane's touch well and Ukyou's too he supposed. But still, he did not like the fact that the dog eared boy was enjoying Akane's touch like that. Ranma growled and reached up grabbing Akane's hands away from Inuyasha's ears rather rushed. "That's enough of that."
Akane turned looking curiously at Ranma. "Ranma?"
He was not going to admit to Akane that he had been jealous, no way! So he gestured up with a nod of his head. "It's uh almost dark, we need to get back to that village."
Turning, Ukyou thinned her lips. The way Ranma reacted to Akane was not a desired effect, he didn't do anything to make herself stop. Just Akane. Bringing her spatula up and placing it against her back, Ukyou turned around annoyed. "Let's get going." Her tone was tense, which caused Ranma to look up and blink at her. She led the way back, Ranma and Akane followed at a quick pace.
Inuyasha followed them at a safe distance, his mind coming back from its brief vacation. Those girls how dare they do that to him! He growled low in his throat. That was completely inappropriate! His head shouted as he too returned to the village.
"Inuyasha," Kagome came running up to him as he exited the woods to the village, "Where have you been?"
"I smelled Sesshomaru, so I went to see what he wanted." Inuyasha looked towards the three practically strangers. "And if it wasn't for me, these three would probably be dead."
"Sesshomaru tried to kill them? Why?" Kagome thought out loud. As many run-ins that they've had with the demon lord, he had never struck without reason.
Shrugging, Inuyasha said. "Hell if I know. He didn't say, he just turned and walked off as if the near fight hadn't even occurred."
"Akane Tendou." Kuno's voice shouted with glee and he pranced over, his arms wide open and a huge smile upon his face. "Thank goodness you're safe." He was about to embrace her, when Akane's foot implanted itself into Kuno's face. His arms still stretched forward as if still trying to grab onto her. "What did you do that for?" he sounded a bit muffled, then pulling himself away from Akane's foot.
Hearing someone come up next to her, Akane turned slightly to find Ryouga standing there with a concerned look oh his face. "Are you all right Akane?" He asked, hoping that nothing truly tragic happened to his Akane.
"Oh I'm just fine." Akane was smiling brightly, "really." She waved her hand in the air nonchalantly.
Kagome figured it was probably wise to actually talk to these people, possibly during dinner. Which she was sure that Kaede made, and hopefully it was ready. "Hey, why don't we go get some food, I'm sure you're all starving."
Nodding to Kagome, Akane heard her stomach grumble. "You're right, back home my sister Kasumi usually makes dinner." She said while turning with Kagome heading in the direction the younger girl was leading her in. Everyone else followed after her as well.
Inuyasha felt a hand tug his arm and turned annoyed to who had tugged on him, he found Miroku standing there. "What is it Monk?"
"Some one I think we should be cautious with is that man." He pointed to the back of Ranma's head as the boy was walking with the rest of the group.
"Tell me something I don't know." Inuyasha crossed pushed his hands through his sleeves and held them in front of himself.
"He can change into a girl."
Blinking, Inuyasha snorted. "Feh, yeah right." Not believing anything this lecher said, a boy turning into a girl, no way was it possible, unless he was a Youkai that is.
"I saw it, with my very own eyes. It was quite disturbing." Miroku shivered thinking back how that beautiful woman changed into a boy. Hearing a snicker, Miroku's eyes shifted to Inuyasha. "What's so funny?"
"Don't tell me you tried your normal lecherous behavior on this girl and she turned into a boy."
Miroku would not answer that. "That is beside the point, this man is not to be trusted. What if he is after the jewel shards that Kagome has?"
"I am aware of that, and I will be keeping a close watch on that human, believe me I will." Inuyasha's eyes narrowed in on the group that was heading towards Kaede's hut.
Seated around a much bigger pot tonight in one of the huts, Genma and Soun sniffed at their stew in the bowl while leaning against the wall,
"Smells good, aye Saotome?" Soun said looking in his bowl.
Genma nodded. "Yeah Tendou, it smells great." He lifted his chopsticks and picked up a bit of the meat and shoved it in his mouth.
After Kaede handed a bowl to everyone else, she stirred the rest of the stew in her pot before helping herself to some. Looking at the group, she noticed that Sango, Miroku, Inuyasha sat a bit away from the visitors. Kagome was sitting really close to the one known as Akane and they seemed to be talking and laughing. She better figure out if these people are to be trusted, often Kagome is way too trusting.
"So where are ye travelers heading?" Kaede asked the group.
Ranma rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "To tell you the truth, we don't really know where exactly we are going. Just that we are in search of someone, and we won't rest until we find him."
"Who are you looking for?" Kagome asked, looking over her shoulder at Ranma.
"I doubt if you know him." Ranma said, glancing down in his bowl at the food, then lifting the chopsticks grabbing a piece of the meat and stuffing it in his mouth.
Kagome nodded slowly. "It's an awful long way to be traveling, don't you think? Especially when you don't have a plan."
"We have a plan." Akane spoke up. "We just don't know exactly what we are going to do when we meet up with this person."
Cringing, Ryouga looked in his bowl. "This meat wouldn't happen to be pork would it?"
Kaede nodded hearing his question about the food, perked up and looked at the boy who had asked. "Some of it is."
Paling instantly, Ryouga felt his stomach churn. "Uh I don't really care much for pork. Thank you anyway though," He placed his bowl on the floor next to the pot and pulled his pack from off the floor and into his lap. He dug through it looking for something to eat, he was sure glad he had some of those instant ramen noodle cups.
Kuno elegantly lifted each bit of the meat from the stew into his mouth and chewed it slowly. "No journey is too grand or hard for Tatewake, Kuno."
"Oh is that so?" Ranma turned to Kuno.
The seventeen year old growled. "Of course wretch," Kuno grabbed for his bokken to strike Ranma in the head with it.
"We don't even know where we're going." Ryouga glared at Kuno. "So saying all that means nothing, you idiot."
Kuno jumped to his feet. "You dare call one such as I, idiot?" Pointing his bokken at Ryouga. "You sir, have insulted me. Prepare yourself."
"Kuno, sit down." Ukyou suddenly spoke up. "You're disrupting supper."
Decided that he will teach Ryouga a lesson later, Kuno resumed his seat on the floor next to Sasuke.
Letting out a long breath, Kaede sighed, they sure didn't seem to get along much. "Why are ye even on search for this person it is yur looking for?"
"We were attacked." Mousse said a little high pitched. "Actually it was Akane and Ranma that were attacked, but we got stuck in the battle."
Shampoo nodded. "Aiya, it was fierce battle." She added. "Great grandmother sent us to find monster that attack."
"Yeah," Akane was agreeing with Shampoo, for once. "We are on a mission, and all because of this little thing." She held the jewel shard up for Kaede to see.
Kaede leaned forward a bit. "That is a Shikon jewel shard if I am not mistaken. Why have you not given it to Kagome to add it to the half of the jewel she has?"
Akane let the jewel rest against her shirt. "I was told not to give it to anyone, Cologne the one who advised me to keep it put some kind of ancient Chinese Amazon spell on it so that only I can remove it from around my neck." Remembering what Cologne had told her, suddenly found its way into Akane's head…
"Now Akane, I am going to place a spell on it, so that you are the only one who can take it off, we can not afford to let this piece fall into the wrong hands." The old woman said while sitting on the top of her staff. "It is to remain with you at all times."
Akane nodded. "I understand." She sighed. "Why me?" she complained.
Cologne smiled. "Think of this as a training exercise," She started chanting and there was a flash of bright light that surrounded Akane then fading away from sight. "Now don't be deceived Akane, there will be those who might appeal to your trusting side, don't trust anyone."
"All right, Cologne, I won't. You can count on me." Akane's fist was raised high in the air, proudly.
She was nudged the memory vanished from her mind, Akane shook her head turned to the side, finding Ranma looking at her expectantly. "What?"
"You were asked a question Akane, that's what." Ranma gestured towards Sango.
Having the decency to look embarrassed, Akane then took a deep breath and turned her attention to Sango. "Oh sorry, what was your question?"
Sango could have sworn she had seen Akane somewhere before, but where? "I just wondered how you know Kagome, she said something about school?" She wondered if these people were lying, could they travel back and forth through time like Kagome, if they could why were they hiding it? And is this Akane person really who she says she is.
"Uh…" Akane hesitated answering, but decided to considering that Kagome would know if she was lying. "Yes, I know Kagome from school."
Kaede's brow arched. "Then you are from the future, all of you?" She saw all traveling group nod their heads. "I see."
"I'm a year older than Kagome here though," Akane smiled at her. "It is my second year at Furinkan High School, I met Kagome one day, and it is kind of nice to know someone else here in this time period as well." Deciding it was probably okay to tell them what they were doing here in the past, Akane faced Ranma and leaned over to his ear. "I think we should tell them who we are after."
Ranma's eyes shifted to hers, he wasn't too sure about that. "I don't know Akane." He was about to say his reasons when a loud and annoying sound pierced his thoughts.
"A brassier, I found a brassier." Happosai jumped around the inside of their hut waving a white lace bra in his hand.
"Master, must you?" Soun asked Happosai as he settled down, sitting on the floor examining his find.
Happosai lifted the bra and rubbed it against his cheek. "You will come with me my pretty."
Akane's face flamed with embarrassment as she stared at the little pervert. Jumping to her feet in a mad rush she started for the little Oompa Loompa, "Hey! That's mine."
Turning around seeing Akane towering over him, shaking with anger. "Give that back, right now!" She made to bend down to grab her bra back from the little troll when he jumped into the air.
"Akane, baby!" He latched onto her breasts, squeezing. Akane screamed and jolted around trying to shake him off of her.
Ranma jumped to his feet, anger rushing through him and grabbing Happosai off of Akane's chest. "Why you little freak!" He cracked his knuckles on his left hand… an instant later Happosai was seen punted through the roof and sailing through the night sky.
"I've still got the brassier!" Happosai shouted as he seemed to float away.
Sango stared wide eyed, she didn't know who was worse, that little old man or Miroku, she noticed the monk did not look even phased by what had gone on. Sango worried about this, two perverts in the same place, she hoped this group would be moving on soon.
Clearing her throat, Kagome just had to know who they were after, it had been bugging her since Akane and her friends arrived in the village. She had a jewel shard and to her it seemed like these people were after the same individual that she and her friends were after. "Akane? Just who is it you're looking for?"
Akane blinked, her eyes going from annoyed at Happosai back to a more calm expression. "Well, I think Cologne said that the person's name was Naraku."
Jumping to her feet, Kagome faced Akane. "I knew it! I just had a feeling that you were talking about him." She looked at Inuyasha, Miroku and Sango, knowing they were all suffering in one way or another. Kagome returned her gaze to Akane's. "We are looking for him too, he is responsible for so many truly tragic things. I was thinking that since we are after the same goal, we should all look for him together."
"What?!" Inuyasha growled. "No way! We don't need more humans slowing us down." He snarled at Akane's group. "I won't allow it."
Spinning around, Kagome's head tilted to the side a bit. "Inuyasha, I think it's a good idea. Besides the more on our side will be an advantage."
Crossing his arms over his chest, Ranma rolled his eyes. "Hey don't worry about us, we can do it on our own. We don't need help from the likes of him," Ranma gestured towards Inuyasha with a nod of his head. "We will get rid of this Naraku character before he effects our present."
"You couldn't get rid of a fly let alone a powerful half demon like Naraku." Inuyasha informed Ranma with a hint of sarcasm. "I will be the one to take Naraku's head, not some miserable sniveling human like you!"
"Says who, Dog boy, you?" Ranma faced Inuyasha, his fist clinched tight. "You ain't got nothing I've seen to back up your story. If you were really that great, you would have already gotten rid of the problem. I am more than sure I can do a much better job than you!"
Kagome shook her head, although these two groups were very different, it sure seemed that these two Ranma and Inuyasha shared something in common. They were both arrogant jerks. "Enough," She turned around to Inuyasha. "Don't make me say it Inuyasha." She saw him take a step back and look a little wary. "We are traveling together and that is that. With all of our skills combined it is a sure victory, I can just feel it." Kagome was smiling rather brightly, which made Inuyasha's heart flip. "So that settles it," She put a hand on Akane's shoulder, seeing the short haired girl turn and look at her. "You and your friends will travel with us, to find the rest of the Shikon shards and then go after Naraku once in for all."
Nodding Ryouga got to his feet. "I like the sound of that."
"As do I," Kuno also got to his feet.
"Sounds like a master plan." Mousse said to Shampoo. "What do you think darling Shampoo?"
Thinking about it, Shampoo agreed. "Shampoo agrees."
Ukyou groaned. "Fine, if ya all wanna do this with them, I'll agree too." She smiled, but was still annoyed about Ranma's behavior towards Akane earlier that evening.
It really didn't matter what Nabiki and Kasumi thought though, they would go along with anything. Soun and Genma too agreed about the new travel arrangements.
Kagome clapped and cheered jumping up and down. "This is truly great, finally the evil that is Naraku will be dead! Oh thank you so much all of you for coming along with us."
The conversation seemed to pick up now that there was a comfortable feeling among the new comers and Inuyasha and his friends. From outside the window a pair of golden eyes watched them closely. Especially the girl that resembled Takara, she was approached from behind by the monk that travels with his half brother, and tapped on the shoulder they seemed to be talking politely with one another until the monk grabbed her hand and her eyes narrowed in suspicion.
Not even a second later the Takara look alike reached up and slapped the monk so hard that he flew through the hut to land on the opposite side. Takara's look alike stomped her foot and turned around ranting loudly about disgusting perverts. Perhaps he Sesshomaru had been wrong, this girl is no where near at all like Takara. She was much too crude and violent for one. Of course it all could be done just to throw him off. Observing, yes observing was the best course of action… For now.
Well that is for episode 5, I hope you all enjoyed it. Remember to review. For more information on Sesshomaru and Takara makes sure you read the fanfiction Sesshomaru's Nearly Heartless Heart.
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Ryoko Blue