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Blanket Disclaimer: I do not not, nor ever will, own the InuYasha series. I do own Lyn and her breed of inu youkai.
Kagome's Cousin
Chapter 6: Down the Well
"So where do you want to go first, Lyn?" Kagome looked at her cousin, who stared blankly into the sky. "Hello? Lyn?"
Lyn lowed her head and looked around. "I don't know." Lyn put the black cap on, and looked at Kagome, her emerald eyes looking up on brown eyes. "I really want a tour of the shrine grounds first. What do you think InuYasha? Is that okay with you?" Lyn turned the other way and looked at InuYasha.
"Feh. I honestly don't care what you wenches want to do. As long as we get back before night-fall."
"What's the rush?"
"Me and Kagome need to go back to the fue-hmph," InuYasha looked around for who put the hand across his mouth. It turned out to be Kagome.
"Um... what InuYasha meant to say was that... we need to get back before night-fall because... we have a... curfue. Yeah, that's it! We have a curfue!" Kagome dropped her hand off InuYasha's mouth and gave him a death glare as a warning to not say anything else.
"Whatever... I have the rest of my life to tour the rest of Tokyo. I'll just tour the shrine today and the rest of Tokyo some other time." Lyn started to walk forward, leaving the other teens behind.
InuYasha turned to Kagome. "What the hell was that for, wench?"
"I don't want Lyn to know about the well!"
"Well why not?"
"It's her first day here! I don't want her to get her hopes up to high!"
"'Get her hopes high' on what?"
"She might think that she could go down the well too!"
"Feh." 'She doesn't make any sence.'
"Come on guys!" Lyn Yelled from the first set of steps. "I can't give myself a tour on this place!"
Kagome and InuYasha advanced to where Lyn was. As they walked, Kagome explained the history of everything and what it was there for. InuYasha seemed just as amazed as Lyn was about everything's history.
After one hour of walking and explaining, the trio came across the old well house. Lyn looked at it for a long time; she felt a strange pull towards the well.
"What's this little house for, Kagome?" Lyn walked toward the well house's entrance.
"It's supposed to protect the well inside." Kagome explained.
"Protect it from what?" Lyn prodded on, looking at the architechture of the small hut.
"Demons and bad spirits."
Lyn slid open the door. "Well it doesn't work." Lyn examined the entrance.
"How's that?" Kagome arched an eyebrow.
"I'm half demon. If it's supposed to ward off demons, then why am I able to touch the door?"
"I know it doesn't work. Grandpa just likes to beleive it does."
"You can say that again." InuYasha mumbled under his breath. Nobody seemed to hear that.
"Can I go in?" Lyn looked pleadingly at Kagome, giver her the puppy dog pout. It seemed twice as effective, coming from an actual puppy.
InuYasha looked at Lyn with discust. 'Real demons shouldn't beg to do something. They just go ahead and do it.'
"Sure. Go ahead, but InuYasha and I will wait out here." 'I don't want to accedentally fall in.'
"YES!" Lyn cassually walked into the dark abyss of the hut.
She could hardly see inside. There was only the light from the door opening that enabled Lyn to see. She could see the well, but she couldn't see the three steps infront of her feet. As Lyn casually advanced forward, she missed the first step and fell the rest of the way down.
InuYasha, with his keen sence of hearing, heard Lyn fall down the steps. "Baka."
Kagome looked at InuYasha. "What was that?"
"Nothing."
Lyn could be easily heard groaning at the bottom of the steps. "I'm okay..." Lyn stood up in the darkness holding her head, and rocking back and forth. When she found her footing, Lyn stoped holding her head and cursed under her breath for not seeing the steps.
She turned around and took a good look at the old well. She was under a spell. Lyn walked toward the old well and looked down on it. She couldn't stop staring into the abyss. 'What am I waiting for?'
"Lyn? Lyn we need to get back inside the house." Lyn didn't answer Kagome's call.
Kagome walked toward the entrance of the well house. When inside, Kagome saw Lyn look into the well. She walked down the steps to be directly next to Lyn, who strangly grew a good foot. Kagome looked down the well exactly like Lyn did. She widened her eyes in shock. In the well was a ghost that looked exactly like a demon Lyn. Kagome blinked a few times, each time the ghost coming upward a few inches. Kagome held her eyes shut for five seconds, when she opened them, the ghost was directly in her face.
"Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Kagome fell backwards. She saw the ghost look at her then at Lyn, who was staring at the ghost. Lyn opened her mouth a little. The ghost looked at Kagome one more time and smiled, the ghost smiled at Kagome!
"Kagome!" InuYasha ran in on the two girls and the ghost. "What the?"
The ghost looked at InuYasha then back at Lyn. Lyn's eyes became a glazed silver instead of emerald. The ghost glided to Lyn and went inside the gap in Lyn's mouth. Lyn began to glow a shrieking red as she ,once again, stared down the well. The glowing stoped and Lyn seemed to have a new bady part. Lyn grew a blue tail that ripped out of her jeans.
InuYasha jumped down the steps and helpd, the stunned, Kagome get up. When he turned around, Lyn was on the edge of the well, about ready to go down.
"LYN!" InuYasha yelled as he saw Lyn fall down the well. He was almost sure Lyn couldn't go though. In fact, he believed only Kagome and himself could go though. But there was the blue light that InuYasha saw everytime he travled through time. Lyn went back into the past!
"Kagome. I want you to follow Lyn and make sure she's alright," InuYasha ordered, "I'll get our things."
Kagome nodded her head and chased after Lyn. Making sure Kagome went down the well, InuYasha ran out of the hut and returned five minuets later with his sword and Kagome's heavy yellow backpack. He too jumped down the well.
When he felt the ground underneath his feet, InuYasha jumped out to see that he was home. Back in Fuedal Japan. He looked around and saw Lyn faint in the distance. He also saw his friends huddle up to the fallen Lyn. InuYasha ran to their direction and ended up there in no time at all.
"Who is she?" Sango asked, watching the girl inhale and exhale normally.
"She's my cousin." Kagome knelt next to Lyn's form and felt her forehead.
"Is she alright?" Shippo asked, looking up on Kagome.
"She's okay... at least she's not sick." Kagome removed her hand from Lyn's head.
"How old is this female?" Miroku asked, rubbing his chin.
"Around 14 years." InuYasha answerd, annoyed of all these questions.
"How would you know, InuYasha?" Sango looked at InuYasha.
"I can smell the years on her." InuYasha shifted the weight on his shoulders. 'What does Kagome carry in this thing? Boulders?'
"Her breathing has quickened." Sango obseved.
"She's... uh... hyper venalating. She's proboally having a bad dream." Kagome stated, as she stood up from her spot on the ground.
''What is she?" Shippo asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" InuYasha asked. Shippo shrugged his shoulders. "Ugh. She's an inu hanyou, like me."
"She doesn't look like you, though."
"Like regular dogs, inu youkai have different breeds." InuYasha rubbed his temples. These questions were starting to tick him off.
"She's part of a very old inu youkai klan that has been extint for a few decades." Sango said. "My ansecors told us stories about how this klan was most dangerous and trickest out of all inu youkai breeds."
Everyone looked at Lyn, who was begining to wake up. She fluttered her eyes open.
"Where am I?" Lyn asked the sky.
Shippo crawled on Lyn's stomache. "Your with us!" Shippo jumped up and down on Lyn's stomache.
Lyn's stunning silver eyes looked at the bouncing red head. She felt a surge of knowledge come through her brain. 'Okay... very weird...'
"Shippo, get off of me!" Lyn cried.
Shippo stoped bouncing and looked at Lyn.
"How did you know my name? I didn't even introduce myself." Shippo asked very confused.
"What do you mean Shippo? I've known you sence forever!"
"No you haven't."
"Yes I was. I was there when the Thunder Brothers took your family away..."
Shippo looked stunned.
"I was there when you met Kagome and InuYasha..."
Shippo couldn't beleive it.
"I was even there last week when you ate InuYasha's ramen when he wasn't looking!"
"YOU WHAT!" InuYasha glarred down on Shippo.
"Um... I didn't do such a thing, InuYasha... really." Shippo backed away from the advancing hanyou.
"Then why do you smell nervous?" InuYasha kracked his knuckles.
"InuYasha..." Kagome rubbed her own temples.
InuYasha looked at Kagome very nervously. "Now Kagome... don't do anything drastic..."
"OSWARI!"
Lyn and InuYasha crashed into the ground.
"Damn wench..."
"Owww... I'm gonna feel that in the morning."
"Im so sorry, Lyn. I totoally forgot your beads."
Lyn and InuYasha came up from their holes.
"That's okay Kagome... it didn't hurt as much as it did when you sat me as a human."
"Sango, can you tell us more about Lyn's orgin?" Miroku asked Sango.
"Unfortunatly... that's all I know." Sango confessed.
"Maybe Kaede knows some stuff... she is really old after all." Kagome suggested.
Everyone nodded they're head in agreement.
"Off to Kaede's then!" Shippo shouted, jumping on Lyn's shoulder.
"Hey InuYasha..." Lyn called to the hanyou.
"What, wench?"
"Race ya."
InuYasha dropped the yellow backpack and walked over to Lyn. "There is no way you can beat me." InuYasha smirked.
"Well if your scared and all. I guess we could wa-."
"Your on." InuYasha ran fast toward the direction of the village.
"THAT'S CHEATING!" Lyn ran after him, securing her little, black backpack.
"Is ti just me or..." Miroku began.
"Is InuYasha having some fun for once?" Sango finished.
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