Universe

By: J RockerNightmare

Disclaimer: I do not own all original Inu-Yasha characters. If I did we'd definitely see a lot more Inu-Yasha on American TV than we do now, that's for sure. Heh. I do own the characters: Toshiya, Chambrin, Murasaki, and Kotchi.

Chapter 2-Put Time in a Capsule

Toshiya felt someone shake her and she rolled over to find her grandfather crouching next to her. "Gramps?" she asked, still partially asleep.

"Get up Tosh-chan." He said.

Sleepily, Toshiya climbed to her feet and looked up at her grandfather. She blinked several times and yawned before she realized where she was and it obviously wasn't a dream.

"What did I tell you about that well?" Miroku asked his granddaughter.

"To stay away from it." Toshiya said looking at the ground.

"And what did you do?"

"Brought my friends into the shrine and climbed down the well. But Gramps, it was just to see what was in it! You never told me that it led to another dimension!"

"Because I didn't want you to come here!" Miroku yelled. Sango and Inu-Yasha exchanged glances, never having seen Miroku yell at a kid before. Toshiya looked at the ground. "Toshiya, I don't know what I should do with you. I've never had to punish you and even if I did what good would it do when you sneak out with your friends all the time?" Miroku shook his head. Then turned to Inu-Yasha. "I'm going to leave her in your care. Let her see what she should have stayed away from. Since she decided not to listen."

"But-" Inu-Yasha began to whine, but he was cut off by Toshiya.

"But Gramps! What about school? I don't want to stay here!" Toshiya yelled.

"Silence!" he yelled at the girl. She immediately shut her mouth. " I will call the school and tell them that you're visiting family somewhere else for a while."

Toshiya sighed, "How long will I have to stay here?"

"Until I decide to come and get you." Miroku stated indignantly. "Inu-Yasha, Sango, it's been really good to see you again, but I must get back to Kagome and let her know what's happening."

"I'll walk with you to the well." Sango said. She and Miroku left the house and headed out of the village. "You should have come to visit, Miroku. You and Kagome both haven't been here since you left together 46 years ago."

"I know, Sango, and I apologize. It's just so much has happened since we left here." Miroku sighed. "After we left here two years later Kagome had our first child, but he died a few days after birth. Then a year later we had Toshiya's mother, Terapai. It was great having her. She was so beautiful. Looked just like Kagome. Seventeen years ago she got pregnant, but didn't know who the father of the baby was."

Sango gasped. "Rape?"

"No. She says it wasn't rape. Rather that she loved the man and that she didn't even know his name and never saw him after that. Then she had Toshiya. Terapai died five years ago."

"I'm sorry, Miroku. We didn't know." Sango said.

"I know you didn't, maybe we should have come more. Take care of Toshiya will you?"

"Of course. Inu-Yasha and myself would never let anything happen to your granddaughter."

"Thank you, Sango." Miroku said. They had reached the well. "I will return for her in good time."

Sango nodded and watched Miroku jump into the well.

Inu-Yasha and Toshiya sat on opposite sides of the room staring at each other. Finally Toshiya couldn't stand the silence any longer and said, "So you knew my grandfather?"

"Yeah." Inu-Yasha said. "We used to be a team with Sango and Kagome and Shippo, but after Kagome and Miroku left they never came back even once. Those ingrates."

"Hey. Shut up." Toshiya said in defense. "I'm sure they had good reasons."

"Yeah, like what?"

"Like my mother."

"Feh." Inu-Yasha looked away. But then thought to ask, "How'd you get that silver hair any way?"

"I dunno. It came naturally. I've always had it." Toshiya asked, confused. "Why?"

"Your dad had silver hair?"

"I don't know who my father is."

"Oh." Inu-Yasha looked at the door. Someone was coming. He stood up and placed his hand on the hilt of his sword to rest. A young kitsune appeared in the doorway.

"Hey, Inu-Yasha." Said the happy young kitsune.

"Oh, it's just you, Shippo."

"Yep. Just me."

Toshiya stared at the kitsune. He was almost as tall as Inu-Yasha. His hair a burnt orange and he had a bushy tail of the same orange coloring. He even had little fox ears and hind paws.

"Who's she?" Shippo asked Inu-Yasha once he noticed the girl on the floor.

"That's Kagome and Miroku's granddaughter." Was all Inu-Yasha said.

"I have a name." Toshiya said letting her annoyance slip into her tone. "It's Toshiya." She said kindly to Shippo.

"Well, hi there, Toshiya. My name's Shippo."

Toshiya nodded. Then turned her attention back to the small fire.

"So what's she doing here? Are Kagome and Miroku finally visiting after all these years?" Shippo asked.

"You just missed Miroku. But no. They aren't visiting. The girl jumped down the well even though Miroku told her not to go near it. Now she's here and he's angry so she's being punished by having to stay here until he decides to come back for her." Inu-Yasha explained, as if Toshiya weren't sitting right there.

"Oh. I see." The fox demon nodded. "Don't worry about Inu-Yasha." He told Toshiya. "He may seem like an utter jerk, but he's not."

"HEY!" Inu-Yasha yelled in response to the insult from the kitsune.

Shippo only chuckled.

Toshiya glanced over her shoulder at the yokai and said, "I can tell as much."

This gained her a glare from Inu-Yasha and a laugh from Shippo.

She looked at Inu-Yasha innocently and said, "You can't deny the truth."

Inu-Yasha glowered at the human girl. "Pheh." He said and walked outside. "Stupid kid. I can't see why Miroku dumped her on me. I don't even know her. Doesn't even stop in over 40 years and then just leaves his grand kid here…" he mumbled as he walked outside.

"Is he always so grouchy?" Toshiya asked.

"Yep. That's Inu-Yasha for ya, though." Shippo nodded.

Sango returned to the small hut. "Toshiya-san," she said entering the hut, Inu-Yasha in tote. " Oh, Shippo, I didn't realize you would be stopping in today. Toshiya, you're grandfather left you in our charge. Perhaps we should explain a little about how things work around here."

Toshiya just stared at Sango. "Okay…" she yawned. How hard could this be? No TV or radio or her sketchbook, that might be a little hard to live without, but that's what imagination is for.

Sango sat down across from Toshiya. Inu-Yasha sat in a far corner. "Here in the Feudal Era there are demons."

"Demons? Like 'ooooh! Scary demon!' Horns, tails, the whole deal?" Toshiya asked in a very sarcastic manner.

Sango looked a little shocked at the sarcasm in this girl. And she's Miroku and Kagome's granddaughter? She seems rude and certainly has an attitude. Sango cleared her throat and continued. "In a way, yes. Actually, Inu-Yasha and Shippo are demons, if you haven't noticed."

"I've noticed." Toshiya said.

Sango continued. "I wanted to know if you know how to defend yourself, Inu-Yasha won't always be here to protect you."

"Of course I know how to fight." Toshiya said as if it made her seem stupid if she didn't. "I've trained in martial arts and Shotokan Karate, as well as fighting with a katana."

"I see." Sango said. "If you don't mind, I'd like to test you skills with a sword. Inu-Yasha," she looked to the dog demon sitting in the corner. He looked up at her. "I want you to work with her."

Inu-Yasha stood up. "I won't take it easy on you."

Toshiya stood up to look across the room at him. "I wouldn't want you to."

The four of them walked outside and Toshiya was given a sword to fight Inu-Yasha with. "Now, what's the point of this?" she asked holding the sword in one hand.

"To make sure that you can at least defend yourself for a short while here in the Feudal Era. It's difficult to keep demons at bay if you can't fight them off." Sango said.

"So I'm supposed to fight Inu-Yasha…Am I aiming to kill or just to block his attacks?" Toshiya asked.

Shippo and Sango exchanged glances. "To kill, though we don't expect you to kill him. He has the Tetsaiga."

Toshiya nodded. "Okay."

She looked to Inu-Yasha, who had drawn the Tetsaiga. Looking at her own sword for a spare second she readied herself in the fighting stance she had been taught. One hand firmly gripping the hilt, the other delicately placed on the blade of the sword, her finger pressing slightly, but never enough to draw blood. Toshiya looked down the space between herself and the dog demon. The point of the sword she aimed directly at Inu-Yasha's thigh. She'd injure him, but she wouldn't kill someone she didn't even know who wasn't going to kill her, purposefully.

"You ready, kid?" he asked.

She nodded. "Hai."

"Go!" Sango shouted.

Inu-Yasha charged forward in a whirl of dust that flew up in his wake. Toshiya stepped to the right and turned the blade. Inu-Yasha had gone straight past. He came to a halt and slid around facing her. Whoa, I didn't think she'd even move. She just barely moved, but made it so I had to move or the blade would have cut into me. He recomposed himself and then charged again.

This time Toshiya had managed to slide under the blade of Tetsaiga and around behind Inu-Yasha and manage to hit him with the hilt of the katana in the lower back so that he fell to his knees. She pressed the hilt of her sword into his spine. He writhed to get away from the uncomfortable pain the hilt shoved against his back caused. She took advantage of the way he was leaning in order to push him with her foot to the ground.

All the air was knocked out of him as he hit the ground. Her foot was placed on his chest and the tip of the blade at his throat. Her finger gently pressed on the blade. She looked down at him with her silver eyes. His gold ones looked up at hers. What's with her pose. She keeps that finger against the blade, but never cuts herself. What kind of technique is that?

"I believe I won." She said.

"Feh." Inu-Yasha looked at the blade. "So what. Wanna move that sword so I can get up?"

She pulled the sword back and turned to Sango and Shippo. "Was that sufficient?" she asked.

Sango nodded in response. "Shippo and Inu-Yasha, why don't the two of you take Toshiya-chan around the village and I will get dinner started." Sango said turning into the house and shutting the door behind her before either Inu-Yasha or Toshiya could protest.

Inu-Yasha turned to look at Toshiya. He watched her as she looked over the katana she still held. "Hey, kid." Inu-Yasha said. Toshiya pushed back some of her loose hair behind her ear and turned her silver eyes on him. "You coming or what?" She nodded. "Put that katana in the loops of your pants so you have it with you." He watched as she carefully slid the blade into her belt loop. He looked at her pants, they were black and had blue dragon embroidery as well as numerous silver chains dangling from catches.

She followed Inu-Yasha into the small village. Looking around she noted everything she had seen in the old samurai movies that she and her mom would watch when she was young. One look around at the people who were staring at her made her feel very different. Everybody was wearing cotton kimonos and she was in her work jeans and a black camisole tank top that showed her stomach. Not hardly something a modest women back then would be wearing.

Inu-Yasha noted her unease at the people staring at her. Before he could say anything Shippo had spoke up. "Don't worry, Toshiya, they're just not used to seeing these kind of clothes. It was the same way when Kagome was here."

Toshiya nodded, "Yeah, well if I'd known I was going to be falling into the feudal era with no way back for a while I probably would have worn something other than my work clothes."

"Those are your work clothes?" Inu-Yasha blurted out on accident. It was hard to believe that a shirt that was nearly see through could be considered work clothes for anyone other than a whore.

"I'm not a whore." She said as if reading his mind. "Normally I would have worn another blue camisole underneath but when Chambrin came to get me I was getting ready to go to bed."

"Chambrin?" Inu-Yasha asked.

"My friend," Toshiya sad looking sad for a moment. "Fuck." She cursed and paused in the street. Both Inu-Yasha and Shippo stopped to stare at her. "The concert. I totally forgot about it. Oh God, they're gonna kill me."

"Kill you?" Shippo asked surprised by her sudden change in mood.

"Yeah, the premier. It's in a week and I play guitar and I was supposed to sing for it. Oh, shit."

"Keep it down." Inu-Yasha said. "You got yourself into it, kid."

"I supposed there's no way to communicate with my gramps either?"

"Not short of going there yourself and it seems that's out of the question now isn't it." Inu-Yasha said.