INUYASHA
I liked the scenes in this, but not the last ones. The only reason I didn't take it out is because that's most of the story! It bugs me, though, so you don't have to read it if you don't want to. I'd recomend skimming, though.

It's Chaotic, For The Record

"Kagome?" a kind voice called up the stairs of the home. "Kagome, dinner's ready!"

A little boy poked his head in the door of her room. "Hey, Sis, did you hear? Dinner's ready." he said before running back out of the room. Kagome glanced out her window.

"Why do I feel like I don't belong here?" she muttered to herself. "I get good grades without hardly trying, and nothing ever really happens. It's not that I'm complaining about that!" she hurriedly amended to the air as she watched the stars. She frowned. "I just...I just feel that my life around here isn't the way destiny wanted it to be. Like my real life is a little more interesting."

Turning, she walked from the room and down the hall, not noticing the star that winked out, shooting across the sky for less then an instant.

"Look, Miroku, there is nothing going on between Sango and me." Inuyasha said for the hundredth time in as many days. He let his gaze go heavenward. "Why does everyone think I'm going out with their girlfriends?" he muttered.

Sango strode up beside them. "It's just your cool demeanor." she said, handing him his glasses and helmet.

Miroku sighed. "Okay, Inuyasha, I guess I can let you go." he murmured. Then her brightened. "Well, good luck." he said, clasping his age-old friend on the back. "If you succeed, who knows what wonders will befall you."

He said this while watching two beautiful physicists walk by, causing both of the remaining occupants of the vator shaft to mutter 'pervert'.

"But serriously, Inuyasha, if they do send you lightyears across the universe - and if they don't they may well die trying - you'll be famous." Sango said, helping him put on his helmet.

"I know. I'm not in it for the glory though, you know." He tugged on his gloves. "I'm only in it to get my mom out of jail." he said, putting his glasses over his eyes.

"Inuyasha Kantana, please come to the main hall, Inuyasha Kantana, please come to the main hall for transport." a voice called over the speaker.

"Inuyasha, are you ready?" another asked in his earpeice.

"Good to go." he replied into the speaker.

"You know that if you don't come right back, we're gonna get sent halfway across the galaxy, too." Miroku said from his side, watching another pair of cute girls walk by. "And unless this planet your on is some type of Amazonian-ruled place, you're dead. Ouch, Sango! That hurt!"

"It was supposed to." she replied, hefting her boomerang back onto her back. "Don't act like that. Pretty soon, thank's to Inuyasha, we're all going to be headed for some tropical planet vacation hotspot."

"Lady hotspot would -" He cut off at Sango's look.

"Inuyasha? Are you coming?" the voice in his earpeice asked again.

"Yeah, Namari. Come on, guys. Let's go." He led them out onto the open-aired path to the main hall, where the transport would take place.

Soon Inuyasha was standing before a metal sphere. The dark, almost black metal had only one opening large enough to squeeze through, even though it was made of metal bars that crossed, leaving lots of gaps.

"This here is the transport sphere." the captain said to him, walking up. Her heels clipped on the steel of the ground. "Climb on in, Inuyasha." she commanded

"Sure thing, Captain Namari." Inuyasha said. "But one more thing. What's the name of the vessel?" he asked. He knew Namari loved to name her ships and such; he had known her a long time.

"It's the Dragonsphere. Yours is, anyway. Theirs is Lightning and Black, respectably." she said, beaming.

Inuyasha climbed in. "I get the money for doing this, not finding something, right?" he asked.

"Right."

"Okay. Let's go." He closed his eyes, and the unnatural sleep of presurving gasses overcame him.

He'd been training since he was eight. He was a warrior. He could battle with almost any type of weapon, and his reflxes had been dubbed perfect by the emperor when he was ten. He could fly most any plane, man almost any machine.

He was strong, and handsome, and he knew people high up. His father, who had come from another planet, had been friends with the emporer before he died, and he'd also been a captian in the army. His mother had been a rich lady on her own home planet, and had befriended the emporer's wife before she became pregnant with him. In short, he was perfect. Perfect life, rich family, and connections.

He might have been rather rude and tactless, but most people overlooked that in favor of seeing his money and his friends' money.

He hated that.

"She thinks she's so perfect, with that rich husband of hers." the maids would say.

Before Raino Kantana died, Lady Etko was admired, but hated behind her back. She knew it, though her husband didn't.

Her little boy was born, and about a year later, her husband was killed in battle. That battle had been the last one, for the enemy had given in, and had been their only enemy.

The Emporer's wife, Maimi, one of her only real friends, was with child a few months later. She had a baby girl around the time that Etko's boy was turning two. Kaishi was her name. She would be the one to enherit the throne, because Maimi could have no more children. Since the Emperor had liked Raino so much, they had their children betrothed.

The baby was kidnapped from her cradle only three months later. Many people suspected Etko, but Maimi wouldn't hear of it.

Unfortunatly, Maimi died of a fever a few years later, and the Emperor had Etko put in jail. He had nothing against her son, though. Having loved his father like a brother, he gave him a fine education.

But the boy wanted his mother out of jail, and, on his seventeenth birthday, proclaimed that he would volunteer for the new transport system if the Emperor would take the money and free his mother. Needing a volunteer for the reasearch badly, he agreed. The boy had no fear he would be cheated, for the Emperor was a man of his word. So he went and did as he said.

Kagome finished sweeping the floor, and stepped outside.

"Ah, it's such a pretty night out tonight." she whispered, watching the stars. She still had the cloth over her hair, like a cross between a bandana and a hair net, and it held back her silky black hair. "Let's see, tonight's my birthday. Tomorrow I'll have my party."

She danced around under the stars. "Fifteen, I'm fifteen!" she sang, dancing farther and farther into the woods. "Fi-i-i-i-i-ifteen!"

A glint of metal caught her eye and cause her to stop singing. She walked slowly closer to the metal sphere lying in the miniature clearing. It was made of crossing bars, leaving gaps, and there was only one big enough to get through.

She gasped as she realized that there was a person in there. She ran over to the sphere, and climbed throught the only large gap.

He was sitting in a chair in the middle. It was kind of cramped inside, so once she was in she was practically on top of him.

She dragged him out of the sphere, and laid him on the grass. She pulled off his helmet and glasses, and gasped again.

It was a handsome boy. His silver hair flowed once it was released from the helmet. He had cute little dog-like ears on top of his head, and his face was peaceful in sleep.

She leaned just a little closer. He really was handsome, and she couldn't help herself.

Slowly, he began to stir...

He hadn't been dreaming. It was just blank, empty black space in his mind. Nothing.

But he felt soft hands tug off his helmet and glasses, lightly grazing his ears in a gentle touch. He knew it was a woman's hands. He didn't know how, but he did.

'Her hands are so soft. Her skin is gentle. What does she look like? What does her skin feel like beneath my hands? ' he asked himself, and he opened his eyes.

He looked up to see a beautiful woman kneeling over him, concern in her pale-silver eyes. Her black hair was held back in a white clothe, which she pulled off only seconds after he noticed it. "Are you alright?" she asked.

He blinked at her. "I...yes, I think." he finally said.

She smiled to him. "Good." she said, lightly touching his cheek. "Why on earth would you be in a big metal sphere?" she asked, a hint of laughter in her voice. She pressed the clothe from her hair over his cheek. "Sorry, it looks like I cut you when I pulled you out of that...thing. I guess it was my ring or something. Who knows?"

He laughed. "It is scary looking. I only got in it to free my mother."

She cocked her head, looking like she was about to ask him a question, but then shook her head. "No, I'll have you tell me later." She pulled the clothe back and smiled. "It's stopped bleeding."

He didn't have the heart to tell her it was probably because of his healing abilities, since he healed fast. But then he noticed that her clothe was stained with just a bit much blood to be from a cut. He tried to sit up, but his body was stiff.

"It'll probably hurt. Let's get you inside." she said, standing and helping him ease up.

"Here, let me take off this stupid thing. It's only heavy, I don't need it." he said, unzipping his transport jacket. and sliding off the bulky pants. At least the kimono he always wore, which was underneath, was a lot lighter.

She smiled to him, and led him back to the house.

'Why is she so understanding? She can't know what's going on...can she? I don't know...She seems as if she should know what I'd mean...'

(I don't like it past this point. But it has a lot of info I haven't just taken down in notes yet, so I can't erase it.)

"Hey, Kag-chan?" Inuyasha asked, sitting up. He was only still in bed because she wouldn't let him leave, and he'd taken to calling her by this nick-name. He'd been stuck in her room for two days now. "I was wondering...You seem a little different from your family." He'd met her brother when he'd come in with some soup, and her mother when she'd come to get the laundry. "How come?"

She looked over to him and smiled. "I was adopted, you know." she said, going back to stirring the drink she had, but wouldn't tell him what it was. "My parents found me in the woods. They adopted me. I was only about three months old. So, exactly fourteen years and nine months ago they found me in the woods. I love Momma alot, though."

"And...what about your father?" Inuyasha asked.

Kagome looked out the window, her face sad. "He died a long time ago. I hardly remember him. It was just after Sota was born."

"Your little brother?"

She smiled. "Yeah." Then she turned to him. "Would you like some?" she asked, offering the pitcher she'd been stirring for the day.

"Sure." he said, and she filled his glass. He drank the sweet juice, and it was a little familiar...

"Hey, what is this?" he asked. It reminded him of something he'd had once, at the emperor's palace...

"It's just my version of lemonade." she said, laughing. "I don't know why I ever put cherries in it, but I did. Isn't it good?"

"Yeah, great." he replied. He watched her for a moment, and his eyes widened when he saw that the pitcher, which was sitting precariously on the edge of the table, was about to fall.

He couldn't get there fast enough...Kagome was close enough...but...she'd never make it...she wasn't fast enough...didn't have his years of training...from where she was sitting, it would be hard for him to catch it...and she wasn't a natural like him...didn't have those 'perfect' reflexes that were so needed in his home...she couldn't catch it...

He was extremely surprised when she did. She caught it in one hand, and set it back on the table, farther from the edge this time.

"Wow. I didn't know you had such good reflexes." Inuyasha said, smiling at her. She turned to him, slightly surprised, but then smiled too.

"I didn't say anything because my family never seems to notice it when I do stuff like that." she said, laughing. "That was a really good catch, don't you think?"

"Yeah, I do." From then on, he always watched her closely to see if she did anything like that again.

She didn't.

"Hey, now that you're all better, can you tell me what you were doing in a giant metal sphere in the woods?"

Inuyasha glanced up. She'd only just let him out of bed. "Why?"

"I want to know." she said, leaning against the door frame.

"Not now, okay?" he said, standing and walking to the window.

"Wait! Where are you going!" she asked as he slid it open.

"I'll be on the roof if you need me." was all he said before he sprang onto the window sill and out onto the roof.

Kagome grumbled and followed him. Hoisting herself up, she lifted onto the roof without too much trouble.

"Hey, how come you came to the roof?" she asked, walking over to him. He glanced up.

"I didn't think you'd follow me. Anyway, all the buildings where I come from, on the planet Nara, they're really tall, and this one...isn't. I...needed to get higher." He shrugged.

"A little homesick?" she asked. "Why don't you tell me about 'home' ?"

He smirked. "I'm only here to get my mother out of jail. If I volunteered to come, then all the money would go to the Emperor, and he'd set her free."

"Really? What's she in jail for?" Kagome asked, sitting down beside him.

"About fifteen years ago, the Empress, my mother's friend, had a baby girl. That was when I was two. When the baby was three months old, she dissapeared. Alot of people suspected my mother had done it, but the Empress, Maimi, didn't think so. When she died, the Emperor had my mother put in jail." Inuyasha explained. "Since Maimi couldn't have any more children after her baby girl, she would have inherited the throne. Now they have no heir, since the Emperor refuses to remarry."

Kagome nodded. "But what if they found the baby? Of course, she wouldn't be a baby now, would she?"

"No, she wouldn't. She'd be...about your age." Inuyasha agreed. Then he suddenly remembered something he'd wanted to see. He stood and walked to the other side of the roof. "Hey, Kagome, can I see something?"

She shrugged. "Sure, what?"

"Ack, um...Give me something to through." he said, searching himself and finding nothing.

"Hey, um..." Kagome pulled something out of her pocket. "I found this on you when you were asleep." she said, tossing him a medallion on a silver chain. "What is it?"

Inuyasha held the medallion in his hand for a moment. It was of two crescent moons, locked together. One was silvery white metal called Moonstone, the other was a darker, almost reddish metal called Sunstone. They were set on a black metal circle that went beneath them.

He stared at the amulet for a while, lifting it up to look at it in the sun. It glimmered as if it were new. "Have you ever seen one before?" he asked.

"Yes. I have one." she said, walking over to him.

A streak of light went straight for her, and she snapped her hand out to catch the amulet he'd thrown to her. He stared.

"You have really good reflexes." he said, and his own hand snapped out to catch it as she threw it back. "Now, let me see your amulet." he commanded.

She was standing beside him now, and she pulled a silver chain out from under her shirt, tugging up a medallion like his own. Identical, you could say, except there were runes around the black circle on hers.

He reached out to grab the amulet, but Kagome suddenly tripped, falling back and down the roof to the ground.

Acting before he thought on it, he reached out and grabbed her, tugging her up to him. This motion set him down the slope of the roof as well, but he pressed her to his chest and landed lightly on his feet when they hit the ground.

He set her on her feet, and she looked up to him. She mumbled something and looked away.

"What was that?" he asked. She couldn't have said what he'd thought...could she?

"Aru...aru nakutsi. Rikotsu aru nakutsi." she said.

He stared. She had appologized and given him her blessing. It was a custom from Nara, but...she'd said it in the old language. The language of the runes. Not even the Emperor could read the Runes anymore.

He'd been doing a lot of staring lately. She said so.

"Why do you keep staring at me?" she asked. "It's not polite, you know."

He had something...in his pocket...he'd kept it after his mother had been taken...it had been his father's...There! He pulled out a scrap of old parchment.

"Can you read this?" he asked, shoving it into her hands. She took it from him gingerly, studying it, running her hands across the letter-like symbols.

"Mitsku, eto eto nanaki. Idf aa aru aa no. Inu inu riko nan et et no nan aa aru no nan." she said, slowly. "It means...I think it means that...It sounds like a spell, or a prophecy."

"What does it say!" he asked, eager now. He had to know. His father had brought it from his home world, but he couldn't read it either.

"'Moon's beam is red, red sky. In the night, night call. The prophecy is foretold, as it will happen.' There's more, but it doesn't make sense. Like half the sentence is missing. There's something about a 'half to a whole', somebody finds where they belong, something like that. No...the half stays the same, I think...but they find what they need." She looked confused. "Half...this paper was ripped in half. It's missing something." she finally said.

"Read all of it." Inuyasha demanded.

"That's the problem. I can't. One word depends on the rest of the sentence for it's meaning. I can't translate it. But...I've seen a peice of paper like this. It didn't make sense either." she said. "Come on. It's in my room. I kept it."

She led him back into the house. "Look, I'm sorry about this. Maybe you should go home." she said quietly. "I...I've just made a big mess of things. I know it. I have this feeling that...I'm making things worse."

"No, you're not." Inuyasha argued. They were in her room before she said anything else.

She went digging through her chest, lying under the window. She sat there, rummaging through her stuff for a solid ten minutes. Eventually she came up with a peice of parchment like Inuyasha's.

She put the two papers together, and tried to read it.

She flung her hands in the air. "It's still missing something, but at least these two go together. At the top, it says 'Shikon'. I think that's the name of this...prophecy, or else that's what it's about."

"Come back with me." Inuyasha said suddenly. "Come back to Nara with me."

"What?" Kagome asked, turning to him. "I don't understand."

"Nara. Come back with me. I want you to meet the Emperor. I think he'd like you. And besides, I'm sure they could use you." He remembered something he'd heard in the news. "They dug up this big tablet from under the city, in the ancient ruins of the old cities. There's all these runes on it. No one can read it, because no one can read the runes. The Emperor is giving a million Nik to whoever can read it. It can also be exchanged for a ton of Moonstone or Sunstone, of the same worth. Come on. You could buy whatever you want with all that. Surely there's something you want."

"I just want a friend, an adventure." she said, looking out the window.

"You can have that. You don't have to take the job, you know. It might be fun, though. But you can go across the universe if you get a job with some other agencies. Come on, it'll be fun." He stood, grabbing her hands. "Do you want to?"

"Would you?" she asked.

"I-" He looked away. "I don't know what I'm going to do now. I would take this job though. Only...they aren't going to offer it to me. You're the one they'll hire. You're the one the Emperor saw fit to give a million Nik to."

"If you'll do it too, then I will." She smiled to him. "Working with you would be fun."

"We'd have to be partners." Inuyasha said playfully after he got over the shock.

"As long as we aren't forced to get married." she said, laughing.

"Sometimes co-ed partners do, but it's not required." he added, shoving her lightly. "And you get to travel around and see all sorts of planets, and stuff like that..."

She sighed and leaned against her bed. "That sounds like a lot of fun."

"Good. Let's go soon, okay?"