Mistress Phoenix Says: Now that the story is starting to get good, I am actually very much wanting to write this story. Yes, I am well aware of the terrible grammar in that sentence, but I tend to do that in my normal speech. My mind just works like that.

Anywhos, I'd very much appreciate it if you reviewed, I'm a perfectionist so I tend to go back and change things A LOT. And thank you to the five people who have reviewed so far, it may not be many but knowing that my work is appreciated feels so nice :)

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Inuyasha or any of the characters (Except for Kiyoshi and other OC's (Yes, a few more will be introduced later on) that is)

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"Oh, come on, there has to be something!"

Kiyoshi said furiously, finding himself unable to locate something that proved useful for tearing the plywood off of the shrine. He walked over to the small shed at the other side of yard, throwing the door open. Kiyoshi then started to rummage through the shed.

"Aha!"

The fifteen-year-old stated triumphantly as his search ended in the finding of a crowbar. He took it and went back to the old shrine.

After a few moments of trying to pull the boards off with the crowbar, the wood finally fell free, one of the doors now able to be opened. Kiyoshi silently slipped through, finally finding himself in this forsaken shrine. He dropped the crowbar as if it where worthless.

The floating dust caused Kagome's son to cough a few times, and every time he took a step forward, he would stir the dust that had so long stayed still, creating a small dust cloud. Kiyoshi looked around as he slowly walked to the well.

The boy would have peered down the well if it weren't boarded up as tightly as the doors. He silently cursed himself for not bringing the crowbar along with him, and turned to retrieve the tool he had used to get inside this abandoned place.

And for the second time, Kiyoshi was prying open a boarded up area.

With a grunt and a lot if force, the board soon came free, just as the previous boards had.

Kiyoshi shoved the thick wooden board over onto the floor, which created the biggest dust cloud yet. It made him sneeze and cough several times, but he continued on with what he was doing.

The boy looked down the well to see that, just as his mother had always told him, the well was bone dry. He simply stood there for a while, trapped within his thoughts.

Youkai, huh? I believed it ten years ago, but I was only five then, Mother. Why is that you've always shunned this place? What's so bad about it? I could understand if it was because you feared I would fall in accidentally when I was younger, but why would still insist that I stay away from here today?

Kiyoshi's gaze never wandered from the dark bottom of the well.

What happened here, Mom?

As he thought, Kiyoshi's eyes began adjusted to the darkness, and was now able to see the bottom of the well, though not perfectly. He saw something down there, and squinted a little to try and see if he could identify it.

It turned out that the object he saw was the rope ladder that Kagome had thrown down there so many years ago. This stirred his curiosity even more.

A rope ladder? Why is that down there?

The teenager inquired in his thoughts, curious as to why such an item would be there. Had someone dropped it before his mother had sealed it up? Had someone used it to climb in and out of the well?

He looked down at the digital watch on his wrist, noting that Kagome would return home very soon. Kiyoshi then looked back down into the well. Within seconds, he had jumped onto the ledge of the well and let himself fall down the darkened hole.

I'm already in trouble for sure and Mom's coming home soon, so she can get me out of here once I'm done looking around!

He thought, smirking as he fell.

Logically, Kiyoshi or anyone else who knew nothing about the well's time traveling abilities would have expected to land on the ground, but when he came near the ground, something very strange happened to him.

"What the hell?!"

Kiyoshi shouted loudly. Instead of landing atop the ground's surface, he found himself falling through an odd world of blue-ish colours, and it was nothing like anything he had ever seen before…

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Kagome Higurashi walked up the stairs to reach her home, a smile on her face. Her cheerful mood had lingered with her the entire day, having have had a nice day at work and whatnot. She expected to come home to find her adopted son waiting her for her, just as any other time she left him home alone, and she expected that life would be normal today and the rest of her life.

Kagome did not, however, anticipate what she came home to.

"Kiyoshi, sweetheart, I'm back!"

Again in her wrong expectations, Kagome thought that Kiyoshi would answer her with a hello at least, but when she received no response from the teenaged boy, she began to wonder.

"Kiyoshi?"

She called again. Curious, she started to search around the house.

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Kiyoshi had closed his eyes tight, blocking this terrible ordeal from view, when he suddenly felt himself lightly fall to the ground. He opened his chocolate brown eyes, and found himself in the well.

"What the hell just happened?"

He thought aloud, standing up. The teenager looked up to see light at the top of the well, which he found unusual, for the shrine was boarded up and dark, wasn't it?

"Mom?"

His masculine voice echoed against the empty well.

"Mom?"

Kiyoshi asked again. Getting no response, as his mother was getting back home, he decided it best that he try climbing out of this stupid well. He felt very uneasy.

The boy noticed some vines growing on the well's insides, so began his ascent.

Funny.. I never noticed these here before..

And when he reached the top, he knew why he hadn't seen them. It was because this wasn't home, this was a forest.

And it was also because this wasn't his time, but the feudal era of Japan.

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By the time she had searched nearly every room in the house, Kagome had become downright frantic.

"Kiyoshi! Kiyoshi!"

She called her adopted son's name over and over and still Kagome got no response. She threw the front door open, running outside.

"KIYOSHI!"

Still no answer.

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"W-where am I?"

Kiyoshi said nervously, putting his feet on the unfamiliar ground. He looked around and noticed the God Tree standing tall above the other trees in this forest.

"I guess I should go there."

He said in uncertainty, starting to walk to the one thing that was recognizable to him in this strange and unfamiliar world.

Definitely his mother's son, even if not by blood. He was doing the exact same thing Kagome did nearly twenty years ago, and was going through the same situation of confusion and nervousness of first finding himself in the feudal era.

"Mom?"

Kiyoshi asked aloud yet again when he reached the God Tree. His home was not there, and he became even more afraid than he already was. Not knowing what else to do, Kiyoshi walked over to the large tree.

A cluster of pink flowers grew at the tree's roots, grown from the seeds of the long dead flowers that Sango had placed there so many years ago. The original was long ago deceased, and now there were new ones created from it in their place.

Kiyoshi glanced at the beautiful flowers, trying to get his mind of the current situation.

"Wow, I never saw flowers like these before.. They look like something Mom would like."

He started talking to himself, trying not to feel so alone. It was then when he noticed something written on the tree. It caught his eye, and Kiyoshi soon found himself reading it out loud.

"In loving memory of Inuyasha?"

Though Kiyoshi was certain that he had not heard such a name in his life, the name was oddly familiar to him. The name seemed like it belonged to a person had known for a very long time.

"Inuyasha.."

He whispered the odd name yet again, and he suddenly yelped in pain. Kiyoshi's ears and head suddenly prickled with slight pain and slowly, the same painful feeling crept into the tips of his fingers.

"What's going on?"

He said aloud, startled. Kiyoshi's fear only deepened when he saw what was happening to his nails. They were growing at an abnormal rate, and they became thicker, stronger and sharper, until they were no doubt a pair of claws. Having been paying to much shocked attention to his nails, he didn't realize a few other changes that had happened to him.

"What the hell just happened?!"

His yell made him realize that his hearing had become much more acute, and suddenly it seemed as though he could smell everything around him. This rapid acuteness to all his senses startled him even more so than what he was already, and when he felt for his ears, Kiyoshi nearly had a heart attack from so much fear.

They weren't there.

Not on the side of his head where they were supposed to be, at least. His human ears were gone, but they had been replaced with two furry dog ears on the top of his head.

"WHAT IS GOING ON?!"

The poor boy, he was scared out of his wits.

"Wha – What's happened to my hair? It's white! And long! And not mine!"

Kiyoshi screamed every change he discovered, and indeed, they were all true. The only change he himself did not notice was the fact that his eyes were no longer brown, but a golden-yellow color. Terrified, he fell to the ground, clutching his head as if willing everything to return to normal.

And so Kiyoshi sat there, trying his best not to cry, and wondering what on earth had just happened. He didn't know who this Inuyasha person was, he didn't know what or why this had happened to him, he didn't know where the hell he was, but there was one thing he didn't have the slightest clue about.

Kiyoshi had absolutely no idea that he was the reincarnation of Inuyasha.

--Meanwhile, as this was happening--

Far, far away from the place Kiyoshi was currently, was none other than Lord Sesshomaru.

"Sesshomaru-sama, I gathered food for you."

Rin, now in her late twenties, said softly from behind her adoptive father. She held a collection of food items that she had gathered for the man who had fathered her for her whole life. She waited for Sesshomaru to answer.

Sesshomaru did not look at Rin, but instead stayed in his current position of sitting upon the ground, leaning against a tree he had found. He did not answer.

"Sesshomaru-sama? Did you hear me?"

"Yes, Rin. I am not hungry."

Deciding it best not to pester her lord into eating something, she set the food down on the ground next to him and sat at his side.

Rin looked at her 'father' with her forever innocent and loving eyes, soon staring into his own, empty ones. Sesshomaru's golden eyes had drastically dulled in color and his pupils were hardly visible anymore, so it may seem from even short afar that Sesshomaru had no color in his eyes, only white. The reason for this albino-looking state was because Sesshomaru was now blind.

It was poison that had killed his eyesight, a powerful poison from a vile dragon. The dragon knew that poison would not be as effective to a poison-user such as Sesshomaru, but it also knew that the Lord's weakest place was his eyes, and so used his claws to scratch them and infect them with poison. If you looked closely, you could still see the faint scar that the dragon's claws left across Sesshomaru's eyes. Sesshomaru, of course, slaughtered the dragon for doing such a thing, but by then it was already much too late, Sesshomaru's eyesight was permanently gone. Jaken was killed during the battle, Rin untouched.

Sorrow and great pity filled Rin's eyes at recalling such a horrid memory, and Sesshomaru easily sensed her emotions.

"I do not seek pity."

Rin nodded, though she knew her lord couldn't see her.

Ever since Sesshomaru went blind, Rin had become his eyes, guiding him through his life. As a blind being, his other senses had become much more acute, but without Rin, it would still be difficult for even a youkai like himself to live easily.

The kazen youkai (Perfect demon) lifted his head slightly as the soft breeze brought a faint, familiar scent to his nose.

That scent.. it is so faint, but it is also so familiar.. Could it be..?

"Rin, we shall leave now. Come."

At his orders, the young woman followed after her adoptive father, telling him of roots or anything else he might trip up with as they walked.

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As Kiyoshi transformed while Sesshomaru and Rin headed in his direction, Kagome was also doing something in this certain account.

"Kiyoshi!"

She nearly screamed his name this time, and when she rounded the corner of her house and saw the old shrine, her heart skipped a beat in sheer terror.

The plywood was torn away, the door opened and lightly banging against the wall as the wind blew it.

"Kiyoshi?"

Kagome asked as she slowly walked into the shrine.

This place.. this horrid place stirs so many terrible memories.. Inuyasha..

She tried her very best to shake the feelings, but found herself unable to. As she neared the well and peered down, her heart sank lower than what it already was.

Kiyoshi.. He's gone down the well. He's in the feudal era.