Chapter 2: Where Am I?

"Cheri! Where are you?" I called out. I walked through grass that seriously needed cutting, big time! I came up to trees and decided to go into this forest-like place. After about an hour of calling out, my throat got soar, so I just kept on walking. What seemed like after forever, I came upon a road. The road wasn't made of concrete, not even rocks! It was a dirt road like way back in the time.

What happened? What's with the scenery? Where am I?, I thought to myself. Suddenly, there was a rustle in the bushes nearby, and for some reason, this place, wherever the hell I was, did not feel safe at all. Out of the bushes jumped a very large rabbit. I know it sounds funny, but this rabbit was huge! It had foam coming from its mouth and tried to attack me. Right before it attacked, some kind of other thing jumped out in front of me.
No, it wasn't a thing, it was a human. But this was no ordinary human! It was male. He pulled out a sword and with one swipe; the ferocious rabbit was torn into smithereens. The man turned around, sword still up. For some odd reason, I just fell to the ground on my knees and screamed.

You won't believe this, but out of the woods, jumped a girl my age, what seemed like a little boy and a cat, a monk, and another woman.

"Inuyasha! Don't frighten her!" The girl my age shouted. I sat with my head in my hands crying. The man squatted down to my level.

"I'm sorry! Don't cry! I didn't mean to scare you." The man sympathized. I wiped my tears away with my arms and looked up at the man. This was no ordinary man, like I would know anyway. This guy had white hair, which I know some men do, but he had EARS! Once I saw his ears, my face turned soft, like every time I saw a puppy.

"How cute!" I squealed, and I reached out for the man's ears. Right before I touched them, he hit my hands away.

"Hey!" I grouched. The man stood up and turned to the approaching people.

"She's just like you, Kagome. She tried touching my ears! That's not acceptable! Maybe she's a spy of Naraku! Let me kill her!" The man turned to me. I stood up with a terrified look on my face.

"Inuyasha, SIT BOY!" The girl my age yelled. And to my surprise, the man slammed face down into the ground, just like a dog, but a lot less graceful. I couldn't help but laugh. The other people caught up to me. I saw that the cat-like animal had TWO tails! TWO! Not one, but TWO! And the small boy was no BOY!

"What the hell!" I pronounced loudly. All grew quite and the group looked to her.

"I'm sorry Inuyasha scared you. We are not your enemies." The girl my age spoke.

"Then if we aren't her enemies, who's for certain she's not one of ours?" Inuyasha barked.

"Hey! I don't know where the hell I am!" I couldn't stand that guy anymore. He was more arrogant that my deceased father. The guy called Inuyasha looked at me shockingly.

"What do you mean?" The other woman asked. The cat-like thing rubbed up against my legs and meowed.

"I mean that I don't know where I am. One minute, I was in the Warehouse, and the next, I was here." I explained, but not in full detail. I couldn't understand this one bit. But once I said what I did, all of the people, if that's what some were, looked toward each other. The girl turned her attention back to me.

"What year were you born?" The girl asked.

"1989, why?" I questioned.

"Well, this isn't 2005. It's a long time before that. It's a feudal era in Japan." The girl replied. I nearly fainted. The monk caught me though.

"Oh my! This is a huge shock to her." The monk inferred.

"Well, I would think so Miroku; since she's not from our time and that she's near Kagome's age." Inuyasha assumed.

"How do you know those things?" The fox-like kid asked.

"Well, her clothes are weird, and she's young by the smell of her, so she's not from this time." Inuyasha clarified. From that point on, I couldn't remember anything, but mainly darkness.

I woke to find myself in a hut-like place. I was not on a comfy bed, but a floor. As a matter of fact, I lay right beside a woman boiling something in a cauldron. I shot up off the floor and backed up against the wall.

"Ah, you have awakened. Do thou think I will harm thee? Then thou are wrong." The old woman retorted. I loosened up, but once I did, the man named Inuyasha came running into the building.

"Kaede? Are you okay?" Inuyasha asked in a rush of words.

"Aye. The lass did no harm." The old woman answered. Inuyasha looked at me against the wall and shook his head.

"As if this old hag would hurt a fly." Inuyasha snarled. I sneered at him and walked over to the woman.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be frightened, it's just…" But Kaede held up her hands for silence.

"Aye. I know. Kagome went through the same ideal fate. Poor girl. You have a lot of getting used to this place on your part." Kaede expressed.

"But, why can't I go home?" I was starting to get worried.

"Well, ye yourself said ye don't know how ye got here, correct?" Kaede asked; she was wiser than anyone I had ever met. I sighed and tears started to fill my eyes, but just then, Kagome walked through the doors. I leapt up and held onto her for dear life.

"Oh, Shadow. What's the matter?" She asked, sympathetically.

"I want to go home!" I cried, tears spilling out of control.

"Aww." Kagome said eyes full of understanding. She sat me down and fetched me some water.

How am I supposed to get home? Am I able to live here? Why am I here?, I asked myself; but which of those answers could I find out?