Disclaimer: Though it would be my hearts deepest desire, I unfortunately, don't own Inuyasha.

Meagan glanced at each of her friends right before they entered the forest. "Are you SURE you wanna do this?" She asked hesitantly.

"YES!" Emily and Elaina replied in unison, giving her annoyed looks. It was at least the fifteenth time Meagan had asked.

"Like SURE sure?" Meagan questioned.

Emily and Elaina each took a turn bopping Meagan on the head. "YES!" They replied once again.

They entered the forest, Emily and Meagan taking turns in asking stupid questions such as:

"Are you sure this is the right way?"

"Are we there yet?"

"How long is this gonna take!"

"Anyone got a smoke?" (After Meagan said this, Emily reached into her pocket, and Elaina slapped her hand away.)

"Here looks good." Said Elaina, dropping her backpack.

"For what!" Said Emily incredulously, glancing nervously down at Elaina's bag.

Elaina smiled evilly. "I thought we should try to blend in, so I bought some clothes."

Meagan, being the lenient one, said, "Okay great, let's see."

Elaina then proceeded to pull out three costumes. They were all elaborate-looking and they each immediately knew which was theirs.

Meagan's was a dark, earthy green color that blended almost exactly with the pine trees. The top part was a very short looking Kimono that tied loosely around the waist, with green bloomers that tied at the top.

Emily's was a long, loose, midnight blue robe that tied around the waist, with long, flowing sleeves. It looked extremely witchy.

Elaina's was a fire-y red yet simple shirt with short sleeves that laced up at the top. Her pants were brown and loose, and had ties around the ankles so she could pull them up to bloomer-length.

All of the outfits came with brown leather belts that had handy pockets attached to them (as their outfits had no pockets built in), and a sword loop to hold a sheath and sword, though there were no weapons in sight. Upon further inspection, they could see that the pockets were full of modern instant-campfire food and supplies. They each had a pair of black slip-on shoes that had wooden soles and rough-feeling cloth to keep their feet both clean and safe. Elaina on the other hand, had bought the shoes for maximum pain when kicking an enemy, because, honestly, bare feet were not at all threatening, especially (in Emily's case) when the toenails were painted hot pink.

(A/N: I tried not to include anything that was modern, excepting the supplies.)

Elaina stood there beaming. "So…you like it?" She asked hopefully.

Meagan stood, there, still examining the loot. "Um…where did you get all this stuff?"

"Museum." Elaina replied casually. Meagan immediately dropped the item she was holding. "You mean you stole them from dead people!"

"No, no. I got them from some website run by the museum. They sell authentic, handmade clothes from the feudal area. Ours were really expensive though, because back then bright dyes were also expensive." Elaina said, sounding for the entire world like an encyclopedia. "So they take the 'retail' cost and add to it or subtract from it depending on how common they were in the feudal area. Makes it a real experience."

Emily gulped. "So…ummm…how much exactly did you pay for it?" She said, "I mean, all together."

"Ooohh about 1,000 dollars." She said, making them gasp in disbelief. "Where did you GET all that money!" Meagan said.

"College fund." Said Elaina, gathering up her clothes and proceeding towards a thick batch of bushes, leaving Emily and Meagan gasping in disbelief.

After all of them changed into their outfits and Elaina suddenly fell into a giggle attack.

"What the hell?" exclaimed Emily.

"Well, that was random…"mumbled Meagan.

After a few minutes Elaina stopped laughing so that Emily and Meagan had the chance to ask her what happened.

"What the hell was that about?" Emily and Meg both screamed.

"Eh? Well I just imagined the look on my dad's face when I tell him why I have to have a part time job…" Elaina replied innocently.

Emily and Meagan just stared for a moment. Elaina just lost interest and started to walk away. Emily regained her senses and chased after Elaina, yelling, "Wait up you! If you get killed then I'm not lugging your dead ass home!" Meagan quickly followed, not liking the possibility of being left behind.

Back with Inuyasha…

After Miroku's little run-in with that demon, Inuyasha was trying to convince him to come with him without telling him that he was clumsy enough to have lost Kagome, so far his attempts were not very successful.

"OH COME ON YA CROOKED MONK! I NEED YOU TO HELP ME!" After a few minutes, Inuyasha had become slightly frustrated, and started yelling at Miroku, which wasn't helping his case.

"Inuyasha I get that, but what do you need my help for? Surely not to fight, you're well off on that…and not to detect auras; you have Kagome for that, and she's much better at it than I …or do you even have Kagome…?" Miroku asked sneakily. Losing Kagome was one of the few things that made the hanyou so on edge, so Miroku had made an educated guess.

Sango, not really knowing what was going on (but taking pity on Inuyasha anyway), walked up to the two arguing men. "Sorry if I am interrupting anything but…houshi-sama, if you would please consider coming with us I do not know why Inuyasha needs me, but I need him to help me slay the demon who killed my fiancé, and if you could come with me and him and help us I would be very honored." Miroku's ear perked as soon as she said the words "fiancé" and "died", and he didn't hesitate for a second. "Oh of course! I'll come with you Sango! I'd be delighted!" he said happily, and then promptly groped Sango's rear.

"HENTAI!" she yelled then slapped him into outer space.

After Sango and Inuyasha got packed, and Miroku fell out of orbit, Sango said her goodbyes and they left.

They were walking though the forest that ran along the outskirts of the town, and Inuyasha smelled something that was familiar, but not threatening. He shrugged it off, but as they walked closer to it, they began to hear voices.

"Why didn't you think of that before we started to walk?"

"Sorry, okay? Can't we just ask some passerby?"

"WOW! What a great idea! Hmmm, how should we ask! Oh I know, how does this sound? 'Sir, can you tell me if you have seen any random girl being captured by some creepy, masked figure?'"

Those voices sounded way too familiar to Inuyasha. Miroku and Sango, wondering what all the ruckus was about, walked into the clearing where there were three girls, two of them arguing, and one who had her nose in the air and seemed to be… sniffing? Then she turned to them and stared at them. Uh oh, we've been noticed. Sango thought. No… she seemed to be staring past them, at Inuyasha who was walking into the clearing.

The girl in red cocked her head to the side, then calmly walked up to Inuyasha and sniffed him. This sure seemed to surprise him.

Meanwhile the two other girls that each wore sturdy, well-made, expensive clothes, one in blue and one in green, continued to argue.

Then out of nowhere the girl in red said "I so won!"

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