Harvest Moon
By Jessica the Hanyou
Rated: T
Warnings: Um...In later chapters there may be violence.
Disclaimer: Jessica owns NOTHING!
Okay, I'm having MAJOR trouble with writing Dimension Switch, so people waiting for that, I'm sorry but you'll need to read this thing for until I get around to that. But, I'm warning you, this story was the hardest thing EVER to start...Sooo...Yeah.
CHAPTER 1
The warm sun lit up the landscape, surrounding all in a pale yellow glow. In response, birds sang in high notes while the grass wavered on the ground. It was a wonderful day in the Sengoku Jidai. It was so great, nothing could go wrong. Or at least, that was what Kagome Higurashi thought for the beginning of the day, but no one knew that it would get much worse, and spiral completely out of control.
Kagome flung her leg over the side of the old, wooden well; a large yellow bag slung over her shoulder. She managed to climb out and sit on the wooden rim for a couple minutes and then stood up. She had something to show her unlikely group of travellers. Something important, and something that would twist and turn as it began.
Walking down the path to Kaede's village determinedly she began to plan what she would tell them. Suddenly her thoughts were interrupted by a rustling sound in the bushes. Kagome turned her head quickly, drawing her bow and grabbing an arrow. "I know you're there! Come out!" She exclaimed, putting on her best brave face. Who knew what could be in there? Some sweat trickled down her face.
"Hi, Kagome!" Shippou burst out of the bushes. The hyper kitsune jumped onto Kagome's shoulder joyously. "I scared you! I can smell it!" He grinned, looking at the older girl who proceeded to put away her weapon.
"Shippou!" Kagome gasped, regarding the fox-demon, "Don't scare me like that!" She ruffled the small boy's hair and continued to walk down the trail, Shippou bombing her with questions.
"Why did you take so long? Did you bring Ninja Treats? Did you go somewhere? Were you attacked?" he jumped onto Kagome's head and waited for an answer, his orange tail swerving back and forth as he did so.
Kagome took a deep breath and answered each question in one sentence, "It's a surprise, no, no, no," She continued walking down the path until she finally came across the small village. Small huts were carried across the landscape; makeshift fences littered the area around them. To Kagome, it was great. Of course, this was the last of her worries.
She made her way towards one particularly large hut, and the kit on her head jumped from his perch, running inside. She pushed the "door" to the side and entered and was greeted by two familiar faces. Part of her 'Feudal Family' as she put it so well. She approached happily, "Miroku! Sango! I'm back!" She exclaimed.
"Ah, Kagome it is good to see you have returned safely," said the monk in purple robes. This monk was Miroku, the village pervert. To emphasize this, he put his hand on Sango's bottom and began to rub it, only to be rewarded with a smack to the face.
"Yes...it is great to see you're back," Sango glared at Miroku, her voice almost a growl. She--and almost all women in the village-- knew he needed to learn to restrain himself.
"Uh...Sango, where's Inuyasha?" Kagome questioned the Taijiya, "He wasn't waiting for me at the well as he always does..."
Instead of the older woman speaking, Shippou answered instead. "Well," he began, "Jessica and I decided to play a little prank on him...and it sorta...backfired..." Shippou laughed meekly, twiddling his fingers and not meeting Kagome's gaze.
"What do you mean by...backfired?" Kagome asked, more worry than anger in her voice.
"Well...er..." Shippou didn't finish his sentence, but instead ran off, out of the hut and in an unknown direction.
"I had better go find Inuyasha," Kagome sighed and walked away, looking for any signs of the hanyou, and hoping the girl would be in one piece when she found her.
Meanwhile in a small clearing near the village, Jessica was in above her head. The fox-dog girl was running as if her life depended on it, and frankly, it did. Behind her; a furious Inuyasha was on the verge of killing something-- namely Jessica and she was pretty sure he planned to do it. This all added up to one thing: possible death.
"AH! L-leave me alone!" Jessica screamed, taking a brief look back at the boy chasing her. He looked beyond mad, with his ears folded back, his fangs bared, eyes wide and pupils narrowed almost to slits. He even looked prepared to strike her with his claws. Jessica let out a small whine and turned her head forward again, forcing herself to run faster. She. Would. Die.
"NEVER!" Inuyasha roared in reply, also picking up speed. How dare she and Shippou! The small pranks before had been tolerable...but this...what they had done was unacceptable! They would pay, and the girl would be first. He suddenly jumped over Jessica's head and landed about ten feet away from her, causing the girl to lose her balance and fall backwards. "Time to pay up," he said coldly and walked toward her, cracking his knuckles, when Kagome found the two just in time.
"SIT!" Kagome shrieked, causing Inuyasha to fall to the ground and make a decent sized 'Inu-Crater' in the process. "SIT! SIT! SIT!" A few more 'slam' noises were heard and Kagome finally ran over to Jessica. "Okay, time to fess up, what did you two do?" She scolded while looking down at the girl.
"...We stole his Ramen and Shippou replaced it with a transformation leaf," Jessica mumbled, just loud enough for Kagome to hear. Kagome's eyes went wide and she looked over at Inuyasha. The spell had worn off but now he had to listen to an angry Kagome.
"You tried to kill someone over a noodle!" She yelled at the dog-boy. "What is wrong with you! Do you have an obsession!" Kagome stomped over to Inuyasha --who still seemed in an irregularly bad mood-- and slapped him across the face. She glared at him and he growled in response, running off.
"What's his problem?" Jessica said, pulling herself off the ground and making her way towards the schoolgirl. She stopped beside her and spoke again, "He was perfectly fine earlier, and then he suddenly began snapping at everyone for no reason..."
To stop Jessica's babbling, Kagome spoke up, "AHEM...Well...I have a surprise to tell you and the others...and if we could just get back to the village..." Kagome was cut off by the hanyou next to her.
"A surprise! Well then! Let's go back!" She grinned and ran off towards the village, Kagome close behind. Eventually, they made it back to the village. Jessica happily bounded inside Kaede's hut and sat down next to Shippou. Kagome walked in. She could see Inuyasha inside the hut...or at least in the corner of it...still mad.
Kagome sighed. Oh well. They would have to put up with an angry Inuyasha for the week. "Hey everyone! Guess what? We're going to go to a cool new camping resort in my time!" She exclaimed.
"COOL!" Jessica and Shippou exclaimed happily. Shippou clapped his hands and Jessica grinned.
"Really?" Sango asked, curious of what a "resort" was.
"In case you've forgotten Kagome, only me, you and Jessica can pass through the well," Inuyasha growled from the corner. Kagome noted he was in a terrible mood today.
"I know that!" Kagome hissed. "But if we are all touching when we go through and keep hold of one another, we should all be able to make it!" She glared at Inuyasha and he glared back at her.
"How do you know that will work!" Inuyasha growled. His pupils began to narrow again.
"Uh...because...Kagome's objects from the future can come through the well!" Miroku said quickly. He had noticed how angry Inuyasha had be getting, and how dangerous he had become in a few hours. He grinned meekly and looked over at Inuyasha. His eyes had returned to normal.
"Yes, that's it!" Kagome said cheerfully. "Well, we aren't going to get anywhere just sitting here, now are we?" Kagome got up and walked towards the "door". "Coming?" she asked, and the whole group followed her to the Bone-Eaters Well.
"Okay...So, let's try this," Jessica said. "Shippou and I will go first and if this works, we'll all go through."
Everyone nodded in reply but Inuyasha. He gave a "whatever".
"All right then!" Shippou jumped onto Jessica's shoulder and they jumped in. The familiar blue light came from the well and Jessica in visioned Kagome's temple, telling the well where she wanted to go. Both made it through successfully.
"Yes!" Jessica cheered and they went back through the well again. She jumped out, Shippou still on her shoulder. "It worked!"
"Duh," Inuyasha scowled, "Of course you made it through!"
"...We'd better go now..." Kagome sighed and everyone grabbed hands and jumped into the wooden structure, ending up in Kagome's time, unfortunately the well wasn't big enough to fit everyone everyone ended up being stacked on top of everyone.
"Aaaaaowww..." Jessica moaned. She was on the bottom and being underneath five people wasn't a nice experience.
"Stop your whining!" Inuyasha snarled, he was at the top so he only had to step out of the well. "You call yourself a demon!"
"...No...I'm a...Half-Demon...like you..." Jessica coughed out. Inuyasha loved making Jessica say that for some...reason.
In about half a hour, everyone managed to find a way out of the well and on to the Ferry. The boat was large, and seemed like it would be fast too. Jessica and Inuyasha were forced to wear hats, and Jessica was forced to wear a dress to cover up her tail. "Why do I need to wear a dress?" Jessica whined. She didn't like dresses much. She couldn't run in them and she couldn't move her tail either. It wasn't fair to her!
"Shut up!" Inuyasha snapped. "I told you to stop whining already!"
"B-but..."
"Be quiet!"
"Okay..." Jessica looked down to the ground, her ponytail swerving as she did so. At least she could change into her regular clothes when they got to the island. That's what Kagome told her. They were going to a remote island, and only one camping group was allowed there. Wait, she thought, Why's there such a big boat for one camping group? How weird...
A voice over the P.A could be heard. "We have arrived at Hoshi Island. Please leave the ferry and have a nice day,"
"Where's that voice coming from?" Miroku asked Kagome, surprised. He looked over at her and then around the room. "There's no one else here to say that!"
"That's just the P.A" Kagome explained, "There's a person in another room telling us something through a box called a speaker. Right now they're telling us to go to the campsite." To emphasize this she got up and headed out of the ferry, the group following obediently.
The campsite was large, and had two huge cabins, one for the girls and one for the boys. There was even a heated swimming pool and natural hot springs. This was all based in a forest area giving a natural feel to everything. Jessica's eyes were wide. "SWIMMING POOL!" she yelled and ran off to explore.
"Wait! Jessica! It's getting late, so we should settle in!" Kagome yelled after her. Luckily Jessica was still in hearing range and bounded back at top speed.
"Okay," She sighed. Swimming would have to wait.
"Let's check out the cabins!" Kagome replied, cheering the girl up.
"ALRIGHT!" She immediately ran towards the girls cabin with Sango and Kagome following her.
"Maybe we should check out the cabins as well?" Miroku suggested.
"No thanks. I'm not getting anywhere near one of those things!" Inuyasha protested, leaping into a large, high up tree.
"Have it your way then..." With that, Miroku and Shippou made their way to the boys cabin.
"I call top bunk!" Jessica jumped onto the top bunk of one bed. Each cabin had one bed room with three bunk beds and a night light next to each one. The cabins also had a kitchen and bathroom also and were made completely of wood. Kagome and Sango bunked in one bed with Sango on the bottom and Kagome on the top. This set up the girl's room.
The boy's room was set up the same way as the girls had set up their room and Shippou slept on the top bunk with Miroku on the bottom. This set up the boy's room.
Jessica was enjoying a book while Kagome and Sango slept peacefully. The book was all about demon legends. Her eyes went wide as she looked through the last story. It read: Every One-Hundred years, the first harvest moon of the year shall cause the race of the hanyou to become their demonic state for the night each week. Each day, extreme violence shall be shown. On the Nine-Hundredth year, this curse was broken, but as a tradition, religious hanyous often hide during the harvest week...
The harvest moon slowly appeared over the campsite. It was huge; an orange evil. It cast out orange beams of light, blocking out the stars. It was so bright, it woke Inuyasha from his sleep. He looked up at the sky. The transformation was inevitable, yet he knew nothing of it. Jagged purple lines made their way across his cheeks and his eyes turned blood red, pupils sapphire blue. His claws and fangs lengthened and his aura changed to a demonic one. The transformation happened so quickly that there was no time to fight it, no time to protest. The hunt was on.
Geeze, aren't I evil? Yes I am!
Inuyasha: NO! You made me transform...And I had Tetsuaiga! Now you're gonna die!
Jessica: ...Er...TT;
Inuyasha: ...You're dead.
Jessica: Why thank you! TT;
Inuyasha: FEH!
Jessica: Remember to review, or Demon Inuyasha will 'tear you apart' like he said he would to me in Feudal Combat!
Inuyasha: Seriously, he will! So you had better review!
Jessica: BYE!