Chapter 2

"Ha! Ha! My plan! It's working! They've taken the potion!" She danced, long black tresses of hair, flowing around her. She stopped at the sound of a muffled yelp. "You! And, you will not be there to help them!" She smiled, cleverly. "I don't need any peacemakers between them." She turned back to her magic, diamond-shaped glass. "Fight. I need you to fight, now. All it takes is one blow, and Inuyasha will be mine!" She laughed, then paused, looking frightened for a moment. "Or, one kiss, and I shall lose him forever. Damn these potions, and their choice of consequences."

Kagome woke up, and stretched her arms out, above her head, and then stood up. She walked a short distance to the river, and crouched down to get a sip of the cool water. As she looked down into the calm water, she froze at what she saw. Inuyasha's reflection stared back at her, in shock. Her heart pounded in her chest, as she reached down and touched the water. The water rippled around her fingertips. She reached up; touching her nose, eyes, cheek….she felt the tickle of sharp nails upon her face.

She stepped back from the water, taking deep breaths. She examined a strand of the long flowing silvery-white hair, over her tears formed in her eyes, as she stared at it, blankly. She threw her head back, and let out, what should have been a high-pitched scream, but emerged as a gutteral roaring sound.

Inuyasha's eyes shot open. He was on his feet in a split second. He moved to speed to the sound, but stumbled on his unsteady feet. But, he didn't have time to waste berating himself, when someone, especially Kagome, could be in danger. He continued to stumble the short distance Kagome had previously walked, towards the river, and froze. At first, he saw no one. Couldn't smell or hear them either.

"Kagome! Kagome, are you-" He stopped short, at the sight of someone standing next to the water. "What the hell?" The figure turned to face him, and Inuyasha's jaw dropped. He was staring at himself. He made an attempt to sniff the air, but smelled only the water from the river.

The stranger stared at him, in a similar way…total shock. "I-Inuyasha?" Kagome said. She stared at the person across from her. Herself.

"Of course! Isn't it obvious? Who the hell are you!" He demanded. But the voice that emerged from his throat, wasn't his. It was more high-pitched, more feminine. He grabbed at his throat, noticing it, for the first time. Kagome began to wail, and Inuyasha watched himself cry in disgust.

"Inuyasha, it's me, Kagome. I'm-I mean-I-we-our bodys have been switched or something!" She cried out. Inuyasha sat in disbelief for a moment, then remembered his stumbling, and the lack of his, usually, heightened senses. He moved, cautiously, to the riverbank, and looked down to find Kagome's face in the watery reflection. He continued to stare, barely breathing.

"What the hell kind of trickery is this!" Inuyasha demanded, searching out anyone that might be hiding around. He stepped back, and studied the weeping Kagome. Then, he looked down at himself. He was in Kagome's body, infamous schoolgirl uniform, and all.

Kagome looked up to find Inuyasha staring at his new breasts. He moved his hands up, in a sort of zombie-like trance, grabbed them, and looked up, surprised, at Kagome. Her face contorted in anger.

"Inu-yaaaa-shaaaaa!" She screamed, in her newly masculine voice. Don't touch those! They're still mine! I want my body back, this instant!"

"Feh! As if I'd wanna stay in this hideous thing!" He replied, pulling on the hem of his shirt.

"Hideous! Why you- SIT!" As she screamed the last word, her body was pulled downward, and her face slammed into the ground, and was held there for a moment. When she was able to get up, tears welled in her eyes, and she began wailing again. "That hurts!"

Inuyasha grinned. "Does it? I never noticed. Let's see…you've done that to me, how many times?"

"D-don't you dare! Jerk!" She sniffled. She curled into a ball and rocked back and forth. "This sucks. What are we supposed to do, now?"

Inuyasha sighed and kneeled next to her. "Look, we need to find whoever did this, and they'll know how to fix it. This is going to be hard for me, too, but we have to pull, what's left of us, together if we're gonna have a chance at fixing it." He touched her shoulder, and she stared up at him.

"Thank you, Inuyasha."

Inuyasha sat down next to her, still looking at his new body, every chance he got.