A Tale of Two Hanyou's

Or

The New Hanyou's

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha (I am trying by holding Kagome and Kikyo captive to get him, don't ask where, now where are the painkillers…)

Chapter Seven: Down the Well For the First Time

"What do you mean? I didn't think that time travel was possible. I have done a lot of research on it so I could try it out myself. Everything I have read said that there is no way a human could survive time travel, let alone find a way to do it here on Earth," said Tahanna.

"It may be deemed impossible to science, but there is magic in that well," Kagome said, "but that isn't all that is in the feudal era. There are…"

'You better not say 'demons who rule the time and humans live in daily fear,' or I might burst out laughing.' Tahanna thought to himself.

"…demons who rule the time and humans live in daily fear," said Kagome.

All of a sudden, (bet you can't guess what happens) Tahanna burst out laughing. Kagome's mother looked at him quizzically. Kagome's grandfather looked at him with a startled look on his face. The sudden change from a near silent house to a very loud laugh had nearly given him a heart attack. Souta was the first to continue speaking.

"What's so funny?" he asked.

"It's kind of an inside joke, but while I was back in America, I went to some Japanese food restaurant and ordered something that was supposedly from feudal Japan. When I was picking up my food, the person at the counter told me exactly what Kagome just said," Tahanna replied..

Now that we all have that settled…" Tahanna started, stopping to sniff the air. When he continued sniffing, and started jumping around the room from place to place with an anime style, the rest of the family stared at him. When he stopped he said "I smell something."

"What is it? Is it a demon?" Kagome asked.

"No, it's not a demon. It's … Raaaameeeeeeen! Yay!"

Tahanna started running out the door and the whole family did an anime style fall. Kagome said with a lot of frustration in her voice "Sit boy!"

As soon as she said it, she remembered that this was Tahanna and not Inuyasha. She was surprised when Tahanna, in mid-jump, came plummeting down to the ground, just like Inuyasha did.

"Owwwww…what happened?" asked Tahanna, feeling like a ton of bricks just landed on his back. "How the hell did that happen?" he asked with more shock than pain in his voice this time.

"……" was the only response he got from Kagome and her family for the next ten minutes he was stuck on the ground for. When he finally got up, Kagome whispered a rather hushed "oops," to herself. Tahanna, being a hanyou (he still doesn't know yet), heard this and turned to look at her.

"What do you mean 'oops'?" asked Tahanna.

"Grandpa, did you happen to sell a young couple the necklace that Tahanna is wearing about sixteen years ago?" Kagome asked her granfather.

"As a matter of fact I did," he replied, "the legend behind that necklace is that it used to keep a hanyou's powers in check when a young miko said the word 'sit.' Why do you ask?"

"That miko is me and the hanyou must have been Inuyasha. Somehow, the necklace must have come off, but retained the spell. Sorry Tahanna," she said to me and her family.

"It still hurt a lot," grumbled Tahanna.

"Well, I have some news for you about the feudal era before we actually go there," said Kagome.

"Go right ahead," said Tahanna.

"O.K. There is a lot to say so I'll start off at the beginning…" (long story, so I'll outline the main points for you). She started off by saying that Tahanna's father was a very powerful dog-demon. His first son was a youkai named Sesshomaru. He then found a human and she gave birth to his second son, a hanyou named Inuyasha. She then told Tahanna that the same woman must have also given birth to him. She then told Tahanna that both his father and mother were dead (there are a lot more points, but for the sake of avoiding dullness, I'll just say that it follows basically the same history that the anime provides).

"So why don't we go down the well now," Tahanna said in the form of a question, but without any hint of questioning in his voice.

"It's out back. Follow me," Kagome said.

At the well

It was about nine o'clock at night when they went to the well. Everybody was just standing outside the well house in silence. After a few minutes, Tahanna decided to break the silence.

"What now?"

Kagome didn't reply, instead she just walked to the edge of the well. Tahanna followed. She jumped in and Tahanna went in right after. He was almost immediately enveloped in a blue light. Before Tahanna could wonder what was happening he found himself at the bottom of the well. When he looked up however, he saw the night sky instead of the roof of the well house. He looked to the side to see Kagome standing next to him, apparently not even phased by what just happened. She started climbing out of the well and he once again followed her without a word. Once they were out he saw that he was in a clearing. There were no houses in sight, just the grass and trees.

"Lets go back to the village," Kagome said. Tahanna nodded and they started walking through the forest. Tahanna was amazed by all the smells he noticed. He could tell that the air was a lot more clean here than in the states. He was beginning to wonder if they really were in feudal Japan when he saw a village. The style of the houses told him that they were definitely not in modern-day Japan, or modern-day anywhere for that matter. Villagers passing in the street only stopped a second to look at Tahanna before resuming their previous activities.

"Do you have those robes you were talking about earlier?" asked Kagome.

"Yes"

"Go back into the forest and put them on."

Tahanna went into the forest and changed into the robes, which were a black color, and came back out to meet Kagome (his robes look just like Inuyasha's except for the color, I also can't remember what the robes are called). As soon as he was back they started walking through the village again. They came to a hut and Kagome again walked in without announcing herself first. Tahanna thought it better to stay outside this time.

"Hey Kagome, did you bring my Ramen?" asked a voice from inside.

"Welcome back Kagome," said a slightly kinder male voice.

"Hentai!" said an extremely angry female voice, followed by a loud crack.

"Kagome!" This voice belonged to a little kid.

"How are ye child?" asked a polite, somewhat old sounding female voice.

"First, I brought you your Ramen. Second, it feels great to be back," said Kagome.

"Hey Kagome, why do you smell different?" asked the little kids voice.

"I was having dinner with a friend in my time."

"It smells like a boy."

"It was, but he was just a friend, so why don't we all eat."

At this Tahanna dared to look through the window. He saw an old woman clothed in white and red robes, a young man with black hair clothed in purple and blue robes who was on the floor unconscious. Tahanna assumed that this was the work of the loud crack he had heard. A young woman was sitting next to him. Next to her was a large boomerang, which made Tahanna assume that she was the one who had screamed "hentai" and caused the loud crack. Tahanna then saw a little kid with a bushy tail and ears in Kagome's lap. The last person in the room looked was wearing robes that looked like Tahanna's but were red, had silver hair with pointed dog-like ears the top of his head, and looked as though he was seventeen years old. All of them were to busy eating, the man in the purple robes had woken up by the time Tahanna was done looking, to notice either Tahanna looking through the window, or Kagome nodding at him to come in, which he did.When Tahanna was about three feet through the door, Kagome gave a little cough, causing everybody to look up, just like earlier at the Higurashi shrine. The man in red looked at Tahanna with some surprise and dislike. The young woman and the young man in purple robes looked at Tahanna with simple curiosity. The old woman didn't seem to care. The little kid had the biggest reaction. He jumped right out of Kagome's arms and on to Tahanna's shoulder, where he continued jumping around anime style for a minute or two. When he was done he jumped right back into Kagome's arms. After a short silence, he said "you smell just like that boy friend that Kagome was having dinner with earlier." Tahanna nodded, a little surprised at the kid jumping around him.

"Yeah, Kagome and I ate dinner about an hour ago," said Tahanna.

The man in the red robes stood up and grabbed a nearby sword. Tahanna assumed that it belonged to the man in red. He unsheathed his sword, which then turned into a huge fang-like sword, and said "who are you and why are you here?"

"Tahanna. I am here because Kagome here told me that she could help me learn about my real family," Tahanna said, a little uneasy with a huge sword only two feet in front of his face.

"Inuyasha, calm down," said the man in the purple robes.

"Feh" said the man in red robes, supposedly Inuyasha, before putting the sword back into the sheath, and sitting down again.

"Now," said the man in purple robes, "why don't you tell us a little more about yourself?"

"Why don't we introduce ourselves to Tahanna first?" asked Kagome.

"I'm Shippo, a Kitsune (fox demon), and this is Kirara, a neko (cat demon)," said the little kid pointing to a little cat with more tails than normal.

"I am Miroku, a monk," said the man in purple robes.

"I am Kaede," said the old woman.

"My name is Sango, I'm a demon slayer," said the young lady, "Miroku is a lecher, and that is Inuyasha. He is a dog hanyou."

She had pointed to the person in the red robes, who just said "feh," and turned his head away again.

"Why don't we all get some rest and head out tomorrow?" said Kagome, faking a yawn.

Everybody agreed to this.

Inuyasha went outside and jumped into a tree. Tahanna would have been surprised, but he was too tired. Miroku and Sango laid down. Kirara curled up next to Sango. Kagome pulled out a sleeping bag and climbed in. Shippo cuddled in with her. Tahanna, not having anything else to do and being tired, leaned against a wall and fell asleep.