I know it's not Friday, but the chapter is up! Anyway, here is where this really starts to be a fan-fic. I think I'm done talking now. Let's get going!

"Do they ever plan on letting us eat?"

"Don't be so impatient Inuyasha." Miroku called up to the hanyu as he walked out of the house the two men shared. Their female companions were next door in Lady Kaede's house and Mirkou and Inuyasha had been smelling ramen for a while now. Needless to say, Inuyasha's nose was going crazy.

"Lunch is ready" Kagome proclaimed as she leaned out the doorway. Inuyasha jumped off the guy's roof and landed in front of her.

"About time." He said going into the house to get some of his favorite future food.

"Do you remember when Lady Kaede said she would be returning?" Miroku asked as he followed Inuyasha inside.

"Didn't she say she would be gone for a week?" Sango commented as she spooned out a bowl of ramen for the monk.

"And she's been gone for about eight days now." Kagome included.

"So she should be back soon!" Shippo finished as he slurped up a noodle.

With that figured out, the rest of their meal progressed with everyone voicing their opinions on where the old priestess had gone, what she was doing, and how Inuyasha could eat three bowls of ramen and still want another.

((Amuck, amuck, amuck!!))

"Where are we?" Sarah asked as she stepped out of thin air and into a clearing. In the center of the clearing, about three feet to her left, was a well covered in ivy and surrounded by everyone who had come through the portal before her.

Sarah joined the group and they waited until the last couple people had come through before Kaede started to speak to them again.

"Welcome to Japan during what you call the Warring States Area."

"You're joking right?" Clara asked.

"No I am not child."

"I am not a child!" Clara protested.

"To me, ye are." Kaede reminded her. "But it is true ye have gone back in time. The reason ye have been brought here is so that ye can learn of the legend of the Shikon noTama, (A/N- is that how it's spelled? Or did I just get it all wrong?) or Jewel of Four Souls."

"Inuyasha!" Claire thought suddenly. "It's like the Inuyasha story!"

"Ye shall be staying in this world while ye learn about this Jewel and look for the door home. As it might be hard for me to go with you on your journey, ye shall be traveling with a group of people who are searching for pieces of the Jewel and who will be able to take ye at a quicker pace then I. They are currently in the village nearby. If ye will follow me again, I shall introduce ye to them."

((The amazing power of Total Randomness!))

While Shippo helped Sango and Kagome clean up from lunch, Inuyasha and Miroku went to see if they could spot Kaede returning. To get a better visual range, Inuyasha jumped into a tree.

"You think she'd be back by now." He said scanning the roads. "That lady and her were walking! They couldn't have gone very far!"

"Yes, but that lady did have a strange aura about her." Miroku responded leaning against the tree. "She didn't seem like a demon or a human."

"Maybe we shouldn't have let her go by herself." Inuyasha mused.

"She wouldn't have let us." Miroku reasoned. "The lady said that only one person could go with her and that had to be Lady Kaede."

"And that just makes her even more suspicious." Inuyasha said as he leapt over to the other side of the tree. "I never even got a chance to get her smell so we can't even track her down if the old hag doesn't come back."

At that moment, Miroku, who had stayed on the same side of the tree, spotted a group coming from the direction of the forest with Kaede at the front. "I don't think that's going to be a problem."

"And why is that?"

"Because she's back." Miroku stated as he walked off to greet the group. Inuyasha jumped down and followed the monk as he tried to figure out who the priestess had brought with her from wherever she had gone.

((I think, therefore, I'm dangerous.))((Let's go back for a minute.))

The group of girls followed the old woman to one side of the clearing and then through a path out of the forest. About halfway down the path and to everyone's right, was another clearing. Kaede stopped on the path and turned to the clearing.

"See the tree on the side across from us?" As she asked that, she pointed to a large tree that stood by itself in front of the line of trees that marked a temporary end to the forest. It was close enough that they could see where some bark had been torn off just about eye-level and the lighter part of the trunk was showing through.

"That is called Inuyasha's Tree. Inuyasha was attached to that tree with an arrow spelled by my sister for 50 years. Recently he has been freed and will be a member of the group ye will be joining soon." Kaede explained. A few eyes went wide at these few sentences.

"Inuyasha? Are you serious?" Kanji exclaimed.

"Ah yes. She said ye might know who that is." Kaede said softly. "And I am serious. Ye will be traveling with Inuyasha, Miroku, Kagome, Sango, and Shippo. Some may not know who they are, but I am sure most of ye do or ye wouldn't be here." She started to walk down the path again. "Come along. I'm sure ye wish to meet then as soon as ye can now."

((Follow your dreams-except the one where you're at school in your underwear.))

"Lady Kaede!" Miroku called as he speed up a bit to meet the priestess as she walked down the gentle slope of the hill. "Welcome back!" He stopped at the bottom of the hill and looked at the women behind her. "Who did you bring with you?"

He looked from left to right at the girls lined up behind Kaede. The first one he saw had short dirty blonde hair (blonde with some brown mixed in) that stopped at her earlobes and a red skirt and a white shirt. Next to her wearing a river water blue skirt was a girl with long chestnut brown hair that reached the small of her back. And between a girl in deep water blue skirt and dark brown hair to her ankles and one in a red skirt and light brown hair to her shoulder blades were two girls who appeared to be twins. They both had green skirts and dark brown hair. The only real differences were that one had hair to her waist and a grass green skirt while the other had hair to her knees and a dark leaf green skirt. He never got a good chance to see what the last two girls because in seconds one was squeezing the air out of him and the other, who had followed the one on him, was running to the hanyu behind him. He did see however, that she skirted to one side when she got close to him.

Looking down at the girl around his middle, he gave her a smile that didn't even come close to the one he was getting back. "Um, hello madam."

"Hi!" she responded in a very happy voice. "My names Kanji and I already know who you are so you don't have to tell me." She smiled again. Miroku smiled back again before looking to see where the final girl had gone.

"Hey! Get off!" Hearing the annoyed dog demon's voice, the monk turned to see not just one, but two girls around him; the one with light brown hair and a red skirt and the one that had followed the girl on himself. The newer girl had a golden orange skirt and chestnut hair to her shoulder blades and was attached to Inuyasha in the same manner her companion.

"Hey I want to give him a hug too!" The red skirt girl said.

"No." The orange skirt joked.

"GET OFF!" Inuyasha cried. Slightly shocked at his outburst the girl let go and then both girls retread a bit to the rest of the group which had made it to the bottom of the hill themselves.

"Could you let me go please?" Miroku asked the girl on him.

"Sure. Sorry." She let go, pulled a piece of her shoulder blade length dark brown hair behind her ear, and ran back to the girls.

"Well now that everyone here had met, let us go down to the village so ye can meet Sango and Kagome." Kaede said as she started off again. The girls, talking amidst themselves, followed her.

Inuyasha looked after the two girls that had 'attacked him' with a look of shock on his face.

"Come on Inuyasha. The sooner we follow them the sooner we can find out who they are." Miroku sighed as he walked away from the still confused half-demon.

If anyone is wondering what's with the random sayings and things, they're just there for when the point of view changes. The first one Kanji came up with and Yuki will say now and then. The second is from a story I'm reading, it was recently finished but still, and in it the girl has the power of Total Randomness. (The story is To the Feudal Era by Shadow Jaganshi. It's very funny and under my favorites list if anyone wants to read it.) The last two are just bumper stickers. The thing beside The 'I think...' sticker was just so you could all know that I was skipped back a bit to before our group had come out of the forest.

Not much else to say. Sorry I got this chapter up so late, but I was kinda busy all weekend so I didn't have much time to get this typed up and posted.

Review please! It'll give me more incentive to update on Wednesday!

'I must hurry, for there they go and I am their leader.'