An Explanation

Hehe, hey guys…I know that I haven't updated in a long a while…ok ok a long while but I have lots of excuses, you just got to give me time to make them up. Anyway, I know this isn't a long chapter but be grateful you got a chapter at all. Any way, enjoy.

(Ps there is kind of a spoiler in this chap. You don't like learn about the whole episode but I'm still considering it a spoiler. I'm not exactly sure what the episode is called, but it's the one with a philosopher of something)

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Inugome came into awareness before she could open her eyes or perform any type of movement. Slowly and weakly she managed to open one eyelid, surveying her surroundings for the first time. She seemed to be in an old wooden cabin, a small fire crackling merrily in one corner.

She wasn't alone either. The other occupants of the room seemed to be an old woman dressed in the clothing of a miko, a monk, a tiny child, and two young women, one dressed in armour and the other looking out of place in a school uniform. The last two occupants were the strange man who had saved her pathetic ass and other was Kagayasha (the latter embarrassingly running to hug her when he noticed she was awake.)

"Oh Inugome!" he cried in an annoyingly sentimental tone. "I've been so worried about you! I was worried that you had been hurt…or eaten. Did you know we're in the Feudal Era? And this little kid was asking me very personal questions…And I was kidnapped by this lady who wouldn't even let me do her math homework in exchange for my freedom."

"You're babbling again…Kagayasha did you take your pills this morning?"

"No but that's beside the point. The point is YOU'RE ALIVE!" And then he hugged her…again.

"Ummm Kagayasha…don't you remember that talk we had about public displays of affection. You know, after that time with the indoor golf, when I rescued you from that closet."

Suddenly he started shaking all over and convulsing into the fetal position, his thumb going into his mouth and he began sobbing uncontrollably and then yelled. "Not the closet!" The other occupants of the room looked down with slightly disturbed expressions.

"Uhhh…is he gonna be ok?" somebody asked. She noticed that it was the man that had saved her and realized that his voice sounded strangely familiar, as though she had heard it once before, a long time before now.

"Yeah…he should be fine. Just give him a few minutes." They all glanced at him uncertainly. "Anyway could someone tell what the hell's going on here?"

The raven-haired woman in the school uniform stepped forward slightly. Inugome could tell that she was the most level-headed of the group.

"My name's Kagome." She said in an even but friendly manner.

"I didn't ask for your life's story!" snapped Inugome, "I just wanna know what's going on."

' Well I guess that's it's more than her name and appearance that reminds me of Inuyasha' thought Kagome to herself.

"Alright," Kagome said the ghost of a smile seeming to play on her lips for some reason. She began to walk closer as she spoke. "I think you and your brother are from my time. I don't know how you got here but your brother was right when he said that you were in the Feudal Era." Suddenly she stopped dead in her tracks, her eyes widening.

"What's wrong?" Inuyasha asked, concern filling his eyes. Kagome glanced at him and he resumed his graph expression as she continued.

"I think," Kagome said uncertainly, "But no that couldn't be. It's impossible…"

"Get on with it wench," Inuyasha snapped causing Kagome to send him a dirty look.

"What is it?" asked Inugome, wondering what the heck this woman was going on about.

"Are you familiar with the term 'Shikon no Tama'" She asked them. Kagayasha stared on blankly but Inugome nodded her head slightly,

"The Shikon no Tama, the jewel of four souls."

Kagome seemed to make a quick decision in her head and explained it for Kagagyasha's sake.

"A long time ago a war was waged between the humans and demons. The priestess Midoriko, in a final effort to stop the war, trapped both her soul and a demons inside what is now the Shikon no Tama. The four souls the jewels name speak of are the souls of love, courage, knowledge and friendship. The jewel causes your inmost desires and needs to become true, whether they are the purest of decisions or the evilest of desires. When you use the jewel for evil, it becomes defiled or tainted becoming the opposite of what it was meant to be. And when it is used for unselfish reasons it will become pure.

"50 years ago the jewel was placed in the care of the priestess Kikyou, who lived in this village. When, um," she glanced at Inuyasha, "A series of events caused her death, the jewel was cremated with her body, causing it's disappearance for 50 years."

"6 months ago I fell down the well in my family's shrine and ended up here. A few things happened," Kagome blushed slightly, "Which ended up with the jewel being shattered into many tiny shards." Inuyasha snorted at this and Kagome's blush deepened.

"It wouldn't have smashed if you didn't have such cruddy aim." Inugome heard him mutter under his breath. At these words Kagome snapped.

"Sit Boy!" she commanded. At first these words confused the twins but then sudden realization hit as the rosary beads around his neck glowed slightly and then his head plummeted into the ground. Re-emerging, his face slightly purple from the impact, he glowered at Kagome saying nothing, though Inugome's ears, as sensitive as they were, seemed to pick up the slight mutterings of "stupid wench" under his breath. She smiled slightly to herself as Kagome carried on.

"So anyway," she said, "The well is the way in which I travel here, to this time and back home."

"So your saying," said Kagayasha, "That all we need to do to get back home is go through that well we woke up by."

"It worked for me and Inuyasha." Kagome told them.

"Then I guess we'll be going!" said Kagayasha happily, standing up.

"Are you insane!" Inugome yelled, dragging Kagayasha down by the ear. "This is the best thing that's ever happened to us and you just want to go back down the well and pretend that it never happened!"

"Pretty much." he replied, missing her point entirely along with her various danger signs.

"We can't go back yet." she said, her voice rising with each word, "Just not yet okay? We have to stay just a little bit longer. We have to! Come on, this is so cool."

"She's damn right, you can't go back yet." Said Inuyasha from his corner, "Not till you explain what the hell is going on here."

"Inuyasha's right. Before you leave could you explain why you carry the entire Shikon jewel between you."

(a/n: Dun dun dun…)

"What?" asked the little fox kitsune, "But Kagome, how could that be possible. We have a few shards ourselves." he narrowed his tiny, fox eyes suspiciously at Kagayasha and Inugome, "Could they be carrying the fake jewels(sry if you haven't seen that episode.)"

Kagayasha and Inugome looked at each other blankly. "What do you mean we have the Shikon Jewel. You just said that it had shattered." asked Inugome, the blank look never leaving her face.

"Wait a second," said Inuyasha, shaking his head as if to clear it, "Let me get this straight. Two demons show up, seemingly out of nowhere, carrying the entirety of what we know to be the Shikon jewel, and have no idea that they possess it. Kind of suspicious if you ask me."

"Demons? What demons?" asked Kagayasha, his dog ears standing up straight in alarm.

"WHAT? You two don't know that you're demons. Exactly how stupid are you?" yelled Inuyasha, his face turning red.

Inugome's face changed slowly from bewilderment to unbridled happiness. "I'm a demon?" she asked in an odd breathless voice, staring at her claws in amazement, "Cool!"

Kagayasha noticed that her pupils expanded slightly. That was a bad sign, a very bad sign. It brought back bad memories, the ones that he had vainly attempted to suppress for almost a decade. It reminded that time when they were four on the plane, when she had eaten all that chocolate. What happened after that was all a blur. There was the pilot with the rope, lots and lots of rope, and then there was the scissors with the parachutes…that hadn't been good either. Well anyway, the end result was that they weren't allowed to fly on planes again until they were 37.

"How could you possibly not know that you're not demon's. Honestly! You have dog ears sticking out of your head!"

Tears sprang up into Kagayasha's eyes, "My grandma said it was a birth defect. And nobody ever seemed to notice."

"Hmmmm…" Kagome mused, "It must be an effect of the jewel."

"But how!" yelled Shippo. "We still haven't gotten over that."

"My thoughts exactly…" said Kagome, eying the twins.

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Ok, ok that was a stupid way to end a chapter, but like I said before, be grateful. Anyway, ill hopefully update soon.

Nicola Silvera

(PS thx to all the ppl that reviewed the last chapter!)