Snoop's Notes: Alrighty, chapter two's up and ready, get it while it's hot! Thanks for all the reviews and whatnot.

Disclaimer: I don't any o these characters. I don't own the animes they belong to. Blah blah blah, lawyers can go $& themselves and all that good stuff.

Chapter 2: Issues

It was a bright, sunny day in feudal era Japan. A red robed man quickly dashed from tree branch to tree branch. His dog-like ears perked up at the sound of movement nearby. He caught a whiff of something on the air that he recognized. Finally, she's close. Jeez, I hate it when she runs off like that... he thought.

Nearby, a young girl was picking flowers. "Shippou! Get those flowers there! And hurry, we need to hurry up and get them to Kaede, she wasn't feeling well, remember?" Suddenly, a sound came from the forest near her. As she looked up, she saw a red blur rush past her.
"Huh?" The two said almost simultaneously. The red blur stopped when he had found his quarry.

"Kagome! Finally! Why the hell did you leave me over there!"

Kagome issued a sigh. Why? Why can't I get a moment's peace without Inuyasha bursting in all the time! She thought. "I just went to get some flowers for Kaede before we went to see her. Where's Miroku and Sango?"

"I don't know, I left 'em back there somewhere. But who cares? What if you were attacked or something? You can't just leave without warning anyone!"

"I did warn someone, Miroku and Sango. Speaking of which, who knows what's going on between them without anyone watching…"

As if on cue, a loud slap resounded from the forest around them. "Ouch…Never mind what I just said. Let's finish getting these and get back before we find Miroku floating in a river somewhere."

Soon the group finished picking the gifts, and they began their trek back to camp. "Why do I hafta carry all these stupid things!" Inuyasha yelled as he jogged next to Kagome's pink bicycle, hauling quite a few of the natural beauties.

"Because you didn't help to pick them, that's why! It's not our fault you decided you were 'too cool for school'." Inuyasha looked up with his usual stupefied expression whenever he hears a foreign thing.

"School? What is this 'school' you speak of? Is it a demon? Or edible?"

Kagome let out another sigh. "Don't worry 'bout it, Inuyasha, just don't worry about it…"

The trio reached the camp soon, with an annoyed Sango petting the cute fuzz ball that was Kirara. Miroku was hanging by his underwear on a nearby branch. The newly entered group winced at they're all-too-daring companion who called himself a monk. "That's gotta hurt……" Inuyasha said.

The dazed Miroku responded, "You have no idea…" After letting their beloved monk down, they resumed their trip toward Kaede's home. Idle chat filled the time and helped it to pass. Night fell on the group as they made half the trip. They began to set up camp as the sun began to go below the horizon. Just then, they heard a sound in the distance. A voice that they recognized…

"Kagome! Where are you Kagome!" the voice was yelling. The group saw a woman running towards them from up the path.

"Huh?" said Kagome, "Wait, isn't that---"

"Kikyo!" Inuyasha finished. He began to run up the path toward her (much to Kagome's secret dismay). "Kikyo! What are you doing here?" Inuyasha said to her as she got close. The woman, however, pushed him out of the way. "What the hell!"

"Kagome! Oh Thank God! I thought I lost you here!" Kikyo said.

" Wait….WHAT! I thought you hat---!" This sentence was interrupted by the strangest thing the group had ever seen. Inuyasha stood rooted to the spot while his jaw smashed into the floor, Miroku got a look of amazement and a nosebleed, and Sango just about vomited all over Shippou, who was already asleep. Kagome was paralyzed from what was happening: Kikyo, without another word, began to make out with her. For about a minute this went on, until everyone got their nerves back (except Miroku, who passed out due to loss of blood), at which time they separated the two.

"What are you doing! Leave us alone!" the supposed Kikyo said.

"What the Hell are you doing, Kikyo! What's the meaning of this!" yelled Sango. Inuyasha still hadn't regained all his senses after this occurrence, so he came up with the only thing he thought logical: it was a demon in disguise.

"DIE DEMON!" he yelled as he charged the imposter. She dodged deftly though, yelling back at him.

"Like you should talk! Hey…WAIT!" she screamed the last part loudly, so that even Shippou woke up. "What the heck is wrong with you guys?"

"Huh…? Kikyo, is that you…?" Shippou said as he rubbed the sleep from his eyes. "Hey…your not Kikyo!"

"What are you talking about? Of course I'm Kikyo!"

Everyone else stood by as this exchange took place (however Kagome joined Miroku in unconscious land due to shock). Then Inuyasha, now fully recovered, agreed with Shippou.

"Hey…he's right, Kikyo has black hair! Yer hair is brown! DEMON!"

"NO I'M NOT!"

Sango then chipped in, "Yes, and Kikyo also has brown eyes. Your eyes are black."

"DEEEMOOONNNN!" Inuyasha yelled once again.

"NO I AM NOT!"

"ARE TOO!"

"ARE NOT!"

"ARE TOO!"

"ARE NOT!"

"ARE TOO!"

"ARE NOT!"

"ENOUGH!" yelled an extremely annoyed Sango. "Do you hear that?" Everyone's ears perked up once again. Nothing came.

"Nope." Inuyasha said, "You must be hearing things."

"Bah. Anyway, on to more pressing business. How do we know you're not a demon, hm? Prove it."

"Um…Well…Where should I start? Well, earlier today we were walking to Kaede's house cuz we heard she was sick---"

"Wait. You were going to Kaede's house too?" said a slightly dumbfounded Shippou, who was also trying to keep Inuyasha from attacking her.

"Lemme finish, will you? Jeez…I hate being interrupted…anyway, on our way there, a light flashed nearby us. Thinking it may be a demon who had gotten a shard of the Shikon Jewel, we went to investigate---"

"You also know about the Shikon---" Sango was then interrupted by the interruptee, who promptly threatened her with an extremely evil face. "Meep…"

"Okay. We went to investigate, and we fell into this large shining thing in the ground. A portal I guess. Next thing I know, I'm separated from everyone and I'm stuck here. Now I'm looking for them."

"Wait," this time it was a male voice, Miroku, who had woken up and placed some random paper in his nostrils, who spoke, "You came from a dimensional portal to this place. And what, in your dimension, women kiss other women or something?" At that moment he thought I wanna go…but wait, if women are with other women, then men are…That ended his thought with a sick shudder.

"Well…if you want to…", she giggled a bit at the expressions on the faces around her. "What? What's wrong with you?"

"ARGH! This is just too weird…", yelled Inuyasha, frustrated from not being able to kill something.

"Hm…Speaking of which, Inuyasha, weren't you a---"

"SHHHH!", said Sango, "Do you hear that?"

The group perked up their ears once again. This time, however, they did hear someone. Another girl's voice was heard, and she was yelling some of the group's names.
"Kagooomeee! Kiiikyoooo! Toooooshiiiii! Anyone!", the voice called, and the new Kikyo answered her.

"Kyoko! Over here!", she called, waving at the far off figure.

"Kikyo! Is that you!"

As the figure got closer, the group began to examine the new entry. She wore a very pink garb, much like Inuyasha's. Her hair was black and long, pulled into a ponytail, and her skin was pale. When she got closer, the girl said "Oh, look! You found the rest…Hey wait, weren't you wearing a white robe, Toshi?"

"…Ummm…No? I think I know what's wrong here…In your world there are people that look like us and some have similar or the same names, yes Kikyo?"

"I guess so…After all, I guess you mistook me for another woman named Kikyo…" she responded. She looked around at the group.

"But hey, if you were in our group, then who's she?", Sango said, pointing to Kyoko. "I know we never met anyone named Kyoko."

The girl looked around, and looked at everyone, including the now awake and vomiting Kagome. "Well, I used to be someone else, but then a demon put a spell on me to permanently transform me into a woman."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait…You used to be a guy!" yelled Inuyasha.

She nodded, "Yes, I was. But then I got used to being a woman. My name used to be---"
"GRAH!", This time it was Kagome's time to be pissed. She threw herself upon Kikyo and attacked her for what she had done to her. "HOW DARE YOU, YOU FRIGGIN---"

"Kagome, get off of her!" yelled Inuyasha, and went in to separate them.

"Stay out of this you! SIT BOY!" At the pronunciation of those words, Inuyasha hit the floor with a huge amount of power, and was soon covered in the dirt. However, there was another impact at these words. Everyone turned to see Kyoko headfirst in the ground. This caused an awkward silence, followed by a huge amount of maniacal laughter. Inuyasha got up after a few minutes and wondered what was so funny.

"Hey, Kagome hurting me isn't that funny is it?" He then turned to look at who they were looking at, to see the new girl stuck in the floor nearby. His face turned a pale, sickly ashen color.

"No…No, it can't be…It can't be…I'm her…? I'M A GIRL!" His realization of this fueled the laughter hugely. Like gas to an inferno, the laughing was heard for what seemed like miles. This laughter was accompanied by the scream of a man's pride being forced out of his very soul.

Edward looked up at the window in the middle of his conversation with Winry.

"Did you guys hear that?" he asked. The others looked at him questioningly.

"No, brother, I didn't hear anything. Did you?"

"No, I don't think so. Why?"

"…It was nothing. Don't worry about it." Edward continued to look out the window, wondering what was to become of him before the man posing as him was gone.

"There we go. Maintenance is done. Try it out," Said Winry, removing the Allen wrench from a bolt in his arm and taking him out of his contemplation.

"Alright, thanks. Come on, Al, lets go out back and try this thing out."

Chp 2: END!

Snoop's Footnotes: Well, what didja think? Not exactly getting to the action yet, but it will come, worry not. Anyways, leave your reviews. As anyone else does, I need em!