Hello! This is my very first fan fiction, whatsoever. That includes any other story that I have ever read. So, in other words, I have never written anything using another persons characters before, so please be nice and don't judge to harshly. Please please read, and please please with a bright yummy perfect cherry and rich sweet chocolate sauce on top review! Thank you!
Normal POV
Kagome jumped out of the magic well and landed with a soft thump on the floor of the well house at Higurashi Shrine.
"I wonder when I'll get back." She thought to herself. "Inuyasha said that I have to back by sunset because that's when we leave, but I'm supposed to meet someone-"
A scream interrupted her thoughts as a girl with flowing chestnut hair that had so many highlights in it that it appeared to be on fire ran into the small structure at full speed.
"RUN!" The girl screeched.
"Huh?" Was all Kagome could manage before the girl rammed into her with a shout of "The bird-men are here! The bird-men are here!"
"Uh-oh." Thought Kagome as the two girls fell down the well.
"Ugh…My head." Groaned the girl. "Mind getting off me short-stuff?"
"Umm, who are you?" Said Kagome as she picked herself up. She stood directly in front of the girl to put off the awkward questions that where bound to come. 'Maybe I can somehow get her back into the present before she figures out what's happened.' Thought Kagome, then she surveyed the culprit.
She had waist length chestnut hair, which burned brightly even in the shadow of the tall well walls. And she was very pretty, with a purely feminine figure, graceful poise, and a fair complexion that contrasted her hair and shining golden-green eyes perfectly. She was also wearing some of the weirdest clothes that Kagome had ever seen and was obviously not Japanese.
"Terribly sorry, I haven't introduced myself yet, have I." Said the girl from the ground. "American exchange student, beware, I am a book-worm with hippie origins, more than partially insane, and most definitely the most eccentric weird, and annoyingly secretive person you will ever meet. Who are you? Answer quickly because it's only a matter of time before the bird-men find us."
Kagome blinked. Birdmen? "I'm Ka-"
"Hey Kagome!" Shouted Inuyasha, half-dog demon, half-human, as he leaned over the side of the well. "Are you coming out of there or have you decided to make it your new home?" Snigger.
Kagome looked down at the girl, who was staring up at Inuyasha with a look of intense suffering on her face.
"Sorry, apparently I was mistaken, and it is not in fact the bird people that are coming, but instead the dog people." She said.
"Who the hell is that?" Inuyasha asked suspiciously. "She looks weird."
"Of course I look weird!" The girl shouted, standing up so fast that she knocked Kagome over due to the lack of space. "Now how do we get out of here? It doesn't matter what I look like, or it won't soon, because skeletons all look the same!"
"Feh! I don't take orders from human cretins, wench."
"Oh, but you'll take orders from this wench, 'cause otherwise you'll be in big trouble!"
"Wait!" Said Kagome. She shot a glare at Inuyasha, ordering him to be quiet, than turned to the girl. "We climb out."
"Oh, you mean that there isn't any weird barrier or anything."
"Nope."
"Yawn. That's no fun." The girl said. "Move it Spike, I'm going to land right where you're standing."
"Eh?" Kagome and Inuyasha both asked right before Inuyasha leapt out of the way.
The girl had jumped out of the well, and not only cleared it by ten feet, but fell exactly at the edge of the well, all of this while holding Kagome by the shoulders.
"Hey!" Shouted Kagome, while Inuyasha recovered.
"Sorry. Thought that way would be simpler and faster." The girl said cheerfully, looking around and rubbing her hands together expectantly.
"Who the hell are you?" Shouted Inuyasha as Miroku, Sango, and Shippo came into the clearing to investigate the sudden noise.
"I am nobody of coincidence." The girl said with a noble bow.
"Do you mean 'consequence'?" Asked Shippo, who was too young to know that you don't talk to mad people. (Plus ha hadn't heard about the birdmen yet.)
"Nope." Said the girl with a twinkle in her eye. "I mean exactly what I mean, and I mean 'coincidence."
"Oh."
"You still haven't answered my question." Inuyasha growled haughtily.
"Indeed, I to would like to know where you came from, and who you are." Said Miroku, who was staring at her greedily.
"Mmmm…you can call me…hmmm…Jenny. I'm American. No comments please." Jenny said, a look of determined cheerfulness upon her face.
"Um, Jenny?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah?" Jenny was acting like this was the most natural thing in the world, to find oneself in a different world so suddenly. 'But then again,' thought Kagome. 'She was yelling about bird-men.'
"Kagome, could I speak to you for a moment?" Asked Inuyasha pointedly.
"Yeah, sure." She said, knowing what he wanted to speak to her about.
"Look." Said Inuyasha once they were out of earshot. "She might be a friend of yours but-"
Kagome cut him off. "She's not, she just banged into me once I got out of the well."
"So?" He shouted. "She's got to go back. And what's America?"
"It's a different country on the other side of the ocean." Said Kagome.
"Oh, and what's an exchanges-" But Inuyasha never got to finish his question because he was cut off by a blood-curdling scream from back in the clearing. Both Kagome and Inuyasha bounded back and were greeted with a bizarre sight.
In the mere seconds that they had been gone, three things had come into the clearing. They looked like giant spiders, except they were bright purple, huge, and had hands the size of hams. Two of them were spinning Miroku and Sango up in their spinnerets, while the third was cornering Jenny and Shippo against a tree. Both looked petrified. Inuyasha cursed and drew the Tetsusaiga.
"Kagome, stay there!" Shouted Inuyasha.
"O-okay." She said.
"DIAR!" Shouted Jenny suddenly (I don't really know how it's spelled, but it means die in elvish. No comment.) "Back! I send you back to the hell hole from whence you crawled out!"
The spider thing reeled back on its four back legs, like it had been hit. It spun around and tried to run away but Inuyasha was there in a second, bringing his sword down full force and shouting "WIND SCAR!" Then he turned on the other two spider-monsters and made quick work of them, splattering the surrounding trees with their intestines and other inner organs.
"O…Kay…" Said Jenny slowly, staring around her. "That was…pleasant." Inuyasha glared at her while Kagome started to hack at the webs around Miroku and Sango with a small pocketknife that she had gotten just the other day. 'I didn't know that I'd be needing it so soon.' Kagome thought.
"Who are you?" Inuyasha asked again. Jenny sighed.
"I thought we already went over this. I am an American exchange-student, one of those odd eccentric people that drives away all of your sanity, and I take pride in it. Mrs. Higurashi offered to sponsor me, because my student sponsor doesn't have room in her house right now."
"Huh?"
"Oh, never mind. My name is Jenny." The girl snapped.
"Hello, Jenny." Said Miroku, brushing off the remains of the monsters web and helping Kagome and Sango to their feet. "Please pardon Inuyasha's rudeness. I am Miroku, and this is Sango and Kagome. The boy standing over there is Shippo, the cat is Kirara, and that is Inuyasha." Miroku rattled on.
"Nice to meet you. I take it that that well is some kinda portal into the past?" Jenny, once again, did not seem the least bit fazed about what was happening.
"Um, yeah." Said Kagome. "It's a long story-"
"It always is." Jenny muttered.
"-And I don't completely understand it yet…"
"You people never do." Muttered Jenny, this time so softly that only Shippo heard her. The small kitsune glanced up at the girl sharply, for the first time realizing how strange she was.
"Oh please." Jenny said loudly. "Give me a little credit. I'm no stranger to the mysteries of time-travel. That's why I'm so cool about it, since your wondering."
Everyone, had in fact, been wondering just that.
"Feh. Like we care." Said Inuyasha. He didn't like Jenny, she was to weird, too…well, he couldn't put his finger on it, but there was something about her that he didn't trust. "You need to go back through that well, NOW!"
"I'd love to." Said Jenny. "But I don't think I can. Um, is that girl supposed to be there?" Jenny was craning sideways, looking at someone who was behind the others. They all whirled around.
Kanna was standing there with her back towards them, and her mirror pointed towards the well. There was a noise that resembled a sonic boom, and then a huge gust of wind. It swirled up all the dry dust and sand on the ground and blew that into the eyes, noses, and mouths of the small group.
When he could, Inuyasha sniffed the air cautiously. The wind bore a faint trace of Naraku's reek.
'Damn.' He thought. 'Kagura.' Then Inuyasha caught sight of the Bone Eaters Well.
A bright purple shield spell hung around it, fifteen feet away from the well in every direction. The shield sparkled as it caught the suns rays, and morphed them so that when the sun went through the barrier, the light was dark and sickly looking. Turning the well and surrounding grass the exact same color so that it all looked dead. The entire group gasped in shock.
Kagome walked towards it slowly, her hand upraised as if she meant to touch it. Inuyasha saw what she meant to do a moment to late.
"Kagome, NO!" He shouted just as Kagome's hand came into contact with the purple substance. With a huge bang Kagome's small frame was thrown back through the air, and a smell that was not unlike the reek of fresh gunpowder filled the air. (Yes, I know that there was no gunpowder then, but hey, this is my story, and it is magic after all.) Inuyasha screamed and grabbed Kagome the second before she hit the sharp pointed branch that jutted out at a lethal angle from the maple.
"Kagome? Are you Okay?" Inuyasha shouted at the girl as he laid her frail body on the soft grass.
"Unh…" Was all Kagome said before she drifted off into unconsciousness.
"Right then." Said Jenny. "Umm, yeah."
"Do you have anything worth contributing to this conversation, then do it." Snapped Sango, who was trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together. With her mind still in shock, she was having trouble figuring out the obvious, and that made her irritable.
"As a matter of fact, I do." Said Jenny. "The girl, Kagome I think it was, is only stunned. But for a while she will experience frequent dizzy spells, and she might have one or two prophetic dreams. Before you get your hopes up, I might add that due to the nature of the spell, those dreams will most likely be the way someone close to her dies. Which, let me tell you, is not a good thing to see before going out to breakfast with said individual." Jenny shuddered. Everyone stared at her. "It's alright." She assured them. "You'll get used to it. Everyone else does." This drew Inuyasha's attention away from Kagome.
"We won't have time to get used to it." He snapped. "Because you're not staying with us!"
"Oh ho! Is that what you think? Well let me tell you, I am not leaving the only other girl from my time period! So it's either she stays here with me, or I go with you! I don't need your permission! I'm not even a citizen of Japan, which means that I have complete immunity to all your laws, considering that in this dimension there is no such thing as disporting humans. So HAH!" Jenny stood back with her arms crossed over her chest, and a smug expression on her face. She obviously thought that she had won. Inuyasha, however, had other ideas.
"Whatever. You're not coming with us."
"Oh yes I am!"
"No your not!"
"And why not, may I ask?"
"Because I don't like you!"
"The feelings mutual, I assure you!"
"Feh. Like I ca—"
Their argument was interrupted by Kagome's sweet laughter. Inuyasha and Jenny whirled around, and there the others stood, all of them laughing, and already to head off to the village.
"Hey, Inuyasha?" Asked Kagome between giggles.
"What?"
"Sit, boy."
THUMP
"WAH!"
"Wow!" Said Jenny. She looked from the fallen hanyou, to Kagome. "Oh, I like you girl! Where you been hiding all this time? Why don't you just tell me all about yourself? You too, Sango. Love the out fit, what is it, some sort of armor?" Jenny grabbed both Sango and Kagome's arm and pulled the two girls down to the village below. Soon the three of them where talking and laughing like old friends. The monk, the small fox demon, and the sulking half-demon followed at a slower pace, watching as the new girl was accepted into the group. 'And I can't do a thing about it, either.' Thought Inuyasha to himself. 'There's something about that girl that I just don't like…'
And unbeknownst to any of them, a lone figure stood concealed completely in the woods. 'So, she decided to risk coming back. I doubt Japan is ready, we just recovered from her last little 'visit.'' The figure chuckled softly. 'Naraku won't know what hit him.'
And, that is the end of the first chapter to Turns Of Time.