Chiro Mitsumune and The Toxic Flower Claw
Chapter One
Chiro was a pretty girl with waist-length, raven-black hair and piercing icy blue eyes. She was so pretty, but no one ever paid attention to her. Kagome was her best and only friend and she was happy to have her as a friend even if they were completely opposite. Chiro was quiet, distant, and brooding and Kagome was, well, Kagome. Kagome had been gone two times this week and was awfully behind in her studies. Chiro offered to take her the week's homework and made the trek to the Higurashi shrine. At the top of the stairs, Mama Higurashi was hanging the wash. "Mrs. Higurashi? I have Kagome's homework. Could I take it to her?" Chiro asked Kagome's mother. "No, I'm sorry Chiro, I'm afraid you can't see Kagome. She's too sick to have visitors. I'll take her her homework," Mama Higurashi picked up the books and set them in the empty clothes basket and turned to the house. "Arigato Mrs. Higurashi!" Chiro called as she neared the stairs once again. As she passed one of the shrines, it seemed to call to her. It seemed as it it were tugging on her very being. Making sure that Mrs. Higurshi had gone inside, Chiro slipped inside the shrine. Once inside, it was very dark, but Chiro could make out that there was what seemed to be a well in the middle of the shrine. Stopping just befor the well, Chiro knelt down to examine something glittering brilliantly from the shrine's floor. When she tried to pick it up, it pricked her finger. As the blood started to ooze out of her index finger, Chiro suddenly became dizzy. Stumbling and tumbling, Chiro tripped over the side of the well and blacked out just before she hit the bottom.
When Chiro came to, she looked about, realizing that she was still at the shrine, in the bottom of the well. "Oh wow, I wonder how long I've been down here," Chiro wondered aloud as she climbed to the top of the well. Chiro gasped as she looked out over the beautiful and unfamilier landscape. "I don't think this is Tokyo..." she trailed off as she heard what sounded like Kagome calling to someone. "I'll be back in a few days, Inuyasha," Kagome sounded slightly annoyed. She couldn't hide anywhere from Kagome and if Kagome didn't find her, how would she get back? Kagome out of the trees and they locked eyes. "Chiro! How did you get here!" panic rising in her voice. "I changed my mind, Inuyasha, I can't leave yet," Kagome called into the trees. "Why not?" someone called back and a boy of about fifteen stepped out of the forest. Chiro was shocked as she looked at him. Demons weren't real, but then what is he? He's a demon. But wait, they're not real...Chiro fought with herself as Kagome walked over to her. "Chiro, come with me. I'm not the one to explain stuff to you. Kaede will have to," Kagome lead her away from the strange well and toward a small village, out of the forest. "Kaede, this is Chiro. She is really confused right now I'm sure and so am I. I don't know how she got here and niether does she," Kagome finished and looked at and elderly woman. "Aye child. What is it that ye have in your hand?" the old woman called Kaede took Chiro's hand and coaxed it open. "Why, this is a shard of the sacred Shikon Jewel. How did ye get it?" Kaede looked Chiro wonderingly. "I think I found it on the floor of the shrine..." Chiro said timidly. "Kagome, ye have to keep those with ye. Ye can't leave them lying around everywhere," Kaede scolded Kagome. "But Kaede,I have all my shards. I haven't left any anywhere and I would have sensed it before I left," Kagome's words were confusing Chiro more and more. "STOP!" Chiro shouted all at once, clutching her head. "You are confusing me!" "I'm sorry Chiro," Kagome responded. "Ummm, why don't you come with me and meet Inuyasha and the others and we'll explain everything later. It's all too complicated right now..." she trailed off as they neared a group of people sitting in a clearing. "Kagome! You didn't leave!" a kitsune jumped from the floor and around Kagome's neck. "Well, Kagome, who's your beautiful friend?" a man in monk's robes asked, taking Chiro's hand. "Her name is Chiro," Kagome answered. "Well, Chiro, would you do me the honor of bearing my child?" the monk was whacked over the head by a woman with a huge boomerang. "Chiro, this is Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Inuyasha," Kagome explained, pointing to each of them. Miroku was the already letcherous monk, Sango was the girl with a giantboomerang, Shippo was the kitsune, and Inuyasha was the boy with dog ears, Chiro made a mental note of each. "Can I...can I touch your ears?" Chiro inquired timidly. Inuyasha growled low and quietly but then said, "Fine." Chiro approached and felt the fuzzy dog ears. They weren't fake which made them even weirder.
Later, the entire group was walkin in the forest. "Why are we walking?" Chiro wanted to know after about an hour. Chiro had been looking at her feet as she walked and hadn't noticed that she had been separated from the others. When no one answered her question, she looked around, trying not to panic. Suddenly, a soft glow from a place in the forest to her right caught her attention. "Maybe they set up a camp for the night," Chiro mumbled. Walking cautiously, so as not to trip in the barmbles and brush, she made her way towards the glow of the fire. Upon nearing it, she heard voices different from Kgaome's or Shippo's or Inuyasha's. "Lord Sesshomaru, Master Jaken won't play with me," the voice of a little girl said.