Disclaimer: Before I start the story I would like to say that I don't own Tenchi Muyo, Inuyasha, Fullmetal Alchemist, or Outlaw Star.
Kagome was upset to say the least, she had cried all the way back to the well. Her mother was sending her to a small town called Okoyama to finish school, she would be staying with priest family called the Masakis. The worst thing about this situation she wasn't going to be able to see Inuyasha or her friends for some time. She leapt into the well, hoping that he would understand knowing he wouldn't. When she came out her friends sat waiting for her, this made her tear up. Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Myoga, and Kirara had always been such good friends to her it made such a parting almost impossible. She tried to convince herself that it would be just like any other time she went home, but she couldn't shake the feeling of betraying her own heart. After a while of searching through her backpack Shippo popped out. "Where's the ninja-food, Kagome?" he asked. "I'm sorry everyone..." she said now crying. Her crying was always a weakness in Inuyasha's eyes. "Kagome, what's wrong? Doushite? Com'n Kagome! Tell me! I wanna' know why you're so sad..." he begged. "I can't come back anymore..." she weapt. Her friends were taken aback by this statement, clearly they knew perfectly well what she meant. Inuyasha had the hardest time, he tried hard to hold back his tears, but in the end it was in vien. "Kagome, why don't we go back to your time with you? Then we could go with you!" Shippo remarked. "There's one slight problem with that plan, Shippo... You, Sango, and myself all need shards of the Shikon no Tama..." Miroku replied in usual voice of wisdom allthewhile rubbing Sango's backside. Kagome pulled out a bottle with five Shikon Jewel shards in it. "I've got that covered..." she replied. They all decided to camp out just outside the well.
The next morning Inuyasha smelled something, two somethings in fact. The first was of dirt and bones; the scent of his former lover Kikyo. The second was unmistakibly that of someone of his demonic kin, the only person it could be would be Sesshomaru. Inuyasha beared his fangs, but huffed and turned away from the familiar scents to follow his friends into the well. Her mother allowed her and her friends to stay the weekend and they would leave Monday morning. Inuyasha, Miroku, and Shippo shared a guest room while Sango and Kirara shared Kagome's room with her. Souta couldn't help but visit Inuyasha, seeing as how he idolized the hanyou. By 10:30 Souta had passed out in the guest room. Inuyasha merely shook his head and carried the boy back to his own room. All went as well as could be expected until late Sunday night. Inuyasha caught the same scents as before they left the fuedal era coming from the Bone-Eaters' Well. When he went to investigate he watched from a distance as Kikyo lectured Sesshomaru about his habits. Sesshomaru growled and then noticed his other companions hiding in various other locations. They all headed back to the Higarshi house and began to talk quietly in the living room. "What the hell are those two doing here?" Inuyasha asked hotly. "It seems to me that Kikyo has some sort of power over Sesshomaru..." Miroku pointed out. "How did they get here?" Sango wondered. "Maybe they have shards too?" Shippo piped. "Whatever it is, this is too dangerous a situation to be left unchecked..." the for now sagelike monk conjected, "Don't you agree, Inuyasha?" "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" the hanyou asked even more hot-tempered than ever. "I think what Miroku is trying to say is that Kikyo isn't the most agreeable person and Sesshomaru has a tendency towards unnecissary violence, so much so that it's hard to believe you two are..." Kagome cut Sango short by holding her mouth closed. "It's alright, I don't deny that that cold-hearted bastard is my brother..." he assured.
They had finally decided on a course of action and stepped outside to come directly face to face with Sesshomaru, Kikyo, Jaken, Rin, and Kohaku. "Well I was going to try to discuss an alliance with you, Otosan, but seeing as how you just called me a bastard I don't think it would be in your best interests..." Sesshomaru replied coldly. This earned him a nudge from the undead miko. "If I may interject; Naraku is an enemy to us all, why not set aside our numerous differences for the time being to destroy a common foe?" she inquired. Hesitantly Kagome and Inuyasha agreed to the request of their elder counterparts/rivals. Miroku agreed not to use Jaken as a punching bag. Sango was overjoyed that her little brother remembered everything and was free of Naraku's grasp. Shippo and Rin just sat quietly trying their best not to be in anyone's way. "Well, we'll have 4 years to work out the terms of the alliance..." Kagome sighed. "What do you mean?" Kikyo and Sesshomaru asked worridly in unisen. "The well is being closed up tomorrow and I'm being sent to another town to attend school for the next 4 years..." she replied. Had Sesshomaru been of any weaker a constitution he would've fainted on the spot, but he managed to hold concieusness and balance.
Monday had come quickly and the group waited at a bus-stop for a public bus to take them to Okoyama. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were getting restless and just about at each other's throughts when the bus finally arrived. Most of them managed to sleep during the ride, except Kagome and Kikyo whom avoided making eye contact for obvious reasons. "Okoyama perfecture..." the scraggly looking bus driver announced and the enlarged group poured off the bus. Inuyasha somehow ended up carrying everyone's belongings. "Hey you wanna' pull some weight around here Sesshomaru!" he demanded. "Dear little brother, are you forgetting that I, Sesshomaru, only have one arm? A curse, by the way, that you yourself so graciously placed upon me..." he responded with the Sesshomaru version of humor. "Bastard..." Inuyasha mumbled hotly and Sesshomaru chuckled just quietly enough so that no one else could hear him.
After passing by a shrine with a sign that read "Misaki Shrine" the group decended a long flight of stairs, until at last they came to a seemingly quiet and peaceful house. Kagome nervously approached the door with the others trailing only slightly behind. Still very nervous she reached up and knocked on the door as best she could. It wasn't long before a boy about 17 or 18 opened the door. "You must be Kagome from the Higarshi Shrine in Tokyo?" he asked. "Yes, that's right... And you must be Tenchi from the Misaki Shrine, correct?" she replied still a bit uneasy. He opened the door wider and stepped aside. "I didn't expect you'd bring so many friends with you, we'll find a way to accomidate everyone..." he chuckled nervously upon seeing how many people were with her. As soon as introductions were done with the house sat down to dinner, which was generously provided by the young girl who called herself Sasami. Kohaku seemed to be completely awestruck by her and Rin didn't look happy about it. All was well by the end of the day, the woman named Washu managed to use some kind of technology she had invented to make more room in the house. As Kagome laid in what had become her room her thoughts were shared with that of her host just down the hall, "This is going to be the loongest 4 years of my life..."