I do not own Inu-yasha.
So I finally did it. I gave a new birth to my old fanfic, Never Known. There is actually a short little story behind this. Okay, when I was in fifth grade/sixth grade, I had a computer. I started to write this story (and I'll admit it sucked back then, but whatever). Then my computer broke and my dad took the memory or whatever for his computer. So my whole story got erased. It was a tragic event for me back then. Now it's not, but whatever.
Now, this is based on the original, but I'm changing it around some. Like this is not the actual beginning for it. The original was a lot suckier, so it's getting changed. But it's like a movie based on a book, stuff is taken out and stuff is put in so it becomes so changed that it isn't really based on the book anymore except for names and the very basic idea. Well, this is more based on the original than that, but I'm changing a lot of it.
Anywoo, yes, the main character has my name, but it was because I was in fifth grade when I gave it to her, so this in no way is
suppose to represent me. I'm not even sure why I gave her my name. :shrugs: And yes, she has amnesia, now don't go yelling at me about how Kagome did as well in my fanfic "In Spite of Me". The original was written before ISOM, so yeah... And don't go yelling about it saying that ISOM is just like this story 'cause of the amnesia. I guess I just like amnesia. Whatever. So that's about all I have to say. Have fun kiddies.
Oh yeah, during the middle-ish, there starts to get a lot of OCs, so if you don't like fanfics with a bunch of OCs, don't read this. That's all. BYE!
Chapter One
Through the Looking Glass

The sunlight hurt her eyes as it shifted through her eyelids. She blinked them open. She sat up and was shocked to see that she was not in the orphanage. She gathered her surroundings. She was in a forest, and there was a tree above her. Okay, underneath a tree in a forest. Happened to people all the time, right? ...RIGHT?
Oh, she was so screwed if some person had kidnapped her or something... She laid her forehead in her hand, her elbow carefully balanced on her thigh.
"My God!"
She looked up. Apparently, she wasn't alone anymore. Whoa, lot of people. Not as many as she saw on the streets back in America, but...still, a lot more people than she thought. She counted in her head. One, two, three, four, five, and a cat made six.
"Hey! What's your name? Why do you have on modern clothing?" one asked. She had black hair and was dressed in a Japanese green fuku. Her face seemed really nice and a little bit confused.
"Uh...because most people do?" she said.
The girl shook her head. "Oh sorry, completely forgot myself. Okay, we're in the Feudal Era of Japan."
She stared at the black-haired girl. "You're uh...not kidding, are you?"
The girl shook her head.
She sighed and stood up shakily. "Okay then. That's weirdness. I'm gonna back away now and try to get back home..." Well, as much of a home as an orphanage is... she thought bitterly.
"Hey, you never told us your name. I'm Kagome Higurashi. These are my friends. The one in red is Inu-yasha, the one with the boomerang is Sango, the one in purple is Miroku, and the child is Shippo. The cat is Kirara, she belongs to Sango."
She looked back at them and her eyebrows lowered. "Why does he have ears? And why does he have a tail?"
"They're demons!" Kagome said with a smile.
She lowered an eyebrow. "Okay..." She backed up a little walking and then turned and ran like hell. She had to get out of here. Demons? Feudal Era? She was going to be late for the breakfast line! She didn't have time to worry about some girl and her freaky friends.
Her inner psyche argued with her about that. 'A raven-haired girl was in my dreams...' She shook her head and kept running.
"Oi wench! Stop running!"
She glanced behind to see that the group was following her. Oh great, stalkers. She had to get back home, but Japan was pretty much halfway across the world from America, how the hell would she get back?
God! She was only thirteen. She didn't need this! She wanted back home, where she had friends and connections and lunch lines! Yes, lunch lines! As much as she hated them, they were better than being stuck in an unfamiliar place!
Someone told her that unfamiliar places were the worst place to be. She just couldn't remember who... They were just a black figure against more blackness. She was surprised she could even tell the difference between them.
She was used to it though. She couldn't remember anything before the point she was nine, except for a woman's face and the fact that her birthday was March 1. She couldn't even remember her real name. She had just had the name she went by now in her head when she woke up in the orphanage that day. She wasn't even sure of where she had come from. The orphanage staff hadn't told her where she had come for either. They had just changed her into some different clothing than the toga-like sheet she had on and asked her what her name was. She just told them what she had in her head.
"My name is Ashley Seto..."
She fell to the ground as something had pushed her. "OW!" she cried out.
"I told you to wait up wench!"
Ashley scrambled up to her feet and glared at the red-clad man with dog ears. Kagome had called him Inu-yasha. Feh. Dog-demon. How original. She blinked. How did she know that?
Kagome smiled at her gently. "We just want to know why you're here."
Ashley looked at her. "I honestly don't know. Just leave me alone!"
Kagome shook her head. "We're trying to help you. If you're from my time, then you have no clue how to protect yourself from the demons that are in this forest."
Ashley shook her head. "I don't think you get it! I'm not from around here, I don't want to be here! Leave me alone! I don't belong here! I want to go back home!"
"There is no way to get back home," the purple-clad man said. "If you come from Kagome's time, there is none."
Ashley glared at them. "Why don't you just leave me alone?"
"Because we don't want you to get hurt," Boomerang-woman said.
"I'll be fine! If I can take care of myself on the streets, I can take care of myself here!" Whoa, what was with her? She never gave away this much information to people she didn't even know!
"The...streets?" Kagome said. Her mouth became an 'o'. "Don't tell me you're an orphan!"
Ashley turned. "Just leave me alone." She started to walk away. "And if you try to follow me, I'll kick all your asses." She looked around at her new surroundings. Okay then, more trees, and to the left...more trees. She sweatdropped. Japan sure had a lot of trees... Okay then. Left or right? She did eene-meenie-minee-moe in her head and then shrugged and went straight instead.
It seemed fate felt like laughing at her today, for the road became a cliff down into about a hundred foot drop. The other side of the hole was the same. "Dang it," she said.
She felt something behind her and she saw that the group of people were still following her. "God damn it, don't you people have something else to do other than stalk me!"
"Feh! I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for this wench here!" Inu-yasha jabbed his thumb toward Kagome. She smiled sheepishly.
Ashley growled and held her hand to her forehead. "UGH!" Okay then, what would her black shapes do? "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer". Okay, that was the only little quote it would give her today? That was stupid! She didn't want to be with these people! Well, they were more enemies than they were friends, no matter how much that Kagome girl tried to be kind.
"Oh God! Fine!" she shouted. She wasn't sure if it was at the group of people and demons, or at the little voice of her psyche, which was still bugging her about her dreams. "Fine! My name is Ashley. I come from the year 2005. There ya go, happy?"
Kagome squealed. "That's my time! Oh my God! We can talk about so much stuff!"
Ashley sighed. "Just because I decided that it's okay to be around you people does not make me a instant girlfriend." This was strange. She was never usually like this. "And first off! WHAT'S WITH THAT STUPID LIGHT AROUND YOUR NECK!"
The group looked at her and then at Kagome. Kagome blinked and pulled out a little glass container on a string with three little shards in it. "This?" she asked.
"Yes! The little shiny-ness is quite annoying!" Ugh, note to self: get off the bitch pills. They were aggravating her.
"You could see these...shining?" The boomerang-woman asked. Her name was...Sango, right?
"Yeah. Can't you? It's like a stupid rave toy!"
Miroku--he was the one in purple, right?--shook his head. "Only Kagome can..."
Inu-yasha smirked. "Great, another shard detector."
Kagome looked up at him and grinned. "Finally I can go home without you bugging me about it! Ashley can take my job when I'm not around!"
Inu-yasha rolled his eyes.
"Pause and rewind," Ashley said annoyed.
She shouldn't of said it. A two-hour lecture on Kagome's time from the well and up followed. The rest of the group added things now and then as well.
"Aw, how nice," Ashley said afterwards. Note to self: REALLY get off the bitch pills. She supposed it was the fact she was in a place she didn't know that was making her this way. She was usually much nicer. Or maybe it was the fact that she hadn't eaten breakfast... Six meals a day or she'd die from hunger. Wasn't her fault that her metabolism was on over-drive twenty-four seven. "Do any of you have food? Or some aspirin? I could use about a dozen right now." And then it hit her. Oh God, it was another one. Oh boy, how nice to faint in front of a bunch of people that just met her. Okay then... Nothing she could do about it. What would it be this time?
Her mind went blank and then turned black. Okay. Black was usual. A shape in front of her. She felt...contained. Where was she? She reached out and felt something smooth and...wooden... She stroked it. Yes, definitely wooden. Where was she? She pushed it gently and it moved. A shaft of light filled the area. Okay then. A door then. A wooden door. So she was in something...with a wooden door. Ah, great.
Then the vision left her and she blinked open her eyes to see the brown eyes of Kagome. "Are you okay Ashley? You fainted!"
Ashley pushed herself off the ground. "Yeah, it's a usual thing. Her head really hurt and she saw that her head landed on a rock. Oh damn, she probably... She felt behind her head, and sure enough, she was bleeding. It was pretty damn bad too. "Aw crap! Do any of you have something for me to compress this with?"
"What?" Kagome said. She glanced behind Ashley to see blood pouring out between the girl's fingers. "OH MY GOD! THAT THING IS WORSE THAN JUST A COMPRESSOR!"
"WELL DO ANY OF YOU KNOW HOW TO GIVE STITCHES?"
They all shook their heads.
"Ugh, fine. One of you needs to do it for me. Start at one side and then go to the other and keep it going like that. She rummaged in her jean pockets. She knew she had that little sewing kit somewhere...
Kagome pulled a first-aid kit out of a humongous yellow bookbag that Ashley hadn't noticed before. Okay...that could work too. "I'm guessing you don't have anything to take away the pain aspect of this?" Ashley asked dryly.
Kagome scratched the back of her head. "Uh...no..."
"Feh, just a little pain," Inu-yasha said.
Ashley glared at him and kicked him in the shin. "Shuddup dog crap."
He glared down at her. "Stupid wench."
"Nice to know we're on the same page," she said icily.
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So whoo-hoo, there we go, the first chapter and Ashley is a lot different than she was in the original. Maybe it's 'cause I've changed a lot... :shrugs: