I do not own Inu-yasha. I do own Ashley though. And what a peculiar OC she is.
Welcome back to the story. None of you care. Whoo-hoo! Anywoo, just read and review if you want. ...Yeah...

Chapter Two
Let's Try to Get Home, Toto...

So then... She had spent a day with these people, just walking around. Kagome, Sango, and Shippo had tried their hardest to make her "feel included". She'd rather be home. She thought. Twelve o'clock. Right now she'd be eating her second breakfast and lunch...
"So Ashley!"
She about jumped at the sound of Kagome's voice right next to her ear. "Uh, yeah?" Ashley said, turning her head to the girl's direction.
Kagome gave a smile. "How...do you like Edo?"
Ashley looked around. "...There's a lot of trees."
Kagome sweatdropped. "Is...that...all?"
Ashley nodded. "That's about it."
"So...you don't like it."
Ashley shrugged. "There's no smog."
"So you do like it?"
Ashley looked at her with an eyebrow raised. "Why do you even care?" she asked in a questioning voice. "It's not like you live here all the time or anything."
Kagome shrugged. "I was trying to make conversation."
"Oh." Ashley looked at her shoes. They were tennis shoes, she noticed. She didn't pay much attention to her shoes.
"Oi. We're takin' a break," Inu-yasha called back.
Kagome squealed in delight. "Now we can have lunch! And show Ashley how to play our little games!"
Sango smiled at the idea.
Ashley's mind was on the lunch part of that. "Lunch..." She was practically drooling. She had to cut her meal times in half since she came here. How unfair was that? Just because they didn't have a metabolism on steroids didn't mean that she couldn't stop and eat every now and then, right? Well, apparently, to Inu-yasha, it did.
She was beginning to dislike the stupid dog demon, oh excuse her, half dog demon. "Where exactly are we going?" she finally said, the question eating at her mind. Speaking of eating... She drooled a little. "I mean, we've been walking around for no reason!"
The inu-gumi thought for a second. "Well," Kagome said. "We really don't go anywhere unless we get a lead."
Ashley stared at them in utter disbelief and sweatdropped. "So you waste all your time and energy on WALKING? That's it! I'm leaving!" She started to stomp away.
"Ashley! Don't you want something to eat?" Kagome shouted.
She stopped. Food...or getting away from freaks? Such a hard decision... She steeled herself against it and started walking away again.
"Ashley! Please don't leave!" Kagome said, starting to run after her.
Miroku held her back. "Let's leave her alone. I think she needs time to pull herself together."
Kagome looked at him and nodded silently.
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Ashley though, was grumbling about things that didn't even make sense. "Why don't socks have toes in them? I mean, those Japanese socks have toes in them, why can't American? And why is it spelled 'yacht'? What the heck is in fruitcake, and what is spandex made of?"
She growled at nothing and kicked a tree in frustration. This world was one huge mental case. She was amazed that everyone was not in a loony bin by now. It was like they were whacked up on Scooby snacks or something. Gotta be the Scooby snacks, she assured herself.
She kicked the tree again, a little lighter this time. Damn. She really needed a family...or friends...or something. Nah. She didn't need that stuff. She had made it this far on her own, hadn't she? She could do it and keep doing it!
She looked up with renewed determination in her eyes and posture. She was gonna make it! She punched the air. "Hell yeah!" Ashley looked around and deflated when she saw that she once again knew not where she linger. She sighed. "Iii hate this place," she said, dragging out the 'I'. Whelp. Standing around and doing nothing but seethe in her hate wasn't gonna do anything for her, now was it? She quickly did eenie-meenie-minee-mo and saw that according to the childish picking game, she was going left.
She spun on her heel and away she went. Nothing could stop her! Nothing at all! She dared something to stop her, because she knew it could not!
She about slammed into a body. Okay then, maybe it could. She backed up slowly to see just what it was she had about slammed into and saw the face of a surprised man. "Gomen," she said and scooted around him. She noticed that behind him were two men gasping for air. ...Interesting...
"Oi, you!"
Ashley sighed and turned her head. She wanted to get out of this world as soon as possible and yes, she was a little bit vexed that a guy and his two wheezing sidekicks were holding her up. "I said sorry..." She stopped. How the hell had she known what 'gomen' meant? This place was trying her nerves.
"You smell like her."
That made one of her eyebrows go up. "Excuse me?" On closer inspection, the man had a fur-like kilt thing and a wolf tail. Blue eyes and black hair in a ponytail. A wolf tail? Oh God, not another demon. The two wheezing were interesting things indeed. One had a mohawk and the other duo-color hair. Wow...someone needed to update the Feudal Era's fashion sense.
"You smell like Kagome," the man said, as though it was common knowledge.
"Oh...yeah...that weird lady..."
The two wheezing men looked at each other with looks of horror on their faces. "She just...," one said.
"...called Kagome weird...," the other said. They started backing up.
"Pansies," she mumbled.
The man she had almost bumped into glared at her. "Kagome is not weird. No one insults my woman."
Ashley blinked. "Whoa...sexism much." She poked him in the chest with a glare on her face. "Listen up, Mr. Ponytail. You-should-treat-women-like-equals!" she said, defining each word with a poke. "Just because we-shocker-haveestrogen does not mean you treat us like crap or look down upon us. Bastard!" She threw her hands up and turned around, walking away. "So tired of assholes like him!" She began to stomp away.
Koga looked back at Hakkaku and Ginta. "Guys...what's estogen?"
The two shrugged.
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Skipping back to the inu-gumi...
Inu-yasha growled. Kagome had still not given up on looking for the missing girl. He was pretty sure that Kagome probably thought of her as a member of their little group already.
"Now?" she asked.
"No," Miroku said.
Silence...
"Now?"
"No," Sango answered.
Silence...
"Now?"
"Nope," Shippo said.
Silence...
"N-"
"NOOO!" Inu-yasha yelled.
Kagome cringed. "S...sorry."
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Okay then...lost again.
She sighed. This place sucked! Another round of a childish choosing game and she was going right. Ashley was getting very tired of this. All there was were trees and grass and the occasional rock. Whooopee!
Another mile or so and she found herself in a small village. Whoot, a place to crash for the night! And it was starting to turn to night. She tried to push the look on Kagome's face when she was leaving. The girl just kinda...grew on her. Shocking, seeing as she'd only known her for a day. "Ergh!" Ashley said. She stomped through the village, the villagers looking at her strangely. She didn't like those looks.
She glared at them. "SOMETHING THE MATTER?" Man, those bitch pills were long-lasting.
They quickly backed off, mumbling something about 'temperamental'. Fine, they could be bastards if they wanted. She guessed they didn't have a Quality Inn or God forbid, a Hilton. That'd be hilarious, seeing as she never had enough money to ever step within a mile of one of those.
Bastards probably didn't even have an orphanage hut. Bastards.
She walked through the village and came to the forest again. Feh. Trees were good enough.
She swung herself up into a low branch and kept climbing slowly up. She finally found one high up enough and settled down. "Night Momma," she whispered with a grim smile on her face. "Night Pa, goodnight siblings..."
Ashley drifted into sleep. The last thought on her mind was that the man's legs had been shining...
---O.O---
Whelp, there's the end of chapter two. It seemed a little short...but whatever! Long chapters and I don't go together all that well. Kinda sad...she's gone through a lot... Let's all shed a tear...now. Okay, that's enough.
Oh yeah, I was kinda mad that my whole summery didn't show up, so here it is if anyone cares:
Thirteen, an orphan, and you've just been dropped in a place that's definitely NOT your orphanage. Happens to everyone all the time, right? Well, it's happening to her, even if she doesn't want it to. Plus there's the fact that you can't remember before you were nine, and a group of six FREAKS are pretty much stalking you. Oh, bue don't worry. Two of them are demons. Right...