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Chapter 1: Into the Past

She hestitated at the door.

'Was there anyway to undo what her mother had done?' She thought carefully, eying the ancient seals on the well.

"Surely, if mother went through, so can I," she said quietly to herself. She heard her mother calling her name, searching for her outside the shrine. But, her mother didn't dare to think that her precious daughter was inside the walls of the ancient shrine where the well was sealed up. Her great-grandfather had put the seals on the well nearly thrity years ago, when her mother, Kagome, had returned from the the Feudal Era for the last time. The thought of her mother calmed her into making the final decision. If her mother did it when she was only fourteen, surely she, at eighteen, could do the same.

Suddenly, an image of her father flashed in her mind. Red hair, sky blue eyes and a deep laugh. She was named for those eyes. Her own eyes were darker, like the color of the ocean.

"Saphira!" Kagome called distantly. Her father had survived for centuries, just to mate her mother. The love that bonded them was that strong. Kagome would miss her if she left, to disappear through the well of time. But, Saphira was strong, even if she was half-human, she could survive in the Feudal Era.

She reached out to touch the seals only to snatch her hand back with a growl. The purifying power of the seals had burned her claws, but her dragon blood quickly healed away the pain. With a final growl at the well she jumped in.

"Saphira!" Came Kagome's distant call.

She saw a bright light and then hit the bottom of the well with a thud.

She immediatly knew it had worked, and that she had traveled through time. She heard the birds twittering in the trees and the blue sky was visable when she looked up. She had definitely left the future, perhaps forever.

Saphira inhaled deeply, only to cough and choke from catching the unpleasant smell of a wolf youkai.

" 'Oh my loves like the melody, sweetly played in tune'...why did my woman have to go!" Howled the wolf. Saphira snickered, thinking of the wolf prince her mother had told her about.

"Wait, a minute!" Said the wolf. "I can actually smell her!"

"Haha, now you're losing your mind, Kouga," laughed another voice. "Let's go, you've mourned enough for one day."

"I guess," sighed the wolf sadly. "Thirty years today, she left me."

Saphira had forgotten that today was her mother's anniversary. 'Oh, well', she thought. 'Maybe that's why I was able to travel through..?'

She waited until the wolves scent left her nose, then she jumped out of the well with inhuman speed. Another scent caught her nose as soon as landed on the ground.

"What is this, visiting hours?" Growled Saphira. "Mom must have really been loved, too bad for me."

Saphria quickly jumped into the branches of the nearest tree just as she caught the shimmer of slivery hair.

"I don't know why you insist on visiting this place," said a bored voice. "You act like it's a grave."

"Shut up," snapped another. "Keh, like you would know what love is!"

Saphira knew that voice, without ever hearing it before in her life. Inuyasha. He was once hanyou, like her his blood had been mixed. Saphira felt no empathy toward him, not after he betrayed her mother.

"Looks like you're not the only one who loved the miko," the same bored voice commented.

Inuyasha growled when he caught sight of the flowers Kouga had left behind.

Saphira's breath caught in her throat when she caught sight of Inuyasha's companion. He could only be the one who her mother talked about with fear in her voice. Saphira had always wrinkled her nose at the scent of her mother's fear. She had been smelling it since her father died, but never before then. Only when her mother talked about the famous Sesshoumaru did her fear ever prickle Saphira's nose.

As Inuyasha laid his own flowers next to the well, he stiffened.

"What is it now, Inuyasha?" Asked the slightly annoyed Sesshoumaru. 'Did he pick up the scent, finally?'

"I can smell her," came the answer.

Sesshoumaru lifted an eyebrow. 'Surely, he isn't mistaking what is clearly the scent of a young dragon with the scent of his lost miko?'

Saphira growled inwardly at the thought of smelling like her mother, but she stayed where she was.

"No, it can't be," Inuyasha said slowly. "She's gone. It must be something else."

Sesshoumaru rolled his eyes at his half-brother. "If you're done with your ritual, I would like to be on my way."

"Keh, whatever," Inuyasha said following Sesshoumaru away from Kagome's memorial.

As they left, Saphira wondered if she should followed them. The whole reason she had come to this time was to have a little adventure, wasn't it? Sure, there were a few other things she had come to do, but mostly she wanted to have fun. Life had been no fun in the future with her mother. There were no wars, or ancient evils to overcome. She had led a terrible life for a person with dragon blood flowing through her veins. She stayed cramped up in school for years, until the dragon in her blood couldn't bare it anymore. She had to get away, but no place in the future had enough adventure for her. She had traveled the world and found nothing to satisfy her dragon instincts. She had returned home to Japan, finally, after living aboard with her father for many years. After her father's death, she had become restless again, and finally plunged down the well into the past.

'Yes, I will follow them,' she thought smugly and began hopping from tree to tree to catch up.