Last chapter explained a bit, didn't it? Hm... But why are there demons? You'll have to wait to see.

Ah, my life is boring. At least I don't have any tests going on. I'm pretty sure I won't have any this year, for 8th grade... I might, though. That'll suck.

A Change in Our Future

Chapter Five: InuYasha's Battle

While I was at school, InuYasha sat in a tree outside the village in the Feudal Era. He watched as Sango and Miroku walked outside of Kaede's hut, going into town. Shippo followed them, but only to stop when he saw a cute girl nearby. I just knew that InuYasha was thinking something along the lines of 'stupid kid picked up the habit from that lecher, Miroku.' Of course, I agreed with him, but I would never say that.

InuYasha sighed and looked towards the well. Ah, yes, the well. He couldn't see it from here, but he knew it was there. He had been there enough times to know exactly what direction it was from almost any place he was at.

InuYasha, bored as he was, wouldn't let it on that he was bored... Though, I knew he was bored because he went towards the Go-Shinboku and sat in the tree, watching the well. Sango has told me all about InuYasha watching the well, waiting for me to come back. It's sort of cute how he does that.

Though, soon enough he became very impatient and tired of waiting. Fed up with watching the well, he jumped out of the tree and inside it.

I'm sure that you can guess InuYasha was surprised when he smelt the scent of demon all over my era. He growled and bolted out of the building, smelling the air, as much as he would hate to. Along with the usual pollution, he smelt the stench of so many demons. They were all over the place! Knowing him, he growled and set off to my school to find me.

- - -

I sat in my desk, looking out the window sadly. It was about to storm. I could see the clouds accumulating in the sky, growing darker and gloomier. That's exactly how I felt. First I kill a man and now demons are running around in my era.

Suddenly I saw a flash of red and white. Speaking of demons... It couldn't be him, could it? No... He wouldn't be here. But if he were here then he would know all about the demons just with a simple whiff of air.

I relaxed a few minutes after that, seeing as I didn't see any more flashes of white or red or whatever.

I desperately hoped that he wasn't there.

Life really isn't fair now, is it?

- - -

InuYasha jumped once more to land near a building near my school. A drop of rain hit him on the nose, but he didn't care. He looked at my school with his golden eyes, carefully examining the surroundings.

Suddenly he jumped from the building he was standing on, into my schoolyard. He started to walk towards the school entrance but stopped at the sound of a voice.

"Inu Hanyou, 300 plus years old, not registered. Intelligence: unknown, strength: unknown, defense: unknown, heritage: unknown. May be a threat to humanity." InuYasha turned around and growled. In front of him was a man in a black uniform with black sunglasses. Behind him was a truck with a couple more men in uniforms, and a woman. "Shows hostility."

InuYasha growled some more. "Who're you?"

"Shows ignorance," said the man.

"Answer my question!" InuYasha shouted.

The man smirked. "I am one of the elite. I am from a group called the Demon Hunters," the man said. InuYasha growled some more. He wasn't exactly happy to hear that this man hunted demons. I had a lot of explaining to do.

InuYasha gripped his sword, to steady his anger, and glared at the man.

"I don't know what you want, but I'm here for someone," InuYasha said.

The Demon Hunter took a few steps forward. "Waiting for someone how? Are you going to ambush them, or are you an unregistered slave?" he asked. Now he'd done it.

"SLAVE!" InuYasha shouted, his eyes shining with anger. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING SLAVE? I'm nobody's slave!"

"Then you're wild. You must be tamed, and you must be captured," the man said, bringing up a gun from his side. I would have been terrified... Too bad I was ignorant of this whole ordeal, even though I was only a few hundred feet away.

InuYasha just glared and kept his cool. He gripped his hand around the Tetsusaiga tighter and then ripped it out of its place, transforming it into InuYasha's father's fang. "Just try me," InuYasha said, being the tough guy he is.

- - -

And during that exciting battle outside, I was sitting inside the school as the rain started to pour down from the sky. The city soon became covered in rain, and people ran to their designated places, covering themselves with newspapers or whatever they had with them. Well, the rain was sort of sudden. The storm did move in very quickly.

I heard something near me, and looked down. It was the three-tailed cat. Had she come into the school with me? I couldn't remember if she did or not. I guess she did, since she's right there in front of me. The cat meowed once more and then jumped up to the window.

"HIGURASHI!" yelled the teacher. It was obviously a different teacher then last time, because time had lapsed and we were now almost done with the fifth class of the day. At least it was almost over.

I jolted up and blinked a couple times. "Yes?"

"What is that cat demon doing in the classroom?" shouted the teacher. He walked over to my desk and tapped it a couple times. I looked at the demon and sighed.

"She must have followed me in, sir," I explained. It was a horrible excuse, but it was the truth.

"You use this excuse every time!" the teacher said.

"I do?" I asked, forgetting that my memories weren't affected by what had happened.

Eri spoke up. "Remember, Kagome suffered from a bit of amnesia. She probably doesn't remember that. And I saw the demon follow her in without her noticing."

The teacher sighed and shook his head. "You're lucky Higurashi. Just make sure that demon doesn't attack anyone or something of that sort. All right?" I nodded.

That was really lucky.

I just wish that InuYasha were just as lucky.

- - -

InuYasha dodged another bullet from the gun. He quickly found out that this was a more advanced gun than anything that he had seen in his era. Though, I can't say that he wasn't surprised. You'd think he'd be used to things being different and more advanced in my era, but no.

InuYasha was very annoyed by this human. He couldn't use the Tetsusaiga because he was a human, and he kept missing with his claws. This man was very talented. Maybe just as talented as Sango, but he relied on weapons that didn't really need strength. That made him sort of angry. It seems like he was cheating or something like that to me.

InuYasha dodged another shot at him, and tried to use his claws on the human, but he missed. Though, you could tell that InuYasha wasn't trying very hard to hit him, because even though this person was out to get him, InuYasha still couldn't hurt a human.

"Do you need some assistance?" asked another Demon Hunter.

The man InuYasha was fighting shook his head. "No! I can handle it," he shouted as he pulled something out from somewhere behind him.

He held small square-ish thing in his hand and pressed a button and it became a collar shaped a bit like a handcuff, except much bigger. InuYasha lifted an eyebrow and smirked.

"That's it? A metal circle?" InuYasha asked, laughing. He cracked his knuckles and jumped towards the man, ready to slice through him. The Demon Hunter dodged it, and at the same time he latched on the collar around InuYasha's neck. InuYasha looked down at it after he stopped and tried to pull it off. It wouldn't budge.

"What the hell?" InuYasha shouted, trying to break the collar off.

"It's no use," the Demon Hunter said. "That collar is unbreakable, and only a human would be able to take it off... But in this day and age, who would?" The man laughed. "It's much easier to defeat an ignorant half-demon like you."

"Bastard. TAKE THIS THING OFF!" InuYasha shouted as he ran towards the Demon Hunter. He took out a remote control and pressed a button, which stopped InuYasha dead in his tracks. A shock was sent through his body and he fell to his knees.

The man laughed and walked towards InuYasha. "That was pure electricity going through you. If you don't calm yourself, you'll be feeling that a lot more often. And once you get an owner then you'll have that happen to you so much your body will feel numb for days."

InuYasha tried to get up, but the man pressed the button once more, making InuYasha fall back down.

- - -

Three...

Two...

ONE!

I bolted out the door right as the bell started to ring, and I ran through the halls. I don't know what told me to go find InuYasha, but something was definitely wrong. I could tell that much.

I ran down the halls and down a flight of stairs so quickly that everything was a blur to me.

I reached the front door and ran outside, but stopped when I saw the scene before me.

You can just imagine my surprise when I found InuYasha and one of the Demon Hunters fighting in my schoolyard. How could I miss that?

I gasped and people around me started to gather and watch the battle go on. InuYasha had a weird type of collar on his neck (at the time I didn't know what it did) and he was on his knees. He didn't look physically hurt, besides the fact that he was panting and a cut on his cheek that was probably taken out by a bullet.

InuYasha growled.

"What the hell is this?" InuYasha panted, glaring at the man and holding onto the collar, like he was trying to take it off.

The uniformed man laughed. "I told you before. It's a restraining collar. You won't be able to take it off."

I gasped.

A few of my schoolmates were making jokes and laughing.

"Yeah, the half-breed has no chance. The stupid weakling," said a student near me.

"SHUT UP!" I shouted at them, turning and yelling as loud as I could. They looked startled.

"What's with you? Standing up for the hanyou?" the boy said.

I was fuming. "YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SPEAK ABOUT INUYASHA THAT WAY!" I shouted at him.

"You know that mutt?" he asked, sounding oddly familiar. Was he somehow related to Koga?

I was so angry. I hardly remember slapping the kid, other than the sound of my hand against his cheek and the slight stinging I felt afterwards.

I turned and looked at the Demon Hunter. He had some sort of strange thing with him, and I knew that it was bad news with him.

I ran out in the middle of their battlefield and stood in front of InuYasha, spreading out my arms to protect him. I don't know why I did that, but I felt like I had to.

"Don't you dare hurt him!" I shouted, my arms spreading out even more.

"Move it, girl. If you don't I'll have to take you too. That half-demon needs to be tamed," the man in the uniform said.

"No!" I shouted, growling. "I'm not going to let you take InuYasha!"

InuYasha gripped onto the collar tighter and said, "Kagome, just leave..." His eyes widened and he looked at me carefully. "If you want to help me, fine. Only a human can take this collar off..."

I turned around and knelt down, grabbing onto the collar that InuYasha was trying to get off.

I heard the click of a gun and stiffened as I felt something cold against my head.

"Don't touch it."

Those simple words sent shivers down my spine. I gripped onto the collar tightly, making my knuckles turn white.

I didn't dare turn around to meet the gun that I would meet. I gulped and locked eyes with InuYasha, my fear meeting his anger.

"Kagome..." InuYasha warned. He looked slightly worried for me.

"LET KAGOME GO!" one of my friends shouted. I think it was Ayumi.

"Yeah! Let her go!" shouted other people. Everyone was shouting things at the man as I sat there, slowly becoming paler with each passing second.

I heard the gun click again and felt it move away from my head.

I slowly turned around and looked up at the guy.

"Don't take that collar off, or I'll bring my gun back out," he said, glaring at me.

"But--"

"NO!"

"He's my--"

"That's your slave?" someone asked. I turned and looked to see Hojo coming towards us.

I shook my head. "He's my friend."

I could almost hear everyone gasp or shudder.

"You're a friend to a half demon?" Hojo asked.

"WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT?" I shouted, my anger flaring up even more.

"Nothing! Nothing's wrong with that. I actually find it very nice," Hojo explained. I smiled slightly and then looked at InuYasha. My smile disappeared.

In spite of the warnings, I took my right hand and pulled on a latch on InuYasha's collar. It instantly sprung open and InuYasha smiled. I was happy. He was happy. What could make this any better?

OK, a gun to my head wasn't exactly going to make this any better.

There is your chapter. I'm really hungry right now.

I thought that this chapter was a decent size. At least it's bigger than the other chapters. I can at least add more stuff and junk like that. I need to learn how to improvise with my writing more.

Next Chapter: The Demon Hunter's collars seem to render demons useless! Things go from bad to worse for Kagome and InuYasha, as the Demon Hunters manage to get another collar on InuYasha. But it doesn't stop there.