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I'm sorry for taking so long, but I got a mean review. It was pretty harsh but I'm ok, I in fact got 3 criticizing reviews, but only one of them was mean. They made me seriously rethink the whole story. I'll try to fix most things but I'm not going to dramatically alter my story line. I also made some of the characters a bit... well out of character. But I did it for a purpose so I'll change it a little but not too much. I thank you for all the reviews even that one mean one, they made me see what I needed to perfect or alter. But all three of them said some things I didn't really understand. If someone could tell me what a 'mary-sue' is and what 'canon' is. Also I was accused of being a schizophrenic, I have no idea what that means. But I know it isn't nice. Well besides that here's the next chapter, it's really short but essential to the story line.

I'm sorry if I'm not getting out chapters fast enough, I have 3 stories to keep up with and I'm trying to make them all decent pieces of writing. Sorry. Well I hope you enjoy the this chapter! Btw does anyone know Sango's last name?

Everlasting Wishes

Chapter 7 The Wishing Stone

Disclaimer: Roses are red, violets are blue, I don't own InuYasha so boo hoo hoo.

Yumi stretched, as she yawned and climbed out of bed. Morning. The time of the day when it was the quietest. Yumi sidestepped the mess of her room towards her dresser. Hmmmmm, what will be for breakfast today? She rummaged amongst socks, bras, panties and other miscellaneous items, searching desperately for some food. She always had something to eat...

After twenty minutes of increasingly frantic searching, Yumi concluded that she had finished every last bit of food available. This was going to be a problem. She knew her rations would not last forever, but it hadn't been that long since she had arrived. Yumi had lost count of the days that she was in the Feudal Era. It must have been...what, a month? Maybe longer.

As each day wore by, Yumi's obsession with Kouga had not decreased, to the contrary it had probably multiplied. With the bringing of each new day also brought tougher challenges. For example, the continuos onslaught of demons that attacked every so often. Yumi was no black belt in her own time. She had almost on close occasions had her neck chopped off. But the constant fighting had strengthened her battle skills quite noticeably.

To the immediate problem however, Yumi needed food. The young modern girl had never once actually killed a demon, or any other animal for that fact. First of all, she was in no way even strong even to do the deed. She had maybe injured them somewhat fatally, but never actually killed them. So... How was she supposed to survive? Plant life would help, yes, but she needed a source of protein. Meat. Where was she going to find a cow in the middle a wilderness, and if she did, she'd never have the heart to kill it. Yumi was not a vegetarian but she'd never look an animal in the eye, and know that some time later it would be digesting in her stomach. What a problem... socks and shoes were thrown on, the door was wretched open, and with a determined look in her eyes, Yumi set off on a great challenge, well not that great. But great enough that it would all depend on her survival. The search for food!

Ayame paced back and forth in her cave in frustration. One month! One month and no sign of that strange scented being who had left two clues to his or her identity. The alarm clock and the bra, as she has later found out by Kagome, while a red faced InuYasha and Shippo stood nearby pretending not to listen, as Kagome explained it's uses. Miroku was off bothering Sango, a friendly quarrel no doubt. This being was quite slippery than she had first imagined. With each day of that month, her mood grew more foul and hot tempered. Every wolf in her tribe had probably been snapped at multiple times, sometimes causing fights, and riots.

Ayame's mood hadn't increased by the fact that Kouga still ignored her. Why, she hadn't seen him for a very long time! Maybe she should give up, he obviously did not want her, and forcing him to marry her would just prove how much of a bully she is to him.

The air had a feel to it like something was waiting to happen. Something big. Sometimes when demons far to the west fought a lot, she could feel an ominous aura hanging about. She had investigated the whole area as best as she could. For it was Sesshomaru's land. But she still came up with nothing.

Deciding that it was time for a walk, she left the cave and sped westward to search once again for any signs, or clues to the mystery.

After a while of running, Ayame came upon the stream where she first found the bra. Walking along the edge, she sniffed picking up some sort of scent. It smelled familiar, like she had smelled it before. The wolf demoness stepped lightly until she saw a form sitting by the edge of the water line. Her defenses immediately came up, this person had quite a battle aura! Although she looked innocent enough, quite young too. She was about as old as she was. Ayame approached the girl quietly, then she got in an attack stance.

"Who are you and what is your business here!" Ayame shouted still holding the attack position. The stranger jumped about a foot into the air, she had been surprised.

"My name is Yumi Futami! I was just resting by the stream! I didn't do anything wrong!" She seemed to be a little panicky, as if Ayame would pounce at any second.

The wolf demoness glared at her, then deciding she wasn't a threat, lowered her attack stance.

"Who are you really human? And who sent you? Tell the truth because I can smell your fear and lies." She gave a twisted sort of smirk making her look quite scary indeed.

"I don't know how I got here! No one sent me! I live alone! I was just searching for food!" Ayame could see the white all around the girl's brown eyes, this girl thought she was a monster. Or something close to it, because she was obviously horrified.

"You are not worth my time, now leave before I decide to make you a snack for my pack."

The girl with the crazed hair, shook her head in a little-kid-who-just-got-caught-doing-something-bad-and-is-very-scared-of-the-punishment kind of way, before she raced off into the shelter of the trees.

Feh, pathetic human...

Kagome paced around the small interior of Kaede's hut. "I need to ask you something, Kaede." The old woman looked up from her pot of stew and stared intently on Kagome politely wondering why she was so jittery.

"What do ye need to ask child?" Kagome stopped her mad pacing and finally sat down.

"Is there a way, other than the Shikon jewel, and the well, to get into the Feudal Era? Like any other type of rare stones?" Kagome's eye's pleaded with the knowledge as Keade took a moment to think about it.

"Well child, there was once a story passed down in my family, about the mythical wishing stone. It is said that every thousand years, a baby is born with it. There is no way to tell if a child has it, until they reach a point in their life when their thoughts are most clear. What they want is unreachable, and unobtainable. Even if the child is born with it, and then that time in life comes when their thoughts are most clear, they could never use it unless their heart and mind reach a plateau of understanding. Then if all of those things come true, they must wish, as hard, and faithfully, as if everything that ever happened afterwards depended on it. When all the standards come into place, the wish would be granted. But it's just a myth, a story to tell youngsters so they will sleep. It is not true." Kaede finished her tale, and went back to cooking her stew.

"But Kaede! What if it is true? What if someone was born with it, from my era, and wished themselves here? What if it actually happened?" Kagome frantically said.

"Calm ye self down, it is but a myth. No one has ever seen the stone, or even heard of a strange wish coming true. In fact only my family still tells the story of it."

"But, doesn't a myth come from legend, and a legend from extraordinary truth? It could have actually happened." Kagome said breathlessly.

"Is there something ye want to tell me about all of this?" Kaede patiently listened, as Kagome spun her story of how Ayame thought something was up, and brought her the alarm clock. Which of course didn't belong to her, nor had she ever even seen before. Then the second encounter with the undergarment? Which also was definitely not hers either. By the time Kagome had spilled her thoughts, and suspicions about the whole ordeal, she was out of breath and slightly panting.

"Well, that is something no isn't it?" Kaede said folding her hands in her lap.

"We need to find her! What is something happens to her? What if she's attacked by a demon or worse?"

"Calm down Kagome, you and InuYasha and everybody else can go look for her tomorrow morning, it's too late right now."

"Thanks and I will look for her tomorrow. Good night Kaede." Kagome made her way to the door about to step outside, when Kaede called back to her,

"Just know, Kagome that if she does not want to be found, than ye probably will not find her. The myth is that wherever the wishing stone is, it is un trackable, it lets off no scent, no mystic aura. But that does not mean that the girl in question will be hard to find. She could have an aura, but the stone will be hidden within her as invisible as the shikon shards are to people without your gift."

Kagome left keeping everything in mind, thinking about what would happen if someone found this girl first. That girl, if she had in fact come from her world, would be in danger.