Mrryl: Alright, now for the second chapter… have fun reading it!

Litadrene: Second? I haven't read the first yet!

Mrryl: Oh well, everyone else wants the second… so read the first on the site!

Litadrene: Oh… alright!

"DISCLAIMER: Obviously, however regrettably, I don't own Inu Yasha…"

When Inuyasha awoke, he was startled to find himself bound up in a house of some kind. It seemed to be a house because it had straw mats and a brazier in the center of the room. Looking around, he finally noticed a warm squishy something in his mouth, Hmmm… is it a gag? He thought to himself as he tried to look around as best he could from his hunched up position on the floor. His arms were tied behind his back and another rope was tied around his feet, the obvious tautness of the muscles in his legs and arms suggested that someone had hog-tied him, to that the ropes tying his feet and hands were tied together. He attempted to keep looking, hearing a clinking of something behind him he tried spinning around, startled when a hand cut off the ropes binding his hands and feet. He quickly used his hands to pull out the gag and sat up, looking at the person who had cut his bonds. His rescuer was an old woman, easily around 60 years old. She was wearing a red and white kimono with an eye patch covering one eye. She looked at him, her one eye widening as she said, "Is it you, Ano? Big brother?"

Inuyasha nearly laughed, thinking she was jesting. When it became apparent that she wasn't he gasped, saying quickly, "No, I'm Inuyasha! I don't know who you're talking about! I fell into a well and when I hit the bottom I climbed back out, but I was here instead of where I was when I fell in. I know this sounds crazy, but believe me! I'm telling the truth!" he sat back when he was finished, rocking on his heels as he watched her take in the words. He saw her face scrutinize him, her eyebrows raised in disbelief then disappointment that her big brother hadn't, in fact, returned to her. An uncomfortable silence filled the room as neither had anything to say. Finally, Inuyasha broke the silence by clearing his throat and saying, "I want to know how to go home. This is really weird, I just want to go back home. Do you know how?"

Kaede answered with a shake of her head, "No, I'm sorry young one. I cannot help ye with the journey home but--" she was interrupted when a large boom was heard outside of the room, and a few people screaming. "Youkai! Youkair! Everyone, get weapons! Scatter! Come on!" the voice was familiar, but Inuyasha couldn't place it. The one word though, caught his attention quite well. "Youkai? Do they actually exist, wherever here is?" Kaede nodded, grabbing a bow and a quiver of arrows as she headed outside. Inuyasha followed her, unsure of what he should expect.

He couldn't have expected what he saw, it was a 7 foot tall human with purple skin, and overly muscular arms that seemed to drag on the ground. He swiped at a building and it collapsed under his powerful arms. The thing reminded him of a large ape or something. The youkai looked around, saw Inuyasha and roared, "SHIKON NO TAMA!" as it charged straight at Inuyasha. He did the only thing he could think of, he ran away, quickly.

Inuyasha just ran, saying in his head, left, right, left, right, as he ran, concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other, not on his chest, which felt on the verge of exploding from lack of oxygen. Suddenly he slowed, his heart and lungs pounding. He was standing in front of the Goshinboku Tree, the tree that was in the courtyard of the shrine. Standing in front of the tree was the same beautiful statue, the tail still curled around the legs and the one arm still held out protectively in front of her, her face still frozen in a look of betrayal and sadness that he felt his heart leap for the statue, his vision blurring as his eyes filled with tears. The paper seal was still pressed against the stone haori, seemingly suspended in midair. The circle, which Inuyasha now noticed was etched around the ground in a white powder, glowed slightly. Stepping nearer, Inuyasha suddenly had the urge to take the ugly piece of paper off of the beautiful girl-statue. He could hear the crashing of tree limbs behind him, knew that the youkai was near, yet he had the strongest urge to rip the seal away from the haori, and he didn't even realize that the shield around the statue would zap him painfully. Didn't even remember that little detail until he felt something ancient in his hands, a rough piece of paper. He was holding onto the paper on the girl-statue's haori, one quick jerk would rip the ugly paper away form the statue and it would be perfect. The crashing behind him was louder, but he didn't notice. With a smirk, he ripped the seal away from the statue and was launched backwards, onto his arse. The statue glowed yellow and blue as the stone haori turned into red fabric and the hair, ears and tail turned into white fur/hair. The skin turned slightly red, as if she had just finished a fast-paced activity. The girl looked around, seeing him she said, "Ano! I'm gonna kill you!" and she leapt at the shield, yelping in pain as the walls zapped her and sent her onto her arse. She rubbed her butt and said, "Hey, Ano! Are you too chicken shit to fight me? You lock me up in this damn prison and leave me here to die? Hmph! Wait… I remember… you pressing the damned seal against my chest! YOU TURNED ME INTO A FCKIN' STATUE! How could you? You bastard! I'm gonna kill you! When I'm—" but she was cut off as Inuyasha stood up, yelling, "I don't know who this Ano is, but I'm Inuyasha! Got it? Listen, what just happened? You were a statue a few seconds ago! Now you're yelling at me, calling me Ano? I'M NOT HIM!" His face was exceedingly red from yelling at the top of his lungs after not recovering from all of the running he had just done.

When the youkai ran through the brush, yelling at the top of its lungs, "SHIKON NO TAMA!" the girl gasped.

"Sorry, I'm uhhh… Nekogome! Pleased to meet you, now, let me outta here or that thing'll kill you! Unless you know how to pulla weapon outta your ass!" shouted the cat girl, Nekogome. Inuyasha stared, dumbfounded.

"I don't know what to do! I freed you just by kinda reaching out and grabbing the paper, when I first tried to do that, the circle zapped me! What should I do?" he yelled.

"Well, since it's just chalk, try brushing it away, break the circle!" Nekogome yelled, cursing human stupidity. Inuyasha ran towards the circle, a few paces away. The oversized youkai took a swipe at him, barely missing him. Inuyasha broke into a baseball slide, feet first. Once his feet brushed away a small portion of the circle the entire circle stopped glowing and Nekogome squealed in excitement. She leapt into the air, yelling, "Blood Blades Claw Dance!" as she spun in a circle, making contact with the youkai and neatly splitting it in half. This didn't discourage the youkai, however, as it merely moved it's upper body on its strong arms. It's legs grew a small set of arms and an insect-like head as it ran towards Nekogome, squeaking as it jumped at her, clamping on her left arm and injecting a needle like arm into it. Nekogome went livid when she felt something run into her arm. "Shit! Poison!" she yelled as she swung at the insect youkai. She was extremely relieved, therefore, when she saw a large wooden limb come crashing down on the insects head. When it's grip loosened she grabbed the arm and pulled it out of her, slashing at the lower half of the big youkai with her claws until it was a bloody mess on the ground. Then the upper half of the big youkai launched forwards. One arm grabbed Inuyasha by the neck and the other arm grabbed Nekogome. Both were held in a vice grip, neither could breath. The mouth of the big youkai shouted triumphantly, 'SHIKON NO TAMA!" as it continued choking the life out of them.

It's eyes opened wide when a gleaming arrow punched into its chest and ripped a whole through it. It let go of its victims quickly, bellowing as two more arrows cut it to shreds, its remaining pieces left to flutter to the ground. Inuyasha hit the floor with a thud, Nekogome falling over and leaning on him, both gasping for air and coughing.

Kaede walked up the road from behind the youkai, her bow loaded with another arrow, this one pointed at Nekogome. "I don't know what freed ye, but I cannot let you get away, neko hanyou!" Inuyasha was taken aback, of course the tail and ears, as well as claws and slight fangs, were a dead give away, he had hoped she wasn't. He was firmly surprised when she leaped behind him and hide, whispering, "I didn't do anything! Don't let her kill me… please!" He could hear the pleading whine in her voice and so he got up, saying to Kaede, "She's okay, whatever she did, she's probably sorry for it and will never do it again." Kaede lowered her bow, putting the arrow back in the quiver with a slight scraping sound. Nekogome smirked, this was the signal she was waiting for. She quickly shot up and grabbed Inuyasha from behind, putting her claws against his throat and saying, "Give me the Shikon No Tama, or I'll rip you to shreds!" Inuyasha gasped, she had betrayed him, she had lied to him!

"Go ahead, kill me! I don't believe this! You know what?" he said as he spun around and quickly jabbed her in the face, knocking her off her feet and into the ground. Inuyasha ran towards Kaede, who had pulled an odd looking necklace out of her kimono.

"Quickly, child! Get closer!" Kaede said as Inuyasha stopped next to Kaede. Nekogome was getting up, her face red and her eyes glimmering with tears.

"Alright, you want it that way, eh asshole? Fine! I'll cut both of you to shreds!" she screamed as she leapt towards them, claws raised. Kaede made some simple hand gestures then whispered a single word. The necklace flew to pieces and landed around the hanyous neck.

"Quickly, a word of disabling!' Kaede yelled to Inuyasha, who stood watching the hanyou flying towards them. He stuttered, saying, "I don't know any! What should I say?"

"Anything! Just make it sound as if to disable, you needn't actually know a proper word." One word popped into Inuyasha's head, the same word that he said whenever his cat jumped onto the T.V or was being bad.

"DOWN!" Inuyasha yelled, watching in satisfaction as the necklace, made of beads and fangs, glowed brightly blue and she was suddenly "whooshed" to the ground, landing face first with an angry curse and muffled swearing.

"Let us go before she gets up." Kaede led him back towards the village, which was being rebuilt before his eyes. Kaede led him to her hut, opening the door and beckoning him to follow her. He sat down near the burning brazier, then suddenly shot up when he said, "I have to go, that Nekogome will be after me and I can't risk her attacking the town!" Kaede merely smiled, saying, "She will not attack anyone while she wears the necklace, all you need say when you know she is around is that word you said and she shall be pacified for a few minutes. Now eat some stew and go to sleep, we shall try to find out how you can get home when you awaken tomorrow. And so he ate a bowl of stew, then another, and another, before he finally tucked himself in, wishing Kaede a good rest before drifting off to sleep himself.

Outside, a girl with the eyes, ears and tail of a cat sat in a tree, watching Inuyasha gulp down three bowls of stew before falling asleep. He admired him for his courage and for caring about her, when that insect youkai nearly poisoned her, but he was a human, and she couldn't stand humans. Could she? "Goodnight, Inuyasha."

Mrryl: So, what do you think? I'm not quite sure about the ending, it isn't really in context with the real plot, but then again, what would be the fun in writing a fanfic if you can't mess around with it a little. Sorry about those of you who think I messed with the characters too much, but I'm trying to make them act like the person they're supposed to be, not who they originally are, although some of the old Inuyasha has already shone through in his love for ramen. But yeah, everyone will have something of their old personality with them, but for a majority it will be different. Sorry it took so long to write!

Litadrene: Yeah… I've gotta get you to re-write some of this stuff…. MORE FLUFF! I like FLUFF! Not necessarily lemon or lime… just fluff.

Mrryl: There'll be enough fluff later on, never you mind! You just wait! Impatient one!

Litadrene: Yes master… hehehe. Alright, but get writing, or I'll have to chain you to your computer desk until you write the next chapter!

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