Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha...although I am proud to say that I own the plot :)
Oh...and this is a slight remake from an earlier fic with the same name...so yea...
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Where
Am I?
Chapter 1
"Hey, gimmie back my wallet," I yelled after the ragged looking boy. I knew that yelling would be utterly pointless because this sort of thing happened every day. In Lukian, where I live, there was so much crime that the police force quit their jobs and now, about 10 years later, the crime rate had reached an all time high.
I ran after the boy, through smoggy alleys and around tall buildings, dodging people and vehicles, and saw him run around a corner into a dead end alley. Ha! I've got you now! I thought.
"No one knows this city better than me," I yelled at the back of the retreating boy. I turned the corner, expecting to see a brick wall, when instead there was a gaping black hole. As I stood watching, the boy's red shirt seemingly ran into nothingness.
Knowing I had nothing to lose I ran after him. I don't know why I worried so much; my wallet only contained $15. We didn't use paper money much in Lukian. Especially since the iris readers became popular in 3039. I reached into my pocket to grab my little flashlight that I always carry, but I came up empty. I stopped and searched my pocket once more, hoping that I had overlooked something.
"That little brat!" I yelled. He had not only taken my wallet, but my flashlight and my legal papers. The legal papers were the most problematic because they stated that I was a legal child and had rights for food and shelter. Since there were so many births on Earth the President had to limit the amount of children a couple could have to two. I continued to run after the boy, but as I neared the hole in the wall I noticed that it was beginning to shrink.
I looked on the ground and saw a small shiny coin on the ground. This is odd. Who uses coins nowadays? I thought as I reached down to grab it. Suddenly there was an absence of light. I looked around, but could only see blackness. I couldn't feel my arms or legs either, which scared me. I looked around a little more, hoping to find a way out when I saw a small speck of light in front of me. I got up and ran for what seemed like an eternity, but I know it could only have been a few seconds.
"Ahh," I said as I took a large gulp of air. "I can see the sky, and smell the grass, and – wait grass? Why would there be grass here? All of Lukian is concrete." I looked around and saw that I stood in a grassy field on a mountainside. "This looks oddly familiar," I said as I peered into the horizon. "Those mountains are the same, but not, and there's grass here. Last time there was grass here was a couple of hundred – HEY!" I said as I spotted the boy crouched behind a boulder.
The boy started in surprise as I yelled at him. He almost ran, but then decided against it and stood up, his back straight and his shoulders square.
"Why did you take my wallet?" I asked, genuinely curious, and a little confused.
"We needed the money," the boy replied.
"Money? Why would you need money? We don't use – oh," I said as I noticed that he was definitely not from around here. I knew every kid in this city, and no one I knew looked like him. He was about my age with startling amber eyes, so clear you could swear that they were windows to his soul. His hair was a nice warm brown color and it was constantly falling into his eyes. "What's your name?" I asked. Maybe he was new to this place, wherever this place was.
"My name is Inuyasha Taisho. What's your name?" he answered.
"My name is Kagome Higurashi. Where am I?" I asked, wondering what was going on.
"Well, you are on Mt. Muricashka."
"That's impossible! I just came from there. This is definitely not Mt. Muricashka."
"What do you mean you just came from there?"
"Well, I fell into that black hole of yours and came out here."
"Well, the year is 2029. That could explain the difference," Inuyasha said thoughtfully as he looked over my shoulder.
"Oh. 2029! That's about a thousand and ten years ago! What's going on?"
"Wait, you said you followed me!"
"Well no, not really, um, I was pushed more or less," I said a little sheepishly. Here I was yelling at him and he was only trying to help, I think.
"By who?"
"I dunno, but you stole my wallet, so I guess you can say I followed you. Is something wrong?"
"No one was supposed to know that I came from the past!"
"The past? You mean you were serious about the year being 2029?"
"Yea, you thought I was lying?"
"Well, in Lukian they told us that time travel was impossible."
"Impossible? It's not impossible, just not easy. Finding a wormhole is difficult, and making one is even harder," Inuyasha explained. I nodded as I slowly began to understand what he was saying.
"Who knows about this besides us?"
"My grandmother."
"Your grandmother? How did she find out about time travel?"
"Well, she isn't my real grandmother; she's an older lady that lives all alone up here. She accidentally found the warp-hole when she was looking for wood. I come up once in a while to help her, and she told me about it."
"Oh, well, maybe we should go see her. She should know what to do," I said. I wanted to know more about this place, and why it turned so ugly in the future. We walked down the mountain a little ways before we came to a little cottage with honeysuckle and roses climbing up it.
"Kaede!" Inuyasha yelled.
"I'm over here. I see you have brought a friend," she said as she wiped her hands on her apron. She looked at me and noticed that I was wearing jeans instead of the dresses customary to the women of this time. "INUYASHA!" she said as she turned to him.
"It's not his fault. It's mine. I'm Kagome."
"My name is Kaede. How did you find Inuyasha?"
"Well, he stole my papers and wallet-"
"He what!"
"It's okay. It had nothing important in it, although the papers would be nice."
"No, it's not. Inuyasha!"
"Yes?"
"Give her back her wallet."
"Oh, okay, here. I'm sorry. I didn't realize that I had taken your papers and stuff too," he said with a shy grin.
"That's okay. Well you said you needed the money so have my fifteen dollars," I said as I handed him the money.
"WHAT! Fifteen whole dollars?"
"Yea, I don't really need it. It was just a keepsake. We don't use money where-uh when, I come from anyway."
"Hey thanks."
"Inuyasha, why don't you show Kagome my spare bedroom? She can stay with us for a while. We need to find out how she was able to follow you."
Kaede thought up my alibi while Inuyasha and I set the table for dinner. I was going to be her granddaughter that had come from Katchki, which was far from here. After we ate dinner Kaede led us to a small room in the back of the house and started to look through the many books scattered on the table and floor.
"Ah! I found it!" she said.
"What did you find?" Inuyasha asked.
"Well, according to this only one object can go through at a time, therefore only Inuyasha should have been able to go through before the hole closed."
"It was closing when I went through," I pointed out.
"Yes, but it closes immediately, so a person with immense power must have kept the gate open long enough to push you through, Kagome."
I sighed and looked out the window. Why would someone want me here? What could I possibly do? All these questions were whirling around inside my head. I knew that time travel was impossible, time paradoxes, and such. How could I change something that had already happened? I sighed again, but Kaede shut the book with a snap and startled me out of the melancholy mood I was in.
"All this sighing is making me sad, its getting late and Inuyasha should be getting home.
"Awwww, Kaede can't I stay here?"
"Certainly not! What would your aunt think?"
"Okay, fine. Goodbye Kaede, see you tomorrow, Kagome."
"Goodnight, Inuyasha," both Kaede and I said. "See you tomorrow."
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yay...chapter one is done :)...well all of the chapters are done...but can I please get at least one review? just one? Plz? Then I'll update for the next chappy.
(pst...tell me if I forgot a trait...or put in a wrong color for hair or something)