Anna sat in the grass, watching the water in the clear stream run silently beside her. It was warm, and the beautiful weather made her feel worse than she already did. She had stopped crying maybe an hour or so before, but she didn't want to move. She was afraid of what would happen. The first thing she did when she stopped crying was punch herself. She drew her left arm back and pushed it forward towards her left cheek with all the strength she had (and you better believe it, she had a lot of strength for a girl). Her knuckles met her skin, and her head jerked to the right. She stood for a moment, amazed at her strength. Her mind went back to when she was at school and would hit her guy friends. "Hmm..." She said to herself, quietly. "Now I guess I know why the guys always complain." She didn't want it to be true, but she found herself actually believing that she was in an anime show. Either that, or Kristin spiked the popcorn.

She reached her arm behind her, pulling her dark hair out of the braid, and pulled it back. Her green eyes focused on the little fish in the water, swimming around, avoiding rocks sitting on the dirt bottom. Everything she did was like it was someone else moving her. She sighed and lay on her back, facing the clear sky that was slowly fading into night.

Anna's mind wandered back to when she was a sophomore.

"Hey, Kristin."
"Yeah?"
"Don't you think it would be awesome if we were in an anime?"
"Hell yeah! I'd be a kick-butt chick with a sword, and you can...well, you can be in Final Fantasy or something."
"Fuck yeah! I'd be like a black mage or something. Like Lulu."
"...Or you can be a moogle..."
"ARE YOU CALLING ME FAT!"

She smiled, eyes closed. "'Be careful what you wish for...' Oh, how right it is."

Anna's words were so quiet, no one would have been able to hear them.

Well, at least a human.

Inuyasha popped his head up from where he and the others were sitting.

Kagome saw it. "Inuyasha, what are you doing?" She had been watching him a lot lately. For some reason, she thought he was acting odd. Or maybe, it was her who had been acting odd. She wouldn't say it aloud, but she couldn't deny it to herself that she had been in love with the hanyou. She didn't know why, it just happened. But more and more, things have been getting, well...they had just been growing apart. She didn't know how he thought of her, and sometimes, she just didn't want to know. Besides, she was still young. She could find love elsewhere...perhaps.

"I thought I heard something..." He turned his head in the direction he heard it. "Stay right here, I'll be back." He stood up, and walked between a few trees and into the darkening shadows to figure out just what it was he saw.

Dammit, Kagome... He thought just before he left. Why do you always have to say something?

Just a few seconds after he left, he noticed a patch of dirt with some hand prints dug into it. What the hell is going on here...? He was curious. Inuyasha walked farther over, and saw a tree branch snapped. He was ready to fight, but didn't know when the chance would come. He stopped, and let his amber eyes slide, following the little stream, and stop when he saw a black bundle laying in the dirt, a pretty face staring up at the sky.

He was, once again, curious, but still wondered if there was going to be a fight. He moved closer, noticing the eyes on the face were closed, and it seemed that the girl had been crying. Ugh... another pathetic girl... He observed her. She is sort of pretty, though. No Kagome, and no Sango, eith- He stopped, mid-thought. Why am I thinking shit about Sango, of all things? He mentally slapped himself and turned around, hoping Kagome could help out with the girl.

When he got back to the area the others were in, he sat down. "Kagome," He didn't even look at her. "I found a girl...she was wearing really funny clothes, worse than yours. But she was sleeping, and it looked like she was crying. You should go help her or whatever it is you women do."

Kagome stood up from her spot next to Sango and Shippo. "Ugh, Inuyasha," She made a disgusted face. "Why can't YOU ever help someone BY YOURSELF!" She shook her head, and asked him where she was.

"Damn woman..." He said too quietly for her to hear. "Just go that way for a little while and you get to a stream. She's laying down right next to it."

Kagome left, and Sango stood up, sitting right back down next to Inuyasha. "Why did you ask Kagome to do it? You know you can do it yourself, or ask me." She glared at him from the short distance.

He didn't raise his head to look at her. In fact, he did just the opposite.

He lowered his head and blushed.

Sango gasped. "Oh NO! He's BLUSHING!" She laughed.

Inuyasha jerked his head up. "Damn it! You're a pathetic woman and I thought Kagome could do it better than YOU!" He yelled. He saw her face, and quickly regretted ever making that remark.

"Why, you..." She pulled her right hand back, and swung it forward with all the strength she had in her body. After it struck Inuyasha's face, she pulled it back, and saw the red handprint she left. She smiled.

Shippo looked to Miroku. "Wow, she didn't hit you for a change."

Miroku was shocked. "Yeah, I'm scared."

Kagome saw what Inuyasha was looking at. Even in the darkened sky, she could see the human form in the black clothes laying on the grass. He never talked to me like that, though. She thought. He was rude to me, yes, but he never...never spoke that tone with me before...I don't know...Maybe we really are drifting farther apart.

She kneeled next to the person on the ground. It was a girl, and a pretty girl at that. If she had shorter hair, and didn't have really... She picked up a chain and looked at it, putting it back down where it was. ...interesting clothing, she'd look a little like...me... She looked at the face a little longer, and decided against it.

Kagome poked the girl's shoulder. "Hey, hey girl, wake up now, please?"

The girl started to move. "Y...yeah...?" She yawned.

Anna lay on the ground. She felt the hand on her shoulder, and she heard the words.

But what am I doing? My side hurts... Suddenly, it all came back. The TV, the purple thing, everything.

"Um...my name is Anna..." She sat up. It was dark, and she could barely make out the girl's shape. "But, could you please tell me where I am?"

The girl moved around some, and spoke. "You're in Japan...what happened to you to make you not sure?"

Anna could feel tears wanting to come out again, but she pushed them back. "I...my...my TV..."

Two hands came from the girl and gripped her arms. "You're from my time...Oh..."

Anna was never a stupid girl. By what was just said, she knew what she was dealing with. Her mind went crazy when she realized this.

I'm in my favorite anime...and I'm talking to Kagome.