Cats and Cats Dogs and Dogs

Chapter Two

"Kagome! You're late!"

Kagome winced at the familiar sound of InuYasha's yelling. He was always yelling at her. It sometimes made her wonder why she ever came back.

"I told you I was going to come back late today, InuYasha. You don't have to scream at me," she said, trying to remain calm.

"Look, I wanna get a move on! Sango and Miroku heard about a demon in a village a couple miles away. They're already on their way there with Shippou."

She sighed. 'He's probably just made because it's the new moon tonight...' She plastered a smile on her face.

"Okay, let's go." However, a strange sound from the well gave her pause.

"Come on! Let's go!" Inuyasha snarled.

"I...thought I heard a groaning..." Kagome said, puzzled.

InuYasha's nose twitched. "There's someone in the well," he said. "How the..."

He walked up to the well and looked down. "It's a girl..."

"Ow.." The girl said, rubbing her back. "Hey, you! Could you help me up?"

Inuyasha looked at Kagome, who nodded. So he reached down, grabbed her hand, and pulled.

As she was being pulled up, Nyoko noticed the claws on the hand she held. Her green eyes went wide, and she almost lost her grip.

Then she was up, and she realized that she had good reason to be alarmed.

"Wasn't... I in a building just now?" she said, because she nowstood in a small clearing surrounded by trees. The boy who helped her got close, and sniffed her, then narrowly blocked a blow the head.

"What are you?" he asked, holding her arm. "You smell human, but... what's with the ears and tail?"

Nyokohurriedly removed the ears withher freehand. "Fake!" she exclaimed. "They're fake!" She paused a moment, and the boy released her arm. "Now, what are you and where am I? " She was going to get some answers. Now.

Then she stopped. Her eyes widened again as she realized that standing before her, in the flesh, was the demon from the legend she was studying. "You're... Inuyasha! The demon from the story!"

The girl next to him spoke up. "Half-demon, actually. And how do you know him?" She asked.

"I'm writing a paper about him for school!"

"A paper? She raised one eyebrow. "About Inuyasha? What for?"

"Because he was amazing! He defeated every demon that challenged him! He was even stronger than his father!"

Inuyasha and the girl looked at eachother.

"Well.. I did beat that demon that killed Dad, but..." he started.

"...I don't know about amazing.." she finished.

Inuyasha's ear twitched, and he turned to face the girl. "What do you mean, I'm not amazing?"

"You're not," she responded calmly.

"You've said so yourself!"

"Whatever..."

"Listen, girlie.."

"Oh, girlie, huh?"

"Um..."

"SIT!"

PHWUMP! "Damn you!"

Nyoko stepped forward. "Um, look, my hero of two and a half years is shrinking before my eyes! Being pushed around by a human? A girl, no less! Who are you, anyway!"

"I'm Kagome... and you're huaman, too, or have you forgotten?"

"And you're point is...?"

Turning around, Kagome threw up her hands. "Brat..." She muttered... Then her anger changed to curiosity. She turned back to look at the other human. "So... Who are you, and how did you get through the well?"

Nyoko raised one eyebrow, debating with herself whether to tell or not. She decided to make a friend rather than an enemy. "I'm Nyoko," She smiled, "and I was at an old shrine. The priesess, Keiko, was giving me and my friend Mami a tour when-- oh my god!" She cut herself off. "Mami! Oh, what am I gonna do? She's gonna be so worried about me!"

While Nyoko fretted, InuYasha and Kagome talked about what the girl had just said.

"An old shrine?"

"--Oh, and my parents--!

"That's your house, right Kagome?"

"--They're gonna be so mad--!"

"No, there's never been anyone named Keiko there..."

"--And that priestess is going to killl me--!"

"Never? Then, what if she's not from your time?"

"--She'll say I was trespassing--!"

"Maybe..."

"--I mean, I was, but--!"

"What year did you say your time was?"

"--Oh, I don't want to be arrested--!"

"Nineteen-ninety-seven."

Nyoko collapsed dramatically on the ground and started crying. "I don't wanna go to jail!" she wailed.

Kagome turned to her. "Hey, what year is it?"

Nyoko stopped crying abruptly. "Mm? Twenty-ninety-seven, of course! You mean, you guys didn't know the date?"

Kagome turned to InuYasha. "Nyoko... Is from a time 100 years after mine!"

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