Dream State
A Joined story,
By Saxifrage and Maid of the Mer
Chapter Three: Meeting the Gang

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"Is that…who I think it is?" Rae asked, not bothering to keep her voice down.

"I think it is…" Nikki answered, getting excited.

"Hm," Rae cocked her head to the side. "I thought he'd be taller."

The two fan girls suddenly looked at each other with evil grins. "Inuyasha!" they whispered in unison.

"My height won't matter when I shred you into pieces!" Inuyasha said, brandishing his rather large sword, the Tetsusaiga.

The girls didn't even flinch as he started running at them. In fact, it is questionable as to whether they actually registered the threat. But, they did move out of the way, just not to avoid the attack.

"EARS! MUST TOUCH!" squealed Rae as she jumped over Inuyasha and landed right behind him. She grabbed his white, pointy dog ears between her fingers and started to rub them. "EEEE! THEY'RE SOOOOO CUTE!"

Nikki on the other hand, had flown into the air, laughing at Rae's antics (and also waiting for her turn to pet Inuyasha).

"WHAT THE HELL?" Inuyasha yelled, slapping the obsessed Rae away from him. "GET AWAY FROM ME!"

Rae pouted, and started to chase him in attempt to catch his ears again.

Inuyasha's makeshift pack, who was standing rather unnoticed to the side, stared in shock. They had no idea what to make of their new foes (who, to them, had to be insane).

It was then that Nikki noticed the others watching. She squealed in delight and swooped down to them (in her excitement, knocking Miroku over, as she still had no idea how to land properly). "Oh, sorry about that! I'm still working on the whole flying concept."

They just stared at her in disbelief.

"Its harder than it looks you know!" Nikki tried to convince them.

They continued to stare.

So, Nikki (thanks to her short attention span) squealed again realizing that her favorite characters were standing in front of her! "EEEE! Oh my gosh, it's SHIPPOU!" Nikki screamed and picked up the shocked kitsune, hugging him to her chest. "And KAGOME!" She hugged Kagome. "AND SANGO!" She hugged Sango. "AND MIROKU!" She was about to hug Miroku, who was by this point eyeing her anxiously, when she stopped in distrust.

"No, actually you keep your hands where I can see them!" She jabbed him in the chest with an accusing finger.

Sango snickered despite herself.

Nikki turned away from the monk, who was desperately trying to explain his innocence, and focused on the other three. "Wow, this is so cool, I can't believe I get to actually MEET you!"

At this point, Kagome had snapped out of her trance of stupidity and spoke up to the strange demon-girl. "Who are you, and how do you know our names?"

Nikki stopped suddenly. "Ummmmmm….."

Crap, what was she supposed to say? 'We watch you on TV all the time! By the way, how's the relationship thingy going with Inuyasha? Cause if you don't want him…' No, she would think that she was crazy and possibly might kill her.

Then a thought hit her. "Holy crap…" She muttered. "I forgot about Rae!" She turned to the scene she had accidentally ignored, and the others, confused, followed suit, their questions unanswered.

Inuyasha was continuing to run from a gleeful and vastly overly happy Rae when he realized that he was much bigger and happened to have a sword. He turned around angrily and pointed the weapon at the girl. "Stay where you are, Demon!" he shouted, fuming at the perky girl.

"Demon?" Rae asked, hurt. "Do I look like a demon?" She paused. "Well, maybe I do, but that's no reason to yell at me! Besides, I'm much more cuddly on the inside! ...Some of the time."

"SHUT UP!" Inuyasha screamed, interrupting the babbling girl. She stopped in surprise. "Hand over the Jewel Shard, and I might not kill you!"

Rae's eyes narrowed. "You wouldn't." She whispered, half to herself, half to Inuyasha. Inuyasha smirked evilly.

"WINDSCAR!"

"EEP!"

Rae only had just enough time to dodge the attack.

"You tried to kill me!" Rae said in shock. She slowly sank to the ground. "You tried… to kill me!" She started to cry.

Inuyasha's face adopted a stupid look, before falling in surprise. "What the hell are you doing?" He was starting to panic now. He couldn't handle crying!

"I-I-I thought y-you were COOL!" She sobbed.

Inuyasha looked helplessly at the girl. "Stop crying, damn it! I just want the jewel shard!"

"Well," Nikki called from her position next to Kagome, "She doesn't have it!" She held up the shard of the Shikon no Tama so that it gleamed in the light. Inuyasha faced her angrily, sobbing girl forgotten. "You want it?" Nikki smirked. "Come and get it!"

Very deliberately, she pulled the neck of her shirt out and dropped the shard into her bra.

Inuyasha's eyes widened, his jaw dropped, and he blushed a deep red.

…Miroku on the other hand was sporting an evil smile. His hand twitched.

"I'll get it!" the lecherous monk shouted gleefully. Finally, he thought, a credible excuse! Too bad for him, as he reached out to 'dig in,' Sango's boomerang smashed against his skull.

"PERVERT!" she and Nikki yelled at the same time. They smiled knowingly at each other.

Rae continued to sob.

At this point, Kagome started to realize that the two… odd… demons really meant them no harm. And because of Inuyasha's rude remarks (not to mention that he had tried to kill them), they weren't going to get the jewel shard anytime soon. "Inuyasha!"

The hanyou looked over at the raven haired girl. "What the hell do you want, wench! I'm trying to get the jewel shard!"

Kagome fumed at being called a 'wench.' "SIT BOY!"

Inuyasha yelled, as the beaded rosary pulled the startled hanyou into a face-plant.

Rae suddenly stopped crying as she noticed Inuyasha's misfortune. Then she started to laugh uncontrollably. "Oh my God…" Nikki said as she stared at Rae. "I think she's bipolar. Poor Rae."

Kagome walked over to Nikki, ignoring the twitching and cursing Inuyasha. "Thanks for helping us!" Nikki smiled at the girl.

"Hm," Kagome glanced at Inuyasha's form and smiled. "No problem. He's a little sensitive."

"Who the heck are you anyways?" Shippou demanded as he jumped atop his adoptive mother's shoulders. "You never answered our question!"

"Don't be rude, Shippou!" Kagome chided.

"I have a question!" Miroku spoke up, eyeing her blouse, where the shard still resided.

"Monk…" Sango muttered warningly, her eyebrow twitching.

"Heh...heh..." Nikki laughed nervously as she looked at the monk. She sweat dropped. "Maybe I should get Rae over here…" Nikki turned to find Rae still laughing and rolling on the ground.

"On second thought, maybe she can stay where she is."

Suddenly Rae stopped and got up. "Hey, I heard that!" She snapped and ran to join Nikki.

Rae then spotted the other four. "Ooooh!" She said. "People."

"Rae…" Nikki said, trying to warn her not to give any information away.

"I KNOW YOU! I KNOW YOU!" She pointed and jumped up and down. "You're a fox demon!" She pointed to Shippou, who backed away as her claw came within inches of his very delicate nose. "You're a demon slayer!" Sango suffered an almost similar predicament. "You're the perverted monk, Miroku!" She pointed at him happily also. But when she was about to show Kagome a similar fate, she felt someone grab her hand.

Rae turned to see Miroku down on one knee, with a bright smile on his face. "Will you bear my children?"

Rae sputtered for a few seconds, her thoughts lost in her blush. "NO, and moving ON!" Nikki yelled and pushed the disgusting monk away from her best friend. They ignored Sango and Miroku as the slayer issued the lecher his beating.

The hanyou grumbled as he climbed out of the Inuyasha-shaped crater. "Who the hell are you?" He screamed, enraged that Kagome had protected yet another demon.

"Oh… us?" Nikki asked suddenly. "Um hold on for a sec." She pulled Rae abruptly into a "focus circle" like people often did at football games.

"What the hell was that for?" Rae whispered angrily.

"At least you knew to whisper…" Nikki muttered to herself. "Well, ya know, we can't exactly tell them who we are."

"And WHY NOT?" Rae grumbled. "What if I want to?"

"Idiot!" Nikki smacked her friend on the head. Hah, she thought, THAT was for pinching me! "They would never believe us! Besides, what would you think if you were told you were being watched basically twenty-four seven by a couple of 'fans'?"

"Stalker…" Rae said happily, before sobering up. "Oh! I see what you mean."

"I have an idea, why don't you just follow along?" Nikki asked.

"Hey, when did you get smart?" Rae asked. Nikki was about to reply (sarcastically of course), when they were suddenly interrupted by a kitsune popping up from somewhere beneath them.

"HEY!" he yelled happily. They jumped in surprise. Shippou whispered, "What are we talking about?"

He obviously didn't understand the concept of secrecy…or manners… or privacy… or even the fact that he was supposed to remain suspicious of them. Kids are stupid like that.

"Uumm..." Rae started. "Nothin'!" she pushed him gently away (slightly overwhelmed by his cute, pouting eyes.)

"We were just discussing…" Nikki started. "How we have heard of you guys from the country we come from…"

"Yeah..." Rae said slowly. "You're…famous?" She looked at Nikki to see if this was okay.

"Famous!" She agreed enthusiastically. "Almost like… a legend."

"Except, you're still alive." Rae pointed out.

"No, Rae, they're dead." Nikki muttered sarcastically.

The bipolar fan girl stared at Nikki in shock. "No they're not! They're standing right there!" she paused in thought. "Maybe they're zombies!"

"No we're not, you idiots!" Inuyasha yelled at them.

"I swear," Nikki started, "You keeping getting stupider by the minute Rae. To think I was following you're directions earlier today!" Nikki scoffed at the thought.

Rae crossed her arms indignantly. "I was just being happy." She said, but understood what she meant. She'd better stop acting stupid before something serious happened…

Right then, Miroku's hand shot down Nikki's shirt in search of…well, we can say it was for the jewel shard, but you know how that monk can get distracted.

Nikki froze.

"Uh oh…" Rae started. "She's gonna scream."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Needless to say, Miroku became unconscious. With a little help of course.

Nikki was now too traumatized to speak, so Rae, acting smarter than before, continued for her. "Anyways, now that that's dealt with… My name is Rae, and the traumatized girl over there is Nikki. We're demons. I think…" She paused in thought. "We actually aren't too sure about that part yet."

"How can you not be sure?" Shippou asked, curious and slightly confused. "Wouldn't it be obvious?"

"Well, no." she insisted. "I think Nikki is a bird… a blue bird maybe. And I'm obviously canine."

Inuyasha barked a laugh at that. "Yeah right!"

Rae glared at him. "Well, what else would I be?"

"You look like a cat to me…" Shippou said thoughtfully.

Rae's eyebrow twitched and a vein started popping out of her forehead. "I'm…not…a…CAT!" She screamed. "NOT A CAT, YA GOT THAT?"

The kitsune shuddered in fear. "Okay…"

Kagome shook her head and muttered to Sango, "It looks like we're dealing with another Inuyasha here."

Sango nodded in agreement.

"Hey, she ain't nothing like me!" the accused yelled.

"Yeah!" Rae yelled, sounding like Inuyasha, "I'm much prettier!"

"Dream on!" Inuyasha growled.

"Oh yeah? Well, I can prove it!"

"How?" was the challenge.

"Hm, well I actually didn't think far enough into the argument to answer that… How about…well, no…"

Just then Nikki came out of her "comatose state of shock" and thundered over to the monk, who was just waking up, and beat him back into unconsciousness. "Stupid boy…" she muttered. And walked over to where Rae was still standing, thinking. She noticed that the others had sat down and started a fire while the two demons were busy fighting like…cats and dogs. "Hm, better not tell Rae that analogy of mine."

"I got it!" Rae yelled to Inuyasha, who had crossed his arms into the long sleeves of his fire rat robe while waiting. "I'm a girl, right?"

"Well, that's debatable…" Inuyasha muttered.

Rae continued as if she hadn't heard him. "…And girls are supposed to be pretty. So since I'm a girl and you're not (or I hope, because otherwise Kagome will be in for a shock), I AM pretty. And therefore I win."

"What?" Inuyasha growled. "How is that winning?"

"Don't argue with me! I win, so there! ...Hm, you would make a pretty girl though… Maybe a little lipstick and some curls; I think we could make it work."

"Uh oh," Nikki said. She remembered what happened to her brother on Halloween. "Hey Rae, How about we actually explain what's going on?"

"Oh!" Rae said, noticing Nikki for the first time in a while. "Sorry, I got distracted. He's so much peskier in person ya know."

"What's that supposed to mean?" the dog demon growled again. They ignored him.

Kagome sighed. "Dinner's ready."

"Dinner?" Nikki asked in confusion. "Didn't we just wake up?"

"Minor detail." Rae muttered hungrily. The demons sat down (Inuyasha quickly stealing the seat next to Kagome—he didn't trust these demons!) and were served their food.

"What is this stuff?" Rae asked eyeing the Japanese noodles carefully. "Is this Ramen?"

"No, it's rabid hamsters." Nikki muttered sarcastically. "What do you think it is?"

Rae shrugged, abandoning her comeback and dug into the food as everyone else was doing. Quiet filled the campsite as they ate and dusk slowly over came them. The only light was coming from the stars and the campfire.

Inuyasha jumped into a tree to ignore them (and keep an eye on them) once he finished his food, leaving the group to talk.

"So," Kagome asked good-naturedly. "How did you come to be in this part of Japan?"

"That's actually a funny story…" Nikki started.

"No it's not!" Rae mumbled. Her back still hurt from that freaky little bug-snake thing that had burrowed into her skin!

Nikki ignored her friend. "Heh…heh... Well, we kind of just woke up here one day. Today actually."

"We have no idea how we got here." Rae agreed. But, she was bipolar… "Must have been MAGIC!"

"Shut up, Rae."

"Oh, that's terrible!" Kagome said. "So you don't know how to get home?"

"Nope." Rae said. "But Home wasn't interesting anyways."

"Don't you want to get home?" Nikki asked her friend in surprise.

"Why?" was the reply. "Do you?"

"Of course I do!"

"…Why?" Rae asked.

"Gee, I don't know… I guess you're right. I mean, it's not like we almost DIED TODAY!" she yelled at her friend.

"Minor detail." Rae answered again.

"Oh, by the way, here's your jewel back." Nikki remarked, and dug into her shirt to retrieve it. She handed it to Kagome, who looked a little grossed out at the thought of touching it (though Miroku had happily watched as the girl retrieved it). "It's yours anyways, right?"

Kagome nodded. "Thanks." Suddenly an idea hit her. "Why don't you two stay with us for a while, until you can find your way home?"

"I agree," said Miroku. "It is dangerous for two beautiful girls such as you to be traveling alone."

"We're demons." Rae bluntly reminded him, not sure what he was getting at. The slayer caught his meaning though.

"It would be much safer for you two to be with us." Sango clarified. "That's what you meant, right Houshi-sama?"

Miroku sweat dropped. "Heh…right."

"Well, okay." Nikki and Rae agreed. "Thanks for the offer!"

Suddenly an angry hanyou jumped down from his tree. "What do you think you guys are doing?" he yelled. "They're dangerous demons! They can't travel with us, I don't trust them!"

"But Lady Kagome does." Miroku tried to persuade him.

"I don't care what that wench says! They're not coming with us!"

"Inuyasha! Be reasonable!" Kagome tried. "They have no where else to go."

"Good, then they can die out here in the wilderness!"

Kagome stiffened in anger. "Inuyasha…"

Inuyasha winced, knowing what was going to come.

"SIT!"

The sound from the impact echoed through the night.


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