I woke up coughing. When I managed to stop my insane hacking, those around me were beginning to wake up.

"I'm sorry." I told them with a hoarse voice.

"Did you catch a cold?" Kagome asked as she placed her hand on my forehead.

"Seems like it." I told her once she backed away.

"Would you like some medicine?" she asked me.

"No, thanks, I'm used to getting sick and not having medicine."

"Are you sure?"

"Positive." I got up to prove my point. I had decided, in my sleep, what I would do. After explaining to the group what I had come up with, they surprisingly agreed. I had decided that I was here for a reason, and so wanted to go on their quest with them. Before we knew it, we were already walking away from the village. I coughed a couple of times, but I would be fine.

"Are you sure you want to leave now? We could postpone." Sango told me.

I shook my head "I'm not going to hold you guys up. I'll be fine."

I slowly receded to the back as the others continued their conversation. They really did act like a family. I missed my family, even that bastard of a brother I had. What were they doing about my sudden disappearance? Did they call the police? That would be pointless. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't check feudal Japan even if they could. Goodness, I'm as good as gone. How would I explain my disappearance if I ever got back? I couldn't exactly go back and say I got sucked into an anime. They'd send me to a therapist… I never want to go to a therapist again.

"Where are you from?"

Sango asked me this suddenly, so I was surprised. After my brain understood what she said, I was able to answer.

"I'm from somewhere only Kagome knows of."

"Oh, only I do?" Kagome asked. "Where?"

"Sweet ol' Georgia in the U.S. of A."

"You're from the United States? That's amazing! When did you learn Japanese?"

"I only know English" I said in English.

They all looked at me confused.

"I guess I don't only know English." I said.

"Is that what the language sounds like?" Miroku guessed.

"Yeah." I was speaking Japanese now. I guess my language changes naturally. That's very convenient.

"Could you help me with my English homework?"

"Sure, I guess." I said nonchalantly.

"If you are from the world Kagome is from, can you not go through the well?" Miroku asked.

"No, that is limited to Kagome, and I'm from a different time period." I told him.

"What time?" Kagome asked.

"2013."

"Has it been that long?"

"No, I come from a different world completely."

"How do you know about the world and time Kagome comes from, as well as the well if you did not come from it?" Sango asked.

Oops, that slipped. InuYasha stopped suddenly, causing everyone to stare at him. I couldn't be more relived.

"There's blood, and lots of it." He explained.

Everyone understood what that meant. They began to hurry toward where InuYasha smelled the blood. Shouldn't they have gone in the opposite direction? Well, I guess that makes them the heroes. Then again, they wouldn't get anything done that way. I followed them, and we came upon a village, or what used to be a village. All of the villagers had been slaughtered. I instantly remembered the scene in the anime this was from. This was the village Rin was from. It was a lot more graphic and gory than the anime had shown. The place also reeked from the decaying bodies, making me want to throw up. I kept my eyes lowered in an attempt to avoid seeing the carcasses. How could anyone get used to this? We soon found ourselves being attacked by the wolves, but I didn't worry about it. InuYasha and the group finished off enough to make them call for Koga. A whirlwind came into view in the horizon, but no one was paying attention to it until Kagome said something about the jewel shards coming from that direction.

Koga came out of the whirlwind, skidding to a stop in front of us. The winds from it were a lot stronger than the anime had made them seem. I guess I should have expected things like this to not have been played on as much. Almost instantly, InuYasha and Koga started to bark at each other. I found it humorous and comforting how they repeated the exact lines from the anime. I suppressed my laughter, but not the smile that was forming at the corners of my lips. Their conversation stopped at my coughing.

"You can't even take care of the members of your pack, stupid mutt." Koga said.

"They tried to get her to stay behind, but she wouldn't listen." InuYasha said.

"Can you not talk about me?" I asked.

"If it was me, I would have forced her to stay." Koga continued.

"It's not you Wolf Scum. You don't have any authority over her." InuYasha came back.

"Hey, did you hear me?" I asked a little aggravated.

I could hear Kagome, Miroku, and Sango laughing at the two demon's obliviousness toward me.

"Teh , that's what you think. She obviously sees more dominance in me."

"And what makes you believe that? She just met you!"

"HEY! KEEP ME OUT OF IT!" I yelled, getting their attention, but also hurting my throat in the process.

"See, she just hurt herself even more."

"Do you expect me to control everything she does?"

I gave up. They're both idiots. When they finally decided to shut up and fight, Kagome tried to tell InuYasha about his jewel shards, but he didn't listen. Where had I seen that before? He learned his lesson pretty quickly. Finally, InuYasha prepared to use Wind Scar, but Koga ran away. InuYasha complained to us about how cowardly his actions were, but I turned away and ignored him. I am a very spiteful creature, especially when it comes down to people ignoring me.

I had to swallow my spite, and help Kagome find firewood along with Shippo. We were going to stay at the outskirts of the desecrated village. It didn't give me a sense of security, but at least I didn't have to sleep outside. It took some time, but I finished after giving Sango the wood I had collected. She and Shippo explained more about Koga to Kagome, but since I already knew, I didn't pay specific attention to it. I did listen though. It served as a nice memory jogger. I sat next to a wall as my memory attempted to pull up the events that were about to happen, but Kagome and Sango interrupted me and forced me to sleep closer to the fire. I was sweating the entire night. If they wanted to get me to sweat out the cold, it would have worked if the common cold wasn't a viral infection.

The next day, we were treading the mountains of the wolves and Birds of Paradise. I waited for the assault to occur. If I could stop it, then a lot of things and people could be avoided.

I felt horrible. Sleeping next to the fire did not help at all, if anything, it made things worse. I was probably sick because my body isn't used to the stuff in the air, and not that stuff in the air was stuck on my skin. I can't wait until I take a bath, and get better. I'll be all helpful and stuff for once in my life.

When I tuned back to what was happening, Miroku and Sango were off of Kirara and talking to InuYasha.

"What am I, your faithful Terrier?! Damn you guys get on my nerves, every single last one of you!" InuYasha told us. I rolled my eyes, but Kirara's growl got me running toward InuYasha at full speed. I pushed him out of the way of the wolves. I didn't think I'd be able to go as fast as did, and was glad to have InuYasha yelling at me. That would help us not-WHY IS THERE ANOTHER GROUP OF THEM?!

In the anime, only two groups of wolves were there, one for InuYasha, and one for Sango and Miroku. Now there was a third one. Those wolves got InuYasha and pushed him down the cliff, making me want to curse out of pure hatred. Kagome was rushing to the edge of the cliff to see if InuYasha was okay. I managed to get there, and tried to pull her away, but unfortunately for me, Koga had already jumped in the air.

Kagome's grasp on my hand tightened at the sight of him. I glared at him, showing that I wasn't going to move and let him take her so easily. If he wanted her, he'd have to take me as well. He scowled, but smirked no more than a second later. As though I was a sack of potatoes, he lifted me up and placed me on his shoulder, and threw Kagome under his other arm.

"The more, the merrier." he said in a satisfied tone.

He took off running toward the cliff. When I saw watched this on the computer screen, it looked fun. Now that I was here physically, this didn't look fun at all.

"Whoa, whoa, WHoa, WHOa, WHOA!" I screamed.

After that, Shippo, Kagome and I all screamed as we started to fall.

"WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Kagome yelled.

"Would you STOP screaming in my ears?!" Koga asked irritated by our high pitched screeches.

I screamed louder, and longer as my pitch got higher. Before I knew it, My scream was silent. That's what happens when you max out the lungs of a singer. Kagome commented on how she could do whatever she wanted as I stopped to breathe, but fear must kicked back in and we continued the screamingfest festivities.

Once we were back on the sweet, supporting, ground, which I will never take advantage of it again, I began to recite a prayer.

"Our Father, who aren't in heaven, hallowed be thy name"

"What are you talking about?" Koga asked as he tried to dull the ringing in his ears.

"Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. On earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory. Amen."

When I finished my prayer, we were at the Demon Wolf Tribe base. Starring into the eyes of man-eating wolves is not the most ensuring thing that can be done. Koga jumped through the waterfall. Kagome, Shippo, and Koga went through without getting very wet, but I got drenched. I was thankful for it because it wiped away last night's sweat, but hated it because I had a cold. I needed a pillow. I wanna draw a stupid face on it and just punch it! This is and is not what I signed up for! Koga tossed me and Kagome in a part of the room, and the wolves within it automatically started calling dibs on our body part. How could they eat someone that looks exactly like them? THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED CANNIBALISM!

"Do whatever you want to those two," he pointed at Shippo and me "but don't touch my woman." He said referring to Kagome.

Before Kagome could make her threat, I stood up for myself.

"HEY! I'm not someone that you can divide and eat!" I yelled at Koga.

"And why not?" One smart aleck asked.

"First of all, I'm sick you dumbass. Secondly, BECAUSE I SAY SO!"

"The first reason makes enough sense." Koga told them. "Don't eat any of them."

"I'M NOT YOUR WOMAN!" Kagome yelled at him

I sneezed as the cold air started to cling onto the moisture in my clothing.

"Oi, someone get her some new clothes." Koga commanded.

One got me a Kimono. They must have gotten it from a village they raided after "eating". I unwillingly put it on behind Kagome. Those beasts stared at me as though I was going to change in front of them. I'd prefer them to drool over me as food than to their... I don't want to think about it. Once I was settled, things were not looking good for me. My throat was killing me now. I was tired, but refused to sleep. Who knows what those wolves would do? Kagome saw me fighting to stay awake, and told me to sleep, and so trusted her.