A/N: Sorry for the late update! Life gets hard sometimes. Thanks to all of the Favs. and Follows! You all are great! I keep getting new readers, and I won't disappoint any of you! Now here's Chapter 4!


"I don't think this is a good idea." I told Kagome.

"C'mon! Trust me! All you gotta do is jump!"

"It sounds like you're trying to convince me to commit suicide."

She waved my comment aside. "You should come to my time if you were able to get here in the first place."

"I'm telling you, it won't work."

"Then prove me wrong!" She grabbed my hand and jumped along with me.

Like I had told her, it didn't work. After getting over the ache in my bum from the fall, I climbed out the well and sat by it. She would come back and get me…hopefully. I could do fine without her, but we had the buddy system going. I couldn't leave until she came back, and vice versa. As I waited patiently, I found myself getting sleepy as I watched the clouds roll by. Today was a lazy day. Every day is a lay day to me, but this was special. The weather was perfect for sleeping under the shade of a patio. Assuming that it couldn't hurt to be well rested, I closed my eyes and allowed myself to take a nap. I opened my eyes again when I heard my alarm clock go off. I sat up in my bed. What the hell? I turned off the alarm, and held my head as I waited for the dizziness from sudden movement to leave. Once I could see straight and breathe normally, I went to my phone. It said that it was the 20th. What? That was the day I left! What was going on? It had actually all a dream? I didn't have a cold or anything. It was just another fanfic dream... but it felt so real. I sat in bed for a while before turning on my room's lights and getting dressed for school. I ate a small breakfast, packed my lunch, and left the house.

The school day was pretty normal, nothing to fancy. I got home, and wrote some fanfic. I had so many unfinished stories that I wanted to cry a bit. I knew I was never going to publish them, yet I persisted with them, spending hours attempting to take the failures and to mold them into something worth the amount of effort I put in them. After about three hours of that, it was brawl time. Once I picked up the Wii remote, I didn't put it down until 11 o'clock p.m. Once I started, I couldn't stop until I won. On that note, I ended what I consider a productive day. I took a bath and hit the hay like a ton of bricks.

After a couple hours, I woke up when I felt something touch me. I smacked myself trying to get it off, waking myself up in the process. I sat up, holding my face as I cursed my body's instinct to inflict pain on myself. I moved my hand to see what had caused me to smack myself, only to have my eyes adjust to light. I watched as a butterfly flew away, taunting me and the little sanity I had left. Oh HECK no! I was back in feudal Japan. If smacking myself doesn't work when it comes to waking me up, then I must not be dreaming. I stood up and stretched, popping my back to loosen it. I was getting tired of this quickly. I "woke up," only to find myself in InuYasha. I was starting to not care about this situation I was in. I walked until I found Kaede's village. Once I did, I found Kaede. As I walked toward her,she gaped at me.

"Where have ye been?!" She asked with worry laced in her voice.

"I went home somehow, and woke up here when I fell asleep." I told her.

It confused her too, but I wasn't going to think about it. I don't like getting confused, and so I refuse to ponder about it any longer. Kagome came out of Kaede's hut after hearing my voice.

"What happened to the buddy system?!" She almost yelled.

"It crashed and burned before exploding." I responded with a straight face.

Kagome remained quiet before asking the same question Kaede asked minutes ago, and I told her the exact same answer. She contemplated it for a while, but dismissed it before it sidetracked her from her mission. She took my wrist and led me off toward Kirara's back. I waved goodbye to Kaede before we flew off to a battle field. When we rejoined with the rest of the group, InuYasha was fighting Kaijinbo. Why would Kagome leave during the middle of a battle? I stopped thinking about it after Kaijinbo killed himself and Tokijin stood itself in the ground.

"He couldn't handle the sword, and so it killed him…" Kagome guessed. I sighed, and then coughed. Just as I forgot about that damn cold, it came back and bit me in the butt. As I glared at myself internally, I realized that Totosai was starting at me. I found the moment awkward as I also realized that it looked like I was glaring at him.

I felt my embarrassment rise to my cheeks as I looked away from him. "Is there something I can do for you?" I asked him as politely as possible.

"Oh, no, it's nothing." he replied with a dismissive sigh.

Once again, I found my body instinctively smacking myself, this time, my arm. Something had bit me. I wasn't surprised when to see Myoga the Flea. Do those two sentences rhyme? I'm so awesome.

"In all my years, I never thought I'd taste this type of blood again!" Myoga exclaimed.

"'This type of blood?' What's that supposed to mean?"

"I believe that is something you must learn on your own." Totosai replied.

Before I could pester them about what I was supposed to find out, InuYasha interrupted the conversation.

"Well it's about time you showed up!" InuYasha bellowed.

I thought he was talking to Myoga at first, but when every stared at me, I caught onto their intimation.

"I'm sorry for having no control over where I go." I told him.

"Well, you better learn how to. You had everyone worried."

"Like I said, I'm sorry. If you expect me to get on my knees and beg for forgiveness, you're going to be sadly disappointed."

"I'm just making sure you understand what I'm saying."

InuYasha stopped talking to me and started complaining about Tetsusaiga's weight to Totosai.

"Don't worry about him. He's been equally worried about you." Kagome whispered.

To tell the truth, I didn't care if he did or didn't care, but that tad bit of information helped me find it easier to trust InuYasha. I know he's not as mean as he makes himself seem, and all, but I don't just trust people anymore.

The sun was setting, and Miroku made a fire. We were camping next to the demon sword to make sure no demon got to it before Miroku could seal it. I slept close to the fire, but not as close as Sango and Kagome insisted. I was not going to repeat the same mistake twice. It was much easier to actually sleep when I wasn't sweating like there was no tomorrow. I ended up oversleeping, waking up in the afternoon. Seeing everyone else was up made it feel like summer vacation.

"Ah, you are awake." Miroku said with a smile.

He was sitting in a circle with Kagome, Sango, Shippo and Kirara. InuYasha was still complaining about his sword's weight to Totosai. They must have been talking about InuYasha's demon blood. I could tell because when Miroku spoke of me, they all jumped a little, and seemed jittery. I stood up and stretched once again. When would Sesshomaru come and get the sword? Was it later tonight or later in the day? I sat and watched the horizon he would come over any time now. The thought of the seeing the cold-blooded killer sent a chill of excitement and fear down my back as my inner fangirl started to freak out.

"Are you okay?" Kagome asked me.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I lied. Outside of my excitement to meet the guy I had an obsession with, I felt horrible. I felt like I was fighting the cold, and I was losing.

"If you can answer, how do you know so much about us? I want the real explanation."

I looked at her. "You all deserve that much huh?" All eyes were on me now. "Where I come from, anyone can learn about you guys. All they have to do is want to. I'm one of those people." I told them.

"Are we that famous?" Miroku asked.

"Yes, you are." I said.

"Why didn't you just tell us before?" Sango asked.

"I did. Rumiko Takahashi is the one that showed everybody."

"You said that she was an auditor." InuYasha said, trying to poke holes in what I said.

"She is. She had to examine what she wrote before she put it out." I clarified.

"So basically... you aren't telling us anything new." Kagome summed up.

"Yup."

I returned to my watch over the horizon. I felt so cold. I hope I don't catch a fever; that would suck. Just then, the sky darkened, and Sesshomaru appeared riding Ah-Un. He jumped off of Ah-Un, and landed ever so gracefully on the ground, almost sending me into a fangirl heart attack.

"Sesshomaru! What are you doing here?!" InuYasha bellowed.

Sesshomaru glanced at him, but then stared at me. Why was everyone staring at me today?

"I see you have a new member." he said nonchalantly.

"She's none of your business." He growled back.

Sesshomaru no longer paid attention to any of us. Instead, he turned his gaze to the sword.

"Do you know-" Kagome whispered.

"Sesshomaru, name translation: Killing Perfection, current lord of the Western Lands, full Inu Daiyōkai, eldest son of InuTaisho, and InuYasha's older half-brother." I summed up before she could finish her question.

I must have said the basic fangirl knowledge about him too loud. He glared at me. I didn't move, frozen in my spot by fear and embarrassment. InuYasha caught his attention after a few insults, which I would have to thank him later. Sesshomaru went over to Tokijin and pulled the sword out of the ground. Kind of like how King Author pulled the sword out of the stone. Anyway, he and InuYasha proceeded to duel.

"I never want to get on his bad side." I said.

"Nobody does. Sesshomaru isn't the most loving character I know." Kagome said as she watched the fight.

InuYasha was having trouble because of his sword was still too heavy to fight with. Then as if Sesshomaru knew the story board, he disarmed InuYasha. InuYasha was going to retrieve his sword, but his demon blood began to take over, bidding him to forget about the sword. Before Sesshomaru could get a good look at InuYasha, Totosai blew fire. Kagome "SIT!"ed InuYasha, they carried him, and ran away. It's funny how to the point they did things. Rumiko Takahashi deserves a standing novation for this.

Wait a second… they left me. I looked at Sesshomaru, who was now staring at me. I moved my mouth to speak, but no sound came out. I kept looking back and forth between the disappearing party and the stoic demon lord. When I realized that he started to walk toward my, my brain and mouth started to work.

"Yeah…. so I'm just going to go now…" I told him as I pointed in the direction the group had fled.

"Halt."

I stopped dead in my tracks.

"What are you?" he asked me.

That was a stupid question, but of course I would not say that. "I am a human." I said.

He narrowed his eyes. Why would he narrow his eyes? OH crap! I didn't address him by his title! Shit, shit, shit…

"How do you know me?"

"Where I come from, you are well known as the Lord of the Western Lands." I told him, sure to include the title.

He stared at me, and then turned and walked off. Did he want me to follow him, or was he done with me? Please, let it be the second choice.

"Follow." He instructed.

My bad luck just had to make every aspect of my life harder, huh? I followed him, not wanting to die yet. We walked until we came upon a clearing in the forest. The annoyingly high pitch of a demon I hated insured me of our location.

"Milord, welcome back!" Jaken said.

I can't stand Jaken's voice. I remembered the nights I had stayed up watching InuYasha. I had to turn off or down the volume whenever Jaken spoke because his voice would piss me off. Now I do not have that choice.

Sesshomaru ignored Jaken, but when Jaken saw me, his voice became ten times more irritating, thus breaking the irritation scale. It is now 0 to Jakenx10

"We are no charity case! Leave now!" he screeched at me.

His screech made me want to push him down the deepest cliff I could find, and then listen to his screech as it got further, and further away.

"Oh be quiet Jaken. The Staff of Two Heads won't work if your hands are cold and lifeless. The staff doesn't make you invincible." I scolded.

Jaken was stunned by the fact that I knew much more information on him and the Staff of Two Heads. His jaw dropped as his grip on the staff got tighter. Sesshomaru even turned slightly to look at me. I was taking a chance, and I could only hope that this chance wouldn't end up killing me. While it was dangerous to peek his curiosity, it was even more dangerous to be considered useless to him. hadn't intended on saying so much about Jaken, but he was just too annoying. When I heard a ruff, heavy breath, I turned my head and looked at Ah-Un. He was acting very defensive, but why would he? I'm not that ominous, am I? That was when I spotted Rin hiding behind him. I went over to her, ignoring the stares I received from Jaken and Sesshomaru. I petted Ah-Un to show that I did not mean harm.

"Hello." I said to Rin as I squatted down to be at eye level with her.

She held on tighter to Ah-Un.

"Don't worry, I don't want to hurt you, and I never will." I told her with a small smile. "What's your name?" I asked her.

"…Rin." She told me.

"Well I go by Kazumi."

"Kazumi?"

"Yes." I told her. "And what about your age?" I asked politely.

"Rin is eight." She told me.

"Wow, I remember when I was eight. That was so long ago." I told her.

"How old is Kazumi?" she asked me.

"I'm going to turn fifteen in a few months." I told her.

She gaped at this information as she slowly came out of her hiding spot.

"You are almost of age!"

That caught me off guard. I was near the marriage age? The life expectancy is shorter during this time… so people would be married at younger ages. This was not good. That just makes me even more of a target. Kagome turned fifteen when she came, but I'm turning fifteen here. Not good, not good at all. I not saying I'm all that attractive, but people can be crazy. Rin laughed at my panic-twisted face. At least my misfortune wasn't fruitless. She was opening up to me quickly. That's one good thing that came from this encounter. Considering the feeling that told me that my sty here wasn't going to be short, having someone to talk to would be nice.

Soon, night was upon us. Did InuYasha's group even notice that I was gone? They didn't even mention their plans to me! Sure, I should have remembered, but I'm not perfect! I'm human, and our nature is to make mistakes, some being evitable while others aren't. I sat against a tree and sneezed after getting a headache. I would be fine. I always get sick, and don't take medication. It was probably the new pathogens in the air; that has to be the reason. I just need to sleep. Sleep is one of life's best medications.