Okay, so here's the second chapter! I'm sorry I haven't updated in such a long time! I've been completely overwhelmed by marching band and AP Biology, so I haven't had really any free time. Oh, by the way, I changed some stuff, which has already been changed in the first chapter. Kagome is now fifteen, Sora and the others are fifteen, and Riku is sixteen. This is taking place during Kingdom Hearts 2, because I accidentally wrote out this chapter before realizing it. -___-;; I will update my other story…sometime. Enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or Inuyasha, if I did…things would be very different. I don't own any other stuff I use either.

Chapter One: Ancient China Does Not Equal Feudal Japan

Kagome drifted in a half-waking state. She could feel the cold snow on her cheek and her entire right side, which was numb by now. If she had to be truthful, regaining conscious felt like rock climbing. Her eyesight blurred and cleared several times before finally focusing. Kagome winced as she lifted her aching body off of the snow and hissed as blood returned to her right arm, which had fallen asleep. When her body finally decided to obey her, more or less, she looked around. The bleak landscape contained no hint of human life and a chilly wind caused her to shiver uncontrollably in her thin dress.

What is this place? Why in the world am I on a deserted mountaintop? She kicked the snow in frustration. There was no sign of civilization, no technology, the only thing she had was her bag, and the only way off the mountaintop seemed to be a narrow goat trail. Well, might as well. If I stay here, I'll just become a popsicle. At least there's a chance someone one will be down there, hopefully with fire and food. Kagome sighed in weariness, took out a blanket that she had in her bag, wrapped it around herself, and started trekking down the slippery footpath. The path was full of sharp rocks and the slushy snow made it a hazardous crossing. By the time she had reached the halfway point, Kagome felt like just dropping everything and freezing to death. After all, she wasn't precisely used to climbing up and down mountains. Usually Inuyasha or Kirara would carry her if they had to go through particularly rough territory and she sorely missed it now. After about another half-hour of trekking through the slush and mud, Kagome finally made it to the bottom.

What greeted her was something that she had become increasingly familiar with in the Sengoku Jidai, but had never managed to harden her heart to. The ruins looked old but that didn't detract from the shock. She stared in horror at the black skeletons of homes and stores, the frames crumbling in the wind. Chunks of plaster lay on the ground and a tattered flag fluttered weakly in the cold breeze. Kagome slowly walked forward, every step crunching in the snow, and made her way through the devastated town. Kagome was just glad that there were no dead bodies, like there had been in all of those demon-ravaged villages the group had come across in their travels. Somehow she didn't think she could dig graves in the frozen ground by herself. Who could have done something like this? There's no demonic presence so humans must have done this. Chikuso! Why are humans so destructive in nature? Sometimes I wonder if we're really any better than the demons…Kagome quickly swiped her eyes as she felt tears of sadness and frustration welling up.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?" A voice suddenly demanded from behind her. Kagome stiffened and turned around warily to see a Chinese man dressed in armor with a red cape. She mentally chided herself for being so unaware as his companions ran up. His companions looked even weirder than he did, at least in her eyes. One was a duck looking creature that walked on two legs and carried what looked like one of the toy magician rods in the toyshops while the other one looked like a giant dog on two legs carrying a shield. The only one that actually looked normal was the boy dressed in black. His spiky brown hair was slightly abnormal considering it looked like it defied gravity but he at least looked modern and human.

"Well? Answer the question! What are you doing here and who are you?" The Chinese guy raised his voice more when his first question was ignored. Kagome felt her hackles rise in annoyance at his arrogant tone.

"My name is Kagome and I'm completely lost. Somehow I was on the mountaintop," She pointed towards the top of the mountain, "and I came down that road. When I came here, the village was like this. I don't know who did this but it wasn't me."

While Kagome was talking, more soldiers straggled up to where the quintet was talking. She looked at them warily out of the corner of her eyes. Crap, there's no way I can beat all of these people at my current level. I'd better talk my way out of this one.

"What were you doing on the mountaintop? That's awfully suspicious!" Kagome blinked in surprise as the duck spoke in a, dare she say it, quacking voice. She had seen weird things, sure, but very few of them surpassed this. But back to the conundrum at hand.

"I don't know! I don't even know where this is! One minute I'm eating breakfast peacefully, then that idiot Inuyasha drags me back to the well, and as soon as I jump in I land in this place! Oh, and did I mention that I think that I'm hearing voices too? This is so Inuyasha's fault! If he knew how to count….!" All of Kagome's pent up frustration and anger spilled and to her embarrassment, she started crying, which scared the men much more than if she had started waving her sword around.

"Uh, hey, calm down. We can tell that you didn't do anything. Donald is just a bit, er, dense about these things." The dog tried to sound soothing as the brown-haired guy glared at Donald. Meanwhile the soldiers and the captain guy looked completely helpless and flabbergasted.

"Yeah, like Goofy said, Donald didn't mean anything. He just isn't that good with words." At this, the duck gave an indignant quack, which was ignored. "Now, then, my name's Sora and this is Donald, Goofy, and Captain Shang." Sora smiled at her and Kagome's sobs gradually faded away to faint sniffles. She smiled at them sheepishly through her tears.

"Heh, sorry about that. I normally don't cry this easily but I guess I was just so tired from the climb and all that's happened that I was just a little unstable. But would you mind telling where we are?"

"We're in China."

"….WHAT?!" Kagome wanted very much to just hit her head on something at the moment, but settled on slapping her hand over her eyes. The others were looking at her weirdly but she ignored that. Sora's eyes suddenly widened in a sudden realization.

"Hey Kagome, this might sound like a weird question but would you happen to be from a different world?" Donald and Goofy looked at him like he was more than a little crazy, but Kagome's eyes brightened with interest.

"Hmm…I might be. China does exist in my world but I'm pretty certain that this isn't the same place. Not to mention it's definitely a different time…So, I suppose so. Putting that aside, do you know how I can get back?" Sora looked away at this question and seemed hesitant about answering.

"What's wrong? Sora?" Sora sighed. "Well, the truth is, usually when someone leaves their world it means that the world has been devoured by the heartless."

"Heart…less?"

"Yeah, they're born from the darkness in people's hearts and they try to find their way to the heart of the world. Once the heart is devoured, the world disappears." Kagome's eyes widened in dismay.

"No…but that's impossible! I never saw a single heartless and I know that my world wasn't destroyed. I was taken here by a well!" Sora frowned at this answer. Something was odd about what Kagome had told him. Usually before the world is devoured, the heartless are everywhere on that world. Not to mention the well…

"Hmm, I don't know. I think we should ask a friend of mine. He knows almost everything!" Sora grinned at Kagome, trying to reassure her. Somehow she almost reminded him of Kairi, which brought up a protective feeling. It succeeded since she smiled back at him, albeit tremulously.

"So, what are all of you doing here?" Kagome couldn't contain her curiosity. The atmosphere suddenly became serious and rather tense. Captain Shang was the first to speak.

"We are here to guard China from the forces of the Huns, led by Shan Yu. The destruction of this village is his work."

Huns…didn't I learn something about this in school? I think there was something about an insane emperor and the Great Wall? I don't remember anything about Shan Yu though. Maybe that's one of the differences in this world. I get a really bad feeling about this guy; he sounds really similar to Naraku. Kagome hit her head with her hand. Naraku! That's right! I have to go back and defeat that guy! How am I supposed to do that when I'm in a different world??? Argh!!!

While Kagome was in her own little world, Captain Shang had ordered his men to set up camp near the ruined village and to post guards. Kagome woke up from her reverie when Sora waved his hand in front of her face.

"Eh? What happened? Where did that arrogant pri- I mean Captain Shang go?" Kagome looked around in confusion. Sora snickered at the befuddled expression on her face.

"He went off check the surrounding area. Oh, and do you have any questions?"

"Um, yeah, quite a few actually. For one, what exactly do Heartless look like? Why do you have on modern clothes? Why are you here and how do you know so much about the different worlds? And why is there a girl dressed like a soldier talking with a lizard-thing?" Sora sweatdropped at the rush of questions and tried to answer them in order.

"Uh…let's see. The Heartless come in a lot of different forms, so I'll you those later. Jiminy Cricket has a complete record of all of the Heartless we've fought so far in his journal. I have on modern clothes because I'm only a visitor here, so these are the clothes I normally wear. Um, I'm here because there's this thing that I have to do and I know a lot about the worlds because I've traveled around a lot. You see, I'm sort of the wielder of this thing called the Keyblade and it's my responsibility to make sure that the worlds aren't taken over by the Heartless. And as for the girl dressed-" Sora suddenly stopped and clamped a hand over his mouth, his eyes wide in horror. He looked around for backup but found that he had been abandoned. Sora tried to salvage the situation.

"What girl? There's no girl here! That's just Ping, a regular soldier and he's just talking to his, um, pet! Right! That's his pet lizard, who definitely can't speak!" Sora fumbled with his words and chuckled nervously. Kagome just sweatdropped and had a deadpanned expression on her face. Never mind that the "lizard" was currently hopping up and down in rage and yelling, "I'm not a lizard! I'm the amazing Mushu, guardian DRAGON of the Fa family! Don't you be calling me a lizard!"

"Er, right…whatever you say Sora." Kagome decided to take pity on the panicking Keyblade wielder and play dumb.

"Right, anyway, since the Heartless will probably attack sometime soon, you should probably get away from here. They're dangerous for anyone that doesn't know how to fight and you'll probably be safer in the city." Sora continued on without noticing that Kagome was starting to glare at him with every word he said.

"Oi, I'm not helpless! I can fight and I have been in situations like this before. I don't need to be coddled while others are in danger. I may not be an amazing fighter but I can heal too!" Kagome put her hands on her hips and glared at Sora after she finished her tirade. Sora put up his hands in a placating gesture and grinned apologetically.

"Okay, okay. Sorry about that, I just don't want you to get hurt." Sora when he realized how that sounded. "I mean, that is…this isn't really your battle so you shouldn't get pulled into it." Kagome couldn't help but giggle at Sora's embarrassed expression, which made Sora blush even harder. Kagome laughed even harder.

"Hai, hai, no harm done. Sorry to snap at you like that." Kagome apologized laughingly as she wiped tears from her eyes. "Anyway, even if it isn't my battle, I still couldn't just sit by and do nothing. It's just not in my nature. Besides, I do have battle experience so I won't hold you guys back." Sora sighed in defeat.

"I guess you won't change your mind?" Kagome shook her head. "Then there's not really much to do except let you come along." Kagome smiled and silently cheered in her head. It was none too soon because the three soldiers that had been on guard came running down from the mountainside, screaming and yelling.

Yay, chapter two finally done! Hopefully it wasn't too bad. I don't really know when will be the next time I can update since it's back to AP Biology as soon as winter break is over. Anyhow, please review! Constructive criticism always welcome!