Inuyasha: Worlds Collide -- Chapter 1
You Can Go Home Again
by Mac (ME!! YAY!!!)

Author's Note: Okay I have a few things you all need to know before you read the story. There are a few denotations you need to know. The descriptions will be short sweet and to the point so you can get to the story. Also one other thing...I do not own Inuyasha or any of it characters. The show and everything in it belongs to it's creator whose name escapes (gomen nasai!!) me right now. The only things I own are the two characters not a part of the show...Ami and Omikako. (You'll see don't worry.) So please don't take without permission from me. Thank you!!! And please tell me what you think of my fanfic.

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Miroku and the others walked into a village. For some reason this village seemed familiar to Miroku. Suddenly memories of his home flooded his mind. "It's not possible. Could this be?" he whispered to himself, but thanks to Inuyasha's extra-sensitive ears it did not go unheard.

"You know this place Miroku?" Inuyasha questioned as he eyed the monk suspiciously. He had never seen the monk...lecher, he reminded himself, act this way.

"Yes. This is my home, if you will excuse me I need to..." he thought for a moment,"...to run an errand. I will be right back." He said choosing his words carefully as he always did. He then turned and ran, leaving the small party bewildered his actions. "He had to find out if she was still here waiting for him," he thought as he raced through the little village.

Village Entrance

"Inuyasha, what do you think that was all about?" Kagome asked as she and her friends and Inuyasha entered the village.

"How am I supposed to know?" Inuyasha growled.

"If you ask me, I've never seen him run so fast before." Shippo commented from his usual place in the basket on Kagome's bike.

"Yes, you are correct. I wonder what kind of errand he had to run." Sango replied.

"I don't know, let's just..." Inuyasha's ears twitched and turned to the direction from which they had just come as he got a whiff of something or more like someone he wished he hadn't.

"Inuyasha? What's wrong?" Kagome asked concerned as Inuyasha turned his attention to the forest behind them.

"I've picked up Sesshomaru's scent. It's real faint but it's there." Just as he got the words out of his mouth an auburn haired girl and a grey wolf-youkai almost as long and tall as the girl was tall came out of the forest.

"That's weird." Inuyasha commented as the pair walked past them.

"What?" Sango inquired.

"Sesshomaru's scent is coming from them. They must have been around him lately." Inuyasha growled as he continued to watch the pair.

"Uh, guys? Should we let that wolf-youkai into the village?" Kagome asked worriedly.

"Kagome's right, we need to make sure that that wolf-youkai doesn't cause any trouble." Sango agreed.

"I don't think the youkai will cause any trouble." Inuyasha commented.

"Why?" Kagome said looking very bewildered at Inuyasha.

"The youkai is traveling with a powerful human." he answered.

Kagome, Sango, and Shippo did the classic anime fall thingy. He didn't consider just anyone powerful. "How do you know the human's powerful and who is it?" Shippo asked, his usual child's curiosity getting the better of him.

"I'm picking up the scent of a mage mingling with that girl's scent."

"Mage?" Sango said, hardly believing what she had heard.

"Uhhh, what are Mages?" Kagome asked.

"Mages were once a race that was more powerful then any Youkai, but had the emotions of humans. Humans and Youkai could be involved or married to a married to a Mage and it was said that, that Human or Youkai was in the highest position possible. The Mages were the ones who kept the Youkai and the Humans friends. The Mages cared for both races dearly. A plague, the Black Death, came through here a long time ago, though, and began wiping the Youkai, while it had no effect on the Mages or the Humans. The Mages tried to save the Youkai, but the only way to do that was to change disease. When they changed the disease it came back against them and wiped them out instead. The Mages had already known that, that would be their fate if they were to save the Youkai. After the death of Mage race war broke out between the Humans and the Youkai." Sango explained to an awed Kagome.

"There's no such thing as Mages!" Shippo objected.

"Yeah there is!! They've just been dead a long time!!!" Inuyasha said as he pounded Shippo's head into the ground. Kagome and Sango just rolled their eyes as they watched the familiar scene take place.

A little ways away

"That Half-Breed and his friends are talking about us." the rather large wolf-youkai whispered to the auburn haired girl.

"Talk is cheap. Just ignore them, Omikako (pronounced O-mee-kay-ko)." the girl said calmly. "They're making sure that you won't hurt anyone."

"Feh! (hmmm wonder why that sounds familiar?) That Half-Breed knows what you are." Omikako retorted.

"Any Youkai with an extra-sensitive nose would know what I am." she pointed out. "I'm guessing he's a dog-youkai. He maybe one of you distant relatives." the girl teased lightly.

"Feh" was the only reply she got. She gently smiled at the male wolf-youkai.

"Sit boy!!!!" (we all know what that means, at least I hope we do!!!)

Omikako and the girl turned to see who had said it. The girl tried her best to stifle her laughs as Omikako smirked at the scene before them.

"What was that for!?" Inuyasha yelled at Kagome from his place in the new crater in the ground. Shippo jumped onto Kagome's shoulder. From there he stuck out his tongue at Inuyasha. Inuyasha jumped up and made a grab for Shippo. Shippo moved suddenly and Inuyasha found himself holding a very stunned and stunning Kagome.

"Hmmmm," Omikako mused, "looks like he's got that human girl in his clutches."

"Yes and it seems to be true the other way around." the girl said as she smiled. The girl looked away and saw Miroku walking over to the group with his head hung somberly down. (!!!! What happened to him!!!! laughs evilly I'm what happened to him!!! j/k) The girl's eye went wide at the sight of Miroku.