YEAH!! Encouragement rocks! Thank you very much for the encouragement to go on and now here is another chapter. Again, I don't own inuyasha just my character and the parts of the story that revolve around her. Enjoy!

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No. It couldn't have been. But my fingers, my sense, and half of my brain told me "yes Sakura, this IS grass." I sat there looking around but the sudden rush of light to my eyes made it hard to see. I closed my eyes, waiting for them to adjust a bit, then opened them again. Trees. Grass, trees, where was the wooden house and the darkness that was enclosed in it. Had I been knocked out and unconscious for a while? Everything wasn't making sense and the more my body used my senses, the smell of flowers, the feel of a cool breeze, the sight of unbelievable greenery, the sound birds chirping, the more it sunk in that this wasn't the place I had been before. I was almost tempted to lick the grass to make sure I wasn't in like some secret underground Willy Wanka factory.

"Alright Sakura now let's just calm down and think."

Talking and thinking was just not working for me at this moment. I stood up and tried to gather as much obvious info as I could so that somewhere in my mind something would click and say "HEY!! Duh wasn't that obvious?" Sadly, there was still no clicking.

"Maybe if I just wait here by this well for someone to come my way they can tell me where I am. Yeah that's what I'll do."

I turned around to sit on the well when the most unusual thing had landed in front of me. Now I'm sure it's not everyday scenes like this happen but it must've been my lucky day. For a giant severed claw, blood and everything, landed right in front of me. Yup. And on top of that, crashing through the forest came a giant lizard of some sort, roaring it's head off for the loss of it's arm. Now you tell me what's a girl to do when a giant one armed lizard comes rampaging through the forest, stops and stares at you then is attacked by some red blur carrying a giant sword, a girl riding a giant cat, and a monk of some sort running after it throwing who knows what at it. Me? I did absolutely nothing but stare into empty space where they had passed by, mouth wide open, eyes as big as saucers. I bet you the line in my mind went flat.

"Sakura?!"

I turned to see what other surprise my life had in store for me. There, trying to catch her breath, covered in dirt and what I imagine was blood, was Kagome. A bow in one hand an arrow in the other. We looked at each other as though we were just meeting for the first time when suddenly crashing through the trees came the monster again, though thankfully it wasn't alive. It lay there, blooding oozing and steam coming for the limbs of where it's arms used to be. In a way, I would say this was rather odd don't ya think? But no, I had one last surprise encounter. With one blink I opened my eyes to be staring face to face with a boy, bout my age, taller than me, white hair and, lord behold, dog ears. He was putting his sword away when I turned around was about to dive head first back into the well.

"Whoa slow down there. You don't just go head first into a well"

Kagome had grasped the back of my shirt and wasn't planning to let go anytime soon. With her tone of voice I felt like maybe, just maybe, she wanted to kidnap me and hold for ransom now that I found her version of Dungeons and Dragons. Yes, secretly my sister was a nerd and now that I found her magical world I was to be executed so I wouldn't reveal their secret lair.

"Ok… whatever this place is I didn't see it ok. I've had enough excitement for one day and I need to get home to get this blood stain, which by the way I'm hoping is just strawberry jam or something, off my shirt. I promise I won't tell mom."

I could feel eyes from everyone staring at me as I tried to make a failed attempt to reach for the well.

"Don't worry she's like this all the time. Listen Sakura it's ok. Mom knows about this place too."

She had let me go and I fell to the grass. Still, I had the urge, the need to hold onto the well. You know, just in case.

I turned around to face these new and strange people and found them to look like any other normal human, though the one with the dog ears was still creeping me out it was nothing new to me. I half expected him to be wearing chains and some tight leather pants. Dunno why he just seemed to have that aura about him…. Yes…. Leather pants.

"Ok" I stuttered, "I'll try to remain calm and ask simple, easy questions that hopefully won't lead you into speaking about the world in riddles. Because right now my brain can't handle that…. But first, can we go somewhere else? This giant… bleeding… thing is starting to smell."

They nodded and helped me up from my safety spot on the ground. Walking through the trees and forest we came upon a small quiet village, Full of farmlands and a small uphill shrine. Walking past some of the small gardens and fields I felt a little calmer about being here, though I still was hoping that this was some sort of weird Japanese version Amish town.

I was brought into a small hut that stood before the arch of the shrine and was welcome by a nice bowl of hot soup. Home made. Yum. After eating for a bit and calming my nerves down I began to feel sort curious about my new surroundings.

"Ok. First off, where am I?"

"Well," Kagome set her bowl down and looked at it very seriously, like it had done something wrong. "How to explain this… um… well… You see."

"Oh damnit just cut to the chase!" The dog eared one snapped at her. Not a good idea.

"Don't talk to me like that Inuyasha! You try explaining that your in the past so it doesn't confuse someone!"

"Well I will then! Your in a time that was a long time ago and…. Yeah. See! I did it! Simple"

He took a sip of his soup, looking very pleased with himself. But Kagome wasn't finished with him yet. She closed her eyes and calmly said the word sit. Right then and there he fell to the floor hard and was moaning in pain. My eyes widened once more.

"Ok this is really starting to freak me out."

"Well if you think that's creepy," Kagome opened her eyes to me. "You should see the rest of this place. This time era is the Feudal Era. The time of war and power and demons."

"So wait. This is Japan way back when?"

Kagome nodded her head. I looked into my soup bowl, not really knowing why I stared at it, wanting answers from the almighty soup. Kagome could sense my confusion.

"Look I don't fully understand why the well is connected so much. I even hated it when Grandpa was right about it having powerful aura around it because he would go on and on about it. But you don't have to stay here. You can just as easily go back home as you came and you never have to come back."

"Well obviously you come back Kagome. Why do you stay here?"

"My business is my own"

I was getting pretty tired of her snobby attitude and secrecy and solitude away from me. I was being as nice to her as I could but even as a child she treated me as a…. well child.

"Listen miss powder princess, I know you don't like me around you and you're not happy with the fact I came back, neither am I, but you still are my sister and if we are to make peace at out house with mother I will get to know you more. And all this secrecy BS is starting to get on my last nerves. So I'm going stay here and get some answers out of you. Starting with why you're here."

Kagome looked at me with such eyes that would scare a baby. I could tell I did now score any good points with her but if I was to live with her for another week I would need to know who this person was that was sleeping in the same room as me.

"Fine! Since your so persistent and I'm just anxious to get you out of the one place I don't have to deal with you I will tell you why I'm here."

And so she did. It was a very long story, full of gruesome details which I'm sure she added them in just to bug me, and the beatings she's gone through. I learned a little about the Shikon Jewel, which sounded so familiar to me, and the people she travels with. The Monk Miroku, Inuyasha, the demon slayer Sango and her little cat companion Kilala and a fox boy Shippo. Her tales seemed to go on endlessly and I actually wanted to hear more but I saw that it was getting dark outside.

"Mothers going to wonder-"

"That time goes faster here than in our time. Right now it seems like a whole day but really it's only a few minutes on our side. Besides if anything mother will probably think I took you with me or something"

I found the hint of attitude in her voice but I choose to ignore it. I was offered to stay the night here since it was too dangerous to walk to the well at night so I decided to take advantage of the time given to me by getting to know Kagome's friends. I talked with the one's who were still awake, Miroku and Sango, found Kagome to be quite the pain in the butt even here. But here amazing battle abilities and her power with her arrows made her into a whole knew person, not that I know any part of Kagome. And I also learned her ever growing affection for Inuyasha. And hey, being me and still in high school what's any girl to do when she finds out that someone likes another person. Investigate.

I found Inuyasha sitting in the hut by himself. His eyes were closed as I slowly snuck in so as not to disturb what ever he was doing. I sat next to him and began throwing bits of the mat into the fire.

"Ya know you'll catch the whole house on fire if you built the fire any higher."

His voice was startling. For some reason I had imagined it to be… deeper.

"Oh haha… right"

You know that painfully awkward silence that takes place when you have an elementary school dance and no one has been through that whole "hey let's dance with girls" or vice versa? Where each person still thinks the other has cooties so they seem to be magnetically bound to the wall or finds the need to hold up the wall so it doesn't fall. Then there's that moment where the music's going and the little lights are flashing and the teachers realize they've just spent money so they can have an empty dance floor with music from the 80's. That was happening right before my eyes and I could not for the life of me think of ways to spark a conversation with a guy who has very little words and when he does speak it seems to only be to put down people. So I made it plain and painfully simple.

"So what you think of my sister?"

He looked at me with one eye and stared at me. I could sworn I saw the words "You're dumb" scroll across his eyes. It was truly amazing.

"She's a pain. Kinda like you."

"Hey I'm a pain because I choose to be. She's a pain naturally. There's a difference"

He grunted and I sighed. Obviously this conversation wasn't going into anymore than six words for his part so I dropped it. But I found his Kimono, or what ever his outfit may be, to be so interesting. From a distance it looks to be made out of cotton but as I looked closer it was something else. I placed one hand on the sleeve of his shirt to get a feel of the fabric. But it was a mistake. He freaked as though I had turned into that giant lizard thing and jumped away from me, hand on the handle of his sword.

"What do you think you're doing?!"

"I'm sorry! I just wanted to get a feel of your clothes. That isn't normal fabric."

He eased up on his defensive mode and sat down next to me.

"You're right it's not. It's a special fabric made to survive through the harshest of weather and fire. It's kinda like my main armor."

I began to feel the fabric again, this time making sure I didn't touch him at all, and I became so entranced by how different it was from our normal world cloths I didn't even notice Kagome standing in the of the house. We both looked up and her. Arms crossed, eyes glaring at me she turned on her heels and left the house in a huff. Inuyasha called after her and followed her outside. It was shortly followed by "SIT BOY" and a loud thud and I found that the signal to get some sleep. I thought the rest of the night was for me to be alone but I was soon accompanied by Sango. She smiled at me and told me not to worry about Kagome and Inuyasha.

"She's always like that with him. Jealous at the drop of a pin. Course Inuyasha has a conscience, most of the time, and trails after her to apologize so he doesn't feel bad and, well, you know the result."

"Haha. Well I didn't mean to cause him more trouble."

Sango stirred the fire so the wood burned evenly. The flames lighting up her face to reveal scars to fair to see right off. But I'm a natural knack to see those little details. I saw anger and pain in her eyes but a spirit that couldn't be broken. And for a moment I felt like I was staring into her very soul. A new feeling came over me and I suddenly saw my world fade away into darkness, except that Sango was there, still stirring the fire. Then there was a little boy walking up from behind her. About 12, very cheery, wearing a sort of armor with green lining. He was smiling, laughing. Then he stared at her.

"By the way"

The darkness faded and I was back in the hut. I felt so strange and the sensations in my body were new and unfamiliar, almost painful to have. I clutched my chest to ease the pain a bit but made it seem natural so as not to alarm Sango.

"Why do you and Kagome keep your distance from each other?"

I looked at her. "I dunno. I haven't been around in a while. I wouldn't imagine her to warm up to me since I've been gone most of her life."

"But even so," She looked at me with, her eyes wanting to explore my mind. "Sisters don't stay away from each other when they've been gone so long. They come together to learn what's been going on."

I looked at her, knowing she was right. "She hasn't liked me since we were kids. I wouldn't expect her to like me now."

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I woke up in the morning to find Sango gone. Not surprised. She was a warrior, they don't sleep in late. I straightened myself up and stepped outside to find an old woman, who was waiting for me.

"Kagome's waiting for you up at the well. Just follow that path straight and you'll be there."

I met Kagome there waiting impatiently for me. No really her foot was tapping. Without a word she grabbed my wrist and pulled me down into the well. I went through the purple star sky again and was greeted by dirt once more. We climbed out of the well and was walking out when she turned around and stared me straight in my eyes.

"You just couldn't stay in America now could you?"

I was shocked by her sudden approach I didn't know what to say. I Just stared into her brown eyes, flames and hate signs dancing around.

"You just had to come back and start messing up everything again!"

"Now wait a minute first off I didn't just wake up one morning and decide to come back. If you can't recall I was brought her blind folded! Second what you do you mean mess everything up again? I wasn't hitting on your dog boyfriend in the hut if that's what you're mad about!"

"UH! You're so… so…"

"So what Kagome?! Just say it! I've handled your abuse when I was little I can do it again!"

"So much a home wrecker!"

I looked at her in both confusion and anger. There wasn't really any words to describe what was flowing through my blood.

"How can I be a home wrecker?! That boy doesn't even seem to have much to say so how can he be your boyfriend?"

"He's not my boyfriend"

"Then how can you be accusing me of being a ho-"

"BECAUSE YOU MADE DAD LEAVE!!!!"

I stood there… wondering what exactly she meant. Dumbfounded by her anger and words I thought she was trying to pin the reason my father wasn't here on me. But it wasn't my fault…

"Wh… what do you mean?"

She calmed down a bit but her anger still took hold of her words. "You're the reason dad left after you went to America. You ruined everything by being here and dad went to ruins because he found out… you weren't his daughter."

"No… you're lying."

"Oh you think I'm lying?! Ask mother then! She came home with you a 5 months after I was born and father didn't know what to say. He didn't say anything for the longest time but she made up some story about how you were my twin and you had problems so you had to stay at the hospital. But dad looked. There was no record of you being there and he went ballistic."

I stared… stared at what? There was nothing I could look at without feeling like nothing was real. But I was so convinced she was lying I ran to mother and pounded her with questions. In tears, she confessed all. I felt my world shatter and suddenly, it was a blur. I saw nothing more except the darkness that over came me the night before. Emptiness. Solid black. And then there appeared a woman. I was lying down, the back of my head hurting and I couldn't move as she glided toward me in a blue silk Kimono. Beautiful. Her face so pure and her hair as white as snow she seemed so flawless. So strange. And yet, I felt as if I knew. Seen her a thousand times. She placed her hands on either side of my face and leaned in to kiss my forehead. She stared into my eyes and whispered:

"It's time, my dear Sakura, for Kikyani to wake up and for you to return to life."

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THE END!! Just kidding. There. Will work on the next one soon I promise. Please give me feed back. Thank you for reading.