A quick notation…

Apparently there's been some confusion as to how Sasuke would be related to Kagome and her family. No, she's not an Uchiha, and so she won't have the bloodline trait. In this story her father, was Sasuke's mother's elder brother. She married into the Uchiha family. And his father's side is where the bloodline trait comes from. Not his mother's. Which explains why their last name is Higurashi instead; his mother did have to come from another family, after all.

And for those who are unfamiliar with Japanese culture, and houses. Toilet rooms are separate from bath/shower rooms. To shower and bathe, is to get clean. And using the toilet while sanitary, the act isn't exactly the most sanitary thing. So they keep the rooms separate. They also wash, and completely rinse before getting into the seriously hot bath.

As for after name honorifics (I have often seen them confused with each other in fics)…

-sama, someone of importance, lord, leader, etc

-san, formal and respectful

-chan for close female friends

-kun close male friends

-none is for those you are really close friends with at times, younger family members, and occasionally leaders/lords of extreme importance who may not follow at least the formality of honorifics.

Chapter Three:

A Bloody Surprise

Whatever any of them had expected the main-lands to be like; said expectations were blown out of the water. There were buildings, people, and all sorts of strange things everywhere. They couldn't help but stare. They too, of course, had strange looks thrown at them due to their attire, but it really couldn't be helped. Back home, it was just how people dressed.

Luckily Tsunade was right, and Higurashi had in fact seen fit to have his widow informed about what was going on. Within a few minutes of their arrival, she ran up to them at the docks. She took one look at Sasuke, and noticed the resemblance to her husband immediately. And then she promptly snatched him into a surprisingly strong hug.

"You must be Sasuke! You look so much like my Asano, that you couldn't possibly be anyone else;" she excitedly chirped out. Needless to say Sasuke nearly went into shock.

"Uh…. yeah;" he muttered.

"And I know the rest of your names, but I'm not sure which is which. With the exception of Sakura as she's rather obvious."

"I am Iruka, it's a pleasure to meet you, Higurashi-san;" he bowed to her.

"I'm Shikamaru;" The rather bored and grumpy teen muttered.

"I'm Naruto!" The blonde kid jumped in front of her excitedly.

"I'm Kakashi;" he sighed, as he debated on whether or not to bring out his book.

"Great! Please feel free to call me Tsukiko;" she chirped rather merrily. "Well, you must all be exhausted, and hungry, so I brought you all some food." She smiled and she handed them out. "However I'm afraid you'll need to eat as we walk to the train station."

"Train station?" Iruka muttered, though Tsukiko was close enough to hear him.

"You'll see when we get there;" she again, chirped out. She was quite the peppy individual. "I'm afraid we'll need to hold off on any real conversation until we get home. Although I will need to have you hide your headbands. We don't need people thinking you're in a gang." She paused for a bit and looked over to Kakashi. "And your mask too. If you wear it, people may think you're going to mug them."

Everyone was already grumbling over needing to hide their bands, but she had brought up a good point. Of course once she mentioned Kakashi needed to remove his mask, they all stared at him. Kakashi could have sworn at that moment there was a comical sweat drop on his head. But he grudgingly removed it anyhow.

"So that's what you look like!" Naruto nearly yelled. While the boy was calmer at sixteen, than he used to be, he still was rather hyper, and could get loud at the drop of pin.

The rest tiredly chuckled, and Kakashi had a decidedly grumpy look on his face. Tsukiko noted, in her mind that he was rather handsome, and had that silver hair that she absolutely adored. She looked forward to her reaction when they met. Especially since she knew that while Kagome was long since over InuYasha, she still had a thing for silver hair as well. Until she realized she was jumping way ahead of herself in the hope to have silver haired grandchildren. It was sad enough as it was that she wouldn't have any grandbabies with those cute fuzzy ears. Yes the Higurashi family had very strange tastes.

The six shinobi openly gawked at the trains and the station. There were so many people, that people were actually getting pushed into some of the trains so that the doors could be closed. And this was fairly late in the night; so they were obviously a bit nervous on traveling this way. Thankfully for them, since they had so far to go, they were able to get on a less crowded train. Tsukiko had informed them that it was called a bullet train, which was fast enough to get them to Kyoto by morning. Not that any of them were quite sure where Kyoto was to begin with.

All of them were exhausted, and so for the protection of their things, Iruka and Kakashi took shifts in keeping watch. The kids, they decided could sleep the whole way, as it was only going to take a few short hours. And sure enough, their train arrived at it's destination by daybreak.

Then they got to see the rather amusing action of Tsukiko debating how they were going to get to her home from there. She kept muttering something about 3 busses, or a couple of taxies. In the end she chose the taxies. She figured that they were all too tired to deal with bus hopping. Once they arrived, she actually broke down and laughed at the kids' expressions when looking at the stairs. She too was tired, but she was far more used to the climb. Several minutes, and a few grumbles later, they were at the shrine.

"Welcome to my home," she started. "As you can see this is a Shinto shrine, so please treat it with respect. The building to your right is the house. I'm not sure about all of your customs from where you are from, but here when you come inside the home, please remove your shoes;" she smiled at them, and walked over to the house.

All six of them nodded, not wanting to talk just yet. There was something that was so peaceful about the place. But nevertheless they dutifully followed her into the house, and removed their shoes in the entrance. Taking note on how tired they looked, she showed them the toilet rooms, bath room, and the rooms they would be staying in. They all quickly got prepared to take a nap.

It was about three hours later when Iruka woke up. After a few minutes debating on it, he decided to get everyone else up and awake as well. The way he figured it, if they slept too late, they wouldn't sleep well the next night, and well it would be a rather bad cycle to start. No one was very happy with him, even if they did see the wisdom of it.

"Oh! Good, you're awake for breakfast." Tsukiko exclaimed when she was opening a door to another room. "Souta! You need to get up for breakfast."

"Maaaaammmaaaaa! It's summer, and there's no school, can't I just sleep?" He whined.

"We have guests, so no; I won't allow you to be so rude"

"Fine;" he sighed. After that they could hear various thumps and grumbling when they walked by to go to the table.

Eventually a rather disgruntled Souta appeared. Sakura took one look and immediately started blushing. To her he looked a lot like Sasuke; which caused all the guys to roll their eyes at. At least she was past her overly clingy stage and her crush for Sasuke. He could actually be able to call her a friend, and not have her drool.

"Morning, I'm Souta;" the teen grumbled as he plopped down into an empty chair. He clearly wasn't a morning person. "Just, save the introductions until I fully wake up, or I'll forget all of your names;" he mumbled while attempting to not nod off. Quite a few snickers were heard after that. Breakfast was rather quiet, with the exception of Souta grumbling over a cup of tea. Deciding to break the silence Kakashi decided to ask something that had been bothering him for awhile.

"So where's your daughter? We were told that she would need our help with something she was involved in." They were all rather vexed about Tsunade not giving them any clear objectives.

"She's still down the well, on the other side; Souta grumbled. He clearly was not fully awake yet.

"Down a well?" Sasuke perked up.

"It's a bit difficult to explain things…" Tsukiko started to talk, but she trailed off when the door slid open, and her face turned pale. "Kagome!" She cried out, scrambling out of her chair.

All of the shinobi, and a now wide awake Souta, immediately looked towards the door and were rather alarmed to see Kagome covered in blood, leaning against a naginata. And then she fell forward; luckily Kakashi was quick enough to catch her before she fell. That's when everyone else scrambled to action.

Sakura, the medic-nin in training, Tried to determine all of what needed healing, but there was just too much blood and something that looked oddly like black blood to determine it all.

"Kakashi-sensei, take her to the bath room, we need to get off some of this blood so I can work on her!" She turned to Tsukiko. "I need a lot of bandages." And then she looked at the guys. "One of you get my bag, I've got things I'll need for it." Sasuke quickly bolted to her room.

Kakashi held onto Kagome in the shower room, while she turned it on, to luke-warm. That's when she ripped the girl's shirt clothes off, leaving only the undergarments. She then used the mystical palm technique. Due to the amount of injuries, she couldn't fully heal any of them. She did however make sure that they would heal without any problems, and anything internally would be alright. Once the front side was done, Kakashi gently turned it onto her side, and they saw what looked to be four deep claw marks. They both wanted to wince, and she performed the technique again. By the time she did all that she was able too, she noticed her bag was in the room, along with a load of bandages.

Biting her lip she decided that it would be best to get Kagome fully cleaned up before leaving the bathroom, so put temporary bandages on all of the wounds. And then she knew she would need to remove the soaked undergarments first, but she was not willing to do so with a male in the same room. Especially with the pervert of a sensei, that was in front of her.

"Could you go and have her mom get something loose and comfortable for Kagome to wear? I need to finish cleaning her up." She asked tiredly. Kakashi simply nodded and gently placed Kagome on her side on the floor. As soon as he was gone, she removed the undergarments, and started to wash all of the blood off. When Higurashi-san came in, she helped her finish. Once that was done, all of the bandages were replaced with a special ointment on all of the wounds. Then they wrapped a bathrobe around her, figuring it would be easier to deal with if she remained unconscious long enough to for the bandages to need replacing while still knocked out. She then had Iruka, who wasn't covered in blood like Kakashi, to carry the girl to her bed.

"She'll be alright, Higurashi-san, but I'll be surprised if she wakes up at all today." She yawned. She wouldn't have been as tired had this not happened so soon after traveling all the way here, and on so little sleep.

"Oh thank goodness;" she sighed in relief. "However I told you earlier, to please call me Tsukiko;" she remarked in a 'no if ands or buts' tone.

"Sakura-chan, why don't you get cleaned up first, then I'll do the same after." Kakashi motioned to her. She quickly scuttled off to take a quick shower.

"I followed the trail of blood," Naruto spoke up, "And it went right to a covered, dried up well." Their eyebrows quickly rose.

"It seems Souta-san wasn't dreaming when he rambled earlier;" Shikamaru added.

"Of course I wasn't. She uses that well to travel five hundred years into the past."

No one was quite sure on how to respond to that.