Hey, people! This is the first chapter, obviously. XD
DISCLAIMER! I do not own Inuyasha, sadly. :( But I DEFINITELY own Moriko/Madison! I'm just going to call her Moriko, alright? Good! :) Enjoy! Oh, and I'll add the rest of this chapter soon, too!
Also, to let you guys know... When there is no name at the top of a part of the story, then it's from Moriko's POV, but if there's a name in bold, then it's from that person's POV. Got it? Good! Tell me if you have any confusion.
Parallel Universe
"Karla, what the hell are you talking about? We don't own a well." My dad runs outside and stands next to my mom. "What the-? Well, now I know you weren't lying." Dad rubs his chin in confusion, trying to figure out what's going on.
"This is so weird. The well is just like the one in Inuyasha, the one Kagome went through." I whisper, mostly to myself. My dad gets pissed.
"Madison, you need to stop relating everything that happens in realty to that anime! It's just a damn fairy tale that'll never come true! We need to figure out what this thing is doing here, anyway."
As he finishes his sentence, I gasp.
"D-dad! The well! It's-it's glowing!"
"What do you mean? I don't see anything glowing. Come back inside, you probably have a fever. I'll go buy you an Icee." My mom tries to tempt me, but it doesn't work.
The well. It IS glowing! I know it is! I have to get Chloe away. Something may happen.
I push Chloe towards my mom, and I turn back to the well. Then I hear it. We all hear the chilling voice of the first demon Kagome ever came in contact with.
"You, mortal! You have the jewel! Give it to me!" Mistress Centipede jumps out of the well, all intact, and rushes at me.
"Mom, Dad! Get away!" I turn around to see their horrified faces, and then I feel a sharp pain in my left leg. The demon has me in its jaws, up in the air. She pulls me back down in the well, where I become surrounded by a blue light.
She says I have the jewel! What's going on? Kagome has the jewel, not me! This shouldn't even be real!
"You, girl! You have the jewel I want! Give it to me now, or I'll have to eat around your writhing body first!" She lunges at me and I hold my arm up at her face.
Well, either way, for me to live, I have to wound her with my purification powers like Kagome did! Please, Lord, let this work!
My hand reaches her face and she screams in a deep pain. She floats away from me in the time warp, screaming.
"You wretched girl! You shall pay for this, and you'll be the first to die when I get that jewel!"
I reach the bottom of the well, breathing harshly.
"So, I'm in the well, in this universe. I guess I have to get out."
I start climbing the vines in the wall when a white, glowing butterfly starts to flutter around me. I admire its significant beauty as I climb the rest of the way out of the well. As I get to the top, I realize that the murky smell of the well was blocking out the beautiful, fresh air of this universe.
My wound is healing already, most likely because of the jewel, so I start to find my way to the Sacred Tree.
I speak aloud, "If Inuyasha is here, then I can pet his dog ears! Where is that tree anyway?"
Then I see it. Rising above all others, the Sacred Tree stands tall. I run to it, wanting to find out whether this is all a dream or not. I push away some bushes and I see him, pinned against the tree.
Oh… My… God… He's even sexier in real life than he is in the anime! God, if this is the life I am to live, then you must really love me.
His sleeping face looks so calm, and if he goes to my universe, he'll be considered sexiest man alive! His face isn't muscular, he has an, which is kinda unusual for a guy, heart-shaped jaw. His skin is as tan as mine (light beige), his barely pink lips are slightly pursed, and above all, his shiny, long, SILVER hair is barely moving in the almost motionless breeze. I expected his hair to be white, not a bright whitish-silver, with all honesty. But what intrigues me the most is his ears!
"Okay, I really want to see how that's even possible for them to be connected to his head." I whisper.
I climb up the roots that entwine him and I pet his little dog ears. I make a barely audible scream. They're the cutest freaking things ever! I could pet these all day!
"Get away from there!" I hear a man scream behind me. I jump and turn around. Seven men with bows shoot their arrows at me.
"Ah! What do you think you're doing!? I'm human!" I scream at them. Whoops. Kagome didn't yell at them. Crap, now they won't believe me at all!
"Enough chatter! Ye are coming with us!" One of the older of the men says.
Well, fuck.
Bound up and confused, I sit on a little futon-like rug in the center of the village.
I catch all the whispers and gossip going about the people, and then I hear a man yell out.
"Make room for high priestess, Kaede!"
An old (Ehem, OLD) woman with grey hair walks out from a crowd of people.
That's Kaede! I have to tell her I'm not a demon.
"Kaede! Please, listen! I'm not a demon!" I try to convince her.
"What are ye talking about?" Kaede looks at me, confused.
"Wait, I thought you thought I was a demon. Didn't you?"
She stares at me awestruck and walks over to me. "Let me get a good look at ye."
She grabs my face and turns it right and left. "Be clever girl, or may be a half wit."
Now I know how Kagome feels...
"It's there, yet, I know not why."
"You mean my resemblance to someone you know? Please, I'll talk to you more about how I know later, Kaede. Can you please unbind me?" I ask.
I have the perfect lie! I can tell them I can see the future in visions, so I don't need to tell them I know what's going to happen because of an anime... Also, Inuyasha would question why he isn't with Kagome, but me. I don't want that to happen. If this is my fate, then I shall do my best!
"Oh, child? Fine then. I shall take ye to my hut... But ye must explain everything to me then. And aye, child, I'll unbind ye." Kaede unties the ropes and leads me to her hut, but not before hearing a large amount of rude comments about my appearance.
"Did ye see her hair? Who throughout this land has hair such as that? Only a demon could!"
"Aye, and her eyes and clothes, as well. What matter are they? And what matter of such is she?"
Kaede hears them as well and senses my withdrawal. "Don't pay any attention to them, they are judging only by ye appearance, but not who ye truly are. I trust ye." She smiles at me, and I feel... I feel... Welcome.
"So, ye are from a different universe?" Kaede asks.
I nod. "Yes, and I am able to see the future through visions and dreams. Actually, I see past and future. So, I know your past, Inuyasha's, Kikyo's, and many others of this world." I reply.
"Ah, that is very odd indeed. What is ye name, child?"
"Moriko. Moriko Tsuki Meisei." Good thing I've already learned my name in Japanese.
She holds her breath."Why, that name is simply beautiful, Moriko! Forest child, moon, and fame. Simply wonderful!"
I blush. "Well, thank you." Then I gasp. I forgot Mistress Centipede will be here soon!
"Kaede! Mistress Centipede! She'll be here soon!" I tell her.
"What are ye talking about? She is in the-"
"Bone-eater's well, dry well, I know! But she has revived! She was the one who brought me here in the first place! I wounded her with my purification powers, but that alone is not enough!" I interrupt her sentence.
"Wait! Ye said purification powers? Ye are a priestess?!" She gapes.
I sigh. "Yes, Kaede, I am a priestess. I am also from a parallel universe, which means I am also in this world... Or, I used to be. I think you can guess who I was."
"Kikyo... Am I correct?" She says gravely.
I nod. "Yes, and we have to hurry. You see, I have the sacred jewel inside of me. Mistress Centipede is after it! I don't want her wounding any of the villagers! You can ask questions later... Just give me a bow and let's go! I need to draw her away!"
Kaede blinks and nods, handing me a bow and a couple of arrows. "Can ye shoot?"
"Yes. I had training." I grin and wink. "To be technical, I'm a marksman with both guns, bows, and crossbows. You can ask me what guns are later. Come on!"
I grab her hand and we run outside. Then I hear men screaming, "Demon! Demon! 'Tis a centipede demon!"
"Damn it!" I mutter.
Mistress Centipede throws a horse on the ground in front of Kaede and I.
"You, girl!" The demon glares at me, then chuckles, in the process of making a creepy, bloody smile. "As I have said earlier, that jewel is mine!"
"Ah!" She just barely grazes me above my head as I fall.
"Damn you!" She screams.
I have to draw her away and wake up Inuyasha!
"Hey, you, Bitchy Insect! How about you come down here and get the jewel yourself?" I smirk as I see the villagers, Kaede's, and even the demon's surprised faces. "But first! You have to catch me!" I start sprinting towards the Goshinboku.
I'm so glad I'm a fast runner, at least, and hopefully faster than Kagome...
"You little wretch! I'll kill you!"
"Shit!" I turn my head, Mistress Centipede following right after me. "She's gonna catch up to me once I get to the hill!"
Wait a minute. I have to wake up Inuyasha! How do I do that?! Okay, Moriko, calm down... I know! I can scream his name!
I take a deep breath. Here it goes...
"INUYASHA!"
Inuyasha
"INUYASHA!"
"Hmph. I smell it. The blood of the woman who killed me... And it's getting clos- shit!" I touch the arrow pinning me to the tree. "Damn. I'm stuck here till someone pulls this off."
Ha, now that won't happen, now will it?
I shake my head to rid of the thoughts.
"Kikyo's coming closer..." I smirk. "And so is that old hag of a centipede."
"Give me the jewel!"
"Never, damn you!" I scream.
Please, Lord, let Inuyasha be awake! Please!
I start to run up the hill, hoping I don't trip.
My panting fills my ears, then I feel myself being flown into the air.
"AH!" THUMP!
"Oww. That hurt!" I rub my backside and turn around. "Did the ground explode or something?"
"No. You were just being the clumsy bitch you are."
He's... Awake...
I look at his face, and I gasp. His eyes are so... Captivating.
The golden amber hypnotizes me. I stand up slowly and stare at him, then I start to walk slowly closer to the tree and onto the vines that hold him hostage.
He glares at me. "What the fuck are you looking at Kikyo? Shouldn't you be wasting that old hag?"
"Ha! Like she could waste me!" Mistress Centipede comes out from above the tree and grips me by the stomach.
Shit! It hurts! She has me!
"Moriko!"
I look down and I see Kaede and about thirty of the villagers.
"Kaede!"
"I'll devour you... Along with the jewel!" Mistress Centipede throws me in the air with a gashing sound of my side being ripped apart. The pain shoots straight to my brain, and I gasp. Everything has slowed down to an almost motionless speed. I look around, my falling has also seemingly slowed to a halt. Then I see it. A small, glimmering sphere.
The Sacred Jewel...
Everything speeds up to normal speed, and I land on the ground.
The Jewel! Where's the Jewel?!
Before I know it, I feel myself being constricted by the demon's body. She throws me against Inuyasha and tightens herself around us.
"Shit! Inuyasha, I can't see behind me. Where's my bow? I dropped it when she threw me!" I glance my eyes at him, not being able to move my head up.
"Why the hell should I help you, Kikyo? You were the one who bound me here in the first place!" He yells at me.
Alright, that's it! I'm SICK of his damn yapping! I'll give him a piece of my mind...
"Will you just shut the fuck up already?! You are pissing me off to the very edge of my sanity! I'm here with YOU, a centipede demon about to get the Jewel and kill me, and you are WRONG! I'm not Kikyo! I'm Moriko! Mor-i-ko! C'mon! I know you're a smart person, Inuyasha... Now use your God-damn smarts!" Whoops... Sorry, Father. I didn't mean to go that far. Oh well...
I glance at Inuyasha, his face wanting to make me giggle a bit. Oh, come on! I'm about to be killed by a demon and I'm staring at a hot half demon. What's next to go wrong in my life?!
Inuyasha
She's... Right... This girl's scent is so much... Sweeter than Kikyo's. Kikyo's smelt like, herbs, demon blood, and dragonlillies... But, this girl smells like cherry blossoms and moonflowers. She also has much more of a mouth than Kikyo did...
I decide to help her. I mean, she can help me, right?
"We'll bargain a trade. My freedom, your life." I smirk.
She rolls her eyes and glares at me.
Uh, not what I expected...
"As if you two will live! I'll crush you both, leaving me with the Jewel." And with that, the Mistress extends her unnaturally long tongue and swallows the Jewel. She starts to shake, then out came the ugly hag in her so-called 'powerful' form. I can still beat her scaley ass in seconds!
"I was going to free you anyways smart-ass. All I need to do is pull out the arrow and you're free. Now let's go!" She mumbles, so only I can hear.
Wait, how'd she know I had strong hearing?
My thought's interrupted as she grabs hold of the arrow. She twists it, and the sacred arrow disappears in a shine of blue light.
Keh, seems to me I'm finally free.
Power.
The one thing I feel right now is power, emanating off his body. As soon as I released him from Kikyo's spell, I feel the power... Beating like a heartbeat... Off his muscular stomach, legs, arms. It feels crazy! I feel energized just by being by him while his body pulses.
Then he does what I knew he would do. The famous maniacal laugh!
He slashes her body to set us free, and I'm thrown to the ground surrounded by centipede demon debris.
I look up and see him slash his claws across her face and body.
He looks ssoo bad ass. Oh, wait. I forgot he's going to try and kill me after this. Better warn Kaede to get the subjugation beads ready.
I crawl over to a glowing light and pick out the Jewel from Mistress Centipede's corpse. Kaede moves swiftly over to me, and I stand up quickly and whisper, low enough so Inuyasha can't even hear, "Do you have the beads of subjugation with you? We'll need them."
She looks at me, gawking, then shakes her head in non-belief. "Yes, Moriko, I do indeed."
"Get them ready, we'll need them in a couple of minutes." I move slowly away from her, grasping the Jewel to my heart.
He won't take it.
"So, are ya gonna give me the Jewel or not?" He smirks with an almost glint of laughter in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, Inu, but you're not gonna take this jewel. If you try to take it, I'll make you faceplant." I turn and whisper VERY low to Kaede, "Now!"
She nods her head slightly and reaches into her kosode.
Inuyasha grunts and glares at me, losing the laughing glint. "What the hell did you just call me?! Inu?! What's that s'pposed to mean?!" He then crosses his arms and rolls his eyes. "Oh, and how can a human like you force me to do anything? I'm a demon, I can kill you easily!"
He charges at me, all the while not realizing Kaede is chanting the prayer for the beads right behind me. I hear the whistle of the beads speeding past me, right towards him.
He stops in his tracks, gaping in confusion. "What the hell are these?" He tries to remove them from his neck, failing.
"Sorry, Inuyasha, but even ye can't remove the necklace from ye neck." Kaede grins.
"I'd finish you off right now if you didn't look half dead already!" Inuyasha and I say the insult in perfect sync.
Everyone stares at me. Inuyasha looks at me in awe.
"H-how did you know I would say that?"
I giggle, "Oh, Inu! You're so funny!" I smile evilly with a death glare. "If you really want to know, I suggest you to not try and kill me, and you should come back with me and Kaede for me to explain it to you." I giggle again, "If you chose to try and kill me, though, I'll have to drive your head into the ground."
He laughs, "How can a puny woman like you hurt me? I'm gonna kill you!"
He charges at me again, but I know the exact words.
And here comes the moment I've always been waiting for...
I take a deep breath, waiting for the perfect moment.
Now.
"Sit, boy!" I yell.
"ARGH!" He faceplants straight into the ground.
Pure... Hilariousness...
I start giggling, then laughing, then I hit the ground crying from laughing too hard.
"OH MY GOD! THAT HAS TO BE THE FUNNIEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE! OMG!" I scream between laughs and breaths.
"What the hell?! What is this damn thing?! How'd you do that?" He glares at me, gripping the necklace.
"It's a necklace that prevents you from doing anything I don't want you to." I give him another evil stare. "I'm in full control of you and what you do, Inu! So you better not fuck with my temper."
I give him a death glare, and he retreats behind a tree.
"Damn, I'm gonna say that it's pretty bad if you can give a half-demon the creeps." He jumps from behind the tree and lands behind me.
I gasp and spin around.
He stares at me; not with malice, but a questioning look, instead.
"What'd you say your name was again? Moriko?" He scratches his head. "That means 'forest child', right?"
I'm taken aback with surprise.
Ugh, seriously? No curse, threat, nothing?
"Uhm, yes, it does." I reply.
He crosses his arms. "Humph, well, at least it suits you, unlike some people I know."
I grin. "Thanks. Your name suits you, Inu."
He glares at me again. "Will you stop calling me that?!"
I laugh, then I run behind him and do the one thing I love to do the most.
I rub his ears to my heart's content.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!" He jumps away from me, growling.
I giggle, trying to act cute.
"Oh, Inu! Don't you understand how freaking adorable your ears are? They're the cutest things ever created in the universe!" I laugh.
"You're never doing that again. Got it?" Inuyasha blushes. "And they're not cute!"
"Yes, they are!"
"No, they're not!"
"Yes, they are!"
"No, they're not!
"Are too!"
"Are not!"
"Shut up and SIT!"
"Fuck!"
In his time of disadvantage, I take ADVANTAGE of that one moment and rub his ears while he stays on the ground, giggling.
"Damn it, you bitch! Stop!" Inuyasha jumps up again when the spell wears off.
"No! I wanna pet your ears!" I yell.
While I chase Inuyasha around, Kaede and the villagers stare at us with pure disbelief.
"Oh my goodness, this girl is something special, that I know." Kaede mutters.
"NO! NO! STOP TOUCHING MY EARS, DAMN YOU!"
"NEVER! SIT!"
And today is the day that my life will forever change.
I hope ya'll loved it! R&R, please! :)