Chapter 7: Owner of the Voice

Naoke screamed as she kept falling farther through the well instead of reaching the bottom. Finally she did hit the bottom of the well. She looked around totally speechless now, what they heck just happened to her?

"There you are, all you need to do now is climb up the vines," a woman's voice from above told her.

Naoke looked up to see someone leaning over the well, looking down at her. Naoke took a deep breath, she already gotten this far, wherever she was. She went to the well wall and grabbed hold of the vines that attached themselves firmly against it. She gulped before climbing up, a determined expression etched on her face.

Finally she arrived at the top and climbed out. First she looked around at her surroundings amazed; she was no longer in the shrine.

"Where are we?" she asked wide eyed.

"Now that's not important is it, what's important is that you find out who your father is, right?" the woman said in a kind voice.

Naoke then got a look at the woman that supposedly knew more about her than she did. She had long brown hair and kind brow eyes. She wore a traditional looking kimono and carried a golden colored staff.

Naoke frowned at her appearance, finding her get up odd, "Who are you and how do you know my parents?"

The woman smiled, "I thought you wanted to know who your father is, not who I am?"

Naoke looked away, she had a point, "Fine, what can you tell me about my father?"

"Plenty," the woman said with a kind smile then held up the staff. Electricity sparked from the staff and a portal began to form in front of them. Naoke's eyes grew even more at the weirdness, perhaps all of this was a weird dream.

She backed up a little and looked back at the well, debating if she should go back in and tell her mother of what happened. 'No' she thought shaking her head, 'I tried to talk to her about my father and she lied to me, this is the only way,' she took a few steps forward, gaining what bravery she could muster.

The woman, still showing a warm smile held out her hand as she stepped near the portal, "Come, all your questions will be answered if you follow me, I promise."

Naoke held out her hand, but tightened it up in hesitation.

"It's alright, I'm your friend, I know your parents, I know how unfair all of this has been for you, I just want to help you," the woman told her.

Naoke frowned a little, it was if she knew that voice from somewhere long ago, a voice she trusted. She looked at the staff and got the same feeling from it too. She reached out her hand and took the woman's.

The woman pulled her slowly to the portal and let her step in. She followed right behind her. The woman stopped and took one last look at the well with a smile before raising the staff and causing the portal to disappear along with her and Naoke.

Soon after Kagome climbed out of the well, "Naoke," she yelled hoping she would hear her and come to her, "Naoke." Kagome closed her eyes, this couldn't be happening, after all the years of keeping her from this place. She ran as fast as she could to the village.

"Inuyasha," she yelled not caring who gave her weird glances.

Inuyasha sat up from his sleep as his ears twitched as they heard Kagome's voice.

"Kagome," he said surprised as he rushed outside.

"Inuyasha," she said breathless as she stopped in front of him. Inuyasha saw she looked distressed and about to faint. He grabbed her to steady her, "Kagome, are you ok?" he asked leading her to the hut porch to sit down.

Kagome looked at him with tears, "Naoke ran off, I heard the shrine door shut; I know she's hear, but I don't know where."

Inuyasha looked at her shocked. Then frowned in thought knowing this day would come, knowing she couldn't last on not knowing the answers to the questions burning inside of her.

Inuyasha stood and kneeled down a little, "Come on, get on my back, we're going to find her, I promise." He wanted to yell at her some for not protecting their daughter like she had promised, mainly because he was so worried, but he figured now wasn't the time for an argument.

"What about the others?" Kagome asked.

"We don't have time to tell them anything, something could happen to Naoke," Inuyasha answered.

Kagome nodded, he was absolutely right, they should find her before a demon does.

A/N: sorry it's so short, but thanks for all the reviews and support, please keep reading on and reviewing :)