Chapter 5

The journey

Alexis's Pov:

So many things were going through my head all at once. All I had wanted to do this summer was hang out with my cousin. Instead I was able to go through the well and if that wasn't weird enough there could be a chance that I'm related to that damn Inuyasha. There is no way in hell that I could even come close to being related to that guy. I thought to myself as I was walking next to Kagome. Earlier after my whole little panic attack and having it take a total of 10 minutes for Kagome to finally come me down. We had decided that I should stick around with them on their journey. Only instead of looking for their jewel they were going to try and help me figure out if what Kagome said might be true.

Flashback

"This can't be happening! I mean you would think that a person would know if they were human or not right?" I had said

"I don't know Alexis, but we are going to find out the truth, I promise you that before this summer is over, that we will get to the bottom of this." Kagome said full of confidence in her voice.

"Kagome what gives you the right to make a promise like that?" Inuyasha asked sounding very annoyed

"We need to find the jewel, not go looking for clues that might not even be real." Inuyasha said glaring at me.

"A little break from looking for the jewel won't be that bad Inuyasha." Miroku said

"Yes, we should help out Alexis and try and figure all this out for her." Sango said with a smile.

"We don't even know where to start with this little journey of yours." Inuyasha said as he sat on the ground.

"I remember Kaede talking about a tree that could help with powers that are locked away. She also said that this tree knows everything there is to know, about well everything." Shippo said while licking one of the suckers that Kagome had brought him.

"Well does this tree have a name, or were it might be? I asked hoping to get some clues.

"I think she had said its North from here, about a 4 day trip and the tree was called The Ghost tree." Shippo said

The Ghost tree? Kagome asked

"Well then I guess if we are really going to do this then we might as well get going now." Inuyasha said standing up.

After everyone had gotten ready we set off on our journey, not knowing what we would find.

End of Flashback

No matter how hard I tried I couldn't put all of this together. Part of me wanted what Kagome to say was wrong, but then the other part of me wanted Kagome to be right. I mean how cool would it be to, be a hanyou like Inuyasha, no one would ever be able to mess with me again. Then again if Kagome was right, did that mean I couldn't go home and that I had to stay here forever? I was so confused that my head was starting to hurt.

I didn't know how long we had been walking till we finally decided to stop and make camp for the night. My legs were killing me and I was starting to wonder how Kagome was able to do this all the time. I sat down and a log next to Kagome who was going through her giant yellow bag.

"Hey Kagome can I ask you something?" I asked looking at the ground

"What is it Alexis?" Kagome asked while still going through her bag.

"Do you really think there is some kind of magical, all telling tree?" I asked looking up at her.

"Well if there wasn't then Kaede wouldn't have told Shippo about it. Though I'm sure she didn't think that we would be going to go and look for it." She said looking away from her bag and then looking at me.

"Yeah you have a point there I guess, but what happens if your right? What do I do then; I mean I don't know anything about being a hanyou like Inuyasha." I said looking at the ground again.

Kagome put her arm around me and gave me a little hug.

"Don't worry we will worry all about that when we find this tree. Then once we know the truth, we will go from there, but until then just try and relax a little." She said giving me another hug and then getting up to lay her sleeping bag on the ground.

I sighed, Kagome was right; I mean there wasn't any point on worrying about this, when I don't even know if it was really true or not. So I decided to just try and make the best of this and hope that everything will be figured out in the next 3 days.

We had gotten camp all set up by night time and everyone went to sleep. Well except for me, I couldn't sleep no matter how hard I tired. There was so many different noises that I had never heard before and it was keeping me up. Finally I sat up in the extra sleep bag that Kagome had brought and I look at the still going fire.

"What am I going to do?" I asked myself out loud, not thinking that anyone would be awake with me.

"Wench why are you awake?" Inuyasha said with one eye open

I sighed and looked at him.

"I would really like it if you would call me by my name and not wench all the time." I said looking at him

"Fine, I'll stop calling you wench and start using your name. Only if you stop calling me a hanyou all the time and called me by my name." He said with both eyes open and was staring at me.

I nodded

"I can do that, but if you call me a wench again. Then I'll have to beat you up again." I said with a wide grin.

"You caught me off guard last time, next time I won't be so easy to beat." Inuyasha said returning the same grin on his face that I had.

"Hey Inuyasha, um do you think what Kagome said could be true?" I said looking away from him.

"There could be a chance, but you smell like a human. So to be honest I really don't know myself." He said

I nodded again

"Well I hope we find out the truth soon." I said laying back down on the sleeping bag

"We will and when we do you won't have to worry about what's real and what isn't anymore." Inuyasha said closing his eyes.

"Now go back to sleep we have a long couple of days ahead of us."

I smiled and closed my eyes and tried to go to sleep.

So what did you think of Inuyasha and Alexis finally getting along for once? I will try and get the next chapters up. Till then please R&R everyone! J