A/N See! The first chapter was longer than the prologue! I kept my promise. sticks tongue out at reviewers Ok . . . that was probably childish of me . . . Oh! Let me intoduce you to my muses. The two sides of me, BlueMouse, and Kara!

BlueMouse: I'm basically responsible for any funny and random things,

Kara: And I'm responsible for the overall plot line. BlueMouse can get a little out of hand sometimes . . .

Me: And now for the Disclaimer!

Disclaimer: InuYasha is the property of Rumiko Takahashi

Chapter 2: Strange Happenings

Kaira walked home reading the book she had gotten from the library. Her eyes widened as she flipped through the pages. 'This is the same as my dream . . .' she couldn't help but shiver slightly at the odd coincidence. 'Coincidence nothing. This is something entirely different.' Now she had names to go with the pictures. Shippo, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Kikyo, Kirara, and InuYasha.

'Why do these names seem so familiar?' She wondered. Kaira was so caught up in her wondering, that she didn't notice the wrong turn she had made.

As she made her way into the troublesome area of her city, she didn't notice the presence of three men sneaking up on her. Suddenly she looked up realizing that she wasn't in the right part of her neighborhood. "Shit." she muttered as she finally picked up on her persuers' presence. But she noticed them too late.

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InuYasha jumped from building to building following Kaira's scent. It wasn't too long before he noticed that she had made a wrong turn. 'This isn't the path she took from home to school. Why would she go through here?'

000

Kaira spun on the ball of her foot as she prepared to face the men who where following her. She slammed her book closed and threw it at the man who was closest. The other two, realizing that they had been caught, dropped all the slowness that came with their secrecy. Kaira was about to scream when she felt a hand being firmly placed over her mouth and her arm pulled up behind her back. Another man had approached and he knew how to disguise his presence.

'It's strange though,' Kaira thought through the pain. 'His presence is different than that of the people at school or even the thugs who ambushed me just now. It doesn't matter now, I've got to get out of this mess!' Kaira bit down on the hand covering her mouth. Her captor threw her against a cement wall as he gave a cry of pain. There was a resounding "THUD" as Kaira's head met the wall. The last thing she could remember was seeing a flash of red before the darkness overtook her.

000

InuYasha smelled fear in the air. He picked up his pace to find that Kaira was being mugged. He stood just out of the way as he watched the girl try to defend herself. She was doing fine until the fourth man stepped from the shadows. InuYasha had seen enough and unsheathed Tetsuigia. Jumping down, he saw Kaira get thrown into a wall and pass out. Landing in front of the girl, he bared his teeth and growled.

The man who had thrown Kaira looked annoyed. "Move aside hanyou, the girl is ours."

"Well we'll just have to see about that." InuYasha said as an evil grin crept across his face.

"I am warning you for the last time. Leave now, or you will have to face me."

"Can't be a very strong demon if you have to stoop so low you need three other people to beat up a defenseless girl."

"Your nose must not be working right. She is in no way defenseless. Her scent is . . . intriguing." A cruel smile twitched across the demon's mouth.

"I'm gonna say this once, and only once, leave this girl alone, or die." InuYasha held his sword menacingly.

The three humans had run off long ago and it was now standoff between InuYasha and the mysterious demon.

000

InuYasha hardly needed to swing his sword to defeat the demon. Like he had originally guessed, it wasn't very strong. Turning to the unconscious girl behind him, he wondered what his opponent had meant. As her scent filled his nostrils he realized what was happening.

"Dammit. The seal's wearing off." He then realized what he had said and knew that she was the one he had been looking for.

Tearing a page out of the book Kaira had brought, InuYasha took out the pencil he started carrying around with him after Kagome had started teaching him how to write. In a messy scrawl he wrote a note to Kaira's parents and stuck it in a pocket that she had. Carefully picking her up, InuYasha carried Kaira to her house and set her down gently in front of the door and knocked. He ran away quickly before he could be seen by anyone who resided there and headed towards a certain well to share what he had found.

Before InuYasha was completely out of earshot, his sensitive ears heard Kaira murmur, "Who the hell brought me to my house?"

He gave a small chuckle. "Seems she woke up."

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Kaira woke up slowly. Memories of what had happened returning as she regained consciousness. She felt someone carrying her and with a practiced expertise, she kept her breathing even and her heart rate slow. She didn't even tense any of her muscles. Instead she let them be deadweights. She gave all the signs of an unconscious person. Only thing was that she maintained consciousness. She resisted the urge to smirk. 'Where are they taking me?' she wondered. The wind whipped her hair over her face and she resisted the urge to frown. 'Curse this . . . wait . . . Why is there wind?' She thought. Before she could think about it much further, the wind had stopped and she felt herself being placed on a hard surface. 'Where the heck have they taken me?' she thought angrily.

Kaira heard the swish of cloth that told her that whoever had carried her had gone. She opened her eyes and sat up. She was in the last place she expected to be. "Who the hell brought me to my house?" she murmured. Then the door opened and she turned to find her parents looking down at her. "Wha-" but before she could get any further, he mother had swooped down and pulled her into a hug. "OH WE WERE SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU KAIRA! WHY DID YOU STAY OUT SO LATE!" Kaira gently pushed her mother off of her. "I'm fine. I just took a wrong turn is all." She smiled and stood up.

Walking past her parents she brushed against the door and felt something in her pocket that she didn't have in there before. "What the-" she murmured and pulled out a page from the book she had taken from the library. She sweatdropped. 'The library is going to kill me. . .' she thought. She unfolded the page and noticed that there was something written on the back.

Kaira stared at the note. She turned to her parents. "W-what does this mean? HOW COME YOU NEVER TOLD ME!" She shouted. She turned and sprinted to her room slamming the door behind her. She sat down on her bed and went over the words in the note again. She clenched her fist before letting the tears flow.

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In the entrance to the house, Kaira's parents looked at each other with concern. Her mother picked up the paper Kaira had dropped and showed it to her husband. "Dear, what are we going to do?" Kaira's father embraced his wife. "We knew we would have to tell her one day." He said as he read the note.

To Kaira's foster parents,

Thank you for taking care of my daughter for the past 15 years. I found her today and I would like to take her back into my family. Her mother has told me what to write or say if I were to ever tell you this information so here it goes. For reasons beyond our control, we had to give Kaira up before she was a year old. We thank you for raising her like a normal child. I hope she has a taste for ramen. I will return to take her back in about three weeks so if you could be prepared for that I would be grateful.

From Kaira's father.

End Chapter 2