Chapter 1 – Portals

It was a dark night, and the moon was full. A human was running though a forest, tears streaming down her eyes. She was screaming, and gasping for breath. She kept on looking behind her, gasping and shrieking. Three claw marks raked down her neck, and blood streamed down from them.

Her hair was short and curly, but you couldn't tell what color it was. Her eyes looked pale gray, and it reflected the moon's light. She wore a pair of jeans, and a torn strapless black shirt. A voice chuckled in the distance. She screamed again, and tripped over a tree branch, no, it was a tentacle.

"No!" She screamed as a mist began to grab her, and drag her in. She began to cough and hack. The vision went black, and a single scream pierced the air. "Kurama!"

He awoke with a jolt, his fair skin sweating, and his long red hair dripping with sweat. His green eyes scanned his room, and he confirmed he was still in his room. Kurama had been getting these dreams for a while now, and it was always the same girl, the same mist, the same scream.

"Again?" he asked himself. He was in the dorm of his college, and his roommate stirred in his sleep.

"Do you have to yell every night?" he snapped.

"Sorry," Kurama whispered, and his roommate went back to sleep. He placed his arms on his shoulders and shuddered. Is this a real girl, who needs help? He asked himself. Or is she a figment of my imagination? He shuddered at the thought of it being a real girl. He seemed look liked she really needed help, if she was real. I'll talk to Koenma and the others about it… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

It is three weeks later, and everyone is in Demon World, well, everyone except Kuwabara. They were sitting around a fire, everyone. Jin and Touya, Yusuke and Hiei, and Kurama were the ones there. They were all discussing Kurama's dream, and saying that they have been seeing her too, even Hiei had seen her. It was then, when a bright light pursed behind them.

It was a mixture of silver, dark blue, light blue, and red, and a force stronger than anyone could have imagined pulled them in. Everyone's vision went dark. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

The sound of birds awoke Kurama. He opened his pained eyes and looked out. He was in a forest, and it was nearly mid-day. Everyone else was sprayed out around him, slowly awakening.

"Where are we?" Yusuke asked, putting his hand to his head. Everyone shrugged. Kurama stood up, still a little weak, and let the sunshine wash over his face. It felt like his dream, just in the daylight.

"I don't know," he whispered, loud enough for all to hear.

"Aye," said Jin, standing up, and letting his wind lift him off of the ground. They walked through the bushes, and met up with three demon girls, a man in a red kimono, a small fox, and three humans. They were all shocked to see Kurama and the others.

"Who the hell are you?" snapped the man in the red kimono. His hair was long and silver, with two dog-like ears on the top of his head. He released his sword, which transformed into a fang. The aura around it stung Kurama.

"Inuyasha, settle down," said one of the girls. Her hair was short and blond, with a light blue streak in it. On her cheeks were two light blue triangles that pointed to her mouth, and on her forehead was a white crescent shaped moon. She turned her gaze to the newcomers. "Who are you?" she asked. Her voice sounded as if she was barely speaking, but it carried on the wind.

Yusuke spoke up, talking, and began to name each one of them. He noticed and watched a young girl, with long brown hair that went to the arch of her back. She had red high-lites on both sides of her face. On her neck, were the three scars that the girl running through the forest had. She had three tails coming out of her rear end, and had red ears that were black tipped, and her tails were the same design: red with black spirals coming from the black tips. She had some of the looks as the girl in his dream.

"…and this is Kurama," Yusuke said, snapping Kurama from his looking. He nodded towards them, and then turned back to the girl. She had stepped forward, and he had noticed that the skin around her hands and on her wrists, along with her feet up to her shins, were black, just like the tips of her tails. Her eyes were wide with shock, and, like she was calculating something.

"I am Sarome," she said, letting her voice take up the heat in the air. Her eyes were a stunning colour of fiery red. "Cat demon of the Flame," she nodded to the blonde with the blue streak. "This is Shelbra, full dog demon of the Wind, and this is Tarja, silver fox demon of the Weather." She nodded to the last girl. Her hair was long and silver, that went to her ankles, even in its ponytail and loop. Her eyes were black as night, and her skin, pale as snow, with extremely little color. "This is Inuyasha," she pointed to the man in the kimono, "and this is Sango, the demon slayer, and Miroku, the monk with the Wind Tunnel." He pointed to a woman with a giant bone boomerang as big as she was, Miroku, was tall, and wore a monk's purple sashed kimono, and on his right hand was a blue gauntlet, with a light blue rosary. "This is Shippo, full fox demon, and Kagome." The small little fox on her shoulder smiled and nodded, and a young schoolgirl, with a green skirt, and a sailor's top smiled and nodded, pulling the quiver of arrows on her shoulder more.

"Can you tell us where we are?" Kurama asked.

"Feudal Era Japan."