Heh heh, sorry for the wait guys... distracted.

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Trouble in the Feudal Era

Chapter 6

Section 1

Zac wandered through the forest, pushing vegatation out of his path. The sunlight gleamed through the leaves, yet reflected their color, making the surrounding area have a tinge of green about it. He leaned up against a rough tree, catching his breath. He had been walking for hours, and the exhaustion caught up with him. He straightened up and kept going. He heard a noise behind him. He turned to see what it was, but not before an arrow whistled through the air and grazed his right arm.

"Gnnnh..." he grunted. He reached up and felt the area. The warm touch of blood greeted his fingertips. He pulled his hand back and looked at it. His hand glistened crimson in the sunlight. Suddenly he felt very sick. He doubled over, clutching his stomach. He knew he was bad around blood, but it never felt like this before. His sight went from the lushious green forest around him, to a very vibrant blue. He looked at his hands again. They were there, but were engulfed in a bright blue flame. He turned to the assailants who attacked him. Two men stood there, wearing leather studded armor. One held a bow, the other clutched the hilt of his sword... but they weren't moving. Zac walked up to them and touched one. No reaction was to be found. He quickly knocked the assailants to the ground and ran in the direction of Kaede's village. His vision turned back into the forest that he recognised. He didn't stop.

After a long time, he finally broke out of the forest into the village. He spotted Kaede's hut and made his way to it. Kaede stood outside. He ran to her.

"Zac?" he collapsed to the ground, unconcious. "Inuyasha!" Inuyasha burst out of the hut. "Zac is injured. Bring him inside." Inuyasha grabbed him, and slung him over his shoulder.

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Trouble in the Feudal Era

Chapter 6

Section 2

Zac sat up quickly in his bed. His vision came back to him. He sat in his room. The familiar whirring of his fan filled his ears, that and the familiar noise of his father's snoring. He got up and moved towards the stairs.

"Was it all just a dream?" He wondered aloud. It couldn't have been. It was all too real. Then again, how could've he gotten here? He moved downstairs. His father lay asleep as usual. His mother, however, sat in the kitchen, on the computer. He walked up to her. "Hey mom." she didn't respond. "Mom?" nothing. He tried tapping her shoulder to catch her attention, but was amazed to see that his hand went right through her, as if she wasn't even there. He ran outside, people were walking up and down the streets.

"Hello?! Can anybody here me?" Nobody acknowledged the fact that he existed. "Hello?! HELLO?!"

"What?!" an annoyed voice sounded from behind him. Zac turned to find himself face to face with his friend Cameron.

"You can hear me?"

"What the devil are you talking about? Of course I can bloody well hear ya'. You were screamin' your friggin' head off."Zac began walking towards him. "Err... what are you doing?" Cameron asked.

"I'm going to see if I can touch you." Zac replied, holding out his hand.

"That sounds kinda... well, gay." Zac tapped his shoulder and breathed a sigh of relief. "Are you happy know that you know that you can "touch" me?"

"Don't be gay, you jack ass." Zac said angrily.

"Me? Your the one going around and touching random guys!"

"Twas only you, and that was to see if you were real..."

"That may be true but it was disturbing."

"Stop being such a pansy." Suddenly, a voice rang through the air.

"Zac? Zac! I think he's coming to, get the water Inuyasha!" Zac sat up once again. His head was spinning and his vision was blurry. Everything came into focus. Kaede stood over him, looking concerned. "Are you alright, child?"

"Yeah... I think I'm fine."

"Oni-Chan!" a happy voice rang through the air. Before Zac could react, he was taken into a large hug. When the person let go, he looked up. Right into the face of his friend Cheyenne.

"Zac, we know you just got up, but we have to move to collect more shards." Kagome said to him. Zac stood up, brushed off and sighed.

"Right. Lets go then." a noise caught his attention. He turned to his left where a moderately sized hole opened up in the air. Everyone stood and stared, unmovingly, until screaming split the air. A person fell out, and landed face first.

"Bloody hell..." the person rolled over.

"Cameron?" Zac, and Cheyenne said in unison.

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Trouble in the Feudal Era

Chapter 6

Section 3

Ia and Miroku continued on their journey. The only conversing between them consisted of small talk, bouncing back and forth. Ia remembered Miroku mentioning something about a curse on his family and decided to bring it up again.

"Miroku? Can you tell me about that curse on your family again?" Miroku sighed.

"Your very nosy, you know that?"

"Yes, and I take that as a complement." he sighed again.

"Fine... the curse was placed upon us by Naraku, as you already know. It's a curse called the wind tunnel."

"The wind tunnel? Care to explain a bit more?"

"I was getting there. You see, my right hand has a slowly expanding Kazāna that sucks in anything nearby if it's not kept covered by a cloth and strand of japa mala beads. This curse was placed on my grandfather by Naraku and passed down to me. my father died because the wind tunnel grew so large that it sucked him up. Eventually, the curse will cause me to be sucked in as well, unless Naraku is defeated, and the curse is broken."

"Really? Can I see it?"

"If you wish to have your life end right now."

"Oh..."

"Yeah...oh." voices arose from behind them. He grabbed Ia, and dove behind a bush. Peering out, he saw Kagome. "It's her."

"You know her?" Ia asked.

"Well, I stumbled upon a certain hotspring where she conveniantly was, but she has shards of the shikon jewel."

"The Shikon jewel?"

"I'll explain later." Ia rolled her eyes.

"Always a mystery with you."

"Hachi!" Miroku yelled. A tiny badger demon appeared out of thin air.

"You called master?" his tiny grey and black face moving.

"See the man with the long, silver hair?" Miroku asked.

"Yes, master. What of it?"

"Keep him... distracted." he said, pausing for the right word.

"Oh, yes master!" and in a puff of smoke, he turned into a giant monster-like boulder. He rolled toward the man with the silver hair. He looked up just in time to try and stop Hachiemon's boulder-like self. Dust rose into the air, and in the confusion, Miroku leaped out and grabbed the shards from around Kagome's neck. Then stealing her bike, rode off, leaving Hachi and Ia on their own with this strange group. Kagome saw Ia for a second before she hid behind the bush again.

"Hello? Is somebody there?" Ia stood up, knowing she had been caught. Before she had time to react, a voice arose into the air.

"Ia Swan!" she was immediatly embraced in a large hug. She finally got to look at the face of her hugger.

"Cameron?!"

"In the flesh!" he said looking proud. "That's not all though. Guess who else is here."

"Who?" she asked, confused. Zac stepped around the corner.

"I am." Ia's face brightened.

"Oni-Chan?!" Zac sagged at the sound of his nickname.

"Everybody is calling me that now." she ran to give him a hug, but he ducked out of the way. "Stow it. Don't get all sentimental on me now, save it for Chey." Olivia looked past him to see Cheyenne standing. They looked at eachother as if they've never met before, then promptly, they leaped into a hug, and began dancing in circles.

"Is Skie here?" Ia asked happily. Chey's face sunk.

"No. We haven't seen head or tail of her yet." A sad look passed over Ia.

"The three amigops will never be reunited."

"Oh yeah! Hell of a way to stay optomistic!" Zac said in his usual sarcastic tone of voice.

"Well great reunion and all, but the jewel shards have been stolen, remember?" Zac looked to Inuyasha who wore an impatient face.

"Okay..." Zac said hesitantly. "Meaning?" he wass met by a sharp blow to the head by Inuyasha.

"Meaning we gotta get our butts moving, idiot!"

"Oh... right. Well, onwards, then!" they turned as a group to pursue the lecherous monk.

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Right! That concludes that! Skie, sorry your not in this one, but it's long, and it's like, 1:30 in the morning, so I'm right bloody tired... 1:30? Ah ha! Inuyasha is on now! 'Scuse me!