A/N: Alright this is chapter 4! The story is going a little slow but yeah we're getting there!
Disclaimer: I do not own Soul Eater or Inuyasha!
Chapter 4: Encounter
It was a usual morning for the young time traveler. She yawned loudly as she sat up in her sleeping bag, the teen stretched her limbs out as she looked around the campsite. Sango and Miroku were already up and ready, cooking by the fire preparing breakfast whilst talking to each other. A hand reached for Sango's behind, squeezing her. At this the demon slayer let out a small yelp before slapping the perverted monk across the face leaving a huge red mark on his cheek. Yep everything seemed normal.
"Quit messing around! We need to continue searching for the jewel shards!" Inuyasha huffed as he plopped down across the bickering two. At this Kagome shook her head as she rolled up her sleeping bag, it was always like that with Inuyasha, he barely had an ounce of patience in him.
"Hey not all of us are as impatient as you are Inuyasha, and I'm a kid, a shame" Shippo said as he shook his head. At this comment Inuyasha growled and struck the young fox demon o the head, making a small bump grow. He cried and rubbed the top of his head to ease the pain.
"You meanie I'm just a kid!" Shippo cried as he ran into Kagome's arms for comfort. He buried his face into the young priestess's arms as he whined.
"Inuyasha sit boy!" Kagome yelled. With a yelp, the beads of subjugation glowed as they brought the half demon straight into the ground creating a small hole where we he landed. Shippo laughed victoriously as he jumped out of Kagome's arms.
"Serves you right Inuyasha!" The kit laughed as he went to sit in Sango's lap since they were starting to serve breakfast.
"You twerp! What the hell Kagome! You didn't have to sit me like that, I was the just teaching the brat some manners!" The silvered haired half demon growled as he climbed out of his little hole, why was it that Kagome always took the kid's side. Kagome in response only shook her head, she was used to the two of them arguing like this, she just learned how to deal with it more quickly so they could all go back to what they were doing.
The rest of the morning was filled with the usual antics the group of friends would have. After breakfast everyone packed up and decided to keep going. They kept going north in search of the tip some of the villagers had told Inuyasha and the gang. There was a powerful human that could be in possession of two shards of the Shikon jewel, or so those were the rumors.
The group continued through the forest walking at a pace comfortable for the humans of the group. This always annoyed Inuyasha, even more now that they have a lead that could possibly lead to two more shards. It had been a couple of weeks since the group last encountered a shard, they were also still in search of their enemy, the half demon Naraku.
"Can you guys walk any slower?" Inuyasha complained. His friends just rolled his eyes, they were already used to dog half demon's complaining, it was just the best to ignore him and continue walking on their merry way.
Before Inuyasha could say anything, his ears perked up and turned around facing the opposite direction they were going in. He put his hand on the hilt of Tetsusaiga as he listened closely. "Is something the matter Inuyasha?" Miroku asked as he squinted his eyes, searching the forest for anything that could alarm his half demon friend.
Kagome's eyes widen slightly in surprise, she could feel something powerful coming towards them quick, she wanted to say it was a jewel shard, but something was off, she looked over towards Miroku to check if she wasn't the only one to feel this energy. He nodded confirming with Kagome that he also felt something. "It's heading right towards us!" Kagome said as she backed behind Inuyasha, he drew his sword and positioned himself to fight.
"You're going to fast! We're going to crash!" A voice was heard. Within seconds of the voice talking a blur passed Inuyasha and his friends and straight into a tree. Groaning was heard as two bodies fell from the tree and down onto the ground with a loud grunt.
~0o0~
It had been a couple of hours since Soul and Maka departed from Kaede's village. Maka sighed as sat on Soul's pole, "This place is rather boring" the meister muttered under her breath.
"Oh yeah am I supposed to do something about?" Soul muttered, he was pretty much bored as well, they had left the forest just to jump into another one, it felt like they were going in circles at this point.
Maka pouted, "Hmph, we should have at least picked up on their wavelengths, it's like we're lost and I hate it" the pig tailed hair girl grasped Soul's pole as she avoid some trees in her way.
Soul tsked, he was starting to get annoyed, "Expand your Soul Perception and we should be able to find them" it would be a little hard for the meister since she was not familiar with this girl's wavelength. "Lady Kaede did say she was traveling in a group, just search for souls in a group"
Maka sighed, "Fine" she said giving in, she had tried it earlier but they were not who they were looking for, she focused herself as she began scanning the area ahead of them, as the two moved forward she found a group of soul wavelengths, "I found something! It could be her!" The meister said excitedly, she began to speed up in hopes of catching up to the group, they were still quiet up ahead.
"Hey Maka maybe you should slow down, we aren't exactly up in the sky you know!" Soul exclaimed as he watched his surroundings fly past him. He was growing nervous as their speed increased and the amount of tree and shrubs as well.
"Hush we're almost there just a bit more!" The weapon pair flew quickly, trying to avoid the brush of trees and shrubs. Maka flinched as one of her pigtails were pulled by a branch. They were very close to the group of souls, they had to slow down soon or else she would lose control.
"You're going too fast! We're going to crash!" Maka yelled as they flew past a group of people and straight into a tree top. On impact Soul transformed back into his human form, groaning in pain. Maka falls against him when she moves, ultimately sending the pair falling down onto the dirt ground.
"Look at what you did Soul! This is all your fault!" Maka grunts as she picks herself up from Soul who just squirms under her weight. He sits up and rubs his head gently where he hurt himself.
"I told you to stop going so fast in the first place!" He yells. He grabs the hand his meister had extended to him and stands up. The two turn two face the group of strangers just staring at them in a confused manner.
Maka blushes slightly in embarrassment when she notices the only girl in the group wearing modern clothes, she was hiding behind a tall man with long silver hair and ears on top of his head. She smiles and points at her, "You're Kagome aren't you! We've been searching for you!" The meister yells as she begins to approach the girl in a school uniform.
Inuyasha growls gently as he blocks Kagome even more from Maka's view, at this Soul reacts and stands by his meister's side, grabbing her hand in case he needed to transform.
"What business do you have with Kagome!?" The half demon yelled pointing his huge sword towards Maka. She and Soul backed up a few feet away from the half demon. Kagome's eyes widen as big as saucers when she noticed the two stranger's attire. She grabbed Inuyasha's sleeved and pulled the sword in his hand away from the strange girl in pig tails and her white haired companion.
"Y-You're from the future aren't you! How did you get here! How is this possible!? Do you have shards of the Shikon jewel!?" The black-haired girl approached Maka, her questions flooding out of her mouth.
"That's why we came to find you, we...went in the well and we came here, right Soul?" Maka looked over to her weapon partner who just nodded in agreement.
"But why did you go through the well? Where you at my house?" Kagome asked. Didn't her mom or brother tried to stop her, did she trespass? She was so confused.
"Uh about that, it might take some time to explain..." Soul muttered as he let go of Maka's hand to scratch his cheek.
~o0o~
"So, the recent murders were these things called kishin eggs?" Kagome mumbled. She had heard about the murders each time she came back home from her mother, but she didn't think the murders where connected to something as big as what Maka had told her.
"Yes, and last night when Soul and I were chasing him, he went through well, we believe he came back in time, and the nest is in this time period" Maka said. Both groups were sitting near a river bank where they decided to eat lunch. Maka and Soul were starving and practically drooled when Kagome had offered them some instant ramen, although, Inuyasha wasn't as pleased to share his treats with random strangers.
"You say you hunt these kishin eggs, how do you hunt them down?" Sango had asked she fetched some drinks for both the meister and weapon, Maka had only explained the kishin ordeal and completely left out the fact that Soul was a death scythe and she used him to kill the kishin eggs.
"Well you see, I'm a meister and Soul is a weapon...I think it would just be easier to demonstrate" the pig tailed meister stood up holding Soul's hand, she was used to showing off in front of crowds, she would do so in front of new students at the DWMA. In a quick flash of light Soul had transformed, he spun rapidly as Maka handled him.
"T-that's amazing!" Shippo and Kagome said at the same time. Kagome was truly impressed, she even felt a bit envious, all she had was a bow and arrow, and even then her shots weren't always guaranteed to hit the target. Inuyahsa was also quit impressed, but of course he wouldn't actually admit it out loud. Both Sango and Miroku were surprised, they had never heard of a human who could turn into a weapon, and Maka seemed so small and frail to be carrying that huge scythe and swinging it around.
"Actually, yesterday when I returned from the future we approached this demon, well it looked like a demon, it was a shadow like thing, we killed it and a red orb appeared" Kagome pursed her lips as she tried recalling the day before.
This caught the DWMA student's attention. "A red orb? That's definitely a kishin egg" Soul said as he wiped the drool forming at his lips, already thinking about the eggs Maka would collect for him.
"Then that confirms it, there's more out here and we need to find them" Maka quickly gets up and bows at the group in gratitude, she looks over at Soul and pushes his head to bow as well. "Thank you so much for your hospitality but we need to get going!"
"W-wait you can't just leave! It's dangerous out here!" Kagome exclaims getting up as well. She looks back at her friends who not.
"Yes Lady Kagome is right, it would be best if we traveled together" Miroku pipes in.
"Pfft please I'm sure I can take care of myself" Maka giggles. She thinks about it but shakes her head. This was the meister weapon pair's mission and they would complete it themselves
"Yeah but unlike you two we know the land" Inuyasha smirks as he crosses his arms across his chest.
Maka inwardly groans as he had a point, she bit her lip and looked over to her weapon in case he wanted to voice his opinion. But of course he just shrugged, truthfully he wasn't in the mood to get lost in feudal Japan.
"I guess…but we need to go back and gather some supplies and contact Kid" Maka finally gives in and every one smiles.
Soul hummed slightly, "If we're in the past…that means Lord Death is still alive" He mutters. Maka frowns and shakes her.
"We shouldn't mess with the past, we need to let Kid know, he's the Shinigami we are working under" A small smile forms on the meister, Soul nods. Kagome and the others just stared, confused, did they say Shinigami, they all ignored it and decided to ask later.
"Kagome please take us back to the future" Maka asks. At this Inuyasha grumbles.
"Seriously!? She just came back! Can't you back yourselves?" he was visibly annoyed, they were already behind on their search for the jewel shards now that these two showed up.
"Sit boy! Of course I'll take you! I'll even go with you two back" Kagome smiles sweetly placing her hands behind her back, as if she didn't send Inuyahsa crashing into the earth just a few seconds ago.
Soul sweat dropped as he watched Inuyasha's body twitch violently. Like Maka, this Kagome girl was not to be messed with.
A/N: End of chapter 4! Hope you enjoyed it, don't forget to review! Thanks for reading, also thinking that this is after the Soul Eater manga so in case y'all were wondering.
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