A/N: Please review! Reviews are the fuel I use to write new chapters! I'm putting the next chapter up right now, but after this chapters are going to be put out (for sure) once a week and sooner if I get reviews. Readers are my motivation after all. Honestly I have the attention span of a gnat otherwise.
I listened. Well of course I listened. It was fascinating! Completely insane but fascinating nonetheless. Apparently, I was 500 years in the past and demons, or youkai were commonplace in this time.
"So Inuyasha is half demon? A hanyou?" I asked calmly.
"Yup, what of it?" Inuyasha answered.
"Uh-huh… and Sesshomaru is youkai?" I cast a sidelong glance in Sesshomaru's direction. He glared back. "Right, and the way back to modern Japan is through the well…"
Kagome sighed, "You don't believe us do you?"
"So, tell me Sesshomaru. How'd you two lovebirds meet?" Inuyasha mocked. Sesshomaru stiffened even more if that was possible, but I replied before he could.
"Ew, don't be disgusting. Hey Kagome can you take a look at my neck? It's been burning like crazy ever since that old guy did what ever it is that he did."
"You neck? Oh! You have…" Kagome had swiped the hair away from my neck before exclaiming, "Its like Sesshomaru's!"
"What? What is it? It feels like a rash, is it really that bad?" I rubbed at the offending rough patch just below my ear.
"Holy shit! You really are mated!"
"What is it! You're freaking me out!"
"It's a mating mark ningen, but that will be taken care of," Sesshomaru answered.
"What do you mean mating mark? And taken care of how? For some reason when you say that I think mafia."
Kagome rustled around in her backpack, tugging out a compact. She flipped it open and angled it so I could see my neck. I frowned.
"That's a tattoo. Sesshomaru? Why did you have your name tattooed on my neck?" My voice was deceptively calm.
He growled in response, somehow managing to make the noise without changing his facial expression at all.
"Your name is tattooed on my neck you psycho! What the hell! At least it's in Kanji… How am I going to explain this? The Killing Perfection…what kind of explanation am I going to give for having that tattooed on my neck?"
"You will cease your yelling ningen. It is offensive to this Sesshomaru's ears."
"Your name on my neck is offensive to this Kodi's eyes!" I screamed. A snarl ripped from the demon's throat, for at that moment he truly seemed a demon. My anger dissipated as the sound seemed to shake the ground we stood on. I squeaked and stumbled back a step. Sesshomaru's eyes ran red. I gasped and hurried back toward him, startling him from his rage. I was oblivious.
"Oh no! Your eyes. Oh geez! Are you OK? Does it hurt? Oh geez you must've popped a blood vessel! Does it hurt? Maybe you should sit down." My hands fluttered ineffectually around the startled man's face. "I never made anyone actually pop a vessel before," I mumbled distractedly to myself. The redness of his gaze seemed to fade before my eyes as he blinked bemusedly down at me. The redness was replaced by the honey amber of his irises and I released a sigh of relief.
"Oh, they're back to normal. Good." I lowered my hands and as the brief moment of panic receded I felt my earlier irritation at being kidnapped by someone so obviously unhinged return.
I sighed again, "Fine. I'll worry about the tattoo later. So the well huh? I just jump down and I'm back in my own time?"
Kagome nodded dumbly. Both she and Inuyasha were standing in complete shock. Their mouths hung open in complete astonishment. I frowned at them until they stopped. Kagome pulled herself together first, straightening and clearing her throat.
"Er, yes. The well is the way back to the present."
"Really," I smirked, "You want to jump down and give me a little demonstration? After all, this is a pretty big story you're telling me."
Kagome seemed to consider it, but Inuyasha expressed his objections.
"No way wench. You just got back, you're not leaving so soon."
"What is this?" a female's voice asked cautiously. I looked toward the woods and gave an involuntary yelp. A young woman walked out of the trees followed by a monk. It was the giant cat that had startled me however. The feline had creamy white fur and red eyes. I stared in fascination at the fangs and double tail.
"Kitty…" I murmured in delight. I ignored the multiple glances that bit of inanity brought. I frowned, "Big kitty… oh, demon kitty. Well, ok."
"Oh, so now you believe us?" Inuyasha asked indignantly.
I straightened imperiously, "In this kind of situation proof is a necessary commodity."
"…What?" Inuyasha blinked.
I sighed, "Well, I know that at least some of what you said is true." I inched closer to the cat demon, extending my hand hesitantly. I smiled when the cat delicately licked my palm and allowed me to pet her. She really was large, the size of a horse at least. I glanced back up at the group again. Kagome seemed to be busy explaining the situation to the newcomers. I frowned when I caught the houshi stealing glances at my bottom. "So yes I believe you more of what you've said now. Not all of it of course. After all, furry ears does not a demon make. Unless you can show me some proof of your demonic-um-ness as well?" I shot a thinly veiled look of avid curiosity at Sesshomaru. I could almost convince myself I could see a sneer curve his pale lips. His pale nicely shaped lips.
"That is not this Sesshomaru's responsibilty," he answered. " We will leave now ningen."
"Why do you speak in third person? Are there that many Sesshomarus that you need to distinguish which one you're talking about?" I asked out of honest curiousity. He didn't reply although I thought I did see his eyes pinken slightly.
I frowned, "Careful, I think your eyes might be acting up again. You don't want to hurt yourself do you?"
"Er, Kodi is it? Sesshomaru-sama's eyes turn red when his youkai is provoked," The girl with the ponytail (Sango?) stated hesitantly.
"Oh, really? That's…creepy. I hope it doesn't hurt. Well, as fun as this had been, I think I'm ready to leave now," I stood and dusted off the seat of my pants. The houshi's veneer of control seemed to crack.
"Milady! Please, I am overcome with your beauty! I must ask-," a dull crack sounded through the trees and the monk Miroku collapsed in an undignified heap. Sango stood behind him holding her giant boomerang above his still form.
"Oh, your boyfriends a flirt huh?" I asked her blankly, my hand hovering limply in the air where Miroku had lifted it to his lips. I shook myself out of my surprise. "OK, like I was saying. Nice meeting you all, goodbye." I started walking back towards the well.
"We are leaving in this direction ningen," Sesshomaru stated. I ignored him. My name was not 'ningen' after all. Besides, I didn't care where he thought 'we' were going.
"Ningen! Where do you think you're going?"
"My name is Kodi not 'ningen.' I would think that with demonic dog senses you wouldn't be hard of hearing. I am going to jump down a well and hope that when I land I will not only be in my own era, but that I will not have broken both my legs," I tossed all this over my shoulder as I trekked up the little hillock to the well.
I blinked in surprise as Sesshomaru appeared in front of me. Wow, he was just there! I actually slid a little on the grass when I jerked to a stop. My hands flew to his chest as I steadied myself. His eyes narrowed in distaste. Good grief, it's not like I was actually touching him! There had to be at least four layers of cloth, as well as his armor and the pelt over his shoulder between the palms of my hands and his skin. He growled and I patted him condescendingly and sighed.
"Girl, you are not going down the well. As I said before, we are going in the opposite direction, toward someone who might be able to break this curse," Sesshomaru clipped out.
"I'd hardly call being mated to the girl a curse," Kagome whispered from somewhere behind me.
"But being mated to Sesshomaru could be called one," Inuyasha quipped back.
I ignored them both in favor of Sesshomaru, "Well, that's great. But how about, you go and break this mating and in the mean time I'll just pop over to my era and wait it out? Hmm?"
"Hardly. This Sesshomaru would rather not find myself deceased because something happened to you on the other side of the well. You will stay here."
I frowned up at him. Then I ducked around him and sprinted toward the well. The ground shook with his enraged growl. It was so low I couldn't here it. Instead I felt it as I ran. I thought that I had made it, but apparently Sesshomaru had just waited until I was close to it before striking.
"Aagh! Don't hurt the well!" Kagome cried just as a glowing cord snapped into the grass between me and the well. The ground was bare and smoldering where the cord had hit the ground. I had done a fair imitation of a home run slide when I had seen the thing slicing through the air in front of me. I lay on the ground looking up at the red-eyed Youkai Lord standing over me. I gaped at the glowing whip coiled in his grasp.
"Where the hell did that come from?" I shouted.
"Ningen you try my patience-,"
"So?" I cut him off and mocked, "You can't kill me remember?" Then the world blinked out.