Chapter 3: why now?

Disclaimer thingy: I dot own Inuyasha

I pulled into the garage of Yuka's house to go over homework and whatnot. That was at 2:30.

Its 4:30 and instead of going over homework, yuka, Eri, Ayumi, and myself were sprawled across the living room floor in a poorly made circle playing truth or dare.

"Kagome, truth or dare?" Yuka asked me

"Truth" I have no idea why they would continue to ask me, they know my answer. I thought with a pang of annoyance.

"Pussy" Ayumi hollered out, but before I could retaliate, Yuka pressed on.

"Ok, what will you do if Asami falls through the well into the feudal era, and meets one of your friends, or Rin?" She said.

Yea, they know all about the mutt and my 'life' in that era. In fact, every time I came back, I would call or send a text message to update them on how things were going. So it wasn't a surprise when I told them I was home for good.

"I will explain to Rin that we cannot stay to play, and I have to take Asami home." I responded, avoiding the true question 'will you ever visit?' because in truth, I don't know.

"Hmmm" was all Yuka said.

I tapped my chin as I looked around our poor excuse for a circle. Ayumi. Yes, I will pick her.

"Ayumi, truth or dare?" I asked, even though I already knew the answer, she's gonna pick 'dare' she always does.

"Dare" See? What I tell you? But it's cool because I got something good for her.

"I dare you to call my mom and go drug dealer on her. I smirked at the look of horror on her face. You see, Ayumi is terrified of my mother, don't get me wrong now, drugs are bad news, unless you're using it as a gimic to mess with your friends mom.

After the color returned to her face, she picked up her cell phone and dialed my mother's number.

"Hello, Higurashi residence."

My mother's voice rang out from the phone into the suddenly quiet room.

"Hello?" when she asked the second time, we all glared at Ayumi, silently telling her to hurry up.

"yo, where's my money? i told you kid, if you didn't show with the twenty grand, we are going to ruin you! you bought it now...dont cry when we kill the cat."

Ayumi growled into the phone, and then hung up real fast. We all just kinda sat there for a good three seconds before we all busted out laughing. We were laughing for an entire 2 or 3 minutes, to the point that we were all red in the face, and had tears comming down our faces. 'Kami, I feel a six pack comming on'

We were laughing so hard that we didn't even know that someone had came we finally finished, we never noticed Yuka's 21-year-old cousin, Aki come in.

"What's so funny?" his dark brown eyes were cold and cruel, even though his tone was light and friendly.

At first glance, Aki is not at all hard on the eyes. Standing at a sturdy 6'1" with dark brown hair that is always cut like Han from fast five along with the dark brown eyes that are also enticing. When he takes off his shirt, women often swoon at the sight of perfectly sculptured abs, and the rest of his incredibly ripped chest. That is just his appearance though. He is a very attractive man and he knows that, it's gone to his head and has given him a rotten outlook on women, as well as a rotten attitude. Whenever he is alone with one or two of us, he always tries to come on to us, especially Ayumi and me. Even his cousin Yuka, so as you can guess, he makes us uncomfortable.

We all shared a glance, nodded, and then we began to gather our stuff to leave.

"Oh, nothing. Just playing a girl game." Yuka said as she grabbed her book bag and made her way to the door, she'll probably crash at Ayumi's place tonight. But before she could make her way out of the door, Aki blocked her way.

"Oh, where are you four going?" he leered. Thankfully Ayumi stepped in to distract him.

"Oh, us? We're going to teach Eri how to play softball, that's all," she smoothly said as she moved him towards the living room so we could leave.

"So why does Yuka have to go?" he was getting mad, and fast.

"Surely someone as strong and smart as you knows that Yuka is the best softball player our school has ever had? We need her to do it right." Ayumi purred. She slowly moved her hand up his chest to rub his shoulder. At this point, everyone was safely inside the cars well; Well Yuka was in Ayumi's car. Either way we are all safe, Ayumi just needs to get out of there.

Out of nowhere, Eri honked and that made Aki come back to reality. He sharply turned his head to glare, then Ayumi did something to his head, and knocked him out cold.

"Yea, I rock." She gloated while skipping towards her Mazda 2 hatchback with Yuka already in the passenger side.

"Sure, sure. Can we go before he wakes up? Did you all forget that my parents are on their second honeymoon, and that's the whole reason why he's here?" Yuka said, her speaking was getting fast and jumbled, so she was scared, or nervous. But I need to leave soon also…

"Yeah, I have to clean the house before Asami comes." I said

"Alright, bye guys!" Eri waved before she drove off.

"See ya kagome." Yuka said from inside Ayumi's car.

"Later, kagome. Good luck with 'Dora the explorer' tonight." with that Ayumi took Yuka and together, they drove away. With all of them gone, I got into my car and began to drive home.

~20 mins later~

'There' I thought as I placed chocolate chip cookies on the kitchen table. I finally finished cleaning the house, top to bottom; Sota, my kid brother, is away on a field trip to Beijing until the end of the month, which is a good four weeks away. Also jii-chan is in America visiting a friend. Which is fine by me, that means I can clean the entire house in peace.

After I freshened up some and put on a movie called 'Another Cinderella Story' for Asami in the DVD player in the living room. After I put on the movie on the doorbell rang. I glanced at the clock, 6:30 was the time that they were supposed to be coming, and it was exactly 6:35. 'Close enough' I thought as I opened the door the and Ms. Coco is one of those parents that just will not get old. She is 47 years old, and decked out in leopard print jeggins, and a skintight black shirt that has a V-neck that reaches her belly button, with leopard pumps. She wears excessively much make up and talks funny; she says she is just trying to stay 'hip'. Cue the eye roll.

"Heyyyy, girl! What's poppin tonight?" she asked as she handed Asami over to me.

"Nothing " how does she not know how stupid she sounds?

"okay, well you have fun with that. Me and your mom are gonna have some fun tonight" she winked at me then skipped off to her car. All the while, she didn't even notice me making gagging sounds at her back. Oh, well. Time to get Asami to watch the movie.

"Ok! Let's go get you all comfy, I out your favorite movie on for you…." I trailed off as I noticed that Asami wasn't even here with me anymore.

'Shit.' I swore as I began to look for the troublesome girl.

~15 mins later~

I had been looking for Asami for a total of 15 minutes before I finally decided to check the shrine where the well was located. I stood by the shrine doors and braced myself for the onslaught of memories that were sure to come. I opened the door and did a little happy dance as I felt relief at the fact that I can clean the shrine without emotions; no regret, sorrow, remorse/guilt for what I left behind. However, my happy dance ended quickly as the room was blasted with a bright blue light. the same blue light that would appear when I passed through the well to the feudal era.

Asami can use the well.

Asami used the well.

Asami went to the feudal era

Fuck

My

Life

After 20 minutes of panicking, and debating whether to go after her and bring her back, because lets face it, she could totaly survive, so i could leave her, but I decided to bring her back. Part of me knew I had to go and save her, but the other part just wanted to pretend like it never happened, but unfortunately, my conscious would not let me get away with that. So with a plan in mind, I ran up stairs and dug around in my closet until I found my 'feudal era bag'. I loaded it with enough food and clothing and blankets for two weeks, I doubt I'll even need but you never know. It might take up too two or three weeks to save her, I really hope it doesn't come to that though. I changed my clothes to match the climate of the feudal era, its weather seems to be enhanced to whatever weather were having now. So if its chilly here, it will most likely be snowing there. With that in mind, I put on dark blue/black skinny jeans, a grey v-neck sweater, white snow boots that come just below my knee, with a little heel, and a black winter coat.

After I finished my outfit, I put my hair in a tight high ponytail with a side bang. I looked like a girl- no a woman, on a mission. No more, kid Kagome. I ran to my bag and threw in three different sets of outfits just in case I am there longer than planned. I texted my friends, and told them what has happened and threw the phone into the bag. I zipped it up, ran to the bathroom mirror, and put on some black eyeliner, black mascara, I'm not too crazy about eye shadow, but I do put on some minty lip-gloss. Have to love bath and body works. Now I look like a hot, mature, woman on a mission. I remembered the weapon, and self-defense lessons I took the summer I left the feudal era, and ran to my nightstand and grabbed one Swiss army pocketknife. And two regular pocketknives, and just for old times' sake, I even grabbed my bow and arrows. I put the Swiss army in my back pocket and one other pocketknife on the inside of my boot. I stuffed my last pocketknife, and i just carried my bow and arrows…it was hard as shit but I did it.

Aright, let's get this show on the road, it's only Tuesday, no need to stay the week. And if I do get attacked…I won't be defense less.

I grabbed my bag and ran down stairs to the shrine. I busted through the doors, ran to the opening of the well, took a deep breath, and jumped in.

A familiar blue light surrounded me a split second before I was sitting on the cold well floor. I stood up and dusted the dirt off my ass, grabbed my bag and began my climb up the well. As soon as I poked my head above the well, I felt the bite of the icy cold air blow on my face, I kno it probably left it a little red. I got out of the well and took in my surroundings. The trees surrounding the clearing were sprinkled with pure white snow; a nice think layer of snow covered the ground and made a soft crunch as I took a step forward. The laughter of children reached my ears around the same time I saw Rin running towards me, or maybe the well, with Asami not far behind her. 'It doesn't matter were there going, just grab Asami and go before shesshomaru comes for Rin. ' I thought.

"Ha-ha! This Rin is too fast for Asami!" Rin squealed she came barreling towards me, apparently not realizing I was standing here. It didn't matter because they weren't going to make it that far.

"Asami!" I yelled, happy I found her, but furious I had to travel 500 years into the past to get her back. She stopped dead in her tracks, she liked looked like she got caught with her hand in the cookie jar before her dinner. I stormed over to where she was standing and grabbed both of her shoulders.

"How were u able to get here?" I demanded

"I- I used this ball." She handed me one if the Shikon jewels that Jii-chan insists on selling. I know that it's a fake because when I destroyed Naraku, the jewel returned to me, or inside of me, however you want to think of it.

"WH-what? That is not possible… oh whatever, we'll figure this out later. C'mon, you're going back" I grabbed her hand and began leading her to the well. When I finally saw the blue light come from the well, I turned around to Rin, who had been watching the scene before her with mournful eyes.

"Why did you take Asami-Chan from me?" she asked

"Oh- uh… well you see Rin, Asami-Chan isn't allowed to come here and she disobeyed me, so I had to come and bring her back" I responded hastily, scanning the tree line. Wherever Rin is, Jaken or shesshomaru would not be far behind, ever. And, I had no intention of seeing lord fluffy pants on this little field trip.

"This Rin is sad. Will you come back? Jaken-Chan is mean to Rin." She asked with a hopeful glint in her brown eyes. Man is this gonna suckI thought as I prepared to snuff the hopeful glint in her eye. As much as I want too, I just cant.

"I can't-"

"Yes Rin. The miko shall return in a week's time. And if she does not return, I shall go to fetch her, and it will not be pleasant"

'Wait, I kno that voice, the voice I was trying oh so very hard not to have to , crap, crap,crap, crap! ' I thought as I as looked past Rin and my brown eyes clashed with blazing gold. I felt my stomach drop to the floor, and I slowly felt myself getting red from the sudden temp change. I mean, it must've changed since I'm now sweating from all the nerves and heat that has suddenly hit me.

"S-Shesshomaru" I choked out as I stared into his eyes.

"Hello, little miko." He looked like a lion closing in on his prey. His long silver hair was flowing behind his back, he was wearing his normal attire: a white and red kimono with his armor strapped on him. He was amazing, breath taking, and dangerous. 'Well fuck me; this was not supposed to happen.' I thought to myself.

He took a step forward and I sprang into action. I turned on my heel and jumped into the well, the blue light flashed around me, next thing I knew, I was on the well floor back in my own time. I scrambled up the well and sat on the edge of it.

As I got my wits together, I stood up and walked off to the living room, only to find Asami passed out on the couch. Knowing that all was well, I went up stairs, threw down the book bag and fell onto my bed.

'oh Kami, why now?' Was my last thought as I drifted off into sweet slumber.