Usually, when Ryoga got lost, he got lost between different points of space, not between different points of time. He'd try to reach the Tendo dojo and end up kidnapped by deranged ice skaters. He'd try to get to Tokyo and would end up in Hokkaido. He'd try to go to Hokkaido and end up in Thailand. He once got lost on the way from the bathtub to the sink.

But the grandpa he'd met a while back said that "Higurashi shrine" was in Tokyo. Ryoga had sighed in relief. At least he was in Tokyo.

Then he tripped over a bucket of cold water, and then he fell down a well, and then he was suddenly being chased by an ogre.

It was a giant, ugly ogre, with no hair, plenty of fangs, crusty green-grey skin, two beady pinpricks for eyes, and most horrifyingly, only a tiny yellow loincloth covering his waist. Seriously...the loincloth could have been larger. The wind had blown the wrong way for a minute and he saw things he didn't want to see.

"Mmmm! Fresh suckling pig for dinner!" the thing roared, reaching out with his meaty fists. "Come here, little piggy!"

Ryoga tried calling out for help, his piglet heart beating like a hummingbird's wings. Unfortunately, all that came out was:

"BWEEEE!"

He ran helter-skelter into the dense dark forest that had appeared out of nowhere when he came out of the well.

There was a blur of green and red somewhere in the treetops, but Ryoga understandably didn't try to get a closer look, preoccupied as he was.

"Awww, what a cute piglet!" a girl's voice yelled. "Inuyasha, kill it!"

"Kill...the piglet?" 'Inuyasha' sounded horrified.

So did Ryoga, who let out yet another squeaky 'bweeee.'

"No, you idiot! The ogre! Kill the ogre!"

"Oh. Oh right."

The ogre's rancid breath was getting too close to P-chan for comfort, and Ryoga closed his eyes for what he supposed would be the last time.

Akane smiled down at him from the corner of his mind.

She'd never see P-chan again. She'd look and look and look. But she wouldn't find him.

I'm sorry, Akane-san.

Tears dripped down his snout.

"Kaze no kizu!"

There was a brilliant flash of light, and Ryoga passed out.

There was a fair bit of scratchiness on his cheek. He opened his bleary eyes and found his face smushed into what appeared to be an absolutely filthy school uniform. It was covered in crimson splotches of blood, dark smudges of dirt, and a goopy yellow substance that Ryoga took care to avoid, though the cloth had clearly been washed innumerable times to no avail. What had the owner of the uniform even been doing?

Warm hands stroked his pig ears.

"Ahh, little guy, don't get scared," a girl's voice cooed. "Where did you even come from? Your bandanna definitely isn't from the Sengoku Jidai."

Sengoku Jidai? What was this mystery girl on about?

"I dunno how you got through the well without any kind of magic powers..."

The well was the problem, wasn't it? This always happened to him. He had only just rested his body from last week's unexpected trip to Bangkok...

"...but feudal Japan is no place for helpless time-traveling piglets."

Ryoga gave a strangled squeak.

Time travel? TO FEUDAL JAPAN?

"Really, you don't how how many demonic freaks will pop up out of the woodwork and try to make you into a nice stew. Just the other day, there was Hiten and Manten and they wanted to turn me into hair conditioner! Can you believe that, piggy-chan? Hair conditioner. One of them was bald!"

This girl's life didn't sound all that different from his. What horror. How much chaos was there on the planet? What had Ryoga stumbled into?

"But anyway, piggy-chan, it's a good thing we found you in time," the schoolgirl rambled, without a care in the world. Why there was a time-traveling schoolgirl in feudal Japan, he did not wish to interrogate further as it would lead to more complications for him.

"You have no idea how much trouble I saved you from...Shippo-chan wanted to use you as his mount...ride you like a horse, you know...ahh, piggy-chan, you're blushing! That's so cute...but yes, we really should get you back to Tokyo, shouldn't we? The Bone-Eater's Well isn't that far away, but I'm afraid of what might happen if you get lost."

Ryoga nodded fiercely. Please don't let me get lost.

This Shippo person sounded terrifying.

With that, she hoisted him up and pranced off to jump into the well. Ryoga let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding when he and the girl were engulfed in bright light and the Higurashi shrine came back into view.

He didn't understand how this happened and hopefully, he never would.

Time travel portals in Tokyo? Really?

The places Ryoga had seen...

A/N: Wouldn't it be fun if all these series were happening in the same universe hahaha.

Ryoga getting lost in the Sengoku Jidai and meeting Inuyasha's gang would be hilarious and you all know it...

Might do a follow-up to this one...we'll see...