Into the Past

Chapter One

Down the Rabbit Hole

Disclaimer: Well, I finally did it. I was finally able to own Sailor Moon and InuYasha … yeah, in my dreams maybe. Until tonight, I don't own either great anime (or the manga)

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Serena sighed as she closed her eyes, resting her head against the glass.

"I'm so bored. Why does it have to take so long to get to the Kotoku district?" The blue haired girl looked up from her book and smiled at the blonde. Another girl, a brunette this time leaned on the back of the seat the first two were sharing.

"Well, we're almost there. Besides, have you even looked at any of the scenery? It's really beautiful." Another blonde nodded in agreement, holding up a couple pamphlets.

"Yeah and there are so many sight-seeing places we can go."

"We're going to Kotoku on a mission, not for pleasure." The other blonde slunk back into her seat, sort of like a scolded child would.

"Amy, check on the signal." The blue haired girl nodded, a mini super computer appearing in her hands and she tapped on the keyboard.

"Loud and clear still, Setsuna."

"This is our stop, ladies." An aqua haired girl told them, rising from her seat. Serena rose quickly.

"Well, let's go already. My butt hurts from sitting so much." A girl with black hair smirked.

"I thought you'd be used to it by now, meatball head, since that's usually all you ever do." Serena glared at the girl as they all stepped off the bus but didn't say anything; instead, she looked at Amy.

"So, where are we going?" Amy tapped on the keyboard for a few seconds before looking up.

"That way, towards the Higurashi Shrine." This interested everyone who was paying attention.

"A shrine? Aren't shrines usually holy places?" Amy nodded.

"Usually but I am getting an exceptionally strong magic signal from it though I can't tell whether it's bad magic or not." A tall, masculine girl stepped up beside them.

"Well, let's go. The sooner we can check it out, the sooner we've got more time for ourselves." The aqua haired girl raised a brow.

"You too, Haruka?" The girl known as Haruka shrugged and grinned.

"I heard they had a good racing track here." Serena grinned and grabbed Amy's hand before darting down the street. She stopped a little ways away and waved at everyone else.

"Well, c'mon! Let's do this thing!"

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The girls arrived at the Higurashi shrine and Amy pinpointed the source of the magic to the old well house. Serena was the first one up the steps, trying to prove to everyone just how brave she could be even though the small building freaked her out big time. Opening the doors, Serena peeked in and the raven haired girl rolled her eyes.

"For crying out loud, meatball head, it's just an old well house." She opened the doors more and shoved her friend. Serena shrieked as Rei's push made her lose her balance and fall into the open well. The other girls gasped and a few made a grab for her but missed by mere inches.

Serena stopped her screaming and opened her eyes, looking around. It … was just blue … nothing else but blue. Slowly, she reached out a hand, expecting something to happen or to run into something or … well … anything but what really happened. It was as if something grabbed her and threw her downward, well, at least she thought it was downward.

Meeting the ground hard with her head, she groaned and sat up slowly, rubbing the spot where her head the solid ground had connected.

"That really hurt …" Bracing herself against the vine covered wall of the well, she stood before a butterfly caught her attention. Blinking, she noticed that … there was the nice, warm sun beating down on her but … why would there be sun? Last she checked the well house was pretty dark.

"Hey! Guys! Little help here!" She paused and waited for a reply but got nothing but the chirp of birds somewhere nearby. Grumbling about them, she grabbed hold of the vines and proceeded to haul herself out of the well, a little out of breath.

"I really need to lay off the sweets." She paused and considered that maybe the bump on the head must have dislodged something for her to say something like THAT.

Not too far away, a small little fox kit looked up suddenly and a huge smile spread across his face. He raced towards a man and a woman who were doing some gardening work.

"Miroku! Sango!" The pair looked up at the obviously excited fox child.

"What's wrong, Shippo?" He stopped bouncing only long enough to explain.

"Kagome's back! She's come back early!" They watched in amusement as the little fox zoomed past their other companion with silver hair and dog ears, nearly knocking him over in the process. He paused when he felt the particular 'whoosh' the forest seemed to do whenever Kagome used the well and bounded back in the direction he'd just came from.

On the other side of the well, the rest of Serena's traveling party was in a panic. Their fallen friend wasn't answering any of their calls and the well was too dark to see anything past the first foot or so.

"Someone climb in. She could be seriously hurt." Amy suggested concern just as apparent in her as the other members. Rei nodded, feeling particularly concerned since it was her fault that their friend and leader had fallen in the first place.

"I'll go." Grabbing hold of the convenient ladder that was placed in the well, Rei climbed down, jumping the last few feet. She braced herself for the feet to ground impact that never came.

As soon as Serena was standing, she was nearly knocked over by something that flew into her arms screaming,

"KAGOME!!!" InuYasha paused as he felt the same sensation again but brushed it off as that idiot forgetting something like her books for that school she always wanted to go back to. When he did stop, he blinked in confusion and, unless Kagome had somehow grown out her hair in the last couple hours since he'd seen her and dyed it blonde then he was staring at a completely new stranger. His suspicions were confirmed not only by his nose but by Shippo who let out a startled cry, running back to his dog-eared companion.

"InuYasha! What happened to Kagome?!" Serena blinked at the pair and her eyes grew as they grew closer to her and the other male's ears became extremely apparent to her. In all honesty, this whole situation probably shouldn't have freaked her out as much as it did since she had time traveled before, once without even knowing it and she was a super heroine that fought evil monsters and was a princess of the moon who was destined to become queen and who also had a talking cat as an advisor and a pet.

Even as freaked out as she was, she couldn't help reaching up and feeling the ears, just to see if they were real, not even noticing that she was joined by a familiar face.

Rei's eyes widened as she paused, half way over the well's lip, relief and a mixture of other emotions coming over her when she spotted the blonde.

"Meatball head! What are you doing?!" Serena paused and looked at the girl who was climbing out of the well. It was a sight to see, really. She was currently resting her fingers on InuYasha's ears with a frightened but extremely curious Shippo on his shoulder, while InuYasha had a look of disbelief on his face, almost completely oblivious to the fact that the only people to ever touch his ears were Kagome and her mother and that was generally the way he wanted it to stay.

"Rei! You're here!" The other girl looked around, completely confused.

"Wherever 'here' is." Serena finished testing out InuYasha's ears and nodded in confirmation.

"Yeah … but … how did you get here?" Rei motioned behind her.

"Through that well. The others are really worried. They thought you were hurt or something." Serena smiled softly but hid it quickly before what the other girl had told her sunk in.

"You went through it, too?" Rei nodded. InuYasha and Shippo just looked at each other, most other emotions fading away to just plain confusion. Sango and Miroku arrived just in time to see six other girls all climb out of the well one by one, each wearing clothes just as strange as the next.

"InuYasha, are you holding out on me?" Miroku half teased as he stepped up beside the hanyou. He looked at the monk with a 'as if' expression and Miroku only chuckled, walking up to Serena and taking her hands in his.

"My lady," He never noticed the rest of the group stiffen at the formality.

"I am the monk known as Miroku and I would be honored if you would consider bearing my children." Everyone except those accustomed to it jumped when Sango laid the corner of her Hiraikotsu on Miroku's head.

"Excuse him." Serena nodded a little, withdrawing her hands. Amy stepped up to the plate and she bowed lightly.

"Pardon me, but could you possibly tell us where we are? This certainly doesn't look like the Higurashi shrine we were just at." InuYasha crossed his arms over his chest.

"That's because you're not." Miroku nodded, having recovered.

"InuYasha is correct. You are in Feudal Japan, currently 500 years in the past from your time." Setsuna blinked curiously, being a time traveler herself.

"You mean to say at the well we all came out of is a time portal that transported us 500 years into the past?" Miroku nodded, a little curious as to why she sounded like she actually understood the information given to her.

Setsuna nodded and turned to Rei who was currently closest to the well. Rei looked at the woman and took a step back underneath her gaze.

"Sorry about this." She said just before pushing the girl into the well, gasps coming from everyone except the pusher. Instead of the familiar magic that the group in their original time had become used to there was just a loud,

"OW!!" Rei rubbed her backside at the bottom of the well, standing up and glaring at the sky. "What in the world did you do that for?!" Setsuna smiled apologetically at the girl, helping her out of the well.

"Just a test." After the girl was back with them, Setsuna sighed.

"We really shouldn't be here. We're probably going to change the course of history by just being here." Miroku looked at the rest of his regular companions and InuYasha shrugged.

"Take them to Kaede, I'll go get Kagome. She might have an idea or something about this whole thing." The pair nodded and Serena blinked.

"But it doesn't work!" InuYasha looked at the girl and smirked, missing the sound of her heart skipping a beat. He was a real cutie. Instead of saying something, he just jumped into the well.

They all looked over it at the flash of blue, each wearing equal expressions of shock and utter confusion. Setsuna frowned lightly as the light died down and the red clad InuYasha was gone. Sango smiled brightly at them.

"Well, I'm sure you must be hungry or at the very least, confused." The group of girls nodded and Serena whined a little.

"Guys, my brain hurts. I'm so confused …" Most of the girls giggled a little bit and Sango began walking back towards the village. After a second, they decided the best thing to do was to see this 'Kaede' person.

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InuYasha bounded out of the well and burst into the house easily, unintentionally slamming the door in the process, letting everyone in the building know he was there. Kagome came down the stairs and blinked.

"InuYasha? What are you doing here? I told you I would come back later, I've still got homework to do and I'm almost completely caught up this time." InuYasha rolled his eyes a little.

"Pack your bag, Kagome, we've got a little emergency." This time Kagome rolled her eyes and glared a little at her half demon friend and object of her affections.

"I'm sure it's nothing you can't handle, InuYasha." The hanyou walked up to her, stubbornness visible in his face.

"Well then you explain how your friends got through the well." This caused the chocolate brown eyed girl to pause and consider her friend in confusion.

"Are you feeling alright, InuYasha? You didn't hit your head or anything when you came out of the well?" Kagome lifted a hand to his forehead only to have it batted away.

"Keh, I'm fine, wench." He crossed his arms, a blush on his cheeks. He shook his head, going back to the matter at hand.

"There's a bunch of 'em, Kagome, an entire group." Kagome sighed, frowning delicately. She was sure that she could just finish her homework over there and then she could talk to Sango and Miroku, maybe figure out what was wrong with InuYasha.

"Alright, InuYasha. Let me go pack and then we'll leave." InuYasha nodded and made himself comfortable. True to her word, as soon as her oversized yellow backpack was packed, InuYasha grabbed it and Kagome, bounding into the well house and down the well, the familiar blue environment greeting them.

Once through the well, InuYasha didn't bother putting Kagome down, despite her protests, only letting her go once they were just outside Kaede's.

"I could have walked, InuYasha. I have legs, you know." Kagome glared at him and InuYasha just shrugged.

"Yeah but that would've slowed me down." Kagome's eye twitched.

"Are you calling me slow?" InuYasha smirked.

"Would I do that? Keh, whatever, just get inside already, wench." Kagome glared at him, a 'sit' on the tip of her tongue when he shoved her inside. Kagome paused when she set eyes on eight very modern, or un-modern in the current situation, girls.

Serena looked up and smiled, feeling a little numb. "Hi there." Kagome blinked and rubbed her eyes, just to make sure she wasn't seeing things.

"You'd think that I would've seen it all but this is a new one, even for me." Kagome stated to no one in particular, sitting down next to the first blonde girl. Serena nodded.

"I know that feeling." Kagome looked at her curiously.

"So … exactly how did you get here?" Serena shot a glare at Rei who smiled sheepishly. Serena turned back to the new girl with a smile.

"Well, we went to this place called the Higurashi Shrine to investigate this magic signal we were getting. Rei was a big meanie and pushed me who pushed me down the well that was there and, well, I ended up here. How about you?" Kagome blinked a little bit. Why would they investigate a magic signal? How did they get the magic signal in the first place?

"Er … I'm Kagome Higurashi and, well, I live at the Higurashi Shrine." Serena blinked a few times before erupting.

"Oh no! I'm so sorry! We didn't mean to trespass! Please don't call the police on us!" The blonde grabbed Kagome's shoulders, sobbing and crying apologies. Kagome blinked, slowly resting her hands on the girl's shoulders.

"Um … it's alright." InuYasha growled.

"For crying out loud, shut up!" Stepping up behind Kagome, he hit the blonde girl over the head. Serena blinked and then looked up at InuYasha.

"That wasn't very nice!" The hanyou just rolled his eyes, crossing his arms.

"Keh, like I care. All that noise was hurting my ears." Kagome sighed, trying to draw the girl's attention again. She still had many questions that needed answering before she could even remotely think of a way to send them back. After a few failed attempts, she just decided to remove the source of most of her irritation.

"InuYasha." The hanyou paused.

"Sit boy." Said hanyou was sent face first into the ground and all arguing stopped as the blonde regarded the fallen hanyou and her eyes traveled to Kagome. Sitting down again, she looked her over for a minute.

Setsuna sighed, rubbing her temples as she regarded everyone else. Since there was currently no way of getting out of wherever they were anytime soon, they might as well fill in the other time traveling girl.

"Miss Higurashi," The green haired girl called softly, drawing Kagome's attention. After a minute, she blushed lightly with the formality.

"Please, just call me Kagome." Setsuna nodded, liking the girl already.

"Alright, Kagome. Could you perhaps explain to us how you were able to get here and how he," She pointed to InuYasha who was just beginning to recover from the effects of the 'sit', "was able to apparently go the future and retrieve you?"

The raven haired girl blinked a couple times but smiled soon.

"Well, you see, there's this jewel called the Shikon Jewel or the Jewel of Four Souls and it was in my body so I was able to come here the first time –"

"First time?" A girl with blue hair and blue eyes asked her. Kagome smiled at the girl and nodded.

"I've been traveling back and fourth for about a year and a half now. Anyways, I'm connected to the jewel and InuYasha is connected to me so he's technically connected to the jewel as well." Rei regarded the girl, easily reading her immense spiritual powers. The old woman who apparently owned the place they were in had some of the same but only a quarter of the power that was coming off this girl.

"You've got an incredible amount of spiritual energy coming off you." Rei commented, both curious and suspicious. Kagome smiled, appearing to be used to comments like that.

"Yeah, I get that a lot." This interested Rei.

"Can you do anything with it?" Kagome thought for a moment.

"Well, I can shoot special arrows and sense the jewel shards … but … I think that's about it … Come to think of it, I haven't really tried to find out what I can really do with it." Rei was shocked at how the girl could be so calm about it but it only made her more interested in the girl.

"What I am wondering, however, is how you all got through the well." Kagome told them, her smile gone.

"We can't get back that way, either." Kagome looked at the green haired girl, concern in her eyes.

"Although it seems to still work as usual for InuYasha." Sango commented. This situation was a little frustrating since they knew really nothing about the well, only that it was only Kagome and InuYasha that could supposedly pass through. Before Kagome could respond, their little session was interrupted by one of the villagers bursting past the bamboo flap in the doorway.

"Lady Kaede, come quick. A demon is attacking the village." Kagome was the first out the flap followed by InuYasha and then the new girls, Sango, Miroku and Shippo on his shoulder and finally Kaede.

InuYasha grinned and cracked his knuckles, drawing Tetsuaiga. Serena looked at the others and her eyes rested on Setsuna. The green haired woman sighed and nodded.

"If we're going to stay here, we may as well be of some use to them until they figured out how to get back. InuYasha looked at the group of girls and then to Kagome.

"You girls stay out of my way." To the new group's surprise, it was Serena who smirked at him and shot back with a confidant reply.

"More like you stay out of our way." Serena looked at her group and they nodded. Lifting up something that Kagome thought to resemble a holy grail that she'd see in movies, she shouted,

"Moon Crisis Power!" The rest of the girls followed suit.

"Mercury Crystal Power!"

"Venus Crystal Power!"

"Mars Crystal Power!"

"Jupiter Crystal Power!"

"Uranus Crystal Power!"

"Neptune Crystal Power!"

"Pluto Crystal Power!"

Kagome had to shield her eyes, the others doing the same as flowers, feathers and a huge amount of magical power washed over them. To Kagome, it felt like a breath of fresh air that fueled her own powers. Kagome closed her eyes, letting the magic flow over her body, feeling like it was sealing in her blood though she didn't mind or even know how to stop it.

Something inside Kagome's subconscious clicked and when she opened her eyes again, she felt almost completely different. Her power was at its fullest and readily at her fingertips, the best part was that she could summon it at will without even breaking a sweat and control it to top it all off.

Super Sailor Mars, or Rei, looked over at Kagome, easily sensing the priestess powers that were overpowering her own and she mentally thanked god that the girl was on their side or they were on her side. Either way, Kagome Higurashi would be one hell of an enemy. Her head snapped to attention when the demon let out a roar and charged right at Kagome, going faster than anyone could reach the girl.

"Kagome!" InuYasha cried out, trying his best to reach her in time. Kagome's eyes snapped to the demons face and she smirked, feeling incredibly powerful. Crossing her forearms together, Kagome closed her eyes but opened them sharply, just as the demon was in range.

"Spirit Blast." She murmured, flinging her arms open, a large ball of her purification energy being released directly at the demon. Said demon screamed in pain, clutching it's wounded chest as it backed away, shocking everyone in the entire group both new and old.

"Now Sailor Moon!" Serena looked at Setsuna and nodded. Suddenly, something that looked like a cross between a staff and a sword appeared with a heart-shaped outer handle and the actual handle inside it. Just above the handle was something that looked like a gold crown with a blinking pink jewel in the centre. Holding it up in front of her with her eyes closed, two white wings suddenly sprung from the centre.

Powering up and holding it at arms length, her eyes burst open, lowering to the ground, the wind picking up around them.

"Moon Gorgeous Meditation!" With a kaleidoscope of colors, what looked like thousands of shining glass pieces shot from the tip, embedding themselves into the demon, effectively turning it into dust.

Kagome blinked a few times at herself, feeling more back to normal than just a few minutes prior. She looked at her hands and then at the group of magical girls. InuYasha came to a grinding halt and he just stared at Kagome.

He'd felt her spiritual energy peak a few minutes back but he didn't really think anything of it. How in the world had she managed that? Not being one to not voice his thoughts, he sheathed his sword, approaching the girl.

"How the hell did you do that?" He demanded, still feeling the tingle of purification powers in the air. Kagome looked at him, just as confused as he was.

"I'm … not really sure but … when they transformed … I felt their magic and it was like something inside my brain just clicked and … I can control my powers now so there are so many things I can do with them." InuYasha looked over at the still transformed girls as they approached, eyeing them carefully. He could feel the magic just rolling off them but he couldn't feel it before they transformed.

Miroku and Sango came over, extremely interested as well.

"Well done, Kagome. That was an amazing display of power." Sango told her friend with a smile. InuYasha eyed the other woman and then looked to Miroku who was nodding in approval, apparently he was the only one who didn't get it.

"Don't tell me you actually understand what just happened?" Miroku pondered for a minute, forming his answer.

"Not completely, InuYasha, but you know as well as any of us that we really know little to nothing about Kagome's powers. I have suspected for a long time that there was some kind of hidden reserve that Kagome hasn't been able to tap into until this point in time." InuYasha pouted a little.

"Alright well, what about them?" Serena put her hands on her hips.

"What ABOUT us?" InuYasha glared at her openly now.

"You're the cause of this change in Kagome and you just randomly appeared on this side of the well so you're looking pretty suspicious right about now." Kagome's annoyance peaked. He couldn't just be glad for her, could he?

"InuYasha, sit boy!" The half demon was sent to the ground again and Kagome stood over him.

"You can't just be happy for me, can you? It's always about you or the jewel shards or something else! I can finally fight with you guys and not always need you to rescue me! You're such a JERK, InuYasha!" The hanyou jumped up, getting in the miko's face, ready to retort when he saw her expression. He looked to his other familiar companions wearing similar expressions when he felt it.

"Sesshomaru." Before them stood the grand Taiyoukai as he looked upon the group which had recently acquired new members by the looks of things. He looked them over slowly. They wouldn't be much of a threat one on one with him but as their current group, especially with the miko's heightened powers, it could mean the end of him and the Western Lands. His golden eyes fell upon a girl with golden balls on her head and then fell back to the miko, a delicate frown marring his usually blank features. There was … something about those two … but … he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

With great speed, he was in front of the blonde, gently clutching her face between his thumb and forefinger. Gently, as if not to hurt her, he turned her face left and right, inspecting her closely out of curiosity and it was best to do research on new information, at least that's what he told himself.

Kagome blinked, completely shocked and she was not the only one. Everyone of the current time regulars was staring in shock and confusion. The demon lord wasn't trying to kill anyone which was a shock in itself but he was actually showing emotion, that was enough for double shock factor.

Serena looked into the golden eyes of the demon lord and for a split second, she actually felt torn between Mamoru and this stranger. Slowly, she laid a gloved hand on his wrist, an action that her rational side told her shouldn't feel as natural as it currently did.

"You're …" The demon lord began slowly.

"Serena." The blue eyed girl finished for him.

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A/N: Okay, my first InuYasha/Sailor Moon crossover! Yay! Just been inspired lately and now I'm like, yikes.

What's the deal with Sesshy though? Hehe –wink- I've been toying with a few ideas and reasons to explain everything and yadda yadda. Just for those who don't know, I've placed this like right before the Stars series starts.

I also realize that, in order for Serena to have her weapon or whatever you want to call it, Rini needs to be there but … I thought a lot about that but wouldn't it make it more confusing since she's really Darien's future child? And … since I'm planning on taking a different route other than the usual … well, you'll just have to see, won't you?

Thanks for stickin' around!