Chapter one: Why?

me: ok, this is my first fanfic! Please be honest, but don't flame me or anything!

The Higurashi family was lucky they had no neighbors. Had a normal person looked outside that one day, they would have been surprised to see a young Japanese girl, in traditional schoolgirl clothes, conversing with what looked like a dog demon. Then the person would have rubbed their eyes and closed the curtains, convinced that it was simply an illusion. Sometimes Kagome wished InuYasha was just an illusion. Like now.

"Get back through the well! I have a math test today, and I can't be worrying about what you'll be doing back home!" Kagome yelled. InuYasha looked supremely unconcerned, which was infuriating Kagome.

"I've tried. And if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, wench! The well is not working! You go look!" InuYasha hopped down from his perch in the tree above Kagome's window. Heaving a heavy sigh, InuYasha walked slowly to the well. Kagome followed the hanyou, her eyes still blurry with sleep. She wasn't used to going to school, not as much as other kids, anyway...

Normal kids.

Not that she wasn't normal. In fact, she had been as average as they come, until that day...her fifteenth birthday. Maybe if Buyo hadn't wandered into the old well shrine, maybe if Souta hadn't asked her to go get him, she wouldn't be here, following a dog demon to the well she hadn't even glanced twice at, until she had found out that it was a portal to feudal Japan. Kagome had never listened to her Grandfather's stories of evil demons, demon exterminators, and ancient priestesses. She had always thought that this was the only world there was, the only era that she belonged in. Kagome was deep in her thoughts when InuYasha arrived at the well.

"I've been trying to get back since morning...I only came because...." InuYasha faltered, his ears twitching. Kagome knew full well why he had come. They had another fight, this time over Kouga. InuYasha was jealous, but he wouldn't admit it, and Kagome didn't have time to convince him she wasn't in love with the cocky wolf demon. She had retreated through the well, as usual. As usual, InuYasha had come back to apologize. And as usual, InuYasha had decided not to apologize, and go back home to mope. But this time, he couldn't get back, so he was stuck. Kagome peered down the well, her eyes searching every inch. She jumped down, as she had done a million times. But instead of feeling the normal era change, she felt nothing but the cold stone of the old well.

"InuYasha?" She called.

"I told you it wasn't working!" The hanyou called back, a note of triumph in his self confident voice. Kagome rolled her eyes and began climbing back up. School was going to start in ten minutes; she needed to leave now.

"InuYasha, I'm going to school. Keep trying to get back through the well." With that, Kagome was gone, running down the stone steps that led to her house. InuYasha watched her go, then silently headed back to his tree.

Deep in feudal Japan, a demon slayer, a Buddhist monk, and a small fox demon leaned against the old well. The demon slayer, called Sango, shifted nervously.

"Miroku, are you sure this was the right thing to do? InuYasha and Kagome have had fights before, they always make up. This is a little extreme." Sango tilted her head toward the well, which looked the same, except for the odd blue light emitting from it. A few of Miroku's Buddhist scrolls were attached to the sides.

"InuYasha's gonna be furious when he finds out!" Shippo exclaimed, his tiny fox tail shaking in anxiety. Miroku leaned back against the well.

"Relax. InuYasha just needs to make up with Kagome. Once they have, I will unseal the well." The houshi closed his eyes, apparently pleased with himself.

"One question, genius." Sango said, a sly look in her brown eyes. "Exactly how do you know when they've made up with each other?"

"Uh-" Miroku looked confused. "I will know! I am much more powerful than you think, Sango!" With that, Miroku strode toward Kaede's hut. Shippo rolled his large eyes.

"Idiot."