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punkish furball—Hi, guys! Back with another one. I love InuYasha crossovers. This is an s-cry-ed/InuYasha crossover in response to a challenge by Chibes and inspired by a fiction by Gothcat. Check it out!

Words to ponder:

Some things I will make up because, hey, fan fiction. I try to keep the characters in character as much as possible.

Hey, reviews, they're nice. I'd like some. If there is a problem, spelling, grammar, wrong facts, rambling or something; tell me. I try to edit, but I do miss some things. It'll be a great help if you help me.

I tend to use foul language but not too much; just enough to keep everyone in character (Kazuma, InuYasha, etc.). If it gets to be too much let me know.

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Other than that, on with the chapter!

Chapter 1

"Kagome, try harder!" Kaede instructed kindly but strictly standing off to the side of Kagome. Before looking harshly at the old woman, Kagome closed her eyes tightly and focused her energy in her palm. In an instant the blue miko energy came out as a great ball of energy the size of a tennis ball.

"Perfect," Kaede said and the energy dissipated and Kagome collapsed on the ground, her body drenched in sweat. The exercise was very exhausting.

"Ye are doing much better," Kaede said, standing over Kagome looking down on her tired expression, "Kikyo did not find it necessary to transfer her miko energy without a medium being as good an archer as she was. I expect it must be a little tiresome for ye."

"Yeah, sure," Kagome said, still a bit winded, "Just a little." Kagome sat up and drew her knees into her chest so she could rest her arms on them.

"I'm glad ye have taken an interest in training your powers and in spells," Kaede said, "I grow old with every passing year and so does my need for an apprentice. I expect your ki- could be concentrated in more forms especially when you master the energy blasts."

"Happy to help," Kagome said while she thought, 'I haven't mastered that blast yet?! I'm gonna die!'

"It still doesn't bother ye, does it?" Kaede asked.

"Not too much anymore," Kagome said and stood up; she knew exactly what Kaede was referring to, "I just wish they wouldn't sneak around and hide it behind my back so much. It's not like they know I know, but they should have had the decency to tell me already. Like I care who InuYasha marries, mates, or whatever."

"How is Miroku fairing?" Kaede asked trying to change the subject a bit.

"He didn't believe me until I showed him," Kagome answered, "He's still a little bitter, well; at least to me he is and stays drunk most of the time." Kagome sighed, "Sometimes I wish I hadn't even told him. At least then I'd have someone to talk to."

"Tis a sad circumstance," Kaede said, "Signs even show she may have conceived a child."

"Has a child with such an origin been born before?" Kagome asked curiously.

"Not to my knowledge, but the babe will survive," Kaede said, "It shall have more human blood then demon."

Kagome nodded and stood up and headed to the forest, "Since we're gone for the day, I'm going for a walk."

"Be careful, child," Kaede said and sighed when she went off, "How sad. Not to be able to cry in pain for the sake of others. InuYasha, I hope ye thought of the consequences before ye acted. Ye can't have them all. Neither Kikyo nor Kagome now that ye have mated Sango."

-O0o0O-

Kagome made her way to the Goshinbaku by the well.

'Who am I kidding?' she thought, 'I can be as happy as I want for Sango and InuYasha but doesn't stop the fact they mated from hurting.'

"InuYasha," Kagome heard when she got closer to the tree. She hid behind the bushes; Sango was there with InuYasha.

"I want to tell Kagome and Miroku about us," Sango said.

"It's worked out fine so far," InuYasha said while shrugging his shoulders, "No reason to tell them at this point."

"There is!" Sango shouted, "Kaede knows. She'll tell them. I know she will. And I think they'll suspect something when my stomach grows the size of a melon!" Sango panted heavily before lowering her head. Her voice shrank into a small whisper, "Unless you are ashamed of me."

"Of course not, Sango," InuYasha said and pulled Sango tightly to his chest, "I would ever be ashamed of you or our child. Knowing Kagome; she'd get all upset, overreact like she always does and leave. We still need her here to sense the jewel shards."

"I know," Sango said, "What are we going to do? We need jewel shards to lure out Naraku and we need Kagome to find the shards. Plus, I want this over with. I don't want to go into the fight pregnant."

"Maybe," InuYasha suggested, "We can seal the well," Sango looked at him curiously.

"We can make it so she could not go back home," InuYasha said.

"What if she can't go back at all?" Sango asked.

"We'll deal with that in the morning," InuYasha said, "She's most likely still training. I wouldn't want her to get discouraged. She's working real hard at it." Sango and InuYasha went hand in hand to the village passed Kagome, who continued to lay on her belly by the bushes. She was glad she was down wind so InuYasha couldn't smell her. She wanted to jump out and yell at the two of them. To say she knew along and she didn't care about their relationship. To say she didn't train for InuYasha; she did it for herself so she wouldn't be weak anymore. To say she hated them both for lying and not trusting her. With tears clouding her vision, she dug the jewel shards from her pocket, tempted to toss them deep in InuYasha's forest though they would be better suited up his ass.

Instead, Kagome took out one shard and placed the others on the rim of the well. With one final look, blurred by tears, she jumped into the well welcoming the darkness.

-O0o0O-

"Oi, Kaede," InuYasha said walking up to Kaede with Sango on his arm, "Where's Kagome?"

Kaede looked them and said, "Did ye not see her? She went in the same direction just ye came from not too long ago."

Sango and InuYasha went pale and both ran at top speed to the well. InuYasha reached the well first and saw the bottle of jewel shards on the rim. He jumped into the well needing to talk to Kagome, but the blue magic of the well didn't welcome him. He was still in the bottom of the well in the Feudal Era.

-O0o0O-

The world around Kagome was numb and black. Instead of the well's welcoming blue glow, Kagome was engulfed in a sea of deep purple. She had panicked at first but the well's magic pricked and warmed her skin like it always had. Kagome felt the trip through time was much longer than before and let the soothing caress of magic lull her to sleep. She didn't feel herself land on the ground in the same place but much further into the future.

-O0o0O-

A young girl about twelve years old emerged form a dilapidated building with a bag on her shoulder sighing as she walked down a dirt path.

'Kazu-kun didn't go to work again. He's never gonna keep a job at this rate,' she thought and reflected on her prior night's dream, 'I had been dreaming again. The person in my dream was over come by a great sadness. She hid it because she wanted to be strong. But then the sadness overwhelmed her and she couldn't take it. Like a coward, she fled home. She's lost and doesn't know where she is.'

The girl tripped on something solid lying on the path. She heard a feminine moan as she sat up off the ground where she had fallen. She gasped as she took in the form of a girl older than herself by five or six years. Her top was torn as was her jeans but she didn't seem harmed in anyway. She began to stir and her eyes fluttered open.

"Where am I?" she said while rubbing her temples. A hand stretched out to her. She grabbed it and pulled herself up.

"Hi," the owner of the hand said, "My name is Kanami. You were on the ground and I tripped over you on my way to work."

"I'm sorry. You didn't hurt yourself did you?"

"No, I'm fine, but what about you?"

"Oh, I'm fine. I just don't know have I got here."

"I'm not so sure I can help you, but maybe someone I work with can."

"Okay, by the way I'm Kagome."

Kagome and Kanami began walking side by side down the dirt road.

"So, Kanami, why does a little girl like you have to work anyway?" Kagome asked in a curious tone.

Kagome thought a moment before speaking, "I guess because I'm the only one who will. I live with Kazu-kun, but he doesn't do much of anything."

"Hmm…where exactly is this place, Kanami?"

"This is the lost ground, the part of Japan that broke off twenty-two years ago."

Kagome stopped in the road; her eyes were wide as saucers and her face went white.

"Kago-kun, are you okay?" Kanami asked.

"Oh, I'm just peachy. Another question, what year is it?"

"Umm…it's XXXX--."

Kagome began to sway a bit and her eyes became anime swirls.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yeah…sure…good night," Kagome said in broken words and fell to the ground.

"Oh, no," Kanami said and began to call for help.

-O0o0O-

"Come on, Kazuma," Kimishima begged his brunette friend.

"I don't know," Kazuma said, "It's kinda risky."

"But I need all the alter users I can get," Kimishima said, "Please l swear this time I'll even pay you."

Kazuma sighed, "I know. I'm just a little worried about…" A cry for help interrupted his sentence.

"Kanami!" he shouted and ran in the direction of her voice.

"Kanami, what's wrong?" Kazuma asked when he reached her.

"Kago-kun fainted!" she said frantically.

"Kago-kun?" Kazuma said curiously. He noticed Kanami was hunched over a figure lying on the ground with her head propped on Kanami's lap.

"Kanami, don't just picking up any strange weirdo," Kazuma said thinking the stranger was some other man, "He could be a serial killer or something!"

"Kazu-kun!" Kanami exclaimed, "Don't talk that way about Kago-kun! She's not strange!"

"Can you stop with the shouting please?" Kagome said as she sat up. She ran her hand through her hair and let out a loud sigh.

"Kago-kun, are you alright?" Kanami asked, "You just fainted."

"Oh, I'm fine," Kagome said and stood up. She caught sight of Kazuma staring at her.

"Umm…hey?" Kagome said, not to sure how the address the newcomer.

"Who the hell are you?" he said.

"Well, pardon me. That's a real nice way to greet someone you don't know," Kagome said sarcasm dripping from her words, "What did I ever do to you?"

"You're right about something, I don't know you. You're probably some kind of weirdo hanging out with little girls!"

"Well excuse me!" Kagome shouted and turned to Kanami, "Kanami, it was nice meeting you but I'm afraid I need to be leaving now."

Kagome turned heel and walked in the opposite direction pass Kazuma.

"Kago-kun, wait!" Kanami called but Kagome did not falter in her step. Kanami turned to Kazuma, "Kazu-kun, why did you say that to Kago-kun! She didn't have anywhere else to go."

Kazuma scoffed, "I'm sure she'll be fine." He looked in the direction Kagome went off in.

'She was pretty hot though. I wonder if she will be okay. Oh, well it's not like it's my problem.'

-O0o0O-

'Asshole!' Kagome thought angrily, 'If I wasn't so sure he was that "Kazu-kun" Kanami mentioned. I would have purified his ass right then and there.'

The feeling of anger covered up Kagome's other feelings. Right now she felt tike curling in a ball and waiting for the well's blue magic to wash over her and take her home.

'Who am I kidding?' she thought, 'I couldn't purify an elephant's ass if were in front of my face.'

Kagome looked over and noticed something in the distance.

'What's that?' Kagome noticed what looked like several tanks and people in strange uniforms not to far away from her.

'I'm not too sure about them," she thought, 'better stay clear. I don't want to attract any attention,' Kagome turned away and began to walk. A line of identical people each wearing the same mask appeared before Kagome in a flash.

'Okay, weird,' Kagome thought, 'I'll just turn around, walk away slowly and forget I ever saw that.' As Kagome moved, a bullet whizzed past her. She jumped in the air and turned to face her offender.

"What's the big idea?! You were trying to hit me weren't you?" she shouted.

"Quiet!" one of the uniformed people said, "By order of HOLD and HOLY you are under arrest."

"What did I do?" Kagome said to herself.

"Hold your fire!" said a young feminine voice full of authority. She too wore a uniform and had short bluish hair. She turned to Kagome.

"I'm afraid you're trespassing on our compound and we'll have to bring you in for questioning," she said with a smile on her face.

Had the circumstances been different, Kagome would have cooperated, but she was already pissed from before.

"Hey, I didn't do anything to any of you! So I'm leaving," Kagome shouted angrily and started to leave when the men in mask grabbed onto her arms. The blue-haired girl sighed saying something like "inners" or whatever being all the same.

'Okay now I'm pissed!' Kagome thought and closed her eyes tightly. A surge of pink miko energy blasted the men back and she began to run.

'I did it! I finally did it! And I hardly feel drained at all,' she thought happily before mentally grimacing, 'Now if only I could do that whenever I want to.'

"I'd never seen an alter like that before," the blue haired girl said.

Kagome continued running, mentally congratulating herself on her feat—even though it was an accident—when something long and purple encircled her body and she was ensnared. She looked around and saw a robotic being was the source of her entrapment. Beside it was a man with greenish hair and cold red eyes.

-O0o0O-

punkish furball—That's a wrap.

-ki—life energy

--don't know the year; make it up

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(edited 12.13.07)