CHAPTER 1 THE GIRL WHO OVERCAME TIME AND THE BOY WHO WAS JUST OVERCOME!

Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha whatsoever no matter how much I wish I did. If I did own Inuyasha, I'd probably make Kagome have a bit more guts, Koga love Ayame, Sesshoumaru a girlfriend, and given the Band of Seven a bit more screentime, as well as the Panther Demon Tribe.

I know that I'm already writing a story, but until I can get more chapters out on that one, I'll just write in this story ^.^

I smiled as I woke up and stretched my arms. I started to get out of bed but tripped on something and was sent toppling to the floor with a yelp, my side-swiped bangs falling in my face. I groaned and looked behind me to see what I had tripped on. There was my cousin… Chrome in all her wonderful glory, conked out on the ground beside my bed. She didn't even flinch when I groaned again, but just rolled over and sighed in contentment. She was obviously having a very good dream.

I grinned mischievously as I tip toed to my stereo. I turned it on and turned the music up loud. "Change the World" by Miki Watanabe blasted from the speakers and Chrome immediately sprung to life, looking around in alarm. I started to laugh hysterically as I gathered some clothes for the day. I grabbed a pair of black skinny jeans and a red tee-shirt. I turned to look at Chrome again to see her saying something with an angry look. I looked at her questioningly (since I couldn't hear her over the music) and shrugged before heading into the bathroom for a shower.

"Shikon no what?" I asked after Gramps started to tell me one of his schemes. I was sitting on the ground, next to Chrome, and playing with Buyo, our cat.

"Shikon no Tama, girl!" Gramps replied. "The Jewel of Four Souls." He then handed me a small trinket. It was a chain with a small purple ball at the end.

"You're going to sell this?" I asked, astonished. It was so obviously a fake jewel.

"Yeah, Gramps, I doubt anyone's gonna buy these keychains." Chrome stated while petting Buyo.

"That is not just a keychain!" Gramps snapped back. "That crystal there at the end is a replica of an ancient jewel which…" He trailed off with his eyes closed. When he started to explain the crystal, Buyo started to play with the small marble like thing. "Hmm?" He questioned as he looked up and noticed that Chrome and I weren't even listening. We were instead watching Buyo play with the marble that I still held. We looked up when we noticed him glaring and smiled sheepishly. "As I was saying, that crystal is a replica of an ancient jewel which…" He trailed off again as I held the marble away from Buyo. The chubby cat, in turn, leaned over, attempting to reach it; he fell after losing his balance and Chrome chuckled lightly. "An ancient jewel which—"

I had cut him off and grinned happily at him as I clasped my hands together in front of my face with a twinkle in my eyes. "You do remember that tomorrow's my birthday, right?" I asked excitedly. Tomorrow, I'd finally be 15. Whoo-hoo!

Gramps sweat dropped before he and Chrome laughed. "I planned to wait another day." He confessed.

"Yes! Hand it over!" I squealed, anxious to see what I had gotten. I stared blankly at the hand thingy that Gramps had given me, my left eye twitching slightly.

"Interesting thing you got there, Kimiko." Chrome commented, holding back her laughter. I turned to glare at her as Gramps started to talk again.

"That, my dear, is an authentic mummified hand of a water imp which—"

"Here, Buyo. Have a snack." I stated blandly as I held the hand out to the cat in question. He smiled in a cattish way as he chomped down on the hand and calmly walked away. Chrome burst out laughing at the sight of Gramps's horrified face.

"Ahh! That's an antique!" He yelled out and fell to the ground. I merely sighed in exasperation. He did this every year and I have to find out why.

'Why does everything here have a story? I wish that I'd be able to actually see all this stuff do what it was said to do… Bah, impossible.' I thought sullenly as I stood. Mom had just called us for dinner.

"These pickles are full of history!" Gramps stated as he held up a pickle with his chop sticks across from me half way through dinner.

"Not half as full as you are, Gramps." Chrome replied, not even looking at him as she stuffed her face with rice.

"Hmm… Thousand year old Sacred Tree." Chrome mumbled, looking at my window. We had come up here soon after dinner and were now dressed in our pajamas. I was wearing a pair of dark blue sleeping pants with a long sleeve button up shirt to match.

"Yup, the legend of the Hidden Well…" I murmured, joining her at the window. There stood the gigantic Sacred Tree that's been in our family for years. "Don't you ever wish it was real? I mean, I want to get away for a few days. High school is a total bummer and I want to get away from it all." I exclaimed as I slumped onto my bed.

Chrome shrugged as she started for the door. "Who knows? Maybe it'll happen. Night, Kimiko!" She called out as she opened the door and made her way out.

"Good night, Chrome!" I called back before she shut the door. I took one last look at the window before I sunk into my pillows and turned my lamp off. I fell into a dreamless sleep.

"We're leaving!" Chrome and I yelled as we walked out of the house the next day, my 15th birthday. We were dressed in our uniforms for school, which consisted of a black pleated skirt, black knee high socks, a white long sleeve shirt, and a red tie or bow. We were given the choice and we both chose the tie. I also wore my low top black and white Converse and Chrome wore her knee high black Converse.

"Hey, what are you doing, Sota?" I asked my little brother, who was standing outside the Hidden Well.

"Nothing…" He replied as he turned towards us.

"Doesn't look like nothing. Looks like you're about to go into the well." Chrome replied smartly with a smirk.

"You're not supposed to play in there." I told him simply as I walked forward and set my bag on the ground. Chrome followed after me but kept her bag on.

"I'm not, it's the cat!"

"Did he go down to the well?" I asked and stepped up to the stairs to stand beside him. Chrome waited patiently by my bag at the bottom of the stairs.

"Buuuuuyo…" Sota called out in an attempt to get the cat to come out. "I don't know where else he could be." He said as he knelt on the ground.

"So, go on down, chicken." I said as I knelt down beside him.

"Why do I gotta be the one?" He whined back and I rolled my eyes.

"Because you're the one who's looking for him, scaredy cat." Chrome replied. "Hurry up, Kimiko. We've got school, you know."

"Hold on." I sighed and paused when there was a sound coming from behind the covered well. The well had two doors on it that had a sacred sutra on it to keep whatever inside, inside.

"Ahh!" Sota cried as he stood and hid behind me, while I was still kneeling on the ground. "Something's down there!"

"Yup, that would be the cat, bro." I commented as I stood and patted his head. I then walked down the stairs, heading towards the well. I heard the sound again and stopped at the bottom of the stairs; it was coming from inside the well, not behind. 'That sound… is coming from inside the well…' I then felt something brush up against my leg and yelped, jumping away as I looked down. Sota cried out in panicked and fell to his butt as Chrome rushed up the stairs and stood at the opening to the well house. I sighed in relief to find what had brushed my leg. "Buyo, you silly kitty." I smiled and picked the cat up, who meowed in a content way.

"You make fun of me 'cause I'm scared, but you're all 'Ahh'!" Sota did a horrible impression of my voice and I turned to look at him, swinging Buyo around with me.

"Look who's talking, Mr. Ahh!-Something's- Down-There." I retorted and Chrome and Sota sweat dropped. They both then looked down at me with scared faces. "What?" I asked and Sota gulped nervously.

"Kimiko, behind you!" Chrome yelled out and started to come forward. Before she could even reach me, I was grabbed from behind. I was so shocked that I let Buyo go and didn't even struggle against the pale arms wrapped around my torso that were pulling into the now open well. We were soon surrounded by a dark blue light that shined in a few areas.

One of the pale hands turned me around to face my capture. I was shocked to see it was a centipede type woman with long dark hair and strange pale white eyes. She had six arms. I gasped at the sight of her.

"Oh, to be alive once more!" She said in ecstasy as her head fell back slightly and we continued our slow journey downward. "Again, my strength returns!" She then looked at me. "You have it, don't you? Give it to me!" She commanded and licked my cheek. I groaned in protest.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I yelled in disgust as I shoved her away from me but she kept two arms on me. "Let go!" I yelled and threw a punch at her. A neon pink color emitted from my fist as it came in contact with her. She mumbled something to herself as she drifted further away from me. I swore I heard her say something about the Sacred Jewel. "The Sacred Jewel?" I asked myself in a whisper as I finally landed on the ground. I tripped on my shoe lace and fell to the ground, my arms stretched out to catch myself. I winced as I felt the familiar feeling of bloody scrapes appearing on my hands. I breathed out a sigh of relief as I sat back on my butt with my legs tucked under me. I looked up to see a light above me. I was at the bottom of the well.

"Did I fall in the well and hit my head or something?" I asked as I scratched the back of my neck nervously. 'That would explain what just happened… no way that could've been real.' I stated in thought and looked around me. My eyes widened when I saw a pale decapitated arm a few feet away from where I sat. "Okay, maybe it was real…" I mumbled as I cradled my hands to my chest. I then sighed as I stood. "Sota! Chrome! Go get Gramps!" I called up to the light loudly but was met with no answer. I groaned and headed towards the vines that were hanging from the walls of the well. "Sota probably took off and dragged Chrome with him because he was so scared…" I mumbled unhappily as I started the climb up the wall. Good thing I used to do rock climbing up on Mt. Fuji about a year ago. I blinked when a pure white butterfly flew down and floated beside me before it headed up again. That's weird… the butterflies migrated not too long ago…

I ignored my curiosity and continued to climb until I reached the top. I poked my head up over the side and gasped at what I saw. I was surrounded, not by the walls and dark of the well house, but by trees and grass and the bright slightly cloudy sky above me. I slowly made my way out of the well and carefully set my feet on the green grass.

'I'm pretty sure I'm not in Tokyo anymore…' I thought as I looked around. I walked around and noticed there was no one there but me. It was completely empty in the field I was in. "Anybody here?" I called out while cupping my hands on either side of my mouth. My hands were still bleeding, but not by much. I was happy when I realized that none of the blood had gotten on my face when I called out. I sighed when I got no answer and started to walk through the forest. "It's like the whole shrine disappeared…" I mumbled before I noticed the top of the Sacred Tree in the distance with trees hiding the trunk. I smiled triumphantly. "If that's the Sacred Tree, then I'm almost home!" I grinned and started running for the tree. I pushed passed bushes and other tress when I as close enough and looked up at the tree with a twinkle in my brown and green eyes. My smile fell when I noticed someone at the tree.

"Is that a dude?" I asked quietly as I stepped forwards. He looked like he was sleeping against the tree. His eyes were closed and his body was limp. The wind blew and ruffled his long hair, along with mine. I blinked as I walked towards the tree and jumped onto a tree type thing that seemed to be holding the boy up. I carefully tried to balance myself. "What're you doing?" I asked him, hoping he'd hear me. I walked towards him and noticed that when he was all limp like this, I was taller than him. I looked at him from a closer aspect and noticed he had white ears on the top of his head. I tilted my head to the side and reached out to his hair. I lifted a few strands away from where human ears were supposed to be and noticed that he didn't have any. My eyes widened and I let his hair fall back. My hands inched towards his ears. 'Just gotta touch 'em…' I thought slowly. 'They look like dog ears…'

I grabbed both his ears and rubbed them like I would a dog's. "They're real…" I mumbled softly as I felt the soft fur on and in his ear. When I was satisfied, I pulled away and sighed. "Now that that's out of my system." I grumbled and looked at the boy to see he was still conked out. 'Wow, he sure can sleep. He's kinda like Chrome. Doesn't want to wake up when he needs to…'

"Get away from there!" I heard from behind me as arrows shot towards me. I yelped and held onto the boy's bright red kimono. The arrows didn't hit me or the boy, but hit the tree around us instead. I sighed in frustration as I looked down to see several men run towards the tree, dressed in feudal era clothes. I blinked in confusion.

Before I knew it, my hands were tied behind my back with my ankles tied together. I sat with my legs tucked under me to prevent anyone from seeing under my skirt and a scowl on my face.

"Listen, I don't give a flying pig about what I did to offend you people or something! That gives you no right to tie me up like a wild animal!" I yelled at the angrily as I struggled against the ropes that held me. The people around me watching ignored me. I looked closer at them and noticed they were all dressed in feudal clothing. I couldn't help but to listen in on their conversations; screw courtesy, they tied me up.

"You reckon it's a war?"

"Of course it is! And right in the middle of rice-planting season, too."

"She could be a kitsune in disguise."

"Nah, them shape-shifting foxes are a lot trickier than that."

'Wow, these people are really weird…' I thought with a sweat drop and a sigh. 'Wait, what the hell do they mean by kitsune?' I thought curiously.

"Make way for high priestess, Kaede!" Someone called out. An old woman stepped forth holding a bow and arrow and an eye patch over her right eye. She made her way towards me.

She threw what looked like rice on me and I shut my eyes tightly while keeping my mouth shut to keep the stuff out of my mouth and eyes. "Demon, be gone!"

"What!" I asked angrily and opened my eyes. "I'm not a demon, okay?"

"Are ye not? Then why were ye found in the Forest of Inuyasha?" She asked.

"Could she be a spy on our village?" The man who stood beside her calmly asked. I sighed and blew my bangs out of my eyes.

"In that case, she would be a fool." Kaede replied bluntly before turning back to me to see me glaring at her in hatred. I'm so sick of people talking about me like I'm not there. I've had to deal with that a lot ever since I was tied up. "Who would invade such a poor village, such as ours?" Her eyes widened slightly as she looked a bit closer at me. I blinked as I looked up at her curiously. "Let me have a good look at ye." She demanded as she walked forward and grabbed my chin. She turned my face roughly from side to side as she looked at each part of my face and I growled. "Look clever, girl, or be a half-wit."

'Oh, she is definitely getting it now!' I yelled inside my head as I glared at her. She then let go of me and stepped back.

"It's there, though I don't know why…" She said slowly.

"What?" I asked, confused.

Soon, I was sitting across from Kaede in her hut with stew on the bowl in the fire between us. My mouth watered and stomach growled at the delicious smell. I rubbed my wrists were the rope had been and sighed in relief at the sight of the bandages around my palms. Kaede had been kind enough to put some ointment and bandages on the scrapes I had gotten from the well when she untied me.

"Stew?" Kaede asked as she held out a bowl to me with some chop sticks.

I grinned and took the bowl. "Thanks!" I said, starring at the food. I took a bite and sighed heavenly. "Mmmm, delicious!"

"Bear us no ill will, child, for though I now see that you mean us no harm. In these troubled times of war, no stranger may be helpful among us without deep distress." Kaede apologized as she poked at the fire.

"We aren't in Tokyo, are we?" I asked sadly with a small smile.

"To-ky-o?" Kaede questioned slowly as she looked up at me. "Never heard of it. Is that where you are from?"

"Uh, yeah!" I grinned as I took another bite of the delicious food. "I should really get going soon." I then sighed mentally. 'The only question is, how do I get back? Huh, funny. Wasn't I wishing last night that all the stories I heard about the well were true? Well, apparently, they are.'

I gasped when I heard loud crashes outside the hut. Kaede and I quickly ran out the door.

"What's going on?" Kaede asked in alarm and we both gasped when we saw the centipede lady that I had seen in the well. She had a horse in her jaws but soon let it drop the ground.

"Damn it!" I cursed as she spotted me and Kaede.

"Give me the Sacred Jewel!" She yelled to me and I glared back. She came at me and Kaede but we quickly dodged and fell to the ground.

"It said Sacred Jewel…" Kaede mumbled as she looked at me. "Bear ye it still?" She asked me and I tilted my head to the side.

"I have no clue what the hell she's talking about!" I replied angrily. "I've heard of it, but I don't have it!"

"I must have it!" The centipede announced as she fought with some village men. "I must!" She yelled as she twirled around and became somewhat like a drill and attacked the men.

'That stupid thing is after me…' I thought guiltily as I looked around at the damage she had caused to the village. I rolled my eyes as I realized what I had to do.

"Spears, arrows, nothing works!" A man yelled as he and another man stood in front of me and Kaede.

"We must lure her to the Dry Well." Kaede announced and I looked at her.

"Dry Well?" I asked, confused.

"In the Forest of Inuyasha." She told me.

'The well I came out of…?' I thought. "Which way is the forest?" I asked in a rushed tone. I looked to where she had turned and saw a neon pink light shining in the sky. "Where that light is?" I asked before I ran off, ignoring Kaede's call behind me.

I ran until I ended up tripping in a pond. I heard the demon yell behind me, so I quickly stood and ran through the shallow rice patties as fast as I could.

'Will I be able to get away?' I thought panicky. I looked back to see the centipede and my eyes widened. "Why did I look back? You never look back!" I yelled as I looked forward again and got closer to the forest. "Gramps! Mom! Sota! Chrome! Anybody! Save me!" I yelled and the wind blew some of my hair forward.

My request came unheeded and I ran up a slope inside the forest, the centipede demon hot on my trail.

"Give me the Sacred Jewel!" She yelled and I sweat dropped.

"How many times do I have to tell you that I don't have it?" I asked angrily before the demon lunged at me, crashing into the ground and sending me flying. I yelped in surprise and skidded to a stop in front of the tree that boy was sealed to earlier. He was still there, but at least, now I know his name; Inuyasha. "Ow!" I complained as I sat up and looked at my hands, which are now scraped up pretty badly.

"Hey, Kikyo!" I heard in front of me and looked up to see that Inuyasha was awake. "Playing with bugs, are we?"

I got a pressure point on my forehead as fire appeared in my eyes. "What did you just call me?" I yelled, jumping to my feet.

"Kill her in one strike, Kikyo, just like the time you killed me." He ordered and I just looked at him like he was an idiot. "Huh? Don't look so dumb! Lost your mind already, Miss Kikyo?"

"For the last time today, I am not—" The bastard cut me off.

"She's coming." He said and I blinked. I felt someone lunging at me from behind and quickly dodged, back flipping out of the way. Suddenly, a couple grappling hooks appeared and hit the centipede, encircling her in a trap. I looked over to see the villagers appear, holding the ropes connected to the grappling hooks.

"I was saved…" I murmured and Inuyasha scoffed.

"So hopeless, Kikyo!"

"Stop calling me Kikyo!" I yelled, walking up to him and stepping onto the vine that held him up to be at eye level with him. "For the last damn time, I am not Kikyo!" I enunciated each syllable to prove my point.

"And I'm saying you have to be her 'cause there's no way you could smell so-" He cut himself off and…sniffed me. He actually sniffed me. He then looked into my eyes. "You're not her."

"That's what I've been telling you people! My name's Kimiko! Ki-mi-ko!" I said in his face and he blinked boredly.

"Of course you're not her. She was smarter… and she was a beauty with her brown eyes. You have green eyes." He mumbled under his breath and I swear I had steam rolling at my ears.

"What did you just—" I was cut off, yet again, but this time by the demon. She grabbed me from behind and tried to pull me to her. I yelped and grabbed the only thing I could think of to keep me where I was, Inuyasha's hair. "Let go of me!" I yelled at the demon with my eyes closed.

"Ow, ow, ow! You let go!" Inuyasha yelled as I tugged at his hair.

"Give me the Sacred Jewel!" The Centipede Demon yelled and I opened my eyes, rolling them.

"I don't have it!"

She ignored me and opened her mouth to reveal sharp teeth as she tried to bite me.

I raised my hand out to her like I had before in the well. "Get away from me!" I yelled and the same pink light emitted from my palm, hitting the centipede and making her let me go. I lost my balance and fell to the ground with an 'eep' sound. I looked at my palm as the arms of the centipede dropped off. 'That same thing happened in the well… But why can I do this?' Suddenly, my side started to glow and I glanced down to see the same bright pink light. 'Ooh, shiny…'

My thoughts were cut off when the centipede lunged again, catching me where my side was glowing. She threw me up into the air and a small pink sphere flew out of my new wound. 'The Sacred Jewel?' I thought before I landed on the ground with an 'oaf' and the jewel landed in front of me.

"Hey!" I heard Inuyasha and looked up at him. "Give me the Jewel! Hurry!" He yelled as I grabbed the jewel and sat up. Before I could move out of the way, the centipede circled her body around the tree, along with me, and caused me to be pressed against Inuyasha on the tree. The jewel had fallen out of my hand when I was pushed against the tree.

"I heard that a half-demon brat was after the Sacred Jewel. Are you that demon?" The centipede asked and I looked up at Inuyasha, who was glaring in complete hatred at the demon.

'Half-demon?' I thought curiously and tilted my head to the side slightly.

"Don't underestimate me, demon!" Inuyasha yelled. "I can take care of you if I really got down to business."

"You're awfully arrogant, aren't you?" I asked with a sweat drop. "Are you strong?"

"Hmm?" He asked with wide eyes, which I have to say looked adorable.

"Well, are you?"

"What can he do, strapped down like that?" The centipede interrupted. "He's under a powerful spell." She then bent down to pick up the jewel. "Just stay where you are and watch!" She picked the jewel up with her tongue and swallowed it whole.

"Don't you dare!" Inuyasha yelled, but it was too late.

The limbs that had fallen off the centipede started to glow before they reattached to him.

"What the-?" I questioned no one in particular. The centipede shook a little before her skin fell off, revealing a nasty looking gray skeletal system and face underneath.

"Rejoice! My power is being restored!" She yelled in a happy tone and tightened her body around me, Inuyasha, and the tree. Inuyasha was the only one of us that looked completely at ease.

"Let go!" I growled and kicked and thrashed against the centipede's body.

"Hey." Inuyasha said seriously, making me look up at him. "Can you…pull out this arrow?"

"What?" I asked angrily.

"Can you or not?" He yelled back and I sighed, calming down slightly.

"Why the arrow?" I asked myself as I reached up to grab the arrow but the sound of Kaede's voice stopped me.

"Do not remove it! That arrow secures the spell on Inuyasha! You must not free him!" She yelled.

"Wake up, you old hag!" Inuyasha yelled angrily. "Do you want to become food for that centipede? Once it's completely absorbed the Sacred Jewel, it'll be the end!" He then looked down at me. "Do you want to die?" He asked half-calm. I blinked at the look in his eyes and thought it over before I came to my decision.

I reached up and grabbed the arrow, making it glow. "I want to live!" I said as it was disintegrated between my fingers.

"It disappeared!" Kaede yelled, shocked. "The arrow that held my sister's spell!"

The light that had formed around Inuyasha faded away as he looked down, his body pulsing. I couldn't see half his face and that scared me.

"Inu…ya…sha?" I whispered weakly but I know he heard me. Suddenly, he started to laugh hysterically and evilly. It actually scared me. You'd think I'd be used to maniacal laughter because my cousin's Chrome, but it still scared me greatly.

The centipede tightened her grip around us, but Inuyasha was able to break free, destroying her body. I was thrown to the ground, for what? The fifteenth time today?

"Wicked child!" The centipede yelled as she turned towards Inuyasha.

"Nasty hag!" He retorted before he brandished his very pointy claws. "Iron Reaver, Soul Stealer!" He did a summersault, splitting the centipede's body clean through in half. Her body broke into pieces and started raining from the sky.

"Whoa…" I mumbled in disbelief. A centipede piece twitched beside my hand and I squeaked, moving out of the way quickly. "It moved!" I yelled, pointing.

Kaede quickly ran over to me. "Do you see the flesh that shines? The Sacred Jewel is embedded there! You must remove it, else it will keep rejuvenating!"

"Dammit!" I yelled as I quickly scanned the flesh around me. "Here it is!" I yelled, running over to a piece of the centipede. I reached my hand into the weird feeling flesh and pulled the jewel out. I stood straight as the flesh on the body pieces disintegrated, leaving behind bones. I shrugged and tried to give the jewel to Kaede.

She shook her head and pushed my hand away from her. "Only you can possess the Jewel."

"Why was it in my body?" I asked, confused as I closed my fist around the jewel. "This jewel seems to empower demons, not humans."

"Exactly!" I heard behind me and turned to see Inuyasha, stomping his foot on one of the bones with a menacing smile that made me step back. "Humans can't use it, so why keep it? If you hand over the jewel right now, I won't have to start sharpening my claws on you."

'Dammit… It seems like I'm outta the fire and into the frying pan, once again!' I yelled in my head as I stepped back again.

Alright, so there's the first chapter! I hope I'm doing a good job so far. And don't worry, Kimiko will have more of a backbone than Kagome and she will most definitely be able to hold her own against Inuyasha...eventually. Anyways, tell me what you think so far!

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