And thus, Kagome pushed through a gauntlet of reverent folk, who forked over a variety of foodstuffs as offerings. Kagome, too polite to refuse, found herself carrying a good portion of a fisherman's catch, a sling-load of daikon, and a sack of some weird tomato-like vegetables. They couldn't be actual tomatoes, Kagome decided, because tomatoes are a New-World vegetable. Them being in the Sengoku Jidai would be an anachronism.
Kagome tossed one of these tomato-like veggies into the hand of Inuyasha, who was sulking up a tree for some reason or another. "There! That's part of your share," Kagome called up to him.
Inuyasha turned around on his bough to stare at Kagome straight on. "Why all the food?" he asked.
"Offerings from the villagers," Kagome answered. "Seems that they think I'm some kind of Kikyou version two-point-oh from that tussle with Mistress Centipede. Come on down. We'll share it."
Inuyasha stared down at her silently, somewhat resembling a vulture.
"Don't make me say that word, Inuyasha! Git down here!" said Kagome forcefully after running out of patience.
Inuyasha continued to say nothing, but came to the ground under his own power. Only when he was seated, ready for any attack, by Kagome with the food between them did he speak. "What are you scheming, witch?"
"Nothing… Just…" Kagome paused. How would she approach this? It's not like she wanted to make enemies after all. So she had to at least try to bury the hatchet with Inuyasha. But how would she do this. "Look," she said at last, "you hate me, don't you?"
Inuyasha looked up from munching a daikon. "YOU MAKE ME RETCH!!" ground out the dog-boy.
"Temper, temper!" came Kagome's annoyed reply. She pointed to herself. "I'm Kagome. I'm not Kikyou." Inuyasha glared at her. Undaunted, Kagome pushed forward with her peacemaking effort. "In fact, I don't believe any of this reincarnation baloney."
"'Baloney'?"
"It's a city in Germany," Kagome said. (She's wrong; Bologna's in Italy.) "It also means a bald-faced falsehood. As well as being a kind of luncheon meat from the same city. But anyway…" Turning on a winning smile, she continued, "…can't we be a little friendlier? Please?"
An wicked grin pulled at Inuyasha's mouth. "Feh!" he snorted, "You think I'm a fool?" standing to his full height, he thumped his chest. "I don't care who you are. I won't show you any mercy when it's time to take the Shikon jewel!"
"Hmm, really…" The time-displaced robot-girl didn't sound particularly impressed. "Well, mercy or nor mercy, if I say 'sit'…" Kagome's eyes widened as she realized what she was saying. She clamped her mouth shut immediately, but the word had already escaped.
*SPLAT!* "OIF!"
"Whoops! Sorry! I didn't mean to say 'sit'!"
*SPLAT!* "OIF!"
"Sorry! Sorry!"
It had been three days since Kagome's arrival, and Kagome had had quite enough of this era. She missed her mom, she missed Souta, she missed Grandpa, and she needed repair in a proper marionette shop. This is why she was moving through Inuyasha's forest so early in the morning.
Kagome did a little bit of logical thinking. She had come out from the dry well in the middle of this forest. It stood to reason, therefore, that the way back to her own era was there too. Come to think of it, thought Kagome, didn't I hear Grandpa mumble something about there being a time-corridor somewhere on the grounds?
With these thoughts in her head, she skipped down a beaten path to the dry well that would come to be called the Bone-Eater's Well five hundred years in the future, getting a dippy little placard.
What she didn't know was that last night while she was sleeping, Inuyasha chased off a carrion-crow, a demon that fed off corpses. They also had the power to possess the dead. It was a wimpy power and a wimpy demon as demons go, but they could be annoying. Apparently, this carrion-crow had aspirations of stepping up in life.
That same carrion-crow had made a nest in the chest of a local bandit gang leader, and was now commanding the gang to seek out Kagome.
Back at the village, they realized that their 'Lady Kagome' had wandered off by herself, a fact overheard by a certain dog-boy.
A couple of eyes gleamed from behind the bushes, watching this girl. Suddenly, their owners emerged, and a set of meaty hands manhandled Kagome. One large hand clamped over her mouth so she could not scream out.
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