Looks like I had some more time than I planned! But here's chapter two!

 

Disclaimer: I don't own the Inu-Yasha characters or even the SW characters but then again what's new?

 

Chapter Two

 

                "Please have a seat," the young girl offered.

                Inu-Yasha obeyed.

                The young girl took out a medic kit and knelt by his side. Suddenly, the ship rocked and he grabbed her to keep her from falling.

                "Thank you," she said as she picked up the kit again (since she obviously dropped it).

                "What's going on out there?" He asked. "The pilot didn't graduate from flying school?"

                She wore a small smile. "Much worse." She cocked her head curiously.  "Don't you know what's going on?"

                Inu-Yasha shook his head. "All I really know is about an invasion of some sort. That Qui-Gon dude told me."

                "We are also being blockaded by the Trade Federation. Meaning no one can come out or in."

                Inu-Yasha rose an eyebrow. "So in other words we're attempting the impossible?"

                She started to clean his wound. "You never know with Jedi around."

                "What's so special about them anyway?" Inu-Yasha asked. "Braid boy, the patawand of that Qui-Gon dude seemed pretty high and mighty about it."

                The young girl seemed startled for a moment. "Jedi are greatly respected throughout the galaxy. They are protectors of peace and justice."

                Inu-Yasha pondered for a moment on what she said.

                "What manner of creature are you anyway?" She asked, curiously eyeing his ears.

                "I'm half Dog Demon and half Human," he said with disgust.

                "Oh, I don't believe I've ever heard of one," she said kindly. "My name is Padmé, I am Queen Amidala's handmaiden. Who are you?"

                "I'm Inu-Yasha," he said, looking at her. She sure does look familiar...

                Suddenly someone knocked on the door and it slid open. It was Captain Panaka. "You're needed in the throne room." He eyed Inu-Yasha suspiously. "You too...uh...whatever you are."

                "His name is Inu-Yasha," Padmé said firmly as she put the finishing touches on his bandage.

 

 

                *                              *                              *                              *                              *                              *              "What do you want with me?" Kagome asked for at least the thousandth time. Her hands were chained to the wall of the Naoki Shrine. She struggled to break free, but of course it didn't work.  Sessho-maru was sitting cross-legged in the center, mediatating again. He at last open his eyes and smirked. "Perfect."

                "What?" She asked. "What is?"

                "I sincerly hope you didn't have any special attachment to my little brother," he said with a broad grin. "Because he's never coming back."

                "What do you mean by that?" She demanded. "Where did you send him?!"

                He held up a hand to stop her. "I sent him back in time....way, way, back in time...to a galaxy far far away."

                She gasped. "You sent him to the Star Wars universe!?"

                Sessho-maru frowned. "You know of this world?"

                She bit her lip. "No...uh...just heard it mentioned once or twice." Oh boy is THAT ever going to chance history! She remembered once playing the 5th Star Wars movie and he came in during the part where Luke was sneaking into Cloud City to rescue his friends. "What a stupid movie!" He had said after she briefed him on what was going on. "What idiot would go into a place ruled by some evil guy who basically wants to freeze him in a freaky type of ice just so he can give it to his head boss guy! If I was him, I'd tear that evil mask dude limb from limb!" Evidently he had meant this because when he was imagining this, he teared up a throw pillow and the feathers flew everywhere. It took them 2 hours to celan up the mess before her mom came home. Poor Inu-Yasha, she thought as she lowered her head. I really hope he's doing okay...he'll come back. I just know it!

                She felt Sessho-maru's cool fingers gently lift her chin up to look up at him. She tried to look away, but once she looked back, her eyes remained locked on his.

                "I believe you have something to explain," he purred softly.

                She trembled. "Like what?"

                "Like how you were able to cause the Tetsusaiga sword to end its tranformation."

                "But...I don't know---"

                He gently rested his poisonious claws on her neck. "I don't believe you heard me right," he said firmly. "I will find out just how you did it even if I have to result by force!"

 

 

                *                              *                              *                              *                              *                              *              "So let me try to understand," Inu-Yasha said slowly. "When we tried to escape, we were struck and the hyperdrive thingy started to leak."

                "Correct," Qui-Gon said with a nod.

                "And that means we don't have enough fuel or something like that to get us to Corrusant. So we're going to a planet full of sand called Tatto something---"

                "Tatooine," Qui-Gon gently corrected."

                "Yeah, that place. And there you'll get another hyperdrive thingy."

                "For a Dog Demon you're pretty stupid!" Obi-Wan smirked.

                "You'll be coming with me," Qui-Gon said as he put on a gray poncho.

                "Me?" Inu-Yasha asked. "Why?"

                "For two reasons. (1), the planet is full of strange, no offensive, creatures and that way we won't look suspious and (2) I couldn't allow you to kill Obi-Wan."

                "I wouldn't let him even try!" Obi-Wan scowled as he rested his hand on his lightsaber.

                "Come along," Qui-Gon said, gesturing to Inu-Yasha. "The droid will be coming along as well."

                Inu-Yasha soon found himself outside. He winced at the bright sunlight. Kagome's sun isn't nearly as bright!

                "Its caused by two suns," Qui-Gon explained as he came up to his side.

                "Now that's starting to get a little freaky," Inu-Yasha muttered.

                "What is?"

                "That mind reading thing you do."

                "I'm sorry if I have alarmed you," Qui-Gon said politely. "I won't do it again."

                "Can Obi-Wan do that too?"

                "To an extent."

                Inu-Yasha vowed then and there to think evil thought around the young Jedi. "Where are we going?"

                Qui-Gon pointed up ahead. "Mos Espa, a small spaceport."

                "And it'll have the parts we need?"

                "We'll soon find out," Qui-Gon then looked behind Inu-Yasha and frowned. Inu-Yasha looked too. Captain Panaka was approaching them with Padmé. She now dressed more plainly.

                "The Queen wants you to take her handmaiden with you," Panaka explained. "She's curious about the planet." Qui-Gon opened his mouth to protest, but Panaka overrode him. "Expecting you'd protest, she demands it."

                Qui-Gon sighed. "All right, but I don't think this is a good idea."

                He turned his attention back to walking. Inu-Yasha and Padmé talked a little and R2-D2 followed close behind whistling a merry tone. Once they entered the spaceport, Inu-Yasha looked around. He kept seeing one strange thing after another. Suddenly, he stepped in a huge pile of pooh. "Gross!" He exclaimed. "I'd hate to see the thing that laid it! It must be over 8ft tall!"

                Qui-Gon silenced him and pointed to a small shop. "We'll start there first."

                Inu-Yasha followed as they entered. A strange fly buzzed around Qui-Gon, then called for someone. A small boy with dishevled blond hair came in. Inu-Yasha gasped.

                Around the boy's neck was a Shikon Shard attached by a little leather cord.

                I never knew Shikons Shards could exist in other worlds! Inu-Yasha thought with a start. He couldn't believe his luck! The flying bug told the boy something and he responded in the same langauge. Finally, he took a seat on the shabby  front desk.

                "Let me take you out back," the bug-like creature said in English, though with a rough accent. "You'll find what you need."

                Qui-Gon followed him out the back of the shop with R2-D2 behind. The boy started polishing something and talking to Padmé. Saying something about an angel. Inu-Yasha prowled around the shop, hoping to find more Shikon Shards. If only Kagome was here! He thought bitterly. This would be so easy! He paused for a moment and lowered his head. He briefly wondered if Kagome was all right. He had no real way of knowing. We'll meet again, he thought firmly to himself. We just have to.

                As he rested his hand on the nose of a robot, it sprang up, coming to life. Inu-Yasha was startled as it leaped on his head. And boy does he hate to be surprised! He grabbed the robot and threw it against the wall and it fell to the floor in a sizzling heap of smashed parts. He looked up to see Padmé and the boy staring at him in amazement.

                "I--I'll go find something to clean that up," Padmé offered nervously and turned away to find a broom.

                The young boy continued to stare at him. "What...what are you?"

                "Haven't you ever seen a DogDemon before kid?" Inu-Yasha asked sarcastically until he remembered that the boy never had (considering Inu-Yasha didn't live in this world).

                The boy shook his head. "My name is Anakin. What's your's?"

                "Inu-Yasha."

                Anakin eyed him curiously. "You're not from our galaxy are you?"

                Now that was one question Inu-Yasha hadn't expected from a scrawny little boy. "No, I'm not," he admitted.

                Anakin took off his necklace and looked down at it as he cupped it in his hands.

                "Where...where did you get that anyway?" Inu-Yasha asked, trying to make it sound like he could care less.

                "I found it a while ago," he looked up. "Could you be..."

                "What?" Inu-Yasha asked. "Could be what?"

                Anakin looked at him as though he just saw him for the first time. "You have great strength, that surpasses at least 10 men."

                If only Kagome was here to hear this! Inu-Yasha thought proudly.

                Anakin took the Shikon Shard off the cord and held it out to him. "I have a feeling this belongs to you."

                Inu-Yasha took it and looked down at it. That was pretty easy, he thought. Looks like I didn't have to steal it from him.

                "It does belong to you doesn't it?" Anakin prompted.

                "Yes, it does."

                "Are you looking for more?"

                Inu-Yasha eyed Anakin suspiously. "Why do you ask?"

                "I'm wondering if you're the Guardian of the Shikon Shards."

                Inu-Yasha's jaw dropped. "How did you know about them?!"

                "You mean you really do exist?" Anakin asked in excitment.

                "Hold on a sec," Inu-Yasha said with a frown. "What are you talking about?"

                "Its an old Tatooine legend," Anakin explained. "Just about every kid on Tatooine knows about it. Its about a strange dog-like demon that comes from another world, even another galaxy. He searches for special and rare Shikon Shards, but above all, he searchs for his true love."

                Inu-Yasha blushed. That could only mean one person! "What else is there?"

                "Well, legend has it that he finds her only after finding himself, then a strange transformation takes place and at long last he will be united with his long lost love."

                "What do you mean by a strange transformation?" Inu-Yasha asked.

                "No one really knows," Anakin admitted. "I used to think it was just a legend."

                "Do me a favor okay?"

                "Anything," Anakin promised.

                "Don't tell anyone about this, me or the legend all right?" Inu-Yasha urged. He knew that if Anakin knew, maybe someone else would too...one of Sessho-maru's servants perhaps.

                "Cross my heart and hope a Bantha doesn't step on me," Anakin promised.

                At that moment, Qui-Gon came back into the shop looking depressed. He beconked for Inu-Yasha and for Padmé who had finally managed to find a broom and dustpan. They both said goodbye to Anakin and followed Qui-Gon back onto the streets. Inu-Yasha quickly stuffed the Shikon Shard in his pocket, so no one else would notice. He hated the fact that some of the villagers stared at him and whispered behind his back. Even worse, some tried to touch his ears. Qui-Gon noticed how Inu-Yasha dispised this and told any villagers that came close to Inu-Yasha that he had rabies. After that hardly anyone came within 5ft of the DogDemon. Qui-Gon told Obi-Wan the sad news, and hoped that somehow they'd get the much needed hyperdrive.

                "What do we do now?" Padmé asked.

                Qui-Gon sighed. "That's one thing I'm not quite sure of."

                Inu-Yasha was eying the food stands when he realized that he hadn't eaten anything for hours. His eyes caught sight of a strange frog hanging from a thin metal wire. Its not Ramen Noodles, he thought. But this will do jsut fine. He came up to one of the stands and looked down at a tag attached to the frog's leg. It was composed of strange symbols.

                "It must mean 'sample'," he supposed and with that he ripped the frog off the string and stuffed it in his mouth. The owner confronted him and started talking to him crossly in that strange langauge the flying bug did.

                "No thanks,"  Inu-Yasha said. "I don't need a napkin."

                He turned around and accidentally tripped over another strange creature. It seemed to walk on his hands. This creature got upset and yelled at him.

                "Look I can't understand your language," Inu-Yasha said as he picked himself up. "But next time watch where you're going! Is that really too much to ask?!"

                This creature suddenly leaped on Inu-Yasha which sent him crashing down to the ground. Inu-Yasha and this strange creature starting some what of a comotion as they knocked over 3 tables during their fight. A crowd started to circle around them, cheering on either one of them.

                At that moment, Anakin intervened, speaking to the creature whom he called Sebulba. Sebulba listened, and started to walk away. He tried to punch Inu-Yasha again, but the dogdemon grabbed the fist and threw him further down the street.

                "Must you be so violent?" Qui-Gon asked as he, R2-D2, and Padmé approached them.

                "I've never seen anyone beat Sebulba like that," Anakin said proudly. "No one's lasted more than 2 seconds with him!"

                Qui-Gon looked around the streets, noticing the shop keepers packing up their goods and moving indoors. "We'd better hurry back to the ship. Looks like a storm's coming."

                "Where's your ship?" Anakin asked.

                "On the outskirts," Padmé explained.

                "There's no way you'll make it on time!" Anakin exclaimed in horror. "You'd have to be outlanders if you don't know how dangerous a sand storm is! You'd be better off staying at my house."

                Qui-Gon paused for a moment and continued to look around again. By now the streets were practically deserted. "We will gladly accept your offer."

                Anakin led the way to his house. The storm started pickng up more and threw sand everywhere. Inu-Yasha kept a hand over his ears to protect them. Once they were inside, Anakin's mother came into the kitchen and freaked out once she saw Inu-Yasha. She took out her broom and started whapping him over the head yelling, "YOU RABID WHATEVER YOU ARE!!! YOU LEAVE THIS INSTANT! YOU'LL NOT BITE US YOU HEAR!!!???"

                Qui-Gon quickly disarmed her, not wanting Inu-Yasha to get violent again. "What are you talking about ma'm?"

                She glared at Inu-Yasha. "I heard from Jira that there was a rabid dog-like creature with white hair and orange eyes and that he was extremely dangerous!"

                Padmé laughed. "Qui-Gon here only made that up because people kept touching Inu-Yasha's ears!"

                Shmi blushed and immediately apologized. Afterwards, they all introduced themselves. Still feeling quite embarrassed about the whole thing, she offered to make dinner and let them spend the night. Once she set about doing that, Qui-Gon went into another room to contact Obi-Wan and Anakin took Padmé into his bedroom  to show her some of his inventions. That left Inu-Yasha with R2-D2. Inu-Yasha crouched down next to him.

                "So...uh...you're a robot right?"

                The little droid beeped.

                Inu-Yasha looked him over more. "Do you have eyes or anything?"

                The droid beeped indignantly.

                "I wonder how far you would fly if someone threw you!" Inu-Yasha said with a laugh.

                The droid didn't find it too funny and a small compartment opened on his side. A small rod stuck out.

                Inu-Yasha pointed. "What's---"       

                Suddenly, the droid zapped him.

                "OW!" Inu-Yasha growled and was about to smack the tiny bucket of bots, but then thought otherwise. Qui-Gon wouldn't want him to and it was Qui-Gon that would help him find Kagome. "I'll deal with you later," he threatned.

                R2-D2 ignored him and entered Anakin's room while whistling.

                Anakin came running out with an old leather book in his hands. "I find that legend for you! Thought you might want to read it. Its the only book I have in Basic."

                He handed it to Inu-Yasha. The DogDemon gasped. On the cover where the words: INU-YASHA: THE GUARDIAN OF THE SHIKON SHARDS. Below the title was a picture of him holding Shikon Shards and Kagome was hanging onto his arm, looking longingly into his eyes!