*~*~*~*~

The group made it to the well just as it began to get dark. Inuyasha sat down and leaned his back against the well. The rest sat down and made themselves comfortable, they figured they might be a while. There was very little talking, the tension in the air could be felt and was hanging over them like a cloud. It was the kind of atmosphere that was all to serious and normally wouldn’t be broken…

“PERVERT!!!” *SMACK*

Unless you are friends with a lecherous monk who can’t keep his hand of a certain Demon hunter’s backside. Everyone sighed, the small break from the tension was welcome, as it had become unbearable.

//Well, it’s nice to see you all made it one time//

Everyone leapt up into a defensive position, Miroku grabbed the prayer beads covering his cursed hand, Sango readied her boomerang, Kilala transformed, and Kagome notched an arrow. Inuyasha, however, was strangely not moving. He was sitting in the same position he was when they had arrived.

“Sit down.” He barked “There’s no threat”

//You know, if this is how I am responded to I don’t think I’ll help you. I do have better things to do than hang around in your dimension// The voice, one of an older person, huffed. Reluctantly every put their weapons away and sat back down, felling more than a little silly.

//That’s better. Did you even tell them why they are here?//

“No. I figured you would.” Inuyahsa sat not moving.

The voice grumbled at the hanyou’s apathy saying something about the younger generation.

“Ummm excuse me sir.” Kagome said, “But who are you?”

//I am an ancient being, here to save you in you greatest time of need//

“He’s just bragging. He isn’t going to do much other than tell us stuff.”

//HEY!!! I WAS GOING FOR THE DRAMATIC!!!*mumble*If this is going to be your attitude young demon forget about what was in that letter.//

“You wouldn’t. You have to, you promised your friend. Besides, the evil you spoke of is already here.” Inuyasha spoke very calmly and evenly, sounding much more refined and intelligent then he usually did.

“Great evil? Inuyahsa, what great evil?” Miroku spoke, his face a mask of calmness when his mind was racing.

“So that’s why you’ve been spending so much time thinking lately.” Kagome said.

//How long has it been here?// The voice asked in a very concerned voice.

“About three weeks. I’ve stayed in the village trying to figure out what exactly it is.”

“Inuyasha” Sango began “What is going on?”

//I’ll handle this one. I hope you are all comfortable because this could take a while.//

The voice waited until everyone got settled. Kagome had scooted closed to Inuyasha.

//A great evil has descended upon your reality. The soul of a emotionless evil has been reincarnated in this realm. An insane killer, Majin Buu, who was killed in an epic battle with a powerful warrior. This warrior, as he hurled his final attack at the creature, wished that Buu could be born again as a good an noble warrior. Before this could happen, Buu’s soul escaped and somehow managed to make it into your dimension. I fear that he has been reborn, as an evil being, not as the good and noble warrior.//

“So, all we have to do is stop this thing so what. How strong can he be?” Inuyasha asked, arrogance seeping into his voice once again.

//Don’t intterupt. And he is incredibly powerful. More than 100 times more powerful than this Naraku fellow you have been chasing//

Everyone was visibly shaken by that revelation.

//However, luckily the warrior responsible for his destruction also lived at one point in this dimension.//

“How is that possible?” Miroku asked.

//Alternate dimensions my dear lad.//

“Alternate what?”

//Dimensions. In your world about one thousand years before your time there were three main classes of beings. Humans, Demons, and Saiyins//

“Saiyins?”
//Yes. In my dimension, as well as yours, they are the strongest warriors living. However that strength ultimately lead to their downfall. In my world two descendants of this race survived to the time Buu came. This is not the case in your time however. One thousand years ago the Saiyins, lead by their king Vegeta, grew ambitious and tried to take over the world, starting out in Japan. However they were stopped once they hit the western lands…//

Inuyasha’s ears picked up on that part.

“The…the western lands?” He asked his voice not hiding his shock and curiosity.

//That’s right my boy, your father’s lands. Although at the time it was your grandfather who ruled and ultimately defeated the Saiyins. Halfway through a battle a warrior appeared on the scene to help his people. His name was Kakarot, or in my world Goku. He was a good and pure soul, as he is in my time. He fought, but never killed. He always thought that there could be peace. He was, ironically, the strongest Saiyin warrior alive. He spent his entire life training trying to ascend, which he did to the third level.
It was not enough, he was the only one who could achieve this level, and had very little help. In the final battle between the demons and Saiyins, Kakarot was killed by Inuyasha’s grandfather. This sent the Saiyin prince, Vegeta, into a rage. IN this rage he became the second and last Saiyin to achieve “super saiyin” status. He fought fiercely, but was no where near as strong as Kakarot was, and was soon slain. Thus ending the time of the Saiyins. Any children where captured and had their tails cut off as punishment….//

“Wait…tails?” Kagome asked, surprised.

//Yes tails, and don’t interrupt again. Anyway not only were their tails cut off, but they had their memories erased as well. A few years the race died out.//

“I hate to interrupt but, how does this help us?” An inpatient sounding hanyou said.

//I’m getting to that part. No SIT DOWN AND DON’T INTERRUPT AGAIN!!!A-hem, any way. Luckily Kakarot has been reincarnated. In a Saiyin body no less//

“And??” Inuyasha was growing more and more impatient.

//And he’ll be here to help you. You’ll have to train him of course//

This caused Shippo to burst out laughing.

“Hey! What’s so funny brat?”

“You…teach someone? Hahahhahahahha”

The small fox was silenced by a fist to the head, which in turn earned the owner of a fist a very good

“SIT”. Sensing the commotion, Miroku figured it was as good a time as any to…

“PERVERT!!!!” *SMACK*

So close….

//f you are finished. Yes Inuyasha will have to train him. However it will come at a price.//

“A price?” Kagome didn’t like the sound of that.

//Yes, the soul of Kakarot is lying dormant in the man that will come to you through the well. Once you start training him, he will no longer be himself. He will be Kakarot. Forever.//

“And you say this guy will be all powerful and he will destroy this Buu fellow? Perfect. Sounds like a great deal.” Inuyasha was liking this a little more now.

“INUYASHA!” Kagome yelled in surprise. “Who cares if he can beat him. We are going to destroy a persons entire life. We can’t do it, we don’t have the right.”

“We don’t have a choice. This thing has to be killed and…”

//Actually he can’t be killed//

“WHAT!!!???” The group shouted at once.

//His soul must be purified.//

All eyes fell on Kagome.

//The young miko must be the person to deliver the final blow. Or Buu will just be reincarnated again and destroy your world. That’s how it must be. I’m sorry. I am running out of time. You must figure everything else out yourselves. The tear in the dimensional fabric won’t happen again till Buu is defeated.//

There was a loud crack of thunder and a flash of light that knocked everyone over and the voice was gone. No one spoke for a while, the weight and scope of what had been revealed to them was a lot to take in. They had to put their trust and faith in someone they never met in a fight against a being that can’t
be killed and is a hundred times more powerful than Naraku.

*~*~*~*~

“Well this is just Shit!” Inuyasha said at last, breaking the silence. “You guys realize we have no choice in this right? We have to do it, well I do at least.”

“What do you mean?” Sango asked.
Inuyasha produced the letter that had come for him earlier in the day. He held it up and showed them the back.

“You see that seal? That’s the seal of the Demon Lord of the Western Lands. The letter is from my grandfather.”

“But, why did it come to you? Why not Sesshoumaru?” Miroku asked, intrigued “He is the current Lord isn’t he?”

“The hell if I know. All I know that this is a direct order to train this guy. I don’t know how he knew, probably a prophecy or something like that. In any event it calls for the second son of the demon lord to train the reincarnated Kakarot. Since my father didn’t have any siblings, I guess the prophecy means me” He shrugged and put the letter back in his pocket. “You guys, well except Kagome, have to stay. I would advise leaving now. Your lives will be shortened considerably.”

Everyone was silent. Eyes moved all around you could almost hear everyone thinking. Eventually Miroku spoke up.

“My life is already short enough. I have nothing to lose so don’t expect me to go running away.”

“I’m not going anywhere either.” Sango spoke next. “You may not admit it Inuyasha, but you need all of us, so I don’t think we’ll be going anywhere soon.” Her voice had a tone that clearly said she wasn’t arguing the fact.

Inuyasha didn’t know how to respond. Things had changed in the time he and his band of friends had first met.

“I just don’t want you guys to get hurt…that’s all…even the brat.” Quiet fell on the group as the half demon said this. Everyone looked at him as if he had three heads. “I’m not heartless you know.” With that he leapt of, presumably into a tree to sleep, leaving a group of confused people below him.

“Wow” Miroku started “I’ve never seen him so…so….”

“Caring? Almost affectionate even” Shippou finished the monk’s statement.

“Do you think he’s upset?” Kagome asked her freinds.

“Why do you say that Kagome?” Shippou asked as he walked over to her.

“Well before he left he looked almost hurt that we thought he was heartless. I could see it in his eyes. I know we were surprised at what he said, because he never really says things like that, when he isn’t on the verge of death or something. Sheesh. The way we reacted may have hurt him more than anything we may have said.”

“Perhaps.” Miroku said as he stood up and stretched “However I think we should wait until the morning until we talk to him, let him cool off. We have a lot to discuss about what was revealed tonight.”

“Miroku’s right” Sango agreed as the monk helped her to her feet “We should sleep on it.” Kagome and Shippou agreed and they began to walk back towards the village. About half way to the village, Shippou snuck away from the group.

Sniffing the air he found Inuyasha’s scent and headed in the direction it was coming from. He found the tree that the hanyou was perched in. Shippou noticed that Inuyasha wasn’t asleep, but looked as though he was deep in thought, something he had been doing a lot of recently.

“Inuyasha?” Shippou called up.

“What is it?”

“Thanks.”

“For what, I didn’t do anything.”

“Yes you did. And just to let you know no one thinks you’re heartless or anything. You just never say thinkgs like that…ever. And you aren’t usually this civil or anything. We were just surprised that’s all. Don’t be mad ok?”

There was a few moments of silence between the two then Inuaysha spoke.

“Feh”

It wasn’t much, but it didn’t really seem he was into it. Shippou shrugged and ran off to catch up to the rest of the group. Inuyasha. Doing his best flying squirrel impression and leapt from tree top to tree top, hoping to make it to the hut before his freinds. ‘Friends’ He thought ‘My first real freinds’.

*~*~*~*~ Meanwhile in the future*~*~*~*~
A dark figure crept through the well house of the Higurashi shrine. Opening the creaky wooden door he found himself in complete darkness.

“Perfect” a rather upbeat voice spoke out to no one. “Now I can finally relax.”

Sitting down he began to relax himself and meditate. He was about to completely zone out when he heard movement near the well itself. He sighed and walked blindly towards the noise. When he reached it he saw a pair of glowing eyes.

“Argh, stupid cat. Shoo or I’ll get caught.” He bent down to pick up the cat when it swiped at him with one of its paws. He jumped back in time, but thew cat managed to hit the thin gold chain around his neck, and knocking it into the well.

“Dammit. This is why I hate cats. I swear why do I even bother…” He grumbled to the cat. He fished out a small flashlight from his pocket and shined it down the well. He turned to the cat. “If I get stuck down there and end up dying or on the eleven o’clock news, it’s your fault.” The cat mewed and rubbed against the man’s leg. He bent down again and scratched its head “I really do hate cats you know.” The only response he got was a soft purr. He sighed and found the ladder that was in the well ‘Weird, who would put a ladder in a well’.

He climbed halfway down before one of the rungs snapped and he lost his footing, falling the rest of way down and landing with a rather nice “Thud”.

“I really hate cats.” He mumbled as he stood up and made sure nothing was broken. He felt around and found his flashlight, which luckily was not broken in the fall. He turned it back on and searched a few minutes before he found the chain. “Ahhh, there you are.”

He picked it up and noticed that it seemed to be glowing, as was the well floor below him. The light got brighter and surrounded him then it was gone. When his eyes readjusted he looked around and noticed it was a little brighter out. He looked around and noticed no ladder. Confused he looked up and noticed something missing above him.

“No roof? What the hell?” He started to panic and tried scrambling up the wall, to no avail. So logically he did the first thing that came to mind.

He screamed.

*~*~*~*~

Inuyasha was making good time when heard a scream coming from the direction of the well. He stopped his tree hopping and turned back around. Within a few minutes he was at the well again. He looked down the well and saw someone down there. He jumped down the well and faced the person in it.

“Who the hell are you?” He said in as rough a voice as he could. The person stammered something and fainted. The dog demon sighed and hefted the man on his back and made his way to the hut. He had a pretty good idea on who he had just made faint.

*~*~*~*~

The hut was quiet when Inuyasha burst through the door, waking everyone up.

“Inuyasha?” Kagome said yawning “What’s going on?”

Inuyasha didn’t answer and dropped the man on the floor. He went over to Miroku.

“Hey Miroku. Look at this guy do you see anything weird about him.”

Miroku looked at him and saw nothing at first but a dull blue aura surrounding the man. Then he looked closer and noticed an even fainter gold colored aura beneath the blue one .

“He has two auras.” The monk stated.

“What does that mean Miroku?” Kagome asked.

“He has two souls.”

“And?”

“He’s our guy.”