Chapter 1:
A Surprise Journey
(Opening: Butterfly - Kouji Wada)
It wasn't the first time that an argument broke out in the Gallucci household, and it always was because of the same reason: disagreements between father and son.
- "Why do we have to go there?" – asked Gerardo very annoyed – "You know very well that I don't like to going to parties like these!" -
The one speaking was an 18 year-old boy that had the hair with a bowl-shaped cut and of a brown so dark that it seemed black; and he had bright hazel eyes. He was also tall, slender and wore square glasses. He was wearing a blue shirt and blue-jean pants.
- "Because we were invited to it by our friends, and it's also a great chance for me and your mother to do business" – said his father, who pretty much was an ogre whenever he was mad – "We're supposed to be all there, as otherwise, we're going to give a bad impression" -
His father was a bit shorter than him, had black and short hair, black eyes, and they both had very similar traits in appearance, and was wearing blue-jean pants and a checkered orange and white shirt.
- "I'm sorry, dear" – said his mother, who was shorter than them both, had the hair of a dirty blond and bright blue eyes, and was wearing a long aquamarine one-piece dress – "But this time, your father is right" -
- "Yeah, Gerar" – said his younger sister, Gabriela. She was an eight year-old girl that reached about the shoulder height of her brother and had eyes of her same color, but her hair was of a lighter tone of brown and she had it down to her waist. She wore a white blouse and a pink skirt that went down to her knees – "And who knows: maybe we'll have some fun in there or eat something tasty!" -
- "*sigh*… Okay, okay…" – he said as she sighed bitterly – "Looks like I've got no other choice…" -
Gerardo then went back to his room, changed his shirt for one similar to the one his father was wearing, just that it was green instead of orange, and went back to the side of his family in order to depart for the party.
Meanwhile, in another world…
- "Why do you always have to be like this whenever I have to go home!?" – screamed Kagome. She and all the others were standing in the clearing next to the Bone Eater's Well and she was preparing to go back home.
- "Because I need you to search for the Shikon shards that Naraku has on his hands, stupid!" – screamed Inuyasha back at her.
- "You should know already I've got a life at the other side of the Well, Inuyasha!" –said Kagome as she stomped on the grass.
- "I don't care! And we lost a lot of time with what happened to us after we drank that weird water!" – said Inuyasha as if he didn't want to remember it.
- "But you said you enjoyed it, and that you'd like to do it again sometime! And don't change the subject like that!" – said Kagome glaring at him.
- "It seems that they will never stop quarreling" – said Miroku in a resigned tone.
- "You're right, Houshi-sama. But it's good to know that they still love each other" – said Sango sighing, but she then smiled and gave a cheerier tone to the phrases as she said them.
- "Yeah, but Inuyasha's still a dork" – said Shippou.
- "What didja call me, midget!?" – screamed Inuyasha as he ran after him.
- "Waaah! Kagome, save me! Inuyasha's gonna kill me!" – screamed Shippou as he began shedding crocodile tears.
- "Inuyasha… SIT DOWN!" – said Kagome, and instantly the rosary sent Inuyasha crashing to the ground.
- "Why you did that, wench!? I didn't even get to touch him!" – said Inuyasha angry as he raised his face from the grass, now bruised and covered in dirt.
- "Because you were going to hit Shippou!" – said Kagome as angry as him.
- "Well done, Shippou. You only made the situation worse" – said Miroku seriously as his right hand stealthily got closer to Sango's back…
SLAP!
- "And the same goes for you, Houshi-sama!" – said Sango angrily as she blushed.
Back to the other world…
- "Honestly, this party is the worst…" – said Gerardo after a long and boring hour at the party, as he sat at a table in a large hall filled with rather annoying music. Gabriela was sitting at his side while their parents were conversing with other people – "Why they had to force me to come here!?" -
- "Gerar, I'm bored too" – said Gabriela with a bored voice – "Can we listen to some music?" -
- "Hmm, I don't see why not. Luckily I brought my MP3 player with me, but we should head outside. There's so much noise here that we won't be able to listen to anything" – as they both stood up and went outside. The hall was located on a grassy hill, so they sat down on the grass and looked to the skies above.
- "At least we have a starry night today" – said Gerardo a little more cheerily as he and his sister listened to the music while they looked at the stars at that night dimly lit by the starlight, as it was a new moon night. According to the MP3 player's screen, the song they were listening was called "Stolen Power".
- "Yup, it's a pretty night" – said Gabriela – "But I'd like to be playing or watching TV instead of being here…"
- "Yeah. I'd prefer to be doing things at my PC, playing videogames… or even being able to travel to that world I've been seeing in my dreams… or to any others that have more exciting things than our boring world…" – said Gerardo with the eyes shining from excitement – "Too bad that's impossible…" -
- "Hehe, what worlds you've got on mind, Gerar?" – asked Gabriela giggling.
- "Hmm… there are few… one'd be the one I'm always seeing in my dreams, like I said…" – said Gerardo thoughtfully.
- "Dragonia, right? That's how you said it was called" – said Gabriela with curiosity.
- "Yeah, that's right. And other one would be…" – said Gerardo as he turned his head to the stars in the sky.
- "The Inuyasha world?" – asked Gabriela giggling again.
- "Yeah. Sometimes I envy Kagome for the luck she has, being able to live adventures in another era. The bad thing would be that it'd be hell to keep myself up to date with school" – replied him as he laughed.
- "I'm thinking the same thing, onii-chan" – said Gabriela. Both of them knew some Japanese, as Gerardo had quite a liking for Japanese culture, and thus had been learning the language for the past year. As for Gabriela, she was a bit curious about it, so she also picked up some words and phrases, but unlike her brother, she didn't know anything about the writing aside of how it looked and how it was different from similar writing systems such as Chinese and Korean – "It'd be really fun to be traveling from a place to other, fighting monsters and doing other things!" -
- "Too bad it's an impossible dream, Gaby-chan" – said Gerardo with a sad voice.
At that moment, the sky blackened out as if all the stars had gone out at once, and everything around them dissolved away into a whirlwind of purple light.
- "What's this!?" – said Gerardo as he looked around.
- "Gerar, I'm scared…" – said Gabriela as she clung to her brother.
- "Don't worry, Gaby. I'll protect you no matter what" – said he as he embraced Gabriela to calm her down. Both then felt that something was dragging them down, and they fell unconscious.
In the other world…
- "Stop arguing already!" – said Sango, finally fed up of the endless quarreling the two had.
- "Don't butt in!" – said both Kagome and Inuyasha at the same time.
- "Sango, trying to stop them while they are arguing is like wanting to stop the tides" – said Miroku thoughtfully.
- "I know, but it's annoying that they are still at it…" – said Sango exasperated.
At that point, a black and purple bubble surrounded Kagome and Inuyasha, which shocked everyone.
- "What's happening now!?" – screamed Inuyasha.
- "Inuyasha, be careful! I feel a great power coming from this thing!" – said Kagome. They both then felt as if they were being dragged down.
In the middle of the nothingness…
- 'How weird… it feels as if I were flying through a tunnel or something' – thought Gerardo.
He then opened his eyes, and aside of Gabriela, who was unconscious surrounded by his arms, he also saw torrent of purple light around them. Then, he saw a large nebulous silver figure accompanied of a black one passing in front of them at a high speed – "What was that? I couldn't distinguish what or who they were, but they feel… familiar…" -
And the next instant, everything went black…
- 'Where… am I?' – thought Gerardo. He was beginning to regain consciousness, and could feel grass below himself and an air cleaner than what he was used to, but he felt his body too heavy to even open his eyes.
- 'Where's Gaby? How's her?' – thought he worried.
- "Wake up" – he heard the voice of a man – "Please, awaken" -
- 'Who is it…? Who's calling me?' – thought he confused.
- "Please, wake up!" – he heard this time the voice of a woman.
- 'Please, let me rest… My body feels too heavy…' – thought Gerardo
- "Rise and shine!" – he heard the voice of a kid, and this time around, he felt something heavy and furry fall on his face.
- "KNOCK IT OFF!" – screamed Gerardo as he opened his eyes and stood up instantly. He then began looking at his surroundings confused.
- "Where am I? What happened?" – said he, and then he turned around to see the people that had been calling at him to wake up: they were Sango, Miroku and Shippou. His heart began racing upon noticing this, to the point he almost fainted again.
- "Mi… Miroku? San…go? Shippou?" – said he slowly – "How can this be happening?" -
The others were shocked when they heard him pronouncing his names.
- "How do you know us?" – asked Miroku weirded out.
- "Well.. it's a bit hard to explain…" – he said a bit confused, trying to think up what kind of answer Kagome would give them if she was asked the same thing.
- "And more importantly" – interrupted Sango – "What happened to Inuyasha and Kagome? And why are you and that girl wearing their clothes?" -
- "What are you talking about?" – said Gerardo confused. However, when he raised his hands to his face, he noticed two long red sleeves at his sides instead of the green and white short ones from his shirt. He then looked down at himself and he finally noticed he was wearing Inuyasha's clothes, the rosary around his neck, and even had Tessaiga in its scabbard tied to his hip. His sister was deep asleep at his side; enshrouded in a lump of fabric that would be a school uniform if Kagome was wearing it.
- "What happened here? How is it that I'm wearing Inuyasha's clothes, and I'm also carrying his belongings now?" – said he as he touched his forehead, and felt a couple of lenses in front of his – "Good, at least I'm still wearing my glasses" -
- "Looks like you're as confused as any of us" – said Miroku understanding the expression on his face – "Could you introduce yourself and tell us where you came from?" –
- "Okay. My name is Gerardo, and she's my little sister Gabriela… and yes, this is as strange to you all as it is to me… I don't know where they could have ended up" – said he to introduce himself and Gabriela, as well as reply to Sango's question.
- "This is so weird… and we've got no way of knowing where Inuyasha and Kagome went, as they disappeared on the same place where you appeared. Though your sister is pretty cute…" – said Shippou as he giggled, but Gerardo only gave him a scary gaze, making him shut up instantly. He then picked her up carefully on his arms.
- "At the least… I can still continue taking care of her" – said he as his expression turned into a gentle smile.
- "I see you really care about your sister…" – said Sango pleased as she went closer to them.
- "Yeah, the same way you care for Kohaku" – said Gerardo smiling at her.
- "I see you know quite a bit about us" – said Miroku with his typical know-it-all posture – "Let's see then, what do you know about me?" -
- "Okay. Naraku put a curse on your grandfather that consists of a hole appearing on the right hand that can grow until it swallows its holder, said curse has been transmitted from his generation to yours, and of course, that you're a first-class womanizer and pervert" – said Gerardo initially smiling, but making a bitter face near the end.
- 'He really knows a lot…' – thought Miroku with the face that anyone would make if they were going through a very bad time.
- "And you can be sure that I won't let you walk away unharmed if you try to play smart with my sister" – said Gerardo as he gave him a threatening glare, sharp as a dagger, to which Sango and Shippou joined. Miroku just laughed nervously.
- "Don't worry, I'll make sure he doesn't try anything weird" – said Sango
At that moment, Gabriela began stirring up…
- "Gaby! Are you okay?" – asked her older brother.
- "Uh!? Gerar?" – she looked at his face, and then she hugged him – "Gerar, you're okay!" -
- "Yup, Gaby. Don't worry, you're safe with me" – he said as he stroked her head to calm her down.
- "But… why are you dressed like Inuyasha?" – asked Gabriela weirded out.
- "Rather, I should be asking why you're dressed like Kagome…" – said Gerardo to point out at something the girl hadn't noticed yet about herself.
- "Huh?" – she then looked at herself and got a good scare, as Kagome's uniform didn't fit her at all – "What happened to my clothes!?" -
- "Don't worry about it, but be careful so it won't end up falling off until we can get you something that fits you well" – said he as he lowered her to the ground so she could stand on her own feet. He then turned to face the others – "I know it's pretty rude to be asking this when we barely know each other, but… could you help us find a way to get back to our world, please?" –
- "I don't have a problem with helping you. Maybe we'll even be able to find Inuyasha and Kagome if we do it" – said Sango with a smile.
- "And besides, we would lose a great part of our strength without them here" – said Miroku nodding.
- "But have you thought they could have ended up in the place Gerardo and Gabriela came from?" – suggested Shippou. This made Gerardo and Gabriela look at each other with spooked faces.
- "Oh, no!" – said Gerardo horrified – "If they ended up in our world, that could end up being a disaster!" –
- "Gerar…" – said Gabriela as she fidgeted a little.
- "What's it?" – asked Gerardo intrigued.
- "Err, well… Sit down!" – she said as she giggled mischievously.
Then the rosary shone and made Gerardo crash into the ground.
- "Damn! It was funny to see it happen, but it isn't funny at all to experience it! Why did you do that!?" – said he after spitting a bit of dirt, and luckily for him, his glasses didn't shatter from the fall.
- "I wanted to see if it worked" – said her laughing.
- "This is the worst… Wait a second…" – he began thinking, and then an idea came to his mind that brightened his mood – "If the rosary still works… then maybe Tessaiga could work with me too!" -
On the other hand, back to the other world…
- "Ughh… where am I?" – said Inuyasha when he finally began waking up – "Kagome?" -
He fixed his gaze on the unconscious figure he had at his side: she had black hair, and was wearing a white blouse and a pink skirt.
- "Kagome, is that you?" – he asked – "Come on, wake up already!" -
- "Uh… Inuyasha?" – asked Kagome groggily as she woke up, to then look around herself spooked – "Where are we? And why are you dressed like that!?" -
- "What in hell are you talking about? You're the one dressed weird…" – said he, but he noticed then that he wasn't wearing his kimono anymore, and instead was wearing clothes that would be more proper of Kagome's own time: a long-sleeved checkered green and white shirt with blue-jean pants – "What happened to my clothes, and where's my sword!?" -
- "And now I look at you better… you don't have the rosary anymore!" – said Kagome scared.
- "Keh! Perfect! That means you won't be able to continue sitting me down!" – said he with an evil smile.
- "But anyway, where are we? And why did our clothes change like this?" - she then noticed that her monstrously-sized backpack was at her side – "I still have my stuff here, but I don't think it's going to be very useful in this place…" -
- "Gerar! Gaby! Time to go home!" – they heard a voice coming from far away.
- "I wonder who they're calling…" – said Kagome to then turn in Inuyasha's direction – "Do you think we should go and hide somewhere?" -
- "Yeah. The last thing I wanna happen now is to have someone staring at me" – he said in a very bad mood. However, Inuyasha screamed, as he noticed that his fangs, ears and claws were disappearing, while his eyes and hair took on darker color - "Damn it! Why we had to come to this weird place during a new moon!?" –
- "Be quiet!" – said Kagome as she went to hide behind a tree, as someone had seen and heard Inuyasha already.
- "Gerar?" – they heard the voice of a woman, and a few instants later, Mrs. Gallucci, Gerardo and Gabriela's mother, went closer to him – "Wait, you're not my son… but you're wearing the same clothes he was… so…"
- "Listen, lady. I don't know what yer talking about or who ya are, but I don't know that person…" – said Inuyasha in a bad mood.
- "Yes, I guessed as much. I was saying I thought you were him from afar from your clothes… anyway, could you tell me your name, please?" – asked Mrs. Gallucci.
- "I'm Inuyasha" – said he in a calmer voice.
Mrs. Gallucci almost fainted from the impression, and when she regained her composure, she said very agitated: - "Inuyasha!? Like the main character from the TV show my children like so much!?"
- "No way! You're saying I'm one of these moving drawings from the magic box in this place?" – asked Inuyasha astonished.
- "If you want to put it that way, yes…Oh, sorry for my lack of manners. I'm Janet Gallucci, pleased to make your acquaintance" – said her as she looked around - "But back to the topic, from what you said, you didn't see any of my children around here, right?"-
- "No, I'm sorry. The only people I know here are Kagome and myself" – said Inuyasha a bit confused.
- "Hmm, is she your girlfriend? I've heard as much from them…" – asked Mrs. Gallucci in a very perceptive and teasing tone.
- "N-NO! We're friends! Just friends!" – said he very flustered as his face turned red. He thought irritated: - 'Damn, the last thing I need is having everyone know about our relationship in this weird place too!' -
- 'Why Inuyasha has to be such a big dope!?' – thought Kagome enraged, up to the point where she could no longer control herself – "SIT DOWN!" -
Inuyasha jumped from the spook he got when he heard the phrase, but as he didn't have the rosary on anymore, it didn't have any effect.
- "Who is there?" –asked Mrs. Gallucci a bit spooked at how suddenly that scream came.
- "It's just me. Sorry for startling you…" – said Kagome as she came out from her hiding place.
- "Oh, you are Kagome?" – asked Mrs. Gallucci, to which Kagome nodded in response – "Hmm, you really look like a very nice young lady. I'm somewhat hoping my daughter grows up to be a good woman someday too…" -
- "That's not important now! What we're supposed to do now?" – said Inuyasha in a very bad mood.
- "You should mind your manners, Inuyasha" – said Kagome irritated – "But you're right… we have no place to stay here, we don't know anyone, and we don't know how to go back to our world…" –
At that moment, Kagome noticed there was something shining in one of the pockets from the skirt she was wearing at the moment. When she got it out, she noticed it was a couple of envelopes.
- "What could these be?" – asked her surprised. Upon opening them, she had the surprise that they were letters for granting a student exchange request between two schools in Japan she had never heard about, and two schools in Venezuela. The names of the students were Inuyasha, Kagome Higurashi, Gerardo Gallucci and Gabriela Gallucci, and the letters had the signs and signatures from the staff of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from both countries.
- "Hmm, now I'm reading them, I think we have now a perfect excuse: you were brought today as exchange students here while my children were taken to the airport to go to Japan and start studying there" – said Mrs. Gallucci after they read the letters – "My husband will be angry at this for sure, but since he knows how much they both wanted to go to Japan and study there, he'll understand" –
- "Yeah, but there's a problem" – said Inuyasha as he and Kagome were reading one of the letters again – "How old is your daughter?" –
- "Inuyasha, you shouldn't ask that kind of things about a girl!" – said Kagome embarrassed and enraged.
- "Don't mind it, Kagome. My daughter is still a child anyway: she turned eight years old just a couple months ago" – said Mrs. Gallucci – "However, it's really a problem… there's no way that an elementary school is going to accept a teenager like you…"
- "Wait… I think I have an idea" – said Kagome as she went back to her backpack and began digging through it.
- "Does she always carry such a large backpack?" – asked Mrs. Gallucci surprised.
- "Yeah, but I usually always help her with it" – said Inuyasha with a smile.
- "Ah, okay. It's very nice on your part to help you girlfriend with such a heavy burden" – smiled Mrs. Gallucci.
Inuyasha blushed at this, but before he had time to reply back...
- "Okay, I've found them!" – said Kagome as she took out a bottle filled with pink water and a silver medallion with a sapphire on its center.
- "What is that?" – asked Mrs. Gallucci as she eyed the bottle with interest.
- "Kagome, you aren't thinking of doing…" – said Inuyasha cautiously.
- "Inuyasha, you know as well as I do that I don't have other choice, and we need a place where we can stay until we can go back home" – said Kagome a bit sad. She then put on the medallion, removed the cork from the bottle and drank a bit from its contents.
- "Kagome, no!" – screamed Inuyasha.
At that instant, Kagome began shining with a white light that blinded both Inuyasha and Mrs. Gallucci, and when it dimmed down to the point in which they could open their eyes again, they saw that an eight year-old girl was standing right were Kagome was instants ago. Surprisingly, the clothes she was wearing had readjusted themselves to fit her.
- "You still can remember everything, right?" – asked Inuyasha cautiously.
- "Yeah. As long as I'm wearing the medallion, I won't get my memories wiped away" – said Kagome with a smile – "But I'm a bit surprised… how is it that these clothes could change sizes with me?" -
- "It's a good question… but I don't think we'll be able of finding any answers to it for now" – say Mrs. Gallucci, but she then began looking at Kagome with some interest.
- "Hehe… I know… it's a bit weird to see a teen turning into a little girl, right?" –said Kagome a bit embarrassed of getting stared so much.
- "Yes, as it's the first time I see it happen before my eyes" – said Mrs. Gallucci as she smiled a bit embarrassed from bothering Kagome – "But a rejuvenating medicine? That's something a lot of people would want in their hands" –
- "Hehe, I guess" – said her giggling, but then she put on a very serious expression on her face – "But it's not all good: drinking that water without wearing the medallion I have around my neck causes a full memory wipe to the one who does it" -
- "In any case, I guess this solves the problem we had with your student exchange letters, correct?" – said Mrs. Gallucci with a smile. Then, they heard the sound of a car's horn - "It must be my husband, so we should get going before he gets mad from waiting" -
- "Anyway, we should do our best to keep up appearances with the whole student exchange spiel, right?" – said Kagome as she turned to look at Inuyasha for a moment.
- "Yeah, okay" – said Inuyasha snorting in resignation, as he thought – 'Nothing good's gonna come out from this' -
{End of Chapter}
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