InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ ~The Adventures of Terri Lieu~ ❯ The Story Begins! ( Chapter 1 )

Title: The Adventures of Terri Lieu

Author: LadyTeriEmerald

Rating: PG for now

Disclaimer: I don't own anybody. Sigh. If they ever want to give Fluffy up, I'll take him! ^>^

 

Summary: Terri follows a cat to a mysterious shrine and falls down a well. Where does she go who does she meet?

 

 

 

Terri Lieu sighed and flipped her long crimson colored hair out of her eyes. High school was so boring! The teacher kept going on and on about ancient feudal Japan. Who cared about that sort of thing! Nobody! If Terri had any friends at school, she would have written them a note about how dumb the class was.

 

But Terri didn't have any friends at Amity High School. Just thinking of that fact made Terri sigh again. She studied her short chipped finger nails that she had painted black last night, and thought about all the high schools she had attended. Sometimes she was expelled, and sometimes they had to leave because her step dad, Larry, had run afoul of the law some way. Either through selling cars that were really lemons, or skimming funds off of people when they needed repairs, her step-dad would eventually get caught and they would have to leave whatever place they had been.

 

And then her step dad would drink. And more often then not she would end up with bruises to hide. He had never touched her in a sexual way, but with the onset of puberty and the growth of her breasts she had seen him looking at her in ways that she really didn't like. If only her mom hadn't died...if only she knew who her real father was she would leave her ass-hole step dad and start a new life. But until she was old enough to work and live away from home she would have to deal with Larry. And until then she would hide the bruises from the world, and the growing marker of her woman hood from Larry and try and get through high school.

 

Terri wanted more than anything to just get away. Away from high school were nobody wanted to take the time to understand a short crimson haired girl with soft blue-grey eyes who wore overlarge sweaters. She wished she was somewhere simpler, where people wouldn't judge her, or dismiss her because her family obviously didn't have any money.

 

The school bell signaled the ending to her Japanese history class. As much as she hated being in class, the end of the day was something worse. The most popular clique of girls liked to harass her as she walked home. Their leader was a girl named Daphne, who had dyed blond hair and cold brown eyes. Her family seemed perfect, and had tons of money. Daphne always had the trendiest clothes, and smelled like to much perfume. And she always had time to harass Terri after school. As Terri exited the school gates that afternoon though, she saw that Daphne and her posse of sycophantic friends had found a new target to torture. Daphne was laughing and spraying hairspray at a frightened cat that she and her friends had cornered.

 

“Aw! Here kitty, kitty, kitty! Don't you want to look pretty today?” crooned Daphne. Daphne laughed, and Terri thought it was an awful shrill sound. Daphne's friends laughed too. One of them, Shelia, caught sight of Terri.

 

Sheila mockingly called out, “Oh look who it is! Messy little Terri. Do you want some hairspray too?”

 

Daphne laughed at this, and continued Shelia's thought “Yeah, since nothing can make you look worse, it can only make you look better!” She punctuated this with a spray in the direction of the cat. The cat it seemed, had given up and in it trapped position against the wall had taken to hissing pathetically.

 

Terri couldn't take it anymore. It was one thing to harass her, she could take it. But to torture an innocent animal? That was taking things to far.

 

“You girls are such bitches!” Terri yelled. Daphne and her friends looked shocked that someone would challenge them that way. They were equally shocked when Terri took advantage of their shock and ran at them. She knocked Daphne over, and pushed her two friends out of the way, giving the cat a chance to escape. Terri paused for a moment to look over at the sputtering Daphne and the growing rage on her face. A rage that was reflected on her friends. Terri knew she had to get out of there before things got worse. Knowing that she was probably making things worse by not confronting Daphne now, Terri turned and ran after the multicolored cat.

 

Terri had began the run first thinking to follow the cat and make sure it was okay, and to her surprise the cat wasn't running so fast that Terri couldn't keep up. The cat seemed to be a few steps ahead of her the whole time, but never disappeared out of sight. The were running through the streets of Tokyo and came to bottom steps of a heavily forested shrine area. Terri caught a glimpse of the name, Hirigashi Shrine, before the cat bolted up the steps. Terri had the brief impression of an immense tree and then the cat darted into a shed at the back of the shrine.

 

Terri was breathing heavily from her run through the street, but she felt compelled to make sure the cat was okay. The shed was dark when she entered, and there were all sorts of strangely shaped boxes and jars on shelfs inside. The shed had a dusty smell to it, and the air was mingled with strange spices. There was no light inside, save sunlight through dirty windows and under the door. In the middle of the shed was what looked to be a well.

 

Terri hesitantly called out for the cat, “Kitty? Kitty are you in here?”

 

Terri was immediately conscious of the fact that she was in a strange shed at a shrine she had never heard of before. She hoped that this wasn't a private shrine, and that the people who lived here wouldn't mind a poorly dressed fourteen year old girl poking around in their shed. She would just look for the cat a little more, to make sure it was okay, and then she would sneak out. She knew she was going to be in trouble with her step father when she got home for being so late, but she felt compelled to see this through. She heard a soft meow, and it almost sounded like it was coming from the well.

 

Terri made a distressed sound. If the cat was in the well, how was she supposed to get it out? She thought briefly of seeing if there were people in the shrine who could help, but was to scared that both she and the cat weren't supposed to be there. She would just look over the edge and see if the cat was there. Then, if she couldn't get it out, she would ask for help. She leaned over the edge of the well and called for the cat.

 

“Kitty? Are you down there?”

 

She was so intent on looking down the well, that the brush of fur against her feet startled her so much that she lost her balance and tipped over the side of the well. The world went away for awhile.

 

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When Terri came back to herself, the first thing she noticed was the bright sunlight. It didn't seem right, for some reason. Then she remembered, she had fallen down that well. The sunlight was wrong though, the well had been in side the shed, hadn't it? Disoriented, Terri pulled herself up. She climbed out of the well and was shocked to see a lush forest land. The air seemed cleaner and sweeter, and the trees stretched for miles in a way that was very clearly not modern day Tokyo. Terri was dumbfounded, and struggled to make sense of what she was seeing.

“I must have really hit my head hard when I fell down that well” Terri mused to herself. The sunlight gently hit the grass, Terri felt a pang of sadness. She wasn't surprised that her subconscious would come up with such a beautiful place for her to go while unconscious. Wasn't a retreat from the world that held nothing for her what she had been dreaming about just that afternoon.

 

Terri looked around the clearing surrounding the well. She knew that she had to wake up soon, so she decided to rest against the side of the well for the time being. She half thought that she could just jump back down the well to wake up, that the well was some sort of psychological device that represented the tie back to the real world. She had been resting there for a little while, when she heard the sound of people moving through the woods. People who were arguing. Judging from the voices, there was a male, a female and maybe a small girl or boy.

 

Terri didn't know what to do. Should she hide? These voices were probably part of her subconscious and wouldn't hurt her, but then again she didn't know the rules of the place. She decided to hide on the other side of the clearing, the one the voices weren't coming from. She listened as the grew closer, and it sounded like they were fighting.

 

The female voice was saying “Inuyasha, it isn't possible for someone else from my era to come through the well! Only you and I can do that, and it has to do with our relationship to the Jewel of Four Souls! You have to be mistaken!”

 

The male voice, who Terri surmised was Inuyasha, responded in an irritate manner “Bitch! I know what I smell! And it is definitely from you era! And how do you know that you are the only one with part of the Jewel? We've been missing the last piece for a long time, and who's to say that it isn't in your time? Maybe you lost it!”

 

The female voice sputtered angrily “Lost it! I, you, SIT!”

 

With that word there was a sound like something heavy falling to the ground. The young voice she had heard earlier laughed like the funniest thing in the world had just happened. Inuyasha's voice was now very angry and he was alternately cursing the female, and threatening the young person with retribution when the spell wore off.

 

“Spell?” Terri thought to herself. Things were starting to get sort of strange. Well, even stranger than they had been. It took a few minuets of arguing before the voices made it to the clearing, and Terri could see the people who belonged to the voices. The female came first, dressed in a school uniform. She was tall and had dark hair and was calling back to the other two voices. A small shape came bounding out of the woods and jumped up into the girls arms. Terri was shocked that the small child could move like that. He seemed to be in costume, with a realistic tail. Then the male, who must be Inuyasha burst into the clearing. He had to be in costume to, didn't he? No one had hair that white, or, or, were those cat ears on his head? Terri knew that this wasn't real, but this was just to much!

 

Inuyasha seemed to be scenting around the clearing, and Terri realized with horror that he seemed to be heading in her direction. It was one thing to wake up in a imagination world brought on by head trauma, but it was another thing entirely to be faced with weird creatures that may or may not be harmful. Terri decided she had had enough of this knocked out fantasy world. The man, no, creature, Inuyasha was heading in her direction. The female and the younger creature were on the opposite side of the well. She could just sprint over to the well, and fall through it, and wake up on the floor of the shrine. Away from this crazy place with its strange creatures and school girls.

 

Terri sprinted into the clearing, much to the surprise of the three others who had gathered there and leapt into the well, and hoped for the best.

 

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Inuyasha peered down the well. “That was unexpected” he said. Kagome hadn't moved since the girl had sprinted across the clearing, and was standing with her mouth open. Shippo hopped out of her arms and perched on the edge of the well.

 

“I think she passed out” Shippo said quietly.

 

Kagome peered over the edge. “She must have gone in head first...you were right Inuyasha. Someone from my era did come through the well. I don't...I don't understand how this happened”

 

Inuyasha snorted. “Of course I was right. The nose doesn't lie.” He was slightly hurt that Kagome didn't believe him. Why would he lie about something like that?

 

Kagome interrupted his thoughts by saying in a hushed tone “Inuyasha, you are right, I sense the Jewel here. One small shard. It must be with her...”

 

Inuyasha felt conflicted at this piece of news. One it meant that they could complete the Jewel, and soon. But if it meant fighting the small form at the bottom of the well to get her piece, he didn't know if he could do it. He'd never seen hair that color, it was a beautiful crimson color. It contrasted with the girls creamy skin. And she smelled wonderful...Inuyasha leapt into the well and pulled her out. He cradled her gently in his arms.

 

“We will take her to Kaede.” Inuyasha declared.

 

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Terri became aware of her surroundings. She moaned and opened her eyes. She was back in a house, but she could tell right away it wasn't the shed that had held the well. She looked around the room and let out a gasp of fear when she saw the white haired man from before. He looked terrifying with his clawed hands and fanged teeth. He was also carrying a sword in this belt. Terri came to two conclusions. She didn't return to the real work which meant that the well was not the psychological representation she thought it was. The second realization was that she didn't know where she was, and there were scary creatures wherever it was she ended up. She backed herself into a corner of the hut and started whimpering softly.

 

The creature, Inuyasha, she reminded herself, came closer to her. She pulled herself tighter against the wall. He started to speak.

 

“Listen, I'm not going to hurt you. You have come through a magical well that connects your time and feudal Japan. You most likely came through because you posses part of a sacred Jewel that most demons would kill for.”

 

With those words Terri knew that she had gone insane. Traveling back in time? Sacred Jewel? Demons? She just started to laugh. The laughter quickly turned into screams.

 

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Inuyasha was concerned when the girl started laughing, but jumped back when she started screaming. He nervously looked around, he never knew what to do in these situations. He fled the hut, and yet the girl kept screaming.

 

She screamed for hours, until her voice was gone, and she wouldn't stop rocking back and forth. She kept saying that she had gone crazy, and nothing he or Kagome said could convince her otherwise. Not that Inuyasha could get near her without her flinching. The worst part was that Kagome had told him that the piece of the Jewel was inside the girl, most likely in heart. Neither Kagome nor Kaede had known what to make of that, or could guess how it happened. They would have to get inside her heart to get it out. Which would kill her.

 

Inuyasha growled with frustration. If the girl didn't calm down soon, Inuyasha would just leave her in the woods. Then she couldn't bother anyone in the village, and if he was lucky some other demon would killer and he could get the Jewel.

 

If she didn't snap out of it in three days, that's just what he would do.