InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Back and Back and Back to the Future ❯ Have A Nice Trip ( Chapter 1 )

Back and Back and Back to the Future

Disclaimer: I own nothing other than the characters of Matt, Megan, and "Doc" Dr. John Smith (based loosely on Doc Brown from Back to the Future). This one does not follow any of my previous fics it's on its own.

Chapter 1: Have A Nice Trip

I've known Kagome for a long time. I knew her before we even went kindergarten. We went to the same school, were in the same classes hung out. You know the usual stuff. The past few months though, I've been concerned about her. She's been sick, missed a lot of school, only showing up for important pass this test or fail the year tests. What was even weirder was the fact that when she was in school she looked perfectly healthy. The fact that I lived with family friend and wily eyed scientist Doctor John Smith right next to her shrine and not seeing her very often bothered me. Doc Smith, or Doc as I call him, took my sister Megan and I in when we were very small after our parents died. Doc was a lot like Doc off of the movie Back to the Future (that's why I call him Doc), always making homemade inventions that sometimes worked, sometimes didn't. As I walked too school one day I just happen to bump into Kagome, literally.

"Oof." She said as we both fell to the ground with a thud.

"Sorry Matt, I'm in a hurry, I'll see you at school, bye!" she said and quickly ran off.

"Hey, Kagome wait! Awe, dog gone it." I said to myself and watched as she ran off to school. I glanced at my watch and saw why she was in such a hurry. At school I didn't even get a chance to talk to her, she was always surrounded by Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi. Things weren't all that boring though. The period before lunch Hojo mixed the wrong chemicals together and blew up the chemistry lab. The smell was so bad that they called school off and sent everyone home. I stopped at the park to eat lunch. As I walked home something caught my eye. I bent over to pick it up. It was small vial containing three pink colored shards of some material. "Huh." I said to myself. Then it hit me. This was the same spot where Kagome and I ran into each other that morning and I remembered hearing the clink of glass on cement. "Kagome must've dropped this this morning." I got up and headed home. I was going to find out what those shards were. When I got home no one was there. Doc was out shopping and Megan was still at school (she's still in middle school). I went over to Doc's chemistry lab and tested the jewel shards. As I eyed the results of the last test through the microscope Doc came home.

"Matt what are you doing home so early?" he asked (he even sounds like the other Doc!)

"Oh Hojo blew up the chem lab. The stench was so bad they called school off for the rest of the day." I replied.

"I see. That Hojo sure doesn't know his chemicals does he?"

"No he sure doesn't Doc."

"What have you got there?" Doc asked me.

"Oh I found these shards on the way home from school. I think Kagome dropped them."

"Kagome? Oh yes your friend from next door. So what did she drop?"

"I don't know."

"What'd ya mean ya don't know?"

"Well whatever she dropped isn't quartz, amethyst, or any kind of food or drug."

"Let me see those results." Doc looked into the microscope, switch slides looked in again and repeated until he viewed all my test results. "Damn you're right. Those shards don't react like any other jewel or crystal that I've ever seen. They're one hell of a mystery."

"Yeah no kidding, this is weird."

"The more I look at these results the more perplexed I become. You better find out what those shards are and where they came from. They're a scientific mystery."

"Right Doc. I'll get over there right now."

"You'd better. I saw her sitting on the front steps and she looked like she was ready to go somewhere."

"Gotcha, I'll be right back Doc." I called as went out, jewel shards in hand. Just as I got up the shrine steps I heard a couple of voices coming from the well house. One of them was definitely Kagome's and the other I could not make out who it was. As I neared the well house I saw a blue flash of light and the voices stopped. I opened the door and looked inside. No one. I looked around outside, but didn't find anybody. I knew those voices came from the well house. I decided to take a look down the well just to be safe. As I walked in I wasn't paying attention and I tripped. I fell headfirst into the well. I was going to get a better look at it than I had expected.