I. Travel through time

When I came to, I was in a hut. I was lying on a blanket that hardly softened the hard floor. After blinking a few times, I no longer saw blurred. An old woman leaned over me. She reminded me a bit of a pirate with her eye patch. "She is awake," she announced. A moment later I was surrounded by strange figures. I didn't know what damage my brain had taken from the forced dip into the well, but it seemed that something was wrong with my perception. One of the ... men ... had long white hair and ears that looked very much like doggie. Somehow he looked cute. "How are you, Mizuki?" Asked Kagome from behind my head. I glared at her, as good as I could from my position. She grimaced. I sat up slowly. Nothing seemed broken, I even doubted I had bruises. Perhaps when I get home I should ask for a good psychologist.
"It looks like she's fine. So she should just give us the splinter and then leave.", Said the dog-like guy. "Sit, Inuyasha! Don't be so rude!" Shouted Kagome. With a loud bang, it landed face down on the floor. "Please excuse Inu Yasha's behavior. He's a little bit irritable at the moment - she was looking for the right word -", said the woman next to me and smiled at me, "I'm Sango. Your name is Mizuki, isn't it?" I nodded. Inu Yasha had sat down again and looked grimly around before he turned to the old, one-eyed woman: "Hey, Kaede! Can't you keep her here and we go on? Miroku and Shippo have been gone too long." Kagome sighed. "Inuyasha, not all people are as fast as you." Apparently he took that as a compliment, because his expression softened.
"Miroku and Shippo are friends of ours.", Sango explained to me, "they are just looking for something to eat." I nodded. Then I looked down at myself, I still had my chain and the splinter. I wouldn't give it up either, no matter what this Inuyasha did.

As Inuyasha was about to go looking, the door opened and a monk came with a ... was it a fox? A toddler? Well, they came in and Inuyasha snapped at them, where they would have stayed for so long.
Sango introduced me and told me that these two were Miroku and Shippo. I also learned that Shippo was a fox demon and Inuyasha was half a dog demon. Miroku and Shippo had brought six fish and three lizards, which were fried in front of the hut. They invited me to dinner and I gratefully accepted - after all, I had only eaten an apple today.
Kagome looked at me thoughtfully. "How about it," she asked hesitantly, "if Mizuki would move with us? After all, she has a piece of jewelery and it's not exactly small, that might mean something."" Bullshit, "Inuyasha growled," she should just give us this damn splinter and then disappear back into her world. I can't protect any more people after all. " "Seat! "And again the half-demon kissed the earth. I couldn't help giggling, whereupon he looked up and glared at me." Inuyasha! ", Kagome hissed threateningly as he tried to come up to me. He thought for a moment, seemed to change his mind and sat down again to eat his now cold fish.
"I think the idea is good," said Sango, returning to Kagome's question. "Me too." Shippo shouted, who was sitting on my lap. He was cute. Really cute.
Miroku smiled at Inuyasha. "Well, we probably outvoted you there. Don't make such a fuss, after all, she won't kill you!" Inu Yasha's answer consisted of a snort.

While we were walking through what looked like a never-ending forest, I learned all sorts of things about the group, including the jewel of the four souls they told me and how important it is that a guy like Naraku never got hold of it. To complete this gem they needed my splinter.
In the evening we reached a village where Miroku drove an evil demon out of a house and the host kindly invited us to spend the night with him.
I lay awake for hours thinking. From what I heard about Naraku, I knew that Sango and the others were trying to keep him away from the jewel, but Kagome had also told me that most likely I only got through the well because of the splinter. So if I gave it to them to complete the jewel, I would be forever trapped in this world. Or I would give it to Kagome on the other side, then she could just go back and I would stay home. I didn't like this idea, even if it was safe and easy to do. After all, the pendant was all I had left of my great-grandmother, I felt guilty if I even thought about giving the necklace away. But the way Inuyasha looked, he would take the splinter from me by force if necessary. Suddenly fear took hold of me.
I wanted to go home again.
Quietly and slowly, so as not to wake the others, I left the house and ran back to the forest. Now it was a matter of finding the right way back and not getting lost. Since we needed from noon to evening before, I would probably have to walk through the night in this darkness so that I could be back in the morning. I could just say at school that I was sick. After all, that can happen.

After a short time, I found my idea of ​​running away no longer so good, but to be honest, more than bad. It was so dark that I could barely see my hand in front of my eyes and I was sure I was lost.At first I walked very carefully so as not to scare away any wild animals or demons or whatever else populated this world. Of course they would smell me anyway, and when I realized that I just kind of trudged through the woods. Tears ran down my face when something cut a bloody streak on my leg and I couldn't go any further. Dirt would get into the wound, then the infection, and eventually I would die. If the smell of human blood didn't attract some creature beforehand. I cursed Kagome for bringing me here, I cursed my mother for driving without me this morning, which is why I got to the bus stop in the first place, and I cursed myself for not being faster.
I cursed the whole universe and when I realized that I was too loud, it was too late because a huge, certainly dangerous and deadly something with bright red eyes was approaching me.