A/N: I like my revised version a LOT better :D However i still own nothing.

Side Trip

Prologue

'Damn Aizen.' thought Grimmjow. 'Why not send Ulquiorra to spy on the little twerp? Stalking people is probably the only thing not checked off his 'weird things I must do' list.' Grimmjow replayed the last few hours of events in his for the umpteenth time.

Flashback

"Grimmjow, I'm sending you to spy on the substitute shinigami, Ichigo Kurosaki." A deep baritone voice echoed through what looked like a throne room.

"No way in hell would I ever stalk that little bastard around everywhere!"

"You have no choice in the matter. Leave to the world of the living. Oh, and try not to get caught." And with that Aizen left Grimmjow practically radiating anger.

'Damn Aizen'

End Flashback

Grimmjow, still muttering profanities, stopped in the middle of what looked like an enormous sky-lit room. He opened the Garganta and went off to the world of the living.

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It was about two months after the final battle with Naraku ended. All jewel shards found. The well closed up but unfortunately with Kagome stuck in sengoku jidai. Kikyo was finally able to pass on without any regrets. Inuyasha never claimed love for either one of them at the time. But he did clear up that Kagome was more like a sister to him than anything else. She dreaded to think how her family would be worrying about her. How her mother never knew if she was killed or just was trapped on the other side. Kagome made a permanent settlement a couple huts away from Kaede's hut and right next to Sango and Miroku's new home. Shippo lived with Kagome and Kirara with Sango. Inuyasha still sleeps on his favorite branch, in his favorite tree, in his favorite forest which just so happens to be named after him. (Not the Goshinboku. I will explain later on in the next chapter.)

Currently Kagome was reminiscing on her life back in the future by the well. Silently fiddling with the Shikon No Tama that hang innocently around her neck. She had long accepted she could not go back but, it was just nice to come around and remember her family that lies on the other side of the Bone Eater's Well.

Well it would've been nice if a giant rip in the air hadn't come through and ruin her serene moments. And serene moments don't happen to often with Inuyasha and Shippo constantly in the same room.

Emerged from the giant rip, came a strange man with turquoise hair and white clothing.

'Who the-'