'It's been three years.' Kagome thought starring out her bedroom window. She could still remember it like it was yesterday.
Kagome arched her bow and aimed at the Shikon no Tama inside the big dark cloud that was Naraku. She gathered as much of her newly required spiritual power as possible in the tip and released.
She and everyone else; Inuyasha, Shippo, Sango, Miroku, Kikyo, and lastly Sesshomaru, watched with a bated breath as the arrow zoomed straight in the black cloud. Only Kagome could see it hit the mark, but everyone else could see the frightening cloud explode. They all watched as the clearing around them turned a bright pink. Warmth washed over them.
The amazement of it went unnoticed by Kagome. No, what she saw wasn't the glorious sight everyone else did. All she could see were four massive, divinely scary, forms looking down at her.
"What's going on? Where am I?" She said spinning around confused "Calm child, you are safe, and you are fine." One of them said. Kagome sought out the voice. She looked up at a beautiful woman smiling warmly at her.
"We have brought you here to thank you." The woman said.
"Thank me? For what?" Kagome asked. "Why for saving the world dear." Another said. She turned and saw another beautiful person, but this one was male. "Me?" Kagome said in disbelief. He nodded.
"But I'm just Kagome. How could I have saved the world?" She said.
"You destroyed the vile creature known as Naraku." Said another. Kagome turned to another strikingly beautiful face. "I didn't do it by myself. Everyone helped me." Kagome insisted. "They could not have done it without you dear, they didn't have the power that you possess." Kagome turned the last figure.
"Power? Me? I'm not anything special." She said. They laughed at her. "That is exactly why you were the only one able to land the last blow. Kagome, child, you are the most pure, selfless, person to have walked the earth in a long time. Naraku had to be defeated by someone who didn't want to defeat him for themselves. Naraku didn't do anything personal to you, yet you stayed and fought with the others. Even though you have weren't at your strongest. An untrained miko from a different time period. You helped Inuyasha no matter how much he wounded your heart. You were brave and full of courage. You fought a battle that wasn't your to fight. You saved a full demon child, a miko, and kept him and treated him as your own, while many others would of left him to die. That is your power Kagome. You are special because you don't believe you're special. You were able to defeat Naraku, not anybody else, because you didn't believe you could, even if it meant dying, you still tried. You have a heart of gold and that beats brute strength and powerful attacks every time."
They all smiled down at her. "But-" She began. They shushed her. "Even now after all we've told you, you still think you are nothing more and nothing less than anyone, demon or human." The woman who she had first heard talk said.
"Who are you?" She finally asked.
"You may know us as the Kami." Kagome's eyes widened to their full extent. She stuttered.
"I'm sure there are many questions that you wish to ask." Kagome nodded.
"Kikyo..." She trailed off. "You want to know how Kikyo is alive and you're not dead." A kami said. Kagome nodded.
"Well it's quite simple. You are not Kikyo's reincarnation." Kagome gasped. "But I look so much like her and I had her soul inside my body." Kagome protested. "Calm down child." A kami said gently.
"Yes you did have her soul inside you, but your soul and her soul are not the same. While you have certain characteristics that are, it is only because you were harboring her soul inside your body as well as yours. You were sort of it's protector until the time was right for her to return to the world of the living. We knew Kikyo would die, but she was not to stay that way. We wished to teach her a lesson. Unlike you, Kikyo believed that all demons were bad, with certain exceptions like Inuyasha, who was hanyou."
Kagome shook her head. "But how is her dying and then coming back have to do with anything." Kagome asked.
"Naraku was once a human as you know. You also know that Kikyo took care of him and tried to nurse him back to health. Onigumo, took this as a fact that Kikyo was in love with him, but he knew he would not live. So he made a deal with a demon. After becoming a half demon by consuming other weaker demons, he went to Kikyo, only to see her with Inuyasha."
"I still don't understand." Kagome said. "Have patience little one." She nodded sheepishly. The kami laughed at her.
"You know Naraku pitted them against one another. Causing Inuyasha to be pinned to the God tree and Kikyo to die. Kikyo died cursing Inuyasha for having a demon part. She thought that if he was fully human then it would not have turned out that way. She needed to come back and see that demons were not the only ones who could be corrupted by the power of the jewel. One she learned that lesson then her soul would be whole again."
Kagome nodded her head in understanding. "I see. So now that Naraku is gone, what will happen to me?" Kagome asked nervously.
There was silence.
"You will go back to your time. But you will not remain there. Until you have done what needs to be done, the well will stayed closed. Follow your instincts Kagome and you will return. And remember Kagome, you're not bound to time like other humans."
That was the last thing she had heard before she had woken up in her room in her era. For a while she was confused and didn't know what to do. Then her mother, thank kami, gave her the advice to go back to school.
On a school trip to Mt. Fuji, Kagome sensed spiritual power and wondered away from everyone else. Low and behold she found a large town, the size of Tokyo, that was full of demons and monks, and mikos all living in peace and harmony. The town was protected by a very powerful spiritual barrier, so no one should have been able to pass through. But Kagome always had the uncanny ability to just walk right through those things.
Upon entering the village she met an old miko that reconsigned her for what she was, another miko. The elder miko had told her she had great ability and that Kagome was the most powerful miko since Midoriko. Kagome had been shocked to know that this elder miko knew of Midoriko. When she asked about it the miko just shook her head mysteriously.
Then right out of the blue the miko told her she was going to train her, along with some others that would help her 'meet her destiny' air quote. She didn't even let Kagome protest. The elder miko just pushed her away and told her to pack her stuff and come back afterward and handed her a piece of paper with an address written on it.
Kagome had blinked and let herself be ordered by a complete stranger. On the way home she thought about it and came to the conclusion that the idea of being trained felt right. So when she arrived home she told her mother she would keep in touch. Her mother had smiled at her and encouraged her to do what her heart desired.
So for the last three years Kagome had trained. Surprisingly she had been taught by not only the elder miko but other mikos as well as some monks. The only thing they would let her do at first was meditate. they told her that It was to help her find balance and peace from within her soul. This went on for about month.
Afterward she was taught how manifest her powers into her hands and keep it there for long periods of time. After accomplishing that rather quickly she was taught how to erect powerful barriers and learned spells and incantations. The last thing she was taught was healing. She could heal the sick rather easily. She could also heal cuts and with time she could grow back bones and lost limbs.
Then they had sent her to the demons. With them she learned how to fight. They taught her basic combat and how to used weapons. They taught her how to use what ever was available at the time to fight with. Then she went back to the mikos and monks and perfected the art of archery and her sacred arrows.
When her training was finished they had all been so proud of her and had thrown her a rather big party to celebrate. At the end of the party they gave her two necklaces and explained what they were. The first one was yin and the second one was yang. They were both at least 36 inches. They told her that once she found balance she would know. Once she did she was supposed to give the yin part to her counter part, or as one of the demons put it, lover.
Kagome fiddled with them and then tucked them back under her shirt where they laid in between her full breasts.
Kagome had grown a lot over the past three years. Her hair was now much longer. It was about waist length, but she kept in side braid. Her face grew more mature but never lost its innocence. She her curvaceous figure grew more pronounced with her full breasts, her flat, lean stomach even with the hard training didn't look muscular but feminine, flared out into beautiful hips and then shrunk to well toned thighs.
Despite this fact she still has never had a boyfriend. She had yet to also revive a REAL first kiss. A thought that highly annoyed her.
Lost in thought she hadn't noticed the light seeping through the well house door until now. Her eyes grew wide and she immediately jumped up and ran to the well house and through open the door.
'I can goo back!' She grinned with excitement "Kagome?" Kagome turned and saw her mother watching her sadly. "Your going back aren't you?" She asked. Kagome's heart swelled and her eyes watered with tears. "Yes mama." Kagome rushed over and grabbed her mother in a deep hug. "I don't think I'll be coming back." Kagome said. Her mother pulled away and held her at arm's length.
"I know." Her mother said. "Kagome I want you to know I'm so proud of you for all that you have accomplished. Your the best daughter a mother could ever hope to have. And I'm going to miss you so much!" Her mother said crying.
Something deep inside her told her they would meet again. Kagome dried her tears. "Don't worry mama, we'll meet again. I just know it! Tell grandfather and Souta that I love them and I'll miss them." Her mother nodded. Kagome turned and went to the well. She swung one leg over and then the other. She turned one last time to her mother. "I love you! But I won't say goodbye. We'll meet again!" And then she jumped.
