A New Suit: Prologue

Britt

I am arrogant, I'm told. Full of self-confidence, not enough modesty.

I am egotistical, I'm told. For a day never passes that I speak not of my power.

I am disastrous, this I know. Not once has there been a man, woman or demon who stood in my path that lived.

I am Lord of my lands, and nothing will ever unbalance me.

I am cold, or so my allies believe. For I see no fault in death and all the fault in weakness.

I stepped towards the battlefield, my spine straight with pride, midnight black hair whipping in the wind, my clawed hand resting lightly on the hilt of my sword where it lay on my hip. I tilted my chin up before breaking into a sprint towards my battle, maybe my last.

I am Lady of my lands, and nothing will ever unbalance me.

Kagome sat on the hillside, her hair black against the shock of white that was her shirt. She held a pink jewel in her palm; her deep blues eyes studied it quietly. She sighed then began her task.

As her powers spiraled upwards around her body her mind fell into the jewel, the souls that it harbored clashed into her, ripping a scream from her throat. Faintly she heard Inuyasha's hoarse yell of alarm, and as she fell further into her own mind.

She jolted as her feet seemingly hit a grassy field. Her eyes opened to meet those of the woman standing across from her, the pure soul of the jewel. Her blue orbs then flickered over the man who stood next to her, the dead grass surrounding his feet and the shadows that hung around his body. She dismissed him with a polite bow of her head before turning to the priestess that stood before her.

"My Lady." She spoke softly, and the woman smiled.

"What is it that you wish for, Kagome?" Kagome swallowed before nodding.

"I wish," Was her voice echoing or was that just her imagination? "For all of my friends to be happy, for Inuyasha to be what he wishes, for Sango to be with Miroku and Kohaku and Shippo to be with his mother and father. I wish that they know of their journeys together so as to not forget their love, but I wish…. I wish that they will forget me. For the pain of their loss, I fear, would shadow their lives forever."

"Your wish is pure, Kagome. I will only add to it that you live here in this era as an eternal symbol of what has happened. Your friends will not forget you; only they will remember you, as you are now, not what you will become. You will meet your match, mistress Kagome, and be as you are destined to be, for fate's tangled web has not quite released you." With these words, Kagome's world went black and everything she once knew fell away.