Disclaimer: I am not as you have probably guessed the owner of Inuyasha or it's character's in any way. They belong to the actual creators of Inuyasha. I do however claim this plot and any characters I may make up for it.
Authors Note: This is my first fanfiction. (It's also un-beta-ed), so be gentle. Constructive criticism is appreciated, Flames are not.
Prologue:
It was just another day in the Feudal Era. Miroku and Sango were around the campfire feeding their 2 month old daughter Alia, Shippo was off with the other Kitsune's again, Kohaku was cleaning up from lunch and Kiara was entertaining herself with the toys that Kagome had brought her from the future. Kagome was on the other side of the campsite with Inuyasha, who was, (once again), well on his way to earning himself a face-first meeting with the dirt.
Since their defeat of Naraku 11 months earlier, this had been the daily routine for Kagome. Wake up, eat breakfast, go demon hunting, eat lunch, argue with Inuyasha over an inane subject, hunt more demons, make camp for the night/bathe (when there was a hot spring nearby), dinner, sleep, and repeat. No changes at all, (with the exception of the occasional run in with Kouga or Sesshomaru). Kagome couldn't even break the monotony by going to visit her family, due to the conditions imposed upon her when she had made her wish on the Shikon Jewel.
When she had defeated Naraku and reclaimed the jewel, and then made her subsequent wish for it to be destroyed, Kagome had expected to have no choice at all on what her fate was to become. She expected to be either sent home to the future, or be stuck here in the past permanently, notto be given two and a half trips through the well before it closed. Two trips had already been used, one to go home and inform her family of her problem and the other just two months ago, to get supplies to help Sango with Alia's delivery.
Honestly, when she had told her mother, she had been secretly hoping that she would have been forbidden from returning to the Feudal Era, so she wouldn't have the chance to decide to stay there forever, that way she wouldn't have to choose, but her mother had simply said that the choice was Kagome's and Kagome's alone, and that she would support whichever choice was made even if it meant that they would never meet again.
After that, Kagome had gone down the well back to her friends in the Feudal Era, and continued on with life as best she could, always with the knowledge the well would still allow her to take that final (and permanent) trip back home, if she ever decided to take it. Which left Kagome here, 11 months later, tired, upset at feeling like a third wheel in regards to Miroku, Sango, and their family, and staring angrily at Inuyasha as she waited for the Sit Spell to wear off.
Kagome had considered leaving several other times already, months earlier, but put it off in light of Sango's pregnancy and Shippo's dependency on her as a mother figure. She also considered the fact that her many other friends from this era, (be they demon or human), would no longer exist back home. Heck, demons don't exist at all back in her time. Admittedly though, her feelings for Inuyasha had played the greatest part in her unwillingness to leave the feudal era.
Now however, those restraints had faded. Miroku, Sango and their family were happy, and had told her long before that though they would miss her if she left; they accepted whatever decision she would choose, as long as it made her happy. Shippo was constantly off with other Kitsune learning his demon heritage, and no longer needed her protection to survive on his own, and echoed the thoughts of Miroku and Sango on the matter. To top it off, on her last trip home, when she went to get supplies and advice for delivering Alia, Kagome had run into Ayame at a clinic and discovered that demons, even some she knew, did in fact live in her era, disguised as humans, all over the world. The only thing holding Kagome back was Inuyasha, and standing here, staring at him, she finally realized that this wasn't what she wanted, wasn't the life she wished to live, and Inuyasha wasn't the person she was meant to live it with.
At that moment, Kagome made her choice, to leave the past behind and move forward in life, her life, because that was what she wanted. Kagome choose the future, the place that even now she thought of as 'Home'.
Authors Note: This is the only part of the story set in the past. The Main story will be set in the present, 3 years after leaving the feudal era for good and will be a Kagome/Sesshomaru fiction. Next Chapter: Kagome meets with an old friend and runs into trouble with some modern day demons.