Chapter One

Kagome sighed as she looked into the well a hand at her throat fingering the jewel that lay there. It was nothing more than a useless bauble now, the power in it having long since left, she only kept it now as a reminder of all those she loved here in this era. She smiled sadly as she thought about all the friends she made. They were more like family to her now and she didn't want to go but she knew she couldn't stay. She could feel the well tugging at her more fiercely by the minute. She had only been allowed to stay this long so she could learn to control the new powers the jewel had given her.

She gave a small ironic laugh as she thought back to the day she had wished on the jewel. She had made the only wish she thought might work. She wished for the souls to be released from the jewel. It had worked after a fashion the jewel was powerless now. She hadn't known that power like that wouldn't just disappear with its containers destruction. It would find a new home, and since she was the most familiar to it the power made its new home in her. So here she was more or less human if immortal with the powers of a demon and a priestess.

She learned very quickly that she would need help controlling the demon part of her and so she sought out the strongest demon she knew and begged him to train her. It had taken a lot of begging but finally he agreed and set the price of his training to be one year serving under him as his retainer. She agreed and said goodbye to her friends agreeing to meet at the well for one last goodbye after her training was over, all of them knew the well would not allow her to stay after her year of service was done.

The training was tough she learned that the demonic part of the jewel gave her several abilities like being able to form a whip much like Sesshoumaru's only made of a blue fire instead of poison, and she could grow plants using her energy. It also augmented her own natural ability to heal she could now heal almost as fast as any demon she had met. Then there was the heightened sense of hearing and smell which training with Sesshoumaru only managed to heighten more it also strengthened her sight and made her eyes glow an eerie electric blue the glow was especially visible at night and gave her excellent night vision. After she learned to control the demon part of her she needed to learn how to get her powers to work together instead of working to destroy each other so all in all the training itself took almost two years.

After her training was over she went to the well where her friends were waiting and each of them seemed to have a gift for her. From Shippou she got a beautiful picture book detailing their journey together. Sango gave her an outfit much like her own only white were hers was black and red were Sango's was pink. Kikyou was next having grown close to her once she and Inuyasha made it known the saw each other as siblings not lovers, from her Kagome got a blue ribbon woven with a protective spell it would let her know when danger approached by glowing the same blue as her eyes.

Kirara stepped forward next and with her was a small black kitten, her eldest from her first litter that everyone had named Kuro. She nudged him a little with her paw and he jumped up onto Kagome's shoulder and nuzzled her cheek. Kirara nodded and stepped back to allow Keade to give her gift. Keade gifted her with several small bags inside a slightly larger bag each little bag filled with the seeds of medicinal herbs she felt Kagome would need. Inuyasha and Miroku stepped forward together each holding their part of the shared gift.

In Miroku's hands was a beautiful red quiver designed to be attached to her hip rather than her back. He had woven a scene depicting her shooting the arrow that finally killed Naraku into it. She could also feel the magic he had woven into it and she smiled when he explained that any arrow she placed in the quiver would always return to it after it had hit its mark. Inuyasha held ten beautiful ivory arrows each one made from one of his fangs and a strand of her hair. The feathers used to fletch the arrows came from a golden phoenix they had helped during their travels. They would never brake and she would never lose them once she put them in her new quiver. She hugged them all and they spent the rest of that night camped out by the well trading stories of what had happened in their lives since they had last seen each other.

Sesshoumaru came to get her that morning to start her year of service. During her training Sesshoumaru grew to respect her as a warrior but he had never spent time with her outside of the dojo where he taught her but now he spent almost every day with her as the patrolled his lands and battled those who harmed his subjects. During that time his respect for her steadily grew until he stopped thinking of her as a retainer and started calling her a comrade from there it grew into friendship. It was then he had totosai craft a bow for her using his fang. The bow was ivory white with a dragon carved into it. Three strands of Sesshoumaru's hair braided together formed the bow string, it like Inuyasha's arrows would never break. Some of her blood had also gone into the making of the bow so that it could channel her priestess powers, and so no one but her may use it.

So here she was back at the well to say goodbye to another friend. She turned to him now with a sad smile Kuro held securely in her arms "I'll miss you, you know?" He didn't say anything just nodded and she smiled again happier this time. She knew he would miss her as well. After all he had given her something of himself to protect her. She touched the bow at her side lightly. "Well this is it I suppose look me up in about five hundred years okay?" He put his hand on her head his version of a hug and smiled. She beamed up at him and let herself fall backwards through the well.

The first thing she noticed as she fell was the color surrounding her had changed. Instead of its normal blue color it was a warm violet. The second thing she noticed was the extra time it was taking to get home.

When she finally landed the first thing she saw was a man and a panther fighting against two large oni. Before her training with Sesshoumaru she would have jumped right in without a thought whether or not they needed the help. It wasn't until the purple skinned oni started to change his form that she decided to jump in. She quickly threw Kuro into the air sending him to the ceiling of the cave to wait until she might need him. She was just about to shoot the largest purple skinned oni when the scarlet one disappeared and knocked the man into a wall. She quickly shot a glowing arrow between the two combatants stopping the oni in his tracks and brining everyone's attention to her.

The large wolf like creature the oni had turned into paused mid-bite to look her way in surprise giving the panther the edge it needed to get out from under it. When free the panther shot off toward the curtain the wolf thing followed and tore down the curtain in an effort to get to it. Kagome turned from them knowing that Kuro would help the panther if it needed him to and looked warily at the scarlet oni wondering if he too could change his form. The man and oni were talking together in a language she could not understand but she didn't need to understand the words to know that the oni had made the man mad for his head snapped up a determined glare on his face.

The man ran at the monster and used his body as a weapon slamming into the things knees and knocking it off balance then ran for the weapon he had dropped earlier. Just as he reached it the scarlet skinned monster picked him up into a bone crushing hug spouting off some unpleasant words. Kagome quickly strung another arrow and launched it at the thing striking its eye and turning half his face into dust killing him instantly.

Kagome blinked in surprise the power in that arrow should have been enough to dust his whole body not just half his face. She wondered if that meant her powers were weaker here or that the demons were stronger. She didn't have long to ponder on this as the other one having seen the flash of light her powers created came barreling in its hate filled eyes locked on her form. It came in too fast for her to pull another arrow so she thrust her bow aside and formed her whip lashing it around the wolf's snout and pulling up with all her might. Its head twisted to a sickening angle but didn't break as she had been hoping it would and the wolf kept coming. She quickly released him and jumped to the side narrowly avoiding the teeth wanting to tear out her throat.

They started circling each other Kagome making sure to keep herself between the giant wolf and injured man. Finally after what felt like hours but what was in reality only a few minutes the beast lunged for her. She smirked dropped to her knees and thrust out her palm her power shooting out in a laser like thrust of blue light striking the wolf in the chest burrowing a hole into its body and incinerating its heart. The giant thing dropped to the ground not two inches from Kagomes face. She breathed a sigh of relief and once again sent a silent thanks to Sesshoumaru for his brutal training.

Drizzt looked at the woman who had most likely saved his life and wondered where she had come from and if she would kill him next. He half expected her too and he knew he couldn't fight back in the condition he was in. She approached him and he tensed waiting for the death blow but all she offered him was a kind smile and a hand up. He hesitated for a moment then took her hand and offered his own tentative smile back. She beamed at him then placed her hand on her chest and slowly said her name. It felt strange on his tongue and he wasn't quite sure he had gotten it right but she nodded and asked for his name so he told her. She crinkled her nose as she tried to repeat it. She laughed and clapped when she had gotten it right and he felt a warmth blossom in his chest at the sound. It was then that Guenhwyvar decided to make her presence known. She sat next to him and eyed Kagome as both she and Drizzt waited to see the girl's reaction to the magical cat.

Kagome smiled and gave a sharp whistle calling Kuro from his hiding place. He flew down and landed next to her in front of Guenhwyvar. Kagome put her hand on his head and introduced him to Drizzt and the panther then waited to hear the great cat's name. She butchered it several times before finally getting it right and she smiled feeling proud of herself. The smile quickly turned into a frown however when she noticed Drizzt swaying on his feet and that the hand he had placed on Guenhwyvar's head was more to keep him standing than to pet her as she had first thought. She looked around the large room and spotting the large chair gently pushed Drizzt toward it gesturing for him to sit down so she could heal him.

Drizzt didn't know what Kagome thought she could do for him but he was so tired he sat down without much of an argument. Kagome knelt next to him and held up a hand that was glowing a soft pink. He almost pulled away from her, he had seen what that power could do to a being after all, but then he noticed that she wasn't making any move to touch him with it she just held it up waiting. After a minute with neither of them moving he relaxed and nodded she smiled and started running her glowing hand along his injuries. When she was done he found that he no longer hurt but he was still exhausted. Kagome smiled at him and using a lot of gesturing somehow conveyed that while he slept she, Kuro, and Guenhwyvar would keep watch. He nodded gratefully and laid down his head pillowed by Kuro the large cat's two tails covering him for warmth.

It was only a few hours later when Kagome woke Drizzt, she had been feeling the floor vibrate for awhile now and though she didn't know what it was she knew she didn't want to meet with it while Drizzt and Guenhwyvar were so exhausted. Drizzt was slow to wake but when he did the first thing he did was dismiss Guenhwyvar back to the astral plain. Kagome didn't look all that startled by the panther's disappearance but Drizzt was visibly startled when in a flash of black fire the large sager tooth Kuro turned into a small two tailed kitten. Kagome laughed and gestured for him to take the lead. He smiled back at her and silently wished he could talk to her and be understood. They had reached the spot Drizzt had used the Plowshare to defend himself against the sprite when they heard a roar behind them. Drizzt turned and saw a hill giant shaking his fist and making his way toward them. Kagome looked at Drizzt nodded at the giant and held up her bow he nodded and she strung an arrow loaded it with her power and shot it at the giant's throat. The giant clutched at his throat and coughed up dust. He stumbled a bit then pitched over the side of the mountain and Kagome and Drizzt continued down the path then turned moving further into the wild mountains. Drizzt trying to outrun the guilt he felt over the death of the farmers and Kagome not knowing where she was, was content to fallow the one friend she had made in this world.