Disclaimer: -only said once- I do not own either Inuyasha or Naruto.

A/N: Everyone has the same birthday, but I made all the sensei a little younger. Oh, and Kagome's birthday in this is December 2nd. And she goes to the Feudal Era sometime in February.

Kagome- 13 (She's been in the feudal era since her 12th birthday)

Iruka- 12

Kakashi- 15

Gai- 16

Kurenai- 16

Asuma-16

Anko- 14

Rookie nine- 3-4

Inuyasha- 16

Kikyo- 16

Sango- 14

Shippo- 5

Miroku- 17

'Thinking'

"Speaking"

Flashback

Evil

Chapter 1: Weak

'He is such an insensitive jerk!' That's what they all thought.

"Take care of Kagome for me." Those were Inuyasha's last words before he ran off to find Kikyo. He didn't look back. Not to see Kagome's hurt and rejected face.

Kagome growled angrily and stomped to Kirara childishly. The group had been searching for jewel shards when they saw one of Kikyo's Shinidamachu hovering in the air, holding a soul for her to use, and what do you know? Inuyasha gets excited and hurries off to see her!

"Kagome, do you want to follow?" Sango asked curiously. She pitied Kagome at the moment. Inuyasha was so insensitive at times.

"Iie, I want to go home! I don't want to walk into anything or interrupt them!" Kagome huffed, her eyebrows twitched in irritation, "Can I borrow-"

Kagome's widened eyes and shaking hands gave away what she was feeling, Miroku smiled and got his sutras ready, "do you sense a shard, Kagome?"

Kagome nodded her head and turned away from Kirara and looked in the direction she saw Kikyo's Shinidamachu flying to, 'there was only one Shinidamachu, there are usually at least three… Kikyo must be weak and in danger!' Kagome voiced her thoughts, "… I think Kikyo's in danger!"

Kagome mentally thanked her mom that she reminded her to bring her bike, which she rode, while the other three rode on Kirara.

"Do you think it's Naraku?" Sango asked Kagome loudly so she could hear.

"I'm not sure, but I think so!" Kagome replied equally loud. 'Inuyasha, are you alright?'

It wasn't long before they started to feel the thick sickening aura of Naraku's poisonous vapors. Kagome stopped pedaling and quickly pulled out her weapon and with a swish of her spiritual powers, the vapor dissipated. Kikyo was lying on the ground, unconscious with her bow broken in two and Inuyasha was holding her down.

Kagome felt a pang of jealousy in her heart, but tried to ignore it. She pulled out another arrow and shot it in the direction of where she sensed the jewel shards, but Naraku was smart and he wouldn't fall for the same trick twice.

What she aimed at was close enough to Inuyasha and Kikyo. The false shard turned black and broke into powder. It was a big portion of gunpowder and it set off a big explosion, luckily Inuyasha's fire rat kimono barely saved the two.

"Kukuku… You think I haven't learned from one of our first battles, little miko?" Naraku asked in bitter amusement.

Naraku's tentacles shot out to Kagome, but before they were even near, Miroku and Sango jumped in front of her in defense, "we got it from here Kagome."

Kagome nodded and noted that she only had 4 arrows left, and she'd have to use them wisely. Taking an arrow out to prepare herself, she hid behind a large tree. Then that was when she remembered about Shippo. She searched the whole field for her little fox and saw him and Kirara battling the tentacles together with a combination of their fire powers.

That was when it truly hit her. She let her bow rest at her side sadly. She was the weakest link on the team. Shippo passed her. At least he was fighting, while all she was doing was hiding behind a tree. She felt like the reason female fighters had a bad rep.

She shook her head, now wasn't the time to slack off and think about that. She shot the arrow, and it was dead on the mark of hitting Naraku. But he used his tentacle to protect himself. He was impenetrable.

She decided she was going to change that. Without thinking, she ran from her spot and around the forest unnoticed. She needed a weapon. There happened to be two swords on the ground, not looking to find an owner, she picked them up and ran back to the sight.

"Kagura, that girl is up to no good, find her and kill her."

Kagura nodded and pulled the feather from her head and flew to find the girl. It wasn't hard to do, because well, first there was her scent, and two, the girl found her.

Kagome pointed the sword at Kagura in an inexperienced manner, trying to act experienced, "Fight me."

"Not much of a fight," Kagura scoffed with her naturally seductive voice, opening her fan and twisting it, "but I can dance with you for a while."

There was a rumbling from underground. Kagome didn't know what was going on, but she kept a tight grip on her new swords, no matter what was going on, she was going to show them all… And herself, that she wasn't useless.

"You know… Before you seek out an enemy," Kagura started, smirking, "remember of their abilities, and look at your surroundings, you have no battle smarts, but I guess that's why you travel in a group."

Kagome furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, "what do you mean?"

Kagura scoffed, "baka, I bring back dead people. Where are we? We're at a graveyard."

Kagome's eyes widened in realization, but before she could even think of what her next step would be, dead people from underground charged at her. Kagome slightly held back at first, not wanting to disrespect the dead. She sliced some, they were hard to miss since there were so many, and they were all bones with literally no skin, so she didn't have to deal with that hassle. Well, some of them.

Kagura smiled thinking she was being soft on the girl, even though the younger girl was already tired, "dance of blades!"

Kagome couldn't even dodge the attack. She wasn't as experienced as the others and couldn't concentrate on defending herself from two sides of her. She cried as two of the three blades hit her, ripping a piece of her sleeve and piercing her arm, and just barely grazing her thigh. Kagome wondered if she'd make it, the undead corpses kept popping back up again even with missing limbs.

It was unbelievably ridiculous.

She knew her friends wouldn't be too happy about her violating the dead, but she also knew that she wasn't strong enough to defend herself and save them. A zombie that she had pushed to the ground with the wrong side of her blade crawled to her foot on the ground and bit the back of her ankle, with a yelp she fell forward and dropped the swords.

"You have to watch your own back, girl, your dog-boy won't always be there to protect you," Kagura advised before smirking, "there's no use in giving you advice now that you're about to die."

Kagura opened her fan wide, and Kagome clenched her eyes shut and looked away. This was it. She was going to die here, a useless 13 year old girl, 'Inuyasha, save me!'

"Kagome, Hiraikotsu!" Sango screamed viciously throwing her boomerang, and with one swoop, more than half of the undead were cut down. Sango jumped off of Kirara and caught her boomerang. "Take care of Kagome."

Kirara picked Kagome up by the back of her collar with her large fangs and flew higher in the sky.

"You think you can hide in the sky, I am the wind!" Kagura seethed cockily ready to swipe her fan when Sango threw a secret weapon at her, it was easily dodged, but it was enough to distract her from hurting Kagome, "Taijiya, it seems you wish to die before your friend here."

"Ha, I'm a demon slayer! It is you who will be the one dying!" Sango replied not hesitating to jump into action, she twirled in the air and threw her boomerang as hard as she could.

Kagura scoffed and with a flick of her fan, the boomerang was sent back to hit its owner, "you useless humans never learn."

Sango smirked, and jumped over the weapon, "In fact they do, wind witch!"

Kagura smirked also, accepting the challenge, she tilted her fan and the boomerang was redirected to hit Sango. This time, Sango couldn't dodge.

"Oh no, Sango," Kagome yelled, this was all her fault, if she didn't have to prove herself… Sango would be fine, "Kirara, let me down!"

Kirara mewled not knowing what to do, Sango ordered her to take care of Kagome. Before the two-tail could even let the girl down, Kagura sent a gust of wind at Sango, and Sango flew back hitting Kirara.

Kirara roared and dropped Kagome.

Kagome suddenly gasped, she had forgotten that she still had her bow and arrows hidden. She ran behind the tree where she placed it, took it out and aimed at Kagura, of course, she missed. She put up a barrier around Kagura, it wasn't a strong one, but it was strong enough to hold off Kagura for a while.

'I have to see Inuyasha!' Kagome thought taking a step back before running. "Kirara, take me to Inuyasha, please." Kirara nodded, letting Kagome climb on her back while she carried Sango.

When they arrived at the battle scene, Inuyasha was bloody all over from Naraku's tentacles, and he was forcing himself to stand. He was holding his sword tightly and awkwardly, as if the sword was too heavy for him to lift.

Kikyo was on one knee, tiredly shooting arrows. She used her hair tie to wrap the bow back together. She aimed for Naraku's heart, but his tentacles blocked all her arrows.

Miroku was leaning against a tree weakly, he had sucked up all of the threatening demons including some of Naraku's poisonous insects, but he was still in the fight, throwing some sutras at the demons that still dared to come.

Kagome jumped off of Kirara in her mid-landing and she focused on aiming her arrow as perfect as possible, before shooting it, hoping that the Gods would be kind enough to let her hit him. The Gods weren't so nice. Naraku had noticed her presence and was aware that she intended to shoot him with an arrow.

Kagome didn't care if he noticed her or not, she shot her last two arrows. Naraku was beginning to get really irritated with her, even though—no, now that she was weaponless, he'd take the chance to kill her. But then he thought of something else, something better. He stared at Kagome with the most evil suspicious look in his eyes and a smirk plastered on his pale face.

'Kagome,' Inuyasha thought, 'I have to protect Kagome!'

But Naraku didn't go after Kagome, while everyone's eyes were on the younger, alive miko, he took the chance to attack the undead miko that his heart continued to yearn for.

"Ah, damn you Naraku!" Kikyo hissed, dropping her bow to grab at her new wound on her shoulder. Everyone's eyes left Kagome and went on Kikyo.

"Kikyo," Inuyasha took a big step forward and let his instincts take over, even with his many deep wounds. He'd used all of his strength to save her, he leapt in the air and thrusted his huge sword, "Die Naraku, Wind Scar!"

He used so much strength in that one attack, his legs gave out on him, and he fell to his knees, panting. He hoped that that was enough to kill the bastard.

"No Inuyasha, you fool!" Miroku and Shippo both yelled, "did you forget that Kanna is there?"

"Nani, "Inuyasha's ear perked, he had forgotten. He saw Kanna appear from her refuge behind Naraku showing her mirror. His attack mirrored and came back at him full force.

Nobody could do anything to save him.

Kikyo was too far away, and her legs wouldn't move, using her other arm, she concentrated some of her spiritual powers into the arrow and shot it, hoping it would be enough to defend Inuyasha.

The malicious Naraku wouldn't take the chance; he used a tentacle to take the arrow, destroying it.

'If Inuyasha dies… There will be no hope… I have to save him! I have to do something!' she remembered using her last arrow, she was about three feet away from Inuyasha, so without thinking, she ran in front of him preparing herself to make a barrier.

Kagome's father, Ichida, was at the Higurashi house, it was a while after the group had met Kouga, the wolf demon. Ever since Souta was born, and Kagome was 7, he started to visit only once every two years instead of once a year. Kagome's mother told them not to ask why because he was a Shinobi.

"Kagome, so nice to see you, you look so much different from two years ago, been working out?" was her greeting, along with a tight bear-hug and lift, "how's the Feudal Era that you and your mother have told me so much about?"

"Still great," Kagome answered slightly nervous, "I'm going back after my test tomorrow."

Ichida sighed, "Have you considered my proposition? Have you, Souta?"

"Iie, I'm good, I have a girlfriend that I don't intend on leaving," Souta answered first, his words weren't meant in a bad way, but his father was hurt, thinking that Souta was trying to imply that he was a bad husband and father.

"Iie, Inuyasha and the others need me!" Kagome said with a proud stellar grin.

"You say there are demons there, correct?" Ichida asked, "You're strong enough to handle them?"

Kagome's smile faltered, "Ano… Iie not exactly, I'm not that bad of a shot if I do say so myself, but my friends usually protect me."

"Don't you want to learn how to defend yourself?" Ichida asked, "What if your friends aren't around, or if they are the ones in need of help?"

Kagome didn't know what to say, but she replied with her pride, "Inuyasha is very strong and can handle himself, besides, Inuyasha would have a fit if I didn't go back, they need me." She didn't really know if she was trying to convince herself or her father.

"Oh, well, remember this, if you are ever in danger of an attack, such as lighting, fireballs, anything of that sort, put your hands like this," he paused showing her the simple hand shape, " after you do it, I'll guarantee that you will come look for me. Train in Konoha and then find me."

"Hai, okay," Kagome turned around and sweat dropped, that hand shape he showed her was just bending his fingers as if he were about to scratch someone, she didn't even know if it was something real or something to build her confidence.

Kagome had no idea why that day, almost three months ago, suddenly came into her thoughts, but she decided to listen to her father. She was still running when she stretched out her arms, with her hands forming into the same shape her father taught her, her hands barely making it in front of the swords demonic power called the wind scar. She kept her hands in place and moved her body closer, she felt something happening, something strange.

The veins in her fingers were pulsing, and she could feel them shaking. She opened an eye, blinded by the wind scar's bright yellow light. She couldn't see anything besides the light, let alone her fingers.

"Kagome!" Sango and Miroku yelled hoarsely, Sango reached out her right arm to Kagome, hot tears started to flow down her cheeks as she saw the wind scar come in contact with Kagome. Miroku closed his eyes and looked away, praying, she didn't deserve this.

Kikyo looked at the ground sullenly, 'what a foolish girl.'

Then before everyone's eyes, they saw the wind scar's blinding light get lower and smaller and Kagome still standing and her arms still outstretched, everyone was shocked as every ounce of the attack dissipated.

Was it possible that her miko powers were this strong? Or was it something else?

Kagome was so confused at what happened, and there was a pulse of pain in her eyes and her vision was… excellent? She felt strong, like nothing could harm her. She looked at her palms that were throbbing with a power, and saw a spark of lightning emit from them.

Naraku himself was confused, if the girl had this kind of power, he'd have to get rid of her now, he signaled his demons to attack Kagome, seeing the fear in her face made him laugh and smirk maliciously.

There were about thirty demons closing in on Kagome with a great speed, and Kagome pushed out her arms in defense. Once again in the same form as before, deep down she hoped that she could absorb them as well, but a wind scar type attack shot out of her palms and killed all of the demons in its path.

When the attack settled, Kagome's arms were still outstretched, and she slowly brought them down and looked at them in amusement, that moment was so… exhilarating to her. Her palms somehow had the wind scar's power. She wondered if the power was permanent or not, because she still felt the presence within her.

Kagura arrived on her feather next to Naraku. She must have just escaped the barrier. She saw what happened just moments ago, and noted that Kagome was standing and fighting while Inuyasha was on the ground half unconscious. How ironic.

Kikyo picked up her bow painfully and used it to push her own body up, "Kagome concentrate on Naraku's demonic aura then use the wind scar on Naraku. That should create the backlash wave."

"But I don't know if I can do it again," Kagome stuttered, but still raised her hands.

Kikyo weakly stood by herself, and gathered enough energy to pull back an arrow with enough spiritual powers. Kikyo and Kagome released their attacks in unison, and everyone gaped awaiting the inevitable death of Naraku.

They were wrong, Naraku teleported himself away from the scene fast enough to get out of there with Kanna and Kagura.

Kagome looked down ashamed, "Gomenasai… I couldn't kill him, again."

Shippo, Sango, Miroku and Kirara all ran to Kagome for support.

"What are you talking about you did great, we'd be dead if it wasn't for you." Sango soothed, and it was true. She crushed Kagome in the tightest hug, 'I'm so glad you're alive!'

"Iie, I don't need this. I know I was too slow, if Inuyasha was okay, they would have attacked faster, and Naraku would be dead now." Kagome said frowning.

"Kagome, what are you talking about? You were great!" Shippo exclaimed, and Miroku and Sango nodded.

Even Sango scoffed, "You don't give yourself enough credit!"

Kagome felt her eyes get teary with joy, but then she looked at the bags under Miroku's eyes and remembered that he was poisoned, she ran to her backpack as fast as she could and took out just what he needed and handed it to him to drink.

"Why are you crying?" Sango asked curiously, "Miroku will be fine, won't you Miroku?"

Miroku nodded but Kagome shook her head, "it's just, you guys are praising me, and I'm usually useless in these situations… I feel so happy."

"What do you mean, Kagome? You're plenty useful, you can sense the shards, you have sacred arrows, and you have cures and remedies from your time." Miroku said after taking the poison cure.

Kagome was actually surprised that Miroku didn't try joking around to get a mouth-to-mouth session with either her or Sango. But she figured that the poison must have been spreading a little too fast for him to joke around and waste time like that.

"Hai, but none of those help me in battle," Kagome sighed, "and I can always run out of arrows." Kagome looked down, covering her teary eyes with her bangs. "And what if…what if there's a time when you need MY help? What am I supposed to do then?"

Nobody said anything.

Kikyo inhaled a deep breath and started to walk away from the site, using her bow to support her body. Even though her miko powers healed her wound big time, it was still rather large and painful.

"Wait," Kagome called, "Ano… Kikyo, can I ask a favor from you?"

Kikyo hesitated, but nodded. Kagome led her through the woods so they could talk in private.

When they were finally alone, Kikyo asked her, "What is this favor you need to ask of me?"

"I know we have our differences, Kikyo, but I know that we have one thing in common, we both like Inuyasha," Kagome started, having Kikyo glare at her, "but can we put that aside, at least for now?"

Kikyo raised her eyebrow, she was expecting Kagome to ask her to lay off Inuyasha or something of the sort, not that she would, after all, it was usually Inuyasha that made his way to her. "Hai, but what are you getting at?"

Kagome nervously traced small circles in the dirt with the tips of her shoes. This was a big favor to ask, especially from your love rival. She didn't know Kikyo all too well, but she figured that Kikyo liked to travel by herself rather than in groups, so this would make the favor even bigger, "I was wondering if you could travel with Inuyasha and the others, at least until I get back from my training."

"Why do you need me to stay? Don't you go home to your own time often anyway?" Kikyo asked. It surprised Kagome that Kikyo was talking this much, especially to her. Even though Kagome new that Kikyo knew about her time-traveling, Kagome couldn't help but flinch. "What training are you talking about?"

"Well that's the thing… I'm staying for a long time. I was hoping for 3 years, to a ninja place called, 'Konoha', it's where my father lives. Hopefully he'll train me to be stronger." Kagome looked over to her friends, "for them."

Kikyo nodded and smiled slightly, her reasons for leaving weren't selfish and Kikyo found herself gaining some respect towards her reincarnation, "hai, I will, three years?"

"Hai, if it's not too much trouble for you…" Kagome started.

"It isn't, in three years from this very day we will meet at the bone-eaters well." Kikyo said turning around starting to walk back to the group.

Kagome grabbed onto Kikyo's hand gently, and pulled Kikyo along, "let's go tell them!"

The whole time Kikyo was being dragged by Kagome, she kept staring at their linked hands. Her hands were so warm that she could feel the warmth spread through her own body. Kagome's innocence reminded her of Kaede, all those years ago.

Inuyasha was already up, weak, but conscious, him being awake would actually make this all the harder.

"You guys, Kikyo and I have come up with a decision," Kagome started, "I'm going to be in my time for a while, and Kikyo's going to take my place until then."

Sango cringed, Kagome wasn't a replaceable object, and Kagome made that a good point, why would she go back on her own words like that? Kagome was actually allowing Kikyo to be in the group? Something wasn't right, "What is this, it makes no sense. You don't like Kikyo, Kagome…"

"I'm putting that all behind me for this group's best interest. I'm not leaving for a week or anything, if I was, I'd just have you guys wait for me," Kagome explained, "the thing is; if Naraku is still alive by the time I get back… In three years… I want to help defeat Naraku and I want to be useful in battle, and I want to be strong for you all."

"Keh, I don't need your help to defeat Naraku, I can do it all on my own!" Inuyasha said crossing his arms with a cocky confidence.

"Just like you did back there?" Shippo pointed out, and smirked when Inuyasha became angry.

Inuyasha grabbed him by his big puffy tail and was about to growl in his face when Kikyo narrowed her eyes and told him to put the little demon down. Surprisingly he was obedient and he didn't even argue with her.

"Three years," Sango repeated Kagome, "That's a long time…"

Sango had lost all her family because of Naraku. Kagome was like Sango's sister. They had a bond that made her almost as close as Kohaku. But this pain of loss for a close relative was a different one. This one was a mildly happy pain. Kagome now had the confidence and will to become stronger.

Sango was proud that surpassing Kikyo was not even a part of the reason. Her reasons were purely unselfish. They were just purely—Kagome.

Kagome stared at Kikyo with a slight jealousy in her eyes. She could order Inuyasha around without telling him to 'sit'. Of course he loved her. She was his age, she was beautiful, she was smart, she was strong, she was the first to look past him being a half breed, hell, Kikyo could probably cook better than her, while all Kagome had to offer was her stubbornness and will to stand up for herself.

And as if Inuyasha hadn't already chosen Kikyo, he'd get to spend yet another three years with her. That would just further convince him that Kikyo was the girl for him. Kagome wouldn't even stand a chance anymore. Oh no, and that would also give the others time to warm up to Kikyo.

Kagome tilted her head sadly and the light from the moon shined over Kagome's porcelain face and that's when Inuyasha noticed, "Kagome, what's up with your eyes?"

"Huh?" Kagome was snapped out of her thoughts, thankfully. She was close to crying.

"They're blue," Inuyasha pointed out, "aren't your eyes brown?"

"My eyes are blue?" Kagome asked, reaching her hand up, but not touching. "I don't know… After I sucked up the wind scar, or something, my eyes started to hurt, but felt really good after."

All of them raised an eyebrow. They didn't know what happened.

"Kagome, they're gorgeous!" Sango gasped, covering her mouth with a hand, "They're like… cerulean blue."

Kagome told them not to worry about it though, and she would ask her father.

They went their separate ways. Kagome rode on her bike, with Kirara on her shoulder towards the well, while the others walked to a nearby village. Sango told Kirara to accompany Kagome back home to make sure she'd be safe, then to come back.

Kagome would miss her friends and everything about them. She surprisingly even missed Miroku's lecherous ways. Well, there were only two things she wouldn't miss, Inuyasha complaining about her cooking, and her constant heartbreaks for being in a love triangle.

'Why do I miss them so much already? I haven't even left yet.' Kagome thought to herself. The weird thing was that she never felt nearly this bad when she left all of the other times before, and leaving for days at a time. It must have been different this time. Because Kikyo was taking her place, or maybe it was because her mind had already registered the length of time she wouldn't see them.

She would be gone three times as long as she'd even known them.

Looking up at the starry sky, Kagome was saddened that she wouldn't see so many stars clustered together like they were in the feudal era. And the feeling of protection, she felt whenever Inuyasha was near.

She didn't understand why she was being so difficult, she wanted to train. It was her idea. Yet she just felt as if she was trapped or forced into going.

She hadn't realized that she'd zoned out. Her leg was hovered over the rim of the well and she was leaning her weight on both arms that were also on the rim of the well. She snapped out of her thoughts from a light nudge from Kirara.

Kagome giggled halfheartedly and pet Kirara behind her ears.

"Ja'ne, Kirara, Arigato." Kagome whispered before jumping into the well with her bike.

-So tell me what you think, is it better now, or was it better before? I hope you all aren't mad at me for not updating this story for years… Then just starting over… T^T

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