AN 07*10*10 UPDATE! This is a repost, but you really do need to re-read this, cuz I made two changes, *marked by asterics*, they're really importante, and you might not understand things later on in the story if you don't read it. Oh, and if you can catch what I'm talking about, and make a solid prediction, a bonus Fluffy-sama and Shippo-kun for you! Oh, I don't own. Never have, never will. Although I do like playing with them.

The End is Just A Beginning

Chapter One

The End

I stepped out of the well and jumped out of the top. Things had been looking up for the last two weeks that I had been in the Sengoku-jidai. There were only a few shards left to gather, not including the two in Koga's legs, I'd say around oh, one other shard. I smiled and shook my head, thinking about the fight that had been in the making as I left. It was all with Koga still saying I was his mate and then Inuyasha coming to my rescue, even though Kikiyo had been revived using her own soul that we had found in Kanna's mirror after defeating Naraku this last time.

Oh, Hello there! I'm sorry If you aren't being able to follow me very well, but if you'll pardon me, I'll try to make things clearer.

My name is Kagome Higurashi and I live in modern day Tokyo, Japan with my mom, brother and grandfather. One day I was looking for my cat in the shrine on our property when I full down this well that's in the middle of the shrine, and ended up in Sengoku Japan. No, that's not a where but actually a when. Sengoku Japan is the Feudal Era, when there were youkai and hanyou roaming the entire face of Japan. Anyways, I found this half demon, Inuyasha, pinned to a tree, the Goshinboku, with an arrow charged with a miko's purifying powers. I inadvertently woke him up and then I found that I had this jewel in my body called the Shikon no Tama, the Jewel of Four Souls. Any-who, long story short, it broke, we, me and Inuyasha, went after all the shards. While doing this we ran into a kitsune kit named Shippo, an lecherous monk named Miroku, and a demon slayer named Sango who had a companion in the form of a two-tailed neko-youkai, (cat demon), named Kirara.

Also, I'm apparently the reincarnation of the miko who originally pinned Inuyasha to the tree, Kikiyo. We keep having run-ins with her and the soul collectors that kept her sustained. Then there was this nasty bastard of a hanyou; half-demon for those who don't keep your fairy tales around, named Naraku. He wanted the jewel as much as our gang, and so he was after the shards just as much as we were, and he had a decent amount. Our most recent battle, however, left us in possession of the majority of it. Oh, and we had gotten Kikiyo's soul back for her, which meant that the fragment of my soul which had been powering her then returned to me. Now it should be easy for me to finish off the bastard once and for all. So, really, that about sums things up.

Oh, before I forget, Inuyasha and Kikiyo were in love when Naraku split them up, causing the who pinned who to the Goshinboku thing, then because I came through and I'm her reincarnate, I was subjected to his affections and then Sango likes Miroku, but he asks every girl he meets to bear his child. It causes awkward situations, but I think that he just does it now because it means that he gets Sango's attention.

Hope you're not terribly confused. So now I'm back at home and I'm prepping for the final take down. I'm gonna have to go back through today, but I really wanted a bath, so I bounce up the stairs and settle down. After waving hi to my mom, dropping a kiss on Ojii-chan's head and ruffling Souta's hair I plopped down on the nearest stool available. "Hi Mama. I just got back from gathering some of the last shards. Three more to go." I stood and stretching to crack my back, climbed the stairs to start my long awaited soak pausing to pet Buyo. That cat's gotten skinny; I wonder if Mama had him on a diet? Mama just shook her head, chuckled and then started unpacking my yellow knapsack so she could see what I needed.

Six hours later

"Naraku!" I stood at the top of the well having just jumped into it to go back to the Feudal Era. I stood in disbelief at the carnage that I saw. Almost all of the demons that we had met in the last two years had come to our defense. I gaped to see Sesshomaru standing beside his half-brother, along with what looked like all of the inu-youkai that there could possibly be. He saw he looking at him and nodded once and then returned his attention to the stand off between the two forces. I quickly looked down the line and saw several of my friends, Jinenji, Myoga, Totosai, Jaken, Ah-Un, and also two that were a pleasant surprise; Kanna and Kagura. Closer to Inuyasha were Shippo, Sango, Kirara and Miroku.

I stood between the two lines set on killing each other. My rage grew until all that I could feel was a white-hot inferno of hate and anger at him. "Naraku!" All eyes swiveled towards me as I stalked down the center of the empty space left between them. I stopped before reaching the center. "Koga, may I have them please?" I said referring to the two shards left in his legs. He grimaced but bent down to comply. After handing them to me Koga arched an eyebrow suggestively.

"Don't even think that wolf," I said. "Not unless you really want some very important parts of you missing." His mouth snapped shut. "I thought not."

I turned and while walking, took the nearly complete Shikon no Tama out and fused the shards back to it then turned to face Naraku. "You have something that I need," he said oily. "Wouldn't it be better to just give me the jewel shard so that I can complete it?"

I shook my head. "No Naraku, I think not. Most of the time that I have been here in this the Feudal Era, your hell wasps, Kanna, Kagura, or one of your minions has plagued me incessantly. Too many have died for me to allow this to go on any longer. Watashi ni modori, saigono hoseki!"I stretched out my hand as a faint humming sound grew louder and the final jewel shard burst out of Naraku's chest where his heart would normally be. Snatching it out of the air I added it to the rest and allowed it to be absorbed normally while I drew and arrow and fired it at the hanyou known as Naraku. "Sete, kono otoko wa, nokori no." My arrow blazed a purple-silver, which was odd, but I paid it no mind as I guided it to the very center of Naraku's being, the bandit that Kikiyo had tended so long ago; Onigumo.

It struck him right where the shard had come out of and stayed there. Naraku started shrieking as the miko's arrow started to purify the demons that were left in him. The arrow had finished what was left of Onigumo. I knew that the others had retreated soon after I had the last shard in my possession and the miko powers started to be thrown around. As Naraku started dissolving faster, his reinforcements also started disappearing with small puffs of smoke. Seconds later I stood bracing myself for the hardest part, removing any taint that would be in the Jewel. I delved into it and encountered a fifth, darker soul. "Kukuku. So it seems that I am dead by your hand miko. It matters not. If I could not take you in life then I will take you with me in death."

"NO!" I was thrown out of the jewel by some other force. "This miko is not to be yours Naraku. You shall fight with me. Now, quickly childe, while I have him engaged. Purify the Shikon no Tama NOW!"

I set my will to it and purified away. What seemed like hours, or was it seconds? later, I pulled out of the jewel and stood to face my friends. Sango was the first to reach me and give me a hug, and then Kikiyo, Shippo, Miroku, Kirara and Inuyasha were giving me hugs all at once. I hugged each of them in turn and then I was just standing there with Shippo sitting on my shoulder, and my arms slung over Kikiyo and Sango's looking at everything that had happened.

"Well Kagome, did you complete the Shikon no Tama?" Of course Shippo would be the first to ask that. I dug into my pouch and pulled out a white orb with pink and blue swirling through it.

"Yeah, I guess I did Ship-dip."

"Well, what are you going to wish for on it?" Kikiyo was the one to ask me this.

"I-I don't know. It seems that the Jewel is the center of most of our problems, and I don't know about you, but I'm tired of the constant fighting. I wish that the Shikon no Tama would disappear forever, never to upset any person again." The Jewel flashed to a blindingly bright white that sent me stumbling back into the Bone Eater's Well. *Looking back on it in hindsight, I remember quite clearly, the feeling of someone placing their hands on my shoulders and shoving me even further off balance. "Go away," it hissed, "and never come back!"*

"Inuyasha!" I shrieked as I fell ever farther down and not hitting the ground on the other side. Instead of the blue light that told me I was going back to my own time, I saw a golden flash and then nothing.

I came to and sat up slowly, using the stealth skills that Sesshomaru had taught me to assess my situation. Laying on a soft bed with a coolness of the air that told me I was neither in modern day Japan which was covered with smog or in the Feudal Era, because it was blistering hot during this time of year there. I lay down swiftly as a small group of people came in arguing loudly. My eyes were slits and I steadied my breathing out so that I would appear as if I were sleeping.

"I don't like this plan of yours Shizuka. What if something goes wrong?" A man holding a sword that looked a lot like Tetsusagia was talking to another man who was holding another sword that looked like Tensusagia.

"I don't like it either Batoru, but what else can we do about it? I mean, she's not even supposed to behere, let alone in Sengoku-jidai with youkai and hanyou trying to destroy her every moment that she is there. And what did you see fit to arm her with? A frickin' bow! That isn't what you should be giving a modern day girl to fight with!" Shizuka turned his back on Batoru, pacing the room.

"If I may give a suggestion then, brothers?"

The two men turned to look at the third person in the room with them. "Speak Mahotsukai. What great idea do you have that can help her recover?" Shizuka said.

Mahotsukai stepped out of the shadows. "Why do we not send her somewhere that she might find those whom she lost? Then she wouldn't be quite as lonesome, and she also would be able to train her developing miko powers. I know for a fact that there are communities around the world that specialize in those things, but they call it magic in her time. I can arrange for someone to gather her and help her to find her way around. Only problem is, the Bone Eater's Well of the Tokyo shrine is now closed, and she won't be right on call to do anything if it happens to open up by chance."

I sat bolt upright at that. "What? Y-you mean that I won't be able to see my friends again?" In hindsight, I suppose that it was a stupid move, but c'mon, I mean I just found that all of my friends were as good as dead, and inaccessible to me. I would miss the birth of Sango and Miroku's first child, I wouldn't get to see Rin grow into a young woman, hell, I would even miss Jaken. So many lives were lost to me right then, I felt my heart shatter into a million pieces. There wasn't anything that I could really do except either cry or laugh hysterically. I cried.

The gods, who else would they be?, turned and looked at me in astonishment. The one called Mahotsukai moved to the bedside and knelt so that his eyes were level with mine. "Trust me little one. You may not be able to return to the Sengoku-jidai through your conventional means, but you will see your friends again. Do not fear." I nodded through my tears and Mahotsukai settled on my bed, gently rubbing my back. Instinctively turning to him, I cried into his shoulder, my silent sobs shaking my small frame and the tears soaking the sleeve of his robe. We sat that way until my sobs were the occasional hiccup and then I pulled away from him.

"Better now?" Mahotsukai asked mildly. I nodded and gave him a weak smile. "That's better Kagome. Now, you have a couple of options here, because you heard the discussion between my brothers and I. You could just go home to your time and forget everything ever happened in the Feudal Era-"

I shook my head emphatically. "No. Whatever I choose to do, I refuse to lose any memories of the Feudal Era or my friends, Mahotsukai."

"O-Kay then, toss that plan out the window. The other choices involve becoming a reincarnation of yourself and then going to the school where you could learn greater control over your miko powers. Actually, in England, they call the powers magic. So, you get to be yourself, or you get to go as another incarnation. Either way, I strongly suggest that you go to the school and learn how to have an almost ironclad control over you magic. Oh, and it's just Kai."

"Hmm?"

"Just call me Kai. I prefer it."

I sat there on the edge of a bed for a moment. The other two gods came around to face Kai and me. "What are your opinions on this?" I jerked my chin at Batoru and Zuka.

"I don't necessarily agree with any of the plans," Zuka said. "But I do know this; whatever Mahotsukai promises he'll do, it'll get done." I nodded and then looked at Batoru.

He started talking. "I don't agree with either of them, but I want what is best for you onee-san, and if you want to go to this school of magic, then you do that."

I blinked at the honorific he gave me. "Onee-san?"

Batoru flushed. "I apologize Higurashi-san, I was out of line."

"No, why did you call me that? I didn't mind it, just wasn't expecting it." Truth be told, it felt strangely right to be called big sister by this powerful god. Unbeknownst to me, I had moved so that I was standing on my own beside the bed facing the two gods Peace and Battle.

Batoru, no, Toru, my mind kept insisting, shifted on the balls of his feet, all the while looking like Souta did when I had caught him sneaking into my room and he was trying to think of a good excuse. "Now, Toru," I said softly. "No trying to think up a good lie. Why did you call me onee-san?"

"I'll tell you why." All of our eyes moved to the newest figure to join our group. It was a girl, that was clear, but she was only carrying a dove on her shoulder and as she swept into the room, a fresh breeze of air came with her. "He called you onee-san because you are our older sister. We have been waiting for you for quite a while." She paused. "Onee-san." Her eyes twinkled as she said that.

Shizuka groaned and smacked his forehead. "Way to let the youkai out of the bag, Kami."

Kami shrugged. "Well, what else was I supposed to do? You three were pussy-footing around the matter and I thought that it would be simpler to just come out and say it."

"Excuse me?" I was trying to make myself heard over the ruckus.

"Well now you could've caused REPAIRABLE DAMAGE TO HER MEMORIES-" Shizuka was yelling his lungs out at Kami, who was standing in a defensive position.

"WELL IT WAS THAT OR LEAVE HER WALLOWING IN MEMORIES THAT AREN'T REALLY OF HER EXPERIENCE-" Man, when the gods go at it they go at it. And it's intense.

"Hello?" I was getting frustrated with the lack of response that I was getting from the divine people, but there was an almost tangibleauraaround the two siblings, and there an answering call was thrumming deep in my chest in response to it.

They both turned on me with a vengeance. "QUIET!"

I stood there shocked for a moment, and then I felt as if another entity slipped out from behind a closed door and took over my body.

"No, YOU be quiet!" My voice boomed with an unnaturalness that echoed through the room. They all froze and paid attention to what I was saying. "Thank you. Kami, stop antagonizing your brothers and you two," I swung around to point at Toru and Zuka. "Stop bickering with each other! When you argue, it just means war, and there's been a very long war dragging on down in the Sengoku-jidai, which I was just a part of! Now KNOCK IT OFF or SO HELP ME I will PERSONALLY kick your arses back to the mortal world and we can finish this thing once and for all. Understood?" I glared at the chastised siblings and then turned to face Mahotsukai. "Brother, it has been a while."

Mahotsukai nodded once, solemnly, and then he swooped down on me and gave me a big hug. "I've missed you while you were gone Kyla." She giggled and nodded my head for herself.

"Yes, it has been a while since I was allowed into the Divine Realms. My friend Diane was quite informative about the going-ons up here when she comes back from visiting her mother. So, has everyone been behaving?"

He nodded. "There were only a few minor mishaps with Hyll. They were trying to expand their land into our territory."

I nodded and then brushed the edge of the entity's consciousness. 'Would it be possible for me to take control back?'

Kyla's astonishment confused me. 'Of course you can. I just thought that you wanted me to be here to calm them down.'

'Oh, all right. And Kyla?'

'Hm?'

"I-I...thanks. For everything.' In my head, I could feel her presence slowly receding and giving control back to me. A small shudder rakes through me and then I have complete control over my body. Lifting my head and gazing at my siblings, a small smile graces my face. Kami and Zuka are talking quietly and Batoru and Kai are looking at me with concern.

"So," I stretch and hear my spine crack. "When do I go through the enrollment to that magic school of your Kai? I have a group of youkai to make an appointment with. As myself," I added before he open his mouth.

"Um, right now if you'd like," he looked uncertainly at me.

I didn't even take the time to finish the train of thought that I was on. "No, not unless I need to grab some stuff. Will I?"

Kai nodded. "Yes, actually. There are copious notes that students are required to take, and, unless you would enjoy with a quill and ink-pot on parchment, then I would suggest that you grab yourself some composition books and other writing utensils." Kai stood now and offered his arm to me with a courtly flourish. "Milady, if you would oblige me?"

Stifling a giggle, I curtsied and then laid my hand on his forearm. "Prithee, good sir, wouldst thou embark on yonder journey with me?"

"Aye milady, if thou would but give me leave to do so."

"Then come, good sir, and let us be off to the place of my birth." We walked out of the room on that note and, ten strides away from the portal that would take us back to my world, we collapsed into giggles.

"That," Kai gasped out between giggles. "Was the most epic act that we've ever put on for them. Ever!"

I nodded my agreement, unable to do much else through the tears streaming down my face. Slowly we got hold of ourselves and then stood before the portal; a smallish shrine house that stood tall and proud. "Well, then, I guess this is it." I pivoted quickly and saw my divine family standing there arrayed in a semi-circle. There were Shizuka, Batoru and Kami, and then there were others that I saw and vaguely remembered before Kyla's brief stint in the mortal world.

"I will do you proud as the mouth of the Gods," I proclaimed loudly. They all nodded approvingly and then I turned to the four that I had known the longest.

"I'll miss you guys," I whispered. There was no sign of emotion on any face except Kai's, so I bowed my head. "I know that I probably was a failure in the eyes of the others, and I just want to apologize for-ack!"

Two blurs of color attacked me, Batoru on one side, Kami on the other, and Kai was covering my mouth firmly with his hand.

"Kagome," Shizuka said solemnly. "There is nothing that you could do that would embarrass this Shizuka or any of the others. You are our sister, and that's what matters." He stared at me for a moment longer and then his usually solemn face cracked in half above a wide grin. "Now go knock some mage butt dead, sis, and good luck." I nodded and then stepped onto the edge of the well that was the portal. I took one final look back and then stepped into the dark oblivion that was the portal.

The whole hostess of a goddess is really just me explaining how Kagome gets to Hogwarts and Scotland. Doesn't mean that she's got any super special powers, or extra abilities. This will NOT! (hopefully) turn into a Mary Sue/Gary Stu story. I only like those rarely, and only in a specific category.

Thanks for putting up with all of these plot changes, and I hope to see you lot next chapter. Now REVIEW!

CIAO~

Mi'era Az'ule