Kaede was in the fields gathering medicinal herbs to turn into potions to help tend to sick villagers and give to them to help heal their ailments. She sighed sadly and remembered when she was young.
Suddenly a young girl from the village ran up towards her desperately "Lady Kaede a demon is attacking our village again please slay it!" she cried fearfully.
Kaede got to her feet wearily "Indeed I will child but take my basket it need be taken care of for it has medicinal herbs in it" she said sternly to which the girl covered it protectively and made her way back to the village.
At village
Several pretty young girls are injured and fleeing to the safety of their homes and arms of their partners. Kaede ran forward to confront the beast which was revealed to be a girl possessed by a demon.
Kaede pulled out a sacred sutra scroll "Let me handle this" she cried and was about to attack when the demon blasted her with a pink light causing her to collapse.
The girl glared at Kaede her eyes empty "A curse on you Kaede sister of the priestess Kikyo now you will suffer as I did" the demon said through the girl's body before disappearing.
"Lady Kaede! Lady Kaede are you ok?! Are you harmed?!" several villagers cry swarming around her and gasp.
Kaede is lying on the floor her old priestess garments baggy and barely covering her while in the body of her small child form with brown eyes and black waist length hair. She struggled to get up and realized she had her eye back and gasped.
Meanwhile
Kikyo was standing upon a mountain gazing out at the distance when she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She clutched her chest painfully and panicked "Wha…what is this feeling? It's so strange it feels as though Kaede…Kaede is calling out to me" she said quietly.
She turned away from the edge of the mountainside and walked back the way she came to which her Soul collectors followed "I know but she needs me and I cannot abandon her" she said firmly. After a while her soul collectors began to transport her to the village at a faster pace than earlier and she smiled "Thank you" she whispered.
Kikyo gazed firmly into her new destination direction "Hold on Kaede I'm coming so just hold on" she thought to herself.
At village
Kaede has taken a bath and sighs heavily "I never thought that I'd wear this old thing again" she said pulling out her old orange Yukata with black patterns and a small white Obi. Her long black hair still fell slightly untidily around her waist so she began brushing it and tied it back with a white bow into its old style.
Suddenly a village elder came into the hut "Oh Lady Kaede you are dressed and awake thank goodness how do you feel?" he asked inspecting her cautiously for injuries.
Kaede smiled weakly "My body still aches but I feel much better after that bath" she said kindly to the village elder.
The village elder smiled "Good I just came to tell you that you have a visitor and a very surprising one at that". This intrigued Kaede so she followed him outside to the main area of the village but hid behind him the whole time knowing she was now vulnerable to danger.
When Kaede reached the middle of the village her eyes opened wide with shock and she covered her mouth. Tears filled her eyes with disbelief at what she was seeing yet she was so happy. "SISTER KIKYOOO!" she cried and grabbed Kikyo by the leg tearfully clutching tightly worried that if she let go Kikyo would vanish.
Kikyo kneeled down and hugged Kaede tightly stroking her hair to calm her. However Kaede noticed that Kikyo's was holding her very tightly and shaking. When she looked up to see her sister's face tears spilled onto her cheeks.
"Thank goodness…" Kikyo said quietly as she clung to Kaede "I thought that the demon that attacked killed you I promise Kaede I will return you to normal" Kikyo said bravely.
Kaede pulled away "No Sister Kikyo I want to stay like this so we can be together Kagome can take over from me and we can stay together that way" she said adamantly.
Kikyo was touched but knew that the village needed protecting until then "Very well until InuYasha and the group next visit here so we can ask Kagome I will take over as priestess and care for you" she said sternly. Kikyo summoned her soul collectors "Go and bring InuYasha here along with his team" she said sternly to which they obeyed and flew off silently.
"Sister Kikyo what will you do now?" Kaede asked curiously clinging to Kikyo's Hakama pants.
Kikyo looked at Kaede and saw the worry in her eyes "I will care and protect you and the villager here until kagome arrives with her friends so we can ask her to become priestess here so we can search for the Shikon jewel shards" Kikyo said gently.
