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Chapter 1

Kagome could feel his hands as the wrapped themselves slowly around her waist. The sun was setting just beyond the horizon dying the world a beautiful pink-red color. Kagome sighed and leaned her head back against his chest and gently traced her nails along his hands. Kagome smiled to her self as Kagome thought of all that had happened in the past year between them.

"This is beautiful Inu-yasha, thank you so much for bringing me here." Kagome whispered softly knowing that his keen hearing would pick it up. All she got in response was a slight tensing of his arms pulling him closer to him. She closed her eyes in contentment leaning on him. She started to fall but caught her self when Inu-yasha stepped back. She opened her eyes to face him.

"Inu-yasha? What's wrong?" She looked at him questions shining her deep chocolate brown eyes. That's when she saw them, the soul stealers flitting in and out from between the trees. Kagome's eyes narrowed and her hands clenched together. She turned her back to the woods, hearing only the sound of her breathing and Inu-yasha's steps retreating quickly into the forest after the souls stealers.

Again! Ugh! I can't believe it, every time we seem to get somewhere in our relationship, she just has to show up. Her mind raced angrily as she thought about Kikyo. She looked down the cliff at the village below her and jumped.

Her feet contacted the side of the cliff as she slid down it, a sort of skill evident in her motions. She walked into the village the anger coming off of her in waves. She was enveloped in a cloud of her own power and didn't seem to notice that butterflies had begun to land and follow in her wake or the symbol of a black raven appear faintly on her forehead.

You can just go to Hell with her Inu-yasha, I'm going home. Kagome's thoughts flew about her mind like poisonous clouds as she stalked into the hut that she shared with Kaede, Shippo, Sango, and Miroku.

Silently she gathered her things, knowing that Sango was nearby and Shippo was as well. Miroku had been gone for several days searching for answers and she was not worried about him walking in on her packing her things. She slipped the almost completed Shikon No Tama around her neck as she walked out of the hut. Then she set off for the well, making sure to avoid the well worn path, knowing she would be spotted far too easily.

As she approached the well she could hear faintly a soft singing coming from somewhere within the woods. How beautiful, I wonder who is singing?

Kagome didn't bother going to find out though, she had far too much going on inside of her mind to want to wander around the woods looking for some phantom singer. She saw the well just ahead of her but something tugged at the very edged of her senses. She set down her large yellow bag and closed her eyes, sending out trendils of her power out through the woods for roughly four miles but encountered nothing that really caught a hold on her interest. She shrugged and in silence hefted her bag back onto her shoulder and approached the bone eaters well when she felt that same tug on her senses as if something was telling her not to go into the well. She again shrugged off the feeling and tossed her bag into the well ahead of her and then jumped in herself. Only this time, instead of the wells welcoming blue firefly light, she was surrounded by red light and then thrown back out into the open air of the feudal era.

"What the fuck!" Kagome growled under her breath as she dusted off her body and clothes, checking for anything broken, finding nothing she looked around her for her large yellow bag and sighed in frustration and defeat when she didn't see it. "Perfect, this is just perfect! First Inu-yasha runs off to that God forsaken clay pot whore and now I can't even go home to rant about this with my MOTHER! What the fuck is next? Huh? Am I going to get kidnapped or something is the Armageddon going to come because I honestly cannot see how my day can get ANY FUCKING WORSE!" Kagome loudly to herself in the middle of Inu-yasha's forest, not paying attention to where she was allowing her feet to take her, when she tripped over something and proceeded to tumble down a hill before coming to a rather painful stop against a tree.

"Nope, not kidnapping or rain, this is so much better." She muttered to herself as she tried to force her body into a sitting position. When a sharp, searing pain tore through her she laid right back down against the earth and shut her eyes, biting down on her lower lip as she breathed heavily.

"Are you okay?" the soft voice of a child reached Kagome's ears and she opened one eye just a crack to see just who was talking to her. As Kagome looked the little girl over a few times she couldn't help but feel like she knew her from somewhere.

"Yea, I'm fine, a little bruised and cut but otherwise fine." Kagome smiled at the little girl and was rewarded with a large grin in return.

"That's good because you seemed to hit that tree really hard…..and you made Jaken-sama yell…it was funny." The young girl grinned again and took Kagome's hand in her own.

Wait…Jaken? Oh Shit! Now I remember her, she is always with Sesshomaru and the idiot toad. Oh crap, c'mon Kags get up and go, tell the little girl goodbye and then run, very, very far and very, very fast

This little pep talk did almost nothing to actually make her move, but by the time she reopened her eyes the little girl had switched her position and was now looking at Kagome from above and slightly upside down. This just served to scare the hell out of her and Kagome shot straight up causing an intense amount of pain to radiate down the entire left side of her body. She sucked in a breath and dug hand into the soft earth trying to stop the pain. But instead of the pain going away, the edges of her vision began to go black and almost in slow motion she fell to the floor again, this time hearing the sound of a very panicked Rin yelling for Sesshomaru.

Inu-yasha….this was Kagome's last thought before she was enveloped by darkness and nightmares.