Hey everyone! I wrote this story on paper about a year ago and I found it today and decided to try my luck at it. Although it still needs to edited and such my editing skills aren't the greatest so I think that I may be in need of a beta reader. The said reader should have experience, and correct spelling, sentence structure, etc. If you are interested please email me at Don't forget to read and review! .
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha and anything related to it, but I do own the plot of this story.
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Kagome Higurashi was running towards the well. She was returning to the feudal era, 500 years in the past, to Inuyasha. She jumped in and as usual she was surrounded by starlike lights. She was almost to the other side when a figure appeared before her.
"Miko Kagome."
She frowned.
"Who are you?" she demanded.
"I'm the Vision of Time. I have seen your future Miko Kagome and your lack of knowledge of your spiritual powers that you possess cost a too high a price in the final confrontation with Naraku. This must be changed."
Kagome trembled, but the being before her looked sad.
"Kagome, just know that if you don't gain all the knowledge possible in a short time span the future shall be a bleak one. The longest time that I can give you is a week, so you must work hard!" he emphasized.
He raised his hand, flicked it in her direction, and Kagome was thrown back.
" The miko that I want you to learn from in your time is too preoccupied at the moment, so I shall send you to a time when she can teach you all you need to know."
Kagome screamed and was knocked unconscious from the force of her travel.
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Kagome groaned and opened her eyes relunctantly to someone who was shaking her.
"Kikyo!" she exclaimed as her eyes widened in realisation and scrambled away from the other miko until her back was against the wall of the well.
Kikyo frowned.
"So you know who I am. How? Are you after the jewel? Wait, are those fragments of the jewel around your neck?" she asked her eyes narrowing.
Kagome clutched the bottle that held the jewel shards.
"Kikyo doesn't know me, and she sees the jewel shards around my neck.Wait a second, to learn from a miko who was preoccupied at the moment? Kikyo?" she thought in shock, her eyes widening.
"Give me those." she said coldly while reaching for the shards.
"No!" Kagome yelled and whacked her hand away.
"Those look like Shikon Jewel shards. I don't know how you got them but you're giving them to me." she stated like it was the end of discussion.
"Kikyo, these aren't shards from the jewel that you are protecting." Kagome tried to reason.
"Then that means that there are two jewels." Kikyo shot back.
"Could we just leave this well? The demonic aura around here is as thick as anything."
The other miko paused, nodded and they began to climb the vines out of the well.
Afterwards, they walked towards Kikyo's village. Once they settled into her hut, which was close to wear the sacred jewel was being kepted, they sat down and began to talk.
"So, I don't know your name." Kikyo began.
"It's," Kagome paused.
"What happens here must affect the future one way or another. I should use an alias while I'm here." Kagome reasoned with herself.
"Shizuka." she said with as much conviction as she could.
"Well Shizuka, you owe me an explanation. Why were you unconscious in the bone eater's well? With what looks to be Shikon Jewel shards around your neck?"
Kagome shook her head.
" I can't answer that. Just know that I bring no harm to this village and to not speak of my arrival to anyone unless neccesary. You see, I possess spiritual powers much like yours. But I don't know how to use them properly and it is hard to find a suitable teacher during these times of war. So as a result, I don't know how to fully exercise my powers. But you see, my time here is short so I would not bother you for long, just one week. Will you teach me Kikyo?"
Kikyo studied Kagome for several moments.
"One week isn't enough to learn everything." Kikyo stated.
" I can shoot purification arrows and reflect curses back to my opponents." Kagome tried to persuade.
"Well it's a start. At least you can at some level release your spiritual powers. Come, I sense a demon approaching. Let's see how you fair against it." Kikyo said while getting a bow and arrows and handing them to Kagome.
Kagome followed the other miko to a clearing where a bear demon was rapidly approaching the village. Kagome quickly shot an arrow towards the demon which hit its arm. The demon staggered back and set his big brown eyes towards his opponent and started for her at an alarming rate. Kagome squeaked, took a few steps back and quickly shot another arrow towards it and this time itstruck home and shot him in the heart where he then desinigrated.
Kagome turned towards Kikyo.
"Well I was able to see the limits of your powers. I believe that you equal to me in power ad therefore should be able to do everything that I can do. I also noticed that you showed emotion towards your opponent in battle. That is unacceptable and you must learn to control yourself. But although it will be difficult with a one week time limit, I think that I can teach you. You must remember that I must still protect the jewel."
Kagome nodded.
"Let's begin then. First you must change. Those clothes are not fit for a priestess such as yourself." Kikyo said as she wavered her hands at Kagome's school clothes.
They walked back to Kikyo's hut where Kagome changed.
"You hair is almost as long as mine, which may be problem for you if it's loose in battle. Would you like a hair band?" Kikyo asked.
Kagome shook her head.
"No thank you Kikyo. My hair hasn't been a problem in the past."
Kikyo shrugged and made her way outside.
Kagome sighed.
"Kikyo would surely notice more of a ressemblance if I wear a hair band. Our hair falls the same way." she thought as she followed her teacher.
"Now then, let's begin shall we? First I'm going to teach you how to sense demonic auras." Kikyo stated.
So Kagome learnt and worked hard. Kikyo was a hard teacher and expected much from her and Kagome struggled to keep up. By the end of the day, she was exhausted but satisfied with what she had learned.
"Kikyo would you mind if I went to a hot spring for awhile? I need to rebuilt my strength."
Kikyo nodded.
"I guess we're done for today. But bring your bow and arrows with you and continue to train your senses to evil and practice some archery." she demanded.
Kagome nodded and retrieved the things that she needed and headed for a hot spring. Once she arrived she got into the water and closed er eyes in relief as her stressed muscles relaxed. After a few minutes she tuned her senses and practiced searching for demonic presenses around her.
Ten minutes later, she sensed a dark presense which was approaching her at an alarming speed. She quickly got out of the water, loosely puts on her clothes and aimed her bow at where the presence would appear and once she saw who it was she dropped her arrow in shock. It was Inuyasha.
Inuyasha landed in front of her.
"Didn't think that you would be surprised to see me Kikyo." he said while smiling and approaching her.
But Kagome backed away.
"Inuyasha, I'm not Kikyo. My name is Ka-Shizuka, I'm here under Kikyo's teachings this week." she said trying to hide the quiver in her voice.
Inuyasha chuckled.
"Kikyo, I know who you are by now. No one else smells like..." he said as he trailed off.
Sniff, Sniff
Inuyasha's eyed widened.
"You're not her." the dog demon said in shock.
Kagome smiled.
"I know," she said as she dressed completely, "but I know that her and I look and smell alike."
She picked up her things.
"But if you want to see Kikyo," she continued, "she's at her hut a the moment, where I'm heading."
Inuyasha nodded and prepared to take off again.
"Wait!" Kagome yelled.
"What is it wench?" he growled while turning towards her.
"You're just going to leave me here when we are going in the same direction?" she demanded.
The hanyou blinked.
"Well what you expect me to do?" he demanded.
Kagome got on his back, as she was used to doing.
"Now go." she stated.
Inuyasha was about to throw her off and leave but something about the girl reminded him of Kikyo, and he loved Kikyo.
He took off towards the village and due to the hanyou's speed, arrived quickly.
"Well I'd better now. I still have to practice my archery. Good night." Kagome said while turning around and walking away.
Inuyasha stared after her,
"So much like Kikyo, yet so unlike her. Mysterious, but the light in her eyes tells otherwise. She makes me happy..."
She frowned and shook his head trying to clear his head from the thought of the weird new girl, frustrated with his thoughts
"Stop it Inuyasha! You met the girl five minutes ago and she makes you feel happy now?" he thought to himself.
He calmed himself and calmly entered the hut.
Inside, Kikyo looked up and smiled when she saw him.
"Hello Inuyasha. Didn't expect you to come tonight because of the new moon." she said.
Inuyasha returned the smile.
"Well I figured who better to protect me in my time of need then you."
Kikyo's smile grew and nodded.
Inuyasha sat near a wall close to the fire trying to get comfortable as the transformation to make him human reached its final stages. Kikyo sat beside him, bow and arrow closeby and leaned against him. Inuyasha put his head against the wall, closed his eyes and vaguely wondered how that Shizuka knew his name.
TBC
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Well I hope that you all enjoed the first part! I may have the next chapter up by tomorrow depending on the amount of reviews I get. hint, hint