The Stronger Miko

Kagome and Inuyasha are walking through a forest far away from the village where the old priestess Kaede lives. Miroku, Shippo, Sango, and Kilala, their fellow companions, were out of the village helping the villagers with their daily chores when Kagome sensed a piece of the sacred Shikon Jewel. Inuyasha, not wanting to pass up the chance to fight over a shard of the sacred jewel, before the evil, deceiving Naraku laid his dirty, stinking, filthy hands on it. Kagome was pretty reluctant to go shard hunting or in this case killing for a shard. She would have gone without complaint but unknown to Inuyasha she was getting sick and was able to use her miko powers, now that she was able to control them better, to hide her scent. But when she started to protest Inuyasha picked her up and her giant canary yellow bag and started running off in the direction Kagome claimed the jewel shard was being used.

However, the fight for the shard was done and Inuyasha was becoming more and more concerned about Kagome. She was talking very little and looked somewhat sick from behind. The other thing that was bothering him was that he couldn't smell her sweet scent, the one that drives him crazy. The more he tried to figure out what was wrong the more he just confused himself, because it was not he who killed the demon, but Kagome.

Flashback

Kagome and Inuyasha reach the area where Kagome sensed the jewel shard strongest. If it wasn't for the fact that they were looking for the jewel shard they would have never known this place existed. The area was completely surrounded by trees and bushes. The trees were so thick; they put the area into semidarkness. In the center of this area, is a beautiful lake that glowed silver and gold in the darkness.

Kagome closes her eyes to concentrate on where the shard might be. She opens her eyes and looks into the lake. As she turns to look at Inuyasha a giant wave starts, trying to get to Kagome. However Inuyasha, seeing this before it happened, grabs Kagome and puts her on a very high tree branch where the tidal waves that appeared out of nowhere couldn't reach her.

Inuyasha begins to attack water demon, only to have the demon spread into little puddles and reform again whenever he managed to hit it. A ball of water catches Inuyasha by surprise from behind and another from the front, knocking him into a tree, a defining cracking sound heard throughout the entire clearing. Kagome watches in horror as the water demon shows its true form and looks at the unmoving Inuyasha. The water demon is water snake about 30 feet long. She notices a small amount of blood trickling down his head and his arm in a strange angle.

"Oh Kami. INUYASHA WAKE UP. PLEASE! INUYASHA!" Kagome sees the water snake demon go in for the finishing move. "INUYASHA!" She suddenly glows with her bright miko powers. The water snake demon distracted by the glow from Kagome, looks away from the unconscious Inuyasha. Inuyasha opens his eyes and sees Kagome floating down from her position on the tree branch.

"Give me the Jewel Ssssshard girl and I just might let you live." The water snake demon hissed at Kagome.

"Leave your jewel shard and Inuyasha alone and I just might let you live." Kagome said in a low murderous voice that sent chills down Inuyasha's neck.

"HA. A puny little human like you can do nothing to hurt me. Let alone kill me. Your threatssss mean nothing to me. You can't do anything you lowly stinking hu-" the water snake demon's sentence is cut short when Kagome reaches the ground. As her feet touch the floor a bow made out of Miko power appears in front of her as well as an infinite amount of arrows. All the arrows start shooting at once and not even two minutes later from when Kagome's attack began the water snake demon becomes purified and evaporates, leaving no trace that there was even a demon around. The Jewel Shard flies over to Kagome and she grabs it, purifying it with her touch then pockets it. Inuyasha just gaps at the now transformed miko in front of him. Her eyes turned into a silvery grey color, while her hair also turned silvery-white like Inuyasha's. She walks over to him and picks up his broken arm carefully in her hands. Silvery miko power flow from her hands to his arm first, then to the rest of his body, healing him instantly to perfection. He stares at the beautiful, powerful miko in front of him, looking into her eyes. Suddenly she blinks and her eyes go blank; blink again and her eyes are back to their chocolate brown color, as well as her hair back to its normal color.

"Inuyasha? What happened? Where is the demon? Why are you covered in blood? Are you hurt?" She begins to look at him trying to find a cut or gash on his lovely muscular body. He stares at the girl searching frantically for a wound; he chuckles at the girl stopping her from search. "What are you laughing about?"

"Kagome I'm fine."

"Inuyasha did I- did I… change?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean… you know what, never mind."

"Kagome I didn't do anything. It was you who purified the demon too much that that killed it."

"So I did do it again."

End Of Flashback

Inuyasha looks at the back of the girls head. 'So she has known all this time and never told me. But why? Why wouldn't she want to tell me?' He takes a pause from his thoughts to smell his favorite scent that he is able to drown himself in; however he can't smell it.

Who is this new Kagome?

And why is it that Inuyasha can't smell the now strong miko in front of him?

Stay Tuned to Find Out…