Sennensou no Mi

by velvet-sometimes

The rarest of healing flowers blooms in a deadly valley, for a thousand years. Kagome must seek it out, to fulfill her responsibilities in the future - but the journey will bring her closer to the past than she ever thought possible. An old friend is waiting; and maybe love in all its forms blooms as long as the flower she seeks.

1. Pure

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.

Pure

Kagome sighed as she carefully placed the final bottle of dried herbs in her work cabinet, turning back to her journal to make a notation of just how low the shine was of the various medicines.

The one in particular that had her worried was a small flower. Its berries the only known cure for Saimyoshou poison -as rare as they were in this day and age- that worked on Youkai. It had no name besides that of Sennensou no Mi; and there was no official record of it's existence in any sort of herboligy book she had come across. But then, most of those books were written for humans, and mortals weren't very keen on keeping up on things that cured Youkai if they had no effect on their own kind. The ones that even knew Youkai existed, at any rate.

That was where the Sunset Shrine differed from most of mainstream Japan though - they specialized in helping Demons in need. So Kagome needed this plant.

Sitting back down at her desk, Kagome rummaged around in the drawers for a long moment, before making a triumphant noise when she emerged from the clutter with a worn slip of paper that held merely a name of a nature preserve and a phone number.

Dialing it was nerve wracking; this was, after all, Kagome's first year of being fully in charge of the shrine and it's practices. Her grandfather used to keep this job to himself before he'd passed; and they'd had no need to track down more for years afterward... but now they were running dangerously low. And so she was finally getting her first opportunity to call the Youkai her family had made a deal with centuries ago.

"This is the number for the Sunset Shrine;" A deep voice growled from the other end of the line, startling her as she hadn't heard him pick up. "What's wrong, you fuddy old priest?"

"Er, Hello..." she replied hesitantly, purely to let the aggressive alpha feel in control, startling the male on the other end. "I'm Ms. Higurashi; the new head priestess. Are you the Wolf Alpha who takes us to retrieve more herbs from the reserve?"

Note: So I was trying to help a friend come up with a new story idea, as we've both decided to go back to writing some Kagome/Kouga fics that don't involve Inuyasha cheating on anyone/the 'shattering of Kagome's heart and soul', and this idea slapped me in the face and refused to not be written any longer.