Chapter one: coming home
"Kaa-san!" Yelled the young woman who was currently stumbling across the front courtyard of the sunset shrine. Her name was Higurashi Kagome, and it was not an uncommon sight to see her running to the house after long absences. But this time anyone could see that something was terribly wrong.
Kagome appeared distraught, She wore her usual, a sailor style school uniform. The blouse was white with green cuffs, and a green sailor neck, the skirt was also green and pleated, reaching about mid thigh. This gave a generous glimpse of her long, shapely legs. However currently her uniform was hardly recognizable, one might even go so far as to say the same for Kagome herself.
Her blouse was no longer white, but was covered in blood as where her skirt and white knee high socks Both were torn in several places. Showing gashes and other injuries that she had. There were tears running down her cheeks, and blood from a cut above her right eye had run down her face.
Kagome's beautiful, cerulean blue eyes which normally sparkled with life and kindness were now dull and slightly glazed over. Her long raven wing black hair that naturally cascaded around her shoulders and down her back in silky tendrils was now clumped and matted with dirt, blood, and sweat.
"Kaa-san, Jii-san! Souta-chan! Somebody… please…" She screamed desperately, the last words coming out as a strangled sob as she saw her mother and grandfather running towards her, their expressions frightened and worried. "Kagome, what happened? Are you alright?" Her mother asked as she reached Kagome and the young woman collapsed crying hysterically into her mother's arms.
"Kaa-san, they're...they're gone. Naraku killed them, even Shippo!" Kagome nearly screamed before she dissolved, sobbing into the comforting embrace of her mother only the memory of the shocked and pained expression on Naraku's face as her fully unleashed Miko powers disintegrated him and the weight of the completed Shikon no Tama hanging around her slender throat kept her from complete despair.
The knowledge that in the end she had won, she had avenged the deaths of her best friends. Sango and Kirara, Dying fighting the monster that Naraku had made Sango's brother Kohaku. Miroku, never able to give his family name an heir. Inuyasha, her one time love, and current best friend/older brother, and finally Shippo… the young fox kit that she'd seen almost as her own child.. The shikon no tama would never fall into Naraku's hands was the last conscious thought that Kagome had as she slipped into unconsciousness.
She thought her battle was over, Naraku was gone, the Shikon no tama safe with her and she'd rarely seen yokai in her time. Only time would prove to her how very wrong she was, there was more evil to fight, more people to save. Only this time the battles where to keep the people of her time alive, to protect the people of her era from demons they didn't even believe existed anymore. The Shikon no tama was far from safe, SHE was far from safe… but soon she would be seeing a familiar face, one she'd thought she'd never see again as she'd dug the graves for her friends, comrades and son.
Greetings to everyone who has read this far. This is my first ever posted fan fiction and any reviews or critique would be very much appreciated. I'll try to keep chapters posted in a relatively regular basis I hope you guys like it and I look forward to hearing anything good people might be willing to pitch in, flames and negative peoples two cents will be used to toast my marshmallows. Thanks for reading.
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