It had been almost a year since the downfall of Naraku, and the entire Inuyasha gang had settled down. Kagome was now the village priestess, and Inuyasha its protector, as well as Kagome's.
The two had finally given up on each other, realizing that they would never make it as a couple, seeing as Kagome resembled Kikyo so much. Inuyasha and Kagome never got over it and finally broke it off.
Kagome had finally become the protector of the Shikon no Tama, and carried it around her neck, as a sparkling necklace of pure pink, encircled with purified demon teeth as a string holding it all together.
When the gang had defeated Naraku, Kagome grew into herself. Her temper grew short and hot, and she lived her days training with Sango and Miroku. She would always answer questions with grunts or sighs. Whenever she was asked why she was acting like this, (By Inuyasha, he was the only one to ever ask) she would scream at him, and they would get into a heated fight. It would always end with Inuyasha apologizing, and Kagome would give him a death threat. He never challenged this, because she was no longer the Kagome he fell in love with such a long time ago.
She had her own hut, only being that it was the one that Kaede inhabited before she died. And in the short time in which she HAD lived after the death of Naraku, she taught Kagome everything she needed to know about the healing process, and all the herbs needed, also teaching her everything she needed to know about taking charge of the village. It was Kagome who every single villager came to for all of their problems. Kagome never complained, and took her duty to the village with great pride. Never ill tempered to anyone except Inuyasha, she was considered the most beautiful, smart, and skilled woman in their little village. She was also the object of many men in her village's lust. With her below hip length glistening hair, her long and elegant neck, and her soft yet curvy figure, which was complimented by her gorgeous miko outfit, consisting of a sweet shade of lavender for her hakama, and a haori embroidered with wisteria, with its vines seeming to wrap around her arms, chest, and waist. Gold bands encircled her wrists, and the upper parts of her arms. They covered the spots on her feet that would touch the graound, and had a headband of the same style on her head.
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Kagome exited her hut, with a villager at her side begging her to rid the demon that was plaguing his fields. The darkness of the day was approaching fast.
"Ma'am, please, the harvest has not been good this year, and to have this vile beast eat all that my vegetation bears, my children will starve!"
"Be assured, villager, this demon will be disposed of."
"May Kami bless you! Thank you so much!" The man's smile was beginning to grow from ear to ear; he bowed, and turned to run to his hut to tell the good news to his wife.
"Villager," Kagome called out softly. The man stopped running and turned to face her. "Bring me the monk."
"Yes, Ma'am." He ran to where the Monk was known to be seen, in the demon slayer's hut.
Kagome walked back into her hut, and grabbed her bow and arrows. She walked over to a cabinet that Inuyasha had made for her, and took some cloth out. She sat down around the fire pit, and poked it with a metal fire poker that she had Totosai make for her. As soon as she was satisfied, she picked back up the cloths that she took out. She gingerly took each one, and wrapped it around her each of her knuckles, and started to work on the other hand, this time putting it them on her finger tips. She stood up, and walked over to the cabinet again, putting away all the unused cloths, and picked out a small container. She opened it up, turned in disdain away from the gross smell the paste gave off, and put it only on the fingers that would touch the tip of the arrow. She heard footsteps outside her door, and put her hand to the katana at her hip.
"Kagome, you wanted to see me?"
"Come on in, Miroku." He walked in, and as soon as she saw that it was him, she took her hands off of her katana. She offered him a cushion to sit on, and he complied, and she sat on another one opposite to him of the fire pit.
"A villager wants my help to rid a demon from his fields." Miroku sighed, because this was getting old to him.
"And I want you to help."
"What's the plan?"
"I want you to put sutras all around the fence to prevent any living creature other then human from entering or exiting. I will lure the demon to the outskirts of the fence, them purify it. The sutras are all I need you for."
"Alright."
"Ok then. Lets go." Kagome grabbed her quiver of arrows, slung it on her back, and took her bow, leading Miroku outside the hut.
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When Miroku finished putting up the sutras, he waved Kagome goodbye. Kagome sat on the side of the post, ruffling through the folds of her haori, pulling out some salts, and scattered them around the fence. In not a matter of minutes, the culprit demon showed it's face behind a bush. She quickly pulled out an arrow, readied her bow, aimed, shot, and purified the medium sized demon before it had a chance to see her.
She sighed, thinking, 'Another pointless purification. I just wasted another arrow. I could have sliced that thing in half if I wanted to.'
She turned around, and started to walk off. She looked back, and suddenly felt sorry for the little thing. She decied to go to where the demon was, and Kneeled down to where the body's ashes were. She prayed for it. She heard a sound to her right, and turned to it.
'It sounds like breathing...' She slung her bow over her back, and put her hands to her katana. She walked over to the sound and found a man breathing heavily, and lying in a pool of his own blood.
'Bankotsu!'
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How was that? Yep Yep Yep, I BAAAAAAAAACK! I've decided to do a Ban(x)Kag fic. I've never done one before, yet I have read them... and I think it'll be fun!
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