Dear Mother,

I don't know if you will ever receive this letter, but I feel like you should know a few things about why I never came back after the final battle.

I'm not dead, if that's what you're wondering. Far from it, actually! When I purified Naraku with a charged arrow, I passed out. The next thing I knew, I was barely eighty centimeters tall with silvery blue eyes. Sesshoumaru-sama said that I had become a demon.

My theory is that the high volume of ambient demonic energy on the battlefield latched onto me in my weak state as I merged with the Shikon no Tama. My Miko-ki was so depleted that it was only able to prevent obvious demonic appendages, like Shippou's feet or Inuyasha's ears, from growing.

In demon years I'm two, even though the last birthday we celebrated together was my twentieth. My hair stayed the same length, however now that my body is shorter, my hair trails almost to my ankles. The bangs end at my chin and they are an unnatural silver-white color like Sesshoumaru's.

Don't worry about me though, Mom. Even though my body has shrunk, I have strength equivalent to before my transformation and speed exceeding even that – likely because of my stature and demonic blood.

With love,

Kagome

When Kagome jumped into the well for the first time after her transformation, the well glowed an angry red instead of the usual soothing blue hue. Something's wrong! Her mind was blaring sirens.

When the glow faded, the little Miko was falling from the sky. "Kyaa!" she yelled as she came down from above.

Kagome landed painfully on something soft, but still almost as hard as wood. Getting up with a frown, she rubbed the bruise forming on her backside. Then realizing her position, her eyes became rather wide. She had landed on a person, a man with hair the color of freshly spilt blood, and he looked severely injured. "Sowwy!" she squealed naively. "I'll help you!" she placed a finger on his forehead and channeled her Miko powers through him, furrowing her brows in concentration. He was instantly healed.

He groaned and sat up. "Who're you?" his red eyes seemed devoid of any emotion.

She decided to continue playing the part of the naive little child "I'm Kagome!" she grinned and pointed at herself.

"Hn." He looked at her. "Who healed me?"

"I did!" she gave him another wide grin.

"Hn." He smirked and started to contort his hands into odd formations.

"Stop it!" Kagome whimpered as she threw up a strong barrier.

"Huh?" He inspected the shimmering pink bubble and hissed as it burned him slightly. "How'd you do that Jutsu without hand signs?"

Kagome looked up at him with childish curiosity. "What's a Jutsu?"

"Come with me" he moved toward her and she dropped her barrier.

"Okay!" she tugged on his black and red cloak. "What's your name?"

"It's Sasori"

"Where're we going?" she rocked back and forth on her heels with her hands clasped behind her back, her silver-blue eyes shining from underneath her mess of black and silver hair.

"To my teammates" He answered monotonously. Sasori grabbed her around the waist and twisted his other hand into a small sign. They appeared outside a mountain. Kagome jumped out of her new friend's arms and raced around him as fast as she could - which was pretty fast.

"You live in a mountain?" Kagome questioned him, bringing herself to an almost instant stop.

He blinked slowly as he noticed the trench she had made around him with her running. "How do you run that fast? How does a two-year-old use chakra for that matter?"

"What's chakra?" Kagome slyly answered his questions with another one.

"It's a type of energy that all ninjas have. They use it to do Jutsus and amplify their physical attributes." He paused. "How do you not know of this?"

"Mama never told me." Kagome nodded at him in a conspiratory manner, eyes wide and serious.

"Hn." He started walking, "Come along then."

"Sasori, I thought you were dead, yeah" a man with blonde hair that hung over one eye caught the attention of the redhead.

"She healed me" Sasori motioned toward a little girl behind him.

"Her, yeah?" the blonde pulled Kagome out from behind Sasori. He looked her over. "Doesn't look like much, are you sure?"

"Leave me alone!" Kagome growled as she blasted him with Miko energy, sending him flying backwards into the wall. Looking at what she did to the man, she flinched. "Oops?"

"What the heck, yeah!" the man's blue eye blazed with anger. "How did she do that, yeah?"

"Hn. I don't know. Should we take her to Leader-sama?"

"Who's dat?" Kagome's eyes widened in curiosity.

The two ignored her completely, caught up in their argument as they were, and she took the chance to tiptoe away. When she felt that she was far away enough, she broke into a sprint. Suddenly she collided into a pair of legs. Her breath was knocked out of her lungs and she landed on her rump.

"Tobi will help little person up, 'cuz Tobi is a good boy!" an open hand entered her vision.

"Thank you Tobi-sempai!" Kagome giggled as she took his hand.

"Tobi wants to know what little person's name is"

"My name is Kagome!" she examined him. He was wearing the same cloak as Sasori, and had an orange swirly mask on his face.

"Why is Kagome-chan here?" he cocked his head at her.

"I'm here because Sasori-kun brought me"

"But Sasori-sempai died." Tobi sounded doubtful.

"No he didn't! I healed him!" Kagome crossed her arms defiantly, a proud smirk on her tiny pink lips.

"Oh…" Tobi suddenly put the essence of a smile into his voice. "Kagome can see Leader-sama and maybe he'll let Kagome join Akatsuki!"

"Really!" Kagome ran around in circles again, "Yay!"

Tobi blinked. All he saw was a little green and black blur zipping around in a circle - and an ever-increasing circular scuff mark on the floor. "Let's go see Leader-sama now. Tobi will show Kagome the way, 'cuz Tobi's a good boy!"

Kagome giggled and raced after Tobi after he dashed off running. "Tobi-sempai! Wait for me!"

The two of them burst into Leader's office within a second of each other. "Leader-sama" Tobi stood up tall. "Can Kagome-chan join Akatsuki?"

"You want me to let a two year old join Akatsuki?" The shadowy figure Kagome could only guess was Leader stood from his desk, acid dripping into his voice.

Suddenly the blonde person that Kagome had previously blown into a wall ran through the door. "Leader-sama, Sasori's back and he brought a little girl with him, yeah."

"Could this be that little girl?" Leader motioned to Kagome.

The blonde followed his arm and saw Kagome. "That's her, yeah. Sasori said that she healed him, yeah. And when I scared her, she blew me into a wall with a weird pink glow, yeah."

"Sowwy about that, Blondie" Kagome inwardly smirked as the nickname made the blonde man turn red.

"DON'T CALL ME BLONDIE!" he yelled.

"Sowwy, I just don't know your name." Kagome put an innocent pout on her face and turned to Tobi. "Tobi-sempai, what's Blondie's name?"

As the blonde clenched his fists, Tobi answered. "Blondie's name is Deidara"

"Hi Deidara-sempai" Kagome grinned. She turned to Leader. "I can show you what I can do!" She proceeded to let her blue and silver eyes glow slightly pink as her Miko energy flowed into her hands. They created a bow and she drew back the string. Aiming it at the wall, she shot it toward where she felt the aura of an immortal. She threw up a barrier just before it hit. An arrow of that kind could kill him - immortal though he was. "That was just a small example of what I can do." She smiled, her eyes shining with glee.

"Why the fuck did you fucking let a damn arrow almost fucking hit me? A Miko arrow could have fucking killed me!" Hidan yelled.

"Why are you saying those words? Mommy said that I shouldn't talk like that. Your mommy would be mad at you right now." Kagome looked at him, scolding him with a naïve tone to her voice.

"The priestess is a little girl?" Hidan looked at her, and then burst out laughing.

"Hey! I'm not a little girl!" she crossed her arms defiantly and stuck her nose in the air. "I'm turning twenty one next month!"

That shut him up.

Deidara paused, "How is that even possible?"

"Cuz I'm a demon, duh!" Kagome rolled her eyes, exasperated.

"Capture her - We are the organization that collects the Bijuu." Leader ordered.

"What's a Bijuu?" Kagome cocked her head cutely to the side.

Tobi and Deidara pinned her arms to her sides and tied up her feet.

"A tailed demon" Leader answered for her.

"I never went demon before…" Kagome mused. "I wonder what kind of demon I am…"

"You don't know what kind of demon you are?" Deidara sounded disbelieving.

"Nope!" Kagome grinned.

"Tobi wants to see your demon form! Tobi is a good boy!"

Kagome concentrated. Her whole body started to glow gold and green…

So I realized that I have not updated in forever. And I also realized that I am nineteen and now can write a little better than I could years ago… So I am going to revamp this entire story and then continue it… Eheheh… So please be patient with me! University takes up a lot of my time now, but I find this story too adorable to abandon just yet!

PS. Excuse Hidan's mouth. I hate cursing myself but I know it is necessary to keep the man in character. Kagome does not approve.

4-17-15