It was now five months since the well had been blocked off, five months since she'd seen the Feudal Era and her beloved friends there… Five months since she got the normal life she longed for since two and a half years ago.

Oh, who was she kidding? She was bored and moping... adjusting to the present but moping nevertheless. Thanks to her mother, however, she was starting to move on; her mother got fed up and wouldn't "tolerate her shit anymore" (in nicer terms of course. Inuyasha was a bad influence on her choice of vocabulary, and thanks to him, her mind now occasionally "translated" things into a cruder form).

Her mother was generous enough to give her about a month to mope around, sniffling, haunting her room, and being a useless waste of space shriveling up in her room out of desolation. She didn't even have the willpower to go see if the well magically decided to let her through since she already knew that it wouldn't; it was part of the price she paid in order to guarantee that the Shikon Jewel would no longer cause the world any more harm.

After her depressingly unproductive month was up, her mother dragged her out of the room and gave her an ultimatum: become a miko for the family shrine, find a job , go back to school and graduate high school… not necessarily in that order of course.

Her mother seemed to be onto something though. Busy with studying, maintaining the shrine, and being polite to the customers that came to the café that she part-timed at, she hadn't had much time to dwell on the past and all she'd lost in that single moment. As long as she didn't think about it, she learned that her heart didn't ache as much; most days, she could delude herself into thinking she was the same as she was before she fell into the well: an ordinary, happy teenage girl. However, she could never get rid of that feeling of boredom that seemed to haunt her, taunting her that she was no longer in the dangerous, but exciting past; as far as she was aware, demons and spirits were no around…

-end of chapter 1-

A/N: While this was supposed to be a long one-shot, I got annoyed at continuously typing and decided to upload it in pieces to make myself feel better. Don't worry though, this fic's actually finished. I just need to have the willpower to type everything up… :D