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Chapter 1 – The First Deed

Kagome sat in the clearing where her hut resided, legs tucked under her as she went through her basket of herbs. The late spring breeze was cool, balancing out the pleasantly warm day as she sat in the shorter grass of her field. She chuckled to herself in her solitude. It had been so long since she had arrived here. What had it been... 33 years? And now she was waxing poetic about the weather. She was old. Ha ha.

-Flashback-

Everyone was present for the final battle. After some extensive training and a bit of experimenting, Kagome had been able to place a barrier to lock the main abilities of the Jewel in Naraku's possession; ensuring his full and true participation the final confrontation. There would be no puppet stand-ins or manipulating from behind the scenes this time.

Koga had taken out Kagura. A brutal battle in speed, the winds that were generated straying across the rest of the battlefield periodically, taking out the occasional lesser demon. Unfortunately, he was out of the rest of the battle due to his injuries, the wind witch had torn up his legs in an act of final retaliation. Miroku, Sango and Kirara were juggling many of the lesser demons that swarmed, as well as parrying Hakudoshi and Entei(?) as he showed himself to strike and retreat back into the wreathing mass. Kanna had been the first to fall, herself and her mirror purified with an arrow from Kagome. This left Inuyasha, Sesshomaru and Kagome to deal with Naraku himself. What seemed like hours into the fight everyone had, had their blood drawn, even Sesshomaru had bled from a few cuts that had snuck past his guard. Slowly Naraku's forces, as well as he himself, were being worn down. Naraku could see that the odds were turning against him, and it left him for once feeling a small sense of panic. In a desperate move, Naraku sent a deadly tentacle towards a blue and orange flash just outside of the forest's edge. It was that move that was unknowingly his undoing.

Kagome watched in horror, almost as if time slowed down to catch every terrible detail, as the tentacle reached across the battlefield and pierced Shippo's little body, his fox-fire, as well as the light in his eyes, immediately going out, as if it had never been. In that instance, it seemed the whole battle stopped, sharing in Kagome's shock. Feeling as if he had turned the tables again Naraku had just began to gloat, believing that he had broken the miko, their lynch-pin in this plan, but it was then that she snapped.

With an anguished roar to rival any youkai, Kagome erupted into blazing pink flames of reiki. In her pain, she had broken completely through her connection with the Jewel, dragging all of the shards to her as her reiki broke down the barriers and limiters Magatsugi(?) had placed on her since birth. All this energy coalesced and exploded to the surface in a supernova of power that smacked Naraku in the chest. Not stopping with his physical form, the power raced down Naraku's connections, his incarnations joining his screams of agony and defeat as her reiki hunted down every piece of the hanyou. What had seemed to be an eternity to the rest of the frozen field, was actually only a handful of seconds. In a blink, Kagome's power had retreated and was diving for the body of the kit that she had claimed as her own.

But she never got the chance to hold him as she so desperately needed. To the continued shock of all present, Kagome seemed to be caught in mid-air, slowly being pulled back into the air and fading to a translucent pink.

"No! Shippo!" She frantically tried to reach out to him, tears streaming down her cheeks and hands outstretched in a futile attempt. She was nearly gone from sight, barely a translucent outline, when Lord Sesshomaru claimed her attention, stepping in between her line of sight to the corpse of her little boy. While he kept his stoic face, he let Kagome see the determination that backed his next words, a vow, his hand gripping Tenseiga's hilt.

"I will ensure your pup is cared for... Kagome." Clinging to those words, her world went black.

For the first sennight of her time here she kept herself in an abandoned cave, mourning the loss of all her family; those at the battle, as well as the blood who would still be waiting for her to come home. Afterwords she pulled herself up, letting go of the pain to remember their love, and traveled to the nearest village. Luckily the miko already residing in the village had enough power to realize that Kagome was, in fact, an actual miko and not a fraud. After replacing her torn and bloody garments for traditional miko garbs, she continued to spend a fortnight in the village, ensuring that the full extent of her powers were back under her control. With that, Kagome began her new journey, learning everything she could about herbs, her power, and most importantly, the world she'd been transported to now.

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