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II.

Future

It has been three years since Kagome returned to the present, since she was flung out of the past that had become a second home to her and into the arms of the least likely of suitors. She had known him as Hojou for so long that it had taken time for her to adjust – to his new name, which she had known in another life; to his new face, which caught her at odd moments, awaking a terrible sense of danger in her.
Terrible, because she loves him, and because all those moments are sharp to him, knives that not even her smiles can pull free.