Sitting in her bathtub is Kagome Higurashi, she has the warm water up to her lips and is pondering intently about the events of the last couple of weeks. At the start of the quest she didn't think that anything could be worse than being stuck in time 500 years ago, in the Sengoku Jidai, wich is depicted as a chaotic and unstable time in her history books. She was sadly wrong, she.. as Inuyasha put it, 'fucked up'.
It was the need to see her brother, mother and grandfather that drive her to walk alone to the well that day, she went with Inuyasha the day before and the dry well seemed as innocuous as always, it contained the remains of the centipede but it had no answers for her, still it was her only lead, so she convince herself to give it another try the next morning.
Flashback
Inuyasha was nowhere to be seen and Kaede had gone out when Kagome woke up. The first thought that came to her mind that day was her home. I climbed out of there, so it should have a clue about how to get home right?. She searched the village for Inuyasha and lastly she decided to go by herself, on the way there she was feeling a little uneasy, when out of nowhere a group of bandits kidnaped her. Oh no, no no. Inuyasha where are you?.
The bandits took her to an abandoned looking hut and show her to their leader, a larger than normal guy. He was trying to take the jewel for her, and she distinctly remember thinking: that's it, this is the life i will have now, running away from bad men, bad youkai and dancing almost everyday with death. The man turn out to be inhabited by a corpse crow that Inuyasha referred as nasty vermin. He attacked the thing and saved her that day, again. She was SO in debt with him but he made it so difficult to be grateful, he called her stupid, useless.. and worst of all he was expecting that Kikyo's mighty powers just were accessible to her, of course as soon as she tried to shoot an arrow, the plan failed miserably and Inuyasha ditch her.
End flashback
"i didn't know that Inuyasha's time could be so violent" she sighed. As she continue to ponder over the matter. Then she started to tear up a little, normally she was a very strong and self assured person but he was her savior and she didn't get why he was so rude and irritable with her, she would try to get to know him now that they were in this quest together.. oh yes the thing that she screwed up..
After saving a child from the river and being called unfairly a sea monster, Kagome made the biggest mistake she.. surely.. would make in all of her years on this planet. She broke the Sacred Jewel, she broke it in about 1000000 pieces that scatter all over the land. That was it, she was chained to that place for the long run, she would not run away from the responsibility for she saw what power the jewel give the ones that use it, but still she couldn't bring herself to accept this task with happiness.
Some of the reticence came from having to do the task with Inuyasha, he was so selfish and childish, when Kaede told the both of them what the quest was going to be, he accepted the fact quite quickly, maybe because that bid him time to steal the one fragment of the shikon no tama they found, she didn't know for sure but she decided that if she was gonna spend so much time with him, she was gonna have to know him and maybe even like him. He was her knight in shining armor after all. She smiled at the thought, he was a very rude obnoxious knight but he was so fearless and he save her life. She would definitely try to speak to him about feelings tho, a thing he didn't seem to do much. After the placement of the prayer beads he was calm and less impulsive, maybe it was the fact that he was pinned in that tree for so long that make him anxious and irritable, she didn't have a clue on where to start to know him, but she was going to try with all her might to be friends with Inuyasha.
After she came out of the bathroom and put on her pajamas, Kagome Higurashi lay in bed, she was talking on the phone with her friends, it was the time of year to take college applications and Kagome failed to decide which career she would like to choose, so she skipped the whole thing entirely to take a leap year and think over things. Her friends will be attending different schools so they talked excitedly to her about all the process and she felt rather tired of it. She was happy for them but this topic was the only one they wanted to talk about, she didn't blame them, it was a big deal, but all the talk just remind her of her failures. That was another good thing about the feudal era, as soon as she jump onto the well all of her 'future' problems stay behind and the quest was the only thing on her mind. That among other things such as the beautiful clean night sky and the fact that there were fantastic beast made her want to return over and over. And of course there was Inuyasha.
After the fight when Yura, the hair demon, attacked the village and Inuyasha & Kagome defeated her, Kagome was pretty sure the deal with him will work out. She kind of compensated his toughness by being alert and thinking quickly, of course she will try to practice her spiritual powers, if she had any, and become more useful. In the meantime, Kagome understood that she could trust Inuyasha, he gave her his fire rat robe and got hurt because of it but since he was hanyou he recovered quickly and never mentioned to her the fact that he helped her. It was as if helping her came second nature to him. She of course didn't knew many youkai but the ones she came across seemed to be evil oriented, Inuyasha was a hanyou, maybe that means that he has a human heart right?, maybe that's why he wanted to help correct her mistake.. she hoped that Inuyasha wouldn't let her down.