Chapter One
Kagome storms out of the field. The tears are let loose as she runs at full tilt towards the well. Her heart hammers against her ribcage, her lungs feel to full, and her long hair whips around her in a storm of onyx. She carelessly forgot her bow, along with her arrows, back with the group. Kagome just feels tired of waiting for him, Inuyasha, to see error to his ways.
'He'll be mad…' she thinks to herself as she enters the open pasture when the Bone Eater's Well waits in the center.
She shakes her head and runs to the old, wooden, contraption. She falls to her knees and she grips the edge with shaky hands. She then rests her forehead against the edge as she chokes back a sob.
She grits her teeth as she pushes herself to her feet. Her long hair waves around her in the wind. She then turns her dark eyes to the well as she then leaps inside.
The magic flares to life around her. The blue lights open up and swallow her in a comforting light. Then, within seconds, her feet hit the ground once more.
She looks up to see the ceiling of the wellhouse. She quickly climbs the later and leaves the building to see that the shrine is quiet. Her senses are suddenly filled with horror as realization surrounds her.
She dashes for her home. She wrenches the door open and storms inside. She then calls out, "Mama, Grandpa, Souta!?"
No one answers her desperate call. She runs to the backroom and then she takes the stairs three at a time. She enters the hall and runs to her brother's room.
She opens the door to see a neatly made bed. The same goes for all the other rooms in the house. She then knows that something is wrong.
Her senses scream out a warning. She is able to feel a demonic aura in the air, outside the shrine in the city, and she can also feel her family near it. She then rushes at full speed out of the house, across the shrine, and down the endless flight of stairs.
A few people call out her name and she just lets it fall behind her. The demon's power seems to grow, smothering her own, as she closes in on it. She turns a corner to find the location of the demon's energy.
It's the hospital.
She dashes into the building, paying no heed to the calls of the workers, and sprints into the stairwell. She makes her way up and she feels herself pass into a barrier, made by the demon, and then she's in the hallway. She then makes her way to the room where it is coming from.
She finds herself in the room looking at the most unlikely person. A demon, one that seems to be flickering in appearance, turns to look at her. Then it fades away and leaves her family looking at her with shock on their faces.
Her mother is crying. Her brother is sitting on the side of the bed next to her grandpa. Kagome walks towards them and they look at her.
"Is he…alive?" she finds herself asking with a tone devoid of emotion.
"No…" her mother's voice is soft as she watches her only child bottle her emotions up.
"I'm sorry, Kagome." She says and her brother moves to hug his older sister.
The young woman hugs him back. Her raven hair falls around them and tears trail down her cheeks. She then says, "Why was the demon here?"
"Kagome, what are you talking about?" her mother asks in a surprised tone.
"A demon was just here. It was transparent." The teen answers her mother.
"Kagome, it's alright. I know that this is hard for you." Her mother says.
"No, this isn't alright!" Kagome screams as she backs away.
"Sis…" she hears Souta whisper as he watches her retreat.
Kagome turns and retreats. She quickly runs from the hospital and no one tries to stop her. She quickly dashes down the street with her tears falling behind her.
Her mind is reeling in confusion, is pain, and she finds herself running back up the stairs to the shrine. She dashes into the house and goes to her room. With quick, hurried, movements she packs her bag.
She scribbles out a note telling her mom and brother that she is returning to the past. She includes saying that she'll hurry to finish the Shikon no Tama. Then that she will be back.
She pulls the new, black, bag onto her back. She's packed food, clothes, and other things into it for the much longer stay in the past. Then, within ten minutes, she's leaping back down the well.
She lands on the other side of the well, in the past, and she makes her way out of the well. She sits on the grass with her things sitting next to her. Her head is bowed as a chocked sob turns into hysterical crying.
A wind, hot and wild, blows her hair back. Her scent is taken on the wind. Her pain is radiating out of her small, frail, body.
Kagome wipes her eyes as she hears, "Mama!?"
The next instant Shippo is in her arms. She wraps her own arms around him as she continues to cry as her sister, Sango, and her brother, Miroku, run up to her as well. They stand there in surprise at the sight.
The monk's eyes widen as his dark purple eyes watch in surprise. He kneels down next to the girl and runs his hand along her back. Sango does the same as she embraces her adopted to her chest as she continues to cry.
"Kagome-sama, what's wrong?" Miroku asks as he strokes her back.
"G-grand-grandpa is d-dead!" she sobs out and Sango's eyes widen.
"Mama, please don't cry…" Shippo whispers as he hugs her stomach, or attempts to.
"Kagome-chan, I'm so sorry." Sango whispers softly as she strokes her friend's hair.
"Keh, what is all this blubbering about!?" a gruff voice snaps out and Kagome looks up to see Inuyasha walking towards them.
"Inuyasha!!!" the raven-haired woman screams as she jerks to her feet.
Inuyasha stumbles back in surprise. For the first time he truly sees her spiritual powers flowing out of her body. Anger, pain, and sorrow explode from her body in a violet glow as she starts to scream, "Sit, sit, sit, SIT, SIT, and SIT!!!!"
The beads around his neck, the fanged rosary, glow in response to her command. He finds himself slamming into the ground with neck-breaking force on the fist 'sit.' The others then notice Kikyo standing in the shade of the trees with a lot of horror and surprise on her face.
"How DARE you!!! How dare you make me this mad! I should SIT you to death, you damn dog!!!" Kagome screams and Inuyasha meets with the ground again.
"I am tired of your lying! I'm tired of you orders! I'm tired of being called wretch, bitch, and any other name you call me!!!" she continues to scream.
"Oh god, she's going to kill him!" Shippo declares in horror as her aura turns from violet to blazing crimson, surrounding her in power, and then lifting her hair.
Miroku runs forward and slams into her back. Sango runs and blokes the now furious Inuyasha from her sister as Shippo looks on. Sango then says to the hanyou, "Inuyasha, this in NOT the time for a fight! Kagome just lost her grandfather!"
Inuyasha's eyes widen in surprise and then to grief. Kagome is still putting up a fight, her power now forced back by the monk who is sitting on her back, and her movements are turning sluggish. Yet, they still cannot seem to calm her done.
They all are surprised by her sudden use of power. Sango has only seen demons with red aura; just Kagome's got so intense that it turned red and blue. It is then that Kikyo walks in to look down at her reincarnation.
The dead miko looks down at the younger girl. Her lifeless eyes, a dark brown, meet the now blue eyes of the younger girl. Kikyo then says, "Kagome, I see that your powers have breached the shield of the Shikon no Tama."
They all watch as Kagome's eyes turn from blue to a light brown once again. She seems much more tired as she lays her head on the ground. It is then that Miroku lifts her up and they carry the now unconscious girl to the village.
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So much for chapter one. I'll update again soon, so wait and read what I put out. Leave a message in 'reviews' if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer...that is...if it won't ruin the rest of the story for other readers.
