Chapter Seven:
The villagers all stared at Kagome, the strangely dressed miko. The men that decided come back to where they had separated from her looked at her in awe. They wondered how a young girl, her size took care of a demon that was plaguing them for months. The man from before voiced his thoughts, "Honorable Miko, How did you vanquish that horrible demon from the west that has been plaguing our and may villages around here?" Kagome stared at the man, forgetting that she was supposed to rid the village of the Lord Inu Daimyo.
Kagome thought of what she had told the demon lord. How was she going to find a safe place for his mate, Izayoi and the unborn Inuyasha. "Miko… Umm… Miko? Are you okay Miko?" asked a few of the villagers. Kagome came back from her thoughts. "We don't need to talk about the incident with the demon. Do we?" Asked the young miko. With that she began to return to the village that she knew in the distance future. All the villagers that were to accompanying her stood in her wake staring at her. Kagome didn't let her thoughts bother her on the short walk to the village. She stared at the women and children that couldn't make head or tail of her.
Kagome walked to the village leader and asked about any empty huts that she could use for the time being. "My honorable guest, there is always a place for you to stay. Would you like to stay with myself? I have a large hut with plenty of room." "Sorry, but according to my pass experiences, I will need my own hut to stay in. But I thank you for the offer humbly." With that the village leader asked one of the villagers that came back with Kagome to find her a suitable hut with anything she may need. The man then started to search for the perfect hut for the single young lady.
About twenty minutes later, the man arrived back to where the group had been and asks Kagome to follow him to the hut to see if it was suitable for her, Kagome simply followed the man as he brought her to the outskirts of the village towards the river. There was a hut that looks brand new but Kagome realized that she had spent many nights in it during her time with Inuyasha. It was Kaede's hut. Kagome continued toward the hut; once inside the hut, Kagome felt like she was home again, safe and not alone. "Does this hut work for you miko?" asked the men that searched for the hut. "Yes, thank you. Please can you call me Kagome though?" asked Kagome. "With pleasure, mi- I mean, Kagome-sama. Is there anything that you may need other than shelter? Clothes? Food?" asked the man waiting for some sort of order from the honored guest. "Is there anyway I can have some robes preferable miko robes if there are any and also maybe some rice and fish for food today?" asked Kagome. The man simply went to work getting what Kagome wanted. Kagome begun to arrange the hut how it was in the time era, that Inuyasha was there in. She moved three mats around made sure that the large pot that were used for cooking food and also making medicine was in the exact place it was in according to her memory of the hut.
Once the man came back, which seemed like hours to Kagome, he brought a small bag of rice, three large fish that were already gutted, scaled and ready for cooking, which Kagome was thankful for, and a red kimono that Kagome found somewhat familiar to her. It looked like the same Kimono that she always saw Kikyo wearing and the few times that she had wore it herself. "Thank you so much. I can't believe that your village had miko's clothing. Has a miko ever lived here?" asked Kagome thinking of the times that she had talked to the elderly priestess about the villages past not remembering if she had told of a miko before Kikyo and Kagome. "We hoped that there would be one born among the village's children but there has never been one yet." said the man. "Thank you sir. I think I am all set." Said Kagome who had a lot to think about. The man left Kagome saying that she didn't have to walk him out.
So Kikyo was the first miko from this village that's why she has been so highly regarded, when I was there and Kaede was from the same family. "What am I going to do about Inuyasha though?" Kagome questioned out loud. "His father is suppose to be killed, trying to save Inuyasha and his mother. That is something I can't change even if I wished it." Kagome remembered the stories Inuyasha had told her about growing up with his mother without his father and how the deaths of his parents affected him still. Kagome thought about the time that when their was a demon that looked like a beautiful women, similar to the princesses of the old times, the though made Kagome want to go home, thinking about how Inuyasha wanted to be with his mother so much that he would be absorbed by another demon weakened Kagome's thoughts of how she has to allow his parents to die.
Kagome decided that she would think about something else. How would she help Inu Daimyo and Izayoi? Maybe the villagers would aloe them to stay here. She would have to speak to the village leader about it. Also she had to figure out away back to Inuyasha's time, and her own time. Maybe she would go to the bones eater's well tomorrow morning and check it out with that thought, Kagome begun to prepare herself a meal with the supplies the villagers supplied her.
Kagome roasted one of the fish, that was giving to her, Along with that Kagome made some rice and prepared some hot water for tea, which she found a set of tea cups and some tea leaves in the corner of the hut that looked like a small cupboard made from the building of the hut.
Kagome ate her meal in silence. She wasn't used to being alone. Normally, there was always fighting between Shippo and Inuyasha. The sudden sound of a smack across Miroku's face from him getting to close to Sango's behind. Or Kagome's fondest memories of Inuyasha fighting with her and her yelling, "Sit boy." Hearing Inuyasha crashing into the ground due to his beads that he wore. After Kagome finished her meal, she made her way to the river with a hand bucket, so she would wash her dishes upon her return.
Kagome might have felt relieved being in Kaede's hut that day. But once the sun had gone down, she wasn't so pleased by it. She had never slept anywhere alone. No matter where she was there was always with her family or her friends, from her time or Inuyasha's with her. Half way through the night, Kagome finally fell asleep. Only to be awoken by a presence, she was kind of familiar with. But why would he be here? Thought Kagome.
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Inuyasha had been running until the sun and moon had been through four rotations. But still, he was no closer to finding Naraku. He had some how lost, the poisonous wasp, that where Naraku's minions. He had been searching for any trace of the annoying insects. Inuyasha only found Kikyo's soul collectors, in which, he avoided meeting the dead miko, for the first time since she was brought back by the witch.
"Sorry, Kikyo. Kagome is more important right now." Said Inuyasha. He never thought that he would be saying that to her first love, but he did and worse he didn't feel bad about it.
Inuyasha slowly began to realize that Kagome was replacing Kikyo, in his life. He didn't know how this was happening just that it was. He had never thought about Kagome so much in his life. She had helped him so much and she had even saved his life a few times. But he couldn't focus on there things. He had to find her and then figure what was happening to her feelings.
Inuyasha continued for another day, to the east which was the last direction, the wasps were heading. When he couldn't find anything that would help find Kagome. With this knowledge, Inuyasha began to head toward he left his group.
Sango decided that after two days of waiting, that they should begin moving again. They began to head for the south, figuring that was the way Inuyasha might of headed. Or they might even meet up with him or a trace of him. Miroku begun to think of places in the south that might be hiding Naraku's castle. Without any success, he couldn't think of anywhere. Shippo just cried until he fell asleep. He had been abandoned not once but twice by his parents. They traveled all over the southern domain but found no trace of Inuyasha, Kagome or the one they weren't concerned with for once, Naraku.
Once Inuyasha arrived back at the campsite, his group was no where to be found. "What the hell!" yelled Inuyasha. "Why is everyone disappearing?" Should I wait or continue myself? Thought the hanyou. He decided that he would rest one complete day and then he would move on to look in the southern area.
"Sango, My love. What id Inuyasha comes back when we are gone?" asked Miroku from the back of Kirara. Sango turned her head to talk to the Monk, she hadn't really thought about that possibility. "We can head back in a day. It will take us about two days to return to the campsite in the western lands."
"Do you think Inuyasha will wait where ever he is? Or rush in if he found Naraku?" asked the innocent kitsune. The demon slayer and monk hadn't realized that Shippo had awoken during their conversation.
By the time, they prepared a campsite, they hadn't found any trace of the two hanyous that were missing, Inuyasha and Naraku, and the only human among them, was their missing miko friend, Kagome. The next morning, the two humans and two demons, made their way back west when Inuyasha made his way to the south.
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I am so sorry about the wait. I got kind of sick and could really write never mind type. I am truly sorry to though that enjoy reading my story. I am going to hopefully start the next chapter with in the day and hopefully I will have it up but Friday but no promises, I am going to be working the next ten days in a row. Please read and review like always. And thank you all. ^.^
