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—Enter, Feudal Era—

When Kagome finally arrived at the shrine, she had barely managed to re-familiarize herself with her surroundings before an excited shout broke through the otherwise calm silence.

"Kagome-nee-chan!"

Kagome grunted when a dark-haired blur zoomed out of nowhere and crashed into her mid-section. "Hey, kid," she coughed out hoarsely, catching her breath. "Maa, long time no see, eh?" she murmured to her half-brother.

A couple of years after the incident in which her father died, Kagome's mother decided to move back in with her grandfather, reluctantly leaving her daughter in Konoha with a certain a silver-haired jounin.

Konoha had a different culture than the one Kira grew up with. Children were constantly orphaned, and sometimes lived on their own if there was no family to take care of them.

Kira wanted to take her daughter to Tokyo with her, she truly did. However, Kagome desperately didn't want to leave, and how could Kira strip her daughter from her deserved heritage?

Kagome was the remaining of the fallen Higurashi Clan, and had a duty to follow in her father's footsteps to become a shinobi and to restore the clan. The fates had plans for her daughter, and Konoha was where she should be.

So, when Kagome was old enough to enter the academy and after a talk with a couple of her husband's old friends, Kira decided to return to her duties at her father's shrine, where Kagome would only be able to visit once or twice a year.

Eventually, her grief subsided, and while she would always love her first husband, she decided to remarry. Then, it was only another year until she had Souta.

Unfortunately, Souta's father had died in a car accident three years after his birth.

Kira had yet to remarry since.

"I missed you Sis!"

Chuckling under her breath, she murmured a, "Missed you too," and ruffled her brother's hair, grinning wider at his indignant yelps, before looking up. Her grin turned to a soft smile at the sight of her mother in the doorway.

"Hey, Mama."

o.O.o

"So…" Kira murmured contemplatively, hands gently smoothing across the scroll. "You'll be here from now on?

Kagome gave an outrageous pout coupled with a hurt sniffle. "Sounds like you don't want me here, Mama."

Kira rolled her eyes. "Stop being cheeky," she muttered, shaking her head in amusement. "I'm just confused. What kind of mission would you find here in Tokyo of all places?"

Kagome shrugged. "Who knows? I was told to follow the scroll to the letter."

"Speaking of which," Kira murmured, eyeing her daughter's appearance skeptically with a hint of exasperation. "What's with the henge?"

Kagome ducked her head, hiding wicked smile. "Maa, it said I had to look the part of a fifteen year old – don't look at me."

Kira snorted in disbelief. "Darling, not many fifteen year olds look like that," she commented dryly, eyeing her torso meaningfully.

Kagome tried to keep her expression serious, but nothing could hide the impish glint in her eyes. "Well, if I can't use my abilities in front of people, I figured I might as well take what I can get."

Kira shook her head in amusement, "Careful, though, it might get you more unwanted attention than you bargained for," she warned, before her eyes flickered back down to the scroll and she bit her lip. "Anyway, I… I think I recognize the scroll… and…" she paused, eyes widening. "It would make sense," she muttered under her breath.

Kagome's eyebrows furrowed. "Er, mind filling me in?"

Kira's eyes flickered to her daughter. "Earlier when you were younger, before you could possibly remember, you showed signs of possessing miko-ki. Your father threw himself into research to find anything he could, in case it reacted negatively with your Seishigan and your other abilities."

With ease, Kagome's eyes shifted, blue orbs shifting into lilac and her pupils tapering into a diamond shape of deep blue before shifting back. "Works fine."

Kira nodded absently. "Which was a relief when we found out. But I recognize this scroll from around that time, and if that is the case, then that could only mean that this mission is about your purification abilities."

Kagome leaned back into the sofa. "I guess that explains why I was sent to the shrine then, and why I'm not allowed to use my shinobi abilities save for training," she mused, before sighing. "Now I just have to wait."

Her mother beamed at her daughter. "Well, it will be lovely to have you here all the same – I've missed you dearly, and I missed out on so much of you growing up," she said brightly as she rolled up the scroll with a snap. "In the meantime, we can take advantage of you being here with sending you to school!"

Kagome froze, paling. "School – you mean civilian school?" she choked out slowly. "Maa, maa! But – I just graduated the academy! I need to work on my training! I can't fall behind!"

Kira waved her daughter off. "Oh, don't worry so much. You're not a lazy girl – you'll have plenty of time to train after school lets out. Besides, this might be good for you – call it a new experience… to broaden your horizons!"

Kagome pouted, having a feeling that her mother had already decided and there was no way to avoid this. "You just don't want to give me too much time to train so I don't destroy the shrine grounds… I said last time was an accident!" she whined defensively, "And I did fix all the holes!"

Kira only smiled benignly. "My dear, I haven't the slightest idea of what you're talking about!"

Kagome deflated, muttering under her breath. "Yeah, I'm sure…"

o.O.o

Kagome couldn't put in words how much she despised civilian school. It was pointless, it was boring, and a pain in her ass.

The worse part? The math.

The. Math.

Kagome had it in mind that whoever created calculus was a sadistic bastard and did so with the intent on sucking the souls of anyone unlucky enough to learn it.

But, Kagome was strong. She was resilient. She could endure the evil ministrations and soul sucking that was calculus until her mission was done and –oh, dear Kami – please, please! When will the mission start? The sooner she knew, the sooner she could finish it!

"Sis! Hey, Sis!"

Kagome, half dressed in her school uniform which inspired only disgust at the perverts that were the school officials who created such a thing, looked up at Souta's voice which came from outside.

Shimmying into her skirt before slipping on a pair of skin-tight under armor shorts to protect her dignity as well as her ass from the breeze, Kagome grabbed her shoes and padded barefoot towards the window. Pushing them open, she stuck her head through and searched for her brother.

Her eyebrows furrowed at the sight of him by the well-house. "What's up?"

"It's Buyo!" Souta called out, eyebrows furrowed in worry. "He fell down the well!"

Kagome's head tilted. "Then why aren't you-" She cut herself off at the sight of her half-brother fidgeting nervously, a bit shamefaced.

'He's… scared?'

Mentally shaking her head, Kagome climbed out the window, shutting the panels, and leapt down with ease. She jogged over to her brother, smiling fondly at the awe in his eyes. "I'll go rescue the kitty in distress," she told him, ruffling his hair and easily dodging his indignant swipe. 'Like a 'D' mission, 'cept I don't get paid,' she mused wryly.

Souta ducked his head, eyes on the ground. "Be careful – I heard some weird noises," he warned, fidgeting slightly uneasily.

Kagome smiled comfortingly. "Maa, no worries! It's probably just Buyo chasing a mouse or something," she waved off, winking confidently.

Oh, how wrong she was.

o.O.o

Kagome knew demons were real. They weren't the stuff of fairy-tales.

For fuck's sake, there was a whole country named after them, and another that housed them. And besides, she had to have miko-ki for some reason, right?

But Kagome had never, not once in her life, had ever seen one with her very own eyes.

And now, on her twelfth birthday, she was attacked by some crazy, ugly, beast of a centipede that had hid in the bottom of the well, screaming about some stupid piece of jewelry or what not.

She had five thoughts about this whole thing.

'Some birthday present,' was number one.

'At least Buyo got out unscathed,' was number two. 'Stupid cat…' was, of course, number three.

'Why in the hell was a demon sealed in the bottom of a well of all things, and why did no one say anything?'was number four.

And number five: 'No kunai, no shuriken, no weapons at all, and this thing got a grip on me like none other so no ninjutsu at that – I'm screwed if she tries to take a bite out of me!'

And that was when her hands found purchase on one of the many arms of the centipede and began to glow pink. The aforementioned arm was then riddled into fine dust before she was enveloped in a blue light and vanished from Tokyo, Japan with just one, lingering thought in mind.

'Well, at least things are getting interesting…'

o.O.o

The ride into the Feudal Era was a rough one.

As the centipede demon shot out of the well screeching, Kagome landed onto the floor of the well with a grunt, a huge demon bone jabbing right into her ass cheek. Jarred, she blinked at the size of some of the bones before she grumbled and stood up.

It was only when she looked up that she noticed something off.

'Huh. No roof.'

Blinking, Kagome dusted herself off. "Did that stupid demon blast off the roof or someth – oh fuck!"

'The demon! Souta!'

Not wasting any time, Kagome leapt out of the well, smoothly landing to the ground and into a lazy fighting stance, eyes bright and alert, before she stumbled in blatant shock.

"What. The fuck."

Kagome took in her surroundings.

There was no Souta. There was no demon.

There wasn't even a shrine.

Her environment was composed solely of trees as far as she naturally see: tons and tons of trees that reminded her starkly of the forests outside of Konoha.

"Okay," Kagome breathed out slowly. "This is probably not good."

After a moment of indecision, she decided to tread into the forest, eying a trail of worn grass that lead from the well into the forest.

Feeling no one in the near vicinity watching her, Kagome took to the trees and steadied herself on one of the limbs.

The scroll - her instructions said that she was to keep her status as a nin a secret if she could manage it.

Which meant no leaping from tree branch to tree branch if she could help it. No using her kunai or shuriken, her ninjustu, taijutsu, or genjutsu. Not even her Seishigan; at least, not in front of anybody anyways - and not unless she had no choice otherwise at that.

At first, she figured it was just because most were unaware of ninjas in parts like Tokyo.

However, with the presence of demons and her mother mentioning the her miko-ki having to be the reason behind her father's scroll, Kagome had a feeling that her miko abilities were at the focus of this mission - to find more about them, to explore the possibilities with them - and that her shinobi skill would only interfere with whatever she had to do.

If that was the case, Kagome didn't mind, really; it would be interesting to see what having miko abilities meant – how far she could take it.

She didn't know much, never bothered since there wasn't a reason to when demons weren't really a problem around Konoha. She didn't even know she could do that nifty trick that blew that centipede's arm off until it happened.

Besides, if she wanted to learn more about being a priestess, she would have to leave Konoha, possibly go to Demon Country since that was the only place she knew to find an active priestess, but since she was set on becoming a kunoichi first, that was not going to happen anytime soon.

'So, I can activate the ki in times of stress, or panic. It's there, I felt the energy.' Kagome sighed, annoyed. 'The only way I know how to ease access to energy is through mediation, and that's just for chakra. I hate meditating.'

But now was her chance. Maybe she could even incorporate it into a jutsu.

She just wondered how her father knew that this would happen.

The Higurashi were strategic mind readers – not glorified fortune tellers. They couldn't predict the future.

But maybe he didn't know. Maybe he suspected. Maybe he heard or saw a prophecy.

Who knew?

Kagome had her mission either way – she just needed to know what it was.

Without another thought, she leapt to another branch, and another, following where the worn path would take her.

Hopefully she'd get some answers as to where the hell she was.


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And so, Kagome's 'mission' begins lol. It may seem fast-paced – probably cause it is. I want to get back to Konoha asap, lol.

Which is why I'm not going into detail about the Feudal Era. The next chapter will be the last, since I never planned on changing much, but after that it's back to Konoha, Naruto, Sasuke, and Kakashi! XD

Till laters!

RainLily^^

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Ims-Oh, nice question ims! Hmm, that's kind of the point, don't you think? Well, not to say that the Hokage per say has a double standard, but there is one present, I guess. The point I'm trying to get across is that, he wants to help Naruto. I perceive him, as the Hokage as well as with his character, as a man who'd want to help all of his villagers. Sadly, that's just not possible, so he does what he can without showing favoritism he may or may not have. For Naruto, it's enacting the laws that he believes will make him safe and allow him a semi-normal childhood, and a round the clock ANBU detail. For Kagome, it's also giving her protection – not because she's the last of her clan, but she seriously needs it. I'd also like to say the Hokage didn't just up and decide to send Kakashi to go give her training. Kira, her mother who is not a ninja, put in a mission request for protection as well as training monitoring. I explained why in the last couple of chapters. Kakashi, with his Sharingan, was deemed the most suitable for the request.

Kagome is given special treatment, because she is in a special circumstance, like Naruto and Sasuke both, and because they are all in different special circumstances, I don't think it's really fair to compare them. In any case, I see their treatment as not pampered, per say, but a logical cause and effect reaction to what occurred. There's a bigger picture here that I believe you're missing. While, yes, their status as heir and heiress of their clans play a part in how they are treated, there are multiple, equally important, factors that contribute. I'd also like to point out that I have neither confirmed nor denied that Kagome spends time with the Sannin on the weekends or whatever, lol. I showed a picture. A picture. A picture can mean a thousand things, but it may not be what you think! ;) Thank you for the review by the way!