A/N: Thank you to all the amazing reviewers! Your kind words and suggestions even thoughts on how the story pans out mean so much to me and keep me going! Thank you all! This is more so a filler chapter but it is one that starts putting things into place for the plot to shimmer nicely 3

Chapter Seven: Break

Kagome trudged through the white powdery snow as she journeyed home, she couldn't shake her tutor from her mind. He sounded like he knew something she didn't, and the looks that flashed across his face at times confused her. The conversation had taken an interesting turn just to be ended anti-climatically. Turning back she ran clumsily through the deep snow back to school to confront him again before she lost her nerve. She stopped abruptly when she felt something she hadn't felt for awhile it was like a lightning bolt had hit her, she felt a demonic aura. She looked up to where it was and saw someone she didn't expect to ever see again flying above her school.

Sesshomaru in a modern day dress shirt and pants on his demonic cloud, soaring upward up into the dark clouds and it looked like he hadn't seen her.

Then as quick as she had felt the aura and seen a quick glimpse of the demon, he was gone leaving only the dark snow clouded sky to her view. Rushing back to the school she had seen the demon fly away from, she tore back into her history classroom. The tutor was gone already, why did that not surprise her? What in the seven circles of hell was going on here? Was her tutor in league with Sesshomaru? Is that why she got the feeling he knew more than he was willing to say? How was Sesshomaru here? Did that mean the well was working? That had to be it, as from the glance she got he didn't look like he had aged at all, even for a demon 500 years is a long time so surely he would have aged slightly. She darted out of the classroom and tore through the snow to get home, hope was bubbling up inside her as she saw the shrine grow closer and closer to her as she ran. She had fallen into the snow a few times and was soaked but she ran on, hoping against hope. What if she could see them again, see him again. If there was a chance she would take it. She sprinted up the snow covered shrine steps and tore into the well house and without thought she jumped.

"Kagome?"
"KAGOME!"


She awoke to a bright light shining through her eyelids, opening them slowly she realised they were bright fluorescent lights, the type you found in hospital. Opening her eyes further she saw her leg plastered up and propped up in a sling to keep it upright. The small room smelt like bleach and rubber gloves, and the walls were plain white, she was in hospital alright.
"Kagome you are awake!"
"Mom? What am I doing here?"
"Souta found you in the well house unconscious. When you jumped you had broken your leg and knocked yourself out. So we had to get the neighbours to help pull you out telling them you had fallen in, and we brought you here. Kagome what were you thinking?" Her mother exclaimed voice filled with worry and laced in pain.
"I just, I had just hoped." Kagome whispered brokenly.
"Kagome, you told me yourself the well closed and you can't go back. What made you think today was any different?"
"I don't know."
"Kagome."
"Mom please I just had hoped today was different okay!"
"I know you care for them, more so InuYasha, but the well is closed Kagome. It was unfair for life to allow you to make such great bonds only for them to be separated by time. But Kagome count it as a blessing also, that you got the chance to meet them and make memories. But remember memories are part of our past, not our future and constantly dwelling in a memory of a time long gone is dangerous. You seriously injured yourself out of hope and a memory. Kagome please, hold your memories in your heart and move on, before you hurt yourself even more!"
Kagome closed her eyes trying to drown out her mother's words. She had felt so sure that seeing him was a sign. A sign she could go back and be with the one she loved. Hope had failed her, she would never hope again.


A week they had kept her in the tiny room. Nurses came in smiling, asking her how she was feeling and if she needed pain relief. Her family visited, sometimes her friends and of course Hojo. She was gifted with flowers, chocolates and soft toys but what she really wanted no-one could give her. She had thought she was doing well, until seeing Sesshomaru a vision of the past she desperately wanted to be in had shown up in her time. Was she crazy, did she really even see him? No, she did. She had felt his aura as well as having seen him. There was no doubt. As the week went on she found herself to be more and more determined to speak with her history tutor and get to the bottom of why Sesshomaru was in her time and how he got there. More importantly did he have a way for her to return to the feudal era? A passage that meant she could reside between the two times so she didn't have to leave her family or the man she loved behind? That would be the greatest gift life could truly give her.


Kagome hobbled awkwardly out of the car, her mother had brought her home from the hospital, but although she was healing well she had to keep the cast on for six more weeks and trying to walk with it was impossible. Worse, she had to use crutches to aid her.
"Here dear." Kagome's mother handed her the crutches and helped her daughter get her footing.
Kagome groaned as she made her way slowly into her family home, Souta had rushed out and had held the door open for her.
"Thanks." She murmured as she stepped inside.
"Kagome, welcome home dear girl!"
"Thanks Grandpa." Kagome said as she made her way to the stairs to head to her room. Her grandfather shot his daughter in law a look and she shook her head slightly at him.
No it did not seem like Kagome was okay, not in the slightest.


"Dear are you sure you are well enough to go to school tomorrow?"
"Yes Mom, I am. I've already had a week off, I'm feeling fine." Kagome sighed as her mother had come to bid her goodnight.
"Alright dear, call if it gets too much and ill come and get you. For now get some rest, must be nice to be back in your own bed."
"It is."
"Kagome, are you going to be okay?" Her mother asked her voice heavy with concern.
Her daughter then flashed her mother a look of pure determination. Kagome after having a week to think almost non-stop and now knew what it was she had to do now. She had to find Sesshomaru and find out how to get to the feudal era. She had a mission and a purpose and she planned to see it through, either that or she would die trying. Sesshomaru hated humans, he would not hesitate to kill her. Giving her mother a bright smile she answered;
"Yes mother, I know what it is that I must do now."
'There is the Kagome I have missed.' Yasuo thought as she gave her daughter a bright smile.


'Damn it!' The figure in the richly decorated room paced angrily. 'I didn't think she would turn back to head back to the school grounds. Or else I wouldn't have exposed myself so.' Sighing then placing its face on the cool window pane golden eyes looked at the snow covered ground. 'She was doing so well, distracted from the most part of her hurt and pain and then I miscalculated and she seeing what she did set her back and the stupid girl injured herself! Maybe the time has come sooner than planned, to reveal myself to her.'