Queen Kikyo watched the young merwoman before her; it was like looking into a much wilder in appearance and personality reflection. The girl's dark brown orbs watched the magnificent queen and she thumped her dark blue tail against the pearl thrown room's floors. Kikyo's eyes widened as she looked past the swim suit top and saw what was hanging from her neck. Instantly Kikyo grabbed it, her eyes doubled in size.

"Where did you get this"! Kikyo bellowed, her calm demeanor shattered, Kagome shied away slightly to avoid being deafened by the queens wrath.

"My boyfriend Inuyasha gave it to me".

"Inuyasha, gave that to you"? Kagome nodded, something in her stomach told her that it wasn't a good thing for Kikyo to know who Inuyasha was. She began laughing, a loud laugh that echoed through the water, Kagome didn't know that was possible but it killed her ears.

"I am Kikyo Shikon, ruler and queen of Shikonia, the elder sister to the lost mermaid priestesses, the most beautiful in all the seven seas, and I am also the one and only true love of Inuyasha Tanaka, and that jewel he gave you, the jewel around your neck belongs to me". Kikyo touched it with her fingertip and it exploded in a purifying violet light. She could just do that with her fingertip, it frightened Kagome what she could do if she really tried.

"I bet you anything that Inuyasha only became remotely interested in you because of your similar facial structure as my own. With the help of his tedious friends Sango and Miroku I'm sure that they were all able to dig up plenty of information on you so you'd fall in love with him, just as you are now. The lowest of the low was to give away the precious Shikon no Tama in a last resort to rid me from his mind. Face it young woman who resembles me, you are nothing to Inuyasha but a desperate attempt to hold onto the past"!

The blue tailed woman being held by security guards in front of Queen Kikyo were shocked, she held her head low, her hair shielding the powerful orbs. Kikyo presumed she was trying not to cry in pain or humiliation.

"I'll admit, your story does add up, on how I look like you, and Inuyasha's sudden interest in me, but listen your highness if you think I'm going to swim here and let you call me a relic of the past, your sorely mistaken. You see, my name is Kagome, KAH-GO-ME"! Suddenly Kikyo's satisfied smirk vanished, and her eyes turned panicked.

"Guards, take this fiend to the catacombs, it's nearly sunrise, we'll see at sundown if she dare speak to me like that"!

So that was how Kagome got into her predicament, she was chained by her wrists in a catacomb that rose above the water, so below her torso was her mermaid half, while her stomach and up was human. That's why she rested, breathing hard against the warm rock. IT was nearly noon, and she'd been out her baking to her gills as the sun rose ever achingly slow….