She finally gets to meet the rest of the gang now!!!!!!!!!

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Chapter 10

The sun was setting and the crickets could be heard rustling through the grass. The village was at peace. Men were coming back in from the fields, their sons following them. Exotic smells wafted through the narrow streets between the rush huts, the mothers and their daughters working hard fixing dinner. Many yards from the rest of the village was the village shrine. In a small hut near it lived the old miko Kaede. She was stooped over a pot in the fire pit and as she turned around she showed the patch covering her eye.

Kagome had just finished her life's tale to the attentive miko. She sat on her hutches watching the exhausted girl eat the food she had made for her. This morning she had stumbled into the village and they had brought her here. Kaede remember the poor blue eyed child that had appeared at a random couple's door. They had taken her in and then a strange hanyou had taken her away with him. She had just evaporated from their lives.

She then had appeared just suddenly a few months ago to help the village purge a demon from their midst. It had lived in the woods and she had gone out at day break and had come back before the sun had set. She was only scratched and they hadn't had any trouble from that demon since then.

"My dear child, I wish I could tell you where you had come from, but I'm afraid I do not know. You are however welcome to stay with me, for I am getting old in my age and need some young arms around here."

"Thank you Kaede. I appreciate it a lot. There is something else I wish to ask of you though." She couldn't bear to meet the old miko's eyes and see her wish turned down. "I want to train to become a miko with you. InuYasha told me that I was a powerful miko. I wasn't sure it was true for I didn't know who my parents were but Naraku confirmed it."

"My dear did you just say InuYasha?"

Kagome gave her a questioning look.

"My sister is to be mated to him. Did you meet Kikyo also?"

She was about to answer when the girl Kagome had saved from the bear Youkai yesterday burst through the door into the small hut.

"Priestess Kaede! Soldiers are approaching the village. They are Naraku's."

Kaede nodded as if she wasn't surprised. "Thank you Sango-chan. Take Kagome to the well."

"If they find you Kagome and even if you kill them all, Naraku will know exactly where you are." She answered Kagome's questioning and outraged look before she could voice it.

Kagome nodded and followed the girl out the door. They hurried down a weathered path as the sounds of the soldiers could be heard behind them entering the village. The soon came to a well.

"You go first. I will follow. Hurry!"

Kagome walked to the well and put her leg over it. She descended into the inky blackness of the well. Finding foot holes in the side and holding on to vines she finally came to the bottom of the well. Sango came soon after her. She lit a candle and Kagome could see that there was a passage that led from the well. Sango beckoned to her to follow.

They soon came to a large cavern like room that was cave like. Provisions were stacked in one corner and pallets in another. A man laid on one with a fire cat demon and a kitsune curled under his arm.

Sango walked over to him and kicked him waking him up. He sat up quickly with a yell.

"Miroku, we have company."

"Yes Sango, I can see that. Apparently you ran into trouble getting food then. For you brought no food back, but a beautiful woman."

"This is Miroku, Kagome. I advise you to ignore his prattles. They are meaningless. Don't pay him any mind. The kitsune is Shippo, an orphan." She nodded fondly towards the still snoozing kit. "That is Kirara."

Kagome nodded towards each of them. "Why are you hiding here?" She asked.

"For the same reason you are my dear. Sango comes from a long line of demon slayers and the demons decided to attack them in full force one day. Luckily Sango was not in the village at the time, but her family and friends were all killed.

I am a traveling monk with a cursed hole in my hand from a certain Naraku. The curse has been passed down to each child and will only leave my body when I have killed Naraku with it. We are all on the same team, with the same goal in mind, to kill Naraku."

"But why do you hide down here?"

"The villagers are not keen on us being here. We seem to attract unwelcomed attention." He laughed.

Kagome had moved to sit on one of the pallets to listen to Miroku and Sango kneeled to her left.

"I didn't thank you for killing the Youkai for me the other day. I was just walking when it attacked me. If I had my weapons with me I would have killed it, but I was foolish and had left them here. They are a pain to pull up out of the well all the time."

Kagome sat their taking in all the information. She felt a large hope swelling inside of her. Here there were people who had the same purpose as her. She had never known that other people besides Sesshomaru would hate Naraku as much as she did. But looking at what he had done to her new friends families and their lives were to never be normal or the same again until he was dead. She was going to do everything in her power to make sure that happened soon. Power she did have and power she was going to get very soon. She smirked imagining the look on his face. If only he could see her now planning his death, she wont be the one chained to a wall anymore.

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