Blood Iris

by Tomoko Kobayashi

Four months after the defeat of Naraku the group has gone their separate ways. Kagome has a dark new secret that might just catch the eye of a certain Demon lord, and shock her friends out of their comfort zone. A story of drabbles and such. Rating may change in the future.

10. Previous Realizations

Blood Iris.

Chapter 10.

Previous Realizations.

(Some time before.)

Kagome sat on the lip of the well, her legs dangling idly over the edge. She stared down into the black abyss. What used to contain such a massive power was now drying up. It no longer had that spark she could feel, it was almost as if the well was on the verge of dying. Tendrils of a faint blue light licked at her feet. Sadness clung to the area as the realization finally set in.

This place that held such wonderful sad memories would soon be gone.

The well was slowly closing, the jewel was complete so there was no need for its existence.

She stroked it almost in a loving manner. Sooner or later she would have to make a choice, stay there in the past, probably where she belonged or go back to the future.

For the longest time this question scared her, it haunted her every night before she'd close her eyes. It had been so long since she felt that fear. She always brushed off the feeling and went about her day ignoring the inevitable. Yet now she could not. What would she do?

Five hundred years is a long time, would she still look the same? Would she age? This she did not know. Questions without answers frustrated her, she had to be in control. Yet now she was not, and it shook her to the core.

Once more a spark inside her ignited.

Fear.

She hadn't felt it in awhile, hardly anything scared her. Kagome swallowed hard, her heart was pounding. The shell she had been claimed herself to be so many times in her mind was now aching. Her past self haunted her daily, petty human emotions still ate away at her soul.

Taking a deep breath she pushed the feelings down successfully bottling them up then finally she allowed herself to fall. Blue swirled around her figure as she timed traveled back to her origin.

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