Kagome was in front of the mirror looking at herself to see how she looked like. She was getting ready to go to the concert that Asagi invited her to go with a couple of old friends. She smirked, satisfied with how she looked. She wore a tank top and really short shorts matched with thigh high boots, all in black. Her hair was in waves and her make up was perfect. Her eye liner made her eyes look bigger and suggestive and her lips were painted red like blood. She looked so hot that the men in the concert was going to melt down for sure. Maybe she could even go home with one of them if any of them was lucky enough. She tilted her head. 'I don't think any of them can compare to him, though.' Katy Perry was right when she said: 'Comparisons are easily done once you've had a taste of perfection.'
She was debating whether the lipstick was too much when her mother suddenly dashed into her room.
"Kagome!"
"What the hell, Mom? How many times do I have to tell you to knock first?" She placed her hands on her hips, frustrated.
"I know dear and I'm sorry. I wouldn't have done it if it wasn't urgent."
"What happened?"
"Your friend, Inuyasha, is here. He says you have to go back right away." Her mother told her.
"What!?" She gently pushed her mother out of the way and hurried to the living room where Inuyasha was torturing her cat. Again. "Inuyasha, sit!"
Inuyasha had to let go out the cat as he kissed the ground. "What did you do that fo-" He suddenly came to a stop when he saw Kagome. His jaw almost hit the floor. Fortunately Kagome was too angry to realise.
"What are you doing here, Inuyasha? Aren't you supposed to be resting right now?" She practically yelled at the half demon which caused him to snap out of his daze.
"It ain't my fault that I'm the only one able to pass through the well! And I really can't rest while there is a crazy wench who's attacking the god damn village!" He snaped back.
Kagome frowned. "What crazy wench?" She asked and ignored her mother when she told her to watch her language.
"I don't know. She just appeared out of no where and started attacking. We tried to stop her but god damn she's strong and I can't do much with these injuries. Miroku and Sango told me to come and get you while they were holding her off."
Kagome nodded. "We should hurry then. Let's go." She hurried to the door where she left staff and her bag and grabbed them before they went out.
"Kagome! What about the concert?" Her mother called after her.
She stopped for a second. "Tell Asagi that I got sick and that it's contagious. Also, tell her I'm sorry, too. Bye!" She said and they started running.
They were back in the feudal era within a minute. They quickly climbed out of the well. She could feel the radiating from the village. When they arrived at the village, she saw Miraku and Sango were still fighting back but they were both exhausted. Kagome looked at the attacker. She seemed like normal young woman. She was wearing a torn kimono and had brown hair that was pulled up in a ponytail.
The girl got ready for another attack and launched toward the monk and the demon slayer but she crashed into an invisible barrier instead. Hard.
"Kagome! Inuyasha!" Sango exclaimed.
"Thank God, you're back!" Miroku said. They were both breathing heavily.
While the young girl was trying to gather herself she vaguely heard them talking. 'Kagome?'
"What's happening? Who is that?" Kagome asked her friends.
"Damned if I know. She just came out of no where and started attacking. She caught us off guard but thankfully we've successfully kept her away from the villagers." Sango explained.
"Did you try talking to her?"
"Of course we did. But the only answer we received so far is 'Die!'" Miroku said.
Kagome frowned. She was thinking 'What the fuck is her problem?' when she heard the girl speak.
"Ka... go... me" She was clearly speaking to her. Kagome handed her bag to Inuyasha and carefully moved a few steps forward.
"Do I know you?" She asked the brown haired girl. She was lying on the ground, obviously struggling to get up.
"You... are... the... one... who..." She wasn't able to speak coherently, probably because of the blood coming out of her mouth.
"Umm... Could you be more specific?" It was getting annoying and Kagome just wanted learn what her problem was and then kill her if necessary.
After that the girl fell silent for a few moments before her head shot up with a deadly look on her face. "You are the one who took him from me!" Then she launched herself at Kagome.
Kagome barely dodged her attack and stared at the crater she formed in amazement. In a moment the girl was upon her again. She attacked rapidly without tiring. Her friends tried to help her but the girl paid no attention to them, simply pushing them out of her way. Finally Kagome had enough. She gripped her staff tightly with both hands and hit the girl in the head hard. She was out for a moment before she came back for more attacks even stronger then the ones before. Kagome threw giant rocks at her, created walls with earth magic to block her attacks, wind to blow her off but it was all for naught. None of her attacks worked and blocking was getting harder and harder. 'Why did I have to send Sesshoumaru away? I could have asked him to stay here while I was gone. This would have been over by now.'
Kagome got ready to hit the girl again, this time with a blow powered by wind magic. The blow was about to land on the girl's stomach but she stopped it. With her hands.
Kagome's eyes widened. "No way. She can't be human. There is absolutely no way.' Then she realised something she should have realised before. She sensed no life in the girl. With that Kagome quickly freed her staff from the girl's hand and jumped away as far as possible. She stopped her with a barrier when she tried to come closer.
"Who are you!? What do you want from me?" The mage demanded.
The girl simply stared for a while. Her eyes were so blank that it creeped Kagome out. Then she finally spoke. "I am Sarah. And I am here to take your life."
"Yeah, I understood that but why?"
"Because you took away what was most important to me." Kagome almost felt bad for her but she was also sure she didn't take anything from her.
"What did I do? I don't even know you. What did I take?" She asked.
Then the girl's expression turned into a glare. "Him."
"Him wh-"
"Sesshoumaru." Kagome's eyes widened while the other went 'Huh?'. Who was this girl? Was she his mate or something? But the Sesshoumaru she knew would never mate with a human.
"I-I didn't take him away. Seriously there's nothing between him and me, I swear." She told the girl but she probably didn't believe her, seeing she went crazy again.
"LIES!" The girl shouted and started punching the barrier so hard that it was surely going to shatter soon. "I LOVED HIM AND YOU TOOK HIM AWAY!"
Kagome knew she had to think quickly before the girl started to attack again as she vaguely heard Inuyasha saying 'What the fuck? Someone loves that cold bastard'. She could think of only one solution but it was a dangerous one. It could kill her as well as the others around her but she had no other choice. The girl was already dead so no matter what they did she would keep coming back and she couldn't be purified either. The only solution was to destroy her body completely.
"Inuyasha! Miroku! Sango! Get out of here now!" She ordered her friends.
"But Kagome what are you going to do?" Sango asked worried for her friend.
"I'll be fine just go! Now!" Kagome shouted startling them but they did as they were told.
Kagome turned her attention to the girl who was still punching the barrier, paying no mind to her bleeding hands. Kagome took a deep breath and extended her palm towards the girl. She closed her eyes and focused. 'God please help me with this.' She prayed.
Sango, Miroku and Inuyasha were still running away when they realised the change in the wind. It was carrying a power that gave them all goosebumps and it kept getting stronger. They stopped when they could no longer see Kagome or the frenzied girl. Looking back they all wondered what Kagome was going to do.
Sarah was able to see anything other than the girl that stood before her with her arm extended towards her. All she knew was that she had to kill her to get what she wanted. He promised that Sesshoumaru would be hers if she did when she gave her powers. She had to succeed no matter what. She landed a final punch to the invisible wall that was keeping and it finally broke. She got ready charge towards the only obstacle between her and her dream when that obstacle opened her eyes and she saw a flash of blue that got released form the mage's palm. She was immobilized before everything went black for once and for all.
The power of her own attack sent Kagome flying back several meters away. It took her a few moments to regain herself and she finally peeked at where Sarah was standing a while ago. She sighed with relief when she saw that there was nothing there excepts for a pile of ashes. It had worked but she knew she was lucky to be alive. She felt that she had no control over the power when she released it and that it would destroy everything in its way. 'Thank God it didn't backfire on me.' Good thing that she told her friends to get away when she did. A sharp pain turned her attention to her hand that rested on her hand. Her eyes widened. No wonder it hurt so much. Her hand was severely burnt and it started to hurt so much that she had to keep herself from crying out. This wasn't the first she hurt herself with her powers but this was the most severe one. Her whole palm, a part of the back of her hand and her ankle were completely burnt. She got up and realised that that was not her only injury. Her body was covered with cuts and bruises she received from Sarah's attacks. It was a wonder her clothes were intact. 'Benefits of wearing so little, I guess.' Fortunately, the cuts and bruises would heal quickly. Her hand, on the other hand, not so much.
"Kagome!" She was distracted from her pain when she heard her friends calling for her.
"I'm here!" She called back and felt a little guilty when she saw the relieved expressions on their faces. They quickly came to her side.
"Hey, wench! What the fuck did you do? It was quite bright here for a few moments there." Inuyasha asked. He didn't seem like it but Kagome knew he was worried for her.
"Yeah, Kagome. Not to mention that everything around here is on fire, too." Miroku added. That surprised Kagome. She quickly looked around her and Miroku was right. A lot of things including a house and a few trees were on on fire. She gasped.
"Oh my God, guys! We have to put the fire out, come on!" She ignored her protesting muscles and started running towards the fire. She wouldn't be able to put the fire out without water but she could guide it away. "Bring some water, hurry!" She told Miroku and Inuyasha. They both disappeared and return a few moments later with buckets full of water in their hands. Kagome sprayed the water all over the fire she guided away from the village and it was out soon. They all sighed with relief. As Kagome wiped her forehead with the back of her hand she heard Sango gasp.
"Kagome, what happened to your hand!?" She asked taking Kagome's hand in her own.
"Oh, that? It happened when I killed that lunatic woman." Kagome explained.
Sango's eyes went wide. "She did this?"
"No! I did it to myself but it was an accident. "
Sango frowned." What did you do, Kagome?" Kagome felt like she was caught doing something naughty.
"Remember when I told you guys that every element's master had a special power that the others didn't and as a fire master my power was the ability to summon lightning?" She asked slowly.
Her friends nodded. "Well, that's what I did." She simply said and she watched as their jaw's dropped.
"Did you go nutts, wench? Didn't you say that using that power could fucking kill you?" Inuyasha yelled at her.
"Yeah but so could that crazy bitch. What was I supposed to do? Just stand there while I waited for her to kill me?" She yelled back.
"No but you could have found another way to kill her, Kagome." Sango said.
"You don't think I tried? The bitch was already dead. Like those undead wolves we fought. The only way to get rid of her was to destroy her body completely. Nothing else would her worked." She felt her anger was raising. They weren't the ones that the bitch was trying to kill so it was easy for them talk.
"Still, what you did was extremely dangerous, Kagome. You were the who said that it is possible for you to kill yourself while using that power and you tried using it without any practice." Miroku, luckily, could see that Kagome was getting angry and spoke as calmly as possible.
"Well, then next time you guys find another way to deal with the the crazy undead bitch and I will do that instead. Ok?" Then she turned away and started walking in the opposite direction.
"Where are you going?" Sango called after her.
"To see if anyone in the village needs help with anything as no one else seems to care." Kagome answered without looking back. Sango was taken aback by her harsh reply and moved to follow after her but Miroku stopped her.
"Now is not the time. She is angry and needs some time to herself." Sango shook his hand off her shoulder.
"But she's my friend."
"And mine, too but we just treated her like a child who doesn't know how to take care of herself. It's only natural that she's angry. We should wait until she calms down a little."
Sango stared at Miroku, unable to believe in how mature he was acting. She thought that she just discovered a whole other side of him when she felt something was stroking her bottom. There was a loud smacking sound and the brown haired woman left Inuyasha with the monk who now had a red hand print on his cheek. Inuyasha shook his head and murmured something about the perverted monk never learning.
Kagome was still angry while she made her way to Kaede's hut. She stopped to help many injured villagers on the way. When she finally made it to the hut, she was attacked by a small ball of fur.
"Kagome, you're back!" exclaimed Shippou. He was very happy to see her back.
She smiled at the little fox demon. "Yep. I'm back."
"What happened to your hand, child?" Kaede asked Kagome.
"Nothing that you should worry about. It's fine." She was relieved to see that unlike her friend Kaede didn't insist.
"Would you like me to lend you some clothing? It appeared that most of yours were destroyed." The elder woman asked.
Kagome frowned. She could swear that all of her clothes were intact last time she checked. Then she remembered what she was wearing. She must have seemed naked to most people here. "Thank you, Kaede but my clothes are fine. This was what I was wearing in the first place."Kaede's eyebrows shot up. She was never going to understand the clothing in the future.
They both spent the rest of the night helping the villagers repair their homes or heal their wounds. Her friends joined them after a while but Kagome didn't want to talk to them yet so she remained alone. After everything was taken care of they all went back to the hut to go to sleep except Kagome. She had planned to stay awake all night so she had already slept in the afternoon. Instead she went to the tree that she and Inuyasha would often hang out.
She climbed up and sat on one of the branches, watching the moon. Everything looked so much better in the moonlight and it reminded her of a person's hair that was practically the same colour. She imagined how his hair would look like under moonlight. She couldn't keep her thoughts away from him now that she was back and the immediate danger had passed. She knew she had feelings for him and suspected he returned them but she couldn't be sure, thinking about that crazy girl who claimed she Sesshomaru away from her. She definitely did not have the courage to ask him about his feelings or Sarah. She didn't want her heart to be broken again and at the same time she was afraid to become attached to this era. Though she slowly came to realise that there was nothing to be afraid of. Her mom would not be alone anymore, she had Takumi, and Souta would do fine without her anyway. So it wouldn't affect them at all if she just stayed in the past. She would miss them but if things with Sesshoumaru worked out like she hoped them to, she definitely would not want to go back. She smiled, knowing she had made up her mind. Now, the only thing left was to find out whether he returned her feelings or not. And also ask him about the lunatic who tried to slaughter her. 'I really hope he has nothing to do with her.'
A/N: OH MY GOD! Sesshy is going to be so pissed when he learns that Kagome hurt herself! Or maybe not. Depends on my mood really. Anyway opinions? Good? Bad? Fucking awesome? God damn awful? Damn it, bitch just quit writing? Come on, I wanna know. You can give me ideas about what you would like to see happening in the next chapter or whatever. I'm always open to that. Btw, I want to get one or more beta reader(if that's what they're called) for this story to help me proof read chapters or discuss some ideas with. If any of you are interested, let me know :)
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