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Kagome, Miko of the Shikon No Tama was a funny girl. Nothing like the Mikos before her.

She had always been on her own person, full of spirit and some would say to much fire. That worried many in her clan. Her mother, her mentor and above all her sister, who at one time was angry that the jewel had not been born into her body like her ancestors before her.

Many people including Kagome wondered, why the jewel had been inside her, of all people.

She was not calm. She was not poised. She was not full of wisdom. She was not silent, but above all Kagome was not graceful and she had eyes like water which meany did not see as beauty but a warning.

Kagome's mouth often got her in trouble, but still, she refused to be silent. One wondered if she had any regard for her own life. She would often end up in arguments with the eldest son of the West who at one time did try to kill her for it. She tried to return the favor. She became best friends with his brother in what the feared Lord would call spite. For a long time after that, they avoided one another, his father forbidding the other from killing the other. The West needed her, and she needed the West, but they did not need each other. Lord Toga had to draw a line in the sand.

She did not take to duty well and often fought against it. Many had wanted the jewel removed from her and transferred to her sister, but Kaede forbid it at the word of Lord Toga.

Kagome was often running around the country side with her friends, getting dirty with unruly hair. She did not care about fine silk, or tamed hair or makeup. While she did respect the jewel and her ancestor before she, she long ago told her self she would not let it rule her, rather she would rule it. Kikyo had laughed at her and called her foolish and often sneered at her lack of training, regard, and disrespect.

But then Kikyo fell in love. With a half breed demon. Which left Kagome where she was today.

It was Kagome's own fault.

Instead of running around with a bow at her back in a one layered dress doing as so she pleased like every other day of her life, today she was sitting on an elegant silk pillow still as an old tree.

She was covered in layers of fine silk, the last being red. Her eyes were made up; her hair combed until nothing was out of place. She was dripping on gold, and she hated every pure second of it.

This was her own personal hell.

Kikyo had warned her that one day she would have to conform, she had refused, but then on her 18th birthday, her sister's words rang true and only because of her sisters own doing.

Kikyo had mated her half breed lover in secret months before and so when the house of the West came calling the line of duty fell on the only other Miko to the West.

Kagome, her childhood dreams were nothing but a distant fantasy now.

She had begged, kicked and pleaded with the great Lord Inutashio when he came begging for her. She knew the king was flamboyant, but this was too much. She told him she was not ready. Her mother said she was not prepared, and Kaeda had said she was not worthy.

He had said nonsense; she was perfect.

Of course, her heart had always had a soft spot for him, how could she refuse? Well, she couldn't for many reasons even if she wanted to.

"I told you it would rule you one day" Kikyo spoke holding a candle,

Kagome kept her eyes closed; she wasn't speaking for the first time in her life. "Perhaps our ancestors decided this for your fate because of your lack of respect for mikohood."

"I am only here because you and Inuyasha ran off and eloped behind everyone's back" Kagome was angry at first, but then, she could not be. Kikyo had done something Kagome had only wish to do. In the end, Kagome was proud of her sister for following her heart. Perhaps it wasn't so cold and restricted.

Kikyo glared at her "You are the Miko of the Shikon no Tama Kagome, what I have done does not matter!"

"I didn't ask to be this!" She looked back at her sister.

"Yet you are, you have acted like a free child long enough, it is time for you to take your place!"

Kagome turned and closed her eyes again.

"I have protected the jewel this long."

"And yet you have failed to protect yourself, what choice did our clan have but to give you over to the Westen Lord."

Kikyo felt Kagome's aura spike, and she knew Kagome was about to come unglued.

"Enough Kagome, see it as a blessing, normally one such as yourself is not allowed this"

Kagome dug her hands into the fine silk at her lap.

She didn't understand.

He already had six wives, why did they need her?