"you mustn't wait kagome, here you will need these." kagomes grandfather said handing her her bow and arrows.
"i love you all." kagome cried.
"we know and we love you, now go." her mother said as they all hugged one last time before kagome jumped over the lip of the well.
kagome landed on the dirt bottom of the well and looked up to find blue skies and she cried. she gave herself a few minutes to regain her composer before reining in her reki and placing a barrier around herself hiding her scent and aura. she climbed the vines out of the well and all but ran to the village.
when she arrived she was met with an empty hut, she found a note left for her telling her to go to the headmans hut. she did just that, wile there she was told of keades passing the winter before and was given a box that held a letter from inuyasha though it was obvious that it was not written by him, and a piece of the fire rat kimono he wore. she took a moment to visit keades grave and offer a prayer, before taking the horse given to her and headed west.