Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, nor do I own the characters in this fic!!

Italic: thoughts
-- --: locations
' ': spoken words
~*~*~*~*~: time gap



THE LIFE OF A SONG-MAIDEN

-by Kittymui-

Kikyou's sorrowful memory

Five whole years had passed since the tragedy and Kagome was quite getting used to her new life as Kikyou's apprentice. Kikyou taught her how to use bows and arrows to defend herself, how to cook decently and knowledge of all kinds of things. But most of all, she took good care of her; she treated her as if Kagome was her little sister.
Today, she would teach Kagome to use the bow more efficiently. While showing Kagome how to pose her body and ready an arrow, Kikyou couldn't help but think about her own past. Kaede, I'm sorry that I couldn't protect to back then, if only I had stayed at the shrine you wouldn't have to die a horrible death.

(Flashback)

It happened 7 years ago She heard some news about monsters attacking a nearby village and as a priestess she couldn't stay at the shrine and do nothing about it. Her little sister Kaede felt that there was something wrong about it and tried to stop her sister from going, but despite her effort, Kikyou had still decided to left the shrine.

It turned out that the news was indeed only made up to lure Kikyou away from the shrine and she hurried as fast as she could, back to the shrine, only to witness a terrible scene
Lifeless bodies of the shrine's miko's were lying everywhere. Kikyou ran towards the house, desperately hoping that her sister was safe. But when she opened the door, all her hopes vanished in an instance.

The sight of Naraku holding her sister up in the air by her throat caused her blood to boil with anger. (A/N: Naraku is a famous evil being in this world and every miko has surely heard of him.)
Just when she was starting to dash towards Naraku, she was abruptly stopped by the begging voice of her sister. 'K-kikyou onee-sama!! D-don't come near me! Naraku is' before she could say anything else, her warning was already replaced by a horrible cry, followed by a deadly silence. 'Kaede!!!!!' Kikyou cried.

'Kukuku she's just too noisy, don't you agree?' After that, Naraku threw Kaede's body away. 'Naraku, you monster!! I will never forgive you!!' Kikyou shouted while readying her bow and arrow.

'Foolish humans, if they hadn't been that persistent and just answered my simple question, they wouldn't have to die,' Naraku said with an evil smirk, 'But since they can't answer any more, I'll just have to ask you. And I thought they would be more obedient when the most powerful miko wasn't around to save their pathetic lives.'

'Whatever you're asking, I will answer it with my arrows!!' Kikyou shouted while pointing her arrow at Naraku's heart. 'My, my, aren't we aggressive today, I was only going to ask the whereabouts of the Shikon no Tama.'
Her eyes widened. The Shikon no Tama? So that's why you're here But Kikyou had already decided not to answer no matter what question it would be and within a blink of a second; she shot her arrow at him. A tremendous power surrounded the arrow not long after it was released.

'What the!!!' Naraku was surprised with this sudden attack and failed to dodge it. The arrow hit Naraku in his chest but narrowly missed his heart, but since the arrow came from Kikyou, it did some serious damage to him. 'Shit!' Naraku coughed a lot of blood on the ground and his hand covered the big wound. 'Damn you, Kikyou!! You're lucky this time, but next time I will definitely kill you!!' With this, Naraku flew away, slowly. Kikyou, not planning to pursue him any further, watched him with a nonchalant look until he disappeared.
Then she suddenly realized something... Kaede! And she ran towards the trashed little body, not far from where Naraku was standing a while ago. Oh my god, Kaede I'm sorry I'm so sorry, please forgive me!!

(End flashback)

After that, because all of my apprentices were killed and nobody would even try to enter the shrine, I was forced to look all over the land to find apprentices. Looking at the girl who was jumping happily in the air because of the perfect bull's-eye she managed to shoot, Kikyou slightly smiled. Now I've finally found one. Kaede, you must have sent her to me, thank you

Noticing the gaze that her mistress gave her. 'Kikyou-sama, is something wrong?'
'How many times do I have to remind you that you can call me onee-san?' Kikyou smiled. 'Hai, gomen, Kikyou onee-san.' Kagome gave her a small and gentle smile. I almost thought she would never want to talk again, until 1 year ago... and it was also until then that I didn't know of her powers...



Next chapter: Kagome's first battle and sudden discovery!

I'm sorry about the short length of this chapter but I thought it would be boring to have too much flashbacks in one chapter. I promise I will make the next chapter a bit longer!!
Missing inuyasha and the other characters (I do not own them!!)? Don't worry, they will appear in this story after a couple of chapters. But I'm still wondering whether it will be a sess/kag or inu/kag story.
But how is the story so far? Like it? Hate it? Please review but have mercy since this is my first fic ^-^.

~Kittymui~