Chapter Five
To Take Those Steps (Part 2)
After long and careful thought, Kagome eventually just threw her bag in a hole in the roots of a tree between the village and the well so it'd be easy to get it again when this was done. Unsure of what to do next, Kagome walked over to the ridge of the forest over looking the rice fields around the village.
"K, so I've already decided that I was going to help so I have to think of how to warn Kikyo. Finding and warning Inu-Yasha would be too hard. I don't know what I'd do if I saw him, even if he didn't know who I was yet. No, they must not know that I was ever here. I'm never going to exist so they can live they're lives with out any guilt."
It hurt Kagome to say it, but she knew that it was for the best. That Inu-Yasha would be happy and everyone would live.
So the next problem arose.
"How do I warn Kikyo? I'll have to wait till it's late, that way they'll be the least amount of people to know I was here, but how do I get an audience with Kikyo without freaking someone out. I don't even know when the betrayal's suppose to happen. I certainly can't tell her it's going to happen because that might mess everything up. They have to remain oblivious, but how can I get the information I need from her and an outfit to use without creeping her out or getting myself killed?"
Kagome's mind buzzed with all the problems and all the dead ends she has run into. Resting her chin in her hands, she starred out at the rice patties trying to keep her self from remembering all the times she had been to the village. While trying to block out the memory of her first visit again, a thought jumped into her head.
"The first time I wore a priestess outfit was when my cloths were drying..... That's it! The rice patties!"
Kagome studied the thin paths of land that crisscrossed between the small water bodies of rice patties.
"Kikyo's nice, right? If I pretend to be a weary traveler then she'll take me in, right? Maybe I can get her to lend me something to wear and then we can talk and I'll get her to tell me what I need! I just need to wait till she gets back and the rest should be easy."
Kagome was overjoyed that she had thought of a plan and was about to go find Kikyo when she stopped suddenly.
"Once I do this, it'll all be over. Once I start, there's no turning back and I'll never see Inu-Yasha again.... I never even got to say good-bye to him...."
Kagome felt herself start to cry again when she forced herself to stop and think.
"I could go back, but to do this.... to go on..... To take those steps... that would be the best thing to do." Kagome felt her feet begin to move again, one step at a time. "That would be the best thing to do... I'll save them. I'll do this. I'll take those steps and they'll all be happier...... That's the best thing to do......."