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Chapter 28 years later
A tall, slender, but well built inu youkai walked out of the wolf den. She had her long dark brown hair pulled back into a ponytail, but still long enough to reach her mid-back. She wore a tight khaki tube top and a brown fur wrap around her mother gave her for her sixteenth birthday and dark brown tail draped over her shoulder. She placed her arrows in her quiver on her back and held her bow tight in her hand.
Mira came next to her and said, "'Do you have to do this, Kagome? You have all you need here.'" Kagome looked out at the forest and said, "'But I don't feel complete. I need to find out who and what I am; and you can't stop me, Mother. I have to do this.'" Mira sighed and then turned and entered the den. She returned to Kagome's side. Kagome knelt down next to her and Mira placed a small purple ball attached to a thin leather strap with four fangs on it, two on each side of the sphere. "'What's this, Mother?'" "'It was found with your real mother's body. We never told you, but your real mother and father were killed by, from what we could tell, a flood of demons. Your village was also destroyed by them as well.'" Kagome picked up the jewel and said, "'This was my real mother's?'" Mira nodded and said, "'I been waiting for the right time to give it to you and I feel this is that time.'" Kagome looked at it for a moment, but then placed it around her neck, which laid right above her breasts. Mira turned her head and sighed a bit. Kagome placed her arms around her and said, "'No matter what I find out about myself, this will always be my home and you will always be my mother.'" Mira nuzzled her a bit and then Kagome let go of her and stood up. The other members of the pack came out of the den to watch her enter the forest.
Kagome decided that the best place to start would be the Western Lands because that was where tribes were abundant. So she headed into the Western Lands from the Southern Lands, where her den was located. (note: The wolf den was right across the border of the Western Lands.) The first tribe she went to was a neko youkai tribe. Members of the tribe came out and took a defensive pose. Kagome put up her hands and said, "I don't want to fight, I just wish to ask a question." The leader of the tribe came to her and said, "Ask it." Kagome held up the Shikon Jewel and said, "Do you know which tribe this came from?" The leader gasped and the members began to back away slowly. The leader then said, "Leave our village now! We don't want any trouble from your kind." "My kind? My wolf pack and I have never caused you any trouble." The leader stood strong and said, "Just leave now; but let me tell you, you're not a wolf."
Kagome left the neko tribe thinking over what the leader had said, '…you're not a wolf.' "What did he mean by that? If I'm not a wolf, then who am I?" Kagome held up the Jewel, but then let it fall back down. A dark man peered around a tree and saw Kagome heading in the direction he had hoped. Kagome, as she was walking, felt someone dark behind her. She quickly turned around with her bow and arrow ready to fire and said, "Who's there?" No answer. She waited for a few seconds, but then lowered her bow and then put her arrow back in the quiver. She continued on, but looked over her shoulder a couple of times and she kept her bow in hand.
Kagome continued on from tribe to tribe trying to figure out who she is and where she's from, but she got the same answer as the first tribe she went to. "Leave now!" "We don't want trouble from you." Kagome walked through the forest to find the next tribe. "Why won't they tell me who I am? And why are they scared of me?" She continued on and then said, "From what I've heard, the next tribe is supposedly the largest and most powerful tribe in the Western Lands, the Silver Inu youkai tribe.
She continued on closer to the tribe when two Silver Inu youkais jumped into her path, blocking her way. "What is your business here?" one of them said to her. "I wish to speak to your leader." "What matter do you wish to speak to him about?" "I was hoping he could tell who I am and I thought he could tell me with this." She took the Shikon off and held it up to them. They gasped and one said, "Is that…" "The Shikon Jewel? Yes." The guard looked at the other one and said, "Well, right now he is very busy and doesn't want any one to bother him. But we will find time for you to meet with him." The other one then said, "We'll have a room set up for you to stay in while you wait." Kagome bowed and said, "Thank you." She then followed the two through the village and then up to an enormous castle with elaborately craved oak door. Inside, there was a grand stair case that split and went to separate halls. Kagome looked around and wondered how long she would stay here before she would be able to speak to the lord.
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