Chapter 5: Explanations Part 1

Midoriko turned to address Kagome.

"Kagome we have brought you here not only to know what your wish is, but to tell and explain some things." Midoriko said. "Fist off, so we can get it over and done with, what is your wish?"

Kagome's POV

I started to think very hard. 'What was my wish? I had always planned on giving the jewel to Inuyasha as I had promised so he can make the wish. It seemed that I wouldn't be able to do that after all.

"If I make a pure wish, will the jewel disappear?" I asked Midoriko.

Midoriko got a thoughtful look.

"No, it would go back into your body." Midoriko answered.

While Midoriko was saying this I had noticed that Yuko, Satorian, Shiomi, and Inferno were playing poker off to the side.

"Will I be able to travel back and forth through the well still?"

"Yeees." She stretched the word with uncertainty. "But only for a short time. Hey, Satorian, get your cute ass over here."

"Midoriko," Satorian said in a whinny voice, "I'm winning."

"Shut up and answer my question. How many more time can she go through the well?"

Satorian turned in her direction and gave her a quizzical look that turned to a thoughtful one.

"Well now that the jewel is whole I would say five more times. Unless someone who is a time worker, then it would be active for five hundred more years."

"A time worker? What is a time worker?" I asked Satorian quizzically. "Don't you mean traveler?"

"No. You need a time 'worker'! A time worker and a time traveler are two totally different things all together." He said.

"Well, what is the difference?

"A time traveler is what you are. All you do is go through a portal." He explained. "Now time workers are those who can manipulate time and create those portals like the one you use."

"Oh." I answered stunned.

"Ok Kagome. Now, what is your wish?" Midoriko asked.

"Midoriko, I am not going to make a wish. I answered.

"Why would that be?" Shiomi asked.

"Well no matter how pure a wish I will make I think that the jewel will still warp it." I answered.

"You do know that Midoriko is the one that will grant the wish. Not the jewel itself." Inferno stated.

"I believe that even if Midoriko is the one to grant the wish it will still be warped."

"Why do you say that Kagome?" Midoriko asked.

"Well even though you are the one to cast it, you're still inside the jewel and I think that even before my wish goes through the jewel, the jewel itself will have tainted it by then."

"Kagome. You do know that if you do not make a wish then the jewel will not go into your body? If it doesn't then you will have to protect it like Kikyo did." Midoriko stated.

"Well I think that at least a demon will not have to bite through my body to get to the jewel shard."

Midoriko just shook her head.

"Alright, now that that is settled down to the next order of business, Kagome, you are not Kikyo's reincarnation." Midoriko stated bluntly.

"I'm not." I blurted out incredulously. "But, why did I have Kikyo's soul in my body?"

"How do I explain this?" Midoriko asked herself. "Midoriko, I'll explain it," said Yuko. "You just sit down and let me tell her."

"All right Yuko. You would be best at explaining it." Midoriko said while she took a seat."

"Now Kagome, you basically have six souls living in your body."

There was a long stretch of silence. "WHAT!"

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