Summary: Kagome, a sweet and caring girl who was destined to fall into the past at the young age of 15, is now a cadet at the Galaxy Garrison. Without warning, she's swept up in a new adventure with a new team. Her docile nature is shed away and is replaced by a trained warrior. Inherently strong and a formidable force to be reckoned with, she's not what her appearance makes her out to be.

Pairing: Undecided.

Disclaimer: I do not own either series. Each belongs to their rightful owners.


Chapter One


The last year passed a bit slowly for her. She attempted to keep her mind clear of the doubts she felt about the Kerberos Mission for the sake of her performance at the Garrison, but it was impossible to shake completely.

She refused to believe that an error had caused the men on the Kerberos mission to die. Hell, a part of her refused to believe they were even dead. There was no proof of it- nothing. Whenever it got brought up around her, she had a hard time not questioning it. She knew doing so would only end up with her getting lectured and yelled at.

It was a past curfew and all cadets were supposed to be in their dorms, but she was changed out of her uniform and dressed in her casual clothing. She pulled her hair up into a messy bun to keep it out of her face as she glanced around her room. She was almost out of food for Kirara, and she was planning on heading out to stock up on some more so she wouldn't have to worry about it when she actually ran out.

She patted down her white, pleated skirt and fixed her white tank top back into place before she pulled on her black, oversized hoodie. It fell over her skirt and hid it from sight completely. A pair of long, black socks hid her legs, and she quickly laced up a pair of combat boots.

She stood up and glanced around her room in a quick search for her bag. She slung her backpack over her shoulders before making her way to the door. She opened it and peeked her head out, about to look back at Kirara and tell her to wait when a cream-colored blur darted out past her legs.

"H-Hey!" Kagome hissed in a sharp whisper, "Kirara what're you doing?! Get back here!"

The cat didn't listen, and she continued dashing down the hall until she vanished around a curve. Kagome closed her door behind her before slinking down the hall after the demon cat.

Even though she couldn't see her, Kagome knew the path she had gone down. She snuck as quietly as she could as she ran down the hall, occasionally hissing a sharp "Kirara!" in hopes it'd get her to stop. She had to hide a few times to keep from getting spotted by the people walking down the halls and making sure no one was out past curfew.

Wrapped up in chasing Kirara down, Kagome failed to notice the presence of two other people out sneaking around. She rounded a corner, and right as she did, she ran into someone else. They both fell to the ground, Kagome landing on top of the stranger.

"Ow! What was that for?"

A voice she only heard while passing through the halls reached her ears, and she sat up so she wasn't pressing him completely to the floor. She sat on his stomach as she gathered her bearings, looking in every direction for where Kirara had dashed off to.

"Oh- hello."

She blinked at the flirty tone and she arched a shapely brow at his boldness.

"You're Kagome, right?"

"Yes," she said, not bothering to look back at him as she pushed herself off of him, reaching a hand down not long after to help him back up. "Any chance you happen to have seen a cat come running through here?" she asked in a hurry.

"A cat? No. Aren't animals prohibited?"

"Yup," she said, but that was it. She returned to slinking around in search for her cat, two figures now tagging along with her.

"The names Lance, by the way," the guy she ran into said. "Big guy right there is Hunk."

"I know who you are," she said. "You two and Pidge really messed up test drills today." She stood up and looked at them. "Why are you out, anyway? It's past curfew. You should be in your dorms."

"I've been telling him that." Hunk said.

"What's your excuse?" Lance countered at the same time.

"I was gonna sneak off Garrison property so I could get Kirara more food, but she snuck out and now I have to find my cat." She sighed and shook her head. "I doubt any of the other officers will be anywhere near as relaxed about it as Shiro was. I'm not on anyone's bad side, and I wanna keep it that way."

"Wait- you knew Shiro? That man was a legend."

Kagome frowned and nodded. "I guess you could say that," she said then softly. "The last time Kirara ran off he ended up finding her before I could. He let me keep her just as long as I kept her hidden better."

It had been a long time since she spoke to anyone about Shiro, or even mentioned his name out loud. It felt so strange to say those words, and her heart panged at the memory her words stirred.

"Oh, no no no! Kirara get back here!"

A sixteen-year-old girl scrambled after the cream-colored cat way too early in the morning. She ran down the empty halls, thankful that it was too early for any of the cadets to be up and walking around. There was still another half-hour before they had to get up and get ready for the day.

Out of habit from her days on the other side of the well, Kagome was an early riser. She was used to Inuyasha waking her up at the first hint of the sunrise, and it was impossible to get back to sleeping in any later, even long after those days were over.

She had left her room with the intention of taking a walk to pass the time. It wasn't against the rules for cadets to be up a little early, as long as it wasn't still in the night hours. Most didn't wake up, and if they did, they stuck to their rooms.

Kagome rounded a corner and slid to a stop at the sight that greeted her. "Uh-oh…" she felt dread creep up her spine at spotting Kirara held in the arms of one of the Garrison officers- Shirogane Takashi. She bit her lip when his eyes landed on her.

As he looked at her, she let out a nervous laugh.

"Is she yours?" he asked, clearly meaning the cat that purred loudly in his arms as he rubbed under her chin. Having no other choice, she nodded.

"Yes," she said. "Kirara is mine."

"It's pretty clear in the rules that animals aren't allowed," he said then, and she nodded her head to signal she understood.

"It's just… she's really special. She used to belong to someone important to me, and I couldn't leave her behind…" The memory of the brown-haired slayer came with those words, and she bit her lip to stay composed. "... so I snuck her in."

She heard him sigh, but she kept her focus downward.

"Look, I'm not supposed to do this, but I'll tell you what," Shiro said as he walked over to her, placing Kirara back in her arms- much to her surprise. She looked up at him, meeting his stare with wide, curious eyes. "If you promise to keep her hidden from now on, I'll act like this never happened, okay?"

She almost felt like she had to pinch herself to make sure she had heard right. "You mean you're letting her stay?" she asked, unable to keep her joy from seeping into her voice.

"Yes, but you need to keep her hidden, okay?" Shiro said, reaching and gently patting her shoulder. "Think you can manage that?"

She nodded, a bright smile getting etched onto her face. "Yeah! Thanks so much!"

Kagome shook her head before looking back at the two tagging along with her. Her expression twisted into an exasperated glare at the two trailing behind her. "Stop following me before you end up getting me caught."

"What makes you think we'll get you caught?"

"Please," she said, flicking her hand and looking away from Lance, "I've done this tons of times in the past year. I know what I'm doing, but I can't account for you two."

Right as those words left her mouth, the faint sound of footsteps echoed through the hall. It didn't take her long to realize it was yet another person making their rounds, and she looked for a place to hide. She shoved both boys in front of her as she urged them to be quiet. "Shut up and hide! You're gonna get me caught if you don't!" she fiercely whispered as she shoved them around a corner out of the way.

It was quiet between the three as the footsteps grew louder before eventually fading. Kagome sighed and leaned against Hunk, rubbing her forehead as she began trying to find wherever Kirara had run off to.

"Why is she even scampering off?" she hissed to herself as she kept following the invisible trail her aura had left. "She's only done this once before. I don't know what's gotten into her."

With Hunk and Lance still in tow with her, Kagome snuck through the halls. Eventually, she got to the roof, and she let out a sigh of relief at spotting Kirara sitting and flicking her tails in a rhythm. She lounged next to a familiar figure, watching them closely and curiously. She recognized them- it was the third of the two with her, Pidge.

"Kirara, there you are!" Kagome let out a sigh of relief and ran over to pick her up. She surprised the distracted person, and they jumped and looked at her.

"Oh, is that your cat?" Pidge asked her before saying, "she followed me up here and wouldn't leave me alone."

Kagome shrugged and held Kirara to her chest. "Sorry," she said then. "I don't know what came over her. She ran off, and she never does that."

"Why does she have two tails?"

"Don't ask questions you are prepared to hear the answer to," Kagome said decisively. "I guarantee you don't want to know why."

"..."

Her serious, sharp tone stunned the others with her, but they didn't ask. Kagome smiled and sat down next to Pidge, looking over what they were doing curiously.

"Whatcha up to, anyway?" she asked.

"Just… um just watching the stars." Pidge said, taken off guard when Kagome freely sat down beside her. Kirara settled down on her head, her tails flicking as her eyes mimicked her owner's, watching in curiosity.

"You're out here looking at the stars, but you got this stuff set up?" Kagome asked, her tone hinting that she didn't believe Pidge's excuse. "What are you really doing, Pidge? Where'd you even get this stuff from?" she asked, looking it over but not reaching out to touch it, lest she do something to mess up whatever Pidge was doing with it.

"Yeah," Lance peered over Kagome's shoulder, setting a hand there to keep balanced as he looked it over, too. "It doesn't look like Garrison tech."

"That's cuz it's not," Pidge said. "I built it." Hunk reached a hand out to it, only for Pidge to swat it away with a glare. "With it, I can scan all the way out to the edge of the solar system."

"Huh?"

"Edge of the solar system, you say?" Lance rose a brow and leaned even more over her shoulder, much to Kagome's annoyance. "You mean all the way to Kerberos?"

At the mention of Kerberos, Kagome looked back at Lance before finally shoving him off, fed up with him leaning over her to talk to Pidge. He fell back with a quiet thud before sitting back up. When Pidge's expression turned sulky, Kagome frowned.

"Pidge? What's wrong?" she asked.

"He gets riled up whenever any of the instructors bring up the Kerberos Mission," Lance said. "I don't get it- why though?"

Pidge remained silent, turning back to the spread of technology and ignoring the others there.

"Pidge, come on! If we're gonna work as a team, we can't have any secrets."

"I have nothing to do with you three, but I'd like to know, too, Pidge," Kagome said, her words drawing attention to her. "I keep calm, but I have my own… opinions on the Kerberos subject and I have a hard time keeping my mouth shut whenever it gets brought up."

"Wait… what?"

She ignored Lance's voice as she focused on Pidge, who eventually looked at her. It was quiet for a moment before Pidge sighed and relented.

"Fine, I'll tell you," she said. "Everything is about to change. The Kerberos Mission wasn't lost because of some error. I've been using this stuff to scan the system, and I've picked up a lot of alien chatter."

"... Alien?" Kagome frowned at the mention of them.

"Wait, what?" Hunk rolled away from his spot next to Pidge's set up, backing away a little alarmed. "Aliens? Are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure," Pidge held a notebook up with a drawing on it, pointing a finger at it to coax them into looking at it. "It's going crazier than ever tonight. They keep repeating the word Voltron over and over again."

"How sure are you?" Lance asked, folding his arms over his chest as though he didn't believe the words Pidge said.

"I know what I'm talking about!" Pidge snapped back defensively.

"So you're implying that aliens interfered with the Kerberos Mission, and that's why the crew is missing?" Kagome asked softly. Pidge pouted, almost as if she expected her to doubt it, too. When Pidge nodded, Kagome sighed. "Great… first demons and now aliens…" she muttered to herself, not caring if they heard her. "Anything else you wanna throw at me, life?"

"What'd you just say?" Hunk asked, but before she could respond, loud alarms sounded through the area. Kagome jolted up onto her feet, body tense, before she relaxed her posture some- though it didn't last long.

"Attention Cadets! We are on lockdown- I repeat, we are on lockdown! Code Zulu Niner. All cadets must remain in the barracks until the situation is resolved."

"Ooh… that can't be good," Kagome whispered finally as her gaze strayed up. She felt Kirara dive down into the hood of her jacket, hiding in it as Kagome looked up at the sky.

"What do you- oh no." Hunk was lost for words when he followed Kagome's line of sight up to the sky. Lit up in the distance and approaching the area at an alarming speed was an orange light. At first glance, it looked like a meteor or something much similar, but the speed it moved at knocked that option out of the air. "What is that thing?"

"Give you a couple of guesses," Kagome said, nudging the nervous guy with her elbow gently.

"No way!" Lance snatched the binoculars Pidge had, glancing through them to get a closer look at the free-falling object. "That's an escape pod!"

"It's definitely not one of ours, either," Pidge added on, much to Hunk's apparent unease.

"Uh oh… So this means there are actual aliens out there?" Hunk asked, "and they're on their way here?"

The four watched as the foreign ship plummeted closer, and it eventually hit with a loud vibration shaking the ground and building they stood on. Right away Kagome could feel her fight or flight instincts kicking in, and she balled her hands into fists.

She watched as a large chunk of Garrison officials headed out to the crash site. There was something that coaxed her to head towards it, and, without warning, she was making a dash for the area.

"H-Hey!" Lance shouted after her. He grabbed Hunk by his sleeve and tugged, ignoring his whimper of not wanting to go. "Let's go! Pidge, you coming?"

"Yeah!" Shoving her equipment into her bag as quickly and as carefully as she could, Pidge stood up and raced after the other three.

The three caught up with her, struggling to match her pace as she bounded ahead. She ignored every plea for her to slow down, her mind not recognizing the voices as her instincts pulled her forward. She never even stopped to consider how dangerous it was.

She skidded to a halt and ducked behind a large chunk of jagged rocks on a small hill. As she peeked her head up, the three tagging along mimicked her actions. They were looking over a setup tent, an abandoned escape pod, and scattered Garrison officials.

"Looks like whatever was inside that pod was already removed and put into the tent," Kagome whispered to the three with her. "Question is what was it?" She looked at Pidge and had a spark of an idea. "Hey, Pidge?"

"Yeah?"

"They've probably set up a surveillance cam to monitor what's going on inside, and to keep watch of the perimeter," Kagome began, turning her body to face Pidge. "You think you can hack into it and give us a look at what's going on in there?"

"I bet I can," Pidge said, already pulling out the needed equipment, and Kagome grinned.

"Great!"

"Uh, guys? I don't think this is a good idea," Hunk said, leaning in closer to the others. "How about we just head back before we get caught? Or worse- whatever they have in there attacks us somehow?"

Kagome smiled and shook her head. "It'll be okay," she said. She was sure about that for now. There was nothing alarming that she could feel from here, and she used that to secure her belief. "We're just gonna get a quick look."

"Got it!" Pidge exclaimed quietly. They gathered around the laptop to watch what was going on inside. Kagome let out a sharp gasp as the sight.

Strapped down to the table was Shiro!

She felt her breath running away at seeing him alive and struggling to get free. "That's Shiro!" she cried out loud, unable to keep the outburst down. "Oh my god, what are they doing to him?!"

"Mew!" Kirara peeked her head over her shoulder, meowing loudly as if she was voicing her own complaints about it.

"What are you doing? Let me go!" His plea went unheard by the figures dressed in hazmat suits surrounding him. He pulled at the straps holding him down, but they didn't budge any. They held him in place, no matter how much he pulled against them.

"It'll be okay, Shiro. It's protocol for you to remain under quarantine while we run tests."

"There isn't any time!" Shiro fired back, "aliens are coming- they destroy words! They're after some superweapon!"

"They're not even listening to anything he says…" Kagome trailed off, her expression twisting into one of sadness.

"Where do you think the rest of the crew is? They're not even asking about them!" Pidge said.

"It's impossible to tell," Kagome said. "Even if they did, I doubt they'd bother to listen to his answer…"

"Shiro, can you tell us how long you've been gone? Are you even aware of how long it's been?"

"I.. I don't know. Weeks, months, years? It doesn't matter!" Shiro argued. "If you don't listen to me, it's going to be too late! We need to find Voltron! If they get to it first, they'll destroy Earth! Please! Listen to me!"

"Go ahead and put him under."

One of the individuals inside pick up the syringe from the table and walk over to where Shiro was strapped down. Despite his fighting, they managed to stick him with it. His movements become sluggish, and, before long, he fell limp on the metal table.

Kagome dug her nails into her palms, pressing her balled-up fists against her legs hard. "They- they…" What were they doing?

Among her relief that Shiro was alive, she was also angry. She was furious for their actions up until now- and for how they handled him in there.

That wasn't the ramblings of a crazed man. They were the ramblings of someone fearful and desperate. They were coherent and not twisting off on every possible tangent.

"They aren't even gonna listen to him?" Lance asked out loud. "Shiro's a living legend."

Kagome shook her head. "No, they're not. Worrying about them is a waste of time. We need to get him out of there," she said decisively.

Lance nodded, agreeing with her. "How are we supposed to do that?" he asked.

"I don't care how we do it," Kagome snapped as she looked them over. "Just as long as we get him somewhere else then-!"

Kagome's words were cut off by a series of explosions going off in the distance. She whirled around as Hunk covered his head with his arms, returning to a crouching position.

"Oh no! Is that them!? Are the aliens here already? They- they got here so fast!"

"No, not aliens," Pidge said, standing up to get a good look at what was going on. As if on cue, almost all of the figures gathered at the tent took off to the explosions. "That was a distraction- for him!"

Pidge pointed out towards a lone figure skulking around the area and sneaking into the tent.

"That'll work!" Kagome said, clapping her hands before taking advantage of their granted distraction and bounding off towards the tent.

Lance, on the other hand, snatched the binoculars from Pidge's hands. He looked through them until he found the person in question, a scoff coming from him not even two seconds after.

"Ugh not him!" Lance said as he tossed the binoculars back at Pidge. She scrambled to catch them before they could hit the ground and break.

"Who?" Pidge asked.

"Keith!" Lance shouted back, taking off down the same path Kagome had gone. "He's not gonna one-up me this time!"

"Who's Keith?"

"Keith?" Hunk took off after Lance at hearing the claim, Pidge's question going unheard. "Are you sure it's him?"

"Who's Keith?!" She asked louder and ran off after the others.

Kagome was greeted by a new face when she darted into the tent. She didn't pay him any attention as she rushed to Shiro's side, pressing a palm to his forehead to check how he was doing.

"Shiro?" she whispered softly, trailing her hand down the side of his face before sighing. She looked up at the person standing opposite of her. "Get that side," she ordered, her sweet voice getting replaced by a commanding tone.

Keith and she had gotten Shiro off the table right as Lance ran in, and he lightly pushed her out of the way as he began arguing with Keith. She watched for a few seconds, her nerves getting worked up even more before she silenced him.

"Listen, Lance, we really don't have time for this!" Kagome snapped at him, glaring at him with icy blue eyes. "Now shut your yap and get a move on! They'll be back when they realize they were tricked," she said, "which won't be long."

"Instead of being bossy why don't you carry him then?" Lance huffed back at her. "Deadweight isn't easy to move around, you know!"

"She was doing just fine before you shoved her out of the way," Keith muttered.

She arched a brow and looked from Lance to Keith. She was about to decline the offer for the sake of heading out at last, but the approaching auras urged her forward. She decided if they weren't gonna move fast enough, she'd do it herself.

"Hand him over then," she said, her tone leaving absolutely zero room for argument.

"Wait- wait, I wasn't being serious," Lance said. "You'll end up getting crushed! Have you seen how little you are?! He's like twice your size- literally!"

Her eyebrow ticked in annoyance, and she could practically see the gears turning in Lance's head as he accounted for his words. "Hmm.. go on, keep putting that foot in your mouth," she said as she marched forward. "You have no idea how strong I am or what I'm capable of," she hissed.

He had no idea the sort of training she had gone through.

Without bothering to hear his response, she shoved Lance away from Shiro's side and hefted him up onto her shoulders. She almost fell forward when Kirara bounded up on top of them both, but she caught herself and looked at the group with her.

"Anything else you guys wanna say?" she asked, agitation daring them to open their mouths. "No? Then get a move on!" she snapped at them.

"Uhh… you got it!" Lance said, putting more space between them as they left the tent and headed off towards the rocks.

Kagome spotted the hovercraft and shook her head. "No way in hell are we all fitting on that," she said.

"You got a better idea?"

Figuring it was better than sitting squished up against the group with her, she nodded. "I got an idea. You guys get on that."

"What about you?" Pidge asked.

"I have my own way," she said before tapping the ground with her foot. "Kirara, off!"

She listened to Kagome's words and hopped off of Shiro's back. Kirara landed a few feet away from Kagome, looking up at her with wide eyes. She knew what was coming, and her tails were swaying happily.

"What are you-"

"Shut up for a second," she cut Keith off without waiting to hear what he was saying. Before anyone could say anything, Kagome gave Kirara the okay to transform into her larger form.

"Ah!"

"What the hell is that thing?!"

She looked over her shoulder after setting Shiro down on Kirara's back. "She's my cat, Kirara," she said as if it wasn't a bit deal.

"That's not a normal cat!" Lance shot back. "What is it?"

"Oh, all this talk of aliens and you don't bat an eyelash, yet somehow my demon cat is what's strange about this," Kagome hissed at him. She clambered up behind Shiro, wrapping an arm around him to hold him tight enough so he wouldn't slip off. Her other hand gripped Kirara's fur to keep her stable. With his head nestled in the crook of her neck, she eyed the others. "Well, we gonna go or not?"

Choosing to not argue with the woman with a large, saber-toothed cat, those words pushed them to move.


C.R: Kagome has a demon cat on her side. No one is gonna argue with her.

I've gotten quite a few suggestions for the pairing, and I honestly like them all for her in this fic.
The most popular being Keith or Shiro, but there's also the suggestion of Allura or Lotor, too. There probably will be a lot of implication and shipping, but I'm still undecided on an endgame pairing.

Anyway, that's it for now! Thank you for reading, and I hope you all enjoyed! Hopefully, I caught all the errors before posting but, if not, apologies. (Spellcheck is being wonky rn.)

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Bye for now~