Kagome sat in her assigned seat in class, flipping a page of her book carelessly. Her mind read the words on the page, but nothing was processing. Her mind kept wandering to the words a violet eyed prince had said to her. She never met him before, but she had seen him and his friends before. He was always smiling and having fun.

One word that Kagome thought fit him perfectly was...Pure.

Something she no longer was.

Looking at the words on the page of the book she bit her lip as the ink on the page turned into blood splatters. Closing the book with a sigh she looked at the window. No matter what she did she always saw blood. The blood she couldn't help stop being shed

It showed her how bad she failed.

Sesshomaru told her she didn't, she did her duty and they were at war. War always had losses no matter how much one tried to stop it, there was still deaths. Nothing she could have done would have stopped it. Naraku was evil, he killed thousands, that wasn't her fault. Naraku knew what he was doing and she had no control over it.

...but no matter how many times he told her this, it didn't stop the guild that she felt.

'I should have died...not them' Kagome thought, eyes dimming as her mind flashed to the bodies of her freinds.

Sango, Miroku...Inuyasha...

She hadn't been strong enough to protect them...they were always on her mind. The people she had cared about so much...like her family. Her family. The family that didn't know what to do with her anymore. The family she loved but didn't know how to cope when she first came back from the past.

Sesshomaru had shown up and took her away. Healing her as the best as he could. She still hadn't been back to see her family. She talked to them on the phone, but that was even awkward now.

She was changed. She was no longer the happy girl they once knew. Maybe one day she would be able to tell them what happened, but for now she didn't want to talk about it. It was hard enough to talk to Sesshomaru about it and he was there on the battlefield. Images started to go through her mind, she shook her head trying not to think about it.

'Put it out of your mind...think of happy times.' Kaogme thought, eyes tightening as she laid her head down on the desk. There words she had repeated to herself for the last year. Taking deep breaths, she tried to relax. She was concentrating so hard she didn't hear the door to the classroom open and footsteps coming closer to her, until she heard a voice.

"So we meet again, Princess."