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Side note: "Normal parenthesis" means that someone is talking; "parenthesis italicized" means that it's a message- email and parentheses italicized and underlined is Kagome's thoughts during that moment or her reflecting back on that scene. As always, enjoy!

Part 4: New Beginnings

Although I was pretty sad after TM closed down, I did keep to my promise of keeping in contact with my friends. It was an amazing feeling when we could comfort each other and be there for one another, updating each other on what was happening in real life. That period of time, I was getting ready to enter into Skidmore College as a freshman. It felt surreal; that a huge part of my life was now going to be missing as I made my transition to another huge part of my life. Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi were all becoming busy as well, excited about their transitions to their adult lives. I was too, don't get me wrong. Everything was just changing so fast.

Although my life as Priestess was officially over, and I had said goodbye to that version of me, I was still getting thrown into that role when I replied back to emails from my friends from TM.

"Priestess! How are you today? Oh! I miss you so much! I'm dying of boredom over here.." Sango would usually start off our conversations this way followed with, "My little brother is complaining so much because he can't use TM."

"Priestess! How have you been? You eating alright? Enough? Exercising well? Keeping in contact with us?" Miroku would say, taking his role as the next male in the family very seriously. Checking up with me would be his usual messages, as well as updating me on the rest of the group.

"Priestess, I'm so boredddd..." The youngest in the group, Shippo would complain, with most of the group reassuring him that they felt the same.

"Priestess, Mother will be busy in the weeks to come. I have a new job that I'm currently pursuing. How has my daughter been?" Mother, although busy, would check in with us briefly to see our situations.

Leaning back in my chair, I sighed. Seems like everyone's busy. Real life seems to have taken over when TM quit on us. Closing my eyes briefly, I listened to the sound of mother cooking dinner, of Souta playing basketball outside, and of the TV changing channels as grandpa tried to find an interesting program.

Opening my eyes again, I resumed looking through my inbox of mail, stopping short of the name above the email address, "Inuyasha Taisho." Inuyasha? Do I know an Inuyasha? I wondered. Scratching my head, I pondered over whether or not to open it. When I finally decided to, it read:

"Hey, this is Inugami. How have you been?"

Oh, so his real name is Inuyasha.. Quickly typing back, I wrote:

"Good! How have you been?"

I didn't have to wait long for his replies, he always replied back very fast. Sometimes, I wondered if he was replying from his phone, or if he was waiting for my replies.

"Great. wyd?"

"Relaxing at the moment. You?" Not used to using acronyms at the time, I got the hang of them pretty quick.

"haha same. You said your name was Priestess?"

"Yeah, that's my name :) I'm pretty bummed that TM closed down. I had such hopes that they wouldn't. But now everyone's busy, you know?"

"Yeah, I get you. What was your favorite part?"

I would proceed to tell him all about the group, the members and how we were still very close. For some reason, he was just very easy to talk to, and we just clicked the moment we met.

"What about you? What was your favorite part?"

"The people. They were from all over, so it was nice to meet so many people we wouldn't otherwise meet in real life."

"That's true! Like how I met you lol."

On and on, we would continue to introduce ourselves, never giving away any personal information. Just information on likes, dislikes, what we envisioned for our futures. In a sense, we were getting a good grasp of the other's personality and character. What made each of us tick, while at the same time talking about who we were on TM. What sort of things, people or places that we collected, saved, bought, and visited in TM. There was never a dull moment when getting to know this guy in between my summer days before I entered college.

One day, quite curious about his personal life, I asked him a personal question:

"Hey, Inugami, cool guy like you, you must have a girlfriend, right?"

"Yes."

"What's she like? How tall? How old? Her personality?" Call me a curious cat, or just a bored individual, but I wanted to be able to envision the girl that would fit this friend of mine. What exactly did she look like, and how did they begin? So many questions I had, and so much time an email would take to answer them all.

"She's amazing, the most nicest girl you could come across. She's Asian, skinny and just so beautiful. I fell for her the instant I saw her. haha you're so curious."

Asian? I blinked surprised. I'm Asian too! Quickly replying back:

"She's Asian? Such a coincidence! I'm Japanese lol xD."

"What? Really?"

"Yeah lmao."

"I didn't know that lol."

"What about you? I know I don't ask personal questions but now, I gotta know.."

"tbh, black, and a bit Greek."

Pausing at the computer, I closed my eyes to try to picture them together. Hmm I didn't know that. Quickly replying, I wrote:

"Really? I didn't know that! Well, you're very blessed then ^_^."

Hearing mother call me for dinner, I typed "brb", before hurrying into the kitchen. What a wonderful beginning to a great friendship.

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