The Fire Bearer 2- Seperating Souls
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PROLOGUE
Naraku was dead, Kagome was dead, and the Sacred Jewel was only half completed. They didn't know what to do, and stayed in a fog for a long time after the final battle. They burned Naraku's body, burrying his ashes in a sealed vase inside a shrine they built to hold in his evil spirit. They gathered Kagome's ashes, giving her her own shrine next to the one the Sacred Jewel had been kept in when Kikyo was still alive. Inscents were always burning inside and around her shrine, and the villagers always placed fresh flowers in front of it. They frequently stopped by the shrine during the day, praying for their lost friend and protector.
Shippo cried for days when he saw them return with her ashes, they never even had to tell him the exact story. Though, he did ask Sesshomaru why he didn't try and revive her. He told him that it had been too late, that nothing would have saved her because her body had already been destroyed by the flames.
Miroku, however, informed them that he shouldn't have tried anyway. InuYasha and Shippo got very mad about this, accusing him of not caring for Kagome. Finally, he got them calmed down enough to listen to what he had to say.
Kagome was a Fire Bearer, he explained to them, but she was more then that. She was a Phoenix demon, and that's why she had been able to transform. That's where she got her powers from, from being such a powerful demon. The phoenix demon tribe had died out thousands of years ago, for one reason or another, not leaving a single one. Something terrible had happened, something with strong magic to keep them from rising again, as phoenixs were supposed to.
Phoenix magic does not allow a phoenix to die, simply rest before being reborn again from its ashes. So, if Sesshomaru had in fact been able to bring her back, they simply would have been speeding up a process that would have occurred naturally. The only problem was thatMiroku couldn't tell them exactly how long it would take for her to be brought back. It could take a month, a year, 100 years. He just didn't know.
The others decided to stay close to the village, just incase she was brought back relatively soon. So they stayed, and they waited. They waited for days, then weeks, then months, and even years. Could Miroku have been wrong? Could something have gone wrong? What could go wrong? There question was answered exactly 10 years later...
