A/N: Sorry for taking so long to upload. As a way to make up, I'm posting two chapters this time round. Thank you so much for your patience and for staying with me. Thank you to all those who gave my ego a huge boost by following this story. Mean the world to me, Gratzi

When Kagome came to, she found herself staring at a familiar roof. She wept horribly as she stared at the thatched roof of Yumi's home. A few minutes later, she had composed herself enough to start analyzing her situation. 'I' eighteen years old, I fell down my family well and landed in the year 1190 and apparently the well won't take me back... Wait, why didn't the well take me back? Do I have a purpose here?' Kagome knew it might be wishful thinking, but she reused to accept that this was happening to her for shits and giggles.

"Alright, since I can't go back, I'll try to make a go of ot and hopefully I'll be able to return sooner or later." She said to herself.

"I just wish I could let my family know I am okay."

With a resigned sigh, she rose and went into the next room. There was no one home with her this time, so she took her time looking around the little hut. Taking in the various objects historians of her time would die to get a glimpse of. Presently, she sat by the fire pit in the center of the hut and waited for Yumi to reappear, she must have dozed off because the next thing she knew, she was being jostled awake by Yumi and it was a lot warmer.

"I'm up, I'm up." Kagome called groggily while eyeing Yumi's worried face.

"Would you like to go for a walk with me and have lunch?" Yumi asked with an expression as if she expected Kagome to bolt again.

"Sure, but I don't have anything to wear," Kagome answered as she looked at her shorts and blouse that would not be appropriate for another few hundred years.

"Don't worry about that, I have a kimono you can use." Yumi said, smiling with relief.

Kagome was a little embarrassed to admit that she had no idea how to wear a kimono but thankfully it was a simple one and Yumi did not question her lack of knowledge.

One hour later, they were at a small meadow in the forest surrounding the village, enjoying rice balls and bits of dried fish. Kagome was admiring the small patches of flowers around when Yumi suddenly tensed beside her. She was about to ask what was wrong when she felt the earth shaking, she turned to see that Yumi's wide eyes matched her own for a brief second before it was replaced by a look of determination and she reached for her bow. Kagome ahd wondered why she had felt the need to carry along a weapon, now she knew that Japan apparently had large animals that no longer existed in her time.

She watched as Yumi took a defensive stance in front of her as whatever was making the earth shake barrelled into the clearing. Kagome didn't know how to process what she was seeing; a humanoid body but thirty feet tall was towering over them, it had deep purple skin and claws where fingers and toes should be. Its head was massive and its face, if you could call it that, was just one giant red eye and a huge, gaping maw. Presently, it was sniffing the air with a nose Kagome could not see. Yumi stood perfectly still and Kagome followed her example, sitting unmoving behind her. Suddenly, the creature's red eye swivelled ans settled on them, in that same instant, Yumi had notched an arrow directed right at that eye. Kagome was too numb to be impressed with the speed.

Without looking back, Yumi uttered on word before letting her arrow loose.

"Run."

Kagome didnt need to be told twice, her previously frozen muscled sprung to life and she scrambled to her feet and tried to get away as quickly as possible with the impractical snugness of the kimono hampering her legs. He had barely made it twenty feet when she heard Yumi screaming her name and she knew she was being pursued. Like some really bad horror movie, her kimono chose that moment to get snagged on some tree root and she fell. She quickly rolled over to un- snag the garment, getting ready to rip it if possible. In less than five seconds, the shadow of the creature had fully engulfed her, she glanced up to see one clawed hand speeding towards her. Her only thought was, 'Oh shit, No', but the hand never connected; instead she heard and enraged howl and her nostrils were filled with a pungent burning odour. She looked up to see that she was surrounded by a pulsing pink barrier and the creature fastly disintegrating before her very eyes. She was so shocked, she barely noticed Yumi racing towards her with an equally shocked look across her features. As she neared, the barrier dissipated.

"Kagome, why didn't you tell me that you were a priestess as well?" Yumi asked with an awed tone in her voice.

"And you have so much holy power, I can barely get a spark." she continued, chuckling good- naturedly.

"What are you talking about?" Kagome asked, freaked out at the notion of herself having powers, holy or otherwise.

"Kagome, don't you feel it pulsing through you? I can feel it from over here." Yumi asked, incredulous. Kagome did feel a restlessness coursing through her veins that wasn't there before, but was ready to put it down to adrenaline. Yumi gently placed her hand over Kagome's, she guessed her face must have been reflecting her panic and confusion.

"You didn't know, did you?" Yumi asked gently.

"It's okay, it's a blessing from the gods. Priestesses like myself train to use it to fight demons like that one just now."

"Demon?" Kagome squeaked.

"Oh Kagome, you don't know about demons either?" Yumi stated more than asked while looking at her with pity.

"Let's go home, we need to talk."