Authors Notes: Hi everyone! I'm so glad to see some people like this. Sorry for the short first chapter, I'm getting to know how this fanfiction works! ;) I hope to make longer chapters, and would love input from my readers on what you think should happen! Poor Kagome, InuYasha has chosen to become a demon rather than stay with her and age! What will happen? Let's find out! Sorry for a cruddy chapter, though, trying to figure out how to make time lapse. Any suggestions..? xD

Thank you ALL so much for your adds and messages! ; Makes a squeaky, happy face and wiggles about. ; One chapter up and I near sobbed with all the favorites; I just want to thank you all for that! It inspires me to keep writing! SO sorry for the long wait. Finals and work, just takes up a lot of time, and I really struggled to make this chapter interesting. Clearing schedule now, though, should let me write lots more!

Kagome sat there at the bottom of the well for the longest time. How long? She couldn't tell. With the roof over the well, it was difficult to tell how time was passing. How long, indeed? Another ten years could have passed in the blink of an eye as she just laid there and let the pain wash over her again. Ten years, and she finally managed to lay there and sob. She knew why he'd chosen the demon. He was protecting himself once again, selfishly protecting himself against the world and those who truly loved him.

She couldn't lie there forever, though… Eons went by, though, before Kagome finally managed to pull herself up onto the ladder of the well, out of the shrine house, and drag herself into the house. She knew it was pathetic, twenty five and living with her parents still, but by now no one knew that she was worried about. Such mundane thoughts, she thought to herself, but it seemed to be the only thing keeping her sane by now. For a moment she stood there in the warmth of the present, or was it the future? It was too difficult to know by now. Slowly, she raised her hands to stare down at them. She was still covered in the blood of demons and her friends, despite the rain. A bath... That was the first thing that needed to be done on the path to her own redemption. A clean start…

She sat there in the bath for a good ten minutes, just scrubbing at herself till she was as red as a cooked lobster. It took her some time before she finally managed to drag herself out of the tub to dry off. Not once did she look at herself in the mirror, too afraid to see what horrors her face might now reveal. It was time to make changes so that she wouldn't even recognize herself. Starting with doing something about that stupid wardrobe of hers. A green skirt and school-girl shirt were not acceptable at her age. Eyelids fell shut. Breaking ties was never easy, but it was time. It was no good to return to that world until she was prepared to face a new evil. She could only hope that, now, he could not follow her here.

She stepped outside in a pair of jeans and a tank-top, allowing the warm summer sun to hit her skin. But she was too numb to feel the warmth of the world around her anymore. Her gaze naturally slipped towards the shrine housing the well. It was time to insure he could not follow her... Ever so slowly she made her way over to the well. A hand raised, she touched her fingertips to the old wood, and sighed. Pain washed over her again, but she didn't let the tears fall. No... It was anger now, and she let it twist into something ugly and hard, for once, wanting to feel something other than the hurt.

That pain twisted out from the palms of her hands in a harsh black force that began to wrap itself around the well. She watched in cold nothingness as the well began to warp and twist beneath the pouring energy that began to purify the ability to allow anyone that Kagome didn't want passing through the well, to become stuck on the other side. A muffled, silent sob escaped her lips as she continued to let the pain and anguish flow through her into the well, to keep it forever sealed against the evil that resided in the past. An evil she knew would spend its time to wreak havoc in the past.

The well glowed black for a moment longer, before slowly settling back to the normal, aging wooden color she'd grown so familiar with. But when she set a hand upon it, the magic felt cold, and dark, as though acting as a repellent to anything trying to cross. It was finally time to begin healing, finally time to put aside the worries of the past and look to fixing the future, and destroying the one person she had ever loved in her life.

(AN: Yay time to get to the fun part. Skipping ahead three years!)

Sesshomaru stared down at the withering well. Ring sat off to the side with Jaken, adorning the poor imp in flowers again. Three years had passed since he watched the miko jump down the well to disappear. Many times he had attempted to see where she had gone, but with each jump, he only landed at the bottom of the well feeling, for once, rather stupid.

Today something had drawn him back though. perhaps it was the evil growing in the lands, that had drawn him to the one clean spot left in this world. Eyelids narrowed as he glared down at the one object that caused him more trouble than his half brothers attempt to control the world. He reached out and placed a hand upon the well, it was warm beneath his hand for once, and eyes narrowed further. It wasn't a second later that he launched himself over the edge. A warm blue energy enveloped him, and the sensation of falling, falling slowed, until he landed at the bottom of the well once again, as usual. And yet different. A horrible array of smells hit his nose, leaving him staggered a moment, a hand raising to try and wave the smell away from him.

Noises came, too, too loud, strange and unwarranted. Where had that blue light taken him? He glanced up, but instead of the sky, a solid wood roof covered the top. He was perplexed once more, this was not the same well he had jumped into it seemed. He leapt over the rim of the well once again, not bothering with the ladder. His boots clicked on the floor, and at the same time as he looked up, the door of the small building opened. The woman standing in the doorway was, and yet wasn't the same girl he had seen stumble into the well three years ago. A young woman stood before him, looking aged beyond her years into a strong woman, but still that sad, and silent distance to her eyes. He narrowed his eyes at the woman, and let one name fall from his lips. "Kagome.."

AN: Cliffhanger, haaaa! Sorry to end it here, but my creative juices for this chapter where on zero! D: Lord fluffy-sama will kill me for not giving him fluff with teh Kagome!

Fluffy: ; Twitches and draws tokijin ;

InkMistress: ; Squeaks and runs to hide and write more chapters. ; I promise, next chapter up soon, I have soooooo much in my head now that I'm finally up over the hill!