Title: Somewhere To Belong

Summary: Kagome visits the well to think of her choices.

Rating: K

Canon

Inu/Kag

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Kagome sighed as her fingers brushed against the coarse wood of the well. She paid her surroundings no mind as she stared down the dark shaft that used to lead home. The Bone-Eater's Well had long since used up it's magical time-traveling powers, leaving her without a second chance to return.

It was here where the modern priestess felt most nostalgic. Everything that happened to her, meeting Inuyasha and her friends, going off on an epic journey, fighting monsters she had once thought were only in stories and legends, happened because of the well that had allowed her access between the past and the future. She wryly thanked Buyo for wandering into the well-house, putting her in the right spot to be pulled into her adventures by Mistress Centipede.

But in the end, she had to make a choice that she couldn't ever make again. She had a good future coming in her time, and her family was on that side, making due with normal lives. However, in the Feudal era, there was never a day where she was bored, demons occasionally attacked her because her reputation of killing the wicked demon, Naraku, threatened them, Inuyasha, forever her protector, was never too far from her side, Sango and Miroku had her babysitting their twins and young one while they were busy- not that she minded, and Shippo visited her sometimes between his training. Her life in the past was vividly colorful compared to the life she once led in her own time. But she absolutely couldn't deny that she missed her family.

When her family came to mind, Kagome had thought she was selfish, wanting to stay in the Feudal era with Inuyasha. Her grandfather's health was slowly declining with his age and Souta had been close to graduating middle school when she left. She didn't even say goodbye to them. It must have been hard for her mother to let her go where she possibly wouldn't see her daughter again, then she'd have to tell the rest of their family what happened. Kagome had no idea what they were going through now and she couldn't see them ever again.

Two teardrops fell into the darkness before Kagome hid her face in her arms, leaning against the well as quiet sobs wracked her frame. Leaving her family behind was the only regret she had, but it was one that struck her heart hard.

Some things need to be sacrificed in order to reach the goal. Kagome's goal was utter happiness at the sacrifice of her old life and other hardships in the past. She chose to visit the well once in a while to look back at all her accomplishments and failures, what she could have done or prevented. At the end of the day, she had her half-demon and her happy ending and it was all she could ever want.

"You're crying?" The blunt inquiry made her rub her eyes from tears and stood to face Inuyasha. He stood two feet behind her and she watched his concerned gaze look over her face before glancing behind her at the well. When his lovely golden eyes softened in understanding, she walked up to him and kissed his lips, feeling his arms gently encircle her waist. "Kagome," he murmured in her hair, showing his rare sweet side as he rested his cheek on her crown. "Are you... happy here?"

"I miss them, sometimes," Kagome told him quietly, leaning in his embrace. "But I wouldn't change anything... not if it meant ending up without you."

Content with her answer, he squeezed her affectionately before releasing her. "Come on, Sango wanted to cook dinner for all of us and it's almost done."

"'Kay," she nodded and walked beside him. After the tears, heartbreak, and loneliness of the past, Kagome was utterly happy where she was. Lacing her fingers with his, she smiled. The Feudal Era was were she belonged now.