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Obsession

Momiji never saw any bird like this one. At first he thought it was only a black plastic garbage bag, but a closer look told him it was otherwise. A raven. For a moment he was baffled by the discovery of this bird. It was quite rare to find a raven in Japan, especially when there wasn't any suitable habitat for such bird. Though something felt quite off about this bird, Momiji approached the raven cautiously, afraid if it will launch a sudden attack on him. Usually Hatsuharu was with him, but today Akito called him for a visit, and Momiji slightly regretted not waiting for the young teen. Hatsuharu would have certainly taken care of the poor bird instead of him. Despite the fear that slowly crept into his mind, Momiji gently stroked the surprisingly soft feathers of the raven. Though the bird didn't stir, the blond haired boy somehow knew that it was still alive. He pondered for a moment before he picked the large bird about length of his arms with much effort and continued his way towards Shigure's house.

Kagome was dreaming, or rather, she was watching her own memories of past. Though the scenes randomly skipped from one to another, she knew that these vignettes were all related to her curse. From the time when Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's fight awoke the not-so-generous mountain spirit to when Kyoko bound her to protect Tohru; it came crashing upon her, catching her in a storm of memories. No matter how many times she experience such chaos, she could not get used to the pain that these memories brought. The memories took turns in giving her pain, and Kagome certainly did not enjoy their naughtiness. She slightly tensed as the storm inside her started to calm down, as it was a sign that the memories finally have picked which memory to show to torture her. Last time it was Inuyasha and Sesshomaru, and according to the sequence, this time probably was…

"Kyoko san…"

The day she met Kyoko.

She met Kyoko right after the mountain spirit cursed her, after it imprinted the curse mark on her right cheek to show its claim over the priestess. Every time she visited her own era to attend school or to rest, her friends' questions and teachers' scolding about the tattoo overwhelmed her, demanding answers from her. Eventually they got tired of her stubbornness and gave up on hearing a proper answer from her besides "for entertainment," but their curious gazes never left her marking, and she knew. The attention that she drew from people was eventually too much for her, so placed a small spell to hide the marking, and no one really asked her about the tattoo after that. So her quiet and ordinary life continued until the fateful day she met Kyoko.

Kyoko visited her shrine as a customer, seeking to buy a luck charm for her daughter. Kagome wasn't at home at that time due to some business that had to be taken care of in the Feudal Era, but she heard about the beautiful brown haired woman from her grandpa when she came back home few days after Kyoko's visit. He insisted Kagome to bless the luck charm for the respectful lady, which Kagome gladly did. It was hard to find those who sincerely believed in the luck charm these days, especially when people started to believe more into science than superstitions. She handed the blessed luck charm over to her grandpa, asking him to deliver her best wishes to Kyoko. It didn't take long for Kagome to figure out that what she did was a fatal mistake.

On the day she was bound, Kagome was flying across the Tokyo as a raven, peering down at the busy streets and tall buildings. Every once a while she flew over the areas around her shrine to check if there were any threats or dangers. She became aware of such things especially after the Noh mask incident, when her family could have gotten hurt due to the demonic mask's attack, and her curse certainly was useful at times like this when she went out on inspections. She could scan wide range without much effort as a bird, and she could also gather information from near by birds. No one was suspicious about the bird that sat on his or her windowsill or garden, though some occasionally chased her out because she was an omen to them. She was about to return home when she felt a strong pull.

"Huh?"

Surprised, she tried to fight off the invisible force, but it became a futile effort when sudden bright light erupted and blinded her. Kagome waited until the light subsidized, and slowly cracked her eyes open once there was no light shining through the closed eyelids. She was quite shocked to find herself facing a pair of warm brown eyes staring down at her. Kagome shifted her eyes around the lady in front of her, who was staring at her raven form a little too intensely. Why she was dragged here, Kagome didn't know, but from the baffled look on the lady's face told her that something definitely was wrong…like the lady wasn't exactly expecting a raven to pop out of nowhere.

"Interesting…"

The lady smirked, and Kagome was puzzled for a moment. What was so interesting about a raven? Kagome was pretty sure she wasn't in her humanoid form of the curse, nor was she naked due to the after effect of transforming into a raven. But somehow she figured that what was interesting for the lady in front of her wasn't probably related to her physical appearance, but something else… Something much more than physical characters. Her obsidian eyes and the woman's brown eyes clashed for a moment before the woman curled her lips into a sickening sweet smile, letting out a low chuckle.

"My, I never thought a priestess would be a raven."

Kagome instantly froze, wondering how the lady could have known that she was a priestess, but she acted as if she didn't understand what the lady said, and instead fluttered her wings and used her beak to organize her feathers. Kagome thought she heard another chuckle coming from the lady before she felt a warm hand slipping under her abdomen and lifting her up to the lady's eye level. Kagome visibly flinched, and she desperately clawed at the hand and fluttered her wings in an attempt to escape, but the firm grip never let her go instead gripped harder.

"You cannot escape from me. I do not know why you showed up as a raven, priestess, but I have no intention of letting you go."

The strangely forceful tone in the woman's voice scared her, and Kagome truly felt fear for the first time after she battled with Naraku. There was something else about her too that Kagome couldn't exactly pinpoint on, but that strange aura that radiated from her was the reason to her fear. It took some time before Kagome could finally realize what that feeling really was. Obsession.

'But obsession for what?'

Now Kagome was genuinely confused. She didn't recognize this lady or anyone familiar, so why was it that this person held so much obsession for her?

"It doesn't matter to me whether you are human or not. I summoned you as a guardian for my daughter, priestess."

That was something Kagome didn't really know about. How was summoning a human possible in the first place? Only spirits or demons could be summoned, not humans, not priestesses. Then it struck her. She was claimed as the mountain spirit, which could have weakened her position as a priestess, thus causing this situation to happen. Kagome swore to kill the two dog demons if she went back to Feudal Era by any chance. Once she regains her status as priestess, then whatever this lady wants to do with her won't be permanent, freeing her from the summoned state. Kagome was lost in thought when she felt something gripping down on her, pulling her to the floor. Unable to struggle against the force, Kagome looked down to see that there was a mahoujin* under her, a type she had never seen before. She heard the woman chanting in strange language before dropping strange liquids on he, then finally speaking the words of binding.

"With this drop of a young child's blood, with this drop of maiden's tear, with this drop of cherry blossom's nectar, the subject Higurashi Kagome the priestess shall be bound to Honda Kyoko and her daughter Honda Tohru until she is released by the owner of her life."

There was another flash of light and darkness overwhelmed the raven.

*I don't really know the English term for this word so I just wrote it in Japanese… Does anyone know?

I'm happy I kept my promise to update it on 18th :D!

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Just a short A/N,

some people reviewed or pm'ed me asking many questions. The story may seem disconnected from scene to scene, and because I don't exactly explain everything or anything, it may seem very confusing from time to time. However, I would really appreciated it if you would have some patience about the story and continue reading, because the questions that you ask me will be answered as you read. Though I love to hear from you and digest the constructive criticism through the reviews, concerning the flow of the story, I will not change it just because you require or ask me to. All I ask for you is patience