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Everyone spent the remainder of the day in the library. They looked though several books trying to find some way to help Kagome. Well Hiei and Kurama looked hard. Yusuke and Kuwabara would occasionally get into small fights. When this happened Kagome raised her energy a bit in annoyance. This got both if their attention reminding them that she was impatient to be released from the jewel. It also caused Hiei and Kurama to smirk a bit. If only she knew how hard it was to get them to stop usually.

It was Hiei that found something. He placed it in front of Kurama who informed the others of what he found.

"It says here that a spiritual person should be able project an image of themselves and animate that projection. A sort of astral projection."

Yusuke grinned "well, it's not a solution but it sounds like a good short term fix. How does it work?"

"She'll have to of gathered enough energy. Then she'll use it to project her spirit out of the jewel. It would leave her body in the jewel in a sort of coma like state. "Hiei explained while looking at the book.

"With five hundred years of being dormant I'm sure she'd stored more than enough energy to accomplish that. Though by what it says here she will have to stay near the jewel or the projection will fade out. Something about not being able to travel to far from her body." Kurama concluded.

"So she'll just have to stay with one of us while we hold on to the jewel. No problem with that." Yusuke commented.

Kuwabara had been filling in Kagome with the conversation. She was very excited to try. Kurama had Kuwabara tell her how she would need to meditate and focus on an image of herself standing next to them. Kagome had been taught meditation from Miroku and often used it to keep her sanity in the last few centuries. So falling into a meditative state was natural. It took several minutes before anything happened. At first the jewel started to emit a soft glow. Then slowly the glow came off the jewel and stated to take human shape next to the team. They could all feel Kagome's distinct energy pattern from the glow. As it took shape the team started to see Kagome for the first time. Long dark hair a short stature but well-toned and womanly curves. The whole projection however was still shrouded in a pink glow.

As her eyes opened she saw the team. Granted it was in a pink hue but, for the first time in five hundred years she was seeing something other than darkness. Her hands flew up to her face as she started to wipe away tears, over joyed at being free if only temporary.

Kuwabara moved to put his arms around her in an attempt to comfort her but found he passed right though.

"She's not really here dummy it's just her consciousness and a materialized form of energy" Hiei remarked.

Kagome looked up smiling. She had heard him. She had heard Hiei. Not just Kuwabara. "I heard you!"

She smiled up with teary eyes. It was like she was seeing and hearing everything again for the first time. She was a bundle of emotion not sure what to feel. Excited that she could be out of her hell hole or scared and nervous about the fact that it was only temporary. She knew she would eventually be drained of spiritual energy and be forced to return to the jewel. She was putting her faith in these guys that they would find a solution before that happened. Kagome was terrified to go back.

She looked over at Kuwabara who she knew still held the jewel. As she looked at the place of her torment she shuddered a bit. Kuwabara put the jewel away in his coat pocket. No need to have it out now as he could talk to the projection of Kagome rather than the jewel. He could clearly see that she was scared of the thing.

Kurama looked the lead and smiled back at her. "Yes, we can all see and hear you now. Just like you should be able to see and hear us. My name is Kurama that was Hiei over there. This is Yusuke and you of course already have spoken with Kuwabara." He pointed at each in turn as he made introductions.

Kagome smiled and gave a nod to each as their names where said. "It's nice to officially meet you. I'm Kagome."

"Yes, well now that we have all been introduced we should all be headed down to inform Koenma of this new development."

Kagome paused at that and drew into herself a bit. "He was the one that wanted to do tests on me."

Kuwabara instantly shot up to comfort her. It had become second nature almost at this point. He couldn't help but feel connected and a sense of wanting to protect her. "Don't worry we won't let him do anything to you I promise."

"Yeah there is no need to worry about the toddler. He talks big but I promise his bark is worse than his bite." Yusuke reassured her.