Left behind no more

Wow, I got so many nice things about my story, THANK YOU, and for that here is chapter 3. Also I can now hopefully start on Kagome and Chad's relationship a little so there may be a small fluff (it will be my very first one so go easy on me) in this chapter. But any way here is chapter 3.

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Kagome's eyes fluttered open and noticed that she was in a room she didn't recognize anything. She looked around and noticed that there was a small boy in a cot next to her, and his soul seamed to be slipping away bit by bit. Who ever healed him did a pretty good job in healing his wounds but his soul was still injured. Kagome fanned out her senesce to find out if the occupants in the house were evil or not. Finding none she let her guard down, sensing Ichigo was among them as well made her relax knowing she wasn't in danger. Looking back over to the boy Kagome slowly got up after feeling a wave of dizziness wash over her, moving closer to the little boy she noticed he was only around seven or eight years old.

"He must have been attacked by those things as well" Kagome thought vaguely, remembering what it felt like.

She pushed the thought to the back of her mind and put her hands over the boys heart and concentrated on putting her healing abilities to work on the boys soul.

"This should help you, it will heal your soul for you" Kagome thought healing the boy.

Just then Kagome heard the door open and a man with a striped hat and blondish hair came into the room, making Kagome stop her healing in surprise.

"Ahh, so you're the one who I sensed, I take it your Kagome then" Urahara said.

"Um…yea, I guess" Kagome replied moving away from the boy.

"You can continue healing him, and by the way I'm Kisuke Urahara and I work with Ichigo" Urahara stated sitting down seeing her on edge.

"Your aura seems the same as Ichigo's yet something is blocking it…" Kagome asked glancing at Urahara.

"I guess that means she can see soul reapers if she knows what I am" Urahara thought with curiosity.

"What are you" Kagome thought.

"To answer you question I'm a retired soul reaper, and yes I'm similar to Ichigo because he is a soul reaper as well, only he is a substitute soul reaper" Urahara replied more then stated.

"What's a soul reaper" Kagome questioned fully looking at Urahara.

"I think I can trust her, she has high levels of spiritual power" Urahara thought.

"If I answer your question can you answer one for me, deal" Urahara said and earned a nod from Kagome in response.

"Well, a soul reaper is a dead soul who has already passed on and has a high level of spiritual powers, they live in what's called the soul society; their job is to control the good souls who come into the soul society, they also defeat creatures called hollows which feed on the souls of the living" Urahara stated.

Kagome took the information all in, they kind of related to demons back in the feudal era.

"What question did you want to ask me Mr. Urahara" Kagome asked.

"Well I would like to ask what are you" Urahara stated a little serious.

"I'm a priestess…,well I'm still learning" Kagome replied with a bit of embarrassment.

Urahara's eye's widened in shock, there was jus no way. Kagome looked confused at his reaction; was it good reaction or bad.

"Um…are you ok" Kagome asked cautiously. Urahara then snapped out of his moment of shock and smiled.

"Wow, it's nice to meet a priestess in person rather then in bits of descriptions from writings" Urahara exclaimed happily.

"Um….I don't understand what you mean by that" Kagome replied with big question marks around her head.

"I'm talking about one's with real powers and not imitation ones" Urahara replied happily.

The door opened making Kagome look up to see a tall man with braids came into the room looking strict.

"Mr. Urahara what's wrong, I heard you…." Tessai asked before his eye's landed on Kagome who was healing the boy.

"Tessai Miss Kagome here is a priestess a real one at that" Urahara replied to him as he came in and sat down. Kagome by this point was confuses beyond the point of irritation.

"Can you pleases tell me why your excited because I'm a priestess" Kagome asked irritated.

"Priestess are suppose to be long extinct since 500 years ago" Urahara replied still happy.

"So your basically saying that I'm the only real priestess alive" Kagome said more to herself then stated.

"Yep" Urahara replied in almost a sing-song manner.

Kagome was silent for a while before finishing healing the boy. "So I'm the last real priestess" Kagome thought.

Ichigo came through the door with all his friends who where surprised to see her, also two new faces came through the door.

"Kagome your awake" Orihime exclaimed running up and gave Kagome a bear hug, almost crushing Kagome.

"Orihime I don't think Kagome can breath" a stuffed cartoon rabbit said.

Kagome paused looking at the voice that came from the plush animal. "I knew there was something off about those stuffed animals" Kagome said.

"Hello, sweet thin-AAHH" Kon started getting step on by Ichigo.

"You mean you were able to sense them" Ichigo said.

"Yea" Kagome replied.

"By the way Miss Kagome, I'm Kurodo, this is Noba and she is Lirin" Kurodo said pointing to the three of them.

"Nice to meet you three" Kagome replied.

"So how is he Hanataro" Renji asked.

"He's healed, but… how, it's near impossible to heal a human soul when it was in this state" Hanataro replied shocked.

"I healed him….." Kagome answered not knowing the boys name.

"I'm Hanataro; and you healed him….but that would make you a…." Hanataro replied in shock.

"A priestess" Urahara answered for him.

"What's a priestess" Orihime asked curiously.

"A priestess is a shrine maiden, or holy being, they heal the sick and purify anything evil" Kagome answered.

"Real priestesses became extinct since 500 years ago, I've only heard about them in textbooks and elderly people" Rukia said seeming interested.

"How dose the soul society know about priestesses" Ichigo asked.

"When I was still in the soul society, I learned that priestesses were once with the soul society, they lived in the human world to help with the souls of the living, they possessed powers similar to the Quincy's, only the priestesses powers don't completely destroy hollow's in fact they perform in the same way a zanpaktou would by cleansing them, as well they had the ability to heal any injury; with having said that when the time when Quincy's were to be killed, they were often mistaken for a Quincy and killed, until there was only a handful of them left, then the rest died of old age" Urahara informed.

"When did you learn how to use your powers Kagome…" Chad asked.

"About a year ago, give or take" Kagome replied.

"So you healed the boy" Renji asked, still in shock.

"Yes" Kagome replied.

"My name is Renji Abarai, and I…thank you for helping him" Renji said having said the last part quietly.

"It's nothing I was glad I was able to help him" Kagome replied with a smile.

After everything was settled with everyone and the boy was taken home, Tessai made Kagome something to eat and found her something that was similar to a priestess outfit to wear. Kagome was sitting having a chat with Orihime and Ichigo about their adventure to the soul society for the first time to save Rukia, and Kagome was amazed like a child listening to a bedtime story. She was amazed at how strong Ichigo had become. She now knew their secret and she informed them she would keep it a secret, if they kept hers.

"By the way Kagome do you think you can help us with a situation, I think you would be a lot of help to Ichigo and the others" Orihime asked, as if almost pleading.

"I'd love to but…" Kagome replied.

"But what…" Orihime asked with puppy dog eyes.

"I don't have my bow and arrows with me, I will only be able to heal and put up a barrier…." Kagome admitted sheepishly.

"It's ok Kagome we have some here for you" Urahara said asking Tessai to get some.

"I guess your asking me to help with those two I saw who tried to attack me" Kagome guessed.

"You can sense them…, and yes we are after those two but there are more of them" Ichigo said.

"Yes I can but I can't pinpoint their exact location, I can only sense if they are attacking within a certain range for some odd reason" Kagome said with a puzzled look.

"Don't worry that's to be expected since the bounts can hide their presence" Rukia replied.

"Bounts, that's the name of them" Kagome asked.

"Yea, bounts are these people who feed on the souls of dead souls and increase their life span, but just now we realized they were using these weird bugs to suck the souls of living people to gain power from them, they also use these creatures call dolls as there weapon" Ichigo informed.

"Now I see why they attacked me" Kagome mumbled to herself.

Tessai came back with a bow and a quiver full of arrows. "These are beautiful" Kagome said in awe admiring the craftsmanship.

"Why thank you Miss Kagome" Tessai said with joyful tears.

"We should be going now if we want to stop the bounts" Ichigo said from the doorway.

Everyone nodded and walked out of the shop and Ichigo took out a crest and transformed into a soul reaper.

"Wow and he dose this every time a hollow comes around" Kagome thought looking at both Ichigo's.

"Let's move" Renji said as all of them started walking towards where Lirin and the others sensed where the bounts were.

They walked until they were clear out of the city and near the forest away from harming people. After a few minutes they came upon a cave where they were sensing the bounts from.

Kagome heard noises coming from the cave entrance, like someone was here before them and was in a very big battle.

"What was that sound" Kagome said looking into the cave to see if someone was coming out. Sadly nothing did, and their battle would have to take place in the dark, where anything could happen.

"It seems that it has already begun" Rukia replied also looking into the cave.

"Then let's go" Ichigo stated.

Kagome and the others started walking into the cave and stopped a few seconds in.

"How about now can you sense the bounts" Ichigo asked.

Kagome looked into the cave. "I can't seem to sense spiritual pressure but……I can just vaguely sense their aura" Kagome said quietly.

"She's right I can also sense a human presence, but it's like this cave was built to keep anyone from sensing any spiritual pressure" Kurodo replied.

"That's probably why we couldn't find them in the first place" Rukia said.

"Then lets not waste any time" Ichigo said as they all started walking.

"I hope Rangiku and the others are ok" Orihime said quietly walking by Kagome.

"I got a bad feeing…." Chad said behind from Kagome.

"Your not the only one" Kagome thought.

They came into an opening where there were no torches at all making everyone stay on guard. Kagome then stopped sensing something's presence in the cave with them.

"Kagome what's wrong…" Chad asked making everyone stop.

"What's the matter Kagome" Ichigo asked a bit concerned walking over to her.

"Something just came into this part of the cave, and it's not friendly either" Kagome replied looking all over to find where it was coming from. Kagome then sensed something out of the corner of her mind and turned sharply only to met with a lot of one-eyed-bug things.

"There" she said pointing in the direction and then everyone saw them.

"Those are just like the things we saw before" Chad said.

"Lets get out of here" Orihime stated, and everyone couldn't agree more.

Running into the next cave they were met with a cave full of ruins. Kagome fanned out her senses and found nothing….for the moment.

"It looks like an old city" Kagome said gazing at the ruins.

"Probably from an ancient civilization" Rukia replied.

"Sounds like the perfect place for the bounts to be hiding" Renji said smugly.

Kagome was following the others when she noticed something out of corner of her eyes.

"Ichigo" Kagome yelled out. Everyone turned to see the same bug things only this time there were to many to count.

Kagome watched as Ichigo and the others started to attack them, then she pulled an arrow from her quiver and fired it letting the pinkish light take over it taking out a good chunk of the enemies, but more kept on coming no matter how many she took out and she wasn't going to waste her arrows on them.

"If we can lead them into a narrow space we can bring the all down" Rukia said getting a nod from everyone

Kagome looked at Rukia and noticed some of those bugs were behind a pillar and flashed a ray of light, and a shadow crept up behind Rukia. Orihime tried to warn her but it was too late and she was hit hard making fly up into the wall of the cave with enough force to kill, if it hadn't been for Renji. Chad helped them and Ichigo was having his own predicament with a huge sword that came out of nowhere. Kagome was having her own situation, the same fist was trying to crush her and she had to keep her barrier up. She noticed that Orihime was shielding Ichigo from the second attack. Kagome let go of her barrier and attacked the fist then it disappeared just as it came.

"Where did it go" Kagome thought trying to sense it. She heard a scream from Orihime and looked to see her and Ichigo being pulled into the shadows by wires. Kagome went to rush over to help them but was blocked by those bug things again.

"Do something Ichigo" Lirin shouted.

Kagome then used her hands and started purifying them and rushed over to help them. Grabbing her bow she forced her powers into it and slashed the wire, then rushed over to the two.

"Are you guys ok" Kagome asked helping them up.

"Were fine Kagome thanks" Ichigo replied.

"Kagome behind you" Orihime exclaimed behind Kagome.

Kagome turned at was met with that giant fist again, and it was coming straight at them. Before they could react a ash substance came and destroyed the rock where the bugs were casting their light at.

"Its those eye's, they cast a light that makes a shadow where the dolls can generate, you have to destroy everything that can make a shadow" Rangiku shouted.

"That's fine by me" Kagome said notching some arrows and taking out three pillars. Ichigo took out the rest of the bug things in one hit from his sword.

Kagome then ran over to the one called Rangiku and helped her up, then the others came over to her.

"You ok" Kagome asked.

"I'm fine" Rangiku replied.

They all sat down and Kagome started to heal Rukia who looked in pretty bad shape despite her protests.

"I'm fine Kagome, really" Rukia protested. Kagome inwardly smirked it was like dealing with a child.

"Rukia your soul I damaged I'm going to heal it weather you like it or not" Kagome said continuing her healing on Rukia.

"Can you all hear me" a voice said in the cave, making Kagome stop her healing momentarily. "Allow me to introduce myself my name is Ugaki I'm a bount, my dolls name is Gasell, and it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance" he said in a mock tone.

"What the hell kind of game are you playing" Ichigo yelled clearly irritated.

"If you just listen I'll tell you…, we're in the business of collecting souls, thanks to the bitto's we've been able to gather a staggering number of them, once they bring us the concentrated souls we ingest them, increasing our power as well as our dolls" he continued.

"That's about to come to an end, we're going to destroy those disgusting bugs" Renji replied grabbing hold of his sword.

He kept rambling on about how him and his clan were rejected y the world, Kagome felt a tad bit of sympathy for them but still that didn't give them the right to prove that they were, also they killed one of their own makes them unforgivable.

"This guy really loves the sound of his own voice a little bit too much" Kagome thought.

"I hoped that my words would have made an impression, obviously I underestimated your tiny brains" he spat.

Kagome was almost visibly twitching. "Did he say we have tiny brains, who the hell dose he think he is" Kagome thought angrily.

"He is making fun of us" Renji raged wanting nothing more then to beat the crap out of the bount.

"I'm going with you Renji" Ichigo answered standing.

"I'm going to….." Orihime said.

"Not this time, you stay here with Kagome and help her heal Rukia and Rangiku's wounds" Ichigo said seeing a replied nod from both Kagome and Orihime.

"Wait I can still-" Rukia began but was cut off by Ichigo.

"No…., Renji and I will go on alone from here" Ichigo stated not looking at her.

"He has a good point" Kagome thought.

"Chad you stay here with the ladies while Kagome and Orihime tends to their wounds… I need you to protect them" Ichigo continued looking at Chad.

"Don't worry about them their safe with me Ichigo" Kon said.

"Alright I'm counting on you" Ichigo said then running off with Renji.

"Be careful you two" Kagome said to herself then turning to the others.

"Alright where to start…" Kagome said.

"I'll work on Rangiku" Orihime said already starting to heal her.

"Ok" Kagome replied healing Rukia's wounds.

After a few minutes Kagome was almost done healing her wounds and was going to get some bandages when the cave started to rumble, then it started to fall apart having huge chunks of rock come down on them.

"Kagome watch out" Rukia shouted.

Kagome looked up to see rocks start to fall from the ceiling and was just about to put up a barrier when two strong arms pulled her out of the way and under Orihime's shield. Kagome looked up to find Chad who had a hold on her still, she mentally blushed at how close they were. After the quake stopped Orihime took down her barrier and continued on healing Rangiku, and Chad let go of Kagome.

"Thank you Chad" Kagome said looking at him.

"Don't mention it…" He replied quietly.

"It must be a dangerous battle for us to be feeling that kind of power from here, could it possibly be Ichigo's" Kurodo said.

"I could be" Kagome replied looking at where Ichigo ran to.

"I have to go help Ichigo" Rukia started sitting up.

"Don't even think about it, your no where near well enough to be fighting, let me heal you more" Kagome said a bit sternly.

"Alright but don't heal me too much or you'll wear yourself out Kagome" Rukia replied.

Chad looked up at the entrance to the cave, and Kagome looked at him. "What is it Chad what's wrong….." Kagome said trailing off when she saw who came in.

It was Uryu (she knows about him) and he was in this wired outfit. "Well I have seen worse" Kagome thought inwardly laughing.

"Kagome what are you doing here" Uryu asked with some shock.

"I'll explain later, right now's not the time" Kagome replied finishing healing Rukia.

"Where's Ichigo" Uryu asked.

"He went up ahead" Kagome replied nodding her head in the direction.

"Well then lets go, because I'm all healed" Rangiku stated standing up.

"Alright let's go" Orihime stated.

Everyone started running towards where they were sensing the battle was coming from and Kagome was shaking from the power levels, even from where they were. In the direction the were going Kagome and the others came upon the battle Ichigo and the bount were in.
"This guy is powerful, so are those others bounts" Kagome thought looking around at the bouts then noticing there was a soul reaper among them. "What's he doing with the bounts" she thought curiously in her mind.

Kagome watched as Uryu gathered sprit energy into his hands and formed it into a arrow, then moved so quickly she could barely keep up with his aura; Uryu appeared behind the white haired bount. Also out of the corner of her eye she noticed a strange gate that had almost the exact same aura as the well, only this one was more powerful. One of the bounts; the one that had attacked her was saying something and a red seal mark appeared in it. As if he were opening a door he parted the crest and swirling wind came out and it was so strong almost knocking everyone over. Orihime, Rukia and the others started running down the stairs making Kagome break from her thoughts and follow after them.

Uryu aimed his arrow at the gate; and then Kagome had a chill that ran up her spine, not only that but she was getting a wearied feeling from that gate as she got closer.

They all watched as Uryu fired the arrow he had and the portal absorbed it making it turn a light blue. All Kagome saw from where she was standing was the bount smirking he teleported himself over to where the others were and then disappeared through the portal. Once she was sure they were gone Kagome ran over to where Ichigo was and saw him arguing with Uryu and a woman with purple hair with a bright orange shirt appeared with him.

"Uryu you've just created a serious problem" She said.

"Why did you help them" Ichigo asked seriously.

"I'll tell you why" Uryu snapped slightly. "I know you have your bankai back….but even with that back do you really believe we would have been able to defeat someone so powerful" Uryu explained further.

"Well… I think that if…, well now we will never know since we didn't even try" Ichigo fumed.

"It would have been very difficult" the woman stated strongly.

"But you don't know…." Ichigo started but was cut off by Uryu.

"Listen, this quincy power is all I have to defeat him with…" Uryu said with some venom laced with his words.

Kagome was strangely reminded of herself and how her powers where the only thing that kept her alive in the feudal era. She listened as the woman named Yoruichi talk about how the bount's will use spirit particles to regenerate themselves. Also that they were going to go to the soul society to stop the bount's; they seemed to talk like she wasn't even there. Kagome knew they were in a situation at the moment but, they still didn't say one word to her.

"…Nothing but a shard detector after all". Those words rang through her mind again as if he was here taunting her. Kagome pushed it all to the back of her mind when she almost missed what Ichigo said to her.

"Hey Kagome, you going to come with us" Ichigo said looking at her.

Kagome thought for a second about going with them, then smiled. "Of course I will, besides I want a shot at that guy who tried to take my soul" Kagome replied with a smirk.

"Well why not as long as we've come this far,….in order to finish this we're going to have to mobilize every soul reaper in the soul society" Yoruichi stated.

"When you really think about it that might be the best solution we have" Rangiku informed.

"It was in the soul society that the bount's were created to begin with that's true, so if there is going to be casualties and blood spilled then the soul society should take some responsibility" Yoruichi said with a sigh.

"HEY"

Kagome turned to see Renji being supported by a blond soul reaper and one with an orange collar following them.

"Renji, your alright" Kagome said walking over to help heal him a little.

"They can't kill me that easily" Renji stated with pride.

"Alright, I just called in and we are clear to make the trip" Rangiku stated.

"Alright then let's go back to the soul society" Ichigo stated walking up to the gate. Ichigo walked through first followed by everyone else, and Kagome stood there for a second thinking.

"Let's go Kagome" Chad said from behind Kagome.

"Right, let's go" Kagome replied following Chad.

"And goodbye Inuyasha, I'm finally moving on…I found someplace better, and maybe I'll be happy here"

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Finally finished chapter 3, and wow did I ever write lots. Also what will happen to Kagome when she meets everyone in the soul society, better yet what will they think of her.