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Kagome Age: 26

Purifying the Dead

Days of Innocence Past Part 1

Sprawling fields of weeds and what seemed like endless forests flitted by, the hum of the bus's engine soothing in comparison to the chattering people on the shuttle bus. She missed seeing nature like this, it wasn't something she saw in Tokyo, nor much of at Duke since she was always working in the medical labs. Although she wished she wasn't seeing the view for the reasons she was seeing them today. Because of where she was headed.

"Hello—" a hand came down on her shoulder jolting her from her thoughts.

"Huh?"

Kagome turned away from the scenery flitting by the window to her right, where a Caucasian man with thick-rimmed glassed, a sleek goatee, and dressed in trendy clothes with polka-dots on it, looked at her with expectancy.

"Could you repeat that," she asked.

The man smiled, "I said do you think they'll have enough room at the refugee camp? I mean I watch all the apocalypse movies and there's always that one point where they run out of room," he rambled on about other apocalypse problems and she half-listened.

'Apocalypse.'

She still couldn't believe it.

At twenty-six years old, she'd seen her fair share of danger and adventure. The day she turned fifteen saw to that. Spending a year, traveling and fighting Naraku and searching for sacred jewel shards had been hard. Before the feudal era she'd been a regular Tokyo city girl, but being five hundred years in the past without a phone, toilet paper, a doctor's office, and running electricity had been a life changer. Even with all the things she brought from a past, she still had to learn how to make a fire, find medicinal herbs for wounds and learning sutures, hunting, skinning, and gutting game; something she did, but never liked.

After she made the wish and the well sealed itself for three years she'd worked hard getting good grades and graduating with honors. She even studied old scriptures from the feudal era to hone her abilities. When the well reopened she'd been so happy, only for the well close up two weeks later for good. The kamis had basically given her time to say her goodbyes then returned her home.

'More like a tease.'

Showing her the life she'd be giving up in the past.

After the well's closing, she knew she couldn't just reserve herself to getting a simple job, getting married, then becoming a full-time housewife. She loved her mother and appreciated everything she'd done for them, but she didn't want that life anymore. So it wasn't any surprise to the Higurashi family when she left to travel the world. Only after a year away from home, taking care of sick, refugees in third-world countries did she return home.

Her Ji-chan passed away and her mother wanted more for her than living out of her trusty yellow backpack. So she did what any mama's girl would. She put on her big girl panties and managed to get into Tokyo University, completed her four years before leaving for America to attend Duke University for medical school to specialize in pediatrics. She'd just completed her first year at Duke and was excited to be learn new things to help out others.

'Before everything went to shit.'

The media and everyone thought the apocalypse was upon them. Scientists were baffled and horrified at the same time. People would be bitten and die, only to come back as undead creatures. The news called them walkers. Even the guy next to her, who surprisingly was still rambling on about apocalyptic movies.

Movies had nothing on what they'd seen on the news. Apocalypse movies never showed how to deal with the dead coming to life. She had a pretty good idea how to fight back against them. And yet, instead of being out there fighting against those undead monsters, she was safely tucked away in the window seat on a shuttle bus headed towards an evacuation refugee camp that boasted safe bunkers, as well as military protection. The shuttle bus she was on right now had nearly forty people in it. Some were even standing, not wanting to stick around in the city that had gone to hell soon after the announcement.

Everyone had brought the barest of wants and more necessities than anything due to the mandate of the camp. Most carried a single duffel bag per person. Families and couples were on the bus, huddled up together. Some were chatting like everything would be alright, while others seemed apprehensive. There was even a young teenager by herself in the row across, she had skull headphones in and to anyone else looked like she was listening to music, but Kagome knew better.

Her fingers would interlock and break apart twisting around each and occasionally she would tap her feet in an impatient manner before looking around suspiciously. She had black hair with streaks of neon purple, she had black jeans with more holes and rips in it than any of her old uniforms she messed up in the feudal era. There were two piercings one where each of her dimples should be.

'All that's missing from her jeans is specks of blood.'

Kagome grinned remembering her mom fussing at how hard it was to wash demon blood out of her uniforms.

With thoughts of her family came worry though.

The last she'd heard from her family had been a two weeks ago right before her school put out a warning that they would be shutting down till the epidemic is handled. Of course she would've gone home had she known how bad it was going to be. But airplanes were not allowed to leave to limit the spread of this new disease.

Now nearly a month since it all began she could only pray that she'd see her mother one day.

Suddenly Kagome lurched forward hitting the seat in front of her.

"Ouch," she pushed back before rising a bit to look over the seat in front of her. 'I wonder why we've stopped.'

Something was screaming to her senses that it wasn't good.

There was cursing and a commotion as everyone became curious and asked what was going on. "Hey why've we stopped?" one man asked, while another woman near the front exclaimed, "Oh my God! I think he hit someone!" The bus driver tried to calm everyone telling them to sit still, while he opened the door to go check on the situation.

Kagome gripped her backpack closer to her.

For some reason her reiki was acting up and she felt unease as people began to pile out of the bus to see what was going on. It seemed like ten minutes had passed before she heard the screaming. She looked out the windows and her eyes widened at the sight of blood.

Suddenly, before she even realized her body standing she was moving down the aisle towards the front of the bus. Leaping down the three stairs out of the shuttle bus hoping to be of assistance. Near the front she saw the bus driver holding his neck on the ground, while a man who obviously was the one the bus driver hit had half of his face and arm falling off, but his jaws were steadily snapping. It was obvious someone had beaten the walker, but the beat down had no effect or it simply did not feel it.

Seeing the wound on the bus driver she already knew it was too late.

The radio broadcasts had warned them once bitten they would change.

Her senses suddenly flared to life again and it became a haunting reality that what she was sensing were the undead. She'd felt these flares ups occasionally this past month, but she thought it was simply due to strong human emotions. It tended to happen in the past where if a person's aura felt a keen way it projected it spiritually to her unknowingly. She studied the auras of people during her time traveling, felt the different feels and motions of the people around her.

'Shit!"

She didn't curse often, but how could she have missed this.

Before she could warn the people who were now a large crowd outside of the shuttle bus two walkers came up behind some women who were panicking over the bus driver while screaming for someone to kill the walker. Now they were screaming for a different reason. The walkers took them by surprise A few of the male passengers came out with bat and proceeded to bash away the walkers, but before her eyes she watched the once clear rode become flooded with walkers some crawling body part, some walking slowly, while a few walked faster than the rest.

Now everyone was screaming.

"Get back on the bus!" she yelled, but a scream behind her had her turning quickly to see a walker had snuck up on elderly man getting off the bus.

Quickly the situation was turning bad, Kagome gulped before steeling herself and searched for her weapon. Her roommate Taylor had given her a knife before she'd gotten on her own shuttle bus with her family. She remembered her roommate telling her about how her family loved to go hunting and had plenty to spare.

She fished it out and prepared herself.

Launching forward she barely dodged gnashing teeth and slammed her knife into the walker's forehead. She felt bile build up as it dropped to the ground. But she couldn't just sit there and contemplate what she'd just done.

More were coming and around her she saw people were fighting them off, but no one had really brought weapons. They thought they were heading towards salvation, where the military would protect them. Not towards their deaths.

She grasped her knife firmly, doing her best to stay calm.

Her reishi started to act up and her eyes widening when her blade glowed slightly.

'Oh shit today may not be so bad.'

At this point she heard shrill screaming. It was a girl was on the floor, trying to holding off a walker.

Her eyes narrowed as she took off running, her knife ready she slammed it down into the skull of the undead woman and to her surprise it turned to ash.

She looked down at the girl who'd been screaming, it was the gothic teen who'd been sitting in the row across from her. Only somehow she'd passed out.

Turning around ready to take out another she noticed the ones that had been fighting were losing. It seemed like everyone was either dead, bitten, or barely keeping up the fight.

"No, no no," she whispered starting to panic.

'What do I do!?'

This wasn't how things were supposed to happen. They needed to get to the evac-site.

'I don't want to die!'

That's when she felt it, it was building up in her and Kagome did the only thing she could, she let it go. Kagome felt herself thrown back as a surge of holy energy left her body and she heard silent groans from the walkers.

"What the—" her back had been saved the brunt of the fall due to her back pack, but she still felt like a bulldozer hit her.

Rising to her feet steadily, her head slightly dizzy.

Her aura spreading out, but was met with faint aura of those who were dying.

Looking around she saw ash everywhere, and everyone from the bus on the ground. Some looked like they would turn any minute. She rushed to the first one surprised to see the guy who'd been sitting next to her on the bus. His once crisp polka dot shirt was covered in blood. His glasses cracked and his face pale from bloodloss.

"P-please I-I don't want to," tears built up in his eyes, as the wound on his chest continued to bleed. He looked at the dead people when one looked ready to rise.

It took a lot of willpower to agree to what he had silently asked.

It only took another minute before she felt his aura dim, looking at the man she wished she'd bothered to listen to his senseless conversation on the bus now. Guilt filled her, 'If only I'd paid more attention to what I was feeling.' Hadn't Kaede told her to trust her instincts, but being in the future away from danger had made her grow slack. Something that she couldn't afford to do anymore now that the dead were walking around. Feeling a spark from his aura that was wholly different than his original aura she knew he was changing. It was almost as if his soul was screaming in pain begging for death.

Gripping her dagger she plunged it into his head just as his lifeless eyes popped open unnaturally.

She killed the one next to him that'd been getting ready to change.

It took only fifteen more minutes to assess everyone else. Many were dead and changing so she took care of them first, then there were those who were bitten. One man just told her to end it for him, while another woman held her lifeless daughter who changed and bit her before she could get the mother to let go.

The forty passengers were gone, only her and the unconscious teen remained.

It took a while, but she removed the rest of the bodies off of the shuttle bus. She noticed the back emergency door to the shuttle bus open and assumed that's why the rest of the people had ran off of the bus. It took much effort to get the teen on the bus before she started driving.

Looking at the map the evac-site should only be a few more miles up the road. She glanced at the girl still passed out. She hadn't seen any bite marks on the girl and her aura was still clean.

"Don't worry little one, I'll get us to safety," she whispered before starting down the road.

If only the time-traveling priestess knew what awaited her. and the unconscious teen.

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