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A/N: Summary and title are from The Used song "Yesterday's Feelings". I didn't make it up, because I'm lazy like that. (Hehe) this is short, no more than 5 chapters, its pre-series, pre-Kikyou getting the jewel even. Prologue and Epilogue are present; chapters 1-3 (or however many) are Kaede's flashback…

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Yesterday's Feelings

Prologue: Lost In Time

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Kaede looked up into the sun that had been beating down on her as she tended to her fields. A few children played, she thought she heard a battle cry similar to Inuyasha's mangled with yells and giggles, she couldn't tell in her old age.

She couldn't quite remember when she had played games like that with the other village children who were now old and withered as she was today. It had been 50 years; 50 years had taken its toll on her body as well.

When she was a child, no one dared into the forest because of the evil hanyou that was supposed to have lived there. Well after Kikyou-onee-sama's death still no one ventured in. Until…

Until, the hunters said they found a strangely clothed girl in Inuyasha's Forest, on the Goshinboku itself, even. And then she met her sister, in the body of a young girl who really just wanted to go home. Kagome.

She had seen many things in her life, and just before she had met Kagome, she thought it would be good that she didn't have any unfinished obligations so she could rest in peace when she did pass on. But now she wanted to hold out, until she could see Kagome and Inuyasha and the others back into her village safely with everything over.

They had so much love, the five of them, that she felt a little younger around them. Sometimes she was a little startled by Kagome, while she didn't seem much like Kikyou-onee-sama on the outside, that overwhelming kindness was there.

But Kagome, was Kagome, and that's all she wanted to be.

And Kikyou, would always be Kikyou-onee-sama.

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A/N: Suggestions? Reviews? Pelt things at me?