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Summary:

The funny thing about falling in love is that it's always with someone you least expect and at the most complicated times. Kagome saves Sesshoumaru's life and he feels honour bound to return the debt but it's hard to save someone who doesn't need his help, at least not help in the way he planned.

Sess/Kag

Chapter 1:

The air was crisp and cool as it whipped her hair across her face. The bowstring taut against her cheek she eyed her target. With skill and precision she let the arrow loose, the poor rabbit was dead before it realized it had been shot. Sad Kagome took out the arrow that had pierced the animal. It always depressed her to use such methods to have food. But since the well had closed with her in the wrong timeline she didn't have the modern convenience where meat was already packaged and hadn't been breathing just moments before. At least spring was finally coming and that meant she could at least live off of berries for a bit instead of poor defenceless bunnies. She hated killing things but she had to eat somehow and also her job required it actually.

She was called the Shikon Guardian Miko after her role in the quest she and her friends went on. There was a jewel called the Shikon no Tama and it was coveted by many youkai and human alike. It possessed great power and the lure was too much for some to resist.

She had been born with it inside her body until it was removed by a youkai that seeked it. Nowadays she was actually glad it did otherwise she wouldn't have met her best friend, the hanyou Inuyasha. He too sought the jewel but they gradually became friends. Inuyasha saved her and killed the youkai and had been saving her ever since. He was far too protective of her back then. Anyway she had accidentally shattered the jewel one day (much to Inuyasha's despair) and started a whole quest to retrieve the jewel shards on the way gaining more members to their group. Shippo, Miroku, Sango and Kirara completed their team and they became something like family albeit it was a dysfunctional one. They weren't the only ones looking for the shards though another hanyou named Naraku seeked the jewel as well for his own dark purposes. They raced against him on the way finding new friends and regaining old ones. In the end though there was a giant battle against Naraku who had put together the full Shikon no Tama. It had been Kagome though who had ultimately defeated the evil hanyou by purifying the Shikon Jewel that was placed in Naraku's chest. The battle over she handed it to Inuyasha, as she had promised, but he refused to have it. She then decided to wish it back to where it belonged but she didn't expect the to have effects though. The jewel went back into Kagome's body but instead of being concentrated in one area it dispersed filling her with the power of Midoriko's soul and the youkai souls inside. It replaced Kikyou's soul and it left Kagome's body and Kikyou breathed once more. It also closed the well off much to her despair and it had taken her years to move on but that's only when she discovered she hadn't been aging. She summed it up to having the youkai souls inside of her that was prolonging her life. He had hopes that she would be able to see her family again. All in all the jewel had brought both misery and happiness with its demise.

Sitting by the fire as her rabbit roasted Kagome thought about her friends. Miroku and Sango had married quite quickly after the final battle and they were now expecting their forth child in a couple of months. Kagome had promised to deliver it. They had also been taking care of the youkai kit Shippo who had been learning youkai slaying from the taijiya for self-defence reasons.

Inuyasha and Kikyou had been skirting around each other for a couple of years now. It was painfully obvious they both adored each other but they wanted to have absolute trust in each other if they ever wanted to have another relationship. The betrayal Naraku made them believe left deep scars in their hearts and in Inuyasha's case literally. At first Kagome had been heartbroken that Inuyasha had chosen Kikyou over herself but the pain had ebbed over time and she was fairly content with being great friends though she had sworn never to fall in love with someone so easily again. It hurts too much when unrequited.

For herself Kagome had been training for the past few years trying to control the warring souls inside of her and also trying very hard not to notice the different voices of her subconsciousness. She had grown quite powerful and had surpassed Kikyou tenfold. A downside to her newfound power was that many seeked to gain from it. Therefore she had at least one youkai visit a day fortunately most of them backed off when they noticed the size of her aura, it was stuff of legends.

She lazily ate her rabbit and leaned back against a tree trunk. She was not a carefree girl of fifteen anymore. Though you couldn't really see in appearance since merging with the Shikon stopped her growth her eyes betrayed her age and then some. In human years she was only nineteen but she had blue-gray eyes that seemed to bear the weight of the world. In a way she did. Regardless she still had a lot to learn but that was why she had been in survival training all winter to get stronger.

Kagome listened closed her eyes and relaxed until she noticed something that put her nerves on edge. The night that should have been swimming in sounds was deathly quiet. Grabbing her bow and arrows and placing them on her back and went to put out the fire. She then buried the remains of the rabbit somewhat awkwardly in the smouldering embers with a stick. Charging her eyes with her reiryoku as she had been taught and with her newly found night vision she scanned the area. Detecting nothing she spread her aura and noticed a disturbance in the forest to the west. Charging her legs with her powers she raced off to see what could possibly be going on. Little did she know that her curiosity could have been the very thing that decided her future.

Translations:

Youkai- Demon

Hanyou- Half-Demon

Miko- Priestess

Shikon no Tama- Jewel of Four Souls

Reiryoku- Spiritual Power

Taijiya- Demon Slayer

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