Something New (SesshomaruxKagome)

Chapter 1

#4391+words #olderkagome #60years+

A/N Photo is what Kagome looks like in this story- Jayne

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Kagome POV

I sighed in contentment as I sat at the base of a tree that's close to where my hut is, the season was beginning to change to winter and I wanted to make sure I had more food and herbs stocked up, my name is Kagome Higurashi and I use to travel with Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku and Shippo so we could defeat the evil half-breed Naraku, who was using the power of the Shikon no Tama to concur all, he left devastation wherever he went, killing innocents, Lords, human, half-breeds it was a never ending battle with him....well that was 60 years ago, after the jewel was completed and I purified it Inuyasha and his undead miko Kikyo tried to attack me to obtain the jewel for themselves but that didn't work, that was when my life changed, the well that took me back to my own time closed forever leaving me here in the sengoku era and the jewel who grew tired of getting passed around from guardian to guardian decided to make me it's permanent guardian, so in doing that and to keep it a secret, the magic within the jewel made it look like I was sent back to my own time but in reality it sent me to a sacred mountain, were I could grow in strength and learn more about my powers

I had a lot of time to think about my life and what happened when I fell down the well years before, pulling me into a world that medicine was sparse, with magic still accepted and where yokai and demons alike walked the earth, it was hard trying to get use to this world and stay alive at the same time, meeting Inuyasha was a blessing but also a curse -though I didn't know this until later- I looked so much like his first love that he most often compared me to her, Sango and Miroku did the same thing too and in the end I gave up trying to be me because no-matter what I did nothing was good enough for them, though I have to admit Inuyasha was the worse out of them all whilst Sango and Miroku only did it slightly without meaning too

Even though I was lonely on my own in the mountain, I became accustom to the quite that I hardly got with Inuyasha, after being there for a few weeks and training with my miko powers -something no-one else would ever let me do- I discovered that I could send messages through dreams, though I had to have a special bond with them for it to work and after thinking on it for a few days I decided to let Shippo know I was still in this era, he was like a son to me and I didn't like the thought of him thinking I wasn't around anymore, when I spoke to him I explained about what happened to me and where I was and that I would see him soon, I also asked him not to tell anyone else about me still being here, even though Inuyasha chose Kikyo, I could sense -something else that was new to me- that he was still searching for me, my feelings for him was nothing more than puppy love -pun intended- I think every school girls thinks she's in love when the male promises to protect her, but my love for him slowly changed over time

Every time he left us without protection, when we would be sleeping thinking he was there watching out for any trouble, he was with Kikyo, at the beginning I would pretend I didn't know he had left but I was maturing and knew he needed to know that I knew where he was sneaking off too, so one night after he left I watched him leave, when he was out of sight I sat up and waited, and just before sunrise he tried to sneak back in but froze when he saw me awake and watching him "I do not understand why you are sneaking about Inuyasha, we all know who you've been seeing but let me tell you now, if you leave us without any protection again, there wont be a piece of you left for Naraku to finish" I had warned him coldly, the others had woken up and heard our conversation but I never took my eyes away from him, from then on Sango, Miroku and I would take turns keeping watch since we couldn't trust Inuyasha to watch over us

Maybe that was when my friendship with him at changed so drastically that he decided to bring Kikyo into the group without any warning, though he was sorely disappointed when it was discovered that she couldn't feel the shards anymore than someone else who was dead, he couldn't handle the fact that she wasn't a miko anymore and Inuyasha decided it was my fault and whilst I never truly believed it, it got on my nerves quickly that I would often go off on my own to meditate, my miko powers were growing by then and whilst Shippo knew about it, I kept it from the others and since Kikyo couldn't sense anything I was happy about that, though I often wondered if Miroku knew but he never mentioned anything so I never spoke of it, by the time he and Kikyo had attacked me I had lost all feelings for him and only thought of him as a friend, though his behaviour was slowly taking that away as well