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PLEASE READ BEFORE BEGINNING CHAPTER! Seriously, read it!

AN: Before anyone gets all annoyed at me for not updating my Digimon/InuYasha Crossover or just posting this while I've got that going on or even for some other reason, I DO have a good reason for not updating in a while.

I'd already stated that I wouldn't be able to update regularly like I'd have wanted because I've got a massive course-load from university. If that's not enough, I also have my job and other familial duties that now fall to me. But besides that, I'm sure anyone that's following my Digimon Frontier/InuYasha Crossover is wondering just why I'm writing this right now and not updating that story, right?

The answer is simple: I'm annoyed and I need to get myself together. You see, I'd already had a good number of chapters ready to be edited and that's not including the numerous other FanFic ideas that I'd started up but wouldn't be posting until later on. Now, I wasn't home when this happened, but one of the younger kids, my niece or nephew, I think (I'm losing track of who came when, and believe me, that's a very common occurrence when you'd got a giant family that just seems to be growing by the year) managed to get to my laptop, which my brother had borrowed at the time, and did something to it. I'm not entirely sure exactly what was done, but it was done and more than half of the stuff I had in images, videos, and documents were gone. I've been spending most of my free time just attempting to get all the documents (some of which were FanFiction ideas that I'd started up) rewritten from memory.

If that's not bad enough, karma seems to have it out for me because my dad needed to borrow my laptop because our desktop was being repaired and the next thing I know, he crashes it. So now again, I've been writing and rewriting as much as I possibly can.

Okay, so this story is going to take place a few years after the time when Kagome's fully done with her Feudal Fairytale Adventures, but this time, unlike how in the manga and anime, she won't be going back to the Feudal Era because the portal in the well would have been sealed for good. As for the MKR portion, as cute as it is to see Lantis and Hikaru together, Hikaru actually gets together with Eagle, barring the fact that he's in a conscious-comatose state. Oh, and while I loved the anime, I took a larger liking for the manga, so while I'll be taking details from the anime here and there, it'll be the manga I'll most likely be borrowing details from the most.

Anyway, I hope you all like this and please remember to review, but if you've nothing polite to say then don't bother saying anything at all! I will say that it might sound a bit awkward in the first few chapters or so because I'm just getting back into writing full chapters after not being able to do so for a long while.

~A Match of Two Souls~

oO-Prologue: Her Choice-Oo

Kagome sighed as she stared up at the Goshinboku. 'Has it only been two years?'

A little over two years had passed since the conclusion of Kagome's time in the Sengoku Jidai. The Bone Eater's Well no longer had any magic after the Shikon no Tama out of existence for good, its purpose fulfilled.

"I wish I knew what happened to everyone," the raven-haired girl whispered to the tree that withstood even time itself.

For months, after the well had been closed off, Kagome had searched and searched for even the slightest trace of Yōki in her time. But the harder she looked, the more discouraged she became. Either Yōkai had become exceptionally good at hiding from her senses or, as much as she loathed to admit, perhaps they simply didn't survive to her time.

And now, she was leaving the very place where her adventures had begun.

"Are you sure you want to do this, Kagome?" Higurashi Satomi asked her daughter, the apprehension in her eyes clear as day. "You know you can come with us; you don't have to do this…"

Kagome turned to her mother and gave her a soft melancholic smile. "Okaa-san, you know I would love to go with you…"

"But?" the older woman prompted, knowing there was more.

"But," Kagome conceded, "There's just too much here I don't want to leave. I know you think that after everything with the Tama and the Sengoku Jidai that it'll be better to get away from all this. But Tokyo is my home and Tokyo is where I'll stay."

"But Kagome—" Satomi tried pleading with her daughter once more. How could any mother agree with leaving her child like this? Even if it was what they wanted?

"But nothing, Okaa-san," Kagome held up her hand to halt her mother, "I want to stay here and you know that you need to go, for Jii-chan."

Higurashi Kaoru's health had taken a slight turn for the worse within the last few months. The doctor had said that the stress of caring for the shrine was starting to take its toll on the elder man. He advised that it would be best for Kaoru's health if he were someplace not so populated as Tokyo; someplace that was least likely to cause any stress.

It was why Kagome's mother and brother were moving to Ise where their mother's sister and her family lived.

It was also why Kagome's mother was worried.

Kagome would not be going with them. She'd chosen to stay with her cousins in Minato as opposed to going with the rest of her family. The Shrine belonged to their family, so selling it wasn't a concern as caretakers could be hired to look after the shrine.

"I've already talked to Sato-niisan and he was perfectly fine with it," Kagome assured her mother. "He sounded pretty happy that I'd be coming, actually, now that I think about it. Ma-kun and Keru-kun sounded pretty hyped, too."

Satomi gave a teary giggle. "I wouldn't be surprised! Those three love you just as much as they do Hikaru-chan!"

"I'm looking forward to seeing Kakeru-kun and Ma-kun go into 'Guard-Dog-Mode' as Sato-niisan calls it!" Kagome laughed.

A light breeze floated around them as their laughter died down. Kagome looked up at the Goshinboku with a little smile, "I think Goshinboku's saying goodbye…"

Satomi looked up at the large tree with a similar expression. "It wouldn't surprise me. It has been here to watch generations of our family grow, so to see us leaving…"

"Goshinboku is special," Kagome whispered. "It has a power I can't describe, I can feel it everytime I touch it. But I have a good feeling…It'll be here for many more years, watching over our family, watching the world as it changes…"

Satomi said nothing as she pulled her daughter close, watching the tall, majestic tree.

Adieu,

TsukiyoTenshi