Five years had passed. Funny in her old life five years would have seemed like an eternity, however in the new life that had been granted to her it seemed like mere months. Yes, in exactly two days it would be exactly five years since she had made her wish and lost everything. She no longer had her family, her friends, or her love. Well the last part was not exactly true she realized that she had never had his love.
She could still remember everything about that fateful day. She could still hear the sounds of the swords smashing against each other and the screams sometimes still haunted her dreams. When it was all over Naraku had finally met his end and there had only been one casualty on their side, Kikyo. Kagome could hear nothing but Inuyasha's pleads for Kikyo to please not leave as she walked to gather Naraku's piece of the jewel. At her touch it instantly purified, all the evil that it once held vanquished. She turned to face Inuyasha as she held the two pieces of the jewel together feeling them instantly become one. It was that moment watching tears stream down Inuyasha's face that she realized that he had never loved her, and she new at that instant what her selfless wish on the jewel would be. That day she gave Kikyo her body so that she could have a chance to have the happy life that had been stolen away from her so long ago. She did it so that Inuyasha could have love, it was her final act of love for him. She welcomed death as she felt herself leaving her body behind.
Fate though is a strange thing it always seems that once we have it figured out that it takes us to a completely new path. That was indeed what happened to Kagome. When she awoke she found herself in a slightly familiar, but strange place. As she set she realized where she was, the border between this world and the next. She felt a little dizzy as she opened her eyes to see none other than Inunotashio and Midoriko standing before her. That was the day that they had given her a new life. She was herself, yet she was not.
As she set now looking into her mirror she could barely remember what her old face had looked like. True it still looked very similar, but older more mature, the face of a woman. The more mature look however was the least of the changes. She now had two magenta stripes on each cheek, and a blue crescent moon upon her forehead. Her eyes were now a bright amber with magenta gracing her eyelids. The magenta stripes were also on her wrists. She had sharp claws on each of her fingers where her blunt nails had once been. Her body had filled out in all the right places a tiny waist round hips and ample breasts. Her hair was now an even darker shade of black, so black that it almost had a blue shine when light would hit it, and it fell in straight silky tresses all the way past her bottom. Indeed she had decided that this body was far more beautiful than her previous one ever would have become. But, beauty can be deadly.
Inunotashio had granted her his demon powers, and taught her to use them to the best of her abilities. Midoriko had likewise given Kagome her priestess powers, and helped her to fine tune them. Indeed now she was not only a great beauty, but quite deadly. Now they had requested to have a meeting with her latter that day, one that she was certain would once again change her fate. She dressed herself impeccably in a blood red kimono with black velvet trim. It had a silt that went halfway up her thigh allowing her to move easily. She packed her things into a traveling pack that could strap across her back a lot like the old yellow one that she once carried everywhere. She prepared herself to leave her room as she was certain that she would never see it again. The last thing that she did before closing her door was to slip on her mask. Not a real mask but the one that Inunotashio had taught her to wear, the mask that hid all of her feelings from the world.
Kagome felt prepared for anything as she set across from the two of them, certain that nothing that they could say would shock her. Until Inunotashio spoke "Kagome, you have a new mission," she nodded her head for him to continue "you are to go back to the other side," she had been expecting as much "to assist my son Sesshoumaru." That one she did not see coming.