A/N: So, guess what? It's ancient-relic's "ANOTHER STORY TIEM!"

Guilty, guilty, guilty. You may remember (or have no idea what I'm talking about, which is more likely,) a mention of this story in one of the updates on my author's page... this is another little brainchild that may or may not go anywhere. I plan on taking full advantage of the new crossover doohickies that the site has uploaded... so the category of this story might be jumping around alot- just some forewarning.

Also, I reccomend a soundtrack for this story; the music/song for each chapter will emphasize what the chapter revolves around. Sorta, anyhow... heheh. Special acknowledgement to whoever guesses the artist for the next chapter first!! HOORAY! The next chapter is...

Dun dun duh... Bring Me To Life. This chapter doesn't count, because there wasn't one before it. ;P

Anyways, please let me know what you think; constructive criticism is ALWAYS welcome!!

Disclaimer: I do not own InuYasha, or any of the stories that THIS story crosses over with. I also do not own rights to any of the music I mention; though all the songs are on my iPod.

Summary: Just when Kagome thinks there is nothing left to forever, time finally decides to give a little back. A series of interconnected OneShots

Carpe Diem

By ancient-relic

-o-

The truth is hiding in your eyes
And it's hanging on your tongue
Just boiling in my blood,
But you think that I can't see
What kind of man that you are
If you're a man at all
Well, I will figure this one out on my own

(I'm screaming "I love you so..."
but my thoughts you can't decode)

How did we get here?
When I used to know you so well
How did we get here?
Well, I think I know

Decode- Paramore

-o-

Prologue

She never asked for the powers she possessed, but it seemed that fate forever planned to meddle with her life. Time was obsessed with her future.

It had been years since she had assisted in the defeat of Naraku, and she had finally pieced and purified the Shikon no Tama. Ten years. The well closed, leaving Kagome trapped in the Feudal Era. The power of the jewel merged with her body, transferring its abilities into her body and rendering the small spherical prison useless.

She had grown until, she estimated in retrospect, she was 18 or 19 years old. Then, her body stopped showing signs of aging. Her hair would grow no further than the backs of her knees, which was how long it had been when she stopped growing. Her nails would grow no longer than a few millimetres, the length she had kept them when she stopped growing. She watched her friends move on with their lives, slowly leaving behind the past she was stuck in and heading towards a brighter future with one another.

Kagome's future was frozen. Time did not move forward for Kagome. Her body was suspended in time, frozen to everything. Her mind, too, seemed unable to move forward. She was incapable, frozen. With time, her heart fell into ice as well; and she resigned herself into her duties as a priestess and the protector of the power of the jewel. Kagome was frozen.

Frozen; until almost 11 years later, when Kagome felt a familiar pulse of magic flow through her being and stirring her from a decade of ice. A deep ache, beginning mid morning, settled somewhere deep inside her chest. It was not until later in the afternoon when she realized that the ache was not going to be ignored.

"The well…" she sighed, looking towards the faint blue glow that had reappeared around InuYasha's forest. It had been empty and dark for 10 years.

Looking back to the village that she had called her home, she stood at a fork in the road. One path led to the village, to her hut, to the people that were awaiting her return. Another led winding and spiralling, into the forest, and to the well.

What would become of her? Of her family, of her friends? Kagome could feel the ice crack, and it reverberated through her being. It was cool on her skin, melting and trickling into water and sliding off her body and heart.

It was time.

Kagome turned to the forest, stepping towards the well, and didn't look back.

To Be Continued…