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Chapter 1

Feathered Touch

Kagome sighed as she stretched; it had been a long time since she'd left the palace. In the ten years since she'd come to the feudal era things had never seemed to be right. From the moment the jewel broke, to the moment that the well stopped working. The last four years of her life had been spent taking care of Rin and Shippo, and helping Sesshoumaru keep the western lands in complete control.

But recently the worst thing that could possibly happen had, the jewel of four souls had once again shattered, but this time they weren't in this time period. In fact, Kagome was relatively sure they weren't even on this planet anymore.

And it was all because of a pretty little feather, two objects with that much raw power are not suppose to touch.

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Kagome sighed as she continued to poke at the Shikon no Tama, it was an interesting thing to look over. And it was lovelier now that it had been completely purified, it was white in color, no longer black, purple or pink, with an iridescent shimmer of the rainbow dancing around the quarter sized sphere.

It was a matter of pride for her, she'd fought and bled for the damned jewel and lost so much along the way. That last battle had been brutal, in a way none of them could have expected. She did take a sadistic pleasure knowing that Kikyo hadn't been the one to kill Naraku, it had been Kagura of all people.

Kagome nearly rolled her eyes at the memory of the gloating dance the wind witch had put on after the abomination's demise. But there had still been loses, Inu Yasha had died protecting Kikyo, unfortunately for her, no one besides Inu Yasha wanted the clay dead walking about. Naraku had killed her seconds later, and Kagome had regained the part of her soul that had been used to animate the being of bones and mud. Koga, on the other hand, lost both Hakkaku and Ginta, Kagome had never seen the wolf so sad or morn so deeply.

Both Miroku and Sango had managed to make it through the battle, but Kohaku had not. After everything was said and done, they had taken his body home to the village of slayers to lay the poor boy to rest.

Many lesser demons had met a sad fate, between the volley of tentacles, boomerangs, holy arrows and sutras; well, needless to say there hadn't been much left standing. The hardest part had been getting to the jewel fragment that was left when Naraku literally dissolved into nothing, after his heart was struck that is.

And Kagome herself? She had been offered a position in the House of the West, Sesshoumaru needed someone, preferably a human, to teach Rin. She had reluctantly agreed, taking care of Rin included being combat ready. That little fact had nearly sent the young miko home crying.

"KAGOME!" a very large cry was released as a small bundle of energy attached itself to said girl.

"What is it, Shippo?" Kagome asked, the little fox had grown a lot in the time that they had met. Instead of looking like a strange infant, the boy looked to be about nine or ten years old and reached Kagome's waist in height.

"Sesshoumaru said something really weird is going to happen..." Green eyes held more worry than they should.

"What do you mean?" Kagome asked an eyebrow rose.

"Tensaiga has started buzzing or vibrating or something." Shippo replied.

Kagome sighed, that cou… Her eyes widened in shock, a large black hole the size of tire opened, it was completely deifying everything Kagome herself knew of science, but then again she was some 500 years in the past.

Within seconds a large feather drifted through, both of the viewers simply watched.

Now, normally Kagome kept the Jewel of Four Soul around her neck, once upon a time she'd allowed it to rest inside her body. But because they had been out of the western land for the last few weeks, the jewel had taken up residence in the personal coffers of the western lands. Only four people could get inside, Sesshoumaru, Shippo, Rin and herself, of course.

When the jewel and feather touched the unthinkable happened, a bright light engulfed the room all the while the black hole of doom continued to open wider and wider. A sudden cracking sound could be heard, forcing her eyes open Kagome could only cry in disbelief as the jewel once again shattered, four shards were left scattered upon the cold floor, and a seemingly innocent feather rested in the center of the room.

Kagome honestly didn't know whether to be sad or break down into hysterical laughter at this point. She'd just finished the shard quest four years ago, and now it was going to start all over and she was pretty damn sure it was going to be farther reaching than time.

"Shippo, go inform Sesshoumaru what happened." Kagome said in a shaky voice, all the while moving slowly to collect the shards left behind.

"H…hai." Shippo was dazed, this was bad, really bad, so bad that he wanted to wail to the heavens; it wasn't fair. They were going to take his Kagome, his mother in everything but blood, and he wanted to protest that no they couldn't have her, because she was his, damn it.

Kagome watched in silence as Shippo skittered away, she collected the shards and simply sat on the floor holding up the feather of doom and destruction. Kagome clenched the fours shards together before sending a small amount of holy energy into her palm. It was going to be a looong, looong year.

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That had all happened nearly a four weeks ago, between Miroku, Sesshoumaru and herself not one of them could figure out how to open the black hole. They had discovered that Tensaiga would resonate when a new portal in space was opened. Where it would open on the other hand, seemed to be up to chance.

Kagome swore, what was happening now? She could hear a mass of yelling in the gardens, what could possibly be happening?

Rushing forward Kagome felt her heart stop as she recognized the large portal type thing, it was incredibly similar to what had happened weeks before.

People, they were traveling… Kagome stared at them before waving the guards away, "Who are you?"

Two of them looked up ward, while one of them continued to hold a brown haired girl with the strangest clothing Kagome had ever seen.

"Ah, I think we should be asking that question, no? Or at least where we are?" The blonde replied a cheery smile on his face.

The black haired man on the other hand simply looked annoyed and was pulling on the cheeks of an extremely fluffy white thing, maybe it was a plushy?

"I would rather you answer me than dance around the question." Kagome frowned.

"Ah, you may call me Fai." The blonde replied, that silly smile still shining on his face.

"Hmm, Kurogane." The black haired one finally responded.

"Mokona." The plush yelled happily, content with the pulling of his cheeks. In fact, he seemed rather amused.

"And those two?" Kagome asked, pointing at the two brunettes.

Syaoran finally looked up still in a daze, Sakura was so cold she felt like ice. What if she died before he found one of her feathers?

He could hear Fai responding in the back ground to the woman near them, but he felt as if his heart was going to be ripped clean out.

Fai glanced at the woman she seemed rather intimidating to be honest, she was full of power, he could feel it running across his skin even from the distance between them. Shuddering he bent down, to "pull" a feather from Syaoran's cloak.

"Sakura's feather!

Kagome's eyes went wide as she watched the feather disappear in a ripple of space into the girl's body. It looked exactly like the feather that had caused so many problems before. A shaking hand covered her lips to hide her surprise.

"Who are you really, and will those feathers cause any more problems?" Kagome asked, slightly shaky at the thought.

Syaoran looked up surprised, "You've seen one of these feathers?"

"Yes," Kagome replied, she could feel Sesshoumaru coming behind her.

"Were is it?"

Kagome simply shook her head, that was information she wasn't willing to share.

"I believe she has asked you who you are, boy, answer the question or you won't be asking anymore questions." Sesshoumaru stated, his cold molten gold eyes seemed to cut into the travelers. Only Kurogane didn't seem too affected by the tone or glare.

"I'm Syaoran and this is Sakura." Syaoran finally answered a bit startled.

"Come, you will stay here until this is all settled."

"Settled?" Fai asked.

"She will be going with you." Sesshoumaru stated pointing at Kagome.

Kagome just sighed, oh yeah, this was going to be a really, really long year.