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The More Things Change	By : inumom Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > InuYasha/Kagome Views: 2401 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: Don�t own �em, but I�m not giving up hope.

7. Village Life

The days spent in Kaede�s village seemed to melt into one another. Gradually, Kagome established a routine of sorts. She would begin each day anxiously looking around the area for any sign of the hanyou. After a brief bout of tears at his continued absence, she would join the old miko to help her with the day-to-day work of survival in the Sengoku Jidai. As a result, she learned a great deal about advanced healing, including the compounding of medicines and the preparation of the raw materials.
Realizing that every minute spent unoccupied was a minute she had to worry over the fate of her dearest friend, she spent the greater part of every afternoon with either Sango or Miroku, learning to fight. While her natural agility made her quick to learn with the sword, her small stature made her progress with what would have been called a quarterstaff in medieval Europe much slower: it would take some time to develop the upper body strength necessary to turn the theory she had been learning at the monk�s hands into a real fighting skill.
She also spent at least an hour every day refining her archery skills. On one of her trips home about a year ago she had purchased a modern compound bow and some arrows made of a variety of high-tech materials unavailable in her new home in the past. Although she had learned archery using the traditional equipment available in the Sengoku Jidai, the newer materials available in her home world were both stronger and lighter in weight than wood, and the new equipment was specifically designed to enhance her skills by allowing her both greater accuracy and a much greater effective range. The new arrows made from fiberglass, graphite, carbon fiber, and aluminum prevented the problem she had been experiencing with wooden arrows �burning out� from the infusion of miko energy used when she fought.
In the evenings she spent time with the village children and the kitsune kit she had inadvertently adopted in the makeshift schoolhouse she had established in an abandoned hut at the edge of the village. Since the usual farming chores were finished for the day when the sun went down, there was little opposition from parents to her teaching their children to read and do a little basic arithmetic. As a result, this village soon boasted the highest literacy rate in the entire region.
When all was finally quiet and the rest of the little community was asleep, she spent time training with Kaede in an attempt to learn the precise control of her powerful but completely untrained miko abilities. Surprisingly, these lessons went extremely well: it was almost as though she had been born knowing how to use her formidable powers and only needed to be reminded.
For the first few months of her self-imposed exile in the Sengoku Jidai, the village came under almost constant attack from a wide variety of relatively weak and extremely stupid youkai. Apparently, they had somehow learned that the village�s hanyou protector had vanished, and were eager for a chance to acquire the fragments of the Shikon no Tama that resided there. It was a simple enough matter for the monk, the taijiya, and the young miko to deal with each such threat as it appeared, earning the gratitude of the villagers who had not seen so many youkai attacks in several years.
Summer became autumn, then winter. Despite the frequent urging of her friends, Kagome refused to return to her home, not even for a brief visit to tell her family what had happened. He had, she said, done something of this kind before, when his father�s cursed sword had been unsealed and he had taken it upon himself to assume responsibility for stopping the destruction before it could become widespread. She could not face the prospect of Inuyasha returning to the village and finding her gone. The more they insisted, the more she withdrew, until they finally decided that keeping her friendship was more important than informing her family of what had become of her.
As spring approached, travelers began to take to the roads once more. With these travelers came news and tales of distant places. Usually the stories were pretty much the same, but something was subtly different this season. In addition to the usual news about villages ravaged by disease, decimated by flood or famine, or destroyed by fire or youkai, there came stories of a mysterious youkai lord. In a marked departure from what most villagers considered normal behavior, this youkai seemed to have a certain affection for humans. He would appear for a time in a village, doing what was necessary to ease the suffering of the people living there. If there was hunger, he would hunt for them, if there was danger from rampaging youkai, he would protect them from the danger until he could destroy the threat, if there had been fire or flood, he would assist with the rebuilding. He asked nothing of the villagers in return save the opportunity to bathe and clean his clothing, refusing any offer of repayment, whether in the form of a meal or lodging for the night.
When questioned in detail about this mysterious youkai, the travelers revealed that they had not personally seen him, but had spoken to people who had been present in the ravaged villages. Little was known about the youkai beyond a vague description. He had appeared from the west a few months earlier. He was tall, with long, shining, pale hair. He bore markings on his face and a crescent moon on his forehead. Sometimes, they said, he would appear as an enormous, snowy-coated dog. He spoke little, and always moved on as soon as he had done what he could to help the villagers.
After listening to the fifth such account, the young miko took to spending every available moment in the forests around the village. Maybe Sesshoumaru would have some news for her�.
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