Kagome POV

"You have got to be kidding me! I know that this is the Sengoku Jidai, by why can't there be any hot baths?!" I said while trying to get used to the water.

But that was difficult to do, because it was so cold!

After 3 days of being stuck in the past and with everything that has happened since then, I really needed this. Along with Y/N of course.

Speaking of which.

"Y/N could you please stop generating all that ice?!" I said to him.

He was on the otherside of the lake with a blindfold on, as not to see me naked. That would be embarrassing. Only his head was above the water as he was sitting in the shallows. Around him were large chunks of ice that kept forming and dissapating, each getting smaller then the last.

"Sorry Kagome, but I'm still getting used to this new amount of power. I'm not doing this conciously." Y/N said with a sigh. "I've been trying to control it and it seems to be going better then when my powers first awakened."

I could only sigh at that.

It wasn't his fault that his powers were going haywire and makeing the water so damn cold.

I've seen the what the full Shikon Jewel could do to yokai, so of course he would be affected by a single shard would affect Y/N like that. Even if he was just half yokai.

"Hopefully it's soon?" I asked, to which he nodded.

"At this rate I believe I should be able to gain control at any minute now. Which is a vast improvement then when I first gained them." He said while smiling.

Well that's good to know, but there is something that I have been meaning to ask him.

"Does having that shard in your chest bother you at all?" I asked, causing Y/N to sigh.

"A little. Besides the fact it messed up my powers, it only bothers me a little bit. It will take sometime for me to get used to this, " He said before sighing. "Thankfully that's the only thing wrong with me."

Good thing too. After seeing the transformations of Mukade Jōrō and the Shibugarasu from yesterday, at first I thought that he would have to undergo some kind of painfully change like that. But it just seems like that all Y/N got was an increase in power.

Even more so when we returned back yesterday.

"Hey Kagome." Y/N said, breaking me out of my thoughts. "Remember our plan for the day."

"Of course I do and I hope it works." I replied back.

If it doesn't work then we're stuck in this era for the rest of our lives.

"While I've been thinking that if it does work, maybe we should come back here." He said.

"Please don't tell me it's about looking for the shards." I said.

While I can understand why the need to collect the shards, but I'm not too keen on actually going through with it.

I just want to go back home with Y/N and live a normal life.

"Kagome I can understand your apprehension towards looking for the shards, but I wasn't suggesting that. We can decide about that once we make sure that things at home are okay first. I meant about exploring Japan as it currently is, with or without the shards being involved." He said.

"Alright I can understand that." I said. "But how are we going to be able to visit during the school year?"

At this Y/N just sighed at that.

"Kagome I hate to tell you this, but your ideals of going back and resuming life before going through the well, you might as well forget about it." He said. Before I could give him a piece of my mind, Y/N continued. "I know your going to be made at this, but this is a bit similar to when my powers awoke. There was nothing I could do at first and everytime I tried to force control, to return to a normal life, my powers overwhelmed me and they got harder and harder to control. That is until I accepted the fact things couldn't return to normal and that I couldn't force control over them. Once I did that it took sometime to control my powers, but I managed to do it. After that I returned back to a semblance of my own life, except now I accepted that it wasn't truly the same anymore. I accepted that I was a hanyo and that I in order to move forward I needed to get my powers under control."

As he finished speaking, he raised an out stretched hand to the waters surface. With the palm below the water a small cloud of mist formed. After a few moments it cleared up to reveal a perfectly formed lotus flower.

Y/N had regained control of his powers.

With a single push of his hand, the icy flower drifted over to me.

"What do you think Kagome?" He asked. Their was only word to answer.

"It's beautiful Y/N." I said while getting a closer look at the flower.

It was of course cold to the touch, but Y/N had successfully managed to capture the majestic of an actual lotus. There wasn't even a single flaw on it. What was even more impressive was that he did that blindfolded.

"Well I'm glad you liked that. Before it would've taken a lot out of me to create something like that. Now though it still is quite draining, it is considerably less so. And that is because of the jewel shard imbedded over my heart." He said simply. "Also Kagome can you please turn around, I'm ready to get out."

"Of course." I said as turned away from Y/N as he got out of the water. While he was doing that, I began to reflect on what he was saying.

There is no going back to the way things are before.

The both of us teaveled back and time and have nearly died multiple times to yokai and an enraged hanýo, found out that I'm the reincarnation of a famous priestess, found out that I hade an all powerful sacred jewel in me since birth and had it forcibly removed, and now  we have shattered and scattered it's pieces all over Japan.

Even if we go back to the modern era and put this all behind us, we couldn't go to our old normal life. Not after what we've been through.

"Kagome if your worried about what I said, it would be for the best if you started to truly think on it back in the modern era." Y/N said, getting on my attention.

I was trying really hard to prevent my face from turning tomato red.

Thankfully the towel was blocking his lower half or otherwise I would be turning into a much brighter shade of red.

He wasn't very muscular, but he had the lean body fram you would expect from a swimmer. Considering that he often participate in swimming and track it makes sense. Although I have seen him many times like this before, the wisps of mists coming off him along with the scars and jewel shard made it much harder to resist then usual.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked, trying really hard not to convey how embarrassed I was.

It seemed to have worked.

"Kagome this something that is much bigger then anything that we have experienced up till now. So I believe that the both of us should go home first before sorting this out." He said.

"That's probably the best option we have right now." I said before frowning. "But have you thought of anything incase something goes wrong."

Considering how things had been turning out these past 3 days, it's probably for the best that we have a fall back plan.

"Sadly I didn't think of anything at the moment." Y/N admitted. "Honestly if we encounter anything in this era, we'll just have to wing it."

"Kind of figured you would say that." I mumbled out.

"I know, but it is all we can do for now." He said. "Anyway going to get changed now. So I'll see you in a few minutes."

"Okay then." I said as he walked away.

Hopefully the well will work and we can go back to our own time or else we're stuck here.

(Chapter 6 end)

Hello, Mukuro7 here and I hoped you enjoyed the chapter.

Sorry if it's short, but this is mainly just a breather chapter to kick off the Yura arc and the action returns next chapter.

Also there is an addition to the harem and that is.

Tōran

Remember you have until the end of this arc till the suggestions end.

So until next time, ciao!