Destiny
"During the feudal era there were said to exist the shikon no tama; the jewel of wishes. Greed and war spread in order to achieve the gem. The creator of the jewel grew tired of the ones who wanted the jewel for their own selfish wishes, so she divided the jewel into four jewels. We know them as loyalty, friendship, wisdom, and love, were given to four guardians as a means to keep the jewels hidden."
"Furthermore", Mr. Smort Hong stops to a disruptive snoring. He scans the room to see the rambunctious sound coming from, none other than Kagome Higarashi sleeping with her head on her desk. Mr. Smort Hong walks up to her desk, takes a decorated bookmark out of his pocket to mark the page he was on, closes the book, then purposely drops the book on the floor, making a loud slamming sound. Kagome jolted awake almost falling of her chair.
"Get out of my room!" Kagome shouts out loud with a drowsy expression. The students laughed at her outburst. She blushed realizing where she was.
"Mrs. Higarashi shouldn't you be catching up to your education instead of you sleep, this is a very important lesson", he explains while bending down to pick up his book.
Kagome, fully awake fixes her jacket and long raven hair, replies, "no offence Mr. Snort hog but I thought education is to help us in life, how is mythology going to help us in life, it seems like useless info to me".
Mr. Smort Hong losing his patience, says as calmly as possible, "you know Mrs. Higarashi, I was going to leave you off with a warning, but that attitude gave you a ticket to the principal's office". He points to the hallway, sighing loudly, Kagome grudgingly grabs her bag, and trudges to the door. Before she makes it to the door, the teacher stops her to rant, "One more thing. IT'S MR. SMORT HONG!".
Kagome waits on a chair facing the principal's office, clicking her boots on the floor. she refuses to wear the school uniform for unknown reasons, so instead she has a green and white stripped shirt with a blue jacket over it, faded blue jeans tucked into her ankle high black boots.
"Higarashi Kagome", a voice in the office beckoned
Kagome groans. she drags her feet as she approaches the door, debating on whether she should go or not… but she had to.
'Just get this over with already! If I'm lucky I could get suspended and miss school tomorrow…' she mentally told herself.
Kagome goes through the door, and moves straight for the familiar swerve chair in front of the exasperated principles desk. "Kagome this is the tenth time since you transferred to this school, so far you've been late, skipped classes, back talked, violated dress code by wearing street cloths instead of your uniform, and it hasn't even been a month", principle Mathews lectured with a sigh, his hand massaging his temple. "What am I going to do with you? your one of the most rebellious in this school, I'll have to give you detention... Again", he said disappointedly.
Kagome sighed. 'Of course. What else is new?'
After a long detention Kagome rides her skateboard , thinking about her old home, 'why can't we move back, I miss my friends, and Tokyo is not the paradise people say it is? Why do we have to move in a dumb old shrine.' She made a turn to the market place, passing by small stores selling jewelry, exotic food, and cloths.
As she passed by an old lady wearing a robe calls out to her, "ye child on the wheeled board. Come, come." Kagome stared at the woman strangely, but shrugged. She jumps of her board and walks up to her to see that the old woman wars old miko cloths and an eye patch over her right eye; the crystal ball she's holding is a giveaway that she's a fortune teller. "I see a dog in your future, you're compelled to work with it to protect an object that can cause destruction, ye will make a choice…", the fortune teller foretold.
"excuse me miss…" Kagome paused.
"Kaede."
"Kaede. Are you going to charge me for this, I'm kind of broke." Kagome scratched her head sheepishly, giving a nervous laugh.
"Nay child this fortune just came to me. I felt like I needed to tell ye," Kaede assured.
Kagome thanked then resumed riding home. 'one thing I'm sure of is that no matter where you are there are always crazy people,' Kagome thought to herself. Half way to home Kagome heard a desperate voice.
"Is this… the end… of me… ", the mysterious voice echoed weakly in Kagome's head.