A teenage girl stumbled through the forest, tears of pain in the corners of her beautiful amber eyes. Her tan face was contorted with pain, and she was biting her rosy lower lip. She clutched one sharp-nailed hand to a shoulder wound, blood that was stained with a green substance trickling through her fingers sluggishly. Her eyes showed wariness as she continuously glanced at her surroundings with a hand on the hilt of her katana, seeming to expect something to lunge at her from the underbrush.
Suddenly a beam of bright sunlight burst through the thick canopy of the trees around her, illuminating her shiny silver hair and cute dog ears. She was momentarily blinded, not having seen the sun for a couple hours. She shook her head, trying to clear the afterimage of the sun in her eyes. Once fully adjusted, she blinked and slowly moved on, still feeling vaguely dizzy.
She had been traveling for a couple days, sent to the village of Edo by the clan headsman, who was also her adoptive father. He had deemed her best equipped for the journey, not because of her skill or half-demon bloodlines, but merely because she had lived there before and was on familiar terms with the head priestess.
The reason for the mission was very simple. Their village had a shard of the Sacred Jewel in their possession, and wished to return it to the one whom they had gifted the Jewel in the first place. Priestess Kikyo, who had a famous amount of spiritual energy and was the only one with the ability to purify the Jewel when it had been utterly defiled fifty years ago.
That is why Half-Demon Shirudo Ryuuji was currently making her way to a place she hadn't been to in a very, very long time.