Our story begins in a place called Meilin's Village, in the Feudal Era. The village was burning and an inu hanyou was escaping, with a strange necklace in hand. The villagers were trying to flee from the hanyou, seeing as they were greatly injured. But, we will not linger on their situation, because they are not the main attraction. The hanyou is.

Laughing, the black-haired half-demon looked down at the poor, pathetic villagers as they tried to escape from him. After he stopped laughing, the raven-haired boy scowled and shouted, "Too fucking bad, weaklings! I'm taking the Shikon no Tama!" Somewhat happily, he thought, 'Now that I have this, I can finally become an actual yokai.'

Suddenly, a female voice shouted, "Kurogane!" As soon as that name was shouted, an arrow pierced the hanyou's chest, going right into where his heart would be.

"To-Tomoyo…" The half-demon whispered, dumbstruck by the girl who'd just attacked him. Tomoyo was a beautiful girl with long black hair, purple eyes, and wearing the clothes of a miko. The miko glared at the hanyou, supposedly named Kurogane. It appeared that even she had been injured in all of the reckless fighting, as well. "You bitch…" Kurogane muttered, under his breath, "How dare you…?"

The bloody miko reached down and grabbed the necklace. "Shikon no Tama… Because of such a thing…" She whispered, sadly. Her glare was gone without a trace.

Eventually, the villagers made it to her. "Tomoyo-sama…" One said.

"That's a terrible wound…" Another said.

A young girl, dressed in a kimono, ran up to Tomoyo. The young girl had a bandage over one eye and the bandage was bloody. One could only believe she had been injured recently, probably in all the recklessness. "Onee-sama…" The girl said, kneeling near her sister, who'd had to sit down. "Get some treatment, quickly!"

But, Tomoyo shook her head. "It's already too late, Meilin… So, listen carefully…" She told her little sister, "Take this… and burn it with my remains… So that… It will never fall into evil hands again. I shall take the Shikon no Tama with me to the next world…." That said, Tomoyo passed away and the villagers burned both her and the Shikon no Tama, while Kurogane was stuck to the tree, held there by the arrow, with his eyes closed. One could only believe he died too.

It is now 1997 and the world has changed. Cities have been built in Japan, and our story continues in one such city. That city is Tokyo, specifically in a store that would give fortunes, exorcisms, amulets and wards, and could contact so-called "gods".

"Shikon no Tama…?" A young girl asked, as she sat inside the shop.

"Well, as long as you keep this, your house will be safe and your business will prosper." A somewhat old said, showing the girl a little marble-like ball on a key chain.

"Are we going to sell them, Grandpa? You know, these glass balls?" The young girl asked. The girl was pretty, with emerald eyes and brunette hair. But, instead of seeming to happy, she actually looked pretty bored and instead of cherishing the "glass ball", she was letting her cat play with it.

"Now listen, Sakura-chan…" The old man said, "The history of the Shikon no Tama begins with…"

But, Sakura wasn't listening. Instead, she interrupted, "Besides that, Grandpa…" Looking at him, a smile returned to her face. "Do you remember what day tomorrow is?"

Grandpa nodded. "Now, how could I forget my adorable grand-child's birthday?" He said, handing her a wrapped box.

Sakura finally seemed to have all her attention on her grandfather as she took the box. "Wow! A present?!"

"I know it's a day early… But, happy birthday, Sakura-chan!" As Sakura opened the box, her joyous expression disappeared from her face. The thing she pulled out was… "That's a mummified Kappa Hand. It brings good luck and it's history starts with…"

But, before her grandfather could get another word in, Sakura gave her cat the hand. "Here, Kero-chan. Lunch."

Her grandpa wasn't too thrilled by the idea, seeing as how he shouted, "Ah! Hey, Sakura-chan! That's wasteful!!!"

Soon, they had left to go prepare for dinner. While her grandfather, Clow Reed, was rushing ahead of her, Sakura slowly walked to the house, thinking, 'My house is a very old shrine… The four of us… Grandpa, Mom, Touya, and I live here together.'

Sitting at the table, Grandpa started on the subject of something's history again, as he said, "The history of these pickles starts with…"

Sakura boredly finished for him, "You bought them from Arisugawa-san, right?" Still, her thoughts continued, 'The Go-Shin-Boku is five hundred years old and this concealed well is supposed to have some sort of legend. All of these things have their own history, but…'

Before she knew it, it was yet another day of school for the Kinomoto girl. "I'm leaving!" She called to her family, as she ran for school cheerfully. 'No matter how often I hear Grandpa say, "Its history begins with…" I completely forget! I never even thought about why I could never remember…. That is, until today, my fifteenth birthday.'

Before she could leave, she noticed Touya, who just so happens to be younger than her in this fanfiction, near the Bone Eater's Well. "Huh… Touya?"

"Sakura…" He said, trying to get his sister to come over to him.

"You shouldn't play near the shrine." She told him, as she tried to leave.

"But, Sakura… Kero is…"

"inside the well, right?" She finished for him, as they both walked into the shrine surrounding the well.

"Kero…" He said, on his hands and knees, peering at the well, "I think he's down there, but…"

Sakura interrupted, "Then, why don't you go get him?"

"But, Sakura… This place feels kinda creepy."

Sakura sighed, sitting next to him. "Touya, what're you afraid of? Aren't you a guy?" Suddenly, strange noises appeared near the well, scaring Touya.

"So-something's down there!" He shouted, hiding behind Sakura.

"Like the cat, maybe?" As the strange noises persisted, the brunette got up and walked down the steps. "Geez…" She muttered, before realizing that… 'The sound… is coming from inside the well…? Weird…' As Kero started rubbing against Sakura leg, she let out a terrified scream.

"Sakura! That scared me!" Touya shouted, as if his terribly loud, beating heart wasn't enough of a sign of that.

Sakura turned around and said, "Touya, look…" But, before she could finish her sentence, the well opened, seemingly by itself.

"Sa-Sakura!" Touya shouted, as a strange, many-armed female beast grabbed Sakura and pulled her into the well.

"Wha-what?! What is this…?" She asked aloud, shocked.

"How wonderful…" The creepy beast said, as she held Sakura close, "I can feel my powers returning… My body is growing back…" Licking Sakura's face, the beast said, "You… have it, don't you?"

Finally, Sakura pushed the beast away, or at least tried to. "Le-let go of me! That's disgusting!" She shouted, slamming her hand into the creature's face. The beast almost completely let her go. It completely would have, if one its arms hadn't had such a tight grip on her arm.

"Damn you…" The beast said, "I won't let you go… Shikon… no… Tama…"

"Shikon?" The brunette repeated, obviously confused. Finally, she hit the bottom of the well. "I'm… inside the well…?" She wondered, allowed. 'What was that just now…? A dream?' Looking at the creature's arm, which had landed next to her, after it let go, she concluded, 'I guess it wasn't a dream…'

What the creature had said was stuck in her head. "I won't let you go… Shikon no Tama…"

"Shikon no Tama…?" She said to herself, "Have I heard of that before. Oh, well… Might as well get out of here..." Looking up at entrance of the well, she called, "Touya, are you there?! Go get Grandpa!" After she heard no reply, she decided to go and climb to the top of the well. "Geez… He ran away, huh?"

Climbing out of the well, she realized something. She wasn't in the shrine anymore. 'I… must have fallen into the well… But… The house has disappeared…' She thought, before noticing something familiar. "Go-Shin-Boku!" The tree had always been familiar to her, since she'd constantly used it to find her way home in the past. 'Great! My house must be near there!' She thought, as she ran towards the tree.

But, she suddenly stopped, as she noticed a boy pinned to a tree, by an arrow. He had also been ensnared by several parts of the tree that had grown around him. The boy was dressed in a strange outfit from Japan's past. 'It's a… hakama, right? It certainly looks like one, even if it isn't as colorful or pretty as I would've imagined it.' And, she was right. The boy's hakama wasn't that pretty or colorful. It was black, with red stitching at the end of his sleeves and his pant legs.

'A boy…?' She wondered. "Umm… What are you doing? Excuse me…" Poor, oblivious Sakura asked. Walking closer to the boy, she noticed there was something strange about the boy. "Those… aren't human ears…" She said aloud. 'I want to touch them.' She realized, and so she did. Then, as she paused, she muttered, "This really isn't the time for…"

Suddenly, someone yelled, "You! What're you doing over there?!" Shortly afterwards, a barrage of arrows flew towards her and the boy with dog ears. So, she did the first thing she could think of, move her body closer to the sleeping/dead boy. Others continued to yell, "This land is forbidden! Are you a foreigner?!"

Sakura then turned to look at those who shouted at her, but was soon tied up and brought to a strange village. The villagers continued to speak amongst themselves. "She was in Kurogane's Forest?" One asked.

Another said, "It be a young girl in strange clothing…"

"Hey!" Sakura yelled, "You didn't have to tie me up!"

Still, they wouldn't listen to her. "Could she be a spy?" A middle-aged man asked.

"Could it be war again?" An elderly man asked.

One woman suggested, "A kitsune in disguise, perhaps…?"

Sakura stared at the people talking about her, thinking, 'What kind of place is this? It looks like something out of the Feudal Era."

"Clear the way!" A man shouted, "Miko Meilin-sama has arrived!" And, so the people moved out of the way, so an elderly woman could walk up to the brunette.

"Who are you?" She asked, "Why were you in Kurogane's Forest?"

Sakura was confused. "H-huh…?" She said. 'Jeez… Yet another weirdo's shown up…'

"…Hn?" The old woman asked, appearing to be surprised by something about Sakura. "Let me see your face clearly…" She said, making the girl look at her, "Try to look more intelligent…" Finally, the elderly miko said, "You resemble Tomoyo Onee-sama."

That night, Sakura was allowed to stay with the old woman, supposedly named Meilin. "My sister was called Tomoyo. She was the miko who protected this village, before me." She said, before telling Sakura about the death of her sister. "It has been fifty years since that day, and I was only a child when she died... What's wrong? Aren't you going to eat?" She asked, her story ending.

"Umm…" Sakura said, "Could you maybe untie me?" So, she was untied and the brunette began to eat. "Umm… This…. Isn't Tokyo, is it?"

"I've never heard of it…" Meilin replied, "Is that your province?"

Happily, Sakura replied, "Umm… Yeah. I wouldn't mind getting back home now…" As she tried to think of how to get back home, her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of screams.

"What is all this?!" Meilin asked loudly.

As a dead and bloody horse flew towards her, Sakura let out a shriek. Meanwhile, the villagers shouted, "E-evil spirit!"

Suddenly, the so-called "evil spirit" looked at Sakura, and the brunette realized that she'd seen this demon before.

Suddenly, the many-armed demon began to head towards Sakura, as she shouted, "Give me… the Shikon no Tama!!!"

"The… The Shikon no Tama?! You… are carrying it?!" Meilin asked, shocked, because she knew that had been what was burned with her sister's remains.

"I… I don't know but… I have to lead her away from this village before everyone is…" Her voice trailed off, as Sakura thought, 'Darn it! She's targeting me!'

"Neither spears nor arrows are working!" One man informed Meilin.

"We must drive it back to the dry old well, then…" She replied.

"Dry well?" Sakura asked.

"It's in Kurogane's Forest." The old miko said.

'The well I came out of…' She thought. "Which way is that forest?!"

"To the east…"

Looking at the forest, she noticed a large light close to it. "Where that light's coming from…?" Before she was answered, she shouted, "I got it!" With that said, she began to run towards the forest, with the large demon coming after her.

'What was it that girl just said…?' Meilin thought, in disbelief. "In that evil forest, normal people cannot see it. But… Did she say that she could…?" She said aloud, as she stared after the girl.

Meanwhile, in the forest, the hanyou's hair was blowing in the wind. His black ears suddenly began to twitch and his crimson eyes slowly began to open. "I can smell it!" He said, with a sadistic look on his face, "I can smell the girl who killed me… She's coming closer…"

As Sakura ran towards the half-demon, she thought, 'I'm going to be saved somehow… Right?!'