Sorry for starting another story but the poll on my profile says to do that, so if you have something to say about it then go vote.
Disclaimer: I do not own or claim to own Inuyasha or Noragami, they belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Adachi Touka respectively.
Blessed Soul
Prologue
Life is a fickle thing. It roars like a vicious flame one moment, yet it's snuffed out like a candle the next. It is the toughest of challenges, the most misleading of games, but it is also such a simple thing. No one can choose when to be given life, only when to end it.
It is a great mystery, a fantastic journey and it is at the same time a terrible adversary. The sweetest of dreams and the most frightening of nightmares; life is different for everyone.
Most people lead ordinary, mediocre lives that result in regret and the sense of something missing. Others try to live life to what they consider to be the best way possible, surrounding themselves in riches, knowledge or power.
Some commit outrageous acts, good and terrible. They murder, taking someone else's life as if by doing so their own life will have improved in some way. There are those who do such things of their own volition, yet there are those that think they have no choice.
Thousands die every day, though tens of thousands are born as well. Those that are lost cannot be replaced with those that are gained, but the ache left in their wake can be steadily soothed and the hole filled once more.
Death is a part of life, it cannot exist without it. Where there is life, there will also be death. That is just the natural order of things… Which is why bringing someone back from beyond the grave is a big no-no in this world. It goes against the natural order and it is incredibly unfair too. The person would not be able to achieve peace, and it would be unjust to all others who died without a second chance at their life.
There are many, many theories and beliefs concerning a "life after death", which sounds ridiculous when written this way. There are those who believe in heaven, a sacred place for the ones that did well in life, the ones who didn't taint their hearts with the darkness of sins.
With this comes the belief in hell, where the corrupted souls of sinners reside. Then there's the belief in limbo, reincarnation, Valhalla, Nirvana –no, not the band- and many, many more.
Going back to an earlier point, there are many ways to live your life. Boring, mediocre, etc. That sort of thing. Eventually however, along comes someone who is destined for a very amazing life, someone who will experience the most wonderful and awful things anyone can ever imagine.
Now this is odd, but there are only a handful of these that are born once in a long while. When they arrive, everyone is taken by storm, and they're capable of incredible things. Sad thing is, they can choose to live just like everybody else, a mere face in a crowd. Life is after all, a choice, and no one is supposed to change that.
Not even gods… but they do anyway. That's how the special ones end up on Earth, with divine intervention. In an even stranger case, one of these little special ones can become the divine intervention, (seriously speaking, all of us are the divine intervention in our own lives) changing everything that had been so meticulously planned for them.
And it just so happened that Kagome Higurashi, the fifteen-year-old who fell down an old well on her shrine and shattered a magical jewel, was among those special ones.
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