Prologue
The leaves rustled in the dry autumn breeze. She reached her dainty hand upward trying to catch the crinkled piece of reddish gold as it wafted overhead. She held it only for a moment before releasing it into the wind.
' No sense in scaring kids with a floating leaf' She thought dryly
She sighed. It was times like these that she despised Naraku more than ever and loathed the face she was not dead. She was no longer a living girl but rather a figment of the imagination, living only through flimsy ghost tales that didn't tell the story right at all.
She leaned back again the shedding tree, wishing nor more than ever she could go back to the way things were before. Fighting demons was far better than existing in this limbo. She gauged the time of morning a talent she had learned in the Feudal Era. There was no longer a Feudal Era as she had known it, only an eerie, alternate reality where demons existed in present day Japan and Naraku still lived.
She was in Kyoto, Japan looking for the first of her friends, who had been spread abroad.
Kagome shifted in the Priestess garb that she had been trapped in when time stopped, the time when the jewel had been taken from her, and when her life had been left in ruins.
Not being able to be seen by the living had started to take its toll on the young girl, but now was not the time for self pity. She had a job to do and it was about time she located Inuyasha.