Complications
She didn't plan to be dragged down the old well by a youkai. In fact, if she had a list of things that she hadn't planned for, that would have topped the list. However, now that she had been dragged down the well and was in the feudal era, it didn't seem as if there was any choice she had but to live it out. That was the first complication that occurred on her fifteenth birthday.
The second was that the youkai who had dragged her down the well returned and attacked the village that had realized that she was the reincarnation of the old priestess Kikyo. They kept calling her that, all of them except for old Kaede. Kaede called her Kagome, the name that she'd been given at birth. "Give me the Shikon jewel!" Mistress Centipede roared as Kagome and Kaede made a hasty exit from Kaede's hut. Kagome was terrified, but knew that it was because of her that the village was being attacked.
"I'll lead her away," she told Kaede. "I'll… I'll run towards that light there in the forest!"
Kagome started running. That was the third complication. She was running away from the one safe place that she had found, and she didn't know if there would be anyone that could save her if the youkai followed her to the forest. She raced towards the beautiful, dog-eared boy that she'd noticed earlier. "SOMEONE HELP ME!"
That was when the fourth—and the most life changing—complication woke up. The dog-eared boy grinned down at her after she slid to the roots of the tree. "So you've sunken to exterminating bugs, and yet the powerful Kikyo, guardian of the Shikon jewel, cannot even manage to kill the centipede." Finally, Kagome had had enough.
"Kikyo, Kikyo, Kikyo! Who is she! I can assure you that I am not—."
"She's here," the dog-eared boy said, staring at the fringe of trees around the clearing, making Kagome turn and look, too. The centipede burst through the leaves.
"Give me the jewel, give it to me!"
After the demon sent Kagome spiraling through the air, knocking a pink jewel from the girl's side, she held onto the boy (whose name had been revealed by Kaede when she'd seen he was awake) for safety, and then the centipede had start to crush her against the tree. "Can you pull this arrow out?" Inuyasha, the dog-eared boy, asked. Kagome reached up, but couldn't reach it completely. Her arm sank back down.
"Do not do it, child. That seal was laid on him by my sister Kikyo."
"With me, you have a chance. With that thing," he nodded his head towards the centipede, "you don't have the slightest hope. What do you choose, girl?"
Kagome thought about it, and then decided. "Given the choice…"
She reached up and gripped the ancient arrow tightly. "I choose to LIVE!"
The arrow pulsed and disintegrated, and the hanyou Inuyasha was freed from the tree fifty years after he'd been bound.