A Whole New World

Prologue

For a moment, time stood still. The battle field was silent and the fighting had ceased. The Shinkon no Tama was in Naraku's possession, and no one was sure what to do. The moment of silent passed as a loud dark laugh flooded the field of blood and corpses.

"Fools." The man whispered.

"Did you truly think you could so easily defeat me?" He laughed as Kagome's battered form before him lay softly gasping for air. Her lips were red with her own dark blood, and behind her head was a bloody halo. Her dark blue/black locks were dampened with blood and bruises marred her body.

The man recognized as Naraku leaned forward and grabbed her shards from around her neck. Why had no one been protecting her? Naraku didn't care. All that mattered was that he had both the jewel and the one that every person on the battlefield loved. With a sly grin, he knew what he would wish for. He already had power so he didn't need to wish for that.

"I wish," he paused letting the suspense rise. "That the beloved miko of the Shinkon no Tama would be gone from this world." The persons on the battlefield screamed her name in fear and heartbreak as she began to disappear. The four souls of the jewel appeared before him as he laughed in hysterical glee.

"Naraku," The calm voice of Midoriko whispered, "We have heard your wish and it has been granted. The world will be split into three; Reikai, Makai, and Ningenkai. Kagome will reside in the ningenkai, and all demons and beasts will be in the Makai. Kagome has been sent through time to the ningenkai of the future." She paused.

Naraku's outraged yell was heard and quickly silenced.

"I asked for her to be separated from this world!" He yelled. Midoriko laughed.

"She is no longer of this world. This is the Makai from now on, she is in the Ningenkai in another time. As punishment for your wish being selfish you will be bound to Reikai for all eternity."

The four souls lifted the palms of their hands to the sky and let a soft white light shoot up. The different species were separated; Youkai, hanyou, and beasts in one world, humans in another, and Naraku and the dead in the last. Chains of blue Reikai wrapped around the evil spider hanyou and his screams were heard as he was pulled away.

The four souls of the jewel disappeared and silence fell again.

As soon as the battle had begun, it had ended. Kagome was sent 500 years into the future from which she came, and it was there she would be reunited with her friends and family.