Prologue
Numbness is the only feeling Kagome felt in her entire body. Her soul was slipping away into a unexplainable bright light. The light was comforting and welcoming. Something she had missed from someone, but she cannot remember who. It was as if she was uniting with close people. She closed her eyes and accepted the warmth of the light.
Suddenly, an icy change in temperature had set in. She quickly opened her eyes. Everywhere around her was darkness.
'Where am I?' She asked in her mind.
She stood up, and slowly walked toward whatever it may set on her path. Panic pounded her heart. She cannot find the exit to this cold and dark place. From walking to running, it seemed like the darkness seemed endless. There was no light from any direction.
She stopped running to get a grip on herself. Deep down in her heart, she felt hopeless, sad, trapped, and...vengeful?
She sat down and hugged her legs toward her chest. Why was this happening to her? Why is she trapped in this lonely darkness?
"Someone please save me..." She whispered under her breath.
She sat for days, months, and years completely in darkness. The cold was so numbing that she couldn't remember what was like to feel warm and hot anymore. But not only was she forgetting the feelings of warmth, she began to forget her identity. Who was she? Where did she come from? Why was she here?
So many questions formed like weeds, but nothing answered any of it. Tired of waiting for something or someone to come get her, she stood up once again. She huffed and puffed, getting ready to shout.
"IF YOU'RE OUT THERE, PLEASE COME OUT HERE AND SHOW YOURSELF! I'M TIRED OF WAITING IN THIS LONELY DARKNESS!" She yelled with all her might.
"Hm," a voice that cracked the silence for her.
"Coward! Come out and show yourself!" Kagome growled.
"Ha ha ha... I have no form to show you, for I am the force of death that happens to have a voice of its own."
"Where am I? Why am I here? Why didn't you say something before? Am I...dead?"
"Slow down, girl. Where are your manners? Introduce yourself at the least."
Her name, what was it? Her cat got her tongue this time. Nothing came out of her mouth.
'Just who am I?'
"Hm, don't remember your name? Then I'll just call you Kagome. As for where you are, you are in Limbo. Yes, you are dead. According to my records, you've been dead for 100 years."
The known fact that she had been dead for so long shocked her and thundered her mind. She didn't know how to exactly react to it. If she was dead, what about the people she had known? Or had she? She couldn't remember whom but she could still feel the mysterious connection with people she cannot remember.
"Why didn't you come forth after all those years?" She asked suspiciously.
"...you had choices, and you figured one out yourself. Just a procedure. Nothing personal. What happens now is that you will make another choice. But first, how do you feel?"
"I feel...fine?"
"No, I mean in your heart."
"I feel oddly frustrated and I dare say, vengeful."
"Why vengeful?"
Kagome looked down. She wasn't sure how to answer. But there was one thing she knew, it was the feeling to protect someone from something. Maybe something happened to her before. It was as if something was taken for her. And wanted revenge for it.
"I don't really know. But I feel like I lost something or someone. I want to do something about it. I feel like I need to protect someone from evil. I know it's cheesy but that's all I can feel right now."
"Do you linger for the world? Do you want to destroy the cause of pain of others?"
"Yes! Yes!"
"Then you shall become my Shi-no-Shisha."
Another a hundred years had passed and Kagome was now in the new world, the world of shinobis as a messenger of death.