Prologue
My name has served my family and I well. It is quite unusual and very well respected. You see, one of my ancestors was a priestess or miko if you will. She was one that was very powerful, and she was also the protector of something very important. She was chosen my the gods to be the protector of the Shikon no Tama or the jewel of four souls. Her name was Kikyo higurashi.
Kikyo was a very kind and courageous woman who devoted her life to tending the sick and healing the wounded, and when she had to be, she was a warrior. (A/N que the suspense music) she fought many battles and made many enemies. But among the many enemies, she made many friends.
During on of her visits to nearby villages two of her friends came running up to her bringing news of a man who burned his back while trying to save his little brother from the they're burning house.
She cared for him for two and a half months while his back healed enough for him to go back to work in the fields. During those two months they became great friends, and she found out his name is onigumo (sp?) naraku When he finally healed enough to work again she noticed that the burns had scarred his back in the shape of a spider, which was rather peculiar. They stayed friends for a while, but things managed to progress and they fell in love, and got married.
On the night of they're wedding, Onigumo told Kikyo a secret that he managed to conceal from her; his great grandfather was cursed after doing a bad deed to a god bound to the earth in human form. Every first born child after him would not only be female but she will be cursed to live an immortal life as a vampire inu. Kikyo, blinded by passion, did not care and had two children –fraternal twins- named kagura and Kan'na.
The two new parents lived a wonderful life for the following 13 years. On the twins 13th birthday, tragedy struck. Somebody had kidnapped kagura and killed Kan'na. Seeing this, Onigumo went into a blind rage and killed not only the person who murdered Kan'na, but fatally wounded his beloved wife. As reality of what he had done sank in he wept and held Kikyo in his arms. With her last few breaths she said ' it was not your fault my love, I forgive you…*cough* after I have passed… do not mourn my death for long…*cough*… burn the jewel with my body, the next protector of the jewel will be born in exactly four hundred years, with the jewel inside her body.… *cough*… find Kagura, for the next protector of the jewel will be one of our descendants … *cough, cough*… tell Kagura I love her, and *cough* know that I will always love you, my darling husband.' He cried as he heard her exhale and felt her heart stop. As he set her body to flame, he made a vow that the person who caused this would pay dearly. Onigumo rescued kagura and lived long enough to see her marry and continue the line with a baby girl….
I tell you this because I am that descendant. I am half miko and half vampire inu… my fate was to protect a troublesome trinket, and I only recently discovered this because my mother was the first born also, and she like all the first born children before her was told this as an informant to pass it on to me, "the chosen one"
My name is Kagome Higurashi and I am not only the descendant of Kikyo Higurashi… but I am also her reincarnation. And this is the year I begin training so as to fulfill my destiny…..
