Kagome woke up in a room with white. White everything. Her mother sat at her side holding her hand when her eyes fluttered open.

"Mama? Wha-what am I doing here?"

"Kagome, you're awake!" Mrs.Higurashi hugged her daughter tightly. "They said," she said between sobs, "That you would never awaken. But they were wrong! "

"What...what do you mean?" Kagome asked, noticing how her mother looked strangely older in some way.

"Oh, honey, you don't remember? On your fifteenth birthday five years ago you fell into the 'bone eaters well', as Father said, and you've been in a coma every since."

"Wha-what…!"