Awakening, determined to remember everything she dreamt, Koyuki keeps her eyes closed for an extra moment. A single name hovers on slips from her in a whisper as she slowly opens her eyes, "Inuyasha." Her arm reaches from under the covers on her head, slamming the alarm clock off. Rubbing her eyes cheerfully she sits up in bed.

"Your cat is in the shrine again! Bring her in please!" A booming voice of a woman calls out from down the stairs. Koyuki slumps out of bed and slips some slippers on her feet.

"Yes mom!" Shouting back Koyuki walks down the stairs and towards the back door. Behind the house is a tall tree bearing several notes tacked to it. Those papers are prayers. Koyuki lives on a Shrine. The Higurashi Shrine it is called. The shine itself is protected by her family's name. Together she lives with her grandmother, mother and her younger sister, Mitsumi.

In her night clothes, Koyuki approaches the well to find her cat, when her sister sneaks up behind her.

"Good morning!" Mitsumi greets her. Koyuki jumps from the sudden noise behind her.

"Mitsumi! You scared me." She turns her head. "What are you doing out here?"

"Mom wanted me to water the plants this morning." She smiles holding a pail of water and looking toward the garden behind her. "Looking for the cat?" Mitsumi asks.

Koyuki nods with a grin. "I do wonder why she crawls in that Well Shrine every morning. It's so creepy." She instinctually looks toward the well and away again.

"The faster you get the cat, the faster you can go back inside. I've already done the gardening." Mitsumi smiles placing the empty pail on the ground by the house. "Want me to come with you?"

"I'm not a fraidy cat!" Koyuki shouts back at Mitsumi in protest, turning her head and stubbornly walking toward the door of the well. Mitsumi laughs childishly as she re-enters the house from the back door.

Determined, Koyuki reaches for the entrance to the shrine. As her hand clasps the door and she pulls it open, she sees the cat at the side of the well. Eagerly, Koyuki runs for the cat and reaches to pick her up. "Yume, you trouble maker." She grins lovingly as she turns to run toward the exit. Just as she steps away from the well, two hands clasp her shoulder behind her.

"Shikon no Tama." A hissing voice says behind her ear. As a shiver creeps down her spine, she drops her cat in shock. Yume runs from the well as Koyuki is dragged backwards falling into the well behind her. A purple aura surrounds them as they plummet downwards. "Give me the jewel."

"I don't know what you are looking for creep but I don't have anything like that!" She yelps pushing the creature off of her. A bright purple light comes from her hands as they touch the six-armed creature. Slowly she falls to the ground of the well.

"Hello! I've fallen down the well!" She shouts as loud as she can hoping one of her family members can hear her. A few moments happen and she hears no response what so ever. Resigned to having to figure out this on her own she climbs out of the well with her bare hands using vines. When she reaches the top she is startled to find that she is no longer in the shrine. Instead, she is in the middle of a forest.

"What the heck?" Awed Koyuki climbs off the base of the well. Suddenly, a white haired dog demon wearing an all red kimono catches her attention. "Inuyasha?" She nervously walks toward the dog demon. "This can't be real." She touches his ears curiously. "I guess... you really are real." She blinks. Suddenly, an arrow flies past her head.

"Stay where you are demon!" The voice shouts Koyuki whips her head around. Several men have bows and arrows aimed at her.

"I"m not a demon!" Koyuki shouted back as they walk closer.

"Kaede will decide that." One said as they wrap a rope around her shoulders. The men soon surround her, tie her up and carry her toward a village.