Chapter One: The Truth.
Today was an average day for Kagome Higurashi. She woke up to the same old room, took a shower in the same old bathroom, and she ate in the same old dining room with her family. Yet, there was something unordinary about this day, something spactacular was going to happen to her on this day. As she got ready to leave for school, Kagome noticed that the Well House's door was ajar, and that there were strange noises coming from within the building.
"Souta, I thought mom told you not to mess around..." instead of her younger brother she meet eye to eye with, it was a young, beautiful woman standing next to the well.
"Time for you to meet your destiny, child." the woman spoke in the language of old Japan. Her voice melodic and soft as an angel's harp. Kagome stepped back in panic as the boards on the well burst apart and a strange light enveloped the woman, and herself.
"What is going on?" Kagome yelled as she drifted in the strange light. The woman was no longer there, but her voice rang strongly.
"You are not apart of that other world Kagome. You are meant to be here, in Feudal Japan. Were you will journy all over to trump over evil, and regain peace between the lands." her voice began to fade as Kagome landed softly on the ground.
Kagome stood up, and climbed out of the well. Looking around, she noticed that this wasn't her family's shrine. It was another world, another time. One that she only read about in her History class, one that she had no knowledge about besides what the book told her, and what her teacher taught.
'Go forward Kagome. I will be here with you to guide you, to teach you, to show you what you are meant to be.' the voice was now in her head. Listening to that voice, Kagome moved forward. She traveled into the forest, trying to find a landmark to where her family's shrine once stood. When she saw a tall, lumbering tree, the first thing she felt was relief. She was closer to home.
'The Goshinboku tree!' Kagome sighed in relief as she ran towards the tree. Instead of a scar that laid in the tree's heart, she found a young man; no older than herself, pinned with an rugged arrow. Tilting her head, she stepped closer to the tree. Noticing he had ears, Kagome giggled softly.
'There cute, I think I want to...touch them.' she climbed up the root that was piercing the ground and went up to the young boy. She gently ran her fingers around his ears, caressing them as gently as she would if they were something fragile. When she was done feeling them, she turned and was faced with a swarm of angry villagers.
No sooner than she could understand what was going on, Kagome was captured and brought to the center of the village where the priestess was their wise woman. This much, Kagome knew.
"Why did ye bind her? Did I not tell ye that Midoriko sent her to us?" Kaede frowned down at the girl at her feet.
"We are sorry Lady Kaede, but she was at the Goshinboku, in Inuyasha's forest." one of the village's men spoke.
Kagome looked at Kaede and then watched as another village man untied her. She sat still for a moment before getting to her feet. She listened at the murmurs about her outfit, and the whispers that maybe she was a demon to come distroy them all.
"I'm no demon." Kagome glared at each villager that spoke badly of her. They gasped. How was she able to hear them? If she was just a human like them she would only be able to hear them murmur, not what they were discussing. Yet, Kaede spoke to answer them.
"This is the girl Midoriko sent us." turning to Kagome, Kaede spoke lowly to her. "Ye have alot to learn in so little time. Come, ye need to eat." Kaede lead her to her hut, which laid on the edge of the forest and faced the North. Kagome helped the elder with the food, doing most of the heavy lifting of the water, the wood, and also the pot.
"Who is Midoriko?" Kagome asked Kaede, seeing that Kaede was only there to help her out. She knew that something was awakened inside of her, something that was left dormant a long, long time ago. And now she was in this time, in this world, she could feel at ease, at home.
"Midoriko is the Priestess who created the Shikon No Tama, a jewel that holds great power, and in the wrong hands could bring distruction to the world as we know it." Kaede took a sip of the soup. She looked at Kagome, knowing that she would have to tell her everything that her mom had failed to tell her when she was just a child.
Three hours later, Kagome laid in the darkened hut, listening to the sounds of the night that was only a few steps away from her mat. Getting up, something drew her outside, and took her into the forest that the villagers called the Forest of Inuyasha.
'Was he the boy that I saw pinned to the tree?' Kagome thought as she walked to the Gonshinboku. She stopped infront of the tree, sitting just under the poor soul that seemed frozen in time.