Chapter 1

Kagome was bored and lonely. She sat under her families cherry blossom tree waiting for her grandpa and brother to get back. He went to pick him up from school and left kagome at home with nothing to do. She wished she could go to school like normal people her age did. Sadly she wasn't normal at all. Reaching down she touched the dead flower beside her and closed her eyes focusing on the flower. Envisioning a healthy flower she felt the flower began to pick itself up and bloom. Opening her eyes she smiled at the flower. It was now alive and well. Sadness overwhelmed her as she realized that such a gift like hers would always be a curse. No one understood her and she was sure that no one ever would. Kagome got up and walked over to her families well opening the sliding doors. Walking down the steps she walked to the edge of the well and sat down. She loved to sit here and read or think. It was so peaceful and calming. Away from the outside world and their criticism she could be herself. Her family had the property with the well and the cherry tree and the house for hundreds of years and dated back to the shamans and swordsmen of the past. She sometimes wondered if she would fit in better with that time than her own.

"Kagome. Time for dinner. Your brother and grandfather are home."

"I'm coming!"

Kagome got up and looked back at the well.

"Sometimes I wish I could travel somewhere else without all the judgment and hatred. I wish I knew what my destiny was, why I have such a gift."

Leaving the well and shutting the door behind her she headed into the house. She always felt like she had a purpose in life and it was to do something with her gift to help others. She just didn't know where or when.

-Back at the well-

"If that is your wish so it should be. Its time you fulfilled your destiny."

A woman's voice spoke and the apparition of a woman stood there. She moved her hands and spoke an incantation. The well began to swirl and it was no longer just a regular well with a short bottom. There was blackness and a distant light waiting on the other side. Disappearing only the woman's voice remained.

"Kagome it's time to fulfill your destiny. Come to me. Come to the well."

Inside the house kagome heard the voice echoing in her head over and over. Great she must be going nuts now she thought.