It began as most legends began, with the quaralling of the gods.
Clutching her wounded shoulder, A powerful goddess with skin like fresh milk and hair so blonde it shimmered like sunlight hurried into a dark cave, her colourful silk kimono rustling across the cold ground with her haste. Sealing the entrance from which she had came, she took a breath and turned, kneeling before a small altar upon which rested a large bowl filled with a pure liquid; the tears of heaven.
She held back the sleeve of her kimono with her left hand and with her right, swooped a circular motion through the air over the basin. Closing her eyes, she entered a deep meditation as images began to flicker across the surface of the liquid and enter her mind. Her once golden eyes opened, now completely white as her mind was held by the power of foretelling. She could see the past, the present and the future, for she was Amaterasu. The ruler of the heavens, Goddess of the sun and fertility, the mother of the planet earth and the creatures called humans which were made in the god's image.
The bowl began to tremble and the images rippled as her eyes were shown visions of a turbulent time, a black haired woman appeared to her in a land far from recognisable.
Perfect lips formed a small smile as her eyes regained their focus.
"I have found you at last" her whisper like the flutter of an angels wing.
"Kagome"