This story is dedicated to my friends…Shania, Katie, Amanda, Caitlyn (Caitie Manda), Elizabeth and Hayley. Thank you all for letting me have bright ideas to start this story!

Prologue

The beginning of something new, the end of something memorable…

A young sixteen year old human with dark brown hair and teal eyes wore a green sweater and long jeans. She was a new student in a junior high school in Tokyo for the past few months. She was taller than the average teen by just three inches and was thin with some curves on her. She came from the Japanese town of Kyoto and lived with her mother and father in an apartment.

From still getting use to the huge school she had made some friends. She and her four friends were like a little clique and always spoke of gossip at times. Well that was the only thing they could talk about there. Though one of her friends had been absent from school a lot like an everyday hobby since she arrived to the school. And all the absent excuses were of terrible diseases that at times were contagious and very deadly. The adolescence always worried about her health but at times she thought that the sicknesses that her friend had seemed like a bunch of ludicrous. Once in a while she would think that her friend would be just trying to stay out of school for as long as can and fake her illnesses. Maybe her parents were careless and don't care about their daughters future? They don't care if their daughter doesn't graduate and have a bright life

This was one of the reasons why she is going to her place. Also because her other three friends told her that she had just got out of the hospital a few days ago at school yesterday and they felt bad that they couldn't have time to visit from all the studying to do on a big test. So this girl recommended that she would go over and check on her. What better time to go over on a weekend.

She hadn't been to her place before but from her friends she got directions. Knowing that this was the place in remembering how her friends had described it. By a busy street were some large set of stone shrine steps that were almost as high as her three story apartment complex. She was in awe.

That's a lot of frickin' steps!

She had been fit from athletics so she easy took on those steps with no sweat. Ringing the door bell she awaited for someone to answer as she observes the place. I was very clean and it had a well house and a huge tree with a miniature fence around it. A grown woman with short brunette hair slides her door open with a warm smile that made you fell welcomed from the start, "hello, may I help you?"

"Yes, um…I-I'm new here so I wanted to make sure if this is the place where Higarashi, Kagome lives," politely says the teen.

"Are you one of her friends?" the woman asks.

"Yeah, I'm also friends with – and they said they come here to visit from time to time – um…Edi, Yuka, and Ayumi," says the new girl of this shrine.

"Oh, well were so glad that you could come to see her but she isn't here. She's at her Uncle's for the weekend," the woman sadly utters in secretly making an untold lie.

"Well I just came here to check on her that's all. Seeing if she's alright from hearing everything at the school," she facts.

"How sweet of you. Oh, I'm sorry my name is Mayu Higarashi, Kagome's mother. You can call me Ms. Higarashi if you want too," Kagome's mother announces with apologizes, "and what's your name?"

"Yuri."

"Well it's been nice meeting you Yuri and sorry again for my daughters absence from school. She has never been so sick like this before that it's unbelievable," Mayu's voice had its tone of fret and anxiety for her child.

"I hope Kagome gets better then."

"Arigato, do you want me to drive you home to make up for you taking your time to come here? I don't mind," the mother adds in having her hands on her thighs.

"No it's alright but thanks anyway," Yuri walks off with a wave. Mayu returns the favor, "I'll tell her that you dropped by."

Saying goodbye Yuri sighs in disappointment, "man, walked all this way for nothin'." She then felt a bizarre eerie chill go down her spine and turns toward the shrine's well house. Like it was calling her. Going over she enters in the small building. She began to wonder if this was a good idea as her eyes adjust to the darkness. She then yelps as she felts the soft fur of a fat cat fractioning against one of her bony ankles. Thinking she had a heart attack she calms down her breathing and glances at the cat again.

This must the cat that Kagome talked about. What was is name….oh yeah Buyo.

The human buckles her knees as she arches to pet Buyo at her feet. The cat runs off in having his attention toward something else. Yuri then sees an old wooden well that had been worn out for ages. Dust and wood splinters were all over it that it looks as if it could collapse any minute. The more she stares at the dried up well the more something tells her to go to it. Her subconscious maybe?

Planting her hands on the edge and bending over the hole she stood on her tippy toes on the tip of her auburn tennis shoes. She takes precaution as the area began to get quiet…too quiet. A swift, powerful wind then comes out of nowhere and hits her back. The young lady then grips her hands on the lip of the well in holding on for dear life. One fall could be her death. She prays that she doesn't tip over with very freighting eyes. She stares at the soil down at the bottom of the well. Her lips squeeze in a straight line.

Her prayers weren't answered when the ledge of the well that she held on to broke from the pressure of her weight and hands. She gasps and calls out a diminutive scream of surprise as she falls into the well. Diving head first she knew she wouldn't survive this fall in this position. Beads of sweat surface on her forehead. All she could do was to shut her teal orbs and wait for death to take her…

It never came…