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The jewel of four souls, ancient and powerful, can grant any wish the user may have. As any other stone of its kind, there was always bound to be a catch, no one ever got quite what they wished for. Created from the souls of a powerful priestess and three of her greatest demonic enemies, the jewel has acted like a prison, a crystallized moment capturing the war that had raged all those years ago. A tipping point in the lives of the Yokai, and in their rule over the lands.

The jewel spent much time in both a state of purity and a state of tainted grief, passing hands and guardianship over the long years of its existence. Most notable were the two priestesses who single handedly guarded the Jewel. The first, a strong priestess who was the guardian of a village known as Edo. With little mercy for the demons who sought to take the jewel from her, she has gone down as a ruthless guardian.

Alas, her heart fell captive to the whims and whispers of a half demon, who claimed to want to become human, a devious plot turned lovers against one another, and in the end it cost the priestess her life. The priestesses younger sister, and her only family, burned the Jewel with the woman's body, sealing the power away with her soul for fifty years.

Reference 'The legend of the betrayed lovers'

In those fifty years, legend of the jewel was passed down through the villages, all of these tales were passed around orally, usually a tale told to the children, cautioning against trusting demonic beings. Due to that, no written tale will ever hold the true legends that were passed down, however the tale is still told to this day, and many variations have been written and sealed within families who descend from those who once lived in Edo.

Another priestess was acclaimed for defending the jewel, often it is claimed that she made the ultimate sacrifice to rid the world of the jewel all together. Other claims state that she merely fused with the jewel, and her own line of descendents would have heightened abilities as monks or priestesses due to her becoming the jewel. Both claims clearly list that the jewel is no longer part of this world.

'The shattered jewel' is, by research, the most accurate tale of the shattering of the Shikon No Tama, the quest to put it back together, and the great war that brought forth the end of a long treacherous existence of the cursed jewel. There is little known about what happened after the war, most of the written works have proven to be guess work at best. However there is one theory that follows trails of the raven haired girl with the eyes that flash pink.

The scroll draped over his folded knees. A frown tugged at his lips and his gaze slanted to the long line of scrolls he had collected. 'The Shattered Jewel, abridged.' was the closest he had to the tale listed in this introductory scroll, judging by the handwriting, the scroll he currently held was meant to intrigue the reader into doing further research, someone had not wanted the tale to be lost to time.

Slowly, he folded the scroll, returning it bindings to their place and allowing his thoughtful gaze to register the rain sliding down the glass panes of his window. Standing up, her ran his fingers through the long hair that fell into his face, moving back over and exchanging the scrolls. He cared little for the history of the jewel, or how it was made. He wanted to know much more about the woman rumored to have last held the powerful stone in her hands. Carefully, he released the bindings of the next scroll, finding a comfortable spot on his bed this time, a deep breath, one last glance outside to the waning sunlight and Itachi returned to his reading.

Certainly there had to be something within the depth of the scroll that could lead him to his next target.