The Elder tales online was something Kagome thought she had outgrown a few years ago. She had played the game religiously from the age of ten until she turned thirteen where dungeon raids and all night computer generated battles were replaced by fashion and moisturizing.
Then of course she turned fifteen and spent close to a year fighting actual demons and praying to every god her shrine celebrated that the demon guts didn't damage her hair. It may have seen vain but for a century without conditioner all of her traveling companions seemed to have fantastic locks.
Once that was over well…. let's just say adjusting as hard. She wasn't terribly traumatized, which was actually pretty incredibly once she counted all the mass graves, but something like that had left its mark. To put it plainly, she was restless. She absolutely hated the fighting but she couldn't deny missing the days spent trudging along in search of jewel shards or the way it felt to channel her spiritual abilities whenever she released an arrow. It was so incredible and terrifying at the same time just remembering gave her an adrenaline rush and a very large part of her wanted it back.
Unfortunately the well was truly good and closed and she had never felt as much as a whisper of a demonic aura. She no longer had any reason to channel her spiritual abilities. In fact considering she lived in a time where using her powers might get her in a government styled lab she felt the need to absolutely never use them no matter how much Souta begged her to show him.
So with all of this restless frustration Kagome once again found herself drawn into the world of elder tales at the beginning of her high school career. Juggling the game with school work was a breeze compared to juggling entrance exams with hunting Naraku. And so it began; Kagome's life as a fanatic MMORPG player using a character she based as closely to her real self as possible with only a few minor changes. One of which being her race; humans were all well and good but who was she to pass on a chance to have fuzzy fox ears and a tail however vicariously it may have been. The Fox-Tail race was absolutely adorable and it reminded her a bit of her friends from the past. Luckily it didn't prevent her in game character from being able to use the purification techniques of the Kannagi class.
She debated for days over her subclass in her earlier levels switching back and forth between production classes like woodcrafter and scribe before finally settling on herbalist. Not only did it allow her to create medicines and potions to use but it also provided her with a tidy source of income by selling off excess potions and herbs to other characters. The subclass had already netted her a small fortune in gold.
It wasn't anything close to what her life had been like in the past but it certainly helped. She would spend hours playing the game fighting through dungeons and going on raids with a skill set she never possessed in real life. It was sort of addicting. Towards the end of her third year of high school Kagome had managed to reach a small measure of fame amongst a few of the more notable guilds. Shielding characters in a video game was a lot easier than trying to do it in real life; whenever she accompanied a party on a raid the odds of a member being sent to the cathedral was next to nothing especially after she reached the level cap and her damage mitigating spells grew stronger. She had even gone on one or two raids with the infamous Debauchery Tea Party getting a nice couple of bonuses from drops such as a lovely rare long bow with twice the range of normal in game bows and a flute that summoned a griffin mount. Of course she was hardly considered a member, they had basically just ran into each other while scouting out new raids in the Elder Tales forum.
So all in all while Kagome was pretty happy with the game and her new online friends even if a few of them like that Akatsuki guy never seemed to want to socialize or use the voice chat features. In fact she would go as far as to say that she loved the game, an opinion which wouldn't change until the night they released the Homesteading the Noosphere.
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A part of her was convinced this was somehow her fault. Who else had the sort of dumb luck that would get thousands if not millions of people trapped inside the MMORPG they all played in their free time? And if she hadn't been so utterly convinced the jewel had been destroyed she would have had a ready explanation. How this actually happened though was a mystery to her and everyone else currently stuck in Akihabara. The only thing she knew for certain was that it couldn't possibly be a game. NPC characters in video games didn't have souls or any sort of spiritual presence like the people of the land did.
AN: So the idea is that Kagome gets sucked into Elder Tales along with the other members of Log Horizon. I may write more later on but I doubt it. For now this is also up for grabs to anyone who wants the plot.