Notes: Hello everyone and welcome to this new story. This chapter is only a prologue and is extremely short but it won't be the case for the following ones.

It's not betaed and English is not my mother tongue, nonetheless, I try my best to write my stories mistakes-free.

I hope you'll like it!

Summary: On the worst day of her life, Kagome remembers the legends her grandfather used to tell her as a child before going to sleep and which she has long since stopped believing. She is convinced that it is now impossible to leave the nightmare her life had become, but every cloud has a silver lining.

A single event – however disastrous – has caused unthinkable consequences, and soon she will have to rely on hitherto ignored beliefs and values to survive, leaving behind everything known.

Prompt: You meet your soulmate the day after the worst event of your life. (Source: (E/In)ternal Noise on Tumblr)


Prologue

Kagome had heard about it many times from children in the village who still dreamed and did not know the harsh realities of life, from the old women who spent their time telling stories of their youth and, above all, from her grandfather.

Ichiro had devoted his entire life to legends, some of which had turned out to be true, others unfounded. His passion had also influenced his son and grandkids to a certain extent; as a child, Kagome had loved to sit on his legs, around the fire, and listen, enchanted, to those stories about beautiful princesses saved by powerful and fascinating demons or about peasant girls finding their soul mates and transforming their very ordinary life into something special.

However, as she grew up, she crashed with the harsh reality of the facts and learnt that those fairy tales were nothing more than that; fairy tales. Things that had once thrilled and cheered her up now saddened and negatively affected her. Real life was not that, and the other half did not exist.

It was even more true these days when Kagome had seen the earth crumble beneath her feet and had been destined for a path so dark that, even in her worst nightmares, she wouldn't have imagined.

It had been years since the young priestess had given a second thought to that legend her grandfather had insisted on for so long, but strangely enough, it had come back to her in those moments as if specific memories wanted to mock her.

Just a few hours before, she thought that if fate had reserved such a cruel surprise for her, it was impossible to believe, at the same time, that it also had in store for her a perfect soul shaped just for her. If that was true, then where was he now? Her cynicism of recent years had only been exacerbated due to the last events.

Soul mates did not exist, especially not for young women who were victims of a society that did not let them be free, let alone be owners of their bodies. But life was unpredictable, and again, the truths she had firmly clung to – even for her sanity – had dissolved. Without even giving her time to mourn her bereavement and the loss of her last childhood illusions, the wheel of fate never stopped, shocking her once again within a day.

Now, looking straight into those big golden eyes that stared at her with just as much astonishment, she wondered what importance everything she had always believed in, her knowledge and experiences, had.

Who was she and what was she meant to be?

She felt that only those golden pools held such an important secret, only the person holding that magnetic gaze could provide it.

Around her, everything disappeared and it seemed to her that in those seconds that the contact lasted, the world suddenly changed its foundations as well. Inside, she felt a new force shake and change her, warmth pool in her stomach and spread throughout her body as a new, inexplicable attraction pulled her towards the figure standing before her.

The woman she had been no longer existed. It was the day of her rebirth.