Author's note- Ok...sorry it took me a little longer than expected to post this chapter. I had to finish planning part of the series. I'll try to post Chapter 2 much faster...probably between Friday and Sunday.....so bye! And in response to Child of the Ancients, thanks for letting me use the ideas...I won't disappoint you.

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Chapter 1-Shattered

It was a normal boring day as usual. A young 17 year old boy, with black hair and purple eyes layed on his bed. He wore a pair of denim capris and a red baggy shirt. He just sat there on his bet staring up at the hay- made ceiling.

"How much longer am I going to have to live like this...", Seishin said to himself.

He then sat up, rose to his feet and began walking toward the entrance to his hut. He pushed aside the cloth that blocked the doorway and walked to the hut right next to his and entered. The inside vaguely resembled a kitchen and there was a tall black haired woman wearing torn black shorts and a sleeveless white shirt.

"How much longer am I grounded for mom?", he said while sitting down on a chair.

"Definitely a while after what you did."

"What? It wasn't that bad."

His mom gave him a stern glare and Seishin backed off with a scared look on his face.

"Not only did you decide to bring home a pet demon but you also let it loose and it burned down half the village.", she said as she scolded him with the spoon in her hand.

"I didn't let it loose it escaped."

"Yeah, right. Escaping is opening the cage door. Nice try."

"Uh...well.....", Seishin said but before he could finish an old man ran inside the hut.

"Hikara, Seishin, hurry! An outsider has come to the village!", the old man said.

"What do you mean Shinto?", Seishin's mom, Hikara, said.

"A young warrior has arrived!"

"Seishin! Stay here!", Hikara said as both her and Shinto ran outside.

"And who said I was actually going to stay here?", he said as he also ran out the hut.

All of the villagers were gathered in the way that a pathway stood between them. Seishin crawled on his knees through the crowd and then stood up when he was in front. Walking down the pathway was a young woman, about 16 years old. She had dark brown hair, light green eyes and she wore a sleeveless white shirt that was tied right below her chest, a pair of blue jean shorts and a dark green half skirt that ended right above her knees and black knee high boots with white lace. On her back she carried a double headed sword. She walked toward the village elder, Kyto, who stood at the end of the pathway.

"I have come for the Shikon No Tama, the Jewel of Four Souls.", she said to Kyto.

"Well then I am sorry to disappoint you, but we will not give it to you.", Kyto said.

"I have to take it so that I may protect it. Rumor in the villages not to far from here is that a powerful demon is after it. The puny defenses of your village will not protect the jewel.", she said in a 'getting pissed off' attitude.

"As long as the jewel stays here, the sacred power of the shrine and it's protector will keep the jewel safe. It has resided in this village for centuries, always safe."

"I will have the jewel! Now hand it over!", she said as she grabbed the collar of Kyto's shirt and lifted him off the ground.

"Let him go!", Seishin said as he ran toward them, "You can't take the jewel! It belongs here! It's power has protected the inhabitants of this village for centuries! If it is taken away, demons would destroy the village!"

Quicker than lightning, the warrior pulled out her sword and aimed one blade at Seishin's throat.

"How dare you speak to me that way you insolent boy! I do not care for the worries or whatever happens to your village! All I care about is protecting the jewel and killing the demon! Now you shall pay for your insolence!", she said as she raised her sword to attack.

"No! Stop!" Hikara said as she ran up to the warrior and fell to her knees, begging, "Please! Spare him! Spare my son! He knows not of what he speaks! I beg of you! Please! Spare him....."

The warrior looked down upon Hikara with a smirk upon her face. She lowered her weapon.

"If he really means that much to you, then I shall spare him. But be warned, if this happens again...next time he won't be so lucky."

"Yes! Thank you! Bless your soul!", Hikara said as she stood up, ran over to Seishin and hugged him.

FADEOUT-

"Great, now I'm grounded for even longer.....what the hell am I supposed to do?", Seishin said as he was again, lying on his bed staring up at the ceiling but this time it was the middle of the night.

He lifted the covers of his bed to the side and sat up. He was still wearing his capris but this time he was shirtless instead. You could notice that he had a long scar across his chest.

"I know where to go", he said as he stood up and walked out of the hut.

He quietly walked across the village till he entered the forest. He walked until he came to a lake. He saw the full moon glinting off the lake's surface. He never really knew why but the moon always made him feel different...and sometimes even stronger, especially when it was full. He walked into the lake and began swimming around. When he heard something else moving in the lake, he quietly began swimming over toward it. In the shadow of a tree he saw something moving.

"Who's there?! Show yourself!", Seishin shouted.

The figure quickly turned around and thanks to the moonlight, he saw that it was the warrior that came to the village. She (apparently) had been taking a bath, she was butt naked, although he could only see her from her shoulder and up.

"WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!?!?!", she screamed as she smacked him.

She used her arms to cover herself up and Seishin just ran out of the lake with a stunned look on his face.

FADEOUT-a few minutes later.....

Seishin just sat there on the tree branch, his back leaning on the tree trunk and both his arms and legs crossed. The warrior walked underneath the tree, fully dressed, and looked up to see Seishin sitting there.

"Get your ass down here boy!", she screamed at Seishin causing him to fall off the tree.

"First of all, don't scare me like that and second of all, don't call me 'boy'! I'm 17 years old!"

"Well you definitely don't look it. I would of guessed that you were at the most 15 or something.", she said in a mocking voice.

"I wouldn't be talking! Your shorter than me so shut up!"

"How dare you disrespect me! And I'll call you boy all I want!"

"How dare you disrespect me! Aren't you supposed to respect those that are older than you?"

"I don't just give out respect you've got to earn it! And anyway your just 1 year older than me!"

"Oh! So your sixteen! I would have never guessed!"

They both gave each other a hard glare and than turned around, closed their eyes and crossed their arms.

"So anyway, what's your name?", Seishin said as he opened his eyes and turned around, "Cause I have no idea what to call you."

"Well...if you must know...it's Ritoki.....Ritoki Higami.", she said as she also opened her eyes and turned around, but she uncrossed her arms in addition, "What's yours...so I don't have to call you boy any more?"

"My name is Seishin.....Seishin No Unmei."

"Well I'm glad that we got that out of the way."

"So...why do you want the jewel so badly?", Seishin said as he sat down next to the trunk of the tree.

"Well...I'm a demon slayer. It's a long story so I'd better sit down.", Ritoki said as she sat next to Seishin, "I grew up in a village of demon slayers...I've been fighting for as long as I can remember. By the age of 8, I was already killing demons. But when I was 13, a whole force of demons attacked my village. It was a massacre...a nightmare. In the end I was the only one that survived. I began traveling around the world, trying to find the demon that led that force to destroy my village. Because I remember that at the top of the cliff above my village, I saw a demon of great power...that was ordering all of the others around. And as I traveled, I heard of the legend of the Shikon No Tama. 'One who controls the Shikon No Tama, will become god'.....that is the legend I have heard of. I thought that if I could control the Jewel, I could bring my friends and family back to life. And kill the demon that massacred them and all other demons. Then, on my journey here, I began hearing rumors of a powerful demon that was also after the jewel like me. So I rushed to get here first, so that I would have the power to kill that demon by the time it would get here. That's my story."

"Well...you can't take the Jewel. The reason we protect it is because the Jewel protects the sacred shrine."

"Yeah, I heard your village's elder mention the shrine and it's protector...so what's the deal?"

"Well, according to myth, the one who brought the 2 races of demons and humans together, bonded with the Shikon No Tama and used it's power to create the shrines. The shrines exist all over the world, they purify the Earth. It was said that after the one died, with no heir, the power of the Shikon No Tama and the shrines weakened. When the world fell into the chaos that it's in right now, the shrines became unpure...and when the shrines become totally unpure, or to put it easier said, when they become evil...the whole world will end. The power of the Shikon No Tama has kept the shrines from becoming totally unpure. The thing with the Jewel, is that it is as far as I know of uncontrollable. None of the demons that have tried to control it have ever succeeded...and some of them were really powerful. It would probably take a demon with the strength to destroy the world to control it...which if a demon would control it, or in other words, unpurify it...the shrines would become totally unpure...and the world would end. The protector of the shrine, has the power to purify the shrine but only when the shrine becomes totally unpure. The protector can't be just anybody, you can't just pick someone out of the crowd. The protector is a person chosen by destiny."

"Oh...now I get it. So who's the protector of the shrine?"

"Well, it's Kyto, the village elder, but I'm in training to become the next."

"Is that how you got that scar?"

".........."

"Was it bad? I mean, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

"No, it's fine. It was just really creepy what happened. They healer of the village said I should of died from the wound."

"But how did it happen?"

"7 years ago, the men of the village, including me, went to defend the village from a demon after the jewel. The demon carried a dagger in which it could channel it's spirit energy. It killed many of the villagers...and when it tried to kill Kyto, I pushed him out of the way. The healer said the dagger had pierced my heart. Everyone thought that the healer had made a mistake, some others praised me as a miracle. But I could tell that something abnormal had happened. After about a year everyone forgot about it and I just dissmissed it as a mistake."

"Creepy...shouldn't have asked."

There was a long moment of silence.

"Ritoki?"

"Yeah?"

"Why don't you just leave the jewel here?"

"I can't...I have to protect it."

"Then why don't you stay here?"

".........."

Ritoki opened her eyes in surprise...which was sorta weird. She had never really felt emotions before...yet she felt a deep warmth toward Seishin. But, before she could respond to him, they heard an explosion in the distance.

"That's the village!", Seishin said as he pointed in the direction of the explosion.

The both ran toward the village as fast as their legs could take them. When they both reached there, they opened their mouths in shock. The whole village was completely destroyed. Bodies littered the ground.

"What...could do this?", Seishin said in horror.

"I..I...d..don't know..."

As they walked around...they both sensed a powerful aura hanging about in the air.

"Whatever killed everyone is still here.", Seishin said.

"How do you know?"

"I can smell it...it's not human."

There was a moment of silence.

"Watch out!", Ritoki said as she jumped in front of Seishin and reflected an energy ball with her sword.

"Your right, it is still here, and now it knows we're here too."

Ritoki stood before Seishin blocking all of the attacks aimed at them. Seishin looked around for survivors. He then saw his mom laying on the ground.

"Mom!!!!!", Seishin said as he ran over to her body and then kneeled down and placed her on his lap.

"What the hell are you doing?!", Ritoki said as she blocked a barrage of energy attacks aim at Seishin and his mom.

"Mom! Mom! Are you okay?!", Seishin said as he shook his mom.

"S..Sei..Seishin...I'm.....I'm fine...don't worry...protect the jewel...", Hikara said as grabbed Seishin's face.

"Look out!", Ritoki said as an energy ball hurtled toward Seishin and Hikara.

A blinding flash of light eluminated the area. As Seishin opened his eyes, he saw his mother, kneeling in front of him. She had blocked the attack at the cost of her own life. She fell into Seishin's lap.

"Mom! No!"

"Seishin...u..use.....the scared sword......I..I love...you....", Hikara said as she grabbed the sword next to her, and then her body fell limp.

Seishen stared in horror into her dead, empty eyes...a tear fell down his cheek as he grabbed the hilt of the sword. He pulled the sword out of the sheath and stood up with his eyes closed and his teeth gritted. As he held the bent and rusted sword in front of him, a golden glow began to surround him. It grew & grew more powerful and bigger every second.

"What the hell is going on?!", Ritoki said as she crossed her arms in front of her in the shape of an X to help her stand her ground, as the force of the energy tried to push her back.

A sudden barrage of energy balls sped toward Seishin, but they mearly merged with his own energy. He opened his eyes and they glowed with gold energy. Then, magiclly, the sword healed...it looked as though it were new.

"TIME TO DIE!!!", Seishin said as he swung the glowing sword.

The golden slash blew up the forest in which the demon was hidding. In the blast a strange shadow appeared. And then Seishin fainted.

"It's the demon!", Ritoki said.

The shadow flew out of the blast, toward the shrine. It landed about 10 feet away from the shrine and then began walking toward it. To it's suprise, a barrier appeared around it, it was trapped. When it looked behind it, Ritoki stood there with her arms outstretched and the shape of a triangle made with her fingers.

"I'm not only a demon slayer, I'm also a priestess.", she said.

"Mmmm...none the less.", it said in a deep voice as it shattered the barrier.

It walked toward the shrine and blasted the spell protected box around it. There stood what seemed to be a stone dragon with a grey, oval shaped jewel on it's chest. The demon stuck it's hand into the jewel and pulled out what seemed to be an even smaller jewel, but this one was round and pure white.

"Oh no! It's the Shikon No Tama!", Ritoki said.

"Finally...it is now mine."

"I DON'T THINK SO!!!"

The demon turned around to see Seishin concious again, his sword glowing even brighter. Seishin pulled the sword back and swung it. Before the demon could dodge it, the sword incinirated his right arm, and the jewel with it. The jewel floated in mid-air, cracking into hundred of pieces. Then the jewel just dissinigrated.

"You fool!", the demon said as it disappeared.

Ritoki ran over to Seishin, who was on his knees breathing heavily.

"Seishin! Are you all right?"

"Yeah...I'm fine.", he said as he used the sword to help him stand up.

All of a sudden the earth began to shake and a black glow illuminated from the jewel on the stone dragon's chest.

"What's going on Seishin?"

"It's the shrine, since the jewel was destroyed now nothing is standing in the way of stopping the shrines from becoming unpure."

"But isn't that bad?! The world's ending! Why are you so fucking calm?!"

Seishin just walked over to the shrine and placed his hand on the dragon's head. The dragon suddenly began to glow white and the jewel switched from black, to white.

"I purified it. As long as at least one shrine is not totally evil, the world is safe."

"So what do we do now?"

"We go to purify the others."

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Author's Note- So what did you think? Good, bad.....just tell me! Please review! Oh, yeah and if your wondering how to pronounce Seishin, it's like saying 'Say-shin'.....now go and review! My policy is no reviews, no updates and the more reviews I get, the faster I update.