"Earth, home to many a creature. Creatures that still thrive today, some who have become destroyed from existence and those who are here but we still yet do not know of them. Though there is one plane of existence where we once all lived together, one where humans and demons thrived side by side. This plane isn't mentioned to be a peaceful time, though it was part of our history, part of my history that is forever forgotten.
"The feudal era can be referred to as a harsh place, where humans got what they wanted through wars, such as the samurai. Not always faithful servants but honorable nonetheless, though their ways of life said otherwise. But how I saw the feudal Era was not what I saw in textbooks or learnt in class, but what I experienced through my own eyes. A place where both demons and humans ruled. Where humans and demons found peace in the smallest of things, where they lived one day at a time, got up, worked in the rice paddies and fields, and went to sleep late in the night. It was a simple time, though only for the moment.
"Many times I sit in modern Japan and wonder, where they went, where the demons went. It has always been a mystery to me, in how a race that prospered in one time, is gone from another. Many times I'm frightened of what I would find, would they be extinct gone from existence for all time. For some reason it frightens me to think of this, the thing that I was trained to protect humans from is gone, so what is left for a lonely Miko to do? From the beginning of time they have protected the humans from these creatures, so when they are gone, is the Miko's reason to live gone too? But when I think of the disappearance of the demons, I feel an ache in my heart, where only love can occupy and I wonder what I would do without the demons, especially one in particular...
"What I never realized is that the answer laid in a young girl, a girl where ordinary was unordinary. This story is about a girl who was torn from what she knew and laid in an entirely new era where her powers surfaced marking her a place in history that is forever hidden. This is the story of Kagome Higurashi. This is my story..."