"Hey, sis, you forgot your antibiotics."
"Really? I didn't notice. " I took the medicines from my brother Sota's hands, "thanks Sota."
I mumbled a goodbye for Mom and Grandpa, and dragged my heavy backpack—it has been a while since I came back to the present, and I was running out of medicine in the feudal era.
I opened the door and stepped outside. A soft, cool breeze brushed against my face, the scent of fresh air. I took a deep breath and walked into the Higurashi shrine. What was hidden in there was called the "Bone-Eater's well", it was old, ugly, andcontained the secret passage that linked me to the feudal era. I climbed into the well, and felt this famaliar divine feeling rushed through my body.
My name is Kagome Higurashi. I've been travelling from the present to the feudal era back and forth for a while now. The demons in the feudal era all want the sacred jewel of four souls that flew out of my body in an accident, and now I am obliged to collect the shards of the jewel, which was shattered by me.
5 minutes later
"I'm back, everyone!" I called excitedly, from the bottom of the well, expecting an answer.
Silence…
"This backpack is so heavy! Can you carry it for me, Inuyasha?"
Silence again…
Only the echo of my words in the long lasting silence of dawn…
"Where is everyone?" I whispered to myself. I'd better go up and see, I decided. I climbed out of the wooden well. It was still kind of dark here. The sky was purplish blue; there were glitters of sunlight behind the rosy clouds, shone on the green leaves of the forest trees.
What's between the trees? Under the glow of the sun, I could see clearly the shimmer of red shuffled in somewhere in the forest. And it was moving.
I'd better check it out…
Dodging the tree branches as I went, and carefully not making any noise, I found myself looking at the two people I didn't want to see together.
Him. The boy wearing the red kimono, courageous, short-tempered, and very jealous. When I first met him, he was peacefully asleep under the spell. His silver hair flied with the wind. And his fuzzy dog-ears always made me laugh. Inuyasha.
Her. In red & white priestess clothes, long black hair tied with a clip. She stood there, buried deep in the warmth of Inuyasha's arms—she didn't have any… she was dead, but revived through black magic, her body was clay, and I was her reincarnation. It was Kikyo.
I could already feel my eyes become watery. I closed my eyes and memories that I didn't want to remember recalled themselves in my confused mind.
It was said that Kikyo and Inuyasha had fallen in love when the sacred jewel was in Kikyo's care. Because of Naraku's trap, Kikyo and Inuyasha believed that they were betrayed by each other. The revived Kikyo still loved Inuyasha and the same goes with him. No matter how hard I tried to ignore my inside feelings I could not bear to see them embracing each other right in front of me! I needed to get away before I was seriously hurt.
But Inuyasha's voice suddenly paralyzed me.
"Kikyo, don't worry; I won't let you get hurt again."