a window through time
Kagome is just like any other teen-aged girl, she loves to drink chocolate milkshakes and listen to Boyz 2 Men records in her room. She lives in japan with her mom, her half brother Sota, and her grandad. Her dad died before Sota was born when he climbed down the family well and shot himself! Oh yeah, I forgot, her family lives on an ancient sacred Japanese shrine that has its very own well!
Anyways, Kagome was just finishing up her Biology homework as her pink record player whirred mechanically to a halt.
"Ahhhh," she sighed and steched out her arms. She sure was tired of doing home-work all that night but now she is finally finshed.
She scrambles down the hallway to go plop down on the couch and watch her favorite anime, Sugar Happy Sunshine Adventure. But her annoying little half brother Sota is already there playing the Nintendo Wii! Kagoma can't believe it! It's bad enough that her dad blew his own brains out when he found out about his wife's infidelity and consequent pregnancy with Sota but now here he is ruining her night, again!
"Sota you little creep!" Kagome screams at him as she stomps out of the living room, a vein on her forehead pulsing visibly, "I wish you were never even born okay!" She slams the door furiously on him, her tears streaming freely now.
He always did stuff like that to bother her. She couldn't even stand her little brother! So she stomped out of the house and out into the families ancestral Japanese shrine.
Kagome wanted to be alone more than anything so she climbed down the well, 'I'm just going down here to get away from it all for a while,' she thought to herself reassuringly, 'not to blow my brains out with a handgun like my dad did 9 years ago...'
"That's right," she agreed," I may be just an average high school girl but even I have to blow off steam every once in a while."
Kagome laid down at the bottom of the well and started to feel really sorry for herself. She normally liked to come down to the well because she liked to spend a lot of time down there after her father died, it was a good place to remember him, also it was very private as the rest of the family obviously avoided the place. Eventually the well did its job and cheered her up like it usually did when she comes down here.
"I wish I could just get away from it all and go hang out in the feudal- warring states era and not have to deal with all this modern day stress!" Kagome cried out loud and then...
Without and further warning Kagome was hurled through time itself!
What is going on!?? She wondered as she was hurtled whirling back to the very place she had just mentioned!
Kaede was there waiting for her.
Kaede helped Kagome get to her feet and then gave her a boost out of the well. Kagome stood on the other side of the well and gasped. "It really is the feudal era now!" She cried out lauging.
The trees that stood in place of her house were lush and verdant. Kagome ran around in and out of underneath their trunks and laughed, breathing in the fresh ancient air.
"This is just like my very own Sugar Happy Sunshine Adventure!" Kagome giggled.
This place is wonderful! She thought, she didn't smell the noxious fumes of the city or the nearby highway anymore because there wasn't even either of those things back in the feudal era! Kagome continued to skip around laughing and didn't even hear Kaede down in the well hollering for the fecksome teen to come and pull her back up. But Kagome couldn't even hear her!
Finally Kagome realizes Kaede hasn't made it back up out of the well and she goes over to it and helps the old lady out of it again. That's when she explains everything about how Kagome gets to travel through time because the feudal era is when she was originally born as the priestess Kikyo.
"That's right," Kagome agrees, "and when I was in the well the sacred Shikkon jewel reacted to it's similarity to this day and age back when I lived as Kikyo! So that's why I could travel here!"
Kaede had been crunching up herbs to add to a small fire she'd kindled while she explained what was going on to the confused young girl. She may be from a more fast paced and politically correct time but the ancient Japanese blood of the samurai runs through her very veins so she will adjust just fine I suspect... Kaede thought.
Kaede threw the herbs onto the flame and it surged hungrily. Kagome recoiled with a gasp! She is from the big city and not used to open flames like this!
"Kagome," Kaede proclaimed from across the rushing flames, "you must gather the remaining fragments of the Shikkon jewel, then maybe my sister Kikyo can be laid truly to rest."
"You've got to be kidding me!" Kagome couldn't believe it! "I'm just an average high school girl and you want me to gather all the jewel shards by myself! I can't even do all that stuff though!" Kagome still can't believe her ears and all these brazen lies she surely just heard from this strange one eyed old woman.
But Kaede plows right on. "You must overcome you difficulties Kagome!"
Kagome had started to walk right away from this crazy old woman but now she stops dead in her tracks. "Y-you're right" She sighs and slumps down on the ground.
That's when Inuyasha showed up.
"Huh," he said, breathing heavily with frustration, "you've got a lot of nerve showing your face around here again Kagome!"
Inuyasha is still mad that Kagome saved Koga from Kagura's nefarious schemes, but they had all been played maliciously by that treacherous bastard Naraku so Kagome figured she was in the clear and that Inuyasha is the one being a jerk.
"Sit Inuyasha-san!" Kagome yells and crosses her arms.
! Inuyasha smashes flat on his face! Kagome stomps off angrily.
"Kagome wait!" Sango starts to follow her but Miroku holds out a hand to stop her.
"Don't interfere, you'll just piss her off even further Sango," he warns and she figures he's just about right and decides to drop it. She watches as Kagome storms off aginrluy by herself back to the village...