Once, there was an ordinary girl named Kagome. It was the day of her 15th birthday, and she was returning home from school. She lived at a Shrine, her family decedent from a long line of holy people. On this day, certain events led up to her falling in her family's dry well.
She was dragged from her world to another more cruel one. Soon after coming into this world of ayakashi, demons and youkai she found herself the Guardian of an object of immense power that was said to grant any wish. Through her mistakes it was stolen, and in her attempt to take it back, she shattered it into shards that scattered across Japan. So, being the responsible person she was, she embarked on a Quest to recollect the shards with an inu-hanyo.
Along the way, she discovered many things, made both friends and enemies. One enemy in particular, was determined to destroy Japan as it was known. His name was Naraku. The friends that gathered around her all had a vendetta against him. A lovely demon slayer, accompanied by her fire-cat, whose village was slaughter by her younger brother whose mind was lost to Naraku. A lecher monk whose right had was cursed with a wind tunnel, an orphan kitsune whose parents had been murdered by youkai possessing the shards.
And the inu-hanyo and his lover who had been deceived and swore revenge. Along the way, Kagome met a horse-hanyo who was an expert in herbs, and also the inu-hanyo's older half brother and his young ward. Also the leader of a tribe of the Eastern Lands, a wolf, who professed his love to her.
But after time went by, she developed bonds of friendship, instead of romantic ties. Soon, two years had passed and then came the final battle. The inu-hanyo, his brother and ward, the demon slayer and monk with the kitsune who was adopted as a son to Kagome, and the wolf. It was a long hard battle that lasted from one day into another. However when the sun finally broke from the clouds, the evil Naraku was dead, killed by one arrow from the woman child, Kagome.
She was vastly different than the ignorant girl who found this strange world so long ago. Now she stood over all those of her kind, the strongest to walk the Earth. She loved unconditionally, no matter their race or their features. They called her the Shikon no Miko, after the Jewel she was the Guardian over.
The few minutes following the death of Naraku were filled with disbelief and overwhelming joy. That is until the woman child was pulled into the Underworld. Her inu-hanyo protector ran after her, summoning his own entry way to reach her.
For three days and three nights, she was surrounded by the Shikon no Tama demanding she wish for something. On the third day she refused and told it someone would come for her. And no sooner than she spoke, her protector came for her. When she stepped back into the world she had fallen to those years ago, the Jewel returned to it's place in her body, she found herself unable to return to the world of her birth. So, for three days and nights she mourned the loss of her family.
On the fourth day, she stood and returned to her family that was made through the battles they had fought and the suffering they had shared. The monk and slayer married. Three years later they were blessed with twin girls, and a newborn boy. The slayer's younger brother has his mind returned and set about to rebuild his village.
Her adoptive son, a kitsune, left the village often for training.
The inu-hanyo patched things up with his brother and was accepted into his pack.
The past three years, Kagome has spent them training with her mentor, Kaede, and learning under the horse-hanyo, Jineji.
The wolf had moved on to mate Ayame, the daughter of the Great White Wolf of the North, though she was still accepted as pack.
Then one day, Kaede died. They gathered around her body and buried at, all telling stories of the woman's life. The next day, however, the hanyo's brother came for her. His ward had reached her 12th year and needed a human woman. So off she went with her best friend's brother.
For the next 5 years, Kagome taught the inuyoukai's ward everything she knew, including things of her world. Her son visited often, the monk and his family did as well.
In the spring of her 5th year, the youkai, ayakashi and demons of the South rose up and made war against the West, saying they deserved more lands. Kagome placed a call to her allies and they came from across the land.
The Wolves of the East and North, one a prince, the other a princess.
Those of the newly built Demon Slaying Village.
The monk, with his wife, the slayer who had rebuilt the Village with her brother.
Jineji came as well, with his medical knowledge.
Her son, having gained his fifth tail at a surprisingly young age, now the one of the most powerful in his village came also.
The last to come was the iun-hanyo and his mate another hanyo such as himself.
And when her allies had gathered, the enemy struck.
The battle lasted for four days. When the smoke and miasma cleared, all her close friends and family were accounted, even though seriously wounded, for save the inuyoukai.
He was no where to be found.
His younger half-brother had no training and was not qualified to take up the mantle of leadership, so the responsibility fell to the inuyoukai's 17-year old adoptive human daughter.
In a court full of power hungry youkai, she stepped to the throne and declared her mother would be the Lady of the West until such a time an heir was secured or the absent Lord returned. And out stepped Kagome, dressed in the proper attire etiquette demanded. Outraged followed. The young girl they could control, wed to their sons and take the West for themselves, but this! This woman was not someone they could pat on the head and distract with pretty baubles!
That day youkai took to their knees and swore loyalty to the woman, to the Miko named Kagome. Days, weeks, then months passed and still no word from the missing Lord. However, the lands were thriving under the leadership of this strange woman. She developed a communications system that could alert the troops of an attack on a village minutes after it happened. She prepared the training for said troops and oversaw it personally.
Most expected the West to crumble under the leadership of a woman, a human woman at that. But no, they were winning. In just 8 months, under her directions, the enemy fled back to where they came from. People uttered her name with respect and awe, dubbing her Miko no Mao.
At the ninth month, an unconditional surrender was accepted and signed. The war was over. However, the Lord had still not returned.
The tenth month, the younger brother of the demon slayer asked for the Lord's daughter's hand in marriage. He was granted permission, but were told to wait six months before wedding. The wolf and his tribe returned to their mountains, the slayer and monk to their children. Her son stayed, spending time with a kitsune general who taught him much.
Eleven months, during a family gathering for the celebration of another child born to the monk's family, she discovered her immortality. The fox who had always been able to tell of the slightest change in her scent, informed her as soon as she hugged him. She asked her son to keep it a secret from everyone. He agreed.
The year anniversary of the disappearance of the Lord came and went. Two weeks later a howl echoed through the Lands informing it's inhabitants he had returned. The next day, the palace welcomed it's rightful ruler back. His daughter, throwing her arms around him sobbing out how she missed him. The normally stoic youkai hugged her back, twirling her through the air. He was greeted by the slayer's brother, now a man, the kitsune who had grow almost as tall as himself, and Kagome who silently handed him the ring signifying his status over to him.
She was now a woman of twenty-three years.
The following month was busy for the preparation of the wedding of the slayer's bother and the Lord's daughter. Kagome gifted them with pictures made with knowledge from her world, of their wedding. Then, she announced she was stepping down from the throne, and leaving to travel Japan.
Even though this was greeted with sadness, the Lord's daughter having acknowledged her as a mother, she was sent off with smiles.
She did not take anyone with her, nor did anyone outside her family know what happened to her. And thus, her travels began.
A/N Yes, this was narrated as a story, but her travels will be in her P.O.V.! For the most part anyways, it's not the main story so it will be shortened out of necessity.
Thank you for reading, I hoped you enjoyed!
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