InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Kagome: Goddess of Japan ❯ prolog 1 ( Prologue )

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Kagome: Goddess of Japan


Prolog (the acorn)

note: this scene is from Spring Fertility festival. (Chapter 5)

Before sunrise . . .

Izanagi is leaving the village. "Father, please! Can I beg a moment?!" Go-Shin-Boku-kami asks
as he steps in beside his father.

"Your plan, I assume, son." He says in a distracted voice.

"Yes, father. You did examine her memories."

"Yes, my daughter was kind enough to let me see them."

"And, father . . . "

"Hmmm . . . When I placed mankind in charge of the world, mankind was to become the head of
the family for the world and all that is in it. Mankind was to treat everything as a member of the
family. Which everything is. Judging by her memories, mankind is not treating the rest of the
world as family, but is instead destroying it."

"Yes, father, that was I said when I invited you here."

"How did this occur?"

"Mankind destroying. . . "

"Nay, the girl. How did she arrive and how did you make that time-travel spell function? Thy
brother, the god of time, has always discouraged such spells."

"The jewel of four souls . . . " Izanagi nods, he is familiar with it. "Was burned fifty years ago
and a burst of power was sent out." Izanagi nods again. He remembers it. "I was, then, contacted
by my future self. He was, or is the word ‘is', or perhaps ‘will be' the proper term?"
Go-Shin-Boku-kami shakes his head.

"The language of time is most difficult, but not important right now, continue."

"Yes, father. He is dying. He was desperately trying to reach back in time to warn about the
future. The burst of power when the jewel was burned, combined with his efforts, created a link
between us."

Izanagi nods. "About as I expected, son. Continue."

"We decided that someone from the future, knowing the mistakes, would have the most desire to
avoid them again. So, we developed a plan to bring someone from the future to now."

"So that person could lead mankind away from those mistakes."

"Yes, father. The girl, Kagome. We manipulated fate and gave her the soul of the dead priestess
Kyoto. That connection was needed for the spell to function. And it means that duplicating this
again . . . "

"You have only one chance, then."

"Yes, father."


"You contacted me, why?"

"In order to succeed, she will need power, father."

Izanagi nods and holds up his hand in the stop signal. He looks back at the village. "She will
need to be the best there is. You are manipulating fate and testing her, correct?"

"Yes, father. Like making a sword, the best comes out of the hottest fire. While, she would have
broken the jewel on her own, I made sure that the shards were scattered far and wide. I made sure
they fell into the proper hands. Rebuilding the jewel . . . "

Izanagi nods, "I as thought, that will be a quest and challenge."

"And after she has proved herself, then . . . "

"You will tell her why she was chosen and what her task is to be."

"Yes, father. I would like to give her the power to accomplish her task."

"Stop. Thy have convinced me." Izanagi holds out his hand and digs under his fingernails.
"Flesh and blood from Izanami." He cuts himself. "Flesh and blood from me. Mix them
together." His hand glows red and when the glow fades a golf ball sized ruby is in the middle of
his palm.

Izanagi looks at his son, and smiles, "Since this is your only chance, you might give her this
before she is ready, so." The ruby glows and changes into an acorn. "Test her, son. Test her, hard.
And if she breaks, use this to renew thyself."

Izanagi hands Go-Shin-Boku-kami the acorn.

Izanagi walks away and is he does, he fades away . . .

Go-Shin-Boku-kami looks at the acorn in his palm. "The plan goes on. Now comes to the hard
part. She is to be tested, and tested hard." He walks toward his tree and fades away . . .

End prolog 1



general note:

Why did I decide to create this, frankly, huge, story? Well, a
couple of things struck me as I read inu-yasha fanfiction.

Many stories end with Kagome (& pick her partner) living in the
past, sometimes with additional powers. And, these stories end
with a "they live happily ever after" ending.

However, I've read enough history, that I just couldn't see that.
Kagome would find some (a lot) of the government practices
(during the 1500's) very offensive, and she would fight/change
them. But, once you start fighting the government, you must
defeat it, and they will always come back with more warriors
until you die, or you become the ruler. (See my story "What to do
about Evil?" where I discuss this problem more.)

So, I've always felt that Kagome would change the past. (And if
you have her live forever, like in many stories, she has to
change the past.)

The other thing that bugged me about Inu-yasha fanfiction is the
stories where Inu-yasha, Sesshomaru or one/some of the others
would live into Kagome's era. With no changes in the past.

But, if demons, especially powerful ones like Sesshomaru exist,
it would change the past. Sesshomaru hiding among humans never
made a lot of sense to me. There is very, very little bend in
him. He would have fought against human domination and been
destroyed. Or he would have destroyed humanity.

So, I began to think about a storyline where demons existed into
the future.

And, I began to think about a storyline where Kagome went to the
past, and started to live there, and how she would change the
world.

Also. The title of the opening theme song. "Change the World"

Just begged me to write a story where Kagome changes the world .
. .


I combined the ideas . . . Kagome lives in the past, and I
follow the world's history, and how it changes up to the present.

But . . .


When I finished my first draft of the story. I was dissatisfied
with it. The world that Kagome created, instead of being Japanese
. . . was pretty much an idealized US.

So, I scrapped that.

And started again. This time, I decided to Emphasize the Japanese
aspects, not my US/western cultural influences. (As much as I can
do so, of course.) Ie if given a choice, I went with a Japanese
solution, not an American solution.

So, instead of a world where the revolt of the Dutch against the
Spanish in late 16th/early 17th cent, the cultural changes that
happened during/after the 30 years war of the early 17th cent,
The American revolution, the French revolution of the late 18th
cent . . . all of those epic events are not the most powerful
events in history of the world.

Instead, a world were A Goddess, an undying Kagome and the
Japanese empire, created by her, and based in traditional
Japanese laws/culture is the most powerful force in the world.


Is her world a good place to live?


It is a world where you know your neighbors. It is a world where
the family, and the local neighborhood IS the most powerful force
in your life. It is a world where you can leave your house
unlocked (if it even has locks). If a person starts to talk with
your child, it is the very great chance that he is a good person,
not a pervert. The beauty of nature is extolled. Crime, except
in very localized areas, is rare. While alcohol is still a
problem, drugs and such are not a problem.

But . . . it is a world with very little privacy. IT is a very
organized world, with an, at times, oppressive bureaucracy. Your
life is, unless something unusual happens, mapped out for you
while you are still young. You, as an individual, are very minor
in the scheme of things. Many of the current US/western
individual liberties exist, but only within very definite limits.

So is it a good place to live? Hard to say, while there are
aspects of the culture that I did not like to think/write about,
the world avoids some of the problems associated with current
problems of too much individual freedom.

Although to be truthful, Kagome's world is too far the other
way, there are too little individual freedoms.

I do expect that many of the readers to dislike (and that's a
polite way to put it) her world and empire.

Additional note:

Since this is a huge project, I'll going to try something new.

I am creating a website for this story. On this website, I'll post some of my notes, explanations. (I
do plan, that during the story itself, these notes will be used, but, the storyline might hide some of
the details.)

The site has a message board, and a chat room, so, fans of the story can post messages, etc. I do
plan on visiting the site, at least once a day and I will reply to the messages on the site.

(I have been slacking off of responding to reviewers. I am sorry about that. I fully intend to
better respond to reviews and comments on this story. Which is one of the reasons why I'm
trying this site, to see if this will help me.)

The site is at: (remove the spaces for the link)

groups. msn. com/ jeffsfanfic

On it, right now, sept 12, I've got posted a rough time line, and rough maps showing the growth
of Japan's empire. There is still a lot of work to do on the site. I'm planning on posting additional
notes as time passes.



Thank you for reading
jeff shelton