InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Meant to Be ❯ Prolog ( Chapter 1 )

Jinx: *evil laughter*

Cindy: oh dear god *shakes head* what have I done?

Jinx: what your the author, I'm just the editor *evil laughter*

Cindy: that's the scary part *sigh*

Prolog

Kagome Higurashi has never traveled to the United States before, but here she was on a bus heading for a little town called Atchison Kansas. All of her life Kagome has lived in the city of Tokyo Japan. She grew up with the shrine priest and priestess learning the way of the Miko. According to her mother a Miko was the same as High Priestess in her village. You see mom was a full-blooded Cherokee Medicine Women, very powerful even by Japanese standard. She was as powerful or more than the strongest Miko Japan had to offer. So that's how we came to live in Japan. `Mom still won't tell me anything about my father but at the revealing ceremony she promised to tell me everything that I would need to know about him, that would be good.' She thought `at least I would learn what he was like.' She sighed `all I know about my father is that he was born in Japan and he died saving my mother, that's all she ever told me.'

As she watched the scenery change before her eyes she was still deep in thought. `Mom had said that the ceremony was done at this age because the soul has gathered enough strength for the ordeal ahead, when the child must understand the meaning of the revealing ceremony. For it is a test to see if you can handle what is to come. Um, I wonder what destiny has in store for me.' (Jinx: Oh, Oh, Oh I know!!! *raises hand*)

Two hours later they arrived at Pawnee, they were meet there by her grandfather and driven to the reservation. Kagome was amazed at what she saw, the air was crisp and clean, no smog, no pollution, nothing. Trees and flowers as far as the eyes could see birds singing in the near by forest, mountains so high that you couldn't see there peaks because of the fog covering them. She had never seen such a sight in her life. She grew up in the city, every few tree's and very little flowers. Everything was wonderful she couldn't be happier than she was at this very moment. She wondered why her mom never came back here to live once daddy had died. She would have been glad to live in a place like this. Maybe here they wouldn't tease her because of her parents. Every evil name in the book was said to her and she was not happy. It hurt deeply that anyone would even consider calling her those names, but she endured and now she was had to get ready for tomorrow the day of the ceremony.

After settling down in her room she asked her mother if she could go for a walk in the woods. She so loved nature and the surrounding forest was too good to pass up exploring. Her mother said yes but told her to be careful for here the animals roam free, especially bears. The Grizzly bear is one of the most dangerous types of animal in the forest. So she should be careful when wondering around. With a kiss to her mother she bounded out the door and started toward the forest. She wondered around looking and seeing everything. She was wearing a pair of light blue pants with a white tank top with a picture of a white dog in front with beautiful green eyes, on the shirt it said in big black letter "Dog Lover". She wore a pair of nice jogging shoes to be comfortable while she walked. (Jinx: *pout* why couldn't it of been flip flops *sigh* Cindy: just because you like them doesn't mean the whole world wears them *sigh* I'm beginning to regret this)

She continued to walk until she came upon a huge tree that was located about in the middle of the forest. The tree looked ancient. The roots were so big that they were coming out of the ground everywhere. But never has she seen a tree like this. It was like it was calling to her just like the forest did. She felt at home here, at peace. She couldn't explain it but there was a sense of belonging. For the first time in her life she actually thought she belonged somewhere. She had a very strange desire to protect this land and keep it safe. She couldn't explain it but that's how she felt.

When she turned around getting ready to head back to her grandfather's house she met a very old lady. She was sitting on one of the up turned roots of the tree looking straight at her. "Hello" said Kagome, "O si yo" said the old woman. Kagome could understand just a little bit of what the old woman said, for her mother had taught some of her language. "My name is Kagome" and the old woman replied "da-qua-dov Kaede". (Jinx: Huh? *scratches head in confusion*)

She wondered what she should say to Kaede next because her skills in this language were very limited. But she didn't have to bother for Kaede spoke her language. "A-ta what are ye doing in this forest?" Kaede asked. (Jinx: ye *giggle* ye *falls on floor laughing*)

"Well I am here for the revealing ceremony that is to be performed tomorrow." She answered. "Oh, is the ceremony for ye child" "yes" Kagome responded. "I see, ye have a rough road ahead of ye my child, ye must trust with ye heart, even if thy head says different. Heed these words and you will find what it is ye are seeking," said Kaede.

Kagome look confused, she didn't know that she was looking for anything. Kaede seeing the confusion on Kagome face explained. "Ye feel at peace when ye are in the forest and love to be with the animals, ye have this strange feeling that ye must protect this place no matter what and that there is something here that must protect ye, do ye not feel this?" to Kagome amazement she had hit it on the head, this was exactly the same way she was feeling and didn't know why.

She turned and looked at the old women and said, "How did you know that? That is exactly how I am feeling at this moment and I don't know why" "ye will know when the time comes but heed my warning ye must think with your heart and not with your head, for this is the only way that ye will find the answers ye seeks." Kagome was looking down at her feet and when she looked up to ask Kaede another question she was gone. She looked everywhere. `How could she have disappeared like that? I never saw her move, and no one can move that quickly.' So she turned around and started heading back toward her grandfather's house.

On her way back she spotted this field of flowers and she could not resist picking some. She saw some Jasmine, her favorite, all in a clump in the middle of the field. So she went to pick some to take home with her. When she got up and was about to leave when she turned she was staring right in the face of the biggest bear she had ever seen. Heeding her mothers warning she slowly backed up, not wanting the bear to charge at her. But what she failed to see was that the Jasmines were covering this old well and she was now backing straight into it. The bear took a step forward and Kagome took two hurried steps back and hit the side of the well. Falling over on her back she fell straight into the well. All you could hear were her screams as she disappeared through the well.

"U we tsi a ge ya" said her father "have you told Kagome what is going to happen tomorrow at the revealing ceremony?" his daughter shook her head and replied "no, I have only told her just a little bit about the ceremony, I wanted to wait to tell her everything before we performed the ceremony, because once the ceremony is performed she will change forever."

Sadly she had not told her daughter everything about the ceremony. She didn't want to scare her. Because during the ceremony is when her true self will be allowed to come forward. This was just one way to break the spell that was cast all those many years ago when she was born. It was done to keep here save. For the people that had killed her husband were after her as well. So she had to put a concealment spell on her to make her look normal. The other way to break this spell was for Kagome to fall deeply in love with someone and pledge her protection to him. They had decided a long time ago that they would do the revealing ceremony when she turned 18 so she could decide what she wanted to do. Up until now she had been a minor and couldn't fully understand what it meant for her to be what she was. She new she had a lot of explaining to do and time was running out.

Suddenly out in the woods she heard the screams of her daughter. A cold feeling was starting to settle in the pit of her stomach, while her mind yelled "WHAT HAVE I DONE, KAGOME!!!!!" with that she ran out of the house towards the forest in search of her daughter. Not knowing if she was ever going to see her again. (Jinx: *holds up hands* I didn't do it I swear! I didn't take her!)

When Kagome finally woke up she found herself at the bottom of a well. Slowly sitting up she tried to remember how she had gotten there. All she could remember was the bear, stepping backward, hitting a wall and falling backwards. But nothing else, she checked herself over to make sure there were no broken bones and started to climb out of the well using the vines that were currently growing there.

Once she was out of the well she looked around for the bear but found that it was gone. Breathing a sigh of relief she stepped from the well and started to make her way to her grandfather's house. `Um there are a lot more trees here than I remember the first time, maybe because its getting dark already, yeah that's it, it looks like there are a lot more trees because it was getting dark'. After a while of walking in the direction that she thought was where her grandfather's house was she stopped. She looked around and a sinking feeling started pulling at her stomach. There was no house, no village; nothing was the same, where in the world was she? How could she have gotten lost?

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Cindy: so Jinx, what did you think? *looks around* Jinx?

Jinx: *pant* yeah *pant*

Cindy: what were you doing *raises eyebrow*

Jinx: nothing *looks innocent*

Cindy: *sigh*

Jinx: I had to let the dogs out before the ending ok!

O.K. some quick translation of the Cherokee language:

O si yo: Hello

Da-qua-dov: My name is

A-ta: Young Lady

U we tsi a ge ya: Daughter

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