Higurashi Kagome
is a 15-year old girl that lives in present-day Tokyo, Japan. One day,
before she goes to school, she falls into the Bone-Eater's Well at her
shrine/home, and travels back in time 400-500 years to Japan's Sengoku
Jidai period. (period of warring states) There, she meets Kaede, the priestess
of a nearby village, and Inu-Yasha, a half-demon who tried to steal the
Shikon no Tama (Jewel of Four Souls) in order to become a full-demon. The
the jewel's protector, a priestess named Kikyou, (also Kaede's older sister)
had magically sealed Inuyasha to the Sacred Tree 50 years ago before she
died from horrible wounds. She cremated the jewel with her, hoping that
it would never fall into the hands of evil again. It turns out that Kagome
is Kikyou's reincarnation, and tha somehow, she was able to break the seal
on Inuyasha, thus releasing him from the Sacred Tree. Kagome also had the
Shikon no Tama in her body, but it fell out when she was wounded. She later
accidentally breaks it into many tiny pieces with an arrow. Now, she and
Inuyasha must work together to recover all the shards.
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