Storyline: The series begins with Kagome Higurashi, a fifteen year old girl in modern Tokyo. Kagome lives with her mother, grandfather, and younger brother (Sota) that live in an old shrine that their family has taken care of for generations. On Kagome's 15th birthday her life is turned upside down when a centipede youkai from with the sealed well at her temple pulls her through the well into another time. Kagome emerges from the well to find that she had been transported back in the medieval days of Japan during the Sengoku Jidai (Warring States era) during the Muromachi period around 1467-1568 A.D. Where powerful warloads fought battles for land and power. Kagome meets up with an old priestess by the name of Kaede who is the village elder for a small outset village. Because of her appearence she is thought to be a spy from another country, but Kaede reveals the fact that Kagome is almost the exact copy of her older sister, Kikyou, who died over fifty years ago after having sealed a dog-demon that was trying to steal the Shikon no Tama. Kagome later from running from the centipede she finds Inuyasha and un-pins him from the tree were he was struck by Kikyou. After her death, Kikyou had herself cremated along with the jewel and the Shikon jewel disappeared from that age forever. Kagome doesn't believe this herself till she is wounded in battle by the centipede youkai and the jewel strangely comes out of her body. Kaede holds this as a definite proof that Kagome is Kikyou's reincarnation and is destined to protect the Shikon no Tama from youkai that wish to seek it for its powers. By accident, the jewel is shattered and Kaede tells them that they must go across Japan and search the jewel together. Kagome and Inuyasha reluctantly team up bickering at eachother non-stop the whole journey, which they later team up with Shippo (a young orphaned fox demon) , Miroku (a perverted monk) , and Sango (a youkai exterminator) . Later in the story they find out that Inuyasha and the long dead Kikyou were in love where Inuyasha originally planned to use the jewel to become human for her, which he had never gotten to do because of Narauku who fell in love with Kikyou and wanted it to appear that they had betrayed eachother. Because of this, Kikyou was seriously wounded and in her anger, she shot Inuyasha with an arrow that sealed him to a tree for fifty years. A type of love triangle seems to form when Inuyasha starts to see Kagome as not just Kikyou's reincarnation, but as a whole new person. He becomes fiercely protective of her even though he will never admit it. As time passes, Kikyou is revived by a sorceress. Inuyasha is torn between keeping his promise to her and keeping Kagome by his side.
