Broken Mirror by wynter89

Broken Mirror

Prologue

Broken Mirror

The girls little form laid down into the comfortable warmth of her nice and cozy single sized bed. She had the biggest grin on her face; she had just turned seven years old today. Her mother had baked her this yummy strawberry cake with cherries on top. She licked her lips just thinking of her birthday cake.

"Kagome, are you in bed?" She heard her mothers' voice through the door with a few knocks afterwards.

"Yes mama!"

Kagome yawned and snuggled into her comforter bringing it up to her face as she readied herself to get some sleep. Her eye lids closed over her beautiful coffee brown eyes as her charcoal black hair scattered around her small head. Not long after her breath evened out as soft snores escaped her mouth.

She shivered as a small blue mist entered her room and surrounded her body. It moved around her as if hesitating to touch her, when it seemed to decide what course it wanted to take, the mist entered through her mouth.

**

Kagome opened her eyes to find herself in the most beautiful garden she had ever seen. The moon high lighted the batch of Tiger lilies right next to her, she leaned into the flower and sniffed at it, she smelt the sweet scent of the nectar than slowly pulled away.

She reached out to pick the flower but she when saw her hand she panicked and ran to the small pond in the middle of the clearing. She looked onto her reflection and looked more closely at her body, black fur replaced her skin and clothes, paws replaced her hands and feet. She now had floppy ears and a snout with a pink nose that replaced her facial features. She also had a collar with 'Kagome' written on it.

Kagome didn't understand what was going on; she never had a dream where she was a dog before. She looked down into the pond and at her reflection, she was so pretty. Her brown eyes were now a light blue. Her pink nose looked odd on her muzzle, but she thought it was special. Rudolf had a red nose that lighted the way for Father Christmas, so she can have a pink nose that could light her way.

She looked around the meadow once again and found a small butterfly flapping its colourful wings while seemingly floating into the sky. Without a second thought she chased the little butterfly. Her small paws reaching into the air to capture it as she jumped into the sky. She gave off a soft uncharacteristic purring sound as she chased the butterfly onto the steps of an old shrine.

Kagome momentarily forgot about the fly as she looked at the old shrine she stumbled upon. Feeling courageous she climbed into it. When she was inside she gaze around the room only to find that it was bare, nothing was inside the shrine except a circular broken mirror.

She sniffed at the air before she inched towards the broken mirror. She stared at it in puzzlement. Her head tilted slightly to the right with her blue eyes widening when she saw her reflection. Not her puppy reflection, but the seven year old girl that was sleeping in her nice comfortable bed reflection.

Her paws lifted towards the mirror whimpering when she saw a blue mist surround her human body. Her left paw lifted to cover her left eye when she saw the mist enter her body.

**

Kagome shoot out of bed, her small form shivering when she thought of the weird dream she just had. She looked around her room; it seemed larger than she remembered. Kagome shrugged it off.

She got off of the bed in a sleepy doze; she walked towards her bedroom door. She looked at it, she remembered the door was closed last night, maybe her mother opened it for her.

She ran through her door excited when she smelt the scent of freshly cooked bacon and eggs. When she reached the kitchen she noticed that the counter was larger than before. 'Did mom change the kitchen over night'?

Ms. Higarshi turned away from the stove she was slaving over and glanced down at a... puppy?

"Kagome! What did I tell you about bringing stray dogs into the house?" Her mother yelled, her face held the expression of extreme annoyance.

Kagome answered, or tried too. She couldn't seem to form the words to answer her mother. She watched as her mother walked across the kitchen disappearing into the living room. She came back shortly after with a small shoe box and placed it besides her.

'Funny' Kagome thought, the box was bigger than she was, but when her mother was carrying it, it looked small. 'What's going on?'

"I'll give you some bacon, but that's it." Kagome looked at her mother, asking her what she meant, but all she heard was small whimpering and yelping sounds. Her mother looked down at her with a small sympathy smile while she picked her up and placed her in the small box with some bacon strips.

Kagome whimpered for her mothers attention, pleading for her not to do whatever she was about to do. She pawed at the box scratching it with her little nails. "Mommy, don't do this. Its meee Kagome!" Sadly all that came out of her mouth was the yipping sound of a small puppy after she did something wrong.

"We'll have none of that little one." She tapped her pink nose. "Kagome knows we are not allowed pets in this house." Her mom reached for the lid to the box and poked some holes with scissors. Kagome watched her mother put the lid over the box until all Kagome could see were through the holes her mother cut out.

Kagome felt her mom lift up the box and the felt the motion of being carried outside. Not much later she felt her mothers decent. Tears streamed down her face. Didn't her mama know that it was her?

When she felt her mother stop and put her down she gave off a big whimpering sound. She sniffled when her mom lifted the lid and patted her head and than putting the lid half way over the box again just enough to prevent the puppy from getting out of the box.

Kagome was left there on the sidewalk all alone.

**

Ms. Higarshi climbed the steps up to her family shrine. She was highly disappointed in her daughter, she knew better than to bring a puppy home. She would have a talk with her when she got home.

She entered her home through the entrance hall and into the kitchen.

"Kagome!" When she heard no answer she walked up into her daughter's bedroom. She walked up to her bed only to find her not there. She glanced around Kagome's room looking for her daughter. Twenty minutes of searching throughout her house there was no sign of her daughter anywhere. She simply disappeared.