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Hello there, welcome to Cultivation 101!
If you're at all familiar with wuxia aka martial-arts novels, you're probably guessing what's going on. If you aren't, never fear, it'll be explained as we go.
Some notes:
This is so thoroughly an AU, it's not even in the same universe as Inuyasha.
Kagome will without a doubt be ragingly OOC. It's intentional.
This is a firm T, mostly for language, perhaps some violence later on.
This fic is meant to be lighthearted. Sure, it'll have some serious points along the way, but it's not meant to have any sort of epic plot whatsoever. I've actually gotten hooked on several wuxia novels lately (which is why I'm not writing anything, I'm too busy discovering a world of joy), and this is me, shamelessly amusing myself.
As always, your comments are welcome.

DISCLAIMER: Inuyasha is property of Takahashi Rumiko.

Prologue

In the infinite multiverse there is a world remarkably similar to our own.
The same countries, the same people, even much of history is exactly the same. If you were to visit it, you'll be assimilated real quick, 99% guaranteed success!
But in that world, there's one thing that's not at all like in our world. One thing that is the most important, the centre of existence.

CULTIVATION!

The spiritual arts are alive and thriving, rooted deeply in all cultures across the globe, in infinite forms and countless traditions. Those with potential are scouted young, screened and scooped up by prestigious schools to undergo ruthless training with the hope that they may be accepted into one of the great Sects or Clans.

Everybody wants to either be a cultivator, marry a cultivator or be the parent of a cultivator.
If a cultivator's your sibling it's worth nothing – you can't claim benefits. Same for cousins. But if its your own child? Your partner in marriage? The Heavenly Gates of Prosperity will inevitably open up and rain good fortune on your head!

In Japan of the 21st century there's exactly one limit that can prevent even the most talented, the greatest of geniuses, from practising cultivation… those of mixed-blood are prohibited!

'Do you want to be a cultivator?'

Duh, doesn't everybody?

'Are you willing to do whatever it takes?'

Within reason, yeah? I'm not self-mutilating.

'Are you willing to leave everything and everyone you know behind?'

What is this, twenty dumbass questions? Hell yes, I am!

'Then state your name and never look back!'

Listen up! I'm Higurashi Kagome and I'm gonna rise higher than anybody else! I'm gonna be a god!