The protagonist is a teenage girl (Tamaki) who revisits a small village she remembers from her childhood and gets caught up in her family's history and the supernatural dangers surrounding it. While walking along the hillsides waiting for the person who her grandmother sent to fetch Tamaki to the village, Tamaki comes across a small, white round object which has sticks for limbs and can talk. It runs off soon after with Tamaki chasing after it. Soon Tamaki finds herself in a place where "it does not feel like the world I came from." She gets attacked by three slime creatures, and a mysterious man comes charging in to save her by clamping his hands around her body and mouth then telling her to be quiet. After the young man (Takuma) saves her he walks her to the village where her grandmother is staying. Soon after her arrival she meets with her grandmother. It's later explained that she has to continue the role of ancestor princess (Tamayori), to seal the sword Onikirimaru with the help of her five guardians. [From [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiiro_no_Kakera]Wikipedia[/url]]

それは有り得たかもしれない、 春夏秋冬の物語。 春の暖かさに歌い、 夏の祭りに騒ぎ出し、 秋の果実に心躍らせ、 冬の綿雪を踏みしめる――。 【檻】を抜け出した者との未来。 【檻】に囚われたままの者との未来。 千差万別、極彩色に輝く、古の玉依姫の物語。 ――貴女が見る世界は、如何様に映るのか。