The Miserable Existence of Kagome Higurashi

BeautifulTwisted

Prologue: Strange Strangers

My name is Kagome Higurashi. I am 16 and I live inTokyo—Shibuya to be exact. I work at a Seiyu store and my entire existence is miserable and dull. Well, that's what I thought until you came around.

The petite girl sighed as she adjusted the objects on the shelf in front of her to perfection. Today she was put on 'aisle duty,' as she called it, and all the tedious responsibilities that came with it. Pretty much that meant spending a working day checking the aisles, adjusting the merchandise, and dealing with the annoying teenagers who enjoyed pulling pranks and making her job even more miserable. Of course, there was also the occasional lost child or trashed aisle that she got to look forward to, but those weren't too frequent.

Perhaps it was the complete and utter horrendousness of her job that made her act so cheerful, or maybe it was masochist in her that secretly enjoyed being unhappy. Yeah, right. That last one was definitely it. (1) Kagome was just an upbeat person, a sickly upbeat and optimistic person on the outside. On the inside was the exact opposite: excessive cynicism and even more excessive pessimism.

"Excuse me," a young teenager asked, catching her attention immediately as Kagome stood up from a kneeling position and dusted invisible dirt from her pants. "I seem to have lost someone. Would you help me or point me in the direction of someone who can?" The boy asked politely with a slight smirk.

Something about him was unnerving. From his auburn eyes, practically red, to his black hair, slightly blue, everything about his was abnormal. He was abnormal, and truthfully he frightened Kagome slightly.

"Yeah, no problem," Kagome chirped back with a bright smile, pushing down any slight fear or uneasiness. "Who'd ya loose? Your mom? Dad?" The look she received in return was anything but friendly. The cold eyes of the boy in front of her narrowed for a split second, sending shivers down her spine. Of all the things she could have said, that was possibly the worst thing. That look she was getting was just wrong, too harsh for such a young person.

"As a matter of fact, yes, but neither my mother nor my father is the one I am looking for," Was his sharp reply.

"Oh, heh, sorry," Kagome said as she sheepishly rubbed the back of her head. "Who is it that you are looking for?"

"I believe that would be me," a smooth voice interjected as a tall and extremely handsome man appeared from around aisle shelves and approached Kagome and the boy. With a foolishly friendly smile, he waved a hand to Kagome and sent amused look to the boy.

"Um, uh, well…yeah. Guess you didn't need my help after all," Kagome said to the mysterious boy before smiling and waving at both him and the man he had been looking for. With that, she disappeared behind shelves as she left the strange presence of the boy and man. It had felt like they were sharing an inside joke the whole time while she was stuck there awkwardly and silently being ridiculed.

Hopefully she wouldn't see either of them. Ever again.

Oh how wrong she was.

(1) If you aren't catching the sarcasm then you should be ashamed.

A/N: This is the short prologue! YAY! I was reading through the Kuroshitsuji and Inuyasha archive and there didn't seem to be too many modern day things? I mean, Ciel and Sebastian ARE immortal, so might as well put them a good hundred years or so in the future? See how their lives are goin? Ahh, whatever. Enjoy! ^_^