My first language is not English so please be lenient. This is my first fanfic so please encourage me a bit.
Disclaimer: Inuyasha and Naruto both are owned by Rumiko Takahashi and Mashashi Kishimoto respectively. I own nothing.
EXCEPTION: Chapter 1: Shock
Trrrrrrrrrrrring! She had heard it. Her alarm clock. It was ringing violently,trying very hard to wake her up. Kagome roused lightly from her sleep, moaning in discomfort. The noise! She hated it! She herself had set it for the 6 o'clock though. She thought to ignore it and snuggled inside her blanket more. Ah! the warmth. Who wants to wake up on such a chilly morning?.
Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring! Guh! That stupid clock! Kagome squinted her eyes slightly. A pencil of sunlight was peeking through her curtains. The sun was already up. Sitting on her bed she rubbed her sleepy eyes.
Trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring! Oh for love of…she banged her fist on the head of the clock. It stopped with a 'croak' sound. That's good now she could… wait what was the time by the way? It was already 6.30. Oh no! she had to go now. She really needed to rise and shine otherwise she would be late for her job and that would not be good for her and her family. Technically her job was nothing but suffering(pure hellish nightmare as she called it) for her but she could not complain. The thought already made her mood sour. She had already lost two jobs before and did not want to lose the present one too. She ran towards the washroom.
After coming back from feudal era she was felt alone. She missed them, all of them. The Bone Eater's well was closed after she came back from Sengoku Jidai and there was no way to go back to feudal era. She missed her friends, the time she had spent with them; Sango's chatting, Miroku's perverted attitude, Shippo's mischievousness, Kirara's mews, Myoga's cowardice, Kouga's hard attempts to woo her,hell she even missed Sesshoumaru. She always loved Rin the little chatterbox. But the most she missed Inuyasha. He was her first love after all, "I wonder what they are doing now" she mused to herself. Oh! She was becoming so bored "What am I going to do now?".
Indeed, being the former Shikon no Miko she had the nack for fighting not to go to school and do homework. She had saved the world from a power hungry demon for crying out loud. But she had to do just that.
After coming back from Sengoku Jidai she had finished her high school but she couldn't afford college. Their source of income was mainly from the shrine and to say it was not very good. There was her grandfather's little pension, her mother was a housewife and there was also her little brother Souta, his education and school fees were too much for them to bear. Her grandfather was an old man and was getting weaker day by day. So she wanted a decent job with which she could pay her own expenses as well as her brother's. In that way at least she could help her family at minimum and if her luck was good she could continue her college too. Now for the hardest part …how to get a job and what type of job.
Having only high school degree she could not apply for better jobs. So she had to be happy with the average ones. She started with some easy ones like a maid in a café. It was her friend Yuka who helped her to get the job. One of Yuka's friend used to work in the café and she took Kagome there."Don't worry Kagome" Yuka said "This place is fine and pretty close to your house too. And the pay is quite good isn't it?". It was true. She had been very happy with Yuka. The café was near her home ,the pay was good and her co-workers were also helpful. And in the uniform of a maid she looked so cute. Her mother had cooed in pure delight to see her in that dress and also had snapped a photo much to Kagome's embarrassment. But she had to leave that job for a certain reason.
All the men who visited the café weren't very chivalric towards women especially to the maids who worked there. Kagome had noticed their lewd behavior to the girls . But for the sake of security of the girls and her job she kept her mouth shut until one day… .
She and other girls were working in the evening shift. At that time there were not much customers in the café so girls were chatting contentedly with each other. It was then a bunch of rowdies entered the café. She could tell that by their wild tattoos, clothes and spiky hair style. Naturally they were here not for eating but for some other vile reason that anyone could decipher. They sat on the table in the middle of the café and the biggest of them, probably the leader shouted "Hey we want to give orders". All girls were looking at each other's faces. None wanted to take their orders. After all who would want to put herself in a mess? The said rowdy then called Hanako, Kagome's co-worker by motioning a finger. "You" he said "come here". Hanako looked at them and then to the other girls. 'Well someone have to go'. She forced a smile on her face and went to them "Hello gentlemen what would you like to order?"
"How about we order you sweety?" the fattest one of them said and others laughed like hyenas. Hanako was frightened. If looks could kill that fatso would have been dead by the look Kagome sent him.
Then she said again "Aparently I am here for an order for food sir."
"Oh what can be better food than you!"
Kagome shuddered in disgust. She was really feeling sorry for the girl. Hanako coughed a little and asked again "What would you like to order sir?" Kagome's left eye twitched and a vein popped in her forehead.
"Didn't you hear us girl?" The fatso grabbed her hand. Hanako shouted "Please let me go!"
Kagome could see no more. Fire seeped in her eyes. She jumped between them "Hey you jerk! Let her go NOW!". He let her go and smirked evilly at her"Oh you are feisty it seems. Alright we will have you instead."
Now she was angry and as we know an angry Kagome was a dangerous Kagome. She took a coffee mug from the table and threw it on the man. The mug broke in the impact and she could see blood trickling down his face. Hanako and others gasped in fear. The mug was empty otherwise he would have burnt.
The man snarled in anger and took a step to her. Kagome backed away. The biggest of them stopped him with a hand on his arm. He came in front of Kagome and she saw that he was at least a foot taller than her. He leveled her with a look and said " You are very brave aren't you? I want to see your bravery when we will take you with us" Kagome was horrified and angry. She did not understand what she should do because now not only hers but others were also in danger. How she wished to purify them! If they had been youkais she would have already done that. There present customers were frightened too so Kagome doubted that hardly come to help them.
She was thinking about kicking the man's face(fighting with youkais had taught her that much)but just in time they heard the siren of police cars. The rowdies were baffled. Kagome shouted "Do you hear that? Leave now or we will call the police ,Just get lost!" They left but not before they destroyed some of café's properties. They broke some crockeries and overturned chairs and tables.
Thank goodness. Everyone sighed in relief. It was reavealed that their manager Minami,a woman short and in her mid-thirties had called the police just after the fiasco with Kagome started. Although she was congratulated by everyone for her bravery the owner of the café accused her of the destruction of café's properties and told her to compensate for it. As she was unable to do so she was out of her job.
Next- a bookstore job ..of course she had to be a bookkeeper . But the job was entirely boring. She had to keep books on their places, dust the shelves, and also show the people the exit who came into the store to read books in free. Although she sometimes indulged herself in such luxuries but she never did it before her boss. And on the summer days when there was scorching heat outside and no one to come into her store she got bored and sleepy . So she slept . Although she never thought that her boss would find her in such situation and well not to mention it she was fired…within a month.
She was thinking all these while walking towards her latest job of a babysitter(for which she had set her alarm at 6 o'clock in the morning).The family she worked under had twin sons of five and they were students in a nearby kindergarten. Both of their parents were workers. So Kagome had to take them to school, take them back from school, make them lunch and take them to park in the evening. She knew she would be the best babysitter. She had practice with her brother and also with Shippo and Rin in feudal era. And the boys were so cute. This job should be a piece of cake for her.
But apparently it was not so. In a week she found out that those two pints were little monsters in the bodies of cute human babies. They made her life hell with pulling such pranks that even Shippo would have been proud if he could do so. Everyday they(she called them "The Devilish Duo" in secret)had new types of plans to make Kagome crazy. One day they would put cockroaches in her bag, someday they would gift her with a frog and someday they would simply make such cute innocent faces that made Kagome's stomach churn in fear. But that day was the most dreadful in Kagome's existence of twenty one years.
After bringing the boys from the kindergarten she fed them lunch and made them sleep. After that she entertained herself with a book. A good book always helped to calm her. While reading the book she started dozing without realization. She woke up startled hearing some soft giggling. She found out the two 'angels' were looking at her with rapt attention and smiling faces. She was confused at first being fuzzy with the sleep but when her mind cleared she swallowed in fear "what have you two done this time?" when they did not answer she ventured herself to find their work. But to her great surprise everything was fine . She did not find anything out of place but then why are they smiling like that and why are they looking at her like that? Wait… they were looking at her! HER! She ran to retrieve her bag . Opening the chain carefully she put her hand in it because if they had put another cockroach inside it she would just faint and die there. But no, there was no such things so easily she found what she was trying to get. Her hand mirror. She opened it , saw herself…and screamed.
The boys had coloured her hair green. Nice parrot green. She felt that she really was going crazy.
That was the job she quitted herself.
After that she had developed a phobia for work and went home to her shrine. She stopped taking jobs and started working in their shrine for fulltime. But that had not increased the amount of money they needed. Dissatisfied with herself she started to become morose. Sometimes she would sit under goshinboku and tried to remember her quests in the past. She sighed "Oh Inuyasha ,what should I do?" This went continuously for three years.
After three years:
On a morning she was eating breakfast with her family. Her grandfather being old could not work much.
He told Souta "My boy could you bring the newspaper for me?" Souta, now a teenager, was currently very busy in munching his toast.
"Aw grandpa could you not wait for some minutes I am eating. I have to go down the shrine to bring it." It was true . The newspaper boy would not come up with stairs to bring them newspaper.
His grandfather was a bit disappointed and had started his lecture " Hmm. Kids these days, can't do even a simple task. When I was young I used to…"
Souta groaned " Not again grandpa".
Kagome giggled watching the banter between her brother and grandfather.
"It is okay grandpa, I will go fetch your newspaper" She told hurriedly to stop his ongoing lecture.
"Ah thank you Kagome." She stood out from her table and went to bring the newspaper . When she reached her home with the paper the breakfast was already over. Souta had to get ready for school. Her mother was making food for him and her grandfather also was nowhere to be seen.
"Eh? Mama where did grandpa go?"
"Oh he has probably gone inside Kagome, you know how weak he has become now . He can't sit for much times."
"Yes but what should I do with the newspaper then?"
"Oh don't worry about that . Eat your breakfast first."
"Okay" .She sat down and started her unfinished breakfast while reading the news. Suddenly her eyes were glued to a certain page. The 'classifieds' for jobs. One certain advertisement had made her eyes gone wide as saucers. It was like this-
"A miko is required. Must have knowledge of purification, exorcism and healing. Address-"as such. She choked on her tea.
A/N: This is the first chapter. How is it? Should I continue it? Anyone reads it please review. They are most welcome.