InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Escape to Our Future ❯ The Essay ( Prologue )

Authors note:

 

Just a few words about the journey you will undertake while reading this story.

 

I have always enjoyed reading about the disputes and negotiations between youkai and ningen, but one thing has always puzzled me. There are few, if any, references to the past, when the humans first found out that youkai are among them. So I began a short story about the Unveiling as the Media will call it. Though it soon developed into this story, I hold fast to my main goal. To create a story based during and after the Unveiling. Also, this is a story turned fanfic.

 

Just to help you all through and incase I mix the names.

 

Allison: Kagome

Damien: Inuyasha

Mitsuki: Kikyou

Jocelyn: Kagura

Christin: Sesshoumaru

Trystin: Kouga

Amanda: Ayame

Robert: Miroku

Kylie: Sango

 

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Collage Essay on the Unveiling:

Written by: Allison Montvale Fujiwara

 

It is very difficult, now, to imagine a time without our youkai brethren. The great people who have saved our world over and over from wars, famine and even our own violence. Those who run the mobs and the hospitals, who slaughter innocents and save the environment. Before, humans overlooked the good youkai and declared that all are power hungry flesh eating monsters who desired inhalation. Though today many of those people still hold to their beliefs, youkai are not nearly as hated as they were two hundred years ago, when the first female youkai president revealed herself to the nation, and the world, for what she was.

The Unveiling incident took place around the late 1900s when a third party in the presidential election held a press conference and removed their disguise spells to show themselves to the nation as youkai. Riots burst forth in large cities were youkai revealed themselves, humans setting forth to obliterate the race. The violence lasted two years with much debate on weather or not the youkai should be aloud to become president. Yet despite the violence the “American way”, as some still call it, prevailed. Though the scene cause much fear and hate, because the youkai population was roughly a fourth of the nation, the third party candidate won and the United States had their first youkai president. Gwendala Iciose became that president. Perhaps it was their constitution, giving rights to even youkai, maybe because they had such a wide population of youkai, or perhaps because the humans realized that youkai have been with them for centuries and nothing has come of it. Historians still debate over what truly helped keep the United States so peaceful while the rest of the world plunged into violence.

 

After the Unveiling incident youkai all over the world were revealing themselves, though not always in the most respectable way. Riots and murders were soon to follow, sections of the church broke away to form non-youkai sects. A series of laws spread, limiting youkai rights among many nations, jailing anyone who held “demonic abilities”. It was the witch hunts all over again. Rivalries and vengeance was the breeding ground of accusations against the “heathen”. In Japan, those who were accused of being youkai were dragged from their homes and killed in large groups. It was little more than a legalized slaughter... the majority of those killed being no less human than the ones pointing fingers. Still, these incidents did not stop more youkai from coming out, and soon the humans were faced with the bitter truth. The youkai were stronger and smarter than them, and there were almost as many as humans.

 

Though the humans acted despicably, the youkai were not without their own slaughters. Many used the panic to gain power, leading groups of radical humans against those who would oppose them. Those who devoured humans easily hid among the mob, blaming the murders on someone else.

 

The U.S. soon closed off its boarders, adopting the “Sorry we can't help you” policy. Mexico soon followed, having nearly obliterated their youkai population, and may have continued in not for U.S. interference, Canada joined in and north America soon became one country in which humans and youkai lived in relative peace. France and Germany combined soon after and became a “Youkai Only” country, and Africa, Russia, India, and China refused to even acknowledge the change in the world, with so few youkai revealing themselves, they went about their business with closed eyes.

 

Japan seemed the worst, and longest at war within itself. Decades after the “Unveiling” radical groups still plagued the country, more humans and youkai were killed than among other countries by the “exterminators”, the media even romanticized the group. “We must purge ourselves of these evils if we are to survive.” said one news reporter, “And the exterminators are here to do it.”

 

Walking down a street today you may find it difficult to believe that only a few generations ago our world was almost destroyed by the narrow-mindedness of people, both youkai and ningen. And though each race points fingers at the other they are both at fault. The humans believed that they could destroy creatures that lived alongside them for centuries, maybe even walked this world before us. The youkai believed they would be accepted, yet mirrored the malice that coated the hearts of the humans. Neither side was willing to accept the other, both wanting to live in this world freely and believing that it was impossible so long as the other was around.

 

 

“I believe its time to cast aside our deceitful faces and show the world just who we are beneath our masks! We have lived beside them for centuries, but only in showing trust in them, in allowing them to see us as we truly are, can we live in peace among them forever!” --President Gwendala Iciose.