InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ If I had three wishes ❯ Chapter one ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter one

The small flat wasn't the brightest or warmest on in Tokyo in these days; the heating had died out into
a small stream of warm air that used nothing at all and the light kept dimmed for the sake of the sore
eyes of her father. All this busy spirits that flooded the snowy streets out there did not care for all that
and perhaps all this had been her problem from the start. The frost in this world killed of the best
things: no matter if political or only from the snow that was falling since weeks.

All this politics out there played in their world with their powers and that for their interests: that people
like her family had to carry their plans on their backs was something entirely unknown to them. Or they
knew it but ignored those building the weapons for their stupid rivalry to keep their hands clean.

Kagome sighed, it was of no use to rant about politics in this world when her problems laid not in the
fact that earth was at the brink of another war only because there where to kinds of people and two
ways of handling them. She was shaking her head to herself and watched the streets down below her
house again, wondering if others had the same problems in their live. Her problem laid in her living
room, weak and burning up with fever since this morning. It was her father who was sick once more,
never fully gotten rid of a poisoning he had caught in the factory he had worked in last year; the whole
factory had closed down after more than half of all workers were killed in the accident. 'Small mistakes
in the security system' was the official excuse but a test with a new biological weapon against demons
that had failed awfully was the truth, at least in Kagome's eyes.

Since these days her father was home all the time and had lost his job. Kagome had been forced to
leave school and worked in a small restaurant down the street now, whilst her mother worked in
another factory to bring home enough money for them at all. The money was barely enough for her
grandfather, parents and little brother Sota.

The dark haired girl leaned her head tiredly against the window, enjoying the cold surface meeting her
skin and closed her eyes. Kami, how she hated this world and all the stupid shit in it. There had to be
another way, a way that would allow them to send her father in a real hospital to care for him, all this
herbal teas of her grandfather did nothing for him and she knew they never would. She had really tried
anything but a young girl that had no money for school and was barely 17 had not much chances to
get a job that would earn enough money for a hospital, it was hard enough to have enough money for
the small flat they lived in, let alone repair the heating that was broken since a while. She moved
backwards and took a deep breath, returning to the living room where her mother was.

The sleeping middle aged woman sat on the ground beside the couch half way leaned over her
husband who was burning up with fever, she had spend all day with trying to get the fever under
control but in vein. Kagome took a blanket that was lying on the side and wrapped it around her
mother's shoulders, sitting down on the ground close to her to lean against the couch where her
father laid.

Her mother looked so sad and helpless like this, what Kagome would have given to see her smile
again, a real smile not that bitter fake smile she reserved to sooth Sota. The girl knew as good as it did
her mother that it could not go on like this; there was no way to even keep this flat if there would be
another month like the last one.

The only light present was the small old TV that played the same stupid commercials like always; she
did not care much for it. Join the military, work for your country, how evil the others where and such
stuff. She sighed and tried to set her mind on other stuff than the sickness of her father, watching a
stupid game show to lull her to sleep. It did not help a bit, it only made it worse: all this pretty pictures
of things she never would need nor ever be able to buy was not helping at all.

She was almost ready to turn of the TV once for all as a new spot came up. Yet another military spot
like always, she thought at first but this one was something entirely different. It was one of this spots,
recruiting gifted people for those forces who had special powers and worked together with especially
trained demons to protect their country from attacks from in and outside. What only meant that gifted
guards worked together with especially trained demons to ensure that there could nothing happen like
in Africa or Australia. It was Ironical that they had returned to spells, bows and swords after almost 60
years of arms race with high technology. In theory it sounded better to use magic and spells instead of
poison and guns in these days but only on the first sight was it better than the other stuff. They still
killed each other, spoke treats and used embargos to do their harm the old way, the difference was
truly small.

She knew from her own live that this so called gifts where more a curse than something positive. Ever
since she was a three year old who had met a demon on the play ground, running away terrified about
the serpent like creature that wanted to eat her. She fell to the ground wailing in fear but as the thing
touched her it vanished, exploding into a cloud of pink energy. Things like this had happened to her
almost all the time; even after the demons got into their own housing areas. (1)Once she even had
seen a dead spirit as she was walking home from school with her friends. She never had said anything
till now not even to her own family; it had been not important or to dangerous to tell till now, but the
danger her father and family was in changed anything.

The spot had ended long time ago but she had not taken notice of it. She stared into her lap and
thought about the possibility to get money from this wrongness. On one side she did not like what they
did with demons, she could not understand why they where so different, she was sure there were not
only those small serpent like things that wanted to kill her. They had kids and families themselves, like
the small redhead kid she had seen in the news a while back. The unit always was keen on getting
new gifted for their camps, after all it was dangerous and only few were really strong enough to be of
use at all, but once you was in this units you got a assurance that guarantied care for the family and
you could study. They had schools and training camps and even if you wasn't that good in your gift
you could get your hands on a career you never would have a chance to even dream of. She knew
that all this was only propaganda in some way, all was an ocean of lies but it was still her only chance
to try and she would.

Kagome turned the TV off and got up, walking into the hall to the phone where she searched for the
address of the closest military office; she wrote the address on a piece of paper and put it away in her
wallet. The first thing tomorrow would be a trip to the city centre to attend to the tests they normally
did.

(1) Demons lived alongside men for a while, but as you know, people fear what seems to have more power than themselves so
they put them up into special living areas, like that one close to Kyoto.