InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ If I had three wishes ❯ Chapter three ( Chapter 4 )

CHAPTER THREE

Kagome sat there, waiting for what was to come, but for some odd reason there wasn't much. Well,
she had not really known what to wait for to begin with but that nothing happened at all was strange, If
not really, really ominous. She started the old argument about saving her father, she needed the
money and the help her family would get, she simply needed it. But on the other side she didn't like
this options at all; now that she was here it turned out to be cold and unsettling around her, this whole
atmosphere was as if someone tried to press her down to the ground and make her smaller than she
already was.

"You left this blank…" The man looked up and showed her clipboard to her, she must have forgotten
this part till now.

"Uhm... sorry..." She muttered and took the clipboard back, cursing Miroku inwardly. This stupid lecher
had made her so annoyed and confused that she had indeed forgotten to fill out some lines.

"Well I will give you a moment…" The man sighed and observed his coffer cup for a moment, standing
up. He took his cup and left the room.

The door closed with a small sound and Kagome was left along. For just a moment she allowed
herself to relax, take a deep breath and close her eyes. This really wasn't going well, at least as far as
she could tell. What kind of impression did she make when she already failed to fill out a couple of
questions; she opened her eyes and studied the paper again. She read the words and could swear to
every god in the world that she already had answered this one, even before Miroku had come up to
her in the waiting room.

Something was amiss with this stuff; she laid the clipboard on the desk before her and looked around
for a moment. Perhaps the man had mixed up files or something, but that could not be, it was her
handwriting on top of the form. She frowned in confusion as the words returned to the clipboard in a
short dizzy moment, so she hadn't been wrong; she had filled out the form. This must have been the
test, breaking this… concealing spell or whatever… but there was a strange feeling crawling up her
neck and she couldn't deny herself that there was more to come.

A screeching sound from behind her made it clear that she wasn't wrong at all with her feeling; she
jumped out of her chair and turned finding a serpent like thing filling out the complete back of the
room. She moved backwards slightly away from the thing, bumping into the desk with a yelp. She
grabbed for what she could as the demon came closer and threw it at his big ugly head what made the
serpent not the slightest bit happy; it rushed forward and pressed her to the desk, his salvia dropping
hot on her skin.

Kagome's heart was pumping with fear and her hands searched frantically for something
to get rid of the danger before her. She grabbed for whatever she could reach around her, finding
a paper knife that she buried deeply into the serpent's neck, as deep as she could make it go. The
energy blast that came with it was something she had not thought would happen, but the thing wailed
and shivered in pain before a pinkish light erupted from the place where she had pushed the knife into
his flesh, diminishing to nothing but a dust cloud around her.

She sat up carefully amazed and wondering what just had happened, well, it had happened to her
before but never with such a big demon and never before with so much energy. For a moment she
smiled, down at the ashes that laid around her and into her hand where the paper knife still rested. So
the short encounter with Hojo had not diminished her power, it seemed more along the lines of
boosting them to more than just the bit she had. It needed a couple of minutes more for her to come to
mind and back from the good feeling the dead demon had given her for a second, she just had been
attacked, she just could have been killed!! And the most alarming fact was that she took it better than
she ever thought possible, but still, these guys could have killed her! And that only because of this
stupid test.

"Not bad Miss Higurashi…" She looked up to find the Man standing in the door, observing what she
had done. He gave her almost something like a smile what was fuel to the fire of her anger. "You past
all three stages of the test…" he added.

"That was the test?" She got up, anger now brewing inside her "You could have killed me?!!" She
yelled at the man.

"You wouldn't have died…" He explained taken aback by the anger she radiated, there clearly was
potential that needed to be taken care of this was more than evident for his eyes. "Anyway… you past
the tests as I said; the most people can't even stand the incertitude spell on them…not to mention the
concealing spell or the demon…" He stepped up to her and pressed a bid blue file into her arms. The
two moons and the dot above them brightly shining from its cover. "We are honoured to welcome such
a potential gifted into our unit…" She blinked, looking down at the file. "Your parents need to fill out and
sign some stuff in there and you can come back and get your papers… the rest is but a question
of days before the next semester starts…" He told her and pushed the confused young woman out of
his office and down the hall. Leaving Kagome shocked, confused and still angry in the hall. She had
past the tests, now the only thing left was going home and telling in her mom.

Kagome had never been so fast in her entire live; it was as if the demon killing had given her an energy
boost of some sorts. Tears were running down her cheeks or it only was melted snow, she could not
really tell it apart, only knew that there was a real chance now for her father and her family to have a
better live soon.

The girl reached home earlier than she had if she would have been at work and did not really hope for
her mother to be already home, but as Kagome reached the kitchen she sat there; her head leaned on
her crossed arms and sobs were shaking her body. All good feelings Kagome had felt only seconds
ago vanished; the reality came back to her with a hard slap into her face.

Where was her father? "Mom... Is something with dad?" She stepped into the dim kitchen, swallowing
the lump in her throat. "Mom…?" Fear was flooding her mind, killing of all hope that had built up.

Her mother looked up and quickly wiped her eyes, feeling caught in a weak moment. "Kagome..?
What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at work?" Her mother frowned.

"I… Why are you crying...?" Kagome changed the path of the conversation quickly; she wanted
to know what was going on before she lifted her secret. "Is something with dad?"

"No... He sleeps in the bedroom…" Her mother sighed, got up and over to the sink. "He's fine...
his fever sunk a bit this morning…" She said and yet again sobbed.

"Why are you crying than?" Kagome asked and came closer to her mother, stopping beside the
kitchen table to see a letter there. She read over the lines quickly and her eyes turned wide. "Oh…"

"They closed our entire section..." Kagome's mother sobbed, she had lost her job that was evident
now.

"Don't worry Mama…" The girl said quickly, making her mother turn. Normally Kagome would have
seen her world break down further now, but she had something to make anything better and hurried
back into the hall, getting the file she had thrown aside as she had come into the flat and came back.
Laying it onto the kitchen table.

"Kagome?" her mother eyed the half moon sign on the folder with a frown. "Don't tell me…" She was
shaking her head. "Don't tell me you did this..?"

"Yes Mama, and they took me... you only have to sign a few things and I can start this semester… you
will get my money and care for dad and grandpa… we even can get Sota on a better school.."
Kagome smiled, but froze as her mother didn't get the positive side of the whole thing. "Mama… aren't
you glad?"

"No..." Was the short answer to Kagome's question. "This isn't good…" The older woman said coldly.

"We need the money Mama… Dad needs the medicine… I don't understand what is so wrong with
this…?" Kagome sat down as her mother did the same.

"You don't understand this Kagome, there are so many bad things our there you don't know about,
believe me Kagome. The things about magic and demons which this propaganda tells you aren't as
good as you think... there are dark sides that they don't show you, dark sides beyond that what is hid
behind walls…this isn't a game Kagome." Her mother warned and looked at the file. "…gods why
didn't you come to me before you did this…" She sounded sad and unhappy.

"Because I wanted to help you… Mama, please I want this, I want to help you and dad; you always
were there for me, I just want to give back what I can." She moved her chair a bit closer to her mother.
"And it isn't that bad mama, it can't be. I have power, really, I killed a demon that was larger than me
with a paper knife... and it simply exploded" Kagome made a gesture with her hands to illustrate it but
her mother didn't cheer up one bit.

"Your father wouldn't want you to do this… you know he lost his mother like this…In this lunacy..."
Misses Higurashi said half as a whisper. For a second She remembered the bitter loss of their
grandmother… she had been gifted too, at least in some way, but could not control herself and so she
died as her father still had been a young girl.

"I know mama and I will be careful…" Kagome promised back even more whispering. Silence spread
over them for several moments.

A coughing from the hall brought both out of their silence; they jumped up and went out of the dim
kitchen. Kagome's father leaned on the wall coughing heavily. He might have tried to go on the toilet
on his own, resulting in a coughing fit and weakness to his anyway weak form.

"Come... come back to bed…" Misses Higurashi soothed her husband, leading him back to their bed.

Kagome was still in the hall as her mother came back several moments later. She silently past her
daughter and walked back into the kitchen, grabbing a pen on the way back in.

Kagome's mother sat down and filled out anything that was wanted, silently closing the file and
pushing it across the table. Kagome meet her eyes from her spot in the door and both came to the
silent understanding that this was the only way; so it was done. Kagome would join the special unit for
spiritually gifted and her Mother would make the best out of it, for the family's sake.