Opportunities by Caedes

Prologue

This is my first story, so please look on it kindly and with friendly eyes. I confess, I have an extremely limited knowledge of Japan that pretty much revolves around Inuyasha, so I used an excuse to move good ol' Kagome to the USA at risk of looking like an idiot :). So, please review as you see fit go give constructive advice. 

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In her humble opinion, some crazy shit went down after the jewel was completed and she made her unselfish wish. Beside being thrust back into her own era, everything changed. In her present future—if that even made sense—humans and yokai lived side by side.

They had never disappeared from the world.

Kagome could only assume that the wish did what it was supposed to do and put the world back into balance between the two creatures. But that didn’t mean she wasn’t miserable. She mourned the loss of her friends and let herself be consumed by grief. Though she had a vain hope that somehow Inuyasha had survived, when three months passed with no word—she knew the truth.

It took a serious slap from her mother and an angry glare to finally pull herself together.

As it turned out, in this new world, a miko was extremely valuable. Especially a trained one, like herself. The last few years before she completed the jewel, she had finally buckled down and started to train. She became powerful, and the completion of the jewel only amplified it.

This new world accepted her into a University, where she continued to train for four years and became the top of her class. She was glad she finally excelled at something. She wasn’t second in her class anymore. There was no Kikyo to look up to. In this future, she was one of the most powerful miko in the world.

With graduation impending, she knew she had to make a name for herself and put to use everything she had learned. She couldn’t help but think if she knew all of the things she did now, her trip back in time wouldn’t have been so difficult.

But she learned more and more.

With job offers pouring in, Kagome was faced with a difficult decision. Though, she knew which one she was going to make.

Still, Japan was too difficult for Kagome to endure. It had too many reminders of the friends she had accidentally left behind and never got to say goodbye to.

So, she brushed up on her English skills and waved goodbye to her mother and moved to a place that wouldn’t remind her of home—Washington D.C.

America was different. Their yokai were also of old worlds and new worlds. It was a mixing pot. And what of her culture had gone there was diluted and misconstrued, so there was no way she would feel homesick.

And DC was the capitol of the world for yokai-human relations. It was an honor to be able to work there at all. In America, the tensions were different. While the world struggled with yokai-human relations, America was truly a mixing pot. There were half yokai’s, third yokai’s, and even some people who came up with weird percentages of how they were quarter yokai on their mother’s side and two-thirds on their father’s.

So in the end, it wasn’t a difficult decision at all. She moved to the United States and left her old world behind.

It was refreshing.

She accepted a job for an ambassador of the East Coast Yokai of America (ECYA for short). His name was Samuel and he was a wolf yokai. Though not nearly anything like her friend from the past. He was sophisticated, but had an easy smile when it wasn’t time for business. He had lived in the United States since its founding, and had helped create it for what it was today.

Her life started new. And she was going to create a new one, in this new world, and leave the old one behind.

She just hoped the gods knew of this plan as well…