EXCEPTION

Chapter 2: Negation

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Before this: "A miko is required. Must have knowledge of purification, exorcism and healing. Address-"as such. She choked on her tea.

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EXCEPTION: Chapter 2: Negation

Kagome couldn't believe her eyes. Was this even real? She rubbed her eyes and looked again. No it was not a hallucination. She shouted for her mother "Mama! Come and see!"

Her mother was washing dishes. She answered without looking at her "I am busy Kagome."

"No mama you need to see this now."

Mama Higurashi sighed "Okay I am coming".

She put the dishes down and dried her hands on the apron then proceeded to her daughter "What is it Kagome?"

"Oh mama look!". She handed the newspaper to her mother." Her mother looked at it and was seemingly confused "What?"

"Oh mama here, look here" She pointed the advertisement with her finger. Kagome's mother read it and was truly surprised "Huh? A miko is wanted?"

Mama Higurashi tilted her head slightly "This is something new. I really never have seen such types of advertisement before."

Kagome nodded "Yes mama. I have never seen anything like this before either."

"But why would someone want a miko?"

Kagome shrugged "Who knows?" Then she was suddenly excited "Maybe there are some youkai attacks."

Her mother said "But Kagome we have never seen youkais in this era. Not except Inuyasha's occasional arrivals."

"But mama what if there are, what if they are still alive, what if Inuyasha is still alive?" her voice was strained when she spoke about Inuyasha, eyes stinging with tears.

Her mother knew her daughter very well. How much she cared about Inuyasha, about her friends. She was now in the modern era where yokais were nowhere to be seen. She missed them. As a mother it was her duty to console her child.

She said "Kagome please understand we have never seen youkais here. And let's think that Inuyasha is still alive. Do you not think that he would have come here to meet you? I mean that he is not someone who would stay quietly in one place for long."

Sniffling, Kagome giggled lightly "Yes he could not stay quiet for long. Not for long six years."

She sighed "May be you are right mama. There are no more youkais in this world anymore."

"I wonder why someone would give such advertisement then!" Kagome's mother said putting a finger on her cheek.

"Well may be it is because a shrine girl is needed" Kagome ventured "They are needed to take care of shrines. Especially in the times of festivals like Setsuban ,Tanabata and Miyamori. And at the time of New Year you could see a girl wearing miko garb in the shrine in front of the offering box. We do that in our shrine too." Kagome guessed.

"But Kagome that only happens when the girl is from the family of the shrine owners. Like you , like us."

"Well ya but may be they do not have any girls in the family."

"Yes it could be dear but they have asked for the ability to purification. I don't know if any of shrine girls are needed to do that anymore. I mean literally there is no use for purification in this time."