Unlucky In Love

Summary: She is found by an old man, brought in, and trained. She was trained to be a lady in waiting, for the Scion, Ren Tao. Kagome can't help but wonder, how did this happen!? Kagome could do nothing but go along with this disaster; the old man had after all...saved her life...

Anime/Manga: Shaman King/InuYasha

Pairing: Kagome/Ren

Genre: Romance

Rated: M for Mature Content

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(Four Months Later)

Kagome sighed as she closed the book she'd been reading. Still stuck in bed, she rarely left since she would receive scoldings from Ren's Grandfather. He honestly wasn't as scary as Ren's father, but he still had a temper she didn't want to face. She'd been moved from the room she'd been in when she arrived at the estate, or was brought to, and now had a room next to Ren's.

The door opened to her bedroom and she looked up.

"Here,"

Kagome's eyes traveled over the new stack of books as Ren entered and placed them on the table by her bedside. She rarely saw him during the day now, unless his mother or grandfather sent him to bring her something...like now. However, while she didn't see him much during the day, she saw him every night after his training.

This started her first night at the Tao Estate; the night that the Tao family learned that she suffered from nightmares of her near death experience. Her mind since then has been filled with the image of her father tossing her from the cliff on the outskirts of the Tao's lands.

Kagome closed her eyes, not saying anything to Ren as he stacked the books she'd already finished neatly to take with him. She thought back to the first night her nightmares had surfaced...

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Flashback

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Kagome's eyes snapped open as an ear-piercing scream slipped past her lips and echoed down the halls. The first to reach her room was Ren as she pulled her legs to her chest and cried, tears spilling violently from her blue eyes, "Daddy!" her hands clutched painfully at her bruises and still opened incisions that had been caused by the rocks during the fall. Her eyes burning with her tears, she tucked her head down to her knees and tried to keep herself from screaming, not noticing that there were more people in her room as Ren started to try and pry her hands from her injuries.

Ren gave up trying to remove her grip from her body to stop her from worsening her injuries; instead, he placed his hand on her shoulder.

Kagome looked up frightened, her eyes met his saffron gold eyes and she calmed down only slightly as he held her gaze.

"She's suffering from trauma..."

"Ren...deal with her."

Ren clenched the hand not holding Kagome's shoulder tightly, a fist formed as he nodded. "Right," he wanted to tell his grandfather to go to hell, clearly that wouldn't be a good idea, but it didn't make him want to say it any less.

His grandfather and mother left back to their separate rooms, his father clearly hadn't cared to see what was wrong with Kagome, or most likely, he was watching from the confines of his higher chamber.

"Is she okay, Ren?"

Ren turned his eyes to look to his sister who was peering around the corner of the doorway curiously in her sleeping robes. "She'll be fine. Go to bed...I will stay with Kagome."

"..." Jun nodded her head and returned back to her room where sleep met her easily.

Ren climbed onto the bed and sat beside Kagome with his back to the headboard. "In China...and I think Japan too...we were taught to call out to Baku...and request our nightmares be eaten and devoured completely."

Kagome listened as Ren spoke, she didn't say anything as she loosened her painful grip on the wounds scattered over her body.

"Baku is a dream eater, who is capable of permanently eliminating your nightmares. Shamans, or other Spiritual Mediums...with a high amount of Furyoku, are able to call out to Baku easier than normal humans. So the chances that nightmares are eaten, are better than the normal."

"...how does one call on Baku?"

"Allegedly, if you cry out 'Eat it, Baku!' or words to that effect three times, Baku will immediately devour all traces of a nightmare."

Kagome closed her eyes, she felt warm, her body pushing forth a large amount of her Furyoku as she called out, "Eat it, Baku! Eat it, Baku! Eat it, Baku!"

Ren watched curiously, he himself had never tried this before, since he believed in dealing with one's own inner turmoil, but she had been thrown off a cliff by her father, surely that could be an exception to the rule of things to deal with, right?

Kagome looked up and felt something grow close to her.

Both kids stared up at the curious looking creature. It had features from a mix of different creatures...the trunk of an elephant, the feathers atop it's head were from a rooster, the hooves of a horse, the body shape of a bear, the horns of an ox, the tail of a lion, the ears of a dog and curious parts from multiple other creatures.

It touched it's trunk to her head and Kagome felt herself growing tired, her body feeling heave, her eyes she couldn't keep open. Letting her head fall gently to Ren's shoulder, sleep was quick to take her, and the Baku was quick to devour her nightmarish dream.

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End Flashback

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Since that night, Ren would come to sit and talk with her for an hour or two before retiring to his own bedroom. That had been the first time she had ever seen such a creature. She was grateful for it, she still thought about the nightmares, but when she slept, she had only peaceful dreams.

"Thanks for the new books, Ren."

He nodded as he picked up the large stack of finished books and headed to the door, "I'll see you tonight after I'm done training."

Kagome nodded and smiled. This life...she could definitely get used to this life.

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Me: Here is chapter three, tell me what you guys think! I'm late for work, so I had to end it here, lol! LOVE YOU GUYS!