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Chapter Seven- Getting a Place to Stay

Souta shrugged his shoulders and looked out of the window, clearly not interested. "It's not we actually have a place to go. I mean honestly, we just arrived in this village about forty five minutes ago."

"Is that so?" Tsunade's questioned ignoring everything else Souta said as her mind was brewing up a plan. "Hey Sakura, do you have any spare bedrooms in your house by chance?"

"No, my auntie's staying over in our house's only spare bedroom. My mother and father are taking care of her she's going to have a baby soon." Sakura replied wondering why Tsunade wanted to know.

"Oh, Naruto how 'bout you?"

"Me?! I live in a small one bedroom apartme-"

"Alright Souta you can stay with Naruto, Kagome you stay with Sasuke," Tsunade said before anyone could protest or even get a meep out of them she slammed open the sliding door, scaring a nurse in the hall way. "THIS IS FINAL. No complaints! Naruto and Sasuke get them familiarized around the village. They are your new assignments. You are dismissed."

Tsunade figured out that if she split the siblings up. Making one living with the Uchiha and the other one live with Naruto, there would be less chance of them escaping before she figured out who they exactly were. By finding their files and learning what village they had come from, their true background, if they had a special bloodline and who their parents were. Tsunade watched as they filed out of the hospital room, she was more worried about the Kagome-girl and if was even more powerful or dangerous, or even both, then she let on. There was just a little something about the girl, which made Tsunade's stomach tighten. She didn't know what it was about the girl, but the fact that it made her uneasy, made Tsunade want to find their files faster and learn about them, but their were thousands of files which held every birth, ninja, death, sickness, legend, myth and many more things that Tsunade herself would have to look through if she was going to find out who Kagome exactly was and what she was.

"Hn." Sasuke said crossing his arms over his chest. He had thought his mind would finally get to take a break from continually trying to figure out the Kagome-girl, but now he had to lend her his spare bedroom in his home. No one but had been living in the house except him ever since……

"So I get to stay with you Narutoooo?" Souta asked breaking Sasuke train of thoughts walking over to the boy in orange, with a giant grin on his face.

"Ergher…n-"

"Think of this as a mission to become the Hokage then Naruto." Tsunade said with a roll of her eyes grabbing Naruto's attention straight away.

"Eh? A mission to become the next Hokage? Yosh! Alright Souta first I'll show you to Ichiraku Ramen stand! They have the best Raman you will ever taste in your entire life, though cup raaaammmmeeennnn is good, Ichiraku is slightly more expensive but it tastes so delicious." Naruto said excitedly pulling Souta straight out of the nearest window by his arm. He ran towards the ramen stand, like an angry speeding bull to a taunting red cape. Naruto hoped that his half eaten Ramen was still there. From before the ANBU guard had come and dragged him away from his precious bowl of warm best tasting noodles ever.

'What?! We've known Sasuke-kun much longer than Kagome, yet she gets to live with him before we do?!' Inner Sakura yelled while Sakura just stood in the hospital room grinding her teeth together with an angry vein popping out of her head. 'I KNEW SHE WAS JUST MORE COMPETITION! Well we just have to show are Sasuke-kun we're so much more better than that she is, even on her best day.'

"Tch. Fine, don't get in my way." Sasuke said briefly before walking out of the Hokage tower with his new 'assignment' following behind him like a broken rag doll. Kagome just didn't have the heart to reply half heartedly to the boy. Who was dragged her around the village to a smaller housing area one that had the letters: U-C-H-I-H-A. With a fan that was red at the top and white on the bottom, all painted onto a flag that flew around happily flapping around freely in the wind.

"Don't ever go in this room, or this, or this one, or this one. The only rooms you are aloud to go in are the guestroom and the bathroom," Sasuke said in monotone pointing towards the doors of each room. While Kagome tried to memorize which one was which, nodded.

"So does Konoha have any training areas?" Kagome asked not really interested in viewing the rest of the entire village. She was just going to forget were everything was anyways, so why even try?

'This girl wants to know where the training grounds are. How come she's so different than all the other girls……?' Sasuke asked himself, he Hn'd she was probably just trying to impress him. Though he admitted to himself she did have that strange healing ability and she could jump into trees without running up them….. So what? Sakura had a huge ugly forehead, pink hair and Ino showed all her skin underneath her bandages that she thought it made her look good. He grunted as he walked by a bunch of the village girls and ignored their screams of 'SASUKE-KUN!!!! MARRY ME! WE LOVE YOU, SASSSUUUEKKKKEE-KUN!'

Kagome rolled her eyes. Egotistical men today, reduced to grunting and snorting. What was next? Turning pink with floppy triangular ears, growing a small curly tail and rolling around in the mud? Kagome had to admit Sasuke was indeed sculpted and a very, very handsome individual, but why would you feel attracted to someone you didn't even know? Or going as far as making a fan club for him/her? This was really falling straight onto the doormat on one of Kagome's pet peeves. If the intensity of each the girl's glares could burn tiny holes into Kagome, she would have been reduced to nothing. However it couldn't and it had become plain aggravating because she was so much more intune and sensitive when it came to everything surrounding her.

"This is where team seven trains." Sasuke informed briefly ignoring his fan club that was supposed to be secretly following him.

"So this is where Naruto, Sakura and you train." Kagome stated not actually remembering if they were team seven, or team eleven.

"Che. If Kakashi comes at all." It was very true. There had been times where they just trained themselves because Kakashi had forgotten to tell them that he had a mission to go on or a meeting to attend to.

"Forehead girl you were right! That girl must be…some sort of evil demon! Out to get our Sasuke-kun. She hasn't even been here twelve hours, yet. She's probably putting on all the moves on my Sasuke-kun! Maybe he'll just like her for her looks or something." Ino whispered under her breath hiding in a tree next to her ex-best pink haired friend.

"She's not all that pretty, and your Sasuke-kun?! That's such a laugh Ino; he's MY Sasuke-kun!" Sakura whispered back angrily trying to keep quite while looking as definite as she could.

"No he's mine! Why do you guys always think he's yours?! There are other people who are more talented than you guys." A different girl with glasses and a telescope whisper to them, hiding in the same tree.

"Adna, how dare you say that!? Sasuke-kun is mine!"

"No Sas-"

"Shhh! She's talking too him!" Ino and Sakura said shushing all the other Sasuke fan club girls who were hiding in the same tree; most of them were the ones had glared at Kagome who was allowed to follow 'their' Sasuke-kun.

Kagome closed her eyes and tried to count down from one hundred. Lasting until she counted down to 60, as well as trying to ignore all the whispers about her, she just couldn't take it anymore. For the love of Kami! She could hear the girls whispering about her as if they were standing right next to her yelling every single thing her ear! "Sasuke can I have one of your Kunai."

"Why?"

"There are about twenty girls, who are hiding in that tree…who are very rather aggravating," Kagome said quietly while walking closer to Sasuke. Sasuke was taken a back, just a tinsy bit. He didn't think that she would be able to sense their chakra levels. She probably didn't though, he concluded to himself. With his 'fan-club' being that loud a person born deaf would be able to hear them miles away. Flipping a Kunai out of his hostler he tossed it to Kagome; who had caught it, and was now spinning it on her index finger. "Thanks."

Walking in the other direction from the tree she let the Kunai 'slip' off her finger and lodged itself right next in between too the two loudest girls. Sakura and Ino. They all immediately shut up and slowly cranked there heads to look at the sharp piece of metal lodged deep into the branch. 'That girl is dangerous!' All of them thought as Kagome then proceeded to walk back in the direction she had come only moments ago.

"Where are you going?" Sasuke asked not really interested at all. If he screwed up this assignment he was told that, he would get his ass kicked right out of Konoha. Actually if he screwed up on anything concerning the Hokage he would get kicked straight out of Konoha. However since Sasuke was the only Uchiha that didn't fully turn evil. He knew that if he did mess up they would probably put him back under being watched by the ANBU 24/7, but…… Sasuke didn't want to test his theory.

"You ask a lot of questions," Kagome responded continuing to walk down the dirt path without a real care. "I'm going to the market to buy some stuff while you train. I'll find my way back to your house, don't worry."

'Why would I worry about someone like her? Why would she think I would worry I'm no-' Sasuke cut himself off, he was getting a little paranoid about Kagome, who was like a locked box, with the answers he wanted, hiding them inside. Running his hand through his hair he deciding he should really stop thinking about the girl, or any girl for that matter and train harder to avenge his clan.

The market place had been rather busy and packed with people when Kagome had walked through it with Sasuke a little earlier. Now it was practically empty. Buying things here and there Kagome spotted her brother and Naruto sitting at a ramen stand, eating ramen. That was good it meant she didn't have to waste some time searching for Souta. Carefully shifting her groceries in her other arm she dug around in the brown bag for a bit. Before she pulled out a tooth brush, a tube of toothpaste and the cash she didn't spend on books or groceries. Then she sat down on one of the empty stools and then tapped her brother's shoulder.

"Ofhg- Griy Krrgomi," Slurping up his noodles he chewed, swallowed then tried again. Knowing that he hadn't made any sense, "Oh hey Kagome."

"Hey Squirt. I bought you a toothbrush and you can have this bottle of toothpaste, don't forget to brush your teeth tonight," Kagome ignored the roll of the eyes she received from her brother. "And you can spend this on whatever you need, just don't go flashing it around okay?" Handing Souta the rest of the money that she hadn't used as well as the tooth brush and the toothpaste. With one hand he pulled out the two books that Kagome had bought and shoved the things she had just given him into his backpack. He nodded then went back to slurping the delicious tasting bowl of noodles that Naruto had told him to get.

"Thanks a bunch." Kagome said taking the books and ruffling her brother's hair. Then she slid around and off the stool deciding she better get back to cook something. Perhaps she would just make something rather simple tonight. She wandered around the village for a bit before finding the Uchiha housing area. The housing area looked pretty cold and dirty and a small broken stand that had used to sell things lay in broken fragments of splinters of wood. Kagome shook her head and opened the door with the spare key Sasuke had given her. She didn't want to dwell on things that weren't of real relevance to her. Kagome went to the guest room first, so she could put the books down and then she went back into the kitchen and placed the fresh groceries in their respectable places.

"There done!" Kagome exclaimed to herself with a clap of her hands. She had found some things sitting in the refrigerator, while putting the groceries away. The food was still good but they would go bad if it wasn't eaten soon. Putting the pan's contents straight onto two ceramic plates, she set the plates down in between the cutlery that she had smartly set out, before she had started cooking. The pot had been placed into the sink and cleaned right after.

"What is this?" Sasuke questioned as he entered his home only to smell food wafting the corridors like it had when his mom had cooked.

"I cooked you dinner. Since you are allowing me to stay at your place it's the least I could do." Kagome responded only sitting down when Sasuke had. The food was eaten in silence, as it usually was for both of them. Sesshomaru didn't allow idle talk at the table and Sasuke didn't have, nor wanted to have anyone to talk to.

"Arigato." He responded after putting away his dish in the empty sink. This mother had always told him that a good meal deserved some praise.

"You're welcome Sasuke." Kagome replied with a smile, putting fairy liquid on a sponge and cleaning the plates giving her some time to think. Why had she been brought here? Would she ever get to see Sesshomaru again? What was Souta doing? Why had she got stuck in the Feudal era? Why had the well allowed her brother to pass through and not her? Why had her powers grown so rapidly? How did the jewel mask its power and burst? Why had it burst? Why had it then been re-absorbed into her skin? Where Jii-chan and Koon-Loon happy? Did they hate her for not being there with them? Did they know that she loved them and that she was sorry that she couldn't be there? There where too many questions that just didn't have any answers. Drying the plates with a dish cloth she placed the dishes back into the cabinet and felt her chest contract with guilt. She knew that Souta had blamed her for Koon-Loon and Jii-chan's death, but how would she have known? The well didn't even work for her in the Feudal era. Even if it did would she have made it in time? She was now lying in on the bed in the guest room, starring at the ceiling in wonder. The books she had trying to read lay forgotten next to her. It was only when she heard a knock, and then she heard the slide of the door opening she sat up in the bed.

"You left your money in my bag," Sasuke said dumping the wads of cash onto the end of her bed. Picking one of the bundles of cash up she gave handed it to Sasuke, who just starred at her. "Hn, I don't want your charity." In reality Sasuke could really use the money. Sure he had a lot of money but he couldn't access it until he was eighteen and the money he got from his missions usually went to paying the bills, anything left over was used being saved to buy himself a new Fuuma Shuriken, because his old one had been tainted with Naruto and damaged.

"Take it, it's yours, I would have never known that gold coin was worth $75,000 without your help. I would have just gladly accepted the $65,000." Kagome said a smile upon her face, these days that smile was always there for show. Her real smile had disappeared long ago with her friends and Naraku.

Sasuke took the money and turned around walking out of the room under his breath he whispered a thank you. Then upon entering his room he pulled off his forehead protector and tossed it onto the dresser next to his bed. Flopping down onto the squishy mattress his mind started to wonder, what made this girl so different from all his other annoying fan girls….he groaned and rolled over he had never dwelled on any girl for more than twenty minutes, but Kagome, was like an arduous, intricate, exotic and rare puzzle. 'Not this again.'

Kagome ran her fingers through her hair that was in a bun. She had only purchased one tube of toothpaste…which she had given to her brother. Spotting a tube of tooth paste dangerously laying on the edge of the sink, she gave a small shrug. She didn't think he would mind all that much, she had just given him $10,000. Squirting Sasuke's toothpaste on the end of her tooth brush she had bought she brushed her teeth, rising her mouth out every so often until she was satisfied they were squeaky clean. Splashing water on her face she used the towel that was hung up to pat her face dry. She quickly twirled her hair into a low ponytail and checked her teeth in the mirror once more, although this time she noticed her reflection. Naruto and Ino had both outwardly stated that she, herself, Kagome was pretty, the only girl she saw staring back at her, was one that was plain, boring, full of wisdom, fake, tired, pale, and………………………………………a killer.