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Hello. I am so very sorry. I had more exams and assessments to do as well as to try and figure out what would happen in this chapter. So a quick recap, Inuyasha and Kikyo are planning on killing Kagome in four weeks' time, Souta was poisoned and Kagome sucked the poison out, some demons are after Souta and Kagome and Sango and Miroku are asking Kagome and Souta questions. Please Enjoy!

"Talking" 'Thoughts' "Beast" 'Telepathic'

Disclaimer: Very fortunately for me (however unfortunately), I do NOT own Inuyasha.

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Sango and Miroku were firing question after question so quickly that even Sesshomaru's head was spinning. Sesshomaru was looking at Kagome with a curious and calculative eyes. Having enough of Sango and Miroku not listening to her, Kagome screamed the one thing that would get everyone's attention.

"NARAKU!"

Everyone except Souta jumped up to get their weapons. They were looking around ready for battle when Souta and Kagome started to laugh really hard. They were given strange looks, causing them to laugh harder.

"Hahaha. I only screamed Naraku to get your attention. Hahaha, I didn't expect you all to jump up into fighting stances," Kagome said around her laughs.

When all the laughing and most of the glares were over and done with, Kagome and Souta got serious again.

"Ok. One at a time, ask your questions."

"Are you still Kagome?" Sango asked.

"Yes, I'm still Kagome," Kagome answered with a smile.

"Where did you learn to control your powers?" Miroku asked next.

"When did I use my powers?" Kagome asked back, a little confused on when this happened.

"When you saw that Naraku had hurt the kids and you promised, no swore, that however many scratches you found on them would be how many days of torture he would suffer. Then when he was going to escape, you threw a tiny ball of pure miko energy," Miroku explained.

"Ah. Well, I've always been able to control my powers to some point. But when I'm really angry, or am trying to protect something that I see in my pack, I have a lot more control," Kagome explained.

"That also brings up the question of since when could you dodge," Sango stated.

"She can fight too. Really well," Souta piped in with a proud look in his eyes.

"When I said that Souta could fight quite well, I didn't say anything about myself, I just let you assume. When Inuyasha said that I was weak due to someone younger than me could fight, I just let him assume, even though when you assume it's supposed to make an ass out of you and me," Kagome said.

"Why would you let us assume Lady Kagome?" Miroku asked.

"Because then Naraku would think that I'm weak, try to kidnap me, then I would either lead you all there or kill him myself," Kagome said.

"Would that even work?" Miroku asked.

"The amount of times we had to do this, yes it does work," Souta answered with a glare.

"Okay? Why did your eyes turn purple?" Sango asked.

"Umm. How to explain this one? Well, you know how a demon has a beast?" Kagome asked seeing everyone nod, "Well, my powers have grown so much that they formed their own conscious. It's almost like a demons beast. So if I were to lose consciousness on the battle field and am still in danger, my powers will take over my body, defeat the enemy and, or run," Kagome explained.

Everyone seemed content until Sesshomaru asked a question they had forgotten. "How can you communicate with Ah-Un and the fire cat?"

"Umm. Should we tell them?" Kagome asked, turning to Souta.

"Umm. As long as they don't tell Inuyasha and don't try and kill us, okay. I see no problem with it," Souta replied with a thoughtful expression.

"I do," Kagome mumbled. "Well, Souta and I have powers that allow us to enter someone's' mind. We use it to speak with each other if we're too far away or if we want to keep something a secret. I can also use it to talk to demons that can't speak the human language," Kagome explained.

"You mean to tell us, that you can read our minds?" Miroku asked with a pale face.

"Yes. And this is for all those thoughts I had to sit through. *SLAP.* You have no mind barriers and are way too loud that it was hard to block out," Kagome said. "Sango actually has a decent mind barrier up."

"What about Sesshomaru's mind?" Sango asked, giving Miroku a glare.

"I don't want to try. Too much energy trying to not get caught in a mental trap, plus he would know someone's there," Kagome explained.

"Hn, and how would you know that?" Sesshomaru asked with a dark stare.

"Easy. Being a strong demon, and a lord, you would have to have a strong mental barrier so no one could get in and try to do things," Kagome explained with a blank face.

"So then is everyone one…COUGH COUGH COUGH!" Kagome started before a bad coughing fit started.

"Kagome!" Everyone, except Sesshomaru, yelled.

"I'm COUGH fine cough COUGH," Kagome said, "It's just the poison kicking in. I managed to purify the miasma so I'm in no danger. The poisons just strong," Kagome quickly explained before another coughing fit came.

"What about all that other poison in your body?! They said that if one more strong poison went into your system, you would die!" Souta screamed, fear clearly in his face and eyes.

"I'll be fine. Cough. Actually, remember how when I first came back through the well and told you that I was almost killed by Sesshomaru's toxin?" Kagome asked, calming down from her coughing fits.

"Yeah, how could I forget? I was worried I was going to lose you here," Souta replied.

"Well, Sesshomaru's toxin went into my system and destroyed all the other poisons. Plus this isn't the first time I've been poisoned here. Sesshomaru's poison is still within my system so it destroys any and all other poisons. In reality, I owe Sesshomaru a life debt," Kagome explained.

"What?" Souta asked looking shock.

'So that's why the miko doesn't let Inuyasha fight me so often and why she gave me back my arm,' Sesshomaru thought. (Yes, he has both his arms! Sue me! (please don't)

"Hey. Has anyone seen Inuyasha?" Shippo asked after taking everything in.

"He's with Kikyo," Kagome said almost immediately. "He ran off to her once we all entered the hut."

"Are you ok?" Sango asked Kagome.

"Yeah. Why wouldn't I be?" Kagome replied.

"Well, every time Inuyasha goes off to Kikyo, you cry. Well that hasn't happen for a year or two," Sango answered, looking for an elaboration.

"I'll explain that later," Kagome promised.

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Kikyo and Inuyasha were resting after certain activities (coughslutcough).

"So, Inuyasha, what is Kagome planning at the moment?" Kikyo asked.

"Hmm. She wants to kill Naraku, I'm pretty sure she wants to make Sesshomaru join my pack too. Other than that, no clue," Inuyasha answered.

"Remember, we kill her in four weeks. Whether you're ready or not. I want to live and be your mate," Kikyo finished in such a sweet tone that it would make anyone vomit.

"Promise," Inuyasha replied before getting back to other things.

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'So she can use telepathic powers, her miko powers have formed their own conscious and she owes me a life debt. She is still an enigma though. How much poison has she lived with? Why does she feel familiar and why would she have cried for three or four years because Inuyasha went with a clay pot bitch?' Sesshomaru asked himself. 'And why do I even care about this human girl?'

'She is not a girl. And care because she feels like we know her and you can't kill a dogs curiosity,' his beast replied.

'Not you. Go back to your cage!" Sesshomaru growled.

'Why? I want to try and figure her out too. Plus, she smells strange. And it's not a female in heat strange,' the beast stated.

'I'm going to stay on guard,' Sesshomaru said before going to stand up.

"You don't need to be on guard. My barriers up and no one can get in," Kagome said as she went to one of the bedrooms.

"Hn," Sesshomaru said, mental strengthening his mental barriers.

"I wasn't in your mind. I was just telling you before I go to bed so if you leave you will know that you will have to stay out there for the rest of the night. You can use one of the spare bedrooms. Good night my lord," Kagome said before bowing and walking off to bed.

'Strange human indeed,' Sesshomaru thought before looking for somewhere to bath.

He walked around until he found two doors that he hadn't been in yet. He opened the door on the right and saw that it was a good size library with chairs and what looked like a chair yet wasn't (bean bags ). The door on the left lead to a hot spring.

The hot spring was the size of the stables ('how did she find all this and own it? ) and had water coming through a horizontal crack in the wall continuously, acting like a waterfall.

Sesshomaru liked it and made a mental note to compliment Kagome on it while he took his bath/ shower. Once he got dressed, he found an empty bedroom and laid on the bed. He laid there for a few hours than fell asleep for the first time in two months.

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