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The way to Sesshomaru and InuYasha's house was full of tension, but you couldn't feel it from me yelling at Sesshomaru.

"Untie me right NOW!" I kept trying to get out of the rope but damn, Sesshomaru could tie a knot, and I was getting major rope burn.

He sighed. "How many times have we been over this, Kagome?"

"Too many." InuYasha grumbled softly, hoping I didn't hear, but when I glared at him through the rear-view mirror.

Sesshomaru pulled over and started yelling at InuYasha. "Shut the fuck up InuYasha! No one was talking to you, so keep your mouth shut." While those two were arguing, I took my chance. I'd gotten the ropes a bit more lose than they were. I slipped my hand through two of the ropes and got my finger nail to try and untie the knot, which wasn't that hard. The door was unlocked, so I had to see about something. I moved forward then backwards to see if they'd notice. InuYasha sort of noticed, but Sesshomaru was focused on yelling at InuYasha.

I made a bolt for the door handle, and jumped out, the rope lose around my torso. I ran as fast as I could back to the school. Behind me when I got to the school, I saw Sesshomaru's car zooming up behind me, and InuYasha running beside it. I jumped up the stairs and ran inside to Kaede, hoping she was still there. Sadly, she wasn't there, so I ran up some more stairs to the roof, and ran to an end where there's a tree that I can reach. I got to the end of the roof and looked down and all around to make sure they hadn't followed me. I jumped down on the tree and got scratched some, but then climbed my way down, making sure no one was following me.

I jumped from the bottom branch, but something went wrong and I slipped and landed on my side. It was going to leave a nasty bruise, but I got up and took off running through the woods and to my house using the shortcut.

I made it there without them seeing, but Sesshomaru's car was in my driveway, and InuYasha was trying to band my door down. My phone was in my pocket, so I just ran to HQ and met with Ichijo.

"What are you doing here? You don't live here." Ichijo was joking around, so he was in a better mood.

I smiled. "I was captured, and now they're at my house, so I came here." I shrugged, but he looked worried.

"Are you in danger?"

I laughed. "No, I'm not, but they won't leave for a while, so I might as well be here, and do you have-." He'd already gotten another uniform out for me and I smiled at him. "You know me all too well." I took the uniform and changed into it in the bathroom, and came back out. "I like this one. Did you guys change it?"

"Yeah, we changed the design, and since you're our best, did you want to change your uniforms? We'll get you a whole new set of them and all, no charge of course." He smiled at the end of the sentence.

I raised a brow. "And whose idea was that exactly?"

"Mine. Kikyo's father just agreed to it." He shrugged at the end of his statement. "So, what do you say?"

"Sure, I'd love some of these. Will Sango get a few as well?"

"Do you want Sango to get a few of them? You can give two other people these uniforms with no cost to them."

"Then yes, I choose Sango as one of them, and Nobanaga as the other one." I smile at the end.

"Well, thank you, Kagome. I like those if I do say so myself. I was going to buy some of them, but now I don't have to." I turned around to face him, a smirk on his face. He wasn't bad looking, but he didn't entice me.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him as he walked over to give me a 'hello' hug.

"I have a five to twelve tonight. What are you doing here so early? I drove by your house, but there were two silver haired demons there, one of them that InuYasha fellow you're so fond of." He wiggled his eyebrows.

"Yeah, well, not anymore." I looked down and he understood.

"Do you want to take a walk since I have time before I go?"

"You mean 'we', I'm coming with you guys tonight. I have nothing else to do." I shrugged my shoulders. "Sure, I'll walk with you." I walked next to him through the gardens.

"So, what's going on with you and this boy?"

I gave a sigh. "My friends all think he likes me likes me, and they say I don't see it, and in the library, I confronted him about it, and he said that if I didn't see it now, I wouldn't ever see it, so I left him in the library, and he'd been avoiding me all day. It started that morning when Miroku asked Sango out on a date and he said all this romantic crap that made me sick in all honesty, and I joked around that I'd go out with him if he did it, then InuYasha asked me the same thing about him and Koga." I huffed out a breath when I was done.

Nobanaga looked shocked for a minute. "Well, that certainly is a lot to take in all at once, but nothing I can't help you with. Try talking to him."

"You know my pride won't allow that. And to make it worse, Sango threw him in my face at lunch."

He looked at me hard. "She did, did she?" I nodded. "Well, Kagome, I know this isn't going to be fun for you to hear, but you do need to get over that."

"How can I?! He abused me and then tried to rape me! That kind of shit takes a while, and you're never going to be the same after it! What happens if he's another Hinten?! What am I supposed to do then? I can't, can't, cry anymore, Nobe, I can't." I wrapped my arms around myself.

He sighed. "Look, I know it's hard, but you have to forgive him for it. Forgiveness is not-."

"For you, it's for the other person." I finished for him. "I've heard that non-stop for a while now, if anyone else says that to me, I'm going to kill them." I glared at the ground.

"Why don't you go get some help."

"What, like see a crazy doctor? I don't think so, Nobe, I'm not going to do that, I don't need anyone else's help, I'll be fine without it."

He sighed. "Kagome, you mean you don't want anyone else's help. You do need it, but you won't ask."

"I don't need it, I was fine before this happened and I'll be fine after."

"Kagome, what the hell are you talking about? You were not fine before, and you sure as hell won't be fine after. Come on Kagome, you need help."

"No I don't. Can we just drop it for right now, okay?" I wanted to kill some demons tonight.

"Fine, but if I don't see improvement, I'm telling Ichijo on you. I want to see you and InuYasha and Sango and Miroku talking to one another."

"How did you know that Sesshomaru was talking to me?" I asked him.

"I don't, I just forgot his name." He shrugged. We got into the black van and rode off to Kikyo's house.

They didn't send out much tonight, only about ten. I killed all of them again. Nobanaga, Nobe for short, was waiting for me.

"I thought you might need this back." He gestured behind him to where my bag was all packed and another set of clothes was waiting for me on the seat. "And you might be hungry, considering you're anorexic."

I laughed but got in anyway. "So, why are you here?" I asked as he shoved a bagel in my mouth.

"I'm giving you a ride to school, what does it look like?" I looked around his car. "It's just us right now, Kagome. I don't know them well enough for them to be in my car." He drove me to school and we talked about what I was going to do about college. I was going to go, but it might be hard with Kikyo and all, but I think that if I kill Naraku, that they'll settle down and I can hold off for four or five years.

He pulled up to the curb, and Sesshomaru, InuYasha, Miroku and Sango were all looking around for something or someone and I turned to Nobanaga. "Nobe, what am I going to do?"

He laughed at me and I glared at him. "Just be the brave little you I know you are and go for it." He leaned forward and gave me a fatherly kiss on the forehead. He was like a dad to me.

"Fine, but if I die, it's your fault." I laughed and so did he.

"Remember your bag when you go, okay?"

"Okay, papa." I rolled my eyes and he threw his head back and laughed.

"Go one with yourself, would you, little girl?" He kept laughing and I laughed with him. I walked to the back and got my bag from the backseat. "Do you want a ride this afternoon to avoid a capture again?" He asked with a raised brow.

"Funny, and sure, that would be cool I guess." I waved goodbye and watched as he drove off, leaving me to die by the hands of my 'friends'. When I turned around, Sesshomaru's eyes met mine. "Sesshomaru?"

I didn't have time to react before he pulled me into a hug. "That scared all of us you know. You are a tricky little girl, did you know that?"

He backed away. "Yeah, I do that when I'm captured, try to get away that is." I looked at him funny. "Wait, did you just say 'all of us'?"

He smirked. "I did. You had InuYasha nearly pissing his pants. All night he was in his room walking back and forth, wondering if you were still alive or if you were in an ally somewhere like that one day, and if you needed help. He then set off to your house and tried to see you, but you weren't there and that made it worse." Sesshomaru rolled his eyes at what he was saying about his brother.

I giggled. "That's nice. I left for work and Nobe drove me here."

He didn't look happy. "I see that. Do you have any idea of the amount of sleep I lost due to him? It was a lot just so you know."

I sighed. "What do you want me to do for you to make it up?"

"Eat for me."

"I can't, Nobe shoved a bagel in my mouth on the way over here." I shrugged my shoulders, and as if on cue, Nobanaga came driving back and he stepped out of the car.

"Kagome, what the fuck is this?" He held up the bagel that I took three nibbles out of and then folded up in a napkin and put it in the door.

"Um…I'll take a pass?" I tried to move backwards, but ran into Sesshomaru. If you're wondering, I've been taking more of the pills for not sleeping.

Nobanaga was glaring at me, Sesshomaru was glaring down on me, it was just a glare fest. "Kagome, you said you ate." Said Sesshomaru from behind me, sounding rather unhappy.

"I did. Do you see that? Do you know how much effort I had to put in to eat that much!"

InuYasha piped up next. "Bullshit, Kagome, you can eat more than that, I've see you do it."

"InuYasha, stay out of my business, it's not your concern." I yelled at him. A memory came back to me all of a sudden.

Flashback:

InuYasha kept a hold of my hand, but was glaring right through me into my soul. "Just like I don't call you weak, you don't say that anything having to do with you isn't my concern, because it is. I'm making it my business. I care about what happened to you, what going to happen to you, and I sure as hell care about what's happening to you."

InuYasha stopped glaring, but kept his hand on mine.

Flashback end.

He looked at me hard, like that day in my kitchen. "What did I tell you about that?"

"I don't care. Nothing about anything about me is ANYONE'S business!" Nobe didn't look fazed, and neither did Miroku, Sango or Sesshomaru, but the only one who did look offended, and mad as hell, was InuYasha.

In a flash I was being choked by InuYasha's hand. I wasn't fast enough to stop him, so I fell into his arms, unconscious.

End.