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Okay, I will be leaving for about a month to head on a trip to China with a group. Yes that means that I will most likely not be able to update for a long time, I am going to try to get the next chapter up within the next 2 months. I made this chapter a very good one since I am leaving. Thanks for the reviews, over 7,500 hits! That's awesome!
Also thanks for my beta reader SadBrokenWings
-Lindsey-
Chapter 10: New Jobs
She walked to the kitchen; she couldn't wait to pull off her trick. Sure it wasn't the usual tricks she would pull on someone else, but she could be sure that Nick would be embarrassed. Earlier on her computer she had sent Christina an e-mail telling her what she needed to know about what she would have to do.
"Kagome" she heard someone yell from behind her. Glancing a bit around her shoulder she spotted Nick. 'Great' she thought as she stopped and gently placed her hands on her hips then shifted most of her weight to one side.
Nick ran up to her panting from the run. Gaining his breath he stood up a bit straighter "I heard something is going to happen to me" he said awkwardly "I was wondering if there was even the slightest chance that I might be able to get ya to not do whatever ya are going to do to me" he asked smiling as her in hope that he may live another day.
She thought about it for a second, looking to the sky as if it would help her with her answer. Smiling she looked back to Nick "I think not" she laughed patting his head. She turned away and walked off "just be here later" She said.
"So Nick" Kagome said tying the final knot making sure that Nick was strapped into his chair "Is that too tight?" she asked.
Trying to catch his breath he mumbled a small 'Yes' as Kagome gave one more yank at the rope that was binding him to the chair in front of the computer. He twisted his neck to see Hiro and Kurama behind him "I would just love it if ya all could let me go" He asked once more trying to push the ropes off of him.
"I think not Nick; you see, since I am just so nice" she said pleasantly "I am going to give you a choice in what you will be doing" She said once again turning on the computer. "I was going to do one thing to you, but Hiro came up with a better plan, you can choose one of three things." She said turning back around to face Nick.
"Okay sheila, I'm following ya so far" Nick replied.
"Alright, the first choice and by far the scariest of them all in my book" Kagome laughed pressing a button on her computer to start a PowerPoint.
"Oh just taunt me why don't you" Nick yelled struggling to get out of the ropes once again.
"That wasn't Kagome who came up with the PowerPoint my Australian friend, it was I" Hiro laughed placing a firm hand on the man's shoulder and shook him a bit. "You see, I thought it would add to the presentation, a little more fun. Kurama also helped with it, spelling mostly" He laughed.
"Kurama ya bloke no fair you were my friend!" Nick yelled shaking back and fourth in the chair.
"Sorry Nick, I couldn't resist, Miss Kagome is my mentor after all" He laughed.
"And that's why I like you as of right now Shuuichi" Kagome cut in. She pressed a button causing a new page to come up with a poorly drawn picture of Nick and red around him.
"Is that blood?" He questioned.
"Yes" Kagome paused "Yes it is" Kagome said smiling "you were right the blood was a nice touch Hiro. Now back to the presentation, number uno" she said pressing another button moving it to the next page; showing the stick figure of Nick and a sword through him. "You can spare with Sesshomaru, and I know how horrible it can be. Or two" she said pressing another button on the keyboard to show Nick watching T.V.
"Oh that's not so bad" Nick replied glancing to Kagome who in return smiled and pressed the keyboard; causing a picture of the Teletubbies to appear on the screen. "No!" Nick yelled trying to escape. "I hate both those ideas!" He yelled once again.
"Okay now the third, but not least idea" Kagome replied pressing a button to have the picture of Christina to appear on the screen. "You will tell that girl you love her and that's that! I know you love her and will do pretty much anything for her, she feels the same about you now tell her" Kagome yelled pushing him up the table. "Now Mister which will it be?"
"Is there is fourth?"
"No there isn't, now pick" She said looking at him.
"Well I guess I choose-"
"So Hiro what's new?" Kagome asked when Hiro drove up in a jeep with a box sitting next to him. It was morning yet and a lot of people were eating, so only a few were still even outside, she had been walking to her tent to retrieve something but saw Hiro driving up, and she decided she should talk with him.
"Nothing really with me, but I do have mail. I just got it in this morning, thought that I would be nice and drop it off for you" he said jumping over the side of the jeep with the box in hand.
"Hm?" she mumbled searching through the mail for anything that might be addressed to her. She glanced at something that had her name scribbled on a manila envelope; she picked it up out of the box and looked at it. "Hiro?" She asked flipping the envelope over.
"Yes?" he asked as he leaned over to her to get a better look at the envelope.
"How did you receive this?" she asked, looking once again at her name scrawled on the front.
He sat the box down on the side of the jeep and focused back on her "In the box that all the others did, it was sealed on the plane. I just opened the box when it arrived in my shop. Why do you ask?" he questioned taking the envelope from her hands and studied it.
"There is no return address; there isn't even our address, nothing. Just my first name on the front" she said taking it back from Hiro to look at it again. "Don't you think that's odd? How would it get here?" she asked.
"I don't know, maybe it's from Sesshomaru or something"
"I doubt it, even he labels it" She replied flipping it over one more time "Let me drop this off and I will come with you to pass out mail." She said leaving to drop off the letter.
It was odd, how would an unlabeled envelope get its way into a sealed box on a plane. It was just weird, to say the least.
She stepped in her area and threw the envelope onto her bed and quietly left. 'I'll read it later on tonight' she thought making her way back to Hiro so that she could help pass out mail. Soon she spotted Hiro standing by his jeep looking around. Making her way up to him she called out to him to gain his attention.
"Back so soon?" He asked.
"Yeah, let's go pass out mail Hiro" Kagome said pulling the tiger demon along.
"So did you open it?" Hiro asked randomly while they stopped at a few tents to drop off mail.
"No I was going to wait till dark to read it" She said reading another name on an envelope. "With what we have seen you don't know what could be in there, especially since we don't know where or who its from." She said walking into someone's tent and dropped off a few pieces of mail.
"True, who knows some spell might come out of it and trap you in an unknown black hole and you wouldn't be able to escape ever" he said smiling at Kagome's misfortune.
"I know horrible hm?" she laughed taking another letter out of the box.
"I was kidding!" he said harshly "It's probably some stupid note from Rin, maybe playing a prank on you" he replied while she entered another tent and came back out.
"I'm not going to eliminate the black hole idea; it's been known to happen. Maybe it might be something from demon world" she paused thinking "I have enemies there; I'll deal with the envelope when the time comes though. I have to keep the worst scenario in mind just in case."
"Hopefully it isn't something that is a worse case scenario" Hiro replied grabbing a letter out of the near empty box and looked to who it was addressed. "Hey look at that!" Hiro said joyfully.
"Hm? What is it?" Kagome asked leaning over to glance at what he was looking at.
"A letter to Nick from his newfound girlfriend of three days" Hiro laughed holding the letter to the sky to see if he could read it "I can't see a damn thing Kago –Hey!" Hiro shouted at the end as the letter was roughly pulled from his hands. "What the? Oh… Hey Nick." He said nicely to the Australian who looked mad with the letter clasped in his hand. "I wasn't reading your mail, I swear" he said to the outraged man.
"Sure and a dingo doesn't eat meat" Nick replied pocketing the letter.
Hiro leaned over to Kagome "Does it?" he asked her quietly, receiving only a nod of disapproval from her as she walked away from the two men.
"No it doesn't!" Nick yelled "Stop reading my mail, especially now from Christina!" he finished walking away from Hiro and towards Kagome.
"Bye Hiro Finish up passing those out, then you can do whatever" Kagome yelled back to him without turning around. "So Nick" Kagome started as she looked to the sky. "Get everyone down to the dig, we will be starting soon, I will be working over near the left side, I guess I will take Shuuichi with me"
"A 'right, I'll get right on that sheila. I reckon Kurama is already down there, you best check out the tent down there first."
"Thanks Nick, bye" she said as Nick left to retrieve everyone.
Walking down the stairs she thought about Sesshomaru's visit. He would be arriving in about three days, along with Rin. Jaken would be left behind an account that everyone gets a little uncomfortable. "Here we are" she mumbled to herself as she walked over to the tent set up at the base.
She walked in to see Shuuichi with several books out and the huge map of the dig in front of him "I see your working hard" she said walking to the other side of the table and picked up one of the books.
"Yes" he paused to scribble something down in a notebook he had "I thought that since I wasn't doing anything I should come down here and see if I could help" he finished as he flipped another page and looked to the map again.
"So what are you working on exactly?" Kagome asked leaning over the table to get a better look at what he was writing.
"I am taking the artifacts that you had found, in the positions on the map, I made a copy of the map on paper if you see here" he said showing her the replicated map on his notebook. "Now" he started pointing at different colors on the newly created map "These dots represent the items found, the red ones are pottery, then the blue are items that weren't fully attached; it could be anything other than pottery. Then the green would be the nicer things such as the tools that we found the other day" he said pointing to an area where a few green dots were grouped together.
"Well" Kagome said taking the notebook from Kurama and glanced at it "It's actually very accurate, good work Shuuichi" She replied taking one final look at the paper and handed the notebook to Kurama. "So where should we dig today?" She asked him.
"I think we should head in this area since it's untouched" he replied pointing to a far corner of the map. "The problem though is that it's more likely to be dangerous, I went out there to look around yesterday and the ground seems to be unstable"
"I think we should go out in that area then" She replied stretching "Its no fun if it isn't a bit dangerous, but just to be on the safe side it will be just you and me in that area, less people mean less weight and a less change of something happening."
"Sounds fine to me then, let me just put everything away and I will meet you there when I'm done" he said closing a book.
"Okay I will just go on ahead" Kagome replied walking out of the tent.
'I love her more and more with each day' Youko replied in Kurama's head. 'We must get closer to her Kurama, we need to do something'
'Yes Youko, I heard you the first fifty times' Kurama thought as he wrapped up the map that was out.
'Yes still though, I really think I mean it; loving her I mean. It's different than anything else I've felt for a girl"
'How about a man?' Kurama laughed.
'Funny a gay joke, seriously though. Kagome is perfect, she's stunning, beautiful, smart, and of course you have to throw in prankster. The perfect girl for Youko Kurama the fox thief'
Kurama finished packing all the things away in the tent, and made his leave with his backpack in hand he started to walk towards where Kagome would be. Some people were walking the trails already, maybe some finished breakfast early.
'It's been what like four days, how can you be so sure?'
'Trust me Kurama, I am positive' Youko replied
"Shuuichi" Kagome yelled snapping Kurama from his thoughts.
"Yes?" He questioned spotting the girl a few yards from him.
"How about if I start here over by that ridge" she yelled to him turning around and pointing to a farther area. "And you can start here" She replied picking up her backpack that was sitting on a rock farther away then proceeded to walk on.
"Alright I guess I'll start here then" Kurama mumbled dropping his bag and unzipped it to get his tools out.
He walked over to a rocky area where he could still see Kagome work. 'She is pretty perfect hm Youko?'
'Of course she is; stupid human' Youko rolled his eyes.
Kurama ignored his last comment and continued on with the conversation with Youko. They bickered on like that for hours, commenting and agreeing on mostly Kagome. Everything else was disagreements and fights.
A bell rung in the distance ringing over and over this snapped Kurama out of his work, and conversation. 'The lunch bell already? It felt like we worked here barely an hour' Kurama commented to Youko while he started to clean up the area.
"Kurama ready ta get lunch?" a voice replied from behind him.
"Of course Nick, let me get my things and we can head up" Kurama said picking up his hat from the ground and shoved it in his backpack.
"Yeah" he paused looking around "Once you're finished we'll get Kagome" He said running his hand threw his hair out of habit he guessed.
Picking up his bag he turned to Nick "Okay lets go, she said she would be over there" he replied pointing to an area she wasn't at. "That's what she said anyway" he muttered.
"Sheila might be a bit further down the hill lets check it out" Nick replied walking past the rocks to head farther down with Kurama following him. "Sheila" Nick shouted.
"Hey" he said when the rocks gave a bit away "Nick" he shouted skidding to a slow stop.
"What?" he replied frustrated when some rocks started to give away.
"It isn't safe, the ground is starting to collapse I'm guessing" He replied trying to grab a hold of a rock on the side of the wall but it turned to dust in his hands.
"Kagome!" Nick yelled once again now starting to get scared that she wasn't answering.
"Nick!" A female voice yelled from the left, causing both men to follow to that direction.
Both stopped though when they were met with the sight of Kagome standing near a crouched position. Most of her supplies were strewn across the dirt, her face looked calm, her body stiff, afraid to make even the slightest move for fear of causing more damage to the earth below.
"Kagome hold still!" Nick shouted looking for anything that might help the poor woman.
"Yeah like I would move at a time like this Nick!" she yelled her foot moving ever so slightly causing a crack that was dangerously close to her to open more so.
"Stay still" the redhead yelled at her as Nick tried to find something that may help.
Her foot started to quiver with all the weight that was being placed on it. Finally the foot gave out causing her to land on her other knee. When she hit the floor underneath her it gave away, causing it to fall further below taking with it Kagome.
"Kagome!" Kurama shouted to her as she fell. Turning with a force he looked to Nick "Nick grab the rope in my other bag, it's with the maps. I think I can repel down there, I'll try to get down without it. Get people to help!" he yelled to the Australian. But when he didn't move he again shouted "Now!" causing him to run off back up the rocks.
"Kagome are you there?" He yelled down to the darkness, receiving no answer he turned to look behind him, there was no other way. Thinking quickly he grabbed a flashlight out of his bag. He stood where the hole opened up into the inky abyss. 'Youko ready?' He questioned the fox before he grabbed a rose from behind his hair turned it into a whip.
A rock from the other side of the opening looked sturdy enough, he flicked his wrist causing the whip to travel to the rock and loop around it, giving it a slight pull he decided it would hold him. 'Hurry, we don't know how badly she's hurt' Youko rushed. He took one last glance behind him to make sure no one saw. He took the plunge into the darkness.
The whip held but it was too short, making him have to jump the rest of the way down. Once down he was greeted with blackness and rocks still crumbling. "Kagome!" he shouted fumbling for his flashlight "Where are you?" he yelled turning on the light and scanned the hole for the girl. He turned but couldn't find her; he took a step, his footsteps sounding oddly creepy to him.
Another step into the darkness, his feet making an echo bounce along the walls. The only other sound in the quiet place was the mysteriously calming sound of dirt sliding to the bottom. "Kagome" he said again, this time finding his silver lining which was a small moan to the right of him. He flashed his light to the corner and saw her. He dropped his light and ran to her.
"Kagome" he whispered when he reached her. He felt her wrist for a pulse which luckily was strong.
"Yes?" he mumbled disjointedly, her head falling to the side and into Kurama's lap.
"Is there any pain?" he asked feeling on her head for any blood.
"Hm?" she replied trying to open her eyes.
"Does it hurt anywhere?" he asked again now becoming scared that she might have a head injury.
Kagome opened her eyes, slowly scanning her surroundings and stopping on Kurama's face. "Where am I?" She questioned.
"You fell right after Nick and I saw you, do you remember now?" he asked her.
"Oh" she said simply, she paused as if to remember if she did remember. "Yes I can recall that" she said as she tried to sit up only to let out a screech of pain and fall back onto Kurama's lap.
"Are you okay?" he asked frantically to the girl biting her lip so hard it started to bleed.
"I think the adrenalin wore off" she said gasping for a breath. "I think I might have a dislocated shoulder" she completed letting out a small squeak of pain and grasped the arm.
"We need to set it then, let's get you up and I'll do my best" he said gently moving her into a sitting position. He placed his hand on her shoulder and one on the arm. "Ready?" he questioned simply. She gave a small nod as she closed her eyes. He attempted to move it into place missing the first time. "Damn!" he said harshly mad that he was causing her more pain.
"Just get it back in Kurama; damn!" she yelled as she braced for another go around.
It was quick but surly not painless as Kagome let out a scream clutching her arm in pain as soon as Kurama released it.
"Hold on" he said ripping a portion of his shirt off and wrapped it around her arm to create a sling so she could rest it.
"Kurama?" a voice yelled from above them.
"Yeah Nick I'm here with Kagome" He yelled up to the sky.
"We have a rope, ya think you could hold onto Kagome as we pull ya up?" he yelled throwing down a rope.
"Think so" was all he yelled. He looked to Kagome looking to where Nick had yelled from. "If you don't mind" was all he said as he picked her up with one arm holding her from under her knees and the other behind her back. He walked with her over to the rope that Nick had managed to find; he placed Kagome down on the ground gently and gripped the rope. "I need a little more slack!" he yelled up soon his wishes were granted giving him enough rope to tie around Kagome's waist. "You think you can hold onto me?" he asked her gently receiving a nod from her. He wrapped one arm around her waist, keeping her close to him incase something should happen. "Now wrap your good arm around my neck" he said simply to her. He wrapped the rope around his other hand several times then he yelled up to Nick "Ready!"
"Okay everyone now pull!" Nick yelled behind him. Soon he saw the two coming to the light. "Kagome, Kurama!" he shouted grasping the rope to bring them over the edge of the stone. He quickly untied Kagome from the rope and people took her away on a stretcher. Everyone followed excluding Nick and Kurama who stood there quietly.
Both stood in silence, Kurama wiping the sweat from him forehead, and Nick looking gently to the sky, that had began to fill with clouds; casting a dark shadow on the two men.
"So" Nick dragged on, not changing his stare to the sky. He opened his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it, as if to settle on something to say. Nick brushed a small drop of sweat that was slowly making its way down the side of his face. He brought his hand to look at it on his thumb. Nick stood there looking at the small droplet of liquid while Kurama still stood behind him, waiting for the man to say something.
"Do ya like it here?" Nick replied quietly still looking to the drop on his hand.
"I love it here" Kurama answered honestly, he walked gently to the man. "Does this mean I'm leaving?" he questioned unsure of what Nick meant, it was after-all his fault for what had happened.
Ignoring the question Nick opened his mouth to speak "Do you know why ya love it here?" he questioned, wiping the drop off his hand.
"I guess it's because, I like figuring out things, and there is a sense of comforting here, the people are welcoming and make me feel as though I am home" he replied.
"Ya know why that is?" was all Nick replied to the comment.
"I don't know" the redhead replied brushing a bit of dried blood from his hand on his pants.
Nick gave a long sigh, then he paused one again. After a few seconds of contemplation he spoke. "It's because everyone is like ya" was all he said.
"What do you mean like me?" Kurama questioned giving the Australian his full attention.
Nick chuckled, bending his head down to do so. He gently raised his head; he brought his eyes to Kurama's green ones. "I wouldn't say everyone, since some are monks and priestess'. There are demons and half demons here Kurama" he replied pausing letting Kurama take in what he was hearing.
"Wait" he stuttered "What you do mean?" he asked urgency lingering in his voice.
"Everyone here knows of demons. Some don't even have powers, I am one of the few that don't have them" He spoke still staring at Kurama. "I know you have a spirit inside of you, a demon one specifically. If you want me to take it a bit further, the famous thief Youko Kurama" Nick replied smirking.
"How did you know?" Kurama said a bit too harshly letting Youko slip in a bit.
"The bloke Hiro actually told, he was the first to recognize ya as a demon. Hiro is really a tiger demon; anyway we were unsure of ya energy ya were giving off, it was different than what a half demon would be so we started researching and found that a demons spirit could enter a human body." He replied turning away from Kurama and looked back to the hole. "I know quite a bit about demons, sure I have no spiritual powers, but I know about all the famous demons of our time." He replied taking a few steps to the hole that was still cracking. "Your mistake was there" he pointed across the abyss to a rock that conveniently had a green whip still wrapped around it. "There is only one demon I know to have the rose whip, and that would be Youko Kurama" he smiled turning back to the now blushing Kurama "Makes ya feel stupid don't it?" he laughed.
She was typing on her computer, pretty much just e-mailing, so fourth. It had been a couple of days since she had fallen and hurt herself. 'Stupid clumsy me' sure she could walk just fine and her arm was healing perfectly after the few days of rest. Figured though, she had a twisted wrist on the same arm that she had dislocated 'Just my luck' she thought. She had called Sesshomaru's cell phone a few hours ago but no one picked up. Showing that either someone had broken it, or they were already on the plane.
"That figured" her voice rasped out. She glanced next to her computer. It was that manila envelope, it was still unopened. Some reason she didn't want to open it, it wasn't as if she was afraid of it, but for some reason she felt no need to open it just yet.
"How are you doing?" Kurama asked walking in to Kagome's tent with a plate full of food.
"I could get that myself" she replied walking up to Kurama to retrieve the plate, but he was too quick for her and he placed it on her desk.
"I know, I still feel bad though" he said "It was my fault you were injured"
"No it wasn't Kurama, I decided to go further on" she replied walking to her computer to shut it off.
"Still though" he paused waiting for her to turn back around. "Since you're getting prepared for when Sesshomaru and Rin arrive I thought I would bring your breakfast, I didn't think you would remember to eat today." He said smiling.
She took the time to look at what he brought her "Your probably right, I wouldn't have ate anything" she mentioned covering the plate back up. "You could do something for me though"
"Sure anything" Kurama replied shifting his feet to reposition his backpack strap.
She turned around to look back to him "There is a dark brown leather notebook in my study area. It's supposed to be for Rin's birthday but I left it, could you retrieve it?" she explained.
"I will get right on that" he replied walking out with a final nod and smile towards her.
She was alone again, for some strange reason she found herself thinking about Kurama once again. She had been doing that a bit lately. After he saved her; rescued, whichever suited that moment. They had a stronger bond, now resulting in her calling him 'Kurama' and he calling her by 'Kagome'.
She never really knew why his friends (that he had told her about) had called him Kurama. It was so different than Shuuichi; it was odd that a nickname would be that far away from his birth name. "Maybe it's his demon name" she gently spoke unwrapping the plate of food once again. Some demons chose different names to hide their identity.
She laughed softly to herself as she picked up a piece of bread. Nick had come to her a day ago to spring a "big secret" which wasn't all that big. He had told her about Kurama being a demon, which she had already known. She wasn't the kind of person to pressure others into revealing things about themselves.
She never questioned Kurama about it and she acted as if she knew nothing. She doubted that he knew that she knew. For Nicks punishment for blabbing, he would be picking up Sesshomaru and Rin and bring them here. That was the one task that everyone dreads, on account that it's Sesshomaru.
She glanced in the middle of eating back to that envelope, 'I hate that darn thing, its like its haunting me' she thought picking it up to turn it over like she had done so many times before. "Kagome?" She heard from behind her causing her to push the envelope away from her and turn around, to see Kurama with a leather bound notebook in his grasp.
"Are you alright?" he asked walking closer to her and extended the hand that gently held the book.
"I'm fine" she replied gracing her face with a light smile as she reached with her good hand to take the book. "Thank you Kurama" she said placing the book in front of her.
"I thought I should tell you, Nick just arrived back with a larger man a small girl, I'm guessing Sesshomaru and Rin?" he questioned at the end.
She gave a curt nod "So you know please call Sesshomaru; Lord Sesshomaru in his presence, he gets angry when he is disrespected" She mentioned standing from her chair and grabbed the book, she turned to Kurama and gave a hopeful look "Please watch Rin while I talk to Sesshomaru alright?"
Once she received a nod from Kurama she walked out of the tent with him following behind her. Not even fifty feet from her stood the Lord of the West; tall, and proud. His face showed annoyance, but she still knew that he was glad to see her 'I hope anyway' She sighed inside her head. Her view completely changed when she spotted Rin waving at her enthusiastically.
"Kagome!" She called to the older girl, shining her bright teeth.
"Oh Rin, you've grown since I've seen you, and look at your hair, it's so long" She replied once she came face to face with Rin.
"I know" Rin replied gently touching her long brown strands that came to her lower back.
"How bout a hug ne?" She laughed as Rin jumped at her. Softly Rin accidentally hit her bad arm causing her to wince in pain; she tried her best to hide it but failed.
Sesshomaru noticed it though. "Rin stop" he commanded softly to the girl. Instantly Rin paused looking back to Sesshomaru with a confused look. He just peered back to Kagome though.
Rin slowly looked to Kagome and noticed her arm in a sling "Kagome what happened?" She asked now feeling guilty that she caused the older girl pain.
"It was just an accident, no worries though. It's healing fast so I should be fine in a few days" She smiled trying to not worry her family. "Oh Rin!" she exclaimed bringing up the book "Happy birthday" she smiled as Rin looked back to her with a joyous expression.
"Thank you so much Kagome" She yelled as she gave Kagome one more hug, this time being a bit more careful, pulling back from the hug she gave one brilliant smile "I love it so much!" she responded now flipping threw the book and thought of the possibilities that she could write.
She smiled at Rin's antics. Looking back behind her a bit she noticed Kurama standing there also smiling at the girl. "Sesshomaru, Rin. This is my intern Kurama Minamino" she introduced.
"Hi I'm Rin!" She all but whispered, "That's Sesshomaru; Kagome and my older brother" she replied pointing to the silver haired demon, who only nodded in response to the introduction.
"Rin could you take Kurama with you, maybe go see Mike in the kitchen. While Sesshomaru and I can talk about things" Kagome gently asked the girl.
"Of course Kagome" she smiled clutching her new gift "Bye Sesshomaru, come on Kurama" she grabbed the red head's hand and dragged him in a new direction.
Kagome and Sesshomaru were left in a comfortable silence, after some time she finally broke the silence "Where did you find that new concealment spell, its quite remarkable" She replied.
The silence carried on for a bit longer until he finally replied "Rin found it, don't ask me where" His deep voice penetrated the thick atmosphere.
"That girl can find anything, it's quite amazing"
"That's the demon you mentioned?" he questioned referring to Kurama.
"Yes" she paused for a moment "Lets talk in my tent, I have a sound barrier around it" she replied turning and started walking back to her tent.
Silently Sesshomaru walked beside her, he glanced in her direction; his peering golden eyes looking at her arm.
She noticed him looking "I fell" she replied walking into her tent. Taking a seat on her bed and him in her chair they started a stare down. "What is it?" she finally broke the silence.
He gave a deep sigh, which was never a good sign.
"Well" she pushed once again, but she still didn't receive an answer, only a gentle look from him. "Sess?" she questioned softly using her nickname for him.
"I want you to move to a different site" he replied.
"No way Sess, I refuse" she harshly growled out.
"There is no further discussion about this Kagome"
"This place has been my life for months!" she yelled standing up now to prove a point.
Sesshomaru looked to her, no expression. "This new site I have in mind" he started calmly "is wanted by several explorers"
"Let them have it, I like this site" she yelled at him. If anyone else but Rin and herself were to talk to Sesshomaru like that, they would surely be dead in pieces on the floor by now.
"Kagome you don't understand, I want you to discover this tale" he replied folding his hands.
"And what tale would that be my lord?" she huffed out turning away from him.
There was an eerie silence that stayed for a moment; his silky voice cut threw the thinness of the silence with what he replied with. The sentence made her heartbeat freeze then speed up with an amazing quickness. This sentence could stop anyone who new the tale in their tracks. This sentence made her uncover memories she never wanted to experience again.
"I want you to uncover the "Tale of Inuyasha and the Final Battle" I don't want anyone else but you to uncover that Kagome, you know how dangerous it will be" he spoke, if you were to gaze into the demons eyes you would see the sadness over these events that he felt.
That wasn't the only one who felt sadness; Kagome closed her eyes remembering what had happened in the past for a moment. She opened her eyes; the glossy coat of unshed tears hid her eyes from reality. "I'll do it" she replied, not even recognizing her own voice.
"Good" Sesshomaru's thick voice responded.
Reviewers!!
KuroxTenshi- Hopefully Nick got it, lol
DarkKitsuneAkina- I'm sorry I left you hanging, this kind of tied up some loose details… Hopefully this wasn't a cliff hanger, I hate those!
Madmiko- I absolutely love your reviews, since they are so detailed! It helps me so much! Okay where to start… Oh the room thing being connected is kinda explained in this chapter… I like entering some past events, not to many or the writer can get lost in the threads of their own tale. I think I really made the connection between Kurama and Kagome known… hopefully the next chapter can give a bit more incite about that.
Kagome Lady of Darkness- I'll try to keep up this story, I really like the plot line so far
Yue Hime- Okay I'm not even going to lie to myself, that prank was lame! I know I let a lot of people down probably by doing that… hopefully some people enjoyed it.
uniqu3s0u7- Sorry I couldn't update sooner… I tried…. Hopefully its interesting, lol
Bloodcherry- Okay long review…. Umm hopefully I didn't disappoint with the prank… but I think I cheered a lot of people up with the little Kurama Kagome thing that went on… Shocking Sesshomaru didn't do anything to Kurama…. maybe next chapter….