Chapter 11

When morning came and the sun wasn't even up, Kagome heard movement outside the hut. She closed her eyes and rolled over trying to go back to sleep, but then something heavy and rather large was thrown on top of her. "Get up Kagome!" You have to start working!" Rin yelled as she left the hut. Quickly rising to her feet, Kagome stripped off her clothing and put on the clothes that were laying in a heap on the floor next to her blankets. She could tell they were summer clothes, because it was a lit article. It was a dress that had been sewn together with patches and dark brownish colors.

When she stepped outside there was a fire going and elderly people sitting by the burning flames while the young girls brought some breakfast. Some of the children that were twelve or fourteen were already heading to their chores and the younger ones that didn't have any work were still asleep. Everyone that was awake moved quickly and quietly around the village and ate their meals. It was definitely early. Rin came up to Kagome and grabbed her by the hand and lead her to sit by the fire. An elderly woman was sitting beside her dressed in a white haori and red pants. Kind of like a priestess. "Hello old woman, how goes it?" some young man asked and she scoffed. "I be not old young one, ye don't know the meaning of old." she said with a smile while looking at Kagome. Kagome looked at her full face and noticed an eye patch over her eye. "Ye are new here, aren't ye?" she asked and Kagome nodded. "You look an awful lot like master Inuyasha's girl friend ye know."

Kagome smiled, but before she could reply, someone threw two buckets at her that were hanging off a long board fitted for shoulders. "C'mon, gotta start working so you can get back for dinner and other chores." she looked up and saw big, gruel man. No, not a man, a demon! "Jenenji! C'mon, we have to go to the fields." someone yelled from the path to the east of the village. The gigantic beast nodded and slowly made his way. Kagome noted that he looked like ant-eater, and had really big eyes that were a saphire blue color, with many scars along his body. Kagome stood up and found the path that she had entered the village on last night. Throwing the buckets over her shoulder, she walked along the path until she hit the bridge with a flowing brook underneath it. There she bent down and filled the buckets half way and continued on her way. When she got to the center of the field, she looked to the east and saw the sun beginning to climb over the rolling hills. Her black hair was blowing in the breeze and the buckets swayed in the wind ever so slightly. Her dress they had given her started to blow up slightly as she stared at the ball of fire with a smile. The pinkish and orange hues were a breathtaking site as she continued her walk to the garden. Maybe working here won't be that bad.

Meanwhile….

The alarm clock rang for ten seconds before our favorite half demon threw it across the room. He buried his head into the pillow but didn't get to go back to sleep due to someone jumping on his back. "C'mon baby boy! You have to go to school today." his mother chanted while kissing his cheeks and tickling him all over.

Inuyasha groaned as his mother tortured him for another fifteen minutes before she decided to leave him alone. Slowly but surely he got out of bed and into the shower. It took him a while but he did realize that he was in his bathroom for longer than five minutes without screaming in fright of a gigantic mold monster. After washing his hair, he got out, dressed, and headed down the stairs and into the dining room. He saw his mom sitting down eating scrambled eggs and bacon while his father had his reading glasses with his leg over his lap with the paper open and the coffee steaming on the table. Inuyasha plopped himself down at the table and put his head on it. Before long the chef had his plate of toast, scrambled eggs, bacon and hash browns in front of him with a bottle of ketchup to the side. He ate slowly and read the backside of the paper. "Inuyasha, did you do your homework or did you just gossip on the phone all night?" he father asked from behind the wall of letters and pictures that is the newspaper. "I didn't do nothing, just went to bed. Besides, I had no homework." he lied through his teeth and his father put the paper down and looked at his son. If one didn't know better, it would have looked like a mirror image. "How many times have I told you to do your work before anything? Back in my day I would have my backside smacked with a belt or anything my father had with him."

Inuyasha sighed. He'd heard this story countless times. Thankfully though, his mother stopped his father from getting ready to rant. "Tai, quit. it's the beginning of the week, don't get angry so early in the morning." It seems that every time she used her pet name for him he seemed to calm down a lot. Then there was silence until Izayoi started looking over Inuyasha's shoulder through the glass dor. When Inuyasha looked through the door, he saw Kagome looking at the trees at the entrance of the garden. She had placed the buckets of water by the bushes and was looking at the green fruits on the trees and the blossoming buds all around the vast forest of a garden. Inuyasha wiped his mouth off with a napkin and stood up. "I'm uhh…gonna go get to school early. Maybe I'll be nice and pick up Kikyo." With that he got up and picked up his backpack that magically appeared by the island and walked out the glass door.

"Sweetheart, isn't the garage-"

"Yes dear…" Izayoi answered before he could finish his sentence.

"And he left out the back-"

"Yes dear…"

"But why would he-"

"Just leave him alone, Tai." She finished and Inutaisho just shrugged and went back to drinking his coffee while Izayoi watched the two communicate out the door. Inuyasha strolled along the path in the garden untill he got about four feet away from where Kagome was standing. "Hey, aren't you suppose to be out in the fields or something?" After those words came out of his mouth he felt like kicking himself. Kagome looked towards him and spoke very quietly. "I'm doing what I was assigned master. Rin told me my duties and now I do this in the morning for Lady Izayoi." she explained and went to tending the rose bushes that lined the path. "Sorry bor being so brash. But I have to go to school so I'll be back around four o'clock." why he was telling her this, he didn't know, but he just felt like telling her it any way. "Never been to school master." was all she said and that was what was stuck in his head the rest of the day.