YAY! Next chapter.hallelujah! ^_^

Disclaimer: sigh.*a girl walks out onto the stage wearing a pink tutu* Hello I am a ballerina I'm one that you've never seena Cause I'm here to tell you You better not sue Cause I don't own Inuyasha and companina

Thank-you *bows and walks off stage* -_-;;; I'm bored.

Ok.. On with the fic!

The next day Sango spent most of the morning giving Kagome a tour of the place but some time after lunch (lunch was brought up on a tray and given to the two girls to share) she was called down to talk to the queen.

She followed the small girl, who had fetched her, through the tall corridors of the palace into an equally large room, with huge marble columns.

"Kagome, as you might be wondering why you were called here, so far away from your home just to be bought as a servant."

"Yes, your majesty." Kagome was shaking as nearly as much when her father came home drunk, the queen could have her killed with one wrong word.

"Would could have found a much more competent servant who knows how the wash the dishes clean floors and cook." The queen continued.

"I assure you I can do all of those things, my father-" Kagome quickly bit off the end of the sentence realizing that the queen had not finished her statement.

"However, we are not looking for someone to come and do those things. I have heard from your grandfather that you are descended from the great Miko." (explanations later, I promise.)

"Your grandfather," she continued with an air of dignity and set duty, "told me that your step-father would not have sold you to us as a miko-in-training but rather as a concubine."

Kagome eyes widened for a moment but returned to there normal state, looking even more determined.

"But you are to stay here and are to train with an old miko by the name of Kaede, and my son will train you in martial arts."

"Sesshomaru-sama?" Kagome was beginning to wonder why in the world she was asking question when she was scared out of her wits, before she remember that her temper and curiosity could out weigh her fear.

"No, Sesshomaru is not my son. Although he would be a better mentor, he has neither the time nor the patients, and I don't have control over him. So it will be my son, Inuyasha, who shall train you. You are to meet with Kaede every morning and with Inuyasha every afternoon. When he is not available I will make sure that Sango is there. It is already to late to have your lesson with Kaede but its time for your martial arts so go see Inuyasha now, he should be waiting in the dojo." She concluded, dismissing Kagome with a slight incline of her head.

Standing up, her legs almost gave way, the tingly feeling made them hurt as the blood rushed back into them. Bowing deeply she walked out of the large room and headed towards the dojo.

It took her 45 minutes to find the training room despite Sango's tour. Kagome had to backtrack several times in order to find the room, when she finally found a very annoyed boy busily shredding a dummy.

"What took you so long?" He demanded.

"I am sorry, Inuyasha-tachi. I didn't mean to be late." Kagome bowed her head. She saw his temper was quick to spark, much like her own, but she had also see his claws, if he could hit half as hard as her father with those blades, she would be shredded in seconds.

'Oh-boy this is going to be a hard class.' she thought to herself.

Inuyasha looked at her, he didn't realize it until now but she resembled Kikyou a little bit.

"Well lets get going wench!" He barked.

The miko almost snapped something back but quickly held her tongue. Her mother often told her it was impolite to speak to someone unless asked a question, or something to that effect, she had always had trouble following that rule, but for some reason, Kagome remembered it now. Only nodding slightly she stepped into the small-carpeted pit and stood in a fighting stance.

'Stupid wench, she probably has never got into a single fight in entire life, probably to afraid she would break a nail!' The hanyou thought haughtily to himself. 'I guess I'll have to go easy on her, but only because mother said so.'

Moving carefully he attacked, not really trying to land a punch but just seeing how she would move, or if she would move at all.

Kagome on the other hand, did know a little bit of fighting. She was quite fast, the young girl had picked up her own style that involved mostly dodging, she had often watched the young men in her village train, always wanting to pick up some sort of move, anything really, but never being able to practice it except on a 250 pound man she never really learned anything. Her own style, if you could even call it that, was to stumble blindly around trying to dodge being hit.

"Ha! Stupid wench."

"Well, excuse me if I haven't been training since I was two days old." She replied indignantly. "Even still! You did even touch me."

But before she could even blink Inuyasha was right in front of her and gave Kagome a light flick on the shoulder, causing her to wince.

"I could have ripped you to shreds the moment you walked in here if I wanted to." He replied in annoyance. Kagome immediately shut-up at that, she had seen what he had done to the dummy and knew that he would probably would have no problem doing that to her.

Kagome looked him in the eyes, looking to see if there was any thing that suggested he would be apt to do what he said. Noting her sudden change in personality, she seemed to defy him and fear him at the same time. It was almost like she had a very fiery personality at heart, but something was preventing that from showing.

It was a few moments before Inuyasha saw that the clothes she was wearing were not suitable for fighting in.

"Why didn't you change before you came?" He insisted.

"There were no training clothes in my room. I already looked this morning." The miko looked slightly aggravated.

"Fine," The hanyou heaved before stalking off to a closet in the corner of the room. He pulled out what looked like a small boys uniform. "Wear these for now. I will tell my mother. Change in there." He pointed a clawed finger towards a door. Inside she found a bathroom and changed.

Changing quickly Kagome found that the outfit was sewn for a man not her. Kagome's smaller shoulders made the larger ones in the fabric slide down a bit, revealing the large cut she had across her collarbone and the large bruise at the edge of her shoulder. She kept pulling the white fabric up to hide the wound but it kept sliding down.

Sticking her head out the door she called to the half demon: "Do you have anything smaller?"

"This is no time for a fashion show!! That's the smallest size we have and I am suppose to train you for another hour so get out here!!" He growled.

She came out holding the fabric over the bruise and cut, making sure it wouldn't slide down. She didn't really feel like going through twenty questions.

"Get in your fighting stance." Inuyasha ordered.

Walking out to the arena still holding the shirt over the bruise and cut she got her stance.

Unable to still hold the edge of the cloth over the abrasion and fight at the same time, the miko held her shoulder very high up so the fabric would just fall over the affected area naturally.

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"Kagome?"

"Yes?"



"Put your shoulder down."

"This is my stance."

"Well I am correcting it."

"This is my stance."

"Put it down."

"This is my stance."

"Put your damn shoulder down! If you don't it leaves your entire left side open."

"Fine." Moving ever so slowly in order to keep the cover over her cut but she was unsuccessful. The shoulder of the shirt slid part way down her arm, revealing the purplish blue spot, and the long red cut.

Now he knew why she had flinched when he had barely tapped her on the shoulder earlier.

"Where did you get that."

"I slipped on some rocks." The young girl replied promptly.

"No, you didn't. They would look different if you had. Some one hit you." He said knowingly.

"No, I slipped and fell." Kagome countered.

"Look you wench, I know what a bruise looks like. If you had slipped and fallen on rocks like you say you had, there would be one specific point where the rock hit, that would be the darkest point and then a lighter bruise on the outside." The dog-demon told her. "So tell me, who hit you?" He demanded. After a moment of silence and Kagome contemplating the pros and cons. She realized that he probably wouldn't really care who had hit her or not.

"My father." Kagome said defiantly.

"Did he also cut you?" Inuyasha displayed no emotion at the revelation he just heard, but the thoughts running through his head where quite different.

"Yes." Kagome looked him in the eye. "Lets finish training."

"Fine."

For the rest of the day she continued training with her new instructor.

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Two weeks later

"Kagome! YOU'RE LATE AGAIN!!!" Inuyasha barked. Kagome knew that she was half an hour late but she couldn't help it! Kaede had kept her late again, it also wasn't her fault that she couldn't keep track of everything that old woman was teaching her.

"She kept me late! Its not my fault!!" She whined, giving him puppy eyes.

"Kagome!" He tried to make his voice sound sharp, but he was breaking. She had only been here a few weeks and she was already driving him crazy, but it was a different kind of crazy from any other girl he had met, like Kikyou, he gave an involuntary shudder just thinking about her.

"Fine, but tomorrow I am going with you to Keade's to see what the hell is wrong with that old hag!" He growled. He didn't know why he was making such a big deal about Kagome being a few minutes late.

Rolling her eyes Kagome moved towards the ring. Signing Inuyasha followed.



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The next day Kagome rolled over in bed only to realize that the sun was up already and she was going to be late for Keade's lesson again!! This was the third time this week, scrambling out of bed she got dressed as quickly as possible, grabbed her two shoes and rushed to the kitchen.

"Cookie! Got anything for me?" Kagome asked in a hurry as she hopped up and down trying to get her shoe on her foot, the small plump woman looked around the kitchen quickly shoving pork bun that had been sitting by the warm oven into the girls mouth as Kagome attempted to place her other shoe on and reach for a small bag.

"Fanks!" The girl yelled as she ran out the screen door.

Cookie could only laugh, ever since Kagome had been here there hadn't been a dull morning.

Shoving the rest of the slightly heated breakfast into her mouth Kagome sprinted towards the shop, which Kaede owned.

"Kaede I am so sorry that I'm late again! I really didn't mean to, its just that I over slept again and I am terribly sorry sensei." Kagome hastily blurted out before she noticed a certain white-haired fuzzy eared hanyou sitting cross-legged on the crowd looking slightly less than happy.

"eheheh.hi.Inuyasha."

"This is just a big waste of my time. I'm leaving." He growled.

"No, Inuyasha I want you to stay for today. You can help Kagome." A voice said from the woman who had her back turned towards the two.

"Why in the hell should I listen to an old hag like you to help a wench like her?!" The hanyou inquired peeved that she would even make such a suggestion.

"Please, Inuyasha? I need all the help I can get." Kagome looked at him, with puppy eyes nonetheless. Blushing slightly the half demon inclined his head slightly so no one would see it.

"I'm not surprised you would need it." He told her looking torn between aggravation at having to waste his morning and half amused at Kagome's insulted face.

"You know, I don't even need your hel-" The miko lied.

"Kagome." Kaede warned. "I need you to take out that rosary that you've been carrying." Kagome took the bag that she brought with her and pulled out a string of beads. "Inuyasha, come here." Figuring that he would just hold them or whatever and just get the hell out of here. When Kaede placed them around his neck, he looked slightly confused but the sooner this was over the sooner he could leave, so he didn't object.

"Now, Kagome say any word." Kaede commanded.

".ahhh.."

"Don't worry, any word pretty much."

"Sit!" Kagome said, the most random word she could think of, not really expecting anything to happen.

BAM!!

The miko looked amazed as her hanyou friend was slammed into the ground.

"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED??" He roared, as he tried to get up, but failed. "I'm STUCK!!"

"Don't worry, as soon as the subduing spell wears off."

"Subduing spell?" Kagome appeared pleased with herself, not quite sure what she had done.

"The rosary you have been carrying around with you for a week, your energy was basically powering it up and now that it has been placed into effect it is quite strong, and shall remain that way, and all you have to do to subdue Inuyasha is to say sit."

"Oh, so all I have to say is 'sit' and"

BAM!! The girl winced visibly at her mistake but continued any way. "OWW!!!"

"he's down for the count?"

"Correct, and because you have performed your first real spell it has drained a lot of your energy, I can see that your face is pale already, so it is best if we end early today." Kaede advised, "Inuyasha, its no use trying to get that off because only Kagome can, and if I'm not mistaken, she probably wont want to." The old woman added noticing the hanyou struggle trying to get the necklace off and seeing a smirking but slightly paled Kagome.

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(next day)

Kagome yawned, her mouth stretching and arms raised high above her head, as she arched her back.

"If you open her mouth any wider bugs are going to fly in." (a/n ^_^;;;;; I no...how lame is that?!?! I couldn't think of anything.sry..) A voice said.

Her eyes snapped open as she saw a white haired figure from the doorway looking at her. A small 'eep!' escaped her mouth as she dove beneath the covers, her cheeks bright red because her night gown consisted of an overly large t-shirt. Waiting until she was sure that the blush had left her face she withdrew the covers from her face. Now she looked just furious.

"ahhHHHH!!! SIT!!!" She yelled as he slammed to the floor, she had gotten quite used to that spell and enjoyed it thoroughly.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!?!" He barked.

"HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF KNOCKING??" She yelled back equally loud.

"Grrrrrrr...you didn't have to slam me to the ground ya know!" he growled, as he tried to get up, testing the see if the spell had worn off or not.

"Close your eyes." Kagome commanded.

"What?"

"CLOSE YOUR EYES. I need to go change." Kagome watched as he turned around from his managed cross-legged position on the floor, and then got out from underneath her covers, and into the bathroom, she hadn't really felt like having Inuyasha pull a Miroku and say anything pervert.not that she thought he would..

Inuyasha was all of a sudden left alone in Kagome's room.the scent was making him warm and very sleepy

20 minutes later..

Kagome stepped out of the bathroom, still tired, but glad that she had woken up early so she could have time before she went to see Kaede. She saw Inuyasha snoring lightly on the floor, curled up in a ball.

Kagome couldn't help blushing as she noticed how adorable he looked (kawaii!!! ^_^) Crouching by his head, she gently shook him a wake.

"Wha?!" Inuyasha asked jumping backward, sending Kagome in the opposite direction.

"Owwww.." The raven-haired girl mumbled to herself.

"Oh. you're out." Inuyasha stretched and stood. "What I came here to tell you was that, we have been getting some letters from your parents, they've been coming very frequently, normally we ignore them and they go away after a while, but there is something strange 'bout 'em and since we happen to be going by your old village for business today, you can come to see what's up."

"What's so strange about the letters?" Kagome inquired.

"Am I suppose to know everything?! Mother just told me to tell you this."

"Fine I'll go."

"Fine, go down to the kitchen in five minutes wench."

"Fine."

"Fine!"

Kagome just stuck her tongue out as the door slammed. Mumbling obscenities to herself, but there was something strange about Inuyasha.Oh well, it didn't matter, now she could check up on her parents again!

FIN! Finally I am done with this chapter! And its longer than the last two so I hope your happy! Oh an the next chapter.is going to get a little dark.but don worry!!! Fluffy moments to!!! And plus the good thing is I know what I am going to write for my next chapter!! That's a first.

Ok

Signing out

-stargirl