~*~*~*~*~*~*~July 6th, 2005~*~*~*~*~*~*~
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Kagome~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
As I was stretching I heard Inuyasha come back. I stopped stretching, and went to the window.
I pushed hard on the window and saw Inuyasha holding the necklace I had dropped last night. I
stared at him as he started writing something down.

"Give me the necklace Inuyasha. Its mine. Whatever happened between my great aunt and you
is history, just like she is." I said startling him.

"Don't say that, you have no idea what happened...And the shikon no tama is mine, it was
supposed to be given to me, not a little brat like you!" he said.

"...Give it here...you dog..."

"No, now shut up..."

"Give it here! She never wanted you to touch it! Its not yours! Give it here! I never
even met her until she died!" I shouted, my eyes brimming with tears.

"Well I knew her...quiet well...To think, your her family...She would be disappointed at how
easily you are to catch..."

"Shut up! Give me the necklace, and the shikon no tama. Their mine. And if you don't give
them here, I know a bit of magic taught to me by my Aunt. Now give it here!"

"Oh what are you going to do...?"

"This," I said pulling out a set of beads from a pocket. I concentrated on the beads and
saw them as they disappeared from in front of me and appeared on his neck. "Sit boy."

It happened like lightening. He fell onto the floor flat on his face. I laughed and heard
him growl. Inuyasha stood up and threw the shikon no tama jewel and necklace at me through the
window. I caught them and put them around my neck.

After a while I went back over to my cot and started to work out a bit. It hurt for a bit,
but then after a while it started to feel good. I became so engrossed into my work out that I
didn't notice Inuyasha come in and I kicked him hard in the side of the head.

He growled and I ran for the door about to get out when he grabbed me. I said "sit boy" and
he fell onto his face again. I started up the stairs when Kaede came out from the door at the top.
She stopped and kicked me down the stairs. As I fell I saw Inuyasha's face.

The look on Inuyasha's face was a strange one. It was a combination of fear, anger, and
something I never saw before.

I was caught mid-air, by Inuyasha. I looked at him startled and he seemed to be startled
that he had just saved the one he was supposed to kill. He threw me into the cell and listened
at Kaede as she yelled at him.

I rubbed the lump on my head from where I hit my head on one of the stairs. It hurts like
crazy, and I listened to what was going on between Kaede and Inuyasha.

"I couldn't help it! She looks so much like Kikyo...You know how much I loved her!"

"Yes, well she is NOT Kikyo! She is getting us a fortune when we kill her! But if you
continue to treat her like she is Kikyo, then we are never going to get paid!"

I stood staring at the window. I couldn't believe what I had just heard. Inuyasha was
inlove with my great aunt. I couldn't believe it.

As Kaede left, Inuyasha came over to the window and looked in at me. I stared at him. He
nodded as though he could read my thoughts, and I sat down on the cot.

Inuyasha came into my cell and sat down next to me. Telling me of how he had met Kikyo,
telling me of how much he had loved her. Saying that she had loved him in return, and when
she died he couldn't believe that she had done it without speaking to him for years before that.

As Inuyasha told me the story of how they had been together for years, and then for some
reason she just left the country. He had heard that she had moved to America, I told him that
was true but then two years ago she moved back in her old age. As I told him this he looked
upset. I told him of how she had started writing to me, nonstop. Saying that she had to give
me something, that she wanted me to protect.

In the letters she sent Aunt Kikyo had said that with certain beads I could control dog demons.
She also explained to me in the letters that I would most likely come across someone named Inuyasha,
a half demon. She told me of how everything in her life, which had been quiet a long time, had
been wrapped around the half demon Inuyasha.

In her letters, Aunt Kikyo never once told me of how she and Inuyasha had been together,
not once. I thought that at first she might not have ever been in love with him, just told him
that. But then I thought that they probably were in love, but then she just didn't love him
anymore, for some reason or another.

I told this to Inuyasha and he didn't take it very calmly. He raised his hand up to hit me
and I flinched pulling away. He looked at me and put his hand down, why I don't know. I didn't
mind that he put his hand down however.

"Listen, she loved me, why she left I don't know! Why she gave YOU, a wench, the shikon
no tama jewel instead of me, I don't know! I don't care either! All I care about now is that
she is dead, and her great neice is a pain in the ass that I'm being paid a fortune to get rid
of!" he shouted in my face.

"If your so wanting the money and jewel why don't you just kill me now and take it!?" I shouted
into his face.

"I will when I feel damn good and ready to do it wench!"

"BAKA!"

"Shut up wench!" he shouted smacking me across the face, cutting open the skin.

"HALF BREED! Get the hell away from me!" I shouted holding my cheek, feeling the blood seep
through. Twice he had smacked me, and twice I had bled.

Inuyasha looked like I had shot Aunt Kikyo, right in front of him. For he stood up, his
body riged with rage. He started towards the door, and then stopped. He turned around and looked
me right in the eyes. I had never felt so small in my life until that moment when he stared me
right in the eyes.

I, however, wouldn't let myself look the part of the weakling. I glared death at him, feeling
my own body go rigid as I felt the daggers from his eyes enter my skin all over. I stood and
went over to Inuyasha, I was a mere foot away from him, the air in my chest going to over flow
in the rapid breathing I was doing.

Inuyasha raised his hands up and slammed me across the room, into the wall. I groaned, and
stood weakly, carefully walking over to him. I looked him right in the eyes, not about to back
down from him, no matter how much he hurt me.

As we glared death into one another, Kaede had come back. She looked at the two of us and
then went back up the stairs. I think she thought it best to leave before Inuyasha killed both
her and I.

I reached my hand up and slapped it across Inuyasha's face so hard that my hand stung, and
I left a mark on his face. He looked down at me and then slammed me into the back wall, again.
I hit my head off of it and then stood, slowly, ignoring the dancing red and black spots along the
edges of my vision.

As I went back over to him, Inuyasha was staring at the wall where he had slammed me. I
reached up to the back of my head, feeling the blood running through my black hair I gasped. My
body went rigid and stiff as I fell forward and into him.

Inuyasha looked down at me, and then carried me to the cot, lying me down he took care of
the wound on my head. Why I don't know, but I do know that I owe him an apology in the morning.
For now though I'm going to try to sleep, I need to rest before he comes barging in here telling
me off for the half breed comment.