A/N-Here is the next chapter for you all. I think this will be the last time I update this weekend. I might be able to update sometime in the middle of the week but I don't know. I have an orchestra contest on Tuesday and a festival thing on Saturday where I'm playing in a violin/viola duet and I really need to practice so I don't think I can update until next Friday or next Sunday. I just thought I'd tell you guys ahead of time so you aren't biting my head off when I don't update right away ^_^

Disclaimer-Hehe…*Looks around to make sure no creepy lawyers are around* I own Inu-Yasha! Haha! *Doorbell rings* Ahk! I was just kidding!

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When Did Things Get Complicated

Chapter VI

"Kagome!" Sango shouted, running into the clearing and jumped in front of Kagome as a protective shield, though what she could do against a demon, Sango hadn't thought of yet. "Run Kagome!"

"Sango!" Kagome gasped. "What are you doing here? And what are you doing?"

"It's a dog demon! Run!" Sango shouted.

Inu-Yasha meanwhile, looked thoroughly confused, though he prepared to either fight or run, just in case this girl should attack him.

"No, Sango stop," Kagome said. "He's my friend."

Sango seemed to freeze where she was. Finally, after what felt like eternity, she turned around and said slowly, "Your…friend…?"

"Yes my friend," Kagome said.

"You're friends with a demon?" Sango hissed to her, completely ignoring the fact that the demon was right behind her and had excellent hearing. "How can you be friends with a demon? They're filthy, low-down-"

"No they're not! Not all of them! Sango, they're all different. Some may be filthy low downs but some aren't, just like people. Some people are even filthy low downs so what's the difference?" Kagome asked.

"Kagome, you don't understand…" Sango began to explain.

"I do understand. I think I understand better than anyone. No one else believes me either. I would have at least expected you, such a close friend of mine, to understand," Kagome said. "Sango, when you look at me, what do you see?"

Sango snorted. "What do you mean what do I see. I see a human girl with black hair and bluish purple eyes and-"

"No, I mean besides that."

Sango sighed. "I see my best friend: the nicest, smartest, funnest person in the world."

"Yeah, and what would you see if I were a demon?" Kagome asked.

"What does that mean? I'd see the same thing!" Sango insisted.

"No, you wouldn't. You'd see a filthy, wicked, evil, and untrustworthy youkai."

Sango stared at Kagome for long moments. Then she turned around and held out her hand to Inu-Yasha. "I am Sango. I apologize for my rudeness from earlier. I thought you were attacking my friend but now I see that you were not so I hope we can start over."

 After that day, Sango came with Kagome occasionally. She lived close to the forest and her mother would be furious if she happened to look out a window and see Sango leaving or entering the forest, so she came only when her mother was at someone else's house or if she was out with her father working in the fields.

One morning, shortly after Kagome turned fourteen, she was just about to stand and leave the dining hall to go outside since it was a day when she didn't have lessons.

"Kagome, your father and I have been thinking," her mother told her.

Kagome started to feel a bit nervous. These conversations didn't always go well. "About what mama?"

Her father cut into the conversation. "We were wondering if you had at all thought of marriage."

"Marriage?" Kagome asked.

"Yes, you are fourteen and it's about time we started to think about that," her mother said. "You were at the banquet last night. How did you like Lord Naraku's son?"

Kagome thought back to the night before. She had talked to Lord Naraku's son and she remembered him to be very dull and dim-witted. He didn't have any imagination or sense of adventure at all. When she had talked to him, he had insisted on talking about the food they were eating: fish. When she tried to change the subject to something a little more interesting, he somehow always found a way to link it back to fish. They conversation went something like this:

"This fish is really good. Your cooks must be fantastic," he had remarked, though in a monotone and bored voice.

"Y-yes, it is good," Kagome said and then changed the subject. "I hear your father is a great and powerful lord."

"Yes, his people catch lots of fish so it prospers. Did you know that the nets used to catch the fish are really big?" he asked, still in a bored voice.

"Um…No. It sounds very…erm…interesting though," Kagome said awkwardly.

"It is. They catch a lot of fish," he said again.

            Kagome sighed. She could tell already that this was going to be a long banquet.

"That's how my father's lands prosper," he said again.

At this point, Kagome had politely excused herself though she was screaming on the insides and had left the dining hall.

"He was…well…he…he had good teeth?" Kagome supplied hopefully.

Her mother's smile seemed frozen on her face. "He…had…good…teeth? That's all?"

"Well…umm…No, he also…Yes," Kagome said.

"Well, no matter," her mother said briskly, as if to say 'We'll find him someday.'

"May I be excused now?" Kagome asked.

"What do you have planned for today dear?" her father asked.

"I was going to go to the village to see Sango," Kagome said, which wasn't wholly a lie. She would see Sango after all.

"You seem to be out of the castle a lot," her mother said suspiciously.

"Well…I-I like…being outside," Kagome said, getting even more nervous now.

"Is that all?" her mother asked.

"W-well, yes," Kagome stuttered.

"Look at that mama. She is as red as a tomato. I think she meets with her sweetheart every time she's out," Shidosha said teasingly, though her mother took pressed on.

"Well dear, who is he?" she asked, leaning forward confidingly.

Kagome sweatdropped as she felt her cheeks burn. She fidgeted nervously. "Who's who mama? There's no 'he.'"

Her mother narrowed her eyes suspiciously and studied Kagome for a moment and Kagome got even redder under her gaze and fidgeted. Her mother sighed. "Fine, have fun with Sango I suppose."

Kagome ran out of the hall and sighed deeply. She thought she had handled that well…

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A/N-Alright, like I already said, I might not get to update again till next weekend. I really have to practice my solo and my duet so I won't have the time. Maybe I'll post on Tuesday or Wednesday night but I can't promise anything. Now review. They make me happy ^_^