"Wha---" Kagome mummbled sleepily, lifting her head off of ehr desk.
Who was that? She thought, looking around.
Then she spotted the peson who came running in earlier that day and she jumped up, startled.
"Where am I?" he mummbled again, slowly blinking, moving his head to the side as if he were trying to block out the light.
"Umm...you're in my hut on Lord Sesshomaru's land, my new master." Kagome said nervoulsly.
"Huh? What? OWW!!!!!!!! My side!!!" he said, cringing in pain.
"What happened? Who are you?" he said agian, trying to ignore the constant throbbing in his side.
"Well, you came running in here and then u collapsed. No one came looking for you or anything but that's what happened and you had some really bad wounds, so I bandaged them for you." Kagome said, walking over to her bed so she could get a better look at him.
"Oh, okay." He said quietly, closing his eyes.
They remained like that in silence for a few minutes until he said to her, "Okay, but you never told me your name. I need to know your name so I can think about thanking you properly."
"Oh, oops. My name is Kagome Higurashi, servant to Lord Sesshomaru." Kagome said.
"What? He's a slave diriver? Impossible! He wouldn't know what to do with a slave!" he said, amazed.
"Why does that come as a shock to you?" Kagome asked, slightly puzzled.
"Oh, that's right, you don't even know who I am. I'm Inuyasha and Sesshomaru is my half brother." Inuyasha said.
"Oh, he's your half brother? Wow! Then why aren't you driving slaves as well? You're obviously youkai." Kagome said, still a little puzzled.
"I'm not a youkai, I'm a hanyou." Inuyahsa mummbled, closing his eyes.
"You're a hanyou? I didn't know there was such a thing." Kagome said thoughtfully, sitting on her bed. "Now I see why you aren't."
Kagome sat in silence pondering the thought 'til she was disturbed from her thoughts by Inuyahsha saying, "Well, now that you know, could you get me something to drink?"
"Yeah sure." Kagome said, still pondering the new peice of information.
Kagome walked into her small kitchen and grabbed a clean glass from the dish drainer and she was about to get a cold pitcher of water from the refrigorator but she heard a groan coming from Inuyasha's direction and she turned around to see what was happening.
She found Inuyasha in a standing position, holding on to one of the metal bed posts for support. Once standing, he limped slowly over to Kagome.
"Well, hurry up! I'm thirsty!" Inuyasha said, still trying to ignore the pain.
Kagome glared up at him but got his glass of water. When she handed it to him he eagerly drank it in one swift gulp.
"Thanks." Inuyasha said, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. "Umm...do you have anything to eat? I haven't eaten in three days, because of reasons in which I will not say."
"Uhh...what do you want?" Kagome asked, once again opening the refrigorator.
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After Inuyasha was fed and watered he sat down at Kagome's desk and looked around.
"So this is what you've been made to live in?" Inuyasha asked, giving the place a disapproving look.
"Yeah, unfortunately. But at least I have my own little hut thing instead of being issued a small room in the masters house." Kagome said, grateful that she wasn't subject to all the concubine that the other female servants were who were in the masters house.
"So why haven't you eaten in three days?" Kagome asked.
"Umm...because a band of evil youkai were trying to kill me 'cause I'm what they call a 'half breed' " Inuyasha said, avoiding her eyes.
"Okay, umm...what happened to your family? Why aren't you living with your parent that's youkai?" Kagome asked.
"Do you have to ask so many damn questions?" Inuyasha asked, getting a little irritated.
"Sorry! I was just curious!" Kagome said.
"Well, go be curious somewhere else!" Inuyasha said.
"Humph!..." Kagome sighed. Then she got up and walked over to her desk and reached around Inuyasha and opened the top metal drawer of her desk. She reached in and pulled out a small blue notebook and a black pen.
Kagome closed the drawer and walked back over to her bed and plopped down on it. She flipped to and empty page and began writing.
About thirty minutes passed and all that could be heard was the scratching of Kagome's pen on the paper.
After a while, Inuyasha asked, "Hey, whatcha writing?"
"Oh...just something I thought up," Kagome said, still writing away.
"Oh, okay. Can I read it?" Inuyasha asked.
"Umm...not now." Kagome said, flipping to a new page.
"Okay." Inuyasha said. He propped his legs up on the desk and tried to get some sleep but he couldn't get comfortable enough.
After a few more minutes, Inuyasha breathed a heavy sigh and got up. He walked over to Kagome and sat down next to her. He looked over her shoulder to try to read what she was writing but was unsuccessful for Kagome had covered her notebook up with her body.
"Umm...do you mind?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, I do.I wanna know what you're writing about." Inuyasha said.
"Well, I'm sorry. You can't read this. It's kinda personal and I don't want anyone else to know about it." Kagome said, standing up so Inuyasha couldn't read it.
"Please, I really do wanna see it." Inuyasha said, standing up also.
"No!" Kagome said, closing her notebook and walking over to her desk so she could put it up.
"Please!" Inuyasha asked, taking a step towards Kagome.
"I said no and I mean no!" Kagome said, putting her notebook in her desk. She took out a pair of keys and locked the drawer. "There, now you can't get it!"
Kagome walked over to her bed and sat down triumphantly, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Well, fine then." Inuyasha said, sitting back down in her desk chair.
"Good, I'm glad you gave up." Kagome mumbled under her breath as she went into the bathroom to take a shower and get ready for her reagular duties for tomorrow.
As she shut the door behind her, Kagome heard Inuyasha say, "I heard that!"
Whatever!! Kagome thought, turning on the water and adjusting it to the right temperature.
A few minutes later, Inuyasha grabbed the keys out from underneath Kagome's pillow.
He opened the drawer and got out her notebook and flipped to the most previous entry and began to read:
My life is torture
because no one's here
nobody cares
for someone like me
I am a slave
and nothing more
so why would anyone
worry about me?
They wouldn't notice
if I took my life
they would just say
'there goes another slave'
so I sit
waiting for
my life to be over
but I wonder
if anything g---
Inuyasha closed the notebook and hurridly put it back in the drawer and he locked it. He ran over to her bed and put the keys back under her pillow.
Right as he reached the chair, the bathroom door opened and Kagome stepped out along with several waves of steam.
"Okay, so if you don't mind, I'm gonna go to sleep in a minute because I have to be up early in the morning so I can start my regular duties." Kagome said, walking over to the dish drainer and got a clean glass out and poured herself a glass of tea.
"Umm...I don't have a couch or anything, but in my closet I have an extra pillow and some blankets so make yourself comfortable and if you need a shower go ahead and, you'll find everything you need in there," Kagome said, crawling into her bed and turning off the overhead light.
"Umm...okay..." Inuyasha said.
Inuyasha made up his bed, but he waited a while to make sure that Kagome was asleep and he got out her notebook again.
He finished reading, looking at Kagome in a new light, realizing all she'd been through.
Wow! does she really think that her life is nothing and that she has no one? I can't believe it. I can't believe that she's even tried to take her own life. Wow, now I know why I saw nothing but pain and sorrow. Inuyasha thought.
Inuyasha stared at Kagome as he pondered all of these thoughts, wondering what she'd do if she had someone enter her life who actually cared?
So ppls, how was that for a chapter? Is it any good? I finally decided to update after having this fanfic posted for over a month. I was inspired by one reviewed who said that she was hooked from the moment that she read it. She inspired me and I thank her, and to all the other reviewers out there, thank-you and to the person who said, 'your endings are shit' is this a better ending?