Through and Through

Chapter 3- Punishment

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By Dawn they had arrived at the gates to a city. Daifumi pushed open the HUGE wood doors leading to the unseen city, behind tall walls. (A/n: That's not the name! Okay! It's explaining why you can't see it!) Once inside the walls it showed a very lively city. Which made Kagome wonder what got them going so early?

Shippo had fallen asleep the second they left the clearing. Right now he was perched on Kagomes shoulder covered by a curtain of Kagomes warm silky hair. Kagome on the other hand was dead on her feet. Her shoulders where slumped down at a sharp angle, surprisingly Shippo was still on her shoulder and completely covered by her hair. Her knees where bent almost making her arms drag behind her, and her feet were barely going off the ground and her eyes held a dull gray complete losing the midnight blue eyes that once shinnied in careless relaxation. Dark bags under her eyes could be seen. A miracle was at work and that was the fact she was still moving. She hadn't slept at all since the day that she was bought, nor had they stopped to rest, Daifumi was too lost in thought to notice that Kagome was still awake, but only by a tread. Since she lived in that old rotting ceil, she had a lot of bent up energy, which was being used up very fast.

They continued to walk towards the soldiers barracks. The new servants weren't going to arrive till later that day. They walked past a very large dojo, then towards a small hut just 100 yards away from the dojo. Once inside the three roomed hut Daifumi lead them in to a second a room that had one futon, the room was bare other then the one futon. Daifumi took Shippo from Kagomes shoulder and laid him on the very large futon. For the first time in a long time Daifumi turned to Kagome who was staring blankly at the large comfy futon. Daifumi shuddered, 'I suppose we should have stopped at a clearing for the night, Kagome looks terrible!' he thought.

"Kagome you should get some sleep too, that is before you pass out," Daifumi said with a firm nod. Kagome nodded grimly, and she moved in behind Shippo hugging tightly to her chest and fell asleep. Shippo quickly cuddled closer to the new found warmth. Daifumi smiled a ghost of a smile, a smile he didn't know he was smiling, truly he didn't know.

Daifumi left the room and out of the flap and started towards the large dojo in front of the hut. He was once again lost in thoughts until he heard a familiar voice call his name.

"Daifumi? Hello Daifumi!" said a young 32 year old man with short black hair and chocolate colored eyes.

"Huh? What?" Daifumi said coming out of his thoughts and staring at the man before him blinking his eyes.

"I said 'hello'," said the man.

"Oh I am sorry, I was just thinking," Daifumi answered rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

"What's the matter with you? You never think, you just go and do something that's unpredictable, to even your self!"

"Hey! I am right in front of you, you know! I'm a higher rank too!"

"When has that stopped you with any other thing?"

"Hmm?"

"I'm all ears!"

"It's just this one thing that Sesshomaru-sama has ordered me to do," Daifumi started.

"Yeah what was that mission anyway?" The man asked.

"Well Souta if you were listening you'd of found out now wouldn't you?"

"Right, sorry," Souta nodded for him to continue.

"Well he ordered me to find an honorable slave, why I don't know, but anyway it's just the girl…"

"Wait it's a girl?"

"Yeah, Sesshomaru-sama had wanted a male, but I couldn't find one, the only one I could find somewhat like the things the lord wanted was the girl, I really hope he wouldn't mind, she is just what he had asked for," Daifumi said, and ran a red hand through his green/blue hair. He sighed frustrated.

"Well what about the girl she a slave, she's suppose to do everything asked of her, how could she make you like this?"

"She does, just not like you'd think it should be done, she said she's been a slave since before she could remember, but you wouldn't think that if you meet her, She's just someone that can make anything funnier, even the most dullest thing in the world."

"How so?"

"I don't know how to explain it but she just makes you want to smile, I think it's in her spirit, she is a very powerful miko, and it's a wonder."

"A miko? It's very odd for people to enslave miko's they know how much a miko is need around these times, but if she was caught by a demon slave trader then they'd of killed her on the spot," Souta mused out loud.

"Remember, I told you that she said she was too young to remember."

"But was the trader a demon or human?"

"Don't know, their all monsters that don't have a life," Daifumi said coldly.

"Is the girl a human?"

"Still no idea," Daifumi said.

"How couldn't you know that? You demons are supposed to have a great sense of smell, can't you tell?"

"She's just nothing you'd expect, that's all, she has human blood, but she's stronger then she looks, she was able to stay at a fast pace and not get a wink of sleep, on a usually 4 day trip."

"Huh, she might be used as an advantage for the western lands, to bad she doesn't have a free will," Souta said shaking his head sadly.

"That's what I mean, she acts like she's freer then anyone, and you'd never tell that she's a slave only a simple girl that makes her own choices not her master choices. She just strange!"

"Ah, we shouldn't waste the day away talking, a sparing match would help you, I'm afraid to say that sword play would be best at the time being, I wouldn't want to get beat up because you're stressed out."

"Sounds good to me," Daifumi said with a smirk. They began the sparring match. One winning greatly, the other losing miserably.

The sky was growing darker and darker as the thunderstorm was getting closer and closer. The thunder was growing louder and louder, and the lighting was growing brighter and brighter and nearly hitting the ground.

Shippo had his claws digging into Kagomes shoulder blade, he was scared to death of the storm, he had explained to Kagome that he wasn't going to leave her side, he feared that the thunder brothers where looking for him. Kagome had soothed him by saying she wasn't about to lose her little kit to the bullies. Still Shippo was still uptight about this. Kagome sat looking up once a cold rain drop hit her head. She was doing her best to forget the claws digging into her shoulder blades. A crash of lighting was heard and unknown to Kagome a figure of authority walked into the room.

Sesshomaru looked around the room looking at all the bowed heads. All but one. He could smell a little blood in the air along with the sent of a young male kitsune. He ignored it and was planning punishment for the disobedient servant that ignored her own lord. He continued to exam the other servants. Soon he stood before the girl, who blindly disrespected him, the lord of the west. He looked down at the girl she scooted back a little so that she was behind the others.

"Move back in the line," he ordered. The girls head shot up to look in front of her.

"It wouldn't be wise, my lord, please forgive my rudeness," The girl said and she return her attention back to the ceiling. Sesshomaru looked at the girl through narrowed eyes, who did she think she was?

"Why not?" He asked a growl edged his question.

"Because…" she trailed off just as a crack was heard and a piece of wood fell were she once sat. Shippo's small claws dug deeper into her shoulder blades after the wood hit the floor, she felt Shippo nestle his head in Kagomes burrowed clothing, the truth was that Kagome need something clean to wear and Daifumi was the only one with clothes in the hut, so she had burrowed one of his blue sleeping yukata. Kagome eyes shone with pain she quickly looked at the floor so that the powerful lord wouldn't see the pain laced into her eyes. Kagome couldn't have the kit on her back like this the poor kit was terrified. Kagome grabbed the kit on her back, forgetting the lord glaring at her, in front of her. She took the kit from her back and took him in her arms he quickly hugged her waist and buried his head in her stomach. Kagome looked up and finished the long but forgotten sentence. "Because that piece of wood would of crushed me, and this kit is terrified of thunderstorms."

Sesshomaru looked at the kitsune that was the son of a minor lord in his lands, Shippo was his name, but what was he doing with this ningen anyway?

"Why is the kit with you?" He asked coldly.

"Um… apparently his parents where murdered and I found him in the woods on my way to the castle, milord," Kagome said looking at the terrified kit, she was soothing by rubbing his back to help calm him down. Sesshomaru glared at the girl she had some nerve.

"You are to fix the roof then go to my study where I well punish you for your disobedience," Sesshomaru said turning a round and heading out of the door, everyone in the room stared at the girl who was only looking at something that was at her waist. They couldn't make out what but it was something alive that would make a heavy sent of blood in the room. They quickly poured out of the room and away from the room and to the servants living quarters.

"We aren't going out there are we?" Shippo sniffled.

"No," Kagome reassured him.

"Then who are you going to fix the roof, you'll just have a worse punishment if you don't follow his orders," Shippo sniffled.

"No, I think that we can do it in here and that way we won't get wet," Kagome said venturing towards the nearest wall that was 10 feet away from her, she placed her hands on the wall pink light glowed around the two, the once dead wood came alive for the second time and at a quick pace the hole in the roof started to 'grow' back, she took her hands away from the wall and once the hole was complete sealed. She walked out to the hallway she went to the edge and sat down Shippo's cries faded and he fell in to a dreamless sleep. Kagome watched as the thunders booms weakened and the lighting faded. Kagome was oblivious to the figure behind her.

"Did I not say to meet me in my study once you where done?" came the cold indifferent voice of the lord of the west. Kagome jumped slightly in the air before she turned her head to see Sesshomaru.

"I was just resting, and then again you never said right after I was done, huh?" Kagome asked, her eyes a little dull, she used to much power, all for fixing a roof too. She turned her attention to back to the dying storm. She heard a light growl come from behind, but the sound never made it to her tired mind. Shippo cuddled a little more into her stomach, trying to get more warmth. He sighed softly in his sleep.

"Follow me you disobedient bitch," Sesshomaru spat.

"Of course, my lord," she answered, even with demon hearing he could barely hear it. Turned heel and started walking down the wide hallway. He heard light shuffling follow him.

They walked in silence. Kagome trying her best not to say anything rude or unwelcome by the demon lord, the most powerful lord of the era, so far at least. She couldn't stand the quiet. She yawned, but quickly placed a hand over her mouth to cover it up. A few more minutes later they made it to a dojo, why she didn't know.

"Go in," he said plainly and cold. She nodded and walked through the door and shaking a light.

"What about Shippo?" She asked. Looking at the kit in her hands.

"But him down," Sesshomaru answered.

"But then we might step on him!" Kagome yelled. Sesshomaru stopped himself from wincing at the yell, lucky for the empty dojo, the sound echoed off the walls and it came back even louder, but the dojo had a silence spell on it, so that no one could hear the loud and annoying girls yell. His ears where left ringing.

"Shut that noise that's coming from your mouth, do you take interest in making demons hearing as bad as you humans?" he questioned.

"Oops sorry, I hasn't thinking about your hearing," Kagome whispered. He didn't answer. "But Shippo?"

"What about him?"

"Where are we going to lay him down?"

"On the ground, somewhere," Sesshomaru said plainly. Kagome sighed and gave up with him she walked to a shadowed corner and lightly put him down, out of the way and out of sight. Kagome stayed in the shadows and slowly made her way around the room. The true was Kagome was taught by one of the best thieves in all of the Japan, of course Kagome had bet even him in getting the keys from the old slave trader and so she had set him and many others free. Kagome smiled, yup she was the best of the best, but Kagomes care free nature made wouldn't let her use her thieving for anything but good. Kagome made it behind Sesshomaru and slowly made her way to his side again.

"What are we going to do know?" Kagome asked, she frown when he didn't react. But if she had demon hearing she'd hear that his heart sped up by a fraction.

"Punishing you," He answered walking towards the middle of the dojo floor. Kagome gulped down the lump in her throat.

"I hope you know that you're…" she started walking towards the middle of the room.

"I'm what?" He asked.

"You're using this dojo for the wrong reason and should I die, give Shippo to Daifumi," Kagome said standing in front of him.

"What do you have with my general?" He asked.

"He owes me something and if I do die you can tell him that."

"I don't believe you're telling me the truth, my general would owe you nothing."

"I can defend myself right?"

"Of course, not that it'll help," Sesshomaru said. He darted towards her at a slow speed, Kagome noticed and slide into the shadows, she stood still waiting to see what he'd do. He was playing with her then she'd play with his head having the shadows safely protect her. Then a thought crossed her.

'"So I'll be a slave for a lord?" She questioned.

"Hai," he said. So if this guy is a lord, then that means that he's the one that bought me, even if Daifumi was really the one the purchased me so that means that he played a part in freeing me from that hell hole right?' She thought to herself, she smiled, no she wouldn't kill him with her miko powers, in fact she wouldn't use them, after all using them was like a crutch one she wasn't about to use the rest of her life. She left the safety of the shadows and walked out, she'd just take the punishment then life the live set before her, after all if she could make that wood life again then if she were hurt to badly then her miko powers would heal them. Sesshomaru turned around and whispered something close to; "Coward."

"What?" she asked confused.

"Only cowards hide in the shadows," Sesshomaru clarified.

"A bit behind the time, Sessho-sama, I am no longer in the shadows," Kagome said a grin spearing on her face, Sesshomaru was starting to see red, he growled and ran (full speed) towards Kagome. The name and the insult was what made him lose control, first she makes him fell some emotions about to surface but now she did it, the anger raised and he lost it, poison seeped from his hands and he strike her across the stomach. He slowly he got his control back; he backed away and watched as she first fell to her knees then the ground…

A/N: Whoop the longest one! Whoa! Anyway what do you think? Hmmm… Wonder what'll happen of course I know but there are a lot of ideas and they always turn different, in truth I don't even know. But I do know what'll happen I hope… Spoilers, Spoilers, um Souta was the same guy from the first chapter, if you're wondering. And Kagome won't die then be revived, just to but that out there. Next Chapter is called, The First Day on the Job I told you cuz I don't have anything else to tell you for spoilers and I'm not even telling you important things cuz peeps don't read these much, if you are then stop, and be cool about it.
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