Through and Through
Chapter 4- The First Day on the Job
Disclaimer: Same as always not a thing but a silly paper plate with an awesome face!
Kagome's eyes opened slowly, only to find her vision blurry from sleep. She brought a hand to rub away the sleep from her eyes. Slowly her vision returned to her and she looked up at the beams that held the ceiling up. The feeling of her lower body (neck and down) returned to her she felt a small body laying on her shoulder and snuggled up in a ball on her bare neck and shoulder. She giggled at the fluffy tail that twitched, and tickled her neck. She grabbed the small body only to see Shippo with a sleepy smile and a far away look in his eyes. Kagome smiled back at the adorable half awake kit. She lifted her body from the cold wooden ground of a pray room in a shrine. She looked around to see for a fact that she was in a Shrine pray room. (A/N: I don't know what's in a pray room, sorry!)
She placed Shippo back on her shoulder. He quickly cuddled up in the notch of her neck. Her hair draped over her shoulder, completely covering the kit. She heard him sigh quietly as the warmth returned. She heard the door slid open to her right. She looked over to see a VERY strange girl. She had fluorescent orange hair that stopped 1 (one) inch past her shoulders. She was about 4'8" with navy blue eyes. Her hair could've made a blind man wince. Kagome blinked back tears from seeing the bright color.
"Hello, I'm Ami, I'm one of the three shrine maidens here at the western lands capital," said the girl in a cheery voice.
"I'm Kagome, and…" Kagome started and lifted the curtain of hair that covered the sleeping kit, "this is my friend Shippo."
"Well, nice to meet the both of you," Ami said with a bright smile. Kagome returned the bright smile; she let her hand drop from her hair, so that the hair covered Shippo once again.
"So, why are you here?" Kagome asked, reminding the girl of her duties.
"I'm here to check on your health and change those bandages," Ami said, she stepped into the room and closed the door. She walked up to Kagome and kneeled down next to her. She started to unravel the old bandage. She winced at the dried blood on Kagome's lower abdomen. Once she finished unraveling the bandage she put the new one in a bowl what had herbs soaked in water. Ami took out a clean cloth and dipped on end in hot water to clean off the dried blood. Once the dried blood was cleaned, Ami reapplied the new bandage. The whole time Kagome didn't flinch once.
"What did you do?" Ami asked as she looked back at Kagome's abdomen one last time.
"Oh… umm, I sort of saved…," Kagome said.
"If you saved your self then why are you so hurt that you could already be dead for?" asked Ami.
"I saved a life, but in order to do it I defied Lord Sesshomaru's orders," Kagome said.
"That's where you went wrong," Ami said, "You must listen even if it risks your life," said Ami.
"That's just it, it wasn't my life that was one the line, it was Shippo's," Kagome said.
"How would it risk Shippo's life?"
"That storm a couple nights ago was the thunder brothers looking for him you see, and I couldn't risk him getting hurt, not one of my friends," Kagome whispered.
"Well you're alive now, lets not dwell in the past," Ami said changing the subject.
"You're right," Kagome said with a tired smile.
"Course I am! When haven't I been?"
"I can't answer that now can I?"
"Guess not, you should get some sleep, need your strength for tonight," Ami said and turned to leave. She shut the door and Kagome tried to calm her mind by meditating, but she couldn't clear her mind because of the loud noises coming from outside the shrine. 'Dang it!' Kagome shouted in her head. She tried again and again but nothing.
"Stupid noises! Shut up!" Kagome mumbled to herself. She stood up and walked to the door, only to have it open before she got there. In the door stood two people one being…
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Sesshomaru sat quietly in his study looking over one papers. He'd been working on this paper for nearly two days now, he didn't know what to do about it. The paper was about a punishment for a slave that was loyal to only the others, and was had set more then 10,000 slaves free. In truth Sesshomaru hated anything that had to do with slaves, if he ever met the slave that had guts enough to set more then 10,000 slaves free he'd congratulate the slave, and more then likely give the man a job in his castle. He sighed, and aloud his poisons to seep through his claws and onto the paper melting the paper. That was one thing done, and now the paper stacks that surrounded his low desk. He couldn't be seen from under all the papers, like a fort, almost. He heard the door clash open; only one would be that reckless in the palace, and that was his one and only half-brother. He sighed and took the lukewarm tea that was on the table and sipped it silently.
"Sesshomaru, come out from behind your silly paper work!" he called.
"I can hear you just fine, but I don't wish to see you," He answered still sipping his tea.
"Feh," was all he said before he plopped down on the cushion on the other side of the desk.
"What is that you need to talk about Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru asked.
"As you know me and Kikyo are mates as of last night and we want to get married…" Inuyasha started.
"I fail to see where I come in with this plan," Sesshomaru said coldly.
"All we need is your permission to have the wedding since you'll be gone tomorrow we need it by tonight," he explained.
"You may, I have no need to be there so you may get 'married' when I'm gone," Sesshomaru said.
"Alright, I guess that's all," Inuyasha said standing up and walking out of the silent study. Inuyasha hated quiet places. He stopped and turned remembering something.
"Sesshomaru I've heard some rumors from Kikyo earlier and I want to know if there true or not…" Inuyasha started and walked back to the desk.
"Inuyasha all rumors are lies, total and complete lies, and if you believe one of them you're stupider then I thought you to be," Sesshomaru answered.
"You answered that pretty fast you know?" Inuyasha said with an amused smirk.
"I do not wished to be distracted by something that is not a full truth and so you shall be taking your leave as of now," Sesshomaru said coldly.
"You know tea can be a distraction too? I mean you don't wish to talk to someone as handsome as myself and yet you'd gladly slip your tea and gain anything from, where as you could gain information from myself," Inuyasha said with amusement.
"But what I gain from you is equal to nothing, and where as drinking tea I am reward with something more then nothing," Sesshomaru said.
"You gain social skills in which you greatly lack," Inuyasha said still in amusement.
"And you lack knowledge so they cancel each other out, so we both gain nothing," he answered.
"I'm smarter then most!" Inuyasha protested.
"I sure that my personal servant is smarter then you."
"You wanna bet?"
"I all ready know the outcome."
"Why you…"
"Huh? What am I, Inuyasha?"
"Asshole!"
"And you're an egoistical, self-centered coward," Sesshomaru said and with that Inuyasha growled and left the room empty. Sesshomaru smiled in triumph.
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'Grr… what's his problem anyway?' Inuyasha thought storming down the hall towards Rin's room where his mate was. Kikyo was just coming out of Rin's room too see what was going on. She saw Inuyasha's rampage down the hall, she waved a quick goodbye to Rin and followed her mate down the hall and towards the courtyard.
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Rin sighed, and walked after them. She needed to get to the shrine so that she could continue her miko training. Kaede had been her teacher for almost 6 (six) years, and still she wasn't anywhere done with the training.
'I just don't get it!'
'What?'
'Anything!'
'How so?'
'I don't know! I just don't'
'Oh…'
'Okay changing subject, why does it take so long for me? She said she once had a student that was done with training in 6 months!'
'How is that? That miko most not be very good at it, right?'
'I guess…'
'And the old miko is near death, you should want to send as much time as you can with her be for she passes right?'
'I guess your right, but I'll tell you she isn't going anywhere for at least 200 years.'
'She's not demon, Rin, she's human.'
'A very healthy human!'
Rin had been so lost in thought that she barely noticed that she was already at the shrine. She sighed and put away her thoughts and continued up the stairs and towards the shrine. She was quickly up the stairs in 2 minutes flat, and that was fast for going up almost 500 stairs. Rin walked aimlessly around the shrine in a haze of thoughts, until she saw Ami from a pray room down the hall away. Rin became curios and when she gets curios she won't stop till she finds what she was figured it out. Ami passed her in the halls with a bowl and bloodied bandages, Ami had a look of worry on her face.
'That's not right,' Rin thought looking at her friend that was usually cheerful and carefree, not really one to worry, and always seeing the positive thing in things.
"Ami what's wrong?" Rin asked.
"That girl looked so nice and with a life ahead of her, but the gods want to play with fate and I fear she won't see tomorrow…" Ami said with tears in her eyes.
"What do you mean? Can't you heal her?" Rin asked.
"No, I fear I can't, I tried but I can't, I just can't," Ami said, tears leaking down her cheeks.
"Maybe I can try…" Rin said. She hugged her friend and walked towards the pray room doors only to stop, looking at one of Sesshomaru's most trusted general…
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Daifumi was worried. Kagome and Shippo had gone missing. The last time he saw them was when he showed them to the castle, and that was the last time he'd seen them. He had looked around the castle and they weren't there, their scent long ago grew old, and what worried him most was the scent of blood, Kagome's blood and it was heavy and thick.
He was walking down the streets of the city; he allowed his feet to carry him anywhere. The next thing he knew was he was he stopped in front of a small stand that was selling stolen goods. He froze and a thought crossed him…
"Of course!" He said aloud and ran towards the other side of the city, the opposite of this part, completely opposite. He ran towards the outer wall and there where stairs in the side of the wall, wards where placed above the shrine to ward away the evil that would taint the grounds. He dashed up the stairs in less then 30 seconds.
'How could I forget about here? If I where a miko I'd surely go here! How stupid can I get?' Daifumi thought. He stopped his mad run and calmed down and walked calmly towards the shrine. He could clearly smell Kagome and Shippo now. He sighed in relief. Then the scent of blood caught his attention, his worry grow ten fold. He walked slower; the worry grew more and more by the minute. He never liked to show emotions, and worry was the one of the most he hated, but he couldn't help it. Kagome was his friend, and he was worried for a friend.
He stopped at a door where Kagome and Shippo's scent was coming the strongest from. He stared absently at. His hands shaking a little; the soothing scent of vanilla and coconut calmed his edgy nerves. He looked to his right only to see his lords adopted daughter. She was looked at him then the door. Daifumi noticed the saddened look in her eyes. He finally reached out and opened the door they looked in to see Kagome shirtless and looked about to open the door herself.
Daifumi raised an eyebrow.
"Where do you think your going?" He asked. He heard Kagome growl.
"You know how noisy it is here for a shrine?" Kagome asked, "I've never really been to a shrine but I know that it's not suppose to be this loud!"
"It's in your head," Daifumi said.
"Are you alright?" Rin asked looking at the bandages.
"You kidding? This isn't the worst I've had," Kagome answered.
"You're on the brick of death," Rin said.
"So…" Kagome asked walking back into the room and plopped down on the ground.
"So… you'll be dead by morning!" Rin said.
"I think you're just mad because you got worried over nothing," Kagome said and waved her hands in the air.
"I can smell the death on you though," Daifumi whispered, "It's more then usual for humans."
"I may be close to death, but like I said, I've had worse. The smell will be gone by sun set, but first I need to find a quiet place to meditate, but I there isn't any here…" Kagome said.
"But how?" Rin asked, "I know you aren't demon, so how?"
"I'm a miko, only…" Kagome trailed off.
"Only, what?" Daifumi asked.
"I was trained and all but, I still couldn't tame my powers and so I've got this," Kagome lifted her bangs from her temples and showed a star like scar. The edges pitch black and the center was a blinding white. "This scar charmed to hold back my miko powers, it was the only way to stop my powers from killing the demon and humans close to me."
"Humans? I thought that miko couldn't purify humans though!" Rin said.
"They aren't but I was always treated horribly by both Humans and Demons, and my powers are classified under a very rare classification, my powers are savage powers," Kagome exampled.
"What is that suppose to mean Kagome?" Daifumi asked.
"Ever heard the saying 'Only the strong survive'?" Kagome asked, they both nodded, "That's how my powers act, they will even kill as long as they survive. That was why I had this charm placed on this scar, to hold them back, now they only act when my life is at stake."
"Isn't that what they were already doing?" Rin asked.
"Yes and No, before when my powers first awoke it would kill the closest thing in sight that looked threatening, once I stepped on a stone and 'it' killed the closest person. You know how many people died in those six months before I had them sealed away?"
"You really killed that many people?" Daifumi asked horrified.
"I didn't, it was a chain reaction," Kagome smirked at a thought.
"Then how?" asked Rin.
"I lived in a slave post my whole life and so when that happens you get a rebellious side and that was what I had, I learned from a master thief how to steal and so I put the skill to use and when ever the slave trader came to sell a slave I'd steal his keys and set the slave free. I would get caught just so I could set the new slaves free," Kagome said. Rin and Daifumi's eyes widened, they had heard of a slave that would do that. They never thought that they'd ever be talking to the mastermind. That one slave had made a name into the hearts of most; because they had set free most of the people's family members, teachers, and lots of other things to have gained a name of respect from the people. Of course Daifumi and Rin also held respect towards that one slave, they where against slavery like a lot others.
"Weren't you punished?" Daifumi asked.
"Of course, they'd punish me till I was one the brick of death most times, but my powers would heal them with in the hour, and stop the pain, but those baka's never noticed."
"So why aren't you healed right now?" Rin asked.
"Because this time there's poison that is keeping them from healing and so I need to find a quiet place for me to meditate and be target the poison to get it out of my system."
"There's only two demons that use poison in attacks…" Rin said.
"What did you do, Kagome?" Daifumi asked raising an eyebrow.
"I broke your rule number 1…" Kagome said and laughed nerously.
"You broke RULE ONE!" Rin yelled.
"No wonder, you're so beat up," Daifumi said. He looked at Kagome and shook his head. He saw something move on her shoulder.
"What was that?" asked Rin pointing to her shoulder.
"Shh… he's asleep!" Kagome hushed and moved her hair from her shoulder so they could see a sleeping Shippo.
"That I was wondering what happened to him…"Daifumi said.
"Awe, he's adorable!" Rin said in a hushed tone.
"I know!" Kagome whispered and replacing her hair over her shoulder.
"What are we going to do about him?" Rin asked.
"I'll take him with me where ever I go, It's just that I don't know what my job is…" Kagome said, she looked at Daifumi, "Have you heard?"
"I think you'll be with Sango, she delivers dinner meals to the generals and the lords family," Daifumi answered.
"When do I start to deliver then?"
"At sunset, and you should be at the kitchens by the barracks just before the sunsets, Demons usually eat at night for dinner," Rin explained.
"Good, Good… Hey is there anyplace around here that is a quieter place then here?" Kagome asked.
"There is Lord Sesshomaru's study, it has a charm on it so you can't be overheard by a spy and aren't disturbed by the unwanted noises out side the room," Daifumi answered.
"Yeah and he usually has his personal servant, Jade, in there with him, I'm sure she'd love the company," Rin said.
"But what if he won't let me stay there long enough to heal?" Kagome asked.
"Just say that Lady Rin said you where to stay there, I doubt that he'll notice you, he never asks Jade to do anything, besides getting water to boil for tea, that's all really," Daifumi said.
"Oops I forgot to do something," Kagome whispered.
"And what is that?" Rin asked.
"Introductions," Kagome said simply, "My name is Kagome; it's nice to meet you."
"I'm Rin," Rin said and smiled brightly, "Guess we skipped that part."
"I Believe so, Rin I hope you don't mind if I do use that excuse, I really don't want to get you in trouble."
"Thrust us, She won't," said Daifumi.
"And why's that?" Kagome asked batting her eyelash at him playfully.
"Rin's a soft spot towards Lord Sesshomaru," Daifumi said.
"Why's that?" Kagome asked.
"Wow, you really where left in the dark at that slave post," Rin whispered.
"All I knew was the ten years of education I got from, Chi-sama, and what she told me of the outside world, oh and the master thievery, from Geriko-sama," Kagome said, "Oh and the miko teachings from Kaede-sama, of course."
"For a slave you were taught by the best, General Geriko is the best of the best at thievery, and Chi-sama if the best teacher in all of Japan, and Kaede, is one of the most trained miko in all of Japan, how did you learn such things from them? And ten years of education? That's about the same amount of years a lord is taught!" Daifumi said.
"I'm glad that they really made a life," Kagome sighed.
"How did you meet them?" Rin asked.
"I set them free from that hellhole called a slave post; there they'd take anyone from anywhere even the rich and famous, Like Kouga, I believe he was a prince they held him for ransom and when they didn't get it they throw him to be sold him like any common slave! Those people disgust me," Kagome said.
"You know Kouga? Hmm… most people would have believed it an honor to meet any of them," Daifumi said.
"I was also taught to fight by the Aki-band of ten," Kagome said.
"The Aki-band of Ten? I've never heard of them," Rin and Daifumi murmured.
"And you wouldn't, their a secret band that lives in the mountains, they life a live like a monk, they live to perfect the Aki-tobu, a master fighting skills, that include swords and hand to hand combat, I believe they said only one other that wasn't in the Aki-Band of Ten had learned the Aki-tobu, his name was like Souta of the west, or something, I don't know they always spoke weird like that, adding where they came from to their title, I think mine was like, Kagome of the Ceil to the left, or something odd like that," Kagome said.
"Souta? Isn't he a general?" Rin asked.
"I don't know, I did have a brother named Souta," Kagome in a daze.
"I thought you said you lived there your whole life?" Daifumi asked.
"I did, well sort of, I was only three when they sent me to the slave thing remember? I didn't know their names, but as a method of torture they told me the names of my family members that were alive and never came to get me and set me free, or that's what they said, I think they where telling me it so if I ever really got away, I'd hunt them down and kill them because they aloud someone that was always setting their sellable slaves away, and all I ever got out of that was me logical telling me they never came because it was destiny on whatever happened to me," Kagome explained.
"Why are you telling us this?" Rin asked.
"So, that I could burn off the need to talk so I'd have a clear mind to focus with later," Kagome said and with that she walked towards, and out the door.
"I wonder what she'll do when she see that, Geriko, Chi, Kaede, and Kouga all live in the city?" Daifumi asked.
"You can't really say that Kouga lives in the city, he does come here a lot but not enough to declare that he lived here," Rin argued.
"Wait is it me or did she leave the room with on shirt on?" Daifumi asked.
"Oh my Buddha, she did," Rin yelled.
"I hope that won't bother Sesshomaru to much…" Daifumi said as he turned and left, the shrine was starting to get to him, and just proved that shrine's where no place for demons. Rin to left and continued to walk down the hall and to her lessons with Kaede.
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It took Kagome awhile but she was finally at her destination. She looked at the wooden framed doors and sighed, her hair on her neck stood on end because her sense picked up the strong aura of well placed and to most not sensed, magic. Quietly she opened the door, and stepped through, she closed the door and it 'thump'ed shut. She winced.
"What is it that you need?" asked a voice in the shadows. 'Must be Jade,' Kagome thought.
"I'm just here because it's the quietest place in this city, all I want it to enjoy the silence and meditate," Kagome answered in a hushed tone. She looked around the room and saw the room was an octagon shaped room there was a book case on each wall, all but the wall with the door. There was one desk in the middle of the room, paper stacks was surrounding the desk there was even papers stacked of the floor. A glass window was just above the low desk and sent a bright light around the room, but still there was shadows cast around the room that one could hide in. But there was only one person in the room and that was Sesshomaru's personal servant, Jade.
"I don't know, Lord Sesshomaru is not here," Jade said.
"Please, He'll never even know I'm here, I swear, I won't make a sound," Kagome said as she looked at the woman, Kagome saw that her argument wasn't working she gave Jade her best sad puppy dog eyes look, her lower lip twitched and fake tears filled her eyes. "Please Jade… I'll love you with all my heart."
"How do you know my real name? Only Lady Rin does," the girl mumbled.
"So can I, as a trade for a love of a friend?" Kagome asked.
"Fine, but make sure you aren't seen or heard or smelled or any other thing that get you caught and hurry he is coming back…" Jade said in a hushed whisper. Kagome nodded and walked into the shadows. Once one part of her body was in the shadows, her sneakiness set in and she was gone, only trace that she was there was the rapidly fading scent of vanilla and coconuts.
After Kagome was settled down on the hard wooded floor, the door opened to show the lord of the west. He walked toward the desk and plopped gracefully onto the cushion and worked on the overfilling and very stressful paperwork. Mean while Kagome sat on the ground her hair was flying around her and Shippo was safely cuddled in her lap. Both completely lost in the shadows.
Seconds turned to minutes and slowly the minutes added to hours, and with the passing time the sun made its way through the sky like a slow moving shooting star. Kagome sighed in relief as she felt the last of the scar tissue knit together, sealing her stomach shut, and away from her would be death. She slowly slid her eyes open to the red room. 'Oh no,' was Kagome's first thought. She stood up quickly and caught Shippo by the back of his shirt before he fell face first in to the floor.
Sesshomaru heard the soft sigh but ignored it, then he heard the wisp of clothing and he looked around the room trying to pin point the noise. He looked in the shadows and he didn't find anything, there was someone here other then his servant, but where was he? 'It could be a shadow demon,' he thought. He shook his head, 'No I'd of sensed it,' he reasoned. Then he heard the quick foot falls and he looked at where he heard the foot falls, still he couldn't see it. He looked at the place in the shadows, and then in the light stood a shirtless girl, she had bloodied bandages in one hand and in the other a kitsune kit. She was staring at the window above his head with worry. She stopped before the door and bowed low towards him and placed the kit on her shoulder. She was almost completely naked, the only thing covering her was a band warped over her chest. On her stomach were three scars, which could only be made by claws. When she turned to leave he saw her back, there was scars that where faint but still there, those scars you could make with a leather whip. For one second he felt a twig of pain. But I left as quickly as it came. He returned to work, he'd question her later.
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"Oh no, Oh no, Oh no," Kagome chanted out loud as she ran at full speed towards the kitchens by the barracks. She didn't slow down when she was turning the corner of the building that lead to the back of the kitchens, and she turned to early and tripped falling through the rice paper unlucky for Shippo she flew on her side so she was laying on top of him. Hands where out stretched and was twitching as were her legs and body. Her eyes half mast and her face neutral of emotions. Laughing never reached her ears as she lay unmoving, like a stone. Shippo's eyes replaced with swirls showing that he was temporally knocked out.
A hand was reached out for her, to help her up, she looked at it blankly, her mouth gaped open slightly she watched as the hand withdraw from her grasp and then felt a hand in hers trying to lift her up. But she wouldn't move. Her twitching stopped and her eyelids moved back to show the rest of her eyes, her mouth closed and slowly she sat up and yawned.
"You where asleep?" asked a feminine voice.
"Huh? What? Oh no I wasn't asleep I was just thinking about sleep, and I couldn't help but yawn," Kagome answered she stretched her arms and legs out. She looked at the ground and looked at Shippo who resumed sleep once the body weight was lifted from his small form. She picked him off the floor and placed him back on her shoulder.
"What was that?" asked a males voice.
"My shoulder decoration," Kagome answered and turned around to see a man with short light brown hair, and plain brown eyes. He wore a midnight blue haori and hakama. He smiled amusedly down at her. Next to him was a woman about 34 years old, she had long dark brown (almost black) hair it was tied at the tips. She wore red eye shadow, with a green and pink kimono. She had honey brown eyes. She too had a mocking grin on her face. Kagome scowled at the two.
"So you must be Kagome the new girl," said the girl, "I pictured you a lot uglier."
"Me too, I guess you proved us wrong," said the man. Kagome just scowled up at the two. She crossed her legs and folded her arms, her scowl turned in to a pout.
"To be 15 again," said the man in mock disappointment. He looked away, but gave her a sideways look, only to see her head bowed.
"Look what you did now Hojo, you upset her," said the girl. Kagome looked up with a wide evil grin on her face.
"I guess I'll take that as a complement, see as I'm 23," she said, "It's amazing that I still look 15."
They looked at her weird and then they saw the whip like scars on her back and the three claw shaped scar on her stomach. 'It is indeed, with those scars, someone must of really had it out for this girl,' thought the man, Hojo.
"The sun's gone…" Kagome said. She shivered as the cold night air made it's way to her bare skin.
"And why don't you have a shirt on? Are you that stupid?" asked the older woman.
"Just a death wish," Kagome said sarcastically, "But really no, I don't have a shirt on simply because I do not have a shirt anymore, in fact my last shirt wasn't even mine, so it's not really missed."
"Here," said Hojo. He took off his haori and handed it to her, but his still had an under haori. "Don't want to get a cold on your first day."
"I don't get sick, but I don't want to be freezing my ass off," Kagome said, gladly taking the haori and putting it on. She wrapped it tightly to around her and tied the corners together in front of her (because it was big and warped around her a lot.)
"Thank-You… umm, what's your name?" Kagome asked.
"I'm Hojo, and this is Sango," Hojo introduced. Kagome nodded. Sango handed her a scroll of paper and on it where 4 (four) names and it said where to deliver it to. She groaned out loud at the first name.
"Do I really have to deliver it to that…that…" Kagome asked thinking of a good name that would fit the man, "Nickname hater."
"Nickname hater? That's a new one," said Hojo.
"But it's true!" Kagome said. Sango and Hojo started laughing.
"I bet you barely left with your life," Sango said, after calming down her laughter.
"You don't even know," Kagome said shaking her head sadly. Just then Hojo put two plates of raw meat in front of her and a tray with a bottle of sake. Kagome placed the scroll in her mouth and then placed the tray on her head, and then held the two plates in either hand.
"You're going to have one hell of a headache when you're done for the night," Hojo said. Kagome didn't answer as she walked gracefully out of the hole she'd made early, before a muffled response was heard.
"You can't see it but I'm sticking my tongue out at you right now. And you can't hear it but I'm planning my revenge on you right as we speak," Kagome called, (that was the clearer version of it though, the first you'd be thinking about what she said until you got a headache.)
"Hah…hah," said Hojo laughing nervously. 'What did she say?'
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Kagome stumbled through the hallway that lead to Sesshomaru's study. She was tempted to just walk through the thin rice paper walls.
She stopped at the study doors, only there was one simple, hard to solve problem. How was she going to open the doors? She couldn't set the plates on the ground because they would get stepped on in the very busy and over used hallway. She couldn't ask, because she couldn't talk with the scroll in her mouth.
She tried to turn on her side and knock, but it didn't make a sound, and it wouldn't with that charm. 'I could wake Shippo, but… wait no way to do that either. This is my job, I'm not always going to have him here to help me anyway, then I'd only be placed in a worse situation,' Kagome sighed and sat crossed legged leaning on the beam that helped support the roof that covered the walkway. 'I could run through the rice paper!' Kagome thought but then her reasoning set in, 'Then what good would a study be if you can't work in it because you always feel like your being watched, then only get more piled up when the screen needs to be replaced, and he might make me fix it, I couldn't fix it if my live was on the line because of it.' Kagome sighed. 'What in Hades name will I do?'
Kagome glared at the door, as if it was her worst enemy, which it was really, well for the time being at least. She could her strength weaken, 'what am I gunna do?' She kicked the wood frame of the door angrily. 'Stupid door!' She thought, 'Hey wait! I'm so stupid sometimes; you'd think I was an idiot!' She sighed and stood up gracefully, if she could smack herself right then she would of. She walked to the door and using her foot, opened the door effortlessly 'That's one thing done! And now to confront the man who hates shortened names!'
She walked into the candle light room, she walked to the paper covered desk, her eye twitched at the thought of holding the heavy raw meat longer then she had too. Her left eye continued to twitch and then the corner of her right upper lip started to twitch also.
"What is it wench?" Sesshomaru asked not looking up. She didn't answer and her eyebrows started to twitch also. "Move you blocking my light, I wish to get this done before I leave tomorrow, so would you move?"
Still she didn't answer; she clenched her jaw on the scroll in her mouth. Sesshomaru looked up to see the girl that he'd seen earlier and punished about 2 days ago. He growled a warning.
"Wahere?" She asked, still with her jaw clenched tightly on the scroll, her left eye twitching, the right corner of her mouth twitching, and her right eyebrow twitching madly. He glared at her before moving some stacks of papers to another side of the table for her to place the food on the table. She complied and placed the food down. All twitching stopped, will all but her right eye. She knew that if she were to take the tray off her head, her head would hurt, like she was hit with a tree on the back of her head.
"Where's the sake, wench?" he asked. He looked up again only to see her right eye still twitching and a glassed over look. She rubbed her wrist, and lifted one hand to her mouth were she took out the scroll and tucked it in her tightly warped haori.
"What would you do if I forgot it?" She asked playfully.
"I'd kill you," He answered.
"Good luck with that," Kagome said as she turned to leave, she stopped at the door and reached for something on her head and throw it at Sesshomaru, who caught it. "I'm not that stupid nor do I have a death wish." Then she walked out of the door. Sesshomaru, growled lightly. 'That wench…'
He placed the sake down, now not really wanting it so much. The raised an eyebrow at the weight of the bottle, he'd say about 38 pounds. That was a lot to carry on a human head. 'She's as thick head as Inuyasha,' he reasoned.
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Kagome walked down maze of hallways. Oh how she missed the moon light right then. Seeing the candle light got bordering real fast. She'd only been out of the moonlit sky for about 15 minutes and the candles where old about the first second she'd stepped into the hallway, and she started to miss the light of the moon a minute later. She stopped at a door guarded by two. They where in armor for head to toe, the only seeable thing was their eyes and hardly that. She sighed, and turned to enter the room only was blocked by a metal based arm. She groaned.
"I'm sorry miss but you must wait until Sango-chan arrives," said the man that guarded the right. If only she could get in there she'd be done for the night of serving food to stuck up jerks, like those two generals! The pigs. The second in command general, was Tamitsu, a bull demon that had a real bad anger. Then the other was the third in command general, Aiji, he was a snake demon, even in a humanoid form he looked like a snake. The only thing different from a snake and Aiji was that Aiji always sat straight up and had arms and wore a yellow robe. Kagome was terrified of snakes, ever since the first time she heard about them from Chi-sama. Kagome shivered at the thought, but to be hit on by a snake, the one thing she was more terrified about even more then her savage powers. It was hard just for her not to go into shock, seeing him.
"Okay then," Kagome said, still shivering at the thoughts of Aiji.
"Are you okay miss…" asked the guard on the right.
"It's Kagome, and yes I'm okay, just lost in my terrifying thoughts of that spooky General Aiji," Kagome said with a small smile. "So what's your names?"
"I'm Hayate," said the one on the right.
"Asao," said the guard on the left.
"So, Asao I'm going to guess that you've been here longer then Hayate, am I right?" Kagome asked.
"How did you know that?" Hayate asked.
"It's really simple, He isn't talking as much as you, Hayate, which shows that he is use to orders that have him shut his mouth, he leaks the ability to talk without it being in order, if you ask me that sucks ass, without talking you're of no choices and with no choices you can't really live a life that involves thinking," Kagome said a smirk on her lips.
"Why you little bitch…"Asao started.
"And so it begins," Hayate murmured.
"Insults can break even the toughest man, it seems that I'm proved right once again," Kagome said with a smirk.
"And how many have you proven wrong?" Asao asked.
"About 100 or so now," Kagome answered. "My best data that it's true from Sesshomaru-sama."
"You got Lord Sesshomaru with the insult thingy?" Hayate asked.
"How'd you do it?" Asao asked.
"I don't tell others the cause of my data, it'd be humiliating them," Kagome argued.
"Yeah so what if it did?" Asao asked.
"If I where to tell the whole city that you lost your cool to a girl, and a human no less! You'd be gone before the next night!" Kagome argued.
"Okay good point," Hayate said. Kagome just smiled in triumph. The guards fought the urge to smile back, and both lost miserably and let a small smile grace each of their lips. It wasn't like anyone could see it.
"You know your quite smart for a servant," Asao said, "I mean what servant would use the word data, and know what I means."
"I'll got 10 years of education, I just that it was in the most unlikely place to have learned it too, I'm just lucky that I did," Kagome said.
"And how unlikely is unlikely?" Hayate asked.
"A slave post belief it or not, I was taught a lot of things that most wouldn't in there," Kagome answered as she closed her eyes and leaned on a wooden beam in the middle of the hallway. The tray was getting heavy, and she could fell her arms weaken.
"Okay, that is a very, very, very, very, very, very unlikely place to learn such a thing," Asao said, shock was evident in his voice and showed clearly in his eyes. Hayate was nodding his head in agreement. Even after training all his life to mask his emotions, he couldn't help but show emotion to this one girl that was most likely honor-bound, and so he trusted her, for some strange reason, he trusted her. Just then Sango turned the corner, and Kagome and Sango disappeared behind the doors.
They came out an hour later and went back to the kitchen were their own dinner waited.
A/n: Done! I'm too lazy to do Reviewer responses, I'm sorry kikyo618543 for adding the 'u' I stopped writing for like 5 minutes then and all I saw was the 'YO' and I thought that I was spelling 'you', Hehe again real sorry. I'll warn you now but not all of the chapters will be this long. Please Review, cookies and (whatever your favorite candy is) to how ever Review! Hehe…
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