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After InuYasha and Miroku had been led to their rooms, they unpacked the small load of things they'd brought along. By then, it was already dinnertime. Miroku and InuYasha were about to leave for the dining room before Kaede stopped them.

"Whadaya want, old hag?" InuYasha yawned lazily.

Kaede narrowed her eyes, but said nothing about the insult.

"Kagome and Sango normally don't come to dinner. I'd like to see how easily you two can get them to come..."

InuYasha opened his mouth to protest, but Miroku put a hand on his arm to stop him. "Don't argue with her," he murmured in a low voice as he led InuYasha away.

"Keh."

When the two found their way to Kagome and Sango's room, they found themselves staring into the eyes of the two emotionless girls again. Whatever emotion they were feeling, they were good at hidingit.

Miroku cleared his throat.

"Er...it's dinnertime...?"

Kagome and Sango looked at each other, then stood up. They made no move to follow the boys. Kirara looked up questioningly at the two girls.

Miroku sighed and took Sango's arm gently, leading her out. Kirara followed.

That left InuYasha and Kagome.

InuYasha, who hadn't said a word to Kagome before, sighed as well. "C'mon..."

InuYasha took her arm as well and the two walked out.

When they got to the dining room, InuYasha and Miroku surveyed it. They had not had a real meal for sometime, but Kagome and Sango were used to this view. They were dragged to it 3 times a day. Nothing special. Neither of them were hungry.They had other things to worry about.These two new boys...something was...strange about them. They were different from the other employees about.

Kaede caught sight of the four. And sighed. 'The girls have only met the boys for half a day and they listen to them more than they do me?' She sighed again. 'It doesn't make sense...'

After dinner, which was fairly silent among the four, they headed separate directions. None of them got much sleep that night...

The next day, Kagome was going to go to archery lessons. Taking her bow, which was beautiful polished wood, and a few perfectly-sharpened, fletched arrows in a tube-pack that could be slung over her shoulders, Kagome headed off. Kaede insisted that InuYasha go along with her.

The place where she was to learn archery was a 3 minutes' walk from the nursing home. Neither Kagome nore InuYasha said a word throughout the short walk.

Kagome's trainer was a young man named Kouga, who had a long ponytail of black hair. After shaking hands, Kouga suggested that InuYasha stay and watch. Having nothing else to do, InuYasha accepted the offer and sat down, crosslegged, to watch.

First was warmup. Kagome did a quick check of her bow and arrows, practicing how to fit the arrow into the bow and pull the bowstring back. After pricking the tips of her arrows to her fingertips to see if they were sharp enough, the three teens stepped outside into a few acres' yard of trees.

Kouga began to explain. "Allright, Kagome. I will be moving around in front of the trees, and you will get four chances to pin me to a tree. In the first shot, youget to use four arrows. In the second, you get to use three. In the third, you can only use two, and in the last, you can only use one. Got it?"

Kagome just nodded wordlessly.

Assuming a stance, Kagome fitted four arrows into her bow and, closing one eye, she pointed the arrows at Kouga, who was currently doing the disco in front of a few trees. InuYasha sat back. This was going to be interesting...

Kagome suddenly let go, and the four arrows whizzed out to Kouga, pinning him to a tree.Two arrows were pinning his arms to the tree- two were pinning his legs down.

After yanking the arrows out of the tree, Kagome returned towhere she first stood and fitted three arrows into her bow. Taking aim, Kagome pulled the arrows back further for more force and let go, pinning all but one of Kouga's legs to another tree.

Now, Kagome took two arrows and aimed them at Kouga's waving arms, pinning his hands above his head, leaving his legs dangling.

InuYasha was impressed, though he wouldn't show it. 'Keh,' he thought. 'She will never get Kouga with only one arrow.'

Kagome fitted one arrow into her bow and pulled it back, taking careful aim. Now, Kouga was doing the hula, both of his hands together outto the side. Kagome gritted her teeth, narrowing the eye she hadn't closed. InuYasha sat up, interested. Kagome waited, biding her time.

And fired.

The arrow pinned Kouga's sleeves together onto a tree, leaving Kouga's legs to dangle inches from the ground.

By now, it had already been an hour. Kagome recollected all of her arrows and she and InuYasha headed back home.Wordlessly.

Sango had gone to rock-climbing lessons.Miroku droveher, with Kaede in the back. When they arrived, Sango entered the huge building wordlessly. Nodding her greetings to her teacher, a young man named Hinta, Sango tied the gear around her waist.

With Hinta at the rope which kept her dangling, Sango chose the second-to-hardest route to the top-a route called "Spiderman"-and began to climb, her feet and hands gripping places on the fake rock that seemed impossible to grip. Miroke and Kaede stood off to the side, watching. Hinta called out peices of advice to the young teen as she began to advance higher and higher.

When she was right in the midst of the route, Sango found herself stuck. Gritting her teeth, she flipped 180, now her back to the rock. She began to climb her way up this way, and when she was near the place where things got easier, she flipped back around and kept on climbing. Her body seemed like fluid, never stopping anywhere and advancing upwards quickly-like Spiderman.

When she was at the red button at the very top, Sango climbed a bit higher, and reached for the button. Gritting her teeth harder, she stretched more, reaching for the button, but it was still only inches from her grasp. Sango narrowed her eyes. She had only one more thing to try.

Sango took a deep breath, and, clinging to the rocks with her hands, she flipped up, her back to the rocks, as if doing a handstand. She bent her knees a bit, her feet groping for the button. When she felt it beneath the sole of her shoes, she kicked it, and a sound of applausing rang throughout the building.

Flipping back upright, Sango breathed a sigh of relief as she let go of the rock, her palms sweaty, and Hinta slowly released some of the rope, allowing her to drift down. When her feet touched the bottom, Sango sighed again and undid the fastenings around her waist, stretching.

Sango was ready for the hardest route.

But she would do that one in her next lesson, which was next week.

The next day, the two girls switched classes. Sango went to archery and Kagome to rock-climbing. Both girls advanced well, according to their teachers, though Kagome was still a tad better than Sango at archery and Sango was a tad better at rock-climbing then Kagome. Sango had missed the shot where she could only use one arrow, and Kagome slipped while climbing the Spiderman route.

Miroku had already gotten to know Sango better by asking her simple yes-no questions. Sango felt better around him as well. InuYasha and Kagome were also getting along, but not as well. But Kagome didn't mind. As long as he left her alone, she was fine with it.

Then, the day after that, Miroku and InuYasha were in for a surprise.

Kaede announced it to them during breakfast.