A/N: Okay, mina-san, I just want to apalogize if this chapter is short. It seems short to me, but I dunno. Oh, and just to let you know, I've been playing around with another fanfiction idea. Do you remember the Animorphs show and the books? Well, I've been playing with the idea of making a fanfiction about it using the plot, only replacing the characters with the InuYasha group. What do you think? I'll leave a small preview of it at the end of this chapter, thanks!

XxXxXxXxXxXxXxX

-Chapter Seven: The Barn-

Kagome rolled over in her bed, kicking the covers off of herself as she did so. She had seen InuYasha's ride on Jewel, and it hurt seeing another jockey on the Thoroughbreds back knowing that she would never be able to do the same again.

She threw her legs over the side of the bed and stood up, sighing as she did. Ain't any use in trying to fall asleep, anyways. She thought as she glanced at the clock on her night table. The red numbers on the clock read 4:00 A.M. she had gotten so used to getting up at five o' clock every morning to take care of the Thoroughbreds that it was second nature to her now to get up so early.

She glanced out of her bedroom window, towards the training barn. "Maybe a walk will help me feel better," she said aloud to herself as she quickly pulled on a pair of blue jeans that were ripped at both knees and a white tank top, winching a little as her leg ached slightly.

It was always stiff and it hardly ever stopped aching. She reached over to her night stand once again and picked up a small bottle of prescription pain killer pills that the doctor had given her. She hated taking them, but she quickly opened the bottle and got out two of the small pills. She picked up the glass of water that was sitting on the table from the night before and quickly swallowed the pills.

Once she had taken the pain killers, she walked down the stairs, shivering as her bare feet slapped on the cold, hard wood flooring. She slipped on her paddock boots that were sitting by her front door and then walked out of her small cottage.

She walked slowly over the stable grounds, her feet subconsciously taking her to the training barn and down the wide aisles and to the very last stall on the right.

The sound of Thoroughbreds waking up greeted her ears as she strode down the aisle, but she didn't slow her steps none. She reached the last stall to find Jewel's finely shaped head hanging over the top portion of the stall, looking at her, like she had been waiting for her.

Kagome smiled in spite of herself. "Hi, girl," she whispered as she silently let herself into the stall.

Jewel whickered affectionately and put her large white head on the young womans shoulder, giving her the horse version of a hug.

Kagome wrapped her arms around the filly's neck, inhaling her scent. "I've missed you," she whispered hoarsely as she felt her eyes burn with tears that she refused to let fall.

"Then why don't you come out to the barn and visit her more?" A voice asked from outside of the stall.

Kagome whirled around to find herself staring into amber colored eyes and she quickly wiped at her own eyes, even though no tears had fallen. "You know the reason," she said to the man, not looking him in the eyes.

Usually she would have snapped at the man for sneaking up on her and startling her, but when she found out that she couldn't ride, she also seemed to have lost something else.

InuYasha noticed this also, so, he tried to pick a fight with her. "That ain't stopping you from being around the horses, though. Or are you just a quitter?" He remarked, smirking. He knew that calling her a quitter would get her fired up. But he was wrong.

The young woman just hung her head and walked out of Jewel's stall, closing it behind her and quietly making her way back out of the training barn.

And, for some reason, InuYasha followed her. "Just because you can't ride, doesn't mean you still can't work with the horses," he called after her harshly, grabbing her shoulder and whirling her around to face him.

When she was facing him again, he was shocked to see that she was fighting back tears. "I can't do that!" She shot at him, trying not to shout so that she wouldn't spook the high strung Thoroughbreds in the training barn.

"And why not?" The silver haired jockey growled out. He didn't even know why he was bothering talking to this woman. If she didn't want to be around horses, then that was her choice, it was no concern of his. So, why was he bothering with it, then?

A tear slipped out of Kagome's eye and she wiped it away angrily with the back of her hand. "You wouldn't understand," she replied, turning and once again walking out of the barn.

This time, she made it out of the training barn before InuYasha stopped her, this time he stepped in front of her, blocking her path so she had no choice but to stop. "Try me," he growled out.

A familiar flash lit up Kagome's eyes, a sign that her old fire was still in her. "Riding was my life!" She cried out, a few more tears slipping out of her eyes, making InuYasha cringe, but she didn't even notice it. "Riding was my life,"she repeated, this time more quietly. "If I can't ride then I'm useless, there's nothing else for me in this world," she whispered this last part so quietly that InuYasha almost didn't hear her.

The tears that she had been fighting to hold back so hard moments before fell from her eyes and made twin treks down her pale cheeks, landing in the dirt as they fell off of her chin.

She let out a painful gasp and pushed past InuYasha, and this time he didn't try to stop her, he just watched her way to her cottage in silence.

"She's been like that ever since Jewel threw her last month," Miroku spoke from behind InuYasha, having just walked out of the training barns office.

InuYasha crossed his arms over his chest. "Feh, baka woman shouldn't stop living just because she can't ride," he huffed and walked back into the barn, heading towards the tack room to get Jewel's tack and get the white Thoroughbred ready for her morning work out.

Miroku followed close behind the jockey. "That's just the way Kagome is. Like she said, riding was her life,"

InuYasha frowned. "And like I told her, there's other things she could do with horses besides ride them," he replied, repeating what he had said to Kagome.

Miroku shook his head and turned to walk away, but stopped when he heard InuYasha say, "I think she probably could ride again,"

miroku turned back around to face the jockey. "What do you mean? You know what happened last time she tried to ride, Sango told you," he said confusedly.

InuYasha never stopped tacking up Jewel as he spoke. "When the horse threw her it was the first day she got the cast off, right?" Miroku nodded conformation. "Feh, baka woman shoulda known that she wouldn't be able to ride a head strong Thoroughbred on her first day," he muttered, not really speaking to Miroku.

Miroku scratched his head, confused. "What do you mean?"

InuYasha turned to face the dark haired trainer. "Feh, she's got full mobility back in her leg, all she's gotta do is build the strength back up in it again. And, eventually, she could be able to ride again, maybe even race," he said and lead Jewel out of the barn and toward the training track.

XxXxXxXxXxXxXxX

That afternoon, while Miroku was having lunch in his house with Sango, he was still thinking about what InuYasha had said that morning. 'All she's gotta do is just build the strength back up in it, again. And, eventually, she could be able to ride again, maybe even race,'

Miroku was jolted out of his thoughts when he felt a french fry hit him on his nose. "Hey, what's on your mind?" Sango asked as she picked up another french fry off of her plate, this time instead of throwing it at the trainer, she simply ate it. "Must be pretty distracting. You haven't tried anything perverted since lunch started," she commented, eating another fry after dunking it into her ketchup.

Miroku grinned at her. "My dear Sango, are you suggesting that you miss my wandering hands? I can gladly fix it if you do mis-" But he was cut off as another french fry hit him in his face. "Baka hentai," Sango muttered as Miroku only grinned again.

The trainer smirked another minute more and then he turned serious. "I was thinking about Kagome's predicament," he remarked.

Sango stopped scowling at the dark haired trainer when she heard this. "We've gotta do something for her, she needs to get her life back on track before she get's sick," he continued on when he saw that he had Sango's attention.

"But what can we do? She won't listening to anything we have to say," Sango replied with a shake of her head.

Miroku got a thoughtful look on his face. "I may know someone who will be able to help her," he replied vaguely.

Sango's head snapped up at this bit of information. "Who?" She questioned, her head tilted slightly to the side in curiosity.

"Do you remember that one stallion I used to have? The one that Kagome couldn't even handle at first?" He replied with a question of his own.

"I think I remember Kagome mentioning it, it was a solid black colt named High Flyer, right?"

Miroku nodded his head in conformation. "After he finally settled down to race, I retired him early because he had bowed a tendon," he started out. "Even though he had settled down enough to be handled, we still couldn't trust him to be in a field by himself or even in the barn with the other stallions. So, I shipped him to this small farm way out in the country to stand stud there."

Sango's eyes lit up as she remembered Kagome telling her about it. "I remember, now. The only people that live on that farm is an elderly woman and her grandson, right?"

The dark haired trainer nodded his head again. "Yes, Kaede Mitsumaru and Shippo Kitsune, her grandson. She has a way of dealing with troubled horses, no matter what their problems are,"

Sango shook her head and held up a hand, "Wait a minute, we don't have a troubled horse, here. The one that is having the trouble is Kagome. How can this Kaede help Kagome if she specializes in horses with problems?"

Miroku grinned once more. "Along with knowing how to deal with troubled horses, she also has a way with people." He replied.

Sango was now thoroughly confused. "What are you planning, Miroku?" The young jockey asked the trainer.

Miroku leaned on the table, both elbows planted firmly on top of it. "I think that we should send Jewel, along with Kagome, to Kaede's farm." He stated plainly.

Sango looked unsure. "I dunno, Miroku. Sending Kagome up to a place where she doesn't know anybody, and with Jewel? She won't be able to handle Jewel by herself, not now. And you or I can't go with her, either. You've got horses to train and I'm already named to ride in races for the whole next month,"

"There is one person who can go with her," Miroku replied.

Sango looked slightly shocked. "No, you can't be serious!" She exclaimed, slapping the top of the table with her hand.

Miroku nodded his head. "Yes, I am. InuYasha can go with her,"

XxXxXxXxXxXxXxX

Well, there ya have it. A small bit of drama in this chapter. What cha think? please review! Oh, and here's that small sneak preview of the next fic I'm wanting to do, let me know what you think of it:

You become a prisoner inside your own head. You can see and hear what is going on around you, but that is all. No one knows that their not actually talking to you. You can scream, cry, and beg, but the only one that will hear you is the Yeerk that now share's your brain.

The Yeerks have to leave their hosts body every three days to go back into the Yeerk Pool to feed on these special Kandrona from the Youkai home planet. If they don't feed, then the Yeerk dies from starvation.

Its scary, down in the Yeerk pool. When they drag the hosts back down to the Yeerk Pool, their screams as their few hours of freedom is about to be taken away again. But the screaming isn't what scares you the most. What scares you the most is when the screaming stop suddenly and the hosts body that was once struggling to get free suddenly goes relaxed and stops screaming, almost as if nothing at all has happened, indicating that they have, once again, become Controllers.

I know how scary it is, trust me. I've been down in the Yeerk Pool before in morph. But I'm jumping too far ahead of myself again. Let me start from the beginning, back to before we were all friends, to before we got our powers, back to before we were known as The Animorphs.

So, what do ya think? Please let me know! Ja ne, Rogue Hanyou