Bunnyasha: Hello everyone and thank you for coming back! You know, I've been wondering-

Inuyasha: Oh no…It's never a good thing when you think.

Bunnyasha: What was that? (Begins to squeeze Inuyasha's head in-between fists) Besides, (releases Inu from grip) I didn't say anything about thinking, I said I was wondering!

Inuyasha: (rubs head) Same thing!

Bunnyasha: Oh shut up and let me get on with what I was going to say!

Inuyasha: Fine, but it's going to be stupid, and then you're going to make your readers turn away single handedly! Go ahead, say it.

Bunnyasha: (glares at Inuyasha for a while)

Inuyasha: What?

Bunnyasha: Now I've forgotten what I was going to say!

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Chapter 6 "Training"

Kagome fell to the floor once again gasping for air. Her hands felt like one million pounds of weight and she struggled to stand up. The skinny priest knelt beside her. He gently put out a hand and rubbed her sweaty cheek. His actions may have been kind but an evil grin was smiling at her. "Now do you see, my dear? We know magic quite beyond your knowledge. Just give in and don't fight back." Kagome continued to breathe heavily but now her eyebrows furrowed down in hate.

She smacked his hand away. However as soon as her skin made forceful contact to his, energy funneled around her like dangerous electricity, making her scream out in pain. Both priests tutted with disappointment.

The fat one this time spoke. "We've been over this my dear. We certainly have kept no secrets from you. When wearing that necklace-"

"Collar," She interrupted angrily, the two priests smiled at each other before the fat one continued his theory.

"Yes, when wearing that collar you can not inflict any physical damage to the royal family, or anyone who wears the crest of Lord Inutashio. Has my point been sent through that silly little head of yours?" Kagome scowled at him while reaching up to her throat. She tugged at the collar around her throat but the same electrical energy wrapped around her hand, making a wound. She dropped her now bleeding hand to her side and stared back up at the duo with murderous eyes. "Oh yes! Did I forget to mention that only a royal Family Member can remove your 'collar'?"

"I think you failed to mention that one." The skinny one laughed wickedly.

"Now you, my dear, have a choice to make. You can choose the easy way to break, or you can go down hard. The choice is yours, choose wisely." The fat one was also smiling. She looked at her still bleeding hand as though she really was thinking things through. She watched as the blood slowly dripped onto the floor with a blank face. She stood up.

The marble floor underneath her began to crack where her feet were firmly placed on top of her drops of blood. Her eyes stared with hate at them as she began to utter a spell. "You want my answer? Well hear it is!" She was enveloped in the electrical energy, which was desperately trying to yield the powers she shot at the priests. But her eyes quickly widened as everything was brought to a halt and she collapsed to the floor.

She began to pant heavily as she clutched her sides in pain. The priests stood over her, but she barley noticed as she tried to get her breathing back to normal again. "She does know magic…" Aki said in disbelief. Aki stared with wide eyes as Dayu just smiled.

"I think it's time we started her training, what do you say?"

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AN: Hey guys! Um… do you think this sound like he's training a dog?

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Inuyasha walked down the hallways not really caring where he was going or whose time he was wasting by wandering about. He just let his feet move him. He had a lot to think about with this situation he was in. Kagome hated him, he pretty much cared for her as a concubine, she had a guy friend who might come and take her away, killing off his family for revenge, no doubt, plus he had his fiancé to worry about. Where was she by the way?

As though she might pop out of nowhere he glanced around the empty hallway. When she did not fall from the sky, or walk around the corner to reveal herself he shrugged his shoulders. Turning the corner though, made him stop in his tracks.

Speak of the devil! There was his fiancé! Oddly enough though, she was passed out on the floor. Inuyasha glanced at the sword in her hand and a spear lying not to far away from her. With a great speed he was suddenly by her side, checking for any injuries. He cradled her head in his gruesome clawed ones, her sword made a clank sound as it fell from her lifeless hand.

"Kikyo!" He called out to her, praying to god she wasn't dead. He checked her body from head to foot, but found no injuries whatsoever. She began to stir as he shook her shoulders. "Kikyo…?" He asked, seeing if she recognized her settings. Her eyes fluttered open, but as soon as she made eye contact with Inuyasha's intense eyes, she became bolt awake.

She sat up fast, knocking Inuyasha's arms from her shoulders. "Where is she?" Kikyo hissed, furiously glancing around the hallway. Inuyasha stared at her, puzzled. Kikyo was now standing and walking down the corridor, hands clenched in anger. Inuyasha stood and caught up to her.

"Where's who?" He asked. When Kikyo did not respond he checked her face for anger. Like always, her features were calm and collected, but her aura had a warning feel to it, as though saying "touch me and you die". "Hey! Maybe you hit your head real hard when you fell. Maybe you dreamt about a girl, and need Dr. Inuyasha to fix what ails you." He flinched as Kikyo shot him a glare from the corner of her eye. "Or not…I could have fit you in my schedule, but I guess your too busy looking for imaginary girl…" He mumbled. Kikyo picked this up. She was humored by his Dr. Inuyasha charade, but annoyed by him thinking she had been hallucinating.

"I know what I saw…" She turned to him and bore into his eyes. "Her name was Kagome, and she was trying to escape from here." Inuyasha paled, as he stopped walking altogether. Kikyo noticed this, and she too stopped walking.

"You met….Ka-…Kagome..?" He stammered as Kikyo glanced at him questioningly.

"Yes, we actually got as far as sparing with each other." Kikyo waited for Inuyasha's reaction. He quickly looked away to make sure eye contact was not possible. Two clawed fingers were brought up to his temple in frustration or maybe embarrassment.

"Inuyasha…," Kikyo eyes narrowed into slits. "You wouldn't happen to know this Kagome would you?" Inuyasha brought his hand up to his face and covered it; shortly afterward his shoulders began to shake. Was he crying? Suddenly the hall was filled with the laughter of a certain "Dog Boy". Kikyo's eyes widened in surprise, which wasn't all too often. "What is wrong with you?" Kikyo hissed. Inuyasha reached up a struggled hand and rested it on her shoulder. His laughter began to fade away as he wiped tears from his eyes and giggled of the rest of his laughter.

"I'm sorry, but-"He began to apologize but was taken over by giggles again.

'Alright…he's lost it. He's finally cracked…' Kikyo thought. She turned her head away from him. How could he laugh at her when she told all the truth? It irritated her, so she narrowed her eyes at the suit of armor that Kagome had taken the spear from. There was something strange about that girl. Kikyo pondered over the girl's indifference, there was something that was not the same, something that was almost inhuman about her.

Kikyo was startled out of her thoughts when Inuyasha grasped her hand. She turned to him with her expressionless eyes, with a slight look of questioning. He brought her hand up to his cheek, and rubbed her porcelain white skin from the back of her hand across his warm cheek. Kikyo couldn't help it. She stared deeply into his eyes with all the fondness in the world. She loved those beautiful, piercing, golden eyes that seemed to see right through her very soul. It was no wonder she had found herself in love with him. His white shining hair sent shivers down her spine when she watched it in the moonlight.

"Inuya…" But she cut off her words when he turned away from her, holding her white hand only for a few seconds more before he released it.

"I'm sorry Kikyo." He said softly. Was he apologizing for her injuries, or was he sorry he couldn't feel love for her? She clenched her fists. How had this happened? Why was she so affected now that he was in her life? How had he melted her cold heart, leaving nothing but the sweet essence of spring behind him? Making it easy for her emotions to get out of control? This had never happened to her before. She found herself smiling at things she would normally just stare at with her frozen eyes.

'No emotion.' The familiar voice echoed in her head. "You're like a shell. You feel nothing, just like a doll. You never drop the wall around you. You show as much passion as a brick. Having no emotion, showing nothing, not even caring about your past memories…wouldn't you say that person isn't a person at all?' Kikyo glanced back up at Inuyasha's back. She had changed so much since then, but Inuyasha hardly noticed that her warm smiles and softened eyes were because of him. She almost felt a wave of tears overwhelm her, but she quickly shook them away. She may have become weaker with her emotions, but she'd be damned if she let him see her cry.

"You should get some rest Kikyo." She heard Inuyasha's voice as though it was very far away. "The priests said that Kagome might have this thing around her. It made her sick, and I really don't want to see you get weak." Kikyo locked eyes with him.

"I'm fine." She said coldly, never leaving his gaze.

"I don't think so." Inuyasha began to smirk at her. "When I found you, you were unconscious and on the floor. Besides, it's getting late. I'm sure you really want to curl up with one of your books by now." Kikyo broke eye contact at him. He always used that excuse nowadays. Ever since they got into a fight and he said she cared more for her books then him.

"Fine," She said reluctantly, trying not to start a tiring fight with him. "I'll go to bed under one condition."

Inuyasha quizzically gazed at her. "What is it?"

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An: Do you guys want to know what her condition is? Well S.I.U, Suck It Up.

Inuyasha: Does that mean you don't even know what it is?

Bunnyasha: No! Now shut up you!

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"You bastards…" She hissed, still out of breath. Her struggles almost seemed worthless, but every time she was able to get back up was an improvement to her.

"Very stubborn girl, aren't you?" The fat priest tutted.

Kagome lifted her head. 'How dare he mock me!' She screamed in her head. 'Child? I'll show you who the child is. Let's play a game shall we? It's called kill the two annoying priests, and then stake their heads on spears.' She credited herself for such an expansive imagination.

"I see the wheels turning in that thick head of yours, my dear. But don't try anything funny, we are prepared." Kagome glared even deeper at him. And then the secret to working the collar struck her.

Without warning she stood up and ran to the nearest table. She watched the priests with amusement as they ran in front of the table thinking she had gotten herself cornered. But a smirk was on her lips and she slammed into the table sending it across the room towards the shocked priests. The table ran head first into the priests, knocking them backwards from the blow.

She stood in fighting stance as the priests got up and turned to face her. "You said I can't harm those with the royal family's crest, well the table isn't a person and it certainly doesn't have the family crest on it." She spat at them.

"Smart girl," The one priest commented. "Time to move to faze two. We really hoped we wouldn't have to go this far…" Dayu forcefully grabbed Kagome's wrist pulling her down to her knees. Quietly he spoke into her ear, "You wish for nothing other than your freedom, I will now take that away. From now on you will have no other choice but to serve until you die." He hissed. Kagome's eyes were now showing fear in them as she gazed into the scornful stare of the priest.

She felt a searing pain on the wrist he held in his strong grip. "No…," she said aloud struggling in his grip, suddenly the actuality of her situation dawned on her, she knew what he was doing. "No!" She yelled almost begging. 'Please not this! Not again! No! Not again!' She faintly felt the priest move his hands to her other wrist letting her see what he had left behind on her.

Her wrist was now covered with a golden shackle without it's heavy chain. But she turned it over to see the family crest of those monsters engraved into it. Then she realized it wasn't just engraved into the shackle but her flesh as well. A small gasp left her mouth. Dayu released her other wrist allowing her to slump over. She sat on her ankles cradling her wrists in her stomach, her head was shot down staring at the floor with horror.

"Raise your head." She heard the fat priest hiss. With tears streaming down her face she had no choice but to.

"What did you…what did you do to me?" She whimpered. She locked her teary eyes with his loathsome ones.

"You must do as we command. That seal on those shackles bind you to this family now. Only death or the hand of nobility can free you from them. And when I say nobility I mean one of the Taiyokai dynasty." She slumped onto her hands now clenching them into fists against the cold floor. "My theory is that anyone can be taken control of, my dear. Anyone can fall victim to servitude." She began to tune him out forgetting to listen to his words.

How could this have happened once again? Why must she be tortured this way? Why must she be kept from the things she held so dear? But then the priest said something that was picked up by her ears. "You my dear, I am sad to say this, are no more special than anyone around, you have also fallen victim. Like a horse, you have also been broken in." Anger shot throughout her.

"How dare you compare me to a fucking horse!" She hissed as she swung her hand toward his face. She smiled as he went tumbling backward from her fist. The skinny priest who was caught off guard ran toward Dayu. Kagome moved backward away from them. Who knew what other kinds of tricks the still had. The skinny priest stretched out his arm in a motion toward her to stop.

"Stop!" He yelled. Without thinking her feet stopped and her arms remained pressed to her sides. 'Fuck!' She screamed in her head.

She tried moving her mouth to see if everything had been frozen. "He deserved that." She spat now happy that everything wasn't stiff.

"I know…" The skinny priest said quietly, shocking Kagome. "He was out of line, but so are you. Where do you get your steam from? Where do you get off like that thinking that you can come against a whole palace of demons?" Kagome gritted her teeth.

"What did you just say?" She was beyond angry now. "A whole fucking palace of demons!" Aki was shocked by her reaction.

"Well all except a few staff members and you…plus me and Dayu…is there something wrong with that?"

"Of course it's a problem for them! I'll kill them all! Not a single one will escape! I hate them with all my heart! And if you side with them I won't think twice about sparing you!" She screamed.

"You honestly think that you can go up against a whole army of full bred demons? Some one manned army you are! All the prince has to command you will do. Do you think you can win with those shackles?"

"Damn you!" She hissed at a loss for words.

"Damn who?" The two stopped their exchange when they turned to see Inuyasha standing in the doorway. "Whoa… what happened in here…?" He said making a small whistling sound. Dayu regained consciousness at the sound of the whistle.

"Ah! Prince there you are!" Dayu pushed Aki away from him as her ran toward Inuyasha. "We have some tests we need you to join in." He said excitedly. Aki stared at Kagome for a while before turning and looking at Dayu.

"For what?" Inuyasha asked watching Kagome quizzically when she didn't try to attack him.

"All we need is for you to command her." Dayu said with simplicity.

"Command her? Command who?" Inuyasha said. Dayu secretly called him a blockhead.

"The girl, my lord! Tell her to do something!" Inuyasha still stared at him quizzically but then glanced at Kagome who still hadn't moved.

"You want me," He pointed at himself, "to command her?" He then pointed at Kagome. Dayu nodded his head. "Impossible!" He stated.

"Oh is it? Why don't you try?" Dayu teased.

"Hm….okay…but I still think it won't work…" Inuyasha turned to Kagome, who glared back at him. "Uh…let's see…hop on one foot." He told her. Her face was reluctant before one foot tucked under and the other began to hop up and down. Inuyasha's eyes widened with fun. "Sit down." She stopped hopping and then sat on the floor. "Stand." She stood. "Sit. Stand Sit. Stand." She glared a whole into the back of his head with her imagination. 'You bastard.' "Smile." He said smiling himself. Kagome shot him a look of desperation before a painful smile appeared on her lips. "Holy shit!" He said in amazement. "What did you do? How did you do it?" Inuyasha demanded turning to the priests.

"My lord, you really are dense." Dayu sighed as Inuyasha let out a sound of anger. "The golden shackles on her wrists, my lord."

Inuyasha turned and glanced at her wrists. Sure enough she had shackles. They reminded him of the ones Genes wore to symbolize their imprisonment. "Oh…" His eyes moved up to her still smiling face. "You can stop now." Inuyasha said. Kagome quickly stopped her smiling and ran for him.

"You bastard!" She screamed at him, she reached out for him but quickly pulled her hand away. "Shit…" She hissed. Inuyasha glanced at her hand which was now bleeding. "I didn't touch him!" She yelled.

Dayu interjected. "But you meant him harm."

"Of course I meant that bastard harm, you fucking, old piece of-"

"Silence!" Dayu ordered. Her mouth clamped shut. He had lost his cool showing his true temper directly in front of the prince. He sighed fixing himself up with a believable grin. "Thank you, your highness. You may leave now if you wish. You have now confirmed which we needed tested." Inuyasha glanced at Kagome.

"What about her?" He said pointing his finger at the frustrated girl.

"What do you wish we do with her?" Aki asked speaking over Dayu.

"Well, since she seems to be under control now, we can put her in a room."

"Excellent suggestion, sire!" Aki said.

"I'll send someone to come retrieve her then." Dayu was finally able to interject.

"Alright." Inuyasha said before he reluctantly left the room with a pestered Dayu pushing him out of the door. Dayu turned to Kagome in anger. She felt like she had a strong cloth clamped over her mouth but evidence told her otherwise. Dayu grabbed her wrist in pure anger. "You little bitch. Act like that again and you'll find your neck missing that pretty face of yours." He swiped his finger across her throat to get across the message. A gentle knock sounded on the door. "Enter!" Dayu yelled. A girl entered who Kagome quickly recognized as the crazy woman, Sango.

"I came to take lady Kagome to some proper chambers." Dayu stared at her for a while.

"That was quick, young lady." Sango glanced around.

"I bumped into Lord Inuyasha in the hallway." She said as though trying to challenge the priest.

"Take her." He demanded tossing Kagome at Sango, who quickly helped the girl up. Kagome swirled around holding out her hand at Dayu. Since she could not use words at the moment she would use actions. Sango's and Aki's eyes widened in surprise at the finger she just happened to be flipping Dayu off with. "Take her now!" He ordered.

"Yes sir." Sango said with a giggle, leading Kagome out to the hallway, shutting the door behind them quietly. Sango burst out laughing. Kagome narrowed her eyes and looked to the side of the wall. 'Yeah, whatever. Laugh you frickin head off.' "I am so sorry." Sango apologized. "It's just- I haven't seen him look like that since Inuyasha mooned him when he was five!"

Kagome raised her eyebrows in sarcasm. 'Is this supposed to interest me?'

"Well we should get you to that new room of yours before those bastards rethink letting me take you to a room." Kagome glanced at Sango. Hold up. Sango didn't like the priests either? They must have had a lot of enemies.

They walked down many hallways and up a few staircases. Until they finally made it to their destination the two were in utter silence, except for when Sango tried to pick up some conversation or she told Kagome a shortcut to a certain hallway. "Here you go." Sango said happily as she opened a large door. Kagome tried not to gap at the large furniture or very large space of the room. She glanced at the big mirror, and balcony, then at the bed that could fit ten people in it, the delicate drapes and blankets in the room and the soft, warm cushioning of the floor.

"Is their anything you need?" Sango asked. Kagome glanced over her shoulder unable to tell Sango anything. Slowly she shook her head. "alright then, I'll leave you alone. Bye Kagome- that is your name right? I'm horrible with them and I can't remember if that's what you told me." Kagome gave Sango a sad smile before nodding her head. "Yes! I mean, I'll leave you to your thoughts now." Sango shut the door quietly, but the sound felt loud against her heart.

The room was no different from the prison cell. It was still a cage to keep her in, and she now had even less freedom from when she arrived. Plus, he might be somewhere in the palace. The though sent shivers up her back. She walked over to a soft chair and sat down bringing her knees up to her chin cuddling up in a ball. Was he in the palace? But how? How had Naraku found her again?

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Bunyasha: Well gang, what do you think?

Inuyasha: As boring as ever…

Bunnyasha: No one asked you! (Shoves him into closet.) Sorry for taking to long! Gomen nesai! Gomen nesai! Without further ado, here is the review responses!

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Review Responses

younghanyoumiko: Sorry! Well heres the next chapter so tell me what you think, ne? Thanx for reviewin though!

fox-firechick120: Here you go! Hope your happy, I know I am!

inashosetai: Here you go! Sorry it took sooo looooong to update! I'm really glad you like it though! What do you think of this chapter?

Jayme: Here you go! Ya happy? Thank you so much for reviewing my storry and for the nice comments! I luv you!

C.A.M.E.O.: I'm still trying to figure out how I am going to kill off Kikyou, but no ideas have come to mind…what do you think I should do? Thanks for reviewing as well!

Jen: Trust me, Inu will get his. I'm just figuring out just how much pain I should pt him through. Glad you like the storry!

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Bunnyasha: Thank you all for your reviews! I still can't remember what I was going to say…

Inuyasha: Good!

Bunnyasha: Grrr…