A/N: Yes, this is chapter two. I don't think I'll be able to update this fast for the rest of the story, but I'll try. And I just want to say thank you to all the people that have read my story and reviewed. It really keeps the inspiration for writing up and I love to see that people like it. It makes me so happy.

Chapter Two

A Pot of Tea and a Rat

Kagome turned bright red and quickly got off of Inuyasha. He looked at her all funny as he helped her off him. Myoga was chuckling to himself watching everything take place right cross from him.

"I'm terribly sorry, sir. I slipped on something on the ground," Kagome said looking at her feet.

"Wow, I can't believe girls are so…umm… upfront with handsome guys," speaking more to Myoga than to Kagome.

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!" Kagome's face was an inch away from Inuyasha's now. "I slipped. I don't think you're handsome at all. Now what do you want to eat!"

"Talk about treating customers nicely. I've never been yelled at before, not even by my own parents. You have no right to, I'm the…" Myoga kicked Inuyasha hard in the shin, which made Inuyasha wince in pain and give him a deadly look.

"I think we just going to have some fired rice with chicken and string beans please. Thank you," replied Myoga kindly.

"Hang on one second young lady," addressing Kagome. She turned around and looked straight into his eyes. "You still haven't apologized for falling on top of me the moment you saw me."

Kagome was now at the boiling point with this young man. "Fine! Even though we all know it was an accident you can't be a little gentlemen like and just drop it. I'm…"

"What did you say? I don't think you said sorry yet."

"I'M SORRY! Happy?" Kagome screamed for the whole restaurant to here. Everyone now had stopped eating and was looking over at Kagome and Inuyasha. "This is all your fault," breathed Kagome that for only Inuyasha to hear.

Kagome quickly retreated back into the kitchen to prepare their meal. She sure wanted to stir poison into Inuyasha's fried rice, but refrained herself with all her might to not do so. However, Kagome did purposefully burn the rice and the chicken while cooking it. She just couldn't stop herself from this.

This new boy, he wasn't much older than Kagome herself, had totally made Kagome lose her temper. She never remembered getting irritated like this before. She had remember Kaede's words that she was kind and caring like her father, but right now all of that didn't seem to matter as she carried out the burnt fried rice and chicken to her customers.

"You forgot to give us tea, girl," said Inuyasha angrily just when Kagome walked out of the kitchen.

Kagome stared furiously at him for a moment before she continued walking and handed them their food. She smiled as she laid the food in front of them.

"Do you call this food?"

"Oh, yes. The cook here is just amazing," referring to herself. "I hope you enjoy your dinner tonight," she said delightfully. "I'm going to get your hot tea right now. Which kind do you want? Jasmine or herbal?" Kagome asked in her politest tone of voice.

"I'll have herbal," Inuyasha spat at her.

Kagome turned around and smiled at herself. "He won't know what's coming for him," she thought happily as she went into the kitchen for some very hot tea.

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Inuyasha picked up his chopsticks and was about to place a piece of chicken in his mouth, when Myoga took his chopsticks to pull the chicken away from Inuyasha's mouth just before he could eat it.

"Not so fast there. I have to try it first. You never know if there's poison in it." Myoga placed some chicken in his mouth. He chewed slowly and carefully.

"I guess you're right. I don't know what is wrong with that girl. She probably did put poison in this food to kill me." Inuyasha looked up to see if Myoga had died from eating her food to see that Myoga had finished more than half of the plate.

"You can't eat all of our dinner Myoga! And I thought that you said that there might be poison in it. At the rate you're eating you're going to die even quicker."

"This food is really good, your highness," responded Myoga as soon as he had the chance to swallow. Inuyasha hit Myoga hard at the mention of 'your highness.'

"You have got to stop calling me that Myoga, unless you seriously want me killed," he said threateningly.

"Sorry… Inuyasha. But the food is great you should have some. Apart from that fact that it is burnt, the cook really has a knack for cooking."

Inuyasha picked up his chopsticks again and tried the chicken with the fired rice. It did indeed taste good, really delicious actually. At least one thing went right on his first day.

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Kagome returned to the table with a pot of hot tea in her hand. "How do you like my cooking, sir?"

Inuyasha started to choke on his food. "W-what!" he managed to sputter.

"I said, 'Do you like my cooking?' " Kagome said again trying to stop herself from laughing.

Myoga had to walk behind Inuyasha and patted his back a couple of times to get him to stop choking so violently. "This stuff is disgusting," Inuyasha managed finally. He couldn't believe that is was this girl that had cooked this food. "There probably is poison in this chicken" he thought.

"It's the worst meal I have ever had in my life!" he responded more confidently.

"Then why have you almost finished the entire dish of rice and chicken? It has to be good if you were eating it that fast…"

"I was just hungry. And aren't you supposed to happy that your customers like your food?"

"I suppose I do appreciate the fact that you like my burnt fried rice and chicken." Kagome replied thoughtfully. "Here's the herbal tea you asked for."

Inuyasha reached out to grab the pot from her hand when she tipped the pot for the hot tea to pour onto his hand.

"WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO? KILL ME WHY DON'T YOU. YOU PROBABLY POISONED MY MEAL, AND NOW YOU'RE GOING TO BURN ME!" screeched Inuyasha. Kagome was laughing so hard to herself that she didn't notice Kaede coming out from the kitchens.

Inuyasha was now jumping up and down, while Myoga was trying to find water for his prince.

"What is going on, Kagome!" yelled Kaede. All the guests were looking worriedly at Inuyasha and his totally swollen, red hand. "I am so sorry, sir. Kagome," pointing at their waitress, "never has done this before. It must have been an accident. My deepest apologizes, sir. The food you ordered will be on us. You can even spend the night here as an apology for our terrible services. Now Kagome, apologize this instant to this young man."

Kagome was not laughing anymore now. She knew what she had done was wrong, but there was something about him that made her angry. "I'm ever so sorry, sir." Kagome said to Inuyasha quietly.

His hand was still in a lot of pain. Myoga had now found a wet cloth that was helping sooth it a little. Then something occurred to Inuyasha…

"No hard feelings," Inuyasha said to Kagome, "Everyone makes a slip sometime. Thank you for your offer to let me lodge here," turning to Kaede, "I would be happy to stay here for tonight. As a matter of fact, I would like to stay here for the whole week, under the care of this girl here," Inuyasha said pointing to Kagome.

Kagome stared at him astonishedly. She couldn't believe that he would want to live here for a week and under her care!

"Why, it would be our pleasure to have you as our guest here. Isn't that right Kagome?"

"Umm…" Kagome was at a lost for words. "Yes."

"I am going to get this girl back big time," thought Inuyasha silently.

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"Right this way, gentlemen," Kagome said as she led them to their room on the second floor. Their room was the biggest and the most expensive out of all the other ones. Even though it was the best one, it still was nothing like Inuyasha's room in the palace. Kagome opened their door and handed Inuyasha the keys.

"I hope you enjoy your stay here," she said monotonously and turned to leave.

"Wait, girl, not so fast," Inuyasha said as he took one look inside the room.

"You have got to stop calling me girl," Kagome shot back, "My name is Kagome."

"Okay, Kagome, you said that this was the nicest room here. But it is totally unkempt. There are no sheets on the bed, and when where is the bathroom? What about a drawer for my clothes?"

"Where did you used to live?" Kagome eyed him suspiciously. "First of all, you will just have to sleep with warm clothes on or get your own sheets. Secondly, if you need to go during the night, you can always go into this pot underneath your bed. And lastly, how much clothes do you have to need drawers?"

Inuyasha caught himself for believing this was the palace. Of course not everyone had a hundred pairs of pants like him. But it was kind of gross to have to pee in a pot…

"Hello? Sir? Is this going to be okay? I don't have all day with you here. I still have to clean the kitchen tonight."

"I guess, I'll be able to survive," he replied sarcastically, "But you agreed that you are going to take care of me for the rest of the week, didn't you? So I would like some tea please."

"You still want tea after what happened?"

"What was this guy thinking?" thought Kagome.

"I didn't get to drink any during my meal because you accidentally spilt it on me."

"Would you like herbal or jasmine then?" she asked sweetly.

"Herbal."

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Myoga had gone back to the carriage and retrieved some of their belongings for the night.

"I can't believe this is where I'm spending by first night away from home at," Inuyasha told Myoga, who was trying to make the Inuyasha's room look more pleasant.

"Did you not want to stay here in the first place? Better yet, you asked to stay for an entire week."

"Shut your trap. I'm only staying here to get that girl back for what she did." He looked down at his still very red hand.

"You like her don't you? She fairly pretty, your highness."

"INUYASHA! And where did you get the idea that I liked her?"

"Sorry… Inuyasha. But, the girl is pretty. Beautiful, I might add. She's fair and has the most gorgeous eyes I ever seen."

"I hate the girl. How am I ever going to get her back," he muttered to himself, ignoring what Myoga just said.

Knock knock!

"Come in. You don't have to break the door down."

Kagome came in. Once again there was a hot pot of tea in her hand.

"Here's your tea, sir." Kagome wasn't going to pour it on him this time. Once had gotten her into enough trouble.

Kagome carefully poured the tea into Inuyasha's cup.

"So I see you are able to pour a cup of tea."

"Get over that, will you? You know you're the one that started it. So grow up and be a man." Kagome shot back.

"I didn't spill boiling tea on…"

"INUYASHA! A RAT!" Myoga yelled as he came running towards them. Following him was a big rat with a long hairless tail.

"Ahhh!" screamed Kagome wildly as she jumped up on the table spilling the tea at the first sight of the rat.

Inuyasha got up and caught the mouse by its tail before it could run out of the room and daggled it in front of Kagome just to get her even more terrified.

"Get that… thing away from… me!" She had now backed up to the other side of the table and was only inches away from falling off. Seeing this, he carelessly threw the rat out of the window and into the streets below.

"You can get off the table now, the rat is gone." Inuyasha said with a yawn turning to see Kagome slowly getting off of the table. "I can't believe there are rats here. It shows how clean this place is."

"And you couldn't tell that I didn't like rats, so you swung it in front of my face, huh?"

"What comes around, goes around." He held up his hand to remind her. "And forget about bringing me another pot of tea. It just wasn't meant for me to have some."

The pot of tea and tea cup was now on the floor. "I'll clean it up," offered Myoga.

"Have a good night's rest." Kagome managed angrily and headed for the door to leave.

"I hope you do too." He smirked.

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As soon as Kagome left, Inuyasha latched the door and told his servant to stop cleaning up the mess. "Myoga, I want you to find me a rat."

"What? Why?"

"Don't ask questions. Just find me a rat and give it to me."

Myoga was also terrified of rats, but he slowly obeyed Inuyasha and headed outside to catch a rat. He had been roaming the streets without any luck for about a half an hour, until he saw finally one scurrying through some trash. Myoga leaped on top of it and caught it by the tail. "Ewww… What does he want with a rat?"

His hand was out stretched as he held the rat that was trying with all it's might to escape. He hurried back to their room to give the rodent to his master.

"There you are, Myoga." Inuyasha reached for the rat instantly and hurried out of the room.

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Kagome was at last done cleaning the kitchen and the tables. She walked drearily up the stairs to her bedroom, ready to take a warm bath before going to bed.

"It's been a long day and it's going to be even a longer week," thinking about having to serve Inuyasha just disgusted her.

She came to her room on the far side of the house and let out an ear piercing scream just as she opened the door.

A/N: You should know why she screamed. I'll update soon. Keep reading!