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Chapter 86

"I taught her that."

"What the fuck Kagome!? I couldn't smell her! I thought she was taken or something! Why the hell were you teaching her barriers!? She's fucking four!"

"Well you're teaching her sisters about swords, why can't I teach her how to harness her powers too!?"

"Because I can't smell her! Because if she does that, I can't find her! Hell, you probably couldn't find her!"

"You're overreacting. Aren't you the one saying they need some way to protect themselves!?"

"She's human! People aren't going to be hunting her!"

"Humans maybe but what about demons?! She still smells like us! It wouldn't take a genius to figure out who she belongs to!"

Damn, okay. She's got me there. Still though….

"Still she's fucking four! It's dangerous!"

"Oh please, the twins were four when you started training them with a sword!"

"Baby steps, Kagome! Baby fucking steps! A barrier that can hide her scent?! She's too young to know when to use it! She used it playing hide and seek! What would've happened if I hadn't been the one to find her!?"

"But you did find her."

"What if I hadn't!?"

"It's a barrier, Inuyasha. That is a baby step. I'm not teaching her how to shoot an arrow or purify anybody. A barrier is a baby step."

"Well she's too good at it!"

"Good. Then she's able to protect herself."

"And hide from us!"

"Okay, she shouldn't have done that and she needs to learn not to hide from us. I'm going to keep training her though. She needs to learn just as much as her sisters."

ARGH! You can't just…

"No! No more training until she's old enough."

"I'm sorry but no. If she's going to live in this world, she needs to learn what it'll take to survive."

"Not this young. Iif you can't see that, maybe she needs to live in your era."

"Oh, so it's my era now?! And no! I'm not sending her away!"

"Stop. Training. Her. She doesn't need to learn anything! She's just a fucking human! She's not like the others! And I'll admit she's fucking weak, so…."

Oh. Oh god no.

Please tell me she didn't hear that….

"Wait, Moriko. Daddy didn't mean it. No! Come back! Moriko!"

Oh god. What have I done?