A/N: Yea, I know. Where the F*** have I been, right? Life totally filled me with drama. It's okay cause now my life is a little more manageable. Okay, enough about me. Let the adventure continue!

I'd like to dedicate this chapter to our bullshit economy for refusing to give me a job. :D

Present Day….

Kagome sat in a dimly lit cave carving up her dinner. The snow was gently falling down on the barren earth. 'She couldn't have been a flower witch or something?' Kagome was aggravated with her training lately. It seemed like she hasn't gotten anywhere. She removed the innards from her rabbit and threw them outside her cave with frustration.

"I have been here for so long and I don't know anything!" she sobbed. 'Stupid training. Stupid Ophiuchus. I want to go home.' Kagome walked back inside and put her rabbit on a stick. She began turning her meal over the flame. Suddenly, a cold wind burst into the cave and blew out the fire, trapping her in cold darkness. Kagome sighed. 'Great.'

"If you'd put that attitude into your training, you wouldn't be so irritable." Ophiuchus stood at the entrance of the cave with a glare. Kagome glared back. "I do try! My body is the problem. I can't even hold a simple energy ball!" Kagome stretched out her hand and concentrated.

Slowly, pink spiritual energy flowed from the center of her body, up to her shoulders, and then down her arm. A pale pink ball begin to form in the middle of her hand. "This is all I can manage. I can't even throw it at your stupid head! Agh!" Kagome threw her arm towards Ophiuchus. The energy ball disappeared into thin air right before it hit Ophiuchus' face. She stared bored.

"If that was your idea of a joke, I'm not amused." Ophiuchus walked inside and looked down at her. Kagome was flabbergasted. "Are you kidding me?!" "I do not kid." Kagome gave a look of hopelessness and sighed. "Just leave me alone. I'll go meditate later or something." She got up and walked away to the entrance. "Why do you give up so easily?" Ophiuchus demanded.

"I'm not." Kagome said with an attitude. " I just said I was going to meditate. Can't I even do that correctly?"

"Meditating? Hmph. There is nothing wrong with your spirit." Ophiuchus formed a chair made of ice and sat. "You just refuse to look inside your heart. You weep and spew words of bitter resentment. You depend on those so called friends of yours for friendship and love. I am not the cause of your pain. You just fail to realize that you do not need others and that others can do nothing for you unless you yourself are happy. "

"Says the person I saw weeping in the forest that morning."

Kagome threw her body to the side as a huge axe formed of ice came flying toward her. "Have care how you speak to me. I am still your master. " Ophiuchus glared. "I am only trying to help you become who you were meant to be; Not the jest of your camaraderie." She stood up and the ice chair sank back into the earth. "My reasons are of my own business!"

Ophiuchus' face softened. "I am only trying to help you. No one should control your emotions. You should be happy for you. You have got to stop giving so much of yourself without getting the same respect in return." Kagome stayed crouched against the wall, listening to her intently. 'I don't know how to let go!'

"What can I do? I don't know how to release all of this anger and frustration!" Kagome stood up. "I can't reach deep into a heart that's black with doubt and rage!" Walking towards Ophiuchus her eyes began to turn black but with hints of pink trying to burst out. "I can't for a second believe that being that selfish is supposed to help me! What do you take me for?"

"Kagome you need to calm down. Your eyes are turning."

"What? What are you talking about? Don't try to change the subject!"

"You fool! Look at your eyes!" Ophiuchus then slammed her hand against the cave wall. Clear crystal ice began stretch outward from her hand until it covered the cave wall. Kagome turned and gasped. The black essence seeped from her eyes and tried to surround her body but the pink energy from her heart was trying to fight it back.

"Are you this disillusioned of love?! Look what your thoughts have done to you!" 'No! This can't be happening to me!' Kagome began to tear up. "I suggest you pull it together, because I refuse to let you back into the world a miserable beast!" Ophiuchus vanished leaving bits of icicles behind. Kagome fell to the ground and sobbed.