Disclaimers: I do not own Inuyasha!…….yet….

Circus Dog

Chapter 6. Powers?

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'Why the hell do I have to have such a hard life? I knew I shouldn't have trusted Naraku.. He said he'd make me a star. Keh, jackass took away my life and made me do everything he wanted me to do. He was also the one who got rid of my clothing after he turned me into a dog, making me wear hideous striped clothing.' The dog mentally grumbled nuzzling himself deeper into Kagome's lap.

They were still sitting on the couch together and watching movies with her friends. They were currently on their third movie, Escaflowne the movie. He had to admit, this one was way better then the other ones. This had more fighting and violence plus a lot of bad words.

This movie also allowed him to remember how his life used to be. He had possessed the power Tetsusaiga once and used it to slay a hundred demons in one stroke. Yep, probably collecting dust as we speak in a fancy old museum. Maybe he should go see Sesshoumaru about this. Yeah, that wouldn't be such a bad idea. He might know how to put s top to this madness.

"Van is one hot boy." Kagome giggled, stars forming in her eyes. "I love his wings."

"Me too, he is very handsome and probably wouldn't even think of groping any girls." Sango spoke.

'Van? Keh, he ain't so cool. Who cares if he has wings! I'm a half demon, I've got better qualities! Like my ears!' Inuyasha mentally countered.

"Sango must you be so harsh? I'm wounded!" Miroku cried placing a hand over his heart.

"Can it 'Roku, I'm trying to watch the sexy boy save Hitomi." Sango replied totally mesmerized by the movie.

"Oh! And there he goes, spreading his wings!" Kagome giggled, "He's saving her, he's saving her!" She clapped feeling really giggly and happy. "He loves her! I know he does!"

Sango nodded, "He must! Those two are just meant for each other!"

Miroku sighed, "Could you two lovely ladies stop speaking of such things around me? I don't like hearing girls talk about boys around me except of course if you are talking about me—" He blinked earning two deadly glares from the girls and a very angry looking dog. "—and I'll just shut up now.."

'Girls are really weird..' Inuyasha thought.

.:.:.:. After the movie.:.:.:.

"Well, I think it's time to hit the sack." Miroku stretched, "So Sango my dear, will you be accompanying me to bed?"

"Just for that, you get to sleep in my little brothers room in his tiny plastic race car bed." Kagome told him, "Sango you can sleep in my mom's room in the king sized bed, ok?"

Sango nodded, "Thank you Kagome."

Miroku whimpered, "Why do I get the race car bed?"

"Because you were being perverted at night. Which is far worse than during the day." Sango replied. "Well goodnight to you all." She said and took off towards the stairs.

"'Night." Kagome replied, "Now you should go to bed too Miroku, no porn watching for you!" Kagome scolded.

"But I'll be quiet!" Miroku replied.

"Get to bed bouzo, before I have to sick Tama on you." She warned.

"Ack, I'm going!" Miroku jumped off of the chair and dashed for the stairs immediately.

"Well that took care of him." Kagome smiled, "Now c'mon Inuyasha, you have to get up so I can turn all the lights off." She told him. He had grudgingly gotten off the girl and let her move to turn out the lights.

Once all the lights were out she and Inuyasha had walked up the stairs together to go to her room. Before they had gone in though, she had stopped by the closet to pick up the abandoned red clothing to bring with her. She was going to be prepared this time if he were to transform.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome whispered entering her room, "I'm going to go change into my pajama's, you can make yourself comfortable on my bed until I get back."

'Whatever.' He thought leaping up onto the girls bed. 'It's not like I have any better things to do..' He had sprawled out onto the bed letting out a sigh, his wounds were stinging and the bandages were pretty much off. 'When I'm healed I need to get out of here, otherwise Naraku will come after the girl.'

"I'm back," The girl whispered re-entering the room and closing the door. She had placed her dirty clothes in her laundry basket and walked over to her bed. She raised a brow and placed her hands on her hips glancing at the pup, "You so aren't going to take up the whole bed mister. I said you could stay on here with me, not without me." She whispered.

'Do I hafta move?' Inuyasha thought letting out a groaning response.

"Yes, you have to mo—" She glanced down at the dogs stomach, "Inuyasha, I had completely forgotten about your wounds. Let me see them." Kagome whispered.

The dog let out another groaning noise before rolling over on it's back. 'So, what does it look like woman?'

"Hm," Kagome giggled, "Sorry I can't see. I should turn on the lights, ne?" She walked over to her light and switched it on. "Now, let me see." She marched over to the side of the bed sitting down on the ledge, "Ok, so you're mostly healed up I think." She peeled off the old bandages to take a better look.

"Oh no."

'What?'

"Looks, like you have a bit of an infection." Kagome mumbled mostly to herself. "I'll be back, I need to get the first aid kit again."

'Oh great, just dandy. I have an infected injury that stinging like a bitch..'

"I'm back, now you have to stay still while I apply the rub on alcohol. I would give you some medication so ease any of the pain you're feeling, but I don't think I should give a dog some drugs." She told him.

'No shit.'

"You just gave me that look again. Lemme guess, 'No shit Sherlock'?" She smiled rubbing the damp cotton ball over the slightly healed gash.

Inuyasha let out a yelp of pain as she proceeded.

"Shh! Don't cry like that. The others might hear you. Stay calm Inuyasha I'm almost done, then we can go to sleep."

'Easy for you to say.'

She bandaged him up quietly and placed everything else back on her desk. "Ok, now we can go to sleep." She yawned stretching her arms upwards.

'Yay.' Inuyasha thought with absolutely no enthusiastic.

"Shove over buddy." She urged him. He had obeyed and let her get in. Once she was comfortable, he had moved a b it closer for warmth purposes of course.

'Yeah, just to keep her warm.'

"Inuyasha." Kagome mumbled opening her eyes to look at him, "What are we going to do? I want you to be like yourself again, but I don't know how to do that. I don't know what's making you like this!'

'You're actually willing to help me?'

"I want to help. I saw you transform from a half demon into a dog. The way you shrieked.. It just sounded like you were in so much pain. I don't want it to continue to happen to you. I—I w-want you to be ok again."

'She's.. No she can't be! Sh-she's crying for me.'

She sniffled smiling lightly, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be crying like this, let's go to sleep. Good night." She said and kissed him lightly on his cold nose.

'Whoa, so how long have I known this girl?'

.:.:.:.:. Morning .:.:.:.

"Bye guys! I hope you had fun!" Kagome shouted, waving goodbye to her friends.

"Bye Kago! Thanks for everything!" Sango shouted back from the shrine stairs.

Miroku grinned using this as his chance, "Yes, see you at work!" He shouted back his hand moving slowly towards Sango's behind.

…Rubb Rubb….

"HENTAI!"

!SMACK!

Kagome sighed from the door, "He seriously doesn't learn. He's such a pervert. Why is he my best friend again?" She giggled lightly closing the door behind her. "Oh right, because he beat up two mean guys for me back in grade two." She nodded, "Then Sango beat up a bunch of guys who were picking on me in grade six. Man oh man, you don't want to mess with Sango."

Kagome strolled over into the kitchen opening the cupboards bellow the kitchen sink. "Come to think of it, I always got picked on when I was little…" She snatched a bottle of Windex and a rag.

'You got picked on when you were a kid? I never would have thought.. Feh.' Inuyasha padded into the kitchen after her and sat on the floor with his tongue sticking out to the side.

"Yep, those were the awful days. Now, I have to do my chores. So, clean all the windows first," She noted, "Then do the laundry, vacuum the house and clean the floors."

'Good luck doing that, girl.'

"Hey! Inuyasha, I bet you could help me." Kagome smiled.

'…How?'

She grinned evilly down at the Samoieda dog. Within two minutes, Kagome had strapped on a damp cloth on his two front paws. "Now, could you please just start washing the kitchen floors for me while I start up on cleaning the windows?"

'Not like you gave me much of a choice woman! I can't exactly untie these damn things!' Inuyasha growled at her.

"Thanks a bunch!" She grabbed her bottle of Windex and rag to begin with her chores.

.:.:.:.:. Three hours later .:.:.:.

'Oh gods, no more! Please no more!' Inuyasha whimpered as he slumped down into the carpeted room.

Kagome groaned as she sat on the couch, "This feels gooooood. No more cleaning. Not ever again! And I still haven't even finished the laundry. Inuyasha, what do ya say? How bout some lunch?"

'In my clean kitchen!' He growled.

"Huh? Are you not hungry? Or maybe I should just get some take out. Oh! How about we go for a walk? It's nice out and your wounds seem to be healed up nicely. I could buy us some ice cream!" She smiled.

'Mmmmm something cold eh? Alright, I'm in.' He barked standing up and wagging his tail happily.

"Alright! Only thing is, is that I have no leash. So you have to stay near me, ok?"

'Yeah yeah.'

Kagome jumped off of the couch and walked towards the front door to grab her things. After locking up the house, they had taken off onto the sidewalk and towards the park. She was sure that someone was bound to sell ice cream at the park.

Once they had arrived, Kagome had bought a vanilla ice cream cone for herself and a vanilla ice cream bowl for Inuyasha. "This way, the ice cream wont appear on your fur if you make a mess." She smiled, "Oh, and I didn't know if you'd be able to handle chocolate ice cream."

'Keh, I like vanilla, it's ok.' Inuyasha mentally replied as he continued to lick his treat.

Kagome giggled watching his devour his cold treat next to her. They sat under a tree together just enjoying the weather and each other's company. And idea had suddenly come to mind, "Inuyasha? How about we go find your brother after this? I think I know where his corporation thingy is."

'That bastard? Why? I don't need his help idiot! I'm fine!' Inuyasha growled.

"We do need his help. If he is a full dog demon, then he might be able to understand you and help you. He is probably more useful than me. I can't even keep you in your real form for very long. I'm sure that he could probably put up a barrier or something.."

'Naraku hasn't found me yet! So you have been protecting me! And you've been taking care of me!'

Kagome sighed, "Fine, we won't go. Anyways, I shouldn't be making plans when I know I've got to work. So, let's head back home. I need to get into some more presentable clothes and get to work by two o'clock."

'What! But you're exhausted! You just cleaned your damn whole house woman!' Inuyasha mentally shouted barking away at the girl.

"Inuyasha, calm down! I have to go to work!"

'Oh no you don't!'

"Yes I do!"

'No you don't! Just take the day off!'

"No!"

'Do it wench!'

"Hey! Who are you calling a wench!"

'You! Hey wait… you heard that?'

Kagome blinked staring at Inuyasha, "Uhh… did you just talk? Or am I hearing things?"

'I can't talk idiot. I'm mentally yelling at you!'

"Then I guess I can hear you. Strange, maybe it's because I'm hanging around you too much."

'Is that suppose to be a bad thing bitch?'

"Hey! Watch your mouth buddy!" Kagome scowled. 'Great, I'm talking to a dog in public.' "Now listen, if it will keep you quiet, then I'll take today off. But tomorrow I'm going to work, got it?"

'Feh.'

"Good, now let's go home." She announced walked out of the park, Inuyasha following close behind. Of course, while they were walking out of the park they didn't fail to notice that a lot of people were staring at her strangely.

'Yep all in a days work…' Kagome sighed, 'I'm never gunna be able to show my face in public ever again!'

'What's she sighing about?' Inuyasha stared up at her.

"People think I'm weird for talking to you, that's what.."

'Oh.'

Kagome walked slowly up her shrine stairs sighing lightly again, 'oh man, why me?'

Inuyasha walked beside grunting, 'Hey, it ain't all bad.' He had stopped suddenly sniffing the air with his black nose cautiously. 'Hey, I smell something..'

"What do you smell?" Kagome asked curiously.

'A demon!' He barked running up the shrine steps quickly, 'Stay there woman, I don't need you getting in my way!'

"Hey! It's my shrine!" Kagome shouted running up the steps.

She had let out a loud screech once she had reached the top. Her shrine was crawling with scorpion demons. Mostly all of them tiny… but then they had noticed Inuyasha and her presence.. Not a very good thing. They had all crawled together to form a very large scorpion demon that had looked mighty hungry..

"Oh my god.." She sputtered.

'I told you stay back but did ya listen? Nooooo'

"Sh-shut up Inuyasha! Now is not the time!" Kagome countered. She had turned her full attention onto the scorpion now. She let out a yelp as it came crawling towards her shooting out poison from its tail. Having a scorpion demon the size of a four story house crawling around and spouting out poison really wasn't on her agenda today..

'Get out of the way!'

"You don't have to tell me twice!" Kagome yelled as she dashed off towards the direction of the shrine.

'You're mine bug…' Inuyasha mentally snarled at the scorpion as he bared his unusually large fangs. 'No way in hell am I going to let you hurt the girl.' He had barked charging full force towards the youkai.

The youkai just let out a roar of anger and spat out poison acid constantly at Inuyasha's leaping dog form.

With a snarl, Inuyasha had leapt onto one of the pincers of the scorpion and began to use his claws to swipe at it. 'Iron reaver soul stealer!' He barked as yellow blades shot out from his tiny claws.

Kagome had hurled herself into a tiny piece of the shrine, which seemed to resemble an ancient armory. It held old rusted weapons such as katana's, daggers and bows with quivers filled with arrows. "Hey! That might work!" She told herself as she groped for the old tattered bow and a quiver. 'I'm not a master at archery so I'll have to try and keep my target simple… though it can't get anymore simple than this! That thing it as big as a building!' She thought.

The girl had slung the quiver over her right shoulder and walked steadily out of the tiny room back in the line of vision of the youkai. She gasped as she saw Inuyasha get flung off of the youkai, much like a rag doll, and get scratched by its long sharp tail. "Inuyasha!" She shouted.

Inuyasha's groaned in his dog form letting out tiny pants. 'This really isn't my day..' He thought as he stood up from his position on the cement. "Inuyasha!" He had heard the girl call out to him. Her voice echoed in his mind as he tried to remember who—'Kagome! Damn it girl! Get away!' His golden eyes widened as he noticed the demon turning it attention to her. 'Shit!'

"O-oh boy.." Kagome swallowed nervously, "Now would be a great time to draw out an arrow.." She told herself.

Nope, scratch that. It was way too late to be drawing out an arrow now since those pincers were already coming dangerously close to her head!

'Blades of blood!' Inuyasha once again mentally shouted as now red blades shot towards the pincers, shattering them off with ease. Once he had launched his attack, he didn't bother to wait to get the girl to safety. He was a fairly big dog so—'Get on unless you want to stick around to die!'—You get the point. Kagome had climbed on and they both had gotten out of that tight little spot in the nick of time.

'Can you use those arrows?'

"Use—wah..?" Kagome blurted still a bit in shock.

'Look can you shoot those arrows, or not!'

"O-oh! Y-yes! I can try!" Kagome replied, finally snapping out of her daze.

'Alright, I think the weak spot is at the top of his tail, can you reach it?'

"I can certainly try!" Kagome said as she with drew an arrow, "Keep steady!"

Inuyasha nodded his furry head and dashed head on towards the scorpion, 'We've only got one shot, so do it!'

'We're getting close..' She thought. "Ok!" She notched her arrow into place, keeping her arrow steady. "Hit the mark!" She mumbled to herself as she let it fly towards the scorpion. The arrow had surprisingly began to grow a bright pink colour that was so blinding, Kagome had to shield her eyes from it.

The youkai roared as the arrow struck through its tail.

"Oh my—how the heck did it do that!" Kagome screeched.

Inuyasha halted his steps and began to back up. 'Th-That arrow.. It was..'

Kagome watched in utter disbelief as the scorpion began to actually disintegrate from its tail and down. "H-how did I do that?"

Once the scorpion was completely disintegrated, Kagome had slowly crawled off of Inuyasha to stare at the damage control she had to do for the shrine. Well all in all, it wasn't so bad except for the very large pot holes here and there..

"Oh man, how am I going to fix this?" She groaned.

Inuyasha was still just staring into the empty space where the youkai once stood. 'Hey girl?' He growled.

"Huh? What?" She asked turning her attention to the dog.

'You never told me you had spiritual powers! You're a damn priestess!'

"Priestess? Well so—rry but I didn't even know that myself!" Kagome shot back.

'You should have known! Damn it! I should have known! No wonder Naraku can't find me!' He thought.

"What do you mean?"

'Listen girl, Naraku has this special little trinket that allows him to transform me into whatever forms he likes. He can also use it to find me. All he has to do is ask it, and it has no choice but to show him.'

"Kinda like a magic lamp with a Genie?" Kagome asked.

'A little I guess.. But instead of that, there a spirit of a priestess trapped inside. He uses her to get his kicks outta me.'

"Oh.. So what does this have to do with me?" She asked.

Inuyasha sweatdropped, 'Everything baka!'

"Hey don't call me a baka you baka! I had just killed this humongous thing! The least you can do is say 'good job Kagome'"

'Keh. What—' He growled biting down a painful groan, 'D-damn..'

"Huh? What's the matter? You ok?" Kagome asked crouching down next to him.

'Of course I'm not—ow!'

Kagome gasped as he turned his furry body around to reveal a thin but long scratch go from his front right paw down his side. "You idiot! How long didja think you could hide this one? How could I have forgotten! You got injured! And you let me ride on your back!"

'You weren't heavy.. I still have some of my demon abilities..'

"But still! Come on, can you walk?"

'Of course I can, bitch! Leave me alone!' Inuyasha mentally shot.

"What did you--!" Kagome narrowed her eyes dangerously, "Call me that one more time, and I won't hesitate to purify your sorry furry butt. Got it?"

'Y -yeah..?'

"Good! Now inside!"

'Sure sure, whatever…wench.'

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A/N ALL DONE! Nice chappy eh? I liked it. and I've got plans for da next one! Yup yup! And ya know, I was this close to adding Sesshy in but then I didn't. lol R&R

Inu: Ya well, who needs that guy? I don't! he's an ass..

Kag: No! he can be a real gentleman. Like that one time when he took me out on a date we--

Inu: He what!

Kag: Took. Me. Out. On. A. Date.?

Inu: When!

Kag: when you weren't looking.. anyways he had pulled the seat out for me and then pushed it back in when I sat down. He had beat the living crap out of one of the waiters for whistling at me AND he paid for all the meals and the movie tickets. He wasn't cheap!

Inu: -growls-

Kag: Though, out of everyone I've dated so far, I think the best date I've been on was with Van –sighs-

Inu: WHAT! VAN! The hell! The idiot from the movie?

Kag: Not only is he movie star, but damn… he actually has wings! He took me flying-- -notices angry glares- You know I'm just kidding with all this, right?

Inu: K-keh! Of course I knew that!

Me: R&R …..idiot….