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Chapter Six: Come

Kagome was making breakfast, while Itachi and Kisame were waiting patiently for it to cook. Well, Itachi was waiting patiently; Kisame was throwing a fit.

"Is it done yet?" Kisame asked, for the third time in five minutes, over Kagome's shoulder.

Kagome answered "No," and continued cooking. Traveling with Inuyasha had made her almost immune to the whining of guys.

As soon as breakfast was done cooking, Kisame grabbed his plate, and started eating like he hadn't seen food in a week. If Kagome wasn't so used to that manner of cooling, she might have been disgusted with the display. But, once again, after traveling with Inuyasha, she could dismiss any lack of manners.

Itachi ate his breakfast like a noble might, and Kagome couldn't help but wonder what type of family he had come from. His manners were as good as Sesshomaru's. When she really thought about it, Itachi did act like he was born of a high clan. That was one of the reasons that Sesshomaru always acted like everyone else was just insignificant dirt that wasn't worthy the air they breathed. It was almost scary how similar Itachi and Sesshomaru where.

When Kagome and Kisame had finished eating, Kagome went down to the creek, and washed the pan she had used. Coming back, she packed up all her things and was ready to go. But as much as she wanted to, she couldn't shake the feeling of dread that something bad was about to happen.

She had woke up with the feeling, too. As soon as she saw Itachi was back to his normal non-emotional self, she had the creeping feeling that some life-changing and very, very bad thing was going to happen to her very soon.

Kisame and Kagome waited for Itachi to stand up, showing he was ready to go, after he was done eating breakfast. He seemed to be taking his time this morning in everything he did. Kagome and Kisame had been packed and ready to go for twenty minutes when, finally, Itachi stood up … but didn't move.

"Hey, are you all right, Itachi?" Kagome asked, a bit concerned. Maybe Itachi didn't use the blanket, and was getting sick? She had found it folded up on top of her bag.

Itachi looked Kagome straight in the eye. There was no emotion on his face, but Kagome could have sworn there was a spark of determination and amusement in his eyes. And she got the feeling that it had something to do with her feeling of dread.

"Kagome," Itachi started.

Kagome didn't like the tone of voice he used. It sounded like there was nothing that she could do to oppose the next thing to come out of his mouth. It sounded like when she and Sesshomaru first met, and he had tried to kill her. It wasn't that great of an experience, really. Not one she wished to repeat.

"From now on, you will obey everything I tell you. I am not asking you this, I am commanding this. And every time you try and disobey, I will be forced to punish you. You no longer have any say in what you do, and are to ask me before you decided on something. Am I clear?" Itachi demanded.

"You really went about that the wrong way," Bob told him, clearly very worried.

'Hn. She has accept it as her fate. I may not even need to do what you told me. She knows her place now,' Itachi said confidently. Why wouldn't he be confident? He was Itachi Uchiha. All girls obeyed him; it was like some unwritten law that no one saw but always obeyed.

Kagome's bangs hide her face from view. Itachi took this as a 'yes' and started walking. He barely avoided the dark blue orb that flew at where he would have been, obliterating the next ten trees in front of him. Something told him she hadn't accepted her fate.

"Like Heck I will," Kagome said in a deathly cold voice, shocking Itachi out of his mental conversation. "You expect me to just roll over and obey every little thing you say like a good little dog?" she spat. "Well news flash for you, pretty boy, I'm no-one's dog!" Kagome raised her head. You could see the fire burning in her eyes, turning them a deep, almost black, blue. "I'm sick and tired of people claiming me without my consent!" She threw another blast of blue power. Itachi dodged it, and glared at her.

"You will stop this nonsense at once," he stated in a deadly voice that held warning in it. This just seemed to raise her temper to a whole new level.

"Oh, you've really done it now! She won't let this go very easily."

'Hn. She will learn her place.'

"Who are you to order me what to do?! I don't have to listen to a single word you say! I could have killed you as soon as I found demon blood in your bloodstream! With a touch of my fingers, I can kill you from the inside out!" Kagome started to put miko power heavily into her hands. "Then, if it didn't kill you outright, I could heal you enough to do it again!" Kagome's miko power started spreading, until her body looked like it had blue flames engulfing it. Her eyes had a wild look.

She was like an animal that would never be tamed. Itachi had just tried to place that wild animal in a cage without so much as a muzzle, and now he was going to pay the consequences.

Kagome started focusing the wild blue flame into her palms, and Itachi felt the hair on the back of his neck stand on end. Kisame was already a mile away. The pure aura was too much for him. He had heard what Itachi said, and just knew that this was going to turn out bad. Most likely one of them was going to die. And regardless of what he knew Itachi could do, he had a feeling that Itachi wasn't going to come out of this unharmed.

Kagome was long past ticked; she was all out pissed off now! How dare he tell her that she had to obey his every whim! She started rapidly throwing the blue fireballs at him. It didn't matter if she hit him - at the moment, she needed to let out her anger. And if it hit him, great! If not, then this place would make a great clearing for the next travelers.

Itachi was starting to have a hard time avoiding the blue flames. When one even so much as scraped his cloak, the part it touched would be nothing but charcoal. There were hardly any trees left within a mile radius. But he wouldn't take what he said back. His pride was at stake. If he took it back, it was like she won at challenging him. And that just wouldn't do.

"I'm not your property!" he heard Kagome scream at him. Fine, he would make her his property. She now belonged to him. He would let her know it, too. And once something belonged to an Uchiha, they never gave it up. Now that he really thought about it, she had belonged to him the moment he had saved her life.

Itachi knew, somewhere in the back of his mind, that what he was thinking was extremely childish, but at the moment he didn't care. He had made his mind up, and decided that Kagome now belonged to him. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

Itachi made three shadow clones of himself, and charged at Kagome.

As Kagome saw him do the same thing that the bandits had with their hands, she knew he was making the clones. As soon as they were within a ten foot radius of her, she expanded her powers into an orb over her, and shot it out, purifying the clones.

Itachi took this into note as he pulled out three kunai. Throwing them at her with deadly precision, he waited to see what she would do.

Kagome saw the knives coming at her, quickly changed her power to a deep purple color, and slashed the air in front of her. The purple disk she had thrown cut through the kunai, and kept going to Itachi.

Itachi barely had enough time to get out of his shock and jump out of the way. Not a second later, he was still grazed on the arm from not jumping soon enough. He looked over, to see the disk heading back like a boomerang. Jumping out of the way again, Itachi waited to see what Kagome would do now it was coming back at her.

Kagome smirked when she saw Itachi get the scratch on his arm.

When the disk came back at her, she caught it with one hand, and absorbed it back into her power stash, a technique she had learned from Miroku. He had told her how holy people could borrow power from nature, and add it to their power stash when they were low. She had asked if she could reuse her miko energy in a similar way, and have it return to her. Sango had made her a miniature boomerang bone to practice using, before switching to her miko energy at a low level. It had hurt like heck when she had first tried to catch her energy after she had released it, but then she found that if she kept a little of the same energy in her hand until she caught the rest, it would just be added to what was in her hand - like when a drop of water touches another, and the larger combines with the smaller one.

Itachi watched with interest as she absorbed the energy back into herself. She most definitely knew what she was doing, but she also wasn't the best fighter, either. Deciding to end this quickly Itachi started to reach into his cloak for what the Jewel had told him to prepare the night before.

Kagome watched as he pulled something small out of his cloak. Getting ready for an attack, she was taken off-guard when she saw it was a necklace. A necklace that looked very familiar. It was one of her rosaries! Kagome's eyes widened when he started chanting a very familiar chant, but there was something different about it. It was more complex.

Itachi pulled out the red and black rosary that he had taken from Kagome's bag last night after she had fallen asleep. He almost smirked at the colors. The same colors as the cloaks of the Akatsuki, and, even more appropriately, the red matched the symbol of the Uchiha clan. Later, he may even put the Uchiha clan symbol on it. It was shorter than the other rosaries that she had; it would almost be a choker on her. Saying the chant that the Jewel had taught him the night before, he forced chakara into it like she would have with her miko energy. The beads went flying, and she tried to place up a barrier to stop them. But like he and the Jewel already had planned, the Jewel stopped her miko energy flow before she could place a barrier strong enough to block the beads.

She looked utterly shocked as her miko energy flow came to a sudden stop, and a barrier didn't form. The beads formed securely around her neck, glowing a deep red before fading out. Looking at the Jewel with pure hate, she tried to pull off her new neck accessory. She knew as soon as the necklace was in place what the Jewel had done.

Smirking in victory, Itachi suddenly appeared ten feet in front of her. The new necklace looked good on her. He liked having something that proved she was his on her. It was a new feeling for him to want to show his possession of something, but he liked it.

"Kagome, don't move," Itachi said coldly testing the necklace. Kagome didn't move a muscle, though he could see in her eyes that she was fighting it with an unhidden outrage. Smirking mentally, he decided to further test the necklace. "Kagome, come here." Kagome started to walk over to him, though her movements were very jerky. Even though she was fighting, it she still walked up to him and stopped in front of him. Good.

"This necklace is unlike the necklace that you gave Kisame. It makes you obey every command that I directly give to you. The only thing I can't order you to do is something that would harm you mentally or physically. Like, I could command you to jump off a bridge. The necklace wouldn't work. I also can't command you to tell me anything. The effects last until I tell them to stop, or I am no longer with in one hundred yards of you. Also, if you try anything to harm me you will be shocked much like in Kisame's case. Except that this rosary has a lot more power to it." Itachi explained it clearly. "No matter how much you try and get rid of the necklace, it won't work. Your powers won't work against my chakra in this form. The Jewel made it immune to your purity that would normally dispatch it."

Kagome's eyes blazed with fire. She was going to make him pay. She was already thinking of ways to make his life miserable. Oh yes, and then, as soon as she got out of this collar, she was going to killhim. He was going to be the second person that she actually wanted to kill with all her being. Then she was going to destroy half of the Jewel so it couldn't reform inside someone else. She would never forgive the Jewel for this. This was the ultimate betrayal. She could have forgiven the Jewel for the three years of her life that she had lost, heck; she could have even forgiven the Jewel for sending her to this world, eventually. But taking all her freedom away for no reason, no, there was no forgiveness for this.

"Now, just to make things clear," Itachi said as he started to walk in a circle around her, looking her over for any signs of damage from the fight. "You now belong to me. Your life is in my hands. You don't go anywhere I don't know about; you don't do anything I don't approve of. Am I clear?" Itachi asked coldly as he once again stood in front of her.

Kagome glared at him, and then spit in his face. Itachi's rage grew. She dared challenge him even now?! He had complete control over her, and she still challenged him!

"You may control my body now, but I'll find a way out of this. This isn't the first time I've had my body taken over. And when this necklace is off, the first thing I'm going to do is kill you in the most painful way I can. You and the Jewel both. I might even have my brother resurrect you, so I can kill you again until I tire of it. After that, I'll hand you over to him. Anything I can do to you, he can make it hurt a thousand times worse," Kagome told him simply. She didn't need to threaten him, because it wasn't a threat; it was a promise. "And he'll do it all with a smirk. Any demon in this world, he could kill with them at the peak of their power with just a flick of his wrist. The demons here are newborn babies compared to him."

Itachi narrowed his eyes. Now she was threatening him. Did this girl have no sense of self-preservation?

"We will see. Now follow me," Itachi demanded. And like an obedient lost puppy she followed, trying to stop every step of the way, and glaring at him and the Jewel at her neck.

Itachi pondered her threat, and couldn't help but wonder who her brother was. Was he really that strong?

"Sesshomaru? Heck yeah! The demons here aren't that powerful. Though, he may have to put a little more effort into it than a flick of his wrist."

'Hn. The well to that world is closed; he couldn't come here if he wanted to. I have nothing to worry about from him.' The Jewel remained silent. 'The portal does still have a barrier on it, doesn't it?' Itachi questioned the Jewel sternly.

"Well, it takes a lot of energy to hold up a barrier that Kagome can't destroy from so far away," Bob complained. "So, when she was at least a day away, I let the barrier drop. So, technically, he could come here, since I left the portal open," the Jewel said in a slow way, afraid of what Itachi would do.

'…'

"Itachi?"

'Why didn't you say she had such a brother before you came up with this plan?' Itachi asked calmly in his mind.

"Well, I didn't want you chickening out. Trust me, Sesshomaru's not a guy you want to meet in a dark alley. More girly-looking than you, with an even bigger ego. He's killed people because he didn't want to breathe the same air as them. Though you are powerful, with him just coming into full adult maturity a couple of months ago, you wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in heck. Though, he does have a soft spot for his little ward, Rin, and Kagome's belly rubs," Bob commented.

'I'll be sure to remember that,' Itachi commented dryly. 'What type of demon is he?'

"Inu-Taiyouki. And he's royalty. He's Lord of the Western Lands. But I don't think you have anything to worry about. He's too dignified to go jumping down a well. And he's busy courting another Inu-demoness from the north. So he's not going to be looking for Kagome," the Jewel assured him.

Itachi and Kagome met up with Kisame a little ways down the road.

Kisame took a good long look at the both of them. Itachi had holes everywhere in his cloak, with his arm bleeding pretty badly for the size of the cut, and looking smug. Kagome was glaring at Itachi for all her worth, not saying a word. And he could have sworn that he saw some of Itachi's hair on the back of his head start to, ever so slightly, shrivel like it was by an open flame.

Taking a closer look at Kagome he noticed her new neck accessory, which resembled his own to a great degree. He almost smirked at the irony of it all. He opened his mouth to say something, but one glare from the corner of Kagome's eye and he just knew that he would lose five years off his life if he said a word. Even Itachi couldn't glare like that.

The rest of the day was spent in a deadly silence. Kisame personally thought that the tension in the air was worse than two elite ninjas with deadly intent for one another. Kisame didn't dare talk. Kagome was trying her best to glare a hole right through the back of Itachi's head. Itachi… he just ignored her attempts.

Finally, Itachi came to a stop, and they set up camp. No-one spoke as they all did their part that was becoming a routine. When Kagome started passing out the ramen, she suddenly seemed slightly happy. But a happy that scared Kisame.

Passing out the ramen cups, Kagome felt a wave of satisfaction wash over her as Itachi took his cup. He was still smug about earlier. He thought because of this rosary, she couldn't touch him. He so had no idea how women get even. They don't usually do physical pay back, oh no, they were much, much worse. They did little things, and played with their enemy's mind. A woman could find even the smallest of glitches in something if she put her mind to it.

Kagome went to eating her ramen and waiting. Glancing at Itachi from the corner of her eyes, she sees him eat the ramen. Good. It shouldn't take long now.

Kisame watched the two nervously. Something had just happened. She hadn't poisoned Itachi, because he would have noticed the poison with his eyes. So what did she do?

Kagome finished her ramen, and quietly took out some of her bottled tea, starting to sip it quietly. Yes, this should start the progress of making Itachi regret doing this to her. She cared about what he said; no-one owns her.

After Kagome had finished her tea, she went to her sleeping bag and got inside. "Have a good night, Kisame." Kagome ignored Itachi entirely. She knew he wasn't going to have a good night.

As soon as she had finished this thought Itachi disappeared out of camp. Good, it worked in large doses. It was a good thing she had brought all of her payback items that she was going to use on Inuyasha. Though she'd doubted that she was going to be mean enough to use the ex-lax like that against Inuyasha, she had brought it just in case. But Itachi, he deserved it.

Itachi came back after half an hour looking extremely pale. He didn't know what that witch had done to him, but he was going to make her pay. He couldn't prove it was her, but he knew it was her who had done it; he just knew it.

Ignoring Kisame's questioning look, he walked over to Kagome's sleeping bag. He glared at her still form that had a satisfied smile even in her sleep.

Oh yes, she did it. Itachi grinned. Fine, if that's the way she was going to be, he would make this miserable for her, too. He would pretty much ignore her once they got to base, and if leader needed her to do something, he would make her do it. Now, though, now he would make sure she was uncomfortable with his power over her.

The next morning, Kagome woke up earlier than normal. She had to set her plan into action. Getting the water, Kagome came back, and cooked breakfast for her and Kisame. 'Accidentally' burning Itachi's almost to a crisp, and dropping it on the ground before she put it back on the plate after a minute of being distracted, she and Kisame ate their breakfast. When Itachi woke up he did his normal half-walk, half-stagger to the nearest river. When Kisame heard an almost girlish shout of pain, he took off to the river where Itachi was.

When he got there, he was too shocked to do anything for a second. There was Itachi, holding his eyes, tears coming from the corners and running down the side of his cheeks. When he opened them to look at Kisame, they were red, but not the Sharingan red, irritated red. Searching for attacking nin, Kisame stayed on guard with a firm grip on his sword. Then he heard Itachi grumbling with killer intent dripping off his voice.

"That wench! I'm going to kill her! I don't know what she did, but it was her!" Itachi started to talk to himself.

Kisame, seeing that it was just something that Kagome had done to Itachi, lowered his guard. Releasing his grip on his sword, he hesitantly walked over to Itachi.

"Itachi, are you going to be okay?" Kisame asked, not sure what to do.

"I'm going to kill her!" Itachi said as he stood up. Storming back to camp with something irritating his eyes, he didn't see the thick stick that was set up right in the path now. Kisame saw the stick a moment to late, and tried to stop Itachi from stepping on it. When Itachi stomped on the stick, it shot directly up and nailed him. Falling to the side and curling up, Itachi promised that today Kagome was going to regret the day she was born.

After ten minutes of waiting, Kagome got bored. Itachi had probably stepped on the stick by now, and was plotting her demise. 'Serves him right,' Kagome thought smugly.

Kagome had put up a mind barrier so the Jewel couldn't invade her mind and warn Itachi of any of the things she was going to do to him. She was also already trying to find ways around the rosary.

Itachi had said that she wasn't allowed to hurt him. He said nothing about carelessly leaving a barrier that contained bleach and which she could let drop at anytime upstream, decorating the forest with carefully placed sticks with thorns on them, or adding the wrong herb into his food. No, she wasn't allowed to hurt him.

After another ten minutes of waiting, Kagome had already packed up camp, and was ready to go. Sitting on a nearby log, she waited for her companions to arrive. After another five minutes, Kagome heard some rustling in the forest. Kisame came out of the trees first, followed by a very P.O.'ed Itachi. Itachi had on a calm mask, but Kagome could tell by his aura that he was one step away from snapping.

Kagome beamed a smile at them. "Are you guys ready to go yet? Your breakfast is over there, Itachi, you can eat while we walk. We're almost to the base, according to what you told me a couple of days ago. So, let's get a move on," Kagome said, smiling, then walking back to the road.

Kisame looked at Itachi to see if he was going to kill Kagome. He looked more calm than usual. Considering what had happened, this might be worse for Kagome than if he had shown his anger.

Itachi took his breakfast, and his eye twitched. It was burnt belong eating capability, and he was pretty sure that was a worm moving in it. Dumping it in a nearby bush, he followed Kagome.

"Kagome, you will walk beside me for the rest of the day," Itachi ordered. She stopped in her tracks until he was right beside her. He didn't want her to be able to set up any more traps for him. His eyes still burned from whatever she did to that water, not even mentioning what she did to him with the stick on the ground. But the worst thing of it all was that he couldn't prove it was her. There could have been something in the water that she didn't put there, and he couldn't really make a convincing argument out of a stick on the ground, convenient as the location and timing was. She was a tricky one. He was going to have to be on guard from now on around her.

The day started out quietly, but Kagome eventually began talking to Kisame. She started to talk about the feudal era and some of the battles she had been in. Secretly, Itachi was impressed at what all she had done. She'd had no training at all before her adventures had started; under the circumstances she had grown up in until then, she should have been more worried about breaking a nail than when the next demon was going to try and attack her group. Slowly, this girl was gaining his respect.

"She is a very unique woman," Bob commented in his head.

'Indeed.'

"Did you know that she has had at least four suitors at once?" Bob asked off hand.

'Who?' Itachi demanded firmly.

"Why do you care? Besides, that's Kagome's personal life. It's not my place to tell you about it," Bob told him smugly.

'…'

"Just so you know,"the Jewel drawled out. "You shouldn't read her diary. I'm sure she has it all written down in there. How she met them, who they are, what she thinks of them. Kagome's true thoughts on things, all in one black book that she keeps safe with a cheap lock. But that would be an invasion of her personal life, so you shouldn't read 'that' book," Bob finished innocently.

Itachi thought back to when he was going through Kagome's bag, looking for any weapons. There was a black book with a small lock. There was also a photo album. He would look through those when they got to base, which should be around mid-day.

Kagome stopped talking to Kisame when she saw the gates to an old run-down town. Looking around, Kagome compared the buildings to the ones in her time. They looked just slightly strange, but had the same overall design.

Turning down one of the alleys, they came to a dead end. Biting his thumb so that it bled slightly, Kisame placed it on one of the lower bricks. As the blood seeped into the brick, a door appeared to the side of them.

"Kagome, you are to stay behind me, and not say a word unless I approve," Itachi commanded Kagome. She wanted to spit at him again, but knew that here it would be best to do what he says. Nodding, Kagome got behind him. It wasn't like she had much of a choice anyways.

Itachi started to walk down the narrow hallway, followed by Kagome, then Kisame. Stopping after a while, Itachi turned left, and faced the wall. Holding up his hand, he pressed the ring into a crack in the wall. A door opened out of the wall when he took it out. Walking down that hallway, they came into what looked like a living room - it had couches, two TVs, a table, and other things that one would find in a living room, at least.

They continued into one of the doors out of the room and into another hallway. Coming to a door at the end of the hallway, Itachi stopped and knocked.

"Come in," came a voice from inside. Itachi opened the door, and walked inside.

"Itachi, Kisame, good… you're back. Who is that?" the Leader asked. Kagome couldn't see his face, because it was covered in shadows.

Itachi spoke up. "We were successful on our mission," Itachi said as he pulled out the camera. He hesitated slightly in giving Leader the camera because of the embarrassing picture of him on there.

"So, who is she?" Leader asked again.

"Her name is Kagome. I believe that her special, talents, could help us."

"You don't say, so what are these talents?"

Itachi went on to explain what Kagome was, where she was from, and, most importantly, what she could do.

"How do you know that she isn't some enemy ninja? Do you have proof that she is indeed from another world?" Leader inquired.

Itachi explained about how she had tried to hide where she was from and get back to the portal, how scared she was went she was found out, and how the Jewel had been talking to him.

The Leader looked at Itachi like he was crazy when he started about the Jewel. That was, until the Jewel started to talk to him also. The Leader grinned after what seemed like an hour of him mentally talking with the Jewel.

"Okay, I believe you, Itachi. Kagome, welcome to this world." Kagome smiled at him. "I've also heard how you have Kisame on a leash of sorts, and how Itachi has you on a leash." Kagome glared at Itachi. "Itachi, I would like to speak to Kagome in private. So, if you would wait outside and allow her to talk, it would be welcomed," Leader ordered.

Itachi narrowed his eyes. Why would Leader need to talk to Kagome in private? But nodding his head he lifted the command and left the room to wait outside.

The Leader looked Kagome over for a minute, then he smiled slightly at her. "Your name is Kagome, correct?" Kagome had a guarded expression on but nodded. "Oh come now, I'm not going to kill you. I'm offering you a job." Kagome's expression didn't change. "I have talked it over with the Shikon Jewel, and it has informed me of your powers and what you can and can't do. I'm not going to send you out on missions unless they have something to do with the nine tail demons. Besides that, you'll stay here and make meals and help clean up around the base. This won't go without pay, of course. You'll be paid the same amount as everyone else here, and have your own room. Though, you'll have to share with Itachi until your room is prepared. All the other members will be informed of your background, and you will receive a package with all the others' backgrounds within a couple of days. You are not to leave the base without one of the other members accompanying you. If you do, then you'll be stuck outside, because you don't have a key to get back in. Do I make myself clear?" Kagome nodded.

"Are there any questions you would like to ask?" Kagome nodded again. "Then, speak."

"Do I have to wear one of the tacky cloaks?" Kagome asked with a grin. Leader grinned back from the shadows. Yes, Kagome would fit in just fine here.

"No, those are for ninja members only. You are not a member, so you don't have to wear as you said 'the tacky cloaks'," Leader said. "Please inform Itachi about the room arrangements," he continued, before going back to his paperwork… which he was secretly doodling along the side of.

Closing the door behind her, Kagome came face to face with Itachi. His face was emotionless, but she could tell he was silently demanding to know what happened.

"He told me I'm to make the meals, help with the cleaning, and occasionally go on a mission. And, until better room arrangements can be made, I'm bunking with you," Kagome told him. He nodded, turned around, and started to lead her to what she could only believe would be where she would be sleeping for now.

Leading her back into the living room, he went through another door that led to a wide hallway that had many doors on both sides. Stopping at the one at the end that had a small sucker-looking symbol on it, he opened the door to show a room.

Itachi's room was very clean and well organized. There didn't seem to be one thing out of place. She should have known that his room would look like this. There was a desk up against the wall, a highboy dresser, a full sized bed in the corner of the room, and a window for lighting. Opposite the bed there was what Kagome believed to be a sliding door closet. Looking around the room, she noticed a very important fact.

"There's only one bed," Kagome pointed out not, really believing it. She dropped her bag by the dresser.

"Indeed," Itachi said, as he pulled off his cloak.

She looked at him. "But where are you going to sleep?" Kagome asked.

Itachi raised an eyebrow. Was she suggesting he sleep on the floor? "I will sleep on my bed," Itachi informed her. Opening up the sliding doors, he hung the cloak in the closet.

"Okay, then where am I going to sleep?" Kagome asked.

"On a bed."

"…" Kagome didn't speak. "That's not going to work," Kagome said finally, not looking at him.

Looking over at her, he saw her trying to hide her blush. He smirked. So she was uncomfortable with sleeping in the same bed. This would be a great way to get back at her. He was going to get her a spare cot, but if she was this uncomfortable with it, then they would share.

"Can I have my I-pod back yet?" Kagome asked, changing the subject.

Itachi nodded, and handed it to her. It had long since gone dead. Walking over to his dresser he rearranged it so that the bottom two drawers were empty. "You may use these two drawers," Itachi informed her.

Kagome nodded, and started to put her clothing in them. Itachi watched her unpack while leaning up against the door. He noticed her leave all her other things in her bag. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the book he was going to read later in her bag before she closed it up.

She turned back to him when she was done, and he nodded. "I'll show you the rest of the base. Follow me," he said, before walking out of the room, fully expecting that she would follow. Which she did.

He showed her where the kitchen was first, since that was where she was going to have to cook. Then he showed her where the hot springs were. Surprisingly enough, there was a separate one for women as well. He told her not to go into the others' bedrooms, and to not bother the leader unless necessary.

While Itachi was showing her around, Kagome began to wonder where the other members were. She hadn't seen any except Kisame, who was in the kitchen making a sandwich. Not having any other choice, she was forced to ask Itachi. She didn't even know how many there were.

Itachi seemed to think it over for a moment. "There are currently nine members of the Akatsuki, including the leader. Most of them are on missions at the moment. We are hardly ever at base for long periods of time. But Deidara and Sasori should be arriving back later tonight. It would be in your best interest to avoid Sasori. He will, in all likelihood, try and make you into a human puppet if given the chance," Itachi informed her while continuing to walk ahead of her.

"Like I'm not one already," Kagome mumbled, but Itachi still caught it.

Itachi came to a halt in front of the kitchen. "Yes, but, with me, you're still alive," Itachi said with an emotionless voice.

"Fine, anything else you need to show me, or can I go start dinner?" Kagome asked, annoyed.

Itachi narrowed his eyes. "You may go." Itachi watched as she turned around, and walked to the kitchen to prepare dinner. She still challenged him every chance she got. Shrugging it off for later, he went to his room to wait for dinner.

End Chapter.

So how many of you were expecting that? I think I did a good job of not giving it a way. Or at least I hope I did. So please if you liked it or have any ideas that I could use please send them to me. I can't promise that I will use them but you never know. ;)

-Probs