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Okay, I'm sorry for the long wait, but as some of you might know, my uncle died suddenly and it took me time to come to terms with that fact. But I'm back now, and I hope the next chapter will be updated very soon. Also big thanks to my beta Tsuki Ai and all reveiwers and readers.

About that chapter-it was written after the furneral, so it's nothing great, but please don't get angry and wait for the next one, I swear it come out better!

Chapter 9- Hard changes pt.2

"So the dog took the girl, eh?" the man asked in a slightly amused voice. The other male shivered hearing that tone.

"Yes, w-we are sorry sir, it should have not happen." The man slammed his fist on the table. The haynou fell on the floor in fear. He hoped that next time that fist wouldn't be slammed on him.

"Of course it shouldn't happen! You should have succeed the first time! You claimed you would sent our best man!" yelled the other youkai. It was not what he had planned. He wanted the girl out of his sight-it took him long enough to find her. Now, getting to her would be so much harder.

His facial features calmed and the man leaned in his chair. Harder was the key word. It wouldn't be impossible, nothing was impossible for him the son of the powerful youkai. After all he wasn't the head master of that organization without reason.

"You're forgiven. Leave."

The haynou left the room as fast as was possible, allowing his master to work over his schemes in the silence. He was so tired that he couldn't dream about anything else than going home. He needed rest from the stresses of his work. His face graced small smile when he arrived to his destination and was welcomed by his little daughter.

"Daddy!" she yelled running to him on her little feet. He scooped her up in his arms and walked them both to the house when his wife gave him his welcoming kiss.

"Hello Genji, did you have a good day?" she asked. Genji silently nodded in answer and watched how she moved around the kitchen. His work might had been the hell but for his family he would do everything, especially if it meant to keep them save. His mussing were cut short when his child started to squirm on his lap.

"Daddy, when would I be able to play with the doggy?" she asked. The man sighed to himself. Since the day he brought the dog of 'that' woman to the house his little one wouldn't stop to ask about him. It was the only thing that kept him from killing the animal. He smiled lightly patting her head.

"Soon."

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Sesshoumaru was annoyed beyond belief and what was worst he couldn't even complain since it was all his own fault. It was he who decided that the little miko should live with him so he could keep his eye on her. It was really too late to change that. How annoying.

He looked at the girl that was slowly walking next to him tapping her white cane before her. She was living with him for only two days and he had enough of this and in the depths of his mind he was shocked his half-brother hadn't killed her while they were travelling together. On the other side Inuyasha was annoying on his own so maybe that was why they fitted together. Also the thing that was annoying him didn't have to annoy the half-breed.

'The thing' being the talking.

Yes, the girl talk.

A lot.

At first it wasn't so bad. She was busy with putting her things into the room he gave her to live in and once she finished with it she was simply to shy to say anything, but that problem faded rather quickly.

His train of thoughts were rudely disturbed when the miko asked yet another question. What was worse she was waiting for some answer apparently. That was no good. What answer he should give for the question he didn't heard?

"No."

Kagome frowned.

"What no? I was asking where are we?" the woman said.

"Hn."

"Arg!" she gritted her teeth in annoyance. The stupid jerk was like that from yesterday- totally ignoring everything she was saying and she wanted some answers, damn it! The young miko clenched her hand over her cane.

Sesshoumaru told her that today he would bring her to his office to meet with the people she was going to work with, and maybe start the tests. But of course the mighty lord didn't said her where exactly was his office and what that test would involve. She felt left in dark so to speak. Her only hope laid in the believe that perhaps whoever she was going to meet today would be a bit more talkative person.

"Mr. Shidehara," suddenly called the femine voice cutting the woman from her thoughts. Kagome lightly cocked her head trying to localized the source of the sound.

"Seiko, call Toshiko and Arashi. They are to be in my office in next five minutes." The woman nodded taking the phone in her hand by the same time watching the girl her boss brought with him.

Being honest Seiko was surprised that Sesshoumaru had showed with the mystery miko here, but on some side she was not so shocked. There was something in the message the girl had left for the inuyoukai and the way he reacted on it that gave her the feeling she would see them together one day. Once again her sixth instincts wasn't wrong.

The woman grinned to herself. 'Now that she's here the things would become more interesting.' she decided. She had no idea how right she was.

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The two people stood before their boss and lord in silence. Neither of them dared to ask question about the girl with spiritual powers that was sitting next to him. The dark haired woman wearing the white gown finally spoke.

"You called us, sir?" The silver-haired man nodded silently. He cast the little glance at the woman at his side before turning his whole attention to his employees.

"Indeed. I'm taking you out off the projects you were working on. You're moved to the special project- from now on you're working with the present here miko." Two pair of eyes widened turning from the man sitting behind the desk to the now red faced girl.

"I-it's an honor." the other man mumbled finally. Sesshoumaru nodded turning to Kagome.

"You would go with them, they would explain you everything." The young miko agreed without one word and Sesshoumaru called Toshiko to his side.

"Miko, Toshiko would be your guide for now, I have full trust in her." To the youkai woman shock the lord then pulled the other woman's hand to her arm. It was the moment when she noticed the white walking stick leaning on the girl's leg. Slight pang of pity rose in her chest and the tiger's youkai eyes softened.

"Come dear," she said softly "we will go to the lab. We would be able to talk there." Kagome smiled at her and the three of them walked quietly of the room, leaving the daiyoukai to his affairs.

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"So.. I doubt the boss told you anything about the test, did he?" Toshiko asked while Kagome was changing her clothes behind the screen. The miko sighed lightly.

"He didn't. Everything he decided to share with me was that it would look like medical test."

"That's all?" The youkai asked. The miko sighed again.

"Yeah." Suddenly the laughter erupted from the tiger youkai surprising the other woman. Kagome never thought about herself as a gloomy person, but she was considered it at the moment. She really couldn't see anything funny about her situation and Sesshoumaru's unwillingness to explain anything.

She waited until Toshiko calmed enough to speak. It took her rather long time, in which Kagome's patience was turning rather thin.

"Sorry," choked the other female finally, "I just never thought he would said you so little. He left you completely in dark!" Kagome couldn't agreed more with her- at one moment she was considering hitting the inu daiyoukai just to get some more information out of him.

"Well," the tigress continued, "he was right at some point. We are going to test some kind of medicines on you to see how your body and your spiritual powers are going to react on them. We would be monitoring your health here and Sesshoumaru-sama would check on you when you will be out of this place." Kagome nodded carefully coming from behind the screen in her hospital like outfit. She was really glad she was blind, she would look horrible in the nurses gown. She thought quickly over the words she had just heard.

"What kind of medicines are you going to test on me?" she asked finally.

"It's hard to explain it really. There would be two kind of them. We want to make something that would be able to hide the miko's aura from the world and the uh-" Toshiko suddenly stopped not sure if she didn't said too much. Kagome heard her hesitation and finished the sentence.

"And the assassins, am I right?" the youkai sighed mentally.

"Yes. If we would be able to hide it then some of the miko's and houshi's would be never discovered. The assassins has the rule that they're not killing normal humans. Their target are only those with powers." Kagome nodded allowing the youkai to continue.

"We made tests with youkai's aura for years and it was discovered that some of the hormones when mixed together with a bit of feel of the opposite power can hide or at least when it's come to the stronger ones reduce the feel of their power. We hope to get the same effect with the ones like you."

The woman finished leaving Kagome with light headache. She was never the girl with love for the science and even if she understand what the youkai woman were talking it didn't mean she wasn't confused. How in world something as normal as hormones could affect someones powers. On the other side she had to admit that when she was angered or scared her own powers were working somehow better.

'Okay so maybe it's not so impossible as I thought'Kagome admitted to herself. She turned her head to where she thought the tigress was standing.

"You are able to hide your own aura? Is it why I couldn't feel Sesshoumaru's aura when he's not somewhere near me?" she asked. Toshiko confirmed her theory and Kagome smiled to herself. It was thing that was nagging her from the beginning and one of the questions she was simply dying to ask her inuyoukai roommate. It was nice to get some answers.

Her thoughts quickly returned to the other youkai that was standing near her and her earlier words.

"What about the second medicine you spoke about? What it suppose to do?" she asked curiously. If she was going to be turned into guinea pig she wanted to know what would they test on her. Unfortunately the reply the miko wished for never came because some harsh male voice interrupted them.

"It's not important for now. You would be informed if we would be starting the test." Kagome pouted unhappily. She had bad luck with getting answers lately.

"That's true Arashi," agreed Toshiko before taking Kagome's hand under her arm. "Come we will test your state of health right now. Don't worry about anything, it will be fine." The young woman nodded following the tigress. Deep in her soul she couldn't shake the feeling she was lead into the trap.

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"Soo.. I guess your day was.. good?"

Silence.

Kagome sighed. She was tired of trying to get Sesshoumaru to speak, but it didn't mean she would stop. If he didn't wish to made any sort of small-talks with her, she was going to get to the point.

"What had happened to my friends?" she blurted out. Silently Kagome asked herself if she really wanted to know this. What if they were unhappy or worse... And what if they were happy? Would it made her happy to know they moved on forgetting about her?

She shook her head, of course she would be happy for their happiness. She wasn't some horrible person who would wish for unhappiness of others. She waited for Sesshoumaru's answer with bathed breath.

"I do not know." The miko's heart drooped just a little bit. She knew there was possibility he didn't know about the fate of her friends-they weren't his friends after all. Shrugging of her disappointment Kagome tried to think about someone, at least one person from her past that Sesshoumaru could know about. 'Kouga...? no.. I don't know if Sesshoumaru even met him .. Shippou? Doubtful.. Wait what about..'

"What had happen with that little girl that was following you everywhere? What was her name.. Rin right?" she asked again.

Another wave of silence settled over the car they were currently in and Kagome could swear she felt how the daiyoukai beside her tensed. What could have caused this? Did she.. did she asked for something she shouldn't?

After few minutes in which Kagome decided that the man was probably not going to answer her the Western Lord suddenly spoke.

"She died." he said in blank voice.

The miko nodded leaning back in her seat. She could tell she touched some sore subject and it would not do any good if she would question him more.

'Even more secrets.' the young woman thought resigned. 'With every answer I get I get two more questions. I'm getting sick of it..'

AN: Once again-I'm sorry that that chapter sucks :( The next one will be better! And please review..