AR: Yay! New chapter!

IY: I can't believe that you would make Kagome do that to me!

AR: You don't? I thought you knew me by now...oh well, must have thought wrong. InuYasha, the readers like putting you in pain. So if they like it, I'll do it. -grins- Have a nice day.

IY: Feh.

K: Angel, you don't really have to be so mean to InuYasha.

AR: It's fun. Leave me alone.

Se: I agree. I find it quite amusing.

K: Nobody asked your opinion, Dust Bunny.

AR: Hey! Don't insult the almighty Sesshomaru-sama! -huggles-

Y: I always knew she was crazy.

Ka: -nods-

AR: Well, if it weren't for my being crazy, Yukana and Kaori wouldn't exist. -smiles- Now, any objections to my craziness? No? Good! On with the story!

Disclaimer: Me no own...blah blah blah, you get it.

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() change in perspective

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I hope you know, I hope you know

That this has nothing to do with you

It's personal, myself and I

We've got some straitening out to do

And I'm not going to miss you like a child misses their blanket

But I've got to get a move on with my life

It's time to be a big girl now

And big girls don't cry

(Big Girls Don't Cry: Fergie)

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Chapter Twenty Recap:

"Yeah, she seemed ticked."

"I'm going to get her back so bad..."

Don't Fall Away

Chapter Twenty-One: PMS Is Contageous

"How dare he accuse me of such stupid things!" Kagome fumed as she walked down the hall. "I do everything for that brainless oaf, and this is the thanks that I get? Stupid hanyou."

"Kagome? Who are you talking to?"

"Huh? Sakurako! What are you doing out?" Kagome asked. "Where is Moonle?" Sakurako adopted a guilty look and started wringing her fingers.

"Well, um, I kinda gave her the slip a little while ago, while she was changing my bed sheets." she admitted. "I really needed to get out of there, it was driving me mad!"

Kagome touched her index finger to her chin and began walking in circles around Sakurako, examining her physical condition closely. She placed her hand on the other girl's shoulder and concentrated, but she found nothing wrong.

"You can go back to your room, Sakurako, there's nothing wrong with you." Kagome said. "I'll talk to Moonle in the morning. Rest up, I'm going to start your training tomorrow, so alert the other girls as well." Sakurako nodded.

"Thank you Kagome. Oyasumi." she said as she turned around and walked off. Kagome shook her head and made her way to the dojo (bleck, still hate that word), for what reasons, however, she had yet to figure out.

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Sesshomaru watched Kagome leave, barely managing to hold back a smile at how she punished the hanyou. In his opinion, it was actually very efficient, not to mention amusing to those who were watching.

"InuYasha, you can't get Kagome back for something that was your fault." Kaori chided.

"Who said it was my fault?! I didn't do anything to her!"

"Are you really that dense?" Sesshomaru cut in. Throughout the entire conversation, Sesshomaru had managed not to say anything. But, seeing as Kagome had left, there was nobody else to prolong InuYasha's misery, so he took over.

"Stay out of it, fluff bucket." InuYasha snapped. Yukana slapped him in the back of his head and glared at him.

"That's no way to talk to your half-brother, InuYasha."

"Tell that to him! He called me stupid!" InuYasha objected.

"I can't punish him for telling the truth." Yukana said airily. InuYasha's jaw dropped.

"What do I have to do to get a little bit of support around here?!"

"Act your age?" Kaori suggested. "Come on, InuYasha, we all know that you can be very immature sometimes...well...all the time, really, but that's not the point. Do you honestly think that Kagome likes having to yell at you all the time?"

"Yes." InuYasha mumbled.

"Shut up, InuYasha." Yukana snapped. "If you don't want to stay, nobody is holding you here. Kagome has nothing to do with what you decide you want to do. Personally, I think she would be better off if you left, anyway."

"Yukana...you don't mean that." Kaori said softly.

"Like hell I don't."

"Yukana, that's enough." Sesshomaru interrupted. She glared at him and walked out the door.

"I think she's starting to get Kagome's temper." Kaori said. "Maybe we should start keeping them away from each other."

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Kagome stood in the center of the dojo. It was dark, the only light coming in through the open door. A glint caught her eye and she turned to the wall that held all of the weaponry, a vast expanse of blades, arrows, and countless other weapons that she couldn't name. The one that had caught her eye, actually a set of twin daggars, rested peacefully on their stand and reflected what little light was in the room. She heard a footstep at the door and, by instinct, picked up one of them, turning swiftly, and threw it. It soared through the air and embeded itself in the frame of the door, inches from the head of Sesshomaru.

"You have nice aim, Kagome, I must admit." he commented.

"Sorry, Sesshomaru. I thought you were somebody else." Kagome said, scratching the back of her neck nervously. He walked over to her and handed her the daggar. She took it, being careful not to cut herself on the blade, and put it back on the stand with it's twin.

Sesshomaru had walked in on Kagome examining the wall on which all of the weapons were kept. As soon as he had stepped foot on the wooden floor, Kagome had reacted, almost hitting him in the face with one of his mother's daggars. Her aim, or lack thereof, was incredible for a first try.

"You have nice aim, Kagome, I must admit."

He barely heard her apologizing to him as he pulled the dagger out of the wooden door frame. It had been in there pretty deep. He handed it to her and watched how carefully she handled it as she put it back.

"Tomorrow." he said. Kagome turned around, a confused expression on her face.

"What about tomorrow?"

"Your weapon training will begin tomorrow. I saw Sakurako on my way here and she told me that you planned on starting with them tomorrow as well." Sesshomaru said. "You will train them after lunch. Kaori will wake you at sunrise and get you prepared and you will meet me here an hour after that. Understood?"

"Alright, first of all, you aren't my boss, so you could be a little nicer about it. And second, I already knew all of the stuff that you just told me. I am not dumb, and it was extremely easy to guess." Kagome snapped.

"Calm down and don't do anything stupid. I am aware of your intelligence, Kagome, so you do not need to take offense." Sesshomaru stated, smirking. "In fact, that is one of the qualities of yours that draws me to you."

"Ano...nani?!"

"You heard me."

"Sesshomaru, you're being perverted again. Stop it." Kagome warned. She was actually quite glad it was dark, since she was blushing like mad after his comment.

"How is that being perverted?"

"Oh, I don't know, but knowing you, you have some sort of ulterior motive for saying that to me."

"Most women enjoy being complimented. Do you not like being called smart?" Sesshomaru inquired.

"I never said that." Kagome defended. "I said that you were...oh, nevermind. You're impossible, you know that?"

"So I've been told."

"Why would you need to be told? You should know that in the first place." Kagome said, rolling her eyes.

"I did, but it only helps that you re-enforce the idea." Sesshomaru stated.

"Do we honestly need to have this conversation? It's late and I have to go back to bed, I've got things to do tomorrow."

"Allow me to accompany you, then."

"No!"

"No?"

"No. You need to get things done, and I need to sleep. Oyasumi, I will see you in the morning."

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AR: Hey, this chapter didn't take me two months. -grins-

IY: It still took you really long.

AR: InuYasha, sit.

IY: Gah! Hey...you can't do that! Ha!

AR: Kagome!

K: InuYasha, sit.

IY: -sat-

AR: -giggle-

Y: You made me sound like a bitch, Angel.

AR: I know. I'm out, though, 'cause there's nothing else to bother InuYasha with! Toodles my fans! -waves-