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Chapter 2

Kagome groaned as the light hit her eyes and she was forced to come out of her peaceful slumber. As she opened her eyes and looked around the room, it took her a couple of seconds to realize where she was and what she was doing there.

Kagome sighed as she got up and stretched her sore muscles. Yesterdays events had taken a lot out of her and she was still recovering from them but she tried to keep her mind off of it due to the fact that it was best for her not to think about it.

As she looked around the room she was still surprised that Naraku had given her such a nice room. Sure it wasn't the masters bedroom but it was the next size down. The room as was large and 10 times the size of Keade's hut. In the middle of the room was a large futon that had sheer curtains that surrounded the futon so that the person sleeping in the bed could have a extra shield of privacy as they slept. The room also had a table with plush pillows to sit on all around the table for if someone was either to take their meals there or just have some tea. The Room also had an amazing view of the garden that was in the back of the castle.

Kagome was surprised to see that Naraku hadn't destroyed the gardens when he had taken up residence at the castle. Kagome also took note of the changing screen that was near a large closet with plenty of kimonos that were all conveniently around Kagome's size. Kagome was grateful for the kimonos because her uniform was on the verge of being just little pieces that would barely cover her.

Kagome stretched a bit and looked at the paintings that still remained on the wall and was glad to see that this room had been kept in tact from when its previous owner lived in it. Kagome had expected for everything in the castle to be torn up and abandoned looking but was glad to find out that she had been wrong.

Kagome went over to the closet and picked out a kimono that she felt like wearing and stepped behind the changing sheet and quickly changed out of her sleeping kimono and into a regular kimono. It wasn't long before she was in the black kimono that was covered in dark purple flowers.

Once she was dressed she quickly brushed her hair and put it up in a high ponytail. Once she figured she was dressed enough she made a move to walk out of the room figuring she would find out where she was to find food.

Before she could even get across the room to the door, the door slid open to reveal the all white little girl known as Kanna. Kagome was a little surprised but smiled seeing the girl.

"Oh hello Kanna, can I help you with something?" she asked figuring she would be nice to the girl.

"Naraku wishes to speak to you" she said in a flat tone.

Kagome wasn't surprised since the girl was normally like that from what she saw in their other battles with Naraku and the girl was around.

"Alright, Can you lead me to him?" she asked knowing she would have no idea where to find the half demon.

"Follow me"

Kagome nodded not bothering to say anything else because she knew that the girl would not be the type to have a conversation with Kagome.

Kagome quickly followed the girl out of the room closing the door behind her. She followed the girl down the hall and she would loose herself in thought as she looked at the paintings on the wall wondering who had lived in the palace before Naraku came through and exterminated them all.

It wasn't long before Kanna stopped in front of the large door that obviously could be identified as the master bedroom of the whole castle. So it would have once belonged to a lord of some sort from what Kagome could tell.

Kagome watched as the girl just walked off further down the hall and left Kagome alone in front of the door. Kagome was nervous to go in and for a minute or two thought about going back to her room. She knew that she couldn't do that though. Kagome knew that she had to be brave and do what she needed to do to get her revenge and the kill Naraku.

She opened the door and walked in the room to see the half demon sitting next to a large window and looking out the window as if oblivious to the fact that Kagome had even entered the room. Kagome knew better then that though, she knew that Naraku knew that she was there and she took a deep breath before taking a couple of steps and closing the door behind her.

"You wanted to see me Naraku?" she asked stopping a couple of feet away from him.

The half demon turned and looked at her and smirked a bit. "Ah yes, I wanted to know how you liked your living arrangements." he said looking back towards the window.

Kagome thought it was odd but answered anyways. "they are fine Naraku, and the kimonos fit perfectly." she said figuring that might be a question he would ask as well.

Naraku nodded and thought for a minute working out the next thing he was going to say to her in his head.

"You want your revenge on Inuyasha and I want him dead….I am sure with our alliance this can be accomplished quite easily.. But I wanted to know if you would be interested in training, so that you may defeat the half demon on your own." he said looking back at her.

"Training would be rather helpful, I would not be able to take him down on my own and I have no intention on using the jewel shards to enhance my strength." she said figuring he might try something like that.

"Then we shall train you in both your bow and arrow.. Along with a sword"

"Do you think that we could also get a Miko to help me with my Miko powers? If I can get my Miko powers up to standard then I can be a more effective fighter using them to my advantage don't you think?" she asked figuring he would have the connections to get her a Miko to help her train.

Naraku thought for a moment about her proposal trying to think if there was anyone who owed him a favor that could possibly help them with getting their hands on a Miko to train Kagome.

"I'll see what I can do to find you one"

Kagome nodded "Who will be the one to teach me on my archery and my sword?" she asked looking at him.

"I will be your teacher, I have learned quite a bit from the demons I have absorbed, When you have gotten to a certain skill level I will also have a sword be made for you, so you don't have to use the generic ones that we have lying around"

"that sounds fine, I have a couple of other questions now that all of that is out of the way."

"Ask away"

"First, Where do I find food? Or does everyone eat together?"

"Everyone eats dinner together, and for the other meals your may eat whatever you liked in the stocked kitchen. Which I will have someone show you where that is along with anything else you may need like the hot springs."

"Alright, am I allowed to freely roam the gardens when I please?"

"Yes you are free to go anywhere that is unlocked, which includes the library that is right down the hall from your room."

"One more thing, May I request that I have a slayers outfit be made for me so it will be easier for me to move around in during battle"

"That can be easily arranged and I will have a tailor here tomorrow to measure you and take down any preferences you might have for the outfit. "

"Perfect, Is there anything else I need to know? Should I be on guard for things to come out and attack me, such as Kagara?"

"No I have already told my creations that you are to be respected and unharmed. So if you have any questions and I am not around feel free to ask them."

"Alright then anything else? Or am I free to go?"

"Your training will start in the afternoon but the morning is yours to explore. Oh but if I were you I would stay away from the basement."

Kagome nodded taking his warning very seriously.

"You are dismissed" he said turning back to the window figuring that she would just leave

Kagome nodded as she left the room and sighed as she headed down the hallway finding her way back to her room quite easily since it was in the same hallway just at opposite ends.

Kagome soon found herself finding the library and was glad that she was able to use it because it looked like it had plenty of books she could read if she felt like it.

She then found herself looking for the kitchen so she could get some breakfast. Finding the kitchen took a little longer due to the fact that the castle was rather large. Eventually she did find it and noticed that the other people living in the castle had already eaten so she quickly made herself something to eat.

Once she had some eggs and ham cooked she went and sat down at the table that was in the dinning hall right next to the kitchen. She began to eat her breakfast quite happily humming to herself as she ate alone.

It felt weird to be eating a meal without her friends right with her complimenting her on her cooking, or Miroku trying to cop a field on her. Or Inuyasha bitching about her cooking or complaining that he didn't get enough.

Kagome shook her head and did her best not to think about it because if she thought about it too much she would miss them and what to go back. Though she knew that her group was not the same as she had remembered. She had been replaced and probably wasn't missed by anyone.

~~With Inuyasha and the Group~~

Sango sighed as she sat there making breakfast for everyone because Kagome was no longer there to do it. Kikyo had offered to do the cooking but Sango and the others (Besides Inuyasha) quickly shot the idea of down. It wasn't long before the rabbit that Inuyasha had caught was cooked and ready to eat.

Sango split the rabbit up giving everyone a fair amount. Of course though that wasn't enough for Inuyasha and he instantly began to whine how he wanted more.

"Sango! I need more then this!"

"Well too bad, you only caught one rabbit and everyone needs food to it was split up evenly, if you don't like it get over it"

"How come Shippo gets so much! I mean I need way more then he does!"

Sango was getting very irritated very fast. First Inuyasha got rid of Kagome, by bringing Kikyo into the group and now he was trying to be a complete jerk to everyone. Which his attitude wasn't unusual but Kagome and always done the best job at handling him and getting him to shut up.

"Because he is a growing boy and he needs as much food as the rest of us!"

Shippo sat and quickly began to eat his food so that Inuyasha would not be successful in taking it from him. Once he was done with his food he handed Sango his plate and went onto Miroku's shoulder where he was some what safe.

Inuyasha just 'fehed' and went over and ate his own food next to Kikyo under a tree.

"So Inuyasha are we going to go look for Kagome today?" asked the monk as he ate his own food.

"No why would I do a thing like that? Besides we have jewel shards that need to be found."

"What! Your just going to leave Kagome out there to die after all she has done for you?"

"What has she done for me? All she has ever done is make things harder by always getting caught and in trouble, always making me protect her.. Unlike Kikyo who can protect herself and she can detect jewel shards so what do we need Kagome for?"

Sango balled up her fists as she resisted the urge to beat the living shit out of the half demon that stood before her.

"Is that all she was to you? A burden and a shard detector?" she asked in a eerily calm voice.

Inuyasha being oblivious as usual didn't notice that Sango was on the verge of snapping.

"Of course that was all she was" thinking that it was a dumb question for Sango to be asking.

"You BASTARD!" Sango went to swing at Inuyasha but Miroku was quickly behind her holding her back.

"How could you say she was nothing! Kagome loved you! And this is how you treat her?" she yelled at him angrily.

Inuyasha just looked at her confused not believing the idea of Kagome loving him, though as he looked at his friends seeing how upset they were he almost… almost began to feel like what he was doing was a mistake and that he should be looking for Kagome..

Inuyasha did feel something for Kagome it wasn't exactly love but it was more then friendship. When he was about to agree with Sango on a search to go look for Kagome something stopped him.

Kikyo stood up from her spot and she could tell that Inuyasha was beginning to have second thoughts about his cold actions towards Kagome and that would just not do. She put her hand on Inuyasha's shoulder as if to remind him that he had her and had no need for Kagome at all.

Inuyasha looked back at Kikyo and all thoughts of Kagome left his mind and it was only about Kikyo.

"What Kagome did was her decision and I had nothing to do with it, So we will just have to deal with it and move on" he said for once sounding a bit like he was making sense and thought something through.

Sango sighed and just dropped her fists knowing it would do no good to get in a fight with Inuyasha. She sighed as she just went and sat next to Miroku under the tree and just ate her breakfast in silence.

~~Back with Kagome~~

Kagome put her dirty dishes in the sink and noticed that everyone just kind of let them there for someone else to deal with. Kagome just shook her head and found herself washing everyone's dishes and drying thing along with putting them away.

Once that was done she went exploring even more eventually finding out and how to get to the garden. Once she was in the garden she just walked around enjoying her time smelling the different flowers and just having a relaxing walk.

Naraku watched her from his window as she walked along the garden exploring it and just seemed so care free. He had always found Kagome an interesting female, but he could have never imagined that she would so easily come over and join forces with him just because Kikyo joined their group.

Almost anyone could see that Kagome was very in love with Inuyasha and the idea of her being second to him seemed to drive her crazy to the point where she would cry herself to sleep many nights.

Naraku only knew this because he had watched her rather closely for the last couple of months making sure he thought his plan through and he wanted to know how she would react to certain things, so he would be able to control her as much as possible so he could get the results he needed out of the girl .

Naraku turned from the Miko and looked at Kanna

"What is Inuyasha up to?"

Kanna did not respond but her mirror began to swirl and show what was happening where the group was. Naraku watched the scene before him with little interest and noticed that the group was easily split on how they felt over Kagome leaving.

"It is all going as planned" he smirked as he stood up and headed towards the garden.

It didn't take him long to find Kagome there in the garden and he approached her waiting for her to realize that he was standing there.

When Kagome turned to look up at him only then did her speak.

"Come Kagome, It is time to train"

Melissa: Alright everyone that is it for that chapter, I know Meghan was suppose to write it but she has been rather busy you know having a life and hanging out with friends so she hasn't been able to type anything. So I figured I would kind of take over for a bit until her life dulls down enough for her to get back into the groove of writing fanfics. Well let me know how I did and review, because that motivates me to put the next chapter up faster.