Thus far Naraku kun's (the person in which this fic is written for) thoughts are that he loves it and has given me a thumbs up on it. Other than that no real in depth thoughts on it; but will update you if he does say anything else... he's more of a listener than a talker so don't expect much.

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By today's standards Feudal Japan was considered a hard savage place to live. Each day could easily be your last day to live; especially with creatures known and youkai and hanyou running around. One moment you could be minding your own business going through your daily routine of hunting, gathering, cooking, building or any number of things that a being without the modern conviences of today would do and suddenly you could be swept up by a creature that only nightmares are made of. Would they rape you, eat you, torture maybe? No one could say for sure; but one thing was certain, life in Feudal Japan was perilous.

To be fair not all creatures known as such were necessarily evil and some even tended to fight for the side of good. However though; those that were evil and made it well known what their intentions were; didn't play by the rules and had a tendency for doing as they pleased when they so pleased to do it regardless of what anyone thought or did or even said about it.

Of all these evil creatures there was one who by the standards of evil could easily be considered the son of hell and carried a name that said as much, and a certain miko was currently stuck in a battle of wills with the one that carried such a name.

Under normal circumstances this miko would normally be afraid of her most hated of enemies; but due to the curse of women she was anything but. No; she wanted to torture and kill him in the same manner he had done to so many others as he was so deserving of.

"Again why are you here?" She demanded. "We don't have any shards; no thanks to you you bastard, so there should be no reason for you to be here!" She bit out in his face.

"I am here to destroy you." He growled back.

Kagome opted for taking a different path; than the 'I will purify you first.' thing they had been doing; which was getting rather old anyway. "Why; I haven't done anything to you, if anything you're the one that has abused, tortured, and tried to break me down mentally. Really I should be the one killing you for all your misdeeds towards me." She finished with a curt nod.

Naraku just stared at her not entirely sure where to go from here. True she had never actually done anything to him except for fight to save her own life; yet that was neither here nor there. "You are my enemy; that is reason enough."

"Says who?" Kagome wasn't stupid and she was well adept at playing mind games; considering who she traveled with, their whole relationship was based on mind games.

Naraku arched a brow at that as he stared at her. "That is the way it is."

Kagome sighed deeply. "Again; who said that we had to be enemies? Was there a notice that went out that said 'Naraku and Kagome are enemies' and I missed it somewhere? Not only that…" She shook a finger in his face. "but that is the way it is'" She stated in a deep voice trying to sound just like him. "Is not a good excuse to want someone dead!" She waved her hand in the air. "Now had I killed your puppy or something then okay I can understand it; but really Naraku what have I done to you; personally, exactly to make you want to take my life?" 'Ha; wrap your simple mind around that you jerk!' She cheered mentally.

Perhaps he should just walk away and bring death down upon her head another day; really it would be much easier than this war of words they were having, where he was certain he was losing. Then again when was he going to have another chance like this where; with just a single tentacle out of his chest he would kill her right in his arms. However there was the issue of being purified with her last breath; it was quite a troublesome situation he was stuck in. "Your existence is enough of a reason to want you dead."

"Now that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard." She snorted. "Waitwaitwait…" She shook her head dramatically. "I've got it. My birth issued forth your misery; considering I was born loooooong after you were created and had no knowledge of you until my misfortune of being dragged into the past. Yes Naraku; I made your miserable life what it is now with nothing more than a wave of my tiny hand, upon the day of my birth, five hundred years into the future. It makes perfect sense." She rolled her eyes at him.

He had to admit; and only to himself, with it put that way it did sound ridiculous. Yet that wasn't the point; they were enemies and how they came to be that way didn't matter at the moment. The point of the matter was this; he hated her, she hated him, and they both wanted the other dead. "Do not attempt to make this into something more than what it is."

Kagome just stared at him like he had just spouted a second head; and considering who he was it was quite possible that that could indeed happen. "Something more than what it is? What the hell does that even mean? I'm trying to point out to you that this isn't more than anything but two beings who have no justifiable reason for being enemies in the first place."

"Miko; I have attempted to kill your friends and wrought about destruction upon the lands. That is reason enough for you to hate me and become my enemy." Now that didn't make any amount of sense in his own head and really he couldn't believe he was defending her reasons for hating him.

"Did I say anything about my friends or the land? No I . Did. Not." She bit out. "I'm talking about you…" She jabbed him in the chest with her finger. "And me ANNND I'm talking about prior to your attempt to kill me. Past tense."

"The past has nothing to do with this." He growled getting rather annoyed with this whole situation.

"You're the one who brought up the past in the first place." She sighed irritably.

"Have you gone mad?" He snorted. "It was you; not me, that brought up the past."

"Nuh-huh" She shook her head. "It was you."

Naraku ground his teeth together as this was getting way left of center and really grinding nastily up his spine. He needed to end this and end it now!