Sorry Naraku kun I meant to have this up for your b-day but it's a little late. This authoress hangs her head in shame. Forgive me old man! Much love. Keva

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Any being that had even the most minute ability for deducing logic and reason would understand that when the sun is shining brightly above night time would no longer exist; well until the earth turned and the sun was no longer shining upon the land. It was the simple laws of science and nature that determined night from day and how each came to be within their twenty-four hour cycle.

So it would stand to reason that in the middle of the day, in the middle of Feudal Japan, when the sun was in the middle of the sky, that nowhere in the immediate area would night dare to exist. Yet it did exist… sort of. Granted there were no stars in the sky that one could see with the naked eye nor was there a moon casting down its reflective rays from the sun onto the land; yet it was pitch black and dark. How could any rational explanation exist for such a strange anomaly; one name: Naraku.

"You know maybe if you got out into the sun more; you wouldn't be so damn angry and murderous all the time!" Kagome bit out as she squinted her eyes to try and see just where the hell she was. "Where are we anyway? A cave; maybe? And why did you even bring me here in the first place? Just what is it you want?"

"Be silent girl; your voice is grating on my nerves." Naraku growled irritably as he began rubbing his temples against the powerful headache which was caused by the damn female.

"See there; point and case." She nodded. "You weren't half this moody when we were by the pond in the sunshine. Besides why the heck did you kidnap me in the first place?!"

Naraku dropped her to the floor and let a small smile grace his lips when she moaned in pain only to cringe when he too felt that same pain shoot up his leg. "The reasons for my actions bare no concern to you." At least he could take solace in the fact that she had yet to figure out their connection and with any luck; which he was quickly running out of, she would never figure it out.

Kagome scrambled to her feet. "Oh yes they do. Especially when they concern me! My body, my life, MY concern!"

"Perhaps I have brought you here to kill you." It was a stupid statement and he knew it; and he also knew that she, she who is way too perceptive for her own good, was going to see right through it.

"Please…"

Yep he was right and now she was going to run her big mouth and continue to irritate him further. He had to wonder how that baka of a hanyou put up with her day in day out and were he one to care he might; just maybe, feel sorry for the bastard.

"What now you've taken to killing in secret? I find that hard to believe." She waved her hand through the air. "Now listen here…" She pointed a finger in his face; nearly touching his nose with said finger. "You will take me back to where you found me RIGHT NOW!"

Naraku grabbed her hand and squeezed it tightly; ignoring the pain he was causing himself in the process. "Do not attempt to make orders upon me; lest death is all you seek."

"So you're not going to kill me then." She nodded and jerked her hand from his hold. "Well that's a first." She reached up and placed her hand to his forehead. "Are you feeling ill or something?"

He slapped her hand from his face and glowered at her. "Have you gone mad?" He demanded. "You should be fearing what I am going to do to you!"

"Well I would were this any other time. However;" She nodded her head curtly. "Nothing about the last hour has made any amount of sense and you are acting particularly weird today."

"Iie; it is you that is behaving out of character." He bit back.

"Me?" Her eyes went wide. "What'd I do?"

He opened his mouth to respond only to be interrupted by her rather large loud mouth.

"I was minding my own business suffering from my cramps in peace until YOU showed up and made my bad day even worse!"

"What are these cramps you speak of?" Now he was getting somewhere as he now had a name for her ailment.

"How simple are you really?" She sighed. "Do you know nothing about women and what they suffer from every month because males like you?!"

Naraku eyed her speculatively. "You are telling me that this pain you suffer from is caused by males?"

"Of course." She nodded. "If it weren't for men I and any other female in the world wouldn't have such problems."

Okay so two things; one that was the biggest load of crap he had ever heard or two; the elimination of all males would make her pain go away. He was really leaning towards the former. "Miko; you speak nonsense. How is it a male's fault that you suffer so?"

"It just is!" She sighed deeply. "Males are the source to all female pain; plain and simple." She leveled him with a hard glare. "And guess what; you are a male, ergo you are the reason I am suffering." She rolled her eyes dramatically. "How simple are you; really?"

Naraku just stared at her as he tried to fight down another bout of the cramping pain when it flared up for what seemed to be the millionth time. Really; how did females put up with this pain month after month? Here she was acting like it didn't even bother her and he wanted to gut himself on the spot just to be rid of the pain once and for all. Perhaps he was severely underestimating the female species and how powerful the really were.