A/N Kagome and Neji are 11 and 13 respectfully. No sexual relations will happen until much, much later. For now, they don't even know each other. Also, this chappy is sad. Learn why Kagome is like she is!

He found himself helping move her furniture the next day, with her fussing at everyone involved. She was extremely, for the lack of a better word, territorial. Her things were important to her, every last nick-knack was griped about or threatened over.

"Neji-sama! Be careful with that!" She said, rushing over and having him set down the chair carefully as she looked it over. "Ack! What're you doing, you stupid mutt?" Kagome snarled out as Kiba nearly tripped with a box of cat figurines.

"Shut up, pussy, I'm didn't break anything!" He snapped and Kagome bristled.

"I'm tired of you rubbing that in my face, fucking hound." She growled out, snatching the figurines away with a hiss. "Leave."

"It's not my fault you-"

"Leave, you ungrateful beast!" She hissed, her pupils becoming more cat like as she looked at him.

Kiba let out a growl before turning his back. "C'mon, Akamaru, I don't know why we tried helping the pussy cat."

Kagome felt her eyes tear up, but refused to let them drop, running past everyone and setting the box in the cart. Before Neji had a chance to ask, she'd disappeared with Gin streaking after her.

Her breaths came in pants as she touched everywhere, anywhere. She...she wanted something. She burned with want, need. What was she looking for?

His tongue on her neck was delicious feeling, this was okay right? It felt good, this couldn't be a bad thing, right?

She shook her head, not wanting to think about it. They had been far too young. Her eyes narrowed. It was just further proof as to why she shouldn't get close to Neji Hyuuga. It would hurt, then, if he did use her and toss her to the side.

The pain is what snapped her out of it, and when she looked up, she found the angry eyes of her partner. Yes, this was her partner. The one she had been looking for all her life.

"Snap out of it! You're just a kitten!" The tiny kitten had said, baring it's little fangs at her.

She pushed him off of her, shaking as she realized what had almost happened.

She bit her lip as she slipped quietly outside the walls of Konoha, just for a moment. She needed to be alone, away from the stink of dogs. Away from him. Gin landed beside her, looking up at her with wide eyes.

Kagome scooped her up in her arms and held the cat close, sitting at the base of a tree and burying her face in the soft fur.

"You're alright, kitten." Gin purred to her in the language of cats, Feli, she called it.

"I hate them all." She murmured and Gin rubbed her face to her cheek with a purr.

"Our bond is stronger now, we are older, our chakra less wild, it won't happen ever again." Gin told her.

Kagome nodded and sniffled. It hadn't made it less hurtful.

"Hey, pussy cat." He said as he walked up.

Kagome blinked. "What did you just call me?"

"You're my little pussy cat, Kagome." He said with a cheesy grin. It lasted only a second as her fist hit his eye, leaving the skin bruised.

"Disrespectful mutt." She snapped at him and he scowled.

She whimpered and curled in on herself, letting the cat jump from her hold. Gin knew the girl still had growing to do, they both did, and she needed to heal. Golden eyes turned to Konoha and then back at Kagome. She had always urged her to get into relationships, but they seemed doomed to fail. She hadn't been around when Kagome's first fiance's family was slaughtered, but knowing that the young boy didn't even know about her, much less that they were engaged, ended that. After Kiba and Kagome's fight, the morning after that night, Kiba had begun telling his mother he would not wed such a girl. Young Shikamaru had so much promise, yet, he had become friends with Kiba, as they were the same age.

Kagome found herself rejected. Betrayed.

Even before then, after the Uchiha massacre, Kagome's mother, Sango Inuzuka, had caught her father flirting around. She left, without a word. Miroku Houshi, her father, didn't even give it a thought, he handed her over to Tsume and left Konoha, in search, presumably, of his wife.

"Kagome, oh Kagome,

The bird in the cage.

When, oh when will you come out?

In the evening light of the dawn,

Who is in front of the back,

Where the crane and turtle slipped and fell?" Kagome's whispered voice sang the childhood song, and tears leaked from her eyes.

Gin watched with a heavy heart.

Kagome was far too young for this.