Hello again everyone! You may (or may not, if the changes haven't shown up yet) have noticed, but AAiT has a tentative new cover. I made it myself ^^ Really, just photoshopped a few images from google and placed them over a background I made, but it looks better than anything I could've drawn myself, trust me, lol.

Anyway! Review, and as always, enjoy!

Disclaimer: Trust me, if I owned either Inuyasha or Doctor Who, you would know.

—Passing the Time—

When the Doctor led her into a room filled with medical instruments she recognized and plenty of others she was sure belonged on a sci-fi show, she was impressed. "You have a med bay in here," she had mumbled.

The room was rather large and colored with muted tones of gold and tan similar to those in the console room, bordered with soft green instead of the sterile white like she half-expected it to be, which, to be honest, made it a bit more comfortable. It was almost like an actual examination room, with various cabinets and a counter with a sink to the side along the walls and the usual doctor's and patient's seats in the middle. It was the additions like the moderate sized computer screen on a stand accompanied by a keyboard and the unfamiliar instruments hung around it that threw her off.

Kagome was gently led to the seat and told to lay back and relax as the Doctor plucked a long rod from his selection of tools. "Just to x-ray your shoulder—just in case," he explained, patiently waiting for her to give him permission to proceed. After a nod from her, he began to wave it over her, scanning, before hanging the rod and turning to the computer screen. The computer screen itself was something Kagome couldn't even begin to understand, as instead of something resembling letters she only saw a sequence of intricate circles scroll across display.

As if picking up on her thoughts, the Doctor's eyes flickered towards her, followed her gaze to the screen, and allowed his lips to twitch into a small smile even though he looked a tinge uncomfortable. "That's Gallifreyan—my language from where I'm from," he offered.

"Ah," she murmured in reply. The look on his face suggested that was all he would say on the subject as of right now and her curiosity on where he came from wouldn't be appreciated. "What does it say?" she asked instead, squashing her rising curiosity.

His eyes flickering back to the screen, he straightened. "Nothing fractured or torn—you'll probably just have bruising." The Doctor pushed his seat back and bent over, opening and rummaging through the top drawer of the stand the monitor was propped on. Pulling out a bottle, he rattled it and popped it open, shaking it until two pills came out. "For the pain," he explained as he held it out. "And for your headache. It's like aspirin, but more advanced since it was created centuries after your time."

Kagome held a palm out and let him deposit the pills, glancing at them hesitantly. "There won't be any weird side effects, right? Like… growing a third arm or something?"

Rolling his eyes, lips twitching, the Doctor produced a cup from nowhere and offered it. "Of course not," he admonished.

Kagome didn't quite hear him because she was staring at the cup of water blankly. "Uh…"

The Doctor blinked, before coughing sheepishly. "The TARDIS," he offered by way of explanation, and when he realized that didn't actually do the trick as her face only showed more confusion, he explained further. "Like you said, she's alive, or sentient you could say, and she sometimes provides what I need."

There were still so many questions running through Kagome's mind that it only made her head throb worse so she decided to push them back, ignore it, and just go with the flow. "Right, thanks," she murmured, taking the cup and drowning it with the pills. Instantly, she felt the pains of her head and her shoulder relenting. "Oh." She blinked. "That was quick."

The Doctor gave her a quick nod and stood," Like I said, advanced medicine. I have to go tend to the TARDIS now, so I can leave you here if you want to rest for a bit, or I can take you to the Library room? Or the Media room?"

"Library room, please," she replied immediately. The fact that she didn't even think to question the presence of such a room spoke much; whether it was of her lack of sanity or her ability to adjust, she wasn't quite sure. But as she jumped off the seat and let him lead her out of the med bay, she did say one more thing: "The TARDIS must be pretty big if you have rooms for things like a Library and a Media room."

The way his lips twitched into a sort of sly grin and the vague shrug he gave her didn't really comfort her, nor did his reply. "Depends on your definition of big, really."

She still didn't get what he meant by that, even hours later. She did, however, allow herself to enjoy the Harry Potter books that had yet to come out in her time as she cracked open Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix and kicked back on a rather comfy bean bag.

If Kagome was to be honest with herself, she was rather surprised that the Doctor let her have the amount of free reign that she did to explore the TARDIS. He was certainly right though; there was so much to explore and discover on his ship that she was never bored. In addition to the Library and Media room, the latter of which filled with a large flat screen TV with any and possibly every channel imaginable on and off Earth and the comfiest couch she ever had the pleasure to sit in, there was also a garden that neared the size of a small forest, a pool (with settings), and she had even found a room dedicated to jars upon jars of these colorful candies called Jelly Babies.

When she mentioned that last one to the Doctor, he had stared at her in outraged disbelief and for a moment she thought she was in trouble. That is, until he stomped his foot and glared at the walls with the biggest pout ever as he let out a whine. "You let a complete stranger in there after locking me out for years?"

Suffice to say, she was really starting to like the TARDIS.

In any case, when the Doctor wasn't working on the TARDIS or leaving her to her own devices, he was all but wheedling her with questions about her life and who she was and where she was from. She found him to be easy to talk to, and it didn't take long for her to relent and let him know that she was actually from Tokyo, Japan, 2002, that she lived on a shrine, and was just a university student studying history.

Aside from that, she kept her lips sealed in a smirk as he tried and failed to get information on what she was doing in Feudal Japan, how she got there, and why.

He did however manage to figure out that she was a priestess when she mentioned the shrine, connecting it with her ability to sense auras and giving her a windy lecture of his knowledge of Shintoism, but that was the extent of it to her knowledge. Whether or not he knew more or he wanted it admitted from her own lips, she didn't know, but as he knew his history it wouldn't surprise her.

She did get to find out more about him, apart from the obvious that he likes to hear his own voice, he hates pears, his tendency to ramble and wander off the subject, and that he has the personality of a little kid on a sugar high when he didn't slip into those dark, depressive, and contemplative moods he more often did than not. Like, the fact that he was actually over nine hundred years old.

"Seriously?" Kagome said when she found out, only moderately surprised and impressed. They were sitting in the kitchen drinking tea on what was the second day and it was somewhere in the late morning.

The Time Lord nodded, looking a bit disappointed when that was all the reaction he got from her. "That's it?" he asked after a moment, when she didn't go on a spiel of how that's impossible, or comment that he looked good for his age, or anything at all really. He had a really good line prepared for the "looking good for his age" one, his favorite actually: "I moisturize."

But Kagome just shrugged. "I've met demons older than you, y'know," she eventually replied.

The Doctor leaned forward in his chair, setting down his cup of tea. "Really? I've never actually met a demon before, if you can imagine. Heard of 'em—it's on my bucket list of course, but I haven't gotten around to it just yet."

Kagome snorted in amusement. His bucket list. Meeting demons was on his bucket list.

The Doctor gave her a wide grin and he wagged his eyebrows at her. "So how about this: a story for a story to pass the time?"

How did you like it? Hope you all enjoyed! Sorry it's a bit slow though—things will start to pick up next few chapters, trust me lol.

Till next week,

RainLily^^

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