"Sango! How much longer? My feet are starting to hurt really bad!" Kagome whined.
"Wow, you really aren't the athletic type, are you? Well, you'd best get used to it, the area in which you work is much farther." Sango warned.
Kagome just sighed; it was typical, for her, after all. With her luck, her new lord would be an ugly fat slob and try to rape her, and just make life harder. Kagome tried to imagine the face of her new lord, but her imagination never really did things in much detail. Kagome ended giving up, and just continued walking. Each second wore on, and each step she took seemed more painful than the last. After what seemed like hours on end, Kagome spotted a tiny white building, it wasn't quite as visible as she would of liked, but the hazy day, and slight smog blurred her vision.
"Sango, is that what the dining hall looks like?" Kagome asked.
"Yeah, but slaves aren't allowed to eat there, silly, that's where the royalty staff and royalty eat, we eat at the mess hall."
Kagome fell over anime-style. "You mean we have to walk further than that!" She shrieked.
"No! We get to the bus stop way before the dining hall!" Sango nearly shouted.
"Whew, that's a relief!" Kagome sighed, she was really quite happy she wasn't going to have to walk all that distance to the dining hall; it was practically five miles off into the distance!
After about fifteen more minutes of walking, and complaining, compliments of Kagome, the two girls made it to the bus stop. Kagome was in slight shock. This palace was so much different from her old one! Slaves were actually allowed to leave their houses, and were able to go to a small little city. It was so bizarre to her; there was a grocery store, a pharmacy, hospital, and even a nice looking restaurant. Its name was 'The Silver Crescent', Kagome made note to ask Sango to go there later.
An old bus came up to the stop. About ten or twenty other slaves boarded the bus, and it was a tad crowded, but it was much better than walking. Kagome was having difficulty breathing, she was squeezed in-between two portly men, and they smelled terrible. Kagome was trying to hold her breath, but that wasn't working either. The bus started, and to Kagome's surprise, it jerked, and went at a fairly quick pace. For the first time ever, Kagome was glad she was squeezed in the middle. She most likely would have fallen over had she not been. The lone slave looked out the mud-caked windows of the bus; she could see the vast landscape gliding by forming an almost green-looking ocean. Kagome looked to see if she could see the sky, as to some indication of what time it was, but her vision was limited by lack of space, and the amount of cleaning on the busses. She sighed, she really felt happy for the first time in a while since she arrived. The only bad side so far was the whip-happy slave driver, Gyou.
"Man you are a pretty one, what's your name, girl?" The man in front of her said. He had shoulder-length, sandy brown hair, and was fairly handsome, despite that his clothes and body were filthy, but what do you expect? There all slaves after all.
"Hello? Did you hear me?" He asked.
"Hmm? Oh, yes, I'm terribly sorry, my name is Kagome, nice to meet you, uh, um… who are you?" Kagome asked.
"My name is Hojo, it is nice to be in the presence of such a beautiful young lady." Hojo exclaimed.
"Why, thanks, Hojo." The bus screeched to a halt. Despite her snug surroundings, Kagome went flying forwards, and was caught by her newfound friend, Hojo.
"Careful there, Kagome, don't want you getting hurt right before dinner, now do we?" He chuckled, and then helped her off the bus.
"Hey Kagome! Who you got there?" A familiar voice rang out. Sango! How could she have forgotten Sango? She had just been on the bus with her for crying out loud!
"Hey Sango! This is Hojo, I met him on the bus!" Kagome said. Sango eyed Hojo suspiciously, Kagome wasn't exactly wise when it came to being around men, Sango could just tell.
"Cool, why don't you sit with us at dinner Hojo?" Sango asked. She wanted to make sure this guy was all right. Sango felt exactly like an older sister to Kagome and wanted to make sure that she was making safe choices. But there was nothing Sango could do to change fate, and fate, was not on Kagome's side.
A/N: Yeah, I know these chapters are unbearably short, but they will get longer I promise! Please stick with me!