AnimeMscInuKagLuver1425- Hahaha, thanks! By the way, do you have an account on Animespiral? I saw a story with like, the same title there as yours. Lol, I posted this story there, and it got deleted! Which makes me sad :(

Kurimuson Chishio- Why does everyone hate Kikyo? Yeah, okay, I made her the villan in the story, but I'm pretty indifferent to her lol

Kat57- Ack! Why does everyone seem to hate Kikyo! Oh well, its not like I love her or anything... Gets squashed by jumbo cookie and Inuyasha merchandice Yay!

xolovexinuyasha- Uh... I think there's some fluff soon, if not in this chapter, lol

lil-kag0m3- Yes! We finally meet Inuyasha! Well, here's your next chapter!

DISCLAIMER: (That I forgot to post earlier) I don't own Inuyasha or any of the other characters in this story! (Except for like, Gyou or whats his face)

(Quick) A/N: Yes, this is a re-post, although, it isn't finished yet, (go figure) for anyone who has an Animespiral account, it WAS on there, but ever since it crashed a few days ago, it got deleted :( So feel free to bug me to update soon I need reminding lol

Chapter eight: One Long Day

Kagome was walking behind Kagura cautiously, and looking everywhere to absorb her surroundings, there was no way she could remember this entire place by tomorrow! Kagome was beginning to panic. What would happen if she accidentally looked at the lord, or happened to say 'Hi!' by friendly nature? Her panic began to worsen when she recalled her constant beatings for just calling someone by the wrong title. Before Kagome could have a spastic attack, Kagura interrupted her thoughts.

"Here's the lord's room, now remember what Master Jaken told you." Kagura said.

"Yes, Ma'am." Kagome said. (A/N: In case you were wondering, the maid headquarters are located in the main castle, just on the opposite end of where the royalty resides.)

Kagome walked shakily over to the closet that was supposed to hold her needed cleaning supplies. There was a vacuum, a feather duster, a cloth, some cleaning fluid, and much, much more. Kagome just decided to take the vacuum, feather duster, a bucket, garbage bags, a cleaning cloth and bottle cleaning spray to start with.

Kagome walked to the entrance of the lord's room, and was about to knock, when the door flew open, and knocked her to the ground. Kagome dropped the cleaning supplies she had, and her nose was probably broken now, it was gushing blood. Luckily, Kagome had the bucket near her, so she just let her nose bleed into that for now.

The figure that had knocked her over Kagome found, was a beautiful woman indeed, but had a false presence about her. The maiden scowled at Kagome, and walked around her, as if she was just some disgusting, thing. Which to royalty, that's probably what Kagome, was.

It took Kagome's nose a few minutes to stop bleeding, and when it finally did, there was about a quarter inch of blood in it. The bucket wasn't very big, so Kagome decided that she hadn't lost very much blood at all for having just broken her nose. Kagome stood, and went to the supply closet, and walked inside, it was much bigger than Kagome thought it was. You could even walk in it. There was a sink, and bars of soap, and many other bathroom supplies. Kagome dumped the blood in the sink, and rinsed both the bucket and the sink thoroughly. Then she searched the room for some thin tape to keep her nose in line, her younger brother had broken his nose once, and her mom showed Kagome how to take care of it. Kagome found exactly what she was looking for, and ripped a piece of tape on the broken point of her nose.

Kagome walked cautiously back to the lord's room, expecting another door to come flying at her. Just as Kagome had hoped, there were no more people-killing doors. Kagome paused, and then knocked on the doorframe, to ask permission to enter. She wasn't really expecting anyone to be there; because Jaken had made it sound like the lord wasn't going to be in his quarters when she cleaned.

"Who is it?" A charming, rough voice asked.

"Um, it's the new head maid, I am here to clean lord Inuyasha's room, sir." Kagome chose her words as cautiously as she could.

"Come in." Kagome peered into the room. It was huge! No, it was beyond that even! It was about four or seven time that of her hut, and there was even a bathroom, small kitchen, and a hot tub for crying out loud! There was an enormous bed with a well-carved headpiece on the room's east side, with the back of the bed facing the wall. There were two large windows on the east side of the room as well. The bathroom, as far as Kagome could tell, was to her right, and in front of the bed, was the biggest and only television she had ever seen! Kagome glanced out the window, and saw that each had it's own balcony, and the view was beyond spectacular.

The lord interrupted Kagome's gaping with a rather rude comment.

"Are you going to start cleaning or what?" He asked, turning around, to face the slave. Kagome stole a quick glance at him, and then immediately adverted her eyes from him, remembering what Jaken had said.

"Yes, my lord, I am terribly sorry." Kagome stuttered, she was too afraid for words. If Jaken had seen what she had just done, she could expect to be beaten pretty badly, the thought terrified her.

Inuyasha sensed the fear emanating off of the girl almost instantly. Why wasn't she looking at him? Was she afraid of him? Of course she was, most people were. Inuyasha had grown to like it when people feared him, except now, it seemed so cruel to make this girl worry. Inuyasha inhaled her scent again. It was so relaxing to him, it smelled of honey blossoms and vanilla, well, her natural scent anyways. The pure scent had a mix of trauma, grief, terror, and most strongly, blood. The thought that this girl was afraid of him both angered him, and nearly made his heart fall.

Kagome began bustling around the room, picking up discarded clothing, books, magazines, underwear, and other items, and put them into a pile in the center of the floor. She could feel the lord's eyes burning a hole through her, as she walked back and forth through the room, trying to clean the room. Once Kagome had picked up all of the items off the floor, she put the clothes down the laundry shoot, and put knick-knacks of all sorts on various shelves located in Inuyasha's room. Then Kagome picked up a garbage bag, and began to put wrappers and other pieces of trash into the bag. Once she was done with that, she placed the garbage bag outside of the door. Then Kagome decided to clean the bathroom. The bathroom itself was about twice the size of the hut she lived in, which was big enough to house about two people cozily.

When Kagome saw what the bathroom looked like, she almost fainted. It was a mess! This would take her forever! She sighed; she'd best get started if she wanted to finish anytime soon. There was crap everywhere! From toothpaste on the mirror, to toilet paper lying freely on the ground. Kagome decided to start with the cleaning on the ground first. She separated the garbage, from the clothes, and grooming supplies.

Inuyasha stared at the girl who was cleaning his room with haste. It was clear that she wanted to get out of here as quickly as possible. She looked so uneasy it made him feel a bit stressful. He didn't know why, but this girl looked a lot like Kikyo, and that made him a bit tense. But her scent was completely different. Kikyo smelt of dirt and almost sulfur, but not quite, and she used too much perfume, and it clogged his senses, and—Inuyasha stopped himself before he just continued to rant on and on about what he hated about Kikyo. Inuyasha almost felt badly for the girl that had to clean his disaster area of a room. There really was stuff everywhere. He hadn't realized it, but he hadn't been able to see the floor before she had begun to clean.

It was about six in the evening by the time Kagome had finished, and Inuyasha had stared at her the whole time. Kagome felt sheer exhaustion when she was finished, and boy was she glad when she did finish. She really hoped the lady's room wasn't nearly as messy… The lady's room! Kagome rushed out the room and went into the lady's room. She heard the lord's voice calling after her. Kagome slowly made her was back to the lord's now clean room. Kagome bowed her head and slightly curtsied.

"Yes, milord? Was there something you needed, sir?" Kagome asked, patiently.

"Yes, you no longer need to clean lady Kikyo's room, she is no longer staying with us. Oh, and what is your name, slave?"

Kagome gritted her teeth, she hated being called 'slave', even though she really was one.

"My name is Kagome, your highness." Kagome said, still not looking at Inuyasha.

"I see." Inuyasha said, and then went to sulking on the couch in front of his T.V. He looked so sad; Kagome couldn't help but wonder why. She went completely against her orders, and walked over to Inuyasha.

"My lord, if you don't mind me asking, why are you so melancholy?"

Inuyasha looked away from the T.V. and directly into Kagome's eyes. They held so much pain, and sorrow, it made his troubles seem like he had only just lost a minor child's game.

"Feh, nothing is wrong, okay? Got it?" He stated rather harshly. Kagome immediately regretted her decision of talking to the lord.

"Yes, sir, I am sorry for asking, I will see you tomorrow." Kagome said quickly, and them picked up her supplies and quickly headed for the exit.

Inuyasha began to think about the day's events all the way from Kikyo, to Kagome. He wondered why it made him so upset when she was afraid, or hurt, or sad. He hadn't ever felt that way with Kikyo, ever, or anyone else for that matter. The only person he could think of could possibly be his mother. He also questioned why she never even glanced at him, and yet, had the courage to talk to him without him speaking first. That night Inuyasha wondered about his new servant for hours, and he eventually fell asleep.

A/N: Okay, so I suck at writing all of the relationship stuff, sorry! I'll try to improve! Dodges a stray flying tomato Okay then, now we're still not into the main plan by now, as I had hoped, so I guess this fic is going to be longer than I thought. Hey, at least you can look forward to a longer story! (That's assuming you like this story though P) See you guys soon!