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Chapter nine: Psychic Bus Driver

Kagome trudged down the stairs to the maid locker rooms, and punched her time card, and turned out the lights, since she was the last one out. Kagome had cleaned Kikyo's room anyway, seeing as how it was her job, and no one would believe her if she told them that the lord himself had told her not to work.

Kagome went to search for a little bit of food, like some sort of kitchen, anything. After all, she hadn't eaten anything all day, and worked her ass off. She had the shakes, and a bit of a headache, but she would manage. To her dismay, there was nothing to eat, not even a crumb, the place was spotless! Kagome growled out of frustration, and headed out of the building.

Kagome stood at the bus stop for what seemed like hours. After about (in reality) five minutes, the bus came, and the clock on it's front read 12:57 AM. Kagome gasped, she was going to be so tired tomorrow! She boarded the bus silently, and sat down in a seat, the bus was empty, except for her, and the bus driver. Kagome's vision began to blur with stinging tears as she yawned. It was all she could do not to fall asleep, which she would have done had it not been for the bus driver.

"So, why are ye out so late?" She asked kindly.

"Oh, well, while the old head maid was out, she left me a massive mess to clean up. I spent all day cleaning both of their rooms."

"Ah, so ye are the new head maid I have heard so much about. I hear you weren't at breakfast, lunch or dinner, tell me child, would you like my sandwich? I picked it up about a half an hour ago, so it should still be good." Kagome was a bit flustered, it was a rather odd question to ask someone whom you had just met, but Kagome was grateful nonetheless.

"Thank you, miss?" Kagome asked

"Kaede." Kaede said.

"Thank you, Kaede, as you may have guessed, my name is Kagome." Kagome said, as she took the sandwich from the bus driver named Kaede, who seemed to know so much about her.

"Miss Kaede, you didn't pick this sandwich up for yourself, did you?"

"Ah, no child, ye caught me, I figured you would be coming this way, ye may think me crazy for saying this, but sometimes I have these visions, and they are usually correct." She stated.

Kagome blinked at this, and just stayed quiet. She did think this lady was a bit off her rocker, but she was very kind to have done such a favor for her.

"Child, if you give my your house number, I can just drive you there, instead of you having to walk all the way home in the dark."

"Thank you, Kaede, I think my house number is something like 6106, but I haven't paid much attention to it." (A/N: P that's my house number, so I thought I could use it )

"Ok child." Kaede said. There was an awkward silence, and Kagome was beginning to hate the quiet-like stature of the busses.

"Is there something the matter, miss Kagome?" Kaede asked.

"No ma'am, I am just tired is all…" She said.

"Ah, I see, but there is something else isn't there?"

Kagome stayed quiet for a while, she didn't exactly like spilling her life's story to people she had just met. But Kaede was different, Kagome felt like she had a connection or something with the old lady.

"I… It's just I'm worried. I have been getting this eerie feeling for a while, like someone has been watching me, I guess I'm just paranoid, and then when I was cleaning the lord's room, he kept staring at me, and my orders were specific not to make an contact with him, but he just looked so sad and—"

"Child please! One problem at a time! And please, try and take a breath!" Kaede warned.

Kagome took a deep breath, like Kaede told her to. Then began to speak again.

"I am sorry, I just have a lot on my mind, I'm worried that master Jaken over-heard me talking to lord Inuyasha, he didn't say what he would do to me, I just got the feeling it would be bad." She said glumly.

"Ah child, I wouldn't worry about it, just remember this, half of life is screwing up, and the other half has to deal with it." She said.

"Kaede, I don't understand, what does that mean?"

"Child, it means that part of us makes mistakes, and that we have to deal with them, life does go on." Kagome thought about it for a while, and then the bus stopped. Kagome said her thanks, and good-byes to Kaede, and then headed to her hut. She hoped that Sango was still up, but she doubted it.

Kagome pushed the screen door aside, stepped into the hut, and then closed the door behind her. Kagome just stumbled numbly over to her cot; the clock on Kaede's bus had read 1:03 AM. She was so tired, and only had about four hours to sleep until she would be awakened to do daily tasks again.

"Kagome! You're home!" Sango exclaimed.

"Sango, I didn't expect you to be up so late, especially waiting for me!" Kagome whispered, not wanting to wake up the neighboring huts.

"Of course I would, silly! How could I not? So, what happened? How was your first day on the job?" She asked childishly, rocking on her cot.

"Very much work, I really hope the lord's room isn't always that messy."

"Oh! Did you see him? Was he nice? Did you see his girlfriend? Hey, what's that piece of tape doing on your nose? You look funny with it on there." Sango bubbled.

"Okay, lets start with the beginning, I was about to go into the lord's room, when I think his girlfriend opened the door in my face, and then it hit my face, and she broke my nose. And yes, I did see him, only in quick glances though, I was told not to speak to him, look at him, or go near him, and if he talked to me, then I was only supposed to answer briefly, and speak with the 'utmost respect' as master Jaken said."

"I see, well, it's really late, or rather, early, we should get some sleep."

"Agreed." Kagome said.

Kagome drifted to a light nightmare infested sleep. She kept having visions of being beaten to death for talking to the lord, and her parents being ashamed of her, shunning her. Even Sango, she was the worst of them all. Kagome was running away, and Sango shot her down, just as the other head maid had been shot down. Kagome laid there, blood dripping through the new hole in her chest, and Sango was laughing.

A/N: Wow, this is a really fun story to write! Just to clear some things up, the whole family being ashamed, and Sango shooting Kagome was a DREAM NOT REAL! Haha, just thought I should clarify that! If I said Kaede was the old head maid, sorry for the confusion, just disregard the fact that I might have said that, that was just one of those crazy ideas that just don't work :-P