p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Sure, it wasn't the most tactful way to phrase the question. But Kagome was going to be asking him to wait an uncertain amount of time…and she wanted to know if he'd be around, after everything./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""I am an excellent fighter." He eventually said. Kagome really wanted to know what other words he'd passed up before landing on that one./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Besides, Inuyasha was an excellent fighter…who threw himself into every fight with barely any provocation. Being good at fighting didn't mean being good at surviving. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Do you think you'll be around in like, a year? Or two?" She prodded./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""I cannot say where I will be."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""But you'll be emsomewhere/em?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Little priestess," he said, strained, "you will clarify why you are here, or I will lose my patience."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"He loomed. She shrank. He grinned. She surrendered. "I need a favor."/span/p