Chapter 68: Tutelage

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Kagome fidgeted with the hem of her skirt before she took a deep breath and recklessly declared:

"I'd like to learn to throw a shuriken!"

Baki blinked in surprise before he turned his full attention to the girl, abandoning his dinner temporarily.

"Why a shuriken? Why now?" asked the man, a calculating gleam in his black eyes as he looked the black haired girl in her too blue eyes.

"I-I…" she paused taking a deep breath, "I'd like to learn to throw a shuriken." There was no easier way to describe her wish in plainer terms, something bad was happening.


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