Chapter 15

The next day Kagome attend school like usual but with Rangiku this time since she would be taking charge of looking after me for the time being until Rukia was heal. Things seem to had return to normal with the other Shinigami absent from school without any question (The memories of them had been deleted from the other students and teacher), Sado and Ishida still absent from school while the others continued to attend school but there was still something abnormal happening around too. Tatsuki was acting strange around Kagome or when looking at Ichigo, and Keigo was absent from school (Although no one really took noticed until lunch break or even that bothered by it).

'I wonder what's wrong?' Kagome stared at the girl talking to Orihime normally as she pack her bag to left since school had end, she didn't knew why Tatsuki was acting like that (Although not unfriendly) toward her so suddenly but she could somewhat tell that the girl was having some thought or question about her and was hesitated to spoke it out.

"Kagome, let's go do something else before we go back." Having been bored this whole time playing student alone, Rangiku really was excited to just dragged the one she would be watching over temporary until Rukia recovered to had some fun.

Kagome snapped out of her thought and turned to Rangiku, "Like what?"

"We can do some shopping."

It had been a while since Kagome went shopping with someone since she had spend her free times to train, she didn't mind spending time to get to know her new shinigami friend but the fight with the Arrancar had made her think she would need more training to get stronger not just so that she could protect herself but to help the other out too.

"Maybe next time, I want to do something else if you don't mind."

"What on your mind?"

"Training." Kagome gave an one word answered before she added, "After what had happen the other day, I feel like I shall train more so that I can be more useful."

Kagome had not once thought of training herself during her travel in feudal era for the Shikon Shard since her companion back then could took care of themselves but now was different, she had to worried for not just her family but friends and not to mention she was the one somewhat gotten into the whole Shinigami battle Arrancar business so the least she could do was to not get in their way by getting stronger.

"I will pass." Rangiku didn't need time to decline the younger girl suggestion as it was not her idea of being fun while in the human world but she couldn't left the girl alone either, "I will take you to Urahara shop, there is a training ground you can use and the other may be willing to help you with it if you ask them." She quickly come up with a situation for them both, not only she could left her job to the others but also spent her times to go shopping without being scolded by her captain.

Kagome didn't knew if she should be happy or not with the idea since she didn't really want to train with many people around, there was still things they didn't knew about herself which she didn't really knew how to answer without giving out on her time-travelling experience fighting with demon that couldn't be proven at all, and she doubted they were knew anything as she had not heard about Soul Society or see any Shinigami like them during her time in the feudal era.

'Ehm, I wonder when did Soul Society exist? Or maybe it had already exist back then but no one know about it?' It seem that there were more question regarding the world they exist than she knew, she most probably had to gave up her secret to know about them but maybe they might even had some answer to the reason behind demon cease to exist in this era. 'What should I do?'

She didn't like being watch but she knew it couldn't be help since she had already caught the Soul Society attention with her being target by multiple Hollow for an unknown reason, she didn't t really want to added another thing for them to be curious of her and end up asking her for questioning or experiment regarding herself as a miko or the previous holder of the Shikon Jewel that she didn't want anyone to know about it in case someone evil manage to took the information and end up finding way to create something similar.

"Kagome!" Rangiku called out more louder as the girl had not been spacing off without answering her previous few called.

"What?" Kagome snapped out of her thought for the second time today, she then noticed that Ichigo had stop beside them.

"I will take you to Urahara's place." Ichigo offered with another intention, he had something he want to get some answer from the girl but just asking her to talked to him alone would caught the others attention which he wish to avoid.

"Sure." Kagome could tell the guy had something to asked her, most likely about what had happened yesterday so she just agreed. "Rangiku, you can go shopping and let Kurosaki take me there if you want. The shop is not that far away and he should be able to watch over me for a short while."

Rangiku stared at the two for a moment, she could tell the two had something to talked about. She was curious yes, but decided to let them talk it out since she could just question the girl later anyway.

"Well, captain should not be angry with me since there will be someone looking after you for a short while. I will ask Orihime to go shopping with me then and met you in the shop later to take you back." Rangiku went toward Orihime after that.

"Shall we go?" Kagome turned to Ichigo to asked, gotten a nodded from the guy before they exit the classroom together. "How is your injuries?"

"Fine, it should heal soon." Ichigo didn't really want to recalled how he got injured or the girl beside him and Rukia got injured because he was not strong enough, "What about you?"

"It should be heal soon like yours, I will just have to used this time to train on my power, excluding archery practice of course." Kagome did curse about her injuries but she was not the type to continued drilling of the past, her time would be better used on training on her still not that stable power so that she could maintain her barrier longer and also maybe learn how to release her purifying power directly.

Ichigo went silent for a while, not really getting over with the fact that he was not able to protect his friends yet again but he also know better to drill on it for too long now and there was still things he need to do and asked, "Did you done something to stop my inner Hollow yesterday?" He straight out asked as he had also took noticed that no one was near to them to be able to hear their conversation.

"You could said that." Kagome didn't really want to go into detail but she knew the guy would want an explanation since it had done something to him, "Well, I didn't really know how I did it but I just thought that maybe I can somehow purify your inner Hollow too since I can do so to a Hollow. So, did it work?" She was not really sure since she had went unconscious right after that, she could still sense his inner Hollow still but not that strong like yesterday now.

"You did manage to silent him." Ichigo only answered with what he knew, he didn't knew how the girl power work on his inner Hollow but he was glad that she could stop it from gaining control over him yesterday and it seem to had quiet down for the time being. He would had to used the time to learn how to stop it from gaining control on him in the future and he did already had an idea on who could help him with that.

"Good to hear that it somehow work." Kagome didn't really want to said out loud about his inner Hollow was still there, although not that sensible now but she knew that the one carrying it should had notice it too, "Anyway, I want to do some training to get stronger so Rangiku suggest me to go to Urahara-san's shop and ask the others can help me with that. Do you know who should I ask to help me with that?"

"I'm not sure, maybe Urahara or Yoruichi since they are the one to train me on how to fight and use my Shinigami power." Ichigo recalled those training he had with those two and thought that it should be best to warn the girl first, "Urahara training can be quite hard and sort of crazy so I think you should ask Yoruichi or just train with the other girls."

Kagome went into her thought, she already cancel out Urahara in her list of people she would asked to train with acts hearing the sort of crazy training part. She could asked Yoruichi but she only talk to the older woman once and was not familiar with her, and the other male Shinigami were out of question too since they didn't look like the type to train with female so that left the two female Shinigami in my list or I could just train with Orihime or Sado.

'Hmm, it's rather hard to decide. I can tell Rangiku was not the type to train from what happen earlier and training with Sado feel kind of weird so that left Rukia and Orihime in my list…' During her whole thought, Kagome had not noticed that they had already left the school and were about to reach Urahara's shop.

Ichigo on the other hand just left the girl to her own thought since he can't really help her much with training or thinking of list of people to help her with that, he only spoke up when they reached their destination, "We are here."

Even in her thought, Kagome had took notice of her surrounding so she had stop right after Ichigo stop and managed to avoid bumping against him, "Thanks for taking me here, I will see you at school tomorrow." She smile toward Ichigo and bid him farewell before she turned to walked toward the shop.

Ichigo didn't said anything since he didn't knew if he would be able to go to school tomorrow but he didn't really concern about it, the thing he most concern was how to find those people that could train him and made them agreed to help train him.

"Welcome, Higurashi-san." Entering the shop, Kagome was immediately greeted by Urahara, "Are you here for something?" He had a small knowing smile on him that was quite noticeable.

Kagome state suspiciously at the older man in front of her, she had not knew him for long but she had a feeling that he knew more than he had let out, "Rangiku told me that there is a training ground below the shop so I was wondering if I can use it to train and practice with my power?"

"Sure, you can use it whenever you want, the others most likely will use it to train soon anyway." Urahara agreed in a second as he already knew some of them would want to train after what had happened, "Do you want me to help you with your training." He didn't like to work but he was quite curious on what the girl could do and want to see first hand on her power.

"No, I will maybe ask Rukia or Orihime to train with me when they get better." Kagome quickly decline the help before she asked, "By the way, how is Rukia doing?"

"She should be completely heal by tomorrow." Urahara began to lead the girl toward the underground training ground as he replied.

They walked toward a room and soon Urahara lower himself to open a tatami floor, and to her surprise there was a ladder leading down to a really large room. The inside had a high ceiling and walls painted to resemble a cloudy sky over a floor of desolate, brown, craggy land dotted with dead trees that resemble a real life sandy hill.

"Whao…" Kagome stared wide eyes at her surrounding when she reached down the training ground, it was a surprised to see such a large space underground which made her wonder how they build it.

"No one will be able to sense your power from the outside so you didn't need to concern about attracting unnecessary attention." Urahara explained as he stood beside the completely surprised girl.

"That's good, I don't want to attract Hollow to here because of my training." Kagome nodded and turned toward Urahara, "Thanks for letting me use the place to train, I will left before the sunset."

"I'll left you alone to your training then." Urahara just nodded before he turned around to left the room to do his own things, he would maybe came to watch her train later on to see what other things she could do with her power.

This is the end of the chapter, it took me a few months to finish this one so I hope that everyone like it. There aren't any action in this chapter as I think our character will need time to rest before things start to heat up again. Kagome had decided to train more and what's better place to train then the Urahara Shop underground training ground? Anyway, Kagome will most likely had a training partner since she couldn't really get strong enough to protect and help out in a fight just by practicing own her own. Could anyone guess who are they? The answer is actually quite clear.