Fox Demon
Chapter 3
After a days worth of nice, quiet talks with Sango and Miroku, Kagome decided to let up on the half demon. She went to Inuyasha's room and called him out.
"Let's spar," she said boldly.
"What!" Inuyasha gaped.
"I want to spar. I wish to test myself and my new abilities," Kagome said, bringing out two steel fans.
Each fan was as long as her arm from wrist to elbow and made a mockery of Kagura's. They glowed with dark energy as she spread one for Inuyasha to see. She wore a blue and silver version of her previous kimono. Her hair was almost to her knees, the two red highlights the only color in her otherwise black hair. She pulled Inuyasha by a delicate ear into the duel clearing. Lazy guards always lingered here, hoping to see a fight.
Three were currently sitting on the steps that led down into the pit. Kagome pulled a growling Inuyasha down the rest of the way and looked around. Brown, knee high boots adorned her feet so that the rough sand didn't hurt them, though she doubted it could.
"Alright, your move," she announced, moving to stand twenty feet away from the Inu Hanyou.
He sighed and pulled out his father's fang, now adorned with crystals. He raised the blade over his head and brought it down, 'adamant barrage'. (AN sorry if I got that wrong) a shower of crystals flew towards Kagome, who stood still, watching. Inuyasha started at her in horror. At the last possible moment, she jumped well above the attack, flicked her wrists, bringing out the fans to their complete plumage, and twirled in mid air, her arms outstretched.
"Black Fire Current Cyclone!" she yelled, watching as her black flames fell in waves over Inuyasha, moving into an imitation of a fire whirlpool, Inuyasha within, no part of his body showing.
No, there was no voice speaking to her. But when she thought about fighting, she knew what to do. She knew what her attacks were and how to perform them to their peek. That knowledge came with the fox demon. She made a small black flame in the hand that had pulled Inuyasha and burnt off the Inu's scent.
When her flames dissolved like the water they were imitation she found that many of Inuyasha's silver strands of hair were singed and that his face was purple. Kagome frowned, perplexed.
"What's wrong?" she asked as she landed lightly and walked to him.
"Held…breath…" Inuyasha fell backwards moaning.
"He had to hold his breath because of the flames. Hmmm…the flames still burn air. It could have killed him since he was trapped within," she said in a detached voice.
She laughed lightly at the snoring Hanyou and walked out of the pit. When Kagome reached the top, she addressed the three guards.
"Fetch him an return him to his room. Then resume your posts," she ordered, frowning at their awed faces.
"Ye-yes Lady of the North," all stuttered and ran into the pit.
Kagome delicately sniffed the air. Many scents mixed. She caught three scents that baffled her. One, was Sesshomaru. Another was a scent like hers. The last was a dark scent nothing like Naraku's, yet, at the same time, similar. Like a distant, distant cousin you always loathed. Kagome went into the main hall, her fans folded neatly into two long steel rods. Her nose warned her, before her eyes, that Sesshomaru was in the room with her father.
"Lord Taki, another like me approaches," she stated quietly, her father confused until he realized that she meant a fox demon.
"Thank you sweet. Come here," her father motioned and Kagome walked into he room further.
"Lord Sesshomaru, this is my daughter, Kagome, Lady of the North," Taki said proudly.
"I feel I've met her before," Sesshomaru stated, looking the Demoness over from head to toe with cold, yet passionate golden eyes.
Exquisite, he thought, eyeing her short battle kimono and metal rods as an after thought, feeling a corner of his mouth tilt up.
"Lord Sesshomaru, I traveled with Inuyasha. The Miko," Kagome said neutrally, her face carefully blank, yet inside the demon lord amused her.
"The one from the future, ne?"
"Yes," Kagome said, shocked that he knew of her past.
"You have turned out lovely," Sesshomaru enjoyed the shock on her face, blue-gold eyes going wide.
"Lady of the North? Three strangers are at the gate asking for a 'Lady Kagome'," a young girl said quietly, appearing in the doorway.
"Thank you, keep them at the gates. I will be there shortly," Kagome answered, eyes down cast now.
"Mistress?"
"Yes."
"Master Inuyasha has woken with the healers aid," Kagome nodded and the girl left.
"Tell me, what did you do to the pup?" Taki asked curiously.
"I rendered him unconscious," Kagome said, raising the steel easily.
"With two metal rods?" Sesshomaru smirked that his brother would fall to such a thing.
Kagome spread her fans quicker than even Sesshomaru's eyes could catch. She positioned them until all but her eyes were hidden from his sight by the steel.
"Appearances can be deceiving, my lord," she said and with a sharp flick of her wrists was gone.
The way she said 'my lord'…captivating, Sesshomaru thought as he started out of the hall, following Taki.