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Chapter 4: Training

Kagome had learned that getting in Sasuke's way was a bad idea very quickly. Despite the way he acted yesterday, he was now cold and emotionless yet again. Kagome and Sango made breakfast every morning, and Sasuke ate it silently then left, Sango and Kagome always staying and hanging around the house, bored.

That was, of course, until the third day. Kagome stirred the porridge in the pot and Sango checked on the bacon while scrambling the eggs. Kagome then began chopping up more fruit for a fruit salad. After a while, they brought the plates out and put the bacon, eggs and fruit salad on them, then grabbed bowls and put porridge in them, adding milk and brown sugar.

Just as they set the breakfast down Sasuke came into the kitchen and looked at the table. "Why do you always make breakfast?" he asked and they both shrugged.

"Because, we actually eat properly, and we need to do something." Sango said.

"We're getting bored sitting around here." Kagome added.

"You can come with me if you want," Sasuke replied. "You don't have to stay here."

"We…can?" Kagome asked, and he looked at her like she had two heads.

"I can't control what you do." He replied, and she blushed looking down. "Let's just eat, we'll leave after."

"Right!" Kagome said, nodding. They sat down, Sasuke once again eating silently while Sango and Kagome chatted about various things, avoiding any topic from the feudal era.

"Hey, I wonder how Rin's doing?" Sango asked suddenly and Sasuke looked up.

"She comes with Kakashi every day. I swear, it's like she became his new daughter." He said, and Kagome suddenly felt jealous towards Rin. She didn't know why, so she just pushed the thought back.

"Really? I wonder why she didn't tell us…" Sango mumbled.

"Too busy with Sakura. She's learning the way of the ninja, she's a pretty good fighter too. She always learns every thing quickly, and she's very good with the swords." Sasuke mumbled, taking another bite.

"Swords?" Sango asked, emphasizing the s.

"Yeah, she uses two." Sasuke replied. He looked at Kagome and down at her waist, where the Tetsusaiga hung. "Do you use a sword?" he asked, gesturing towards it.

"Oh, no, it's InuYasha's…" Kagome replied sighing. "It transformed into a fang whenever he pulled it out, otherwise it's just a rusty old sword. I don't know why it appeared around my waist."

"Maybe the Tetsusaiga wants to protect you," Sango said. "I mean, you could be its next owner seeming as both of the brothers are dead and there is no more of their family."

"Yeah, but I can't transform it." Kagome replied.

"You should try. From what I've seen you haven't even pulled it out of its sheath." Sasuke said, trying to ignore the curiosity of this InuYasha character and what they were talking about, and Kagome sighed.

"What's the point? It wont do anything, I was the one who took it out of the stone, it didn't transform then." Kagome said.

"Well, I think you should try, so I'm gunna go with Sasuke on this one." Sango said, and Kagome sighed. She got up and put her dish in the sink now that it was empty, and then went outside, waiting for the two to finish. As she waited, she looked down at the handle of the sword, and glared at it, then rolled her eyes.

"This is so stupid…" she mumbled, pulling it out effortlessly. But what she wasn't expecting was for the yellow glow as the sword changed into the legendary fang that was surprisingly easy for her to hold. She stared at it, realizing it wasn't even heavy. 'InuYasha…' she thought. Sango and Sasuke came through the door and saw the fang, and Sango smiled.

"You see!" she yelled. "I told you!" she teased, while Sasuke stared at the blade in shock.

"When you said fang, I thought you meant normal sized sword that was made out of a fang. Not that…" he said, and Kagome giggled.

"Well, Sasuke, I guess you were right. Thanks, you two." She said, "Let's go see Rin and the others."

"Right!" Sango said, nodding her head. Sasuke just fallowed behind the two girls silently after Kagome put the blade back in the sheath, and it returned to normal as it was put in.

("…")

"I think we're lost…" Kagome said finally in defeat. Sango sighed and sat on the railing of the bridge they were on, going to another building. Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"This wouldn't be such a hassle if you two would just listen and fallow me." He stated boredly and the two girls glared at him.

"And you know the way from here?" Kagome demanded.

"No, but let me look," he replied and suddenly disappeared and reappeared on the roof. Kagome rolled her eyes, an illusion, moving at the speed of light, probably one of the more simple jutsus. He seemed to be looking when Kagome stood up on the railing and jumped onto a pole above her, climbing it. Sango rolled her eyes from below.

"Kagome, why are you doing this now?" she called as she watched Kagome walk along the pole, not looking down at the solid ground that was probably already a good twenty feet away just from the bridge. Kagome just rolled her eyes at Sango and continued to walk, hopping up onto another pole and swinging on it, then jumped to another pole not far off.

This reminded Kagome of Souta's video game Prince Of Persia. She gave another leap with her arms to the next pole, steadily moving closer to the roof Sasuke was on. She finally reached it after climbing a couple poles and she walked along the roof and tapped Sasuke on the shoulder, who turned and stared at the unexpected girl. He looked down at the bridge and the way he himself got up.

"How'd you do that?" he asked.

"The same way you did, just without going light speed." Kagome said with a shrug. "I'm a fast examiner, I saw the obstacle course."

"What about Sango?" Sasuke asked.

"Here," Sango replied, on the other side of Sasuke. "I can't just let Kagome have all the fun, now can I?" she asked innocently and Sasuke glared suspiciously at the girl.

"Let's go, it's this way," he mumbled, walking forward on the roof. Kagome blinked.

"You'd better not ditch us with more jutsus unless you intend on teaching us them!" Kagome shouted and Sasuke froze, turning to them.

"I'm supposed to teach you what?" he asked, looking surprised. Kagome smirked.

"You heard me mister I'm-the-best." Kagome challenged, crossing her arms. Sasuke glared. This was unexpected, but it would pass the time. Kakashi wouldn't arrive for another few hours at the place, anyways, so might as well make some use of the time.

("...")

Naruto sighed, bored. Why did Kakashi always have to take so long? He heard Rin as she hummed a song under her breath, looking sad. He looked at her closely. "Why're you so sad?" he asked and Rin sighed softly. She knew she couldn't tell Naruto what had happened.

"Nothing, just a song one of the people I traveled with used to get annoyed by whenever I sang it." Rin said with a shrug. "I met up with Kagome a while ago, but our group lost a fight to the death, we barely escaped with our lives."

"Oh…" Sakura said, looking at Rin with sadness in her eyes. "That's terrible," she whispered.

"That's how we came here," Rin said with a shrug. She might as well at least tell them some of the truth, she was just going around the well part and where they actually came from. Nothing horrible.

"I'm sorry about your loss," Naruto admitted and Rin smiled softly at the boy.

"It's fine, really." She whispered, but she stopped herself from saying something else as she felt eyes watching them. She turned, looking into the bushes. "Someone's here…"

"Huh?" Sakura asked. "How do you know?"

"Shhh!" Rin hushed. Sakura shut up, and Naruto pulled out a kunai, looking on guard. Rin felt a strange shiver down her spine, and suddenly it was gone. She let herself relax a little. "He must've seen us on our guard," she whispered. "He's gone…for now."

"How do you know it was a he?" Sakura demanded, looking slightly offended.

"Hey, don't forget I'm a girl, too. I could just tell, call it instincts." Rin said with a shrug and Sakura stared at her suspiciously.

("...")

Sasuke stared at Kagome. He had never seen such energy come from one person, and had never seen visible chakra before. But was it even chakra?

"What is that glow around her?" Sasuke asked Sango, who watched Kagome carefully.

"Uh…" Sango paused, then looked at Kagome, who let her energy down and looked at Sango.

"What is it?" she asked.

"He wants to know why you were glowing," Sango replied slowly.

"Oh…" Kagome said slowly, and she turned around. "Oh…well…"

"Oh no…" Sango mumbled. "She's going to tell…"

"Sasuke? Do you know what a miko is?" Kagome asked, turning back around.

"A priestess with spiritual powers." Sasuke replied and Kagome sighed. "They're a legend from a different dimension or something like that." That, of course, made Kagome freeze, and she laughed nervously.

"Well then, I guess that's a lie now." She said, smiling. He blinked, then realization hit him and he stared in shock at her.

"You're a miko?" he asked slowly and Kagome smiled meekly.

"You got it, buster," she said. "Now…I think I have this bloody thing down, you Sango?"

"Yeah, pretty sure." Sango said with a small nod. They focused their chakra, something that had been hard to do but they were taught quickly, and they did the hand signs needed then suddenly ran off in a blink of the eye. Sasuke sighed and fallowed after them.

Sasuke, Kagome and Sango arrived seconds before Kakashi, who appeared in a puff of smoke. He glanced around him and looked at Sango and Kagome. "So we have two more…"

"We just found out how to control chakra." Kagome said. "We arrived just before you did, which by the way is about four hours late…"

"Heh…" Kakashi began slowly. "Well, you see, I needed to help an old lady across the street while at the same time fighting off evil Shinobi…" he continued making excuses while Kagome sighed.

"Shut your trap hole," she snapped and Kakashi stopped, staring at Kagome.

"Excuse me…?" he asked slowly and Kagome smirked.

"You heard me." She replied. Sasuke saw the danger ahead of them and sighed.

"Kagome and Sango were able to use their chakra supremely fast for beginners. In two hours they achieved something that takes a full day." He stated boredly and Kakashi looked at him, then at the two girls.

"Good, then there should be no problem teaching them everything we know within the next couple of months, because we might just need them for something coming up." Kakashi said and they all looked at him suspiciously.

"What is it, Kakashi-sensei?" Naruto asked. Kakashi glanced at him.

"Sorry, top secret." He said, grinning behind his mask. Every one sweat dropped at the sensei who had once again pulled out the orange book. Kagome glared at the book suspiciously.

"Kakashi-sensei?" she asked slowly. He glanced at her, but continued to read. "What's that book about…?"

"None of your business," Kakashi replied.

"It's a hentai book, I was able to see what he was reading a few years ago when we were first a team." Naruto claimed and Kagome sweat dropped. Sasuke just rolled his eyes and leaned against a tree. Sakura mumbled something under her breath and Rin, Sango and Naruto waited for Kagome's reaction.

"Hentai…of course…" she growled. She sighed and turned around, punching a tree, putting her miko energy into it. The tree melted slightly at the base and a huge dent was created. The tree looked like it was about to fall over. Kakashi looked up from his book and examined the dent.

"Interesting way to let anger out for a miko," he muttered and Kagome turned, glaring.

"How'd you know?" Kagome demanded.

"Even though they say it's a legend, I have met a miko once before." Kakashi said, "She was a great warrior, and a guardian to this village. I was only 6, but she treated me with great care and brought me somewhere after I grew older."

"I don't think I want to know the rest…" Rin mumbled and Kakashi shrugged.

"If you wish, but it was nothing at all naughty. I didn't like her that way, although she was beautiful and had a perfect body. But it's your loss, cant go back on your word now." Kakashi said with a shrug and Kagome grumbled.

"Fine, whatever." Kagome stated. "Hmph…" she unconsciously let her hand wander up to the now complete jewel, fingering it through the fabric, unfortunately Sasuke noticed, but he didn't say anything. Sango seemed to get irritated at the tree for it not falling over as it swayed back and forth with the wind but never fell.

"That's it!" she snapped, and grabbed her Hiraikotsu from her back and threw it at the tree, causing it to tumble backwards into the rest of the trees as Hiraikotsu came back to Sango. Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto stared at her as she sighed contently, slinging the boomerang bone back over her shoulder and brushing herself off.

"She's scary…" Naruto mumbled over to Sakura, who sighed, rubbing her temples.

"Naruto, shut up." She stated and Naruto shrugged.

"Whatever…" he replied. Sakura raised an eyebrow. Why was he giving up so easily? She shrugged, might as well enjoy it while it lasted. She didn't notice, however, how Naruto was making faces at her behind her back. This, of course, caused the three girls to start laughing and Sakura to be highly confused. She turned to find Naruto was just whistling softly with his hands behind his back, eyes closed.

"Hn…" she mumbled. Kagome sighed irritably.

"Sorry to interrupt your reading, Kakashi-sensei, but the people here came to train, not to sit and watch you read that stupid book." Kagome said thickly. Naruto suddenly sat up, looking surprised at something.

"I just remembered the Chuunin Exams are coming up around the time that Kakashi-sensei said we had to do something!" he yelled and Sasuke looked up, interested, while Sakura sighed.

"We'll be back before the Chuunin exams, they've been held off for another month for reasons you cannot know." Kakashi said simply. Naruto blinked.

"Does all of this have to do with a mission?" he asked and Kakashi sighed.

"Obviously, Naruto. Now, as for training Kagome-sama, you can start by learning simple jutsus from Sakura. Once you have all of them down, come back to me and I'll tell you what to do next, but it should take about a week even for a fast learner, that's how long it took Rin. She's training with Naruto now, as will you when you're finished, then you'll train with Sasuke. After that, I'll teach you more." Kakashi stated. And so training started…long, vigorous training…

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