Chapter 5: Learning About the Taisho Clan (For Real This Time)
Team 7 was currently sitting around the still unconcious Kakashi. It had been two days since their fight with Zabuza... and the kiss between Itachi and Kagome. Kagome was starting to loose her temper with Sakura though. She'd figured out that Sakura was the who threw her stuff away. Now normaly she would just be annoyed, but seeing as how the blanket was from her mother, Naruto had to hold Kagome back from killing her.
Currently, Kakashi was begining to wake up. Kagome ran a glowing red hand over Kakashi, and healed all of his broken bones, but left most of the muscles to heal on their own.
''What happened? Where are we?'' Kakashi asked weakly.
''You passed out after our fight with Zabuza.'' Naruto explained. Kakashi nodded and tried to stand up. Kagome pushed him back down.
''Kakashi you still need to rest.'' She said firmly. ''I didn't fully heal your muscles, so it will take about a week to heal.'' Kakashi sighed, but nodded in defeat.
''You're awake.'' Tazuna said.
''Thank you, for bringing my father back.'' Tsunami said. Inari bowed also, a smile on his face. He and Kagome had talked the day before, and now he loved her like she was his big sister.
''Your welcome. Now, Kagome, care to explain your transformation?'' Kakashi asked with a raised brow.
''Well, first off, I need to explain my heritage.'' She began. ''The Taisho clan is much like the Inuzuka clan. The only big difference is, well, we're dog demons.'' Everyone in the room (Except Naruto and Kakashi) was shocked.
''I knew you were a demon!'' Sakura screeched. Everyone shot her a glare and told her to shut up.
''As I was saying, the Taisho clan are dog demons. We can transform into giant dogs when we reach a certain age, and we can control our inner demon most of the time. What you saw was me going into demon rage. Any questions so far?'' Kagome asked. Kakashi raised his hand.
''Does the Taisho clan have a kekkai genkai?''
Kagome smiled slightly and said.
''Yes, we have three.'' Everyone who knew what that was gapped. Even Naruto didn't know they had three.
''Our first one, is the power to copy any kekkai genkai we see. We can choose which ones we want to copy, but only if we have control over our kekkai genkai. When I first met Sasuke, Itachi, and Hinata, I accidentally copied the sharingan and byakugan.'' Itachi and Sasuke were shocked at this.
'No wonder father wanted to set up a marriage between one of us and her.'
''Our second kekkai genkai is... limited to certain Taishos. We can get a psycich power, like mind reading or something. Sesshomaru has control over poison, and I have precognition. I saw a man with sickly pale skin bite Sasuke on the neck, and then I saw a man with long wavy black hair controlling Itachi. That's why I was so relieved to see them by me.''
Itachi and Sasuke got soft looks in their eyes, and each wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
''Anyway, my clan's third kekkai genkai is something called Seishi's Killing Jutsu. It allows us to kill the things that take souls to the afterlife. We usually transfer that power into an object that we can slay them with. Like my sword, Seishi Kakushi Ken, is what I use to kill them. According to my father, the last person to ever use my sword was my ancestor, the only other female born to my clan.'' She looked up at them.
''But why did you have a red healing aura?'' Naruto asked curiously.
''That's the confusing part. Have you heard about mikos and the Shikon no Tama?'' She asked.
Only Kakashi, and surprisingly Tsunami and Inari, knew what that was.
''Mom used to always read me the story of the Shikon no Tama! It was about the first miko, who would purify evil demons. She herself, was a dog demon. How she got the spiritual powers was never explained. One day, a giant demon made up of smaller ones came to fight the miko. The battle lasted 7 days and 7 nights, she was starting to weaken so she grabbed the demons soul, and fused it with hers, and it created the Shikon no Tama. The Jewel is currently residing in the Yariman family. I think they're from Konoha like all of you.''
Kagome was a bit surprised. Kikyo's clan had the Shikon no Tama?
'Wait, Midoriko told me how the Yariman clan had the first priestesses while the Taisho clan had the only miko. As if they'd have enough spiritual power to keep it completely pure.' She thought.
''Well, you see, I got my ancestor Midoriko's spiritual power, but it was multiplied ten-fold. I need to get the Shikon back when we go home.'' Kagome said, muttering at the end.
Sakura immediately protested.
''NO WAY! THE SHIKON NO TAMA BELONGS TO KIKYO! I BET YOU'RE JUST MAKING THIS ALL UP TO LOOK COOLER!'' She screeched.
Kagome smirked evilly. ''Oh? You don't think I'm a miko?'' She went outside, and touched a tree with a glowing red finger. It turned to ash.
''A miko can purify anything, a priestess can only purify demons if they're strong enough.'' She explained. (AN: In my story, priestesses are weaker than mikos, even if they are the same thing.)
''Can your miko abilities do anything else?'' Kakashi asked with interest.
Kagome acted like she didn't hear him, and started to play with her hair.
'She's hiding something.' Kakashi thought.
''Can we see your sharingan and your byakugan?'' Itachi asked.
Naruto smirked and proudly proclaimed, ''Ha! I've already seen what they look like. It's real pretty, show them Nee-chan.''
Kagome smiled at Naruto's antics and closed her eyes. When she opened them, there was the byakugan, except instead of no pupil, it had a thin blue slit that looked like a dragons pupil. She closed her eyes again, and when she reopened them, there was a gorgeous blue version of the sharingan. Itachi and Sasuke were damn near drooling when they looked at her with a blue version of their clan's kekkai genkai.
''Okay, enough about my clan. Kashi-chan, you do realize that Zabuza's alive right?'' Kagome asked. She was blushing a little from the stares Sasuke and Itachi were giving her.
''What the hell! No way! Zabuza can't be alive! That hunter weirdo carried him away after he proclaimed him dead!'' Sakura shouted in confusion.
''Sakura, she's right, Zabuza isn't dead. What did the hunter nin use to kill Zabuza?'' Kakashi asked.
''A senbon.'' Itachi said. Kakashi nodded towards him.
''Yes. Senbon are mostly used for medical uses, they're rarely used for offense unless thrown at a vital point. The hunter nin used a senbon in Zabuza's neck, the most vital point on the body. There is a nerve on the back of the neck that when hit can cause temporary death.'' Kagome informed.
Sakura glared at the taller girl.
'Cha! She thinks she knows everything! It's a good thing Sasuke and Itachi love me and Kikyo! That little whore won't steal them away from us! Cha!' Inner Sakura bitched.
''We will train for the mean time.'' Kakashi stated.
''But Kakashi-sensei, you're still injured.'' Sakura protested.
''Just because I'm not fully healed doesn't mean I can't train you.'' Kakashi stated with a slight glare.
He had seen the glare Sakura had aimed at Kagome, (Which pissed him off) but had let it go. Now she was questioning his teaching? If it wasn't for the fact that Izayoi, Kagome, or Mikoto would take away his Icha Icha Paradise, he would kill the pink haired brat... oh yeah, and he would be considered a murderer.
''Yatta! Let's go!'' Naruto jumped up excitedly.
'Now you see, Naruto's got the right idea!' Kakashi thought to himself. (AN: Sorry if Kakashi seems OOC, but I hate when characters are too dry and lifeless, or just rub me the wrong way. That's pretty much the only reason I won't watch Naruto... that and because Sakura and Karin are in there... )
In the Forest
''What's our training for today?'' Sasuke asked curiously.
''You will be practicing chakra control.'' Kakashi said.
''Why do we need to learn about chakra? Can't we just learn jutsus?'' Naruto whined. He really didn't want to do chakra control, Sesshomaru was a real bitch when it came to that.
''You need to be able to control chakra in order to perform a jutsu correctly. If you use too little, a jutsu won't work. Use too much, you tire out faster. Today you'll be climbing trees. But, there's a catch. No hands can be used.'' Kakashi stated.
Sakura gapped at that. No one else was affected by the news.
'These are the times Sesshomaru's perfectionest nature comes in handy.' They thought in unison.
Kakashi looked at Kagome.
''Care to give a deminstration Kaggie-chan?'' He asked with a smirk.
Kagome's brow twitched at the nickname.
''Sure, Kashi-nii chan.'' Kagome smirked back. She frowned when she noticed it didn't affect him.
''Nice try, but it doesn't bother me when you call me that.'' He said.
Kagome smirked again, before walking towards the tree. She had started walking up it, when she said.
''It doesn't? Well, I guess it shouldn't bother you when one of them tell you what Itachi did to me.''
Kakashi's visible eye widened. The forest seemed to go quiet, and Kakashi's aura was practically rolling off him with killing intent.
''What. Did. You. Do. Itachi?'' Kakashi gritted out.
Itachi's eyes widened, and he took off after Kagome up the tree. Kakashi aimed his glare at the blonde and the other Uchiha. They soon followed up the tree after their friends. Sakura was the only one left, and was shaking under Kakashi's glare.
''I- I- Itachi, s- sorta k- k- kissed K- Kagome.'' She stuttered at him. She then raced up the tree with surprising ease.
Kakashi was twitching in anger.
''ITACHI! You damn... TEME!'' He roared, and raced up the tree after them.
It was about an hour later, when Kakashi finally calmed down. Of course it had taken Kagome's summon Kiroro sitting on him, Naruto's shadow clones, and Kagome threatning to burn all of his Icha Icha Paradse. Sakura had passed out when she saw Itachi's hair ponytail chopped off. (AN: I couldn't believe it when my friend said Itachi had long hair. It looks shorter in the pictures! So now just imagine him without the ponytail, and it being chin length.)
''Fine. I don't care if you and Itachi kissed. But, I think Sasuke could use some loving too.'' Kakashi said.
He still wanted to go along with his plan for his twin students to get with his little sister... even if it pissed him off that one of them kissed her already.
'Hell will be compared to nothing once Sesshomaru or Inuyasha hears about this.' He thought.
Kagome blushed and looked at Sasuke, who was also blushing. Kakashi gave her a, 'go on', look. She shyly looked at Sasuke, and gave him a small peck on the lips. Sakura passed out again, Naruto cheered Sasuke on, Kakashi looked satisfied, Itachi had to remind himself they were sharing, and Sasuke had a dreamy look on his face.
''Dinner's ready!'' Inari said, crashing through the bushes.
He ran up to Kagome, and latched onto her arm.
''Come on, Nee-chan! Let's go eat!'' He said dragging her away.
Inari had seen and heard everything. From what their training was to her kiss with Sasuke.
'My Nee-chan!' He thought viciously.
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