After that day, InuYasha was brought into the Taisho family, and Touga quickly found out the root of InuYasha's aggression and removed it from him, he brought InuYasha into the family like he wanted, the demons who had adopted him had only been interested in tormenting the boy nothing more, so they had told InuYasha about how Kagome had been adopted by his older brother and they loved her more than their own flesh and blood.
With InuYasha's bullying out of the picture, Kagome had begun to flourish in school, her grades were average which was fine with Naraku, as long as she did not slip beneath a C he had no objections, and he had to admit that having InuYasha in the family now was amusing. The Hanyou grew like humans did, so he stayed in the same grades as Kagome, and while before she was the victim of InuYasha, he had turned into her protector, and she had done the same for him.
This went on for years, with Kagome bringing in more and more people into his life then he was really comfortable with, but he couldn't deny her. But Naraku had noticed a definite change in the girl as she got older, she was no longer afraid of Sesshoumaru, in fact she would often go toe to toe with him, and even would egg him into a fight if she could.
Today though was the one time she had left the Daiyoukai stunned, along with her father and grandfather, hell even InuYasha was stunned into silence.
"…..you want Sesshoumaru to WHAT?" Naraku demanded, staring at the girl as if she'd lost her mind.
"I want him to teach me how to use a sword. Kaede-baa-chan said that a weapon can help me channel my powers, and that my archery isn't enough, so I thought that the best thing after that would be a sword and Sesshoumaru is the best swordsman I know, well, the best who will actually fight with me and not let me win because they're afraid of hurting me." She looked pointedly at her father and grandfather.
"But what about me? I could teach you!" InuYasha stood up glaring defiantly at his older brother who was staring blankly at Kagome.
"InuYasha, you're still learning how to master Tetsuaiga, while Sesshoumaru has not just Tenseiga, but Bakusaiga and Tokijin. Plus he was alive when swordsmanship was important for survival, he knows what will work for me and what won't. Plus, like I said, he doesn't like me as much as the rest of you so he's more likely to actually be honest about my training."
"No." The word was sung from all three adult males, who then looked at one another, Naraku's eyes narrowing on Sesshoumaru.
"Why do you not wish to train her? She is a star pupil." Though he was against the idea, he was still affronted that Sesshoumaru was not jumping at the chance to teach Kagome. Though the girl had brought up many good points, the father in him was not at all pleased about this idea.
"She is human." As if that explained everything the dog demon looked at Kagome, watching the teenager for her reaction to his denial. He was not at all pleased with this sudden change in the girl, well, to him it was sudden, but it had in fact been forming for the last few years. He was used to humans cowering before his powers, houshi and miko more so because they could not hope to battle him and win. Until this girl at least. He could feel the power in this one, if things kept progressing then she would indeed rival him in power, which caused a bit of fear in him, and also loathing for the girl herself. Though he would not admit such things infront of her or his friend, nor would he admit to the fierce protectiveness he held toward her, which was another reason he would not train her.
The girls reaction was not dejection as he had hoped though, but a smile at him before he was struck with a sudden shock of purity on his right leg, causing him to jump up and growl in frustration since it stung quite badly, and she had caused a reaction from him.
"Sorry!" Kagome looked as though she was truly sorry, as if it had been a horrible accident, which bothered Sesshoumaru more, if this girls emotions ruled her abilities, then this would be something he could not ignore as a member of the Demonic council like his father was. Being one of the last Daiyoukai in Japan he was on the council of twenty, like his father and brother Naraku, and if it got out that he had been approached and knew of this girls abilities and ignored them, he could well be challenged for his spot, and while he enjoyed fighting he was loathe to kill off any more of the demons left in Japan.
"Fine, I will teach you how to use a sword and channel your abilities into it." His tone was grudging and he was rewarded by a bright smile that caused his heart to skip, and him to frown deeply as he tried to ignore it and hmphed, moving from her and out of the house. Little did the Daiyoukai know this was just the start of things to come.
The next month though is what sealed his fate, in the form of a homeless little girl child, who looked so much like Kagome herself, that Sesshoumaru could not have ignored her had he truly wanted to. The girl was in an orphanage when he met her, and it was the same one his brother and Kagome had come from, which to him seemed like fate, years later when he thought about it. "Girl what is your name." He demanded of her, while he signed papers to state he was her legal guardian.
"Rin is my name…" The tiny child said as she smiled with a tooth missing grin of delight.