As Kiya advanced towards her, Kagome all the sudden felt like she didn't know what to do, her mind was screaming at her to run but her body wasn't listening to her. Kiya got within twenty feet of her then jumped in the air and started to come down with a speed so fast she looked like a blur to Kagome; Kiya readied her sword as she drew near, swung her sword down from above her head towards Kagome a white light emitting from the blade blinding the two from sight.

Sesshoumaru scowled because he couldn't see them as the white light engulfed them making them invisible to the world, he thought Kiya a fool bringing her powers forth on the mikos first training day, but he had to admit she was hard core, this would make the miko strong in due time. Thought foolish it was a good battle tactic too it would make the little miko be prepared even for the unexpected.

A smirk of satisfactory made its way to Kiya's face as the sounds of metal against metal was heard Kagome had blocked the attack… Barely. Kagome let out a breath she didn't know she was holding, she knew she had just blocked the attack and right now she was thanking kami. But the sheer force Kiya came at her made Kagome skid back a few feet.

After the light dissipated and the two opponents were visible Sesshoumaru made a smirk himself Kagome had managed to block the blow. From his spot and judging that she had moved from her previous spot he could tell that her action was a little hesitant and she had made it just in time. As he observed the two he could tell the miko was inexperienced with a sword and he knew Kiya realized this as well for she was playing with Kagome and hardly moving, in fact she was only blocking the advances the miko was making on her.

"Stop… * clang * Stop… * clang * STOP!" Kiya yelled trying to get Kagomes attention.

Kagome stopped and furrowed her brow in confusion, "What's the problem?" she asked breathlessly.

Kiya snorted and waved for Sesshoumaru to come over, "Your inaptitude with your hand-to-hand combat is pitiful Kagome. How you could've possibly survived without a bow all this time is beyond me." Kiya said with a sigh as Sesshoumaru got close enough to hear her answer and he had to agree.

Kagome was taken aback by the comment, "Talk about being blunt." She thought dryly. She watched as Kiya pulled Sesshoumaru to the side and words were being passed between them… well Kiya was the one talking Sesshoumaru was nodding. She watched as Sesshoumaru left on his demonic cloud and Kiya was walking back over to her.

"I sent Sesshoumaru off to get you a bow." She stated seething her sword.

"Why?" Kagome questioned she hasn't used a bow since she got her sword, though she still needed practice with it, it was a lot easier to handle then a bow and a lot less troublesome.

"Because until you learn how to form one with your powers you'll need to practice with an old fashion bow." She said

"Wow… But why do I need a bow if I have a sword?" she still argued.

"A sword is more hand-to-hand combat which like I told you, you lack the skill in… very much so. A bow is a miko's chosen weapon and is a weapon you must master before you move onto anything else. There are so many things you can do with a bow it almost pains me to know you only know how to use it one way." She explained no room for argument… But Kagome kept on going.

"But I can channel my powers into the blade of my sword." She said and did it just to prove that she could.

"Yes, but with a bow you can kill your enemy from a distance, now enough with this bickering you are using a bow and that's final." Kiya huffed and stomped her foot like a child.

Kagome 'Hmphed' and crossed her arms and stomped off a few feet away and sat on the ground abruptly turning her head away from Kiya with her nose in the air.

Kiya sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.

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"AHHH!!! DEMON EVERYBODY RUN." A young man yelled and everybody scattered around trying to hide as Sesshoumaru landed in the middle if the village with much grace.

Sesshoumaru wanted to roll his eyes; humans could be so pathetic at times, well in his opinion all the time. He scanned the area shifting only his eyes looking for a weapons merchant spotting one to the far left he glided over in long steps with his head high like the stoic, arrogant demon he is.

"BEGONE DEMON!" An old monk yelled running at him with sutras in his hands, making Sesshoumaru stop and looked boredly at the man as he advanced towards him.

The old monk stopped in front of the great Taiyoukai and chanted some spell and tossed a hand full of sutras at him. Sesshoumaru internally sighed as the little papers stuck to his person not affecting him one bit. Peeling the papers one by one off his haori he looked at the man with a hard stare, making him step aside if fear. Sesshoumaru averted his gaze from the old monk to the man at the weapons stand and continued his stroll to his destination.

Approaching the man he look at him with a hard stare, the merchant felt as if he were shrinking under the pressure, "C-c…. can I help you???" he asked in a hesitantly stuttering voice body quivering in fear.

He looked at the man with burning eyes as if to melt him away, "I am Lord Sesshoumaru of the Western Lands and am here to retrieve a bow." He said to the merchant with an icy tone and a stare to level it.

The man nodded his head vigorously and went inside and motioned for Sesshoumaru to follow, the young lord followed the man inside and watched him go in a room to the right and came out a moment later with an assortment of bows cradled in his arms.

"These are all that I have." He said in a respectful manner, put them on a table in a pile and bowed low.

Sesshoumaru walked up to the small table and looked them over, some you could tell were from dead solders on the battlefield they had the stale scent of blood, and some were just used and tattered, and others were in fairly good condition… He shifted his eyes over the pile and a pearl white bow hanging on the wall caught his attention out of the corner of his eye. Standing straight he walked over to the bow and inspected it.

It was in perfect condition, he'd say it was never used; it was white and had silver spirals decorating each end of it. It was perfect and for some reason he thought that the miko deserved only the best. "You say that these * points to the pile of bows * is all you have and yet there is one in perfect condition hanging on your wall." He said in a voice that made a chill fear run down the old mans spine.

"That one was special ordered by a man whom was supposed to be here three days ago to pick it up." He said and bowed again.

Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at the man, "The man has yet to come?" he asked and the merchant nodded his slowly, "Then This Sesshoumaru shall take what he refuses to retrieve, This Sesshoumaru will have the bow." With that said he grabbed the bow off the wall pulled out a little bag of money placed it on the little table with the other bows and walked past the merchant without a word.

The old man looked from the doorway to the little bag on the table, he walked up to it and opened it and his eye grew big before he passed out… There on the ground next to him was a bag of gold coins; something the man thought he would never live to see.

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"And you see once you channel your powers you can make a bow from your very hands" Said Kiya as she demonstrated how to make a bow to Kagome while awaiting Sesshoumarus return.

Kagome looked on with amazement she had never seen such a thing before, it was truly magical and she couldn't wait to learn how to do such a thing herself. "Wow Kiya that's great, when do I learn that?" she asked with excitement.

Kiya put each end of the bow between her hands and pushed them together making the bow disappear, as her hands got closer to one another. "Until you know how to master a normal bow and keep your powers in check without any flaws of a slip up that way we know nothing will go wrong while you do it then I'll think about it." She said with a smirk in a teasing manner making Kagome narrow her eye at her and cross her arms over her chest.

Just as Kiya was about to say something else she felt Sesshoumarus aura coming near. "Sesshoumaru is going be here any minute now… I suspect he has retrieved a bow." Just as Kagome got off the ground and dusted off her strange sparring outfit Sesshoumaru landed in front of them with a beautiful bow in his hand.

Kiya looked down to his hand and smiled he picked out the bow she paid a man to have commissioned but to never pick it up. Things were going well indeed… Honestly she didn't think he'd come back with it, but to her surprise he did and that only meant that the great lord is warming up to our little miko… even if it's just the slightest bit, this act alone proves that he has grown to think Kagome deserves the best and only the best, it was custom for Inus to do that when their demon was starting to take a liking to a potential mate, and technically it was the start of a courting… Demon courting starts when the alpha provides the potential mate with only the best of quality and he has done just that, She of course knew Sesshoumaru was blind to his actions but inside she was cheering like a little girl.

Sesshoumaru glared at Kiya dangerously her aura seemed to be all too happy for some reason and it didn't sit well with him at all… Kiya was a tricky little thing and he never knew when she was up to something… If he had to hate something about her that's what he hated the most, she had the ability to cover whatever she was hiding and still keep her aura flaring as if she were innocent, oh no he knew better, when it came to Kiya stay clear of her mischievous ways. He narrowed his eyes even more if possible at her when a big grin started to creep across her face those grins were never good. Deciding that she was in fact up to something he would keep a close eye on her to try and see exactly what she was up to.

Kiya couldn't help but smile or grin or just do something, the peeved look Sesshoumaru was giving her made her want to go into a fit of laughter. Kiya looked the other way to Kagome whom was looking confused at the moment, Kiya smiled at her and then looked back at Sesshoumaru, "Do you think you could give the bow to Kagome that way we can start or are you just gonna stand there and hold it." She said with a smile knowing it would aggravate him more, she knew he didn't like to be ragged on when he was in his scrutiny mode. She knew he was examining her for her odd behavior lately but she just couldn't help it, progress was defiantly coming along.

Sesshoumaru narrowed his eyes at Kiya again and growled low in his throat so only she could hear it, Kiya of course just rolled her eyes at him, and walked over to Kagome and handed her the bow. Kagome took the bow from his hands and when her fingers brushed against his hand she felt a slight electric shock run up her arm and throughout her whole body, no it hurt but it was enough to get her attention. Furrowing her brow a bit she pulled back with the bow in hand and decided to pick at what just happened later.

She looked at the bow in awe. It was beautiful and she loved it. She's never seen anything like it before, whoever crafted it obviously took pride in his/her work. It was a piece of work and she knew that she would never get rid of this one.

Sesshoumaru walked back to the edge of the sparing ground where he was before Kiya had called him over to run the errand for her. He too felt the shock and was now currently looking at his hand. The first thought that ran through his head was that the miko had shocked him testing her purifying energy on his person but then he dismissed the thought because he knew she didn't know such control over it to only transfer so little power to him just enough to grab his attention and not hurt him in any way.

Then his second thought was that maybe the little miko was starting to affect him in some way or another, he knew she was a burden at times but it was as if he were with his little ward sometimes but the miko was no little girl she was a woman and an attractive one at that… well for a human anyway. He didn't dismiss the thought like the first one but he thought it ridiculous that yet another human could possibly wiggle his way into his life, but it was not just any human it was his half brothers miko and that he wouldn't allow even if the whelp had chosen a dead woman to be his mate.

Looking up Kiyas voice bringing him out of his thoughts he saw that she was waving him over yet again. Deciding to think about this later he headed over to the two females that would surely try and make his world crazy when all this was over…

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Up in the sky with a couple kamis at his side, Touga former lord InuTaisho looked down upon his eldest pup with a frown marring his handsome face, "If Sesshoumaru were anymore stiff he'd be a board!" he said more to himself than anyone else in a disappointed voice.

Yuki the kami of water looked at the former Western Lord with a soft smile on her face and put a hand on his back, "He will come to terms in time it won't be too long from now that he will soon realize that the young miko has a place in his life… *she looked at Sesshoumaru herself * Kiya is doing her job very well, he's is making good progress and that's what we all desire… But all in good time Touga, all in good time." She smiled once again and patted his back gently before she walked away.

Touga looked over his shoulder watching Yuki leave before he spoke once again, "How does she know Sesshoumaru will fall through? How can she even be so calm, you can see for yourself he is making no * he waves his arm harshly at his pup* progress at all!" he said in a calm voice and looks to his right at Hakaru.

Hakaru looked at Touga with a smirk on his face his fiery orange eyes looking into the golden ones of Touga, "Your pup has gone a long time without any kind of intimacy and you have to admit that his mother has done a great deal of damage to him when it comes to emotions and feeling things… She's turned him into a stone… But he is warming up you may not see it but the rest of us do. Look a little closer and you'll see what the rest of us are seeing. Then maybe… you won't be so disappointed." He said with a chuckle and did a friendly pat on Tougas shoulder and left him to his thoughts.

Touga thought on Hakarus and Yukis words while watching his pup assist Kiya with the miko, he could see a slight glimmer in Sesshoumarus normally cold eyes and thought maybe, just maybe his pup might come through and fall for this feisty little miko. He smiled a small smile and chuckled a little she would defiantly turn his world around, but would also be the best thing that will ever happen to his eldest pup.

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Hey peoples I am SO sorry it took so long to update but i'm studying a lot and doing other stuff that life is dragging me into. So I hope you can understand the lateness and i'm probably not going to be updating as much but if I do update regularly like I was then the chapters will be shorter. I haven't decided on that yet lolz. Anyway I stopped it here cuz I ran out of ideas and I wanted to get another update in lolz.

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