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Chapter 10: Not over yet!
Renia's eyes shot open at the sound of the foreign voice in her hut. Slowly she sat up with her hand clutching her head in pain. She was wandering how she had made it back into her hut. 'I remember a demon walking into the village and acting on instinct I shot an arrow at it after that nothing'. Those were Renia's thought till she heard that mysterious voice again. ' That must be the one who brought me here'.
Renia slowly pulled her hands from her head and with a smile turned to thank her savior. She froze. As soon as she saw her, she froze and her smile fell upon seeing exactly who was returning her smile to her. She shuffling backwards on her futon in fright she looked for a weapon of some type. Finding none she planned on trying to reason with the demon, though she thought that it would do her no good after all demons were killers that showed no remorse.
While she was thinking this a piece of meat was thrusted under her nose; she began to salivate at the smell, forgetting about the danger for now, and instead focusing on the amazing smelling deer. She couldn't remember the last time she had eaten anything other than plain rice! She gave a suspicious look towards the demon and with a cautious hand took the meat and started to analyze it, looking to see if it had been poisoned or not. She didn't want to take any chances. ' It could have been poisoned, but if she wanted to kill me it would have been faster to kill me with her claws.' With that thought in mind carefully took a bit. The taste hit her like a bolt of lightning, it was amazing! Finishing the meat quickly, she then looked up at the demon that was leaning over a small kit. Seeing that the demoness was distracted, she slowly reached out for her bow that was against the wall.
She had almost made it when someone entered the hut. Expecting it to be another demon, she quickly lunged for her bow and quickly with precision notched an arrow; pointing it at the figure in the door way. Instead of a demon she was met with the face of Hotaru; one of the village women who regularly offered to clean her miko garbs. She had always refused, but it was a nice offer.
The stunned Hotaru smiled at the miko. " Oh Renia you're awake, it's good to see that you are looking a little better. Kagome-sama has been looking after you while you were asleep, you should thank her for her kindness."
Renia ignored her and looked at the three demons in her hut and asked " Who is Kagome-sama?' A small giggle to her left made her head. Suddenly remembering that there was a demon, she raised her bow and arrow aiming for Kagome. She was then baffled when the demon gave her a small smile and replied as if she wasn't about to get shot with an arrow. Kagome still smiling replied "Hi, my name is Kagome you don't have to worry about the sama part, I'm not really one for titles." She said with a little giggle. That was when Hotaru spoke up "Oh please, you are more than deserving of the title! She single handedly took down that boar youkai that has been killing us off! We as a village owe her our lives." At the end of her speech Renia felt a rush of jealousy at the way Hotaru spoke of this demon, when it should have been her that killed the youkai, saving her village!
Kagome blushed slightly at the praise she was receiving, but when she looked at Renia she instantly saw the look that she had in her eyes. It was one that she was all too familiar with. It was the same look she had when she was being compared to Kikyo. Quickly trying to improve the young miko's mood she said " But I doubt the village would be in such a good state had it not been for Renia. I'm sure the demon was also already worn out when I fought him, which is probably thanks to Renia. I can sense that you are a powerful miko, in fact you remind me a lot of my self six years ago." Kagome finished with a bright smile, but missed the disgusted look on the miko's face. With rage Renia shouted "Don't compare a pure miko like myself to a filthy demon like you! Demons are pathetic creatures that should be whipped from existence!" Kagome's eyes grew wide at this. She growled and with a sharp tongue said " Do NOT disrespect any part of me! My friends gave everything to make me what I am today!" Renia scoffed and replied with a sneer "Your friends were probably weak. Weak enough to allow you to use them. I should purify you and let their souls rest in peace." With a loud growl Kagome bitch slapped the miko across her face. "You dare criticize me when you barley know me! You are just like all the other mikos blinded by hatred. Believe it or not I was once a human miko like yourself. I was given a great responsibility which helped me make friends of all species whether they were demon, hanyou and humans some with and without holy powers! They sacrificed their lives for me, so don't you dare let another ill word come out your mouth or I'll let my beast rid you of your offending tongue!" At this point Kagome was seeing red. Her eyes were tinted red as see stared down at the shaking miko in front of her. Kagome then turned her back to the miko and went to take the needle and thread off of Hotaru's hands.
Renia clenched her shaking fists as she stared at the back of the demon.' How dare she say such slanderous blasphemy about being a miko!' looking to the floor she saw her arrows were now strewn across the floor. She quickly bent and picked up one and ran at Kagome, letting her miko powers flow into the arrow.
Kagome sensed the miko running at her and the flow of purity in the air. Gracefully she turned and mimicked the move Sesshomaru had pulled, when she shot him. She caught the arrow between her fingers. Renia was shocked, but knew she could still kill the demon if she forced more of her miko powers through the arrow, so she did. She smirked when she saw the demons arm glow with her holy powers.
Kagome kept her face passive, just as Sesshomaru had done and after being on the receiving end of one of those looks, she knew exactly what it was doing to Renia. Her arm tingled with slight discomfort at the foreign reiki, but nothing that actually hurt her, it was more like the feeling of when your foot goes to sleep. In this case her arm. She would let the miko have her fun, thinking that she was actually harming her, but then she would assert herself as alpha and show her, her far superior power.
Renia's smirk slowly slid off her face as her powers started to wane and the demon hadn't even flinched.
Suddenly she screamed as she was knocked to the ground by an immense amount of reiki. Her eyes widen and her jaw dropped as she saw where the power was coming from. The demon's eyes were a light blue and she watched as the arrow began to glow with her power and disintegrate into nothing.
Kagome slowly approached the miko and grasped her by her throat bringing her to eye level, allowing her power to spark off the miko's skin. In a low growl she asked "Do you summit?" The miko opened and closed her mouth, when the words didn't come out she quickly nodded her head.
Kagome propped the miko on the ground where she gasped for breath. Before Renia could comprehend what happened she felt a burn on her jaw line just below her right ear. When the demon stepped away she held her hand up to her jaw where the demon had used her claws glowing with power to mark her. Looking into a near bucket of water she saw a blue crescent moon about the size of an arrow head on her jaw. Her thoughts were interrupted by the demon " That mark shows that you are under my protection. I shall train you to use your spiritual powers better. Though I might not be the best teacher, but while I train you, I will try to find someone more experienced in teaching for you."
With that Kagome turned to see Shippo who was waking slightly. There was an awkward silence that Hotaru broke when she turned to Kagome " Well that was interesting, here is the cotton" She handed the cotton to the inu miko " Will you tell the village you are part miko?" Kagome pondered this for a moment. " I don't think so. It would confuse them too much, so it's best we leave me as just demon."
Renia slowly edged her way over to her new mentor to see what she was doing. Kagome seeing movement in the corner of her eye turns and smiles at Renia as if nothing had happened. Seeing Renia's curious look she tells her how Shippo was injured and that while demon he still needed the painkillers, since he was still so young. "Have you learned how to use your miko powers to heal yet? If not you can try on Shippo." Kagome says to Renia. "Wouldn't that burn a demon?" Renia ask. Kagome smiled at that as she remembered asking the same question. "No, for you see that is the healing side of your powers, not the purifying so it won't affect demons." Kagome continued to explain how to do it. Shippo was now fully awake held out an arm that was bruised badly. Kagome mentally cursed the idiotic dragon and his army. She started to heal the bruises herself, then brought Renia's hands over the bruise and let her finish healing it.
Kagome's heart warmed at the bright smile Renia gave her. Her eyes were taking everything in as she learned and she began to casually question Shippo on what he was feeling. Shippo replied with something funny and the two started to laugh. The sight made the inu miko's smile grow even bigger if it was possible. Sitting down against the wall of the hut she began to fix Renia's miko garb with Kirara snuggled into her side. She began to ponder over recent events, wandering what a certain dragon lord would do now that the reason for him being here had just walked off. She doubted he would give up that easily, the way he acted reminded her too much of Kouga for her taste, especially with his possessive mannerisms. Deciding to keep way out of the way of that dragon she moved her train of thought on to teaching Renia.
Little did she know that a certain dragon had been watching his gem the whole time and had a plan in mind to bring her back to him.
OMG! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO FINISH THIS CHAPTER!
Special thanks to 'Basketbears' and to 'CherryblossomFire' My best buddy who helps me make a lot of decisions when I get stuck. XD