For a long moment, there was nothing but silence in the little sparring ring as the two children stared at each other. Though Sesshoumaru was taller than her, Kagome's anger gave her more stature than she might have otherwise had—and both were riling wither temper and eager for a fight.
Kagome had tried to apologize and been insulted for her trouble.
Sesshoumaru had tried to control the ever-present rage and been pushed at until the damn broke.
He lunged at her, claws raised and fangs bared. She stumbled back, eyes wide under dark brows as she barely managed to dodge his attack. It continued that way for several minutes, Kagome evading as Sesshoumaru attacked, each panting with temper and exertion as they paused to stare at each other again.
"Coward," he sneered, determined to push her until the rage overwhelmed them both as his yōki slowly overrode the hard wrought control he'd struggled with since the moment he'd first attained his humanoid form. A struggle she hardly ever seemed to face. The rational part of his brain snarled that was because she was still just a child, not coming into the raw power of her soul like he was—but it was ignored in favor of calling her weak and less than.
Kagome, in all her childishness, vaguely realized this wasn't just her Sho'mru any longer—but she didn't know what to do about it, how to bring back the boy and contain the beast. In her naiveté, it hadn't occurred to her that she might one day need to know how to do such a thing.
Still, as a child yet learning her own strengths and weaknesses, and often faced with the resentment of the other young pupils of the citadel, the insults his beast hurled at her only egged on her own rage. So she barely noticed when her eyes bled red to match his, or purity sparked off her like a ragged lightning strike.
And the children lunged again.
Claw against claw, yōki against purity, rage against rage. More and more power filtered out of each child until their clash shook the very walls of the sparring room, until their feverish screams echoed throughout the palace.
"Useless!" he sneered and lashed out with his claws blindly, landing a lucky score across her collarbone.
"Spoiled!" She bit the arm that drew its claws against her collar, her teeth digging in long enough to rake down as he yanked away.
And power exploded unchecked between them.
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