Honestly? I think I'm more in the mood to write and update this because I'm rewatching all of inuyasha.
FYI, this is going to be a mix of the manga and anime, so there will be some differences. Also, Kaname won't be meeting Kagome until WAAAAAAAAAY later, some time after Rin Joins the party (insert FF lvl up music right here). Thus, her not finding out about the well until WAAAAAAAAAAY later.
Speaking of FF, I've been playing the FF14 online game, made my character and guy's...
I. Am. So. FUCKING. KAWAII.
Nah, just kidding, I mean yeah characters so freaking adorable, but I have been saying that the whole time as i played in the living room. My brother was just SO done with me~! xD It was even more funny when I practically deadpaned the whole time i said it (Think fran from KHR).
Because...A journey, is it?
It had come to my attention that, ever since I had gotten these jewel shards into my possession, that both bandit and demon activity had increased three folds. Every three to five day's an attack would happen to the village. Now, usually I would have gotten rid of whatever seemed to have put the village in danger, but seeing as the shards seemed to give power to demons, and made mortal's slightly insane, I knew it was a bad idea to do such a thing.
"Toma, Toka, how are Fishermen holding up?" I questioned, purifying the last of the demons that tried to come in through the river with a sutra. My Naginata was left with Jiro to be sharpened since the blade started to get duller with the amount of fighting happening, I wasn't worried, sutras and fists seemed enough for most demons in the immediate area. The twins grinned, pointing at the resting and tired fishermen who fought off the demons. Luckily they were fairly low level demons, weakened by accidentally touching my barrier. Humming in approval at the medical treatment given to them, I decided to maybe strengthen the barrier, with all the attack's happening, it was weakening a bit. "Right then, I should also add the river to the barrier somehow," I mused, looking around and noticing something missing. "Hm? Toma, Toka, where is Sayuri?"
"She's taking care of some demons that sneaked into the horse pen." Toka answered, tilting her head towards the left.
"Oh? Is she?" I questioned skeptically, Toma nodded, I just sighed and scratched the back of my head. "Hn, I see." I then went over to make sure that the men were alright, once they assured me that they would be more careful I left with the twins. "Let's go and see if Sayuri still lives, shall we?"
"I bet you anything she's flirting with Kano." Toma said as we walked.
"Mhm~, I bet she just went to take care of the demon to impress him." Toka added.
I cocked my brow at the two. Sayuri was trying to impress Kano by killing demons? I thought, a little bewildered, since I specifically recall men of this era wanting a submissive, gentle and timid wife. "She is trying to impress kano...Of all men, Kano?" I asked.
"Mhm~!" They both confirmed.
"I don't understand, Why would she think slaying a demon would impress him?" I muttered, waving at a few of the villagers that we passed. Kano, he was fourteen, two years older then her, not to mention he seems to like the shy, weak, and timid style of girl.
"Because Kano is in Love with Kaname-nee~!" They answered.
I almost stopped my steps in surprised. Almost.
"...Oh?"
"She's trying to impress him with demon slaying by acting like you." Toma chimed.
"Because he likes watching you when you slay demons." Toka said with a small grin.
I decided to ignore that, the horse pen was near, and I could see the idiot girl as she stood next to Kano. A tall brown haired/eyed teenager, he had toned arms from working and tanned skin from the sun. Sayuri seemed to be trying her best to...for lack of better term...'seduce' him with her body language, she was twirling her hair with one finger, head tilted downward slightly and peering out at him from under her eye-lashes. Kano, on the other hand, seemed absolutely uninterested, his arms crossed in front of him, leaning against the fence, his eye's weren't even looking in her direction.
"Sayuri." I called out as we neared, Kano seemed to freeze at my voice, I observed how the boy snapped his attention to me. ….Poor boy. I thought in amusement as his cheeks reddened, he tried to make himself presentable and straightened up his stance. I felt a bit bad for him, falling in love with me of all woman. But then, I discarded that small bit of guilt, replacing it with amusement at the situation and how he would react if I told him that my heart was already taken by another. How tempting to crush his heart right now. I thought as the three of us stopped in front of them. I glanced down at Sayuri, seeing her looking at Kano's face, then she glared at me. I chuckled lightly, deciding to have some fun with this.
"H-Hello, Lady Kaname." Kano greeted, blush still on his face, as he bowed.
"Good morning Kano." I greeted, "I heard that there were some Demons in the horse pen?" I asked, he was about to answer when Sayuri interrupted.
"Yes! I took care of them, Master. Right, Kano?" She said, practically hissing out my title. She glanced at the boy, waning to see his reaction, only to be disappointed and more irritated when his full attention was on me. "Kano?"
"Huh?" he answered intelligently, snapping out that dreamy look, and saw me smirk at him. He flushed before clearing his throat. "Uh, right, yeah...It was just the one demon, nothing to worry over, Lady Kaname."
"Hn."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"Kaname-nee, Can we finish early today~?" Toma asked tugging my sleeved, breaking my stare down at Kano, and pouting up at me.
"Yeah, Mommy was going to make our favorite today for lunch." Toka chimed in.
"...Alright, Sayuri will just have to pick up the slack-"
"EH?!"
"- after all, It's not like she'll complain, or else she will have to go out into the woods and repeat her last survival lesson." I finished, smiling down at the terrified looking girl. "Kano..."
"Y-YES?!" he answered eagerly.
"I understand from your father that you would like to join in my training?" he nodded eagerly, and sayuri looked a thousand time better at hearing this. Probably imagining him without a shirt. I thought, "Do you know in what weapon do you plan on taking up?"
"T-The pole, Lady K-Kaname."
"I see, Pole arms are training at the shrine tomorrow morning, make sure you arrive before the sun is up. I will be teaching you the basics, such as stances, how to hold it, balance, and the weight training you need that you lack to use the weapon. I only know a bit in the art, the Naginata and spears are different in style, so Kensuke will be teaching you the rest, along with the other's."
He looked surprised and skeptical at who was going to teach him. "Kensuke...? But, what if he throws out his hip? Will I even get that much done-"
I glared down at him, showing him my disapproval in what he was saying about the elder. He immediately shut up, "Do not judge him by his appearance, Kano. My own master was sixty years old, and could beat me into the ground when I was training. Kensuke is a lot like my old master, he may appear to be old and frail, but he is a fierce warrior, the only reason he did not fight the ogre off was because he knew he wouldn't have been able to defeat it by himself. So he resorted to having the villagers hide." he looked to the ground in shame. "Kano, never underestimate your enemy, if you do then you will die. If you want to be able to go on hunts with the rest of the hunters and me, then make sure you work hard and take everything Kensuke say's to heart." I then pat his head, making him blush even more and look up at me, I think his heart stopped when I smile at him. "If you show promise and seem to get a good review from Kensuke, then maybe you can come over for dinner at some point so celebrate?"
He beamed at me, and as he opened his mouth to respond, but was interrupted.
"MASTER!" Sayuri again cut in, I rolled my eyes as she started to push me away from him. "TIME IS WASTING!" she sent a smile towards Kano, who didn't seem to appreciate being interrupted. "Bye-bye Kano~!"
Idiot.
As (I let) sayuri drag me back towards the shrine, I found myself thinking about Sesshomaru. I admit that the young lord was on my mind for quite some time now, I had a feeling of concern for him a few day's ago, and I have no idea as to why that would be. He was a powerful youaki, it's not like just anyone could defeat him or even harm him much, so that flash or worry didn't sit right with me.
Not to mention the bracelet that Kagome had made me seemed to get warmer and warmer every day.
I felt like murdering someone.
Thankfully, the bandits and demons took care of that urge, but I was still slightly irritated that something may have happened to my dear sister.
It was when we neared the shrine that a commotion was heard from the village, stopping I turned to see what the fuss was about, and stared.
There were men on horses with spears in the middle of the village. Furrowing my brows I shook of Sayuri's hand, "Sayuri, Go and see if Jiro has my naginata ready yet, if not then he should be done with Kichiko." I ordered as I started to head down towards the commotion. Kichiko was the named of the Katana Kana had given me, it was a beautiful blade despite it being made by an amateur like Jiro, The handle was wrapped in light blue, small carvings of chant were on the guard, and the sheath was as white as it could be. The blade itself had blessing carved into the back of the blade, which I could use when channeling power into it to kill demons. I don't use it much, there aren't any demons strong enough to actually take the brunt of spiritual power when combined with the katana, so I use my Naginata the most for fighting.
"What do you think you're doing?!"
"How DARE you think you can waltz into our village like that?!"
"GO BACK TO YOUR LORD!"
I quirked a brow at this, didn't I kill the lord? But then, I remembered something, Didn't that disgusting thing have a son? I thought as I tapped my chin, watching the villagers- mostly the men- make a wall between the soldiers and the village women. Humming I went towards the middle of the crowd, gaining everyone's attention.
"What is going on here?" I asked, sizing up the man who was perched onto a horse.
"MY LADY! THESE MEN ARE TRYING TO TAKE OUR WOMEN!" one of the men shouted. I looked at him, then at the rest of villager to make sure, they all nodded their head with scowls of disgust on their faces.
"Oh?" I said dangerously as anger started to rise, facing the fifteen invading men, they didn't seem too bothered by my presence. Some made the mistake of looking at my eyes and freaking out. "And what exactly do you think gives you the right to come into our village and try to take our women?" I demanded.
"The lord has ordered all girls and women within his land will be presented to him without exception." the man on the horse stated arrogantly, a smirk working it's way onto his face. I stared at him, did these idiot's not hear about what we fucking did to their last lord with his company when he came here? I fucking sent them his head, I even scattered the soldiers heads throughout the forest as a fucking warning. We even put up a damn sign. He then gestured to two of the men, they came on either side of me and clamped their filthy hands on my arms.
"GET YOU HANDS OFF OF LADY KANAME!" When the hell did Kano get here? I glanced over and saw him glaring at the men 'holding' me. His mother- Mai- and Father- Ginjiro- were also glaring at them.
The man just ignored him as he stared down at me, "When we said 'no exceptions' we meant it, you and the rest of the women will be escorted to the castle and given to our lord."
The villagers started to ready their weapons, intent on fighting the men for my freedom. I scoffed at the mans face, making him frown down at me, gesturing the villagers to settle down a bit. "What is it with you men and thinking I am weak?" I questioned aloud, before elbowing the one on my right in the jugular. Freeing me up as he fell, then quickly spun around and kneed the other man in the back, sending him to the ground. The first man was choking on his destroyed throat, dying on the floor, while I put my foot on the second. Sighing I looked around and was annoyed at how sayuri was not here yet. "Now then, seeing as your new lord didn't take the hint when I sent you the head of the last-"
"It was you?!"
I Ignored the sudden whispers and anger from the men, "- I will give you an option. You will either leave, on your own, alive and healthy..." I glared coldly at them, sending shivers down their spines. "Or, you can be as foolish as the last lord, try and force us to do your bidding, dying because of your stupidity, and being sent back home as only a head to your widowed wife." I said.
The men looked uncomfortable, some paling and looking at the man I had killed.
The villager readied their weapons, pointing them at the outsiders, making an imposing picture with me staring them down. I had crossed me arms, and leaned on one leg, waiting for their decision.
Their leader seemed hesitant in what to do, back down and be shamed from being defeated by a woman and face their lords wrath? Or try and force his way through, possibly get killed by said woman, and leave his family behind?
His hands tightened on his horses reins, I just tapped my foot.
Lucky for them they decided to have left. It was later that a passing traveler had informed me about the lord suddenly gathering women from across the country, and none of them have every returned. There was even a rumor that the lord was possessed and eating the girls, the traveler had asked if I was going to go and do something about it, but I told him that I didn't find a reason to since I drove the men out of the village and warned them to stay away from the surrounding villages, seeing as they were under my protection.
The look he sent me didn't affect me at all.
"AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGH!"
"Oh?" a fourteen year old Kaname mumbled, watching as one of the older girl who had laid their filthy hands on her cute little sister screamed in agony. Kaname tilted her head to the side, as if she was observing an ant beneath her feet. "You know, you aren't that flexible, aren't whores who sleep around and sell their body's suppose to be?" she asked innocently, happily watching as the teenagers mascara ran down her bloodied face.
"P-Please s-s-stop!" She whimpered, briefly glancing at where her friends were, knocked out from the pain their bodies couldn't handle, before looking back towards the younger girl. "Please! I-I'll do anything! I-I-I wont tell anyo-" She screamed in pain as Kaname broke her hand against the floor.
"'Stop'?" she questioned, a small cold smile on her face, before glaring down at her and muttering in a dangerous voice. "Did you 'stop' when my sister begged you to? Did you 'stop' after day's of tormenting her? Did you 'stop' when Kagome was almost sent to the hospital?!" she roared, reaching over and grabbing the girl by her blond dyed hair, she was certain that a chunk of hair was pulled out. But Kaname didn't care, they had beaten up her sister, and made her mother cry.
She was going to make sure they fucking suffered for their insolence.
Kaname dropped her, standing up from her crouched position and heading over towards her bag, where she had stored some of her fathers tools, not even concerned about the girl trying to get away. She had, after all, broken the girls legs. Not only that, but they were in an abandoned room in an equally abandoned subway, no one would hear her anyway.
Oh, how fun this was going to be, having to teach these girls a lesson they will never forget even if they do live through this.
I was broken out of my musings by a familiar, and very dearly missed, presence behind me. I was tending my garden, it had grown with new plants and herbs being added every month, and was reminiscing. I put down my shears and looked behind me to see none other then Sesshomaru.
"...Lord Sesshomaru..." I said, looking at him, he seemed...Different. And not just because he was out, in front of me, in broad daylight either. He seemed, Irritated by something, and his youkai seemed slightly lower the what it use to be.
He didn't say anything, all he did was stare down at me. I started to grow slightly worried at the lords silence, he usually would have at least hummed in acknowledgment when I called out to him. "Sesshomaru?" I called again, standing up and walking over towards him, he was taller then me two inches, stopping a foot away from him. "Is something wrong?" I really didn't like how he was silent, but I waited, he didn't like being pressed for answers and would probably answer when he wanted to. If he did at all. What could have put him in such a mo- My thoughts were interrupted when the wind blew, and revealed that his left sleeve was empty. ….Oh. Was my thought.
Sesshomaru had no idea as to why he had the sudden urge to go and see Kaname. He had been resting under a giant tree near the coast and a castle, healing the wounds Inuyasha had inflicted him. He was content there, musing what went wrong, and how Kaname's sister was able to pull out Tetsusaiga without being rejected.
When his brother had lopped off his arm, and as he had fallen, the image of Kaname had again made its way into his head. He had thought over the occurrence, and figured that his mind had told him he should have brought the woman along with him. After all, if her sister could take it out, then surely she could have as well, better that a competent mortal take it out then a girl who was scared at the sight of him. But, then that did not answer why he had thought about Kaname as he rested under that tree. If it wasn't Inuyasha, that annoying girl, or his fathers sword then it was Kaname who made it into his thoughts.
He wondered what she would say to him if she saw him in this state. Especially after the blatant respect she gave him for never being harmed by anyone before.
He also wondered if she would try to kill him once she learned that he had almost killed her sister. He had tried not to, out of respect for the woman who had lost her family and had told him valuable information about the future and places he had never heard of. Sadly, the girl had just irritated him. He guess it was a small blessing- very small in fact- that the girl had survived his fathers melted bones. Then again that was all because of Tetsusaiga.
Sesshomaru had heard a flute play near the spot he rested, breaking through the peace, and for reasons unbeknownst to him, found it slightly irritating. It confused him, he was usually a fan of peaceful music, but he didn't really want to hear the flute. He surmised that it wasn't the same as the tree he had taken residence in from that small village. Yes, there was wild life going about and making some noise. There was the sound of water near like the village. There was even a female presence near him that did not try and pry.
….But...
"Oya? You seem in a pleasant mood today, My lord."
Every day he was there.
"Did you know, the villagers are having a festival tonight." her dark eyes peered up at where he sat from beneath her lashes, "You may attend if you wish. After all, you must be bored just sitting in that tree all the time."
Her voice always seemed to be on his mind.
"Hm? My father you ask?" she seemed surprised that he had asked her such a question. A wistful smile adorned her face as she gazed up towards the blue sky. "My father...Died long ago, my lord."
It wasn't the same.
He watched as she trained the girl, Sayuri, that had pestered her into apprenticeship. Watched the little smile every time that appeared when she hit her, to correct something sayuri did wrong.
That female playing the flute was not the one he tolerated.
Sesshomaru had no idea as to why she tolerated the hanyou twins. Usually mortals feared them because of their demon blood, but Kaname seemed to have a soft spot for them. He didn't know what to think when she played with them, along with the mortal children of the village. Did she not care about her reputation as a miko? The few miko's that he had heard about that were on friendly terms with a demon had all ended up dying. His hand had twitched at the thought of Kaname dying, it unsettled him, it also remember that Kaname was a mortal woman, that no matter how powerful and confident she was, that she could die from the simplest thing. Like a cold. She would die from just being around him, a demon, just as all those others died from their demon companion.
This was not the forest he had familiarized himself with.
"This years harvest seems to have boomed." she said, the sleeves of her kimono tied back, her dark hair in a tight bun, as she wiped the sweat from her forehead. She was carrying a basket in one hand, it was filled with fruits and vegetables from the villagers. She picked up a peach that was traded earlier, then held it up to the tree. To him. "Here, they are ripped and I thought you would like one." Sesshomaru had stared at the offered fruit, before bending down slightly, letting his sleeved arm be viewed, and grasping it. He didn't want to acknowledge the tingling feeling he got when his fingers had brushed her calloused hand.
Nor was this the tree had sat in for two years, to watch over the miko who had caught his interest.
"Those rumors? Yes I have heard about them." She chuckled while shrugging, not at all concerned about how some people were spreading things about her. "I do not care how they see me. I will not change myself just to fit other people's image of a miko." she stated, run back and forth as she cleaned the floor with a rag, "If they want to come and believe that I am being 'possessed' by a demon because of my personality, then that is their problem. I'll just have to kill the monks and demon slayers they send my way." she said, not at all bother in confessing to him about what she would do, before pausing in her cleaning the shrine. "Why do you ask? Are you, Lord Sesshomaru ruler of the west, concerned about me? One mere mortal?" she questioned, the small upwards twitch of her lip betraying her stoic face.
At one point he had been distracted enough that he didn't notice the army of men making their way towards him until they were in sight. They had started to order him away, but he didn't listen, they were mere mortals. He knew they couldn't put a scratch on him. He wondered how idiotic humans could be when, what seemed like the lord of the castle, came forward and accused him of seducing his daughter. He recalled that the weapons the men had brought out were called guns, one of the many things Kaname had told him about when he had asked, but they didn't seem to fit the description she had given him. It's not like it mattered, the bullets didn't make it to him and he drove off that pathetic lord.
He decided that he had had enough of being there, and left with Jaken and A-Un to replace his damaged armor, along with his blood soaked kimono. That was when the urge to see Kaname had hit.
Thus, leading him to right now, waiting for Kaname to say something. Sesshomaru watched as she stared at where his arm use to be, wondering if she would pity him, or needlessly worry like most women were prone to do. But when she finally looked away and up at him, all he saw was acceptance that he had lost his arm and there was nothing to do about it.
He should have expected that from her.
"My lord, It's good to see you again." Kaname said, smiling up at him, her eyes sparkling in the sunlight. She then started walking past him, towards the shrine, acting like nothing had happened and treating him the same. "You know, I noticed that I have a lot of apples, ever since you had stopped visiting me I had more then I knew what to do with."
"...Hn." He answered, somewhere in the back of his mind he was glad that she didn't treat him differently. He followed as she sat down on the walkway, she didn't say anything as he sat down a few feet away from her, he had noticed that the barrier around the village had gotten significantly stronger now, and had extended towards the river as well.
"Oh." Kaname said softly, getting up and going inside of the shrine, "I shall be right back Lord Sesshomaru." and then she disappeared into the shrine.
Sesshomaru sat there, contemplating on telling Kaname that her sister was here, but then immediately decided not to. For one, he did not want to have to sit there and try and fend off Kaname's murderous intent, along with her strikes. He wasn't sure if she would kill him, but Sesshomaru knew a worthy opponent that could battle him to near death when he saw them, and Kaname was not one to be trifled with. She had torn out a mans arm once for hitting her sister before, if that was for nothing but a measly hit, then I am curious to see what she would do to a being who actively tried to kill her sister. He thought, an amused smile playing on his lips at the image of a eleven year old Kaname tearing a mans arm out of it's socket. Second, even if he did tell her, and she didn't get mad at him- very unlikely, but he thought she would at least give a small thought about it trying to against the demon lord- then she would leave and go find her sister. Then she would leave.
If her sister was here, and didn't seem at all perturbed about being 'stuck' here, then there must be a way back to their own time.
And as loath as he was to admit it, he didn't like the thought of Kaname being somewhere he didn't know of. He figured the discomfort was because he technically saw Kaname as his, he had found her, and spent two years around her. She slightly had his scent on her from being around him, which to the lord, meant she was technically apart of his small pack.
And he didn't like it when something of his could be taken from him, despite the small chance of it not happening.
The finally reason was that he didn't want to tell her about how he lost to his half brother. She knew better then to tease him about it, but it didn't stop him from thinking she would see him as being weak. His ear picked up her soft footsteps, so he decided to put the matter away for later, picking up the scent of apples. Not just any apples, the purified infested apples that she offered him every time he had come to speak to her. That is another reason, he thought to himself just as Kaname came back out and held the apple out to him with a happy smile. I would lose one of the being's that actually has anything interesting to speak about, not to mention losing some valuable information. He mused taking the apple, his hand again brushing hers and sending that infuriating but very intriguing tingle up his arm, from her and bit into it. He didn't need to eat, he could last weeks without eating anything and be fine, the apple- at first- seemed to stab at him because of the cleansing property's in it attacking at his youkai. Sesshomaru had only accepted it the first couple of times to humor her, he was going to inform her one the seventh day that he did not need to eat, but he had caught a glimps on how happy she was to know he was eating them. Apparently she use to have her own apple tree back in her time, she would give them to her family and enjoy their happy faces as they ate them, glad that her hard work in raising the tree had paid off.
He decided that he didn't need to tell her, he was sure she could figure it out on her own at some point.
"I am glad to be able to speak to you again, It has been quite dull around here." she stated, her lips pursing into a thoughtful frown, "Killing bandits and demons only get so amusing for as long as you can find out creative ways to kill them." she then tilted her head, a thought seeming to occur to her. "Maybe I could capture a few alive and work on my torturing skills? I haven't done any proper torturing in three years, I fear I am getting rather rusty." she mused aloud, not seeming disturbed by what she was saying at all. She sounded like she was talking about the weather.
Sesshomaru did not judge, after all, he had done his fare share in torturing to get information, sometimes he did it to those who had just irritated him and he had nothing to do. But, he had found out the only reason she did such a thing like torture was for 'Disciplining' and 'Educating' those who had wronged her family. Then either killing them if they were too much of a hassle and didn't seem to have learned their lesson, or released them knowing that they would not do such a thing again.
She had admitted to him that she sometimes did it just so they could suffer, 'But that is besides the point, and it rarely happens.' was what she said.
"Hn...I do not think you have much reason to keep such a skill for now." he commented before taking another bite of the apple.
Then it was silent as they sat there, both basking in the warm sun as the twitter of birds and soft noises from the village below flew over them. Sesshomaru glanced at the miko from the corner of his eye, observing how her hair seemed to shine a dark blue in the sunlight, compared to the faded blue in the moon light. She didn't look at all like how she acts, she didn't look like a person who had tortured and killed before, she didn't look like the person who didn't care about anyone else but those she liked. Her clothing had covered the toned muscle she had, making her look like a regular fragile miko, but her aura said different. Her stance, tone, and eyes told made it impossible to think she would crumble and back down form anything, her height didn't make her look as weak either.
"My lord, If I may ask, when do you plan on leaving again?" her voice asked, breaking the silence. Sesshomaru disposed of the apple core with his poison claws, wondering why she wanted to know.
"...Why do you ask?"
She turned her head towards him, staring at him, black met amber. Kaname seemed to be debating with herself, weighing if she should ask him or not, before nodding her head. "I am planning on leaving the village."
That surprised him.
"You see, about a week ago when lights shot out throughout all of japan, some of them landed near the village. I went to go scout out what they were, and I found these shards." she said, before reaching into her kimono and taking out a small silver bag, opening it and taking out a shard. Sesshomaru stared at it in interest, he could feel the power radiating off of the one small piece. He was certain that these were the Shikon Jewel shards he had been hearing about by passing demons, they were highly desired by the weaker ones, so he started to understand why she was talking about leaving. "I had gathered six of them, and ever since both demon and mortals alike have been attacking the village to get to them, but I cannot get rid of them for fear of the shards landing in the wrong hands." She then handed the shard over to Sesshomaru, knowing he wanted to take a closer look at it. "And seeing as I have six of them, I fear that the village will be overwhelmed by the attacks in the near future..." she said sadly, he eyes gazing towards the forest before sighing. She then looked back to the lord, holding her hand out when he was done, and put the shards away. "My lord, I would like to request in coming with you on your travels, I know you will not try and take the shards, it is against your honor to do so. I also wanted to travel with you so I will not get bored, and we have already traveled together before, but this time I will be able to see you."
Sesshomaru thought on this, it would be true that she would be more desirable company then Jaken is, and it would solidify his instincts that are already declaring her part of his pack. Not to mention this would let him keep an eye on her, so she doesn't accidentally meet with her sister or Inuyasha and leave. And her image wont randomly pop up in his mind and distract him.
"Hn." he hummed, standing up and heading towards the forest, "Do as you wish."
"Thank you, but I need to go down and announce it to the villagers. Please give me twenty minutes before we head out, I will meet you down the main road if you will." she said, standing up and making her way inside to pack what she needed. Sesshomaru just gave a nod and left into the forest, keeping at the treeline to see what she was doing and knowing when she would be done.
He watched as she came back out not five minutes later, a small satchel on her shoulder, and katana at her waist while dragging a complaining sayuri with her down towards the village. She seemed to have picked up her naginata on the way, and was now standing near the entrance of the village, everyone gathered as she broke the news to them. The villagers were in an uproar, not wanting her to go, but Kaname assured them that it was something she needed to do, and that she would come back and check on them when she could. Kaname told them that it was also part of sayuri's training, leaving her to manage the temple on her own like a miko should, and that she would know if sayuri would be sacking off or go into Kaname's room while she was gone.
She had made a very nervous sayuri with her threat.
Some of the villagers assured her that they would keep the village safe while she was away, and after some farewells and teary goodbye's, Kaname left the barrier and headed down the road. Sesshomaru appeared when the villagers were out of sight.
"I shall try and do my best to not be a burden, my Lord Sesshomaru."