The Meeting
There was something strangely familiar about the Inu-youkai, Miyanti thought to herself. He looked agitated and tense. He sniffed the air as if he was trying to find something and the thought came to Miyanti's mind. If I can smell him then he can smell me. I need to know if he's friendly. He certainly doesn't look the part with that scowl on his face. Wait a minute he's a hanyou. Even if he attacks he'll be no match to me.
Miyanti slowly walked out of the bushes and approached the hanyou and kitsune first. A human female in a sailor outfit stepped behind the hanyou and readied her bow and arrow. A monk rushed to the side of the other female. The monk placed a hand on his wrist that was wrapped up in cloth and beads and starred intently at Miyanti. The other human female placed her hands on a handle connected to a huge boomerang on her back. The kitsune leaped from the young human female's shoulder to the ground ready to defend his female.
There was only one thing that bothered Miyanti. Where was the girl in the sailor outfit from? She wasn't afraid of any of the company in front of her. She sensed the monk's air void and she knew she could easily manipulate it. Everyone else was just too weak to be considered an opponent. So, she walked up to the girl in the sailor outfit and said, "What century are you from girl?"
The girl seemed surprised at the question. She stepped back and the hanyou growled at me fiercely. That must be her mate. I'll be polite to him. "I'm from the 21st century. When and where are you from, stranger?" the girl said.
"My name is Miyanti. I'm from Africa in the year 3695. Are you also here to defeat Naraku?" She stood in front of Inuyasha now, but she respected him enough to not come any closer to the girl.
"I'm Kagome. This is Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo. We are looking for the shikon jewel shards so we can defeat Naraku." She said as a matter of fact.
"You actually believe that the five of you can beat Naraku, an untrained miko, a monk, a hanyou, a kitsune, and what seems to be a demon exterminator." The congregation seemed frightened at the fact that she knew what they were. They grasped their weapons tightly and prayed that this stranger would be bad news.
"Inuyasha, you seem to be the strongest of these weaklings. I challenge you if you can defend yourself properly maybe I'll teach you to be a better warrior." First, Miyanti thought she would test the strength of the hanyou. Maybe, if he became stronger they all might stand a chance at beating Naraku. "Get back all of you. I will test your hanyou." Miyanti looked at Kagome and said, "Don't worry Kagome I won't hurt your mate too badly"
With those words Kagome blushed and screamed, "Why does everyone think he's my mate. He's not even my boyfriend." At those words Inuyasha blushed which amused Miyanti that both of them were in such denial.
"Stupid, wench you can't teach me anything except how to die." Inuyasha said.
"Brave words from such a weakling," replied Miyanti. She decided not to use any of her weapons or miko magic in this battle in hopes that that would somehow even out the playing field. Inuyasha and Miyanti flew into the air but Miyanti punched Inuyasha twenty times before he saw the first punch. She kicked him about the same amount of times before he realized he was losing miserably. He pulled out the tetsusaiga and the sword transformed but Miyanti didn't pull out any weapons. She flew towards him at lightening speed and kicked the sword out of his hands and grabbed it. The sword electrified her and she fell to the ground with a scream that made the earth shake for miles. The sound Miyanti made shocked the group and injured the ears of Shippo and Inuyasha. They were cringing on the ground in pain when Miyanti rose from the ground.
"Good, trick hanyou but the effect has worn off now." Miyanti flew to where Inuyasha hovered and continued pummeling him when Kagome rushed over to Miyanti.
"Please stop Miyanti. It's obvious that you are faster and stronger than Inuyasha. Stop this please."
"You are a good mate, Kagome. Most women would have allowed this to go on until their mates were a bloody pulp."
"Could you please stop calling him my mate? We're just friends." Kagome whispered so none of her companions could hear.
"Tell me you don't love him and I will. And tell me why his scent is all over you while we are at it." Miyanti said. Kagome was blushing brightly at Miyanti's forwardness and rushed over to check on the hanyou. "Exactly, what I thought. Okay, the way I look at this situation is that I beat your best warrior without breaking a sweat. This means you all are in need of training for the battles of our life times. I can train you to be invincible fighting machine, with almost immeasurable power."
"Why should we listen to you, a strange youkai from another land? You could be lying to us and setting us up for Naraku to capture us." Miroku said.
"Monk, keep you hand away from that air void of yours before I split the whole wider and allow it to consume you." Miyanti said. This was not an empty threat and Miroku could see it in her eyes. "We want the same things Monk, a world without Naraku. If we do not fight together neither of us will accomplish our goal of freedom."
"Why do you need us, if you are so powerful?" Sango said a little suspicious.
"As powerful as I am, I cannot battle him alone. I am also a miko and most of my magic takes time to accomplish. I need backup."
"Stupid, wench that hurt." Inuyasha said.
Miyanti gently pushed Kagome to the side and walked over to Inuyasha. She kneeled over him and pulled his fluffy dog ears. "If you call me anything that is not my name again I'll do more to you than beat you up." She stopped pulling at his ears and started stroking them gently, which made Kagome jealous. When she saw the angry look Kagome was giving her she immediately stopped and placed her hands on Inuyasha's chest. A light came from her hands and illuminated Inuyasha's body. He was immediately healed and he popped up off the ground. "You are my student now. I will train you as I have been trained except it will be more intense and we will obtain these shards you speak of as we go along. Don't allow your pride to get in the way of us killing Naraku."
"Miyanti, why do you think we can't handle ourselves?" Inuyasha said with hostility in his voice.
"I've fought Naraku many times and I've been beaten within an inch of my life. I've used brute force, marital arts, magic, and brilliant strategy and nothing ever seemed to work. I've already beaten you, so you know I'm powerful. I've trained all my life to defeat him and I will not allow anyone to get in my way. Do you understand me?" They all shook their heads in agreement. "The sun is setting so we will rest here by the river tonight. Miko, come with me I must teach you a few things."
"My name is Kagome, not miko." Kagome said a little irritated.
"Forgive me, Kagome sama. I am used to calling people by their stations in life. But truly I must train you in how to operate in your full powers."
"How are you going to do that?" Kagome asked.
"First we find your power inside of you and set it free. Then I will train you in how to use your power." Miyanti said.
Sango and Miroku gathered twigs and dry foliage to make a fire and talked about whether or not that Miyanti was trustworthy. "She's ordering us around like servants and I don't like it." Sango said.
"It can't be helped right now. She's more powerful than all of us put together and she seems to sense a lot about us." Miroku said cautiously. "We should go along with her for right now. What she could teach us might be helpful. She acts as if she were a general from were she comes from. Miyanti might not know how to talk to people except through giving orders."
"I still don't like being ordered around like servant." Sango said.
"But you can order me around anytime, Sango." Miroku said and gently caressed Sango butt. Sango quickly replied to Miroku's advances with a slap to his face. Miyanti heard the slap and was already listening in on their conversation so she rushed to see what had happened that quickly to the couple.
"What happened? Why did you slap your mate?" Miyanti said confused.
"It was nothing and he's not my mate. As a matter of a fact if you gave him enough time to know you he would probably ask you to bear his children." Sango marched off embarrassed as usual.
"Monk, I mean Miroku I wouldn't do whatever you did to her anymore. And no I will not bear your children. You wouldn't live long enough to endure the process." Miyanti said as she turned her back on the monk.
"Is that challenge I hear." Miroku yelled back.
"No, it's a fact." Miyanti said. Miroku knew the thought had crossed his mind especially when Miyanti was stroking Inuyasha's ears. He shrugged off the idea quickly and picked up the twigs that Sango had dropped on the ground during their spat.
Miyanti went back to Kagome and Inuyasha. She hunted down herbs with Kagome to make medicines, and chemical weapons. Miyanti was proud of how fast Kagome learned how to make poisonous powders and air bombs that you have to set on fire. It took Miyanti weeks to learn what Kagome learned in one evening.
Miyanti left Kagome so she could practice making weapons and so she could catch dinner in the river. She felt hopeful as she took off her leg armor and walked into the river. She joyfully caught a dozen fish and through them on the shore. Miyanti thought to herself if Inuyasha gets his act together then they might have a fighting chance with Naraku.