Ok!! Wow I'm on a roll!! Here's chapter 9!! On the riddle, we all know it's
Kagome. But the thing is, how do you know for sure it's her, not by
description...think about it!! Good luck!! Thx for the reviews!! Enjoy!!
Kagome turned her head and looked at the Nike bag slung on her shoulder. It was covered by a black glow, signaling it that something in it was corrupted. Kagome quickly threw the bag down.
"Kaede-sama the only thing I have in there is my bow, my arrows, deodorant, and a towel. I promise that nothing in there could have been corrupted in any way."
Kaede could tell that Kagome wasn't lying. She took a scroll from under her fighting kimono and threw it on the glowing black bag. Suddenly the bag opened and Kagome's bow came out and dropped to the ground. Kagome gasped.
"My bow!!??"
Kaede walked over and threw a stick of incense at the corrupted object. When it touched the bow, the incense shrivled and turned to dust. The same thing happened with any other object Kaede tried to throw at it.
"It seems Kagome, that somebody or something did something to ye's bow with the intention of hurting ye."
With that, Kaede sent another purifying scroll at the glowing bow and it immediately disintegrated. She then walked over and took a sample of the ashes and stuck the bottle into her kimono. Kagome stared at the pile of dust on the floor. Her beautiful bow, the one that lasted her so many years. One silent tear rolled down her cheek and fell on the pile of ashes.
Somewhere in the dark, a pair of eyes disappeared.
After staring at the bow for awhile, Kaede's voice woke her from her reverie.
"Here," Kaede handed Kagome an outfit. It was just like Kaede's. The top was fighting kimono with a light blue hakama to match, and to top it off, a light blue ribbon for Kagome's hair.
"This will be ye's uniform for this class. Ye's hair style must compliment mine for it is easy to work with and to put up. Now go change. The bathroom is in the back of this room to ye's right. I will wait for ye out here."
Kagome went into the bathroom and changed. Looking at herself in the mirror, she found that her countenance changed. She looked more mystical, powerful, and strong, and believe it or not, she liked this look. She got out of the restroom and waited for Kaede's next direction.
When Kaogme left the bathroom, she found that incense had been lighted for the room was smoky and had a supernatural aura. Two big red mats were on the ground and Kaede sat on one of them.
"Sit down Kagome," Kaede said.
"Everyday our lesson begins with meditation. It helps purify ourselves and relieve the body of stress and increase our concentration. This will become very important to ye in the future. Now clear ye's mind and think of nothing."
Kagome has meditated before and knew what to do. She plopped down and thought about nothing. Soon her body loosened and her head became clearer.
After awhile, Kaede's voice entered her thoughts.
"That will do Kagome now follow me. And leave ye's bag in here just in case."
Kagome followed Kaede down some more corridors, until they reached a fairly large door. Kaede opened it motioned for Kagome to follow her.
Kagome gasped. It was one of the largest courtyards she's ever seen. Not ony that, but it was beautiful. Surrounding the courtyard were cherry blossom trees, blooming with their first set of pink cherry blossoms, and near the far end, a large fountain was set up, its trickling adding to the soothing sounds of birds and cicadas. In the middle of the court, seven targets were set up, and Kaede led her to that field.
Kagome took the spot of the last target and was surprised to find bows and arrows lying on the shooting line.
"Today, we will be practicing still shooting and will move to moving targets hopefully at the end of the week. For all those who have been with me for quite awhile you all understand it's the process we go through every year. The more you cooperate, the faster we'll move in your training..."
Kagome looked at the other mikos, six not counting her. She soon noticed that everyone's outfits complimented their eyes. As she eyed the second one in line, the girl suddenly turned around to stare at her. Kagome's eyes turned big.
It was Kikyo. Her cold gray eyes freezing Kagome. Kagome quickly averted her eyes and looked away. Kikyo somehow gave her a sinking feeling inside, and Kagome chose not to think about it.
"Ok, now everyone pick up your bows and start on a warm up shoot."
Kagome looked over the bows stacked next to her, and picked up the long bow, used to shoot for distance. Next to the container of bows stood a dozen arrows. Kagome closed her eyes and prepared to focus. She nocked a blue tipped arrow and focused on the small red circle in the middle of the target known as the bullseye range. Using pure physical strength she released the arrow and flying straight and true, it hit dead center with a loud pang. Arrow after arrow flew towards the target. Until, in the bullseye range, there were twelve arrows. One dead center, and the other eleven forming in a perfect circle around the first arrow. Kagome wiped her brow and waited for the next direction. In a few minutes, after all the girls were done, Kaede walked over and looked at all the girls' arrows. Every miko had their arrows in the bullseye range, however, very few of them had the arrow directly on the bullseye, all except for...Kikyo and Kagome. Kaede was shocked, both girls had their arrows in the same formation, one in the middle and the rest circling it. Kaede walked over to Kikyo's target and tried to pull them out. After awhile she finally pulled one out.
"Very nice Kikyo."
"Thank you Kaede-sama."
Then Kaede walked over to Kagome's target and proceeded to pull one of her arrows out. However, no matter how Kaede tried, the arrow just won't come out. Finally, realizing that her strength was futile, with a wave of her hand, Kaede forced all of the arrows out of the targets. Looking at the hole that Kagome's arrow pierced, Kaede predicted that it was about the size of a human's middle finger deep. She was shocked, even Kikyo, the best archer she's ever had have never shot so deep before.
"Impressing Kagome, I am shocked."
"Thank you Kaede-sama for your encouragement."
"Now," said Kaede, "We will have a shoot out, get in line!"
Kikyo took the first position, knowing from experience, that no one could beat her. She picked up her bow and shot a perfect bullseye, raising many "oohs" and "aahhs" from her fellow mikos. Kagome took last, but before getting in line, she switched her bow to a reflex bow. Soon everyone went and it was Kagome's turn. She eyed all the arrows. Kikyo's gray fletched arrow was the only one directly on the bullseye, everyone else's was scattered randomly in the center range. Kagome fingered her grandmother's ring for good luck, picked up the reflex bow and a blue tipped arrow and slowly pulled the bow string back. With a sudden release the blue fletched arrow spun with amazing speed toward the target.
Everyone's eyes turned big; even Kaede's sweat dropped. The speeding azure fletched arrow spun toward the arrow and split the gray arrow in half, the splintered wood falling to the ground. The crash was answered with a long pause of silence. Finally Kaede broke the uncomfortable stillness.
"I think that's enough. Come with me, we will head to the dojo now."
Kaede led her class through many house until they reached the dojo section of the Academy. Each different group had their own sets of dojos. This time the door leading the dojo was much bigger than the meditation room door. Upon the paper windows wrote miko dojo in the ancient script. Kaede slid the door open and all the mikos filed in. The dojo room was enormous. The floor was made of many wood planks and blue mats were set up around. The rest of her classmates set down their bows and arrows down off to the side. Many of them redid their hair so it was high up on their heads instead of falling upon their shoulders in normal miko dress. Then they stood behind Kaede in rows and waited for her instructions.
"First we will start off in with aikido, the process of 'stretching'. Now follow me."
Kagome fingered her grandmother's ring, missing the rosary that was also passed down to her. She remembered how, when she was very young, her grandmother taught her different fighting techniques, along with aikido. Slowly she followed Kaede's movements as she felt her muscles stretching out and becoming looser. She felt her mind come to rest, something that hasn't happened in a very long time...
"Keh is that the best you can...." Inuyasha felt himself flying toward the wall.
"No more words left to say Inuyasha??" Sesshomaru grinned at his little brother.
"Inuyasha, do not be so hasty to attack, watch before you make a move. THINK BEFORE YOU ACT!!!" came Toutousai's voice.
"Shut up old man!!" screamed a very pissed off hanyou and sprung again toward his brother.
They fought a few times, each ending with Inuyasha slamming against the wall or something similar to it. 'Damn if only I knew how to use my Tetsusaiga.'
"That's enough, it's about time to go home now."
With respect, Sesshomaru and Inuyasha bowed once to Toutousai, picked up their bags and headed for the lockers.
"Alright class that's good enough!"
Kagome was currently practicing Wu Shu with one other classmate, successfully knocking her down onto the mat. Watching everyone else, Kagome picked up her bag, which no longer contained her beloved bow and headed toward the locker rooms.
"Hey you are really good you know that, o by the way I'm Eri, this is Yuma, and Moriko."
"Hi, I'm Kagome, it's nice to meet you all."
"So.." once the conversation started, it never stopped, a bond of friendship was created.
'What is taking her so long??' thought Inuyasha as he waited for her in the front lobby.
"Keh"
"Oh Inu honey, what are you keh-ing about??"
Inuyasha whipped around to find himself staring at a particular gray eyed miko.
"O hi Kikyo" Inuyasha said sheepishly, "I never knew you went to the Magic Academy!"
"O I just started today."
"O"
There was somewhat of a pause.
"Aren't you going to ask me to dinner Inu honey," Kikyo said with fake sweetness.
"O actually, I had some ho..."
"Inuyasha!"
"O hi Kagome, WHAT TOOK YOU SO FUCKING LONG, I STOOD OUT HERE FOR LIKE TWENTY MINUTES ALREADY!! HURRY UP IF YOU WANT TO GET TO MY HOUSE ON TIME, WHICH IS LIKE RIGHT NOW!!"
"Wait," said Kikyo pointing to Kagome, "you're going to HIS HOUSE??!!!"
Inuyasha's sweat dropped.
Kagome saw his VERY uneasy face and said, "O no, the President just wanted me to discuss something with him and had Inuyasha bring me to the Palace, that's all." Kagome then gave him a small glare.
"O really, is that true Inuyasha?"
"Of course it is dear, just some stupid talk with my dad. That's all, as a matter of fact, why don't you come with us???????"
"O I would luv to!!" Then Kikyo turned around and said to Kagome, "Bye the way, how does your POOR family pay for this Academy anyway??" Then she gave Kagome a slight sneer, and walked off with her arm clutching Inuyasha's. Kagome lagged slowly behind.
Wow this was a really long chappie. 9 pages on word!! Whoo hoo. Hope you like this!!
Kagome turned her head and looked at the Nike bag slung on her shoulder. It was covered by a black glow, signaling it that something in it was corrupted. Kagome quickly threw the bag down.
"Kaede-sama the only thing I have in there is my bow, my arrows, deodorant, and a towel. I promise that nothing in there could have been corrupted in any way."
Kaede could tell that Kagome wasn't lying. She took a scroll from under her fighting kimono and threw it on the glowing black bag. Suddenly the bag opened and Kagome's bow came out and dropped to the ground. Kagome gasped.
"My bow!!??"
Kaede walked over and threw a stick of incense at the corrupted object. When it touched the bow, the incense shrivled and turned to dust. The same thing happened with any other object Kaede tried to throw at it.
"It seems Kagome, that somebody or something did something to ye's bow with the intention of hurting ye."
With that, Kaede sent another purifying scroll at the glowing bow and it immediately disintegrated. She then walked over and took a sample of the ashes and stuck the bottle into her kimono. Kagome stared at the pile of dust on the floor. Her beautiful bow, the one that lasted her so many years. One silent tear rolled down her cheek and fell on the pile of ashes.
Somewhere in the dark, a pair of eyes disappeared.
After staring at the bow for awhile, Kaede's voice woke her from her reverie.
"Here," Kaede handed Kagome an outfit. It was just like Kaede's. The top was fighting kimono with a light blue hakama to match, and to top it off, a light blue ribbon for Kagome's hair.
"This will be ye's uniform for this class. Ye's hair style must compliment mine for it is easy to work with and to put up. Now go change. The bathroom is in the back of this room to ye's right. I will wait for ye out here."
Kagome went into the bathroom and changed. Looking at herself in the mirror, she found that her countenance changed. She looked more mystical, powerful, and strong, and believe it or not, she liked this look. She got out of the restroom and waited for Kaede's next direction.
When Kaogme left the bathroom, she found that incense had been lighted for the room was smoky and had a supernatural aura. Two big red mats were on the ground and Kaede sat on one of them.
"Sit down Kagome," Kaede said.
"Everyday our lesson begins with meditation. It helps purify ourselves and relieve the body of stress and increase our concentration. This will become very important to ye in the future. Now clear ye's mind and think of nothing."
Kagome has meditated before and knew what to do. She plopped down and thought about nothing. Soon her body loosened and her head became clearer.
After awhile, Kaede's voice entered her thoughts.
"That will do Kagome now follow me. And leave ye's bag in here just in case."
Kagome followed Kaede down some more corridors, until they reached a fairly large door. Kaede opened it motioned for Kagome to follow her.
Kagome gasped. It was one of the largest courtyards she's ever seen. Not ony that, but it was beautiful. Surrounding the courtyard were cherry blossom trees, blooming with their first set of pink cherry blossoms, and near the far end, a large fountain was set up, its trickling adding to the soothing sounds of birds and cicadas. In the middle of the court, seven targets were set up, and Kaede led her to that field.
Kagome took the spot of the last target and was surprised to find bows and arrows lying on the shooting line.
"Today, we will be practicing still shooting and will move to moving targets hopefully at the end of the week. For all those who have been with me for quite awhile you all understand it's the process we go through every year. The more you cooperate, the faster we'll move in your training..."
Kagome looked at the other mikos, six not counting her. She soon noticed that everyone's outfits complimented their eyes. As she eyed the second one in line, the girl suddenly turned around to stare at her. Kagome's eyes turned big.
It was Kikyo. Her cold gray eyes freezing Kagome. Kagome quickly averted her eyes and looked away. Kikyo somehow gave her a sinking feeling inside, and Kagome chose not to think about it.
"Ok, now everyone pick up your bows and start on a warm up shoot."
Kagome looked over the bows stacked next to her, and picked up the long bow, used to shoot for distance. Next to the container of bows stood a dozen arrows. Kagome closed her eyes and prepared to focus. She nocked a blue tipped arrow and focused on the small red circle in the middle of the target known as the bullseye range. Using pure physical strength she released the arrow and flying straight and true, it hit dead center with a loud pang. Arrow after arrow flew towards the target. Until, in the bullseye range, there were twelve arrows. One dead center, and the other eleven forming in a perfect circle around the first arrow. Kagome wiped her brow and waited for the next direction. In a few minutes, after all the girls were done, Kaede walked over and looked at all the girls' arrows. Every miko had their arrows in the bullseye range, however, very few of them had the arrow directly on the bullseye, all except for...Kikyo and Kagome. Kaede was shocked, both girls had their arrows in the same formation, one in the middle and the rest circling it. Kaede walked over to Kikyo's target and tried to pull them out. After awhile she finally pulled one out.
"Very nice Kikyo."
"Thank you Kaede-sama."
Then Kaede walked over to Kagome's target and proceeded to pull one of her arrows out. However, no matter how Kaede tried, the arrow just won't come out. Finally, realizing that her strength was futile, with a wave of her hand, Kaede forced all of the arrows out of the targets. Looking at the hole that Kagome's arrow pierced, Kaede predicted that it was about the size of a human's middle finger deep. She was shocked, even Kikyo, the best archer she's ever had have never shot so deep before.
"Impressing Kagome, I am shocked."
"Thank you Kaede-sama for your encouragement."
"Now," said Kaede, "We will have a shoot out, get in line!"
Kikyo took the first position, knowing from experience, that no one could beat her. She picked up her bow and shot a perfect bullseye, raising many "oohs" and "aahhs" from her fellow mikos. Kagome took last, but before getting in line, she switched her bow to a reflex bow. Soon everyone went and it was Kagome's turn. She eyed all the arrows. Kikyo's gray fletched arrow was the only one directly on the bullseye, everyone else's was scattered randomly in the center range. Kagome fingered her grandmother's ring for good luck, picked up the reflex bow and a blue tipped arrow and slowly pulled the bow string back. With a sudden release the blue fletched arrow spun with amazing speed toward the target.
Everyone's eyes turned big; even Kaede's sweat dropped. The speeding azure fletched arrow spun toward the arrow and split the gray arrow in half, the splintered wood falling to the ground. The crash was answered with a long pause of silence. Finally Kaede broke the uncomfortable stillness.
"I think that's enough. Come with me, we will head to the dojo now."
Kaede led her class through many house until they reached the dojo section of the Academy. Each different group had their own sets of dojos. This time the door leading the dojo was much bigger than the meditation room door. Upon the paper windows wrote miko dojo in the ancient script. Kaede slid the door open and all the mikos filed in. The dojo room was enormous. The floor was made of many wood planks and blue mats were set up around. The rest of her classmates set down their bows and arrows down off to the side. Many of them redid their hair so it was high up on their heads instead of falling upon their shoulders in normal miko dress. Then they stood behind Kaede in rows and waited for her instructions.
"First we will start off in with aikido, the process of 'stretching'. Now follow me."
Kagome fingered her grandmother's ring, missing the rosary that was also passed down to her. She remembered how, when she was very young, her grandmother taught her different fighting techniques, along with aikido. Slowly she followed Kaede's movements as she felt her muscles stretching out and becoming looser. She felt her mind come to rest, something that hasn't happened in a very long time...
"Keh is that the best you can...." Inuyasha felt himself flying toward the wall.
"No more words left to say Inuyasha??" Sesshomaru grinned at his little brother.
"Inuyasha, do not be so hasty to attack, watch before you make a move. THINK BEFORE YOU ACT!!!" came Toutousai's voice.
"Shut up old man!!" screamed a very pissed off hanyou and sprung again toward his brother.
They fought a few times, each ending with Inuyasha slamming against the wall or something similar to it. 'Damn if only I knew how to use my Tetsusaiga.'
"That's enough, it's about time to go home now."
With respect, Sesshomaru and Inuyasha bowed once to Toutousai, picked up their bags and headed for the lockers.
"Alright class that's good enough!"
Kagome was currently practicing Wu Shu with one other classmate, successfully knocking her down onto the mat. Watching everyone else, Kagome picked up her bag, which no longer contained her beloved bow and headed toward the locker rooms.
"Hey you are really good you know that, o by the way I'm Eri, this is Yuma, and Moriko."
"Hi, I'm Kagome, it's nice to meet you all."
"So.." once the conversation started, it never stopped, a bond of friendship was created.
'What is taking her so long??' thought Inuyasha as he waited for her in the front lobby.
"Keh"
"Oh Inu honey, what are you keh-ing about??"
Inuyasha whipped around to find himself staring at a particular gray eyed miko.
"O hi Kikyo" Inuyasha said sheepishly, "I never knew you went to the Magic Academy!"
"O I just started today."
"O"
There was somewhat of a pause.
"Aren't you going to ask me to dinner Inu honey," Kikyo said with fake sweetness.
"O actually, I had some ho..."
"Inuyasha!"
"O hi Kagome, WHAT TOOK YOU SO FUCKING LONG, I STOOD OUT HERE FOR LIKE TWENTY MINUTES ALREADY!! HURRY UP IF YOU WANT TO GET TO MY HOUSE ON TIME, WHICH IS LIKE RIGHT NOW!!"
"Wait," said Kikyo pointing to Kagome, "you're going to HIS HOUSE??!!!"
Inuyasha's sweat dropped.
Kagome saw his VERY uneasy face and said, "O no, the President just wanted me to discuss something with him and had Inuyasha bring me to the Palace, that's all." Kagome then gave him a small glare.
"O really, is that true Inuyasha?"
"Of course it is dear, just some stupid talk with my dad. That's all, as a matter of fact, why don't you come with us???????"
"O I would luv to!!" Then Kikyo turned around and said to Kagome, "Bye the way, how does your POOR family pay for this Academy anyway??" Then she gave Kagome a slight sneer, and walked off with her arm clutching Inuyasha's. Kagome lagged slowly behind.
Wow this was a really long chappie. 9 pages on word!! Whoo hoo. Hope you like this!!