ONTO CHAPTER 16!*points finger up into the air in strong stance*
Disclaimer: I still don't own Inuyasha, but I do now own the first and second movie! THEY ARE THE BEST! The second was sooooooo good! I loved it!
The lunch was quickly devoured. It was only Kagome and Inuyasha at the table, because everyone else had already finished eating and had left. Which wasn't any real problem to Inuyasha and Kagome, not at all.
They finished their lunch and Inuyasha took Kagome outside. "So how far away does Kaede-sama live?" Kagome asked.
"Not far from here." Inuyasha remarked as he bent down in a silent request for her to get on his back.
"Don't you have a drivers license?" she asked him as she got on his back, she still was not completely used to the whole fly through the air on the back of a hanyou.
"Why would I need one, this way is much easier to go by." Inuyasha said, and jumped up into the nearest tree before Kagome could comment back.
Kagome saw blurs the whole time, but before she knew it they were there. "I guess we really weren't that far away." Inuyasha said as she walked onto the grounds. It was a tiny little shrine ground.
Kagome had flashbacks to working on the shrine with her grandfather for that shirt period of time and a shiver ran up her spine and shook her body. She looked out across the quiet nature setting and saw a old women out sweeping the temple ground.
"That's the old hag." Inuyasha commented, but Kagome could tell he really didn't dislike her as much as he was acting, but then again, that was normal for Inuyasha to do.
Kagome nodded and followed Inuyasha as he casually walked up to the working women. "Oi! See you still haven't kicked the can yet?" Inuyasha mocked in his normal tone.
"Good day to you too Inuyasha, and I see you haven't changed a bit either." She said to Inuyasha laying her broom down against the shrine wall. Kaede noticed Kagome behind Inuyasha and welcomed her too.
"My, pretty young girl, what are you doing with a hanyou like Inuyasha." Kaede's breath hitched as she stared at Kagome. "What is your name, child?" she asked, her eyes still fixed on Kagome.
"Kagome Higurashi." She said. "Your Kaede-sama?" Kagome asked with a bow.
"Yes, my child."
"You sense it then." Inuyasha said not looking at Kaede. "You already know."
"Yes, Inuyasha. She is a very strong miko, I can tell you that right now."
"You can see that?" Kagome asked intrigued.
"Yes, my child."
"Kaede-sama, that's why Inuyasha brought me, please, it would greatly help me if you could help me-..."
"Learn to control your powers?" Kaede cut off. "Yes, I'm sure I could help some what, but the rest, I'm afraid is even to much for me. Some you will learn in your own time." Kaede look devilishly over to Inuyasha. "Yes, Inuyasha, being a hanyou, would need someone like a strong miko to be his mate, I can't imagine anyone being able to stand his attitude."
"Eep..." Kagome said with a shocked look on her face.
"She ain't my mate. What's with the crap about my attitude! I don't have any kind of attitude!" Inuyasha said and sat down on the once clean shrine floor and crossed his legs Indian style.
"Oh, Inuyasha, can't you remember to wipe your feet! You really haven't changed a bit." Kaeda said as she half-hazardly swiped at Inuyasha with her broom.
"Stupid old hag." Inuyasha griped as he easily avoided getting plummeted with the broom.
"I didn't mean that ye were his mate, I just said she would make a good mate." Inuyasha even blushed at hearing this. Kagome was still red from the first comment, let along the second.
"Please Kaede-sama, if you could teach me some..." Kagome said as she tried to change the hot topic. "It would mean so much to me."
"Well of course, a girl with your strength and power must be taught, or else it will just lead to your dismay." Kaede said as she began to sweep the floor again to get off the dirt left there by Inuyasha. After she finished she looked back up as if to see if they were still there and said. "Follow me."
Inuyasha and Kagome both began to follow her until she knocked Inuyasha on the head and said. "I meant the girl, not you!" Inuyasha grumbled and sat back down as Kaede and Kagome walked into the small shrine.
Inside the shrine was just as beautiful as the outside. Clean and natural lighting from outside, it was just pure bliss on the inside. It left Kagome feeling calm and collected, like she had been sitting in the hot tub for hours.
"Thank you." Kagome said with a deep bow, when Kaede stopped and began to choose things from the small wooden table. Herbs, roots, and other things Kagome didn't recognized were picked up and sorted among the table.
"Pick one my dear." She said as she stepped aside and showed Kagome all of the items she had placed on the table. Kagome was confused at this, and looked carefully among the plants. Some were beautiful and had flowers and others were ordinary looking and just looked like the common weed.
After a few seconds of contemplating with herself, she chose a short flower, it was white and had a single leaf to it.
Kaede nodded at her choice and picked up a plant herself. She chose a yellowish plant that looked like a blade of yellow grass.
Kaede took the yellow grass like plant with both hands and closed her eyes. She then with the blink of an eye, did something, Kagome wasn't to sure what but she did do something. Kaede opened her eyes to revel that the plant was now finely powdered in her hand. The only way you could tell it was the same plant was because it still had the yellow tint look to it.
"Now, you try it." Kaede said, Kagome looked in disbelief but placed the plant between her hands as she has seen Kaede do it, and closed her eyes. Nothing happened. "What are you thinking about?" Kaede asked.
"I'm thinking about how I have no idea what I am doing." Kagome said in a sarcastic tone, but was a hundred percent true.
"Good, but now think about what you want to do."
"Turn it into powder?" Kagome asked, her eyes still firmly shut.
"Not just to turn it into powder, you want to send ideas to you hands, make it happen in your head, move that power to your hands and do it." Kaede said as if she were explaining how to tie your shoes.
Kagome did as she was told but still nothing happened.
Kaede nodded and asked her to open her eyes again. Kagome did feeling bad that she hadn't accomplished anything that Kaede wanted her to do. Kagome placed the flower back on the table and sighed.
"It's alright child!" Kaede said, sensing her frustration. "Your not supposed to get it the first time."
"Why were we doing that though."
"I can't tell you that. You'll understand in due time. That's all for today, but for now though I would like you to come back tomorrow, bright and early and at 8."
Kagome nodded and bowed out of the room, thoroughly confused. She walked out of the room and saw Inuyasha was still sitting waiting for Kagome.
"That was quick." Inuyasha said as he bent down and allowed her to once again get on his back. Disgruntled, Kagome got on his back and as soon as she was they were back up in the air and back home. Little did they know Kaede had watched their leave.
"That child is something special." Kaede said as she held the flower Kagome had which was now glowing a faint dark green. Kaede smiled and went back to work around the shrine.
Disclaimer: I still don't own Inuyasha, but I do now own the first and second movie! THEY ARE THE BEST! The second was sooooooo good! I loved it!
The lunch was quickly devoured. It was only Kagome and Inuyasha at the table, because everyone else had already finished eating and had left. Which wasn't any real problem to Inuyasha and Kagome, not at all.
They finished their lunch and Inuyasha took Kagome outside. "So how far away does Kaede-sama live?" Kagome asked.
"Not far from here." Inuyasha remarked as he bent down in a silent request for her to get on his back.
"Don't you have a drivers license?" she asked him as she got on his back, she still was not completely used to the whole fly through the air on the back of a hanyou.
"Why would I need one, this way is much easier to go by." Inuyasha said, and jumped up into the nearest tree before Kagome could comment back.
Kagome saw blurs the whole time, but before she knew it they were there. "I guess we really weren't that far away." Inuyasha said as she walked onto the grounds. It was a tiny little shrine ground.
Kagome had flashbacks to working on the shrine with her grandfather for that shirt period of time and a shiver ran up her spine and shook her body. She looked out across the quiet nature setting and saw a old women out sweeping the temple ground.
"That's the old hag." Inuyasha commented, but Kagome could tell he really didn't dislike her as much as he was acting, but then again, that was normal for Inuyasha to do.
Kagome nodded and followed Inuyasha as he casually walked up to the working women. "Oi! See you still haven't kicked the can yet?" Inuyasha mocked in his normal tone.
"Good day to you too Inuyasha, and I see you haven't changed a bit either." She said to Inuyasha laying her broom down against the shrine wall. Kaede noticed Kagome behind Inuyasha and welcomed her too.
"My, pretty young girl, what are you doing with a hanyou like Inuyasha." Kaede's breath hitched as she stared at Kagome. "What is your name, child?" she asked, her eyes still fixed on Kagome.
"Kagome Higurashi." She said. "Your Kaede-sama?" Kagome asked with a bow.
"Yes, my child."
"You sense it then." Inuyasha said not looking at Kaede. "You already know."
"Yes, Inuyasha. She is a very strong miko, I can tell you that right now."
"You can see that?" Kagome asked intrigued.
"Yes, my child."
"Kaede-sama, that's why Inuyasha brought me, please, it would greatly help me if you could help me-..."
"Learn to control your powers?" Kaede cut off. "Yes, I'm sure I could help some what, but the rest, I'm afraid is even to much for me. Some you will learn in your own time." Kaede look devilishly over to Inuyasha. "Yes, Inuyasha, being a hanyou, would need someone like a strong miko to be his mate, I can't imagine anyone being able to stand his attitude."
"Eep..." Kagome said with a shocked look on her face.
"She ain't my mate. What's with the crap about my attitude! I don't have any kind of attitude!" Inuyasha said and sat down on the once clean shrine floor and crossed his legs Indian style.
"Oh, Inuyasha, can't you remember to wipe your feet! You really haven't changed a bit." Kaeda said as she half-hazardly swiped at Inuyasha with her broom.
"Stupid old hag." Inuyasha griped as he easily avoided getting plummeted with the broom.
"I didn't mean that ye were his mate, I just said she would make a good mate." Inuyasha even blushed at hearing this. Kagome was still red from the first comment, let along the second.
"Please Kaede-sama, if you could teach me some..." Kagome said as she tried to change the hot topic. "It would mean so much to me."
"Well of course, a girl with your strength and power must be taught, or else it will just lead to your dismay." Kaede said as she began to sweep the floor again to get off the dirt left there by Inuyasha. After she finished she looked back up as if to see if they were still there and said. "Follow me."
Inuyasha and Kagome both began to follow her until she knocked Inuyasha on the head and said. "I meant the girl, not you!" Inuyasha grumbled and sat back down as Kaede and Kagome walked into the small shrine.
Inside the shrine was just as beautiful as the outside. Clean and natural lighting from outside, it was just pure bliss on the inside. It left Kagome feeling calm and collected, like she had been sitting in the hot tub for hours.
"Thank you." Kagome said with a deep bow, when Kaede stopped and began to choose things from the small wooden table. Herbs, roots, and other things Kagome didn't recognized were picked up and sorted among the table.
"Pick one my dear." She said as she stepped aside and showed Kagome all of the items she had placed on the table. Kagome was confused at this, and looked carefully among the plants. Some were beautiful and had flowers and others were ordinary looking and just looked like the common weed.
After a few seconds of contemplating with herself, she chose a short flower, it was white and had a single leaf to it.
Kaede nodded at her choice and picked up a plant herself. She chose a yellowish plant that looked like a blade of yellow grass.
Kaede took the yellow grass like plant with both hands and closed her eyes. She then with the blink of an eye, did something, Kagome wasn't to sure what but she did do something. Kaede opened her eyes to revel that the plant was now finely powdered in her hand. The only way you could tell it was the same plant was because it still had the yellow tint look to it.
"Now, you try it." Kaede said, Kagome looked in disbelief but placed the plant between her hands as she has seen Kaede do it, and closed her eyes. Nothing happened. "What are you thinking about?" Kaede asked.
"I'm thinking about how I have no idea what I am doing." Kagome said in a sarcastic tone, but was a hundred percent true.
"Good, but now think about what you want to do."
"Turn it into powder?" Kagome asked, her eyes still firmly shut.
"Not just to turn it into powder, you want to send ideas to you hands, make it happen in your head, move that power to your hands and do it." Kaede said as if she were explaining how to tie your shoes.
Kagome did as she was told but still nothing happened.
Kaede nodded and asked her to open her eyes again. Kagome did feeling bad that she hadn't accomplished anything that Kaede wanted her to do. Kagome placed the flower back on the table and sighed.
"It's alright child!" Kaede said, sensing her frustration. "Your not supposed to get it the first time."
"Why were we doing that though."
"I can't tell you that. You'll understand in due time. That's all for today, but for now though I would like you to come back tomorrow, bright and early and at 8."
Kagome nodded and bowed out of the room, thoroughly confused. She walked out of the room and saw Inuyasha was still sitting waiting for Kagome.
"That was quick." Inuyasha said as he bent down and allowed her to once again get on his back. Disgruntled, Kagome got on his back and as soon as she was they were back up in the air and back home. Little did they know Kaede had watched their leave.
"That child is something special." Kaede said as she held the flower Kagome had which was now glowing a faint dark green. Kaede smiled and went back to work around the shrine.