A/n: I'm doing a brief summary now so that it won't get to confusing.
Kagome: since being trapped in the lift with Sesshô maru she is at his house (the one they were at before) where she is now being trained. She is now enjoying walking around the house bouncing of walls among other things while practicing how to properly cast senses. (you use casting senses instead of your eyes this way you have a 360 degree sight of what going on and illusions and such don't work on someone who uses sense.)
Miroku: has gone into the history books and is now reading up on Kagome's personal family history. He also found out they are blood related.
Sango: she relived her worse memory and we finally find out why she is sooo scared of thunder storms it was how Naraku killed both Kohaku and Souta. Sango saw the whole thing happen and Kagome only the aftermath. When she woke up she wanted Miroku to stay close so she would feel safe.
Inu yasha: he seams to have a relation of some kind with Kea who was present at the attack of Bankotsu. Did I say present he nearly damn well killed Bankotsu.
Bankotsu: after his fight walked the whole way to Sesshô maru, there he asked Sesshô maru that he wanted to go to his dads place. Sess contacted his father with his mind, Bankotsu is now housed there.
Sugimi: better known as Loverboy by the society and father of Inu yasha and Sesshô maru. He is the master brain behind the society.
Naraku: well all we really know is that he is doing something to the objects Kagura has stolen.
Sango/Kagome moms: they come from a wealthy family but something got screwed up and they ended up in hells kitchen. We know that Naraku was behind this but what and how isn't revealed.
HELLS KITCHEN
BY PANTHERA1984
CHAPTER 14
Kagura overlooked the valley her lips pulled up in a distasteful grimace. No matter how she viewed it or how Naraku put it she was still doing the dirty work. Next to her Kanna stared of into the distance her mirror glowing with a soft white light.
Kneeling Kagura started what Naraku had ordered her to do. Looking into the mirror Kagura focused some of her youki laced with her question in there. At first the mirror stayed the same then in the middle of the white light a bleu light began to eat its way over the surface.
It always amazed Kagura that her sister was all knowing, by the look of her you would never know. The only real problem was that you had to be very specific with your question otherwise Kanna could show you about anything as long as it supplied to your question.
Waiting for the bleu light to die out Kagura looked up in Kanna's soulless silver eyes so like the mirror she held. Sadly shaking her head Kagura looked down again a sad smile flashed over her lips when she saw the imposing figure of Sesshô maru walk through the scene. For a long time she had harbored a crush on the Inu youkai but had to give it up when Naraku ripped her heart from her body to obtain her serves. That day all her hopes and dreams died.
Firmly holding her emotions in check Kagura started searching the room for the item Naraku wanted. Her red eyes skimmed over the various chairs in the room she also spotted a Ming vase a gobbling chair and other collector stuff obviously this was the storage room.
Then tucked away in a corner Kagura saw what she had been looking for, sending out another dosage youki with an question in it brought her a clearer image of the object and her nose wrinkled in disgust when she recognized who's it was.
"That bastard, always making these distasteful jokes." Kagura sneered in rage while standing up. Snapping open her fan she wiped it with her hand and send out wind blades to tear through the landscape sadly it did nothing to release her from her anger.
Snapping her fan shut she picked a white feather from her hair and threw it up letting it transform in its bigger form. Jumping up she landed on the feather then guided it down to pick Kanna up, grabbing the girl by her scruff and placing her behind her. "I hope that bastard gets what he has coming for him a long time." Kagura spat out.
Behind her Kanna's mirror grew bleu once more then a short vision of five fighters could be seen all holding weapons, ready to fight. Then the image faded and the mirror was once again a soft white.
::::: Inu yasha was pacing around his bedroom his hand folded behind his back his brows furrowed in deep thought. Kea was sitting on the bed watching how his friend walked round and round with a bored expression on his face.
"So he's going after the ceremonial dagger, Sesshô maru will like that." Inu yasha huffed. "But tell me Kea why does he need that dagger so badly, surely any would do." Inu yasha had stopped his pacing in favor of watching his friend while he answered the question.
The black haired fox sighed and rolled his head, trying to relax the tension of his muscles in his neck. "You know why, it was that dagger that was the downfall of Midoriko. The spells and energy's of the dagger itself will almost guarantee success and with Naraku wielding it when he gets hold of it we both know that Kagome doesn't stand a change." Kea sighed rubbing his face with his hands, his voice sounded sad while explaining that to Inu yasha.
The hanyou started his pacing again. "Well at least it's at Sesshô maru's house its damn near impossible to take something from him, did you now he requested to train Kagome. Father wanted to do it himself but Sesshô maru barched in and said she wasn't going anywhere and he would do the training. I'm telling you I think my big brother is suffering a crush and he doesn't even know it himself." Inu yasha ended with a smirk.
Kea shook his head he couldn't to picture the stubborn Inu youkai having a crush on anything, but then again this might not be a crush. Kea remembered how Sugimi had reacted with the two woman he had as mate.
First had been the dark sultry beauty Savanna, mother of Sesshô maru. She had been a great fighter and an even worse enemy but Sugimi had chosen her as his mate and so she had become that. Then there had been Inu yasha's mother 300 hundred years after Savanna's death. At first Kea and Shane had thought her to be a fling, but they had been wrong very wrong. Sugimi had chosen her as his second mate and not long after that Inu yasha had been born now almost two hundred ninety years ago.
No Sesshô maru's behavior sounded like how Sugimi would act around his mates. Kea smiled a wicked smile. 'So the devilish dog demon Sesshô maru had finally chosen his mate.' Kea chuckled over this thought. When all things where over he and his brother where going to have some fun teasing the ice prince with his chosen one.
Inu yasha was completely oblivious to the fun the fox was having. His thoughts were more turned on the coming battle for a battle there would come. Making a sudden turn startling Kea out of his little fantasies of what jokes he could pull on Sesshô maru and still be able to get out a live. Inu yasha's golden eyes shone brightly his mouth pulled up in a half-smile showing of one of his ivory fangs. "I think its time I pull out my beloved sword I have a feeling this fight is going to be quite something. Just like the old days." Inu yasha chuckled and set of out of his rooms.
Kea rolled his eyes Inu's and there love for a real fight, always getting themselves to near death only to make the experience more worthwhile. Kea stood up stretching then set of to his brother, there would be a lot to tell him and they had to make some plans on there own. Like how to help the Inu's without putting there own lives at too much risk. "Leave it to an Inu youkai to find the battle of the century and be positively delighted with it." Kea grumbled there was no doubt about it now. He and Shane would not come out without earning themselves some more battle scares. "Leave it to an Inu."
:::: Kagome sighed, two days. She had been walking around blindfolded for two day now. She had to admit she was doing better than in the beginning but the black bruises and cuts were numerous and if it weren't for the wet stuff Sesshô maru put on her body every night she would be looking like a rag doll by long.
In fact the demon had been quite nice ever since he had blindfolded her. But one thing he wouldn't do and that was in tying the blindfold and there was no use trying her self or asking someone else. Sesshô maru had been sure to tell her later that day that only he could remove it since he put his barrier on it.
Hands out stretch Kagome tried making her way to her secret hideout. In two days her casting senses had become better. She could now 'see' thing close to her but that was all, she still had trouble seeing things coming at her and people were impossible to detect making her smash into quite a few staff members and warriors.
Strange how Kagome had never noticed them before but then again time was running out Sesshô maru had told her that much. So it was only natural if Sesshô maru was gathering all his man around him, preparing for battle. Turning her head around Kagome took in the small circle that was now in vision, she let out another sigh. Damn she had again took a wrong turn some where.
Turning around Kagome shoveled her way back, her thought back on the subject that had been keeping her busiest. She wondered what the warriors looked like and from what kind they were. A small tear fell down her cheek. Lifting her right hand up she brushed it away hard. The whole blindfold thing wouldn't been so bad if Sesshô maru left at that, but no her other training sessions went on just like before.
He was training her in archery, ridiculous really her weapons had always been the two short katana's. Kikyo had been the one with the arrows; an image of Kikyo shooting an arrow came to Kagome's memory. Her sister had looked like a unearthly creature standing there in the mist her hair pulled in a low pony tail her body clad in white and red pulling the string back, letting go.
Kikyo had been a master archer never missing her goal able to reload as fast as any gun. Now she was learning it too and making a bloody mess from it. Shooting in the wrong directions and if it was the right direction she always managed to miss the target. Sesshô maru wasn't too pleased about that.
Feeling her way around a corner Kagome suddenly felt a cold draft. Damn it she had gone wrong again. On her way to go back again a voice made her stop. Standing still for a moment undecided Kagome's mind raced. Finally she went further down the hall creeping closer to the sours.
One voice she recognized as Sesshô maru's at once the other one she couldn't place. "Well I'm just letting you know, no need to get all huffy about it. In fact you should be feeling mighty happy, you dogs always fancy a good fight and here is one coming right into your own back yard." The unfamiliar person said.
"That is what making me as you put it huffy. I would gladly fight but not here!! There was some ruffling of cloths and then the unknown person spoke again. "But why Sesshô maru normally you don't give a damn what's here that you don't want to put to danger or is my brother right about you having your chosen mate live here." The voice sounded devilish saying that.
Kagome felt shocked since when did Sesshô maru had a mate. Shaking her head she started to back away. Her emotions were in a bunch but she could tell why she felt so strongly about it and especially why she was reacting to the thought of Sesshô maru having a mate. Stepping back further Kagome finally turned around fully and disappeared down the hall.
Running taking random turns she ended up by an open door leading outside. Stopping by the doorpost she stretched out her left hand to lean against it her heart was still racing her emotions still amok. "Why, why do I feel this way?" Kagome whispered.
Swallowing back tears she walked outside letting the fresh breeze calm her emotions and cool her heated body. Not sure on what to do now Kagome walked a bit further before sitting down. When sitting she noticed it was grass and she let her hands run over it, remarkable how ones senses get sharper when sight was no longer there to relay on.
Pulling her legs against her chest wrapping her arms around them Kagome just let the wind and smells around her take her mind of what she had just heard. She never noticed some one coming up before her.
"So little miko he's teaching you how to use your casting senses. It seems you're not making much progress if he's using such drastic measures." Kagome felt her blood turn cold at Kagura's voice "but then again we weren't expecting someone with even a sliver of the power of Midoriko, you've surprised us with that but you will not do it again."
Kagome sat perfectly still trying to determine from where Kagura's voice was coming. She felt dread and panic snake up around her heart squeezing it telling her to run of in a blind rush, but she managed to push those feelings back so she could use her brain. Keeping still made it a bit easier to cast senses but she didn't get very far and Kagura was no-where to be seen on her radar like vision.
Controlling her breathing Kagome tried not to panic and enhance her senses, millimeter by millimeter her vision grew stronger and wider. "So the itsy bitsy miko is making an effort. Don't you wont be fast enough even if you do see me." Kagura laugh wickedly. "And o there is the big boss himself, between you and me little miko I have to admit that I do respect him."
Kagome felt someone rush by her the smell of him told her that Sesshô maru had just joined her. She felt more relax already. The moment he walked by she felt something drop beside her, automatically she made a grab for it and she felt a bow and a quiver filled with arrows. 'Well at least I won't be completely defenseless I'll be able to shoot my own toe now.' Kagome thought sarcastically.
Standing up Kagome began to back away in the general direction of the door still trying to enhance her vision. "begone sorceress or I'll be ordering your flesh to be scrapped from the walls." Sesshô maru's voice sounded cold and frosty but this time it made Kagome feel protected.
"My, my always the gentleman aren't we Sesshô maru. Well I won't be doing that bosses orders you know how that goes." Kagome felt the venom lining the words and she stopped backing of she couldn't help but feel fascinated by what was happening. Her vision had increased so she was now able to make out a big blear that was Sesshô maru.
Suddenly all the hairs on her body stood on end and her stomach dropped a few notches. The fight had begun.
Blades of wind flew past Sesshô maru not coming even close enough to be able to harm his cloths but then he knew that it was only a beginning shot meant to tell him there conversation had ended. He had always given Kagura that she fought a fair fight, and he would kill her swiftly for that.
Kagome heard steal while it was drawn out of its scabbard and her vision told her Sesshô maru had just drawn Tokijin. Concentrating even harder she increased her vision more until she had both players in sight. She had the feeling she was watching to dancers. Both were stepping lightly taking each other in, without even noticing Kagome finally mastered her full sight and she was able to see until the tiniest detail.
Trying to not to breath to loud Kagome's muscles tents watching the fight. Both players were still on the ground but since the space was quite small she thought they would be taking it up in just a matter of time. The side of the house was already ripped apart from Kagura's first attack, Sesshô maru's answer had been a bit more sufficient shredding Kagura's robe apart.
Circling round and round Kagome had the distinct feeling Sesshô maru was only playing were Kagura was dead serious. The wind witch suddenly made a twirl and disappeared inside a baby tornado. When the dust settle back on the ground there was nothing to see anymore but Kagome's casting senses had picket Kagura's form up the moment she re-appeared up in the air.
Kagura didn't stay still but launched a second attack of wind blades followed by her much stronger attack of tornado's, she knew she had to give it her all she also knew she wouldn't be leaving alive. Sesshô maru didn't move keeping his eyes on the place Kagura had been last he brought Tokijin up swinging it in the precise direction Kagura was now. Small dagger of electricity flew out of Tokijin and intercepted Kagura's wind blades however they did nothing to the tornados.
Still it didn't raise in Kagome's mind to move, standing frozen in place Kagome watched the whole scene playing out before her. The tornados hit target and Sesshô maru with his barrier up was only shoved back a meter Kagome however was picked up and sucked up in the tornado until she reached the top and for just a moment she flew before pluming back down to earth.
Letting go of all modesty Kagome screamed while her adrenalin rushed blocking out her hearing then blocking out everything but blind panic and feelings of fright. Sesshô maru's head turned to her and when he saw Kagome he made a decision and turned his back to Kagura going for Kagome instead. Kagura took advantage for that at once and Kagome saw her bring up the fan once more, the wind witch eyes gleaming with triumph.
Kagome stopped her screaming and for some reason all her senses went to the thought that Sesshô maru was going to be wounded and probably even worse. Something erupted from inside her and she had the distinct feeling like she was in a black void where time was set still. Everything had stopped moving she could see Sesshô maru reaching up to her ready to catch her. Kagura readying her fan to bring a killing blow to the unguarded dog demon, her fault.
As if by some weird joke Kagome looked down to her hands and saw the bow and arrows Sesshô maru had dropped next to her only seconds before. Taking one arrow out Kagome saw with some fascination how the quiver kept floating in the air even without support. Bringing up her bow she placed the arrow and drew the string back as far as she could. Slowing down her breathing she focused on its rhythm if she wanted the arrow to go how she wanted she needed to release it just between ending her breathing in and breathing out.
Growing utterly calm Kagome found her rhythm and something more, a pool filled with power the most purest she had ever seen, by instinct she began to call upon it and let it run through her body to her arms and hands into her weapons, a bleu light began to shimmer around the bow and arrow.
Going into something she would later describe as a trance Kagome became completely still focused on one thing. Looking her eyes on Kagura she placed the bow so the arrow would enter in the forehead. Aimed and ready Kagome let go and as she did all else seemed to come back to live as well, Kagura send of some more wind blades to Sesshô maru, the moment she completed her movement Kagome's arrow struck her, bleu light flaming up and in less than a second Kagura's body was reduced to ash.
Kagome's downfall proceeded but was again intercepted this time by a bleeding Sesshô maru. Landing on the ground he kneeled down lying Kagome's body before him. Kagome felt helpless all power left her and she wasn't even able to move the tip of her finger let alone speak.
Sesshô maru sunk down next to her, that last attack had a nasty bite particular due to the poison Kagura had inserted it would render him immobile for a few minutes, minutes in which he normally would have been killed if the attacker hadn't been finished of.
"So little one you used the attack of protection." Sesshô maru panted his breathing irregular because most of his energy was now being set on disposing of the poison. "tell me little miko, tell me how much you care for that is the only way a mother or a mate is able to reach that special attack."
Sesshô maru fell silent moving his body a bit closer to Kagome's, surrounding her with his warmth. Both were unable to say anything else. Sesshô maru because he was set on regaining his mobility as fast as he could and because he was savoring the feeling of happiness at what Kagome had done. Kagome because she simply could do no more than close her eyes take in what Sesshô maru had said and because she was completely drained.
For some time both just lied there, until Sesshô maru slowly got up holding Kagome bridedal style with an even but slow pace he went inside.
:::A/n: well a brand new chapter and I hope it was enjoyed. Now I have something else to tell, since my school has started again updates will come slower. Any slower than before??? Well I'm not sure most of the times I write on the story that takes my interest. (Usually the one with the most reactions, sorry) then I'm glad to tell you hells kitchen is almost done. Just two or three more chapters, now isn't good and bad news, ne? As always let me know what you think reviews are highly appreciated and to all none review readers I would like to say thanks for also reading this story.
Answers to reviewers:
Witchyinuyashagurl1: I hope you enjoyed the new chapter and sorry about the confusion but some of it is done on purpose. Hope you'll be able to pick up on things soon.
Hinoke: well I'm glad you liked it and do remind me never to get on your bad side, it might be painful.
Eowyn-Shieldmaiden of Rohan: I noticed the change and I like this name just as much as the other one. Btw here's the update.