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Chapter 17
"That usually happens when the user is inexperienced..." He replies and starts to walk away. You follow frowning.
You inhale deeply, trying to catch your breathe and stab the Kyojin in the ground. Three hours and thirty minutes ago, more or less, you and Sesshoumaru had left the cave and now you were training with Adira in an area/clearing not far from Shins' cave. The Kyojin hasn't at all made an attempt to take over your body. Adira is a good fighter and wields her shiny, new katana; the one Shin currently gave to her, well, but the Kyojin doesn't seem affected by her. From about a yard away from you, she wipes her brow and sheathes her sword.
"I'm done training for today, (Insert Name); I'm going back to Shins'..." Adira says and turns around and starts to walk away.
"Ok!" You reply back and remove the Kyojin from the ground and practice an attack.
"You're not coming?" Adira asks turning around.
"No, I'm going to stay out for a little while longer and work on my moves..." You answer.
"Ok" Adira then walks off.
You continue to practice your moves, defenses and attacks. You pause and notice Sesshoumaru leaning on a tree not far from you. You smile and walk toward him.
"Hey Sesshoumaru, can you train with me? Please?" You ask pleadingly and he raises a brow slightly, but nods and walks around you to the middle of the clearing. You, kind of surprised follow him, unhurriedly because he never trained with before. Once in the middle of the clearing he stops and turns toward you.
"Are you ready?" He asks and draws the Toukijin. Your eyes widen at the toukijin slightly, but reluctantly nod, now knowing he was serious about training with you and you were to be serious, too.
He nods and lunges at you and you put the Kyojin up in defense. You abruptly feel the pulse and strength of the Kyojin flood into you and overpower your body. The sword moves your body to dodge Sesshoumarus' lunge, and he attacks again. The Kyojin and Toukijin clash against each other and you're kind of surprised the Kyojin isn't cracking, like what happened in the Inuyasha incident. You both jump away.
"The Kyojin reacts to an opponent that can threaten the users' life and always has intentions to destroy the offending opponent..." He says and you remember an almost dead Kaori lying in front of you in the cave. "If you'd ever want to master this sword's techniques you'd have to take control over it first..." He finishes and you nod, slightly understanding.
He lunges at you again and you're swords clash against each other. You're swords continue to dance, clashing against each other over and over again, you mostly defending yourself and he attacking. As hours pass, you seem to catch onto the style and rhythm the Kyojin is flowing in and as you step into beat with it and as you catch on, Sesshoumarus' attacks get harder and harder to defend yourself against. Sesshoumaru lunges at you once more, and then swiftly disappears. You feel the swords' pulse slowing down a bit becoming almost even with yours', its power easier to maintain and feel yourself now fully out of its manipulation.
You lower it from its defense position and stare at the swords' shimmering, pretty blade, confused. Unexpectedly, you sense someone charging at you and get into a defense stance, hoping to block the attack... The sword goes flying back out of your hands and you close your eyes wincing as you hear a stabbing sound in the background and feeling yourself falling backwards. In your mid-fall to the ground blind, you feel an arm wrap around your waist and stop another distasteful visit to the ground for you. You open your eyes to see... Sesshoumaru!
"Sesshoumaru!" You whisper as he pulls you forward, from the position that looked like he was dipping you, while dancing the waltz on a ballroom floor.
"You're learning to control it pretty well..." He says, looking into your eyes and you sort of fall into a daze into his penetrating, honey orbs...
Still having his arm wrapped around your waist, you're pressing against him, slightly, and a heat starts developing between you. His lips collide with yours a bit roughly and feel one arm tightly held around your waist and another caressing your back. You feel him open his mouth and his tongue slithers across your lip and you immediately give him entrance to explore the insides of his mouth as he pleases. You slowly wrap your arms around his neck pulling him closer and deepening the kiss and your tongues start to have their own training session.
You sigh slightly annoyed and snuggle closer to the dog demon that personally sat you in his lap. Earlier, the lovable, cute, yet so naïve, Rin walked in on your off-topic, training session with Sesshoumaru to show you both a picture she drew. Yep, she's going to be quite the artist someday, very pretty picture... But, of all times did she have to flaunt it then?!! Well, right now you and your doggy lord were as said sitting down together on the boulder you were both sitting on before the cat demon/Sansuki incident. Everyone else... They were doing stuff, Shin was surprisingly not drinking sake and eating in the bat cave, he was out get more and hunting some food for diner, leaving Adira, Rin and Ryochi alone. Not wanting to leave Adira, Rin and Ryochi alone, they decided to come and join you two.
Just a few minutes ago, they went off to play hide and go seek, so you both were alone again. But sadly for you, Sesshoumaru removes you from his lap and stands up. You get up and notice a figure coming toward you two. As he gets closer you can see that he's looks no more than a teenager around the age of 14 or 15, light brown hair tied in a ponytail just below shoulder-length, wearing light blue gi/yukata and a dark green hakama, the only thing that sets him apart from humans are his pointy ears. He stands in front of you both and kneels.
"Lord Sesshoumaru and lady of the western lands, you are invited to attend the convention at Kouseki Kurimuson castle in the northern lands. I am Gyki, and I will be your guide, if you accept your invitation to attend."
"Accepted" Sesshoumaru replies and Gyki stands up.
"Good, follow me..." Gyki says and turns around, starting to walk away and sprouts bird-like wings from his back. Sesshoumaru follows after him and you grab onto his gi sleeve before he walks any further.
"I'm coming, right?" You ask and he glances back at you blankly.
You hold on tighter to Sesshoumarus' neck as he leaps through the air following the eagle demon Gyki who's soaring through the atmosphere in front of you, guiding Sesshoumaru to the castle. Earlier, Sesshoumaru was reluctant to let you come with him, but you gave him a few reasons why and he let up. Before you left you told Adira where you were going and she was left to baby-sit, Rin and Ryochi until Shin came back. You peek over Sesshoumarus' shoulder to see you're approaching a rather large castle, larger than the one where Sesshoumaru supposedly destroyed Naraku at. Large wooden walls barricades the castle creating a stronger defense for outside attacks. Gyki swoops down and lands down in front of the entrance and Sesshoumaru follows. You get off of Sesshoumaru back and watch Gyki talk with a guard within and the gates start to open.
When the gates are fully open you follow Sesshoumaru inside and notice very tasteful garden inside, with the colors coordinating around black, shades of red and blues. You are lead down a stone footpath, avoiding stepping on the grass and in the garden. You head up the castle porch stairs, finally getting to the entrance, in front Gyki slides open the door and enter, Sesshoumaru follows and you follow after him. Inside you notice servants running around busily and you notice one walk up to Gyki.
"A meeting is about to start currently, Maja will take you there and the lady will be taken care." Gyki says to Sesshoumaru and he nods and follows Maja down the hall, just before giving you one last glance. Gyki then signals for another servant to come and one walks up. "Lady (Insert Name), this Risa she will show you to your room." Gyki says and you nod. "Well, I have to go now, bye!" Gyki says, then bows and walks off.
"Um, Lady (Insert Name), please follow me..." Risa says and starts to walk down and you follow her. Risa had auburn chin-length hair, slightly paled skin, tan colored eyes, pointy ears and was wearing a kimono; the regular maids outfit colors of pale blue and dark blue. "Lady (Insert Name), your not a demon are you?" Risa asks looking up.
"Um, no..." You reply.
"I didn't think so..." She replies smiling. "Would you rather go to the hot springs before going to your room?"
"Sure..." You say and she nods.
"Alright, follow me" She says and turns a corner with you following behind. After a while of passing many doors and turning corners you and Risa finally reach the entrance to the spring, which has a room for itself. "This is the entrance to the spring." She says and points to the hallway to your right. "That's the female spring" She then points to the left. "And that's the male spring, here's a towel." She says and hands one to you. "I'll wait here until you come back and take you to your room, take your time!" She says and pushes you lightly to the female spring entrance.
"Um, thanks..." You say and head off into the female spring, walking down the wooded hallway, which then lead you into a changing room.
In the room had many shelves up to hold ones' clothing and there were only a few people in the changing room, not that you were paying attention to them, but all of them were demons though. You head into an empty aisle and quickly remove your clothes to put on the towel, and then head to the front of the changing room and out the door leading to the outside. Your bare feet steps onto the warm stony surface of the path below and you continue to walk down the footpath looking for an empty spring. You find one and head toward and slowly descend into the hot, spring h2o. You suddenly hear a loud, shrill voice coming toward you.
"Did you see her!!? That dirty, human was here with Sesshoumaru!!" The voice says stomping down the footpath toward the spring you're lounging in.
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Banzai! Chapter completed! Oh, and thanks for answering the question asked in the last chapter, your relationship with Sesshoumaru will get more serious, I suppose. That's all I really have to say right now... That is unless; you want to hear me rant about life in general... But, uh, that's kind of really irrelevant right now.... Also, Gyki-kun is one of my original characters, so he's like a special guest star or something...
Gi- I don't really know if this term is actually used, because when I did research I never found it, anywhere, but in some fanfictions, Kenshin fanfictions, mostly. But, this term is suppose to represent the coat thing that Kenshin wears and Inuyasha wears. Well, anyways, earlier in the story when I put yukata, gi was supposed to be there.
Yukata- This is a long, kimono-like thing, which was worn in the era Kenshin was in as a sleeping garment and today more or less in Japan, it's worn for more than sleeping in, like a fashion trend, I suppose.
Anyways, ja!