Reversed Roles
Chapter 5
Sword Mistakes
Sighing in relief she went to the closet on the side of the mirrored room. There all sorts of weapons were kept, along with the books on how to use them. Kagome first thumbed though the books, she found Being Samurai, a Beginners Guide to the Art of the Sword. She pulled the practice bamboo sword down off the shelf and went to read the first few pages of the book.
Thank God for illustrations, Lets see the book says, To parry lift the sword at a forty-five degree angle and bring the blade upward to block the oncoming blow. Take the brunt of the blow on the… Blah blabby blah, Look at the picture and do right? Kagome slides the test book across the floor to where she could look at the illustration and imitates it.
Parry, stab… to easy lets try one of the harder exercises. Flipping to the back of the book she picked one of the final exercises, this looks simple enough, there is a circular sweep with the blade then middle feint before switching the blade to the left had for a final and fatal sweep downward across the victim's body. Kagome's victim is, currentlythe door. In Kagome's imagination, the massive oak panels had morphed into a large brown evil being, one that she needed to take out with this move.
Little did Kagome know, she had a spectator. He had first noticed her when he was tending the garden outside. Kaede had been very strict on the upkeep of the garden and had spent an hour impressing the importance of it upon this Sesshomaru. That easily had to have been the most excruciating hour of his life, his long life.
In the present, he was tending one of Kaede's troublesome plants when Kagome trumped by so purposefully that he followed her further onto the path. He visibly smiled when Kagome stiffened, She can sense me then? Fast learner, I'll have to be careful following her then. From the trees he watched her practically run into the gymnasium. Moving to a lower branch in another tree he peered into the window. Ah, so she will try the sword without her instructor. This could be very interesting. Sesshomaru then noticed the book she had chosen and now inwardly smirked. Although I highly approve of her choice, perhaps she won't befuddle this…much. He observed her successfully complete a few of the first beginning exercises. Then she became overconfident and flipped to the ending exercises.
It began well for Kagome, the complex move began with a circular sweep. With that move she had effectively thrown the door off balance, then her feint, but it suddenly went very awry in the last move. The final and fatal sweep never came, instead when switching sword hands in order to confuse and successfully disarm her opponent, her left hand missed sending the blade downward to hit her left shin. Numb pain lanced though that leg, Next time I stick to the basics and the instructor… She then heard laughter from somewhere near the door.
Sesshomaru realized her folly even before she attempted the move. But it was too funny! The sheer determination she put into that move before trying the complicated move of switching hands was too much. Her expression afterwards was utterly priceless, the confused look to as why her hand didn't hold a blade as it fell onto her shin. Laughter pushed out of Sesshomaru's emotional grip and a short be noticeable laugh had escaped his throat. Well no use in hiding now, and he quickly opened the door and stood there waiting for her to look up from her sword.
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