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Allura Arwen- Hmm... Okay.. let me think here... I understand that some people out there don't like curse words and are offended by them. But Inuyasha curses, I like to try and keep their characters. He's the only one to curse though. But I don't use them heavily. Nor will I be using any that I haven't seen Inuyasha use. I've only heard Inuyasha use three or four in the anime. I can only recall three so that's all I'll be using. I only know what Inuyasha is like from the anime, nothing else. I don't own mangas or anything else. Yeah... I kind of screw up my tenses a lot. Honestly, I can't tell when I read through my chapters. I'm planning on getting a "Writing For Dummies Book" so I can learn how to use tenses properly. All my fics have screwed up tenses. Thanks for the criticism, I really do appreciate it.
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Rude Awakening
Sango stared at the horizon as the sun begins to rise up over the mountains. Normally she'd still be sleeping this early in the morning, not having a reason to get up so early. Today however, is different, today is the first day of Inuyasha's lessons. He just doesn't know it yet. He's in for a hard day. Sango isn't going to be easy on her first student, even if it is Inuyasha.
Before she could wake Inuyasha up, she had to make a stop at the river first. She remembered the way her father got her up on the first day of her lessons, she learned quick enough to be up before her father after that morning. 'I'll use father's teachings with Inuyasha. It worked for me, so it'll work for him.' Sango finds it hard to contain the small smile spreading across her lips.
She could do little to help keep the mischievous glint in her eyes at bay as she walked into the hut where Inuyasha should be. Sango's expression quickly became neutral as she found Inuyasha sleeping on the floor, in the same place she saw him when she first woke up that morning. Sango slowly drew her katana from its hilt with her right hand, being as silent as she can manage.
Stepping over to Inuyasha's sleeping form, she took a moment to gaze down at him. With the katana still in her right hand, she lifts up the wooden pail that's in her left hand. Without hesitation, Sango dumps the ice cold water in the pale on Inuyasha.
"WAH!" Inuyasha gives a shout of surprise at the sudden cold water being splashed on his face. He spits and coughs some water out of his mouth that had managed to slip in. He hears a short cry, causing him to direct his gaze upward. Violet eyes widen in surprise as the morning sun reflects off the blade heading down at him. Without another thought Inuyasha rolls to the side, nearly losing his neck from the blade. He hears the blade jam into the wooden floor, giving him the chance to jump to his feet. "Who the- Sango?" Inuyasha realizes once he turns around to see who his attacker is. "What's the big idea? You nearly chopped my head off!"
Sango gives a grunt as she pulls her katana from the wooden planks. She turns towards Inuyasha and lunges at him, her katana weaving through the air. Inuyasha just barely ducks away from the attack and jumps out of her reach, "Sango what are you doing?" Inuyasha shouts, confused and angry as to why she's attacking him.
"HA!" Sango leapt forth once more, completely ignoring Inuyasha's question. Inuyasha grabs Tetsusaiga's sheath form his sash and stops the katana from slashing down at his head. Sango takes the moment of distraction to kick Inuyasha in the chest, causing him to tumble back and out of the hut.
'Is she possessed by some demon or something?' Inuyasha thinks to himself as he picks himself off the ground. He deflects another attack from Sango with Tetsusaiga's sheath. Yet the Taijiya comes right back with another attack. Inuyasha growls, his anger growing as he finds himself being pushed back from Sango's attacks. "That's it!" Inuyasha announces before he becomes the aggressor, using the unsheathed Tetsusaiga as his sword. He parries Sango's blow and strikes out, but the Taijiya proves to be quicker than he remembers, easily dodging Inuyasha blow.
In the back of his mind, Inuyasha takes notice of his slower movements than usual, and the less power of his swings. Inuyasha grits his teeth as he finds himself being forced back once more as Sango gets the upper hand once more. He deflects her blows as he continues to step back with each attack until he finds himself on the bridge crossing the river that's outside of Keada's hut. "Sango it's me! Inuyasha!" Inuyasha shouts, trying to get through the seemingly possessed Taijiya.
'I'll just have to knock her unconscious.' Inuyasha thinks to himself. With that thought in mind, Inuyasha gets ready for the right moment. Sango swings her katana downward towards him, giving Inuyasha time enough time to step to the side and get behind her as she finishes up her movements. Inuyasha raises his weapon up above his head, planning to knock Sango out.
As he swings down however, Sango swings her right foot around, effectively knocking him off balance. Without giving him a moment to recover, Sango strikes out once more with her katana. Inuyasha knows he doesn't have time to defend himself, so he does the only thing he can think of. Turning his body to the side, he lets the katana slash his left arm. Although the attack only went in about an inch, Inuyasha cried out in pain. He didn't expect it to hurt as much as he did.
Inuyasha drops his weapon on the small crossing bridge and reaches up to cover his bleeding wound. He glances back up to Sango, only to find her foot flying towards him once more. Inuyasha lets out a surprised cry as he's kicked in the head. His body is thrown off the bridge by the force of the attack, making him crash into the cold water below.
Inuyasha coughs as he reaches the surface and grabs hold of a large boulder in the water, to keep himself from drowning. "Damnit." Inuyasha looks up at the bridge to see Sango crouching at the edge, starring down at him with a smirk across her face.
"Rule number one, Inuyasha." Sango speaks to him for the first time, "Don't make me have to wake you up from now on for your lessons." She watches amused as Inuyasha's mouth hangs open in shock. "Rule number two." Sango begins once more, "You're not a demon anymore. Learn to be more defensive, because if you don't, you won't survive in a battle for long." Inuyasha mutters something under his breath, what he said, Sango couldn't make out.
The Taijiya stands back up. She sheathes her katana in it's sheath at her side. Still looking down at Inuyasha, Sango says, "And rule number three, the most important one of all. Whether you want to admit it or not, you are my disciple, therefore I am your superior. Until you've proven to be my equal, you will do what I say from now on."
Inuyasha growls as he glares up at Sango, "Why the heck should I listen to you, wench?"
Sango's eyes narrow dangerously at the man currently stuck on a boulder, "Because Inuyasha, you asked me to teach you to fight like a human. And that's what I'm doing."
"You call that teaching me to fight?" Inuyasha shouts, "You nearly killed me!"
The smirk on Sango's face reappears, "Well, next time you should be up in time for training."
"I didn't think you'd start right away!"
"Well now you do. The next time I have to wake you up, I'll bring out the Hiraikotsu." Sango warns before turning around to begin walking away, "Here's your first lesson Inuyasha, get yourself back on land."
"How the hell am I suppose to do that?" Inuyasha yells out. He waits for an answer but he doesn't get one. Inuyasha grinds his teeth together trying to bite back the pain in his arm. Water continues to splash in his face as the rushing water crashes into the boulder he's holding on. 'Now what am I going to do?' Inuyasha thinks to himself. He's been in a similar situation only once before. And that was when he first met Kagome. She pushed him onto the bridge and then sat him, causing him to break through the bridge and crash into the water. At that time, he struggled to the surface and the river carried him away until he managed to grab onto something hanging down into the river to pull himself back onto the surface.
It was always believed that someone who fell in the river would be the end of them. No one knew what to do when they fell into the water. But Inuyasha remembers a time when Kagome dove into the water without a fear in the world and saved a village boy from drowning. Everyone had thought she was some sort of witch. 'What was it she called it? 'Swimming?'' Inuyasha figures he could give it a try, there didn't seem much to what Kagome had done. 'All it looked like was moving your arms and legs around.'
Inuyasha takes a deep breath, a moment later, he lets go of the boulder and begins splashing his arms and legs all around, trying to do what he saw Kagome do so long ago. Though he remembers it didn't look quite like what he's doing, which is flailing his arms all over the place, Inuyasha certain he's got the basic concept down. He might try to master the skill someday, but right now, all he's worried about is getting back on dry land. Someway or another, he does manage to pull himself out of the river. Once he's certain he doesn't have a threat of falling back in, Inuyasha collapses on the ground to catch his breath, letting the blood run freely from his arm.
From the hut, Shippo and Keada watch Inuyasha, quite amused at the scene in front of them. The kitsune glances up at the old woman, looking a bit confused, "That's what Sango meant this morning when she said she'd wake Inuyasha up? Why didn't she just wake him up the way normal people do?"
"Aye child. Even I do not know what reasons some have for the things they do." Keada looks down to the kitsune and smiles, "Nevertheless, it is quite amusing to watch him be put in his place every once in awhile."
Shippo laughs out loud. He quickly shuts his mouth however when he sees a soaking wet Inuyasha heading towards them. A very ANGRY soaking wet Inuyasha. "Gee Inuyasha, Sango too much for ya?"
"Shaddup brat!" Inuyasha snaps. Shippo stick his tongue at Inuyasha before running off to search for Kirara.
"Come inside, I shall tend to your wound." Keada says before entering the hut once more. Inuyasha mutters a few choice words under his breath but follows her. Inuyasha settles himself on the floor of the hut after taking off the upper half of his fire rat kimono, allowing Keada free access to his wound. Inuyasha kept silent as Keada worked on his arm, his mood for the day wrecked. Keada kept her gaze on Inuyasha wound when all of a sudden she speaks, "Kagome will not be returning."
Her comment caused Inuyasha to visibly jump, either from the shock of Keada breaking the silence or the fact that she knew. "What?" Inuyasha decides to try and play dumb.
"Do not try and fool me Inuyasha. The power of the jewel is used up. With the jewel gone, the connection between the two times is also gone." Inuyasha lowered his head, feeling a bit ashamed of what he did. "Aye, but ye knew this would happen before ye used the power of the jewel." Keada says, nodding her head once with the comment, "Ye must not feel ashamed for your decision Inuyasha. Ye did the right thing, I believe. Kagome needs to stay in her own time and must not tamper with our own. She's where she's belonged and needed, while we're where we belong."
Inuyasha nods his head in understanding. He raises his right hand to his bandaged wound, "Did you tell anyone?" Although Keada seemed alright with his decision to keep Kagome out of their era, he's afraid what the other may think.
"Nay, that I leave for ye to explain."
Inuyasha stands back up, putting his fire rat kimono back on. "Thanks for the patch up grams." Inuyasha calls out while walking out of the hut.
"You're sincerity is worse than saying nothing." Keada replies.
This is it y'all! I know I know. Short chapter. But next chapter is going to be much longer. Trust me. Heeheehee! Well looks like Inuyasha got his first taste of Sango's lessons. Will he survive the rest? Heh. Guess y'all will have to wait and see. Review! TTNC!
