Chapter 4:

After the little chat father and I had a few days ago, I noticed that he's starting to pay more attention to me. I don't mean we're spending time together and laughing and telling jokes and stuff. Just that he's been paying attention. Watching me. He still goes on his evening journey to God knows where while Rin, Jaken and I get ready to settle in for the night. I never go to sleep until he gets back though and that bugs him. I often get lectures about how I'm still young and I need to sleep. I don't know why I get those lectures. Him and I are demons…we don't need as much sleep. I hardly ever sleep. Partly because I can't and partly because I don't need to. It was only after I started following Lord Sesshomaru that I started sleeping on a regular basis. Many times when he is away, Jaken tries to take command over me. I know for a fact that I do not need to take that from him. I am of a higher ranking. Only because of whom my father is do I get to command him. I recall our latest dispute.

"Shika go fetch me some water, I'm thirsty!"

"Go get it yourself you damn ingrate! I don't have to listen to you!"

"Are you calling me an ingrate? After all I've done for your father!"

"What have you done for father besides annoy him and let Rin get kidnapped!"

"How did you know about that!"

"You think I don't speak to my father?"

"Why you little insolent?...I ought to rip your throat out!"

"What did you say to me!"

I recall feeling my eyes gain a burning sensation and my finger tips glowing orange. Jaken noted my anger and backed away a few steps. That was a wise decision in my opinion. If he had continued his ramblings it would have come to the point of a sudden strong wind and…well I don't know what follows. This has happened before, but it only happens when I'm truly upset. It used to scare the village people half to death and later I would hear murmurs "She's definitely her father's daughter," they'd say. Normally what Jaken had said wouldn't have bothered me so much but he had been getting on my case a lot that day, with him saying that the Great Lord Sesshomaru could never have a daughter as pestering and ungrateful as me. I am thankful for Rin though, through the many times he's said that, she reassured me when I began to doubt myself.

The sun has gone down and it's growing darker with each passing minute. I look over to Rin from my perch on a large rock that jutted out of the ground. As usual, Rin is curled up against Ah-Un sleeping peacefully. Jaken is sleeping in and upright position some feet away from them, holding his staff in way that makes it look as though he is about to summon it's powers. A light breeze sweeps across the empty field, causing the grass to dance and Rin to shiver.

"Still awake?" says a voice from behind me.

I turn and look up to the face of the person who spoke. Even though he had startled me the slightest bit I didn't show it. "Yes, father."

"Why?"

"I'm not sure." I really wasn't.

He stares at me with those cold amber eyes as though he's trying to look for any hint of a lie in my eyes. "Go to bed Shika."

"Lord Sesshomaru?" I say as I stand up and cast my eyes around trying to find the perfect tree to sleep in.

"What is it?"

"When can we start training my powers?"

"Soon."

"How soon," I say before I get the chance to stop myself. My heart skips a beat at the thought of questioning Lord Sesshomaru.

"Soon." He sounds irritated. "Do not question me further." I nod my head, bow slightly and make my way to my tree. I glance at my father one last time, then let sleep consume my body and mind.

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The tree shakes, my eyes snap open. The tree shakes again. I fall out and land on the hard ground beneath. I prop myself up on my elbows. "Come on, we're going hunting." I look sleepily up at my father as he looks down at me annoyed.

I groan and rub my backside, "Did you have to be so rude about waking me up?"

"You're a heavy sleeper."

"Am not!" I argue. Then I stop and look at him innocently. We smile at each other and he holds out his only hand to help me up. "We're going hunting?" I ask as I brush the dirt off the back of my pants. I remember the village people always thinking me weird for wearing pants. I was the only girl they'd ever seen to wear pants. I wore clothes that almost looked exactly like fathers, except my pants were red. At that moment I realized how alike we looked.

"Yes. We shall test your powers that way." He started to walk away further into the forest. I looked into the clearing. Rin was still asleep and Jaken hadn't moved but his eyes were now open and he was glaring at me.

"What about Rin?"

"Jaken will watch her." He said simply. He stopped walking and turned to me, waiting for me to follow. I looked back at the sleeping girl one last time.

"Yeah, watch her get kidnapped." I thought I said it quietly but I guess I was wrong, for father was smiling one of his rare smiles and as I ran up to his side I could hear Jaken's irksome voice shouting, "I heard that!"

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After walking in silence for what seemed to be a very long time, I asked "So, where exactly are we going?"

"To another field, full of wild deer. I found it last night when I was-"

"On one of your mysterious journeys, that no one understands?" I cut him off. That probably wasn't a wise thing to do but I couldn't help myself. I can get very sarcastic sometimes. He glared at me out of the corner of his eye.

"When I was scouting out the area to make sure there were no demons around."

"Wouldn't you be able to smell them?"

"Not if they were downwind of me." I nodded my head.

A clearing came into view just on the other side of the trees. Lord Sesshomaru stopped and stuck his arm out to stop me. I looked at him and he motioned for me to keep quiet. He crept to the edge of the clearing then motioned me forward. There was tons of deer peacefully feeding on the fresh green grass. Father shot forward so fast that I barely saw him. He jumped at one of the deer and snapped its neck-even though he only had one arm-killing it instantly. All the other deer scattered as fast as they could. The deer father had killed lay motionless on the ground. He beckoned me to him. I obeyed.

"You told me before that unusual things have happened when you were extremely angered. Correct?"

"Yes."

"This is how we must trigger your powers. What angers you the most?" I thought and though about it for a long time but I couldn't give him an honest answer. "What happened the last time your powers were triggered? What angered you?"

"Jaken."

"Very well. Think about that. Think of what he said and relive it."

I closed my eyes and forced my memory back in time. I forced myself to hear Jaken's infuriating words.

"Ingrate! Fraud! Imposter! Fake! Bogus! Con! Swindler! Cheat! Sham! Phony!"

My face turned itself into a deathly frown, my finger tips glowed orange, and the wind around me picked up. I opened my eyes. I imagined Jaken standing in place of where the lifeless deer lay. I was no longer in control of my body. My hand shot outward, and my orange finger tips spat out a mixture of fire and lightening. The wind died down, the color of my fingers returned to normal, and I stared dumbstruck at the scorched, deceased animal on the ground. I noticed a red tint to all my surroundings just before everything turned to normal. Realizing that I had caused that destruction, I became slightly scared. Afraid of myself. I looked quickly to father who was semi-beside and semi-behind me, at a distance. "What? What happened?" I asked.

He walked over to my side. "You control fire and lightening." He said plainly.

"Huh?"

"It's similar to my poison whip. Only it's not a whip of poison, it's blasts of fire and lightening." He looked carelessly at the deer that I had burnt to a crisp. "Your eye's changed color too."

"Is that why there was a red tint to everything?"

"Yes. That is the way it appears to me as well. I would assume you have more powers. It will probably be sometime before you discover them, but for now we will just work on mastering and controlling you Elemental Blast Attack."

I opened my mouth to ask another question, but before I got the chance, father wrapped his one arm around my waist and jumped out of the way as someone from inside the forest shouted, "WINDSCAR!"

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