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"Speaking English"
--Speaking Japanese--
'Speaking Youkai'
-'telepathy'-
-telephone conversation -
---Pov---
Recap from the last chapter;
"Your right Gome, I keep forgetting that you just got here today from Japan. If you guys don't mind I'm going to give Gome a quick tour before I take her back to her room. I'll see you all tomorrow." Shippou says quietly as he leads me away from the table and out into the hall way.
Chapter 8
Once we were in the hall way I looked at Shippou and see that he has a sad look on his face. I take him by his hand and I gently tug on it.
"Show me the gardens first, we should be able to talk there and not be disturbed. I think that we have a few things to talk about, don't you?" I ask him gently.
"OK Kasaan. We'll talk in the garden. That will feel like old times won't it?" He asks with a sad look on his face.
He started down the hallway toward a French door, he opens the door and leads me through it. We go out the doors and head toward a gazebo that is sitting out there with a seat in it. We reach it and we sit down together on it.
I turn to him and look at him with a knowing look.
"OK Shippou what is on your mind? Its not like you to be so serious or to go into a lecture mode. Tell me what your thinking about so I can try to help." I say to him gently.
"Kasaan, I don't know where to begin." He says quietly.
"The beginning is the best place to start, tell me what you have been doing since you left Japan." I say to him.
"Well the first few years was exciting, we had to learn the language and the customs, so we could blend in better here. Sess helped Dad build up his business, to get up and running smoothly. Sess also taught us how to keep telepaths from probing our minds. Like he did with you in the feudal era, you know what I'm talking about." He asks me.
"Yes I remember all of the training that I received from Sess in the feudal era, and hes even kept it up once I came back home for good. Every time he would come to Tokyo for more than one day we would spend all of our time together training and when he knew he wouldn't be there much he would have his assassin Kiro come and train me. To keep me in shape for fighting." I say to him with a knowing smile on my face.
"Well knowing Sess as good as we both do I would say that Kiro was more than likely there to protect you as well as to train you. We both know how overprotective Sess can be where you are concerned." He says with a big grin.
"I know Shippou, Sess sees me as his younger sister. So he feels that it is his duty to protect me from all harm. You do realize that hes even broke into the schools private files and went through them before I was even packed to come here. He did it as soon as I told him that I accepted the position to teach here." I tell him while shaking my head.
"That sounds like something Sess would do, I take it that how you found out that I was here?" He asks me.
"Yes it was how we found out that you were here. I wish you had called me when your Dad had been killed." I say as I pull him into my arms and hug him.
"I know I should of called you and Sess when Dad was killed, but I knew that you would be against me going after the ones who killed him." He says in a whisper against my hair.
"You're right, I don't want you to live the rest of your life for revenge Shippou. We both know from our past that no matter what kind of revenge that you take against them, it won't bring your Dad back. We have both seen how the need for revenge takes over peoples lives.
But I think that if we stay here long enough you'll get your chance to fight them. The X-Men are fighting against them constantly, we just have to prove to them that we belong on the team. That means we are going to have to constantly train in our free time." I say to him as I run my fingers through his hair.
"I guess when you went through all of the files that Sess dug up that you discovered one of our friends are working very closely with Magneto and Mystique." He asks me softly.
"Yes I saw that Shippou, I just have one question for you. Was he there when your Dad was killed?" I ask him quietly.
"No, he wasn't there with them. I could smell his scent on them but it was very faint, they hadn't been around him for a while. If they had been anywhere near him before hand I would have caught a much stronger scent of him." He says quietly.
"So it would be safe to assume that he didn't know what they had planned for you and your Dad." I say to him.
"I would almost bet that he didn't have a clue as to what they planned to do Kasaan. I know that he despises most humans, because of how he's been treated by them in the past, but I know that he would never hurt us. We're his friends, the only people that he really trusts. He may work with Magneto and Mystique but he doesn't trust them. I think you should contact Sess and have him to arrange for the three of us to meet with him" He says.
"All right, I'll call Sess and get him to contact our friend for a meeting. Besides he may know of a way for us to get to Magneto and Mystique with out us having to involve the X-Men. Don't get me wrong I know the X-Men are fighting to keep an all out war from breaking out between mutants and humans, but this fight between us and Magneto has nothing to do with there cause, its personal." I say to him.
I sense that someone is approaching the gardens, I feel Shippou stiffen up in my arms as he catches the scent of whoever is approaching us, he quickly pulls out of my hug and he grins at me as he turns in the direction of the person is approaching us from.
"All right Gambit you can come out of the shadows now!" Shippou says loudly.
"How you know Remy was here? Remy was very quiet when he approached you." Remy asks as he steps into our view.
"Your not that quiet Remy, besides your cologne always arrives before you do." Shippou answers him with a grin on his face.
"You mean to tell Remy that you are like Logan?" He asks.
"Well I do have really good hearing and I catch scents better than most people can, but Remy a normal human can catch your scent really easy. Your cologne has a really strong smell to it, you're going to have to change it before you try to sneak up on someone." Shippou says with an impudent grin on his face.
"Remy will have to remember that in the future. I see that you have made it to the gardens in the tour that you are giving to the Petite, how do you like the school so far Petite?" He asks me as he looks into my eyes.
"It seems to be a very beautiful school from the little that I've seen of it. I asked Shippou to start my tour here in the garden, and I'm afraid that is as far as we've gone with the tour. The garden seems so peaceful and quiet that I asked if we could sit down and catch up a little. It has been a while since we had a chance to catch up on each others lives." I answer him with a grin.
"Remy is glad to finally hear Shippou's voice, you have worked a miracle with him Petite. Remy wonders what other surprises you have in store for us, one thing Remy is sure of. You're really going to keep things exciting around here this year, and Remy thinks everyone here needs some excitement." He says with a smile.
"Oh I don't know about how me being here will be the cause of any more excitement than normal. After all I am just a normal human, theres nothing very special about me." I say to him quickly.
"I don't know about that Gome, you seem to have the ability to bring out the best in people. Plus trouble always seems to find you no matter how you try to avoid it." Shippou says with a grin on his face.
"Plus according to Jubilee and Rogue you don't seem to be afraid of the Wolverines temper, now that is something Remy would have liked to have seen. You standing there arguing with him and not backing down." He said with a wide grin on his face.
"Yup one thing I guess I should warn you about concerning Gome. She has a hell of a temper on her, and when she's mad everyone should just stay out of her way. I've seen her beat the crap out of one of our friends when he pissed her off. And he's one that I don't even think Logan could defeat easily by himself. I know that if I was in any kind of fight there is no one I would rather have watching my back than Gome. Shes that good when it comes to a fight, and I personally can't wait to see her wipe the floor up with Logan." Shippou says with a grin on his face.
"Shippou I think that you should stop while you are ahead. Besides I did call a truce with Logan." I say to him with a warning look in my eyes.
"Yeah but now he's promised to help you with my training to Gome, and I know for a fact that the way the two of you train is really different. Logan try's to teach us to win the fight by brute strength, don't get me wrong he does show us some martial arts. But what he does show normally takes a lot of physical strength, and some of the students just doesn't have that kind of strength. Thats why I've been doing a little training with them on my own before and after classes. Thats what I was doing in Logan's class yesterday when you arrived, I was showing Jube and Rogue how to block an aggressive attack from a larger opponite. They just don't have the strength to fight like Logan trains them to. So I was wondering if we could help them out a little with there training, to show them that they don't have to use brute strength to win a fight. What do you think Gome, will you help me with there training?" He asks me.
"I don't know Shippou, the Professor may not like us interfering with there training. We would have to get his permission before we even attempted to train them. I don't want to make anyone angry with us for butting our noses into something that they consider none of our business. Besides the girls may not want to train with us, you know how difficult it can be at times and how much time it takes to get any degree of control in the way we fight." I tell him quietly.
"I know Kasaan, but I'm afraid that if the girls were ever faced against a stronger opponite that they'll end up getting hurt or killed. They are my friends and I want to see them live a full life, not one that is cut short because they didn't get the training they needed to keep them alive. We can provide that training, and I know that they want to train to be better fighters. Because if they didn't then they never would have started training with me. Gome you know I'm better than the average fighter, but I'm still learning and I'm not a natural when it comes to teaching anyone else. You are one of the best fighters that I have ever seen and you are a natural when it comes to teaching others. Please say you'll help me train them to be better fighters?" He asks me.
"The only way I will inter fer with there training is if we get the Professors permission Shippou. And that is my final word on it kit. We'll ask him tomorrow if he'll allow us to help train the girls in self defense. Alright?" I ask him quietly.
"OK Gome, I guess I should be getting you up to your room for the nite. Especially since you'll be up at the crack of dawn to start my training again." He says with a grin.
"You have that right Shippou-Chan, plus I need to get ahold of Sess and see if hes located our mutual friend for us. Remy will you be going in now?" I ask the taller man softly.
"Well I more than likely will be heading inside Petite, its getting late and I have an early class in the morning." He answers me with a smile.
"Well if it wouldn't be any inconvenience to you, I can follow you back to my room. That way Shippou-Chan can go straight to his room and get ready for bed, because as he mentioned he and I have to get up early in the morning to start his training back up. So if you will be kind enough to show me back to my room, I would appreciate it." I ask him with a smile.
"It would be Remy's pleasure to show you how to reach your room Petite. I am ready to show you any time that you're ready to go Petite." He says with a smile.
I stand up and Shippou stands up at the same time that I do, I turn and give Shippou a quick hug, and I'm a little shocked to feel him return it so fiercely. I hug him tighter for a moment before I step back out of his embrace. I give him a loving smile as I start to turn toward where Remy was standing.
"I'll see you in the morning Gome, don't forget to call Sess tonight and ask him to get ahold of our friend for us and to set up a meeting between all of us soon. All right?" Shippou asks me.
"All right Shippou-Chan. I'll call Sess as soon as I reach my room. You had better be getting in the bed, because we have some training to do in the morning, all right?" I say to him with a grin when I see him give me a mock glare.
"All right Gome. I'll see you in the morning. I love you Kasaan and I'm glad that your here." He says with a small smile on his face.
"I love you too Kit, I'll see you first thing in the morning. I'm ready any time you are Remy." I say to the tall Cajun who is standing there watching Shippou and me with an intense gaze.
Remy motions for me walk beside him as we head into the school. As we get closer to where our rooms were I noticed that Remy was watching my every move with an intense gaze with his demon like eyes of black and red. I smile at him as we get to my door way.
"Thanks for showing me how to get back to my room Remy. I hope I pick up the lay out of the school soon, that way I won't always need a guide to show me where to go." I say to him with a grin.
"Believe Remy when he says that it is an honor to be Your guide Petite. Feel free to ask me to show you around anytime, it would be my pleasure." He says with a smile.
"I may have to take you up on that offer Remy. And thanks for being so nice to me today. My reception was a little rough today, but it went better than I expected it too." I say with a small grin as I open the door to my room and start to walk into it.
"It was my pleasure Petite, Remy hopes that we become good friends in the near future. Good night Petite, Remy hopes you have a pleasant rest tonight and I'll see you at breakfast in the morning." He says as he reaches and takes my hand into his and places a chaste kiss on it before he turns and goes into his room.
I quickly dart into my room and shut the door firmly behind me. I put my hand up to my hot face and wonder if he's one of the ones that Shippou was talking about earlier. I will admit that he's very attractive, suave, and charming. But what will I do if he openly pursues me?
I stand there for several minutes lost in thought before I remember that I need to call Sesshoumaru. I walk over to the desk where I had left my purse before I had went down to supper. I quickly dig through it and find the cell phone that Sess had given me earlier today. I quickly dial Sess's private number. It rings twice before I hear Sess's voice on the other end of the line.
-Hello femina, -
-Hey Sess. How did your practice with Kiro go tonight? -
-As well as can be expected femina. What do you need? -
-Well I talked to Shippou about who killed his Dad. -
-Did the kit know who it was? -
-Yes he knows exactly who it is that killed his Dad Sess. It was two mutants that wanted him and Shippou to join there group and apparently they didn't like it when Karama turned them down on there offer. -
-Who killed Karama femina? -
-Magneto and Mystique. -
-The ones that Victor works with? -
-The same ones Sess, I asked Shippou if he was with them. -
-How did the Kit answer the question? -
-He said that he wasn't with them and from the scents he got off of them he hadn't been close to them for a while before they came and killed Karama. Shippou and I believe that he didn't know what they were planning to do. Because you know as well as we do that he may not like humans but he wouldn't ever turn against his friends. -
-I agree femina, he may despise most humans but he wouldn't ever turn against the few people that he considers his friends. -
-Thats what Shippou and I know Sess. Shippou wants you to get ahold of him for us. To set up a meeting with the four of us. And you know as well as I do that we can't let the X-men know about it. -
-I know femina, they could never understand how we could consider Victor as a friend. Because to them he is an enemy. I'll contact him tonight and contact you tomorrow with the time for a meeting between us. You may want to give the Professor Kiro's name and inform him that Kiro will be helping both you and Shippou in your training. Because I know for a fact that they have been trying to do a background search on me, just as I know they haven't had much luck finding out very much on me. -
-Alright Sess, I'll give them Kiro's name so they can do a background search on him. I will need to have a last name to give them too, I don't think they would like to be given just his first name only. -
-His name is Kiro Kai, at least that is the one he is using now. -
-OK Sess, I'll give it to the professor in the morning. Do you know what time I can expect the ones who will be installing my phone line to arrive tomorrow? -
-Yes they will be there tomorrow at 10 am, and Kiro will be the one to install both your lines and he will also be the one to set up your computer as well. So you may wish to inform the Professor about Kiro. You should be getting to sleep femina, you have to get up early to train the Kit. You will also have to find out what his present strengths and weakness's are in his defense. Good night femina. -
-Good night Sess. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Sweet dreams Fluffy! -
I quickly hang up the phone. I hope to Kamie that Vic didn't know what they had planned for Shippou and Karama. I don't know if I could consider him as an enemy.
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