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"Speaking English"

--Speaking Japanese--

'Speaking Youkai'

-'telepathy'-

-telephone conversation -

---Pov---

Recap from the last chapter;

I quickly hang up the phone. I hope to kami 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.

Chapter 9

I know to most people he's just a vicious cold blooded killer. Who hates everything, but we know him better than most people would ever think anyone could know him.

I may despise most of his methods and I really despised him when I first met him, but that was before I saw underneath all of the hate and pain that formed him into what he is.

He's like a lot of mutants out there, he hates humans for not accepting him for who he is. He hates that he was experimented on and tortured by them. And I can understand his hatred of humans, I would probably feel the same way if I had experianced the same treatment that he lived through.

But in the last eight years that I have known him I have noticed a change in the way he deals with humans. He's not as violent now with humans in general, now just fights against them when they attack him. True he still will kill them in a fight. But he normally lets them start the fight.

I can still remember the first time I met the blond mutant giant who goes by the name 'Sabertooth'.

------------flashback-----------

It's so nice to have a short break from all of the shard hunting. I just hate having to try to catch up on some of my school work. Ok I think that I have all of my History work done, now to hit the Math books.

I suddenly felt a demons youki approaching the shrine. I quickly get up from my desk and grab my swords and head for the backyard which is where the demons were approaching. Suddenly I see three figures coming through the back gate of the shrine. Two of the three I knew, it was Shippou and his Dad Karama, I quickly put my swords in there sheathe's as I noticed that they are carrying the third person between them. I run over to them and to get a closer look at the large blond man who was covered in blood being carried between them.

'What happened to him Shippou?' I ask him quietly.

'We found him being attacked by soldiers Mom. They were trying to kill him, so me and Dad rescued him. We brought him here because we know he'll need some medical treatment and we know we couldn't take him to a human hospital.' Shippou says quickly.

'I know they would think him to be a mutant, what kind of youkai is he? I don't sense any youki from him.' I ask.

'He is a mutant Kagome-chan, we hope you are willing to help him, and we hope you'll forgive Shippou and I for bringing him here unannounced. We didn't know where else to take him for treatment.' Karama says quietly.

A mutant! No wonder I didn't sense any youki coming from him as they drew closer to the shrine. I quickly look at Karana and Shippou who were standing there waiting for me to say something.

'You did the right thing in bringing him here Karama. Quickly bring him into the house, I'll go and get my medical supplies. Take him to my bedroom.'

I quickly gather all of my healing herbs and I see something that may be useful if he's violent so I grab it as I head out toward my bedroom with all of my supplys in my hands.

I reach my bedroom to see that Karama had removed my comforter off of the bed and had folded it up and laid it to the side of the bed.

I start to remove most of his ripped clothing, once I have him down to his underwear. I start to clean off all of the blood off of him to discover that his wounds are already healing. He may have some youkai blood in him after all or else that is part of his mutant gift, along with the claws and fangs. I quickly start to use the disinfectant on him, then after i had disinfected all of his wounds I start wrapping them. After all of his wounds are wrapped I grab ahold of the extra item I had grabbed. I hold it in my hands and quickly say the chant that activates it. It flew apart and reformed around his neck. I quickly say the word of subjucation.

--Down boy--

It glowed briefly and pressed him deeper into the bed. I hear him moan briefly from the extra pressure

'Kagome-chan do you really believe that the enchanted necklace will really be necessary?' Karama asks me.

'I don't really know if it will be necessary or not Karama, but I had rather put it on him before he wakes up. Rather than try to put it on him once he's awake. He may not be the friendliest person to deal with once he's awake and able to move around. He may try to attack us when he wakes up. I'd rather be safe than sorry.' I say to him quietly.

'I understand Kagome-chan, from the way we saw him fight off the soldiers that were attacking him I woulld say that it would be a safe bet to say that he might try to attack us when he wakes. Shippou saw him being attacked and insisted that we help him escape.' Karama says quietly.

'I couldn't stand there and watch a group of soldiers just kill him Mom. I can smell that he has a lot of hatred in him and I can also smell a lot of blood on his claws, but no one has the right to kill someone else just because they're different. I saw them chase him down after they noticed that he had claws and fangs, I at first thought that he was a youkai until I got close enough to smell that he was a human. I would have thought by now the humans would be able to get along better with one another. But no they still persicute people who are differnt than they are.' Shippou says.

' I know what you mean Shippou-chan, I guess someone should call Sess and inform him that we have guest here that we may need his help in controlling when he wakes up, Karama would you please call Sess for me and Shippou-chan you're going to have to run interference with my family. Do whatever you have to but keep them out of this room until we discover whether or not our guest is a threat to us. And you two might want to clean yourselves up while your at it, your both covered in blood. Use Souta's bathroom and there should be some clothes in there that both of you can change into as well.' I say with a smile at the two of them.

'Are you sure that its safe for the both of us to leave you alone in here with him by yourself?' Karama asks me.

'Considering I can beat both of you most of the time when we spar I think I'll be able to defend myself from him if he wakes up before your finished.' I say with a grin at them.

'Ok Mom, we'll be back before you even know we are gone.' Shippou says as he pushes Karama out of the door.

I sit there watching him sleep, I notice that he is sweating so I grab up a washclothe and wet it in the pan of clean water that is sitting by the bed. I quickly start wiping his face with it trying to cool him off. I then start to check in under his bandages only to discover that most of his wounds are almost completely healed.

He starts to move around more on the bed, I place my hand on his arm trying to keep him from destroying my bed in his sleep. It shouldn't be long till he wakes up. I feel him suddenly tense under my hand, I look up toward his face to see that he's awake and watching me.

--I see that your finally awake, my name is Kagome. I'm just trying to help you.-- I say to him in a calm voice.

"Where am I? " He asks in a rough and gravelly voice.

"You're in my home, my friends saw you being attacked. They rescued you and brought you here for treatment. My name is Kagome, I'm the miko here at my familys shrine. I promise we won't hurt you, we just want to help you get better." I say to him quietly.

"Why would you want to help me? You don't even know me!" He says roughly.

"Its my duty to help any who need it and that includes mutants as well as humans. What is your name?" I ask him.

"You can call me Vic or Victor." He says roughly.

"Ok Victor-san. My friends who brought you here to begin with should be returning very shortly. Karama is calling one of our friends to let him know that we have an unexpected guest here at the shrine, but I would figure that you will be up and about in a day or two with very little evidence of ever being wounded to begin with. You are very fortunate to have the mutant ability of fast healing, otherwise you more than likely would have taken a very long time to recover." I say to him quietly.

"Yeah lucky me." He says roughly.

"You never know Victor-san, your luck may be changeing for the better." I say with a small smile on my face.

------------end flashback------------

I smile at the memorys of the blond giant who gradually became one of our closest friends, I hope we don't have to give up our friendship with him.

I start to get my things together to change for bed, after I finish changing I climb into the bed and close my eye's.

xoxoxo early the next morning xoxoxo

I slowly wake up early the next morning, I lay there for a few minutes longer before I get up from the bed and head into the bathroom. After I take a quick shower I start getting ready for this mornings practice with Shippou. I quickly braid my hair and put one of my training gi's on and grab our training swords as I head out of the room.

As I step out of my room I realize that Shippou never showed me where his room was. I quickly start searching for his familar aura, it just takes me a couple of seconds to find it. I quickly head in the direction that I sense him after just a few minutes I find myself in another part of the mansion. I quickly home in on his aura and go to the door, I gently knock on the door and wait as I hear him get up and come toward it. I'm standing ther with a grin on my face as he opens the door.

"Morning Shippou-chan, hurry up and get dressed."

"Morning Kasaan, give me just a minute and I'll be ready. Do you want to come inside and wait for me to finish getting ready? My room mate could sleep through an earth quake so there's no danger of waking him up."

I walk into the room but I make sure to leave the door open as I enter and I walk over to Shippou's bed and quickly make it up before I sit down on it to wait for Shippou to finish getting ready.

He walks out of the bathroom dressed in a gi similer to mine, I stand up and hand him his practice sword as I head for the door. The two of us quickly head downstairs and silently head for the backyard.

We quickly head for the woods behind the mansion, we should be able to train there and not disturb anyone.

The two of us quickly do our warm ups to limber our muscles up. After we finish our warm ups we quickly start our sparring sessions against each other, we start out in hand to hand combat, and after a few quick matches we stop to rest for a bit before we start our sword practice.

--I see that you haven't fallen to far behind in your self-defense, I just hope that you've kept up your sword training Shippou-chan.--

--Well, I guess I have fallen behind on the sword practice Mom, but then you have to think they make us practice self defense here but no one uses a sword here. But I have been sparring with Remy with bo staffs, you know I like to fight with a bo staff better than with a sword any day.-- He says with a grin on his face.

--I know that Shippou-chan, but using a katana is a part of your heritage. Besides when you fight a stronger opponite a sword will give you a better advantage in some cases.--

--I know Mom, but I don't like the idea of having to kill anyone in a fight, and in most the sword fights you in end up killing your opponite. I know that in a fight against a youkai it is better if you finish them off as quick as you can, but now a days you rarely see another youkai around here and most of the hanyous don't even know that they are hanyous, they think they are mutants. But you have to think about most of our opponites are going to be normal humans Mom. I just don't think I could kill one in a fight, besides the X-Men don't cadone killing of any kind.--

--I know Shippou-chan, and like you I don't think that I could kill a human either. Hell I don't even like it when I have to kill a youkai, but I know that if push came to shove I would do what I had to, to protect myself and to protect the ones that I love. Come on we still have to check out how bad you've become with your sword. Because its actually starting to become light out, the rest of the school should be waking up soon and we need to get back in time to take a shower and get dressed for breakfast.--

--Mom did you talk to Sess last nite?--

--Yes I told him about the situation, he said he would call us when he had arrangements made for us to meet with him.--

--I can't wait to see him again Mom, I hate to admit it but I've missed his sorry hide hanging around. Besides he promised me that he would help me get another car to replace my last one.--

--I don't think that the Professor or the rest of the staff would like to see you in one of those suped up cars Shippou. Especially the ones that you add your favorite toys too, I should have known that it was a bad idea for Vic to be the one to help you get the last one.--

--Yeah you should have known better Mom, but you have to admit that it was really cool.--

--It may have been cool Shippou, but it caused a lot of trouble.--

--Yeah but it saved our asses more than once too!--

--True it did on occasion get us out of a few situations Shippou-chan, but it was also the reason we were in most of them to begin with.--

--I know Kasaan, but you have to admit that I'm older and wiser now than I was then. I want another car Kasaan, besides a car like the last one would fit in here pretty well . Have you checked out the vehicles they have in there garage here? My last one would be considered plain next to some of them.--

--This time we'll get Sess to help us both get cars for our time here in the states Shippou-chan.--

--Kool! Who knows what kind of modifications Sesshoumaru will be able to make on them.--

--True Shippou-chan, and I think that we will have to put off the swords until after class today. But that by no means gets you out of it, Sess or Kai will more than likely be the ones to test your strength and weakness with the swords, that way I will be able to watch for your weak points with it. Come on Shippou-chan we should head back to the school before everyone is up and about.--

--Ok Kasaan, besides if we leave now we'll just have enough time to clean up and get dressed for breakfast. Believe me its better to get to the meal hall early, cause some of these kids eat like they have never seen a decent meal in thier lives. Come on Kasaan we should hurry before Wolverine gets down to eat, cause if he comes down before we can get up stairs than we'll have to explain to him why we were up and out so early this morning.--

--Ok Shippou-chan, lets go!--

I started out quickly at a fairly fast jog back to the school, Shippou kept up with my pace easily all the way back. We go into the school through the kitchen door. We see several people rushing around finishing the breakfast meal. We head up the back stairway, once we reached the top of the stairs we grined at each other and headed into opposite directions towards our rooms.

Once I was in my room I quickly put away the swords and then went to the closet and pulled out some comfortable pants and a matching shirt to go with them. I quickly wash up and get changed. I quickly braid my hair up and then I decide to head on downstairs to hunt for Shippou. On the way out of the door I grab the cell phone that Sess had given me and put in my pocket.

I quickly head towards the dining room and I noticed that Shippou was right about it being rather full this early in the morning. I look around and spot Shippou at the table with Remy and a group of his friends. Shippou had an extra plate beside him, he motions for me to come to the table. When I reach the table he motions for me to sit down.

"I went ahead and grabed your breakfast for you Gome. You should eat it before it gets cold." He says with a smile.

I quickly sit down and begin to eat the food. I listen to the talk around the table, I hear Shippou and Remy talk about some of the homework that some of the teachers had assighned to the students.

"I don't know Remy, Miss Monroe and Mr Summers seem to delight in giving the students a large homework load. Mrs Summers is better about it though, and Logan and you rarely give out homework. That could be why your classes are so popular with the students, and if Gome teaches her classes here like she used to teach me when I was younger, I think her classes will be as popular as yours and Logans are. She always tried to make learning fun for me when I was younger." Shippou says happily.

"I'm sure the Petite will have her classes full of students Shippou and Remy is willing to make a bet that it will definately be full of male students." He says with a smile.

I was sitting there listening to the two of them talk when my cell phone started ringing.

"Excuse me please, but I really should get this call." I say as I stand up and walk a little bit away from the table.

-Hello.-

-Femina I did contact Victor last night and he will be here tonight after your last class of the day. I'll send Kai after you and Shippou this afternoon.-

-Allright Sess, did you speak with him about what we need to talk with him about?-

-Only long enough to determine that he didn't have a clue about what happened until he returned from a mission from overseas. I figured that you and the Kit would want to hear the whole explainaition at the same time that I did.

How did your sparring session go this morning?-

- It went pretty well, I think that either you or Kai should be the one to spar with him using swords. That way I'll be able to watch and get a better idea of where we'll need to restart his training.-

-That is understandable femina, Kai will arrive in time to install your phone lines and computers today before he brings the two of you here for the meeting. I'll see the two of you later this afternoon femina.-

-Ok Sess, we'll see you then. Bye.-

-Bye femina-

I hang up on the call and head back to the table where Shippou and Remy were still sitting. Shippou looks at me with knowing eyes, so I assume that its a safe bet that he heard the entire conversation that I had just had with Sess.

"Who was on the Phone Petite?" Remy asks.

"It was Sesshou, he was calling to inform me that Kai will be arriving this afternoon to hook up my phone line and computers for me. And he invited me and Shippou to his house for dinner tonight. We're to catch a ride there with Kai, and either Sess or Kai will bring us back afterwords."

"Kool Gome, I absolutely Love to eat at Sess's, he has some great cooks at his house. I can't wait!" Shippou says quickly.

I look at him and he gives me a slight nod to let me know that he knows the real reason that we are going to Sess's tonight.

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