(Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha.)
Chapter 14: Leaving
Kagome woke up at the crack of dawn by a hyper Rin. Streams of sunlight cascaded on her face.
"Kagome! Kagome! We have to go!! Lord Sesshoumaru is starting to leave and doesn't like it when Rin lags behind!" Groaning, Kagome brought her hands up to her eyes to rub the sleep away from them.
Looking around she spotted her backpack and her bow and arrows. Quickly she grabbed her belongings and headed into the direction she saw Rin and Shippo disappeared to.
They walked the whole day. In Kagome's head she was debating on whether or not to ask Sesshoumaru for permission to go look for Totosai. After a long time, she finally made up her mind to ask him. 'Well, if I can't go then I'll just try to run or get the sword another time...'
"Um… Sesshoumaru?" her only reply was a nod, so she took it that he was listening. "Do you think I can go to Totosai to get some weapons forged? If you expect me to protect Rin then I think I should at least have a decent weapon. You shattered my last katana and now it's useless." She was kept in silence thinking his answer was a 'no' but was surprised when he answered.
"Yes. You will be expected back in a week or your kit will be punished for your tactics." Her eyes widened in shock but then narrowed dangerously at the thought of anyone hurting her adopted son.
"Hai." She spat out bitterly.
"Shippo, I'm going to be leaving for a week. You're going to stay here and play with Rin. I'll be back soon."
"Okay mommy!" She gave him a little hug before departing. She headed north remembering that it was the last place she remembered him setting a forge.
After around three hours or so of running, Kagome stopped to sniff the air trying to detect burning metal, and ashes. Sigh
'I'm still no where near Totosai. This is probably going to take me another day to reach his place.' She looked at her surroundings and then at the sky determining what time of day it was. Looking at the sun, it seems like some time in the afternoon.
'I think I'll look for a hot spring and see if I can fix these torn clothing. There must be one spell in that book grandpa gave me to help.'
When she reached the hot spring, Kagome immediately sat down and rummaged through her belongings. After a good five minutes of searching she finally found the old book of spells that her grandfather gave her before her departure.
It was an old book with few of the pages starting to fall out. The cover was basically black with fancy gold letterings that were starting to wear out. Many of the pages had water stains but none of the words faded or smudged. All in all, it just looked like a plain ancient book.
'Well at least grandpa found one thing that isn't a fraud.' The spine gave a small creak when she opened the book. Kagome quickly flipped through the pages to find a spell that would fix her favourite clothes.
"Here it is!" She chanted the spell and the clothing on her immediately fixed itself. It looked as good as new. Satisfied at her handiwork, she looked through her backpack for her bottle of shampoo, conditioner and soap.
Kagome spread out her miko senses and demonic senses around before she took off her mended clothing and slowly lowered herself in the warm water. The relaxing water washed away all her aches and pains. All her problems were forgotten in an instant. She lathered her hair with her shampoo that smelled like vanilla. After she was finished she applied the conditioner.
After her bath, Kagome quickly put her clothing on and wrapped her tail over her shoulder and around her neck like she did previously and headed north again to Totosai.
After another hour of running, Kagome stopped abruptly. A familiar tingling sensation traveled up her spine and back down. Her eyes searched her surroundings but they stopped at the bush to the east of her. A soft rumbling noise was heard but it steadily grew louder.
Within 10 minutes, the source of the noise stopped in front of her and revealed itself to her. It was a large youkai with short, brown fur all over its body and glowing, red eyes.
"Give me the Sacred Jewel shards, bitch!" came the loud commanding voice of the bear youkai. Kagome raised a delicate eyebrow. Her eyes immediately scanned his body for the jewel shard he possessed.
A faint purplish glow emitted from the youkai's right paw. The bear seeing the unmoved demon, lost his patience and gave out a powerful slash with its right paw. Kagome leaped out of harms way but the nearing trees weren't so lucky. Loud thumps were heard as the trees came crashing down behind her.
Kagome took her bow in her hands and made a grab for her arrow. She fluently strung the arrow to her bow and waited for the next attack.
"You can surrender the jewel shard and no harm will come to you." Kagome's voice was calm and unnerving. An earth trembling roar erupted from the bear youkai's throat as he swung his paws at her again.
Shaking her head in disapproval because of his insolence, she let go of her arrow. It soared through the air with a large, powerful bright pink aura surrounding it.
The arrow accurately struck the bear in the chest. Then with a horrendous scream the youkai instantly turned into ash. A single purified jewel shard fell in the heap of ashes.
A smile was placed on her slender face. It seemed that not only did her arrow purify the demon whole, it had enough energy to purify the jewel. After fusing the jewel shard with the larger piece of the jewel around her neck, she ran off north again in search for Totosai.
(A/N: Sorry for not updating sooner. I had a lot of homework last week. Life just gets harder and harder... well I hope I'll get to update next week! Bye!)
