Chapter 5.
Jakotsu walked down the stairs to the first floor with a tray of dishes and walked into the kitchen of the mansion and left the tray by the wash basin and then he walked out to the hall and into the living room and looked at his brothers and went to the couch he always laid on and looked at Bankotsu.
"She has nearly healed, Bankotsu. She can move and walk just fine, are you serious about to help her and her group fight Naraku? And the stuff you said about training her?" Jakotsu looked at Bankotsu and the others in the room stopped what they were doing and looked at their leader aswell. Bankotsu looked at Jakotsu before he looked at Suikotsu.
"How is her healing going?" Suikotsu looked at Bankotsu while he talked and put down his sake cup he was holding in his hand before he answered.
"She, as Jakotsu said is almost healed, I think there still is some of Naraku's miasma in her system but I think Renkotsu can help her with purify it. He is the most calm of us. I think she needs to concentrate on her reiki in order to get rid of the remaining miasma and that is not something I can help her with. Renkotsu have some knowledge in the way on how reiki works since he favors to pretend to be a monk sometimes. Renkotsu glared at Suikotsu but didn't say anything instead he looked at Bankotsu who met his eyes.
"Okay then, Renkotsu, go up to her and see if you can help her with that, it has been 3 days since she woke up and she has been with us for a week now in total, not counting our trip to hand her over to Naraku. Jakotsu, you go up to her with Renkotsu, I am sure she still don't feel safe around the rest of us, right?" Bankotsu asked as he first looked at Suikotsu, who nodded slightly while Jakotsu sighed.
"No, she isn't comfortable with any of us, not even me. That wench is slightly more relaxed with me but that's it. She does not want anyone anywhere near her unless you ask her if you can come closer and she agrees." Jakotsu answered as he stood up from the couch and started to walk out of the living room with Renkotsu following after him mumbling something about annoying women and doctors with big mouths. Bankotsu just chuckled as he watched them go up the stairs while Suikotsu snorted and picked up his cup and drank the sake.
"Bankotsu, why did you decide to save the girl? I know that you have told us your reason but I feel like you're holding something back." Suikotsu asked, he had wondered that for days now but he had tried to ignore his own curiosity but he couldn't anymore. Bankotsu looked at him while he sipped his sake and he leaned back against the back of the chair.
"I just don't feel like letting someone as strong as her die. I really think she can help us get our lives back." Bankotsu looked at Suikotsu with a stare that told Suikotsu that this was the only answer he would receive and that there would not be any more talking about it. Suikotsu sighed and nodded quietly before he poured Bankotsu and himself some more sake. It was best not to test Bankotsu's patience with more questions, he would tell them all when he wanted to and pressuring him would just lead Suikotsu into his second death, he preferred to be alive than risk his life by angering Bankotsu.
When Jakotsu and Renkotsu reached the third floor they walked to the door that was closed and they both could hear some wierd sound comming from the room and they both looked at each other before Jakotsu knocked on the door, he had learned the hard way not to just walk in. When he had done that the first time she had not heard him and had been slightly scared and had thrown a pillow in his face. The sound from the room stopped and for a few minutes nothing could be heard until they heard a low and timid voice telling them to enter. When Jakotsu then opened the door and walked in with Renkotsu they saw the girl behind her big yellow traveling bad like a sheild and some of her stuff was scattered on the floor like she had been looking for something.
"Um… what are you doing, wench?" Jakotsu asked as he looked at all the things on the floor and then his eyes caught a wierd and thin book and he picked it up and looked at the painting on the front, it was an attractive man with his chest bare and some wierd hakamas that only went to his knees. Jakotsu looked at Kagome again and saw her glaring at him.
"My name is Kagome, why is it so hard for you to remember that?" Kagome asked in an annoyed tone. Jakotsu sighed and chose to ignore her comment since Bankotsu had told him not to upset her while she was still recovering.
"What is this wierd book and who is the guy in the painting in the front?" He instead asked and he watched as Kagome huffed in annoyance for having her question ignored she then looked at what Jakotsu had in his hand and sighed.
"That is called a magazine. It's like a book that writes of clothing, jewelry and gossip. I packed it because I wanted to show it to Sango but I forgot about it since Inu Yasha started a fight with me for being late." Kagome said and cursed herself silently over the fact that she had left the magazine out in the open. She then saw Renkotsu and felt slightly scared, sure the man hadn't done anything to her except trying to burn her and her friends alive when she had first met him but she just didn't feel safe around anyone that was a male right now, Jakotsu was easier to be with because he always made it clear how he wanted Inu Yasha under him, though that was an image she didn't want to think about too much but she had told him to go for it because she didn't love him like that, after that it had been easier for her to relax in his presence and Jakotsu had also warmed up a little bit, though he still wouldn't say her name.
"What is Renkotsu doing here?" Kagome asked as she watched them both with weary eyes. Renkotsu looked at the girl and sighed to himself, the girl wasen't glowing as much anymore it was fainter now and he looked at Jakotsu and hit his shoulder slightly to get him to keep focus on why they were here. Jakotsu glared at Renkotsu and then looked at the girl.
"Suikotsu says that the rest of the miasma inside you will not be healed with his medicine and he thought that Renkotsu might be able to help you so that your reiki can purify it instead, he is the calmest of us." Jakotsu said and he watched as the girl immediately became on guard and sighed and looked at Renkotsu and Renkotsu took as his signal to talk and sighed once more as he looked at Kagome.
"Kagome, I will not touch you. All you have to do is do what I ask and then I will leave once you have purified the miasma that still lingers inside your body." He spoke in a calm voice and he made no move to get closer to her. Kagome looked at him for a few minutes and tried to see if he was lying to her. She then nodded slowly but was still on guard. Renkotsu only nodded aswell before he looked around in the room and then looked back at the girl.
"Kagome I want you to sit down in the middle of the room to meditate. I want you to try to relax and close your eyes and just try to do what I tell you to do. Neither me or Jakotsu will go anywhere near you I promise." Renkotsu looked at the girl and watched as she slowly sat down on the floor and looked at Renkotsu with doubt and uncertain eyes before she slowly closed them and tried to relax. After a few minutes she heard Renkotsu's voice from where he had been standing, showing her by the sound of his voice that he had indeed not moved closer to her.
"Okay Kagome, just take a deep breath and relax and then I want you to search inside yourself and locate your power." Renkotsu made sure to keep his voice calm so that the girl wouldn't get scared and he made sure that both he and Jakotsu didn't move around the room, the last thing he needed was for them to scare the girl even further. Kagome did as she was told and took a deep and calm breath and started to relax a little and did what Renkotsu said and started to search for where her power laid hidden within her.
Renkotsu and Jakotsu watched as Kagome sat quiet and unmoving with her eyes closed for almost an hour with Renkotsu telling her to just relax and let her mind to only focus on her reiki and slowly the two mercenaries could see how her reiki started to respond.
"Good Kagome, now I want you to picture your reiki inside of you, picture it in a sphere or anything that you can think of that can make you able to contain it inside of you so that you can tap into it and use it to what you need it for. Once you tap into your powers picture it seeking out the rest of the miasma and purify it." Renkotsu never let his eyes leave the girls form and though he knew Jakotsu by his side was bored the feminine male was also a little curious about how the miko would do and now they could only wait and see if Kagome would be able to wield her reiki to purify the rest of the miasma or not. Kagome took a slow and deep breath, concentrating on her power, let it guide her and she could feel how her reiki slowly found the remaining miasma and she imagine her reiki to envelope the miasma and she could feel her power doing just that and slowly purify it and once she felt the pain that still had remained in her body because of Naraku's miasma was gone she opened her eyes and looked at Renkotsu and Jakotsu and a small but very kind and genuine smile played on her lips and she relaxed a little.
"Thank you" Was all that Kagome said but Renkotsu smirked and nodded before he turned on his heels and left the room and closing the door leaving Jakotsu and Kagome alone and Kagome could see that Jakotsu now had some questions and she guessed it was about the magazine he had found earlier and for the first time since she woke up after what Naraku did to her she felt like she has healed a little now that she was rid of that monster's poison inside of her.
Renkotsu walked into the living room and saw Bankotsu, Suikotsu and even Ginkotsu look at him and he sighed and walked to his armchair and sat down and poured himself some sake and looked at Bankotsu.
"I think it worked. But Suikotsu will need to check just to be safe." He said and Bankotsu nodded in response.
"Okay, but we will leave her alone until it's time for Jakotsu to come down and get her food. I'm surprised to not see him come down with you though." Bankotsu looked at Renkotsu while he sipped his sake and Renkotsu grimaced slightly.
"The fool saw a wierd book that the girl had in her possession it had some sort of painting of a half naked man on it, he is probably asking her about it." Once he had said that Suikotsu sighed and shook his head in annoyance while Bankotsu just lifted a brow in question.
"I have never seen any books with paintings on them." He said and was a little curious aswell.
"Well the girl is wearing wierd clothes maybe she is a foreigner." Suikotsu stated calmly while Renkotsu looked at them with a bored expression.
"Maybe but I don't think so… she can speak our language too well for that." Renkotsu said and the room then fell silent while everyone in it started to realise that the girl was indeed very mysterious.
A couple of hours later Jakotsu came down the stairs humming to himself and when the others in the living room heard him they got a little worried. Jakotsu would only hum to himself when he was happy about something and the only things that would make him happy would be him killing someone or it would be about Inu Yasha. Bankotsu rose from his seat when Jakotsu came back from the kitchen with a tray of food and looked at Bankotsu with a little confused look before he looked at the others in the room who was looking at him aswell and he rolled his eyes.
"I haven't killed her! Geez!" Jakotsu exclaimed and Bankotsu nodded slowly and sat down again.
"Then why are you so happy, Jakotsu?" he asked while he relaxed slightly. Jakotsu looked at Bankotsu and grinned.
"Because, Bankotsu. Kagome said I could have my Inu Yasha as long as I don't kill him" Jakotsu chirped happy and his brothers looked at him with wide eyes in shock and they all looked at each other before Bankotsu spoke.
"Jakotsu… You just said the girl's name." Renkotsu said, even he was shocked, Jakotsu never, never said a females name, he had only done that once before and once that girl had been killed, he looked at Bankotsu and wondered that maybe Kagome could heal the wounds that still was hurting the three of them deep inside their hearts.
"And she really said you could have Inu Yasha?" Renkotsu asked with his brow slightly raised and Jakotsu only grinned wider and nodded.
"Yeah! She let me borrow that wierd book and we started talking and I told her once again that Inu Yasha is mine and then she said that if I really want him I can have him. But I had to promise her that I wouldn't kill him and I won't. He is too cute for that." Jakotsu said before he turned slowly and started to walk up the stairs with the food. His brothers watch him disappear up the stairs and they all looked at each other and slowly shook their heads. None of them would never understand Jakotsu's preference in other males but if the girl could take the roll on having to listen to Jakotsu's endless prattle on Inu Yasha or any other male he found attractive the rest of them would be able to escape the headache on having to listen to it themselves.