The Legends of the House of the West
Chapter 1: The Twins and Their Trainings
By: Rainemarauder
AN: Spirited Away Characters and Inuyasha not mine!!! Minna this is a revised chapter hope you'll enjoy review please…
The years flew by like clockwork as the twin daughters of the Kohakunogawa grew, from cute little toddlers playing on their father's river bank picking up seashells and stones, learning the basic of miko training, and martial arts training at the young age of six which continued until their 18th birthday.
The twins were identical, from their faces, to their body shape, mirror images of one another, which was seen in there long soft and shiny hip length black as a raven's wings hair, to their identical sea-green eyes and delicate peaches and crème complexion.
They were also gifted with special connection of twin bonds, able to know each other's thoughts, emotions and even communicate them to each other. They were hardly ever apart, where one went the other followed, such was their bond as sisters, although one can only tell the difference between them when they are seen using their unique abilities and powers, and their respective individual attitudes.
The oldest was so powerful that she can manipulate both her reiki and the wild magic in the air around her she can cast powerful spells of defense and offense, even make barriers and weapons out of her spiritual powers, she can heal and is learned in herbs and is a veritable potions mistress, she inherited the divine powers of being able to become a miko vessel and a summoner from her mother and father, she was named Amara Raine Yuki Nigihayami and her hobbies included practicing the ancient art of bushido which included the fighting arts of kyudo, kendo, aikido, kempo, jujitsu and many others, she also has the penchant for literature she loved to read any book she can get her hands on and write stories and poems that take her imagination everywhere, and has won acclaim and awards for her literary creations, although she has one flaw that her gentle twin never had, she has a violent temper and was tomboyish in nature so unlike her gentle, feminine twin sister. This temper was always shown in the way she flares up when boys bother her or her sister, and she usually bonks them with a punch or two to stop their malicious attitudes towards herself and her sister, although her temper is controlled during her martial arts practices, which makes her a formidable practitioner of the fighting arts.
While the younger twin was named Annika Rose Yuri Nigihayami, although not less powerful than her sister, she is able to become a vessel for her father but not like her sister she can't sustain his tama for long, she lacks the aptitude and control for such large scale summonings, her forte lies within the lore of healing and herbology, she excels well in the healing arts and her made potions and grown herbs were potently powerful once used, she is the ying to Amara's yang, she is the gentleness, and the embodiment of femininity within the twin bond. She also has a talent for the Arts, she loves to create things from clay sculptures, to watercolor landscapes her creation were on par with her sister's literary talent she also has won awards and acclaim for her work, although seen as gentle in nature she does have a cunning and mischievous streak anger her you get a prank in return!
If Amara was the sword, Annika was the sheathe that tempered and helped her sister control that devilish temper. It was said that only her mother and her sister can stop her rampage when her temper is set off, not even the powerful Nigihayami Kohakunushi, her father, can stop her rage and temper, and it was a running family joke that once his oldest child gets angry, Kohaku hides behind his wife or his second daughter for protection.
When the twins reached the age of 10 years old, their mother, Chihiro conceived and bore a son named Keigo, who was the cutest and sweetest baby brother to have. The twins even became more protective of their mother and especially their otouto. Since they have completed the training at their shrine, their father with the Asian Ryu Council's order and help asked that the twins be sent to a training journey to the different shrines, and realms to further their training to give them a higher chance in passing the guardian tests set by the council.
The shrines that where chosen where the following; Higurashi no Jinja, where Goshinboku-kami resides, wherein the learned the tales and legends of the Shikon no Tama, and as well as the importance of the time well. The Hikawa no JInja, wherein they learned the ancient art of alchemy and potion making. The Three Palace Shrines, where they where trained in the art of barrier making and seals just to name a few shrines.
They where also trained in other sects and organizations like the Buddhist monks of Himeji Temple who taught them how to make ofuda's, the cleric monks of Mt. Hiei, who gave them the knowledge of making weapons with their spiritual ki. As for their spiritual and ryu training their father with their other family in the Nigihayami clan trained them when they were at the underwater castle, at the age of 13 both girls were able to turn into their ryu kami forms both had silvery white scales and dark blue almost black manes, in their dragon form. After having achieved these forms, their training was doubled and intensified for the succeeding five years, their training regiment played on their strengths and strengthened their weaknesses. They were also allowed to stay for two years in Aburaya to learn from the twin witch sisters, Zeniba and Yubaba to harness their magic better in which Amara excelled in both white and black magic while Annika became an expert in white of healing magic in which they were given their witch names of power Amara was named Yuki and Annika was named Yuri.
Years passed and seasons change, on their 18 year birthday, both young women had become more powerful in combat and magic over the course of the past six years, although Annika was less gungho or powerful in the fighting arts, she was passable, while Amara was like a sponge and had drank all the knowledge in, becoming more physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually strong she has also learned to better control her temper although its sometimes gets the better of her, which made Amara more powerful than her sister, although she seldom shows it for she'd rather protect her family than be more powerful.
On the day of the celebration of their birth, they were finally given the titles of high priestesses for their father's shrine, since their mother wanted to retire in the near future, so each sister was given a different title, Amara became Raine Nisou, and Annika became Rose Nisou. For their coming of age ceremony their father presented them with miko weapons suited for each daughter, made from his fangs and claws. To Amara she was gifted a fine sword contained or disguised within a staff and for Annika she was given a dagger disguised within a wand. And from their mother, she gave them both bows and arrows made from the limbs of the Goshinboku.
After the ceremony and the celebrations exactly at midnight they were told to wear their ceremonial shrine robes, the white gi and the blue hakama with the wave patterns, the royal sign of the family. And thus arrayed with clothes and weapons they were guided and transported by their mother and father to the belly of Fujiyama, to attend the fabled Ryu Council and to participate in the grueling Guardian tests. . .
As the family of the river kami traveled in astral light, the sisters held hands, the younger nervous yet determined and the older calm with underlying strength and fire in her eyes, as she comfortingly squeezed her sister's trembling hands. . .