Hey guys! I decided to put the new chapter a day earlier because of my success! I've got 49/50 points on my english exam! ;D Though it was not so hard, but still :D There is just one thing that makes me angry :P I don't know if you read the spoiler for Inu manga chapter 552. If you do then I'm talking about the mediou stuff! I mean seriously! Finally I came up with idea that I haven't read in any fic (and believe me, I read a LOT of them) and what? In sunday I read about it in spoiler :P Now I will have to rewrite last chapters if the manga will be the same as my story (or really similiar :P) Anyway, on with the story! ;D
It was the evening before Rin and Sesshomaru departure. Kagome repeated the last time what her sister can and cannot do. Putting little girl in the bed and waiting till she fell asleep, young miko found herself once again thinking about Rin and her safety. Sliding the door shut behind her, Kagome decided to take a night walk in the garden but when she made it there something, or rather someone was already standing in the clearing looking at the sky. Her beast growl in disapproval but still, she step next to her, also looking at the sky.
"I have no idea what you are up to, but if you lay a single finger on Rin I will personally send you to hell without a way to came back" our mikoness was trying to stay as calm as possible. Asuko smirked.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Kagome let out malicious growl.
"Do not underestimate me. This is just warning" and with that she left to her room.
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The next morning Kagome woke up about two hours before sunrise. Putting her long, light blue kimono with pink petals, she quickly makes her way to Rins room wanting to prepare her for journey.
"Good morning baby, wake up" she said softly, kissing her forehead. The girl just moaned a little and sat, rubbing her eyes with the palms of her hands.
"Good morning Oneesa, but isn't it too early?" Kagome smiled and went to her little closet.
"It may be a little early but I want to make sure you will look like a princess, so that even Lord Sesshomaru will be proud" Rin eyes immediately lit up so she went to take a bath while Kagome was looking for a perfect kimono. Founding one, with matching obi, miko went to help Rin. She specially brought her cosmetics with her. After washing the hair and body, Kagome dried her little happiness. Back in the bedroom, young miko dressed Rin carefully in white inner kimono, silky, bloody red outer kimono, with white petals on the left sleeve, tie the black obi carefully and put her hair up in a bun with two red and white chopsticks. To finish the touch she put a little of her lip-gloss making her look more adult but still sweet and innocent. Just as Kagome finished fetching her little sister, it was right before sunrise. Suddenly the door slid open and Jaken entered.
"Rin, Lord Sess.." the imp stopped when he saw the little girl. His mouth were open wildly, just like his eyes
"Master Jaken, do you think I look pretty?" before toad could stop himself he nodded his head energetic, too energetic and smiled right before he tripped.
"Come on, we must leave now" Kagome took the little hand in her own and both of them make their way to the front gate, where taiyoukai, along with Ah-Un were waiting.
Sesshomaru heard them coming but when he turned to face them, only the older girl was standing there.
"Where is Rin, Miko?" he shoot her cold glare.
"Good morning to you too Lord Sesshomaru" she rolled her eyes and took a step to the left revealing a little girl behind her. Dog demon was looking for a minute, not sure what to do. His little ward, standing in front of his was no longer little girl but a young woman. Beautiful, young woman.
Kagome gave her little baby an encouraging tap on the shoulder and slowly, the girl make her way, stopping few inches from demon Lord.
"Milord, I am sorry to keep you waiting" she said bowing her head. Sesshomaru gave his ward one of the rarest, soft looks, then averted his gaze at the young miko and nodded in approval. Kagome immediately smiled, pleased that he liked what she did.
"Rin, come here for a moment" when the little girl came close, young miko hugged her tightly but carefully, not wanting to ruin her look. After kissing her in the cheek, she pulled back and smiled.
"Now, everything is in place. I can sleep peacefully knowing that you are save" Rin did not know what her older sister was talking about, but when she looked down, she saw pearl white snake wrapped around her waist and chest, with head laying on the shoulder. His skin color and ruby eyes, fitted perfectly to the rest of the outfit, which was Kagomes intention from the beginning.
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Since it was Friday and she did not have to train today, Kagome decided to read a little more in the library, seeing that the weather was not so pleasant this morning. Young miko was so into it that she did not notice it was already noon. Hearing a loud grumble from her stomach, she decided it was finally time to eat something. When raven-haired girl entered the dining room, other woman was already there.
"Lady Saya" miko bowed. The woman just smiled.
"Kagome, good to see you. Please sit with me" the girl obeyed and sat at the table.
"How do you feel?"
"I'm bored to death" Saya chuckled "Your son could not pick a worst time to go on a visit"
"Yes, it is too quiet for my liking. I heard that you spent a lot of time in our library. Are you that interest in the history of our clan?" Without a second thought, Kagome nodded and smiled.
"Yes, I am. At first I just wanted to know something about it, seeing that your blood is flowing through my veins now, but after reading the book about dog demon clan traditions I just can't control myself." Lady Saya just smiled. 'Yes, this girl is different'
"How do you find our history then?"
"Very interesting, though I'm still reading it. I especially liked the part about first Inu General and his Sword of Ultimate Destruction. Wonder what happened to it?"
"The sword was sealed because many demons and people alike wanted to have it in their possession. We can only imagine what kind of power is hidden inside it. However, no one, after the Great Inu-no-Mato was able to wield it without being possessed" They sat in a silence for a little while, eating their meal. When the two of them finished Kagome spoke again.
"Lady Saya, I was wondering" Inu female looked at the young miko.
"What is it?"
"Could you… could you help me to train a little. I mean if it's not too much trouble"
"Of course, I have no other duties right now. How can I assist you?"
"I want to practice my demon attacks, but I can't completely focus my powers. Nazuki is teaching me how to do it but it just doesn't sit right with me"
"I see. Very well then, we shall meet in the dojo in one hour" Kagome bowed when Lady Saya stood up and left the room. Seeing this as a good opportunity, miko went to her room to change kimono into her, as she called it, practice clothes. Deciding that there is nothing more to do, Kagome left her room and took a slow walk in the dojo. No one was inside, so she took a sword from the nearest wall and started practicing with her maneuvers with it. So caught up in her work, miko did not noticed that Inu female was looking at her work with a newfound respect, until she spoke.
"I believe the rumors are true then" Kagome stopped and looked at the lady confused.
"Rumors?"
"Indeed. Our warriors are whispering that the young mortal girl, trained by their commander, General Nazuki, is as deadly as beautiful." She finished the sentence with a little smirk, making the girl blush.
"Uh, thank you, I suppose." Feeling uncomfortable, she decided to change the subject.
"So, what are we going to do Milady?"
"First, we need to calm your beast. I heard about your stripes during the little sparing. Do you know why this is happening to you?" Kagome shook her head.
"When you, along with your beast, take a pure pleasure from fighting, the marks are starting to get visible" Miko went silent for a minute.
"But, I thought that I am a half- demon and that this marks are showing only a moment before my beast took control. So, how is it possible?" Saya just sighed.
"This, I do not know myself. Shall we start then?" Kagome nodded.
"First, we will meditate. You must calm your spirit along with your inner companion. Try to harmonize both of your powers. Normally, the demonic blood is in the right part of your body, while the spiritual is in left, with your heart. However, when you fighting, this two bloods mixed with each other. This is why you need to learn when to put the right one."
The girl was silent for a moment, trying to register what she heard. After a long while of hard and complicated brain process, Kagome nodded in understanding.
"Very well, then. Let us begin" So the both female sat down on the mat in a 'Buddha' position, closed their eyes and cleared their minds. Raven-haired girl could feel after an hour, her two energies flowing slowly through her body, settling in their proper places, just as the Dog Lady said.
Saya open one eyes and saw that the aura around young miko calmed itself so she spoke softly and not too loudly to startle the girl.
"Kagome, now I want you to imagine the flow of your demonic energy" Our mikoness just smiled, knowing exactly what to do. After all, she did something like this before, only with her spiritual powers. So, with eyes still closed she saw a green cloud forming itself in something that looked like a dog. She nodded letting to know that she did it.
"Now, try mentally to order your powers to move in one part of your body"
Kagome took a deep breath, thinking where to send her energy, when something pops in her head. The thought about something she wanted to do for a long time. Giving a command, she waited a little while, opened her eyes to see her index and middle finger glowing in a green light, and heard a chuckle from Inu Lady.
"I see you grow to like our Whip of Light" she giggled causing Kagome to giggle as well.
"Yeah, I was always wondering how will it feel like, after seeing your son doing it for the first time. Though it is not a very pleasant memory, for both of us I believe" Saya just nodded and smile.
"Why don't you see it yourself?"
"I don't know how to control it" she said a little embarrassed.
"It is really simple. You just draw a path for a whip with your fingers. Remember that you must always keep them together" Kagome nodded, stood up and stretched her hand in front of her face drawing a little circle with the two fingers. A second later, the same circle, only bigger was created from the green whip of light. Young miko smiled brightly and repeated the same moves, only with another shapes for the next hour. Satisfied and pleased with herself, she bit farewell to her host and sped up to take a nice, long bath.
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The next day went by almost as yesterday. Kagome woke up before sunrise, as usual, but stayed in bed until the breakfast. Later, she practice in the garden with her new attack, managing to spin herself in circle surrounded with whip. Pleased with her progress she ate dinner with Lady Saya and spent the whole afternoon reading in the garden.
In the third day however, she was woke up by Akita on the sunrise.
"Kagome, Milady wants to see you in the dojo." Miko just nodded and automatically reached for the practice kimono in her closet. Entering the large building, she spotted Inu female dressed in the similar kimono as her and with hair put in high ponytail.
"Good morning Lady Saya" the girl bowed "Is there something you want from me?"
"I wish to test your strength. Would you like to spar with me?" Kagome was taken aback by this statement, which made her feel very nervous. Fighting with Nazuki was one thing, but sparing with Sesshomarus mother was the other. After a while of inner discussion with herself, she nodded.
"Very good. I heard from the General that your hand-to-hand combat is lacking so how about practicing it?" Miko immediately went to fighting position, much to the other female surprise. 'The girl is moving on instinct. Impressive' she thought and launch herself straight at her opponent. Kagome dodge it in last second. Remembering their lesson from yesterday, she tried to stay calm to be able to call forth her demonic power in perfect time. However, how simple it sounded, the task was a hard job. After dodging another few of Sayas attacks, the beast in young mikos chest growled, wanting to fight. Following her instincts, Kagome released her beast from one chain and jump in the air flicking her right wrist and sending a whip at the female on the ground.
Seeing that the raven-haired girl was now more into fight, Inu demoness decided to heat things up and released her poison from one hand and whip from another. Knowing that she is immune to poison Kagome was not concern, however she did not saw in time the whip coming straight at her and receive a full blow on cheek, left wrist and left shoulder. Getting angry, much to the beast approval, the young miko stood up and spin her body, with unbelievable speed, blocking opponent attacks creating a little smoke when the two beams of energy collide.
After the smoke cleared, Saya saw cocoon made from green light. Not knowing what to expect she waited ready for next move and certainly, what happened next was something she would never expect. With one more spin of her fingers, Kagome pointed it toward Inu female. The cocoon covering her body loosen itself and launch at the opponent from right, left, back and front with amazing speed. Saya eyes were wide open and thanks to her reflexes, she managed to jump a second before the whips collide with each other and return, back to the two fingers.
When white-haired female landed on the ground with a little shaky legs, her eyes were still slightly wide. She did not experience something like that in a long time and seeing a slight magenta stripes on the girl cheeks, she was even more surprised. Young miko enjoyed doing this. Dropping her head in defeat, she approached the other female.
"I've seen all I wanted too. Even more" Saya then brushed the black hair from Kagomes shoulder to reveal the place when the neck met with shoulder. Bringing her mouth to the skin, demoness bit one fang into Kagomes flesh, hearing in the same time a purr of approval from her own beast. Pulling back, she smiled at the confused expression on the girl face.
"Lady Saya what does it mean?" she asked a little unsure what to think of this gesture.
"That Kagome is for me to know and for you to find out" With that and little smile, Inu female left the dojo.
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Young miko returned to her room, took a bath and then went to garden, again, to read the book. It was not long, when a guard interrupted her.
"Lady Kagome, Milady is expecting you at the front gate" she picked herself up, from the grass, bowed and followed the man.
"Lady Saya is something the matter?" she asked a little worried. The other female just smiled and looked at the sky.
"They're coming back" just as this words left her mouth, Kagome heard a piercing scream of joy and soon after a little girl was running to her. Kneeling, she waited to hug Rin tightly, only to be tackle to the ground. Sitting herself, with the girl on the lap she kissed her forehead and hugged her tightly and lovingly along with soft purrs coming from her chest.
"Rin I hope you behave yourself?" her sister nodded.
"I was at my very best behavior. Lord Katerumi is very funny but I missed you so much Oneesa!"
"I missed you too, Rin" she hugged her treasure to her chest, looked up and bowed her head at taiyoukai who just entered the scene.
Sesshomaru nodded at her and looked at his mother with raised eyebrow only received a wicked smile as a reply.
The moment was, however ruined, when Asuko entered the front gate. Kagome soft purrs turned into low growls. Saya just looked at her with something strange in eyes. Yes, she too, thought that this demoness was suspicious, but it surprised her to see that the young miko beast was ready to strike her, without any reason. Or so she thought.
"Rin you must be tired. Let's go to your room and you can tell me everything" little girl nodded and with last death glare at Asuko both of them went inside the palace.
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After a long bath, Rin was lying in her bead with head on her sisters lap talking about how she played with her personal servant, talked with the Lord of the East and how nice the castle and the garden looked.
"Of course Lord Sesshomaru has nicer" she added seriously making Kagome giggled. It was too obvious that to this little girl, the stoic taiyoukai was like a father. Though this thought did not sit with her well, knowing that for her, Rin was like a daughter.
"Did this lady, Asuko was trying anything strange with you?" the girl shook her head.
"No. One day she took me for a picnic in the garden." Seeing her older sister angry expression she quickly added "Don't worry Oneesa. All the time your pet was with me" to end it Rin flashed her smile. Kagome worries were quickly washed away. Miko kissed her baby in the forehead and sit next to her bed, stroking absently the snake.
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The next morning raven-haired girl woke up and got ready for her training. Putting her practice kimono, she went the same path to dojo only to be greeted by non other then the demon Lord himself.
"You are late Miko" he stated with his back to her.
"Good morning to you too" she replied sarcastically.
"Watch your tongue wench" taiyoukai hissed. Kagome sighed. It was too early to pick up a fight with him.
"Lord Sesshomaru" she finished. After a short pause, she added.
"Why are you here?"
"This Sesshomaru wish to test your strength" he stated simply heading for a small door hidden in the wall.
"Come" he called to her and Kagome obeyed with no questions, being the curious creature she is, and wanting to know what was behind this door. She entered the small room with nothing in it. That is until she spotted that Sesshomaru was reaching for something on the floor, which a few second later, to her surprise opened, revealing a stone stairs. Following close behind the taiyoukai, they made their way down the corridor stopping only for a few moments and letting two guards open the door for them.
What Kagome saw inside astounded her. The whole chamber was filled with many items, most of them looked like a weapons, but there were also jewels and paintings. Walking slowly and looking at everything carefully, she noticed something at the end of chamber. A sword and by the looks of it, really old, was set in the stone.
"Gorgeous" she whispered and turned to Sesshomaru "What kind of sword is that?"
"This is the weapon of the first Inu demon." By now, Kagome was radiating with excitement, which did not go unnoticed by the stoic lord. Pure bliss on her face.
"You mean to tell me, that this is the Sword of Ultimate Destruction, who was in possession of the Great Inu-no-Mato? How in the world something so beautiful can be so deadly dangerous…" Her eyes were as big and puppy dog as you can ever get. Sesshomaru on the other hand was looking at the girl not even caring to hide his surprised expression. Seeing this, her joy quickly faded.
"I told you I wanted to know all I can about your clan. When you were away with Rin I was reading more than usual"
"Take this sword" he ordered, ignoring her last statement. She sighed, the thing she was doing a lot around him, and took it.
"What now?" He did not said a word, only took the first sword from her and replaced it with another. The moves were repeated a few times and by now, Kagome was frustrated to no end. When taiyoukai gave her another sword, she took it and explode.
"What the hell do you think your doing?" Miko screamed just about the time the sword was swirling his cloud of demonic energy back into the blade.
"What the..?" she asked shocked when the whirl disappears and the sword felt like extension of her hand.
"Interesting." He said looking at the black blade with green hilt.
"You are not trying to tell me that all this time you were picking a sword for me?"
"Indeed." Sesshomaru smirked seeing how her face changes from anger, to confusion and something between uncertainty and joy. Yes, this miko express her feeling way too often for his liking.
"Come" he said obviously bored by her behavior. Kagome turned and left the door with the stoic lord. The guards closed the gate. No one seemed to notice a pulse of energy radiating from one, old sword.
Two of them made their way back to dojo and without a warning Sesshomaru launched himself straight at her. Kagome managed to dodge but not without a little scratch on her right arm. Knowing that this will not be like with Nazuki or Lady Saya, she sharpened her senses to maximum level and locked her eyes at his figure. Taiyoukai within a second launch another attack and without the time to dodge, Kagome clashed her own sword with his.
"You forget your station, Miko" he said coldly looking straight into her eyes. The girl managed to push him back with the two hands on her hilt. The sword was a little heavier she must have admitted it. Jumping on the other side of the dojo, Kagome, again, felt this spark of pleasure. She was no longer afraid, she wanted to fight and join her mind with her beast once more, enjoying the exercise.
Sesshomaru saw it too, almost invisible shapes of her stripes was starting to get more and more focus and intense. Smirking mentally, he threw practicing sword and unsheathed Tokijin. To his little surprise, she didn't even flinch. With one swing taiyoukai launch deadly attack. Kagome repeated her trick with cocoon to protect herself. When the smoke cleared, Sesshomaru saw it and from what his mother told him yesterday, he was more then ready for what was going to come. Second, after the whips loosen its grip he jump in the air with Tokijin in front of him. Kagome reacted quickly with one flick of her wrist and slashed his back forcing the demon Lord to come back down and with another flick, her whip was tightly wrapped around his only wrist. Her beast was purring in delight at bringing him down to her level.
Sesshomaru understood the message and obviously impressed put his sword back in its place.
"Enough" he stated simply letting her know that the sparing is over. Kagome sheathed her sword as well and followed Inu demon back to the castle. When they were almost there she finally managed to ask him a question.
"Um, Lord Sesshomaru? Could you answer me something?" he stopped and turned his head slightly to look at her. She took it as a permission to continue.
"Yesterday, your mother, Lady Saya, bit me with her fang. Could you tell me what does that mean?" Sesshomaru turned his head back and was standing still for a minute, obviously thinking about something. After a while, he went inside the palace, ignoring Kagome.
"Great. Now I'm invisible" she murmured to herself and went back to her room to take a bath.
After that, she found Rin and both raven-haired girls were sitting in the library. Kagome decided to teach Rin kanji, since she perfected alphabet. That is how they spent the whole afternoon.
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In the meantime, Lord of the Western Lands was standing in front of his mother office. Knocking lightly and hearing 'enter' he proceed inside. The room looked almost exactly as his, only without a large table in the left side of the room.
"Ah, Sesshomaru. What brings you here?" the mother smiled mischievously.
"Miko told me" Saya raised an eyebrow.
"Told you about what?"
"The bite mark" The Inu female was still smiling. Sesshomaru was more than irritated.
"What was your purpose in doing such?" his voice was drop dead cold.
"Oh come on Sesshomaru. You must have noticed it by now too. That girl is no ordinary Inu demon and from what I can smell" she smirked "You went to verified what I told you yesterday. Is that not proof enough for you, my son?" Silence.
"Did you even focused for a minute on her demonic aura?" Still silence.
"I thought so. Do not start this conversation with me again, until you find worth contra argument" she focused her attention on the scrolls before her and taiyoukai left the room.
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Night came faster then expected so Kagome took Rin to her room and placed the little girl on the bed. As usual, she stayed there until midnight and, after leaving her pet with her baby, she left. However, on her way back she felt something. Something she did not felt in days. A presence of the shikon jewel. Without a second thought miko run, followed by her feeling and stooped behind one of the trees in the back of the garden. When she saw Asuko, she suppressed the urge to growl.
"Kill her. Kill the girl" a voice said. Kagome now could see who the other creature she was talking with is. It was a medium size crow demon standing on the ground.
"Again? I tried it before but..."
"Silence. You will obey me. Take the girl away from palace and kill her."
"What about the other one? She suspects something" the voice just laughs sending chills down Kagomes spine.
"Leave her for the time being. I will have my way with her soon." Asuko nodded.
"Focus on your mission. Make sure that Sesshomaru will be able to see her little, fragile death body and told him who killed his mortal ward" with this the bird took in the skies and flew off. Kagome was back in the castle within a minute. She breathed hard, still trying to register what this bird, whoever he was, was telling Asuko.
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On the other side of the western lands, near the border with the southern lands the group of demon slayer, little kitsune, undead miko, lecherous monk and a half-demon were sitting near the fire when the strong wind blew at them. Inuyasha was sitting on a tree with closed eyes, when a new smell bombarded his senses. Jumping down he looked at Kikyo, trying to find some kind of answer. Founding none, he looked at his companions. Shippo was oblivious to the situation but Kirara was in her bigger form growling loudly.
"Inuyasha, what is going on?" Sango asked a little worried by her pet behavior. The half- demon was looking at the night sky in some kind of trance.
"That scent…"
"What scent are you talking about Inuyasha?" Miroku asked looking more confused than ever.
"But that's impossible…" silver haired dog demon was still oblivious to his companions. After a while Sango have had enough and slap him across the face.
"Would you care to explain yourself? What scent!" she screamed her lungs out.
"Naraku…" After another slap from Sango, he blinked twice, shaking of his daze and looked at them again. All five of them were watching him with horrified expression.
"It's his scent. Coming from the west but moving at north." Without a second thought, the gang rushed in the direction of the wind with Inuyasha leading the way.
Sooo how was it? I hope it was not too boring :P I need to build up the story (you'll find soon ;) The next chapter should be more interesting (at least in my opinion :D)
Here's a little preview (kukukuku xD)
"Rin" young miko said gaining back her attention.
"Yes Oneesa?"
"Scream." Now even Saya looked at her confused.
"What?" a little one asked not sure if she heard properly. Kagome was still smirking.
"Scream. As loud as you can" There was a short silence and then a piercing sound filled the air.
Until next time! Read and review if you like to read more! ;D Love ya all and thanks for your comments! ;) ;