Kagome awoke at dawn to a knocking sound. She got up and said "come in" and the priestess Shintane came in.
"Are you ready?" she asked
"Yes" Kagome said walking towards her
"Alright lets go" priestess Shintane said walking out of the door
"Where are we going" Kagome asked. They had been walking for a while and there was only forest around them.
"We must go some were out of the range of others thoughts." She said
"Oh"
After a few more minutes of walking priestess Shintane stopped.
"Here we are" she said
There was a spring with a waterfall and a large garden surrounding a small hut in the middle of the garden and a stone walk way leading up to the door. There was a barrier around the hut.
"This way" she said walking up to stone way path
Kagome followed her and walked into the cottage going right threw the barrier
There were shelves full of scrolls inside the hut and many ingredients for potions.
"May I ask a question lady Shintane?" Kagome asked
"You may"
"Why was there a barrier around this hut?"
"There are many scrolls and herbs in here that evil humans and demons alike would like to have. I must put this barrier up to protect all of the things inside of it"
"Oh I get it" "So did you make all of these?" Kagome asked looking at the shelf's full of herbs
"Not all of them, my apprentice, she makes many of these and brings them to me to help the sick"
"Where is she now?" Kagome asked
"Right here" came a small female voice
Then out of a room came a small girl looking a little older than Rin. She had blue hair with purple streaks. Her hair was tied in two pigtails at the bottom of each side of her head and was braided down reaching well down to her waist. She was wearing a black yukata with a red sash tied around her waist. Her eyes were green and she had two thin black stripes on each cheek. She had two black cat ears on top of her head. Her nails were longer then most children her age and she had little fangs in her mouth.
"Hello, nice to meet you my name is Amaiko" she said bowing
"Nice to meet you my name is Kagome" Kagome said bowing back
"Amaiko would you get the dokushinjutsu scroll for me" Priestess Shintane asked
"Yes my lady" and she walked off to get the scroll
"Is she demon?" Kagome said
"Half-demon, is that a problem?" the priestess asked
"Oh not at all" Kagome replied "I travel with 2 demons and one half demon"
The miko was silent for a moment then she said something that caught Kagome completely of guard
"You're in love with him" the miko said
"W...what" Kagome stammered
"You're in love with the hanyou…Inuyasha is it" the miko said smiling
"I...Um...Well…" Kagome was trying to think of something
"I found it" came a small girl's voice.
Kagome looked over and Amaiko had come back and she had a scroll in her hand
SAVED she thought
"For now you are" the miko said
"I forgot you could do that" Kagome said giving a small laugh
"Alright come over here and sit down, you to Amaiko, you might want to hear this so you may help lady Kagome" Shintane said
"Yes my lady" the little girl said coming over and sitting down
"In this scroll is the knowledge of how to control the dokushinjutsu" "Everything you will need to know is in here" "The first priestess to have this ability Midoriko wrote it all down" "We will start with the breathing exercises" "you must get in a comfortable position and breath in and out slowly" "Concentrate on your breathing, forget everything else and empty your mind"
Kagome did as she was told
"Good, do that while Amaiko makes some breakfast"
"Yes my lady" and the little girl went off into the kitchen to prepare breakfast
"Tell me when you feel the dokushinjutsu power inside of you come out" the miko said
Kagome nodded and continued with the breathing exercises
After about thirty minutes of doing this Kagome started to feel her miko powers inside of her come out and she felt as if she could center in on someone's thoughts but not just was on top, go inside, dig deep within there thoughts.
"Alright I can feel it" Kagome said not opening her eyes
"Good, know try to tell me what Amaiko is thinking" "She is in the kitchen so you will have to concentrate" "Summon the dokushinjutsu inside of you"
Kagome concentrated on the dokushinjutsu power and summoned it then she concentrated on Amaiko in the kitchen.
At first she was not hearing anything but then she could have sworn she heard…singing. She concentrated more and she was sure of it Amaiko was singing a song inside her head.
"She is singing" Kagome said looking at Shintane
"Correct" "That is very good" "You are very advanced" "But you miko power level is very high which is why I believed you would be able to do this with just some exercises to start you in the right direction"
"Really" "So what next?" Kagome asked
"Breakfast" Shintane said
And just then Amaiko came in with breakfast
"Breakfast is ready" she said