Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
Summary:
The funny thing about falling in love is that it's always with someone you least expect and at the most complicated times. Kagome saves Sesshoumaru's life and he feels honour bound to return the debt but it's hard to save someone who doesn't need his help, at least not help in the way he planned.
Sess/Kag
There is no Sesshoumaru point of view till next chapter I'm sorry to those Sesshoumaru fans. Dedicated to Miko who had given me the most reviews and not afraid to speak their mind. Seriously I hardly take offence to anything. Constructive criticism is ok. Also I want to apologize to updating so late.
Chapter 5:
The next day after she had bathed to Sesshoumaru's satisfaction (though he did manage to say a few derogatory comments on her scent) she was ready to start her first lesson. Kagome was actually quite excited. How many people could say they were going to be taught sword fighting by the most powerful youkai she knew in existence? Anyway she was standing in a small forest clearing waiting for Sesshoumaru to come and train her. Shifting from foot to foot a gigantic grin couldn't help but appear on her face. She couldn't wait!
Half an hour later he was still no show and Kagome's huge smile turned into a forced one in an attempt to retain her happy mood.
'Where the hell is he!?' she thought impatiently. She decided to wait for a bit more just in case he turned up soon. Maybe he was just caught up?
'On what exactly?' the other voice sarcastically pointed out. A scowl appeared on Kagome's face and she used some of her reiryoku to block the voice out. It seemed it had become stronger lately.
Another painfully slow thirty minutes passed and Kagome was outright furious. She bet he had forgotten the poor dirty ningen in his almightiness and she was damned if she could be bothered waiting for him. Turning in a huff she stormed to where she had left her pack and strode off damning Sesshoumaru's name to a fiery pit in hell.
She walked for a few minutes until she found an animal track and began to follow it as she pondered her next move. She didn't know what she should do. She figured she could go back to Kaede's village and go see how Sango is doing or she could continue her survival training. She laughed loudly and then checked the suns movement to get her bearings. She decided to go see Sango and check up on her as she was seven months pregnant to her third child though it was only her second time giving and Miroku had been blessed with twin girls and she had a bet going with Miroku on the gender of the next one. Miroku was hoping for a boy this time.
Kagome was so lost in thought she didn't recognize a recently familiar aura in front of her until she almost ran into him. Sesshoumaru was staring her down from further on down the track.
Kagome glared intensely at the figure before her and decided her needed a good talking to.
"Now you decide to show up? I thought you said you were going to train me to relieve your debt or something? Why weren't you there?!" she demanded. Sesshoumaru bared his teeth just a little and replied with venom lacing his voice
"Impertinent wench, you shall be more respectful to your superior. Training one such as you fully will fulfil my debt in my being. I will not have my honour or my methods questioned."
Kagome looked confusedly at him.
"What method? You didn't even do anything?" she questioned almost completely disregarding what he said. Sesshoumaru snarled and replied
"I will answer only this once then you shall learn without question. I was testing your patience limit. As expected it was rather pathetic but I suppose it's the best a ningen can do."
Kagome fought with herself to answer back and reigned in her temper and her pride.
'So he was training me?' she wondered and bowed to Sesshoumaru
"Forgive me I thought you were just showing me up. I promise not to question you anymore," she said and only slightly winced at her lie to not question. It seemed to appease Sesshoumaru though and he faintly nodded his head.
"From now on you shall call me Master or Lord and I shall call you whatever I want. Expect at any moment to be tested and trained. For now you can run the rest of this track " he ordered and started walking briskly down the track himself not even bothering to see if Kagome was behind him or not.
Kagome stood their blinking blankly at his wake before scowling and running after him.
'Master or Lord ey? Pfft… what an arrogant jerk' she thought as she shifted her bow as it bumped when she ran.
'I'm not sure I want this training anymore…'
The training was hard but will sheer determination and the patience Sesshoumaru said Kagome lacked she persisted. It started little of course with Sesshoumaru testing her limits and reactions. In Kagome's opinion those little things were the most stressful. Sesshoumaru didn't set a specific time when to train and told her that fights can happen anytime anywhere and so you have to be prepared to step into battle at all times. Of course that was just the gist of it as Kagome found it hard to decipher the vague message of a few useful words and a number of insults to her person. She was grateful he was training her anyway… at least that's what she kept telling herself.
So she endured the training which consisted of Sesshoumaru starving her until she almost passed out with lack of food, throwing speeding objects at her when she least expected it testing to see if she could either dodge or catch the object (that one caused a lot of bruises), testing her endurance by making her run for miles and miles with no reiryoku to help her, testing her senses by blindfolding her and forcing her to run through a forest and many more painstaking things that either caused there physical pain or emotional pain. Worst of all Sesshoumaru got a sick glee out of it.
Kagome swore that once she saw Sesshoumaru smile when she received a particularly nasty bruise where a log hit her when Sesshoumaru tested her reflexes by throwing a tree trunk in her path. That youkai was a sadist. She swore that when she completed her training with him she was going to kill him herself.
Kagome was exhausted she had just been allowed to rest for the night and was tempted to fall asleep but she knew she had to create a barrier somehow or Sesshoumaru would throw her in the river again as he had done once when she had forgotten. She erected a small barrier only big enough to fit her, as she didn't have the energy for more room than that. She had been training for five weeks now and she hadn't touched a sword once.
"I wonder when I actually get the training I asked for?" she wondered as she closed her eyes to sleep not knowing she had said it out loud. A tall silver haired youkai looked at her from under a nearby tree and pondered that himself. Its true that he should have started the actually sword training a week ago but he simply was enjoying pushing the miko too much.
He had come to terms with the fact he was getting great enjoyment from catching her off guard at every opportunity that he never wanted to stop. True to his word though he would begin training the miko the next day. He felt a slight disappointment at ending his previous training until he realized that though normally the testing stage was passed upon the beginning of next stage the miko knew nothing of youkai training he would still test the miko at every opportunity.
'Yes' he thought 'I will enjoy this'
Translations:
Youkai- Demon
Hanyou- Half-Demon
Miko- Priestess
Ningen- Human
Taiyoukai- Demon Lord
Shikon no Tama- Jewel of Four Souls
Reiryoku- Spiritual Power
Youki- Demon Power
Haori- Traditional Japanese shirts
Hakama- Traditional Japanese pants
Sakura- Cherry blossoms
Taijiya- Demon Slayer
Houshi- Monk
Hebi- Snake
Dokuhebi- Poisonous snake
Karasuhebi- Black snake
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