Title: Boot Camp
Author: landofthekwt
Rating: G
Universe:Canon
Pairing: None
Word Count: 544
Warnings: None Wilted Rose-Week 5-Abuse
Summary: Kikyou meets Tsubaki at the temple as she starts her training to be a priestess
Tsubaki looked at the new group of trainees as they assembled in front of her. The master hadjust introduced her and left to began his prayers for the day. It never ceased to amaze her how worthless these young girls were. Not even a good snack for a demon. Somehow the master expected her to turn this rabble into mikos and priestesses. She knew the majority would leave after a few weeks. The training of a priestess in the temple was not for the meek. The life washard, the rewards few. It was her job to show the young acolytes just how hard that life was Those who survived would go on to train with the master.
She was the gatekeeper to the master. It was a duty that she jealously guarded. She had been with the master since she was five years old. The master had taught her personally. She still accompanied him if he chose to travel. She turned back to the motley crew and began to speak in a loud demanding tone.
" I am your mother and your father. All of your family are now to dead to you. You will obey everything I say. You will eat when I tell to eat. You will sleep when I tell you to sleep. You will learn to everything I teach you to do until you can do it right. Your survival depends on you learning the techniques that I teach you. I will not have you disgrace the master. You are not here to learn to be shrine maidens. That you can learn from your village priest. You will learn to perform the rituals and dances perfectly till you can do them in your sleep simply because it is expected of you in your role as a priestess.. But this is not why you are here. You are here to become a servant of the kami. If you are not prepared to do this, leave now."
There was a murmuring in the ranks. A few girls even ran away crying. Better to get rid of them than to have them break down under the master's review of their progress. Tsubaki surveyed the remaining girls for that one girl who might be a threat to her position with the master. The one who actually had power of the kami within her. She had trained girls for many years and had found no one who measured up to her own power.
She stopped suddenly in front of a girl who was somewhat older than the rest. The power flowed from this one. The energy surged around her. It was a girl about 10 years old whose father a village priest had sent her to train to be a priestess. Tsubaki scowled at her. This one was a threat to her position with the master. She would have to be broken and sent back to her family in disgrace. Tsubaki. could not allow her to complete the training at the temple.
"Girl, what is your name.?"
"My name is Kikyou, Tsubaki-sama."
"Well, Kikyou, by the time I am through with you, you will wish that you had never met me, Doyou understand.?"
Kikyou stared back at Tsubaki with a determined look through those steely grey-blue eyes without blinking and never averting her gaze.
"Yes, Tsubaki-sama, I understand."