InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ A New Life ❯ Begin Training ( Chapter 7 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Begin Training
Kagome rolled over in the bed trying to find the warmth that had just moved away from her body. She streached her hand out but only found air as she slowly opened her eyes to a new day. Last nights events came back to her mind, she jumped up from the covers and looked down at her wrists not even seeing a scar where she had cut herself.
“Sesshomaru” she whispered quietly to herself wondering if it was just a dream.
‘My dream...Otou’ she recalled dazedly from when her father had talked to her in her dream.
“I’m sorry father, I will never try to end my life again, I was such a baka.”
‘But wait, who will love me and when?’ Kagome thought of all the demons and humans that she knew and came up with a list of possible candidates that she had encountered before. She discarded the idea of Hojo since he was annoying, Miroku since he liked Sango, and Inuyasha since he had choose Kikyo.
“Oh no, Sesshomaru, it can’t be" Kagome gasped.
“What about me Miko?” Sesshomaru asked as he emerged from the shadows of her room with the morning light reflecting off of his hair and body making him have a godly appearance.
“S-Sesshomaru?” Kagome gawked at his appearance.
“Have you forgotten how to address this Sesshomaru correctly?” he asked with an amused gleam in his golden eyes.
“Iie, Lord Sesshomaru” Kagome continued to watch as the light filtered across his face seeming as if he glowed with a godly light.
“Miko” Kagome looked up at his face seeing a small grin there. Kagome quickly turned her head away from his body feeling the blood rush to her cheeks.
‘I was practically drooling over him’ the blush on her cheeks continued to grow until her face was glowing.
“Miko” once Sesshomaru got her attention he continued. “Today your training will begin.”
“My training?” Kagome turned her head to look at him with a confused expression on her face.
“Hai, you will be learning the correct technique of any weapon you choose, your miko powers need to be harnessed and improved, and you will be taught in hand to hand combat.”
“Wh-who will teach me?” Kagome suddenly asked as he grasped the handle to her door.
“Me” he smirked over his shoulder before exiting her room.
‘Sesshomaru’s training me!’ she yelled in her mind.
‘Oh no, oh no, oh no’ she shook her head frantically from side to side not knowing if training with Sesshomaru would be good or bad thing.
“My lady?” a voice called slyly from the door as she watched Kagome shake her head from side to side.
“Ahh!” Kagome feel with a loud thump from her bed as she noticed that someone was in her room. The person standing by the door tried hard to stifle the laughter that wanted to escape from her mouth.
“Ano, excuse me...who are you?” Kagome asked as she stood up from the floor watching the intruder with wary eyes.
“Tsuru my lady” Tsuru bowed low to the ground.
“Tsuru, so you’re a crane demon?” Kagome took a step towards Tsuru wanting to see what she looked like.
“Hai my lady” Tsuru rose from her bow and inclined her head towards Kagome.
“You can call me Kagome, I don’t like the idea of being called a lady, Sesshomaru would probely have your head.”
Kagome was able to get a closer look at Tsuru as the light shifted towards the woman. Tsuru had light pink hair with white highlights in it; she had bright pink eyes that seemed to pierce anything. Kagome could also see a thin pair of pink crane wings sprouting from the back of her kimono.
“Kagome?”
“Hai?”
“May I speak freely?” Tsuru asked nervously.
“Hai of course!”
“Sesshomaru instructed that I treat you as The Lady of the Western Lands.”
“What!” Kagome yelled shocked at Sesshomaru’s command.
“Hai Kagome, and he also instructed me to show you to the hotsprings then help you dress in your training clothes.”
“Oh...okay” Kagome followed Tsuru out of her room and down until they reached a wooden door on the first floor of the castle where steam escaped from the slit that was under the door. When Tsuru opened the door Kagome gasped at the scene, the hotspring was half the size of a football field with smooth rocks protruding from the water. Lined on one side of the spring was a different assortment of soaps for the hair and body that smelled of many different scents.
“Wow” Kagome shut her mouth with a snap when she noticed that she was gawking.
“I will wait outside the door Kagome” Tsuru said before leaving the room with the stunned Kagome in it.
“I didn’t think that a castle would have a hotspring inside of it!”
Kagome scanned the room once more before discarding the sleeping kimono that she had wore the last few nights. She began removing the bandages from her wounds and winced when the cloth stuck to her skin making it pinch her in a very uncomfortable way. With an idea Kagome entered the spring and carefully wet the bandages with the warm spring water until they were soaked enough to remove without tearing her skin.
She dunked under the water to get her hair wet and swam over to the different soaps. Kagome smelled each hair wash until she came to a scent that she liked, jasmine. She washed her hair with the sweet smelling soap and rinsed it out and repeated the same process with a green substance that was like conditioner but better it seemed. After she finished with her hair she washed her body with a soapy green substance that also smelled faintly of jasmine.
Once Kagome had rinsed herself of all the suds she got out of the spring and spotting a white cotton robe slipped it on after she dried herself with a white cloth with Sesshomaru’s family crest embroidered on it. Kagome exited the room to find Tsuru standing beside the room waiting for her before leading Kagome back to her room.
“Did you enjoy your bath?” Tsuru asked as she looked over her shoulder at Kagome.
“Hai, it was wonderful; who knew that Feudal Japan has so many conveniences” Kagome said before being cut off as she bumped into Tsuru who had stopped because she was at her door.
“Gamen ni san Tsuru” Kagome said before entering her room.
“Why do you call this time Feudal Japan” Tsuru asked confused as she pulled Kagome’s training clothes from the wardrobe.
“Ano, you see...do you promise not to tell anyone?” Kagome asked after a moment. For some odd reason she had the feeling that she could tell Tsuru anything.
“Hai.”
“I’m from the future.”
“Oh” Tsuru continued on with helping Kagome dress as she contemplated that that was the reason Kagome had such weird clothes when she had first saw her.
Kagome loved the training outfit that she would be wearing. It was two pieces. The top of the outfit was black with blue embroidered around the edges, it was long sleeved that looked almost identical to Sango’s slayer outfit. The bottom was a skirt that had both the sides, the back and front with slits just past her knees so she could move around easily. It was completed with thigh long black boots that was laced up with a blue thread that looked almost like Sesshomaru’s boots but a lot longer.
Tsuru led Kagome to a chair in front of a vanity mirror where she tied Kagome’s hair up in a high ponytail with a blue ribbon that matched her outfit. Next over her clothes Tsuru put Kagome’s armor on that was a shinny black color with a blue half moon on the chest. It tied on the sides with a blue ribbon, Kagome was awe struck at how light the armor was, almost as light as a feather.
“Wow this is amazing” Kagome exclaimed as she twirled around in front of the large vanity mirror as she looked at her new appearance.
“Hai Kagome it is, Lord Sesshomaru will be most pleased” Tsuru smiled as she imagined the look that would be on her Lord’s face.
“Well, let’s go we don’t want Lord Sesshomaru getting angry” Kagome smirked.
“Hai, that we do not.” Tsuru led Kagome out of the castle and continued on down a path that led to a large dojo that would hold Sesshomaru in his dog form with space to move around in. Kagome was once more amazed at the beauty of Sesshomaru’s castle and lands that would put any home in the future to shame.
Tsuru left Kagome at the door to the dojo like she was ordered to do. Kagome with nervousness opened the large door that led to the dojo, when she stepped in she had to adjust her eyes since the dojo was darker than it was outside. Once Kagome’s eyes were adjusted she looked around the dojo until she spotted Sesshomaru standing next to a wall of weapons while looking at Kagome.
Sesshomaru’s stoic mask almost dropped when he saw the beauty that had walked into his dojo. He couldn’t believe that this beautiful creature was the same hard headed ningen that he had been keeping hostage.
‘Wow she looks amazing’ his inu beast said with awe.
‘Hai she is.’
‘So you agree?’ his beast asked incrediosly.
‘Hai.’
‘Is that all you can say, hai?’
‘Iie, leave you are not needed here’ Sesshomaru commanded.
‘Ok, ok’ his beast sighed with a small smirk.
Sesshomaru snapped out of his daze but to Kagome it looked as if he was the same as he had always been with his cold mask on. Kagome walked towards him until she was about two feet away from him. Sesshomaru’s eyes began slightly closing as her scent reached his nose.
“Sesshomaru?” Kagome looked at him with a weird expression on her face.
Sesshomaru snapped once again out of his daze. “Have you forgotten so quickly about how to address me properly” he asked trying to make his voice sound angry but it seemed to come out softer than he intended.
“Iie, gomen.”
“Apology accepted.” Sesshomaru turned towards the wall of weapons and told Kagome to pick out which weapon she would like to be her main one.
Kagome scanned over the many assortments of weapons; there was katanas, daggers, bows with arrows, sickles, axes, and many other different weapons. Kagome’s eye caught a pair of identical katanas, the hilt was made of silver with gold vines entwining around the hilt. The blade seemingly shone with a bright blue light as it sparkled with a blue glow.
“Those” Kagome pointed to the two katanas with an excited gleam in her eyes. Sesshomaru studied the weapons for a minute, finding them a good choice for a woman he took them down from the wall and handed them to Kagome. Kagome twirled one around on her hand as if she had always handled a sword.
“Have you fought with a sword before?” Sesshomaru watched with slight wonder at the way she handled the weapons.
“Iie, my jiisan collects old swords so I used to practice things with them” Kagome answered shyly as she stopped spinning the katana.
“Very well.” Sesshomaru took Tensaiga from its sheath in his obi and showed Kagome how to properly hold both katanas in her hand. Sesshomaru sighed as she once again held the two katanas in the wrong way, he made his way behind her as he felt her anger radiating off of her at not being able to hold the katanas right.
Kagome’s heart sped up as Sesshomaru circled his right hand around her waist and moved her fingers until they were holding the hilt of the katana correctly. He repeated the same process with her left hand until he was satisfied with her position, before he could move back he caught the scent of jasmine and honey that was mixed with another spicy scent, arousal.
Without being able to control his body he buried his nose in the crevasse at her neck, breathing in her scent once again as if it was a drug that he couldn’t get enough of. His tongue snaked out from his mouth and trailed down the side of her neck where the skin showed making a pleasurable gasp come from Kagome. His youkai conscious begged him to take her right there but his rational mind would not allow it. Sesshomaru pulled reluctantly back from Kagome as he returned back into his emotionless mask.
“That’s all for today” he said gruffly before spinning on his heel and leaving the dojo, slamming the door behind him.
“Wha-what was that?” She brought her fingers up to her neck where his tongue had trailed over it. A bright red blush rose to her cheeks while it felt like she had suddenly grown wings and learned how to fly.