InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Bound by Blood ❯ Chapter 7: Fighting or Tough Love ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter 7: Fighting or Tough Love?

 

Kagome and Yuriye watched as Sango walked out the door; they didn't see any stairs in the room leading up to the deck and figured they must have been on the other side of the door.

 

As soon as the door closed Kagome growled. It was a warning growl informing Yuriye that she should prepare to defend. Once the command had been issued Kagome went in for the attack directing her sai at Yuriye and Yuriye had no time to bring up her staff in defense. Kagome wouldn't allow Yuriye to leave the room without reasserting her dominance.

 

Both knew what this fight was about, both needed to prove that what they had been through would not affect their pack. Kagome had to prove to her beta that she was still fit for the position as alpha and that her dominance was recognized. Yuriye needed to know that she could rely on Kagome as an alpha. She needed to believe that Kagome could maintain the overall wellbeing of the pack and serve as their protector.

 

Kagome could feel surprise in Yuriye's aura and knew she had taken a liberty she normally wouldn't have. She almost always let Yuriye attack first, by attacking first she would knock Yuriye off her game and that would make the fight more interesting.

 

Yuriye didn't have time to bring up her staff so she dodged the blow by jumping backwards and away.

Yuriye smiled she knew that Kagome would fight this match as if it were between life and death and Yuriye would answer her . As Yuriye backed away, she brought up her staff to hit at Kagome's knees. Knowing each other's moves would make this fight prove to be more than a challenge. Kagome would see the move coming but she wanted to test the waters anyway.

 

Kagome saw the move of Yuriye's staff and knew the fight was on. Her sai was bound to break during the skirmish but she wouldn't let up on Yuriye until she submitted. As Yuriye brought her staff down she twisted it to she hit Kagome's left hand, the connection caused the sai to fly away from the dueling duo across to the other side room.

 

“Let's see what other new tricks you've learned.” Kagome laughed mocking Yuriye. She loved it when Yuriye would surprise her. The new attacks they picked up from the two month stint on the run would come in handy.

 

Yuriye would try to disarm Kagome as long as she possessed her sai and so her moves would reflect that. Both loved to fight with their favored weapon but nothing felt better than hand-to-hand combat.

 

Kagome expected the back swing of her staff and flipped backwards to avoid it. She headed towards the center of the sparring ring to get more room to fight. Both had natural weapons and neither was afraid to use them. As with most demons, both inu had attacks that came originated and passed down from their clan.

 

Yuriye smiled and pulled one of her clawed hands from her staff. “Pyro-claw!” she said as slashed across her shoulders. Three blades of fire came out of her claws and went soaring towards Kagome.

 

Kagome jumped away, ducking the Yuriye's blades. Her brow twitched as she noticed the aura of the male they passed earlier came and stood right outside the door. She quickly blinked the thought away, the fight she was in needed all of her attention.

 

“ Artic Razor!” blades of ice came from each of Kagome's claws. As they flew toward Yuriye they broke into dozens of tiny ice shards. Yuriye hated this attack because instead of having to dodge a large attack you had to dodge five separate attacks of tiny icicles. If one were to be hit by any of those ice blades it would probably kill them upon contact.

 

As Kagome threw her attack she raced forward so that she could catch Yuriye off guard. She didn't want Yuriye to be able to throw another flame attack before she knocked the staff out of her hands; this was going to be a claw and fang fight. Yuriye's eyes widened when she saw Kagome come straight at her she wouldn't be able to melt her attack. Instead she brought up her staff and jumped to the side missing most of the attack but a few hit her arms and one nicked her cheek. As soon as it cut her skin it healed almost instantly, but continued sting like hell.

 

One thing both girls noticed was that their attacks weren't destroying the room around them. This is what Sango must have meant by the dojo's suppressing energy attacks. They felt normal but the amount of energy released must have only been a fraction of their normal power. They also noticed that the room wasn't showing signs of fire damage or the cutting effect of her ice attack. The floor also didn't ice over which was a side effect of most of her ice attacks. It also put her at a slight disadvantage, most of the time the ice would put Yuriye off balance. Part of Kagome's training had helped her to be able to attack on the ice she generated while most would try to avoid it and she would use this to her advantage.

 

“Having issues my dear alpha?” Yuriye laughed when she noticed the floor didn't cover in ice. Yuriye hated fighting her on ice; she knew it was one of Kagome's advantages. Even if she melted it with her fire attack Kagome had more than one ice attack and she only had one fire attack and it couldn't repel the ice as quickly as Kagome released it.

 

Kagome growled at her, she knew that Yuriye was baiting her but she was getting sick of it really fast.

 

Sango and Miroku had started to run up the stairs leading to the observation deck when they heard weapons clashing. Both watched as the inu attacked each other like they were enemies instead of pack. As the inu used their natural defense, it showed some insight into the past of the females. Both were shocked when they noticed they had company, Sesshoumaru a white inu and of a royal bloodline had joined them.

 

Kagome was starting to get sick of the short bursts of fighting so she tossed her sai to the side and brought her right hand in front of her face. As she did she could smell the fear start to radiate off Yuriye causing her natural scent of pears and cinnamon to taint. She was pissed that her beta wasn't taking the fight seriously and joking about her status as alpha. As her hand was brought up her hand, it started to glow a royal blue and the smell of foxgloves permeated the air. Soon small drops of royal blue dropped to the floor in a hiss.

 

“Do you think I'm having issues?” Kagome growled. She would force her to fight or she would be injured. She extended her arm and wrist and about ten blades shot out of her toward Yuriye. She hated to use her poison attack on anyone. She still had issues controlling it, and often her hands would be a bloody mess. As the blades sped toward Yuriye, she tried to dodge them but several blades cut into her. Not only did they cut her open but they delivered a decent amount of Kagome's poison into her blood system. It wouldn't kill her because she had a tolerance to small amounts of her poison but it would slow her down drastically. Yuriye could feel the burn slowly spread throughout her body.

 

Kagome never used her Venom Edge, she knew that she was allowing her temper to flair but after the last fight she thought Yuriye would've taken this fight serious. She started to run towards Yuriye slashing with her claws. Yuriye ditched her staff; Kagome would only break it to get to her. Blood stained each of their clothes during the fight. As the two inu moved Kagome's hair would often fly off of her back, showing bitts of her scars. All eyes were drawn to her back.

 

“Sango what are those marks on her back? Did you see them when you were working in the medical unit?” Miroku asked Sango as quietly as she could, though all with demon hearing would hear.

 

“That is for Kagome to say. I will not talk about her stay in the medical unit.” Sango was a little upset that Miroku would ask about her a question like that, especially considering rotations in the medical wing were strictly confidential. When Kagome heard Sango say she wouldn't talk about their history, her respect for the demon slayer raised.

 

The cuts they would give each other would heal almost instantly, the only ones that didn't were on Yuriye. The ones that contained Kagome's poison didn't seem to be healing. Kagome knew they wouldn't unless she cleaned them. Yuriye caught Kagome on her right knee causing her to fall backwards. As she fell Yuriye followed and tried to pin Kagome down. As Yuriye came forward Kagome kicked her legs out and grabbed Yuriye's top flipping her on to her back. Kagome rolled with Yuriye, causing Yuriye to lose her breath. Her hair followed her movements and when it settled it was resting on the side of her neck, exposing both her shoulders. As she had flipped part of her shirt had rode up and the jagged mark down her side could be seen.

 

Sesshoumaru stared at the scars and briefly wondered at their origins. Returning his attention to the fight, he saw that both were powerful fighters although extremely lacking in a great number of areas. It seemed as though they had very little formal training.

 

Kagome sat on Yuriye's stomach and grabbed her throat with her fangs. “Submit!!” Kagome growled.

 

Yuriye knew that if she didn't submit Kagome could easily rip her throat out. She knew that she had pissed Kagome off with her comments. Yuriye tried to dislodge Kagome, but her fangs would close tighter around her throat. She had no choice but to submit. She raised her throat to bare it completely; as she did a smile graced her face.

 

“I submit.” Yuriye never wanted to lose Kagome as her alpha. As she bared her throat she felt the constant burn of Kagome's poison in her veins and whimpered. Over the years she had gained a very small tolerance to the venom but it could still kill her, it would only take a much longer time.

 

Kagome knew that her poison was slowly making her way through Yuriye's body. The longer her poison stayed in Yuriye's blood stream the more pain she would remain in. Kagome's beast growled; it was ecstatic that their beta had submitted. In all honesty Yuriye had every right to challenge them and to even leave. Kagome wouldn't try and stop her either, it would be one of the worst things to happen but it was Yuriye's choice. Knowing that Yuriye wouldn't leave her and still trusted her meant a great deal to Kagome.

 

Releasing her throat she licked the puncture marks clean, allowing Kagome's saliva to enter the wound and neutralize the poison in her blood. She wasn't done with Yuriye yet; she might have submitted but her not taking the fight seriously would cost her.

 

As she held out her hand Sango and Miroku thought that the fight was over. Kagome flipped Yuriye away from her and started attacking again. Neither human understood what was transpiring between the two.

 

Yuriye knew her punishment was not going to be easy, she knew better then to take their sparring anything less than serious. As Yuriye landed she was already off balance, Kagome came towards her and swiped Yuriye's legs from under her. Her back hit the floor and she rolled to her left side escaping Kagome's claws which came down on her right where her head had lay. She saw the bloody mess of Kagome's claws as they disappeared into the floor boards.

 

Yuriye knew that Kagome had trouble control her poison since she learned to wield it. For some reason Kagome couldn't control how potent it came out. Others in her original pack could control the level of poison as it came out but it took years to master. Most assumed that those who were gifted with poisons would be able to control it naturally, it was not the case with Kagome. Kagome didn't have trouble calling to her poison and because no one had taught her control her poison it would harm her as she released it.

 

She tried to ignore the smell of Kagome's blood. Yuriye tried to rake her claws at Kagome's back but Kagome rolled away too fast and her claws scraped the floor. As Yuriye rolled away from Kagome she got to her knees before Kagome pounced forward. Yuriye rolled backwards while using her feet to push Kagome away from her.

 

Kagome landed on her right shoulder when Yuriye flipped her over. With a sickening crack Kagome's shoulder was dislocated but it didn't seem to faze her one bit. As she continued the roll a second crack was heard as it was relocated. She came to a stop in a crouching position, a smirk settled on her lips. Kagome knew that Yuriye would be slightly distracted by the smell of her blood, for both of them this was a weakness. Anytime they would smell the blood of the other they would become distracted. Both knew they had to learn to ignore the nagging feeling but at this point in their training it was inescapable. Part of it was natural instinct to protect the other and another part was something that was deeply ingrained in them from their youth.

 

Yuriye saw the far away look in Kagome's eyes and knew she was remembering something. Yuriye took the opening in her alpha's defense to send an attack at her.

 

“Pyro Claw,” Yuriye said as she sent an attack after Kagome. Kagome didn't even notice the attack coming towards her, but at the last minute she quickly side-stepped, escaping the three blades of fire. The hollowed look in Kagome's eyes remained and the blood rained down from her hand; the hollowed look told Yuriye of Kagome lapsing into her nightmares.

 

The extended smell of the other's blood in each of their noses forced the awakening their beast to awaken. Red was slowly swirling with the whites of their eyes.

 

Sango was becoming worried when she saw the pair's eyes bleed red, knowing both were on the brink of losing complete control. Unsure of how much control either female had over their inner beasts caused her to worry, though they couldn't destroy the building, they still could severely damage it.

 

Kagome could feel her beast clawing away at her begging for release. She didn't want to let her beast out it would, she thought it would cause Yuriye more pain than Kagome was comfortable with. Kagome only allowed her beast to have partial control which resulted in the whites of her eyes bleeding red while her pupils retained their original hue.

 

Yuriye was having a little more trouble controlling her beast her eyes were almost completely red with black slits. She was looking towards her alpha when she noticed her beast was part of her conscious mind. It quickly snapped her beast back into its mental cage. She knew that having to deal with both Kagome and her beast would result in a lot of pain.

 

Sesshoumaru was growing bored with the current events and began to make his way toward the door. Upon approaching the exit he noticed the staggering increase in youki. He turned around to see both females fighting their inner beasts. To say he was disgusted was an understatement; it was obvious that that had little training, if any, when it came to dealing with their inner selves or their fighting styles. It didn't show but he was minutely taken aback when the silver inu's eyes had gone completely red but her pupil held its normal color. He was mildly impressed by the show of control, one that would suggest years of formal training. Had he not seen their earlier display he would have been inclined to believe the silver had been formally trained. Formal training that was missing from their sloppy technique and the lack of resulted in the silver's bloody hand. He had been surprised she could use poison at all, not many females inu had been gifted with poison.

 

His mind returned to the marks he saw on her back. He couldn't shake the chill that went down his upon first seeing them. Whatever had caused them had to have been very painful.

 

Sesshoumaru was lost to his thoughts failed to notice the two inu run toward each other and start clawing away at each other. Their inu natures were out for blood and would stop until they got it. As Kagome tried to avoid Yuriye claws they caught on her tank top and ripped the back half of her shirt. It was hanging low as it was still connected in the front but her back was completely exposed from middle of her back downward. Growling, Kagome took her claws and cut the hanging portion away and turned back towards Yuriye.

 

Sango released a small gasp, she had only seen the upper portion of Kagome's scars, never her entire back. She followed the jagged, yet strangely beautiful, slightly pinkish lines as they weaved a pattern down her back. Miroku stiffened at the sight of them and Sango felt this odd sensation coming from his aura.

 

“Miroku is something wrong?” Sango questioned, unknowingly her voice carried down to the embattled inu.

 

“Have you been told anything about how she…Kagome received those scars? I am not asking you to tell me, I just need to know if you know the story.” His voice was slightly shaky and uneven.

 

“No…when Kaede asked about them they got defensive. They do not fully trust us yet to tell us the tales of their past.” Sango replied.

 

Kagome overheard their conversation and began to focus on the two. She sensed the holy powers within Miroku. She assumed that his status as a monk would allow him to know the cause of her scars. It was one of the few ways to leave marks on youkai and she was sure he knew, and now everyone would know. No one would know when the marks were put there or the circumstances surrounding them but they would know how and that was enough for Kagome…maybe too much.

 

Kagome saw Yuriye come towards her but her attention too was on the humans and the conversation they were having. Kagome took advantage of Yuriye's distraction. She grabbed Yuriye's left wrist and flipped her again but this time on her stomach pinning Yuriye's arm behind her back. Kagome put both of her knees on Yuriye's lower back putting enough pressure to almost dislocate her shoulder. Both stopped fighting and looked up to the observation deck to see how the monk would respond.

 

Neither human had noticed that the fighting had stopped. Both were staring at one another, Sango waiting for Miroku to say something, anything. Even Sesshoumaru had turned his attention to the monk.

 

“It can't be! That would go against everything I've been…we've been taught. It would be… be… be,” Miroku was caught up in the moment of seeing the obvious evidence on Kagome's back and what he thought was taught to every person that was gifted with holy ki.

 

“Heinous, unethical, atrocious, appalling…denying what is plain as day in sight will not make it go away or become untrue.” Kagome's voice held complete contempt. “It's a pretty simple answer…. Do you honestly think that just because you were taught and raised to believe a certain way that all others are as well?” Kagome's look and Yuriye's lack of emotion conveyed to everyone the gravity of whatever it was Miroku knew.

 

“But a monk or miko would never use their power to…” Miroku never got to finish his sentence because Kagome's mocking laugh cut him off. She stood up and motioned for Yuriye to follow.

 

“Never use their powers unjustly? All those who proclaim good and righteousness are not good and/or righteous. They can be just as sick and twisted as those who follow a path of evil and destruction.” Kagome headed toward her sai to retrieve and Yuriye walked towards her staff. As both inu picked up their respective weapon, Kagome stared hard at the monk making him slightly nervous.

 

“Yes…a miko caused these scars. She too believed that she was following the teachings of what was right.” Kagome turned back around and continued her walk toward the doors and exited the dojo.