InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ From Geisha to Pack Priestess ❯ Kaede's training ( Chapter 3 )

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Chapter 3: Kaede's Training

 

 

 

The travel to Kaede's was an interesting one to say the least. Inuyasha first surprised Kagome, after she said farewell to Sango, by offering her a ride on his back. She blushed prettily at the time and after loosening her kimono a little was able to climb on and wrap her legs around his torso. He held her so securely that she never feared she would fall. The feel of his claws barely grazing the smooth skin of her thighs made her shiver and she hugged him around the neck when he ran, for comfort, because so much was changing for the young geisha.

 

Kagome was surprised when he suggested they try to go the whole three days straight to Kaede's and try to beat the war party Inuyasha sent ahead. Kagome was worried Inuyasha would need to rest so she was able to coax him into breaks where they would eat whatever wild berries or game that was around. Kagome found being around Inuyasha to be not so bad aside from the rude remarks, he was actually kind of sweet on the inside and she found herself becoming more attracted to him by the day.

 

When they finally reached the village where Kaede lived and reached the hut they found the war party there lying about on the ground lazily. Kagome giggled at their bored expressions, and in unison animal ears on the human like creatures twitched and they all looked around at their leader and their new priestess with bored expressions.

 

“Hey you lazy bums, first of all did I not tell you fools to meet us as the Mioji River? Imagine my surprise when we get there and you all are not there! Secondly, did you tell Kaede that we need her to train Kagome?” before any of the hanyous could even open their mouths to respond an elderly woman with an eye patch shuffled out of the hut.

 

She looked at Inuyasha with a flat expression. “Hello Inuyasha, your men say you want me to train some girl before your pack migrates to the hidden village. Is that so?” inquired the woman. Kagome stared at the priestess curiously and decided that bowing would be the most appropriate way to show respect for her soon to be sensei. Kagome got on her knees and bowed respectively. Inuyasha watched her do this with a surprised look and Kaede smiled at the girl.

 

“Yeah, you have a week to train her ba-ba.” Kagome and Kaede glared at Inuyasha in his disrespect but he didn't seem to care when he simply turned to his pack.

 

“Sorry Lord Inuyasha! We got to the river yesterday and ran across the demon, we chased it and it ended up so close to here that it would have been pointless to kill it and return to the river so we stayed here.” Said a panther hanyou. Inuyasha snorted in response.

 

“Next time I give an order and it doesn't mean life or death if you follow it or not, you follow understood?” they all nodded melancholy and Inuyasha wielded on the human women. “Well are you going to train or not? You got to teach her in a week what takes years for most! Get to it!” Kagome sighed and followed Kaede into the hut.

 

“Sir, what do we do now?” asked a cat hanyou.

 

Inuyasha looked at them and then out towards the north east. He pointed in that direction. “Head that way for about five miles, you'll come to the second landmark for the journey to the hidden village, wait there and you'll find the rest of the pack in about a day. Help lead them to the village and I will meet you all there in a little over a week alright?” they nodded and ran off.

 

Inuyasha looked towards the hut where he heard the soft hum of voices inside and then sighed tiredly. `What am I thinking about her for? Getting involved with her will only make things more complicated. I only freed her because I heard Koga was after her…I don't care about her or nothin'' this thought didn't soothe his ruffled fur. “Damnit! Why cant I stop thinking about the wench…it's not allowed I'm the pack leader.” Inuyasha grumbled.

 

Inuyasha thought back to his talk with the pack elders………

 

“So it is settled. We will take in the priestess as a permanent member.” Said an elderly dog hanyou. There was a round of consensus but a sudden grumpy raspy voice spoke up.

 

“You better not get too carried away with initiating her into the pack Inuyasha!” growled another elderly dog hanyou who had to be one of the oldest of them all. This was Genbu, a grumpy hanyou who absolutely hated humans, especially priestesses, though few knew why. The reason is because his mother had been a priestess way back when and she had killed his father after giving birth to him and then gave him away as an infant.

 

Inuyasha raised an eyebrow in confusion. “What do you mean?”

 

“I mean you can't be mating humans that's what! You are the leader of the pack and as such you should try to keep your blood as pure as possible! You can never trust a priestess anyways!” he groused.

 

Inuyasha got a little uncomfortable with where this conversation was heading and almost felt sick to his stomach when another elder spoke up.

 

“I agree with Genbu! Besides, priestesses bewitch demons into falling in love with them it is one of their traps! Never trust a priestess! You also promised my daughter, young man you better not turn her away for that whore of a priestess!” growled yet another dog hanyou by the name of Aiko. His daughter, Megumi, is a dog hanyou who follows Inuyasha around like they are mates. Inuyasha made no such promise, he didn't particularly like Megumi and his insult about Kagome immediately got his blood boiling.

 

Soon there was a small agreement among the elders that Inuyasha should not get involved with Kagome but it was far from a majority but when a call for who was against the judgment none of them spoke up, a silent majority seemed to not want to voice their opinions in front of two of the most awnry elders.

 

Inuyasha let it go and quickly changed the subject.

 

 

 

Now Inuyasha wished he could just say screw them all and try to pursue the geisha but he knew that if he snubbed the elders they might turn against him and convince the pack to do the same. The best thing to do for the time being was to just watch over the geisha.

 

 

 

 

It was now day two of training and Kagome only got about three hours of sleep before the next training session began. She was able to summon miko energy yesterday after a lot of failed attempts and now she had to learn to harness it. Kagome stood before Kaede expectantly, waiting for her to tell her what to do.

 

“Alright…if you can summon the will you can harness the energy without using a medium, but if you want to channel it into something that is how you will gain the better affect. Now…do you know how to handle any weapons?” asked Kaede. Kagome gave her the “are you crazy?!” look. Kaede sighed. “Well the best way to use your powers to protect yourself is to channel it into a weapon but if you cant do that then we have a problem. You will just have to practice a weapon, I have a spare bow and a quiver of arrows that you can take with you but it will take far too long to teach you how to use it so we will have to skip that. You can learn to channel your energy into it after you leave me but I will teach you how to channel it into an object. Now pick something…”

 

Kagome didn't understand what her last statement meant then realized she wanted and object. She looked around and then got an idea. She reached behind her back to the back of her obi and pulled out two fans. They were made of black colored wood with strong red paper for the fan. She held them out with a smile and Kaede looked on curiously.

 

“Alright…concentrate hard on flowing the energy to your arms, concentrate it all in your hands and use the fans as extensions of your arms to channel the energy into them.” Kagome concentrated but failed on the first couple of attempts then suddenly the fans began to get the aura she had, light lavender. Kagome gasped and when she snapped the fans open with skills of a geisha she was amazed when a reverberation of energy spread through the air.

 

Kaede held up an arm to block the energy from affecting her and was amazed that when Kagome gracefully moved the fans energy flowed out and almost acted like wind. The purified wind blew threw the room and Kaede was awed by the miko energy that was channeled. `This girl has extraordinary talent.' She thought.

 

Kagome waved the fans and spun around gracefully causing a tornado of miko energy to form around her. Kagome gasped at the warm feeling going through her. She was brought out of her revelry by Kaede's clapping. Kagome snapped the fans shut and the energy immediately dissipated.

 

“That was amazing! You might be able to use that fan technique to create new ways of using miko energy! Now! Before we conclude your training you must have a great knowledge of herbs and know how to heal with your miko energy. Follow me and we will look for some herbs. When we come back I will give you the bow and arrows.” Kaede left the stunned girl. Kagome looked down at the fans in wonder and then back up at where Kaede left. Kagome darted after her and waved as she passed Inuyasha. She suddenly wasn't so worried about failing to impress the hanyou.

 

Inuyasha watched the miko run off and a slight smile slipped onto his face but it quickly left when he smelt the mangy wolf approaching from the south west. `If he tries to take Kagome…I'll kill him.' He thought decisively.

 

 

 

 

Kagome was learning a lot as she followed Kaede threw the woods. It as a peaceful fall day, the fall colors were beautifully painted into on the trees and soon they would melt away into the white powder of winter. Kagome sighed contently as she listened to the birds titter.

 

“Hmm…I don't believe there are any burdocks around here…” Kaede mused. “You will need to get a good idea of the different forms they can take…maybe you should run and get Inuyasha so he could sniff them out for us.” Kaede suggested. Kagome blinked in surprise.

 

“Are you sure he wont mind being treated like a dog?” Kagome giggled. Kaede smiled.

 

“No, at least don't let him realize that is what he would be.” Kagome nodded and ran back towards the village.

 

Kagome stumbled a little as she reached the tree line but quickly caught her footing and when she broke through the tree line and saw Koga facing off with an angry looking Inuyasha she got worried.

 

Inuyasha caught sight of Kagome and gasped. “Oi! Get out of here wench!” he ordered. Kagome looked on confused as Koga turned towards her with a smile.

 

“Hey! There's my new priestess!” Koga said friendly and trotted over to Kagome. Kagome looked at the wolf demon in confusion as he held her hands in his and looked at her intently.

 

“Um…” Kagome glanced at an angry hanyou then looked back at Koga. “Hello Koga-kun…how are you?” asked Kagome. Koga smiled wider and Inuyasha was growling loudly.

 

“I am fine my dear Kagome…I was just telling that dog over there that you are coming to my clan to become our priestess!” Kagome gasped and took her hands back.

 

“What?! You were just going to give me away were you?!” Kagome shouted at the hanyou. Inuyasha sputtered indignantly for a minute then bounded over to stand between an irate miko and wolf.

 

“Hell no I wasn't giving you away! He's trying to TAKE you!” Inuyasha growled. Kagome sighed in exhaustion, so much excitement and all she wanted was for Inuyasha to sniff out some dumb herb.

 

“Koga-kun!” Kagome said with forced sweetness, though Inuyasha took it for the real thing and was stunned silent. “I'm a little busy right now but if you want to talk about me becoming your priestess why don't I meet you down in the Southern lands in a week. You name the place!” Kagome said eagerly.

 

Koga got a cocky grin and gave Inuyasha a snide smirk. “How about we meet at Juro village?” Kagome nodded her consent and the wolf demon was off in a whirlwind. Inuyasha stood there stunned and then round on Kagome in rage.

 

“How could you?! You promised to be MY— I mean OUR priestess!” Inuyasha shouted his words laced with hurt. Kagome looked up at him nonchalantly.

 

“I'm not going to actually meet him Inuyasha, take a chill pill. I only wanted him to leave so I could tell you something!” Kagome finished cheerfully. Inuyasha blushed slightly and felt his stomach do a flip or two wondering what she was going to tell him. `Is she going to tell me she has feelings for me?' he wondered guardedly yet hopefully.

 

“What is it?” he asked gruffly, purposefully leaving off an insulting name.

 

“Can you help me and Kaede find this herb in the woods?” asked Kagome innocently. Inuyasha fell over anime style and Kagome looked on in confusion.

 

 

 

 

 

A/N: Im SO glad this story is becoming so popular. My writers block with the phobia series was frustrating me a little. Ive been getting reviews for those stories by the way and I am going to tell everyone out there that I am still striving to finish all my fics! I will conclude Thanatophobia over the summer when I don't have school work I promise! Keep reviewing my fics and Ill keep writing! I will also try to work on Host Club and if anyone is still interested in my other series Feudal Web you can email me on if you are interested in that being completed! ^-^ Bye now! Danielle