InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inuyasha's unknown heritage (Yes boring title I know!) ❯ Taking Sesshomau down and a carriage ride ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter 5) Taking Sesshomau down and a carriage ride

Once out of sight, Lina continued until they reached a clearing. Striding until she was in the center, Lina motioned for Inuyasha to come up next to her. Tilting her head back to look at the sky Lina questioned Inuyasha. "Do you remember the smoky feeling you had just before you first met me?"

"Yes," Inuyasha replied with a scowl and a crossing of his arms.

"Well, there is a way that I will show you and later teach you about detecting specific or general youkai and their power levels. But for now I will show you the easiest way to find your brother using this technique." Lina looked over at Inuyasha, smiling at his unchanged demeanor and the sparkle now in his eyes.

Since it was easier to concentrate this way, Lina switched over to sending her thoughts as she focused.

+First you must focus on what you specifically want to accomplish. This time being finding your brother. + Lina told Inuyasha as they both stood now side-by-side concentrating.

+Next build a picture or a feeling of your brother. You will have an easier time at this than I, since I must use the feel of our bloodline to focus on, but you can picture him and know his scent intimately. + Lina sent.

+ Can you picture him accurately without prejudice? + Lina sent.

+Yes I think I can. + Inuyasha returned.

+Good. Now when you have the feeling or picture of those you wish to locate in your mind, start feeling the earth around you and center yourself. Then picture a pulse of energy. Flowing and colored as you like. Then breath that picture out of your mind in a sudden rush, feel the power flow through you and into the ground. Then wait for the feeling of connection to your target. + With all this said and done, Lina opened her eyes and smiled over at Inuyasha who had complied beautifully.

"Look up Inuyasha. Look at what you've accomplished." Lina said as she pointed at the glowing red smoke, drifting up above the trees a good distance away.

Inuyasha looked with shock at the smokey whisp of power and turned to his grandmother with enthusiasm in his eyes. "I can do that to anyone I want? Anytime I want? Does it work on humans too?" Inuyasha asked, trying valiantly not to sound excited.

Stifling a laugh at his enthusiasm, Lina shrugged and began answering. "Ok, Ok, yes you can do that again and anytime you want. Yes it works on anyone," with a briefly shared look of understanding with Inuyasha, "humans too, except it uses their life force, not youki."

Turning Lina started a brief stretch back to loosen up her back and looked over at her grandson asking if he was ready to go.

A look of total glee passed over Inuyasha's face at the thought of someone kicking his haughty big brother's butt, even if it wasn't him personally. He suddenly smiled an absolutely evil grin, he could track Kagome now too, and she didn't need to go to her time so often anyway. He could catch her before she snuck off now, maybe even after training, be able to read her intentions before. Looking over at Lina, Inuyasha asked if she wanted to race him to his brother's position. Smiling widely, Lina asked unperturbed if he thought someone of his age could beat one of the eldest most powerful beings in the world. Proceeding to act as haughty as she could possibly muster and not laugh. "Hell yes." Was her only response from Inuyasha.

"Ok pup, I'll even give you a twenty second head start just to teach you something." Lina said as primly as possible. Smiling finally she let him take the lead in a whirl of speed.

Counting down from 20, Lina watched with pride as Inuyasha streaked through the forest. Since she had been around him so long, she could track his progress and feel his youki get farther away. Upon reaching one, Lina streaked off gaining speed as she did. Keeping track of her target and Inuyasha, Lina put on the speed. Streaking past Inuyasha in moments, she laughed at the annoyed look from his face as she passed him. Narrowing her focus on Sesshomaru, Lina knew she would have to silence him almost from the start of the fight. Taking him by surprise shouldn't be much problem since she had such a lead on Inuyasha and the fact that he didn't recognize her youki. This was going to be fun.

The group of three were going through the forest when suddenly Sesshomaru felt a powerful youki coming their way. "Jaken. Take Rin deep into the forest until I tell you that you may return." Sesshomaru ordered. "Yes Sesshomaru-sama." Jaken replied immediately, dragging Rin along with him.

Taking up a fighting stance, he waited in anticipation. Maybe this time he would meet a youki that would actually represent a challenge for once.

Suddenly a gust of wind almost blew him over and a figure appeared a few yards away. Rushing the intruder he got an almost shock. Where had the female youki gone so fast? She was in front of him one moment and gone the next.

Immediately he swung around, pulling tensaiga out of the sheath as he went, but there was no one there. Looking around Sesshomaru saw no one in the clearing, even though he could feel a very strong youki close by. Warily Sesshomaru paced the circumference of the clearing before he felt Inuyasha approaching from the south. Still confused by where the other youki was, he waited for Inuyasha to appear.

Lina was moving so fast that not even the wind had a chance to catch her scent. Circling around and around Sesshomaru, watching his movements as he searched for her. She studied her grandson approvingly, his golden eyes flickering about the clearing, with training he could be quite good. Upon feeling Inuyasha's youki approaching, Lina decided to end this battle now, before anyone was hurt to bad. Lina observed Sesshomaru a moment and thought a really hard blow to the head might solve her problems promptly. The only other thing would be to get Sesshomaru's companions to the village while he trained. Deciding to worry about the other two later, Lina rose in the air to get enough height to make the blow in one hit. Upon getting a wase above the treeline in a streak of power. She checked Sesshomaru's position in the clearing, and plummeted straight down on him.

Sesshomaru was quite sure that Inuyasha would clear the tree line any moment now, when he felt an intense pain in the side of his head. The pain was so intense that, even struggling; he fell down and looking upon the mystery youki with surprise, blacked out.

Inuyasha cleared the trees moments after Sesshomaru collapsed. Looking winded and surprised at the sight before him, he looked up at Lina in speculation. How had she done it in such a short time? "So, didn't leave me any time to have a little fun with him? Can't we just kill him? He is such a basterd anyway." Inuyasha still looking at Lina said in disgust. Looking like he was regaining his wind and movement back, Lina humored him with almost the say words as before. "No Inuyasha. I told you already that I am going to give him a fair chance. Just like you. So deal with it." "How did you take him down so fast anyway?" Inuyasha asked Lina as he walked around Sesshomaru's prone body lying in the dirt on the far side of the clearing. "I didn't want to hurt him too badly so I made a quick killer blow to his temple. He will have a bad headache for about an hour but it should subside.." Lina said circling opposite Inuyasha as they surveyed her handiwork on Sesshomaru. Lina crowched down and examined his temple with exquisite care. "I made sure I didn't cause any internal injuries. I don't want to have to wait to train you two."

"WHAT!!!!" Inuyasha said jumping back, an incredulous expression on his face.

"This isn't part of the fair chance thing is it? He doesn't need to be any more powerful than he already is." "You will both be trained in different areas Inuyasha, although just for your piece of mind…" Lina paused looking up at the hanyou with a measured look from her crouched position," you will be happy to know that you will be learning much more than him. Interestingly enough you have more potential than your brother."

Lina let this soak in as she went to the tree line and searched for an indication of where Sesshomaru's companions had gone.

Inuyasha's face set in a look of shock and wonder as Lina's words sunk in. `He had more potential?' `What did that mean?' Pulling himself back, he tried for a look of indifference as he watched Lina scan the trees. "How are we going to take him back and are we going after his stupid little minion and the girl?" Inuyasha asked Lina, as she seemed to stare out in a still, outwards direction for a time. "You take your brother back. I will put a spell on him so he will not wake up until I return, and Inuyasha." Lina said looking back and up at him with intense eyes from her position by the trees. "I will know if you or anybody hurts him." She said with a warning in her voice. Lina came up to the pair and kneeled down before Sesshomaru's prone body and mumbled some words to him. Touching his forehead crecent symbol, then his nose and then each of his ears, she stood. Looking at Inuyasha she motioned for him to pick up his brother. Inuyasha dipped and hoisted is brother over his shoulder. Lina looked him in the eye as he righted and walking closer kissed her right hand and put it to the startled hanyou's forehead. "Make sure you are safe. The enchantment I have just given you will protect you or anyone touching you from harm until I return." Inuyasha shook his head and started to turn back south to the village when Lina's hand on his shoulder stopped him. "The enchantment is for your own safety Inuyasha. It will also tell me if you are ever hurt." Emotion seemed to swim in Linas eyes to Inuyasha's astonishment. Lowering her hand Lina turned towards the trees. Softly she said something that shocked Inuyasha even more. "I promised myself long ago when I didn't get here in time to protect your father, that I would watch over the both of you. I know I haven't done the best job for you Inuyasha and I hope you will forgive me some day." A single tear ran down Lina's face as she closed her eyes to her own personal pain. Turning briefly she shouted at Inuyasha to bring him out of his stupor. "NOW GO!!!" After a brief moment of stillness, Inuyasha brought himself together and with a faint, "Feh." He turned and darted into the forest.

Lina in her self-recrimination, stood there in the clearing, letting the sunlight calm her.

+Do you have need of me my love? + Lina heard strongly in her head. The melodious bass of the voice caressing her from far off.

Smiling Lina walked over to a tree and rested her forehead against it. Her lifemate always knew how to reach out and touch someone.

+I am fine my silly thing. I just need a moment to myself, I can't help recall what I was too late to correct last time. I should have been there. + Lina then began to beat her head against the tree in reproach. (Lol, now we know where Inuyasha gets the tree thing from don't we.)

After a good while of beating and a few rounds of soft laughter caressing her mind she rudely tried to shut up her life mate in her head and get his thoughts on the right track. For once.

+Laugh it up dog boy. But you know very well what I mean. The pain is gone from loosing Inu's father but still, you don't have to laugh. +

+I'm sorry my love * chuckle * , but I can picture you very well. You forget that I can see what you see if I wish and I keep seeing a tree coming at your face. * chuckle * and I know what that means my love. Stop beating yourself up so much. Literally. You will just give yourself a headache and then how would you find our grandson's companions? Hummm? +

+I hate it when you get all arrogant and teasing. Especially when you are right. You have the awful habit of bringing it up so often when you have to be right. + Lina sent her mate with a look of disgust on her face as she stared at the trees for awhile.

+I am going after his companions now. So stay out of my head and mind your own bees wax buster. +

Lina smiled wider at the light feeling she was now feeling and the maniacal chuckle her lifemate seemed to not control. Ignoring his little jibes at her pride, she ignored his whispering in her head as she set off in search of the two followers by their scent.

Rin was very tired of hearing Jaken rant about being left alone with her while Sesshomaru-sama protected them.

Looking over she watched, as Jaken seemed to talk to no one in particular, yet his mouth didn't stop moving. Toning him out, she looked around the clearing Jaken had taken them too. Upon closer observation, there was a lovely spot of flowers behind her and looking at Jaken decided to make him a crown of them to lighten his mood. Feeling cheerier at the thought of a happier Jaken, Rin went to work.

Lina couldn't suppress a giggle of mirth from the tree line as she watched the little girl and the frog demon. Jaken she thought would have to be silenced before she took him. He was just annoying and the little girl must be used to it she thought with interest, she seemed to not be hearing a word of the lecture he said, as she twined daisies into a circlet for the unknowing Jaken.

Perched in a tree along the clearing, Lina watched for a perfect time to instill the silence spell on Jaken. She took the liberty of a lull before he caught his second wind and silenced him. The comical look on his face was too much to bear and laughing, Lina fell out of the tree and into the clearing rolling with laughter.

Rin looking up couldn't tell much about the youki that had entered the clearing, except she couldn't stop laughing. She didn't seem to be evil or anything and even looked cheerier than Sesshomaru-sama. Although she thought to herself that she hadn't met that many youki anyway, so why compare. Rin suddenly realized the expression on her guardian's face and the deep frown he seemed to be sending to the youki. Looking down Rin was happy to see her circlet was finished and skipped over to Jaken. Putting the circlet on his head she moved back to study her work and turned to the youki. "Are you a good youki? Do you know where Sesshomau-sama went?" Rin asked the female youki with a look of puzzlement.

Lina watched the proceedings before her, the circlet on Jaken just made his mad expression look priceless. Choking down more laughter Lina tried to compose herself long enough to answer the little girl. "Umm. My name in Lina. Your Sesshomau-sama asked for me to bring you to the village he is going to. I have agreed to train him and you will need to be close for however long he wishes. " Lina said with as straight a face as she could pull off. Lips twitching with contained mirth. Lina sneaked a scowled at Jaken and warned him without words.

+I am telling the truth Jaken. Your master is safe and will not be harmed. You will believe me in due time, but you WILL come with me or I will make you come. + This caused Jaken to scowl lower and reluctantly nodded.

Turning to Rin, Lina raised her hand and a glowing ball of light appeared. Walking a distance from Rin and Jaken, but still inside the clearing, Lina put the ball on the ground and formed a mental picture a carriage to her likening for the two. The ball of light wavered for a moment and then increased in size. It became a large six-foot high ball of pinkish light with a plush platform of two seats that pivoted on a bracket attached to the two sides of the center of the ball. A sling also protruded from the front of the ball with a harness for pulling.

Looking over Lina motioned for Rin and Jaken to come forward. Looking at the two she explained the purpose of the ball. "This is your transportation to the village. You will be very comfortable here Rin and I will take you both straight to Sesshomaru-sama. Ok?" Lina looked over the two for conformation. Getting a happy nod from Rin, Lina looked over at the scowling Jaken. Lina gave an even meaner glare and got a nod from Jaken. Lina proceeded then to pick Rin up and carry her through the ball to set her on one of the plush seats. "Rin likes this thing. Can we use it again sometime soon?" Rin asked Lina jumping up and down with excitement. Lina indulgently looked at the child and nodded. Looking back she picked up Jaken too, his fury evident in every line in his body. Before setting him down on the other plush seat she whispered a warning so only Jaken could hear, Lina spoke with mind chilling preciseness," You will be nice to that little girl. Do you hear me? You will not be able to speak until I am sure Sesshomaru's decision on a time period or if he wishes you to talk. Understand me and shake your head." Setting him down Lina saw the fear in his eyes and smirked. "Hold on you two. This is going to be a fast ride."

Lina said as she exited the sphere and walked over to the harness. Putting it on she warmed up and started to run around the clearing to get used to the weight she was pulling.

With a shout from Rin and a burst of speed Lina jumped up to the tallest tree heading southeast and ran across the tree line with blurring speed.

The ball rotated behind her as she ran, the platform keeping amazingly steady as the ball gave and let out at the imperfections of the surface below it. Lina poured on the speed and the trees blurred below and mountains drifted away in the distance. Lina approached the village and slowed the ball down. Jumping through the barrier she had constructed. Lina slid to a stop with the ball behind her. Inuyasha and the others rushed out at the sound and looked in question at the ball of light behind Lina.

Kagome came up first after Lina uncumbered herself with the harness wrapped around her waist. "Hello Rin." Kagome said to the little girl in the ball.

Lina looked around and went into the ball. Bringing out Jaken and Rin, both under opposite arms. Lina let the waving Rin go over to Kagome.

Jaken stood at Lina's side as she gingerly tapped the ball three times, each time emitting a tinkling tone. Upon the third tone, the ball shrunk to its original size of about a quarter in size, then dispersed. Lina looked over at Kagome and Rin who seemed to be talking to each other a mile a minute and then the questioning face of Miroku. "What was that magic carriage you made disappear?" Miroku asked coming up to Jaken and Lina. "It is a simple spell of transformation. I can create many things from raw magic or power and shape them into whatever I want." Lina explained with a shrug like it was nothing special. "I didn't know people could do that anymore." Miroku said with a thoughtful look on his face and a questioning tone in his voice.

Lina ignored him for now and turned to Inuyasha who was leaning against Kaede's hut as the others stood near them. "Where is Sesshomaru, Inuyasha?"

"He is in here." Inuyasha replied with a scowl as Jaken rushed into the hut in alarm.

Inuyasha gave her a questioning look as he noticed the quiet Jaken and wondered what she had done to the little creature.

Shrugging Inuyasha went inside followed slowly by Lina and the others.