InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inuyasha's unknown heritage (Yes boring title I know!) ❯ The training area. Detail oriented ( Chapter 7 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, but I finally sweet-talked my husband into the doggy ear thing. :::pouts::: But I can only get him to try the Halloween ones on a hair band. I'm trying my persuasive powers on him really hard though. :::grins evilly:::

Chapter 7) The training area. Detail oriented.

4 days after the meeting ~

Lina looked around at her handiwork, sighing in satisfaction. She was proud of the training area she had set up in the forest a few miles from Kaede's village.

The stream nearby and the mountain range in the distance were perfect for her purposes and would help with the training she had planned. Smelling herself and grinning at the still fresh smell, she was happy at the pile of firewood she had piled up near the buildings, clearing this area had taken time.

The lodges she had created would suite her purposes and could be used afterwards if someone wanted them. The main lodge was for Inuyasha and Sesshomaru. It was designed for a meeting place with a fire pit, a table, windows made of glass, and had two rooms off the main one each with opening windows (she is able to make glass if you must know). She knew that Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were used to "roughing it", but she wanted them to be comfortable during their training. So she had created two elaborate beds, one in each room, also made to dismantle easily. ::: smiling knowingly::: Picking favorite stories and other things they liked out of both of her grandson's heads, each was created with loving care for the occupant. Inuyasha's bed as well as Sesshomaru's had started off has large mahogany box shapes and Lina had done the detail work from there. She had to admit, they were beautiful.

Inuyasha's bed had carvings of a pack of feral dogs running in the snow and howling at the moon, running along the sides of the mahogany bed in controlled chaos as the lead dog nuzzled his mate while running at the lead. Embossed on the end of the footboard was another pictorial of a night scene. A feral dog pair was resting in front of a tree den. The roots of the tree making a natural doorway and the den under the trunk. The tree was strikingly similar to the god tree, the pair nuzzling together at the entrance. Grinning again, Lina secretly laughed. The bed was filled with a comfortable mattress of alpaca wool and feathers as a center with a forest green comforter and matching pillows. The beds would breath and not squish down after repeated use due to the combination mattress, but that wasn't why she was grinning. On the other side of the front board, facing the wall was another pictorial. One of a feral dog pair watching over their pup. They looked straight up and out of the wood; the female seemed to lean on the male, both watching the pup affectionately. Around the males neck was a thin chain with a ball on the end. The wood in that place shined to a high gloss while a knot went through it making it look like the shifting surface of the shiko jewel, but he would find out about it later.

Sesshomaru's bed was much different. Two different pictorials took over the sides of the bed. The one facing the door had a pictorial of two feral male dogs in a fight of strength and domination, the fluffy larger male obviously winning.

But on the other side, the side facing the window to the south, it was much different, Lina wondered for a moment if she should have carved it at all, dismissing it she thought some more. The pictorial on this side was of a pack of feral dogs on a rocky ledge. The alpha pair nuzzling in the rocky den on a high ledge with pups encircling, each waiting for attention. The moon hung low in the distance and each dog was paired with looks of contentment in their eyes. On the footboard was the Inu crest of arms and also hidden under the matching bed set, this time in royal blue, was another pictorial on the front board facing the wall. This pictorial of a majestically large Eskimo dog with his mate, they were close and the male was licking the females nose while a sleepy puppy tumbled playfully at their joined feet.

All in all she could only think one thing "god I'm good". Smiling Lina went to the perimeter of the camp and into a grove of trees where the second smaller lodge rested. She walked up the steps of the wrap around porch and looked at the supporting poles, smiling. Each was a carved totem pole in the set of the family protectors. The dog, the tiger, the dragon, the eagle, and the fox. Each had meaning from a distant part of the world for Lina and she remembered the curious looks from home when passing tribes would spot the totem in front of her home. Most with curiosity at the strange animals none had ever seen before. Each pole carves with precision to detail and buffed to a high gloss then painted in the ways of the southwest peoples. Sighing, Lina went inside to her temporary residence. The main room had a fire pit three-fourths the size of the main lodge and braziers you could move in all the four corners. Farther back was a small room with a doorway that went under the house and down into a cold storage room for supplies that spanned the house. The natural cold spring water she had found flowing under the ground made a bubbling pool at the east end of the storage area, keeping it exceptionally cool down there. Further back was the sleeping area. The bed was much like the others but carved different. Instead of a box, it was in the form of a sled in cherry wood. The sides covered in the pictures of a wolf pack with dog members and a dog and wolf alpha pair, running over a field of tall grassland in the middle of a full moon night. Almost hidden in the footboard was a pictorial of a totem much like the outside support poles and hidden behind the mattress set of creamy yellow was a surprise. On this board was in intricate detail, a picture of the milky way galaxy, almost star chart accurate. Rotating her shoulders a little and opening the round stained glass window in the shape of an earth, Lina took a breath of the early morning air before bouncing back on the bed. Going over to the corner, she thought of an intricate designed table in cherry wood. Looking up and swirling her finger in the wind at the corner, a table appeared about waist high. Setting her bag on the table she brought out a well-worn book in another language. Looking down upon the title of the "Count of Monte Cristo", she moved the table to her bedside for better access, stowing her bag on the table next to the book. Going outside she decided to put up warning scrolls around her new perimeter and engage the last part of the training area.

Minutes later and with a quirk of her lips she mentally read aloud the warning.

This is a warning: NO TRESSPASSING! Trespass past this point and may you feel the crushing blow long after you leave this area a smarter person. Smiling she was satisfied, it was cryptic, but after they felt the gravity of her training area, they would not return. Returning to the center of the camp, Lina outstretched both hands and gathered energy for her next act. Slowly with infinite patience, Lina focused on the clear ball of great power and intricate spells. Finally satisfied that it was strong enough and would work on everyone, she let go of the ball that was now three feet across. As the ball hit the ground, a great rush of energy flowed over the ground and into the air, and stopped a mile and a half from the central position. Just where Lina planned and her warnings where posted. A yellow glow was sure to mark the location of the boundary line in case someone didn't head her message and to give him or her a second way out. Feeling the pressure of fifteen times normal gravity, Lina did some preliminary stretches to get used to the change. It had been almost three hundred years since the last time she had gravitized an area. With surprise Lina realized that Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father was the last one she had trained under this field of power. "Humm. Interesting." Lina muttered to herself as she prepared to go after her wayward grandchildren.