InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inuyasha's unknown heritage (Yes boring title I know!) ❯ The grav field and settling in. ( Chapter 14 )

Chapter 14) The grav field and settling in.

Training area ~

Upon reaching the barrier. Lina decided to wait on her grandsons with patience. Since Inuyasha didn't know about his spell, he wouldn't try to enter the area at least. Straightening, Lina sensed her grandchildren approach and looked over at the barrier wall. Turning back she spotted Inuyasha coming to a halt near her, making sure he didn't cross the yellow line. Slower, Sesshomaru studied the signs, before lifting one eyebrow and coming up to Lina.

"This is the barrier wall that we will be training under." Lina explained in her teacher voice as she pointed to the yellow line. "This barrier is a mile and a half in circumference. Or three miles long. " Lina said at the questioning look of Inuyasha. "The barrier travels all the way up. No one can get over it. " Looking back and for the between the two she continued. "This barrier will amplify or increase the gravity of any place I choose. It will help you become stronger during your training." Lina noted the gleeful expression, carefully subdued on Inuyasha's face, before continuing. "The two lodges are free from this gravity and you two will spend the first two days getting used to the gravity while you train some simple moves with your swords." Turning towards the barrier now, Lina walked over the line and turned to the two. "After that I will be training the more advanced skills, maybe with help." At the inquiring looks she explained. "My lifemate will not be gone for much longer and knowing him, he will follow me here. So you will meet him shortly." Looking over at them again and seeing no change in expression she continued. "The more severe training will be handled by him anyway, since he can test you far better than I." Satisfied for now at her explanation and the accepting looks from the two. Lina motioned for them to join her on the other side of the barrier. Inuyasha hesitated, while Sesshomaru crossed the line and quirked an eyebrow at his brother. Inuyasha crossed and upon not feeling the crushing sensation, looked inquiringly at Lina. A look of mischief crossed her face as she turned and led the way through the forest.

Upon arriving at the main lodge, Lina stopped them at the front steps and positioned them side-by-side, a few feet from front porch of the structure. The supporting roof poles a slight distance up from that.

"Now the barrier wall is activated, but I have made it where you two could come in, so that you could make the journey unharmed." Upon a questioning look from Sesshomaru. Lina's expression shuttered and she circled the two. "You will understand in a moment." Lina patted his shoulder and his tale in mock sympathy as she came around him, dashing around as he plummeted to the ground. Unaware his spell had been lifted.

Inuyasha looked at the look of pure evil on his grandmother's face. Trying to recall when she had casually touched him earlier today. Recalling the tug on the ear, he tried to dodge her. Leaping out of the way, he was barely inches from the poles when she caught him and he plummeted to the porch steps.

Groaning, Inuyasha exerted his utmost strength and pulled himself up the last step and onto the porch. Panting, he looked over at his brother, who was still under the influence of the grav field. Feet to go until he reached the steps alone.

"That was a dirty trick Lina." Inuyasha panted with a look of admiration on his face from his prone position on the lodge porch. Catching his breath he stood and got into a crouched position. Watching his brother curse from his dirt-eating position where Lina had dropped him seconds earlier.

With a look of self-satisfaction, Lina circled the almost prone form of Sesshomaru. "This is the gravity you will be training under for the next two days Sesshomaru. You need to get a little faster if you are going to learn to anticipate my moves from now on." After a little more grumbling and curses from the ground. Lina knelt down beside him and gently reminded him about the lodges. "Remember Sesshomaru. The lodges are free of the gravity, so if you want out of it you will have to move towards the lodge and onto the porch before you can move freely."

Looking up briefly, Sesshomaru noted Lina's patient expression, while berating himself for his lack of reflex. Groaning as he pushed himself to a crawling position, Sesshomaru moved slowly towards the porch. As he crawled up the steps, his grandmother encouraged him from behind. After a time and a few tries, Sesshomaru finally made it onto the porch. Panting and sweating from the effort, he lay there in a prone face down position as his brother watched with a smirk.

After a time, Sesshomaru had regained his maneuverability, and Lina took them both inside the lodge to show them around.

First she showed them the main space and explained the living situation to them. "You each will have a room while you reside here. If you want anything changed, you may ask it of me, if it is possible I will change it. " Taking her grandsons in tow she stopped them in the center of the back of the main space, facing two doors on the far sides of the back wall. "Each of your rooms in unique and I believe that you each will respect the privacy of the other." Giving them meaningful looks. Lina continued. "If I hear that this is not the case, I will create a blocking spell over your doors, where only the owner of the room may enter." Looking at them both, she glared from one to the other. "Now I will point you each to you your rooms and leave you here for now, since it is getting late and I am tired." Lina turned to them both and yawned purposefully.

Pointing towards the green door, Lina told Inuyasha that it was his room. Pointing also at the blue door, Lina told Sesshomaru that it was his room.

"You may explore all you like and if you want more furniture I will be happy to make it or show you how to make it. But I will leave you both now and will show you my lodge tomorrow. Goodnight you two. If you fight I will hurt you both." Lina said yawning and then scowling at the two, before leaving into the waning light of the evening.

Watching her retreating back, Inuyasha shared a brief look with his brother before they each went to check out their prospective rooms.

As Inuyasha entered his, his mouth opened in shock. He had never had a room like this before, not even in his memory of before his mother had died. The two braisers near the bed let off a soft glow that was reflected in the white walls. A sunset could be seen out the window facing the west that was half open to let in a breeze coming off from the stream behind the structure. The forest green bed, upon first test, was almost softer than that of Kagome's bed in her time.

Deciding that he only needed a small table near the bed, in case he didn't want to dine with his brother, he noted to tell his grandmother tomorrow before training. Besides that the carvings in the wood were soothing, if not a little frightening in their portrail of his feelings and want of home and family. Scary really. He might just request that blocking spell anyway, since he didn't trust his brother and the bed itself was just too revealing. Flopping back on the mattress he looked up at the uncovered roof supports above him and thought of Kagome.

Sesshomaru was in quite a similar state at this moment. The white walls of his room reflected back the light of the brazers that were identically beside the bed on either side. A soft breeze floated through the window to the west as the sun set and was floated through the south window near the bed. The bed was comfortable and he noted that he would have to ask grams where the mattress came from, so he could get some for the castle. The crest was a little out of date on the end board and he liked the clashing dogs on the north side of the bed, but the south was just disturbing. He loved his family and had always hoped one day to have one of his own, but the picture was just too revealing for him. Deciding that he would need a case to store his swords in and a spell for it, he noted to ask his grandmother in the morning. Maybe the blocking spell would be a good idea anyway, he liked his privacy and the fact that he would have to share a residence with his bastard brother didn't help matters much. Gracefully lying down upon the blue bed he pondered the techniques he might be learning here soon. Looking up at the exposed rafters, Sesshomaru let his mind wander, his thoughts almost immediately focusing on Rin, wondering what she was doing right now.