InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inuyasha's unknown heritage (Yes boring title I know!) ❯ Training and bonding ( Chapter 15 )

Chapter 15) Training and bonding

Training area ~~ Main lodge ~~

Half awake to the world, Inuyasha was grateful for the dark shutters over his windows. He really disliked mornings and this was no exception. It was nice and dark in his room and he was completely comfortable for once. The only thing that could make it better was Kagome. Snuggling down into the bedding he allowed himself a brief sigh of satisfaction.

His first day, he would never know what hit him.

Cloaking her presence, Lina wandered into the hall, right in the middle of the two doors, before she made her announcement.

"TIME TO GET UP!!!!!" Lina shouted, as the brothers jumped up instinctively out of their comfortable positions, and onto the freezing cold wood flooring.

"LINA!!!" and "GRAMS!!!" was shouted simultaneously from opposite sides as Lina smiled waiting.

"Come out now." Lina said, as she allowed the air in both rooms to become progressively colder.

"I'm coming, I'm coming" grumbled Inuyasha as he strode from his room, bleary eyed. Coming abreast of Lina, Inuyasha let out a huge yawn and tried to run his fingers through his hair in a semblance of order. Blearily he waited with Lina for Sesshomaru, checking tetsaugia on his waist for good measure.

"Come on Sesshomaru. Hurry up or you will miss breakfast." Lina spoke as she neared the blue door, and then knocked for good measure.

Coming out the door and past his grandmother, Sesshomaru stretched briefly, and with his normal face, went to stand near his half brother.

"Ok let's go." Lina said as she led them into the front of the lodge where the table sat. Brimming with all the foods they liked, Lina walked over to one side and sat down. Picking some poached eggs and a sausage biscuit from a small platter of them, she started eating. "Ramen!?" Inuyasha said with a look at Lina. Grabbing a bowl from a built in shelf near the table, he scooped out some from the steaming pot on the far end of the table, then chose some eggs and assorted breakfast foods before settling in the chair closest to the ramen.

Sesshomaru went over to the built in unit and selecting a bowl, he chose at random, since some of the food was foreign to him. Before setting down on the opposite head of the table from his brother. He started to eat.

After a short time, and everyone now full and things magically swept away. Lina led them out to the porch before unceremoniously rushing around them and pushing them down the stairs and into the gravity.

Dragging them a good three hundred feet straight out from the porch, Lina told them that their first exercise would be to make it back to the porch as quickly as they could. She would be keeping track of the time.

Leaving them, she went to set on the main lodge steps. Watching them for awhile, she was impressed at their stamina and competitiveness. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru were both now on all fours crawling. Bickering along the way, Lina was impressed that neither was straining too much this time. Their adaptability would be an added bonus to her training she mentally noted.

About five minutes later, they were both about half way there, with Sesshomaru in a slight lead. Bickering had been quieted a few moments ago, after Lina had cheerfully said that they would need their strength, since this wasn't the only time they would be doing this today.

Another six minutes later and some shoving of Lina out of the way, as she laughed at them. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru both slumped onto the porch at almost the exact instant. After allowing them a slight rest, Lina took them out to do the same thing another thirty times.

At lunch, Lina took pity on them and running from her lodge to theirs, she took out a little capsule like thing from her pocket. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru watched in almost amazement from some curled back couches on either side of the main area. Slamming it onto the western style table with a slight poof of smoke, the table was filled with assorted meats, cheeses, breads, sauces, and ramen. "Come eat." Lina sing songed.

"How did you do that?" Inuyasha questioned Lina after finding the same bowl, washed now, and filling it full of ramen and assorted items, then sitting down.

"It's a device from my future time." Lina said, letting Inuyasha inspect the small residual capsule from her pocket. Pointing at it from where it lay on Inuyasha's open palm in a bee colored design, she explained. "This little device allows people to shrink items to a very small size. It can keep things warm or cold, and this little button," she said pointing at the top, nearly concealed in the decoration of it, "allows you to expand the contents, or shrink them. Before you ask though, " she continued looking meaningfully to Inuyasha, "No you cannot put living things in there. Only foods or items." Lina looked up grinning at Inuyasha's downtrodden expression. Lina laughed outright a second later as he gave the device back pouting and glaring at his brother who seemed positively fascinated with the device he now held.

(I told you I would use some DBZ gadgetry.)

After a time and eating, Lina took them outside once again.

Grumbling, she coaxed them to come out to her this time. Struggling with each step they took. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha made it down the steps and a few feet out in an impressive time. "Good, good. You've improved already from this morning. If you keep this up, you wont even feel the gravity by the end of tomorrow." Lina said smiling up at her grandson's with pride.

"Ok. Now that you two can stand." Lina looked over at the two and their swords. She led them to the far side of the clearing at a slow pace. Leaving them watching her she went to a small shed near the tree line and took out some practice swords from their position and made them face each other after putting them in a white marked practice circle a few meters away. "Now since you two are in need of some sword training, and you would probably try to unintentionally kill each other with your own swords." Lina scowled and growled at each brother in turn. "You will use these practice swords. They will automatically match the weight of your preferred sword by tuning into you so that I will not have to train you again with your own." Lina explained as she gave a blunted sword to each of them.

Upon contact with Inuyasha, his practice sword started glowing a slight blue and Sesshomaru's glowed a slight gold color. "Ok, now that it is done." Lina said to the facing brothers. "It is time for you to fight. I will be watching from a safe distance so I can judge what I need to teach you." Lina said as she left the ring. Looking over at them and sitting down on a small bench outside the circle, she lifted her brows when they just looked at her a moment, then after a nod and pointed look from one and then the other. They started to clash.

Sesshomaru was at about the same disadvantage as Inuyasha in the ring. They both were still feeling the weight, so Sesshomaru couldn't outdistance his brother with speed. So they just clashed and hacked at each other. Not surprisingly, neither was pushed out of the ring, and after a few hours of swordplay, both were tired and sweaty. Neither of them had outclassed the other, holding their own quite well despite their age difference and skill level. Disappointed in themselves over the fact that they didn't even beat the other. Lina came to their rescue.

Getting tired of them slandering each other and now slowly bringing their swords up to the opponent. She strode up to them and purposefully took the swords from them and returned them to their shed, both still glowing. Returning to the two, Lina noticed their now visible fatigue and waving off their still verbal battling, Lina almost dragged the two back to the main lodge. Upon entry she set them down on the couches and let them rest.

Since the table had been cleared earlier that day. Lina waited for them to regain some strength before putting out some traditional dishes on the table for them to eat. Not spotting his ramen, Inuyasha looked pointedly at her.

"Inuyasha. You are going to be burned out on ramen if you don't eat anything else. So for one meal out of the day, each day, you will not be allowed to eat it. OK?" Lina asked the hanyou as she prepared to set out more dishes. Upon his nod of understanding and consent, Lina sat down and started eating, allowing the other two to join her.

After a short while they were both eating and polishing off everything. After a quiet time, Lina noticed Inuyasha's now melancholy look. Putting away the dishes and telling the other two to put them into the wooden tub a few feet behind Sesshomaru near the wall, Lina went over to sit in a chair against the far wall near the two couches.

Sitting down, Lina waited for her grandson's to approach. As they sat down, and Lina watched as the look of melancholy did not leave Inuyasha's face. Patting his shoulder from her perch between the resting two. Lina spoke up, "You will get to see her in a few days Inuyasha. Relax for once. No one can penetrate the barrier wall if I do not wish it." Lina looked over at her grandson and he growled back at her in protest of her implication that he was thinking of a certain somebody. Smiling Lina looked out at virtually nothing and felt for her lifemate.

Inuyasha noticing her zoning out, became concerned when she closed her eyes and smiled.

"Are you ok Lina?" Inuyasha asked hesitantly.

As to not raise his temper, Lina just answered him, although the urge to tease him was great. "I was just connecting with my mate Inuyasha. I like to talk with him from time to time."

A questioning look came over Inuyasha's face that Lina understood.

"Once in a great while Inuyasha. When two mates become extremely close or are true soul mates. They are able to talk to each other from far distances, and in the instance of me and my mate and a few others, are able to talk from a distance, see from a distance, feel the other's feelings and physically touch from a distance, and rarer of all they can share their power from a distance. " Lina explained. At the end of the explanation, Lina looked over at him, he seemed in shock.

He spoke quietly, almost to himself, but his words made Lina look at him speculatively. "Are you sure? Every once in awhile I have been able to do many of those things with Kagome. At the time I thought nothing of it. It seemed natural to do it. It felt so right." Looking up at Lina with a pondering look in his gold eyes from the couch, he looked at the floor again before continuing. "Once when we fought the noah mask in her time. I knew she was in trouble, I even heard her yell my name. I came through the well and saw her little brother, but when we were after her, I told him I knew where she was by smell, but I lied. I could see what she saw and knew the exact location of where she went. I thought it was kind weird, but it felt right and at the time, I thought it would have something to do with her powers. I felt it wasn't really true, but I didn't want to think she was so connected to me. I could feel her fear, and that scared me shitless." Lina looked with understanding over at Inuyasha, who had a disturbed expression on his face as he focused his attention up at the exposed rafters in the ceiling, seemingly lost in thought. "But we haven't mated yet Lina. So how am I able to do these things?" Inuyasha asked from his current position as his brow furrowed in confusion. "Some mates are destined to be. Some recreated for each other for uncounted lives. When this kind of bonding happens, most of the powers are just dormant until they are needed and activate for a time. Both souls would then release and activate the hidden powers to full strength upon their mating." Lina explained as she relaxed further into her chair. Pointedly looking at Sesshomaru as he opened his mouth to speak, curiosity welling in his eyes as he looked at his half brother, and frowning at him to keep him quiet, she thought for a moment.

Puzzling to herself, she wondered whose reincarnations her grandson and Kagome were. Thinking for awhile she decided to tell them the story of Inu and KiKa. Even though she didn't know whose reincarnation he was, the story would help him understand how deep the bond could go between a couple.

Looking up at the rafters and leaning back into the chair so she would be as comfortable as possible, she started the story. "Long, long ago. When there were no humans or youkai in the world, there was a race of people who called themselves the okama. They were the race I told you of earlier and were neither human nor youkai. Out of this race there sprung a couple who were made specifically for one another by the universe to be a testimate of what a lifemated pair could be. " Noticing that both her grandsons were watching her like small children at story time, she continued with a slight smile. "They went by the names of Inu and KiKa. His hair was as dark as night and he was the greatest warrior of their land. He protected everyone and death was said to be his domain, personally he thought himself dammed. KiKa was a healer and with white hair and a luminescence around her, her soul was good and was thought by some to be an angel. She could heal almost anyone and was good and kind to all. One day, they met on the battlefield, while she was sent to heal him of a truly life threatening wound. At the time he thought his life and soul were beyond redemption. He had killed countless times and he almost had no feelings left, or so he thought." Smiling at the memory, since she had seen this meeting first hand. Lina couldn't help but chuckle to herself. "He just stared at her in awe as she approached, she was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, and in that moment, he decided he would lay down his life willingly for this one woman. Which was quite a revelation for him at the time, since he did not know he had any noble thoughts left in him. KiKa had quite a similar reaction to him at the time. She could not stop staring at her patient. He was handsome and dark. His soul crying out to her and his eyes holding back his hurt to the point of where had anyone but her looked at him, thought him an emotionless killer. But she saw his soul and felt a bond to him. In this moment they knew they were fated for each other, sorta like love at first sight. Over time they met many times and were one day sent off together in search of a great evil that threatened the lands at the time. With them was sent another great warrior who's purpose would be to protect the group, A sorcerer and holy man to help with all things magical, A finally skilled woman warrior with farsight abilities, and a child who's innocence allowed him to see through any deception. They traveled for many years battling this evil until in a final showdown was reached. Most were wounded during the battle, but KiKa and Inu by this time had come as close to a mated pair as they could get without solidifying their bond. They fought as one. One attacking while the other funneled strength. Finally KiKa made the final blow with Inu's help, purifying the evil from the world. Their friends and companions they had made during the journey celebrated their success and slowly the world turned to normal. The holy man and woman warrior had fallen in love and they mated and their line continued a distance south of here. The warrior found a girl whom was innocent and pure who could look past his exterior and touched his soul and was mated not long after the holy man's pair. Inu and KiKa finally were able to solidify their bond and adopted the child that had been entrusted in their care. Upon the end of this they were declared the leaders of the people. Inu delt with all the dark of the kingdom and KiKa the light. Some said they were the day and night of existence, the perfect reflections of each other's power and a love that could transcend time. How right they were." Lina stopped and looked at the shocked faces of the two before her, shook by the slight similarities in their own lives. "The souls of KiKa and Inu were born many times into existence and their love is what brought about the symbol of the ying and yang. The ying and yang symbol was our family crest for a time and if you look closely it still exists in the pattern. KiKa and Inu's souls have been born into our family at least a hundred times since their deaths so long ago. Sadly the evil has been reincarnated as well but not as often and never into our line." Lina looked down on her hands as she fidgeted in their disbelieving looks. "The chances of a soul being born into a singular line is once in a few hundred thousand years, but the pair's souls have returned much more than that. Maybe it's me, I don't know. I am never able to tell when they appear into the family until they think I need to know. So don't ask if they are in the family yet. I don't know." Lina said to the curious and very hard thinking duo.

Standing up, Lina turned to the two who were still deep in though. "I think you two need to rest now and I need to as well." Lina left them to their thoughts as she went outside and off towards her own lodge as the night descended on the camp.