InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inuyasha's unknown heritage (Yes boring title I know!) ❯ Three forms of power ( Chapter 17 )

Chapter 17) Three forms of power

Training area~~ next morning ~~

Lina looked out from her porch, at the early morning sun.

She had decided to let her grandsons wake up on their own and come investigating to find her.

She had left a capsule on the table, and after showing Inuyasha how to use one the other day, was confidant that they would have no problems feeding themselves this morning.

Looking down at the small clearing near her lodge, she decided where to put her practice stone up. Going over to the center of the clearing, Lina focused on the ground. She lifted a slab of onyx black rock from the depths of the earth, to sit in the center of the clearing beside her with practiced ease.

Closing her eyes, Lina lifted her pack over her head and dropped it to the ground. She then kicked it over to the side of the lodge.

Going to the other side of the stone, the one closest to the main lodge, she went into a fighting stance. What her grandsons would see when they came to find her would be intreaquieing. Smiling evilly at the thought of their expressions, Lina started her exercises against the rock.

Inuyasha was getting impatient. First Lina didn't wake them up like the last two days, although not eating floor was nice. Second he had to remember her instructions on using the little capsule thingy and was happy he even remembered. Lastly though was the fact that after all this, she still wasn't here. Sharing a look with his stone faced brother; Inuyasha gave an exasperated sigh and lept off the porch and followed the feel of Lina's energy.

Rounding the tree line towards where Lina's lodge was located he came up shocked. There in front of him was one of the weirdest poles he had ever seen.

Standing a good nine feet in height and three feet in girth, it stood at the corner of the clearing, seemingly guarding the lodge which by the look of it and hade the same carvings into each of the support poles of the lodge. The top one appeared to be a dog, the next a tiger, maybe a dragon, a weird bird, and a fox at the bottom. But that was pale in comparison to what he saw next.

There in the clearing was Lina, practicing punches and kicks on a black slab of rock. That wasn't the surprising part though.

With every punch or kick that Lina took, she counted, and with each saying of "one, two, three", she changed into a different form.

With a hard right kick she shouted "One" and changed into a human. "Two" was a spinning left kick up high and she changed into the form of a hanyou. With the "Three" and a rock cracking punch to the center, she was a youkai, but with each change, she felt different. She felt like a human, felt like a hanyou, and felt like a youkai at each level, but by the look of her attacks, the force and strength behind them did not change.

Wide eyed and wondering, Inuyasha looked over at his brother, as he came up beside him and froze. Inuyasha was almost smiling at the look on his face. Absolute shock was printed there, the most stunning reaction he had ever seen from his icy brother.

+Are you two spying on me? Am I going to have to close your brother's mouth before he lets a fly in? + Lina's voice flitted through Inuyasha's head for a moment, filled with sardonic wit.

Smiling to himself, Inuyasha replied. +No we aren't spying. How were you going to keep us from watching anyway humm? Either way, he can close it himself, he deserves a good shock every once in awhile. + Inuyasha turned towards his brother for a moment and with an evil grin on his face, he strode to just a few feet away from Lina's practicing figure, leaving Sesshomaru behind.

"Now how are you doing this anyway?" Inuyasha asked the still practicing Lina, who had slowed down a little.

Stopping in her human form, which looked almost the same as her youkai one, Lina turned to face him.

Inuyasha studied Lina for a small while. Her eyes were the same shade, except they weren't catlike. Her hair was the same shade and length and she was a little bulkier in this form. Her ears were the most notable, they were round like a humans, but had an almost imperceptible point at the end.

"It is a part of what I am Inuyasha." Lina answered in her new form. "I am not a regular youkai, even though there is a way to become almost like me." Lina continued with a shrug and merriment in her eyes. "I am youkai in all three forms, but I am physically what I am in all three forms." At the now puzzled look on Inuyasha's face, Lina continued with a smile. "When I am human I am physically human in every way, I have the teeth of a human, the smell of a human, the feel of a human, but I am youkai at the same time. I appear outwardly human to every youkai I meet, but I have all my powers, strength, speed, and healing ability, almost as if I were but weren't human. The same applies to my hanyou form." Comprehension was slow in dawning in Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's minds, but Lina realized that Inuyasha, the more adaptive of the two, would understand the implications much better than his brother. "Now I can turn into any of these three forms on command, but if I was resting, or relaxing, I would change into my normal form." Lina explained further to the two. "Say if Inuyasha changed into a youkai similar to me." Lina said, startling Inuyasha and making his eyes latch onto his grandmother in speculation. "When he was resting or relaxed he would look like he does now, even though he had all the powers and abilities of a full youkai."

The dawning of a realization came into Inuyasha's eyes. This was the solution to his problem. He could be youkai and yet not. He could be more powerful but still stay with Kagome wherever she was. Appear human when he needed to and youkai when he needed to. He could defeat Naraku this way.

Looking over at Lina, he saw the understanding in her eyes, but there was also sensor in there as well. Like she knew something he didn't.

Lina looked over and into her grandson's questioning gaze. She knew he had realized what she was saying. That she could turn him into a youkai, but she knew now was not the time. A few things would happen before she would show him how to become youkai without the help of the jewel. Either way, she had created the jewel, so she was more powerful than it, but he didn't need to know that right now.

Looking over at the two she preceded to walk towards her lodge and with a quick turn, released a ki blast at the slab.

To Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's shock, the moment the little green ball of light hit the slab, it blew up with such force that they were thrown away and left a good sized crater where the rock had been.

Lina, still in her human form, smiled simply at the two as they rose. Walking with a pleasant smile on her face, she strode over to the training area near the practice field and spoke before rounding the totem they had passed on the way in. "That was called a ki blast. I will be teaching you how to do one today. That was a small one. Hurry up." Chirping the last part to the shocked two, she was soon out of sight. Recovering quickly, the brothers hurried after their grandmother after her brief display. They were defiantly learning this little trick.