InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Inuyasha's unknown heritage (Yes boring title I know!) ❯ to the well and power for all ( Chapter 28 )

Chapter 28) to the well and power for all

It wasn't long after the curse was lifted, that Lina had organized everyone to their prospective training locations.

Inuyasha and Sesshomaru went with Joseph after he and Inuyasha said bye to their prospective other halves.

Corba took the pack to the barrier wall between the village and training area and Lina made a hole in the barrier that would open and close when any of them needed in or out.

Sango and Kirara, feeling left out, asked Lina what they were to do. Lina, with a disgusted look, told Sango that she had completely forgotten to tell her about the assignment she was going to send the hunter out for during the commotion of earlier.

"Take this to the old stone well that is a day's travel to the south of here." Lina told Sango as she gave her a gold coin with the symbol of a phoenix on it. "This well will know what the coin means." Getting a puzzled look from the huntress, Lina smiled and continued. "Drop the coin into the well and read this parchment to it." Lina pulled out of her pack a tightly packed roll of parchment with a black cord around it and placed it into the open hand not clutching the coin. Looking into Sango's eyes with a searching look, Lina whispered the last part to the hunter. "Make sure to memorize the response and return here, then I will have something for you to learn. " Smiling slyly, Lina waited for Sango to become astride the now transformed Kirara before coming up to her to tell her the last part. "Demon hunters were trained first by my family anyway." Sango, eyes wide, allowed Kirara to become sky bound as the barriers opened up to allow them out into the forest beyond the village.

Smiling to herself, Lina ignored the interested looks from Kagome and Miroku, who were not thirty feet from where she had talked to Sango.

Smiling ruefully, Lina clapped her hands and directed the duo to follow her to the field that she had taken Miroku a few hours before.

~~ An hour later, miles from the village ~~

Sango was still astride Kirara and was still puzzled by her mission.

She had initially wanted to learn something new when she had asked Lina about what she was to do. But Lina had surprised her with this quest, but wasn't really surprised about the statement about demon hunters.

Little was know about how the first demon hunters had learned their skills and how their form of combat had originated from. Many in her village, before Naraku, had speculated about it. Some had thought the priestess Mideroku had taught them, some said a kind demon had taught the village to repay a debt owed to them, and some had even gone all out and said aliens had done something to them.

Smiling to herself now, Sango wasn't quite sure of the last two you could call Lina and her mate. They were from another reality, but did that make them aliens?? She couldn't hold in an evil smirk. Lina might think that was funny, her thinking them aliens.

Looking down at the scroll at her hip, Sango speculated what it was. She would get to see it soon, but she might look at it before she reached the well. Lina didn't say she couldn't read it, she was supposed to memorize the response anyway.

Sighing, Sango redirected her attention to the horizon, where her target was. She hoped she would be able to find this well in the forest.

~~ back at the village ~~

Lina was shifting her attention between her two pupils.

Miroku was being given the task of learning control. Lina had stacked up a pile of palm-sized rocks, all the way up to eye level. Miroku's task was to throw a rock, open his wind tunnel, and only suck in the rock. After the first few times, Miroku was getting better. But only after Lina had explained how to even open the wind tunnel in his hand.

Looking over at Miroku as he tried to open the tunnel as instructed, Lina had taken his hand and facing it to the forest, directed him to put a small amount of his power into his hand and relax.

As his hand had glowed a slight white, and his hand relaxed as he could relax it, his hand had given a small pulse before the wind tunnel had opened.

At first it had panicked Miroku, before Lina had slapped him and getting his attention, told him to just tense his hand up. Tensing that part specifically, his hand had pulsed again and the tunnel closed.

Scowling at the monk, Lina had explained it. "Now you have to focus your power into your hand before it will open or close. Just tensing your hand will not do that. You can also direct how large you want your tunnel to open, thus giving you control, by how much you tense your hand up. Cupping you palm will also allow you to direct the suction to certain objects. Your body is made to counteract the tunnel anyway, so do not worry about it sucking you in." Patting him on the shoulder, Lina had left him to his exercise and over to Kagome, a short distance away.

Kagome was also getting a task to do. Lina had asked her if there was any time she used her power effectively.

Lowering her head, Kagome had to tell her that the only times where when someone else was controlling her.

Lifting her chin up so Lina was looking into her eyes, Lina smiled gently at the sorrowful look on the young girl's face.

"That is a good sign then Kagome." Getting a puzzled look, Lina only smiled a little wider. "It means most of your powers have already manifested themselves and you just lack control." Eyes now twinkling at the scowling Kagome, Lina waited for the realization to dawn on her pupil.

Smirking, Lina noted that it was rather long in coming. Kagome scowled for quite a while as her mind zipped over the possibilities.

When she finally got the idea, Lina could only laugh at the awed look from the girl.

"You mean that was really me?" Kagome asked with a surprised face as she pointed at herself. "I thought it was mainly those who were controlling me. I was never able to do all those things and they went away when I was just me."

"Well that just means they knew where to tap into, but all the powers you remember using are still there. They didn't give you any new ones, just used your own powers against you." Lina said as she sat on the ground at Kagome's now puzzled again feet.

Looking up at the girl as she was deep in thought, Lina smirked evilly. "So. Do you want to learn how to make all your superpowers work? Hummm wonderwoman?"

Smirking still at the startled look from Kagome as she now looked down upon the youkai. Lina's eyes twinkled as Kagome outright smirked back.

"Sure. But can I really leap tall buildings in a single bound?" Kagome had to ask.

Pulling Kagome down, Lina couldn't help but laugh at her audacity before wagging a finger at the girl. "Now, Now, that is superman, not wonder woman. You might be able to though. If I think about it though and you promise to be good, I might teach you how to be faster than a speeding bullet."

Kagome's mouth dropped open as Lina turned away from her and tried to not laugh till her sides hurt at the expression of disbelief on Kagome's face.

Looking back, Lina took he hand and closed Kagome's mouth, which seemed to be on a permanent hinge.

"Now I need you to relax and concentrate before we start. This is the first step in your training." Lina said as she got the girl's attention.

Focusing on relaxing, Lina waited until she seemed relaxed in an excited sorta way. Shrugging at the fact that Kagome's excitement would hamper their success for a short while, Lina then directed her to close her eyes and blank her mind.

Lina watched in amusement as it took a good ten minutes for Kagome to relax into the position to her satisfaction.

"Now Kagome, I want you to picture a white light." Lina said in a hypnotic voice. "Tell me when you have pictured this light."

Waiting a moment, Lina got a "Hai" from the girl before continuing. "Ok now picture expanding that light until your entire mind is full of white light. Don't think at all. I will know when you are done."

Taking another ten minutes, Lina was finally satisfied with how empty and how Kagome's picture was complete.

"Now put yourself into this field of white." Lina said in her still hypnotic tone. Kagome by this time wasn't really there, kinda in a trancelike state. So Kagome automatically did what Lina told her to do. Suddenly she was in her mind and in the center of a completely white space. Everything was white, as far as her eyes could see. Lina's voice seemed to echo from everywhere, yet nowhere.

"Now feel around, much like you do when tracking shards. Where do you feel the power? When you sense it, follow it to its source. You will know when you find it."

Kagome looked around and sensed a shard. Fallowing her instincts, Kagome ran to her right as fast as she could, to her surprise she was very fast in this world of white, skimming the surface and leaping much like Inuyasha. Feeling it near, Kagome veered to the right a small bit before noticing a slight pink tinge on the ground.

Looking down, after skidding to a stop. Kagome picked up what appeared to be a complete Shiko no tama on a golden chain.

"Have you found the power yet?" Lina's voice echoed.

"Yes now what do I do with it?" Kagome asked Lina from her position beside Lina in a monotone voice. Smiling in success, Lina answered.

"Take the power and absorbed it anyway you like. It is already a part of you, you must find a way to connect with it."

Thinking about it for a short while, Kagome lifted the jewel on its chain and placed it over her head. Smiling down at it, Kagome couldn't help but think of Inuyasha. He wanted the jewel so bad, but it had only caused him trouble.

Suddenly though, the jewel lit up bright white and sank, chain and all, into her skin. Pulsing softly, the jewel seemed to be residing in her heart.

Looking up when she felt another presence in this field of light, Kagome was surprised at what seemed to be Inuyasha in her mind.

"Hello koi." The vision of Inuyasha said.

"Inuyasha?" Kagome could only ask in amazement.

Laughing, the vision shook its head. "I am not the Inuyasha you know. I am the part of you that belongs to your soulmate. Just like there is a part of your soulmate that looks like you."

Gasping Kagome placed her hand over her heart where the jewel was slowly expanding and making all of Kagome pulse with power.

Grinning toothily that was eerily like the real Inuyasha, the vision continued to explain. "You Kagome are part of a soul that has been linked for countless eons. Our soul was meant to meet forever and join forever."

The vision came up to the startled Kagome and ran his clawed fingers through her hair as he looked tenderly down upon Kagome.

"I will always be with you Koi. Your mind had made me your guide until you are ready to use your power correctly and until our souls are complete." The vision kissed Kagome gently on the forehead before hugging her tightly.

Sighing in contentment, Kagome allowed her vision of Inuyasha to hold her here.

"Now you need to leave this place Koi. Lina is waiting for you. I will always be here when you need me. Just remember that I am still a part of your soulmate, but only a part. Do not rely on me too much. Now go." The vision of Inuyasha holding her faded as Kagome noticed the power consuming her and her trance broke.

Lina, knowing what was happening to the girl, held her arms to her sides as she awoke and started pulsing white strongly as she struggled.

"Kagome, remember that you are you. You are here. This is reality." Lina said to the heavy breathing girl as she calmed.

Lina looked sharply up over her head and shook her head at the monk who had turned from his task in worry. Going back to his task, Lina was able to refocus on the girl.

"Do you feel the power now Kagome?" Lina asked the girl as she opened her eyes and looked at the ground and seemed to be openly calming herself.

"Yes, it sorta feels like a adrenaline rush after a battle, but one that doesn't go away. My entire body is energized." Kagome said in a breathless voice.

"Good. Good. Now you can tap into that power. First though, I think you need to get used to the feeling. " Lina helped Kagome up to a standing position and made sure she could balance properly. "We will do some archery for a time, until you get used to your body feeling this way."

Kagome smiled inwardly. She felt great! Briefly she wondered how many of the things she had done in the past, she could do now.

"Pace yourself." Echoed through Kagome's mind briefly, in the voice of Inuyasha.

Smiling to herself, Kagome noted the feeling of a connection or bond at the back of her mind that she didn't feel before. Noting to herself to examine it later, Kagome decided to heed the Inuyasha voice of reason. Smirking to herself for no outward reason, she had to inwardly laugh. Inuyasha….. the voice of reason?