InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Secrets, a Sesshoumaru Romance ❯ Ch2 ( Chapter 2 )

Secrets, a Sesshoumaru Romance 02

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Two weeks have passed since Lord Sesshoumaru came to speak with Yakumo and your group was beginning to form into a team. "Form two lines!" Yakumo yelled and you did you and Havan in the middle of the two rows, Kenshin on your side and Huko on the other. "I want a four yard gap between both rows move!" he yelled and you rolled your eyes and moved. "Face each other!" he snarled and out of the corner of your eye you saw Captain Batuo and Lord Sesshoumaru walking around, looking over the different groups.

When Yakumo noticed the odd number, one side with one extra person, he looked over the group and yelled "Where's Ryuho?" he asked and everyone else looked at each other. Sighing, you stepped forward and said, "Permission to speak," "Granted," he snarled a smirk on his face. "During your last... show he was injured, three of his ribs were broken, the healer has put him on bed rest until he heals," you say no looking at him but at Havan's chest.

"Well then you can be apart of today's demonstration," he said and you swallowed a sigh. "Zetsuei! Take Kane's place," he said and you both moved up to the end on the line.

"Okay, today we're going over your hand-to-hand fighting skills," he turned to you and you quickly went into a defensive position. You could use a sword with the best of them, bend shadows at your will but in hand-to-hand combat you were at a loss. Most of that was to do with lack of strength, you were able to take on people your size but...but men were rarely your sized and it was a good day when you got out of a punch up unharmed. You generally got very broken. "Watch," he said and rushed at you, you felt the air leave your lungs as his fist connected with you gut. You'd blocked wrong, covering your face instead of watching his movements. Doubling over you gasped for air as his knee came up and hit you square in the nose. As you fell to the ground you gasped for breath blood flowing down from your nose. Spitting blood you struggled to your feet and blocked his next blow before doing a double jab at his throat. He blocked grabbed your biceps head butting you and the last thing you heard as you fell to the ground was "You only stop when one of you can't get back up!" then nothing.

That night

Waking up, you groan and look around, someone had stuffed your nose and as you lay there it came back to you. Sitting up you look around gasping for breath, Looking down you saw the white bandages that covered your torso, flattening your chest giving you a more male appearance. Licking your lips you knew that someone had figured your secret and had probably told the Lord. "Oh, your awake, good, I was getting worried," a whispery male voice said and you looked over to the door to see a purple haired man wearing a white kimono. "Yeah, hi where am I?" you ask uncertain, your voice was hoarse and you knew you wouldn't be able to put on a deeper voice, even though you rarely tried. You were little, why not have a girlier, less base filled voice? "The hospital wing, your friend Havan brought you," he said "I'm Kazuma, one of the healers the Lord keeps, he has asked about your condition, did your great lord." His sharp blue eyes looked over your small pale form as he sat down on the end of the bed lowering his voice "Tell me, why you are portending to be a boy? You could be in the palace, safe and well kept," he asked. Your face clouded with disgusted at the thought of living with the other women. "One, I get along better with guys, two, I'm no one's slave, I'd rather be a soldier. Three please don't doob me in, I'm also doing this for my family, my three cousins were killed in the battle that brought me here and my uncle couldn't come. I'm here for my father who was in Lord Sesshoumaru's army for years until he met my mother," you say. You look into his eyes, yours wide and honest. "All good answers but your still hiding something...tell me," he said "Fine!" you say expatriated "I'm small, even for a woman, I'd make a very good pet, sex slave...concubine...whatever. My cousins used to tease me about it saying if we were attacked and taken by some lord he'd make me his play thing because I'm small and delicate," you tell him drawing your knees to your chest wincing when you applied too much pressure on your cracked rib.

"I see, well I wont doob you in, but I will warn you, when Sesshoumaru comes across a boy of age who isn't physically strong enough he makes them slaves and they work with the women. He asked me what I'd recommend when you were brought here, he'd watched the fight and I said I'd tell him once I was done. I'm going to recommend you stay in the army but...BUT...you must train harder. After dinner when the others go to sleep you're to meet with me in the garden we'll train until the moon is high then you may sleep. You'll come back at the witching hour and continue until 6 then you'll get another hours sleep and do your days training, until I'm satisfied that you can hold your own," he said. Frowning you tilt your head "Why are you helping me?" you ask and he smiled "Because Sesshoumaru has grown...complacent, it will amuse me to watch you under his nose but if he finds out well we'll see, but for now well just work on keeping you a boy alright," he said. Nodding you yawn and stretch then bit down hard to stop from moaning in pain.

Kojie POV

You looked down at the small girl as she lay in the coat sleeping, once Sesshoumaru found out what she was he would kill her or he'd keep her. You hoped he'd see her as strong and take a liking to her. Then an idea came to you, once she was ready you'd set up accidents until she court Sesshoumaru's attention, then he'd set up one that would expose her and they'd fall madly in love... you sighed dreamily. "Healer, what's you're verdict?" he asked and you turned his eyes were on her, his gaze impersonal. You knew instantly that he liked her, well him...if what Captain Batuo said you knew he would, she'd protected little Rin, he had been looking into her...his progress more than the others. "Keep him in the army my lord. He will prove useful; Batuo told me he has great speed. He'd make a good spy, an infiltration man if you will," you tell him watching at Kane rolled in her sleep pone hand flinging out across her pillow fingers curling.

"I'll give him a month to get stronger, if he can hold his own by then he can stay, if not well I need another servant in the stables," he said and you knew he meant it. He wanted to protect the little vixen even from herself. You almost laughed "I'll inform him when he wakes milord," you tell him and he looked at you a small frown before turning and leaving pausing in the door to say "Tell him Rin says hello," nodding you say "I will," and he left.

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