InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Seeing Through New Eyes ❯ Chapter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

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Chapter: 4

For the next four “years,” Kagome's schedule has been the same. She “woke up” before dawn and dressed in the fighting kimono that she found on the table next to her bed. She would then catch her breakfast; which was either fish, or some animal in the forest. It was hard at first, not really knowing how to fish or hunt, but she managed.

“Neither youkai nor ningen will get things for you,” Toshi would say.

As soon as the sun had would rise, Kagome would be attacked by numerous youkai of different strengths, and she would have to defend herself and kill them. That was her training with Toshi. They weren't real youkai, but it was a dream, so anything could happen. Her strength and speed was already that of one hundred men, but more and more every day she got more powerful.

She discovered that she had the power of telepathy, but only with other canines, both mortal and youkai. That helped when she had to fight wolf, dog, fox, and coyote youkai, for she could “hear” what they were saying. Kagome would have to fight Toshi, too. During her “fourth year” she actually defeated him, and Toshi was so proud.

Kagome's powers came naturally to her when she fought. She had a lightning sword that Kagome could create by shear thought. Also, she had a whip-type-thing that came out of her fingers, like Sesshoumaru's, but it was filled with lightning instead if poison. Actually, Kagome was immune to poison. They figured that out when a poisonous snake youkai bit her shoulder. Kagome had immediately smelled the poison, so she killed the beast quickly, and felt this weird feeling in her blood. Toshi had ran over to her and looked at the wound, but it was gone! The bite marks were all healed and the smell of poison was nowhere. It was odd, for Toshi didn't have that ability, so they concluded that it was because of the combination of her miko and youkai powers.

After Kagome caught her lunch, she went with Miako to train her miko powers. Miako was much more patient than Toshi, for that Kagome was grateful, because the “human” part of her had trouble concentrating. When Miako told her to “let her mind go blank,” Kagome's mind would always wander on to something else. Really, how is someone actually supposed to let your mind go blank, it was impossible! Miako had to “tame” Kagome's mind, and that alone was a lot of work. That took a few months, but after that, it was generally easy to learn.


During Kagome's third and fourth “years,” she practiced combining her miko and inuyoukai powers in battle. It was quite an amazing site to see. When she was fighting a dragon youkai, she laced her lightning sword with miko powers and as soon as the sword touched the dragon, a giant explosion erupted and the youkai's insides were spewed around her. She had to take an extra long bath after that, because her hair was full of dragon guts, yuck! The combination of her powers was really simple after that. For the rest of her training she was catching up on anything they might have missed.

All four years of training took about eight days. When she woke up to find herself on the couch in the living room, she was a black blur as she raced towards the kitchen. She saw her family sitting at the table while Satsuki served them breakfast. When they saw her, Kagome hugged them, crying.

“Kagome, we can't breath!” Souta yelled. The inumiko let go quickly.

“Sorry! But I haven't seen you in six months!”

They looked confused, “It's only been one night, Kagome.”

The youkai told her family about the dream world and her training. She told them about how she met her parents and how they were helping her control her powers. Kagome explained all of her powers that she discovered so far.

Her family stared at her in awe.

“That's amazing, Kagome!” Souta exclaimed.

“Yes, and you look so beautiful,” Satsuki hugged her again.

“As long as you behave young lady, you will be safe from my sacred sutras,” Jii-chan warned seriously.

Kagome played along, even though her family knew that Jii-chan had no spiritual power, “I am an inuyoukai `miko', Jii-chan. Spiritual power doesn't effect me.”

Kagome kept talking about her dream world. Souta left for school a little later, and since Kagome didn't know how to make the illusion to appear human yet, she stayed home and practiced, as orders from her teachers.

That is how the next few “days” went. She would wake up from the dream world. Rush downstairs from her room, hug the crap out of her family, talk about what she learned, practice her training, while taking breaks for meals that she for once didn't have to catch herself, go to sleep, and do it all over again.

After four years of training, Kagome was finally done and could go to her true home in the non-polluted air that was the feudal era. But she had to make a little stop at the mall first.