Kagome stared at the shower floor watching the red fade slowly draining away through the whole in the floor and sighed.
' I wish life where that simple, I wish I could just fade away following the water through the drain to the world outside.' she thought numbly. But for Kagome Higurashi that was not and never would be how life worked. She loved her Grandfather dearly, but if he would pay more attention and be more carful she would have never had to go traversing through black berry brambles, to retrieve the stupid necklace. What was worse is that once she did he'd said it had lost all it's power and that she should keep it. Go figure, she chuckled to herself lightly, remembering the look on his face as she offered the necklace back to him, priceless that's what she called it.
"Kagome dear breakfast is ready hurry I need to speak with you about something." Kagome's mother called through the bathroom door.
Kagome grunted in response and smiled as she got out of the shower. After drying and deodorizing herself she stood in front of the mirror and dragged her hand across it. Looking at her features she grabbed a dark blue towel and wiped away the remains of her mascara from under her raven rimmed azure blue eyes, ran a brush through her waist length blue black hair and got dressed in a pair of baby blue shorts and a black t-shirt with a blue care bare on the front. Pulling her hair into a high pony tail atop her head, then ran down stairs.
"Mom, what's for breakfast?" kagome asked.
"White chocolate chip pancakes, and bacon dear, here sit down and eat while I talk we've not got much time." Mrs. Higurashi said handing Kagome a large plate heaped high.
"What did you want to talk to me about mom?" she asked around a mouthful of pancake.
"Hmm... how to say this? I'm sending you to Japan." she rushed out, not daring to look at her daughter.
"WHAT! why?" Kagome nearly choked on a rather large bite of pancake.
"Well you see, when your aunt Kaede passed on she left the family shrine to your grandfather and I and we have to go take care of it" she said like that explained everything.
"So your going too? Everyone that is?" Kagome, asked hopefully. "No, sweety your going now and your grandpa, Sota and I will follow in a year, so that Sota finishes out his middle school years here in the states." she said... "but why just me and where will I live?" Kagome asked her food long forgotten and her pulse pumping loudly in her ears. She knew she was getting upset but hey you would too...
"Your going early because in two weeks your new school will be starting, and we want to make sure that you are adjusted and not just thrown in to all new classes... remember if you are to inherit, the gift your father left you when he passed away." she took a breath as Kagome just nodded... " and as for living quarters you will be living with a good friend of your grandfather's Myoga Tashio, and his two nephews. They go to school with you and should be able to help you get settled. Also Myoga has kindly offered to pay for everything... His brother Inu-Tashio passed away leaving their business and his children in Myoga's hands. He has always wanted a Granddaughter never to have children of his own, and thought that this was the closest he would ever get." she finished with a grand sigh and looked at Kagome carefully. She sat there not talking but Mrs .Higurashi was no fool she knew her daughter had an awful temper and was dangerous when she got mad. You could practically see the flames rolling off of her. Suddenly Kagome looked up, smiled and said calmly, "I guess that means I have to brush up on my Japanese then huh?" Kagome was not a fool wither, where do you think she got her temper from, like a fine wine it only got better with age. Besides it wasn't like she was really leaving anything behind, she really had no life, or friends here in the states. She needed a change of scenery.
Kagome was a straight A student who pretty much the practiced all styles of fighting, worked on her culinary skills, gardened, trained her miko powers and created new defenses and attacks and studied
like she said no life.
"Well umm.. Ok then, you'll need to be packed and ready by tomorrow morning." she instructed hesitantly. " I know, or at least I figured as much. Seeing as how your so nervous and everything."
And with that she packed up her room, grabbed seeds from her garden and put every wepon including her fighting and training outfits in a large lead trunk. And was on the plane by 7 am on her way to Yokohama , Japan .
Myoga sat down in front of his two nephews and looked a them carefully. Inuyasha was hanyo and the younger of the two brothers. He had back length silver hair and pale golden eyes, the only way you could really tell that he was a demon born was that he had small white fluffy puppy ears perched on top of his head, he was about 5'11 and a little rough around the edges but had a good heart, quick temper, and a loud mouth, all in all he was the good natured smart ass of the two.
Sesshomaru on the other hand was a full demon a Tai-yokai to be exact, and was ethereal in appearance, he had long silver hair, golden eyes that tended to smolder to an amber like shade when annoyed, and china pale skin, he had a royal blue upside down crescent moon in the middle of his for head, and two magenta strips on both cheeks starting from his tipped elfin ears arching up to his high cheek bones. Sesshomaru was cold in manner not easily annoyed, or angered because he simply didn't care. He was quiet, and kept to himself most of the time, favoring walks in the gardens, a book or fighting when he was not studying, he was the one to worry about in situations like these for you never knew how he was going to react to something, and when angered he was deadly, the most you would get out of Inuyasha is maybe yelling but with his older bother death tended to be the most likely course of action. Sesshomaru may have been quieter but he was by no means safer.
"We will have a house guest in the next few hours and she will be staying a minimum of one year with us." Myoga started.
Inuyasha opened his mouth to say something in protest but Sesshomaru beat him to it.
"Why?" he said his face and eyes devoid of any emotion. "Because her grandfather is a very dear friend of min and needs to send her here to go to school." he replied. "What? A girl! Why didn't you say so in the first place? Fine by me Myoga-Jiji." Inuyasha said with a rather large smirk. "So long as she does not disturb me I approve." Sesshomaru said coolly before getting up and leaving Inuyasha following behind him grinning like an idiot. Myoga's heart started beating again.
Kagome woke with a start at the light tap on her arm. The stewardess was telling her it was time to get off the plane. Sighing and stretching, she rose from her seat and walked down the steps and onto solid ground. Looking around she spotted a sign with her name on it being held by a rather short man with acorn brown hair and small black eyes, he stood maybe pushing 4'11, his crown of acorn brown hair was slightly balding. She didn't know what she was expecting of a friend of her grandfathers, but this was not it. She thought of her first image when she was told that he associated with her grandfather, it was something like a wrinkly old man with useless sutra's bouncing around slapping them on men's heads screaming "DEMON BEGONE". No Myoga did not fit that profile and she had to wonder if it was just her grandfather getting old and if he had really ever killed demons in the past...
She giggled slightly and walked toward the man bowed politely and said cheerily " Hello, my name is Kagome Higurashi, I hope that signs for me or I just made a complete fool out of myself." Myoga smiled and simply nodded, to taken with her looks to do much more then motion for her to follow him. The entered a large sleek black car and he motioned for the driver to head home.
"My name is Myoga Tashio" he introduced himself. " a pleasure to meet you Tashio- san" Kagome said politely. "My what a polite girl you are, and such good Japanese too! I see living in the states has not dulled your ability to converse fluently." Myoga beamed.
"No my mother would be spitting kittens if my Japanese was poor." Kagome grinned sheepishly.
About thirty minuets later they arrived at a large estate the entire building was white brick and the entry way consisted of large marble pillars, and cherry wood double doors.
"Wow..." was all Kagome could say. "Welcome to Tashio castle, now if you'll follow me I shall fetch my nephews and then we can get you settled right in." Myoga said again beckoning Kagome to follow him up the marble steps and through the magnificent doors, which now that she was close she could see vines and leaves of many shapes and sizes twining all over the door, and at the top stretching across the two doors was an upside down crescent moon.
They followed the main hall for a few feet and promptly turned down a carpeted hallway and entered a warmly furnished study. "Now if you will wait here for a few minuets I shall return and you may meet the rest of the family." Myoga said with a twinkle in his eyes that Kagome knew had not existed before.
About ten minuets later she herd the side door open and she quickly stood to greet them properly, but as she turned around she took in the two boys standing behind Myoga and would have drooled if she had been anyone else. There behind a homely looking older man stood two of the most handsome men she had ever seen in her life. But she was Kagome and unless you knew her well you would never know that her inner-self was drooling and cheering all at the same time.
Kagome bowed politely and smiled. "Hello, I'm Kagome Higurashi and I am pleased to meet you." she said holding out her hand.
It took Inuyasha a moment to comprehend what she had just said, in fact the only thing that she noticed was that there was a goddess standing barely 4 feet from him and smiling like the sun it self. And because Inuyasha was Inuyasha you could almost hear his jaw hitting the ground. Sesshomaru however looked over the girl and took in a whiff of her sent, she smelled beautiful, not that he would ever admit it though, like summer rain and jasmine. Inuyasha was the fist to react,
he stepped forward and took her small calloused hand into his larger softer one and shook it smiling,
"I'm Inuyasha Tashio I am honored to meet you and glad you have come to stay with us."
Sesshomaru not forgetting his manners but slightly appalled at Inuyasha's stepped forward when Inuyasha backed away and took her offered hand and raised it to his pink lips and brushed a kiss across the knuckles, " I am Sesshomaru Tashio, welcome to our home, it is a pleasure to meet you," at that point he noticed the callouses as well and asked "might I ask why a lady such as yourself has calluses of a fighter on her hand?" Kagome smiled a bit embarrassed, "I practice and study all forms of fighting in most of my free time..." All three men in the room where shocked, someone so small a fighter? They all wondered how good she was, " Keh, I bet you couldn't beat me in sword fighting, and no one can beat Sesshomaru in archery, we should spar sometime." Kagome flushed a bit in annoyance but smile just the same her miko powers ramming against her shields slightly itching to purify both males where they stood, in her annoyance. But she held firm and agreed to a spar once she was rested and settled. "Now I have given you the room next to Sesshomaru, I am sure if you asked nicely he would show you the way. Inuyasha and I must go to the shopping center to get some things for our upcoming banquet. I hope you don't mind but when I saw how few cloths you had I took the liberty of having my assistant Kagura Storm to get you some more outfits and a few articles of formal wear for you to wear to the many banquets in the next week. She is about your size and shape so she had little trouble finding them. Also tomorrow you will pick a car from the garage and one of the boys will accompany you to the mall to find a few more dresses and anything else you may desire. I will give you a credit card and a debit card of your own as well. "Myoga rushed out... "Oh Tashio-San that is far to gracious of you, I could never" She was cut off by Inuyasha "oh don't even try, he has been itching for a girl in the house for years and will not back down, in fact I am glad you came any longer and he might have dressed Sesshomaru and I up just for fun." he shuttered and Kagome laughed a merry sound that amazingly didn't hurt any of their ears or mess with their sensitive hearing. "Hahaha... I am sure you are right Inuyasha my boy I have been itching for a female around," Myoga said chuckling. "Kagome if you will excuse us we have to be going now..." Myoga excused himself and Inuyasha followed after a wink at Kagome. "Sesshomaru would you mind terribly if I asked you to show me to my rooms?" Kagome asked a polite as she could. For some reason she felt that he didn't like her all that much and for some reason it mattered to her if he did or not when it would have never before.
Sesshomaru didn't say a word but nodded instead, he was thinking a bit to himself as well as they walked up the long flight of stairs to the second floor. He was surprised that the trek didn't seem to bother in the least as they started on the second flight, even Inuyasha a hanyo had problems with it having to stop every now and then to take a break.
'Man how many stairs do they have my legs are going to fall off' Kagome thought to herself, suddenly Sesshomaru stopped in front of a wooden door painted lavender with a large purple and red sakura blossom in the middle. " here is where I leave you, my room is right next door should you need anything that a servant cannot get for you, I shall send Songo to help you unpack, she will be your maid for your stay here." and with that he turned to leave. Kagome rushed forward and touched his arm lightly, he stopped abruptly, " Thank you for your help" she said smiling. Sesshomaru was shocked, no one had touched him in some time and especially not to tell him thank you. She was different indeed, he nodded and continued walking to the royal blue door next door to her's.
Kagome sighed, she needed to work on this whole having to be perfect all the time thing, and with that she turned the crystal handle on the door and walked in, and promptly gasped.
The room was amazing, it was sizably twice the size of her room at home with a balcony and two glass doors with roses etched on them to enter out and stand on the marble balcony which she discovered over looked a several vast gardens. She was going to like it here that was for sure.
sighing again she set to work unpacking her things and stationing them around her room in various areas it was about thirty minuets and there was a knock at the door. Kagome called for whom ever they where to enter.
A girl who looked about her age entered the room, she was dressed neatly in black slacks and a paisley blouse. Her long chocolate brown hair was pulled up into a ponytail high upon her head and she had no makeup on save for some dark pink eyeliner over her cinnamon brown eyes.
She bowed and smiled revealing even white teeth behind ruby red lips.
"I am Songo Tanaka, I will be your personal assistant for your stay here is there anything I can do for you Lady Kagome?" she asked. "No, no, please don't call me lady or anything like that simply Kagome will do. And that I know of I really don't need an assistant, but I would like a friend, would that be ok?" Kagome asked. " oh but you are far above me and I don't think" " don't worry on it at all Songo-Chan, I need friends more then I need servants, and you know this place better then I do. Please, will you be my friend, I insist that you be totally open to speak your mind." Kagome pleaded. Songo seemed to think on the nodded her head smiling brilliantly, "yeah ok then" kagome smiled "ok then I have a few question..." "Fire away." Songo said ready for anything.
But what she asked next made Songo shout with laughter. "Where the hell is the closet and the bathroom I have to pee..." Songo pointed the way to a door just to the side of a large potted tree, "there's the bathroom I'll show you the closet when you get back." she managed to giggle out.
Kagome rushed toward the door Songo had mentioned and opened it and nearly fell over "what are these people size queens? Everything is so big!" she exclaimed before she shut the door and hearing Songo's laughter on the other side. After she was done she took a moment to look around. The room had a shower and a toilet two sinks and a large mirror that was lighted on the black granite counters stood containers of all kinds neatly placed filled with any kind of make up, perfume and hair doolydad that you could imagine, Kagome had never really worn any make up but after seeing all of this she was sorely tempted. Deciding that she would inspect the two doors next to the shower later she rushed out of the bathroom to see Songo playing with a large fat cat that was sitting on her bed. "What the... Boyou how the heck...never mind I don't want to know..." Kagome said shaking her head at her childhood friend. "Songo meet Boyou the worlds fattest escape artist you will ever meet in you life." she said smiling. "Now where is the closet I need to get my things put away and my dresser seems to be missing.
Songo giggled and grabbed her hand leading her to another door just left of the bathroom door. "In here silly, just push this button and..." Songo pushed a little button in the shape of a sakura blossom and the door slid open to reveal a room as big as her own back home. "Well now I know what they did with my dresser, for get that, what they did with my room. How does he expect me to fill this place up?" kagome said awed. "Well by shopping of course." Songo replied. "Yeah but I was never that good at shopping I spent to much time doing other things to care about how I dress." "Well I'm your friend right" kagome nodded "then I will help you I am a recovering shopaholic three month clean, but for you I'll make an exception." she said with a smile. Kagome thanked her and looked around the room. "Now where is.. Ah ha!" she said triumphantly, she walked over to her large lead chest and opened the top and inspected the contents, Songo curious about what her new friend was so excited about, and gasped in awe, " that is the best made Katana I have seen in ages, is it truly dragon made?" she asked in a rush. "Well.. Umm yes my grandfather found it and thought that is was perfect for a learning sword for me." Kagome said a little shocked that Songo knew about weapons. They talked about weapons for a little while until Kagome asked. " I hate to leave these in their box when I use them regularly do you know if there is a case I can use to put them in or something?" "Well I am not sure but I think Sesshomaru might have a better idea then I do I have not been here for very long and so I don't know what all they do and don't have weapons wise." with that said Kagome nodded and stood up grabbed the ends of the chest and stood lifting it with her. Songo rushed forward to help her but she seemed to be just fine on her own. "I can get it just open the door for me please." Songo opened the door mouth agape and watched as her friend carried it out into the bedroom and set it gently on the floor about ten feet from the bed. " I'll be right back I need to ask Sesshomaru about that case," kagome walked out into the hallway before Songo could protest and knocked on his door. She waited about three minuets and knocked again. Suddenly the door opened and there stood Sesshomaru, wrapped in a towel and smirking, " and what is it that you could possibly need right this moment?" he asked. Kagome didn't even flinch she just smiled and continued to look in to his eyes and said clearly "well I was wondering if you would help me with a project of mine, if you'll put some cloths on I will be waiting in my room for you when your done but please do hurry I really would like to eat some time soon." with that she turned on her heel and marched straight to her room and plopped down on the floor and looked at Songo, who looked ready to explode, " oh great Kami Kagome you have balls of steel"
Sesshomaru shook his head in disbelief, a ningen had just practically ordered him to do something. Well he would let is slide this time, just this time, but what got him the most was the fact that she didn't stare at him in anyway shape or form just set her azure blue eyes on his and tumbled out her request like nothing was amiss. What was she off it or something no women had ever just acted like he was fully clothed when I was clear that he was not. He was not sure wether to be offended or complimented. Either way it was not a feeling he was sure he liked.
Sesshomaru got dressed in loose fitting black slacks and a white tank top under a royal blue button up shirt left unbuttoned, and walked to Kagome's door to see her surrounded by the largest array of weapons he'd seen out side of his dojo. Everything was there from the smallest knife to the biggest bow, and any Katana and some swords even he was itching to get his hands on. She was an enigma that is what she was. And she didn't even know it.
Kagome looked up at the large amount of Jaki that just entered the room and smiled.
"These" she gestured to the weapons around her and Songo "are my toys, and I need a decent toy box to put them in where they are able to be seen and have easy access to. Do you know of any such box." she asked like nothing was out of the ordinary. Sesshomaru thought for a second there was only one he could think of and it had belonged to his father, but after looking over the blades and other weapons and saw how much obvious care and time she put in to them he could see no logical reason as to why he could not let her use it. "There is one I shall take a servant and collect it for you." he said swiftly. He didn't know why he was doing this but for some reason he felt the need to help her, even at the cost of a family treasure, it wasn't like she was going to keep it she was going to be living right next door, so why not. And with that settled he snagged a tiger demon and they headed to the dojo store rooms to retrieve it.
About thirty minuets later Kagome heard a knock at the door and quickly got up leaped over the various weapons on the floor and opened the door to find a young man and Sesshomaru holding a rather large and ornate cabinet. She showed them where to put it and watched as they set it down gently on the carpeted floor against the wall just across from her bed. "Thank you so much mister.." she trailed off bowing to the young man "Kiro Hishamen Lady you may call me Kiro" he said with a bow " no, no again with the lady stuff, just Kagome is fine please, like I told Songo I don't need servants but I would like friends." she said with a smile. Sesshomaru was again reminded how different she was to any other female he had met. "Well I don't know..." Kiro started but stopped at the look from Sesshomaru, "don't bother arguing with her she is quite stubborn" Songo piped in with a grin. "Ok very well then, Kagome it was a pleasure to help you" Kiro said with a smile revealing two small fangs. He then turned to Sesshomaru bowed and exited the room. " and thank you too Sesshomaru I am very great full for your help and generosity." He nodded but before he could leave she reached out a hand and placed it on his arm. " please would you help me get them settled, some of them are going to go up high and as you can see I am challenged in that department." she said sheepishly.
" very well, I don't see why not." he said and watched as she walked to the pile of weapons and life one in her hand. It was a 5 foot Katana, Dragon made and seemed to be very valuable, he had noticed it before and had wanted to touch it but had not thought to ask. He watched as she took it expertly out of its royal blue sheath and touched it to her for head whispered something he couldn't quite hear, a genteel violet glow surrounded the Katana and then vanished. When the glow was gone she looked up smiling so bright she could have made the sun jealous.
" the sword has decided" she said and walked toward him flipped the Katana mid air and caught it carefully at the tip of the blade leading him to thing that it was not that sharp, as she pointed the pommel at him indicating that he take it. Sesshomaru tilted his head a bit to the side but reached his hand out to take it just the same. He was surprised to find that it was far heavier then I looked. "Do you like it?" she asked hopefully. "It is well made I am lead to wonder what you are doing with such a demanding katana?" he said truthfully. " I'm not doing anything with it... you are" she said her smile growing. " I am sure I don't know what you mean" he said a bit confused at what kind of riddle she was weaving. "The Katana chose you, it is a gift for you and was never meant to be mine in the first place I was calling you when you walked in to the room, but because I was the care taker and I am miko it must have dulled it's call a bit and you didn't notice." she said.
Sesshomaru had to gape then, openly, his mouth opened and his eyes showed surprise.
"Thank you Kagome, I am honored that you find such trust in me to give me such a prize" he said sheathing the great sword and smirking a bit. " you and I should spar sometime I could use a chance to test this out." she accepted and soon they started to work on putting the weapons away in their place on the cabinet all the while he was thinking to him self about the mystery what was Kagome. She was selfless and kind, but seemed to have a cool and calm nature about her, she was not easily riled and seemed to be well trained in both her miko ability's as well as her fighting skills. When she asked about a place she could plant a garden he nearly lost his footing. They talked on it a little bit and agreed to ask the gardener the next day when she got back from her shopping trip. They also talked about fighting styles and other such things and before they knew it they where both sitting on her bed debating the uses of a long bow compared to a short bow. They talked into the night until she herd her stomach rumble and she grinned, " I think that means it is time to eat." he looked at the clock and nearly gasped it was 8:30pm and they had started putting the weapons away at 2:00pm . He had never in his life had a conversation that long with a women since his mother passed on and he was hardly 6 then. "Dinner should be ready be now, come and I'll show you to the dining hall." he said reluctantly. They walked down the hall to a large room with a great oak table set in the middle, Myoga and Inuyasha where already there waiting on the two of them to get there so that they could eat. "About time you two we've been here for like ever." Inuyasha stated annoyed. Myoga smiled and gestured for her to take a seat second to his left, Sesshomaru pulled her chair out for her and she sat then took the seat right next to Myoga on her left. "So my dear how have you been settling in so far?" Myoga asked. "Oh just great Tashio-San" Kagome said with a grin, "Sesshomaru helped me put my toys in a great big chest and Songo offered to help me go shopping tomorrow." Kagome added. Myoga looked at Sesshomaru and nearly choked " he did, did he well that was kind of him. Tell me what are these toys she speaks of Sesshomaru." he asked an amused glint in his small black eyes. Sesshomaru didn't even flinch as he looked at his uncle...
"Kagome has a very large assortment of weapons and devices that she required a cabinet to put them in so I obliged, and lent her fathers weaponry cabinet." he said coolly. Inuyasha sputtered and Myoga's eyes went wide, but he was smiling just the same 'this is an interesting development' he thought to himself.
Inuyasha knew that Myoga was a meddling matchmaker. And he had to admit that he had had doubts about his real reason for wanting the teen to come and live with them. But why Sesshomaru, didn't he like the girl at all?
"Sesshomaru has been very helpful as has Songo." Kagome said finishing a bite of succulent fish.
"I am glad that you where able to find all you need and hope that you continue to do so in the future. One thing I want to make clear to you, is that you are to consider this your home now. You are practically family now and in this house nothing is too much for family." Myoga said smiling a bit more. Kagome sat there for a moment eyes wide, she knew that she was going to be living with them but she had never really had anyone treat as nice as this, well except for her family that is. She didn't have any friends back in the US all the ones that she had had found something wrong with her and eventually decided that she was not worthy of their friendship.
"I don't want to be a burden. I really do keep mostly to myself." Kagome started only to be cut off by the impatient Inuyasha. "Your not a burden we want you here so deal with it wench." Kagome's blood started to boil at that word. She was one of those females that didn't like terms like that and wench was one of the worst you could ever call Kagome Higurashi. "Tashio-san, you said I was to be like family?" Kagome asked politely.
At the older mans nod she took a breath and stood, walked around the table and stood right behind Inuyasha, roughly grabbed his ear and yanked back pulling is head toward her mouth and said not quite violently but forcefully, " if we are to be family there is something you should know, my name is Kagome not wench, whore, slut or any other insufferable, idiotic name you can come up with, get that real quick Inu-san for I do not tolerate such disrespectful terms to be used in reference to my name or anyone I associate with in the future. Now come on puppy boy say it with me KA-GO-ME." With that said she stood released the abused appendage and smiled brightly. "I would like to practice a workout now, may I please be excused from the reminder of the meal I seem to have lost my apatite." Myoga looked from her to the shocked Inuyasha, whom was currently so red he could make a tomato jealous, and holding his ear trying to stop the throbbing. Suddenly Myoga burst out with laughter, the situation was entirely to funny for the flea demon, and he couldn't hold it in any more. He had a very good feeling about this girl that was for sure if nothing else she would teach Inuyasha some manners and maybe get the stiff Sesshomaru to smile for once. "Of course my dear you may be excused. I will sent Sesshomaru to your rooms to show you to the dojo as soon as you have changed." He said between chuckles.
Sesshomaru actually felt the want to laugh, which was amazing in and of itself, he was actually wishing that he could have gotten that on camera. At is uncle's suggestion that he show Kagome the dojo he nodded and told her that he would be up in a matter of minuets. "Welcome to the family my dear I am sure you are going to fit in quite nicely around here." Myoga said finally regaining control of his laughter. Kagome nodded a bit pink at the cheeks realizing what she had just done, ' I can't believe that I just did that it was so, so nice to just let my self out of my cage' she thought the her self still a bit embarrassed. She walked from the room to hear Inuyasha shout at the indignity of the situation and just started up the stairs. Half way up she decided she didn't want to talk so she sat on the banister and whispered a few words of incantation and suddenly was sliding up the banister at a rapid pace, if you where to be looking close enough you would have seen the her rear by that time was simply hovering over the banister and not resting on it.
Once she reached the top she went straight to her room and started to get dressed in the training outfit. The outfit was all black with a gold and silver dragon running up the back. It was a sleeveless kimono shaped dress made for perfect movement. It went to her ankles and had wide slits running clear to her hips. Under it she added a pair of black spandex shorts with silver vines embroidered on to the sides. All in all it was an impressive garment. Next she pulled her long hair up in to a tight tail on the very highest point of her head. Kagome was a fit girl but never considered her self good looking in fact in her last high school PE class the comment had been made that she was to muscular to be feminine but of course the comment had never bothered her. She had no intentions of attracting attention to her self and wore only baggy cloths to the class anyway.
She herd a knock at the door and walked to open it after putting on a pair of canvas shoes that laced up her calf with a silver dragon on the toe of each one. When she opened the door it was just when Sesshomaru was raising his hand to knock again. "Oh hello hold on a minuet I just need to grab my Katana's and I will be set." She said absent mindedly. Walking to the large armoire she opened it doors and decided that she wanted to use the double Katana's that her brother and grandfather had given her for her 16th birthday. Grabbing them she turned to see that Sesshomaru was still standing there in the doorway, staring at her. "Umm…Sesshomaru, are you ok?" she asked. Sesshomaru stood there for a minuet but nodded and turned abruptly signaling her that he was ready to take her to the dojo. Of course however in the depths of his mind his inner demon was howling for him to take her right then. She looked truly beautiful in that outfit of hers it was skin tight and you could see her abdomen and her muscular arms. She was fit but not so much to be unattractive. In fact her muscles where very shapely and made her look even curvier then she was to begin with. All in all he had to say that she was truly not bad to look at and for some reason felt the need to be the one to take her shopping tomorrow lest another male demon see her and feel the need to dominate her. "Umm… did what I said to your brother at dinner make you angry Sesshomaru-kun?" she asked worriedly, shaking him out of his thoughts. Why was she worried what he thought he didn't really like his half brother to begin with and she worried that she had angered him by correcting his obvious bad manners. He actually grinned a bit and stopped to turn to look at her.. "As my uncle has told you, you are to treat this castle as your home now, and I can only assume that in your home in the US you didn't tolerate such disrespect there either, so by correcting my stupid brothers words and making it clear you would not put up with such things, you have only done what you would do in your home with your mother." He said to reassure her. He didn't know why but he abhorred the idea of making her worry, which for him was strange, him the great Sesshomaru the Unfeeling, worried about how a Ningen felt, it was unheard of, but he did it just the same. "I guess your right I did do the same thing to my little brothers friend when he said something of that nature about one of the girls in their class. Poor kid he was terrified of me for months." "Well though I don't think you terrified my brother I do believe that he will not be calling you by such names again relishing that you will not tolerate it." He said, continuing to walk to the dojo. She simply nodded and released a breath she didn't know she had been holding. Why did his opinion matter so much to her, she had barely known the guy for 10 hours and already he was getting to her 'come one girl get a grip on your self you have a work out to get through' she thought to her self sternly.
Soon they arrived a two very large sliding dojo doors, Sesshomaru turned to her and smirked "care to take that spar with me when you've warmed up a bit Kagome?" he asked. Kagome grinned with an evil light in her eyes. "Now why would I have to warm up to defeat you? Of course I will spar with you" "I will need to go grab the Katana you gave to me for I feel it would be only fitting to use that this time around" he said. She nodded and walked in to the large room as he walked to the stairs. She figured that even with his demon speed she would have enough time to stretch and let her tense muscles to loosen up a bit. The room was full paneled and had a large window in the ceiling that when you flipped the switch next to the light switch opened to let in the warm night air. She set her swords on the floor about 15 feet away and sat down on the floor and started the complicated stretches that she would use to limber her body up for the upcoming spar. About ten min later Sesshomaru walked to the door, and looked in side to see Kagome doing a series of flips and mid air back flips to land in a split and then to roll forward to grab a katana in each hand, unsheathing them with a flick where they landed neatly in the same place she had grabbed them from, and roll backward jump up and land in a perfect fighting position. He was shocked to say the least. He was thinking that she was probably good but this was not what he was expecting. But then again he should have learned by now not to underestimate Kagome, she was unlike any women he had ever met in his life and he was again filled with the need to have her, shaking his head at the thought, she was human, and a miko. She was to be respected but could never hope to defeat a Tai-yokai like himself. But he thought smugly she was welcome to try.
Kagome stood and lowered her swords, when she saw Sesshomaru standing in the doorway. "hello, I needed to stretch a bit before you got here I have not had a chance to practice in a few days and was a little stiff, I'm still not where I was last week but I am sure that after a good spar that will be changed." She said with a smile. "Well you technique is very good. I just hope you can hold your own and keep up." She winced a bit at his tone but got an idea. "Well if that is how you feel about it, let's make this a bit more interesting then shall we?" she asked. "What did you have in mind?" he asked a bit curious. "I suggest a bet; if I win you accompany me and Songo to the mall and by lunch. If you win, you make any request with in reason, of me and I will comply" she said. Sesshomaru agreed to the bet with a nod of his head and stepped forward to begin the fight. She wanted to test his skill and thought to start off on the offensive, so she unsheathed her swords and made a series of dips and twists and took three swipes with each sword, an onlooker would have only seen a blur but to Sesshomaru she was a smooth and graceful as silk in the wind, she knew what she was doing and he decided to play along, he dodged and quickly countered with a large butterfly sweep, and backed away to study her, she raised an eyebrow "to my knowledge that is a western move how is it that you have come by it?" she said amused that he would attempt such a thing with a katana. "I study many fighting forms, like you I like to know about all different types of fighting." He said simply and the fight continued, with many doges and swings, and before you knew it they both looked like a white, blue and black blur dancing around the dojo. The spar turned from harmless fight to perfect dance and both fighters learned to respect each other on an intellectual level at least. Somehow Kagome had managed to knock Sesshomaru's katana from his grip and lunged in to catch fist blood but he swerved and grabbed her left wrist and pulled on it forcing her to spin around and then pulled her closer where he back was flush against his chest. He was breathing heavier then he had been before, but he was even more surprised that she wasn't. "So you're a better fighter then what I had originally thought but I don't think that you will beat This Sesshomaru." He said with a smirk. Kagome flushed a bit at the warm feeling in her stomach but grinned just the same. "Ah but you obviously have no idea who you are dealing with…" with that said suddenly she disappeared. He stood there in shock, obvious out right shock. Then just a suddenly she reappeared behind him holding his arms in a lock and with a dagger that he had not see before nicked his arm calling first blood. Leaping around him Kagome bowed, while Sesshomaru simply stood there mouth slightly agape and eyes darker then molten gold. No one had ever beaten him except for his mother. And in just an hour this slip of a girl had managed to do that and much more. "What you really didn't think that I could beat you did you?" Kagome said a little hurt, and not understanding why, though she pulled it off as just playful.
Something about him got to Kagome and she was not sure what it was only that she was not used to it and wished to Kami that it would just leave her alone. "A deal is a deal Sessh-man you owe me and Songo lunch and a trip to the mall bright and early tomorrow morning." Kagome turned on her heal and skipped away from the still silent Sesshomaru. Just as she was about to exit the dojo, he said quite clearly "you are truly an enigma, aren't you Kagome Higurashi?" she stopped in her tracks and turned with a bright smile to say "If I am an enigma I guess that makes two of us doesn't it Sesshomaru Tashio?" with that she left with a smile that could light the world on fire with just it's intensity.