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I Only Meant To Train Her	By : TheSlytherinPhoenix Category: InuYasha > Het - Male/Female > Miroku/Kagome Views: 5317 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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The sun came quickly and even though Kagome had been sleeping all night that did not stop her from waking up almost every hour. It was the first time she had not been plagued by a night terror, but that was because she couldn’t stay asleep long enough for her power to settle into protection mode. Shippo’s soft snores filled her small hut, making the silence less loud as the rays of light began to slip through the cracks in the curtain that was her door.
Light burst into the room fully suddenly, the shadow of Inuyasha filling up the hut. Kagome looked at him, seeing the silent nod he sent her way so she would come outside with him. She kissed the sleeping child’s head and followed her best friend out into the early morning, he smiled at her but it didn’t seem to reach his eyes like it usually did when it came to her. “Inuyasha?”
He stopped by the river, taking a deep breath. “I do not like it Kagome.” She frowned but didn’t speak, she didn’t like it either. “The temples are a sacred place, no one really knows anything about it because those that come from there are forbidden to speak of it.” He picked up a stone from the ground and tossed it into the water. “I don’t want you to go.”
“I will be fine Inuyasha, Miroku won’t let anything happen to me.” Inuyasha made a noise between a sigh and barking laugh. “You know he won’t. Besides, imagine what Sango would do if he came back without me.” Kagome tried to make light of it but Inuyasha’s voice came out low and made her gasp softly.
“If anything happens to you, I will kill him; even if it kills me in the process.” After his statement he leapt away, using the speed of his heritage to clear acres in blinks as he left her to chew on his statement.
“You are right Kagome.” She whirled around so fast she almost toppled over into the tall grass. “I won’t let anything happen you.” Miroku’s smile was genuine, no hint of perversion or lie. He was sincere and his face was serious, not like the monk she was used to at all. She had learned over the years that if Miroku was serious and acting like a mature adult then things were either very bad or horrifyingly serious.
“Miroku!” Kagome had a hand over her racing heart. “Don’t do that!” He at least looked guilty and apologetic as he walked over to her.
“My apologies, I saw Inuyasha pass by my hut and was going to speak with him, but noticed he was going to get you.” Miroku shrugged slightly, then looked to the slowly rising sun. “We should leave if we want to make camp in the caves before the sun sets, Kirara is waiting for us.”
Kagome nodded softly, not wanting to leave her adopted son or still distraught sister but he was right and he knew more than her this time so she listened to him. With silent steps she went into her hut to grab her faded yellow backpack then she kissed the sleeping boy before writing a note to him expressing how much she loved and would miss him. Kaede was still snoring in the hut next to hers so she didn’t say goodbye to her, but Sango was sitting in her hut around dying coals in the fire pit from the night. “Sango?”
Kagome’s voice had been gentle and it broke the older woman who started to sob into her hands. In panic Kagome ran over to her and hugged her tightly as she kept repeating that she would be okay, be back soon, and everything would be fine. After a few minutes Sango calmed to hiccups and sniffles, “Oh Kagome, I am so scared for you!” The poor demon slayer had lost her whole family and village and now she was staring at Kagome as if she would explode into a holy Hiroshima.
“That is why I am going. You know Miroku wont let anything happen to me, he is our pack. Our family. Regardless of his playful antics when it comes to our groups safety you know he takes it as seriously as he does his Wind Tunnel.” Sango nodded, shame filling her because she had tried to nearly kill the monk the night before.
“Promise you will come back?” Kagome almost missed the whispered question and tears slid down her cheeks.
“How could I leave my sister and son behind?” her voice was thick and full of unshed tears as well as a small choke of laughter. The women hugged tightly, Sango just a little more than Kagome, before she had to make Sango let her go and leave the tent. “It’s not like I am going away for ever. It is just training.” She smiled the Kagome smile and Sango felt just a little better about the whole thing.
Inuyasha wasn’t back and she figured their brief talk was as close to a goodbye as she would get. She found Miroku in his hut, filling his travel bag she had brought each of them back from the future while Kirara played with a butterfly that had found it’s way in through the window. “Ready?” He glanced up at her and nodded, putting his tea kettle and favorite drinking cups in before he zipped up the bag. A mew made her smile, their riding companion was ready as she bounced out of the hut and the energy shifted slightly outside signaling she went from a cute kitten looking demon to the ferocious saber tooth flaming cat of fury she could become.
Kagome got on Kirara behind Miroku, he had to be able to guide Kirara and she was certain that neither of them would let her fall to her death when they were all working so hard to save her. Kagome filled the time riding with talk of her home, Miroku had asked her about the bomb she had mentioned the night before and after almost 2 hours of explaining why they were not worth building in the future Miroku agreed with her. A bomb sounded worse than Naraku in his opinion and it sickened him that humans created such a thing.
They had glided down into a clearing that held a stream, a small break was needed and it was on this break that Miroku shocked Kagome. “Do you think humans made bombs to destroy demons, but they were wiped from the history books?” She stopped picking flowers to stare at him, in all her years she had not thought of that being a reason.
“Well. Perhaps, I mean it is the only thing that I can guarantee will kill anything- even the most powerful demon could not escape it. It seems like a good enough reason for early humans to make them- though our thirst for power, land, and money turns them into something worse than demons ever would have become.” Miroku nodded in agreement since from what he had been told the land they were standing on now would be nearly destroyed by one of the bombs eventually.
Kirara brought a few fish from the stream she had swiped for them when drinking and Kagome’s stomach growled. Judging by the sun it was a little after mid day so lunch was a good idea. Kagome used a lighter to start a fire and after a while they were eating fish she had used her future spices on because she hated fish and wouldn’t eat it happily otherwise. They had been in the clearing for almost an hour when they headed off again, but this time Kagome fell asleep leaning against Miroku’s back.
This had been perfectly fine with the monk, he could feel her small weight getting heavier as she fell asleep and made sure to keep any movement that had to be made small so she wouldn’t be disturbed; after all for months his little friend had been denied good sleep so allowing her the nap was the least he could do. A few hours passed in peace and then out of nowhere he felt her reiki burst out around them; it recognized Kirara and Miroku as it swirled around but when it did a once over of its host her felt her body jerk against him harshly and a scream was ripped from her body.
In a blink Kagome went from resting against him peacefully to practically being torn away from him and off Kirara. Had he not been able to feel her reiki he would not have been ready, he wouldn’t have been able to catch her, he wouldn’t have known to even start turning before it happened. But he knew what was happening before it fully began; when Miroku felt her energy burst he knew she hit deep sleep and that was when her power had been attacking her. He had tried to move more quickly but he was only human and wasn’t able to grab her body but he was able to catch her wrist as her unconscious form tried to fall away. “Kagome!”
Brown eyes snapped open wide as she heard her name and what felt like a bear trap shut on her wrist. The scream that came from her this time wasn’t just pain, but full of fear as well. She realized instantly she was staring up into violet because she was dangling off Kirara’s now hovering form. Her other hand swung up to grab the wrist holding onto her as tears started to slip down her cheeks, “Don’t let me go!” the panic in her was comparable to the day Sesshomaru had ‘killed’ her but really didn’t.
With how high in the sky they had gotten Miroku was secretly panicked, if his hand slipped she would drop into a sea of clouds beneath her and disappear before Kirara could catch up. He had an idea, but it was almost as dangerous as the moment they were in now. “Do you trust me?”
Kagome’s lip trembled as her vision blurred with fresh tears, “Yes.”
Miroku hated himself for the idea, but knew with how far she had gotten before his reflexes could grab her he could not pull her up and in the time it would take to have Kirara float down safely their hands would become sweaty and she would slip. “Trust me.” He let go of her hand as she gasped to scream but in that blink his other hand had opened the covering of his cursed hand that had been holding her.
When she started to fall the fear was so intense she felt like she was going to die before she even hit the ground, but it was only a few seconds before she felt the wind stop tearing up at her and instead it started pulling at her. Her mind reeled and then she was being pulled back up with as much force as she had been falling with, the wind stopped so suddenly she felt like she was going to get whiplash from the event but then everything stopped as her body hit Miroku’s. She heard the breath rush from his lungs but it didn’t stop him from twisting his body as she hit him to make sure wasn’t dangling anymore but instead Kagome was pressed into his lap.
Miroku could feel the small woman in his arms trembling, her soft cries shook her shoulders while her tiny hands gripped his robes so tightly her knuckles were white. He wrapped his arms around her and closed his eyes in relief, it had worked. “I’m sorry I let go.” He whispered into the top of her head, Kirara was mewling and growling at the woman in obvious joy that she was safe and despite being petrified she pried a hand off the monk’s robes to grab a hold of Kirara’s fur in appreciation. “I’m so sorry Kagome.”
“You caught me.” Was all she said before a new wave of tears stole her voice and replaced it with hiccups and sniffles.
Miroku was still beside himself with panic, his heart was pounding furiously in his chest to the point where his ribs hurt and his head was throbbing. He didn’t want to fly anymore, but it was only an hour away from where they had to get to instead of almost a day of walking below the clouds. He almost told Kirara to take them down, but with how bad this episode had been he decided having her shaking in discomfort from the now very possible fear of flying was worth it. “We are almost there and will be only traveling by land after that.”
Kagome wanted to land now, but understood why this was still the best way to go and with the death grip her friend had on her now she doubted she would be able to move even if she wanted to; her mind rationalized that since she was awake her reiki wouldn’t attack her but it didn’t stop the next almost hour from feeling like a lifetime.
Without word or incident they made their way to the landing point, even Kirara seemed to be grateful for the ground after the days events because as soon as they were off her back she was small and cute again. Kagome had decided after her first glance in the sky after fall that she wouldn’t look again because all she saw was the sky falling away from her when she tried so when she was on her feet again she looked around for the first time and was in absolute awe of the place. The mountain chain she was looking at stretched on both sides of her for farther than she could dream of walking in a month with her group. “This isn’t in my time.” Her voice was a little hoarse from her screams but after clearing her throat she was speaking normally once more. “Where are we, Miroku.. What part of Japan?”
He looked at her and for once he understood how Inuyasha had a hard time believing demons were gone in the future. “What do you mean it isn’t in your time? How can mountains this big disappear?” He glanced at the distant mountains before continuing, “We are in the northern most part of Japan.”
Kagome set her bag down and began to dig through it till she found the book she was looking for and pulled it out. She opened the index to find the page she needed and flipped to it, walking over to Miroku. “Show me?” She held it out, showing a map of Japan on the left page and a map of the world on the right.
He had seen her books before, but never the maps in the books so he was fascinated by just how big the world was briefly before he started to focus on Japan. When he pointed to a section of Japan that was all ocean it made sense why she did not recognize the mountains. There were no records of these mountains in the history that she had read, so she wondered if this was an accident of nature or if the theory of bombing demons destroyed this as well. “I wonder what happens.” Miroku said more to himself than to her, it was unsettling to know that one day this wouldn’t be here but with demons gone, perhaps it wasn’t needed so the loss was not as great to humans in the future as it was to him.
“Thankfully they are here now when we need them.” She tried to cheer him up, his aura seemed sad now to her.
“That is true.” He watched her put the book away and sling the backpack on her shoulder. They still had a few hours of daylight left and needed all of them to make it to the first cave. “The cave we are staying in tonight is a few miles north east of here.” He pointed up the side of the mountain as he spoke, “Once we get there we can either make camp or start traveling through it.”
“What?” Kagome didn’t like the sound of what he was starting to say.
“The cave goes all the way through to the other side, but where you come out depends on which path you take. It is how it is never found, you have to be led there or you just come out on this side somewhere else along the mountain chain. But if you take the right way it opens up to a rather large valley that stretches to the ocean but is surrounded by the mountains. The temples are hidden in the middle of the mountains.” He could still see Kagome was hesitant about the whole thing even though he knew she would do it.”Do you trust me?” he smiled.
Her eyes moved to him and a small hint of a laugh came out. It was almost to soon for the hint of a joke about her near death experience, but it was just that. NEAR death because HE had saved her. “Yes.” The light joke mad her feel better about going into dark caves delving into mountains so she gestured for him to lead the way.
Kagome missed her normal clothes a mile into their mild hike, a kimono might have been practical in the Feudal Era but pants would work better with the incline. Half way through their venture Miroku had to help her scale a wall once he had reached the top, but they managed to make it without either of them gaining a scrape or bruise before the last wall they had to work together on was the entrance to the cave that had the right path. When Miroku sat down on the ledge with his feet hanging over the side Kagome looked out at the view from the cave and gasped. She put her bag down quickly, shuffling through it for her camera so that she could always have this, even when it was gone. She turned off the flash and waited for it to come into focus before she took the picture, hoping the shades of teals and blue showed up as vibrantly as she knew the the gold and cream of the clouds with the sun would. She took another, just in case, but this time she made sure to have the silhouette of the monk sitting on the ledge in the frame because something about it seemed peaceful and made her think of a painting she saw in a museum once.
“Miroku, when was the last time you were here?” she asked as she came to sit next to him after she put away her camera. He looked so tranquil as he stared off into the distant view and she understood why. It was stunning to see the sunset from where they were and the knowledge that one day it would never been seen in such a way again was saddening.
“I was brought here as a child, but I did not leave until I was almost an adult.” It had taken a few minutes to answer her, she had almost thought he was so lost in thought that he did not hear her.
“You mean I will be here for years?” She sounded like all hope had vanished.
“No. I was here for years because I am cursed with this wind tunnel Kagome, you are not cursed. You are blessed and simply need the proper training to advance your skills to the point where they should be, but aren’t because it was never needed in your time.” He smiled at her, patting her back softly. “Don’t worry. I don‘t think it will take you too long to master what you need to. You have always been a quick learner Kagome. I don think any human from your time could have adapted as well as you have.”
She blushed a little, having never been good at accepting compliments from anyone. “You have no idea.” She laughed when she tried to think of her modern friends living in this era as she did. “Most would have died the first day like I almost did.”
A chuckle was his response before he went silent with the setting sun again. They had made good time on their hike to the cave he admitted to himself silently, knowing it was partially because the lack of fighting and whining that Inuyasha brought along a journey wasn’t there and the other part was they had set a steady pace that did not tire them out so they did not have to stop and rest.”Would you like to sleep here or go a little further before we settle in for sleep?”
Kagome looked behind her at the enveloping darkness that awaited them and knew it would still be just as dark tomorrow and sighed. “A little further, do we need to bring any wood with us for fire?” She glanced at the many branches they could reach out to and break right outside the cave entrance.
“No. There are supplies along the right path left by the Elders, if you are meant to be here then it will be there for you. Sutras guard it all so that it is unnoticed by travelers.” He watched her face light up since now they didn’t have to carry extra weight, “We will need to make some torches to carry for light though.”
“Or we could use my flashlights that Sango and I take with us to the hot springs when we bathe.” She smiled at him as she pulled them out of the side pocket of her backpack and handed him one.
“Or we can do that.” He flicked his on after watching Kagome do hers, and they began walking into the center of the mountain.
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