Requiem of Souls

A/N: inuyasha does not belong to me yada yada yada …ON WITH THE STORY!!!!

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“Kagome! Block when I attack you girl! Or your enemy could get you like this!” and with a flick of his wrist training master Berenger disarmed his pupil. As a young lass of 15 she was a quick learner when it came to swordplay. But it seemed today she wasn’t quick enough.
“I’m never going to get this master Berenger! I have tried countless times and I have failed each time! I have failed.” Kagome hung her head in shame as a silent tear came running down her cheek.
“What! Giving up already? You almost had it that time. One more try?” the training master looked upon his student with a reproaching glare. He had once been a great general and knew this girl was fated to be the best. Though he had only known him for a few years now, he thought of the girl like one of his own daughters. And he knew that Kagome was just stressed out over her tournament coming up in a few days.
“…You’re right, I just need to practice. I will get this. No matter what.” She hung her head in shame for disappointing Berenger. She looked up as she sighed. “Alright just one more try.”
“That’s what I’m looking for!” Berenger exclaimed with a grin “Now block!” as he swung onto the attack. As Kagome blocked he roared “Alright! Now try to block when I really attack!” and he swung into a more powerful attack than the last.
“Aagh!” Kagome yelled as she blocked the attack and felt a jarring shock run through her arm from the blow. As she swung into an attack she realized that she was actually winning. This lasted only for a second until she was disarmed and had Berenger’s sword pointing at her collarbone.
“Well done you had almost defeated me, but you got distracted and left your right side open to attack.” He smiled as he helped Aiken up off of the ground, “One more go at it?”
Kagome smiled and looked at her tunic. She groaned when she saw how dirty it was. “My mother is going to make me wash this again. For the third time this week, and its only Tuesday!” she sighed and said, ”I’d better go get this over with.” She ran back to his house. “See you tomorrow then!” she yelled over her shoulder. Berenger just stood there and chuckled as he waved the girl off.
When she reached the hut where she, her mother, and her father lived she tried to sneak to his room to change before her mother saw her. She had almost reached her room and had only one more room to go when she heard someone.
“Ahem, I believe that you need to get that washed before you go a single step farther, young lady.” She stood frozen in place. Then slowly wheeled around to see her mother glaring at her.
“Uh, I can explain this…”
“No excuses Kagome, up to the tub with you and give me that filthy tunic to wash. NOW!”
“Yes ma’am” she saluted her as she was trying to get her tunic off and run upstairs at once.
After a well needed wash both the tunic and Kagome looked clean. As she put it back on she asked her mother to see if she could go for a walk in the woods to clear her head.
“Alright but if you get that tunic dirty one more time I am going to make you wash it five times with sythir ( A/N: a plant that makes anything that comes in contact with it burn something nasty(completely made up duh) oh and it does wonders for clothes) oil. You get my meaning?”
“Yes mother.” She picked up her staff as he walked outside into the glaring sunlight humming a small tune her mother had taught her when she was small. Her father had made it up for her mother when Kagome was named. Today he was at the market today selling vegetables that Kagome and her mother had grown.
Kagome had found a small pond with a waterfall one day when she was out exploring the woods about seven years ago. She had never told anyone about it not even her closest friends so no one else even knew it was there. She had always come there to think and be by herself. Today was no different.
Now as she started to relax she heard a whimpering sound and out of the woods came a baby fox demon crying with pain, and collapsed. Kagome saw a mass of matted hair on his front leg. There was blood on it. Her mother had told her to always help animals otherwise the spirit of the injured animal would come and haunt you when it died. She paused to put her staff down and then rushed over to help it. It growled weakly then passed out with pain when she picked it up. As she carried him to the pond to wash his wounds she heard another yelp and a sickly thud that sounded like wood hitting flesh. Kagome placed the limp pup gently by the pond and went to see what happened.
What she saw disgusted her. Four half grown boys her age were beating a wolf mother while she was trying to protect her cubs. There was one on the ground already dead. Kagome felt fury rising within her as she reached walked to get her staff. She snuck around behind them and then knocked one of them out with her staff.
The remaining three saw him fall them turned around and the biggest one said in a voice that would have sent someone into spasms of terror “Very smart girl. You just hurt one of the members of the Acloneus clan. I recognize you, you are the momma’s girl who sells vegetables in the market and always tells her momma when we steal something from the cart. Very bad timing. You want us to stop don’t you? Well then we will just kill you instead.” All of the boys now gathered around Kagome, making a great show of pulling out clubs and maces. Kagome however stood her ground and stared steadily at the big boy’s eyes.

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A/N: Oooo cliffie! Srry to leave yall hangin like that but I really cant tell if you like it that much or not (HA HA jk) thx for reading this and I don’t think I will be using much Japanese in this unless I get a buncha pplz who want me to.