Revised: March 2, 2009

Hello, MangaFreak15 here. Faith of the Broken was my most recent story, but this idea popped into my head and I wanted to try it out. Happy reading!

Warning: DO NOT FLAME. If you got something to say, say it to my face! Not literally, just say what you don't like in a Constructive Criticism format. Thank you.

Pairing: Sesshomaru x Kagome

Kagome-sensei

Ch. I

Enter Kagome Higurashi

There once was a young woman with the abilities of a miko. If one could describe her in four words, they would be powerful, prominent, beautiful, and last, but not least . . . female. She was everything that her father could ask for. Silky ebony hair with a dark-blue tinge, mesmerizing blue eyes the color of oceanic sapphire, with a thin veil of gray, a brilliant young mind and extreme flexibility, enabling her to easily pass martial arts, archery and swordsmanship. She was gifted with the ability to turn anything into a deadly weapon, even a harmless looking teddy bear. Those previously mentioned four words that described her persona really summed her up. She was exceptionally strong. She became famous throughout Japan as the number one trainer. She was very beautiful, despite her relatively young age. And, of course, she was a girl, but no one cared after they'd seen what she could do. And her father was quite glad that she wasn't one of those sluts who overdosed on makeup or flirted with men 24/7, for if she had turned out to be one, he would be very horrified indeed. But he died after she turned thirteen, leaving her to run Higurashi Inc. by herself (with a little help from her mother, of course).

Her name?

Kagome Higurashi.

At the young age of eighteen, Kagome Higurashi had already trained close to seventy-five people. But one day she received a letter from a client, a letter that would change her life forever . . .

"Nee-san!" twelve-year old Souta Higurashi called to his older sister as he entered the house. "There's a letter in the mail for you!"

Kagome's nimble fingers plucked the dark-blue envelope from her brother's hand before he could blink. On the front of the envelope, her name was written in smooth kanji. There was no name, but if she had to guess, the envelope was most likely from a client who wanted training.

She flipped open the envelope and pulled out a forest-green paper, unfolding it so she could read the contents silently to herself:

Dear Ms. Higurashi,

It has come to my attention that you

are a trainer. I believe you to be the best

choice for my sons. You have trained many

people and brought out their full potential.

I would like to formally invite you to the

Suuyaka Mansion for a little chat over a

cup of tea, if you don't mind. I wish

to speak to you about training my sons,

for they are facing a bit of a . . . problem,

you could say. They will be quite a handful,

I assure you. My eldest, Sesshomaru, has

his emotions under lockdown and lets no

one through except for his recently adopted

daughter, Rin Shironue Suuyaka. My

youngest, Inuyasha, is quite the delinquent,

with his rough and temperamental attitude.

Please consider my this request. You will

receive 10,000¥ an hour.

Thank you for your notice,

Inu no Taisho Suuyaka

Kagome stared at the letter in disbelief. She re-read it again, to make sure her eyes weren't deceiving her. "Kami," she whispered, clutching the letter tightly. She then laughed out loud, nearly scaring the pants off Souta at her sudden outburst.

"Erm, Nee-san, I'm not implying that you're crazy, but – what the heck was up with that creepy laugh?" Souta asked.

"SOUTA!" she said, shoving the green paper in his face. "The famous Inutaisho Suuyaka is asking for my help in training his sons!"

Souta's eyes literally bugged out from their sockets. There was a loud crack! as his jaw crashed through the wooden floor.

"Wow, that's great, Nee-san!" he exclaimed. "Kaa-san! Come quick!"

A pretty woman with short, curly hair stepped out from the kitchen, dusting her white cooking apron off. "What is it, Souta?" she asked, her warm honey-brown eyes landing on her ecstatic son and grinning daughter. "Did something good happen?"

"Okaa-san, I just received a letter from Inutaisho Suuyaka stating that he would like me to train his sons," Kagome said.

Kun-Loon snatched the letter and read it, then promptly fainted. Souta caught her before she collided with the floor and laid her down gently.

The two siblings looked at each other. "Hey, Souta, will you help me pack my training equipment?" Kagome asked, a smirk stretching itself across her face.

"Sure."

Souta moved his mother to the nearby empty sofa and laid her on it. Then the two siblings headed up to Kagome's room to pack what equipment she needed to train the sons of the famous Inutaisho.

Oh, I'm going to have so much fun, Kagome thought.

"OTOU-SAN!"

An angry bellow echoed through the ornate halls of the Suuyaka Mansion. A young man with long white hair, who looked to be around seventeen, stomped through one of these halls and wound up at his father's private study. He banged his fist on the door, shouting, "Open up!"

The door flew open quickly and his older brother Sesshomaru stepped out, punching him in the face and sending him crashing into the nearest wall. "You're a waste of space," Sesshomaru snarled, flexing his claws at his younger brother. "Such a pity that I cannot kill you now –"

"Sesshomaru!" A tall, handsome man with flowing silver hair stepped out of the study and admonished his son, smacking the nineteen-year old over the head. "Don't punch your brother! And Inuyasha, do not bang on the door!"

"Yes, Otou-san," they answered simultaneously, Sesshomaru in an I-Could-Care-Less tone and Inuyasha in a sulky tone.

"Good. Now come on in, both of you. I have something to discuss with you," Inutaisho said, stepping to the side and gesturing for his sons to enter the room. They both did so in silence.

Inutaisho closed the door behind them and walked over to his large desk. "Sit down," he commanded, pointing to the plush blue velvet armchairs on the other side of the desk. The brothers walked over to the chairs. Sesshomaru sat down in a slow and refined manner that showed his grace, but Inuyasha merely plopped his ass into the other one and made himself comfortable.

"So what's the deal?" Inuyasha demanded, yawning widely.

"Yes. What is so important that the imbecile next to me –" At this Inuyasha attempted to strike his brother in the shin with a vicious kick, but failed and his foot banged into his father's desk, "– has to know as well?"

Inutaisho glared at his son for nearly denting his super-expensive desk. Inuyasha's gaze wavered and he scowled at his father. "Feh. Sorry for kicking your desk, Otou-san."

Inutaisho switched his attention to his unemotional son. "I believe the two of you need training. Manners, self-control, the ability to properly wield your powers and be able to channel your ki or youki into an inanimate object," he said. "I have found the perfect person. All I need now is a positive reply."

Sesshomaru stuck his nose into the air and said haughtily, "I need no idiot to train me."

Inuyasha rolled his eyes at his brother's conceited attitude and cut in, "Cut the crap, Sesshomaru. Just admit it, you're not perfect."

Sesshomaru flexed his claws and hissed, "Care to repeat that sentence, half-breed?"

Inutaisho interrupted them before a fist fight could break out. "Just so you know, your trainer will be a female. You two need your egos knocked down a few pegs."

Inuyasha's jaw dropped and Sesshomaru turned narrowed eyes towards his father. "You've got to be shitting me!" Inuyasha exclaimed. "How the fuck can a bitch make us stronger?"

"Watch your language, Inuyasha," Inutaisho warned his younger son.

GLARE OF DOOM.

GLARE OF DOOM II.

"But – but –" Inuyasha sputtered.

Inutaisho crossed his arms across his chest and replied with a firm, "So she's a girl. Big deal. I know she could kick your sorry butt right now ten times without breaking a sweat."

"Great. The last thing I need is some stupid bitch breathing down my neck," Inuyasha muttered. "She's probably so weak that she'd fall at the first punch I land."

Inutaisho smirked eerily. "Are you sure about that?" he said, his golden eyes glinting. "She is very pretty, I'd have to admit, but she is also very strong. She seems to be a nice young lady."

Inuyasha snorted under his breath, "Nice young lady, my ass."

Inutaisho's eyes twinkled. "I believe her name is Kagome Higurashi. Ring a bell?" he asked, watching in amusement as emotions flashed across his sons' faces.

"YOU'VE GOTTA BE SHITTING ME!" Inuyasha yelled, all color draining from his face.

Sesshomaru sat stiff as a board at his father's words. "The legendary trainer?" he said quietly. "Coming here? To train us?"

"Otou-san," Inuyasha protested weakly, "surely you can't mean . . . but . . . I mean, why her? You're not that desperate, are you?"

Inutaisho chuckled. "Of course I mean her. You aren't able to face Naraku in your present state, are you? I believe she is the only one alive who is truly able to defeat Naraku," he said.

Shit, shit and more shit, Inuyasha cursed, hiding his face in his hands. Someone please kill me now.

Let's see if she's even worth the effort, Sesshomaru thought.

Inutaisho smiled at his sons. "You are dismissed."

At around 1:00 in the afternoon, the Suuyaka siblings were seen sitting in the parlor, awaiting the arrival of their guest. Inuyasha jumped three feet in the air when the doorbell rang, loud and clear. In terror, he ran and hid behind the couch, whispering, "CRAP! She's here."

Sesshomaru regarded his cowardly brother with a cold, critical eye. "You really are pathetic. Hiding from a mere mortal girl?" he sneered. Ouch. Sesshomaru: 1 Inuyasha:0

Inuyasha's head popped out from behind the couch in anger. "Oh yeah? Well, if you're so brave, why ain't you walking up to that damn door and opening it for her?" he snarled. "Some man you are." Sesshomaru: 1 Inuyasha: 1

"Why aren't you? For that matter, I happen to be sitting out in the open while you cower behind a lump of cloth," Sesshomaru said. "Besides, I'm sure Otou-san is more than capable of opening the door by himself." Sesshomaru: 2 Inuyasha: 1

"She's your guest too."

"And yours."

"I'm not afraid of her."

"Really now? Then why are you hiding?"

"I'm not scared, if that's what you're implying."

"No, I am merely wondering if your brain could get any smaller, though being the big fool you are, I suppose it could." Sesshomaru: 3 Inuyasha: 1

Inuyasha leaped out from behind the couch and shouted, "TAKE THAT BACK, YOU –"

"Ah, these are the two, I suppose?"

An amused female voice interrupted the tense atmosphere. Inuyasha turned, but in doing so, forgot that he was still sailing towards Sesshomaru, ready to bash his stupid skull into the ground (and more than likely would have failed). For his lack of attention Sesshomaru landed a bruising punch to his left cheek, sending the younger boy crashing into the opposite wall.

Once Inuyasha had sat up, rubbing his sore cheek, his amber eyes landed on one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen.

She stood around the height of five-foot-eight, with slightly-wavy ebony-black hair that shown dark blue in the light. It was tied back to the nape of her creamy-tan neck with a simple white hair tie. She had bright, sparkling cerulean-gray eyes, which were a very rare and unusual color to find on a human. She had a beautiful body, filled out with round curves in all the right places. She wore a blue and white training outfit, with a slim purple sash tied around her waist. It showed off the curve of her breasts quite well.

"H-hello, m-my Inuyasha name is . . . I mean, my n-name is Inuyasha," Inuyasha stuttered, blushing profusely. T-this is THE Kagome Higurashi? She's . . . she's beautiful . . .

Sesshomaru was stoic on the outside, but inside . . . well, he had to admit she really was pretty. But still, she was a woman, and women didn't have excellent fighting skills in his book.

"Yes. These are my sons," Inutaisho said. "That stuttering idiot is Inuyasha, and the stoic one is Sesshomaru."

Kagome eyed them carefully, her well-trained eyes examining them, figuring out their current fighting level. She turned back to Inutaisho and said, "I'll take the job. These two definitely need shaping up. Who did you say their enemy was?"

"His name is Naraku," Inutaisho informed the trainer.

"Naraku, huh? Sounds deliciously evil. Though I have to say, I've never heard of him," Kagome said, grinning.

Inuyasha fell over anime-style and Sesshomaru just sweat-dropped inwardly. Kagome looked at Inutaisho. "I'll start right now, if you don't mind . . ." she said, a wicked smirk replacing the sweet, innocent smile.

Shit, she's scary, Inuyasha thought.

"In fact, the best method for bringing out a person's full capabilities – the one that I use – I like to call it . . . Kagome's Boot Camp."

Fuck, Inuyasha thought.

"I'll show you to the dojo now, Miss Higurashi," Inutaisho said.

"Call me Kagome, Inutaisho-san," the girl said. "I hate formalities."

"Very well, Kagome, please follow me."

"Ah! Before I do that, I should fetch my training equipment from the car," Kagome said, walking out the door towards her car. Inutaisho left after her to help her if needed.

Inuyasha felt a chill run up his spine as he recalled the evil grin that he'd seen on her face. Yes, she was very beautiful indeed, but . . . she was scary as hell. That evil smile she had made him almost piss his pants at the promise of some very painful training. "Kagome's Boot Camp" indeed.

Minutes later their father popped back into the room. "All right, she's ready to roll. Head to the dojo to begin your training," he said. "Have fun!"

The brothers exchanged dark looks, both thinking the similar thoughts:

Fun my half-demon ass.

Fun my youkai ass.

When they entered the dojo and slid the door shut behind them, they saw Kagome waiting for them on the other side of the large room. The dojo was very spacious. It was actually underground and was up to nearly half the size of the Suuyaka Mansion. A vast array of weapons lined the walls and many various chests and cabinets were around the room, lined against the base of the walls.

Kagome herself only seemed to have a purse-size bag on the floor next to her feet, but both brothers were wary. You never know what surprises can come out of small things.

"Let's get started, shall we?" she said, in a tone that sounded suspiciously innocent. However, Inuyasha shivered at the unspoken words underlying her question: When we start, there will be no quitting . . .

Not even if you might die.

This is the first chapter. How did you like it? Please review if you liked it.

Preview

Chapter II: The Art of Subjugation

"Bitch – "

"Sit."

Bang! Bam!

"Wench – "

"Sit."

Thud! Crack!

"Woman – "

"Sit."

Bock! Thwack!

"Girl – "

"Sit."

Boom! Thud!

"Witch – "

"Sit."

Bam! Crack!

"Beautiful lady – "

"Sit."

BANG!

"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?" Inuyasha screamed at her.

"SIT!"

Wham! BOOM!

Hope you liked the preview! Till next time!

Translations

Kaa-san – Mother

Kami – God

Nee-san – Older Sister

Otou-san – Father

Youkai – Demon

Youki – Demonic Energy

The Apple and the Alcove,

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