Ch.1

What is Sesshomaru to do when his interest is peeked by a strange demoness and what is she hiding?

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Sesshomaru POV

His father was at it again. Another ball was being held in the western lands and he, as the heir to the lands, would have to attend. Even his puny hanyou sibling was going to be forced to attend. Don't get him wrong he loved his younger sibling and was ferociously protective of the young pup and his father's human mate, but that was just the problem. The other youkai in the court shunned the pup as much as they could possibly get away with, being under the western lord's roof after all if he were to simply kill all of the offenders than the court would quickly diminish until a war began. The pup was nearing his fiftieth summer but was only five in human appearance and held a great admiration of his older sibling.

Sesshomaru always took care to watch over him during these events which gave him little time to be social with the other youkai in attendance, not that he thought any of them were even remotely on his level enough to speak with in the first place. Sesshomaru was simply not a social person and much preferred the silence of the library to a conversation with the dimwitted minor lords or their imbecilic daughters. Sesshomaru let a barely audible sigh out into the darkness of his bed chambers looking up at the marble ceiling from his navy blue silk covered futon. This was going to be a long few days.

Tomorrow all of the major and minor lords would stroll up to the Palace of the Moon, acting as if they owned the place, and he would be forced to stand with his pack politely (or as politely as Sesshomaru gets) greeting each lord and acknowledging their overly sultry daughters (honestly they had been trying to push the vile creatures unto him since he came of mating age but they simply did not hold his interest all of them being frightfully dull, only being educated in topics deemed safe for women, and reeking as if doused in perfume to try to cover up their obviously loose behavior that only served to agitate his overly sensitive nose and hiding nothing from all of inu decent), and trying to suppress a snarl as each arriving pack would glare down at his younger sibling to the point he would cling to his white silken hakama. He knew just about all of the court by now, excluding those who were deemed too young to attend or simply did not need to be there, so his father always had him stand next to his brother during the introductions. If anything were to happen Sesshomaru would protect his little brother Inuyasha.

The introductions were the easiest part of the whole process, seeing as each pack arrived and were greeted before being shown to their chambers for their stay, after the ruling families had all arrived a dinner would be held and he would be forced to sit and endure the lude stares of the lord's daughter's before, finally, being allowed to escape to his chambers for the night, hopefully without beheading any of the vile creatures. The next morning all would, once again, gather for a meal before going about what ever task they wished before preparing for the party that night and then slowly drifting away to their chambers and leaving the following morning. The four major lords, his father the Great Inu No Tashio included, would all remain with their families to discuss matters of the lands. He would most likely hide in the library, since none of the females would care to step in there, to avoid the lord's hunting daughters.

He was very aware that the females only wanted him so they could bed him, gaining his title and wealth. It was true that the western lands were the richest of the four but he refused to be used so that some other cardinal lord could gain an alliance and wealth. It was sick how the fathers pushed their daughters toward him. It came as a great relief when his father had been sent word that the Northern lord's oldest daughter had found a mate and was now expecting her first pup. The Northern lord was rumored to have a second younger daughter but, Sesshomaru assumed, must have either been false information or the shame of a daft or crippled child. If the second were true the child would probably no longer be in the world of the living, after all if was custom to leave such burdens in the forest to be eaten by wild beasts.

Looking at the ceiling a few moments longer Sesshomaru steeled his resolve. He would get through this event just like he had every other annoying gathering he was forced to attend. With that in mind he drifted off to the world of dreams surrounded by dark blue silk.

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