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Chapter one: Your Birthday Present...Bad Impression
The gentle sound of heals clicking down the marble floor made Kagome, a young woman of eighteen, tossed her body, on the bed, to shift towards her bedroom door. She fluttered her brown eyes open and listened hard and wondered who would be up at this hour. She lifted her hand to her forhead and swept her bangs out of her eyes and realized not only were her hands sweaty but her forhead was a bit damp as well. "That was some nightmare..." she groaned to herself, and shifted her body to roll back over and go to sleep, but the door handle turned causing her to sit stright up and call out, "Who's there?"
A familiar chuckle came through as the large wooden door creaked open, resting her small moment of panic, "Oh, Dad. You...scared me- Wait!"e
As her father's brittle figure shimmied through the door, she could tell by the light of the moon streaming through the window that he had tears in his eyes, but he was laughing, "What is it my dear, sweet daughter?"
Swinging her legs to the edge of the bed, she stood up and walked over to her father reaching for his hand and sliding her long,slender arm around his hunched back, "Why are you crying? What has you upset? Why are you up this late? Did someth-"
"Shh,shh!" A long crooked finger placed itslef on Kagome's lips. With this effort the old man slowly shuffled them to sit on the edge of his daughter's bed. He sat down, correcting his posture so he could face her as he spoke, "I'm just so happy my girl is going to be married to a king!" Even though he whispered she could tell by his voice how excited he was, "You'll be able to live in a castle, and have anyone and everyone cater to your every need, whatever that need be!" He took a deep breath and brushed her long silky hair behind her ear, reveiling her beautifully shaped face and her gorgious almond shaped eyes. He cupped her cheek lovingly and smiled hislarge, watery eyes at her and looked at her in that adoring way only a father could give.
"Dad, I already live in a castle," she motioned with one arm around her. Her own bedroom was the size of a small house. If she was going to recieve anything bigger at her new...'home'... she would lose her mind with all the space. She already didn't know what to do with so much room already and she had been living here pratically her whole life.
"Now, Kagome," her father's voice became stern, "You've voice your opinion quite enough about not wanting to go to this place,and I understand, you're marrying a strange man-"
"A strange man who I've never met!" She corrected, shifting away from him some to show her disapproval.
Her father, ignornig the statement, continued, "But you can't how much you don't want to be there, when you get there, or there will be trouble. That will make him look bad which in turn will make us look bad, which will make your life living there awful. Kagome, my dear,he requested for you, for you, no other girl in the entire world did he want, but you!" He gave a soft, warm, laugh of excitment and gave her leg a slap, "Kiki did it without any complaints and she is happily married in her own gigantic castle in her own far away kingdom!"
"That's because she didn't put up a fight. She was spoiled and wanted to get away from her family because...whatever, Dad, please, it's not too lateto-" She was cut off again by the same crooked finger.
"Lay down my dear. I just wanted to tell you happy birthday, if you were awake, which you were. So lay back down..." he gently pushed on her shoulders to settle her back into her large,fluffy pillows. He pulled her silk blankets ontop of her,and gently stroked her hair back as he hummed a small lullaby which he used to when she was younger.
She slowedher breathing and closed her eyes,listening to him, and pretending to sleep. After a few minutes he left and shuffled quietly out of the room, leaving Kagome to stare out the window and wonder about her future.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`The next day
The dark haired girl sat quietly in the carrige as it rocked bak and forth uncomfortably down the long road that awaited her. For hours she was left with nothing but her thoughts of home and how she would miss it. Her nervousness of meeting this king was building inside of her, creating awkward bursts of loud sighing and wringing of her hands. She knew since she was old enough to know what marriage was that she was going to be paired off with someone she didn't know, someone with a lot of money, someone who could take care of her, give her power, give her the the power to do anything in the world she wanted,make her a queen, and still, a five year old Kagome was giving the same argument that a now eighteen year old Kagome was giving, "But what if all he has is money? How can someone that doesn't love me want to marry me?"
The answers were all the same,and she wouldn't have really called them answers. They were just things to persuade her to humor the idea of marrying a strange man.
"He'll give you everything your heart desires and more."
"The man you'll marry will give you an entire Kingdom to call your own."
"What about love? You can't buy love. Love is something...that just...happens." She said,for many years. But the reply was the same as the others.
Shaking her head, Kagome rested her elbows on her knees and placed her face dramatically into her hands and let out a loud cry of anger. She slumped so that her dark,red dress straps fell loosley down her shoulders and her long hair fell straight down her back and the ends caressed the brown, leather seat.
"My Lady, your new home is right up ahead!"an excited voice boomed over the beating of the horses feet and rattling of the wooden wheels.
She opened her eyes wide and she bustled around the cart to open the curtain to the door window, but the carrage had stopped abrubtly causing her to fly forward and smack her cheek against the opposite wall. She pressed her handsdown on the seat and pushed herself up and banged her head on the roof of the vehicle so roughly she flew backdown into her prior seat. Cursing, she flipped her hair out from herf ace and stood up again, reaching for the door handle. Leaning into the door to push it open, she realized a little too late that the handle was already turned, and it swung open, causing her to tumble out into a heap on the groud. She fell ontop of herr leg,which had turned at an outward angle and her other was sticking straight out. Her dress had ripped considerably high, exposing her leg and her hair was now completley tangled down her shoulders and into her face,causing her cheeks to itch and redden.
Afraid to look up, Kagome set her hand down into the dirt and stared at the rows of feet that circled around her,which were followed by voices of concern and giggles of amusement.
'My God, this is not how-'
"This is not how a former queen should be presented." Laughed a calm, quiet voice. A helping hand appeared in front of her.
Glad to have a friendly gesture she placed her own, now dirt covered hand into the other and allowed herself to be pulled up from her pile of despair. Once standing up she looked into friendly brown eyes, and an awkward smiling man. His brown hair hung loosley in his face, causing him to have a natural look about him. Standing up fully she felt a sharp pain shoot up from her ankle to her knee and realized then that she had probably twisted her leg pretty bad, but she quickly replaced the limp with a gentle bow and stood back up, combing her fingers through her hair, "..Well, this was pretty embarassing..." She looked around at all the faces,they all stareing at her with half concern and disbelief.
Unsure of what to say,she bashfully looked down at her highhealed shoes, "I have a lot of grace to learn which I'm sure all of my king's people will be able to guide me with."
That created small chuckles of satisfaction and nods of approval from the people surrounding her. She looked down at her ripped dress and sighed. 'And here...it begins here...'
"Well, all your luggage is being carried to your room, so if you would like," One by one the people surrounding her began grabbing seperate bags and leaving the area so that just her and the man who had helped her up, "We can step into the castle and take care of that ankle so you can give a proper bow to our king." He smiled a sideways smile and offered his arm for support, "I would carry you, but I'm sure that would only add to your embarassment," he chuckled.
Kagome nodded her head and smiled, allowing now her eyes to fill up with tears. This man seemed, already, someone she could befriend. A better look at him told her he was a lot taller than she and his hair was neatly pulled back into a pony tail. He wore a furry black belt that wrapped snuggly around his waist. It didn't seem to be holding his white, silk pants up, nor did it seem to be keeping his button down, light green turtle kneck from flapping open...that's what the buttons were for. "Thankyou," she whispered through tears of embarassment. Apparentally the tears only caused the man to laugh more.
He wrapped his arm around hers, lifting it so that she wouldn't have to walk too heavily onto her ankle, and replied, "My Lady, you don't have to be sorry. The way that man steered that carage to a hault surprised the lot of us. I probably would've fallen out as well." The whole time he was looking at her, coaxing her eyes to look into his, "My name is Kouga. I am the King's advisor. He really wishes he could have been here for your arrival but he had some great business to take care of. But rest assured that you will be happy to see him tonight at dinner."
Kagome nodded her head, glad that her future husband had not seen her embarassing blunder, and allowed her eyes to dry up, "Well if the king is as nice as you I'm sure I'll be glad to meet him."
Kouga smiled in reply and looked down at the grass as they walked towards a large build up of trees, "Yes. Yes, you are right. I will not speak poorly of my king." He guided them through the trees towards a black,wrought iron gate, which was built to immitate ivy and thin tree branches. Kouga pulled a lever to the side causing the gates to groan open.
Disturbed by his response of the king, Kagome leaned a little so she could meet his gaze and asked, "What do you mean by that?" Kouga lifted his hand towards the gate and lead them through, and as they quietly made there way in the question was long lost and the only question that filled her had was how was she going to get used to these acres, and acres of castle. All this room...how was she going to get used to all this room!
"Oh...oh...oh fuck..."
This is my first fanfic. Don't be too harsh with me...tell me what you think... Next chapter will be up by the end of this week or next week.