Lady Goshinboku
Sora: Here I am creating another story *looks ashamed* see I have to start them though, because if I don't then I won't ever do them at all.
Well this one will be my first one not to center on Inuyasha and Kagome…it feels weird to be broadening my horizon… BUT there will probably be some InuXkags at the end if I have any say about it.
*surprise person*: Ahem, I thought this story was to be centered around me?
Sora: *laughs nervously* and it will be! But come on just a little InuXkags? *gives big sad kitty eyes, like the cat from Shrek!*
*surprise person*: *sighs* ….
Goshinboku: Oh come on just say yes!
*surprise person*: maybe
Inuyasha and Kagome: HEY!
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha, but this plot line is pretty amazing if I do say so myself.
Lady Goshinboku sat up in her bed, brushing her flaxen, flowing hair out of her sparkling blue eyes. She stretched and yawned, staring at the tapestry hanging on her wall. It portrayed a young woman, one who looked eerily like her, although this was created several generations before she was born. Garbed in the dress of royalty, a multi-layer dress called the junihitoe, she was bending towards the ground on the balls of her feet in a show of humility. Her left hand was extended, resting on the back of a fawn that lay sprawled at her feet. In her right hand she held what seemed to be a katana. However, it was not entirely the same. While katanas were usually thin and slender, this one was large, obviously sharp, but yet still curved like a normal katana. The sheath lay discarded against the side of the fawn, the fawn seemingly the protector of the sheath.
It was the woman's eyes that fascinated her the most, they were blue just as hers were, but they held in them a pain Goshinboku had never known. The woman's eyes overflowed with love, compassion, suffering, and wisdom.
"Ack," came the voice of her servant, Ume, a woman who had been with her since birth, caring for her as well as her own mother. Although, Ume never let her slack off or be unproductive.
"Why aren't you dressed? You know that you are meeting your new tutor, and this isn't any old tutor either! Nooo dearie, this is a man of importance! I have no idea why he would take a position as a tutor," Ume declared bustling around, her elegant face aged, but still beautiful. Ume laid a beautiful kimono next to Goshinboku.
"Here, here put this on!" Ume cried, pulling Goshinboku out of her very comfortable bed.
"Quickly, quickly, oh my, we are late!"
After she was dressed Ume quickly made her sit down and Ume began doing her hair, twisting and pinning it into a bun on her head. Although, after Ume was finished with her hair Goshinboku still had no reprieve, Ume then moved on to doing her make-up.
"Do we really have to do all this?" Goshinboku complained, trying to dodge Ume's attempts to put lip rouge on her mouth.
"Yes!" Ume replied grabbing Goshinboku and forcing her to sit down.
"Fine," she sighed and relented, "it is not like he will be here for very long."
"Now I do not want you to go and try to scare this man away with your wits again Lady Goshinboku," Ume warned.
"Well," Goshinboku said haughtily, "it is like they have never seen a woman with brains before."
"And they probably haven't so you must give them a little time to adjust," Ume replied, not even bothering to powder Goshinboku's face, as she was so pale already. Ume brought over the slightly tarnished silver mirror so that Goshinboku could look at herself. Ume sighed with pride as she placed a single blue lotus blossom in her hair.
"You look beautiful," Ume said, cupping Goshinboku's face with her hand. Goshinboku looked at herself critically, it was a plain fact and she didn't even bother denying it, she really did not look Japanese, only by the slight upturn of her eyes was there any sign of her heritage. And this, especially since she was nobility and watched by many, was quite unsettling to her. Her mother had assured her that she looked like her great-great-grandmother, a woman who she had never known and in fact the woman who had made the tapestry that now hung in her bedroom. When her mother had told her all of this it had all seemed to make such sense to Goshinboku, the tapestry was one of her great-great-grandmother, but her mother told her that this was not the case. Her great-great-grandmother had always said that this was "someone else, someone that will save us all from a terrible danger.
Goshinboku shook herself out of her reverie and looked back at her doppelganger who was staring back at her from within the mirror. She did look pretty good, Goshinboku had to admit.
Just then the door to her room slid open and her mother walked in,
"Oh good, she's all ready. I can always rely on you Ume," Lady Satomi, Goshinboku's mother, said speaking to Ume. Her mother was the polar opposite of Goshinboku, when it came to looks. Her black lustrous hair hung delicately around her face, her deep brown eyes twinkling. She walked over to Goshinboku and hugged her. Goshinboku breathed in her mother's smell, the smell of Sakura blossoms and sunshine.
"I hope you are ready to meet your new tutor," her mother told Goshinboku, grasping both of Goshinboku's shoulders. Goshinboku yawned and her mother grinned,
"Well it doesn't matter either way because he is waiting out in the garden."
Goshinboku sighed and grinned at her mother, shaking her head slightly.
Goshinboku walked out to the garden with her mother, walking delicately among the flowers. Her father, Lord Kazuhiko, sat with a man, whom Goshinboku assumed was her tutor, but she could not see more than just parts of him, especially at this distance. And the little bit she could see of him around her father was mostly something white and fluffy!
They approached rapidly and at Goshinboku and her mother's combined footsteps, both of the men stood up.
"Goshinboku, this is Inutaisho, Daiyoukai of the Western Lands."
Sora: So did you all like it? I know, know you are thinking Goshinboku (for all of you that do not that is the sacred tree) that is important just in case you were wondering, and Inutaisho. Sounds like an adventure!
Please, please review and I hope you all enjoyed it! Merry almost Christmas!
And be forewarned this is one evil Energizer plot bunny!
