Snow cat demon: I'm back because I had some inspiration and hopefully I will be able to follow through with it! It's been such a long time since I've written anything I hope I haven't lost my touch… Well, without further ado, here is my new story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Inuyasha, just characters that you have no idea who they are…
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The Love Of My Brother's Assassin
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Have you ever had one of those nights were you have a strange dream and then you wake up to the feeling that you are being watched? That was not an unfamiliar sensation for Kagome.
What? You don't know who Kagome is? Well, technically speaking its Princess Kagome, second heir to the western kingdom, younger sibling to Prince Inuyasha, heir to the western kingdom, and only daughter to King Inutaisho and Queen Izayoi. Should anything happen the king, queen, and first heir, Kagome would be able to take the throne, but if she does not wed within the first moon cycle of her reign, the reign will be taken over by the closest male relation of the family. In this case Kagome's cousin Naraku would be the one to take over.
Now that you know a little about Kagome and her family let's get back to the story at hand, shall we?
Kagome woke up breathing hard. In her dream she had been running towards someone but the closer she seemed to get to them the farther away they actually were. How cliché right? But here's where it gets a little more interesting. Just as she was about to lose sight of the unknown person, a bright light shot out of the purple sky above here and landed right in front of her. Kagome had to stop running and shield her eyes from the bright light but she could vaguely see a figure within the light. The figure beckoned her to come closer but when she got close enough to touch the figure, it disappeared taking the light with it. At this point she woke up breathless as if she were actually doing the running.
Kagome wasn't an athletic type of demon. She was brought up as a proper lady should be. Her mother, correction: her real mother would have taught her how to defend herself at the very least.
Oh I didn't mention? Well Queen Izayoi, who is human, isn't Kagome's real mother, but is Prince Inuyasha's mother, making him a hanyou. Kagome's real mother was a beautiful demon, but that's all Kagome can remember of her. King Inutaisho took her as a concubine because after the prince was born the queen became barren and they didn't want Prince Inuyasha to become a spoiled child because he was an only-child. The king took Kagome from her mother as soon as she was able to leave her mother and was taken care of by Queen Izayoi from then on. The only resentment that Kagome had was that she never got to see her mother after that. There were rumors that the demoness that had birthed Kagome had died in a massacre that occurred only a year after Kagome's birth.
So Kagome was Prince Inuyasha's half-sister and they resented each other for the most part but would act civilly towards each other while in the company of other nobles, but if they were only in each other's presence they would bicker unstoppably. Prince Inuyasha would hold himself back from raising his hand towards her while Kagome would wish that she could fight against him so he would know that they were equals even though she was younger and a woman, but it was only wishful thinking.
Kagome jumped a little as someone knocked at her door. She sat up in her bed and straightened her hair a little.
"Enter." It was a simple command and easily followed as her personal maid came through the door, literately speaking.
When Kagome came to the age of sixteen she had been allowed to choose her own servant from the market and whilst all of the castle servants were human, as per request of King Inutaisho (he wouldn't have a servant that would be able to take down his queen), Kagome had chosen the only demon that had been there. She was shoddily dressed, malnourished, and sick at the time, but Kagome wanted her as soon as she laid eyes on her, so King Inutaisho paid the meager amount for the demoness and brought her back to the castle where he learned that she demoness was a phantom demoness, but none-the-less allowed her to become Kagome's personal servant.
"I should have known it was you Yuki. It's too early in the morning for it to be anyone else." Kagome joked, allowing her royal demeanor to evaporate. It's been a year and a half since Yuki had home to the castle and while they were in private, Kagome wouldn't allow Yuki to call her anything but what a friend would call another.
"I should have known that you wouldn't use your senses to find out who it was. It's far too early in the morning." Yuki retorted. Yuki had gotten used to the friendly treatment of Kagome and think of Kagome as her friend, not her master which was exactly what Kagome had wanted. "Anyways it's time to start getting ready for breakfast" Yuki giggled.
"I don't think so; I'm going back to bed." Kagome flopped down on her bed and pulled the blanket over her head.
"Don't think that you're getting out of this again!" Yuki became transparent and floated over to Kagome and laid down where her body was. Kagome shivered as Yuki entered her body.
"I hate it when you do this" Kagome grumbled.
"I know you do" came out of Kagome's mouth followed by Yuki's giggle. Kagome, being controlled by Yuki, got up out of bed and walked over to the closet, pulling out a black kimono with pinkish-red sakura blossoms embroidered onto the shoulder. She put it on Kagome then phased out of her body so she could tie the pinkish-red sash around Kagome's waist. "Now was that so hard?"
"It killed me and brought me back to life." Kagome droned.
"Oh hush. Now let me brush your hair so you can be on your way." Yuki scowled at the knot that formed in her hair. After Yuki had finished brushing her hair, Kagome decided to leave her raven hair down with the silver steaks glinting in what little morning light there was.
As Kagome started to walk out of the room she grabbed a fan off her dresser. While it was normally just a fan that she was required to carry around, Yuki had modified it slightly and at a certain flick of the wrist razor sharp edges would slide out and the once useless fan would become a weapon, but it wasn't like there was any actual need for the princess to use it. None would dare cross the royal family.
She still wished she could know how to fight, because then instead of doing nothing all day long, she could train with the guards and she could go help protect her villages as they were being attacked.
She reluctantly came out of her reverie as she entered the dining hall where Prince Inuyasha was already seated and waiting for the king and queen to enter the hall.
Kagome sighed. 'Here we go again.' Kagome walked to her seat across from her half-brother and sat down. "Good morning Brother." She quietly acknowledged him.
"Morning," the reply was gruff.
"Is there something wrong?" Kagome asked, following the role of the worried woman.
"Not that you care, or know anything about it," Inuyasha stared at the empty plate before him, "but we are having company in a few days and I would rather not have anything to do with this 'company'"
Kagome forced herself not to roll her eyes at him. He was too childish sometimes! "Then perhaps if you had better manners then this 'company' would not be as grueling as you make them out to be."
Kagome didn't even bat an eyelash as Inuyasha stood up so quick that his chair nearly fell over and slammed his hands on the table. "You don't know what you're talking about!" He glared at her and she glared right back.
"Ah! Inuyasha, Kagome, I'm glad to see you both down here before us for once!" King Inutaisho walked in the room wearing a bright smile, followed by Queen Izayoi. Once they sat down servants brought out their breakfast and was eaten for the most part in silence. When they were done eating the servants came back in and took the empty plates away.
"Inuyasha, how are the troops coming along?" King Inutaisho asked his son, who he had made general of his armies when he had turned eighteen a few months ago.
"The troops are becoming good fighters. There is still much promise in the younger soldiers, which I hope to exploit in order for the greater gain of the army." Was the professional response that was given.
"Good, good, and how are the new recruits?"
"Still fresh meat. They haven't come along very far quite yet but if there still isn't any improvement by the end of the week, then I wish to try out a new teaching technique."
"You have my permission. How is your love life?" The Kings eyes filled with his mirth.
Without thinking he replied, "It's still growing." There was a pause before he realized what he said. "That's not what I wanted to say! I meant to say that you needn't worry about my love life." By this point the king and queen were nearly in tears from laughing and Kagome was silently laughing behind her fan that she had pulled out.
Still growing? There's many ways to interpret that and most are depressing for the hanyou. She could use this later if she wanted to get a rise out of him for sure.
After a few minutes the king calmed down enough to say, "And what has my beautiful daughter been up to?"
"Father, you know as well as I do that I have been cooped up in this castle, doing nothing but reading. There is nothing that needs my attention." The king went to open his mouth, but Kagome continued, "And before you ask about my love life, you know it is non-existent because all suitors must go through you and there have been no Romeo's throwing roses at my window." She giggled behind her fan at his forlorn face.
"Well, we'll have to remedy that soon won't we? You shall be turning eighteen soon so surely you're old enough now that you may have suitors. In fact there will be negotiations between the west and the north and I do believe they have a single prince." He thought for a moment. "Yes! He shall be your first suitor!" Now he leaned a litter closer to Kagome, "But of course you will have the final say so in whom you will marry." He chuckled like a maniac.
"Now dear, you shouldn't be trying to frighten poor Kagome." Queen Izayoi gently reprimanded her husband.
"Yes, yes. Kagome, why don't you go into town for the day and find some nice new clothing and some jewelry for the arrival of the northern emissaries and their prince?" King Inutaisho said more than asked while handing Kagome a pouch of gold coins.
"Yes Father. I'll go as soon as I change into more appropriate clothing." Kagome bowed before turning around and walking towards the door.
"Oh, and before I forget my dear," Kagome turned around to look at her father as he talked, "This is a time of peace for us so there is no need to take any guards with you. Just be sure to take Yuki with you."
"Yes father." She turned around and left.
"As for you Inuyasha, I think it is about time for you to start training your soldiers and honing not only their skills but your own as well."
Inuyasha bowed, "Yes father," and left the dining hall.
Getting back to Kagome, she walked through the corridor wondering where Yuki was when she appeared in front of Kagome floating upside down in the air.
"I'll take it that you already know where we're going." Kagome swept passed the phantom.
"Oh, I'm quite excited! It's been quite some time since we were allowed outside the castle walls and if I remember correctly the last time we were out we were drowning in the amount of guards that had to follow us everywhere! Although some of the guards were so handsome and manly! Maybe we should acquire some traveling companions!" Yuki was just bursting with joy.
Kagome sighed, "Perhaps we should find you some new clothes as well as a new hobby so you can't remember quite so much or be quite so annoying."
"Hey! I'll have you know that to be a servant and a friend one must find a happy medium, and my happy medium just happens to be annoying so there's no way you can change that!"
"Yes, well," Kagome stepped through the threshold and into her room, "Perhaps if we can find a happy half of a medium then everyone would be happy." Kagome laughed at Yuki's expression of dismay. Opening her closet, she pulled out a pair of black pants that were loose, but tight enough to be concealed underneath a kimono, and she also grabbed out a blue shirt that was of the same design. She changed into those, then got out a simple traveling kimono and put it on over top the other clothes.
"Lady Kagome, Prince Inuyasha wishes to speak with you," Yuki returned to her submissive servant persona as she announced the arrival.
"Thank you, you may wait for me here while I go speak with my brother." Yuki bowed as Kagome walked past her and out her door. The prince stood there with his arms crossed, which was normal when he wasn't around the king or queen. "What do you want?" Kagome asked.
"You shouldn't go into town." The reply was gruff.
Kagome faux-gasped. "You sound as if you almost care!"
Inuyasha bristled. "I mean it! There have been rumors of a person who recently arrived who has killed hundreds, maybe even thousands. It's not safe for a woman to be wandering around in the town."
Kagome growled. "So it would be safe for a man to wander around?"
"Yes, because a man knows how to fight!"
"Well then I hope you encounter this villain and are defeated!" Kagome turned the other direction and walked away and within seconds Yuki walked out the door, keeping her eyes to the floor since the Prince was still standing there and walked to Kagome's side.
Now, it's at this point where almost every narrator would tell of how Kagome ranted and raved about how immature her brother was and how she hated him, the whole shebang. Well, this time Kagome didn't do that, so there's nothing to tell. Instead a plan started to formulate in her mind. She didn't know who the stranger was, or even if he killed a hundred or thousand people. All she knew was that she would prove her brother wrong.
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Well, this is just a start and I may or may not continue it, it just depends on how I'm feeling and more importantly, how many people review versus how many hits there are, so don't be a bum and have some fun! Review!! (oh yeah and I do accept flames and constructive criticism is welcome)
