Love Will Find A Way

By: Angel-With-Attitude

Chapter 2: Talking

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As he held his mother's hand, Inuyasha couldn't help but think about the nice girl he had just met. Princess Kagome from the Eastern Kingdom. A tiny smile formed on his face as he thought about how nice she was and how much fun it was to play with her but his smile faded as he looked up at his mother. He may have liked to play with Kagome but it seems like his mother and father weren't too happy about it.

Her golden eyes shawn with thought as Lady Izayoi accounted the events that had just unfolded. Prince Inuyasha of the West and Princess Kagome of the East had just met. Despite all the efforts her husband and the Eastern Lord had set in place to keep their childern apart it seemed as though fate got in the way. But she couldn't help wondering if it was really a bad thing or really a blessing.

She sat her little son on the edge of the porch that looked over the garden on the edge of the valley. He sat there quietly dangling his feet over the edge and running his clawed finger through the cracks of the wood floor. She sat down beside him, her long layers of kimono flowing around her as she looked down at her son. She ran her slender fingers through her son's long hair, the same colour as her's and Inuyasha looked up at her, his golden eyes matching her own.

Her eyes showed kindness and understanding as she looked down at the boy. "Inuyasha, why were you playing with that girl?" She said quietly as she saw the young prince's eyes meet the floor again. She never liked the fact that the two lands were split apart and she knew that Lady Yuki felt the same. But both of the mother's knew that their husbands' minds weren't easily changed.

With his eyes still drawn to the floor, Inuyasha mummbled his answer but with Izayoi's keen hearing she didn't miss a word. "She seemed really nice Mother. I like her." He looked up at her for a moment and then back to the ground. "I didn't mean to make you and Father mad."

Izayoi watched as her son flattened his snow white ears against his skull as he was sad that he had disobeyed his parents. A kind smile appeared on her lips as she raised a hand and placed it on his head, softly petting his ears. "I'm not mad at you honey." She said as she used to other hand to lift her son's chin up to make him look at her. "But I think you father is though."

The boy slumbed down as if to hide away from the subject of his father. "Do I have to go say sorry?" He asked as his big golden eyes looked up at his mother. He wished that he didn't have to go see his father, not right now. He knew that if his father was upset to stay away from him for a while and then see him, that or have his mother with him. He was scared of his father.

"Yes, you do." His mother answered and he gave a sigh in defeat. With that, Lady Izayoi got up to her feet and led her son back inside to find where Lord Taisho had gone to.

They found Inuyasha's father in a conversation with one of the generals in the Western army. They stopped outside the room and waited when he was finished. When the lord was done talking to the general, he turned to find his son waiting and Izayoi gave him a little push to walk up to his father. Taisho kneeled down in front of his son but before he said anything he looked up at his wife. Both sets of golden eyes locked as husband and wife looked at each other before Izayoi turned and left the room allowing the two to have a father-son talk.

No, he didn't want his mother to leave the room. He wanted her to stay there and keep his father's temper in check. But not this time - this time it was just he and his father. He wanted to keep his eyes down on the floor for he didn't want to meet this father's angry look. But he had no choice. "Daddy I'm sorry I played with that girl. I didn't know she was bad." Inuyasha said as he continued to look down at the ground.

Where Izayoi's nature was understanding and patient, Taisho was the complete different. He was angered quickly and didn't want to waste time talking out the details. He gritted his teeth but continued to stay calm, he was talking to his son after all. He loved his son but it didn't take away from the fact that the two children had met. "What were you doing with her?" He asked in a fatherly tone as he continued to kneel in front of his son.

But Inuyasha didn't have an answer to his father's question. He didn't think he needed a reason as to why he was playing with the girl - he just wanted to make a new friend and wanted to play a game. But apparently that was a problem for his father. "I thought that..." But he cut himself off not able to come up with an answer.

Taisho gave a growl and saw hiw son flinch. "You thought what?" He questioned as he stood up on his feet, towering over his son. "You thought that you could be friends with that little girl.. the little princess from the East." He spat the words as if they tasted horrible in his mouth. "To be friends with Akio's daughter..." But he suddenly stopped in mid sentence as he began to think of a plan.

He didn't see the look in his father's eye. The look of a plan beginning to develop in Taisho's mind as a smirk appeared on his face. But when he heard his father chuckle he saw that his father was smiling down at him.

"What an idea my brilliant boy." His father suddenly stated, his tone changing from scolding to proud. He kneeled down in front of Inuyasha again and gave him a noogie on the head. "You get close to Akio's daughter and then you could earn his trust and attack from the inside." He planned, standing up and looking out the window that faced the valley. "Let's see how Akio likes this." He said to himself as he ran over some more of the details in his mind.

Poor little Inuyasha continued to stand there but this time he looked up at his father with a mixture of a shocked and confused expression on his face. What just happened? Wasn't his father mad at him? But now he was suddenly proud of him for coming up with somesort of plan? No, all he wanted to do was make a new friend in the little girl he met in the valley - why did something so simple and innocent cause so much trouble?

But his father was happy with him right? Wasn't that the good thing in this entire event? He looked up at his father to see a smile greet him and he tried to smile back. "I'm very proud of you Inuyasha, thinking up such a great plan." The white haired demon lord said, patting his son on the head. "We will start your training tomorrow."

Lady Izayoi was listening for outside the rice paper doors and when she heard what her husband said, her ears flattened in sadness and she let out a long, sad sigh. Her husband's plan wouldn't bring any good to the lands, only more pain. She wanted to do something to stop her husband but she knew full well that nothing she would do would stop what was about to happen.

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Meanwhile in the Eastern lands, the little princess of the East was getting a talking from her father just as Inuyasha did. The daughter and father were alone in Lord Akio's study as the black haired lord tried to get his point across without being so mean to his little daughter. Lord Akio kneeled down in front of his daughter. "Kagome I'm very disappointed into you." He said as he looked at his daughter.

"I'm sorry Daddy. I just thought that he was nice to play with." Kagome said, her voice hiccuping with each little sob. She wipped away her tears with fisted hands, her eyes turning pink with all her tears.

But Akio's eyes were kind and he just wanted to use this event as a learning lesson. Hopefully it wouldn't happen again for he surely didn't want to deal with the Western lands anymore. "Do you know who he was?" He asked and he watched his daughter shake her head no. "He is the son of the Western lord." He explained.

Kagome went through what was going on in her little seven year old mind; well she knew that Inuyasha was really nice and fun to play with but for some reason her father didn't like that. But then she found out that he was the prince of the other place, but on the other hand she still didn't know why her father was so upset about her making a new friend. "I don't understand." The seven year old looked up at her father.

Lord Akio's eyes softened a little more as he placed a kiss on his daughter's forehead and stood up to his feet. "You will when you're older but as of now I'm going to have to get someone to watch over you every time you go wondering around the lands." He took her little hand in his and together they walked out to meet Lady Yuki.

"Yes Father." Kagome said sadly as she walked out of the study with her father.