Chapter 3: Festivities
The feast had rolled around, the warriors three and Thor were at a table, laughing and drinking ale. Roast and other foods were before them. They had not seen lady Sif or Kagome yet that night but didn't worry too much about it. Odin would announce Kagome's arrival. Loki was off sulking in a corner, green eyes looking around. He scoffed at them, but stopped. The breath in his lungs abandoned him as Kagome walked in with lady Sif.
"Ah, our special guest!" Odin boomed and everyone turned towards the entrance to see Lady Sif in her usual attire next to the smaller form of Kagome. She was wearing a sapphire gown with black accents. Her raven hair was pulled into a half tail, bangs and forlocks framing her face. She was blushing at the attention being drawn to her. She looked better, now that all the blood and gore was cleaned from her fair skin and hair. Many a man leered at her.
"The lass looks better," Volstagg stated. "She cleans up nicely."
"Aye," Thor said. "She is a warrior, like us. She must have just returned from battle." Thor didn't know how right he was with his statement.
"She sure did wipe the floor with Fandral," Hogun commented, and Thor and Volstagg laughed with cheer.
"I was taking it easy on her," Fandral quipped.
"I doubt that," Lady Sif said as she joined them, Odin having hi-jacking Kagome. "She can probably even lift Mjolnir." She took a sip of Thor's ale. "she told me a story while she was bathing about one of her adventures and how she had saved a little girl that was a ward to some lord."
"You think she is worhty of Mjolnir?" Thor asked. Sif just nodded.
"She mentioned something about a jewel that drove people mad if they were not pure of heart." She took a bite out of a drumstick. "Japanese folklore really."
"Aren't we just folklore to mortals?" Hogun asked after placing his cup down.
"Aye. They believe us to be real now," Thor said.
Kagome was introduced to many people, some even going so far as to ask her to be their priestess. Odin was upset with their requests but said nothing about it. She had refused and said that she had once served the great Amaterasu before she released her from her services. They had been confused until she had explained that Amaterasu was the head Goddess of the Japanese religion. She wanted to eat something. She hadn't really ate anything within the past day and a half, from her estimate.
"Father, I am quite famished," she spoke.
"Go eat, my child." She was dismissed and she automatically sought Thor's table.
"You finally managed to escape, I see," Thor commented.
"It was no easy feat," she commented as she started to pick food off of Thor's plate. "He had to introduce me to just about everyone." She gave a please groan at the taste of the food. She just about melted into her seat. "This is probably the first thing I ate in the last day and a half." She ate more.
"I would have thought you ate before coming to Asgard," Lady Sif said.
"My mother had a lot to say befire I left," she admitted. "Before that I was in battle with my greatest foe." She took a drink of some wine. "It lasted longer than expected. Sesshomaru-sama had to deliver his blow before I was able to get past our enemy's defense."
"Sesshomaru, you say," Hogun said. "I have heard that name before somewhere."
"He ruled the western lands of Japan around the feudal states era," Kagome said.
"That is some centuries from Earth's current time," Thor said.
"Oops," Kagome said. "You are not supposed to know that," she whispered to herself. She sighed. "The truth is, I used to travel into Earth's past using a well on the grounds of the shrine I lived on since I was fifteen years old, roughly three earth years ago. I had shattered a jewel called the Jewel of Four souls with an arrow I had shot. I had been traveling to gather the shards and make the jewel whole before Naraku could. It was he that I battled before coming here. Sesshomaru-sama had launched his strongest attack and I had followed it with one of my arrows laced with my holy energy. It had killed Naraku and I was sent home once I had purified the jewel. It resides inside of me once more, dormant. It is the only way Midoriko -sama has been able to find peace."
"And the swordsmanship?" Hogun asked.
"Sesshomaru thought it was best I learn how to defend myself with a sword, should my bow break. He was a tough task master." She sighed as she tried to ignore the men leering at her. She was small but well proportioned.
Sif could see that she was uncomfortable with the looks she was receiving from many of the men.
"Lady Kagome, you wouldn't happen to still have your maiden head, would you?" Sif asked and Kagome blushed.
"I have never been intimate with someone before," she admitted. "For Miko, or priestess as you would say, it is a sin to lose ones virtue. I admit to having a fancy for someone before, but I realized it was never to be and have given up on such romantic experiences."
"Your discomfort with the glances is understandable then," Lady Sif said.
"Glances?" Thor asked.
"The men have been eyeing her like a warg would a bone," Lady Sif said. Sure enough, when Thor looked around, many a man was looking at his baby sister as Sif had described. He scowled and moved to block Kagome from view.
"I apologize for them," Thor said. "They have never seen a woman quiet so small before. It does not help with who our fatehr is." He placed his large hand on her small shoulder.
"It isn't your fault, brother," she replied. It was foreign for her to call someone that was not Souta her brother. He was older too. "I guess I should be used to the stares from my training, but I guess I haven't become accustomed to it."
"You do not have to stay, if you do not wish to," Thor said. "These feasts often continue well into the morning, and the men become more bold with the more they drink."
"I am a bit tired," she admitted.
"I shall escort you back to your room then, Lady Kagome," Lady Sif volunteered.
"Thank you," Kagome said. "I will see you gentlemen in the morning." She walked off with Lady Sif.
"Your sister is a virgin," Fandral said to Thor, a grin spread across his face. "Please allow me to teach her the finier things in life."
"You will not touch my baby sister," Thor said. "She is off limits." His voice was loud, warning off Fandral and the men closer to them.
"I only jest," Fandral said as he backed away.
"I do not believe she would be interested in you, anyways," Hogun addressed Fandral. "You are lecherous in her eyes after all." Fandral scoffed but found a group of women to drown himself in.
Lady Sif looked at Lady Kagome. She was compared to her. Asgardian men were not known to be small, so it would probably hurt the princess to be with one of them. Sif had once slept with Thor, and he was by no means small. She still desired to be with him, but he had his eyes set on the human Jane Foster. Lady Kagome was half human, so she might not be able to handle the rough loving of an Asgardian male, and would probably be better off with a human male, tha is if she ever decided to lose her maiden head, which wasn't likely if love wasn't involved. Lady Kagome seemed to be one of the few that would only give her virtue to a man she loved. So many of their women we loose.
"Thank you again, Lady Sif," Kagome said as she slipped out of the gown. It was pooled on the floor and Kagome was stooping down to pick it up, am almost sheer nightgown covered Kagome's form from shoulder to slightly above her knee.
"It was no problem, my lady," Lady Sif said. "I will be returning to the festivities now."
"Good night then." The lights went out and Kagome was asleep within moments. Lady Sif took one last look at Kaome before leaving the room, door closing behind her.
