Love of the Wind
Chapter 4 – the festival
~Flashback~
Once everyone woke up from their exhaustion induced sleep, they all decided to tell the other Lands who they were.
"Sesshoumaru, how are we going to do that?" Kagome asked her new brother. Sesshoumaru looked at kagome.
"We just have to send word to the other Lords about what we need to meet with them about and they will show up. They probably want to meet the people who defeated Naraku." Kouga said before Sesshoumaru had the chance to.
"They will bring their court and a few generals." Sesshoumaru added before Kouga could. The group began to prepare their meeting.
The day passed and by the end of it the lords had their invitations delivered and some people were starting to show up. The first to arrive was the people of the East. Kouga had run back to his pack and told them what had happened. They were all so excited they immediately split up and began spreading the news that the Group that defeated Naraku were now family of the Lord of the East and West.
The Lords and Lady's, Princess and Princes and Kagome's group all got together in the middle whilst everyone else spread out over the grassy plain.
"So, I believe we are here to celebrate the defeat of Naraku and the people who did that." said Daiki, the Lord of the North.
"Yes and more." replied Kouga. Hiroto, the lord of the south, looked at Kouga in confusion, but it was Daiki's wife, Asami that asked the question.
"What more could there be?"
"And why are humans with us, surely you and Kouga were the ones to defeat Naraku?" everyone stared at the Lady who asked the question.
"Actually, Lady Kimi, It was these people sitting with us that were the ones to defeat him." Sesshoumaru barely kept down the growl. Lady Kimi of the South scoffed,
"as if mere humans could defeat someone that powerful." Kouga and Sesshoumaru had to be held back by their sisters Kagome and Sango. Kimi looked shocked at the fact the two great lords could be held back by two human women. The other Lords and Ladies were interested in the proceedings, amusement flashed across their features as Kouga and Sesshoumaru glared at Kimi, they didn't really like her stuck up and pompous attitude. Hiroto glared at his wife and sighed.
"So, what is this 'more', did you chose one of them to be your mate or something." Kimi asked. She looked smug and waited for the affirmative, so that she could say how he was just like his father and he failed as a demon. When she didn't receive an answer she smiled smugly, thinking she was right. Then the sound of Laughter came and she opened her eyes expecting to see two blushing girls and two shamefaced demons. But instead, when she opened her eyes they were to four disgusted looking people and the other Lords and Ladies laughing.
"Ewwwww! That would be so gross!" Kagome almost yelled and Sango, Kouga and Sesshoumaru were nodding viciously.
"So, Kimi, anything else you'd like to assume?" Hiroto chuckled, but had a warning in his eyes. Too bad she chose to ignore that warning.
"It's probably just an act, they are just two human whores that want a little action and they see a chance to get into the lords' beds by them claiming to defeat Naraku." There was a thick silence, so thick in fact, Kimi thought she had won. She opened her mouth to taunt Sesshoumaru and Kouga, but was briskly stopped by growling coming from everyone in the room.
"What does that make us then Lady Kimi?" Kikyo asked, speaking for the first time. Kimi looked over at them and replied
"whore and a man whore." Miroku was beyond furious now,
"Well, Lady Kimi, you are extremely mistaken!" even though he had his voice normally, you could hear the fury.
"I am? Well then I would say you were slaves!" she laughed evilly. Kagome stepped right in front of the malicious demon.
"You will not talk to them like that!"
Hiroto had had enough of his wife (it was an arranged marriage) he got up from his seat and grabbed her.
"That's enough, Kimi! Remember your place!" he growled. She was a stuck up bitch. His parents had picked her for him; they saw the fact that she was the only princess of a clan and asked for her immediately. Kimi looked up at her husband; she and her parents saw the money and agreed eagerly.
"If you cannot keep your filthy mouth shut you will no longer be my wife and we will throw you out with nothing but the slaves' clothes on your back!" Hiroto shouted. She gulped and nodded.
Hiroto turned to Sesshoumaru and Kouga,
"I apologize for Kimi, now that she has shut up, will you explain what you mean by 'and more'?" Kouga and Sesshoumaru accepted the apology; it was Kouga who started speaking.
"We have done a ceremony-" he was cut off by Kimi, who jumped up and shouted
"Ha, I knew it, you are mated to the humans, your fathers would be disappointed, well Sesshoumaru's wouldn't because he after all went to a human princess and mated her! Following in your father's footsteps Sesshoumaru, how shameful and you Kouga are a disappointment to demons all over!" Everyone was furious even Asami and Daiki who had not joined in on the argument.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Sesshoumaru bellowed, Kouga was not far behind,
"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TALKING TO!" Kagome, Sango, Kikyo and Miroku wanted so much to tear the bitch limb from limb but they needed to make sure Sesshoumaru and Kouga didn't lay a hand on her otherwise there would be war, even if Hiroto gave them the go ahead. Hiroto was absolutely fuming.
"RIGHT, THAT'S IT! YOU ARE NO LONGER MY WIFE OR LADY OF THE SOUTH! YUUTA!" he shouted. A demon came running in, Must be Yuuta thought Kagome.
"You are to escort Kimi back to the palace then get the servants to dress her in rags and send her to the streets. What she does from there has nothing to do with us. She is to take none of the possessions that we have given her." Yuuta nodded at his lord's request. Everyone at the castle hated Kimi; she was mean and thought she was above everyone else. He could tell Hiroto hated her as well, but could never get rid of her. Inside both Hiroto and Yuuta were grinning like boys at Christmas.
"wait." said Kagome and Sango. All eyes turned to them.
"Why don't we tell her the truth so she doesn't spread untruths around?" asked Kagome. Kouga grinned
"I'll do it!" everyone looked to Sesshoumaru who nodded. Eyes turned back to Kouga, who walked towards Kimi with a grin on his face. The ones who knew Kouga were worried but at the same time they were excited, the demon that had insulted them was going to get it. Meanwhile the others who didn't know him were wondering what the news was and why Kouga was smiling. Then Kouga stopped in front of the now disowned demoness and his grin vanished and was replaced by extreme anger. The ones who didn't know him shifted uncomfortably.
"IF YOU EVER TALK ABOUT MY BROTHER AND SISTERS LIKE THAT EVER AGAIN, I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND MUTILATE YOU BEYOND RECOGNISION THEN STRING YOU UP AS AN EXAMPLE! DO I MAKE MY-SELF CLEAR!" he roared, all the anger he felt while she was talking flowed out in those words. The demoness he was yelling at was so scared she wet herself then fainted. Sesshoumaru looked at the ex-Lady and frowned,
"Wait until she wakes up." He said which earned him may questioning looks, he then explained
"I am not going to make anyone else clean up her mess, and she didn't answer Kouga's question." He then smiled. Everyone nodded but looked questioningly at the male dog demon.
"Well, at least she didn't include us in her little rave, did she dad." Said a little girl's voice from the other side of the tent. The lords and lady swung their heads around to see who spoke and eye's widened on reaching the little 10 year old girl.
"Yes Rin, if she had of included you, Shippou or Kirara in the insults, she would have lost her head as soon as she was brought down from her position as lady of the south." stated Sesshoumaru with a little ice in his voice. Daiki and Asami looked at each other and then a Sesshoumaru,
"she's your child?" Asami asked hesitantly. Sesshoumaru looked at the Lords and Lady.
"I adopted her 3 years ago but only last night did she become by blood bonded daughter." The two lords and the one lady nodded and then they broke off hearing the sound of a recently cast out demoness very slowly waking up.
Sesshoumaru grinned and those that hadn't seen it before stepped back a few paces, he then gave the order for everyone to move her to the bed and move out of her sight and put the children in her line of sight. Once that was all done, the female demon opened her eyes and saw Kirara, shippou and Rin looking at her,
"Ah, you must be the servants children, you will help me into the bath and serve me for the day, if you do not I will place your parents into prison and lie to the lord about why they are to go there, you wouldn't want that now would you? Well, why aren't you moving? I can and will do it you know, I have done it before, I even killed demons that so much as crossed my path or once I finished having sex with them. You know, I will kill you if you do not obey me, I do it all the time and used to blame it on Naraku's attacks, I slaughtered hundreds, that's why there are pitiful amount of demons in the south, and I killed them all." She stopped there when she realised the children weren't helping her at all and she got angry
"why aren't you listening to me, I am the lady of the south!" she screeched, then she threw herself off the bed when she saw the children laughing. Kimi took threatening steps towards them.
Kagome was surprised, the female Demon had basically admitted all the wrong she had done, so was everyone else. How stupid can you get? That was the thought running through all heads as she sprouted fact after fact. Hiroto was shell shocked then furious she killed all those demons, her people and made me imprison innocents. She has betrayed the Southern lands.
When the outcast (although she didn't know it) leapt out of bed and headed towards the children, Kagome, Sango and Sesshoumaru moved in quick to protect their children. The three stepped into the path of the newly found out whore. Kagome stood in front of Shippou, Sango in front of Kirara and Sesshoumaru in front of Rin. Kimi stopped and looked at them strangely.
"What do you think you're doing to our children!" spat Sango. Kimi then remembered everything and swung around to the sound of growls. She saw all the occupants with deep frowns on their faces. She shuddered and sunk to the ground and remembered all she had said moments ago, she looked back up to see Hiroto looking at her in disdain and obviously very, very, very angry.
After a massive yelling at by Kagome, Sesshoumaru, Sango, Hiroto and Kouga, Kimi was on the floor cleaning up where she made her mess earlier. She was angry and scared; she vowed she would have her placed back as Lady of the south but couldn't as long as Hiroto was alive. She decided to fix that problem.
Hiroto knew she was going to do something, so he wrote his will just in case something happened. When he was writing it Kimi was cleaning and once she finished that she was escorted back to the palace. Since she had admitted to killing most of the demon population in the south she had been sentenced to death later on after the festival. Once Hiroto finished writing the will he put it somewhere he knew Yuuta would look as Yuuta was his most trusted friend and guard. He then made his way out back to the rest of the lords and the ladies.
The festival was set so it would run for 3 days, the festival was a celebration of the defeat of Naraku and an alliance of the four lands. The first day passed and nothing happened, but on the second day Kimi showed up again.
When Kimi turned up, she brought an army of humans and demons from the enemy territories, the only ones prepared for the army were the ones that were suspicious of her coming back. This was: Hiroto, Daiki, Asami, Kagome, Sesshoumaru, Kouga, Sango, Miroku, Kikyo, Kirara, Shippou, Rin and Yuuta.
"Mum, we should take care of the army in their groups; everyone should take one of their own." Kirara shouted over the noise of the approaching army. So that is what they did.
Soon enough only Kimi was left with a few bodyguards, although it didn't take long to be rid of them. The 13 fighters were exhausted, but Kimi was full of energy since she hadn't fought. Everyone knew who her target was and they surrounded Hiroto, who was protesting at the action. (AN: *sarcasm* see how everyone listens to a lord.) Kimi soon wiped everyone but Hiroto and Kagome away. Hiroto couldn't take any more pain so he passed out. So now it was just Kagome vs. Kimi.
They started out with swords but they soon broke and went onto using claws. Kimi swiped at Kagome but said girl jumped out of the way just in time. Kagome then raked her claws down Kimi's chest from left shoulder to right hip. Kimi started glowing and shifted into her giant animal form, (Oh, I forgot to tell you what demons they were, you already know Kouga and Sesshoumaru, Daiki is a phoenix demon, so is Asami, Hiroto is a golden dragon demon, Kimi is a spider demon like Naraku.) Kagome had to laugh out loud at Kimi's form as it reminded her of Naraku. So in response Kagome shifted into her giant animal form. Kagome's body was one of a Dog, cross wolf, cross fox. She had a pinkish silver dog's body with a wolf's head and a fox's legs. She had her three tails out all their respective colours and styles.
They began fighting again, Kimi jumped up and tried to land on Kagome's back, but Kagome ran out of the way just in time, then swing around and chomped on one of Kimi's spider legs. Kimi screamed and figured she couldn't beat Kagome with brute strength so she thought of something else. The group of downed fighters and other people caught her eyes.
Grinning like a child at Christmas, Kimi ran to were the defenceless people and demons that attended were. Kagome caught sight of what she was going to do and just as Kimi poised to strike the people, Kagome leapt in front of the attack and took the whole force of it. Screams of "Kagome!" rang around the clearing. The defender didn't have enough time to recover before the spider demon took another few swipes at the people. Kagome was getting tired of the spider,
"Kimi! You will not hard any demon or human while I am still alive! You will die today for even thinking of attacking!"
All the demons and humans that attended the festival and were still there (a few had run for their lives) looked at the female demon. She had great strength and compassion. She was worthy of the title of General. Their respect for the good demon grew to the extent that they acknowledge Lady Kagome as a fearsome opponent.
Kagome was getting worn out from protecting herself and the others while she was being attacked by the annoying spider. Said spider was feeling joyous, she was getting all the free hits she could ever want. Kagome decided to end it. She roared and attacked.
Kagome swept under the spiders front legs (they were reared in the air) and jumped down on Kimi's head going for the kill, Kimi tried to doge but Kagome was putting her all into the attack. Kimi was squashed like a bug underfoot.
There was a shocked silence, and then extremely loud cheering swept around the area. Kagome was startled by it. She was about to drop, so she transformed back into her normal form (demon form with the tails, ears markings, etc.) and collapsed.
Kagome's feudal family ran over to her and saw that she was exhausted and had various wounds. Sesshoumaru yelled for a healer and Kagome was escorted into the healer's tent.
~End flashback~
