Hey guys, thanks for the reviews. I'm so glad you guys like the story. I think I am going to update every Friday. I will also like to thank Rosedream for the comment tip. I didn't know that so thanks a bunch. Well without further adue(don't know if I spelt that right but w/e) here's the next chapter!
Chapter four: Gold Maiden, Kagura Ny
It had been one hundred years since the disappearance of Rin, making it 1804. Sesshomaru had grown depressed for about 50 of those years, until his father gave him his share of the western lands. About 34 years after that a sixteen year old girl came to work at the castle. Her name was Kagura Ny, a wind demon. She had smooth skin, black hair and ruby eyes. Izayoi had asked her to come work as Inuyasha's nanny. After a couple months of working there she had fallen for Sesshomaru and him for her.
"Yuki, what do you think about Lord Sesshomaru?" Kagura asked while helping Inuyasha change. He had aged a little slower than normal so he was ten right now.
"He's a good lord I guess, why?" Yuki responded.
Kagura hadn't known much about Yuki. After the disappearance of Rin she had gone in to hiding then reappeared when Kagura showed up. That's all she knew, but she didn't even look a day older than sixteen.
"I think I love him. He tried to tell me something earlier this morning but we got interrupted." Kagura sighed looking at Inuyasha.
"You want me to take him off your hands for a while so you two could have some quality time?" Yuki asked.
"That would be great, thanks Yuki." Kagura smiled and hugged Yuki. She left the room they were in and walked towards Sesshomaru's quarters. She knocked on the door and got a grunt to come in.
She opened the doors and walked in. She saw Sesshomaru lying on the bed with a maid massaging his bare back with lotion. Kagura instantly got mad. She walked over to the maid and grabbed her by her hair and dragged her out of the room and slammed the door in her face. Kagura walked back to Sesshomaru's bed and sat where the maid was. She grabbed the lotion bottle and put some in her hands and started to rub his back.
"Is there a reason you sent my maid away, Kagura." Sesshomaru asked.
"I didn't like the way she was touching you or the look in her eyes when I walked in." Kagura murmured.
"So, is there a reason why you came?"
Kagura stopped the massaging and climbed over him to lay on his right side. She looked him in the face and propped her head up on her hand.
"You wanted to tell me something this morning but you got interrupted by your brother. What was it?"
Sesshomaru turned his head the other way and sighed. Kagura got a little angry and went on the other side of him.
"Well?" she asked.
"Well what, I was just going to ask where my brother was." He responded turning his head the other way.
Kagura was beyond mad, he kept turning from her. She took out her fan and changed the flow of the air and turned him over. She got on top of him and straddled his waist. "Yeah right, tell me what you wanted." She demanded.
"Fine, I wanted to know if you want to get married." He said, in a low murmur. If she wasn't a demon she would have never had heard what he had said.
She looked at him like he had two heads on, "Are you serious?"
"Yes Kagura, I love you. I want you to be my mate." He said more clearly, and looked in her eyes.
She swung her leg over him and sat on the bed; she got up and walked over to the door. He sat up and looked at her. "Whats your answer, Kagura Ny."
"My answer, Lord Sesshomaru, is yes." She said and left the room. She went to find Yuki.
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"Lord Sesshomaru, you called for me?" a servant said.
"Yes, Musou, I want a wedding for tomorrow night. Can you do it?" Sesshomaru asked. It had been about three hours since the sun had gone down. Six since he asked for Kagura to marry him.
"Yes sir, I can." Musou said.
"Then you are dismissed." Sesshomaru waved his hand.
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"Kagura, where are we going?" Yuki asked.
"I just want to walk along the stream for a bit, and ya know talk girl stuff." Kagura said. She had dragged Yuki out of the castle about fifteen minutes ago and was walking along a stream now. She found a big rock over looking it and climbed it to sit on it. She signaled Yuki to do the same.
"He asked you to marry him didn't he?" Yuki asked when she sat down next to Kagura.
"Yes, but I don't want to talk about that right now. I want to know a little about you. When were you born?" Kagura asked looking at her.
"I was born sixteen years ago, September 14, 1788." Yuki replied.
"Today?! Today is your birthday?!" Kagura asked.
"Yes, I didn't want anyone to know though. Sorry." Yuki smiled.
"S'ok. So who was the Yuki that was said to disappear after the disappearance of Rin?"
"That was one of my grandmothers. She died after giving birth to her daughter, that's why she disappeared."
"Oh, I see. Well lets walk some more." Kagura said and got up.
They walked for about five minutes and came upon a cave. In the cave to Kagura's left there were six circles with one circle in the center. In the middle of the cave where a little of the moon light shown was a rock platform with its own circle on it. Next to the platform was a small pillar. On the platform stood a girl wearing a green kimono, eyes closed and her hands to her heart.
"What the heck? Was this always here?" Kagura asked.
Yuki was silent. Kagura looked back at her and she was crying.
"Yuki, whats wrong?" Kagura asked walking over to her.
"I'm sorry, Kagura, but your life ends here." Yuki said. "There is a story that a wizard once told my great great grandmother. He told her that seven girls would be placed on the earth in a six hundred time frame. Kagura Ny you are the Gold Maiden. Awaken the Green Maiden, Rin Soy." Yuki said.
Kagura didn't know what to do. Laugh or be scared. Yuki rarely joked around, so why start now?
"Your joking right? What the heck is going on?" Kagura asked.
"Rin Soy, Green Maiden. Your sleeping time is up. Awaken from your slumber and give off the right to protect this planet called earth to the next maiden." Yuki said. Kagura was looking around for other people but there was none.
The girl on the platform opened her eyes and looked directly at Kagura and started to walk towards her. She opened her hands and let the earth grow back to size. She poured water from her hands and pulled the silk off. She handed Kagura the planet and looked at her.
"Take care of it, my loved one still lives today. Yuki, you look good, please watch over Sesshomaru." Rin smiled.
"My lady, I will." Yuki bowed.
"Sesshomaru? My fiancé?" Kagura asked.
Rin turned to her, with a saddened face. She nodded. This was Sesshomaru's previous fiancé? So the rumors were true of her becoming the first in six. Before Kagura knew it, Rin dropped dead. One of the circles to the left glowed a bright green with the symbol for green. Kagura's body started to move, unwillingly.
"What…what's happening?" Kagura asked frightened.
"Take Rin's position and sleep for one hundred years. Protect this earth with your life." Yuki said.
When Kagura got up to the platform her kimono turned a gold color with a white one underneath. Her hair came undone and fell around her shoulders. Her eyes glazed over and her skin turned paler. Her hands moved with grace and covered the earth with a gold silk. She covered it with cherry juice and poured sand from her hand over it. She then shrank the earth down to become a pendant to wear upon her neck. She then fell into a deep sleep waiting to be awakened by the next maiden.
Yuki walked out and fell on her knees. She was such a cruel friend. She basically killed two very close friends. She walked back to the castle and walked into Kagura's room. She got out a piece of paper and a quill with ink. Her hand glowed a bright gold color and she wrote down 'Rin Soy was the first to go. I am the second. Who will be the third? One hundred rests will be the wait.' she then took the ring that Sesshomaru had given her and placed it on the letter. She walked back to her room and pinched her cheeks to make it look like she was crying. She then messed her hair up a little and ran to Sesshomaru's quarters. She banged on the door till a servant opened it. She ran past him and to Sesshomaru. She fell to her knees and looked him in his eyes.
"Kagura's gone!" she yelled. He looked at her with anger and shock. He got up and went to her room. He found on her desk the letter and his ring. He slammed it down on the desk and stormed back to the room. He glared at Yuki.
"What happened this time?" he asked.
"I don't know, I thought she went for a walk along the stream, but when I went to her room I found the letter instead." She said.
"Lord Sesshomaru! The sky, its gold." A servant said looking out the opened door. Sesshomaru walked over to it.
"She's the Gold Maiden. Good choice." Sesshomaru turned to Musou, "Cancel the wedding. Call for my parents, and bring Inuyasha with them."
"Lord Sesshomaru, does that mean Lady Rin is no longer alive?" a maid asked.
Sesshomaru glared at her but sighed. She had been a niece of Rin, he felt bad knowing she never got to know her.
"That's right. After a maid gives over the earth she dies to be resurrected when the Queen Maiden comes."Yuki said.
"Sesshomaru, whats wrong?" his father asked coming into the room.
"Why is it that every woman I pick becomes a maiden? Kagura is the gold one." Sesshomaru handed his father the letter and pointed to the sky.
"Sesshomaru, you need to just forget about this all. Move on. Kagura was just a road blocker. Forget about her." A voice said in Sesshomaru's head. He looked at Yuki, she quickly looked somewhere else.
"Well son, all I can tell you is, forget about her and rule your kingdom. Soon your brother, Inuyasha, will be taking over. You will find another love in due time." Inutashio said. Sesshomaru went and sat on his bed, elbows on his knees and head in hands. For some reason he felt like Yuki had something to do with this.
He looked at her and she was looking at the sky from her spot on the floor. She was crying and held something in her hands. By what he could tell it was Rin's hair pin and Kagura's hair pin. She looked in pain, her eyes looked very sad. She looked down at the hair pins and more tears formed. She then got up and left the room.
"She has something to do with this, I know she does." Sesshomaru said to himself after everyone left him.
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