Ninth: The western heir
Yoshi arrived at the castle and made his way to the study room to inform his young lord about these humans. He reached the door and waits for the permission from the western heir.
"Come in"
The goat demon tried to open the door but it is opening automatically from the inside. Then he walked in but still helds a nude girl closed to his warm chest.
"Why don't you put her down?" A silvery moon hair man reads the roll of paper at his table.
"Mmm"
The young man lifted his head up and stared at the naked girl. "What are you doing to her?"
"I'm not, my lord."
The young lord walked toward them to see the girl and sniffed her scented.
'This scented is familiar.'
"Ibu, bring a cloth here"
In a few minute, the servant name Ibu sent him a clean cloth and left the door. The young man covered her form and turned to his assistant who sat at the closed door.
"Who is she?"
"She is Ah-Un's friend and she is the cause on the north jungle."
"Is she a miko?"
"I'm sorry I don't know, my lord."
The golden eyes glanced at a sleeping girl again to recall her scented and her dreamy face but he cannot recollect anything.
'Why her scent is alike me?'
The young woman sat under a sakura tree and held an infant close to her chest. Next to her is a shining little girl embroidered the colorful flower then she gave her a big smile before put a flowering on her head. All of the sudden, the giant spider appeared form their backward. The large long legs moved toward them and slap her body away from the tree.
"No"
She tried to get up but she does not see a girl and the baby anymore. She tried to crawl on the ground to a wall but the spider caught her body and holds her close.
"Let me go"
"No, I'm your friend and I protect you from him."
"Who is he?"
"He did not love you."
"Tell me who he is."
"Look, miko" The spider stretched his leg out. "He attacked you and he wanted to kill us."
The girl saw a fire and the lightning came to her way.
"No"
"He wanted to get rid of you before the pup grows up."
"Help me" Suddenly, a silver hair man pulled her from the spider but he stabbed her chest with a sword before whisper a word in her ear.
"Miko…you…jewel"
The girl looked into the golden eyes but he held her close to the bold chest that scented and safe.
"Woman" Her body was shook lightly. "Woman!"
"Ha!" The deep honey brown eyes snap open. 'A crescent moon'
The demons saw she got up slowly and the cloth rolled down her upper body made Yoshi turned to a side but his lord still stare at her until she is aware.
"Ah!" She pulled the cloth up to cover her body and felt ashamed.
"Who are you, human?"
"Mm?"
"Answer me"
"I'm Kagome"
"What are you doing here?"
"I met a black cat at Torii gate then my friend and I followed it until we reached here."
"Torii gate"
"Yes. There is an old Torii gate in the deep forest in Tanigawa Dake."
'That sealing gate'
"Well, where am I?"
"You are in the western castle on the western land." Yoshi told her.
"Where is the western land?" She knitted her blow. "I never heard it before."
"Here is the demon land."
"That means there is another world superimposed on my world."
"It's like that."
The goat demon leaded the girl to a guestroom in the eastern wing of the castle and gave her some rules when she stays here until the western lord came back.
"Well, Yoshi-san"
"Hn"
"Who is the man I see?"
"Oh! He is the heir of the western land. His name is Lord Kaito."
'Kaito' She repeated his name. "If he is the western heir so where is his parents."
"It's not your business, woman."
Yoshi left the girl and walked along the hall way to the court yard to see another assistant waits for him to start their job.
'Hn! It's not your business, woman.' She is upset but she recognized where her boyfriend is.
The human girl asked the castle servants about Naoki and the brothers but nobody talks or speaks with her. So she came back to her room and sat on the wooden edge to look at the twilight in the mid summer. She thought of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer that Souta borrow her on last two weeks and complained her about the spine.
The western heir sat on a roof of the castle and holds a rotten book up. He tried to figure the pictures and the letters in the book. But it was pallid and rotten by the time. He recalled a human girl usually read this story and told him the bedtime story. She said his mother gave her this before she disappears from the world.
Kaito picked up a torn paper from the book and sniffed the faded scented of her.
'I envy you, Rin.' He put a paper down. 'You knew my mother and played with her but I'm her son who never remembers her face, her scented or her touch but only a melody.'
A demon leaded the man to a southern yard of the castle to see the young western lord and the councils in the afternoon after they had a commitment of his goal.
"What are you doing here, human?"
"It's not my fault to be here but that cat leaded us here."
"Us?"
"Who is the one?"
"She is not here and I don't know where she is."
"Hnn"
"Human" A council glanced at him. "You said the cat brought you here and what color of the cat?"
"I didn't see the cat but her."
"We don't keep the more detail than we think."
"Listen human, we will send you back to the gate on Tomorrow morning."
"No"
"Why"
"I will find her and we will leave this land."
"Tell me human, what is her name?" The young lord
"Kagome Higurashi"
"Kagome?"
All of the councils went back to the meeting room and have a discussion about this human girl after a soldier took a man to his cell.
"Does she come back?" A one whispered.
"What does she want?"
"I'm not sure."
"Should we wait for him?" A council asked for an idea. "He said she has a task."
"Hn"
"And when will we send him to the human world?"
"Tomorrow morning"
