Chapter ten: Family
The wind after rain is cool and sweet likes a lullaby to lull a child who sleeps under a warm blanket to get bed but this blanket is alive. The arms are strong and a chest is so warm through her heart when the beats calm her down every second she hears. The guy scented tells she can trust him and lay her life on his hands if this guy is her lover not her enemy.
'I don't care who he is but my hero for this summer dream.' A girl still closes her eyes and let the after rain wind caresses her fine face. 'Only this time I can feel you, my hero.'
The summer song is singing through the demon castle by the small creatures those stay on the branches in the woods and somewhere in the gardens. But it is not relate or affected to a sleeping figure in a small hut in the end of a garden is not far from the big castle.
A pair of cocoa eyes snapped open when a heavy object fell on her belly made the figure curled up with pain.
"Mew(Mama, wake up)"
"Damn you, Breakfast! You gonna kill me."
"Does she wake up, dragon?" A female voice came from a slice open door.
"Mew(Wake up) Mew(Wake up)" The brothers still sing the wake up song.
"Alright! Alright! As you wish, Breakfast"
A sleepy head walked slowly to a door and saw a demon woman sat on a wooden veranda and enjoy her peaceful time.
"You should wake up early as the other human always do." She said.
"The heh" A future girl cannot help but she is not a heian girl or a farmer who will wake up before dawn to prepare the food to get ready to work at the farm.
Her bare feet lead her to the backward to wash her face and cook her breakfast after she came here and stay at the western castle as a guest but just a low class human not a noble woman. The girl must do by herself to survive in this era. She thanks the lords that have mercy on a human girl who is not their folk to stay here as a guest.
The plain yukata sleeves are rolling up when she wash the whole grain rice in a bucket before cook. A fish was clean and ready to grill on a stove. A girl sat silently to muse her old days after she came here and cannot find the way home.
'What am I doing here? I should go back to find the shards with Inuyasha and the others but stuck here because of the cat.'
A school girl is absent-minded and lost in her thought made the dragons get worry about her and the fish. A small head nudges her arm to warn her about the fish she grilled before it was burn.
"Thanks, Breakfast. I almost forget about it."
"Mew"
"Lord Touga wanted to see you at his study room in this afternoon and I will show you the way." A demonness spoke softly and know her human ears can hear her word.
"Lord Touga?"
"The great demon who owns this castle you stay."
"I see" But a girl want to make sure is he the same guy who is Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha's father. 'Does he look like Inuyasha?'
…
Two guys sat at their desks to clear the documents after they left them pile like a mountain for a week. But an elder one is excite to see a girl they saved her from the mating with unexpected demon she never knows.
His ears are flicking when he heard a door slices open but disappointed when the scented is not the one he hopes. "Hi, my dear Tsukiko"
"I heard that you and Sesshoumaru let a human stay in the castle."
"Yep"
"She is the owner of that strange bag, isn't she?"
"Yes, she is" A white hair man lifts up his face to see his mate walked toward a desk and sat beside him.
"Are you interesting, mother?"
"Hn"
Knock! Knock!
"Come in"
"My lord" A demonness sat at the door foot and behind her is a girl the lords and lady want to see.
A young human is antsy and feel uneasy when the three powerful demon auras touch her skin. A one is well-known but the two are different. She just lows her face to look at the shiny wooden floor when a demonness introduced her visit.
"Come in, girl" A feminine voice called her softly.
A small frame moves slowly into a wide room there are the three demons sat on the soft silk pads. A tense girl just bows her head to greet the three and still lowers her head to explore the tatami.
"How interesting about that floor?" A familiar bore tone asked the girl.
'Damn you, Sesshoumaru. I know you can smell my stress.' She shouted at him in her mind. "Na…nothing"
"Don't tease her, Maru-kun" A female voice reproached him.
'Hmph, Maru-kun?' A school girl is cheer up. 'This is my new knowledge about the next western lord's nickname.'
A young lord is upset when he feels her scented is changing. A pair of golden eyes is pungent when he saw her eyes are sparkling with pleased. "Stop staring me, Psycho"
"Psycho?" The two elders gaze at the pup and knit their brows but the pup smirks at the girl who glared at him.
"She peeked at me when I…"
"No, I'm not!" She got up and going to cover his mouth but a clawed hand push her face to stay far from him among the surprising demons in the room and a new comer who stood at the door frame.
"What's going on, Sei-chan?" A male voice questions him. "What did she do to you?"
"She peeked at me when I took a bath?"
"Eh?" Another male is suspecting on their relationship. "When, Sesshoumaru?"
"Last two weeks ago"
"No, it's not like that." A small hand tried to remove his claws from her face but another hand grabbed her wrist and held her waist close toward his form before shut her mouth. "Hmmmm"
The male warmth warm her tiny body when her back against his chest but this is different from a one she loves but he is not here to get mad at her. The hold is tightening when she struggles to loosen his arm but useless. Even she is indignant that she is weaker than him but let's he do and just feels him.
'I really hate myself.'
A new comer sat down before her and sniffed her scented now mixed with a young lord a little. "You are Kagome, aren't you?"
The girl nodded her head to answer him.
"Why were you peeked at him? It's not a good behavior for a girl to peep at a guy when he takes a bath."
She shook her head and tried to remove his hand again but useless.
"Let her go, Maru-kun" A lady told him.
The large hands free her but the owner gave her a smirk.
"I didn't peep at him."
"So why do you kissed me?"
Every eye of demons turned back at the girl when this question left his rose lips.
"I…"
"You"
"I…"
"Hn?"
"I'm sorry I did not mean to kiss you but…"
"But?"
'Fuck you, Kagome!' She hates herself that lets her stubborn feeling leaded her kissed this demon. She is sudden to cut it out and changed the topic.
"Well…sorry"
"What?" Lord Goki glanced at the girl.
"How do you know my name?"
A fine clawed hand picks a small flat object from his sleeve and showed her.
"Ah! My student ID book" A school girl receives it from Lord Goki.
"Can you tell me what is it?"
"This book will show you about your name, student ID number, school name and class you are."
"But I don't get it." A demon lord inclines his head. "Can you tell more, Kagome?"
A big while later, the sun goes to the west for forty degree when the girl finished her speech among the demons who are in a study room.
"You are amazing, Kagome." A high pony tail man said.
"Eh?"
"Father"
'Is he…Inuyasha's father?' She keeps his details as much as she can. 'I will tell him about his father appearance if I have a chance but he won't care for this.'
A slender frame turned her face to see a human girl who still sits near a door-foot. "Excuse me, I heard that a low-class human does not learn to write and read especially a woman alike you. And I never see any school as you said in any human town. And the noble people will study in their houses or in the temples. So where are you come from?"
This question made the demons look at her again.
"Well, I don't know you will believe me or not but it is ridiculous for you if I said that I came from a thousand years ahead."
"Again" A young lord does not get her word.
"I came from a thousand years ahead."
"Don't fool me, woman"
'Woman! He never changes, he never call my name but a woman.' She sighed lightly. "I know it is difficult to understand."
"It's might be like that if you come from a thousand years ahead and these things might confirm you." A light brown hair demon gave her a smile.
"What're the things?"
"Kobo-chan, take the bag here"
A few minutes later, a kamaitachi reaches at the room and put a straw bag on a desk where his lord is.
'Is he a real kamaitachi?'
A new comer felt someone stared at him so he glanced at the one who looked at him. Kobomune saw a human girl looked at him and smell her scented that tell him how much she wants to know him. "What the matter, woman?"
"…Ca…ca"
"What?" He knitted his brows.
"Can I touch you?"
"Eh?"
"Are you a real kamaitachi?"
"What's the problem?"
"I never see a kamaitachi before."
"It's sound like you usually face the demons, don't you?"
"Yes, I do but never see a rare one alike you."
"It is a great honor to hear that." He smiles softly.
A teenage girl is going to receive her bag from a kamaitachi but a clawed hand snatched it first. She saw a handsome guy poured everything from her bag on a desk before starts to ask her about the objects. She felt this demon lord is different from her imagine when she first met him in his tomb that he is already a bone. Myoka had said his lord is the great and the most powerful demon but his true character before her is a kind man and has a sense of humor.
'Your family is good, Inuyasha but who know when he meets your mother but not this time. Lady Tsukiko and Lord Goki are kind. Especially, this young Sesshoumaru before me...' A girl smiles softly when a demon she never knows picked a pot of fruit flavor lip balm to examine.
'Family is good and full of love.'