Chapter 10: drinking party!
Kagome is sitting on a bench under a sakura tree in the front yard. She is wearing a midnight blue with a silver lining. She patiently waits to greet the lord's upon their arrival.
"Okaa-san?"
"Yes Rin?"
"Why are we waiting again?"
"We must greet the Lords that will be arriving soon. Your father id preparing for their meeting."
"Oh." There was silence for a few minutes. "Can we play while waiting?"
"How 'bout …I…tickle you!" Kagome playfully tackles Rin, the two fall into the grass; Kagome tickling Rin.
"No fair Okaa-san!" Rin laughs. "I'm gonna get you!" The two continue tackling each other for 45 minutes, until the sound of someone clearing their throat makes them freeze. Kagome gets up and walks over to the group of demons standing before them.
"Good morning Lords of the Lands." Kagome bows to them. "Welcome to the castle of the Western Lands. I am Lady Kagome and this is my daughter Rin. I'm sorry I didn't notice you were here so soon."
"It is quite alright Lady Kagome" A dragon demon steps forward. "WE were too immersed watching you two play that we didn't want to disturb you until necessary. I am Lord Hiroto and this is my friend Oliver." He gestures to a jaguar demon.
"My Lady." Oliver bows.
"I'm Lord Alvin." A harpie demon speaks up. "And this is Jonah."
"My Lady." A black wolf demon bows.
"And I am Lord Oikawa." A tiger demon comes forward. "This is Zeus."
"My Lady." Zeus, a red fox demon bows.
"Allow me to show you to my Lord's study. Please fallow me. Rin, run ahead and notify Sesshomaru." They enter the castle.
"Ok Okaa-san!" Rin takes off down the hallways.
"How is Lady Ikuko?" Kagome tries to start a conversation.
"She's doing well." Lord Hiroto informs her.
"What about Lady Colleen?"
"Colleen is good." Lord Alvin responds.
"And Lady Lili?"
"She's fine." Answers Lord Oikawa.
They reach the door of Sesshy's study. "Well here we are." Kagome opens the door, Sesshomaru is at his desk looking at a few papers. The Lords make her go first. "Sesshomaru…"
He looks up. "Yes love?"
"Your friends are here."
He looks past her to see the other Lords watching him from outside the door. He gets up and walks over to stand beside Kagome. "How long have you guys been here?"
"Only a few minutes." Lord Hiroto comes over to Sesshy. "It's been a while Sesshomaru."
"Make yourselves at home. Khan will be here in a minute. I'll be back in a sec." The other Lords and their friends all enter the room. Sesshomaru walks out into the hallway, Kagome fallowing. "Think you'll be alright for the day?"
"It's no big-E, I've got Rin."
"Rin does not replace me."
"No, but she keeps me occupied."
"Very funny mate."
"Really? I thought so too!"
"Sarcastic remarks will not save you from me, love."
"Aww… and I had such high hopes."
"I have no sympathy for you." He nuzzles her.
"Hey! That tickles!" She laughs.
"I will see you later." He kisses her gently and returns to his study, shutting the door.
Khan is talking to the tiger demon Lord. "If I may, Lord Oikawa, I kindly suggest that you keep your daughter away from our lands."
"Loki ran off on me yesterday after I explained to her for like the 10th time that Sesshomaru had already chosen a mate."
"Well she came here and woke me up." Khan growls.
"I'm sure THAT was punishment enough." Zeus smirks.
"Before she woke Khan up she tried to attack Rin." Sesshy cuts in on the conversation.
"I'm sorry for Loki's behavior I didn't see any wounds on your daughter when I saw her earlier." Oikawa apologizes.
"That's because the wounds have been inflicted on my mate." Sesshy growls angrily.
"If your daughter was attacked then why does your Lady have the wounds?"
"Because she protected Rin with her life. She did the same for me, even though it was unnecessary, when your son attacked while I was with you."
"That's why you left on such short notice! Where's my son?"
"He's dead. I killed him."
"…oh."
"He disrespected me, my Lady, my lands, your lands, your Lady, you and the rest of your family. So I took his life. If you wish to takes him home with you later, Khan cremated him so his box is wherever the hell Khan buried it. If you want it Khan will tell you where it is."
"If you don't mind my asking, what did Ryu do?"
"…Khan… you answer him."
Khan sighs and stares at the floor. "He tried to seduce my Lady, twice." There is dead silence in the room. AWKWARD SILENCE! XD couldn't help myself.
(10 minutes later)
"Where did you find Lady Kagome Sesshomaru?"
"Why are you so eager to know where my Lady came from Jonah?" Khan responds. "You're not envious are you?"
"You know me! Of course I am! She's pretty, loving, caring, kind-hearted, cute…does she have a sister?"
"She has a sister named Sango whose a demon slayer but she's already married."
"Oh man! I completely lucked out! No fair!"
"My Lady and my Lord are perfect for each other."
"What kind of powers does Lady Kagome have?"
"She's a miko."
"An ice Lord and a miko, that's unexpected."
"Well you see, they met a long time ago –"
"That's enough story telling Khan." Sesshomaru interrupts. "Who wants sake?"
(5 hours later.)
The Lords are drunk, the friends chatting away, completely fine. "Ahem, and that is what happened. Happy?" said Khan.
"Yes." Replied Jonah. "What an interesting story. Lucky bastard."
"He certainly is." Oliver agrees.
"Why don't we ask him if we can get to know his Lady a little more?" Zeus suggests. "I'm sure he wouldn't mind." They all look over at a highly drunk Sesshomaru.
"wzr y-l kgt?" (What're you looking at?) His words are all slured.
"There is no way I will allow you to ask Lord Sesshomaru that while he's completely intoxicated!" Khan speaks up. The Lords, in their poor state of mind, decide to dance around and sing horriby out of tune with slurred words. Sesshomaru grabs Khan's arm and starts to dance around with him. "My Lord! Stop it! Let go! I'm warning you Sesshomaru! Release your hold on my arm right now!"
"zs i-n" (This is fun.)
"If you do not remove your hand from my arm I'll chuck you across the room."
"n-w" (No way.)
"Imean it, don't test my patients Sesshomaru." But Sesshy just continues to dance around, dragging Khan around the room with him. "Enough is enough!" Khan throws Sesshy into his desk chair, he lands upside-down and the chair tips over. Sesshy just starts laughing.
"Hey Lord Sesshomaru, we have a question for you." Says Zeus.
"ws dy nt?" (What do you want?)
"May we get to know Lady Kagome a little more?" Oliver requests.
"We'd like to know a little more then just her name." Jonah adds.
"wzvr." (Whatever.)
"I told you he wouldn't mind."
"Stop gloating Zeus and let's find Lady Kagome." Jonah is first to walk out of the room. "Where would she be?"
"She's outside, in the training yard." Oliver responds. They start walking down the hallways.
(Back in Sesshy's study.)
"I can't believe you did that!" Khan starts accusing Sesshomaru. "Do you even know what you just did? You're allowing three males to go 'spend time' with your mate! You just put Lady Kagome on spot! Have you lost your mind?" He looks at Sesshy who has absent mindedly started to drool. "Of course you have. You are clearly not capable of handling seven containers of sake while I am able to go over that limit by five and still have no effects. Stop drooling Sesshomaru, that's gross."
(Outside training yard.)
Kagome is working on her skills on swords with the arms master. "You're doing a good job my Lady. Now let's try again, defend and attack!"
"Don't go easy on me this time Sen. Fight me as if this was real!" The 3 demons come upon the scene of Kagome and Sen in the middle of a fight. Kagome is dressed in jeans, navy blue t-shirt, black boots and a silver belt; her hair is loosely tied back. In 10 short minutes she's thrown into a tree. She clutches her right shoulder as she lands on the ground.
"My Lady!" All 4 of them immediately run over, Sen oviously reaching her first. :I'm sorry my Lady! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you!"
"It's alright Sen."
"But you're hurt my Lady! My Lord will KILL me when he find out!"
"He knows I'm training with you. Besides, you didn't hold back that time." She smiles.
"I could've seriously injured you and you're happy?"
"How am I supposed to learn to master swordsmanship correctly if you go easy on me? Anyways, you didn't hurt me, it's the same wounds."
"My Lady you're not supposed to be training when you're injured! My Lord gave orders!"
"Rules are meant to be broken. They've only reopened, they just need new bandaging." Sen helps her up, her right shoulder is now drenched in blood because of the reopened stab wounds from Loki.