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Chapter 21: The Assassin, The House of the Moon, and a Hojo

Ryoko sighed, "Oh man... I can't believe," she began sadly before she screamed, "THAT YOU TWO MORONS ARE AT IT AGAIN! IF THIS STUPIDITY DOESN'T END THIS INSTANT I WILL PULL A YUZUMI ON YOUR ASSES!"

Inuyasha and Kouga both froze, "Yes, ma'am!" Kouga shuttered.

Inuyasha shivered but said nothing. Ryoko was in another of her moods again and when she was angry it was a good idea to duck and cover before she explode or risk injury.

"Why are we in Keade's village anyway?" Sango asked Kagome.

"According to Ryoko we are to wait here for someone. Luckily the time here gave me time to catch up on school a bit. I wonder who we are waiting for." Kagome said thoughtful.

"Koi," Kagewaki soothed as he rubbed her tense shoulders, "what has you so tensed up?"

"Nothing I can talk about," Ryoko whispered, "just the sooner the person that gets here the better I'll feel. Yuzumi is right though secrets suck!"

Yuzumi rode on Sesshoumaru's youkai cloud her feet dangling off the the cloud feeling the soft wind run through her chestnut hair while Kikyo rode on Akuma's and the child with Jaken on Ah-Uh. She gave a soft laugh catching Sesshoumaru's utter attention. He watched her completely dazzled by the glow of her hair, her long eyelashes fluttered as she closed them, and a smile crossed her lips as she enjoyed the wind flowing though her. It was the simplest thing, her enjoying the wind, but it make her so goddamn beautiful to Sesshoumaru in that moment. He stared at her wondering how it felt like. He closed his eye and let himself relax. It was a nice feeling not one he felt often. Sesshoumaru almost smiled at the feeling.

Yuzumi turned and watched Sesshoumaru. She smiled. Did I just teach him to enjoy something so small? She wonder as she looked over his face as if memorizing every curve and angle of his face. Yuzumi cocked her head at him as his features soften. Wow... she thought utterly distracted. He is so damn gorgeous! How the hell did I get so damn lucky?!

She sighed happily and it knocked Sesshoumaru out of his new source of trances. His eyes opened slowly as he looked at her again, "Peaceful isn't it? It's one of the small things I enjoyed most in my life before I met you. My mother use to do the same. She taught me the few small things that are enjoyed in life can lift the lowest of spirits. All one must do is to find them."

"You're mother was wise," Sesshoumaru commented.

"Yes she was. I hope to be as wise as her one day myself, but I doubt that. I'm to wild. Perhaps one of future children will take after her instead." Yuzumi said.

"My father use to speak of Lady Kendra. 'When she was young,' he said, 'there was no one as wild nor free nor even as feisty as she. She was a woman none could match and still there is none as skilled as her.' According to my father you are very much like you're mother. I believe you take after her and Ryoko takes after your father."

Yuzumi gave him a smile, "We are not going to relax like this for a while aren't we?"

"Unfortunately no," Sesshoumaru stated.

She sighed, "Is you're mother going to be at the castle?"

"I hope not. I haven't sent word of my soon arrival for just that reason." Sesshoumaru said annoyance clear as day in her molten gold eye, "I wish not to see her most of all, include my half-breed brother Inuyasha. I rather have a three day straight conversation with Inuyasha then see or speak to my mother for on moment."

"Damn, you really hate her?" Yuzumi asked, "Why? Was she not good to you?"

"No," was all he said on the matter.

Yuzumi nodded understandingly, "I see."

"She didn't harm my person," Sesshoumaru said giving a soundless sigh. "I was never a child in her eyes. I was a future lord and nothing more. I had to do everything correctly and perfectly the first time around. I was never allow friendship. She wanted me composed and cold at all times. I was no more than object that was to be molded into perfection to her."

Yuzumi stood and hugged him as he finished his last sentence, "I'm sorry, koi. I must have been horrible."

"Lonely more like," he said his voice so low she could barely heard it.

"You never have to be alone again. I swear," she whispered back before kissing his cheek then bared her fact into his mokomoko. Sesshoumaru almost smiled as he wrapped his arms around her being mindful of the spikes on his armor of course.

They arrived at the castle soon after and Yuzumi gasped at it's beauty. The gardens where covered in every color flow even some she had never seen before. The colors of the castle where blue, gold, white and red. "You're house colors, right?" she eyed eyeing the castle receiving a nod from Sesshoumaru. It was bigger than her's, but she didn't care the place was beautiful. They entered the main hall and she eyed the paints and ancient artifacts. He lead her to the ballroom and she gasped.

The roof was mad of painted glass that gave a view of the moon and the moon light would shine though the painted glass giving the room many radiate colorings. "This is amazing," Yuzumi told him. "It's so beautiful."

"I thought you might like it," Sesshoumaru said as he drew her close and spinned her in a dancing moment. She giggled as she spinned into him.

"Where is everyone else?" She asked not seeing them suddenly.

"While you where admiring the room, koi, I had Jaken lead them to there rooms," Sesshoumaru informed her.

"Oh?" she said smiling as reached up on her tiptoes and kissed him softly.

Sesshoumaru was on the verge of smiling back if it wasn't for the sudden interruption.

"Oh it's seems my pup has finally found a girl he has an interest in," said a voice.

Yuzumi wanted to growl at the woman who interrupted her intimate moment with her Sesshoumaru. She instead turned her head to the direction of the voice. It was an Inuyoukai. She looked similar to Sesshoumaru, but she was tiny. She had matching stripes on her face and the some crescent moon on her head. The woman's head was in pink tails and she wore where mokomoko around her like a feathered boa. This woman was none other than Sesshoumaru's mother and Yuzumi already hated her.

"Mother," Sesshoumaru said not bothering to hide his annoyance as he held Yuzumi against him rather firmly.

"Must you always greet me so curtly?" she asked.

"Hn," was his only reply, but this 'hn' meant 'no shit'.

"Such an ungrateful pup," she told him. "You always were."

Yuzumi held her tongue as she want to snap at the bitch as she continued to listen to the conversation.

"I have nothing to be grateful to you for when it comes to you," Sesshoumaru stated coldly.

His mother wrinkled her nose at him in an angry snarl, "You dare speak to me like that?! You're own mother!"

"He shouldn't have be grateful for anything you've done. He is your son, not an orphan child you found on the streets. As a mother you should love, comfort, teach, and play with you children. If he is angry with you, perhaps you should ask him why and not be such a bitch." Yuzumi advised unable to hold her tongue a moment longer.

"And right do you have to speak with me?!" she yelled.

"I am Yuzumi, Lady of the Southern Lands and future mate of Sesshoumaru, Lord of the Western Lands. I have every right to speak or yell at you if I so wish it." Yuzumi shot back.

"And you dress like a whore. What methods did you use to ensnare my son?!" she demanded. "How many times has he bedded you whore?!"

"Bitch you better use your nose or are you to stupid to realize I am a virgin?" she growled.

Sesshoumaru suddenly holding his own mother by the throat against a pillar, "Never disrespect my mate or I will rip you're throat myself. Mother or not, you will give her the respect she deserves," he threatened.

His mother glared at him, but when she saw the redness in his eyes she quickly submitted to him. She may be bold, but she wasn't suicidal. His eyes narrowed as she tilted her head to the side in submission and then released her before returning to Yuzumi and held her protectively in his arms.

Yuzumi growled at her before she place a hand soothingly on Sesshoumaru's cheek gently traced his stripes earning a purr like growl. She smiled at him and whispered, "Come, koi, show me around. Far from the intruder."

Sesshoumaru smiled as he heard his mother give a irritated roar as they exit the ballroom. Yuzumi was going to make his mother's life a living hell.

Ryoko stood against a tree avoiding everyone. So she may have time to think, which she didn't do often. She pulled out her instruction scroll and read, "'After the Sounga has chosen it's wielder the Kenkon blade will reveal it's self in the possession of a fool. The fool will possess Kon and through him you will find Ken. One blade is of darkness and the other of light. The wielder must have Kon to battle Ken. Reveal the truth of it's make and the truth of Hoshiyomi's sealing. After the Double Dragon has both pieces do not place them together until they are blessed in the shine of the fallen priestess for which the Hoshiyomi was seal.'" she gave an irritated sigh, "How the hell am I to do this shit?"

She banged her head against the tree in annoyance, "So Kon is just going to fall in my lap or something?"

Ryoko sat and crossed her legs. "AHHHH!" a voice screamed before the screaming person landed in her lap, "Ow!"

"Son of a bitch!" Ryoko yelped. "That hurt! What the hell are you doing landing in my goddamn lap for!"

"Sorry I fell of a cliff and into a tree and lastly into you're lap miss. Just Hojo family misfortune," he said hoping off her lap and bowed on all fours to her making his package fall into her lap. "My apologizes miss."

"I'm a princess not a miss. My name is Ryoko." she said opening the package. "What is this?" Ryoko ask as she revealed the blade. It was quite lovely to be honest and it emanated with dark energy. She took the blade out of the package to examine it more closely as the Hojo boy looked as if he where about to have a cow as the dark energy dissipated signifying it was under her rule. "It's beautiful. What is this blade called?"

"I... you..." he began confused that she a demon could touch the blade and not be possessed by it's dark power. "It's part of the Naginata of Heaven and Earth also know as the Kenkon. This is Kon."

"Well I didn't mean for this blade to quite literal to fall in my lap." she giggled to herself.