Wow, 24 Chapters done already. Well I'll let you guys know what happened in the last chapter. So Midori and the others showed up and the King and Queen invited them to live with them temporarily and celebrate the terrific win against Princess Akki. They were supplied with new, expensive clothes, full meals, and comfortable beds.

Disclaimer: I still do not own Inuyasha. I'm going to leave it at that. =]

Chapter 25: Celebration

The royal family took no offence to Sango and Miroku not joining and continued with the three course meal! I couldn't finish the last course but I really wish I could have. The food was the best I've ever tasted! Even Kagome's future food like the chips and ramen didn't hold a candle to the royal meals!

After eating, we had a little show of dancers. This is where they pulled up Kagome and me to join them. It was so much fun even though I had no Idea what I was doing. Kagome followed them a bit better than I did but we were both pretty bad. I'm sure Sango would have wanted nothing to do with this silliness so it was a good thing she was…occupied. Inuyasha was probably worried that I was going to yank him up to make him dance too, but I gave the poor sucker some mercy.

It got worse when Shippo went to bed and they pulled out the sake. I have had some before and I am very tolerant. Kagome was a light weight and was drunk in no time. She rambled on about not being able to drink back home but I honestly didn't understand most of what she said. Inuyasha drank a little…and drank a little more. The Prince was almost as bad as Kagome, the Queen drank respectfully, and the King generously offered us more and more after having his own cup filled, of course.

"You really do have the finest commodities your highnesses," I complimented, bringing more sake to me mouth.

"Why thank you, Lady Midori," the Queen thanked.

"Have as much as you wish, my friends," the King assured us. "There is much to celebrate! That Princess Akki and her stray demon army have been terrorizing is for four generations! Good riddance to that she-beast!"

Inuyasha raised his sake to that. "Haven't been that happy to kill anything before in my life."

We all drank to that and my head began to spin a little.

"This is so much fun," the drunken Kagome giggled. "Wish I could do this sort of thing back home!"

"If you could, you'd be like this all the time," I reminded her. "And you wouldn't be much of a help with a bow."

"Pft, nonsense, I'm fine."

"You're about as fine as the Prince," Inuyasha pointed out. We all glanced at the young man sleeping on his sitting cushion. "Surprised you're not out too."

"Oh." She slowly turned toward the King and Queen. "Might I say that your son is very attractive? How is it that he's not married yet?"

Inuyasha and I exchanged a surprised look.

"Um," the Queen gave her husband a quick look before turning back to her, "we haven't found anyone suitable that he likes too."

"That's a shame! Because he seems nice. And stuff. Excuse me." She wavered onto her feet then left the room, where she ran and we kind of all knew what happened. The sake came back up, and probably the three course meal.

Inuyasha couldn't help but laugh, but he tried to hide it. I began to laugh too but controlled myself better. "Forgive her; the sake has clearly gone to her head."

"I think her head and the rest of her is cleared out now," Inuyasha snickered.

I shook my head at him and tried so hard not to laugh at that. "She does not drink much."

"Clearly," the King chuckled. "It's perfectly all right, it was quite entertaining."

"That it was," Inuyasha agreed. "Midori is probably the next one to get drunk."

"Oh? Am I now? I'm feeling perfectly fine, you're the one giggling over there," I teased.

He smirked at me. "You probably can't notice, Midori darling, but you're wavering back and forth."

"And you just called me 'darling'."

"Touché."

"You just said touché, too," I mentioned. "That's weird."

He rolled his eyes and turned to the King. "What's the plan for tomorrow? More sake I hope."

"Anything you please Inuyasha. We will supply all of you with anything you'll want for the rest of your time here and when you're preparing to leave," he reassured him. "It's my mission to make sure you're all treated like royalty for the service you've done."

Inuyasha did all of the work.

"Well none of us get a chance to have a good drink very often, which would have been nice in certain times over the years," he chuckled. He drank more sake and it was quickly filled up after setting it down. "It's nice to be pampered for a change."

I hadn't noticed it before but Inuyasha actually looked clean. I knew that I got a bath before getting dressed, but how did they manage to get him clean? I leaned on my arm and drank some more. The king and queen started into their own conversation while Inuyasha and I began to slam on the alcohol a little more than we should.

I giggled as I stumbled on the way to my room. Inuyasha tried to help me walk but he was almost as bad as I was. He laughed uncontrollably and used the wall for balance. I held onto his arm the best I could.

"I-Inuyasha, I don't remember which room was mine," I admitted, almost falling onto my knees.

"I think I remember." He took one step forward, stumbled back a little, and then went forward again. "Why does the world keep turning so quickly?!" he complained, frustrated.

I helped by pulling him forward and almost fell forward myself. We both laughed and made it to the door we both recognized as my room. Inuyasha held the door open to the lit room for me I fell onto my mat and he closed the door behind me. He plopped onto the ground next to my bed while we both continued to laugh like we had completely lost our minds.

I wiped around my eyes, avoiding the makeup. "What are we even laughing about?" I asked, still giggling like a moron.

"I-I have no idea." We both glanced at each other then started laughing all over again. "Why are there two of you Midori?"

"I think you're drunker than me Inuyasha." I uncoordinatedly crawled closer to him. I could see only one of him, and thank goodness there was only one of him. His white ears were lowered slightly and his cheeks were pinker than normal. His gold eyes were a bit darker. I smiled at him lovingly. "Let's do something tonight." I pulled my long hair down out of what took the girls a while to do.

His face turned even pinker but a mix between a smirk and a soft grin crossed onto his face. From the window, the light of the moon made his white hair appear like snow.

"I suddenly feel more sober," he mentioned. "There's only one of you again."

"That's good. I want to make a little change tonight."

He raised an eyebrow. "What's your plan?"

I leaned over and kissed his cheek. "It'll be fun," I assured him.