Disclaimer: I don't own Inu-Yasha but this story you're reading is MINE!
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K, Important thing: This is not going to be a Sesshy/ Kag, IY/Kikyo, k? I hate fics like that so if you don't like it..flame me once and then stop reading. I promise all you IY/Kag fans that this will be a happy story and you don't have to worry about me switching couples, k?
I would also like to say that I have nothing against Nazuna but I thought that if you didn't know who that character was, then the name could have been given to an antagonist. Please forgive me if you like Nazuna but as I said some time ago, Nazuna would have made a better lady in waiting for Kikyo than Mayu. ^^
Deh second chap:
Your.not so average princess. Chapter two: A wonderful night gone wrong.
Inu-Yasha looked up at the double doors as the two girls entered. The rest of the crowd gasped but Inu-Yasha couldn't see what all of the excitement was all about. As far as he could see, their faces couldn't even be distinguished from the back of the room, where he was standing. He nearly hit Miroku on the back of the head for gasping along with the group but then remembered where he was and he didn't quite feel like starting a scene.especially as the two girls hadn't even made it down the stairs. However he then saw a hand wave wildly above everyone else's heads at the two girls and realized that he could have caused a scene and it wouldn't be so unusual. He still decided against it.
Kagome's eyes glazed as she gazed over the mass of lords and ladies, her false smile dazzling all those who didn't know it was fake. She nearly broke a tooth trying to keep her smile intact as the hand waved at her from the middle of the crowd. 'Which JACKASS invited KOUGA????' she thought. Half of her wanted to run from the room and another part of her wanted to go charging through the gathering to Kouga and pound him to the floor. The remaining part of her was her dignified part of her that told her that tonight was going to be bad and boring.don't make it any worse. Thank her civil mind that she listened to the dignified cell in her body. Her mother had already made the speech about the grand purpose of this ball so as soon as she and her sister stepped off the stairs the music began. Some guy grabbed her and hurled her onto the dance floor. "You're prettier than the last time I saw you!" Kagome looked up into the face of her dance partner. " Lord Hojo!" "Aye it's me!" He gallantly said trying to put a twinkle in his eye but only managed to squint and look like watermelon rind was holding his mouth in a smile. Kagome had to endure two minutes of hearing about Hojo's favourite things to do.The song finally ended. She mentally ticked of that she had danced one of the five dances she had promised herself that she would dance. She moved along to the next guy. She looked at him. He had long, flowing, white hair and copper colored eyes. "Good evening princess! I am Prince Sesshomaru." "Good evening prince Sesshomaru." "What can you tell me about your sister?" "She's a bitch." "Typical sister talk, eh?" His silky voice was starting to scare her. "K, she likes knitting and croquet." "She looks like she can sing! I'll bet she can sing like the devil!" "She sure can.a devil being run over by a car." Kagome thought about her sister's squawky voice she considered to be her song voice and shuddered. Kagome was usually out of the castle when her sister was in the shower.singing. Kagome had to endure several more minutes with this guy 'Call me Sesshy'. Kagome nearly barfed when he said that to her.
Next song. "You must be Princess Kagome!" "No...you think?" the mumbled. "I am Lord Hiten!" Kagome stared. "I am the greatest fencer in all the world!" "I'll bet I'm better than you." She muttered. "Sorry gorgeous? What did you say?" Kagome nearly gagged at the fact that he called her gorgeous. "I said: I'll bet you really are too!" The guy beamed.
200 years later the song ended. Kagome practically threw herself away from the guy she was dancing with. If she heard one more word about knocking some foreign guy down with a sword she would strangle someone. Kikyo had been keeping an eye on Kagome and the men she had danced with just to see if they were worthy of dancing with her too. When she lost sight of her sister after the second dance and then saw her reappear at the drink table she relaxed for this next song.
"God! If I have to dance one more time while listening to men, blinded by their ego, I'm gonna kill someone." She whispered fiercely out loud but more to herself. She snatched a glass of champagne from the table. "So dance with me." Kagome looked up and saw a guy who looked kind of bored in his own cool sort of way. 'Note to self:' Kagome thought furiously to herself, 'ALWAYS see if someone is around before commenting!!' Inu-Yasha had been watching her and her sister for the first two songs, trying to decide which one to dance with so he could close the bargain with Myoga. He decided Kagome would be more interesting to talk with. He glanced over at Kikyo who was busy flirting with the guy she was dancing with and batting her eyes at him. "What makes you think you're different from the rest?" "I don't know.I'm sure they all say that they're better." "Fine. Err.what kind of dance is this?" She sheepishly looked up into his golden eyes. He looked at her with disbelief, "A waltz." "That's the one with three beats per bar, right?" "Something like that." "Ok then!" Kagome threw her false smile on again, took his hand and they whirled back onto the dance floor. 'Well, he/she isn't a bad dancer,' they both thought. 'Even if it is the dullest song known to humanity' Kagome continued in her own thoughts. 'Even if she didn't know the type of song.'Inu-Yasha continued. The two of them continued to dance, lost in their own thoughts, (' wow, he really isn't bragging about swords and horses! Of course he isn't saying anything either.' 'I was right.she can't like to cross-stitch! Otherwise I'm sure I would have heard about it.') so let's just wander over to Sango.
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"So, you must be really close to Kagome or Kikyo right? I'm mean what do they like so that when I talk to them, I can make one of them interested in me?" "You don't care which one of them is interested in you?" Sango dully asked. "Well, beggars can't be choosers!" "What's your name?" "I am Prince Kouga!!" Sango nearly fell over. Anyhow, she was sick of listening to him so at the next time in the music for the ladies to spin, she spun him instead to make her getaway. It worked. Then however, she bumped into someone else, who for some reason was on the dance floor with out a partner (probably because the lady he was dancing with didn't want to keep dancing with him for specific reasons.). He grabbed her hand and she spun around again back into the waltz. "What is your name sweet maiden?" Sango looked up at the man she was dancing with. "My name is Lady Sango. What, pray-tell is yours?" "My name, my dear, is Lord Miroku." Sango smiled. This was the first guy all night that hadn't wanted to verify that the girls in the pretty blue and red dresses (Kagome in blue, Kikyo in red) where indeed the princesses of the hosts. Sango actually started to enjoy her night while dancing with this Miroku. Miroku actually enjoyed dancing with Sango too that he forgot to say his pickup line (and we all know what that is.).
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Kikyo looked up into the eyes of the man she was dancing with. He looked so.mature. He danced wonderfully and he had doused her with compliments too. She had to know who he was. "Pray-thee tell me what is the name of this handsome man I am dancing with?" she sweetly asked. 'Shakespeare!' he thought. "Sweet princess, my name thou shall know: It I, Prince Sesshomaru." "Sesshomaru."she dreamily repeated (Sad isn't it?). Kikyo then glanced over to the drink table and then, in horror, saw that Kagome was no longer there. Her eyes scanned the crown until she saw the familiar tiara on raven- black hair that was not pulled back. She looked at the man Kagome was dancing with and saw a younger version of the man she was dancing with. Obviously she couldn't see his face properly but she could definitely see the white hair but she also managed to make out spots of gold where his eyes were. She looked into the copper eyes of Sesshomaru. 'I must be dancing with the older one.' She thought, 'he must obviously be better looking and more mature.' Kikyo clearly wasn't thinking about how Kagome was younger than her and still prettier but there's Kikyo for you.
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A/N: K, let me outline this for you: Kagome is dancing with Inu-Yasha (even though she still doesn't know his name), Sango is dancing with Miroku (who still hasn't asked her to bear his child), and Kikyo is dancing with Sesshomaru (Who is vaguely interested in him, however it's not like Kikyo wasn't vaguely interested in any other good looking guys). You know what? Just for kicks, Kikyo's mother is dancing with Inu-Yasha's father and Kagome's father is dancing with Sesshy's mother.
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Kagome really was enjoying dancing with Inu-Yasha but this dance really was going to make her fall asleep. "You can wipe that false grin off your face." Kagome looked up, startled. Then she smiled a real, soft smile. 'She's cute when she's surprised.' Inu-Yasha decided. He also decided that her next smile was for real and.it made her damn prettier than her sister. "How did you know it was false?" "Cause, you want to be some where else. I can tell by the look in your eyes." "Like heck I do." Kagome was about to ask for his name and Inu-Yasha was going to ask her where she really wanted to be when the waltz ended 'Damn conductor.' Kagome thought. She still could have asked for his name if he hadn't been swept up by another girl and then hurtled onto the dance floor. Kagome glared at the girl who had stolen him. "Nazuna." Kagome muttered darkly as she recognized her sister's lady-in- waiting. Nazuna smirked at Kagome from over Inu-Yasha's shoulder. If looks could kill, Nazuna would have been dead on the floor. Well, if looks could kill, Kikyo would have killed a lot of people just by looking at them when she just woke up so Kagome considered herself lucky in a way. The younger princess stood on her toes and looked over the heads of the crowd to see if there were any other decent men like the one she had just danced with. Nope. As far as she could see, all the men were babbling away with some stupid grin on their faces. Kagome wandered over the food table, to get something to eat when she found Sango there. "Sango! How's it going?" No response. "Sango?" Dreamland. "Boomerangs on sale, 50% off!" Kagome muttered in her friend's ear. "What?" Sango snapped back into reality, "Boomerangs?" "What's up with you?" "Kagome-sama, I'm enjoying myself here. I'm actually enjoying myself." "You are?? That's fantastic! What was his name??" "Lord Miroku." Kagome had to give her friend some water to keep her on earth. "I know which room he's staying in so I can-" "Sango!" "What?? Don't jump to conclusions Kagome!! So I can say goodbye to him before he goes back with his party that he came with!" "Oh.sorry! ^^" "I'm gonna see if I can find him again after this dance." "Good luck, Sango-chan" They parted; Sango wandering around the edge of the dancers, and Kagome heading for the gardens. She needed the fresh air. "I've only danced four dances but I think that's enough!" Kagome decided. The music filtered out of the ballroom as the balcony doors were opened. Kagome looked up and made a run for cover before the lord and lady who had just come out wouldn't see her. The song ended. Some sort of Mozart music started and people started whirling around again. Kagome sat on a bench under a tree and watched what she could see from that angle. (You know.from the ground to past the balcony, there isn't much to see.). Suddenly two people came to the balcony and started dancing there. Kagome smiled broadly as she saw it was Sango with someone. Sango was positively beaming, so Kagome guessed that the guy was that Miroku guy. Someone looked out of one of the ballroom windows and saw her. Kagome gulped and decided to leave her little bench. She wandered into the garden full of hedges. Surely if someone followed her they would get lost. Nope. "Sheesh! You could have told me we weren't confined to the ballroom! It's stuffy in there." Kagome whirled around. "It's you!" "I have a name." Inu-Yasha replied irritably "I'm sorry for not asking.Nazuna was too quick for me.." "Nazuna? Is that the girl I danced with after you?" "Yup." "I couldn't make out her name. It sounded like Nazeusa so I've been calling her Medusa." Kagome snorted. The band struck up again. "Hey! I recognize that song! It's.it's." Kagome struggled to remember what her music teacher had said. "but you don't know the name?" ".it's.it's.oh I don't what it's called but I like it." "May I have this dance then?" Kagome looked up into his sincere golden eyes. She responded by taking the hand he offered and they moved in time to the music. Sango and Miroku stopped dancing when they caught sight of something in the garden. "Well, it looks like my prince has found your princess." Miroku stated. "Kagome actually looks happy.and she's dancing! She hates dancing." Sango was so happy for her friend. "Does she?" Sango nodded. "I don't." Sango took up the offer and she and Miroku continued spinning around the balcony.
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'Where did she get to now??' Kikyo glanced around, hopping to find her sister, 'and what's more, that white haired guy is gone too.' Kikyo was stuck in the center of the ballroom and because she was the center of attention, she couldn't get away to look for her. 'She'd better not have found someone before me!!!' some strange, mad, light appeared in her eyes when she thought that and she scared away the guy she was dancing with but just then the song ended and there was a brief announcement that there would be break so that everyone who had been dancing the entire time could get some food. Everyone left the dance floor but the orchestra kept playing. Kikyo took that time to go looking for her sister. She wanted to meet this guy that Kagome had been dancing with.
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"Sure, sure.now they play lively music!" Kagome snorted. "You like lively music?" "I love it! I can't stand those boring, dull waltzes.they make me wanna fall asleep." Kagome still hadn't asked him what his name was and Inu-Yasha found it awkward if he just told her. "We could go back in and dance then." Inu-Yasha offered. "Sure.the dance floor will be empty!" "Of course everyone will stop and watch you." "Why me?" "Because you're family is hosting" "This ball was for my sister! Not for me! She's the center of attention!" "So? You're definitely prettier." Kagome blushed. "Come on! Let's go!" He grabbed her gloved hand and pulled her back into the castle. They went up the flight of stairs and reappeared in the ballroom.
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It never occurred to Kikyo that Kagome would have gone to the gardens so in the stables. 'Gosh darn it! Where could she be??' *stomp, stomp, mush!* "EWWW!!! HORSE DUNG!!!!!" Kikyo ran from the stables as if it was full of Demons (I suppose a horse could be considered a demon to Kikyo.^^)
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"Princess Kagome has returned!" A lady's voice sounded. All of the lords and ladies who were crowded around the food table looked up with their faces stuffed as they watched the princess with this man (well, he's 15 so would that make him a man? I dunno.I am a girl.) dance around the circle (which was marked in the floor) in a lively sort of way (can you picture what I'm saying?). Of course Inu-Yasha's parents were pleased, however, Sesshomaru glared. 'How dare my younger, pitiful, brother get the prettier princess? I am older, I get the first pick!!' He thought. Of course being the elder child, prince or no prince, doesn't mean you get first pick at a girl. Kagome was 3 years younger than Sesshy and had more interest in someone her age. Of course, Sesshy didn't know that but.sooner or later he was bound to find out. Kagome and Inu-Yasha were now the center of attention and as the princes and lords and ladies meandered back on to the ballroom floor, they soon were trapped in the center like Kikyo was only the man Kagome danced with didn't change. It was Inu-Yasha until the cows came home. Of course, by the time Kikyo finally gave up her search (and still was absent minded enough not to check the gardens) and wandered back into the ballroom (of course she changed her shoes from the horse dung) she wasn't even missed and nobody noticed her return. Kagome had taken her place. Kikyo looked like she would kill someone and it was looking like the victim was Kagome. Of course if Kikyo could break a glass by smashing it with her fist, that would have been a great accomplishment for her.
Eventually Kikyo made her presence known and everyone scurried to get out of her way. Kagome and Inu-Yasha snuck away without being noticed because of the commotion Kikyo had started. The guests then definitely knew which princess they liked better: Kagome.
"Whew, if I have to dance another dance I'm gonna fall down where I stand. My feet are killing me!" Kagome gasped. "You don't get on your feet often?" Inu-Yasha asked. Kagome looked up sharply, "I'm on my feet all day! It's these shoes!" Kagome lifted her skirts slightly so Inu-Yasha could see the shoes she was wearing. "I don't know what I'd do if I had to wear those all day." Inu-Yasha stared. "Oh I don't have to. Kikyo doesn't have to either but she does anyway." Inu-Yasha shuddered. "Do you shoot arrows?" "What?" "Do you shoot arrows??" Kagome repeated. "You mean with a bow?" "No..with a pencil!" Kagome's voice was dripping with sarcasm. "What?? Oh, yea. Are you any good?" Inu-Yasha challenged. "Wanna find out?" "Lead the way!" Kagome led Inu-Yasha down to the archery range and handed him a bow and a quiver of arrows. Kagome took of her shoes before taking her bow and arrows. "Ahhhhh.much better." Kagome sighed as her feet touched the cool stone floor, "You first."
Inu-Yasha pulled back the string and shot the arrow. Dead on. He smirked and gave her a look that said: 'your just a girl, you can't do better than that.' Kagome's jaw dropped. She couldn't beat him but she could try to tie. She gave him a look that said: 'I'm gonna wipe that smirk off your face, watch me carefully.' Kagome pulled back the string till it was taut and took careful aim. Inu- Yasha considered yelling 'biff!' but decided that that would be unfair. Kagome let the arrow fly. It split Inu-Yasha's arrow down the middle perfectly until it hit the arrowhead that was made of metal. There was a 'tink' as her arrowhead hit his from behind. Inu-Yasha's jaw dropped. Dead on. Kagome stood proudly, made a curtsy and then went to collect her arrow and toss away the now destroyed arrow. "Nice doing business with you." Kagome grabbed his hand and shook it. She then wandered back to the ballroom to say goodnight to her parents. She was tired.
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"You? Beaten?? At archery?" Miroku was quite surprised. "And by a girl too!" Inu-Yasha spat. Kagome froze. She had just finished saying goodnight to her parents and was on her way out of the ballroom when she heard the voice of the guy she had been dancing with all evening. "I didn't know girls were that good!" "She's a princess too!!" Inu-Yasha's bitter voice stung Kagome. "You need to stop stereotyping!" "Keh. I've got to see that it doesn't happen again. Honestly, and by the way she shook my hand it was like she had just won a million dollars." Tears welled up in Kagome's eyes. He had been so nice too. She ran passed him and Miroku (of course she didn't know their names) and flicked a tear at him with out looking. "Uh oh." Miroku stated as he saw the tear she flicked land on Inu-Yasha's hand. Inu-Yasha turned pale. He had had no idea that she had heard him and now he was paying the price of putting down girls. "I'm going to bed." He muttered. Miroku shook his head and wandered off to find Sango.
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Kagome sobbed in her room. How dare he??? She hadn't beaten him anyways. She had just brought herself up to a tie. She had been proud that she had split the arrow too. She'd never done that before. She had just shaken his hand because she thought it would add to her character but he had just gone and messed things up by taking it the wrong way. Keh. Then she smiled evilly as she remembered his face. He could have swallowed a horse in one gulp by the size of his mouth. She decided to put it behind her. If he was jealous because she had tied with him then that was his problem, but for some reason she couldn't get him out of her head. 'He lied,' She thought, 'he really was just another guy blinded by his ego.' Unfortunately for her, this wasn't the last time she was going to see him.
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WAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Well? How did you like my second chapter?? Please review and don't flame me to badly! Don't worry! I will say this now: this is an IY/Kag fic, k?
I'm going away to Hawaii for 12 days, I think it's from the 11 of Aug. till the 23 so don't expect any updates during that time period, k? ^^ I will try to update before then though!
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Special thanks to Momori, my dear friend, who edited.
Momori-Awwiiieess!!! I didn't know Inu-Yasha could be so..so.. awfully stupid and sweet at the same time!! ^_^'' Great chapter! I'm completely endorsed in your story!!!! ^______^ Special thanks to Momori, my dear friend, who edited.
K, Important thing: This is not going to be a Sesshy/ Kag, IY/Kikyo, k? I hate fics like that so if you don't like it..flame me once and then stop reading. I promise all you IY/Kag fans that this will be a happy story and you don't have to worry about me switching couples, k?
I would also like to say that I have nothing against Nazuna but I thought that if you didn't know who that character was, then the name could have been given to an antagonist. Please forgive me if you like Nazuna but as I said some time ago, Nazuna would have made a better lady in waiting for Kikyo than Mayu. ^^
Deh second chap:
Your.not so average princess. Chapter two: A wonderful night gone wrong.
Inu-Yasha looked up at the double doors as the two girls entered. The rest of the crowd gasped but Inu-Yasha couldn't see what all of the excitement was all about. As far as he could see, their faces couldn't even be distinguished from the back of the room, where he was standing. He nearly hit Miroku on the back of the head for gasping along with the group but then remembered where he was and he didn't quite feel like starting a scene.especially as the two girls hadn't even made it down the stairs. However he then saw a hand wave wildly above everyone else's heads at the two girls and realized that he could have caused a scene and it wouldn't be so unusual. He still decided against it.
Kagome's eyes glazed as she gazed over the mass of lords and ladies, her false smile dazzling all those who didn't know it was fake. She nearly broke a tooth trying to keep her smile intact as the hand waved at her from the middle of the crowd. 'Which JACKASS invited KOUGA????' she thought. Half of her wanted to run from the room and another part of her wanted to go charging through the gathering to Kouga and pound him to the floor. The remaining part of her was her dignified part of her that told her that tonight was going to be bad and boring.don't make it any worse. Thank her civil mind that she listened to the dignified cell in her body. Her mother had already made the speech about the grand purpose of this ball so as soon as she and her sister stepped off the stairs the music began. Some guy grabbed her and hurled her onto the dance floor. "You're prettier than the last time I saw you!" Kagome looked up into the face of her dance partner. " Lord Hojo!" "Aye it's me!" He gallantly said trying to put a twinkle in his eye but only managed to squint and look like watermelon rind was holding his mouth in a smile. Kagome had to endure two minutes of hearing about Hojo's favourite things to do.The song finally ended. She mentally ticked of that she had danced one of the five dances she had promised herself that she would dance. She moved along to the next guy. She looked at him. He had long, flowing, white hair and copper colored eyes. "Good evening princess! I am Prince Sesshomaru." "Good evening prince Sesshomaru." "What can you tell me about your sister?" "She's a bitch." "Typical sister talk, eh?" His silky voice was starting to scare her. "K, she likes knitting and croquet." "She looks like she can sing! I'll bet she can sing like the devil!" "She sure can.a devil being run over by a car." Kagome thought about her sister's squawky voice she considered to be her song voice and shuddered. Kagome was usually out of the castle when her sister was in the shower.singing. Kagome had to endure several more minutes with this guy 'Call me Sesshy'. Kagome nearly barfed when he said that to her.
Next song. "You must be Princess Kagome!" "No...you think?" the mumbled. "I am Lord Hiten!" Kagome stared. "I am the greatest fencer in all the world!" "I'll bet I'm better than you." She muttered. "Sorry gorgeous? What did you say?" Kagome nearly gagged at the fact that he called her gorgeous. "I said: I'll bet you really are too!" The guy beamed.
200 years later the song ended. Kagome practically threw herself away from the guy she was dancing with. If she heard one more word about knocking some foreign guy down with a sword she would strangle someone. Kikyo had been keeping an eye on Kagome and the men she had danced with just to see if they were worthy of dancing with her too. When she lost sight of her sister after the second dance and then saw her reappear at the drink table she relaxed for this next song.
"God! If I have to dance one more time while listening to men, blinded by their ego, I'm gonna kill someone." She whispered fiercely out loud but more to herself. She snatched a glass of champagne from the table. "So dance with me." Kagome looked up and saw a guy who looked kind of bored in his own cool sort of way. 'Note to self:' Kagome thought furiously to herself, 'ALWAYS see if someone is around before commenting!!' Inu-Yasha had been watching her and her sister for the first two songs, trying to decide which one to dance with so he could close the bargain with Myoga. He decided Kagome would be more interesting to talk with. He glanced over at Kikyo who was busy flirting with the guy she was dancing with and batting her eyes at him. "What makes you think you're different from the rest?" "I don't know.I'm sure they all say that they're better." "Fine. Err.what kind of dance is this?" She sheepishly looked up into his golden eyes. He looked at her with disbelief, "A waltz." "That's the one with three beats per bar, right?" "Something like that." "Ok then!" Kagome threw her false smile on again, took his hand and they whirled back onto the dance floor. 'Well, he/she isn't a bad dancer,' they both thought. 'Even if it is the dullest song known to humanity' Kagome continued in her own thoughts. 'Even if she didn't know the type of song.'Inu-Yasha continued. The two of them continued to dance, lost in their own thoughts, (' wow, he really isn't bragging about swords and horses! Of course he isn't saying anything either.' 'I was right.she can't like to cross-stitch! Otherwise I'm sure I would have heard about it.') so let's just wander over to Sango.
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"So, you must be really close to Kagome or Kikyo right? I'm mean what do they like so that when I talk to them, I can make one of them interested in me?" "You don't care which one of them is interested in you?" Sango dully asked. "Well, beggars can't be choosers!" "What's your name?" "I am Prince Kouga!!" Sango nearly fell over. Anyhow, she was sick of listening to him so at the next time in the music for the ladies to spin, she spun him instead to make her getaway. It worked. Then however, she bumped into someone else, who for some reason was on the dance floor with out a partner (probably because the lady he was dancing with didn't want to keep dancing with him for specific reasons.). He grabbed her hand and she spun around again back into the waltz. "What is your name sweet maiden?" Sango looked up at the man she was dancing with. "My name is Lady Sango. What, pray-tell is yours?" "My name, my dear, is Lord Miroku." Sango smiled. This was the first guy all night that hadn't wanted to verify that the girls in the pretty blue and red dresses (Kagome in blue, Kikyo in red) where indeed the princesses of the hosts. Sango actually started to enjoy her night while dancing with this Miroku. Miroku actually enjoyed dancing with Sango too that he forgot to say his pickup line (and we all know what that is.).
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Kikyo looked up into the eyes of the man she was dancing with. He looked so.mature. He danced wonderfully and he had doused her with compliments too. She had to know who he was. "Pray-thee tell me what is the name of this handsome man I am dancing with?" she sweetly asked. 'Shakespeare!' he thought. "Sweet princess, my name thou shall know: It I, Prince Sesshomaru." "Sesshomaru."she dreamily repeated (Sad isn't it?). Kikyo then glanced over to the drink table and then, in horror, saw that Kagome was no longer there. Her eyes scanned the crown until she saw the familiar tiara on raven- black hair that was not pulled back. She looked at the man Kagome was dancing with and saw a younger version of the man she was dancing with. Obviously she couldn't see his face properly but she could definitely see the white hair but she also managed to make out spots of gold where his eyes were. She looked into the copper eyes of Sesshomaru. 'I must be dancing with the older one.' She thought, 'he must obviously be better looking and more mature.' Kikyo clearly wasn't thinking about how Kagome was younger than her and still prettier but there's Kikyo for you.
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A/N: K, let me outline this for you: Kagome is dancing with Inu-Yasha (even though she still doesn't know his name), Sango is dancing with Miroku (who still hasn't asked her to bear his child), and Kikyo is dancing with Sesshomaru (Who is vaguely interested in him, however it's not like Kikyo wasn't vaguely interested in any other good looking guys). You know what? Just for kicks, Kikyo's mother is dancing with Inu-Yasha's father and Kagome's father is dancing with Sesshy's mother.
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Kagome really was enjoying dancing with Inu-Yasha but this dance really was going to make her fall asleep. "You can wipe that false grin off your face." Kagome looked up, startled. Then she smiled a real, soft smile. 'She's cute when she's surprised.' Inu-Yasha decided. He also decided that her next smile was for real and.it made her damn prettier than her sister. "How did you know it was false?" "Cause, you want to be some where else. I can tell by the look in your eyes." "Like heck I do." Kagome was about to ask for his name and Inu-Yasha was going to ask her where she really wanted to be when the waltz ended 'Damn conductor.' Kagome thought. She still could have asked for his name if he hadn't been swept up by another girl and then hurtled onto the dance floor. Kagome glared at the girl who had stolen him. "Nazuna." Kagome muttered darkly as she recognized her sister's lady-in- waiting. Nazuna smirked at Kagome from over Inu-Yasha's shoulder. If looks could kill, Nazuna would have been dead on the floor. Well, if looks could kill, Kikyo would have killed a lot of people just by looking at them when she just woke up so Kagome considered herself lucky in a way. The younger princess stood on her toes and looked over the heads of the crowd to see if there were any other decent men like the one she had just danced with. Nope. As far as she could see, all the men were babbling away with some stupid grin on their faces. Kagome wandered over the food table, to get something to eat when she found Sango there. "Sango! How's it going?" No response. "Sango?" Dreamland. "Boomerangs on sale, 50% off!" Kagome muttered in her friend's ear. "What?" Sango snapped back into reality, "Boomerangs?" "What's up with you?" "Kagome-sama, I'm enjoying myself here. I'm actually enjoying myself." "You are?? That's fantastic! What was his name??" "Lord Miroku." Kagome had to give her friend some water to keep her on earth. "I know which room he's staying in so I can-" "Sango!" "What?? Don't jump to conclusions Kagome!! So I can say goodbye to him before he goes back with his party that he came with!" "Oh.sorry! ^^" "I'm gonna see if I can find him again after this dance." "Good luck, Sango-chan" They parted; Sango wandering around the edge of the dancers, and Kagome heading for the gardens. She needed the fresh air. "I've only danced four dances but I think that's enough!" Kagome decided. The music filtered out of the ballroom as the balcony doors were opened. Kagome looked up and made a run for cover before the lord and lady who had just come out wouldn't see her. The song ended. Some sort of Mozart music started and people started whirling around again. Kagome sat on a bench under a tree and watched what she could see from that angle. (You know.from the ground to past the balcony, there isn't much to see.). Suddenly two people came to the balcony and started dancing there. Kagome smiled broadly as she saw it was Sango with someone. Sango was positively beaming, so Kagome guessed that the guy was that Miroku guy. Someone looked out of one of the ballroom windows and saw her. Kagome gulped and decided to leave her little bench. She wandered into the garden full of hedges. Surely if someone followed her they would get lost. Nope. "Sheesh! You could have told me we weren't confined to the ballroom! It's stuffy in there." Kagome whirled around. "It's you!" "I have a name." Inu-Yasha replied irritably "I'm sorry for not asking.Nazuna was too quick for me.." "Nazuna? Is that the girl I danced with after you?" "Yup." "I couldn't make out her name. It sounded like Nazeusa so I've been calling her Medusa." Kagome snorted. The band struck up again. "Hey! I recognize that song! It's.it's." Kagome struggled to remember what her music teacher had said. "but you don't know the name?" ".it's.it's.oh I don't what it's called but I like it." "May I have this dance then?" Kagome looked up into his sincere golden eyes. She responded by taking the hand he offered and they moved in time to the music. Sango and Miroku stopped dancing when they caught sight of something in the garden. "Well, it looks like my prince has found your princess." Miroku stated. "Kagome actually looks happy.and she's dancing! She hates dancing." Sango was so happy for her friend. "Does she?" Sango nodded. "I don't." Sango took up the offer and she and Miroku continued spinning around the balcony.
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'Where did she get to now??' Kikyo glanced around, hopping to find her sister, 'and what's more, that white haired guy is gone too.' Kikyo was stuck in the center of the ballroom and because she was the center of attention, she couldn't get away to look for her. 'She'd better not have found someone before me!!!' some strange, mad, light appeared in her eyes when she thought that and she scared away the guy she was dancing with but just then the song ended and there was a brief announcement that there would be break so that everyone who had been dancing the entire time could get some food. Everyone left the dance floor but the orchestra kept playing. Kikyo took that time to go looking for her sister. She wanted to meet this guy that Kagome had been dancing with.
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"Sure, sure.now they play lively music!" Kagome snorted. "You like lively music?" "I love it! I can't stand those boring, dull waltzes.they make me wanna fall asleep." Kagome still hadn't asked him what his name was and Inu-Yasha found it awkward if he just told her. "We could go back in and dance then." Inu-Yasha offered. "Sure.the dance floor will be empty!" "Of course everyone will stop and watch you." "Why me?" "Because you're family is hosting" "This ball was for my sister! Not for me! She's the center of attention!" "So? You're definitely prettier." Kagome blushed. "Come on! Let's go!" He grabbed her gloved hand and pulled her back into the castle. They went up the flight of stairs and reappeared in the ballroom.
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It never occurred to Kikyo that Kagome would have gone to the gardens so in the stables. 'Gosh darn it! Where could she be??' *stomp, stomp, mush!* "EWWW!!! HORSE DUNG!!!!!" Kikyo ran from the stables as if it was full of Demons (I suppose a horse could be considered a demon to Kikyo.^^)
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"Princess Kagome has returned!" A lady's voice sounded. All of the lords and ladies who were crowded around the food table looked up with their faces stuffed as they watched the princess with this man (well, he's 15 so would that make him a man? I dunno.I am a girl.) dance around the circle (which was marked in the floor) in a lively sort of way (can you picture what I'm saying?). Of course Inu-Yasha's parents were pleased, however, Sesshomaru glared. 'How dare my younger, pitiful, brother get the prettier princess? I am older, I get the first pick!!' He thought. Of course being the elder child, prince or no prince, doesn't mean you get first pick at a girl. Kagome was 3 years younger than Sesshy and had more interest in someone her age. Of course, Sesshy didn't know that but.sooner or later he was bound to find out. Kagome and Inu-Yasha were now the center of attention and as the princes and lords and ladies meandered back on to the ballroom floor, they soon were trapped in the center like Kikyo was only the man Kagome danced with didn't change. It was Inu-Yasha until the cows came home. Of course, by the time Kikyo finally gave up her search (and still was absent minded enough not to check the gardens) and wandered back into the ballroom (of course she changed her shoes from the horse dung) she wasn't even missed and nobody noticed her return. Kagome had taken her place. Kikyo looked like she would kill someone and it was looking like the victim was Kagome. Of course if Kikyo could break a glass by smashing it with her fist, that would have been a great accomplishment for her.
Eventually Kikyo made her presence known and everyone scurried to get out of her way. Kagome and Inu-Yasha snuck away without being noticed because of the commotion Kikyo had started. The guests then definitely knew which princess they liked better: Kagome.
"Whew, if I have to dance another dance I'm gonna fall down where I stand. My feet are killing me!" Kagome gasped. "You don't get on your feet often?" Inu-Yasha asked. Kagome looked up sharply, "I'm on my feet all day! It's these shoes!" Kagome lifted her skirts slightly so Inu-Yasha could see the shoes she was wearing. "I don't know what I'd do if I had to wear those all day." Inu-Yasha stared. "Oh I don't have to. Kikyo doesn't have to either but she does anyway." Inu-Yasha shuddered. "Do you shoot arrows?" "What?" "Do you shoot arrows??" Kagome repeated. "You mean with a bow?" "No..with a pencil!" Kagome's voice was dripping with sarcasm. "What?? Oh, yea. Are you any good?" Inu-Yasha challenged. "Wanna find out?" "Lead the way!" Kagome led Inu-Yasha down to the archery range and handed him a bow and a quiver of arrows. Kagome took of her shoes before taking her bow and arrows. "Ahhhhh.much better." Kagome sighed as her feet touched the cool stone floor, "You first."
Inu-Yasha pulled back the string and shot the arrow. Dead on. He smirked and gave her a look that said: 'your just a girl, you can't do better than that.' Kagome's jaw dropped. She couldn't beat him but she could try to tie. She gave him a look that said: 'I'm gonna wipe that smirk off your face, watch me carefully.' Kagome pulled back the string till it was taut and took careful aim. Inu- Yasha considered yelling 'biff!' but decided that that would be unfair. Kagome let the arrow fly. It split Inu-Yasha's arrow down the middle perfectly until it hit the arrowhead that was made of metal. There was a 'tink' as her arrowhead hit his from behind. Inu-Yasha's jaw dropped. Dead on. Kagome stood proudly, made a curtsy and then went to collect her arrow and toss away the now destroyed arrow. "Nice doing business with you." Kagome grabbed his hand and shook it. She then wandered back to the ballroom to say goodnight to her parents. She was tired.
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"You? Beaten?? At archery?" Miroku was quite surprised. "And by a girl too!" Inu-Yasha spat. Kagome froze. She had just finished saying goodnight to her parents and was on her way out of the ballroom when she heard the voice of the guy she had been dancing with all evening. "I didn't know girls were that good!" "She's a princess too!!" Inu-Yasha's bitter voice stung Kagome. "You need to stop stereotyping!" "Keh. I've got to see that it doesn't happen again. Honestly, and by the way she shook my hand it was like she had just won a million dollars." Tears welled up in Kagome's eyes. He had been so nice too. She ran passed him and Miroku (of course she didn't know their names) and flicked a tear at him with out looking. "Uh oh." Miroku stated as he saw the tear she flicked land on Inu-Yasha's hand. Inu-Yasha turned pale. He had had no idea that she had heard him and now he was paying the price of putting down girls. "I'm going to bed." He muttered. Miroku shook his head and wandered off to find Sango.
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Kagome sobbed in her room. How dare he??? She hadn't beaten him anyways. She had just brought herself up to a tie. She had been proud that she had split the arrow too. She'd never done that before. She had just shaken his hand because she thought it would add to her character but he had just gone and messed things up by taking it the wrong way. Keh. Then she smiled evilly as she remembered his face. He could have swallowed a horse in one gulp by the size of his mouth. She decided to put it behind her. If he was jealous because she had tied with him then that was his problem, but for some reason she couldn't get him out of her head. 'He lied,' She thought, 'he really was just another guy blinded by his ego.' Unfortunately for her, this wasn't the last time she was going to see him.
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WAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Well? How did you like my second chapter?? Please review and don't flame me to badly! Don't worry! I will say this now: this is an IY/Kag fic, k?
I'm going away to Hawaii for 12 days, I think it's from the 11 of Aug. till the 23 so don't expect any updates during that time period, k? ^^ I will try to update before then though!
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Special thanks to Momori, my dear friend, who edited.
Momori-Awwiiieess!!! I didn't know Inu-Yasha could be so..so.. awfully stupid and sweet at the same time!! ^_^'' Great chapter! I'm completely endorsed in your story!!!! ^______^ Special thanks to Momori, my dear friend, who edited.