Disclaimer: Inu-Yasha belongs to Kagome
IY: No I don't!!
Kag: SIT!
*WHAM!*
IY: curse.you..
Kag: In truth, Ms. Takahashi rules us all....
Your.not so average princess. Chapter three: Forgiving.
"Inu-Yasha, what's with you?" "You just can't stop pestering me can you mother?" "You were having a brilliant night last night with Princess Kagome, what went wrong?" "I think he went wrong, Majesty." Inu-Yasha glared at Miroku. "I won't ask for details then." Inu-Yasha stared out the window. Why did he have to mess up like that? He didn't usually put down girls like that; it's just that he had never met a girl who wasn't like Kikyo. Kagome had been a first. Inu-Yasha's stomach heaved as the road got bumpier and he nearly puked. He really looked terrible but Miroku only thought Kagome was bothering him and didn't seem to notice the road change. 'When will I see her next?' He wondered. Then he frowned. She still didn't know his name. Didn't she care? He guessed she might have in the beginning but then just plain forgot to ask. 'I could have told her.' He chided himself, 'but if she really wanted to know, she would have asked.'
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At the breakfast table:
"Kagome, what's wrong with you?" Kagome stared into her pancakes. "Kagome?" "What?" "Are you OK?" Everyone at the table looked at her with concern. Well, everyone but Kikyo. (So basically her parents looked at her with concern.) "Yea.I'm fine." She lied. "Good because I have some news." Her father revealed, "Kikyo clearly didn't find anyone that special last night but the person she had slightly more interest in was Prince Sesshomaru." "Daddy that's not true!" Kikyo butt in. He silenced her with a wave of his hand. "It would be good for the trade between Shikon and Tetsusaiga and so, it has been arranged between us and the King and Queen of Tetsusaiga that we shall visit them in a week and stay there for about a month to get to know them." "Then we'll come home and Kikyo can make her final decision." Their mother finished. Kagome didn't really care but that was only because she had no idea that the guy she had been dancing with last night, was Sesshomaru's brother.
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Against her mothers will, Kagome and Sango rode ahead of the carriages on their horses. Kagome was in a very good mood. Why? Because her sister had to marry someone that she barely knew and Kagome could take it slowly...until.well, her mother ordered her to marry..-_- Kagome brushed those thoughts behind her. It was a glorious day and she was not going to let something as stupid as the thought of marriage get in her way. She smiled as the wind picked up and blew her hair out behind her. They had been riding for two and a half days and they were expected to arrive at the castle Tetsusaiga by dinner. Something had been tickling her nose for the past hour. It was in the air but Kagome couldn't make out what it was. It was only till about 4:00 p.m. that Kagome realized what she smelled. They still had about an hour left till they were supposed to arrive at the castle but Kagome ended up shortening that time for her and Sango in half. Sango was just commenting about how pretty the castle was from afar when her friend took off from beside her screaming: "THE SEA!!!! I CAN SMELL THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!" Sango raced after her friend after madly shouting to the King that she was chasing Kagome who had for some reason gone mad. Kagome's father just sort of shrugged and acted as if that was an everyday thing. Sango's horse went as fast as it could to keep up with Kagome's but it slowed and fell more and more behind. "KAGOME!!!" Sango hollered, hopping to get the princesses attention but to no avail.
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Kagome leapt off her horse (literally) and went splashing into the salty water. She was wearing shorts so she wadded in up to her knees. She actually made it to the sea! Sango finally caught up to her but Kagome didn't even notice that she wasn't alone anymore. Kagome started babbling really fast about how lucky Kikyo was to be able to marry this guy (even though Kagome had had the, err, pleasure of dancing with this guy and wished he didn't exist) and how if he lived 100 yards from the sea he couldn't be that bad. It was when Kagome started babbling about how SHE wished that she was the one getting married to live here that Sango decided to put her friend in her right mind. She conked Kagome on the head and held her up until her eyes finished swirling (anime style). Kagome shook her head. "What's wrong with me?" Kagome asked her lady in waiting. "Sea fever I think." "Rrrright.." "Let's go up to the castle and tell the King and Queen that the carriage should be here in about 20 minutes." "Wha? Castle?" Kagome looks around. Sango pointed at the castle towering right above them. "Oh!" ^.^ "I think it's the sea." Sango decided.
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Inu-Yasha looked out the window. Let's replay what he saw (he was up high so he couldn't quite make out faces, k?): Girl #1 comes racing up on a horse and flies off it as fast as she can leap. Goes madly splashing into the water. Girl #2 comes up listens to what girl #1 has to say and then conks her on the head. Inu-Yasha scratched his head. Of course he didn't recognize Kagome as he couldn't see her face and her hair was back in a ponytail. At the ball, her hair was down.
The two girls trudged up to the castle gaits and handed their horses to a stable boy. Then they went through the gates.
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"The King won't want to see me as a 'peasant' so I gotta find a way to change." "Why don't you just tell him that you were riding and that's why you're dressed the way you are?" Sango innocently asked. Kagome thought about this for a sec."Fine then." So, the two of them wandered into the castle and asked for the King. "Could I speak his majesty please?" Kagome formally asked a guard with a hint of sweetness. "Who wants to see him?" The guard sneered at this 'peasant girl'. Kagome's voice suddenly became very sharp, "Princess Kagome Higurashi of the kingdom Shikon. Please admit me to the King!" She and Sango smirked inwardly as the guard's sneering face wilted into formal apology. "Yes Princess." The guard muttered and scurried away to get the news to the king. In the mean time a squire showed the two girls to their rooms. Kagome whipped out a frill-less, forest green dress. She threw it on and straightened out the wrinkles. Sango reappeared in Kagome's room in a pink dress with her hair in a long French braid. (Momori: O_o SANGO IN A FRENCH BRAID??!!! Noodals: Leave Sango's braid alone!!) Kagome ran a brush through her hair and then grabbed a ribbon and tied her hair back into a ponytail. She smiled sweetly at Sango who smiled as sweetly back. The two of them had no idea that Inu-Yasha and Miroku lived here. They were in for a surprise.
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"So, the King and Queen with their eldest daughter will arrive in roughly 10 minutes?" The King confirmed. "Yes, Majesty." Kagome responded. "Good. Welcome to the Kingdom Tetsusaiga!" he greeted, "You should have been shown your rooms so you are free to wander through the castle grounds. Dinner will be served at six." He dismissed them. "I wonder if they have an archery range?" Kagome asked out loud as they wandered down the hall. "Let's find somebody to ask." Sango suggested. Just then, from down the hall: "Sango? Lady Sango? Do my eyes deceive me or is it really you?" Sango looked down hall and gasped: "Miroku? MIROKU!!!!!" Sango squealed as she dashed down the hall while leaving Kagome coughing in her dust. Sango started babbling about how much she liked dancing with him and how much she had thought about him when he left and blah, blah, blah, blah. 'Yup. She must have been right earlier. It's the sea that's making us weird.' Kagome decided to herself. "Miroku, you couldn't show me to the archery room could you?" Kagome sheepishly asked. "Certainly, fair princess!" He showed her to the range, "let's see you take a shot!" he wanted to see if she really was as good as Inu-Yasha had bitterly described. Kagome hesitated, afraid of the same reaction from Miroku as from the white haired boy she had danced with. She decided to prove it to him so she twanged on the bowstring to test. Good condition. She looked down the arrow she would be using for straightness and then drew back the string. Sango smiled broadly, having total confidence in her friend. Kagome fired the arrow. And Miroku's jaw dropped. Dead on. Again. "Whoa! You really are good!" Kagome smiled a stiff smile. "Thank you for showing me where the range was, Lord Miroku. If you wish, you may take Sango for a walk in the gardens." Kagome suggested, thinking about Sango's favourite place and got just the reaction from her friend as she expected. Sango's eyes sparkled at the thought of a new garden to memorize while she was there. She looked up at Miroku and pleaded with her eyes. His heart melted. "Do like fountains Sango?" He asked her. She was nearly kissing him. "I'd love to see them!" She finally managed to squeak out. He led out an over hyper Sango and left Kagome to her practice (she WAS in a dress). "Yup. It's definitely the sea." Kagome would have signed in blood if there had been a decision to make about their brief craziness. She was glad to be alone. She just wanted to be alone. She didn't know why but she just did. She started firing shots really fast until she was firing five shots in less than 10 seconds and then Inu-Yasha appeared into the room. He stared firstly at the fact that she was firing so fast and second at the fact that she was here (his father had been a bum and only told Sesshomaru about the arrival of Kikyo (and hadn't said a word about Kagome)) It took him a minute to recognize her from her sweaty face and her hair was pulled back but when he did, he blushed and decided to get her attention to apologize to her. He didn't want to make her mad by breaking her concentration because she WAS armed with a bow and highly sharp arrows so. First thing Kagome was firing arrows non-stop and the next she felt something whistle past her ear and then imbed itself on the target she was using. She shrieked with sudden surprise and fell backwards: Only to be caught by someone. She braced herself for the fall but then realized that it was taking her much longer to fall than gravity would allow. "You can open your eyes." A soft voice told her, referring to her squinted eyes. Kagome's eyes slowly opened. She stood up, with the support of her saver. She then turned to face him to thank him but as soon as she saw him her soft, sky-blue eyes turned cold with dread and surprise. "What are YOU doing here??" She shrieked. "That's my line," he said while rubbing his ear from her shriek, "this is MY home." "It is?" Kagome was clearly confused. "Yea." Kagome ran over to wall and hung up the borrowed bow and quiver of arrows and then started to run from the room. "Wait!" Inu-Yasha called to her, "I wanted to apologize to you for what I said about you during the ball." She paused at the doorway, not looking at him and heard him out. Inu-Yasha took a deep breath: if he messed up, it was the end of being able to be friends with a girl who liked to DO things. "I'm sorry for, for, saying that you shouldn't be able to do things just because you're a girl. It was stupid to stereotype but, it's just that I've never met a girl who had been good at anything like that." She looked up at him. Was he being serious?? He didn't look like the apologetic type. Inu-Yasha looked over at the target she had been firing at and looked at the twenty shots she had been shooting at rapid speed and saw how they all seemed to be sharing the middle of the target. "You sure as hell are good." He added with disbelief. She smiled at him. "What is your name?" He looked at her, slightly surprised at the change of topic. "Inu-Yasha." "Inu-Yasha? I like that." ^ ^
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"So.you good with fencing?" He tried to break the tension. Kagome's eyes danced. "Where's the practice room???" She demanded. "You.uh.might want to change into something more suitable for wielding a sword." She looked at her now slightly dirty green dress. "I'll be back." She left and in two seconds she was back in the archery room. "I'm lost! ^ ^'" She blushed. "..." He left the room with her right behind him. "I really am sorry about what I said." "You can make it up to me by making sure I enjoy my stay here!" ^.^ "Ok." "You can start by giving me a good work out in the practice room!" He grinned evilly. "That won't be too hard." Kagome tutted him, as she reached her quarters and found a pair of canvasy Capri's and a tunic, while thinking about the incident he was trying to correct. She hoped he wouldn't diss her for being a girl again. Inu-Yasha wished he hadn't said what he had just said because he didn't want to make the same mistake again. He wouldn't. 'And that's that!' he promised to himself. "Ready!" She appeared from behind her door with her face newly washed and her hair freshly brushed five minutes later. Inu-Yasha instinctively sensed she enjoyed being in Capri's more than in dresses. Just then, Kagome's family came down the hall with a squire in the lead. Kikyo stared at the clothes Kagome was wearing. 'HAS SHE NO MANNERS????' Kikyo felt like leaping out from behind her mother and father and teaching her sister a lesson by showing her what was right to wear in front of a Prince and what wasn't. Kagome and Inu-Yasha respectfully bowed at their passing. "Kagome! There you are! We wondered where you had galloped off to!" Kagome's mother exclaimed. "I see you have found Prince Inu-Yasha!" Kagome's father exclaimed. 'That's pretty obvious dad!' she thought as she smiled outwardly, 'and thanks for telling me he lived here!!' She felt like tackling her dad to the ground but decided to save that for another time. "We'll see you at dinner, dear! You have 30 minutes till I expect you to be in your quarters getting ready." "Yes, mother." Kagome replied. She simply couldn't miss the jealous looks she was getting from Kikyo and Nazuna about HER being with Inu-Yasha and not them and tried hard not to smirk at them. They continued down the hall with the squire pointing at the doors of where they would be staying for a month. "Well, let's go!" Kagome was about to dash down the hall but then remembered that she didn't know where she was going. Inu-Yasha heard the door to Kikyo and Nazuna's room open a crack. He guessed they were peeping on them while they were in the hall so he GRABBED HER HAND and dragged her down the hall and down several flights of stairs to the practice room. 'What? What? What?' She wondered, 'why is he.holding my hand??' He let go of her hand when they got there but she still couldn't stop thinking about it. He led her over to the rack of swords and let her pick as he grabbed his favourite. She picked different swords and tested them, looking for lightweight and easy swing but a good swing that could turn sharply in the air for better maneuvering. She finally found one that seemed to fit just perfect into her hand. She swung it in easy arcs and then turned to Inu-Yasha who had been warming up. "I'm ready!" She exclaimed. They took the 'on guard' stance and then began. 'I'll go easy on her for the first bit.sorta.' He thought as he was instantly on the lookout for openings. 'This guys a piece of cake!' Kagome exclaimed to herself, 'for now anyways.' she remembered what her instructor had taught her from the very beginning: NEVER underestimate your opponent. She had him on the defensive for now and was striking at every possible moment but the tide of the 'battle' started to change as Inu-Yasha challenged her more. Then it changed back as Kagome pressured a little more. 'Geeze! She is definitely not to be under estimated!' he thought, 'she doesn't even look tired!' he thought as he started to sweat some more. Kagome was far from not being tired but she had her own way of not showing she was tired until the very end when her muscles screamed and begged for mercy. Otherwise she didn't even notice her body tiring. "Had enough?" Kagome taunted. Inu-Yasha shook his head but that only made him dizzy and he fell over. She pointed her sword at his throat: "GAME!" she screamed out with triumph and then her muscle gave way. She collapsed next to him on the ground. "Well,*gasp* it looks like I'm not *gasp* doing so bad in giving you a good *gasp* workout, eh?" *pant, pant* "*GASP* You're doing*gasp, pant* just fine!" She responded while looking for water. Inu-Yasha tossed her a flask he had on the bench against the wall that had water in it. She sucked the life out of it trying to get more water into her than she could handle and then passed it to Inu-Yasha who then did the same. "Thanks!" She said as she wiped her mouth. "We should probably go and get ready for dinner." Inu-Yasha suggested. "Yea." Kagome bluntly agreed as she dreamed of a bath to wash the dirt of her body and out of her hair. Inu-Yasha led her up to her room and Kagome memorized a little more of the halls as they went up this time. "Thanks." Kagome ran into her bathroom to start running it. "I'll be here in twenty minutes to take you to the dinning room.unless you can make it on your own." Inu-Yasha offered. She smiled at him as she started pouring bubble mix into the tub. "Thank you. I don't want to be late for dinner so I would appreciate it if you showed me the way." "I'll be here. Don't dress too formally," he joked. She snorted. She wouldn't dress formally unless it was an order. He left her to undress and bathe. 'He really didn't end up being too bad.' she thought in the back of her mind as she slipped into the tub, 'I wonder if he'll take me sailing sometime.' The thought of the ocean thrilled her as she started massaging her head with shampoo (they had mango smelling stuff in her bathroom and she didn't bring her rose stuff. No, she didn't know what a 'mango' was that's just what it smelled like). Nothing could shatter her mood for now.
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Inu-Yasha appeared at her door as she finished spraying herself with the perfume at her dresser. "Ready?" he didn't let him emotions travel to his face but on the inside he was thinking, 'I can't believe she can be so pretty as well as active. She is an amazing girl.' Kagome smiled which almost made Inu-Yasha start staring. "I'm ready." Her hair was brushed with her hair back (in that sort of style where the top of her hair is pulled back but the lower half of the hair on her head is flowing. I don't know the name of this style obviously or I would have just said the name of it. I suppose it's like a half ponytail). She was wearing a pretty dress that was the colour that brought out her eyes the most: blue. They stepped out of her room and Inu-Yasha started leading her down the hall when a voice started cawing from behind them. "Well you two seem to be very close!" Kagome and Inu-Yasha looked behind them and saw Kikyo coming after them with Nazuna following like a dog. "Aren't you two lovers going to show us the way to dinner?" Kagome flared up. "WE AREN'T BLOODY LOVERS YOU SICK-MINDED FREAK!!" Inu-Yasha looked at Kagome with surprise. It wasn't what she said because they weren't lovers at all (yet) and Kikyo probably was a sick-minded freak, but it was her boldness to yell at her older sister like that. Kikyo just smirked which surprised Inu-Yasha even more. Was this what life at their castle was like?? His brother wouldn't let him eat another meal if he yelled at him like that and called him a sick-minded freak. Inu-Yasha would have been pounded to the floor but then it occurred to him that if Kikyo tried to do that to Kagome, Kikyo would have been pounded easily instead. "Come on Kagome.stop yelling at useless things," he muttered, Kikyo's jaw dropped, "I mean, the wind isn't going to answer you." He finished. Kagome snorted and managed to turn it into a coughing fit. "Let's go." She agreed. Kikyo and Nazuna started humming the tune to 'here comes the bride' and where doing this sort of jig thing behind Kagome and Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha was starting to get really annoyed and embarrassed as they passed squires and servants so he started cracking his knuckles in a flexing sort of way and that caused the three girls to look at his hands and notice that he had longer nails than the ordinary man would. They were also filed to a point, which really scared Nazuna. Kikyo was being herself, thinking how he could protect her if she got him to like her. Kagome wasn't really thinking about anything in particular but she had this feeling that Inu-Yasha would never use them to harm her. "Oh listen, Kagome.Aren't they so selfish? Singing their own wedding tune." "Leave it for the piano girls." Kagome yelled back at them. At that point they came to a set of double doors. "Ladies, the dining hall." Inu-Yasha said as the double doors were opened for them.
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Dinner was going fine. Sango and Miroku flirted at one end, Kagome and Inu- Yasha talked nearby, while Kikyo was getting acquainted with Sesshomaru. Nazuna was the only one who was looking for a guy to ensnare. She looked at Miroku with interest (sad, isn't it.) Sango was instantly on alert when she saw Nazuna look Miroku's way. Miroku could sense that a girl was watching him so he glanced up. Nazuna smiled sweetly at him, or tried to.Miroku tried to smile back, really he did, but his smile was so forced that it came out at a smirk. That only confused Nazuna. Kagome and Inu-Yasha were talking softly and were keeping an ear out for conversation elsewhere as well. "So, do you do archery?" Sesshomaru's silky voice made Kagome shiver. She was glad that he was talking to Kikyo. "No, it's too strenuous. It's for men." Kagome flinched. "Do you ride horses?" "Sometimes." "Do you sail?" "I've never been on a boat before." "I'll have to take you sailing sometime! You're hair would look pretty if it were flying out behind you!" *flatter, flatter* Kikyo blushed on purpose (I didn't know someone could do that.). "Do you play croquet?" Kikyo brightened, "Oh yes! I love croquet! It's the best sport!" "Sport?" Kagome muttered to Inu-Yasha. "I could hit a home run with a croquet mallet." he replied. "Look at Nazuna!" Kagome nodded her head towards her sister's lady-in- waiting. Inu-Yasha glanced at her. Nazuna had a frightfully big predatory look on her face. Inu-Yasha followed her gaze and nearly laughed. She was still looking at Miroku. Kagome almost got up to tell her to give it up. Sango had her eye on Miroku and nobody was going have him except for her. Sango would definitely see to that. "Watch out." She muttered to Lady Sango and Lord Miroku. "I'm already on guard!" Sango replied. 'I won't be taken away from Sango! I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't!' Miroku furiously repeated in his head. When dessert was finished Kagome excused herself to go for a walk. "Don't go too far!" Her mother warned. Inu-Yasha soon after excused himself and went outside. Kikyo was too absorbed with being flattered by Sesshomaru (call me Sesshy) (Momori: lol.Noodals: If he told me to call him Sesshy, I'd kick his a$$ to Australia.and I'd give him 10 cents for him to mail me a postcard.) to notice that her sister had disappeared and then that Inu-Yasha followed her out.
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Kagome was walking along the beach, her letting the tide lick at her feet. She had taken her hair out so that it was flying behind her. Her dress was also flowing with the breeze she was walking into. Inu-Yasha came up behind her. "You look pretty in the wind, at night." He told her. She smiled, her eyes reflecting the moonlight. 'She's so pretty,' he couldn't stop thinking, 'I think I want to kiss her.AAAAH! STOP IT BRAIN, STOP!! WHY WOULD I WANT TO KISS HER???' 'Because you think you like her?' the other side of his brain told him. "Kagome." She looked up at him.
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WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! AREN'T I EVIL??? So.will he kiss her? Or will he make a complete fool out of himself?
Wait and see.
K, I don't think I'll have access to a computer in Hawaii so this fic won't be updated till I get back on the 23rd. I will take the time to keep writing the fourth chapter in Hawaii on paper and then I will take the long, painful time to type it up on my computer.
Enjoy your summer! -Noodals (a.k.a. Kirara kitty) =^.^=
Momori: HAHA! I love Kikyo's actions. HAHA.okay, good job!! I loved it!!!
Your.not so average princess. Chapter three: Forgiving.
"Inu-Yasha, what's with you?" "You just can't stop pestering me can you mother?" "You were having a brilliant night last night with Princess Kagome, what went wrong?" "I think he went wrong, Majesty." Inu-Yasha glared at Miroku. "I won't ask for details then." Inu-Yasha stared out the window. Why did he have to mess up like that? He didn't usually put down girls like that; it's just that he had never met a girl who wasn't like Kikyo. Kagome had been a first. Inu-Yasha's stomach heaved as the road got bumpier and he nearly puked. He really looked terrible but Miroku only thought Kagome was bothering him and didn't seem to notice the road change. 'When will I see her next?' He wondered. Then he frowned. She still didn't know his name. Didn't she care? He guessed she might have in the beginning but then just plain forgot to ask. 'I could have told her.' He chided himself, 'but if she really wanted to know, she would have asked.'
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At the breakfast table:
"Kagome, what's wrong with you?" Kagome stared into her pancakes. "Kagome?" "What?" "Are you OK?" Everyone at the table looked at her with concern. Well, everyone but Kikyo. (So basically her parents looked at her with concern.) "Yea.I'm fine." She lied. "Good because I have some news." Her father revealed, "Kikyo clearly didn't find anyone that special last night but the person she had slightly more interest in was Prince Sesshomaru." "Daddy that's not true!" Kikyo butt in. He silenced her with a wave of his hand. "It would be good for the trade between Shikon and Tetsusaiga and so, it has been arranged between us and the King and Queen of Tetsusaiga that we shall visit them in a week and stay there for about a month to get to know them." "Then we'll come home and Kikyo can make her final decision." Their mother finished. Kagome didn't really care but that was only because she had no idea that the guy she had been dancing with last night, was Sesshomaru's brother.
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Against her mothers will, Kagome and Sango rode ahead of the carriages on their horses. Kagome was in a very good mood. Why? Because her sister had to marry someone that she barely knew and Kagome could take it slowly...until.well, her mother ordered her to marry..-_- Kagome brushed those thoughts behind her. It was a glorious day and she was not going to let something as stupid as the thought of marriage get in her way. She smiled as the wind picked up and blew her hair out behind her. They had been riding for two and a half days and they were expected to arrive at the castle Tetsusaiga by dinner. Something had been tickling her nose for the past hour. It was in the air but Kagome couldn't make out what it was. It was only till about 4:00 p.m. that Kagome realized what she smelled. They still had about an hour left till they were supposed to arrive at the castle but Kagome ended up shortening that time for her and Sango in half. Sango was just commenting about how pretty the castle was from afar when her friend took off from beside her screaming: "THE SEA!!!! I CAN SMELL THE SEA!!!!!!!!!!!" Sango raced after her friend after madly shouting to the King that she was chasing Kagome who had for some reason gone mad. Kagome's father just sort of shrugged and acted as if that was an everyday thing. Sango's horse went as fast as it could to keep up with Kagome's but it slowed and fell more and more behind. "KAGOME!!!" Sango hollered, hopping to get the princesses attention but to no avail.
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Kagome leapt off her horse (literally) and went splashing into the salty water. She was wearing shorts so she wadded in up to her knees. She actually made it to the sea! Sango finally caught up to her but Kagome didn't even notice that she wasn't alone anymore. Kagome started babbling really fast about how lucky Kikyo was to be able to marry this guy (even though Kagome had had the, err, pleasure of dancing with this guy and wished he didn't exist) and how if he lived 100 yards from the sea he couldn't be that bad. It was when Kagome started babbling about how SHE wished that she was the one getting married to live here that Sango decided to put her friend in her right mind. She conked Kagome on the head and held her up until her eyes finished swirling (anime style). Kagome shook her head. "What's wrong with me?" Kagome asked her lady in waiting. "Sea fever I think." "Rrrright.." "Let's go up to the castle and tell the King and Queen that the carriage should be here in about 20 minutes." "Wha? Castle?" Kagome looks around. Sango pointed at the castle towering right above them. "Oh!" ^.^ "I think it's the sea." Sango decided.
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Inu-Yasha looked out the window. Let's replay what he saw (he was up high so he couldn't quite make out faces, k?): Girl #1 comes racing up on a horse and flies off it as fast as she can leap. Goes madly splashing into the water. Girl #2 comes up listens to what girl #1 has to say and then conks her on the head. Inu-Yasha scratched his head. Of course he didn't recognize Kagome as he couldn't see her face and her hair was back in a ponytail. At the ball, her hair was down.
The two girls trudged up to the castle gaits and handed their horses to a stable boy. Then they went through the gates.
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"The King won't want to see me as a 'peasant' so I gotta find a way to change." "Why don't you just tell him that you were riding and that's why you're dressed the way you are?" Sango innocently asked. Kagome thought about this for a sec."Fine then." So, the two of them wandered into the castle and asked for the King. "Could I speak his majesty please?" Kagome formally asked a guard with a hint of sweetness. "Who wants to see him?" The guard sneered at this 'peasant girl'. Kagome's voice suddenly became very sharp, "Princess Kagome Higurashi of the kingdom Shikon. Please admit me to the King!" She and Sango smirked inwardly as the guard's sneering face wilted into formal apology. "Yes Princess." The guard muttered and scurried away to get the news to the king. In the mean time a squire showed the two girls to their rooms. Kagome whipped out a frill-less, forest green dress. She threw it on and straightened out the wrinkles. Sango reappeared in Kagome's room in a pink dress with her hair in a long French braid. (Momori: O_o SANGO IN A FRENCH BRAID??!!! Noodals: Leave Sango's braid alone!!) Kagome ran a brush through her hair and then grabbed a ribbon and tied her hair back into a ponytail. She smiled sweetly at Sango who smiled as sweetly back. The two of them had no idea that Inu-Yasha and Miroku lived here. They were in for a surprise.
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"So, the King and Queen with their eldest daughter will arrive in roughly 10 minutes?" The King confirmed. "Yes, Majesty." Kagome responded. "Good. Welcome to the Kingdom Tetsusaiga!" he greeted, "You should have been shown your rooms so you are free to wander through the castle grounds. Dinner will be served at six." He dismissed them. "I wonder if they have an archery range?" Kagome asked out loud as they wandered down the hall. "Let's find somebody to ask." Sango suggested. Just then, from down the hall: "Sango? Lady Sango? Do my eyes deceive me or is it really you?" Sango looked down hall and gasped: "Miroku? MIROKU!!!!!" Sango squealed as she dashed down the hall while leaving Kagome coughing in her dust. Sango started babbling about how much she liked dancing with him and how much she had thought about him when he left and blah, blah, blah, blah. 'Yup. She must have been right earlier. It's the sea that's making us weird.' Kagome decided to herself. "Miroku, you couldn't show me to the archery room could you?" Kagome sheepishly asked. "Certainly, fair princess!" He showed her to the range, "let's see you take a shot!" he wanted to see if she really was as good as Inu-Yasha had bitterly described. Kagome hesitated, afraid of the same reaction from Miroku as from the white haired boy she had danced with. She decided to prove it to him so she twanged on the bowstring to test. Good condition. She looked down the arrow she would be using for straightness and then drew back the string. Sango smiled broadly, having total confidence in her friend. Kagome fired the arrow. And Miroku's jaw dropped. Dead on. Again. "Whoa! You really are good!" Kagome smiled a stiff smile. "Thank you for showing me where the range was, Lord Miroku. If you wish, you may take Sango for a walk in the gardens." Kagome suggested, thinking about Sango's favourite place and got just the reaction from her friend as she expected. Sango's eyes sparkled at the thought of a new garden to memorize while she was there. She looked up at Miroku and pleaded with her eyes. His heart melted. "Do like fountains Sango?" He asked her. She was nearly kissing him. "I'd love to see them!" She finally managed to squeak out. He led out an over hyper Sango and left Kagome to her practice (she WAS in a dress). "Yup. It's definitely the sea." Kagome would have signed in blood if there had been a decision to make about their brief craziness. She was glad to be alone. She just wanted to be alone. She didn't know why but she just did. She started firing shots really fast until she was firing five shots in less than 10 seconds and then Inu-Yasha appeared into the room. He stared firstly at the fact that she was firing so fast and second at the fact that she was here (his father had been a bum and only told Sesshomaru about the arrival of Kikyo (and hadn't said a word about Kagome)) It took him a minute to recognize her from her sweaty face and her hair was pulled back but when he did, he blushed and decided to get her attention to apologize to her. He didn't want to make her mad by breaking her concentration because she WAS armed with a bow and highly sharp arrows so. First thing Kagome was firing arrows non-stop and the next she felt something whistle past her ear and then imbed itself on the target she was using. She shrieked with sudden surprise and fell backwards: Only to be caught by someone. She braced herself for the fall but then realized that it was taking her much longer to fall than gravity would allow. "You can open your eyes." A soft voice told her, referring to her squinted eyes. Kagome's eyes slowly opened. She stood up, with the support of her saver. She then turned to face him to thank him but as soon as she saw him her soft, sky-blue eyes turned cold with dread and surprise. "What are YOU doing here??" She shrieked. "That's my line," he said while rubbing his ear from her shriek, "this is MY home." "It is?" Kagome was clearly confused. "Yea." Kagome ran over to wall and hung up the borrowed bow and quiver of arrows and then started to run from the room. "Wait!" Inu-Yasha called to her, "I wanted to apologize to you for what I said about you during the ball." She paused at the doorway, not looking at him and heard him out. Inu-Yasha took a deep breath: if he messed up, it was the end of being able to be friends with a girl who liked to DO things. "I'm sorry for, for, saying that you shouldn't be able to do things just because you're a girl. It was stupid to stereotype but, it's just that I've never met a girl who had been good at anything like that." She looked up at him. Was he being serious?? He didn't look like the apologetic type. Inu-Yasha looked over at the target she had been firing at and looked at the twenty shots she had been shooting at rapid speed and saw how they all seemed to be sharing the middle of the target. "You sure as hell are good." He added with disbelief. She smiled at him. "What is your name?" He looked at her, slightly surprised at the change of topic. "Inu-Yasha." "Inu-Yasha? I like that." ^ ^
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"So.you good with fencing?" He tried to break the tension. Kagome's eyes danced. "Where's the practice room???" She demanded. "You.uh.might want to change into something more suitable for wielding a sword." She looked at her now slightly dirty green dress. "I'll be back." She left and in two seconds she was back in the archery room. "I'm lost! ^ ^'" She blushed. "..." He left the room with her right behind him. "I really am sorry about what I said." "You can make it up to me by making sure I enjoy my stay here!" ^.^ "Ok." "You can start by giving me a good work out in the practice room!" He grinned evilly. "That won't be too hard." Kagome tutted him, as she reached her quarters and found a pair of canvasy Capri's and a tunic, while thinking about the incident he was trying to correct. She hoped he wouldn't diss her for being a girl again. Inu-Yasha wished he hadn't said what he had just said because he didn't want to make the same mistake again. He wouldn't. 'And that's that!' he promised to himself. "Ready!" She appeared from behind her door with her face newly washed and her hair freshly brushed five minutes later. Inu-Yasha instinctively sensed she enjoyed being in Capri's more than in dresses. Just then, Kagome's family came down the hall with a squire in the lead. Kikyo stared at the clothes Kagome was wearing. 'HAS SHE NO MANNERS????' Kikyo felt like leaping out from behind her mother and father and teaching her sister a lesson by showing her what was right to wear in front of a Prince and what wasn't. Kagome and Inu-Yasha respectfully bowed at their passing. "Kagome! There you are! We wondered where you had galloped off to!" Kagome's mother exclaimed. "I see you have found Prince Inu-Yasha!" Kagome's father exclaimed. 'That's pretty obvious dad!' she thought as she smiled outwardly, 'and thanks for telling me he lived here!!' She felt like tackling her dad to the ground but decided to save that for another time. "We'll see you at dinner, dear! You have 30 minutes till I expect you to be in your quarters getting ready." "Yes, mother." Kagome replied. She simply couldn't miss the jealous looks she was getting from Kikyo and Nazuna about HER being with Inu-Yasha and not them and tried hard not to smirk at them. They continued down the hall with the squire pointing at the doors of where they would be staying for a month. "Well, let's go!" Kagome was about to dash down the hall but then remembered that she didn't know where she was going. Inu-Yasha heard the door to Kikyo and Nazuna's room open a crack. He guessed they were peeping on them while they were in the hall so he GRABBED HER HAND and dragged her down the hall and down several flights of stairs to the practice room. 'What? What? What?' She wondered, 'why is he.holding my hand??' He let go of her hand when they got there but she still couldn't stop thinking about it. He led her over to the rack of swords and let her pick as he grabbed his favourite. She picked different swords and tested them, looking for lightweight and easy swing but a good swing that could turn sharply in the air for better maneuvering. She finally found one that seemed to fit just perfect into her hand. She swung it in easy arcs and then turned to Inu-Yasha who had been warming up. "I'm ready!" She exclaimed. They took the 'on guard' stance and then began. 'I'll go easy on her for the first bit.sorta.' He thought as he was instantly on the lookout for openings. 'This guys a piece of cake!' Kagome exclaimed to herself, 'for now anyways.' she remembered what her instructor had taught her from the very beginning: NEVER underestimate your opponent. She had him on the defensive for now and was striking at every possible moment but the tide of the 'battle' started to change as Inu-Yasha challenged her more. Then it changed back as Kagome pressured a little more. 'Geeze! She is definitely not to be under estimated!' he thought, 'she doesn't even look tired!' he thought as he started to sweat some more. Kagome was far from not being tired but she had her own way of not showing she was tired until the very end when her muscles screamed and begged for mercy. Otherwise she didn't even notice her body tiring. "Had enough?" Kagome taunted. Inu-Yasha shook his head but that only made him dizzy and he fell over. She pointed her sword at his throat: "GAME!" she screamed out with triumph and then her muscle gave way. She collapsed next to him on the ground. "Well,*gasp* it looks like I'm not *gasp* doing so bad in giving you a good *gasp* workout, eh?" *pant, pant* "*GASP* You're doing*gasp, pant* just fine!" She responded while looking for water. Inu-Yasha tossed her a flask he had on the bench against the wall that had water in it. She sucked the life out of it trying to get more water into her than she could handle and then passed it to Inu-Yasha who then did the same. "Thanks!" She said as she wiped her mouth. "We should probably go and get ready for dinner." Inu-Yasha suggested. "Yea." Kagome bluntly agreed as she dreamed of a bath to wash the dirt of her body and out of her hair. Inu-Yasha led her up to her room and Kagome memorized a little more of the halls as they went up this time. "Thanks." Kagome ran into her bathroom to start running it. "I'll be here in twenty minutes to take you to the dinning room.unless you can make it on your own." Inu-Yasha offered. She smiled at him as she started pouring bubble mix into the tub. "Thank you. I don't want to be late for dinner so I would appreciate it if you showed me the way." "I'll be here. Don't dress too formally," he joked. She snorted. She wouldn't dress formally unless it was an order. He left her to undress and bathe. 'He really didn't end up being too bad.' she thought in the back of her mind as she slipped into the tub, 'I wonder if he'll take me sailing sometime.' The thought of the ocean thrilled her as she started massaging her head with shampoo (they had mango smelling stuff in her bathroom and she didn't bring her rose stuff. No, she didn't know what a 'mango' was that's just what it smelled like). Nothing could shatter her mood for now.
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Inu-Yasha appeared at her door as she finished spraying herself with the perfume at her dresser. "Ready?" he didn't let him emotions travel to his face but on the inside he was thinking, 'I can't believe she can be so pretty as well as active. She is an amazing girl.' Kagome smiled which almost made Inu-Yasha start staring. "I'm ready." Her hair was brushed with her hair back (in that sort of style where the top of her hair is pulled back but the lower half of the hair on her head is flowing. I don't know the name of this style obviously or I would have just said the name of it. I suppose it's like a half ponytail). She was wearing a pretty dress that was the colour that brought out her eyes the most: blue. They stepped out of her room and Inu-Yasha started leading her down the hall when a voice started cawing from behind them. "Well you two seem to be very close!" Kagome and Inu-Yasha looked behind them and saw Kikyo coming after them with Nazuna following like a dog. "Aren't you two lovers going to show us the way to dinner?" Kagome flared up. "WE AREN'T BLOODY LOVERS YOU SICK-MINDED FREAK!!" Inu-Yasha looked at Kagome with surprise. It wasn't what she said because they weren't lovers at all (yet) and Kikyo probably was a sick-minded freak, but it was her boldness to yell at her older sister like that. Kikyo just smirked which surprised Inu-Yasha even more. Was this what life at their castle was like?? His brother wouldn't let him eat another meal if he yelled at him like that and called him a sick-minded freak. Inu-Yasha would have been pounded to the floor but then it occurred to him that if Kikyo tried to do that to Kagome, Kikyo would have been pounded easily instead. "Come on Kagome.stop yelling at useless things," he muttered, Kikyo's jaw dropped, "I mean, the wind isn't going to answer you." He finished. Kagome snorted and managed to turn it into a coughing fit. "Let's go." She agreed. Kikyo and Nazuna started humming the tune to 'here comes the bride' and where doing this sort of jig thing behind Kagome and Inu-Yasha. Inu-Yasha was starting to get really annoyed and embarrassed as they passed squires and servants so he started cracking his knuckles in a flexing sort of way and that caused the three girls to look at his hands and notice that he had longer nails than the ordinary man would. They were also filed to a point, which really scared Nazuna. Kikyo was being herself, thinking how he could protect her if she got him to like her. Kagome wasn't really thinking about anything in particular but she had this feeling that Inu-Yasha would never use them to harm her. "Oh listen, Kagome.Aren't they so selfish? Singing their own wedding tune." "Leave it for the piano girls." Kagome yelled back at them. At that point they came to a set of double doors. "Ladies, the dining hall." Inu-Yasha said as the double doors were opened for them.
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Dinner was going fine. Sango and Miroku flirted at one end, Kagome and Inu- Yasha talked nearby, while Kikyo was getting acquainted with Sesshomaru. Nazuna was the only one who was looking for a guy to ensnare. She looked at Miroku with interest (sad, isn't it.) Sango was instantly on alert when she saw Nazuna look Miroku's way. Miroku could sense that a girl was watching him so he glanced up. Nazuna smiled sweetly at him, or tried to.Miroku tried to smile back, really he did, but his smile was so forced that it came out at a smirk. That only confused Nazuna. Kagome and Inu-Yasha were talking softly and were keeping an ear out for conversation elsewhere as well. "So, do you do archery?" Sesshomaru's silky voice made Kagome shiver. She was glad that he was talking to Kikyo. "No, it's too strenuous. It's for men." Kagome flinched. "Do you ride horses?" "Sometimes." "Do you sail?" "I've never been on a boat before." "I'll have to take you sailing sometime! You're hair would look pretty if it were flying out behind you!" *flatter, flatter* Kikyo blushed on purpose (I didn't know someone could do that.). "Do you play croquet?" Kikyo brightened, "Oh yes! I love croquet! It's the best sport!" "Sport?" Kagome muttered to Inu-Yasha. "I could hit a home run with a croquet mallet." he replied. "Look at Nazuna!" Kagome nodded her head towards her sister's lady-in- waiting. Inu-Yasha glanced at her. Nazuna had a frightfully big predatory look on her face. Inu-Yasha followed her gaze and nearly laughed. She was still looking at Miroku. Kagome almost got up to tell her to give it up. Sango had her eye on Miroku and nobody was going have him except for her. Sango would definitely see to that. "Watch out." She muttered to Lady Sango and Lord Miroku. "I'm already on guard!" Sango replied. 'I won't be taken away from Sango! I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't!' Miroku furiously repeated in his head. When dessert was finished Kagome excused herself to go for a walk. "Don't go too far!" Her mother warned. Inu-Yasha soon after excused himself and went outside. Kikyo was too absorbed with being flattered by Sesshomaru (call me Sesshy) (Momori: lol.Noodals: If he told me to call him Sesshy, I'd kick his a$$ to Australia.and I'd give him 10 cents for him to mail me a postcard.) to notice that her sister had disappeared and then that Inu-Yasha followed her out.
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Kagome was walking along the beach, her letting the tide lick at her feet. She had taken her hair out so that it was flying behind her. Her dress was also flowing with the breeze she was walking into. Inu-Yasha came up behind her. "You look pretty in the wind, at night." He told her. She smiled, her eyes reflecting the moonlight. 'She's so pretty,' he couldn't stop thinking, 'I think I want to kiss her.AAAAH! STOP IT BRAIN, STOP!! WHY WOULD I WANT TO KISS HER???' 'Because you think you like her?' the other side of his brain told him. "Kagome." She looked up at him.
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WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! AREN'T I EVIL??? So.will he kiss her? Or will he make a complete fool out of himself?
Wait and see.
K, I don't think I'll have access to a computer in Hawaii so this fic won't be updated till I get back on the 23rd. I will take the time to keep writing the fourth chapter in Hawaii on paper and then I will take the long, painful time to type it up on my computer.
Enjoy your summer! -Noodals (a.k.a. Kirara kitty) =^.^=
Momori: HAHA! I love Kikyo's actions. HAHA.okay, good job!! I loved it!!!