Disclaimer: I do not own Inuaysha *sigh* but in this their personalities are MINE!
I also don't own Sleeping Beauty.
A/N: This chapter is when its Kagome's 16th birthday, but just for everyone's info
her name was changed to Gome.
~*~Mel~*~
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Sleeping Princess
By Golden Mooncat
Chapter One: Meeting and Shock
Gome pushed the branches in her way out of the way as she walked through the woods
not far from her house, wanting to get away from her crazy grandmother Kaede.
Shaking her head of raven colored hair free of a tree branch she growled and pulled
off her shoes, setting them down so she could continue on her way. Continuing on
her path Gome ran into something rock solid, yet warm, more of a someone than a
something.
"Lady Gome! What a pleasant surprise." came a voice from above her head, Gome
groaned.
"Hello Koga..." she muttered, rolling her intense greyblue eyes to look into his
pure blue ones.
"How have you been, my mate?" the full wolf youkai asked the young woman as he
kissed the top of her hand.
"Annoyed with you. Koga, how many times must I tell you, I'm not your mate??"
she asked, getting tried of having to tell him.
"Oh but you are my love." Koga said keeping a hold of her hand as she tried to
push past him.
"Let me go Koga. Don't make me hurt you." Gome growled out, her eyes flashing
in anger.
"But Lady Gome, I lo-"
"Don't finish that Koga! Back off!" with that said Gome reached back her free
hand and slammed her palm across his face before taking off into the direction
she had been walking.
"BITCH!" Koga screamed, not being able to hold back his anger or hurt anymore
he started after her, his fingers cracking of their own accord as he prepared
to use his claws on her.
Gome ran harder and faster, sweat dripping down her back as she did. Finding
a small hiding place that would cover her scent from the wolf youkai she dove
into it and slowed her breathing to almost whisps of air in and out of her
lungs. Closing her eyes in fear Gome sat waiting, her cream colored skin
covered in sweat.
~*~
*SPLASH!*
"Traitor horse!" Inuyasha growled out and pulled himself out of the water where
his horse threw him.
"You have to admit Inuyasha, thats a very good look for you." Sango said, while
holding onto her husbands hand and avoiding his other lecherous hand. "Miroku,
were you born this way?" she asked the man beside her who was 'innocently'
grinning.
"What ever do you mean my wife?" he asked innocently, his violet eyes shining
with mischeif as if he were a little child again.
"Sango, actually, he was. I remember, right before I was 'betrothed' that he
looked up his nurses skirts all the time. I think that if you end up having
kids, he'll teach them how to do it." Inuyasha said while ringing out his
silver mane of hair.
"Okay then, are you going to even try and find Princess Kagome?" Miroku asked,
changing the subject.
"Why should I? I mean its not like she's even tried to come back yet..." he
answered, sounding a bit hurt.
"Well you know, little brother, that she was taken as a baby and probably not
told of anything that had happened right after she was born." Sesshomaru said,
sorry, make that King Sesshomaru.
"Shut up Sesshomaru." the hanyou growled out his amber eyes flashing angerily.
"Well, little brother, what do you know, you actually did know that I was here."
Sesshomaru said smirking a bit as he held Rin close to him.
"How can I not, your wife put on enough perfume this morning to make me dizzy."
Inuyasha retorted in anger causing Rin to drop her jaw open a bit.
*"BITCH!"* the dog youkai and hanyou heard, and both of their heads shot up
as they listened intently for the area that the shout came from.
"Shut up all of you!" the brothers said as they trained their hearing to pick
up anything else from around that shout.
"Nothing, damnit. I'll go check it out." Inuyasha said and took off in the
direction he heard running come from.
~*~
"Where did you go?! Huh Gome?! Where?!" Koga shouted as he sliced down a tree
to find the woman who had slapped him.
'Must not make a noise. If I make a noise he's going to find me and kill me.
I am only 15...And I'm supposed to turn 16 in a day. If I die now I'll never
see my birthday and then I'll never know what Grandmother Kaede wanted to tell
me.' Gome thought, her fear causing her scent to spike up and for Koga to
find her.
"There you are bitch!" Koga said when he saw a small peice of the young woman's
skirts sticking out.
Gome held her breath and closed her eyes waiting for the final blow to come to
her but it never came. Opening her eyes she saw that Koga was reaching for her
hair, probably to rip it out. When his hand closed around the raven tresses and
dragged her from her position in her little hiding place she let out a small eep.
"Your dead!" he shouted and raised a clawed hand reaching up to slice through her
cleanly.
"AHH!" Gome screamed and watched in terror as his hand was brought down with
force. Koga's hand was just an inch from her head when something came bursting
through the brush.
~*~
Inuyasha had just heard the shout of a male voice saying "Your dead!" when he
was able to pick up a scent that was intoxicating filled with fear. He then heard
a scream of terror when he slammed through the brush into a small clearing where
he saw them.
Koga had a hold of a girl, a very beautiful girl at that. Her raven hair was long
and clamped in the full wolf youkai's hand. The young woman's bluegrey eyes
were intense and filled with fear. The woman's skin was the color of white
cream, so fair that she practically glowed.
Koga's clear blue eyes were glowing a bit red in anger. His claws were poised
just above the raven haired woman's head ready to strike her down if need-be.
The black hair was pulled into ponytail at the side of his head and then his body
was wrapped up in his clans furr, like armor.
"Let her go." Inuyasha said, his knuckles cracking of their own accord, while his
silver white hair blew around him in the wind. Gome stared at the dog hanyou
thankful that he showed up at that moment.
"Who are you to stop me!?" Koga asked, never having actually seen a painting of
the hanyou prince before.
"None of your business. Let her go." Inuyasha demanded again with a death glare to the
other demon.
"Yea, right. Like I'm going to hand her over to a scrawny half-breed like
you." Koga said and growled when a foot connected with his shin.
"Go to hell Koga! And let me go!" Gome growled out, her eyes flashing in anger
as she kicked at Koga again in the shin.
"Bitch, hold still and I will make sure that it doesn't feel like torture when
I rip you to shreds!" Koga growled out and yanked on her hair causing her to
shriek in pain.
"Asshole! Thats it, I've had it!" Gome said and dropped onto her back kicking
her legs up in the air as she spun knocking him onto his back after kicking
his hand off her hair.
"Whoa..." Inuyasha said and then blinked his mind clear so he could attack
Koga. "Now, either you leave this young woman alone, or else I'll make sure
you end up with a Miko all over you kicking your ass." he said his knuckles
cracking as Koga stood up glaring at the young woman now ducking behind Inuyasha.
"Fine, keep the bitch. But if I see her again she's dead." Koga said and took
off in a whirlwind.
"Thank you." Gome said with a small bow her hair falling over her face.
"Its okay, but are you alright?" Inuyasha asked, his amber eyes questioning.
"I'm fine. Just a small headache. My Grandmother will have something for that
though." she said pushing her hair out of her face and thats when Inuyasha saw
the likeness to his mother's friend the dead Queen Higurashi.
"You...Look really familiar..." he said, cocking his head to the side.
"I, do? Who do I look like?" she asked, tilting her own head.
"You actually look like the Queen Higurashi...She died a few years ago from
grief, her two boys died in the war against a Kingdom to the North while her
only daughter was taken from her..." he trailed off in a bit of sadness that
he lost his future wife before she ever got to know him.
"Well, thanks. Um...Now, to figure out where I live..." Gome said looking
around, she had run off the normal trail she took and got lost in her flee
from Koga.
"Here, I'll get you home. I don't trust that youkai that had a hold of you.
Lets go." Inuyasha said and took her arm and led her the way her scent was
fading quiet quickly.
"Thank you." she said and suddenly started humming a song that popped into
her head, a song her Grandmother used to sing to her when she was younger
and would have a nightmare of an evil Miko who was looking to kill her.
"What are you humming?" he asked, his ears flicking to where she followed him
at his side.
"Oh? Its a song my grandmother used to sing to me when I had a nightmare.
When I got old enough to learn it she taught it to me and now I sing it to
calm myself down." she explained before starting to hum it again.
"Sing it for me. Please? It sounds like its a nice song." the hanyou beside
her asked.
"Sure. But its actually kind of sad." Gome said, took a breath and started
to sing.
(Just to let you know, this is MY song. Don't steal it, please?)
"Somewhere lying sound asleep.
Lies a Princess, in sleep so deep.
Her skin so fair it shines like the moon.
Her cold lips soft and red.
The hair she takes so much care of, raven
colored and dark as night.
She is waiting for her true love to come.
To come and save her from the dark.
Once their lips connect, in true loves
first kiss, flutter open her eyes shall.
Bluegrey in color, seeming to look into
your soul.
Somewhere lying sound asleep.
Lies a Princess, in sleep so deep." she sang in a soft hauntingly beautiful
voice.
"Wow...That sounds like...Nevermind." Inuyasha said shaking his head trying
to clear it of the memories from when he was four.
"Sounds like that legend that a Princess is to strum a Koto until her fingers
bleed? Yea I know. My Grandmother tells me that story all the time. Its
silly isn't it? Princesses can't touch Koto's anymore. They were all burned
what, sixteen years ago?" Gome asked him as she stopped walking.
"Yea, silly. You know what? That song describes a girl that looks kind of
like you." he complimented her and saw her face become a blotchy pink.
"Actually, no it doesn't. The girl in the song is beautiful, I'm just a weak,
pathetic girl who needs to get home before her Grandmother kills her..."
she said and jerked her head in the direction of her house which was now in
sight. "Thanks again for bringing me home...What is it?" Gome asked as
Inuyasha stared deeply into her eyes causing her to get a little uncomfortable
at first, that is until she looked back into his own.
"What's your name?" Inuyasha asked softly, his voice causing her to shift her
eyes to his mouth for a second.
"Gome. I had better go. My grandmother doesn't like me talking to strangers.
She doesn't trust them for some reason...I don't know why." she answered, not
really wanting to leave him there.
"Can I see you again?" the Prince asked looking at her in almost a bit of awe.
"Tomorrow. I'll meet you down there tomorrow. Okay?" Gome asked and then
turned to leave.
"Yes. I'll meet you then. Good-bye Gome." he said, turned, and leapt into
the air leaving.
"Gome! Gome there ye are my child. Where have ye been?" Kaede asked as she
came out of the hut, holding a small box in her hand for her young 'grandaughter.'
"Just walking Grandmother. I'm sorry I took so long. You didn't worry did
you?" Gome asked her 'Grandmother.'
"Nothing this old heart of mine can't stand. Come, I must tell ye something.
Something that may be of a shock to ye." Kaede said and led the young woman
into the hut where they had lived for sixteen years.
"What is it Grandmother?"
"Put this on." Kaede said and handed her the box.
Gome opened the box and her large bluegrey eyes widened in surprise to the
fact that inside the box was a beautiful chain. On the chain lay a jewel that
was a pink so clear it almost looked white. The jewel looked nothing more
than glass, but Gome knew than to trust something to be what it appeared to
be. She had seen her Grandmother's cooking look like one thing, went to try
it but was stopped by the elderly woman's hand locking around her wrist in a
vise like grip.
"Thank you Grandmother." Gome said as she slid the chain around her neck and
ran her fingers over the small jewel, loving the glass like feel of it on her
skin.
"That is the Shikon Jewel. One of the four that lay around this world, one
that is very valueable. Guard it well. And, I'm not ye Grandmother." Kaede
said and put her hands on Gome's lightly.
"What do you mean your not my Grandmother? Does that mean that I have no family
left at all?" Gome asked, feeling tears well up into her stunningly beautiful
eyes.
"No, ye have a father. Ye know that story and song I used to tell ye of?
Ye would be that Princess in it." she explained and saw confusion flash across
the young Princess's face.
"What do you mean? I'm not a Princess. I'm Gome, just Gome."
"No, ye are Princess Kagome Higurashi. Daughter to the King and Queen Higurashi.
Those dreams ye had of the Miko wanting to kill you, Kikyo does exsist, and
she does want to kill ye. I had to take ye from ye own home for ye safety.
Ye shall be going back tonight, where ye shall be safe."
"No! I'm not a Princess! I'm not! You're lying! I can't be a Princess!"
Kagome cried out, yet somewhere inside her she knew she was just lying to
herself.
"Ye are. And we go back to ye kingdom tonight. There is a gown for ye in
the room I sleep. Go and put it on. But hurry, we must leave quickly, before
Kikyo finds us, the magic wears off in a few hours time." Kaede said and gently
pushed Kagome to the room she had mentioned.
"What magic?" Kagome asked, her curiosity getting the better of her.
"The magic I placed upon us to protect ye from Kikyo's wrath. Hurry!" with
that said Kaede grabbed a beautiful form fitting green gown and thrust it into
Kagome's hands.
Kagome put on the dress and marveled at the fact that it was like a tight corset
around her midriff and chest. It showed her uppercurves and arms off because
of the tightness of it. The dress then dropped out around her waist and flowed
like a green river as she moved. Kagome then remembered her promise to meet
the young man that saved her.
"NO! I can't leave. I can't! I'm not leaving!" Kagome cried, tears streaking
down her cheeks as Kaede tried to force the young princess from the home.
"Ye must! For ye safety! MOVE!" Kaede groaned out as she pulled on the Princess's
hand trying to drag her from her house.
"No! I won't leave! Not when I promised to meet him!" she cried out, her fingers
digging into the doorframe as she tried not to be pulled free.
"Him? Who's him?! Princess Kagome! We must leave! Ye'll forget him!" the
old woman said and pulled an herb from her pocket and shoved it into Kagome's
hand.
The reaction was almost instantanious. Kagome's body fell limp and Kaede was
able to pick her up and carry her to a wagon where she layed her down, covered
her and got up by the reins to take off. Snapping the reins gently, urging
the brown mares forward, Kaede and the sleeping Princess left.
~*~
What neither of the women knew, was that Kikyo already knew where they were.
Kanna had been watching with her mirror as Kagome ran from the reach of the
barrier when she was being chased by Koga. The demoness had then run to her
mistress and showed what had happened from her mirror.
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Thats it for this chapter. Its about to get a whole lot more interesting from
here.
~*~Mel~*~
I also don't own Sleeping Beauty.
A/N: This chapter is when its Kagome's 16th birthday, but just for everyone's info
her name was changed to Gome.
~*~Mel~*~
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Sleeping Princess
By Golden Mooncat
Chapter One: Meeting and Shock
Gome pushed the branches in her way out of the way as she walked through the woods
not far from her house, wanting to get away from her crazy grandmother Kaede.
Shaking her head of raven colored hair free of a tree branch she growled and pulled
off her shoes, setting them down so she could continue on her way. Continuing on
her path Gome ran into something rock solid, yet warm, more of a someone than a
something.
"Lady Gome! What a pleasant surprise." came a voice from above her head, Gome
groaned.
"Hello Koga..." she muttered, rolling her intense greyblue eyes to look into his
pure blue ones.
"How have you been, my mate?" the full wolf youkai asked the young woman as he
kissed the top of her hand.
"Annoyed with you. Koga, how many times must I tell you, I'm not your mate??"
she asked, getting tried of having to tell him.
"Oh but you are my love." Koga said keeping a hold of her hand as she tried to
push past him.
"Let me go Koga. Don't make me hurt you." Gome growled out, her eyes flashing
in anger.
"But Lady Gome, I lo-"
"Don't finish that Koga! Back off!" with that said Gome reached back her free
hand and slammed her palm across his face before taking off into the direction
she had been walking.
"BITCH!" Koga screamed, not being able to hold back his anger or hurt anymore
he started after her, his fingers cracking of their own accord as he prepared
to use his claws on her.
Gome ran harder and faster, sweat dripping down her back as she did. Finding
a small hiding place that would cover her scent from the wolf youkai she dove
into it and slowed her breathing to almost whisps of air in and out of her
lungs. Closing her eyes in fear Gome sat waiting, her cream colored skin
covered in sweat.
~*~
*SPLASH!*
"Traitor horse!" Inuyasha growled out and pulled himself out of the water where
his horse threw him.
"You have to admit Inuyasha, thats a very good look for you." Sango said, while
holding onto her husbands hand and avoiding his other lecherous hand. "Miroku,
were you born this way?" she asked the man beside her who was 'innocently'
grinning.
"What ever do you mean my wife?" he asked innocently, his violet eyes shining
with mischeif as if he were a little child again.
"Sango, actually, he was. I remember, right before I was 'betrothed' that he
looked up his nurses skirts all the time. I think that if you end up having
kids, he'll teach them how to do it." Inuyasha said while ringing out his
silver mane of hair.
"Okay then, are you going to even try and find Princess Kagome?" Miroku asked,
changing the subject.
"Why should I? I mean its not like she's even tried to come back yet..." he
answered, sounding a bit hurt.
"Well you know, little brother, that she was taken as a baby and probably not
told of anything that had happened right after she was born." Sesshomaru said,
sorry, make that King Sesshomaru.
"Shut up Sesshomaru." the hanyou growled out his amber eyes flashing angerily.
"Well, little brother, what do you know, you actually did know that I was here."
Sesshomaru said smirking a bit as he held Rin close to him.
"How can I not, your wife put on enough perfume this morning to make me dizzy."
Inuyasha retorted in anger causing Rin to drop her jaw open a bit.
*"BITCH!"* the dog youkai and hanyou heard, and both of their heads shot up
as they listened intently for the area that the shout came from.
"Shut up all of you!" the brothers said as they trained their hearing to pick
up anything else from around that shout.
"Nothing, damnit. I'll go check it out." Inuyasha said and took off in the
direction he heard running come from.
~*~
"Where did you go?! Huh Gome?! Where?!" Koga shouted as he sliced down a tree
to find the woman who had slapped him.
'Must not make a noise. If I make a noise he's going to find me and kill me.
I am only 15...And I'm supposed to turn 16 in a day. If I die now I'll never
see my birthday and then I'll never know what Grandmother Kaede wanted to tell
me.' Gome thought, her fear causing her scent to spike up and for Koga to
find her.
"There you are bitch!" Koga said when he saw a small peice of the young woman's
skirts sticking out.
Gome held her breath and closed her eyes waiting for the final blow to come to
her but it never came. Opening her eyes she saw that Koga was reaching for her
hair, probably to rip it out. When his hand closed around the raven tresses and
dragged her from her position in her little hiding place she let out a small eep.
"Your dead!" he shouted and raised a clawed hand reaching up to slice through her
cleanly.
"AHH!" Gome screamed and watched in terror as his hand was brought down with
force. Koga's hand was just an inch from her head when something came bursting
through the brush.
~*~
Inuyasha had just heard the shout of a male voice saying "Your dead!" when he
was able to pick up a scent that was intoxicating filled with fear. He then heard
a scream of terror when he slammed through the brush into a small clearing where
he saw them.
Koga had a hold of a girl, a very beautiful girl at that. Her raven hair was long
and clamped in the full wolf youkai's hand. The young woman's bluegrey eyes
were intense and filled with fear. The woman's skin was the color of white
cream, so fair that she practically glowed.
Koga's clear blue eyes were glowing a bit red in anger. His claws were poised
just above the raven haired woman's head ready to strike her down if need-be.
The black hair was pulled into ponytail at the side of his head and then his body
was wrapped up in his clans furr, like armor.
"Let her go." Inuyasha said, his knuckles cracking of their own accord, while his
silver white hair blew around him in the wind. Gome stared at the dog hanyou
thankful that he showed up at that moment.
"Who are you to stop me!?" Koga asked, never having actually seen a painting of
the hanyou prince before.
"None of your business. Let her go." Inuyasha demanded again with a death glare to the
other demon.
"Yea, right. Like I'm going to hand her over to a scrawny half-breed like
you." Koga said and growled when a foot connected with his shin.
"Go to hell Koga! And let me go!" Gome growled out, her eyes flashing in anger
as she kicked at Koga again in the shin.
"Bitch, hold still and I will make sure that it doesn't feel like torture when
I rip you to shreds!" Koga growled out and yanked on her hair causing her to
shriek in pain.
"Asshole! Thats it, I've had it!" Gome said and dropped onto her back kicking
her legs up in the air as she spun knocking him onto his back after kicking
his hand off her hair.
"Whoa..." Inuyasha said and then blinked his mind clear so he could attack
Koga. "Now, either you leave this young woman alone, or else I'll make sure
you end up with a Miko all over you kicking your ass." he said his knuckles
cracking as Koga stood up glaring at the young woman now ducking behind Inuyasha.
"Fine, keep the bitch. But if I see her again she's dead." Koga said and took
off in a whirlwind.
"Thank you." Gome said with a small bow her hair falling over her face.
"Its okay, but are you alright?" Inuyasha asked, his amber eyes questioning.
"I'm fine. Just a small headache. My Grandmother will have something for that
though." she said pushing her hair out of her face and thats when Inuyasha saw
the likeness to his mother's friend the dead Queen Higurashi.
"You...Look really familiar..." he said, cocking his head to the side.
"I, do? Who do I look like?" she asked, tilting her own head.
"You actually look like the Queen Higurashi...She died a few years ago from
grief, her two boys died in the war against a Kingdom to the North while her
only daughter was taken from her..." he trailed off in a bit of sadness that
he lost his future wife before she ever got to know him.
"Well, thanks. Um...Now, to figure out where I live..." Gome said looking
around, she had run off the normal trail she took and got lost in her flee
from Koga.
"Here, I'll get you home. I don't trust that youkai that had a hold of you.
Lets go." Inuyasha said and took her arm and led her the way her scent was
fading quiet quickly.
"Thank you." she said and suddenly started humming a song that popped into
her head, a song her Grandmother used to sing to her when she was younger
and would have a nightmare of an evil Miko who was looking to kill her.
"What are you humming?" he asked, his ears flicking to where she followed him
at his side.
"Oh? Its a song my grandmother used to sing to me when I had a nightmare.
When I got old enough to learn it she taught it to me and now I sing it to
calm myself down." she explained before starting to hum it again.
"Sing it for me. Please? It sounds like its a nice song." the hanyou beside
her asked.
"Sure. But its actually kind of sad." Gome said, took a breath and started
to sing.
(Just to let you know, this is MY song. Don't steal it, please?)
"Somewhere lying sound asleep.
Lies a Princess, in sleep so deep.
Her skin so fair it shines like the moon.
Her cold lips soft and red.
The hair she takes so much care of, raven
colored and dark as night.
She is waiting for her true love to come.
To come and save her from the dark.
Once their lips connect, in true loves
first kiss, flutter open her eyes shall.
Bluegrey in color, seeming to look into
your soul.
Somewhere lying sound asleep.
Lies a Princess, in sleep so deep." she sang in a soft hauntingly beautiful
voice.
"Wow...That sounds like...Nevermind." Inuyasha said shaking his head trying
to clear it of the memories from when he was four.
"Sounds like that legend that a Princess is to strum a Koto until her fingers
bleed? Yea I know. My Grandmother tells me that story all the time. Its
silly isn't it? Princesses can't touch Koto's anymore. They were all burned
what, sixteen years ago?" Gome asked him as she stopped walking.
"Yea, silly. You know what? That song describes a girl that looks kind of
like you." he complimented her and saw her face become a blotchy pink.
"Actually, no it doesn't. The girl in the song is beautiful, I'm just a weak,
pathetic girl who needs to get home before her Grandmother kills her..."
she said and jerked her head in the direction of her house which was now in
sight. "Thanks again for bringing me home...What is it?" Gome asked as
Inuyasha stared deeply into her eyes causing her to get a little uncomfortable
at first, that is until she looked back into his own.
"What's your name?" Inuyasha asked softly, his voice causing her to shift her
eyes to his mouth for a second.
"Gome. I had better go. My grandmother doesn't like me talking to strangers.
She doesn't trust them for some reason...I don't know why." she answered, not
really wanting to leave him there.
"Can I see you again?" the Prince asked looking at her in almost a bit of awe.
"Tomorrow. I'll meet you down there tomorrow. Okay?" Gome asked and then
turned to leave.
"Yes. I'll meet you then. Good-bye Gome." he said, turned, and leapt into
the air leaving.
"Gome! Gome there ye are my child. Where have ye been?" Kaede asked as she
came out of the hut, holding a small box in her hand for her young 'grandaughter.'
"Just walking Grandmother. I'm sorry I took so long. You didn't worry did
you?" Gome asked her 'Grandmother.'
"Nothing this old heart of mine can't stand. Come, I must tell ye something.
Something that may be of a shock to ye." Kaede said and led the young woman
into the hut where they had lived for sixteen years.
"What is it Grandmother?"
"Put this on." Kaede said and handed her the box.
Gome opened the box and her large bluegrey eyes widened in surprise to the
fact that inside the box was a beautiful chain. On the chain lay a jewel that
was a pink so clear it almost looked white. The jewel looked nothing more
than glass, but Gome knew than to trust something to be what it appeared to
be. She had seen her Grandmother's cooking look like one thing, went to try
it but was stopped by the elderly woman's hand locking around her wrist in a
vise like grip.
"Thank you Grandmother." Gome said as she slid the chain around her neck and
ran her fingers over the small jewel, loving the glass like feel of it on her
skin.
"That is the Shikon Jewel. One of the four that lay around this world, one
that is very valueable. Guard it well. And, I'm not ye Grandmother." Kaede
said and put her hands on Gome's lightly.
"What do you mean your not my Grandmother? Does that mean that I have no family
left at all?" Gome asked, feeling tears well up into her stunningly beautiful
eyes.
"No, ye have a father. Ye know that story and song I used to tell ye of?
Ye would be that Princess in it." she explained and saw confusion flash across
the young Princess's face.
"What do you mean? I'm not a Princess. I'm Gome, just Gome."
"No, ye are Princess Kagome Higurashi. Daughter to the King and Queen Higurashi.
Those dreams ye had of the Miko wanting to kill you, Kikyo does exsist, and
she does want to kill ye. I had to take ye from ye own home for ye safety.
Ye shall be going back tonight, where ye shall be safe."
"No! I'm not a Princess! I'm not! You're lying! I can't be a Princess!"
Kagome cried out, yet somewhere inside her she knew she was just lying to
herself.
"Ye are. And we go back to ye kingdom tonight. There is a gown for ye in
the room I sleep. Go and put it on. But hurry, we must leave quickly, before
Kikyo finds us, the magic wears off in a few hours time." Kaede said and gently
pushed Kagome to the room she had mentioned.
"What magic?" Kagome asked, her curiosity getting the better of her.
"The magic I placed upon us to protect ye from Kikyo's wrath. Hurry!" with
that said Kaede grabbed a beautiful form fitting green gown and thrust it into
Kagome's hands.
Kagome put on the dress and marveled at the fact that it was like a tight corset
around her midriff and chest. It showed her uppercurves and arms off because
of the tightness of it. The dress then dropped out around her waist and flowed
like a green river as she moved. Kagome then remembered her promise to meet
the young man that saved her.
"NO! I can't leave. I can't! I'm not leaving!" Kagome cried, tears streaking
down her cheeks as Kaede tried to force the young princess from the home.
"Ye must! For ye safety! MOVE!" Kaede groaned out as she pulled on the Princess's
hand trying to drag her from her house.
"No! I won't leave! Not when I promised to meet him!" she cried out, her fingers
digging into the doorframe as she tried not to be pulled free.
"Him? Who's him?! Princess Kagome! We must leave! Ye'll forget him!" the
old woman said and pulled an herb from her pocket and shoved it into Kagome's
hand.
The reaction was almost instantanious. Kagome's body fell limp and Kaede was
able to pick her up and carry her to a wagon where she layed her down, covered
her and got up by the reins to take off. Snapping the reins gently, urging
the brown mares forward, Kaede and the sleeping Princess left.
~*~
What neither of the women knew, was that Kikyo already knew where they were.
Kanna had been watching with her mirror as Kagome ran from the reach of the
barrier when she was being chased by Koga. The demoness had then run to her
mistress and showed what had happened from her mirror.
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Thats it for this chapter. Its about to get a whole lot more interesting from
here.
~*~Mel~*~