FOREINGER By: OtakuSailorV
Chapter 22: Sister's, Uncles, Aunts, & A Bit of Kareoke!
So it went that Aunt Tsume & Uncle Kiba, who turned out to be twins, escorted them into the kingdom. "You don't remember us Inuyasha? We are your fathers eccentric younger brother & sister." Kiba explained. Inuyasha studied his face, manner & smell for some time. "Yeah, I think I remember you now. You're the guys that wouldn't stop squeezing the life out of me & kissing me to death & not to mention never shutting up." Kagome nudged him in the side. He gave her an irritated look. Kiba & Tsume laughed. "Aw, yes, I remember now. I'll bet your glad to hear that we haven't changed?" Tsume asked. Inuyasha's ears flattened & he crossed his arms. "I'm so happy to see you both have mates." Tsume smiled at them warmly. Sesshoumaru & Inuyasha blushed. "It's not like that Aunt Tsume." Sesshoumaru said. She smiled at him. "It isn't?" He shook his head. She smiled still. "Then you children will have to hurry up." Hikari simply smiled, seeing it as no more than a joke. Sesshoumaru cast nervous glances at his aunt who he knew better.
A hum from behind them caused them all to stop walking. Hikari smiled brightly. "Right on time." A cloud of dust & a red dot in he middle appeared behind them. "MOVE!!! I DON'T HAVE A LICENSE FOR THIS THING!!!" Heather called happily from her bike. She waved both arms at her friends in hopes to scare hem so she could have a better laugh at it later. Hikari was the only one who stayed put on the road. Heather sped the on toward her friend. "I'll run you down!" She called like a mad person. Hisui spread her wings a sort of parachute & let go of Heather's shoulder. She floated back & sat on the ground watching them. Just as Heather was about to hit Hikari she pulled the bike up on it's back wheel & jumped over her friend's head. Hikari turned only to see what Heather would do when she landed.
The bike landed & Heather put her foot down & turned it in the dirt. With a smile still on her face she listened to the dirt & gravel grind underneath her wheel as she spun about. The bike came to halt facing sideways in the road. Heather pulled off the helmet, letting her shoulder blade length hair flow down. She gave a whoop of joy. "That was great! Let's do it again!" Her ponytail bobbed slightly as she adjusted it. When she climbed down & had placed hers & Hisui's helmets back on the bike, it disappeared into thin air. The twins stared at her while she crossed the short distance & put a hand on Hikari's shoulder. "I was surprised when you didn't call on me mom." Hikari laughed. "Shut up." Kiba walked over & put his face by Heather's. She stopped laughing long enough to notice him. "Hey, I haven't met you before. Hey, Hik, you gonna tell me who this is?" Hikari smiled. "This is Kiba-sama. Sesshoumaru's uncle. His twin sister is Tsume-sama, his aunt. They're his father's younger brother & sister." Heather smiled at him. Extending her hand to him she took a firm hold of his clawed hand & shook it. "My name is Heather Dunaway & I'm crazy." He looked at her bewilderedly for a minute before he smiled & shook her arm just as hard back. "I'm Kiba. You don't have to call me Lord though. That would be my nephew. And whose mate are you?" Heather kept on smiling. "I'm no ones mate." They released each other's arms as Tsume walked over. She grasped Heather's arm next. "Nice to meet you miss. I'm Tsume, but you don't have to call me Lady." Heather nodded, shaking Tsume's hand more gently. "Tell me, what was that strange creature you were riding that made that strange noise?" She asked when they had released each other's arms. Heather looked at her questioningly for a short time. "Oh! That was my motorcycle. Where I come from it's a hot ride." Tsume's turn to look confused. "It's like a hyped up dirt bike." Tsume still looked confused. "I'll explain it all later."
Kirei hopped forward, for the first time she looked Hikari over carefully. Hikari sweatdropped while she stood firm & stiff, wondering what the dog- girl was doing. Kirei sniffed the sweet scent that came off the girl. Finally she straightened & looked at Hikari's eyes with a hand on her chin. "Hmm." She said rubbing it back & forth. Hikari couldn't help but feel slightly nervous. Suddenly a lesson she had had on animals when she was in grade school came rushing back. The teacher had said that animals could sense your emotions & that was the reason why a dog might cozy up to you when you're sad. She wondered if Kirei could sense her nervousness at being inspected so closely. "I guess you can marry my brother." Hikari took a slight step backward. "W-what?" She asked with wide, shocked eyes. Kirei smiled at her. "Nieces." She thought aloud & turned away, walking down the hall. "Nephews would be good I guess." Hikari sweatdropped & felt her legs turn into gelatin. "Yeah." She said & pat a squawking Saisei on the head. He quickly quieted down under her touch. Hikari sighed & turned toward the hall that she had been trying to reach when Kirei had spun her around to inspect.
Heather was sitting in a chair with Hisui curled up in her lap. A fire roared in a huge fireplace by her side. Both dragon & owner seemed to be falling asleep or sleeping when Hikari got a better look at them. Hisui's ear twitched in her sleep when Hikari waved her hand in front of her friend's face. "Hello?" Heather didn't budge or make an answer. "Hello." Said a voice behind her back. Hikari straightened & looked at the person who had spoken. "Yes?" She asked 'Uncle Kiba'. (He had told her she could call him that since she was Sesshoumaru's mate, to which Sesshoumaru growled a 'we're not mates.') "I came to tell you that Sesshoumaru has instructed me to move your bags from the guest's quarters to his personal quarters." Hikari blushed slightly. "Why?" Kiba shrugged his shoulders. "I have just been asked to tell you since he seems to be.embarrassed to ask you himself. Well, off to his room you go. The bags have already been moved." He circled around Hikari & pushed her toward the door. Hikari put her legs in front of her in an act to try & stop the movement. "HIS ROOM?" She asked startled. Kiba nodded, still pushing her at a decent speed. "Yes, his quarters are his room." "What about Rin's room?" "There isn't enough room to walk in there let alone house 2 people." Hikari tried to think of another way out. Nothing came to her but the memory of the class on animal sensory. Could Kiba fell her emotions right now? She doubted the dog demons could read minds. She looked around frantically for someone but there was no one in sight as she was pushed rapidly down the hall. "Do I have to?" She asked looking up at Kiba, blushing despite her frantic trying to calm herself. He was smiling at her. "Of course, it's an order." Hikari looked back down at the ground. "I want to exercise my free will at the moment." He laughed a deep, happy laughter that made Hikari perk up some.
They reached the door to Sesshoumaru's quarters soon after that. Hikari had stopped trying to make him drag her & walked on her own by his side. He had refused her request to walk behind him because he was used to that trick. The hall leading to Sesshoumaru's quarters were painted with war scenes, bloody battles that all featured white, dog youkai that Hikari guessed was either him or his father. Claws, antlers, horns, weapons that were broken or bloodied were hung on the wall where the picture stories stopped. "Who is the dog youkai in these scenes?" Hikari asked pointing to them. Kiba looked over at her while he searched for the key that would gain her access. "The paintings range from the first lord of this castle all the way down to Sesshoumaru. The weapons are theirs or their enemies. He'll tell you more about them later if you ask, because I've finally found the blasted key." Sticking the key toward the door it glowed. Hikari took notice that there was no doorknob, Kiba was sticking the key at the door itself. "This is how we lock the doors. Through Youkai magic." Hikari watched as the glow from the key streamed out & hit the door. It glowed in unison, then a small 'click' was heard & the Kiba pulled the key away. He pushed the door open to show a room decorated in the same fashion as the hall, only Hikari could tell that the murals & weapons were all Sesshoumaru's. One picture depicted him in the battle against Lady Unmei's family. Hikari had the weird sensation, as she had had it all day, that she had been in the room before. She put a hand to her forehead. "Déjà vu." She said for about the millionth time that evening. Kiba stood in the doorway smiling. "It will be Déjà vu for some time before you have revisited every room in the castle, Miss Hana Hogasha." Hikari whirled but the door snapped shut. Opening the door she saw that there was no one in the hallway. She shut the door again & looked at the ceiling thoughtfully. Hikari stepped away from the door in shock. She had her chance to get out of the room! She put her hand on the doorway & tried to slide it back again but it held in one place. She pulled & strained, using all her muscles to get out. "It's like the damn thing is locked!" She remembered what Kiba had said about youkai magic & released the door. "Shit."
"Sesshoumaru!! Oh, little Sesshoumaru-chan!" Called Tsume as she ran down the halls, her long kimono trailing behind her. "I have news for you." She entered a small room that had a single futon lying on the ground. A dollhouse, dolls, ribbons, & paints lay scattered across the floor. Rin stood behind the white haired youkai, tying ribbons in his hair. "Auntie Tsume wants her hair done too?" She asked when she had finished tying a ribbon in Sesshoumaru's hair. Tsume smiled down at her. "I will right after I tell Sesshoumaru-chan something. Sesshoumaru can I talk to you privately in the hall?" Sesshoumaru stood. "I'll be right back Rin." Tsume was still smiling as she usually was. "Miss Hikari has insisted on sleeping in your quarters. We tried to reason with her but she wouldn't have it any other way." Tsume tried not to look amused as she spoke. Sesshoumaru gave her a troubled look. "You had better not be lying to me Aunt Tsume, & don't call me Sesshoumaru-chan, Ok?" Tsume patted his head. "But you'll always be my little Sesshoumaru-chan." Sesshoumaru sighed. "If you have come to tell me this than I can tell it must be a joke, Hikari isn't that kind of girl." He turned to go. "I might rethink that Sesshoumaru." Tsume said in a very stern voice. "I believe you know very little about this girl. As I suspect an inner warning about her is keeping you from searching for her real self." Sesshoumaru turned back around, giving Tsume a questioning glance. "Aunt Tsume you'll have to make yourself clearer on that." "You are afraid inside, though you do not know it, that as soon as you start to love her like you did once, she will disappear again, leaving you alone, & without a soul to turn to." Sesshoumaru's eyes went sad suddenly. Had that really been the thing nagging at him all the time he had known her? Was he truly worried she would die when he wished for nothing but to be with her always like he had before? Was her fate to die after she felt love for someone & they had returned it by wanting to be with her always? Was that her souls eternal fate? He looked at the ground, his sad eyes focusing on nothing in particular. "Well, you had better get going. She's waiting for you, & don't worry, I did a little research. She isn't going to die because you love her." He looked up to see her kimono slipping into Rin's room. "Where is Sesshoumaru-sama?" He heard Rin ask. "He had to go run an errand but you can style my hair." Rin giggled & he heard ribbons being drawn from the drawers. With a slight smile he walked away from the room.
Tsume watched as her brother appeared in the doorway with a smile. "Two down, two to go." He said. She smiled back. Rin pulled a ribbon through her hair. "What is so funny Auntie Tsume & Uncle Kiba?" Tsume shook her head. "Grown up talk."
Sesshoumaru could smell Hikari before he even entered the hall. The smell of flowers, he noticed for a first time. Fresh flowers, still sitting on the hill, blowing in the warm wind on a sunny day, with the clouds going by overhead. His doorway smelled of both his uncle, who's smell wasn't as pleasant as Hikari's & Hikari. He looked down the hall on the other side to make sure no one was coming. He had no idea why he did this. His ears or nose would pick up the scent of a traveler beforehand. With a soft sigh he rapped on the door. Scurrying feet moved inside. He knocked again. "It's locked." Hikari's muffled voice said from inside. He was shocked that she was there like Tsume said. Though he had smelled her all through the halls & on the doorway & her scent floating through the door, he had somehow thought, deep inside that she would not be there. "Ok." He said & put a single claw to the door. A clicking noise reverberated through it & it swung open of it's own accord. He walked in, seeing Hikari sitting on the floor looking slightly nervous. At least she looked slightly nervous, his senses told him that she was feeling uncertain, nervous, but not scared. That was good, he didn't want her to be scared of him. The door slid shut behind him. He walked the short distance between them & sat down across from her. The room consisted of a single futon on the ground, & in the back of the room was another set of doors that led to the porch. It looked out over a small pond that his father had created for him, & it had a nice over look of the valley below. Hikari blushed & they both dared not make eye contact. "I uh." They both said. "Oh, what were you going to say?" Hikari asked. "Oh, no you go first." Sesshoumaru said politely. "How about we both say what we wanted to know at the same time?" Sesshoumaru nodded, his face going from pale to a small red color. "I wanted to know why you asked me here." They both half shouted. "I asked you here?" They both asked each other at the same time. "You asked me here." They pointed in unison as they spoke then the thought crossed both their minds. "Kiba!" "Tsume!" "They set us up!" They had their noses pressed together when they turned back to look at each other. Both suddenly lost all anger, blushed, & pulled away. "Well, I think we know now what has happened." Sesshoumaru went to the door to find it locked. He put his clawed finger to the doorway but nothing happened. He stepped back. "I think we're stuck until someone else comes down here." Hikari stood & tried her luck at getting out. "Nothing. Or wait!" Hikari pointed one finger in the air. "Ah-ha! Saisei!" A black dot was seen twittering back & forth before the door. His shadow shone through from the light in the hallway. "Out squawk now!" He cried in his feeble, still learning to talk, way. "Can't, Get Kiba or Tsume, I think they locked us in here." The black dot hovered for a moment. "Saisei, go! What are you waiting for!" The neck, or what she thought was the neck, shook the head. "Why not?" Saisei stayed in the same place. "Saisei do as I say!" Hikari felt slightly embarrassed at the fact that Saisei wasn't doing what she wanted. The power that held Saisei to his duties became stronger than his will to keep an eye on his master. He was jerked down the hall by an invisible hand, landing in Heather's hands at the end of it. "You're going to ruin everything by being so protective of her. She can't be your girlfriend no matter what, & it's not because you're a dragon now." She held tight to the dragon's body while she walked down the hall, Hisui sitting on her shoulder, looking down on her fellow dragon. "It's because she has chosen Sesshoumaru & he has chosen her, fate has been woven, you need to chill your beans on her boy. And don't you tell me that cock & bull story about taking over the world with the Red Dragon Clan. Boy, you be getting some serious ass whoopin' you tell someone that. Plus that's the worst lie I ever heard. I know that was the original story but you've been pining after her ever since you set eyes on her when you were kids." The black dragon looked up at her with scowling eyes, she had guessed his position. "That was a good cover story but it was really her you were after the whole time, not her position as princess. You're easy to figure out once I learned some things about you." Heather smiled & set him down on a table. With a wink she went whistling down through another corridor & disappeared.
Saisei took off toward the smell of the 2 demons he was to retrieve, in the back of his mind he hoped his master wasn't kissing that player. He bumped back into Heather after a short flight with an angry squawk. Heather smiled at him as he chattered his nonsense at her. "What's that?" Heather asked with a mischievous grin on her face. "Little Jimmy is stuck in the well? We must save him!" She picked him from the ground & ran with him under her arm. He growled at her & bit her arm but she kept running like nothing had happened. Finally she stopped in a room that was decorated with lace & other trimmings. "Wait." Heather said sitting Saisei down on another table. "There are no wells around here. And I don't know any Jimmy's. Saisei are you trying to pull my leg?" The dragon gave her a withering look before he took off. "Not very humorous is he?" Hisui asked from Heather's shoulder. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks unless he's willing to do it." Heather waved her hand dismissively. "What are you blabbering now?" Hisui asked. "You already know." Hisui shook her head. "I know only emotions so far, I have not been trained to know your thoughts." Heather grinned. "You need to spend more time with me, learn from that." Hisui shook her head again. "Are you going to tell me?" Heather had started off back down the hall that she had come from. "It has a double meaning. 1) He won't give up on Hikari even though she will not have him & Sesshoumaru has already taken her. 2) He will not spare humor for us so long as his 'master' is not laughing with him." Hisui cocked her head. "My kind cannot love our humans in that way. We can love in the way that we want to protect you & always want to be with you but not in that way." Heather shook her head. "That is where you are wrong. If a dragon spends enough time with humans, the dragon will learn to love a human deeper than they are supposed to. Some dragon's have even become strong enough to create a human side so they can marry a human or demon or whatever." Hisui absorbed the information like a sponge. "I see, so he has developed this skill? A skill I have yet to acquire?" "No, he was born with this ability because he was once a Dragon Clan member, before the woman he loves killed him." Hisui looked at her confusedly. "I think I get the gist of it."
Saisei finally found the man he was looking for &.damn that miko was with him! Saisei felt nervous around her, but strangely drawn. He hoped that when he mastered speech she would be able to make him a human being like he used to be, then he would win Hikari from that demon! He hovered in place, waiting for the miko to leave. She & the man were talking very fast & out of sorts. The miko's cheeks were red & she had her hands on her face, looking nervous. Saisei lost patience & flew screeching at them.
"Yes, he has demanded you to leave the guest quarters & to stay in his." Kagome's cheeks flushed a deeper red. "But what about Shippo? Sango can't protect her self from Miroku all night long by herself. What if she gets lonely with only Shippo & Kirara to talk to?" She looked desperately for an excuse not to stay in Inuyasha's quarters. "I'm sorry but they will be fine. Now, your things have already been moved so I'll help you find the way." Kagome looked slightly frightened as he circled around her & started to push her down the hall till a black arrow hit his back. He groaned slightly & grabbed the air behind him to find the cause of his slight pain. "Saisei." He said in an undertone when he pulled the tiny dragon forward. It screeched words at him until he let it hover in front of him. "Calmly tell me what you want." Kagome tried to sneak away while Kiba wasn't looking but he had a firm grip on her shoulders & she couldn't move. "Stuck squawk in room. You come squawk get them out. Squawk I no like." Kiba smiled. "Ah, little Jimmy is stuck in the well? Tell him to wait I have orders to fulfill, however you can get my sister or my niece to help the young boy." Saisei glared at him before streaking past them, leaving Kagome alone with Kiba again. "Well, now that that's over, let's get you settled." Kagome drug her feet, looking around in every room they passed for someone to help.
"Inuyasha! Oh, Inuyasha-chan!" Two fluffy white ears perked up from a chair by a fire. A can of beer was sitting on the floor to the left of the high chair that Inuyasha found smelled like that strange new girl Heather. "Tch. What do you want?" He called angrily, picking up the can & throwing it into the fire. Tsume ran into the room with a bright smile on her face. "It's about your woman." She began. Inuyasha's face went red. "She's not my woman!" He yelled, feeling slightly more irritable than he usually did. Tsume only giggled. "Well according to her she's your woman." Inuyasha's ears pricked forward & he lost all anger. "She demanded to be aloud to sleep in your quarters. Kiba & I tried to stop her but fighting a miko that strong is a bad idea in this enclosed space." Inuyasha peered up at the vaulting ceiling & gave his aunt a 'really, you call this enclosed?' look. "Well tell her to get the fuck out." Inuyasha snarled, anger starting to return. 'Aunt Tsume & her dumb games!' "You shouldn't speak that way in front of a lady. Have you used that language with Kagome?" Inuyasha blushed slightly, so what if he had? "Yeah." He finally said, looking away. "Well, stop it. Besides you're making a bad impression by making her wait. She's in your quarters, now go!" His aunt gave him a hard shove toward the hall that led to his room. "Why do I hafta? She'll leave if I don't show up." He whined at his aunt, pushing him still from behind. He had forgotten how strong she could be! "She is waiting & it's not gentlemanly like to make her wait." Inuyasha finally walked on his own. "Fine! I'll go!" He said like a child & ran down the hall to escape her. Hisui appeared on her shoulder when he disappeared from sight. "Four down, none to go. Heather is still laughing from the whole ordeal." Tsume smiled at the dragon then burst out laughing. "Can you believe that Kiba & I set Lady Unmei & my brother up in the same way? And his previous wife who died in battle!" She rolled on the floor like a child. Finally sitting up she handed a parchment to Hisui who disappeared immediately afterwards.
Several rooms over Heather had listened to the whole conversation. Hisui appeared in her lap, dropping the parchment. Heather unrolled it & read it out aloud to her dragon, which had yet to learn to read.
"The eagle has landed. Thanks for your participation, send this note onto Kirei-chan."
Heather gave it to Hisui with the order to find Kirei & give it to her. The dragon saluted comically then disappeared. Heather grabbed out a mirror she had been saving to spy on someone. With a quick word of who she wanted to see she rubbed her hand over the mirror & looked in at a tiny male black dragon who was flying hard through corridors & rooms.
Hikari sat against the door, tired of ramming it with her body & beating it with her fists. Sesshoumaru was sweating slightly from clawing the door & surrounding walls without peeling even the paper. He sighed & slid down the door beside her. "What now?" He asked. Hikari looked around the room for something. "We can either wait & save our strength while Saisei looks for them or we can continue beating the door until we hit a concealed weak spot." Sesshoumaru stood & crossed the room, picking up a statue of pure jade that looked like a Chinese god dragon. He looked it over but put it down with a growl of disgust. "I thought the key to the door might be stuck in it still but it looks like my uncle found it first." Hikari smiled at his angry face. "He meant well." "You wait. My Aunt Tsume will have something to do with this too. They set up my father with both his wives in this similar way." He waved a hand dismissively in the air. "I guess Saisei will never find them, either that or they'll give him a hell of a time before they come." Hikari stood & crossed by Sesshoumaru. "They'll come to get us by dinner." Hikari nodded. Her eyes looked at the sliding doors that led to the garden outside. Hikari gasped, suddenly realizing it was there. "What about that door?" Sesshoumaru looked up, obviously seeing it for the first time too. "I forgot about that." They both rushed over & tried to get the door open with no luck, it was stuck as tight as the other. "Damn." Hikari cursed under her breath. She plopped down on the floor. "Well, I guess we can talk until dinner then." Sesshoumaru nodded, sitting down across from her. "I was born in a country."
Inuyasha ran as fast as he could down the halls, looking like a white, red streak against the walls. He was stunned when he passed by a black streak that was tiny & seemed to be flying. He noticed it at once as Saisei. The grumpy dragon made him irritable so he ran on without looking back again. "If I remember correctly, the hall to my room is around here somewhere." He grumbled. The black dart overtook him & sped forward with an irritable screech. Inuyasha furrowed his brow & pushed his speed faster. The two raced until the black dart veered off course to a hallway off the one that led to Inuyasha's bedroom. He smirked to himself. "I guess I win then."
The hall was filled with Kagome's scent. It filled his nose & blocked out all other smells except for the irritating smell of his uncle. There was another scent in the hall but he couldn't put his finger on who or what it was. He shrugged as he came to a halt outside his door. He rapped on it & to his great surprise the ancient door crumbled under his touch. "Damn." He growled. A second door that was newer looking was hidden behind the first. Inuyasha slid it out of the way & entered. Kagome was fashioning something from a hook on the floor. Inuyasha walked in & closed the door behind him. The strange scent from the hall came from the other side of the door as soon as it was shut but Inuyasha paid no mind to it. "What are you doing?" He asked trying to avoid the question that kept bouncing around in his mind. "I'm trying to make a lock picker so I can get out of here." Inuyasha cocked his head to one side. "But the door is open, I just came in." Kagome looked up at him with startled eyes, seeing him for the first time in the room. "When did you get here?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. Inuyasha fell over anime style. When he got back up Kagome was pulling hard at the door, then she would try her lock picker, then back to pulling or pushing the door. "Your probably too weak to open a demon's door." Inuyasha said & tried to pry it open. It wouldn't budge. Kagome was giving him a hurt glare until she noticed that he couldn't open the door either. "Maybe you're too weak too? Hmm?" Inuyasha only growled a 'am not' at her. "Well you are half human so maybe your aren't." Inuyasha shook his mane of white hair. "I could get it open all the time when I was a kid." Kagome smirked. Putting on an astonished face she tapped him on the shoulder. "What if you've gotten weaker then?" He saw the twinkle of laughter in her eyes. He put his nose to the door. "Damn, no wonder! This is youkai magic! Kirei was here! Wait! What about my uncle did he say anything.I mean touch the door in a funny way?" Kagome shook her head. "I don't think so." Inuyasha slumped to the ground. "They trapped us in here." "Who?" Inuyasha gave her a scowl that was meant for the demons that had done the deed. "Heather, Kirei, Uncle Kiba, & Aunt Tsume." Kagome looked astonished. "Why Heather & Kirei? I mean I can see your uncle & aunt doing this but not them." Inuyasha shook his head. "Uncle Kiba led you here. Aunt Tsume led me here. Kirei put the spells on the doors & Heather made sure that the race between me & Saisei would distract me from thinking of the other clues." Kagome pondered the affair. "Well, what about Hikari & Sesshoumaru?" She asked suddenly realizing that they might not be the only ones that were stuck. "Or Sango & Miroku? I knew I should have brought Shippo with me. Miroku will definitely make a move with only Shippo, Sango, & Kohaku around. Inuyasha smirked. "Well, I think Sango can protect herself." Kagome nodded. "Yeah."
Saisei finally found the dog-eared girl that he had met earlier. "Kirei!" He called from the air as he landed in her hair. Kirei pulled him from her head & smiled warmly at him. "Hai?" He twittered uneasily in her hands. "Trouble, they stuck. You come get them out! Me no like him!" Saisei was improving, at least he didn't squawk in between words anymore. "You need to study languages more." Kirei announced, pretending not to hear what he had said. "You came now! Help!" He repeated. Kirei shook her head. "Me no come. They no need help." Saisei looked frantic. "Why! Why?" He implored. "The door will open when they realize they want to get married, I can't stand to see my brother so unsure of something." Saisei about passed out at the words 'marriage'. "No!" He yelled. "Other way!" "Oh, there is another way." Kirei said, avoiding his true meaning. "We'll unlock the doors at dinner if they haven't opened them themselves." She set the dragon in an armchair & walked off. He tried to follow her but when he rounded the corner there was nothing left but a trail of thin mist leading to a garden in the middle of the house. He screeched again & zoomed toward the smell of Aunt Tsume.
Hikari sat against the door still, Sesshoumaru next to her, exchanging stories. "Then Heather fell in the pool, I had no idea at the time but she was holding onto me & I was next to Ryan so when I fell I grabbed him & he fell with us into the pool. It was so funny, even though we had to wear towels the rest of the day because we were so wet & all Heather's extra clothes were in the wash." Sesshoumaru laughed even though he didn't like the part with Ryan in it. "So, where is this Ryan now?" He asked. Heather thought it over. "He's probably at home now. I wonder what he named his dragon?" She shrugged. "I'll have to ask Heather later." Sesshoumaru nodded, seeing the sun set from behind the opposite screen door. "Dinner should be ready soon." He said stretching slightly. Hikari nodded & fell slightly against him. He stared at her but she didn't seem to notice what was happening. She yawned & her ear fell on his chest. She could hear his heart, it was very soothing, she thought as her eyes closed slowly. He shut his eyes also, trying to convince himself that it was Ok, for a youkai to love a human for the thousandth time. "It is wonderful if you love a human my son." Said a voice inside of his head. "I will approve of any marriage you want, but this brings me great joy to know that you have felt what I wanted Tenseiga to teach you. You have learned to love Rin- chan as your child, your responsibility, you have felt the love of a father. Now you have felt the love for your one & only." Sesshoumaru's brows furrowed, as he thought deeper. "But father you had 2 wives, does that mean that you only loved one of them?" He heard his father's deep laugh deep in his memory that he had tried to destroy. "Of course not my son, I am very lucky to have loved my wife twice." His eyebrows raised. "Twice?!" "Yes, Unmei was your mother reborn as a human, that is why I cared so much for her." A new question popped into his mind. "Does that mean that Inuyasha & I are one in the same?" Another deep laugh from his father. "You should know that a soul cannot be reincarnated when that person still exists!" Sesshoumaru heaved a small sigh of relief. "Thank you father, that is all I needed to know." "But what do you wish for now that you have realized what you truly want?" Sesshoumaru could see his father standing before him in all his magnificence. "Tell me my son." Sesshoumaru stared at him with wide eyes for a brief second before answering. "I wish to be with them always!" He shouted to his father in the dream that seemed to be fading. "With who?" His father implored him. "I wish to live with Hikari & Rin forever!" He shouted louder. The door behind him disappeared & he was bolted back to reality.
Kagome snuggled against Inuyasha by the door. She had also fallen asleep from laughter, constant talking, & boredom. Her eyes slowly came open to look up at Inuyasha. "I want to tell you something." She said in a dreamy voice that steadily become more aware of her sleep leaving. "What is it?" He asked her with a slight smile. "I want to be with you always, for forever & a day." She said & snuggled closer to him. He stared at her with wide eyes for a brief second but they grew soft. He hugged her to him. "I want to be with you forever too Kagome, for forever & a day." The door smelled of his annoying older sister for a brief moment before it disappeared. He fell back to the ground with a gasp. Kagome, next to him in his arms. He opened his eyes to see his Aunt Tsume looking down at them. "Well, well, I see you 2 were having fun." Inuyasha glared up at her. "Aunt Tsume." He started but she put a finger to her lips. "Shh. Dinner is about ready, you 2 get ready for it." He got to his feet with Kagome by his side still, looking around herself for signs of Uncle Kiba. "I just came to check on you, so I'll see you soon." She disappeared in a rush of flower petals. "Well, lets get ready." Inuyasha said & walked back into his room to comb his long hair for the first time in ages.
Sesshoumaru looked up at his uncles smiling face & sparkling eyes. "Calm down boy, your not married yet." Sesshoumaru swiped at his ankles angrily. His uncle jumped backward with a laugh. "Dinner's ready, come on. Oh, & Heather said that she wants to do a song with you Hikari. The girl got to her feet. "A what?" "A song, she said it was called 'I move on' by a Catherine Zeta-Jones & Renee Zellweger" Hikari smiled. "Oh, that song, Ok. By the way did you see Saisei?" "Nope." He lied & was gone in a rush of wind. Hikari shrugged. "Saisei!" The tiny dragon appeared on cue. He could smell the demon all over his master. He gave her a startled look, she simply smiled at him. In a jealous rage he swirled his wings out & snapped at Sesshoumaru. Hikari grabbed his tail & swung him to her opposite shoulder. "Bad boy." She corrected him. His entire being seemed to sag & he disappeared from her shoulder. She could sense him reappear on the roof, she felt slightly sorry but shrugged it off. "Wonder what his problem is?"
Heather was already sitting at a table with a small stage up front. She had redecorated the hall with her magic when she had become bored with waiting for her friend. Uncle Kiba, & Aunt Tsume liked the change but asked her to return it to its original look after the party. "I had no intention of keeping it this way." She said swirling a drink in a glass. They both smiled wider & thanked her, then with a swoosh of air & flower petals left to get ready. Heather had enchanted all the instruments that they would need that evening until Hikari arrived at the doorway & tackled her to the ground. "Heather Dunaway! If you ever!" She yelled but instead hugged her friend. "This is going to be so fun." Heather got up from the ground, fixing her ponytail. "Man what did you 2 do?" She asked with a slight smile. Heather picked up a chair & chased her like a child around the room until she saw Kagome watching them. Putting down the chair, Hikari smiled at her friend. "You too?" She asked seeing the happy look in Kagome's eyes. "Hai. I thought you might be stuck too. How did you get out?" Kagome got closer in case Hikari didn't want to shout it across the room. "I'm not quite sure how. I remember thinking that I wanted to staying leaning against him like that forever then I felt him going down & I didn't have time to even think about bracing myself before I hit the floor next to him." Hikari poked at her bottom lip a tiny bit. "Same with me. I was asleep on his shoulder. When I woke up I suddenly realized that I wanted to be with him like that forever. Then the door disappeared & we both fell through." Kagome copied Hikari's thoughtful poking of the lip. Sango, Shippo, Kohaku, & Miroku who had a good dozen red hand marks on him, entered the room. Shippo was playing with some glittery object on Sango's shoulder. Kohaku looked around the huge room & stared shocked at the floating instruments. Inuyasha greeted them with an uncharacteristic smile. "I guess we can eat now huh?" He asked Sesshoumaru who shook his head. "No, we wait for the others to get here." He told his brother. They seated themselves & talked idly until the others came. Rin was dressed in a beautiful kimono that fell down past her feet. It was red with gold embroidered flowers & phoenixes on it. Her hair was combed & pulled up in a ponytail with red & gold flowers stuck at the base of the ponytail. She beamed at them & ran over to the table that Sesshoumaru & Hikari were sitting at. "You look very nice Rin-chan." Hikari commented, catching the scent of the flowers. Heather popped over & commented on the dress as well. Saisei was asleep from exhaust on the table. Shiro however was as peppy & ready for the song as Hikari was. "Strange how your emotions effect him as well." Sesshoumaru pointed out the dragon doing cartwheels in the air. "Yeah, but it is entertaining to see him do tricks." Music was softly sounding through the room. Tsume & Kiba had shown back up with a kitsune girl & her cub. Kohaku, Shippo, Rin, & the kitsune cub that was called Yuri or Lily. Her mother was called Raimu or Lime. "Raimu is the one who watches Rin when she is not taking lessons from Jaken." Sesshoumaru explained to everyone. As if on cue the tiny youkai shuffled through the door. He was wearing what he had always worn only he smelled much better, like he had taken a bath for the first time ever. Everyone welcomed the change. Kirei was coming through the door behind him, clad in a soft blue kimono. Her white hair was also pulled into a long ponytail that draped down to her butt. She had blue & white flowers stuck in her hair. She smiled at them all in passing. Heather popped up from the table & grabbed Hikari's wrist. "Come on! Everyone's here now." Hikari was pulled to the stage where both girls changed into sparkling white dresses like in the movie the song was from. Heather gave Hikari a thumbs up before she created an announcer to announce them. "Ladies & Gentlemen!" He began, smiling at the people in the room that had suddenly gone dark. Everyone was seated & watching him as the food appeared in front of them on the table. "I present Miss Heather Dunaway & Miss Kayla Lorenz in their rendition of." There was a drumroll. "'I Move On!'" The band played in mid air. In all it took a decent time before the curtain actually lifted to reveal the girls dressed in the white, sparkling dresses. Miroku looked like he was about to bleed to death when he saw how low the skirts were. No one else was affected by the skirts shortness. Saisei woke to the sound of the blaring horns, looking up he saw his master dancing to the music. Slowly the music got softer & the girls started to sing.
(Heather) "While truckin' down the road of life
Although all hope seems lost,
I just move on, I move on."
(Hikari) "When I can't find a single star
To hang my wish upon,
I just move on, I move on."
(Heather)"I run so fast,
A shotgun blast
Can hurt me not one bit!"
(Hikari) "I'm on my toes,
Cuz heaven knows,
A moving targets hard to hit!"
(Both) "So as we play an ice ballet,
We're not the dyin' swan!
We just move on, we move on."
(Hikari)"Just when it seems,
We're out of dreams,
& Things have got us down."
(Heather)"We don't despair!
We don't go there!
We hang our bonnets out of town."
(Both) "So there's no doubt,
We're well cut out,
To run life's marathon.
We just move on, we move on.
So fleet of foot!
We can't stay put!
We just move!
YES, WE MOVE ON!!!"
They finished with one hand out toward the audience & one hand behind them. Facing each other. The crowd cheered, the announcer disappeared. Hikari & Heather smiled at each other then the crowd. The curtain closed & both girls got back into their regular outfits until a cry of 'encore! Encore!' from Uncle Kiba & practically everyone else was heard. They finished getting ready & went back out on the stage. "Let's do something else fun." Hikari said. Heather nodded. The curtain opened to show that even the dragons on the tables were clapping. Miroku looked slightly disappointed about something but the girls couldn't see what. "How about the 'Baha Men'?" Heather asked. "We could do 'Shake It Like This'!" Heather said cheerfully. Both girls nodded. With a snap of the fingers they were dressed in baggy clothes with hats on backwards. Microphones were in their hands. They smiled & put the mics to their mouths. "We is gonna do 'Shake It Like This' by that American band, The Baha Men!" Heather yelled into her phone in her natural way of speaking, slurred & not proper English like her teachers tried to make her talk. Kagome had heard of the singers before & clapped with everyone else behind her.
"Can you move it like this?"
Hikari & Heather started to dance around on the stage before they asked the question. Kagome led them by showing them that they had to copy the moves back. Everyone joined in, learning the words from Kagome. It went a little like this. "Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! C'mon ladies rock the party! Shake your body, Everybody!
C'mon everybody, Let's move it all night! Gonna take you back to the old school! Can you feel the vibe? (Miroku sorta jumps up & starts this line.) Just dance to the rhythm & let me See ya wind your waistline. (Miroku is pushed off) Jump back & do the twist, And the Electric Slide, yeah! (Move it man!) Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! C'mon fellas rock the party! Shake your body, Everybody!"
And so it went on into the night that they danced, sang, took turns at Kareoke, & other fun games until they fell asleep on the floor. Even Jaken did a tiny bit of dancing. They had a fun couple's dance that everyone joined in with. A silver furred kitsune had joined them, he was called Gin for his coat of fur. He was also husband to Raimu. Sesshoumaru had whirled Hikari around with Inuyasha whirling Kagome. Sango & Miroku danced when she wasn't hitting him for putting his hand on her butt. Kohaku & Rin danced jerkily. Tsume & Kiba danced since they had no one else to dance with. Gin & Raimu danced with Shippo & Yuri close behind. Jaken didn't bother dancing. Heather sat in a chair by him, holding down Saisei. She had several beer cans by her & if anyone had counted they would have seen she was going on her 13th beer. She swayed slightly & decided to take a rest. She found a chair in the corner of the room where she could see everything from & sat down, beer & dragon in hand. Hisui was dancing around with Shiro in mid air. She smiled slightly at the dots that kept blurring. Were they dots? They looked like smears now. She could barely see anything straight. She hiccuped & sat back in the chair. Her eyes closed, slowly. Jaken had watched her until he could see that she had fallen asleep in the chair that she had swayed over to. He smiled slightly & looked back at the party that was going on. Hikari had never looked so happy he thought looking the pair of dancers over. "Lord Sesshoumaru does love her I guess." He muttered to himself. Tomorrow Sesshoumaru planned on taking Hikari & everyone else around the outside of the castle but he, Jaken, was to teach Rin her lessons before hand, early in the morning. He sighed & rubbed his eyes before he got up. With jaunty sways he crossed the room & out the door toward his room. He yawned as he went. With a small nod of his head he pushed the door open. He fell forward onto a pillow & was asleep before he noticed it. ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ........ Sorry got to cut it short, but I swear this is the last time.
Chapter 22: Sister's, Uncles, Aunts, & A Bit of Kareoke!
So it went that Aunt Tsume & Uncle Kiba, who turned out to be twins, escorted them into the kingdom. "You don't remember us Inuyasha? We are your fathers eccentric younger brother & sister." Kiba explained. Inuyasha studied his face, manner & smell for some time. "Yeah, I think I remember you now. You're the guys that wouldn't stop squeezing the life out of me & kissing me to death & not to mention never shutting up." Kagome nudged him in the side. He gave her an irritated look. Kiba & Tsume laughed. "Aw, yes, I remember now. I'll bet your glad to hear that we haven't changed?" Tsume asked. Inuyasha's ears flattened & he crossed his arms. "I'm so happy to see you both have mates." Tsume smiled at them warmly. Sesshoumaru & Inuyasha blushed. "It's not like that Aunt Tsume." Sesshoumaru said. She smiled at him. "It isn't?" He shook his head. She smiled still. "Then you children will have to hurry up." Hikari simply smiled, seeing it as no more than a joke. Sesshoumaru cast nervous glances at his aunt who he knew better.
A hum from behind them caused them all to stop walking. Hikari smiled brightly. "Right on time." A cloud of dust & a red dot in he middle appeared behind them. "MOVE!!! I DON'T HAVE A LICENSE FOR THIS THING!!!" Heather called happily from her bike. She waved both arms at her friends in hopes to scare hem so she could have a better laugh at it later. Hikari was the only one who stayed put on the road. Heather sped the on toward her friend. "I'll run you down!" She called like a mad person. Hisui spread her wings a sort of parachute & let go of Heather's shoulder. She floated back & sat on the ground watching them. Just as Heather was about to hit Hikari she pulled the bike up on it's back wheel & jumped over her friend's head. Hikari turned only to see what Heather would do when she landed.
The bike landed & Heather put her foot down & turned it in the dirt. With a smile still on her face she listened to the dirt & gravel grind underneath her wheel as she spun about. The bike came to halt facing sideways in the road. Heather pulled off the helmet, letting her shoulder blade length hair flow down. She gave a whoop of joy. "That was great! Let's do it again!" Her ponytail bobbed slightly as she adjusted it. When she climbed down & had placed hers & Hisui's helmets back on the bike, it disappeared into thin air. The twins stared at her while she crossed the short distance & put a hand on Hikari's shoulder. "I was surprised when you didn't call on me mom." Hikari laughed. "Shut up." Kiba walked over & put his face by Heather's. She stopped laughing long enough to notice him. "Hey, I haven't met you before. Hey, Hik, you gonna tell me who this is?" Hikari smiled. "This is Kiba-sama. Sesshoumaru's uncle. His twin sister is Tsume-sama, his aunt. They're his father's younger brother & sister." Heather smiled at him. Extending her hand to him she took a firm hold of his clawed hand & shook it. "My name is Heather Dunaway & I'm crazy." He looked at her bewilderedly for a minute before he smiled & shook her arm just as hard back. "I'm Kiba. You don't have to call me Lord though. That would be my nephew. And whose mate are you?" Heather kept on smiling. "I'm no ones mate." They released each other's arms as Tsume walked over. She grasped Heather's arm next. "Nice to meet you miss. I'm Tsume, but you don't have to call me Lady." Heather nodded, shaking Tsume's hand more gently. "Tell me, what was that strange creature you were riding that made that strange noise?" She asked when they had released each other's arms. Heather looked at her questioningly for a short time. "Oh! That was my motorcycle. Where I come from it's a hot ride." Tsume's turn to look confused. "It's like a hyped up dirt bike." Tsume still looked confused. "I'll explain it all later."
Kirei hopped forward, for the first time she looked Hikari over carefully. Hikari sweatdropped while she stood firm & stiff, wondering what the dog- girl was doing. Kirei sniffed the sweet scent that came off the girl. Finally she straightened & looked at Hikari's eyes with a hand on her chin. "Hmm." She said rubbing it back & forth. Hikari couldn't help but feel slightly nervous. Suddenly a lesson she had had on animals when she was in grade school came rushing back. The teacher had said that animals could sense your emotions & that was the reason why a dog might cozy up to you when you're sad. She wondered if Kirei could sense her nervousness at being inspected so closely. "I guess you can marry my brother." Hikari took a slight step backward. "W-what?" She asked with wide, shocked eyes. Kirei smiled at her. "Nieces." She thought aloud & turned away, walking down the hall. "Nephews would be good I guess." Hikari sweatdropped & felt her legs turn into gelatin. "Yeah." She said & pat a squawking Saisei on the head. He quickly quieted down under her touch. Hikari sighed & turned toward the hall that she had been trying to reach when Kirei had spun her around to inspect.
Heather was sitting in a chair with Hisui curled up in her lap. A fire roared in a huge fireplace by her side. Both dragon & owner seemed to be falling asleep or sleeping when Hikari got a better look at them. Hisui's ear twitched in her sleep when Hikari waved her hand in front of her friend's face. "Hello?" Heather didn't budge or make an answer. "Hello." Said a voice behind her back. Hikari straightened & looked at the person who had spoken. "Yes?" She asked 'Uncle Kiba'. (He had told her she could call him that since she was Sesshoumaru's mate, to which Sesshoumaru growled a 'we're not mates.') "I came to tell you that Sesshoumaru has instructed me to move your bags from the guest's quarters to his personal quarters." Hikari blushed slightly. "Why?" Kiba shrugged his shoulders. "I have just been asked to tell you since he seems to be.embarrassed to ask you himself. Well, off to his room you go. The bags have already been moved." He circled around Hikari & pushed her toward the door. Hikari put her legs in front of her in an act to try & stop the movement. "HIS ROOM?" She asked startled. Kiba nodded, still pushing her at a decent speed. "Yes, his quarters are his room." "What about Rin's room?" "There isn't enough room to walk in there let alone house 2 people." Hikari tried to think of another way out. Nothing came to her but the memory of the class on animal sensory. Could Kiba fell her emotions right now? She doubted the dog demons could read minds. She looked around frantically for someone but there was no one in sight as she was pushed rapidly down the hall. "Do I have to?" She asked looking up at Kiba, blushing despite her frantic trying to calm herself. He was smiling at her. "Of course, it's an order." Hikari looked back down at the ground. "I want to exercise my free will at the moment." He laughed a deep, happy laughter that made Hikari perk up some.
They reached the door to Sesshoumaru's quarters soon after that. Hikari had stopped trying to make him drag her & walked on her own by his side. He had refused her request to walk behind him because he was used to that trick. The hall leading to Sesshoumaru's quarters were painted with war scenes, bloody battles that all featured white, dog youkai that Hikari guessed was either him or his father. Claws, antlers, horns, weapons that were broken or bloodied were hung on the wall where the picture stories stopped. "Who is the dog youkai in these scenes?" Hikari asked pointing to them. Kiba looked over at her while he searched for the key that would gain her access. "The paintings range from the first lord of this castle all the way down to Sesshoumaru. The weapons are theirs or their enemies. He'll tell you more about them later if you ask, because I've finally found the blasted key." Sticking the key toward the door it glowed. Hikari took notice that there was no doorknob, Kiba was sticking the key at the door itself. "This is how we lock the doors. Through Youkai magic." Hikari watched as the glow from the key streamed out & hit the door. It glowed in unison, then a small 'click' was heard & the Kiba pulled the key away. He pushed the door open to show a room decorated in the same fashion as the hall, only Hikari could tell that the murals & weapons were all Sesshoumaru's. One picture depicted him in the battle against Lady Unmei's family. Hikari had the weird sensation, as she had had it all day, that she had been in the room before. She put a hand to her forehead. "Déjà vu." She said for about the millionth time that evening. Kiba stood in the doorway smiling. "It will be Déjà vu for some time before you have revisited every room in the castle, Miss Hana Hogasha." Hikari whirled but the door snapped shut. Opening the door she saw that there was no one in the hallway. She shut the door again & looked at the ceiling thoughtfully. Hikari stepped away from the door in shock. She had her chance to get out of the room! She put her hand on the doorway & tried to slide it back again but it held in one place. She pulled & strained, using all her muscles to get out. "It's like the damn thing is locked!" She remembered what Kiba had said about youkai magic & released the door. "Shit."
"Sesshoumaru!! Oh, little Sesshoumaru-chan!" Called Tsume as she ran down the halls, her long kimono trailing behind her. "I have news for you." She entered a small room that had a single futon lying on the ground. A dollhouse, dolls, ribbons, & paints lay scattered across the floor. Rin stood behind the white haired youkai, tying ribbons in his hair. "Auntie Tsume wants her hair done too?" She asked when she had finished tying a ribbon in Sesshoumaru's hair. Tsume smiled down at her. "I will right after I tell Sesshoumaru-chan something. Sesshoumaru can I talk to you privately in the hall?" Sesshoumaru stood. "I'll be right back Rin." Tsume was still smiling as she usually was. "Miss Hikari has insisted on sleeping in your quarters. We tried to reason with her but she wouldn't have it any other way." Tsume tried not to look amused as she spoke. Sesshoumaru gave her a troubled look. "You had better not be lying to me Aunt Tsume, & don't call me Sesshoumaru-chan, Ok?" Tsume patted his head. "But you'll always be my little Sesshoumaru-chan." Sesshoumaru sighed. "If you have come to tell me this than I can tell it must be a joke, Hikari isn't that kind of girl." He turned to go. "I might rethink that Sesshoumaru." Tsume said in a very stern voice. "I believe you know very little about this girl. As I suspect an inner warning about her is keeping you from searching for her real self." Sesshoumaru turned back around, giving Tsume a questioning glance. "Aunt Tsume you'll have to make yourself clearer on that." "You are afraid inside, though you do not know it, that as soon as you start to love her like you did once, she will disappear again, leaving you alone, & without a soul to turn to." Sesshoumaru's eyes went sad suddenly. Had that really been the thing nagging at him all the time he had known her? Was he truly worried she would die when he wished for nothing but to be with her always like he had before? Was her fate to die after she felt love for someone & they had returned it by wanting to be with her always? Was that her souls eternal fate? He looked at the ground, his sad eyes focusing on nothing in particular. "Well, you had better get going. She's waiting for you, & don't worry, I did a little research. She isn't going to die because you love her." He looked up to see her kimono slipping into Rin's room. "Where is Sesshoumaru-sama?" He heard Rin ask. "He had to go run an errand but you can style my hair." Rin giggled & he heard ribbons being drawn from the drawers. With a slight smile he walked away from the room.
Tsume watched as her brother appeared in the doorway with a smile. "Two down, two to go." He said. She smiled back. Rin pulled a ribbon through her hair. "What is so funny Auntie Tsume & Uncle Kiba?" Tsume shook her head. "Grown up talk."
Sesshoumaru could smell Hikari before he even entered the hall. The smell of flowers, he noticed for a first time. Fresh flowers, still sitting on the hill, blowing in the warm wind on a sunny day, with the clouds going by overhead. His doorway smelled of both his uncle, who's smell wasn't as pleasant as Hikari's & Hikari. He looked down the hall on the other side to make sure no one was coming. He had no idea why he did this. His ears or nose would pick up the scent of a traveler beforehand. With a soft sigh he rapped on the door. Scurrying feet moved inside. He knocked again. "It's locked." Hikari's muffled voice said from inside. He was shocked that she was there like Tsume said. Though he had smelled her all through the halls & on the doorway & her scent floating through the door, he had somehow thought, deep inside that she would not be there. "Ok." He said & put a single claw to the door. A clicking noise reverberated through it & it swung open of it's own accord. He walked in, seeing Hikari sitting on the floor looking slightly nervous. At least she looked slightly nervous, his senses told him that she was feeling uncertain, nervous, but not scared. That was good, he didn't want her to be scared of him. The door slid shut behind him. He walked the short distance between them & sat down across from her. The room consisted of a single futon on the ground, & in the back of the room was another set of doors that led to the porch. It looked out over a small pond that his father had created for him, & it had a nice over look of the valley below. Hikari blushed & they both dared not make eye contact. "I uh." They both said. "Oh, what were you going to say?" Hikari asked. "Oh, no you go first." Sesshoumaru said politely. "How about we both say what we wanted to know at the same time?" Sesshoumaru nodded, his face going from pale to a small red color. "I wanted to know why you asked me here." They both half shouted. "I asked you here?" They both asked each other at the same time. "You asked me here." They pointed in unison as they spoke then the thought crossed both their minds. "Kiba!" "Tsume!" "They set us up!" They had their noses pressed together when they turned back to look at each other. Both suddenly lost all anger, blushed, & pulled away. "Well, I think we know now what has happened." Sesshoumaru went to the door to find it locked. He put his clawed finger to the doorway but nothing happened. He stepped back. "I think we're stuck until someone else comes down here." Hikari stood & tried her luck at getting out. "Nothing. Or wait!" Hikari pointed one finger in the air. "Ah-ha! Saisei!" A black dot was seen twittering back & forth before the door. His shadow shone through from the light in the hallway. "Out squawk now!" He cried in his feeble, still learning to talk, way. "Can't, Get Kiba or Tsume, I think they locked us in here." The black dot hovered for a moment. "Saisei, go! What are you waiting for!" The neck, or what she thought was the neck, shook the head. "Why not?" Saisei stayed in the same place. "Saisei do as I say!" Hikari felt slightly embarrassed at the fact that Saisei wasn't doing what she wanted. The power that held Saisei to his duties became stronger than his will to keep an eye on his master. He was jerked down the hall by an invisible hand, landing in Heather's hands at the end of it. "You're going to ruin everything by being so protective of her. She can't be your girlfriend no matter what, & it's not because you're a dragon now." She held tight to the dragon's body while she walked down the hall, Hisui sitting on her shoulder, looking down on her fellow dragon. "It's because she has chosen Sesshoumaru & he has chosen her, fate has been woven, you need to chill your beans on her boy. And don't you tell me that cock & bull story about taking over the world with the Red Dragon Clan. Boy, you be getting some serious ass whoopin' you tell someone that. Plus that's the worst lie I ever heard. I know that was the original story but you've been pining after her ever since you set eyes on her when you were kids." The black dragon looked up at her with scowling eyes, she had guessed his position. "That was a good cover story but it was really her you were after the whole time, not her position as princess. You're easy to figure out once I learned some things about you." Heather smiled & set him down on a table. With a wink she went whistling down through another corridor & disappeared.
Saisei took off toward the smell of the 2 demons he was to retrieve, in the back of his mind he hoped his master wasn't kissing that player. He bumped back into Heather after a short flight with an angry squawk. Heather smiled at him as he chattered his nonsense at her. "What's that?" Heather asked with a mischievous grin on her face. "Little Jimmy is stuck in the well? We must save him!" She picked him from the ground & ran with him under her arm. He growled at her & bit her arm but she kept running like nothing had happened. Finally she stopped in a room that was decorated with lace & other trimmings. "Wait." Heather said sitting Saisei down on another table. "There are no wells around here. And I don't know any Jimmy's. Saisei are you trying to pull my leg?" The dragon gave her a withering look before he took off. "Not very humorous is he?" Hisui asked from Heather's shoulder. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks unless he's willing to do it." Heather waved her hand dismissively. "What are you blabbering now?" Hisui asked. "You already know." Hisui shook her head. "I know only emotions so far, I have not been trained to know your thoughts." Heather grinned. "You need to spend more time with me, learn from that." Hisui shook her head again. "Are you going to tell me?" Heather had started off back down the hall that she had come from. "It has a double meaning. 1) He won't give up on Hikari even though she will not have him & Sesshoumaru has already taken her. 2) He will not spare humor for us so long as his 'master' is not laughing with him." Hisui cocked her head. "My kind cannot love our humans in that way. We can love in the way that we want to protect you & always want to be with you but not in that way." Heather shook her head. "That is where you are wrong. If a dragon spends enough time with humans, the dragon will learn to love a human deeper than they are supposed to. Some dragon's have even become strong enough to create a human side so they can marry a human or demon or whatever." Hisui absorbed the information like a sponge. "I see, so he has developed this skill? A skill I have yet to acquire?" "No, he was born with this ability because he was once a Dragon Clan member, before the woman he loves killed him." Hisui looked at her confusedly. "I think I get the gist of it."
Saisei finally found the man he was looking for &.damn that miko was with him! Saisei felt nervous around her, but strangely drawn. He hoped that when he mastered speech she would be able to make him a human being like he used to be, then he would win Hikari from that demon! He hovered in place, waiting for the miko to leave. She & the man were talking very fast & out of sorts. The miko's cheeks were red & she had her hands on her face, looking nervous. Saisei lost patience & flew screeching at them.
"Yes, he has demanded you to leave the guest quarters & to stay in his." Kagome's cheeks flushed a deeper red. "But what about Shippo? Sango can't protect her self from Miroku all night long by herself. What if she gets lonely with only Shippo & Kirara to talk to?" She looked desperately for an excuse not to stay in Inuyasha's quarters. "I'm sorry but they will be fine. Now, your things have already been moved so I'll help you find the way." Kagome looked slightly frightened as he circled around her & started to push her down the hall till a black arrow hit his back. He groaned slightly & grabbed the air behind him to find the cause of his slight pain. "Saisei." He said in an undertone when he pulled the tiny dragon forward. It screeched words at him until he let it hover in front of him. "Calmly tell me what you want." Kagome tried to sneak away while Kiba wasn't looking but he had a firm grip on her shoulders & she couldn't move. "Stuck squawk in room. You come squawk get them out. Squawk I no like." Kiba smiled. "Ah, little Jimmy is stuck in the well? Tell him to wait I have orders to fulfill, however you can get my sister or my niece to help the young boy." Saisei glared at him before streaking past them, leaving Kagome alone with Kiba again. "Well, now that that's over, let's get you settled." Kagome drug her feet, looking around in every room they passed for someone to help.
"Inuyasha! Oh, Inuyasha-chan!" Two fluffy white ears perked up from a chair by a fire. A can of beer was sitting on the floor to the left of the high chair that Inuyasha found smelled like that strange new girl Heather. "Tch. What do you want?" He called angrily, picking up the can & throwing it into the fire. Tsume ran into the room with a bright smile on her face. "It's about your woman." She began. Inuyasha's face went red. "She's not my woman!" He yelled, feeling slightly more irritable than he usually did. Tsume only giggled. "Well according to her she's your woman." Inuyasha's ears pricked forward & he lost all anger. "She demanded to be aloud to sleep in your quarters. Kiba & I tried to stop her but fighting a miko that strong is a bad idea in this enclosed space." Inuyasha peered up at the vaulting ceiling & gave his aunt a 'really, you call this enclosed?' look. "Well tell her to get the fuck out." Inuyasha snarled, anger starting to return. 'Aunt Tsume & her dumb games!' "You shouldn't speak that way in front of a lady. Have you used that language with Kagome?" Inuyasha blushed slightly, so what if he had? "Yeah." He finally said, looking away. "Well, stop it. Besides you're making a bad impression by making her wait. She's in your quarters, now go!" His aunt gave him a hard shove toward the hall that led to his room. "Why do I hafta? She'll leave if I don't show up." He whined at his aunt, pushing him still from behind. He had forgotten how strong she could be! "She is waiting & it's not gentlemanly like to make her wait." Inuyasha finally walked on his own. "Fine! I'll go!" He said like a child & ran down the hall to escape her. Hisui appeared on her shoulder when he disappeared from sight. "Four down, none to go. Heather is still laughing from the whole ordeal." Tsume smiled at the dragon then burst out laughing. "Can you believe that Kiba & I set Lady Unmei & my brother up in the same way? And his previous wife who died in battle!" She rolled on the floor like a child. Finally sitting up she handed a parchment to Hisui who disappeared immediately afterwards.
Several rooms over Heather had listened to the whole conversation. Hisui appeared in her lap, dropping the parchment. Heather unrolled it & read it out aloud to her dragon, which had yet to learn to read.
"The eagle has landed. Thanks for your participation, send this note onto Kirei-chan."
Heather gave it to Hisui with the order to find Kirei & give it to her. The dragon saluted comically then disappeared. Heather grabbed out a mirror she had been saving to spy on someone. With a quick word of who she wanted to see she rubbed her hand over the mirror & looked in at a tiny male black dragon who was flying hard through corridors & rooms.
Hikari sat against the door, tired of ramming it with her body & beating it with her fists. Sesshoumaru was sweating slightly from clawing the door & surrounding walls without peeling even the paper. He sighed & slid down the door beside her. "What now?" He asked. Hikari looked around the room for something. "We can either wait & save our strength while Saisei looks for them or we can continue beating the door until we hit a concealed weak spot." Sesshoumaru stood & crossed the room, picking up a statue of pure jade that looked like a Chinese god dragon. He looked it over but put it down with a growl of disgust. "I thought the key to the door might be stuck in it still but it looks like my uncle found it first." Hikari smiled at his angry face. "He meant well." "You wait. My Aunt Tsume will have something to do with this too. They set up my father with both his wives in this similar way." He waved a hand dismissively in the air. "I guess Saisei will never find them, either that or they'll give him a hell of a time before they come." Hikari stood & crossed by Sesshoumaru. "They'll come to get us by dinner." Hikari nodded. Her eyes looked at the sliding doors that led to the garden outside. Hikari gasped, suddenly realizing it was there. "What about that door?" Sesshoumaru looked up, obviously seeing it for the first time too. "I forgot about that." They both rushed over & tried to get the door open with no luck, it was stuck as tight as the other. "Damn." Hikari cursed under her breath. She plopped down on the floor. "Well, I guess we can talk until dinner then." Sesshoumaru nodded, sitting down across from her. "I was born in a country."
Inuyasha ran as fast as he could down the halls, looking like a white, red streak against the walls. He was stunned when he passed by a black streak that was tiny & seemed to be flying. He noticed it at once as Saisei. The grumpy dragon made him irritable so he ran on without looking back again. "If I remember correctly, the hall to my room is around here somewhere." He grumbled. The black dart overtook him & sped forward with an irritable screech. Inuyasha furrowed his brow & pushed his speed faster. The two raced until the black dart veered off course to a hallway off the one that led to Inuyasha's bedroom. He smirked to himself. "I guess I win then."
The hall was filled with Kagome's scent. It filled his nose & blocked out all other smells except for the irritating smell of his uncle. There was another scent in the hall but he couldn't put his finger on who or what it was. He shrugged as he came to a halt outside his door. He rapped on it & to his great surprise the ancient door crumbled under his touch. "Damn." He growled. A second door that was newer looking was hidden behind the first. Inuyasha slid it out of the way & entered. Kagome was fashioning something from a hook on the floor. Inuyasha walked in & closed the door behind him. The strange scent from the hall came from the other side of the door as soon as it was shut but Inuyasha paid no mind to it. "What are you doing?" He asked trying to avoid the question that kept bouncing around in his mind. "I'm trying to make a lock picker so I can get out of here." Inuyasha cocked his head to one side. "But the door is open, I just came in." Kagome looked up at him with startled eyes, seeing him for the first time in the room. "When did you get here?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. Inuyasha fell over anime style. When he got back up Kagome was pulling hard at the door, then she would try her lock picker, then back to pulling or pushing the door. "Your probably too weak to open a demon's door." Inuyasha said & tried to pry it open. It wouldn't budge. Kagome was giving him a hurt glare until she noticed that he couldn't open the door either. "Maybe you're too weak too? Hmm?" Inuyasha only growled a 'am not' at her. "Well you are half human so maybe your aren't." Inuyasha shook his mane of white hair. "I could get it open all the time when I was a kid." Kagome smirked. Putting on an astonished face she tapped him on the shoulder. "What if you've gotten weaker then?" He saw the twinkle of laughter in her eyes. He put his nose to the door. "Damn, no wonder! This is youkai magic! Kirei was here! Wait! What about my uncle did he say anything.I mean touch the door in a funny way?" Kagome shook her head. "I don't think so." Inuyasha slumped to the ground. "They trapped us in here." "Who?" Inuyasha gave her a scowl that was meant for the demons that had done the deed. "Heather, Kirei, Uncle Kiba, & Aunt Tsume." Kagome looked astonished. "Why Heather & Kirei? I mean I can see your uncle & aunt doing this but not them." Inuyasha shook his head. "Uncle Kiba led you here. Aunt Tsume led me here. Kirei put the spells on the doors & Heather made sure that the race between me & Saisei would distract me from thinking of the other clues." Kagome pondered the affair. "Well, what about Hikari & Sesshoumaru?" She asked suddenly realizing that they might not be the only ones that were stuck. "Or Sango & Miroku? I knew I should have brought Shippo with me. Miroku will definitely make a move with only Shippo, Sango, & Kohaku around. Inuyasha smirked. "Well, I think Sango can protect herself." Kagome nodded. "Yeah."
Saisei finally found the dog-eared girl that he had met earlier. "Kirei!" He called from the air as he landed in her hair. Kirei pulled him from her head & smiled warmly at him. "Hai?" He twittered uneasily in her hands. "Trouble, they stuck. You come get them out! Me no like him!" Saisei was improving, at least he didn't squawk in between words anymore. "You need to study languages more." Kirei announced, pretending not to hear what he had said. "You came now! Help!" He repeated. Kirei shook her head. "Me no come. They no need help." Saisei looked frantic. "Why! Why?" He implored. "The door will open when they realize they want to get married, I can't stand to see my brother so unsure of something." Saisei about passed out at the words 'marriage'. "No!" He yelled. "Other way!" "Oh, there is another way." Kirei said, avoiding his true meaning. "We'll unlock the doors at dinner if they haven't opened them themselves." She set the dragon in an armchair & walked off. He tried to follow her but when he rounded the corner there was nothing left but a trail of thin mist leading to a garden in the middle of the house. He screeched again & zoomed toward the smell of Aunt Tsume.
Hikari sat against the door still, Sesshoumaru next to her, exchanging stories. "Then Heather fell in the pool, I had no idea at the time but she was holding onto me & I was next to Ryan so when I fell I grabbed him & he fell with us into the pool. It was so funny, even though we had to wear towels the rest of the day because we were so wet & all Heather's extra clothes were in the wash." Sesshoumaru laughed even though he didn't like the part with Ryan in it. "So, where is this Ryan now?" He asked. Heather thought it over. "He's probably at home now. I wonder what he named his dragon?" She shrugged. "I'll have to ask Heather later." Sesshoumaru nodded, seeing the sun set from behind the opposite screen door. "Dinner should be ready soon." He said stretching slightly. Hikari nodded & fell slightly against him. He stared at her but she didn't seem to notice what was happening. She yawned & her ear fell on his chest. She could hear his heart, it was very soothing, she thought as her eyes closed slowly. He shut his eyes also, trying to convince himself that it was Ok, for a youkai to love a human for the thousandth time. "It is wonderful if you love a human my son." Said a voice inside of his head. "I will approve of any marriage you want, but this brings me great joy to know that you have felt what I wanted Tenseiga to teach you. You have learned to love Rin- chan as your child, your responsibility, you have felt the love of a father. Now you have felt the love for your one & only." Sesshoumaru's brows furrowed, as he thought deeper. "But father you had 2 wives, does that mean that you only loved one of them?" He heard his father's deep laugh deep in his memory that he had tried to destroy. "Of course not my son, I am very lucky to have loved my wife twice." His eyebrows raised. "Twice?!" "Yes, Unmei was your mother reborn as a human, that is why I cared so much for her." A new question popped into his mind. "Does that mean that Inuyasha & I are one in the same?" Another deep laugh from his father. "You should know that a soul cannot be reincarnated when that person still exists!" Sesshoumaru heaved a small sigh of relief. "Thank you father, that is all I needed to know." "But what do you wish for now that you have realized what you truly want?" Sesshoumaru could see his father standing before him in all his magnificence. "Tell me my son." Sesshoumaru stared at him with wide eyes for a brief second before answering. "I wish to be with them always!" He shouted to his father in the dream that seemed to be fading. "With who?" His father implored him. "I wish to live with Hikari & Rin forever!" He shouted louder. The door behind him disappeared & he was bolted back to reality.
Kagome snuggled against Inuyasha by the door. She had also fallen asleep from laughter, constant talking, & boredom. Her eyes slowly came open to look up at Inuyasha. "I want to tell you something." She said in a dreamy voice that steadily become more aware of her sleep leaving. "What is it?" He asked her with a slight smile. "I want to be with you always, for forever & a day." She said & snuggled closer to him. He stared at her with wide eyes for a brief second but they grew soft. He hugged her to him. "I want to be with you forever too Kagome, for forever & a day." The door smelled of his annoying older sister for a brief moment before it disappeared. He fell back to the ground with a gasp. Kagome, next to him in his arms. He opened his eyes to see his Aunt Tsume looking down at them. "Well, well, I see you 2 were having fun." Inuyasha glared up at her. "Aunt Tsume." He started but she put a finger to her lips. "Shh. Dinner is about ready, you 2 get ready for it." He got to his feet with Kagome by his side still, looking around herself for signs of Uncle Kiba. "I just came to check on you, so I'll see you soon." She disappeared in a rush of flower petals. "Well, lets get ready." Inuyasha said & walked back into his room to comb his long hair for the first time in ages.
Sesshoumaru looked up at his uncles smiling face & sparkling eyes. "Calm down boy, your not married yet." Sesshoumaru swiped at his ankles angrily. His uncle jumped backward with a laugh. "Dinner's ready, come on. Oh, & Heather said that she wants to do a song with you Hikari. The girl got to her feet. "A what?" "A song, she said it was called 'I move on' by a Catherine Zeta-Jones & Renee Zellweger" Hikari smiled. "Oh, that song, Ok. By the way did you see Saisei?" "Nope." He lied & was gone in a rush of wind. Hikari shrugged. "Saisei!" The tiny dragon appeared on cue. He could smell the demon all over his master. He gave her a startled look, she simply smiled at him. In a jealous rage he swirled his wings out & snapped at Sesshoumaru. Hikari grabbed his tail & swung him to her opposite shoulder. "Bad boy." She corrected him. His entire being seemed to sag & he disappeared from her shoulder. She could sense him reappear on the roof, she felt slightly sorry but shrugged it off. "Wonder what his problem is?"
Heather was already sitting at a table with a small stage up front. She had redecorated the hall with her magic when she had become bored with waiting for her friend. Uncle Kiba, & Aunt Tsume liked the change but asked her to return it to its original look after the party. "I had no intention of keeping it this way." She said swirling a drink in a glass. They both smiled wider & thanked her, then with a swoosh of air & flower petals left to get ready. Heather had enchanted all the instruments that they would need that evening until Hikari arrived at the doorway & tackled her to the ground. "Heather Dunaway! If you ever!" She yelled but instead hugged her friend. "This is going to be so fun." Heather got up from the ground, fixing her ponytail. "Man what did you 2 do?" She asked with a slight smile. Heather picked up a chair & chased her like a child around the room until she saw Kagome watching them. Putting down the chair, Hikari smiled at her friend. "You too?" She asked seeing the happy look in Kagome's eyes. "Hai. I thought you might be stuck too. How did you get out?" Kagome got closer in case Hikari didn't want to shout it across the room. "I'm not quite sure how. I remember thinking that I wanted to staying leaning against him like that forever then I felt him going down & I didn't have time to even think about bracing myself before I hit the floor next to him." Hikari poked at her bottom lip a tiny bit. "Same with me. I was asleep on his shoulder. When I woke up I suddenly realized that I wanted to be with him like that forever. Then the door disappeared & we both fell through." Kagome copied Hikari's thoughtful poking of the lip. Sango, Shippo, Kohaku, & Miroku who had a good dozen red hand marks on him, entered the room. Shippo was playing with some glittery object on Sango's shoulder. Kohaku looked around the huge room & stared shocked at the floating instruments. Inuyasha greeted them with an uncharacteristic smile. "I guess we can eat now huh?" He asked Sesshoumaru who shook his head. "No, we wait for the others to get here." He told his brother. They seated themselves & talked idly until the others came. Rin was dressed in a beautiful kimono that fell down past her feet. It was red with gold embroidered flowers & phoenixes on it. Her hair was combed & pulled up in a ponytail with red & gold flowers stuck at the base of the ponytail. She beamed at them & ran over to the table that Sesshoumaru & Hikari were sitting at. "You look very nice Rin-chan." Hikari commented, catching the scent of the flowers. Heather popped over & commented on the dress as well. Saisei was asleep from exhaust on the table. Shiro however was as peppy & ready for the song as Hikari was. "Strange how your emotions effect him as well." Sesshoumaru pointed out the dragon doing cartwheels in the air. "Yeah, but it is entertaining to see him do tricks." Music was softly sounding through the room. Tsume & Kiba had shown back up with a kitsune girl & her cub. Kohaku, Shippo, Rin, & the kitsune cub that was called Yuri or Lily. Her mother was called Raimu or Lime. "Raimu is the one who watches Rin when she is not taking lessons from Jaken." Sesshoumaru explained to everyone. As if on cue the tiny youkai shuffled through the door. He was wearing what he had always worn only he smelled much better, like he had taken a bath for the first time ever. Everyone welcomed the change. Kirei was coming through the door behind him, clad in a soft blue kimono. Her white hair was also pulled into a long ponytail that draped down to her butt. She had blue & white flowers stuck in her hair. She smiled at them all in passing. Heather popped up from the table & grabbed Hikari's wrist. "Come on! Everyone's here now." Hikari was pulled to the stage where both girls changed into sparkling white dresses like in the movie the song was from. Heather gave Hikari a thumbs up before she created an announcer to announce them. "Ladies & Gentlemen!" He began, smiling at the people in the room that had suddenly gone dark. Everyone was seated & watching him as the food appeared in front of them on the table. "I present Miss Heather Dunaway & Miss Kayla Lorenz in their rendition of." There was a drumroll. "'I Move On!'" The band played in mid air. In all it took a decent time before the curtain actually lifted to reveal the girls dressed in the white, sparkling dresses. Miroku looked like he was about to bleed to death when he saw how low the skirts were. No one else was affected by the skirts shortness. Saisei woke to the sound of the blaring horns, looking up he saw his master dancing to the music. Slowly the music got softer & the girls started to sing.
(Heather) "While truckin' down the road of life
Although all hope seems lost,
I just move on, I move on."
(Hikari) "When I can't find a single star
To hang my wish upon,
I just move on, I move on."
(Heather)"I run so fast,
A shotgun blast
Can hurt me not one bit!"
(Hikari) "I'm on my toes,
Cuz heaven knows,
A moving targets hard to hit!"
(Both) "So as we play an ice ballet,
We're not the dyin' swan!
We just move on, we move on."
(Hikari)"Just when it seems,
We're out of dreams,
& Things have got us down."
(Heather)"We don't despair!
We don't go there!
We hang our bonnets out of town."
(Both) "So there's no doubt,
We're well cut out,
To run life's marathon.
We just move on, we move on.
So fleet of foot!
We can't stay put!
We just move!
YES, WE MOVE ON!!!"
They finished with one hand out toward the audience & one hand behind them. Facing each other. The crowd cheered, the announcer disappeared. Hikari & Heather smiled at each other then the crowd. The curtain closed & both girls got back into their regular outfits until a cry of 'encore! Encore!' from Uncle Kiba & practically everyone else was heard. They finished getting ready & went back out on the stage. "Let's do something else fun." Hikari said. Heather nodded. The curtain opened to show that even the dragons on the tables were clapping. Miroku looked slightly disappointed about something but the girls couldn't see what. "How about the 'Baha Men'?" Heather asked. "We could do 'Shake It Like This'!" Heather said cheerfully. Both girls nodded. With a snap of the fingers they were dressed in baggy clothes with hats on backwards. Microphones were in their hands. They smiled & put the mics to their mouths. "We is gonna do 'Shake It Like This' by that American band, The Baha Men!" Heather yelled into her phone in her natural way of speaking, slurred & not proper English like her teachers tried to make her talk. Kagome had heard of the singers before & clapped with everyone else behind her.
"Can you move it like this?"
Hikari & Heather started to dance around on the stage before they asked the question. Kagome led them by showing them that they had to copy the moves back. Everyone joined in, learning the words from Kagome. It went a little like this. "Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! C'mon ladies rock the party! Shake your body, Everybody!
C'mon everybody, Let's move it all night! Gonna take you back to the old school! Can you feel the vibe? (Miroku sorta jumps up & starts this line.) Just dance to the rhythm & let me See ya wind your waistline. (Miroku is pushed off) Jump back & do the twist, And the Electric Slide, yeah! (Move it man!) Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! Can you move it like this? I can shake it like that! C'mon fellas rock the party! Shake your body, Everybody!"
And so it went on into the night that they danced, sang, took turns at Kareoke, & other fun games until they fell asleep on the floor. Even Jaken did a tiny bit of dancing. They had a fun couple's dance that everyone joined in with. A silver furred kitsune had joined them, he was called Gin for his coat of fur. He was also husband to Raimu. Sesshoumaru had whirled Hikari around with Inuyasha whirling Kagome. Sango & Miroku danced when she wasn't hitting him for putting his hand on her butt. Kohaku & Rin danced jerkily. Tsume & Kiba danced since they had no one else to dance with. Gin & Raimu danced with Shippo & Yuri close behind. Jaken didn't bother dancing. Heather sat in a chair by him, holding down Saisei. She had several beer cans by her & if anyone had counted they would have seen she was going on her 13th beer. She swayed slightly & decided to take a rest. She found a chair in the corner of the room where she could see everything from & sat down, beer & dragon in hand. Hisui was dancing around with Shiro in mid air. She smiled slightly at the dots that kept blurring. Were they dots? They looked like smears now. She could barely see anything straight. She hiccuped & sat back in the chair. Her eyes closed, slowly. Jaken had watched her until he could see that she had fallen asleep in the chair that she had swayed over to. He smiled slightly & looked back at the party that was going on. Hikari had never looked so happy he thought looking the pair of dancers over. "Lord Sesshoumaru does love her I guess." He muttered to himself. Tomorrow Sesshoumaru planned on taking Hikari & everyone else around the outside of the castle but he, Jaken, was to teach Rin her lessons before hand, early in the morning. He sighed & rubbed his eyes before he got up. With jaunty sways he crossed the room & out the door toward his room. He yawned as he went. With a small nod of his head he pushed the door open. He fell forward onto a pillow & was asleep before he noticed it. ............................................................................ ............................................................................ ........ Sorry got to cut it short, but I swear this is the last time.