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Hello Again to all my faithful readers... I have to say that I LOVE my 14 reviews... hehe : D I can only hope that they will go up... up up up... lol I just finished watching the second Inuyasha movie, and it was soo AWSOME!! But anywho, I now present Chapter 5... *trumpets sound* Enjoy... oh and real quick... I noticed that I don't have a disclaimer up... so I guess I better put one up... so here goes... I don't own Inuyasha & Co. and if I did... well... I'd be a lot richer... Happy Reading!!
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"Perhaps it becomes inevitable to pursue life as a whole. One must live life to the utmost extreme to be able to fulfill the goals set in our dreams. There is so much we have yet to discover about our world. "
~WiNtEr_sToRmS_oF_iCe~
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Kagome couldn't sleep a wink that night. She kept thinking about how much fun she had had with her new friend. She couldn't wait until morning came, so she could go out and play again!
Kagome had started a basket, which she began to fill with items, too show to Inuyasha. Every time she would drift off to sleep, she remembered another thing that Inuyasha might like to see... so swam out of bed, retrieved the item, and then swam back into bed. The night seemed endless, but Kagome's energy had never been higher.
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The next day, Inuyasha woke up with a jump. He stared out of his big glass window that overlooked the east walls off the palace with their towering balconies. The sun was bright and glowing through his window; it felt warm and full of songbirds. Inuyasha rushed through his morning activities; he ran out of his bedroom door, knocking over a maid who was coming to wake him up.
"Lord Inuyasha! Up already?" she called to him. But he didn't hear her; he headed for the nearest door that would take him outside, to play in the sunshine.
Inuyasha ran down the flight of marble stairs, taking each stair two at a time. He ran toward the gardens. Suddenly, Inuyasha met a figure he hoped to avoid this morning. Sesshomaru stepped from a side hallway... directly into Inuyasha's path.
Inuyasha slammed into his brother's legs and fell backwards; looking up, dazed, toward what he hit. Sesshomaru remained standing and looked down at his little half-brother.
"I don't believe I've ever seen you up this early before, Inuyasha. Where are you off to in such a rush this morning?" Sesshomaru asked him.
Inuyasha rubbed his nose and stood back up, facing Sesshomaru.
"I'm uhh... just going... to...umm..." Inuyasha tried to say. He could not think up and excuse to tell his older brother. If Sesshomaru knew that Inuyasha was trying to go out and play without going to class, he would have dragged Inuyasha to class by his ears, himself.
"Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru warned him.
"I'm going to... the library." Inuyasha spit out.
"Strange... considering the royal library is on South wing of the castle. And here you stand at the East." Sesshomaru said.
"I was taking a short cut." Inuyasha said.
"Really?" Sesshomaru said.
"Yup" Inuyasha said, hoping his brother would believe him.
"I would like to see this so called 'short cut' of yours, Inuyasha." Sesshomaru said, eyeing him closely.
"You can't..." Inuyasha said quickly.
"And why not?" Sesshomaru asked.
"It's a secret." Inuyasha told him.
"A secret huh? Well, brother's aren't supposed to keep secrets from each other." Sesshomaru said.
Suddenly, an attendant came up to the pair, bowed slightly and spoke, "Lord Sesshomaru, the King requests your presence in his royal chambers this morning."
"When his morning?" Sesshomaru asked, he was annoyed that this attendant had disrupted him while he was trying to teach Inuyasha a lesson.
"Immediately, my Lord." The attendant said.
"And why didn't you contact me sooner?" Sesshomaru asked; his temper raising.
"I could not locate you, Lord Sesshomaru." The attendant sunk to his knees, "Please forgive me, I do not obtain the speed that my Masters possess. I humbly apologize, my Lord. Please have pity on me!"
"Your pity will save you!" Sesshomaru roared. And he turned and walked away, leaving the groveling attendant and Inuyasha alone.
The attendant rose up again, but his eyes fell upon Inuyasha and he fell to his knees again, "Lord Inuyasha, my greatest apologies for the disturbance!" his voice was trembling.
Inuyasha looked at the miko, with wide eyes. Then, an idea came into his head. "Servant, you are forgiven only if you grant me his request." Inuyasha said.
"Anything my Lord." The servant said.
"Do you know of a door that can lead me outside, that is never used by anyone, especially the royal family?" Inuyasha asked.
The attendant was quiet for a moment, but then looked up at Inuyasha, "I know of one door that is used by no one but me, as a way for me to get from the royal kitchen to the beach, to dump left over carcasses into the water. But, why would your Lordship request this? The door is not really a door, just a hole in the thick walls."
"In the royal kitchens you say?" Inuyasha said.
"Yes, my Lord, the kitchens; back behind the knife rack." The attendant said.
"Thank you, you are forgiven." Inuyasha said, and he ran back down to the northern wing, to the royal kitchens.
'The kitchens are always busy, I'll never be seen!' Inuyasha thought to himself.
When Inuyasha found his way through the kitchen doors, the royal chefs were busy preparing breakfast. And few looked up when the door opened.
Inuyasha found the hole just as the servant had told him. It was big enough for Inuyasha to slip through without crawling. But then, Inuyasha was still little.
A passage way, covered with vines, which separated one of the garden walls to the palace walls. Inuyasha ran down its secret path. It opened up and came directly out, and onto the royal beach. Inuyasha began to run in the direction of the royal dock. He couldn't wait to play with Kagome again. He hoped she would be there, as he continued down the beach.
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Kagome had been at the dock for over twenty minutes, she wondered if Inuyasha was even going to come. 'Maybe he doesn't want to play with me anymore...' Kagome thought. She looked down at the basket of stuff she brought to show him, clutched in her arms. Kagome was in her usual spot under the dock, waiting for the noise of Inuyasha's footsteps on the dock to be heard.
Suddenly, she began to hear someone coming. Kagome's heart jumped, 'He did want to play!' She was so excited that she almost swam out from under the dock to greet him. But enough of her father's words echoed in her head, to wait and make sure that it was him.
Inuyasha came running down the dock; he remembered to slow down long enough to stop in time before he fell over the edge. Once he reached the end he began calling, "Kagome? Kagome? Are you here?" When no answer came, Inuyasha picked up a few rocks and began to throw them into the water around the dock.
Kagome recognized his voice, and the rocks hitting the water were a dead giveaway that it was him. Kagome swam out from under the dock and put her basket up on top of the dock. "I'm here Inuyasha."
"Hey Kagome," Inuyasha said, seeing his friend, "whatcha got?"
"Some stuff I wanted to show you." Kagome said. As she pulled funny colored and shaped objects out of her basket.
"I can only play for a little bit today, my brother yelled at me cause I'm not going to my classes..." Inuyasha said. Picking up a something that Kagome took out of her basket.
"Oh, Sesshomaru right?" Kagome asked.
"Yea, how did you know?" Inuyasha asked, spinning the object with his hands.
"I'm psychic." Kagome teased.
"Really?" Inuyasha said. "What am I thinking?"
"I was joking Inuyasha! You're so easy!" Kagome said laughing.
Inuyasha blushed, "Then how did you know about my brother?"
"I heard you talk about him once, you talked about how he 'was gonna kill you cause you were late for dinner.'" Kagome said.
"Oh," Inuyasha said, "You heard that?"
"Yea," Kagome answered. "You and I hadn't met yet. I was kinda snooping."
"You were spying on me?!?" Inuyasha growled.
"No!!" Kagome cried, "I was just watching you."
"So you were spying on me!" Inuyasha snapped.
"I was not! I had just never seen a land creature before, so I was just trying to get a better look." Kagome shouted.
"What did I tell you about my ears?!? You don't have to shout! I could probably hear you miles away!" Inuyasha cried.
"Are you saying I have a big mouth?" Kagome asked.
"Did I say that?" Inuyasha growled.
"No..." Kagome said.
"Then I didn't." Inuyasha said. *pulls down his eye lid and sticks out his tongue*
"Harrumph!" Kagome said, as she turned back to her basket.
"What does this thing do?" Inuyasha asked, as he held up an oval shaped object, that was made of a spongy material.
"Oh, that's a spatice... it fills itself with water and can bounce really high." Kagome said, the spatice was certainly not the most interesting thing in her basket to show him. Kagome wondered why he liked it so much.
"Oh..." Inuyasha said, he leaned over the dock and placed the spatice into the water; it swelled with water and tripled in size. Inuyasha threw it at the dock, and the spatice ricocheted off and shot high up into the air, until it was just a tiny dot.
"Inuyasha! Don't lose my spatice!" Kagome said.
The spatice came zooming down from its lofty height and Inuyasha caught it with one hand.
"It's not supposed to be thrown that high..." Kagome said.
"Well it went that high." Inuyasha said. He looked at the thing in his hand. "It's just like a big, soft, ball filled with water..." he said.
Inuyasha threw the spatice again at the dock, this time with more force; the spatice soared off of the dock and into the air. The spatice disappeared out of Kagome's eyesight; she looked at Inuyasha who still looked up toward the sky. 'How can he possibly still see it?' she wondered.
"Inuyasha? How can you still see it?" Kagome asked him.
"Shh...I can't, I can hear it..." he said. Inuyasha took about three steps backwards as the spatice came down from the sky into his awaiting hand.
"Heh." Inuyasha said, as he turned the spatice over and over with his fingers.
He handed it back to Kagome, who rejected it.
"Keep it... you like it more than I do." She said.
"Wow, gee thanks Kagome." Inuyasha said, as he pocketed the spatice.
For the rest of the morning, Kagome showed Inuyasha different things from her world. Surprisingly, Inuyasha only broke two things, so Kagome wasn't too mad at him, by the end of the day.
"I gotta go..." Inuyasha said.
"Why?" Kagome asked.
"Because I've been skipping allot of classes, and Sesshie is mad at me." Inuyasha said.
"What do you do in classes?" Kagome asked.
"I dunno. Learn stupid stuff. It's really dumb." Inuyasha said.
"Then why do you go?" Kagome asked.
"Cause...I dunno... I'm forced too." Inuyasha admitted.
"That's mean." Kagome said.
"Feh, yea I guess." Inuyasha said, turning to leave.
"Can you play tomorrow?" Kagome called to him.
"Yeah I can." Inuyasha called back.
"Ok, Bye." Kagome shouted to him.
"Bye." Inuyasha shouted back.
Kagome loaded her things, and headed for home. 'What am I supposed to do for the rest of the day?' she wondered.
After playing with Inuyasha, normal merfolk just seemed boring.
When she returned to the castle, she was greeted by the royal guards, who had smiles of anticipation on their faces.
After entering the main doors, Kagome swam up to her room. She opened her door to be greeted by four attendants.
"Lady Kagome, you father instructs that you come with him this afternoon, on his trip." The first attendant told her, as she took the basket away from Kagome.
"We are here to prepare you for the trip." The second said, as they pulled her to her dresser, in front of the mirror. They all instantly began yanking at her hair, with long-toothed, coral combs.
"Where am I going?" Kagome asked under the pain that they were putting her through.
"We are instructed not to say." They all chimed together, and a ripple of laughter rang out among the group.
'I can already guess what's coming...' Kagome said to herself. Even though she was very young, she was still the Princess of the Sea. And the only time her father would ever instruct the maids make a fuss over her appearance was only when he wanted to show Kagome off to someone... and that someone always had a younger son... and could only mean one thing...
... a suitor for Kagome.
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Inuyasha was having different problems, after he left the dock and Kagome, that afternoon; he entered the castle to find servants looking for him. He was immediately dragged down to the royal throne room, and stood in front of his father and Sesshomaru.
Inuyasha knew he was in trouble, he dared not look up into his father's face, and Sesshomaru kept his back to him.
The King spoke down to his son, with a voice that echoed throughout the room, and made Inuyasha's ears sting.
"Inuyasha, I have been informed by your attendants that you have not been attending your classes. Is this true?"
Inuyasha slowly nodded his head.
"Can you explain yourself?" the King asked him.
Inuyasha shook his head, and continued to stare at the floor.
"Inuyasha I understand that you are young, and want to have fun, for I was once young like you once. But you're getting older, you're becoming stronger. And with strength and power comes awesome responsibility. Do you understand?"
Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders.
The King sighed, "Sesshomaru seems to think it would do you some good to go and live at the summer palace, further inland, and do a little training. Would you like to do that?"
Inuyasha just shrugged again.
"Inuyasha please give me a definitive answer." The King said.
"I dunno..." Inuyasha said.
The King decided to drop the topic for now, "Alright then, that's all for now, you can go Inuyasha. But I want you to promise me that you will start attending your royal duties, do I make myself clear?"
Inuyasha nodded, and bolted out of the room. The guards shut the thick doors behind him.
Inuyasha's ears began to twitch as he could hear the faint voices of his father and Sesshomaru talking, even behind the thick doors.
Inuyasha walked out of the guard's line of vision and then placed one of his ears against the wall, which separated the hallway from the throne room. He could hear, plain and clearly his brother and father talking.
"... he is immature and spoiled..." Inuyasha heard Sesshomaru say.
"He is still young, my son." The King answered.
"You treat him as though he has no demon in him at all!" Sesshomaru said loudly.
"Hush, Sesshomaru, Inuyasha will hear your words." The King said.
"Inuyasha ears are not keen enough. Remember, he is a hanyou." Sesshomaru stated.
"But you defend him?" the King said.
"I defend him because he IS my half-brother." Sesshomaru said.
"His path is different from yours Sesshomaru." The King answered.
"This I understand, yet I hear him say that one day he wants to possess the powers of a FULL demon." Sesshomaru said.
"He says this? Even now?" the King asked with interest.
"I can imagine that he feels weak, that's the human blood in him." Sesshomaru said.
"His blood cannot change." The King said.
"Then we condemn him to live a life as a half-breed. Surely he will soon understand what that means, in our society." Sesshomaru stated.
"Then what do you suggest, my son?" the King said, leaning back in his chair.
"Get him away from the palace, and the people sucking up to him, because he is different. Let him learn to use what little bit of demon he has in him, to its full advantage." Sesshomaru said.
"This will do nothing for him." The King told him.
"But, he will LEARN." Sesshomaru said.
"Learn what? That he can never retain his royal powers because he is a hanyou. Sesshomaru, if he leaves the palace, he cannot return." The King said.
"He will never be able to return anyway. Our society will cast him out. Let him at least learn how to deal with it. How to not have servants to give him anything he wants, to live as an outsider. Because that's all he is..." Sesshomaru said.
"So be it." The King answered.
Inuyasha pulled his ear away from the wall; he wasn't quite sure what his father and Sesshomaru were talking about. It all seemed like a good thing; maybe he could become full demon if he went to the summer palace. Inuyasha liked the idea of being able to express all his demon powers to the greatest potential. (Authors note: Inuyasha thinks it's a good idea, because he is still young and naïve... it actually is NOT GOOD, as I'm sure you all have guessed. The royal family does not want a half breed in the royal blood line... so in a way, this is a chance for them to cast Inuyasha out. ~My poor little Inuyasha ::sniff sniff::~ )
"Wait, until I tell Kagome! She'll never believe it!" Inuyasha said, as he ran off.
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Hello Again to all my faithful readers... I have to say that I LOVE my 14 reviews... hehe : D I can only hope that they will go up... up up up... lol I just finished watching the second Inuyasha movie, and it was soo AWSOME!! But anywho, I now present Chapter 5... *trumpets sound* Enjoy... oh and real quick... I noticed that I don't have a disclaimer up... so I guess I better put one up... so here goes... I don't own Inuyasha & Co. and if I did... well... I'd be a lot richer... Happy Reading!!
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"Perhaps it becomes inevitable to pursue life as a whole. One must live life to the utmost extreme to be able to fulfill the goals set in our dreams. There is so much we have yet to discover about our world. "
~WiNtEr_sToRmS_oF_iCe~
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Kagome couldn't sleep a wink that night. She kept thinking about how much fun she had had with her new friend. She couldn't wait until morning came, so she could go out and play again!
Kagome had started a basket, which she began to fill with items, too show to Inuyasha. Every time she would drift off to sleep, she remembered another thing that Inuyasha might like to see... so swam out of bed, retrieved the item, and then swam back into bed. The night seemed endless, but Kagome's energy had never been higher.
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The next day, Inuyasha woke up with a jump. He stared out of his big glass window that overlooked the east walls off the palace with their towering balconies. The sun was bright and glowing through his window; it felt warm and full of songbirds. Inuyasha rushed through his morning activities; he ran out of his bedroom door, knocking over a maid who was coming to wake him up.
"Lord Inuyasha! Up already?" she called to him. But he didn't hear her; he headed for the nearest door that would take him outside, to play in the sunshine.
Inuyasha ran down the flight of marble stairs, taking each stair two at a time. He ran toward the gardens. Suddenly, Inuyasha met a figure he hoped to avoid this morning. Sesshomaru stepped from a side hallway... directly into Inuyasha's path.
Inuyasha slammed into his brother's legs and fell backwards; looking up, dazed, toward what he hit. Sesshomaru remained standing and looked down at his little half-brother.
"I don't believe I've ever seen you up this early before, Inuyasha. Where are you off to in such a rush this morning?" Sesshomaru asked him.
Inuyasha rubbed his nose and stood back up, facing Sesshomaru.
"I'm uhh... just going... to...umm..." Inuyasha tried to say. He could not think up and excuse to tell his older brother. If Sesshomaru knew that Inuyasha was trying to go out and play without going to class, he would have dragged Inuyasha to class by his ears, himself.
"Inuyasha?" Sesshomaru warned him.
"I'm going to... the library." Inuyasha spit out.
"Strange... considering the royal library is on South wing of the castle. And here you stand at the East." Sesshomaru said.
"I was taking a short cut." Inuyasha said.
"Really?" Sesshomaru said.
"Yup" Inuyasha said, hoping his brother would believe him.
"I would like to see this so called 'short cut' of yours, Inuyasha." Sesshomaru said, eyeing him closely.
"You can't..." Inuyasha said quickly.
"And why not?" Sesshomaru asked.
"It's a secret." Inuyasha told him.
"A secret huh? Well, brother's aren't supposed to keep secrets from each other." Sesshomaru said.
Suddenly, an attendant came up to the pair, bowed slightly and spoke, "Lord Sesshomaru, the King requests your presence in his royal chambers this morning."
"When his morning?" Sesshomaru asked, he was annoyed that this attendant had disrupted him while he was trying to teach Inuyasha a lesson.
"Immediately, my Lord." The attendant said.
"And why didn't you contact me sooner?" Sesshomaru asked; his temper raising.
"I could not locate you, Lord Sesshomaru." The attendant sunk to his knees, "Please forgive me, I do not obtain the speed that my Masters possess. I humbly apologize, my Lord. Please have pity on me!"
"Your pity will save you!" Sesshomaru roared. And he turned and walked away, leaving the groveling attendant and Inuyasha alone.
The attendant rose up again, but his eyes fell upon Inuyasha and he fell to his knees again, "Lord Inuyasha, my greatest apologies for the disturbance!" his voice was trembling.
Inuyasha looked at the miko, with wide eyes. Then, an idea came into his head. "Servant, you are forgiven only if you grant me his request." Inuyasha said.
"Anything my Lord." The servant said.
"Do you know of a door that can lead me outside, that is never used by anyone, especially the royal family?" Inuyasha asked.
The attendant was quiet for a moment, but then looked up at Inuyasha, "I know of one door that is used by no one but me, as a way for me to get from the royal kitchen to the beach, to dump left over carcasses into the water. But, why would your Lordship request this? The door is not really a door, just a hole in the thick walls."
"In the royal kitchens you say?" Inuyasha said.
"Yes, my Lord, the kitchens; back behind the knife rack." The attendant said.
"Thank you, you are forgiven." Inuyasha said, and he ran back down to the northern wing, to the royal kitchens.
'The kitchens are always busy, I'll never be seen!' Inuyasha thought to himself.
When Inuyasha found his way through the kitchen doors, the royal chefs were busy preparing breakfast. And few looked up when the door opened.
Inuyasha found the hole just as the servant had told him. It was big enough for Inuyasha to slip through without crawling. But then, Inuyasha was still little.
A passage way, covered with vines, which separated one of the garden walls to the palace walls. Inuyasha ran down its secret path. It opened up and came directly out, and onto the royal beach. Inuyasha began to run in the direction of the royal dock. He couldn't wait to play with Kagome again. He hoped she would be there, as he continued down the beach.
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Kagome had been at the dock for over twenty minutes, she wondered if Inuyasha was even going to come. 'Maybe he doesn't want to play with me anymore...' Kagome thought. She looked down at the basket of stuff she brought to show him, clutched in her arms. Kagome was in her usual spot under the dock, waiting for the noise of Inuyasha's footsteps on the dock to be heard.
Suddenly, she began to hear someone coming. Kagome's heart jumped, 'He did want to play!' She was so excited that she almost swam out from under the dock to greet him. But enough of her father's words echoed in her head, to wait and make sure that it was him.
Inuyasha came running down the dock; he remembered to slow down long enough to stop in time before he fell over the edge. Once he reached the end he began calling, "Kagome? Kagome? Are you here?" When no answer came, Inuyasha picked up a few rocks and began to throw them into the water around the dock.
Kagome recognized his voice, and the rocks hitting the water were a dead giveaway that it was him. Kagome swam out from under the dock and put her basket up on top of the dock. "I'm here Inuyasha."
"Hey Kagome," Inuyasha said, seeing his friend, "whatcha got?"
"Some stuff I wanted to show you." Kagome said. As she pulled funny colored and shaped objects out of her basket.
"I can only play for a little bit today, my brother yelled at me cause I'm not going to my classes..." Inuyasha said. Picking up a something that Kagome took out of her basket.
"Oh, Sesshomaru right?" Kagome asked.
"Yea, how did you know?" Inuyasha asked, spinning the object with his hands.
"I'm psychic." Kagome teased.
"Really?" Inuyasha said. "What am I thinking?"
"I was joking Inuyasha! You're so easy!" Kagome said laughing.
Inuyasha blushed, "Then how did you know about my brother?"
"I heard you talk about him once, you talked about how he 'was gonna kill you cause you were late for dinner.'" Kagome said.
"Oh," Inuyasha said, "You heard that?"
"Yea," Kagome answered. "You and I hadn't met yet. I was kinda snooping."
"You were spying on me?!?" Inuyasha growled.
"No!!" Kagome cried, "I was just watching you."
"So you were spying on me!" Inuyasha snapped.
"I was not! I had just never seen a land creature before, so I was just trying to get a better look." Kagome shouted.
"What did I tell you about my ears?!? You don't have to shout! I could probably hear you miles away!" Inuyasha cried.
"Are you saying I have a big mouth?" Kagome asked.
"Did I say that?" Inuyasha growled.
"No..." Kagome said.
"Then I didn't." Inuyasha said. *pulls down his eye lid and sticks out his tongue*
"Harrumph!" Kagome said, as she turned back to her basket.
"What does this thing do?" Inuyasha asked, as he held up an oval shaped object, that was made of a spongy material.
"Oh, that's a spatice... it fills itself with water and can bounce really high." Kagome said, the spatice was certainly not the most interesting thing in her basket to show him. Kagome wondered why he liked it so much.
"Oh..." Inuyasha said, he leaned over the dock and placed the spatice into the water; it swelled with water and tripled in size. Inuyasha threw it at the dock, and the spatice ricocheted off and shot high up into the air, until it was just a tiny dot.
"Inuyasha! Don't lose my spatice!" Kagome said.
The spatice came zooming down from its lofty height and Inuyasha caught it with one hand.
"It's not supposed to be thrown that high..." Kagome said.
"Well it went that high." Inuyasha said. He looked at the thing in his hand. "It's just like a big, soft, ball filled with water..." he said.
Inuyasha threw the spatice again at the dock, this time with more force; the spatice soared off of the dock and into the air. The spatice disappeared out of Kagome's eyesight; she looked at Inuyasha who still looked up toward the sky. 'How can he possibly still see it?' she wondered.
"Inuyasha? How can you still see it?" Kagome asked him.
"Shh...I can't, I can hear it..." he said. Inuyasha took about three steps backwards as the spatice came down from the sky into his awaiting hand.
"Heh." Inuyasha said, as he turned the spatice over and over with his fingers.
He handed it back to Kagome, who rejected it.
"Keep it... you like it more than I do." She said.
"Wow, gee thanks Kagome." Inuyasha said, as he pocketed the spatice.
For the rest of the morning, Kagome showed Inuyasha different things from her world. Surprisingly, Inuyasha only broke two things, so Kagome wasn't too mad at him, by the end of the day.
"I gotta go..." Inuyasha said.
"Why?" Kagome asked.
"Because I've been skipping allot of classes, and Sesshie is mad at me." Inuyasha said.
"What do you do in classes?" Kagome asked.
"I dunno. Learn stupid stuff. It's really dumb." Inuyasha said.
"Then why do you go?" Kagome asked.
"Cause...I dunno... I'm forced too." Inuyasha admitted.
"That's mean." Kagome said.
"Feh, yea I guess." Inuyasha said, turning to leave.
"Can you play tomorrow?" Kagome called to him.
"Yeah I can." Inuyasha called back.
"Ok, Bye." Kagome shouted to him.
"Bye." Inuyasha shouted back.
Kagome loaded her things, and headed for home. 'What am I supposed to do for the rest of the day?' she wondered.
After playing with Inuyasha, normal merfolk just seemed boring.
When she returned to the castle, she was greeted by the royal guards, who had smiles of anticipation on their faces.
After entering the main doors, Kagome swam up to her room. She opened her door to be greeted by four attendants.
"Lady Kagome, you father instructs that you come with him this afternoon, on his trip." The first attendant told her, as she took the basket away from Kagome.
"We are here to prepare you for the trip." The second said, as they pulled her to her dresser, in front of the mirror. They all instantly began yanking at her hair, with long-toothed, coral combs.
"Where am I going?" Kagome asked under the pain that they were putting her through.
"We are instructed not to say." They all chimed together, and a ripple of laughter rang out among the group.
'I can already guess what's coming...' Kagome said to herself. Even though she was very young, she was still the Princess of the Sea. And the only time her father would ever instruct the maids make a fuss over her appearance was only when he wanted to show Kagome off to someone... and that someone always had a younger son... and could only mean one thing...
... a suitor for Kagome.
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Inuyasha was having different problems, after he left the dock and Kagome, that afternoon; he entered the castle to find servants looking for him. He was immediately dragged down to the royal throne room, and stood in front of his father and Sesshomaru.
Inuyasha knew he was in trouble, he dared not look up into his father's face, and Sesshomaru kept his back to him.
The King spoke down to his son, with a voice that echoed throughout the room, and made Inuyasha's ears sting.
"Inuyasha, I have been informed by your attendants that you have not been attending your classes. Is this true?"
Inuyasha slowly nodded his head.
"Can you explain yourself?" the King asked him.
Inuyasha shook his head, and continued to stare at the floor.
"Inuyasha I understand that you are young, and want to have fun, for I was once young like you once. But you're getting older, you're becoming stronger. And with strength and power comes awesome responsibility. Do you understand?"
Inuyasha shrugged his shoulders.
The King sighed, "Sesshomaru seems to think it would do you some good to go and live at the summer palace, further inland, and do a little training. Would you like to do that?"
Inuyasha just shrugged again.
"Inuyasha please give me a definitive answer." The King said.
"I dunno..." Inuyasha said.
The King decided to drop the topic for now, "Alright then, that's all for now, you can go Inuyasha. But I want you to promise me that you will start attending your royal duties, do I make myself clear?"
Inuyasha nodded, and bolted out of the room. The guards shut the thick doors behind him.
Inuyasha's ears began to twitch as he could hear the faint voices of his father and Sesshomaru talking, even behind the thick doors.
Inuyasha walked out of the guard's line of vision and then placed one of his ears against the wall, which separated the hallway from the throne room. He could hear, plain and clearly his brother and father talking.
"... he is immature and spoiled..." Inuyasha heard Sesshomaru say.
"He is still young, my son." The King answered.
"You treat him as though he has no demon in him at all!" Sesshomaru said loudly.
"Hush, Sesshomaru, Inuyasha will hear your words." The King said.
"Inuyasha ears are not keen enough. Remember, he is a hanyou." Sesshomaru stated.
"But you defend him?" the King said.
"I defend him because he IS my half-brother." Sesshomaru said.
"His path is different from yours Sesshomaru." The King answered.
"This I understand, yet I hear him say that one day he wants to possess the powers of a FULL demon." Sesshomaru said.
"He says this? Even now?" the King asked with interest.
"I can imagine that he feels weak, that's the human blood in him." Sesshomaru said.
"His blood cannot change." The King said.
"Then we condemn him to live a life as a half-breed. Surely he will soon understand what that means, in our society." Sesshomaru stated.
"Then what do you suggest, my son?" the King said, leaning back in his chair.
"Get him away from the palace, and the people sucking up to him, because he is different. Let him learn to use what little bit of demon he has in him, to its full advantage." Sesshomaru said.
"This will do nothing for him." The King told him.
"But, he will LEARN." Sesshomaru said.
"Learn what? That he can never retain his royal powers because he is a hanyou. Sesshomaru, if he leaves the palace, he cannot return." The King said.
"He will never be able to return anyway. Our society will cast him out. Let him at least learn how to deal with it. How to not have servants to give him anything he wants, to live as an outsider. Because that's all he is..." Sesshomaru said.
"So be it." The King answered.
Inuyasha pulled his ear away from the wall; he wasn't quite sure what his father and Sesshomaru were talking about. It all seemed like a good thing; maybe he could become full demon if he went to the summer palace. Inuyasha liked the idea of being able to express all his demon powers to the greatest potential. (Authors note: Inuyasha thinks it's a good idea, because he is still young and naïve... it actually is NOT GOOD, as I'm sure you all have guessed. The royal family does not want a half breed in the royal blood line... so in a way, this is a chance for them to cast Inuyasha out. ~My poor little Inuyasha ::sniff sniff::~ )
"Wait, until I tell Kagome! She'll never believe it!" Inuyasha said, as he ran off.
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