No Ordinary Princess
Chapter 8
A/N: Screw the reviews of the previous chapters. Everybody skips 'em anyways. Therefore, I will go straight into the story without author's notes.
On with it people…
The hallways they were walking through started to get darker and darker. Kagome started to stumble without anything lighting her way. InuYasha's arm was still around her waist helping her, but she still tripped. In the end he became frustrated with her and swept her up into his arms. She gasped, but still didn't comment or question their whereabouts. Finally they came to a dead end hallway. There was only one door, a beautifully carved door. It was no ordinary door, she could tell.
"It's no ordinary door," he said voicing her thoughts, "for no ordinary princess and no ordinary prince."
He let her down and she became entranced by the door's beauty. The carvings that seemed eager to tell an old story, a myth. Her hand started to trace the beautiful carvings of a fierce dragon with a heart carved into it.
"Do you know what it means?"
"I guess…"
"I only know how to decipher one part of the story. My princess is supposed to be able to decipher the other half."
Kagome started to remember the door as soon as she started looking over familiar carvings, familiar words that came to mind, familiar voices.
::FB::
"Inu-kun! Your mom said not to go into this hallway!"
"But you have to see this really cool door!"
"But-"
"Come on wench! Are you afraid?"
"No," replied a five-year old Kagome. She puffed out her chest proudly and followed him. She felt weird an tingly as she traced the door that she wasn't supposed to touch.
"InuYasha! Kagome! Where are you kids?!"
"Going!"
::/FB::
"She who is destined… Fierce a woman she shall be, but with a kind and gentle heart. She shall break through the barrier that is set around his heart. He won't be able to keep her from her destiny."
"Yes, yes. I remember that part," said InuYasha impatiently, "but what does the rest of it say??"
"A bit impatient are we?"
"Hurry up!"
"Cool it! There shall be one woman, who in all of her desperate 'love' and greed shall try to impede the destiny. She shall delay it, but no more than is allowed. She shall be rid of her few gifts yet she will come back to fulfill her own destiny."
"K-Kikyou?"
"Yep."
"Damn, then the prophecy is farther along than we originally thought."
"That doesn't matter. The fact that the bitch is coming back does."
"Is there more?"
"There's more… The eldest of the house of Inu shall take upon himself a mate… She is to help the relationship between the dragoness and the half-demon. The half-demon shall unwittingly let his mate go, and he shall suffer through his loneliness."
"I most certainly will not!"
"Shut up already. The only way to stop the impending doom of the young couple is to defeat the evil that looms before them. They are a group of three. Greed, evil, and love."
Kagome frowned at the markings. How is love bad? Maybe somebody falls in love with me or something…
(a/n How right she is…)
"Well, is there anymore?"
"Weeks worth!"
"Woah."
"Yeah. These three beings shall try to separate the couples that are destined to save the world from the evil that searches the forbidden jewel in Pandora's box."
"P-Pandora's box? Forbidden jewel?!"
"Yeah. Is this all we needed to do? I'm really tired."
Kagome yawned and stretched out. InuYasha took her hand and kept staring at him. Kagome flushed when she noticed this. We're married for Kami's sake… But still…
He pulled on her and she found herself enveloped in a hug. She felt his body tremble and her eyes widened.
"Are you okay?"
"Promise…"
"Promise what?"
"Promise me you'll never leave. Promise me we'll defeat these obstacles and be happy."
"I promise as long as you promise to trust me as much as I trust you."
His arms snaked around her waist and lifted her up. She was face to face with him.
"I promise to trust you, no matter what. You make me happy."
"You only know my name, for crying out loud!"
"And I won't know until you tell me," he said with a grin.
"I'm a bit tired, where will I sleep?"
"With me, in my room."
"I don't think so. I will sleep in one of the guest rooms if I have to."
"You most certainly will not, they're all occupied."
"Then, I'm sleeping with Miroku."
His eyes widened as she pecked him on the cheek and left. He was speechless, unable to process her sentence. He turned and when he got to his room he still was trying to process it.
Meanwhile Kagome was with Miroku, chatting like the good childhood friends they were.
"So what's been going on in your life Miroku?"
Miroku's head lay on Kagome's lap as Kagome lazily ran her hands through his hair. They had been catching up for a good twenty minutes.
"Well, there is this one girl I like…"
"One? Dear Kami, are you sick?"
Kagome giggled along with Miroku's hearty laughter. Both knew she was teasing him and his lecherous habits. Miroku totally accepted it, knowing she didn't mean it and wouldn't want to reprimand him too much.
"Seriously. She likes to hit me whenever I get near her, or her behind. She's an experienced fighter, and not to mention a beautiful princess."
"Oh?"
"Yes."
Kagome noticed his dazed expression and couldn't help but feel happy for her friend. Miroku was finally choosing one girl over the others. He seemed to be… deeply in love.
InuYasha bolted up from his chair. Kagome. Sleeping. Miroku's room. He ran out of the door slamming open doors looking for Miroku's room. He must've woken up at least half of the castle with his furtive screams. Kagome glanced up, but Miroku only smirked knowing that a bomb was about to explode and InuYasha wasn't going to like it.
His bedroom door slammed open and come off it's hinges.
"Holy Kami help us. InuYasha's jealous," said Miroku in a fake high-pitched voice.
Kagome hit his arm for good measure and smiled at InuYasha.
"Ka-."
"Stop. Breath. Calmly talk."
InuYasha stared at her, eyes wide.
"Good puppy," she said, Miroku laughing heartily behind her.
"Alright. His head was on your lap. Why?"
"InuYasha he is my childhood friend and any idea of us getting together would be extremely disturbing."
InuYasha growled grudgingly but let that argument go since he had no good comeback to it.
"Now," said Kagome softly, "I'm going to leave with Miroku to his house and spend the time there until we know each other and get married. Good enough?"
"No, not good enough," said InuYasha angrily.
"Calm down!," screamed Kagome furious.
Miroku stopped his laughter, noticing the small brawl was turning into one ugly all out argument.
"This unwanted jealousy of yours is getting on my nerves! I'm not fucking going anywhere except my best friend's house because I don't trust your goddamn family! Now if you will fucking go along with it then maybe we won't have marital problems before we get married!"
"There is no goddamn reason for you to go to his house! My family has nothing against you and they will treat you as my future wife! Those lies your spouting at me are just that. LIES!"
Kagome went livid and walked to him, calmly breathing.
"Will you repeat that?," she said softly.
"I said," hissed InuYasha, "that you are lying to me so that you can leave with Miroku and-."
She slapped him, not looking him in the eyes.
"Your promises are fucking lies, not my words. 'I promise to trust you' my ass," she said angrily, "your promises are lies and I don't know whether I can trust you or not anymore."
With that said Kagome left the room.
"Kagome, where are you going?," questioned Miroku.
"Get something to drink!," she said.
Miroku silently nodded and looked at InuYasha. He stood up and looked at him severely.
"Truly my friend, I thought you trusted me as your friend and her as your wife."
"I-."
"As you say, save it. I'll give you a tongue lashing if you ever heard one."
InuYasha looked up at him, a bit surprised.
"Your mother wants to kill your wife so badly it's not even funny. Your mother, the Queen Evanes, desires Kagome's lands and control over your wife to keep you by her side. You've got a twisted mom Inu. She's the one that set up the marriage between you and Kikyou, right? She would've done anything to see you married to Kikyou instead of Kagome."
"Why-."
"Why? Because Kikyou has no idea how valuable Kagome's lands are. She would hand them over to your family as if they were just the paper she craps on every damn morning."
InuYasha sat down on the floor, his head resting on his arms.
"Feel stupid and like dying yet, my friend?"
InuYasha nodded slowly.
"Uh huh.."
Kagome walked back in and handed a glass to Miroku.
"I found lemonade. No water."
"As in the lemonade without the water or no water just lemonade?"
"No water just lemonade," she giggled.
Miroku grinned and then turned to look at InuYasha's still form on the floor. She nodded.
"Come on Inu, neither one of us is one to hold a grudge against you."
InuYasha stood up, not looking either of them in the eye.
"You promised," said Kagome softly.
"I know," he said slowly.
"I can't trust you anymore."
"I know."
"I'm leaving," she said to Miroku, "I'll see you outside in the carriage as soon as you're done here."
Miroku nodded to her and she left.
"Is she safe with you Miroku?," InuYasha said seriously.
"Yes. My mother and father know her personally and we are allies after all."
"What are you going to do about my mother?"
"I'm going to request a meeting and threaten with an alliance suspension."
"That would mean-."
"I know. As for Kagome being safe with me personally, I am safe to say yes and afraid to tell you the same as she did. I don't think I can trust you anymore. You obviously don't trust me my friend and we've known each other for years."
"I know I screwed up, but understand that I'm not entirely human Miroku! My demon half screams and takes over when I see another male touching her or showing her any sign of affection."
"Don't tell me that, tell her. Shippou works at my house, he's a full blooded Kitsune, and he protects Kagome as if she were his sister. If anything happens to Kagome then Shippou will most likely be dead. On another hand, Himurai Ayumi is going to be Kagome's personal maid-."
"The girl that almost left you without a family last week?"
"Yes, that one. Be at ease my friend. We might come visit tomorrow."
"Might?!"
"Might. Women have their fits."
I don't own Inu & Co. So don't sue!