A wish upon a star
Disclaimer: March Break has started and I have limited time {at most – 2 hours} on the computer *growls* Siblings can be so evil...
I replied to a few reviews:
aZn-DiViN3-bLeU : ...lol,
jade: Kouga? I hadn't thought of him...well, thanks for the idea, he will fit perfectly in this chapter...
Darkqueen6: I can't spill the secret out any sooner than I've planned, believe me- if I did, I would receive more flames than compliments.
Inurin10218: The story's going to focus on Kikyou a lot – without her, the plot wouldn't work out, and it'll start happening soon! Don't worry – Inu- Yasha is going to get jealous, but I think I've already put way too much fluff in the last chapter so you might have to wait a while. You want Naraku, Kagura and Kanna in the story? They are already included in my plot...
Ks-Starshine: Tee hee! ^.^
Moongoddes2: I know it's spelled that way, my friend told me that quite a while ago...but I already had spelled Sesshy the wrong way so I didn't want to confuse anyone by changing the spelling so in my story his name's going to be spelled Sesshomuru.
LadyYome: To anyone who's wondering, this is the last time I am saying this, it is a Inu-Yasha/ Kagome pairing.
^.^ ~.~
One more thing – the title of the chapter doesn't have to do with anything with the secret, you'll figure out the why I chose that title as you read on... ^.^
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Chapter Twelve
Catastrophe between Chaos
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Kagome stormed into Sango's room, steaming off anger in waves. She had once again, become the victim of Inu-Yasha's torture and this time he had crossed the line. He had *by mistake* dropped last nights soup on her dress and afterwards told the whole castle that the soup was manure of a horse with a bad stomach.
She had rushed immediately to the showers, but not fast enough to dodge the insults thrown at her from the other residents of the castle.
Everything that had happened in the secret hideout of Inu-Yasha's seemed extremely vague and it seemed as if Kagome and Inu-Yasha had silently agreed never to talk about it again.
Either that or both of them had entirely forgotten about the incident as Kagome liked to call it.
"He is so...!" Kagome rushed on as she sat down beside Sango on the carpet. She looked up from the book she was reading and raised an eyebrow at Kagome.
"He is so...what?" She inquired as she put down her reading book and turned a confused face at Kagome.
"He is so...UGH!" She clenched her hands in fists and slammed them down on the carpet. Sango snorted at her reply.
"What did he do this time?"
Kagome glanced at Sango, she would start laughing the moment she told her what happened, best to not tell her then "I'm not telling"
Sango rolled her eyes "The whole castle knows about what happened Kagome, Miroku was the one who told me"
Kagome gaped at Sango, but then closed her mouth and shut her eyes close. She brought a hand to her forehead and groaned. "This is just great..."
Sango giggled, "Oh well, they'll forget about it sooner or later"
"I don't think Inu-Yasha would let them," She opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling, what could she do to pay him back? "Sango, tell me some way I can pay Inu-Yasha back for his cruelty"
Sango looked at her thought for a while, she would usually never take participation with someone's plan for revenge, but it was Kagome she was talking about and she wanted revenge with Inu-Yasha so it seemed pretty fair to her, as she sat there, pondering on a way Kagome could embarrass Inu-Yasha just as well he embarrassed Kagome a thought popped into her mind "Oh, did I tell you that Inu-Yasha's cousins are coming today?"
Kagome processed this information slowly and turned to Sango with a sly grin on her face "They are?"
Sango giggled "The King announced this at dinner last night, you had fallen asleep in the forest remember?"
Kagome felt a tinge of guilt hit her as she remembered she had told Sango a complete lie on where she was last night– well, she couldn't exactly tell her everything, "Oh, really? So you mean, Inu-Yasha doesn't know about this either?"
Sango shook her head "Nope, unless someone told him this morning, he should be completely clueless"
"Where was he this morning anyway?" Kagome asked her, remembering Inu-Yasha had started to take the responsibility of coming to breakfast now-a-days.
Sango sighed, "Well, I don't know, he said that he had to meet someone today, and thinking about that, the maid who served us drinks didn't come either, I was about to die with thirst..."
Kagome picked up at the last comment she made "Do you think that he could be meeting her?"
Sango giggled "Inu-Yasha meeting a maid who works for him? I don't think so"
"Sounds like a Cinderella affair, you know" Kagome smiled as she thought of Inu-Yasha and the maid secretly falling in love with each other, it sounded sweet but somehow pathetic all the same.
"Back to the topic, about his cousins, they really are a handful" Sango closed her book and placed it beside her, thinking that real life cruelty was far more exciting than a book.
"Have they come here before?" Kagome lowered her voice so no one could here the plot she was plotting up in Sango's room.
"They haven't come here in the castle, but we went to visit them four months ago, they drove me crazy, but we can use them you know" Sango's grinned, excitement starting to rise in the pits of her stomach.
"How?"
"They can barely keep a secret, why don't we ask them about some embarrassing situations Inu-Yasha was caught in?"
Kagome's face lit up "Sango, you're a genius!" She fidgeted with her hands "When exactly are they coming?"
"Before lunch for sure," She was about to say some more but Kagome cut it, feeling the need to have something she thought of herself in the plot of revenge she was planning out.
"We can ask them some things at lunch! Right in front of Inu-Yasha's face!" Kagome waited as Sango squealed before continuing her plan "Does he have a cousin my age?"
Sango pondered on this for a moment "He does, I don't know his name though, he's really cocky believe me,"
"Perfect" Kagome clasped her hands together and did a little imitation of an evil laugh "I'll pretend that I am totally into him, and when we are alone, I'll get as much embarrassing situations I can taunt Inu-Yasha with! Then when we are at the dining table, I'll discuss them out loud with him...right in front of Inu-Yasha!"
Sango thought about this for a while "We have a problem with that, what will Sesshomuru say?"
Kagome rolled her eyes "Do you really think that he would care about what the heck I do with other men? He's barely said five sentences to me since I came here"
Sango laughed "You count?"
"Well, who wouldn't when you've got him for a fiancé? Anyway, how is his oldest cousin? Anything I should know about him?"
Sango nodded "Inu-Yasha's cousins are all wolf demons, they can run really fast, don't let him pick you up and let him run away with you"
Kagome raised an eyebrow "He would do that?"
Sango shrugged "It could happen, he's really cocky, I kind of thought he was sweet and nice when I met him before, and when I got kind of close to him he kept calling me his women when Miroku tried to come near me he tried to beat him up"
Kagome gaped at her "Suddenly, this doesn't seem like a good idea,"
Sango shook her head, suddenly feeling the urge to go along with this well thought plan they had thought of just now "You have to! I know...at lunch, sit across him, giggle at his lame jokes," she stopped "yeah, he tells really lame joke" She coughed "anyway, ask him about something that happened to Inu-Yasha in FRONT of Inu-Yasha, and let's see his reaction"
Kagome thought on this for a while "So our final plan is..." She took a deep breath "We say hi and hello to all of his cousins, at lunch I ask the oldest cousin to tell me something that happened to Inu-Yasha that was embarrassing, and then I see Inu-Yasha's reaction to that, then I corner the younger cousins and ask them something that happened to Inu-Yasha, and because they can barely keep a secret they will blurt everything out, I then taunt Inu-Yasha, or blackmail him until he begs me to stop and apologizes for everything he has done to me" She smiled "Am I correct?"
Sango nodded fervently "This is going to be great"
Kagome shook her head and smiled "This is going to be better than great"
A shout interrupted their sinister giggles from outside their rooms "I have to clean your room, may I come in?"
Sango raised an eyebrow and lowered her voice so the servant outside who sounded like a girl couldn't hear what she was saying "When did we get servants to clean our room?"
Kagome shrugged "Just call her in"
Sango nodded "Sure, come in"
The door opened and Rin stepped in, this time, looking extremely glum. Rin had yet, another conversation with Inu-Yasha but now the stakes and gone much higher. Why he needed the sword Tokijin was still a mystery, but now he also needed her to snatch anything that related to the two hidden sword Tetsusaiga and Tensaiga. Not only that, but he had also ordered her to figure out what the girls were plotting against him.
That's why she was in a Sango's room, pretending to be here in order to clean. She sighed, what did the world have against her? But as worst came to worst, she was getting paid to do this and no thief could reject his offer of four golden dimes.
Rin went immediately for the windows, pulled the curtains back and started to wipe the windows. She winced, how much she hated cleaning other people's property...
"So they are coming exactly before lunch?" Kagome rattled on, not even noticing that Rin was listening to every single word they were saying intently.
"Mmhmm" came Sango's reply.
"Hey, lets go to the tower and wait for them to arrive" Kagome stood up and waited for Sango to put back her book.
"You'll love the youngest cousin; he's the cutest thing ever" Sango gave a quick glance at Rin, seeing she was doing nothing but cleaning she followed Kagome out of the door, leaving a bored Rin to herself. The last thing Rin heard was:
"He can barely pronounce anything with more than two syllables,"
She sighed; she didn't get much out of them. She was about to leave when she spotted a feather lying on the floor, she sighed.
"Letting birds in their rooms, how un-hygienic" She picked up the broom she had brought with her and swept the feather out of the room.
She was about to close the balcony door when she spotted a large bird flying north from where she was standing.
She strained her eyes as she tried to see what it was.
Now it didn't seem like a bird, but it actually seemed like a humungous feather. Rin shook her head.
She was just letting her imagination run wild.
Right?
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Kagome peeked out of the small tower room window. It was the only way they could actually see the front entrance of the castle.
She longed to see Inu-Yasha embarrassed. After all he did to her, gosh, the only thing she did to him was kick his shins on the first day at the castle and now he was embarrassing her like a world war four?
It was almost lunch, and the cousins should be arriving soon. From what Sango told her, they all had demon wolf blood in them. There were boy triplets, one older sister, and one oldest of all, brother.
She had figured out their names as well. With much help from the King, even though he had questioned them why they needed it they had answered feebly with an excuse of making welcome cards for them all.
The triplets' names were Killen, Koura, and Kenny and they were all four years old.
They had an older sister who was 12, her name was Karira.
The oldest brother's name, who was 18, was Kouga.
She had also found out that Karira was the smartest of them all. So- as Sango and Kagome planned, they had to stay away from her.
Sango also told her, the last time she had gone to visit them, Kouga didn't go along very well with Inu-Yasha. So their main target was – Kouga.
"Sango, they're here!" Kagome squealed out as she saw the main gates open and two carriages ride in. As soon as Kagome had squealed that out, they both rushed down the spiral staircase to the front gates where a confused Inu-Yasha was walking slowly towards the carriages.
The king and queen were already there, and Sesshomuru was waiting there, and for the first time, he actually looked impatient for the carriage to open.
Kagome sneaked a peak at Inu-Yasha and giggled, he looked completely confused. Of course, no one told him about it. This was perfect.
The carriage door opened and out stepped three young boys. They all had black hair, pointy ears, they were growling as if they were planning to scare somebody and were baring their small, stubby fangs. Their claws weren't a big impression either, they looked like ordinary nails but the triplets were waving their arms in the air.
They stopped immediately as they saw the Youkai family smiling, everyone except Inu-Yasha who seemed to be surprised.
"You are 'uppose to be scared!" One of them said, while the other two nodded fervently. They all pouted and stepped out of the carriage, making room for the other passengers to exit.
At once, a twelve year old girl stepped out. She looked definitely pissed but smiled as she saw the king and queen. Her fangs were definitely longer and she seemed to have a small tail which was hanging low.
Her smiled disappeared as she saw the triplets which were currently wrestling with Sesshomuru, who was pretending to be influenced under them.
She stepped outside and the last passenger stepped out. He was definitely older than all of them and seemed to be Kouga; he quickly jumped out and started to greet everyone.
Wondering where their parents were Sango filled her in "Their parents are going off in a war, they were too young to come so that's why they're here, and they wouldn't come without Kouga so he came as well"
Kagome nodded, and smiled as they all started to walk into the castle, she lowered her pace purposely so she could talk to Kouga.
She glanced at Inu-Yasha; he seemed to have caught up with everything. He was smiling now as he talked nicely with the daughter. She seemed to be rattling on about how annoying it can be to be stuck in one carriage with you're brothers who have disgustingly bad manners.
He was about to step in the castle when he caught Kagome's stare. She looked away instantly but forgot to wipe away the smirk on her face.
Inu-Yasha stared at her before realizing what she was about to do. Eyes widening with horror he was about to walk to her and tell Kouga to keep his mouth shut, Karira pulled him in the castle and started asking him questions about how he was.
Kagome turned her attention back to Kouga. They were the only people outside, and he seemed to be waiting for her to start a conversation.
"So, what's your name?" She asked, smiling as she tapped her foot impatiently, Karira better keep Inu-Yasha busy...
"Kouga, what about yours?" He asked shaking her hand, a little tighter than Kagome would have liked.
"Kagome, you want to walk around the gardens for a while?"
He looked back at the second carriage; the servants were unloading their bags. He looked back at the castle. "Everyone seems fine without me so why not?"
Kagome smiled at him and took his hand. He seemed fairly nice, and he didn't seem to mind Kagome at all.
Kagome led Kouga all the way into the gardens. Spotting a spot quite far away from the castle, she pointed to it. "You want to sit over there, lets get to know each other" She smiled at him as a tinge of pink hit his cheeks.
"Uh... um... okay" He replied as he followed Kagome to the sunny spot quite far away from the castle.
As they sat down Kagome looked around to make sure Inu-Yasha wasn't around. She silently begged Karira to keep him busy until lunch.
"So, how long have you known Inu-Yasha for?" Kagome asked him and seeing the confused expression on his face she added "I mean, the Youkai family for?"
He nodded, "All my life really, they are really nice, except for Inu- Yasha...he can be pretty cruel sometimes"
Kagome picked up on this comment; he seemed to be playing right into her trap. "Really? Why, what did he do?"
"Well, he's cool with the triplets and Karira, but he seems to be in a feud with me"
Kagome raised an eyebrow "Why?"
"Well, we were six, and we were just loosing our baby fangs, and well, we were wrestling, and I pulled out his baby fang. He cried for days, since then he's been turning his back on me"
Kagome giggled "Aww, that's so cute" she pondered on this for a while "And he's still mad at you?"
He nodded and sighed "Well, that's not as bad as the time I bit his ear and he wouldn't come out of his room for a week! When he did, his eyes were all puffed up from all the crying he did"
"Kawaii!" She squealed, she always squealed whenever she was reminded of any one doing anything baby-ish...it was always so adorable. "How old were you then?"
"We were three; his ears had just started to grow and to pay me back he ripped the pillow I used to carry around everywhere, I used to love that pillow" He sighed as he remembered the memories.
Kagome giggled, "I wish I could have seen that" she looked back at the castle. It was almost lunch time, she could talk to Kouga a little longer...just a bit longer to find out something seriously embarrassing, everything he had just told her now was plain cute, not embarrassing.
"That's nothing," he looked at her, somehow this talk about Inu-Yasha when he was little was amusing her, and he would do anything to amuse a girl, not even noticing he was letting off embarrassing information he babbled on "he never knew how to pronounce the word 'fortnight' and I bet he still doesn't know how, ask him how long were staying for, and I bet he'll say two weeks, not fortnight"
Kagome smiled at this piece of information, not exactly embarrassing, but it could work...
"When he was eight, he kept having nightmares of the boogey man, Sesshomuru filled him in on the story, he used to wake up screaming and running around the whole castle, yelling out the boogey man was going to get him"
Kagome laughed, she could tease Inu-Yasha with this. Glancing back at the castle, she figured out it was lunch time, "We better get going, its almost time for lunch, you must be hungry after your long journey"
"Yeah, I guess" He got up and waited for Kagome to get up after him. After she did, they both walked to the castle.
Kagome sighed disappointedly; she didn't get much out of Kouga, just some little teasers, she hoped that the triplets had more to say.
But then again, they probably couldn't even remember what happened yesterday judging by the fact they are only four.
She winced, damnit...that left only Karira, unless Kouga had more to say.
She shook her head, they're here for two weeks, she could get more out of Kouga, and they JUST arrived.
As they reached the castle, Kagome opened the doors and led Kouga to the tables; Inu-Yasha glanced up from his bowl and gave Kagome a sharp glance.
She smiled back innocently and took a seat beside Inu-Yasha. Sango kicked her from underneath the table and gave her a questioning glare.
She nodded back, hoping Sango got the message that she had figured out some information, Sango kicked her again and mouthed the words.
'How bad?'
Kagome giggled and replied 'Baby-cute'
Sango sighed, she was hoping more of a 'Slap me in the face so I can wake up from my nightmare' bad. Oh well, they had just arrived, and it was good enough that she had at least gotten something out of Kouga.
Kouga took a seat beside Sango, much to her displeasure. She wasn't the only one who pouted a little at this. Miroku was forced to sit next to Kikyou as she saw that his seat was already taken.
Kagome drove her attention to Kikyou; she hadn't seen much of her since the ball night. She was always in her room, doing something or the other. She never came out in the balcony and at night, her candles were always blown out. Her curtains were always drawn and it gave Kagome the impression that she was trying to hide from somebody.
She shrugged, now to test Inu-Yasha.
"So, you still believe in the - boogey man?" Kagome asked Inu-Yasha.
Sesshomuru burst out laughing as he heard Kagome ask Inu-Yasha this. Kagome turned a face to Sesshomuru; he was sitting between Killen, Koura and Kenny and seemed to have overheard her question.
"I remember that" He choked out loud, and instantly went back to eating his lunch.
Kagome turned to face Inu-Yasha. She bit her lip to keep in an amused, satisfied giggle. He had tried to completely ignore her question as he continued to eat, or rather poke his food. His ears had flattened against his head, trying to keep out further questions.
"It's okay..." She patted his back "...no need to cry"
He swatted her hand away and gave her a fierce glare "Leave me alone"
"Aw, poor baby's upset?" She asked him, trying to sound sympathetic. Kouga, Sango, Sesshomuru were now watching his with great amusement.
She glanced at Kouga, he was looking quite guilty. Kagome giggled, she'll apologize for this later... "Hey, how long are your cousins staying?"
He gave her a sharp glance, "Two weeks" He replied curtly.
"Um... isn't there another word for that?"
Kagome giggled as she saw Inu-Yasha's cheeks turn a shade of pink. She smiled, old habits never die. Inu-Yasha seemed to ignore this question as he started to rip his food into little pieces.
"Which ear did Kouga bite? This one – or this one?" She tried to catch his ears but he dodged her hands easily.
"I told you to leave me alone!"
"Why don't you go to your room and cry?" Kagome snapped back at him, she sighed; this should keep him quiet for a while.
Inu-Yasha slammed his fork down on his plate; he couldn't stand Sesshomuru's snickering, Sango's giggling, and Kouga's stare. He stood up from his chair and stormed out of the dining room.
"Wench" He called out to Kagome, quieting down the whole table. Kagome's face turned a little shade of red before she replied her comeback.
"Jerk!"
The table stared at her for a while before continuing their breakfast.
"'Esh'muwu?" The triplets called out to Sesshomuru.
He looked down at them from his plate.
"What does –wench- mean?"
Sesshomuru chuckled "I don't know, ask your mom when you go home"
His advice was returned with little squeals of 'Okays' as he continued eating his lunch.
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Kagome walked slowly down the stairs. It was almost sun set and she wanted to watch it from a place where trees didn't block the view.
She could go to the sea, sit on the cliff where she could watch the sun disappear right behind the sea.
That would be nice, last time she went to the sea she had also saw a tree on the cliff, she could lean on the trunk of the tree and watch it from there.
She had brought herself pastry's which she had put into a little basket she could eat while watching the sun set. She had plenty of them, mostly because Sango had said she would meet her there, so she had decided she would bring some for Sango as well. She sighed, Sango would miss the sun set because she had to direct the new jobs in the castle for the new servants but she had said she would come to look at the stars.
An old time hobby of Kagome's which she did every so often with a friend.
Kagome walked sneaked passed Kouga who seemed to be trying to start a conversation with Sango while Miroku steamed off behind them. Kagome tried to suppress a laugh when a fuming Miroku stepped out of the room.
He turned to Kagome and pointed at Kouga "He- He's stealing my girl man!"
Kagome smiled "Why don't you go after a maid for the time being? That would make you feel better wouldn't it?"
He nodded fervently "Yeah, cya" he turned around and ran down the hall. Kagome shook her head and continued down her way to the entrance of the castle.
As she reached it, she opened the doors and stepped out into the humid air. "Phew..."
It wasn't this hot last time she went out, there was absolutely no wind in the air, and the sun was blazing hot, it seemed to stop the wind dead in its tracks.
Kagome blinked as she tried to keep the sun out of her eyes. God, she was wearing a full sleeved, full length dress for god's sake. Not wanting to miss the sun set she rushed out into the garden.
As she reached the bridge she sighed contently and ran into the shades of the forest.
She smiled; at least she won't have to worry about getting sun burnt here. Remembering that the sun didn't stay out for much longer she ran into the tree's, and started to run across the stream.
She smiled broadly as she heard the small waterfall up ahead. That meant she wasn't far from the sea now...
As she passed the waterfall she spotted the cliff that gave full view of the sea and sun which was slowly moving down. There was one tall tree right in the middle of the tree. Not noticing the other person leaning on the other side of the tree, she walked up to it and sat down, beside the tree.
"What are you doing here?" The familiar voice of Inu-Yasha called out to her from the other side of the tree.
Kagome jumped up in surprise as she heard him "I didn't know you were here"
"Go away, I don't want to hear any more of your teasing, it already happened in my life and I know it pretty well so get lost" He snapped at her, his voice a little more annoying then usual.
Kagome felt a tinge of guilt hit her as she heard him say that. She silently thanked god she didn't have to see his face right now. So all this time he was sulking about what happened at lunch? Gosh...couldn't he let it go?
It was only a joke.
Kagome pondered on her thoughts as she tried to figure out a way he could forgive her, she sighed as she thought up of the perfect idea.
Even though he never said sorry to her once or even tried to act a little nicer after his mean pranks, Kagome was never the one to hold a grudge or stand someone sulking after she played a prank on them.
'Time to let him know a little bit of my embarrassing history' she thought as she opened her mouth to speak.
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Ooo...wonder what happens next.
Disclaimer: March Break has started and I have limited time {at most – 2 hours} on the computer *growls* Siblings can be so evil...
I replied to a few reviews:
aZn-DiViN3-bLeU : ...lol,
jade: Kouga? I hadn't thought of him...well, thanks for the idea, he will fit perfectly in this chapter...
Darkqueen6: I can't spill the secret out any sooner than I've planned, believe me- if I did, I would receive more flames than compliments.
Inurin10218: The story's going to focus on Kikyou a lot – without her, the plot wouldn't work out, and it'll start happening soon! Don't worry – Inu- Yasha is going to get jealous, but I think I've already put way too much fluff in the last chapter so you might have to wait a while. You want Naraku, Kagura and Kanna in the story? They are already included in my plot...
Ks-Starshine: Tee hee! ^.^
Moongoddes2: I know it's spelled that way, my friend told me that quite a while ago...but I already had spelled Sesshy the wrong way so I didn't want to confuse anyone by changing the spelling so in my story his name's going to be spelled Sesshomuru.
LadyYome: To anyone who's wondering, this is the last time I am saying this, it is a Inu-Yasha/ Kagome pairing.
^.^ ~.~
One more thing – the title of the chapter doesn't have to do with anything with the secret, you'll figure out the why I chose that title as you read on... ^.^
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Chapter Twelve
Catastrophe between Chaos
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Kagome stormed into Sango's room, steaming off anger in waves. She had once again, become the victim of Inu-Yasha's torture and this time he had crossed the line. He had *by mistake* dropped last nights soup on her dress and afterwards told the whole castle that the soup was manure of a horse with a bad stomach.
She had rushed immediately to the showers, but not fast enough to dodge the insults thrown at her from the other residents of the castle.
Everything that had happened in the secret hideout of Inu-Yasha's seemed extremely vague and it seemed as if Kagome and Inu-Yasha had silently agreed never to talk about it again.
Either that or both of them had entirely forgotten about the incident as Kagome liked to call it.
"He is so...!" Kagome rushed on as she sat down beside Sango on the carpet. She looked up from the book she was reading and raised an eyebrow at Kagome.
"He is so...what?" She inquired as she put down her reading book and turned a confused face at Kagome.
"He is so...UGH!" She clenched her hands in fists and slammed them down on the carpet. Sango snorted at her reply.
"What did he do this time?"
Kagome glanced at Sango, she would start laughing the moment she told her what happened, best to not tell her then "I'm not telling"
Sango rolled her eyes "The whole castle knows about what happened Kagome, Miroku was the one who told me"
Kagome gaped at Sango, but then closed her mouth and shut her eyes close. She brought a hand to her forehead and groaned. "This is just great..."
Sango giggled, "Oh well, they'll forget about it sooner or later"
"I don't think Inu-Yasha would let them," She opened her eyes and stared at the ceiling, what could she do to pay him back? "Sango, tell me some way I can pay Inu-Yasha back for his cruelty"
Sango looked at her thought for a while, she would usually never take participation with someone's plan for revenge, but it was Kagome she was talking about and she wanted revenge with Inu-Yasha so it seemed pretty fair to her, as she sat there, pondering on a way Kagome could embarrass Inu-Yasha just as well he embarrassed Kagome a thought popped into her mind "Oh, did I tell you that Inu-Yasha's cousins are coming today?"
Kagome processed this information slowly and turned to Sango with a sly grin on her face "They are?"
Sango giggled "The King announced this at dinner last night, you had fallen asleep in the forest remember?"
Kagome felt a tinge of guilt hit her as she remembered she had told Sango a complete lie on where she was last night– well, she couldn't exactly tell her everything, "Oh, really? So you mean, Inu-Yasha doesn't know about this either?"
Sango shook her head "Nope, unless someone told him this morning, he should be completely clueless"
"Where was he this morning anyway?" Kagome asked her, remembering Inu-Yasha had started to take the responsibility of coming to breakfast now-a-days.
Sango sighed, "Well, I don't know, he said that he had to meet someone today, and thinking about that, the maid who served us drinks didn't come either, I was about to die with thirst..."
Kagome picked up at the last comment she made "Do you think that he could be meeting her?"
Sango giggled "Inu-Yasha meeting a maid who works for him? I don't think so"
"Sounds like a Cinderella affair, you know" Kagome smiled as she thought of Inu-Yasha and the maid secretly falling in love with each other, it sounded sweet but somehow pathetic all the same.
"Back to the topic, about his cousins, they really are a handful" Sango closed her book and placed it beside her, thinking that real life cruelty was far more exciting than a book.
"Have they come here before?" Kagome lowered her voice so no one could here the plot she was plotting up in Sango's room.
"They haven't come here in the castle, but we went to visit them four months ago, they drove me crazy, but we can use them you know" Sango's grinned, excitement starting to rise in the pits of her stomach.
"How?"
"They can barely keep a secret, why don't we ask them about some embarrassing situations Inu-Yasha was caught in?"
Kagome's face lit up "Sango, you're a genius!" She fidgeted with her hands "When exactly are they coming?"
"Before lunch for sure," She was about to say some more but Kagome cut it, feeling the need to have something she thought of herself in the plot of revenge she was planning out.
"We can ask them some things at lunch! Right in front of Inu-Yasha's face!" Kagome waited as Sango squealed before continuing her plan "Does he have a cousin my age?"
Sango pondered on this for a moment "He does, I don't know his name though, he's really cocky believe me,"
"Perfect" Kagome clasped her hands together and did a little imitation of an evil laugh "I'll pretend that I am totally into him, and when we are alone, I'll get as much embarrassing situations I can taunt Inu-Yasha with! Then when we are at the dining table, I'll discuss them out loud with him...right in front of Inu-Yasha!"
Sango thought about this for a while "We have a problem with that, what will Sesshomuru say?"
Kagome rolled her eyes "Do you really think that he would care about what the heck I do with other men? He's barely said five sentences to me since I came here"
Sango laughed "You count?"
"Well, who wouldn't when you've got him for a fiancé? Anyway, how is his oldest cousin? Anything I should know about him?"
Sango nodded "Inu-Yasha's cousins are all wolf demons, they can run really fast, don't let him pick you up and let him run away with you"
Kagome raised an eyebrow "He would do that?"
Sango shrugged "It could happen, he's really cocky, I kind of thought he was sweet and nice when I met him before, and when I got kind of close to him he kept calling me his women when Miroku tried to come near me he tried to beat him up"
Kagome gaped at her "Suddenly, this doesn't seem like a good idea,"
Sango shook her head, suddenly feeling the urge to go along with this well thought plan they had thought of just now "You have to! I know...at lunch, sit across him, giggle at his lame jokes," she stopped "yeah, he tells really lame joke" She coughed "anyway, ask him about something that happened to Inu-Yasha in FRONT of Inu-Yasha, and let's see his reaction"
Kagome thought on this for a while "So our final plan is..." She took a deep breath "We say hi and hello to all of his cousins, at lunch I ask the oldest cousin to tell me something that happened to Inu-Yasha that was embarrassing, and then I see Inu-Yasha's reaction to that, then I corner the younger cousins and ask them something that happened to Inu-Yasha, and because they can barely keep a secret they will blurt everything out, I then taunt Inu-Yasha, or blackmail him until he begs me to stop and apologizes for everything he has done to me" She smiled "Am I correct?"
Sango nodded fervently "This is going to be great"
Kagome shook her head and smiled "This is going to be better than great"
A shout interrupted their sinister giggles from outside their rooms "I have to clean your room, may I come in?"
Sango raised an eyebrow and lowered her voice so the servant outside who sounded like a girl couldn't hear what she was saying "When did we get servants to clean our room?"
Kagome shrugged "Just call her in"
Sango nodded "Sure, come in"
The door opened and Rin stepped in, this time, looking extremely glum. Rin had yet, another conversation with Inu-Yasha but now the stakes and gone much higher. Why he needed the sword Tokijin was still a mystery, but now he also needed her to snatch anything that related to the two hidden sword Tetsusaiga and Tensaiga. Not only that, but he had also ordered her to figure out what the girls were plotting against him.
That's why she was in a Sango's room, pretending to be here in order to clean. She sighed, what did the world have against her? But as worst came to worst, she was getting paid to do this and no thief could reject his offer of four golden dimes.
Rin went immediately for the windows, pulled the curtains back and started to wipe the windows. She winced, how much she hated cleaning other people's property...
"So they are coming exactly before lunch?" Kagome rattled on, not even noticing that Rin was listening to every single word they were saying intently.
"Mmhmm" came Sango's reply.
"Hey, lets go to the tower and wait for them to arrive" Kagome stood up and waited for Sango to put back her book.
"You'll love the youngest cousin; he's the cutest thing ever" Sango gave a quick glance at Rin, seeing she was doing nothing but cleaning she followed Kagome out of the door, leaving a bored Rin to herself. The last thing Rin heard was:
"He can barely pronounce anything with more than two syllables,"
She sighed; she didn't get much out of them. She was about to leave when she spotted a feather lying on the floor, she sighed.
"Letting birds in their rooms, how un-hygienic" She picked up the broom she had brought with her and swept the feather out of the room.
She was about to close the balcony door when she spotted a large bird flying north from where she was standing.
She strained her eyes as she tried to see what it was.
Now it didn't seem like a bird, but it actually seemed like a humungous feather. Rin shook her head.
She was just letting her imagination run wild.
Right?
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Kagome peeked out of the small tower room window. It was the only way they could actually see the front entrance of the castle.
She longed to see Inu-Yasha embarrassed. After all he did to her, gosh, the only thing she did to him was kick his shins on the first day at the castle and now he was embarrassing her like a world war four?
It was almost lunch, and the cousins should be arriving soon. From what Sango told her, they all had demon wolf blood in them. There were boy triplets, one older sister, and one oldest of all, brother.
She had figured out their names as well. With much help from the King, even though he had questioned them why they needed it they had answered feebly with an excuse of making welcome cards for them all.
The triplets' names were Killen, Koura, and Kenny and they were all four years old.
They had an older sister who was 12, her name was Karira.
The oldest brother's name, who was 18, was Kouga.
She had also found out that Karira was the smartest of them all. So- as Sango and Kagome planned, they had to stay away from her.
Sango also told her, the last time she had gone to visit them, Kouga didn't go along very well with Inu-Yasha. So their main target was – Kouga.
"Sango, they're here!" Kagome squealed out as she saw the main gates open and two carriages ride in. As soon as Kagome had squealed that out, they both rushed down the spiral staircase to the front gates where a confused Inu-Yasha was walking slowly towards the carriages.
The king and queen were already there, and Sesshomuru was waiting there, and for the first time, he actually looked impatient for the carriage to open.
Kagome sneaked a peak at Inu-Yasha and giggled, he looked completely confused. Of course, no one told him about it. This was perfect.
The carriage door opened and out stepped three young boys. They all had black hair, pointy ears, they were growling as if they were planning to scare somebody and were baring their small, stubby fangs. Their claws weren't a big impression either, they looked like ordinary nails but the triplets were waving their arms in the air.
They stopped immediately as they saw the Youkai family smiling, everyone except Inu-Yasha who seemed to be surprised.
"You are 'uppose to be scared!" One of them said, while the other two nodded fervently. They all pouted and stepped out of the carriage, making room for the other passengers to exit.
At once, a twelve year old girl stepped out. She looked definitely pissed but smiled as she saw the king and queen. Her fangs were definitely longer and she seemed to have a small tail which was hanging low.
Her smiled disappeared as she saw the triplets which were currently wrestling with Sesshomuru, who was pretending to be influenced under them.
She stepped outside and the last passenger stepped out. He was definitely older than all of them and seemed to be Kouga; he quickly jumped out and started to greet everyone.
Wondering where their parents were Sango filled her in "Their parents are going off in a war, they were too young to come so that's why they're here, and they wouldn't come without Kouga so he came as well"
Kagome nodded, and smiled as they all started to walk into the castle, she lowered her pace purposely so she could talk to Kouga.
She glanced at Inu-Yasha; he seemed to have caught up with everything. He was smiling now as he talked nicely with the daughter. She seemed to be rattling on about how annoying it can be to be stuck in one carriage with you're brothers who have disgustingly bad manners.
He was about to step in the castle when he caught Kagome's stare. She looked away instantly but forgot to wipe away the smirk on her face.
Inu-Yasha stared at her before realizing what she was about to do. Eyes widening with horror he was about to walk to her and tell Kouga to keep his mouth shut, Karira pulled him in the castle and started asking him questions about how he was.
Kagome turned her attention back to Kouga. They were the only people outside, and he seemed to be waiting for her to start a conversation.
"So, what's your name?" She asked, smiling as she tapped her foot impatiently, Karira better keep Inu-Yasha busy...
"Kouga, what about yours?" He asked shaking her hand, a little tighter than Kagome would have liked.
"Kagome, you want to walk around the gardens for a while?"
He looked back at the second carriage; the servants were unloading their bags. He looked back at the castle. "Everyone seems fine without me so why not?"
Kagome smiled at him and took his hand. He seemed fairly nice, and he didn't seem to mind Kagome at all.
Kagome led Kouga all the way into the gardens. Spotting a spot quite far away from the castle, she pointed to it. "You want to sit over there, lets get to know each other" She smiled at him as a tinge of pink hit his cheeks.
"Uh... um... okay" He replied as he followed Kagome to the sunny spot quite far away from the castle.
As they sat down Kagome looked around to make sure Inu-Yasha wasn't around. She silently begged Karira to keep him busy until lunch.
"So, how long have you known Inu-Yasha for?" Kagome asked him and seeing the confused expression on his face she added "I mean, the Youkai family for?"
He nodded, "All my life really, they are really nice, except for Inu- Yasha...he can be pretty cruel sometimes"
Kagome picked up on this comment; he seemed to be playing right into her trap. "Really? Why, what did he do?"
"Well, he's cool with the triplets and Karira, but he seems to be in a feud with me"
Kagome raised an eyebrow "Why?"
"Well, we were six, and we were just loosing our baby fangs, and well, we were wrestling, and I pulled out his baby fang. He cried for days, since then he's been turning his back on me"
Kagome giggled "Aww, that's so cute" she pondered on this for a while "And he's still mad at you?"
He nodded and sighed "Well, that's not as bad as the time I bit his ear and he wouldn't come out of his room for a week! When he did, his eyes were all puffed up from all the crying he did"
"Kawaii!" She squealed, she always squealed whenever she was reminded of any one doing anything baby-ish...it was always so adorable. "How old were you then?"
"We were three; his ears had just started to grow and to pay me back he ripped the pillow I used to carry around everywhere, I used to love that pillow" He sighed as he remembered the memories.
Kagome giggled, "I wish I could have seen that" she looked back at the castle. It was almost lunch time, she could talk to Kouga a little longer...just a bit longer to find out something seriously embarrassing, everything he had just told her now was plain cute, not embarrassing.
"That's nothing," he looked at her, somehow this talk about Inu-Yasha when he was little was amusing her, and he would do anything to amuse a girl, not even noticing he was letting off embarrassing information he babbled on "he never knew how to pronounce the word 'fortnight' and I bet he still doesn't know how, ask him how long were staying for, and I bet he'll say two weeks, not fortnight"
Kagome smiled at this piece of information, not exactly embarrassing, but it could work...
"When he was eight, he kept having nightmares of the boogey man, Sesshomuru filled him in on the story, he used to wake up screaming and running around the whole castle, yelling out the boogey man was going to get him"
Kagome laughed, she could tease Inu-Yasha with this. Glancing back at the castle, she figured out it was lunch time, "We better get going, its almost time for lunch, you must be hungry after your long journey"
"Yeah, I guess" He got up and waited for Kagome to get up after him. After she did, they both walked to the castle.
Kagome sighed disappointedly; she didn't get much out of Kouga, just some little teasers, she hoped that the triplets had more to say.
But then again, they probably couldn't even remember what happened yesterday judging by the fact they are only four.
She winced, damnit...that left only Karira, unless Kouga had more to say.
She shook her head, they're here for two weeks, she could get more out of Kouga, and they JUST arrived.
As they reached the castle, Kagome opened the doors and led Kouga to the tables; Inu-Yasha glanced up from his bowl and gave Kagome a sharp glance.
She smiled back innocently and took a seat beside Inu-Yasha. Sango kicked her from underneath the table and gave her a questioning glare.
She nodded back, hoping Sango got the message that she had figured out some information, Sango kicked her again and mouthed the words.
'How bad?'
Kagome giggled and replied 'Baby-cute'
Sango sighed, she was hoping more of a 'Slap me in the face so I can wake up from my nightmare' bad. Oh well, they had just arrived, and it was good enough that she had at least gotten something out of Kouga.
Kouga took a seat beside Sango, much to her displeasure. She wasn't the only one who pouted a little at this. Miroku was forced to sit next to Kikyou as she saw that his seat was already taken.
Kagome drove her attention to Kikyou; she hadn't seen much of her since the ball night. She was always in her room, doing something or the other. She never came out in the balcony and at night, her candles were always blown out. Her curtains were always drawn and it gave Kagome the impression that she was trying to hide from somebody.
She shrugged, now to test Inu-Yasha.
"So, you still believe in the - boogey man?" Kagome asked Inu-Yasha.
Sesshomuru burst out laughing as he heard Kagome ask Inu-Yasha this. Kagome turned a face to Sesshomuru; he was sitting between Killen, Koura and Kenny and seemed to have overheard her question.
"I remember that" He choked out loud, and instantly went back to eating his lunch.
Kagome turned to face Inu-Yasha. She bit her lip to keep in an amused, satisfied giggle. He had tried to completely ignore her question as he continued to eat, or rather poke his food. His ears had flattened against his head, trying to keep out further questions.
"It's okay..." She patted his back "...no need to cry"
He swatted her hand away and gave her a fierce glare "Leave me alone"
"Aw, poor baby's upset?" She asked him, trying to sound sympathetic. Kouga, Sango, Sesshomuru were now watching his with great amusement.
She glanced at Kouga, he was looking quite guilty. Kagome giggled, she'll apologize for this later... "Hey, how long are your cousins staying?"
He gave her a sharp glance, "Two weeks" He replied curtly.
"Um... isn't there another word for that?"
Kagome giggled as she saw Inu-Yasha's cheeks turn a shade of pink. She smiled, old habits never die. Inu-Yasha seemed to ignore this question as he started to rip his food into little pieces.
"Which ear did Kouga bite? This one – or this one?" She tried to catch his ears but he dodged her hands easily.
"I told you to leave me alone!"
"Why don't you go to your room and cry?" Kagome snapped back at him, she sighed; this should keep him quiet for a while.
Inu-Yasha slammed his fork down on his plate; he couldn't stand Sesshomuru's snickering, Sango's giggling, and Kouga's stare. He stood up from his chair and stormed out of the dining room.
"Wench" He called out to Kagome, quieting down the whole table. Kagome's face turned a little shade of red before she replied her comeback.
"Jerk!"
The table stared at her for a while before continuing their breakfast.
"'Esh'muwu?" The triplets called out to Sesshomuru.
He looked down at them from his plate.
"What does –wench- mean?"
Sesshomuru chuckled "I don't know, ask your mom when you go home"
His advice was returned with little squeals of 'Okays' as he continued eating his lunch.
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Kagome walked slowly down the stairs. It was almost sun set and she wanted to watch it from a place where trees didn't block the view.
She could go to the sea, sit on the cliff where she could watch the sun disappear right behind the sea.
That would be nice, last time she went to the sea she had also saw a tree on the cliff, she could lean on the trunk of the tree and watch it from there.
She had brought herself pastry's which she had put into a little basket she could eat while watching the sun set. She had plenty of them, mostly because Sango had said she would meet her there, so she had decided she would bring some for Sango as well. She sighed, Sango would miss the sun set because she had to direct the new jobs in the castle for the new servants but she had said she would come to look at the stars.
An old time hobby of Kagome's which she did every so often with a friend.
Kagome walked sneaked passed Kouga who seemed to be trying to start a conversation with Sango while Miroku steamed off behind them. Kagome tried to suppress a laugh when a fuming Miroku stepped out of the room.
He turned to Kagome and pointed at Kouga "He- He's stealing my girl man!"
Kagome smiled "Why don't you go after a maid for the time being? That would make you feel better wouldn't it?"
He nodded fervently "Yeah, cya" he turned around and ran down the hall. Kagome shook her head and continued down her way to the entrance of the castle.
As she reached it, she opened the doors and stepped out into the humid air. "Phew..."
It wasn't this hot last time she went out, there was absolutely no wind in the air, and the sun was blazing hot, it seemed to stop the wind dead in its tracks.
Kagome blinked as she tried to keep the sun out of her eyes. God, she was wearing a full sleeved, full length dress for god's sake. Not wanting to miss the sun set she rushed out into the garden.
As she reached the bridge she sighed contently and ran into the shades of the forest.
She smiled; at least she won't have to worry about getting sun burnt here. Remembering that the sun didn't stay out for much longer she ran into the tree's, and started to run across the stream.
She smiled broadly as she heard the small waterfall up ahead. That meant she wasn't far from the sea now...
As she passed the waterfall she spotted the cliff that gave full view of the sea and sun which was slowly moving down. There was one tall tree right in the middle of the tree. Not noticing the other person leaning on the other side of the tree, she walked up to it and sat down, beside the tree.
"What are you doing here?" The familiar voice of Inu-Yasha called out to her from the other side of the tree.
Kagome jumped up in surprise as she heard him "I didn't know you were here"
"Go away, I don't want to hear any more of your teasing, it already happened in my life and I know it pretty well so get lost" He snapped at her, his voice a little more annoying then usual.
Kagome felt a tinge of guilt hit her as she heard him say that. She silently thanked god she didn't have to see his face right now. So all this time he was sulking about what happened at lunch? Gosh...couldn't he let it go?
It was only a joke.
Kagome pondered on her thoughts as she tried to figure out a way he could forgive her, she sighed as she thought up of the perfect idea.
Even though he never said sorry to her once or even tried to act a little nicer after his mean pranks, Kagome was never the one to hold a grudge or stand someone sulking after she played a prank on them.
'Time to let him know a little bit of my embarrassing history' she thought as she opened her mouth to speak.
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Ooo...wonder what happens next.