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Chapter 22

Just as soon as yours and the castle lords' eyes meet, they break as the castle lords' assistant, Gyki comes in between.

"Lord Blade, these are the guests, Mr. Inuyasha, Miss (Insert Name) and Miss Naomi." Gyki says pointing as he lists names.

"Nice to meet you all..." The lord says and bows. You all say your greetings and Lord Blade sits across from you next to Gyki.

Then the maid's walk in carrying trays and trays full of food. You all eat as Gyki tries to keep a conversation going on around the table... After a while you all finish eating and a small chat forms around the table about the castle. So the castle was just built a few days ago and what? Lord Blade just moved here from a foreign country... He looks pure Japanese, but hey looks can be deceiving... A few minutes later, trying to avoid speaking of himself, Lord Blade asks if you'd want to take a tour of the castle or the garden perhaps.

You and Naomi agree to the offer wanting to see the pretty flowers in the garden and Inuyasha just goes along with it, not paying attention anyway. You all head to the garden, passing hall after hall and corner after corner, in the maze shaped castle. The crisp grass crunch below you as you step foot in the garden leaving the castle's porch and you notice how late it seemed to have gotten, seeing the stars spreading twinkle down at you.

The lord, Gyki and Naomi walks ahead while you and Inuyasha follow behind looking at the strange flowers and plants. You look at the pretty flowers and smile slightly at the nice smell. You reach toward one of the odd-looking plants, sort of attracted to it somehow. You stroke a petal and move slowly up the thorny stem avoiding pricks. Your finger stops at the rim of the flower and you lean in to sniff with glazed over eyes.

"We shouldn't get too close to the plants! Some could be fatal!" You hear Gyki say up ahead.

You blink and look down at the plant. You circle your finger around its rim and lean away from it. You spot another pretty flower and walk toward it. You start to lean in toward the plant until you hear someone approach you from behind.

"Excuse me, Miss (Insert Name) that plant can drool acid that can deteriorate the human skin..." You hear the voice behind you say. You look down at the plant and notice drool slowly leak down over its petals. You back away from the flower, now knowing it was a bad idea to venture out into the garden...

"Thanks for telling me that..." You say sheepishly rubbing the back of your neck and turning around to find Lord Blade.

"No problem, Miss (Insert Name)..." He replies. "It's nice to meet you personally, though..." He says smiling politely.

"..Nice to meet you, too.." You reply smiling back. Then you suddenly feel the shikon jewel twitch against your chest, which is something it doesn't do not at all often...

"Well, I hope however long you'll be here is enjoyable, Miss (Insert Name) and maybe later I can give you a personal tour of the whole castle?" He says as his polite smile shifts into a smirk and the shikon jewel once again twitches.

"Um, maybe later... And maybe Inuyasha would want to come, too..." You say backing a way a bit, just feeling a tad bit uncomfortable by the creepy man's presence.

"Well, I can't wait until later, then..." He says and takes your hand and brushes his lips across your wrist lightly.

You shutter at the feeling and start to pull your hand away, until you see him look up at you and notice sharp, impeccable, fangs protrude from his mouth and grace your wrist. His eyes glint at you and you feel yourself numb and freeze under his glare as your eyes widen and glaze over. The feeling of his fangs slowly squeezing into your wrist is unknown to you.

A loud sneeze reaches your ears and material kind of like dandelion cotton washes over your face. You blink as some reaches your nose and sneeze, and then take away your hand from the castle lord. You look towards the source of the sneeze and notice Inuyasha somewhat far ahead of you rubbing his nose that seems to be tinged a bit red. You smile slightly and start to walk toward him until Lord Blade grabs onto your shoulder.

"Miss (Insert Name)?"

"I'll look forward to the tour, Lord Blade!" You say smiling looking over your shoulder. He blinks with a confused façade, which turns into a smirk, then a cheeky smile that's trying to find its way back to polite.

You continue your stride toward Inuyasha, trying to keep the smile on your outward features and keep your confusion inside. 'What a creepy guy... I think he was trying to bite me! They looked like fangs? Keh, now that's foreign, a human with fangs... What the hell is he suppose to be anyway? .... A vampire?' You think to yourself frowning approaching Inuyasha.

"What's wrong (Insert Name)?" Inuyasha asks and sneezes again.

"Nothing, I'm fine... I should be asking you the same thing..."

"...Alright... It's these damned flowers! They're making me sick!" Inuyasha says eyeing you suspiciously at first then returning his glare to the flowers.

"Well, maybe if you're literally sick of them we should go inside, then..." You say as an edge of worry cuts into your voice.

"I'll assist you two to your room..." Gyki says appearing beside you.

"Thanks..." You say to Gyki. You three then head back into the castle leaving Naomi and Lord Blade behind, you then remember Risa. "Um, Mr. Gyki what's happening to the girl we brought here, Risa?" You ask and Gyki blinks confused then frowns.

"One of the castle doctors has diagnosed her with very fatal poison and it will take some time to rid the poison from her body... I'm sure she'll be fine though because she is in good care..." Gyki says smiling.

"Oh... Can we see her?" You ask.

"No, the poison she has can spread and her doctors have used the last drop of the anti-poison to nurse her..." Gyki says.

"Oh, ok..." You reply slightly confused.

"I hope you know we're doing this for your protection, Miss (Insert Name), and also we're just trying to help..." Gyki says with a serious and straight face. "Well, here we are!" Gyki says with his smile returning, standing in front of your rooms' door.

"Thanks" You say smiling politely.

"No problem, enjoy your stay!" Gyki says and walks away. You enter the room, to notice through the dark because no candles were light; it's the same one you were once at... Or every guest room looks the same...

"When did we decide on staying the night?" Inuyasha asks with his arms folded behind his head and you sweatdrop.

"They probably did for us... But, there's no use of leaving now, so lets stay for just tonight, I'm sure everyone will be fine without us for the day..." You say smiling lazily and Inuyasha shrugs.

You walk towards the futon and sit down, then take off your footwear and slide the Kyojin under the table. You lay flat on the futon and start to close your eyes, drifting off, and then you notice something isn't right. You sit up once again being supported by your elbows. You see Inuyasha's outline in the dark sitting and leaning on the wall and frown seeing his head bowed... He couldn't be asleep already, like that...

"Ne, Inuyasha?"

"Hm?"

"Are you going to sleep that way? Ya' know you can come sleep in the futon if you want..." You say glancing at his sitting form.

"No, this is fine..."

"Are you sure because I wouldn't mind... I know your back isn't easily hurt and stuff... But..."

"...Do you want me to?" Inuyasha asks looking up and even in the dark you could see his flaxen eyes looking back at you as you could tell a smirk forming on his face. You blush instantly and look away.

"I-you can do what you want!" You reply and roll over on your side facing away.

After a few seconds you feel the futon shift weights and an arm wrap tightly around your waist and start to roll you over, so you're laying flat again. Smirking, playful, golden eyes look down at you and you try to feign an annoyed look, which isn't working well. His lips press against yours softly, which slowly gets harder. His tongue glides across your bottom lip and you give him entrance. His hand makes his presence known on your hip squeezing lightly sending and slowly heading upwards and stopping at your gi sash and pulling it open and runs a hand over your stomach, under the tank top that you had on under the gi. You slip your arms out of the gi and wrap your arms around his neck pulling him closer. His clawed hand runs upwards reaching the base of your breast and-

"Excuse me?" A voice outside the door asks.

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Chapter done! Sorry for the lateness... 'Reads over lime' I am soo amateur, but that's for you guys to decide... What a limp chapter I've written --... Should the rating go up now, though? And also a lime is milder than a lemon, if you didn't know...

Shikon Jewel- Of course you know what it is, but I haven't mentioned it not many times and the story revolves around it still... With you possessing the shikon no tama, but still not becoming one with it makes the demons that's attending the convention think you're not human because of the powerful aura and ki it's giving off... Yet, they don't know you have it...

Alright, please stay tuned for the next installment of the sequel to Reincarnation of Midoriko! – The Return! :Inuyasha Version!

Later!