Two New Wards
Kagome sat up and looked around the room she was in. It was huge. If she ever wanted to get back on the bed she would need a ladder. She was interrupted by a knock on the door. "Come in" She watched a female demon enter the room and bow to her.
"My Lady, My Lord has requested that I bathe and dress you." She turned and entered a door at the other end of the room.
"What is your name?" Kagome watched as the girl stuck her head out of the room.
"Singa my Lady" She disappeared back into the room.
"Well Singa my name is Kagome." Kagome smiled at the girl as she came back into the room carrying a pair of sandals.
"Very well my Lady Kagome." Singa returned to the closet.
"No Singa just Kagome no my lady stuff." Kagome watched as she took a kimono from the closet and laid it on the bed.
"As you wish Kagome, we must bathe you now." Singa helped Kagome out of the bed and led her to the hot springs. "You will find that most everything around here is huge compared to human settlements. Since demons are much bigger than humans it stands to reason." She opened the overly large doors and escorted Kagome in. "This is the east wing. No male but the lord is allowed in this wing."
Kagome stared in shock at the size of the hot springs. "You weren't kidding were you."
"I never kid." Singa helped Kagome out of her strange clothes and helped her into the springs. "It's not to hot for you is it?"
Kagome sunk down into the springs. Oh this felt so good. "No its just right."
Singa stepped into the spring to help Kagome wash. She lathered her hair and took a bucket to rinse it.
"Hey Singa, I had a kitsune pup with me do you know what happened to him?" Kagome turned her head and let the girl rinse her head. "And do you know what happened to Sango my friend she was brought here with me."
"My Lord will be able to answer your questions Kagome." She helped Kagome out of the spring and dried her off then placed a robe around her. "You will meet him after you eat."
"I have to meet with Sesshomaru? By myself this can't be good." Kagome was shocked. Before she knew what happened Singa had dried her and had the kimono wrapped around her. She was tieing the obi as Kagome became aware of her surroundings again.
"You sit here your food is on the way." Singa guided the shocked girl to a table beside the window to the room. "Scrolls have been placed around all exits to this wing that prohibit your escape. Just thought I should warn you."
"Thank you Singa." Kagome watched another servant enter her room this one carrying a tray. Singa took it from her and placed it on the table in front of her. With my miko powers I might be able to break the scrolls.
Singa was not surprised that the miko planned to try and escape. But she knew her lord would not let her. She waited till Kagome had finished before helping her up. The girl was obviously unused to kimono's. After wearing that outfit that she had destroyed earlier it was no wonder. She should thank Lord Sesshomaru for taking her in and looking after her welfare not try and escape from him. She led Kagome to a door at the end of the hall and opened it and shoved her into the room.
Kagome was shocked that Singa had actually shoved her into the room. She looked around and saw Sesshomaru sitting at a desk and across from him was Sango. A few female guards stood around the room. She listened as Sesshomaru talked to her friend.
"Do you now reside in the miko Kaede's village?" Sesshomaru asked Sango.
"Yes but only until I rebuild my village." Sango was not happy with the demon lord before her.
"Be that as it may, you live in the western lands now and you fall under my control. You will follow my rules until I find you a suitable mate." He nodded to the girl behind the taijiya and waved to a seat beside the girl in front of him.
Kagome sat down and watched as a servant came and took Sango's hand and led her out of the room. So now she was alone but at least she got to see Sango for a second.
Sesshomaru watched the taijiya leave the room then turned to the miko. "Miko would you like to explain to me now why your grandfather can not meet me?"
"Not really no. That would not be my first choice." Kagome glared at the demon lord before her.
"Very well then I claim you now as my ward. You will remain here until I find you a suitable mate." He could feel her miko powers rising with her temper. He couldn't have her use her powers. He nodded to a healer behind the girl and watched as she was stuck with another dart.
"That should control her powers for the rest of the day. I will insure that she gets it every morning." She bowed to Sesshomaru and left the room.
Sesshomaru waited till the miko awoke again before he started speaking again. "Since you can't control your powers I will insure that you do. You will have one week to rest before any suitors will arrive. At the end of the month I will decide if any of your suitors are worthy of you. If I deem it so then you shall be wed in the human tradition since you are human and if it is to a demon by demon tradition also. You may now return to your chambers. He nodded to a guard and she opened the door to allow Singa in to escort Kagome back to her room.