Disclaimer: I do not own Sesshoumaru or Inutasho.
I do own Kadasa, Lady Aka-Yuki (his mom), Honou, Nana, Lord Yami and Lady Hikari.
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Heir to the Western Lands
Chapter 2
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Father has decided to invite the Lord of the Southern Lands here for what reason I don't know. I think it's because the Lord has a daughter who's the same age as me.
I scowled as I brushed out my tail. I don't like girls. Hopefully I'll be able to hide before she can find me and therefore not have to talk to her.
Right now I'm sitting in my mother's bedroom watching her brush out her hair as I brush out my tail. I love my mother. I love my father but not as much as my mother. She's always been there for me and is always taking care of me.
She catches a glimpse of me in her mirror and smiles brightly. I smile back then hop of the bed and stumble over. If I had done this to father he would've just nodded at me but mother picks me up and plops me on her lap. I looked at her through the mirror as she starts to brush my hair with her brush.
"Will you do me a favor?" She asks.
"Sure okaasan!" I chirp, happy to help her.
"Braid my hair?" I nod and she sets me on the dresser and turns her chair around so I can braid her hair.
I once asked her why she braided it and she replied that she wanted to take care of her hair. When she finally taught me to braid things, she made me braid her hair. I asked her again why she'd braid it, but this time why she made me braid it.
She replied that she knew I loved her and that by braiding her hair, she could feel my love for her just by touching the perfectly chained locks.
I smiled and we've made a habit of braiding her hair whenever there's a ball or when it's hot out and she needs it up.
As I finally finish I look at her. "Okaasan?"
She turns touching her braid and smiling. "Hai?"
"…" I turn my gaze to the floor. "Never mind." She cocks her head and puts a finger under my chin making me look at her.
"Hey." She smiled. "You can tell me anything."
Filled with a new confidence I smile and say, "is father really asking that girl to come over?"
She blinked then nodded slowly. "I take it you don't want her here?"
"No… it's just…" I hugged my tail to my chest. "Girls are always making fun of me or pulling my tail."
She smiles and ruffles my hair. "Just tell her that she can't pull your tail."
"But…"
"She probably has a tail as well Sesshoumaru. She's an inuyoukai."
"But…"
"If she does you tell me and I'll tell her not to pull your tail. All right."
I frown but nod. "All right okaasan."
"Now," she picked me up and set me on the ground. "Let's go meet our guests."
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I yawned, sitting on the front steps waiting for this family to arrive. Okaasan and otoosan are inside but I didn't have the energy to get up or else I would have gone in with them.
My ears twitch as I hear a carriage arriving and I jump to my feet, okaasan and otoosan right beside me.
The carriage pulls into the yard and I hide behind okaasan's legs, hands clutched in her baggy pants, only my eyes peering out around her.
The door flings open and a young boy about my age falls out. He hits the ground with a shriek and I realize it's a girl dressed as a boy.
"Kadasa!" An older male youkai, probably her father shouts.
She sends a cold glare at him, jumps to her feet and takes off towards the garden. I pull my head out from okaasan's legs watching as she disappears around the corner then my head snaps towards the man as he walks over and I pull back behind her.
Father frowns slightly. "Where is Lord Yami and Lady Hikari?" He asks.
The man straightens his clothes and bows. "My name is Sir Honou. M'lord and lady have to attend business with the panthers."
Father nods once. I am at a complete loss. This man is not the girl's father I can tell, but the real father is dealing with cats? What have the cats done?
"Okaasan?" I ask, tugging on her pants softly. She glances at Honou who's talking to father then kneels down slowly.
"Hai?"
"What did the panthers do?"
She smiles softly. "I'll tell you later all right. Why don't you go find the young lady?"
I scowl. "O-kaa-san…" I whine.
She smiles wider. "Please Sesshoumaru?"
I pout. "Fine." I step slowly away from Honou until I'm a good distance away and sprint out of sight.
What I didn't catch was:
Honou watched with an amused eye. "He's not what I expected."
Mother laughed behind her hand. "He's scared you'll pull his tail."
Father rolled his eyes. "He should be proud to have one." He grumbled then offered Honou a drink and led him into the house.
What I did was run into the garden then slow my pace. I didn't want to go find the girl immediately but mother told me to so I would have to eventually. I yawned and looked around, deciding to go to the pond, my favorite spot in the garden. When I arrived there, the girl was sitting in my favorite spot sniffling.
I scowled, smelling her salty tears from here. I don't like girls.
"Mama, papa, you're so mean." She sniffed. I perked my ears up and took a silent step forward.
Evidently it wasn't silent enough because I stepped on a twig. The result was instantaneous.
She froze then spun around eyes wide, fangs bared, and hand cracking so her claws glinted in the sun. When she saw it was me her shoulders relaxed a little, fangs hid back in her mouth and hand flattened.
"Who… who are you?"
"Sesshoumaru. Who are you?"
"Kadasa." She sniffled then turned around wiping her face. She jumps to her feet before walking over to me and bowing. "Sorry. Honou's so mean!"
I just nod and turn to head into the house when she follows me. I watch her carefully for a minute before entering through the back door. I know she has no clue how to get around my house.
A wicked thought entered my brain. If she started to cling to my tail then I'd wait till I got her desperately lost and take off so she'd get lost! Grinning wickedly to myself and I started down a different hallway, seeing her follow me.
Perfect.
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This girl was strange. She didn't hang on me or yank on my tail or tell me how pretty I was. She just followed behind me quietly, a smile on her face the entire time.
I finally stopped and turned looking at her. She looked confused then grinned brilliantly and I felt that flip flop in my chest again.
"Why are still you following me?" I growled since she hadn't gotten lost yet.
Her smile weakened slightly and I felt bad. "I… I got lost…. Am I bothering you?" I frowned slightly then turned on my heel walking away. "Um…" She glanced up and down the hallway.
"Come on." I called in a sigh and she grinned and followed after me quickly, the smile back in place.
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"Hey Sesshiemaru?" I winced at the nickname the girl had taken. I grunted. "Where are we going?"
"I'm going to my room after dropping you off with that guy that came with you."
"Aw…" She frowned. "Can't I go with you?"
I growled. "No."
"Why not?"
"Cause."
"Cause why?"
"Cause."
"Cause why?"
"CAUSE!"
She scowled. "Fine! Be a meany-head!"
"I'm not a meany-head! You're a meany-head!"
"Young lord?" We both jump and looked at Nana, one of the older servants here. She smiled. "Would you and the little Miss like some lunch?"
We both nodded and she led us into the kitchen, sitting us both down at the table with sandwiches and hot soup. I immediately start cutting my sandwich into small bites but Kadasa grabbed half of her sandwich, dunks it in her soup then takes a bite.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
She looked up. "Huh? I'm eating." She wrinkled her nose, looking at my food. "What are you doing?"
"Eating normally." She looked at me for a moment before pushing her plate and bowl over to the seat on my right then climbing down off her chair and coming around sitting next to me.
"You gotta dunk your sandwich into your soup!" She chirped and dunked hers into her soup bowl. "See?"
I did what she did and bit into it. "Yum!" I chirped looking back at her. She giggled.
"Just make sure you don't drop it into the soup. Then it gets all soggy and yucky."
I grinned and nodded, not noticing Okaasan watching happily from the doorway.
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Soon enough, Kadasa had to leave. I watched from the front door, Mother on my right, Father on my left, as Kadasa walked after Honou. She noticed the guard and grinned.
As soon as the guard turned and looked the other way she made a face pulling on her eyes and sticking her tongue out. Honou noticed and whapped her on the head.
"Ow!" I heard her cry rubbing her abused head. "Honou!"
"Stop it Kadasa. Get in the carriage."
"I don't wanna! I wanna play with Sesshiemaru!"
I winced. That nickname.
"Well Lord Sesshoumaru can't play now. We have to go home."
"But Honou…"
"Don't whine Kadasa. Get in the carriage." She scowled and moved to step into the carriage then paused and before he could catch her spun on her heel and rushed back to me. I took a startled step back seeing Mother and Father step to the side as well.
She grabbed my hand. "Can I come back and play Sesshiemaru?" She cried as he stormed back over. "Please!"
"Uh… sure…" I stated in shock.
"Promise?" She asked all serious.
"Yeah. I promise."
She grinned brilliantly and I felt something in my chest flip flop. "Thanks Sesshiemaru!
I nodded faintly as Honou picked her up and flung her over his shoulder. He bowed slightly to Father and Mother.
"I'm sorry for the interruption." He said.
"It's no problem." Mother stated. "We'd love the company."
He nodded once more and turned to the carriage. Kadasa waved from over Honou's left shoulder.
"Sayonara Sesshiemaru! I'll come back soon okay?"
I nodded and waved still in shock then hid my grin as she made a face at the guard again.
Honou tossed her into the carriage following after her. A moment later she crawled out the window sitting on the roof waving as the carriage took off.
"Sayonara Sesshiemaru!" She yelled as they disappeared. This time I didn't wince at the nickname.
Huh. Must be growing on me.
I scowled. I still hate girls.
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To all Heir to the Western Lands readers:
I am sorry for taking so long to update but after I started this chapter, I got a total writer's block and couldn't think of anything to finish the story.
I would like to thank
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I would also like to ask that if you have any suggestions for chapters or things you'd like to see happen later in the story, it would be muchly appreciated.
I hope you're enjoying your summer and staying cool in this heat. Thanks again for waiting so long and I hope to have the next chapter up sooner.
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