A/N: I am SOOOOO sorry that it's been taking me soo long to update. At the time when I posted the story, I had been extremely inspired (and still am), but some really stressing and saddening events had happened in my life and I just couldn't update. Also, I'm coming up to exam time at my school and will start working soon so the updates of this story might be a little unnerving (I'm not trying to do that on purpose!). Well…without further ado, here is the Second Chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not, have not, or will not own Inuyasha….mostly because of the fact that if I did, all the Inuyasha fans would shoot me and the popularity of the series would dramatically decrease...

Reviewer Responses

cebass25: I would use those characters as pairs…except I really don't know that much about rin or ayame (who is ogy?) (I do know about the ayame from furuba tho…). That's why I didn't list them with a match yet. I wanted to do more research before I wrote anything down.

inuyashaloverforever1: thank you so much. I hope this one's good too

blue-buggy: you honestly think this is gonna get interesting? I hope so! I already mentioned that I'm no writer P. oh well, I just wanna say now that I do tend to have writer's block quite often. I certainly hope that doesn't happen while I write this! (if it does tho, u can, through e-mail) give some ideas to help me out of my dry spells!

Thanks for all who reviewed (I hope I didn't pressure you'll into writing nice reviews! D) I hope you enjoy this chapter as well!

Fate's Promise

Chapter Two: Eastern Kingdom- When Tetsuya met Naora

Later that day Kagome wandered around the gardens of the Eastern Castle. While she was sitting on a bench there near some petunias and lilies, she thought about how her future would be (more importantly about marriage) and about what would happen in the immedieate future. It was November, and in a couple of short weeks she and her family were going to travel to her Aunt's and Uncle's house to visit them and her cousins for Christmas. However, that wasn't a very important factor in her life at the moment. Instead, her thoughts were centered during the time when her mother told her how she and Kagome's father met and eventually got married…

It was 1428 when the present king or the Eastern Kingdom declared that his 22 year old son, Tetsuya (heir to the throne), needed to find a wife soon. However, because he was not only a prince, but also heir to the throne, he was a "wanted man," but wanted for, what the king and the prince both considered being all the wrong reasons.

Frustrated with the fact of not being able to find any respectable ladies, the King began to scout the land to search for young women who were of noble blood and seemed fit to be future queen He had Tetsuya go to many parties, even held some of his own, which was all the King's idea to find Tetsuya's match.

It just so happened that in a flourishing town in the northern realm of the Eastern Kingdom, the eldest daughter of a prominent noble (who was also the King's advisor) was also coming of age to be married. In those days, they had what was called "Coming Out" Balls in which young women would come out into society. This is mostly for the purpose for the families of the women to find ideal suitors for the young women. The King, having privy to all types of social information...because…well, because he's king and being slightly annoyed with himself that he couldn't think well enough as to have his son marry one of the daughters of his advisor, prepared his son so that he could join into the festivities.

The young woman had the name of Naora Amano. As mentioned before, her father, Lord Amano, was a prominent figure to the Kings of the Eastern and Northern Kingdoms. He held his office as advisor to the Eastern King for many years and was such good friends with him, that he was one of the very few people not part of the immediate royal family, that could refer to the King by his first name.

Lord Amano had tried very hard to develop relations with the other kingdoms. He managed to see certain opportunities in the future for not only the Eastern Kingdom and the Northern Kingdom, but also with the Western Kingdom. The Lord had two very beautiful daughters, a year apart from each other, each willing to subjugate herself to arranged marriages for the betterment of the Kingdoms. The eldest of the daughters was Naora and it is her who her father and the King thought should marry Tetsuya.

The Night of the Meeting

It was about evening time when Naora was dressing herself so that she could meet her future husband.

"I wonder what the king's son is like!" She thought. "I hope he's as kind and gentle as I hoped my husband would be."

"NAORA! Are you ready yet? We're running slightly behind schedule and the guests are getting pretty impatient!" Naora's younger sister, Maruya, exclaimed. "May I come in?"

"Yah, please come in, I need a second opinion," Naora stated as the door began to open. She had been standing in front of her full length mirror dressed in a gown of blue. It had a very intricate design and had different shades of blue that all complimented not only the dress itself, but also herself. Naroa's hair was curled and twisted in a very complicated, and beautiful, up-do.

"Naora..." Maruya was struck speechless (which really doesn't happen very often). "All I'll say is, if the Prince doesn't like you because he thinks you're ugly, he truly isn't worth marrying."

"Aww, thanks. Now, if you said was the truth, I really need to be downstairs." Naora quickly left the room to go to the ballroom.

Tetsuya was also downstairs and was watching, along with everyone in the room, when Naora came into the room. "I can truly say that I didn't expect her to be this beautiful," thought Tetsuya.

Needless to say, he fell in love with Naora not just because she was beautiful, but after they had time to meet with each other and had a formal courtship, he became thoroughly convinced that she was the one for him.

They were married about a year later, and now have a family of three children (they aren't really children anymore…), Kikyo, Kagome, and Souta.

A/N: Ok...there it was, the second chapter. I hope you liked it. The next chapter(s) is/are going to be more of a continuation of the past. The next kingdom I hope to cover is the eastern kingdom followed by the southern kingdom and closing with the western kingdom (the main focus is on the north, east, and south kingdoms, though I just might throw in a snippet of what happened with the southern kingdom.) again, I hoped you liked it and I'm sorry for the delay. o! and since I said that I go through some dry spells, maybe with your reviews, you can include some ideas that would inspire me on wat to write. ok! hollaback atcha lata!

Risu-sama