A/N: Now you people get Kagura and lots of her!!! LOTS AND LOTS OF KAGURA!!!!!!!!!! Please review, more reviews, more updates. NO reviews, NO updates. Also I forgot what Kenmei, my avatar, looks like he will have a small cameo in this chapter, and I'll describe him then.
Disclaimer: DONT OWN!!!!!!!!!!!! Just a few more days till I get my bazooka!!!!!!!!!
Chapter 8: lifuu (soft wind)
"Sess, this isn't funny." Sess was leading Kagura through his massive castle, she was blindfolded.
"Come on let me see!" She said getting very annoy every quick.
"Just wait." Sesshomaru said calmly. They continued walking. Kagura herd a door open and felt Sess pull her through, then close the door behind her. 'What ever, I'll just have to hide your fluffy thing for this one' She thought, oh how she would get her revenge.
"Youmay take it off," Sesshomaru said. Kagura removed her blindfold, and gasped in shock, It was her own room, the walls and ceiling were red, it had a huge bed on the right wall, covered in red, and blue sheets with a folded comforter at the foot, it also had a canopy. Over on the opposite wall from the door there was two windows, in between them was a large set of cabinets with a large mirror in the center, and the remaining wall was covered with tapestries. The center of the room had a table with sakura flowers across it and a large circular rug below it.
"Is this... mine?" Kagura said still almost speechless, Sess nodded in response. She was ecstatic! She ran over to her new mirror it was beautiful it had ordinate designs all around the edge of cranes, sakuras, bamboo, and waterfalls. She ran to her bed it was huge, and its covers depicted the sun and the moon. She looked at the ceiling over her bed it had the cosmic mandalas of Shinto and Tao. She then noticed the tapestries, each depicted a member of Sesshomaru's family the first looked much like Sess but much older and had a more square face but still very graceful, the next was a beautiful white-haired woman, her eyes were much like the rest of her family's butmuch more golden, even Inuyasha had his own portrait, but at the end of the wall there was a blank one.
"Who is this for?" Sesshomaru came from behind and embraced her, she looked up.
"You." He said, he walked over to the empty tapestry and moved it there was a door. Sesshomaru opened it to reveal a massive closet.
"Ohh!" She looked in amazement; there were kimonos wall to wall other dresses also hanging up with several nightgowns. She stepped in and saw tons of jewelry, hairpins and more, but the grand jewel of her gift was a wall, and on this wall were fans, fans, and more fans, each one different from all the others.
"Sesshomaru...thank you." she smiled. Looking at all her new things. She looked over to him he was just standing there.
"Dinner is at sundown, come dressed in one of the large kimonos." With that Sesshomaru left.
"Gee, and you were off to such a great start." Kagura said in sarcasm after he left.
"I do hope he gets some human food...weird for a yokai I know, but still how could you resist? Umm... Sushi, Egg drop soup, lobsters, yes, I can only hope." She sighed, and began looking for a dinner dress.
"Which one should I wear?" she looked through all her dresses over and over until she found one with a large crimson butterfly on its back with several smaller ones near the hems, the inner coat was blue and depicted a large snowflake on the back with several smaller ones everywhere else, the final coat was golden, withkanji writtenall over the fabric.
"This one...." Kagura said as she tried the dress on.
"Well the sun isalmost down I guess I'll have to hurry." She put on the dress it was a prefect fit, now for the hairpins, she picked one gold one with a sun design and a silver one with a silver moon design, and put her hair in it's normal bun, and wore star earrings. The final part of her outfit was a fan the fan she picked was a black lacquered fan with a water lily design, and lilac ribbons tied to the bottom.
"Now to figure out where I'm going..." She left her room and entered a large hall; she walked left towards the great hall.
"Agh, this hall looks the same too." she was walking around for a good 20 minuets now.
"Okay I...think I'm lost." She walked some more, only to find more and more identical halls.
"Agh, this is worse than Naraku's old castles...." She had walked for an hour now still lost.
"What to do, what to do...Oh yes my fan!" She pulled out her fan and began swaying it around.
"Ummm, that smells good." She began following the smell, but she still could not find the dining room.
"Crap... I still can't find it, THATS IT!!! RYUUJA NO MAI!!!" Kagura then blew a hole threw five separate walls. Reveling the dining hall.... and a whole bunch of surprised people staring wide-eyed at her.
"Oh, I'm sorry...ahem well, can we eat?" She was blushing very brightly, covering her face with her fan, and walked over to Sesshomaru's separate table away from the main one, and sat into the pillow-seat next to him.
"We'll have to pay for that." He said calmly like it was nothing.
"Well if some one was there to show me the way through the halls I wouldn't have had to do that."
"Jaken was not there?" He spoke.
"NO!" Kagura said in a furious voice. Sesshomaru stared thoughtfully then finally looked over to Rin.
"Rin, go play with Jaken." Sesshomaru said to his daughter-to-be.
"Yay!" Rin said, and ran off.
"What is she going to do?" They waited for a few minutes, and Rin came back with a very badly hurt Jaken.
"Oh." Kagura said. Then a woman dressed in white came to Sesshomaru's table.
"Mi'lord do you wish for dinner to be served now?" Sesshomaru nodded no.
"Not until the rest of the guests are here." Sesshomaru said. She nodded and walked away.
"Who was that?" Kagura asked.
"The head chef." Sess said calmly.
"Oh..." Kagura said in a disheartened voice.
"What?" Sesshomaru asked in an uncaring tone.
"I eat human food." She spoke.
"I see, we have human food stored up, there is no problem." Kagura was relived; she didn't have to eat demon food. At that moment the door to the main hall opened, and reveled a young man with extremely long black hair done in a ponytail, brown eyes almost black and was dressed in a priest's kimono. The head chef looked over to Sess, and he nodded to her, she went back into the kitchen to get the dishes. The priest walked over to Sess's table some random demons were staring at him, when he reached the table he bowed.
"I am high priest Kenmei onmyoji of the mountain shrine of kokoro, I am honored to be here in your presence." He spoke still bowing, he lifted his head to make eye contact with Sess, he nodded and faced to his right past were Kagura was sitting. Kenmei nodded and took his seat next to Kagura. Rin took Sess's left, and Jaken next to her.
"Hi my name's Kenmei." The priest spoke to Kagura.
"Yeah? Mine's Kagura."
"I know." He said. 'Great another cryptic wacko.' Kagura thought. With that the dinner gong rang and several servants with many dishes some of them great looking some of them extremely sickening. Some of these dishes were set in front of Sesshomaru, and then the normal looking ones were set before Kagura, Kenmei, and Rin.
"Oh I love sushi!" Kenmei said. The rest of the dinner was uneventful, and once every one was done eating it was time for the evening's entertainment, Kenmei's magic. The room got dark and a large space was prepared in the center of the hall, Kenmei was standing in the middle of the space and prepared his act he held out a small slip of paper and held it out in front of his face.
"I summon thee, come fourth, fox shikigami KITSUNE!" He threw the paper up in the air and a nine-tailed fox sprung from it, and began to dance around the room it's flames creating illusions around the room as the fox danced the demons of Sesshomaru's court were amazed, but Sesshomaru remained stoic. When the fox and its flames faded the court cheered for more, but Kenmei declined and sat back into his seat.
"Kagura you should dance..." Kenmei said. Kagura looked at him 'How does he know so much about me?" She thought.
"Yes miss Kagura dance please!!!" Rin cheered.
"Fine, okay okay." Kagura stood up removed the outer layers of her dress to the golden undercoat, even Sesshomaru showed a rather evident spark of interest. She stood in the middle of the room. The music started it was a Japanese koto, Chinese violin, and a pan flute. She opened her fan, and began dancing, her moves were swift but gentle, they had the grace and finesse of a goddess, and she was beautiful, her poise held her elegance and she twisted in a small circle creating a gentle breeze around her like the wind around the trees. She twisted her arms in a circular motion, and stepped across the floor in an almost magical manner. Her dance ended with her snapping her fan closed and kneeled to the ground. The audience was stunned.
Even Sesshomaru was at a lose for words. As Sesshomaru stared wide-eyed at what he had just witnessed she came back over to the table and sat in her place. The lights finally came back on and the daze of Kagura's siren-like dance faded, and they all cheered! Begging for more of Kagura's dance.
"Was I that good?" She said. Sesshomaru only nodded in response. 'I feel SO loved' she thought.
A/N: How do you like it? The idea for Kagura's dress is based off the name of one of my reviewers, Crimson butterfly of the snow, thanks to all who reviewed. I'll have the next chapter as soon as I can.
If you are wondering what a human is doing at Sess castle it is because he is a lord, and believes in proper etiquette, but normally he would never allow a human into his home so no complaints.