As Kayva, Ravi, and Silo waited out in the garden for Lord Sesshoumaru and his companions, they took it upon themselves to talk about what was going to happen, and what has already happened.
"Do you think that it's weird that woman knew who you were?" Silo asked watching Kayva set up her pack.
"I don't know really what to think. It seems that we have a real fight on our hands." Kayva looked at Silo, she knew that her friend was concerned, but she knew that they had to do this.
"I think that we need to think about this. I mean we are going in blind here. We know nothing about this guy, and we have to kill him. I think it's crazy." Ravi looked at both Silo and Kayva bringing his tan fire horse Sabal to the rest of them so that he could pack his things on him.
"Well I think it's a good thing that we don't care what you think." Kayva said smiling at her older brother.
"Kayva, are you coming with us to the Western Lands?" Rin asked running up to the, followed close by Sesshoumaru and Jaken.
"Yes Rin we are." Kayva said smiling at the little girl. Rin hugged Kayva's leg, before she went to Ravi and Silo and hugged their legs. Sesshoumaru walked up to them and Rin ran back to him, he looked at the three of them, almost as if he was inspecting them.
"Are we ready to leave?" He asked, looking at them with his stoic usual face.
"Yes, of course." Kayva said mounting Leela and watching Ravi get on Sabal and Silo on her own fire horse named Oma. They watched as Jaken came back with a two-headed dragon named Ah-Uh. Kayva watched as Sesshoumaru picked up the little girl and put her on top of the dragon. She was surprised to see a demon such as Sesshoumaru care for a human kid. It made her feel that maybe not everything is as bad as it seems.
As they walked through the countryside to get to the Western lands, Rin kept them all busy with her talking and asking questions. Kayva smiled at the young girl. It had been a long time since she was around someone so young, and it made her feel good. After about five hours of traveling, they stopped so that everyone could stretch their legs, and Rin could eat. Silo took the little girl to go get something for her to eat. Jaken took Ah-Uh to get some rest and Ravi took the fire horses to get some water. Kayva started a fire so that Silo could cook what she had found for Rin to eat. Sesshoumaru watched as Kayva flicked her wrist to start a small pile of twigs on fire. She then turned around and looked at him with her large dark blue eyes.
"Is there something that you wish to know?" Kayva asked looking at Sesshoumaru. At that moment, he wanted nothing more then to touch her soft skin. To take her as his own, but he did nothing. Sesshoumaru just stared at her; Kayva could feel for a split second that something had changed with him, but it was gone before she could be sure.
"I would like to know how you knew that Kagura was going to attach Rin." Kayva looked at Sesshoumaru as he asked his question. She knew that she was going to have to explain that soon or a later.
"My mother could read minds, and because of that, I can now read emotions." Kayva looked at Sesshoumaru. Now that they were playing the question game, she had few for him. "How did you lose your arm?" Sesshoumaru stared at Kayva, he did not like the fact that she was asking him questions, but he figured that he should play along.
"I was fighting with my half-brother, and he took it off." Kayva looked at Sesshoumaru; she could not believe that brothers, even half brothers, could fight like that.
Sesshoumaru grabbed Kayva's wrist and looked at the silver band that was around her it. She was surprised that he would grab her, but claimed herself.
"Why do you, your brother, and Silo wear this band on the same arm?" Sesshoumaru raised his eyes from her wrist to her own eyes. He took in her face, looking at everything about it. Her dark blue eyes, her black eye lashes, full pink lips, high cheek bones, she was the most perfect woman that he had ever seen. Kayva looked at the man in front of her; she had no idea what to think. There were so many emotions in the air, and she had no idea if they were hers, or if they were his. She pulled her wrist from his grip and looked at the band. She took off the band and under it was a black diamond shaped mark.
"This is the curse that was put upon us. It is black now, but that only means that the curse is in slumber. The fact that it is still there means that we can still be taken under it, the mark in normally green." Kayva looked at the black mark that was on the under side of her wrist. She hated it, it controlled her life, she lived her life by this mark, and she hated it. There was nothing more in the world that she wanted gone then this mark.
Before Sesshoumaru or Kayva could say anything else, Jaken came back with Ah-Uh. Kayva looked at Jaken; she had no idea what to think of such a worthless thing. He worshipped the ground that Sesshoumaru walked on, and in so many ways that bugged Kayva.
"What do you want to do now m'lord?" Jaken asked looking at Kayva with discuss in his eyes.
"We shall stay here till Rin has eaten, then we will leave." With that, Sesshoumaru left them. Kayva watched as he turned on his heel and left.
When Sesshoumaru returned Rin had already eaten and she and Kayva were playing in the meadow. Sesshoumaru watched as Kayva tied flowers in Rin's hair. Rin smiled greatly and hugged Kayva, almost knocking her over. Sesshoumaru knew that Rin always wanted a mother figure in her life. To her, he was the best father she ever had, but there should be more for her.
Kayva Smiled at Rin, she really liked the little human child. There was something about the little girl that makes her want to be around, make a home, but she knew that would never happen. It pained Kayva to know that she would might not ever have a family, someone to love, and to love her as well.
Sesshoumaru called everyone and told them that it was time to move. Rin decided that she wanted to ride Leela, so Kayva let her; she walked leading Leela in the direction that Sesshoumaru was heading for. The sun was almost gone when they arrived at Sesshoumaru's castle. It was a grand looking palace, with stone and wood walls. It was a huge palace and it was humming with people coming in and out of it. To Kayva, it was the most beautiful palace she had seen in along time. Many servants came up to them and bowed very low to Sesshoumaru, and looked at Kayva, Ravi, and Silo as if they had no right to be there.
"I guess they don't get many visitors?" Ravi said looking at the servants that were staring at them.
"No I think they just got the hots for you Ravi." Silo said smiling at the taller demon. Sesshoumaru talked to a cat demon woman that approached them, she then came to the three of them and said, "Lord Sesshoumaru says that you three will be staying her for sometime. I would like to take you to you rooms so that you might get cleaned up." She smiled at them; she was the only person that came up to them that was nice.
"What about our horses?" Kayva asked as she took off her bags.
"Oh, yes of course. Genji, come and take their horses." A tall man with red hair came toward them. They realized that he was a both a hawk demon and a bear demon. He came toward them with a huge smile; at first, the horses would not go anywhere with him, they backed away scared.
"I'm sorry, but they don't like strangers." Ravi said turning to his horse, both Silo and Kayva did the same thing. They were almost singing to the horses in a tongue that no one could understand, but they knew that it was a claiming. With that done, they horses left their sides and followed Genji.
"That was amazing. What did you say to them?" The cat demon women asked looking at the horses just follow Genji without being lead.
"We just told them that they are safe here, that nothing can harm them. By the way, what is your name?" Kayva said looking at the demon woman next to her.
"Oh, how rude of me, my name is Rira. I am the head housekeeper here. I know everything that happens, and everyone that comes in and out. If I might ask what is your names?" She started walking them all to their rooms. There were many people all over the place, everyone doing something, and everyone looking at the new people, all whispering.
"My name is Kayva, this is Silo, and this is my brother Ravi." They smiled at each other, as Rira stopped.
"This is where your rooms are. Ravi this is yours." She pointed to the first one, "This is yours Silo", she pointed to the room that was across the hall, "and yours is right next to hers Kayva. Dinner will be served in an hour. Someone will come by and take you there. It will take you a few days to get used to the set up, but you will get it." Rira smiled at them all as she turned around and left them be.
"I guess we better get cleaned up." Ravi said heading toward his door.
"Yeah I guess we should." Kayva watched at Ravi and Silo entered their rooms. She looked at the place were she was standing. "I guess we should." She said again walking to her door and walking in.