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"Would some one PLEASE clean this mess up!" She growled. A few maids arrived and the look on their faces as soon as they saw small Sesshomaru was absolutely frightening. Castle gossip did find its way around, about the child actually being her son from a previous marriage and soon enough her heir. So it gave them quite a shock when they found out what she had done to her own son.

"Take him to the Tenshu. I want you to change him into the kimono layed out on the floor in there. You will also find incense, burn it. Then take his old dirty kimono and put it on the other side of the castle. All the while carrying a stick of incense to hide the sent leading from that room, but make sure his old kimono doesn't get a whiff of that incense. If I find that you some how manage to screw this up, it will mean your head. Now go, time is of the essence!" She waved her hand as they picked the small child up by his arms and legs. She watched as they carried him off into the distance.

Tatsue heard it all from around the corner, and ran to tell her master.

………

Meijin was seated up on his western bed. For reasons unknown to Tatsue, he was firmly holding a cloth to his right cheek. Meijin started sniffing the air in an irritating manner. Tatsue rose an eyebrow to this but, continued her story

"They have already put the young prince's old kimono in the cellar, on this side of the castle." Meijin immediately stopped what he was doing and turned to give her one of his cold glares. Tatsue was shocked by her lords sudden displeasure and started to think back to what she might have said, that could have made him react like so.

"Oh! Please forgive me for my mistake!" It would seem as insignificant as a blade of grass but it was one of the most irritating things to Meijin's ears. Whenever a demon made the mistake of saying prince with out referring to him, it made his blood boil. There was once a rumor ringing through the castle walls about a battle that brewed between Meijin and a Kappa because the creature had made that very mistake, some say the poor imp was killed with out a moment's hesitation. But more logical servants knew that meijin wouldn't bother with the life of a lowlife creature that of a kappa. But then again if its life in Meijin's eyes held no purpose to him, what was to stop him from exterminating the parasite?

"You're forgiven." He rolled his eyes. "This smell, it's the incense they used, correct?"

"Yes milord. A rather odd scent at that if I could say so." Meijin rolled his eyes back and gave her an unsettling stare. But only nodded.

"That it is. Hmm… tell me. What do you think she's plotting?"

"Ohhh. I couldn't say! I'm but a mere…" Meijin's eyes forcefully made her answer. "Well if you wish that of me, I suppose, it seems to me that she's trying to miss lead the Dog General. An…"

"If she did indeed want to do that why did she put his clothing on this side of the castle?"

"An ambush perhaps?"

"No, she put it here to annoy me. She thinks to break my pride about her loss. And something else…"

"Something else?"

"She intends to get me killed."