Hello minna! Thanks for the reviews again.. here's the continuing saga...
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha.
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They circled her all around, they were sizing her up and she knew it. What was bothering her was the 'why'.
"I ask you again bitch, and do not insult my intellegence! Why do you smell of 'his' blood?"
Kagome merely rolled her eyes in irritation.
"Well duh! If your nose has already discerned the answer they it's you that's insulting your own intellegence. I smelllike him because whether I like it or not we're pack.Besides, I wouldn't bother affronting your intellect since you don't need any help in the area. Your total lack of brain cells is evident already." Kagome retaliated.
"You dare speak so insolently against her most honored excellency!" snapped a scrawny-looking inu demoness with lime green hair. Her loyalty and manner oddly reminding the miko-demoness of Jaken. 'Hmp! Where is that piece of bugger anyway, I could've avoided this situation if he had showed me the way.'
"I'm speaking to you, you low-bred bitch!" fumed another inquisitor.
"Yeah, yeah, I heard your screeching you banshee!" Kagome continued.
"You could not be of his family because only two of his family remain of pure blood! One is Iesudono and the other is my Sesshoumaru!" screeched the other female further.
'So that was it, they were 'his' mouseketeers. PEACHY...just peachy. She eyed them, a smirk etched in her immaculate face.
"Ohhhh.. does the little puppy see lil' o me as a rival?" Kagome purred.
"You? YOU!" the other screamed. "why would 'my lord' even look at you? You lack in grace, slow in intelligence, of no eloquence, ill informed of court etiquette, do not show proper respect, and wouldn't know how to carry herself as his potential mate should!" she snapped.
"Yeah and stillhe delights in my presence... (sigh)...I suppose I would have the territorial attitude too if 'I looked anything like a bloated, tick- covered chihuahua, on crack' and an inu goddess appeared in 'my Sesshou's court'." she goaded further, flicking a stray lint off her shoulder.
"YOU MESHITSUKAI! (household servant)"
Kagome clasped her sensitive ears. "You know," she began shaking her head, "if you just take it up a notch or two, your voice will go ultra sonic as in sonar power."
The whole group looked at her flabbergasted.
"Bats... bats locate things in the dark by emitting an ultra sonic sound that gets bounced off an object and the bat is able to determine it's position in the dark by the picture made by the bouncing ultrasonic waves." she explained.
A red face inu demoness, shaking with explosive anger launches herself at Kagome at the obvious jab at her person. Kagome moves faster than her, evading her attack so effortlessly that it seemed as though the angered inu was a mere fly being swatted away. Kagome further sent the other demoness reeling by allowing a small flare of her combined reiki and jaki to snip her opponents, including those watching, on their noses. They yipped in great alarm and as the saying goes, ran with their tails between their legs.
"Hahahahahahahah.. teheheheheheh..." laughed Kagome wholeheartedly grasping her aching tummy.
"Sugoi (wow) mama! Look I drew you a picture!" the kitsune bounded to her and held up a crude illustration of the bitch fight earlier.
"Errr... thanks Shippochan." she bowed all a while thinking, 'great now I come in comic book episodes.' she sighed then noticed an orange checkered kimono hiding behind the kitsune pup.
"Oh, I almost forgot, you remember Rin don't you Mama?"
"Ofcourse I do... How are you sweetie?" She asked giving the startled girl a warm hug. Rin hugs back just as warmly after a slight hesitation.
CLAP. CLAP. CLAP.
All three turn towards the source of the sound.
"I applaud you on your battle well fought. Although I must disagree on the statements of the females you subdued previously." A figure walked towards them from the dark shadows of the ancient hall. Silver whisps of moon beams reflected the back the brilliance of the moon. His eyes molten amber.
"Sesshoumaru you ice aged coward, how long were you standing there? You could've heeled those harpies of yours!" she spat out claws on hips.
GASP.
"Again I say you are mistaken hime," he said with a deep bow full of respect. "I am not Sesshoumaru and I very much doubt that my cousin is a coward that would not help a beauty such as yourself, in a dangerous situation. He has too much honor to not do so." his voice flowed like silk. His tone was of a husky persuasion one used in bedroom conversations. Where Sesshoumaru's is one of coldness and reservation, his was warm, open, almost soothing. Kagome noticed the missing crescent moon on his forehead, in it's place was three wavy vertical lines.
"Shitsurei shimashita (I beg your pardon), I did not realize my mistake." unsure how to conduct herself she thrust out her hand. "Um.. I'm Kagome, and you are?.."
"Iesu." he bowed again. "I am kin to Sesshoumarudono. His mother was an aunt of mine. You too are his kin are you not? Of his paternal side for I smell your similar scent to his. Regardless... We too are pack, Kagomehime."
"Oh..ah..."
"Kagomeeeeee..."
TRIPLE GASP.
"Oh Kami's in heaven! Sesshoumaru has done the impossible and created a spawn!" Miroku said looking like he was going to faint.
"I didn't know inu youkai do that sort of thing." Sango looks at Inuyasha with a horrified expression on her face.
"Feh, don't look at me! I wouldn't try impregnate myself even if I could. What the ice lord does is his business... even if it's sick and disguisting! You should've expected something like this from his demented ass!" growled Inuyasha.
"No you guys, you have it all wrong! This is his cousin Iesu." laughed the miko-demoness. "Come to think of it, shouldn't you know him as well Inuyasha? After all he would be you half cousin too"
"Are sure Kagome? Or did they pull your hair into a bun too tight?" Inuyasha eyed Kagome incredously.
"OSUWARI!...(plunk).. Practice using your comatose brain for once before you open that friggin mouth of yours hanyou!" fumed the demoness.
"My Lady he would not know me since I hail from the Southern Lands where Sesshoumaru's mother was born."
"Your charm with the ladies never ceases to astound me." sighed the monk helping Inuyasha up.
"Urusai (shut up) bouzo!" Inuyasha said recovering from the spell.
Kagome glared at the two before continuing her introduction of Iesu to the tachi.
"Ahem.. like what I was saying this is Iesu..."
"Iesu? As in Iesu Taiyoukai of the South?" gasped Sango. Kagome looked back and forth at Sango and the towering taiyoukai of the south.
"You didn't tell me that you were taiyoukai." Kagome remarked.
A knee buckling smile lit his face. "We have never been properly introduced Lady. I find myself intrigued at your presence here at Nishi no Gi'in though. Especially since you are ofpack memberto Sesshoumaru. Though I know that you are not yet his mate, I am fully aware of your potential position as mate."
"The hell she will!" the fuming hanyou charged forward placing himself between Kagome and the towering Southern Lord. "She won't mate his frosty ass because she's my chosen female!" he declared.
Shippo fell over sideways anime style. Rin gasped, her hand covering her mouth. Sango went on a dead faint. Miroku catches Sango but himself looking shocked at the announcement that the hanyou made.
Kagome blinked one, twice then collapsed unconscious, barely aware of the great southern lord's arms wrapping themselves around her form, beating the now growling hanyou to it. Unpreturbed the southern inu taiyoukai growls back, a fleeting sense of serenity and tranquility filling his being as he holds the precious female within his arms. ':MINE' his inu claimed.
That was how they (the three lords) found the inutachi, while on the way to breakfast. Kouga growled audibly his form shaking. Surprisingly he was joined by Sesshoumaru.
"Kisama, Kagome ga hanashite! (You bastard..Let go of Kagome)." Kouga's growl reverberated in the still air.
Matsu saw the situation for what it is and taken the initiative to diffuse it before it regresses into something more violent. The wise dragon youkai chose to intervene in the tense standoff knowing full well it could very well escalate into a full blown war.
"Friends please stand down, calm yourselves we are not ruled by animalistic whims but governed by our own rationality. The Lady undoubtedly needs this time to recuperate and instigating hostility that would lead to violence must be frowned upon during this moment."
Seeing the sound wisdom in his words Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, Kouga and Iesu nodded theirconcession of peace.
"Hai, it would not bode well for our family to bicker and fight.For the upcoming 'end of harvest tournament' require solidarity withinthose of related blood." agreed Sesshoumaru.Hisvoice dripping in sarcasm, not hiding his jealously which is clawing it's way through the self imposed barrier he had built around hi heart.