Feudal Era Meets Mermaid Princess

Ch. 5 Oh! The Arrogance

As the spring solstice drew nearer and their travels continued Hibiki allowed the possibility of her friends hating her to enter her mind. After all she had lied to them about being human this whole time not only that she was also royalty though she didn't act like your typical royal. Sure she knew courtly manners but she chose not to use them unless she wanted to or she had too it was just how she was.

She had a lot of faith in her friends though and knew that it was hardly at all possible that they would hate her completely maybe shun her for a while and then they would apologize that was the most likely outcome.

With that in mind her thoughts were a lot brighter from her previous thoughts until her thoughts turned towards the Western Lord Sesshomaru, she was bound to run into him traveling with his half-brother. It gave her the perfect opportunity to get admittance into the Western Palace without giving away her identity right away, and it would be a good opportunity for the Inutachi to form an alliance with the Western Lord after all they had a common enemy. They both wanted Naraku dead and the best way for the Western Lord to accomplish that goal was to travel with them because they had something that Naraku wanted so instead of trying to hunt Naraku down Naraku would eventually come to the western lord.

She, Sango, Miroku, and Kagome had been talking about it for a while now as a possibility and had all agreed that it was necessary to get the Western Lord on their side for the final battle. They knew it would be soon because when they had collected another jewel shard a few days ago Kagome had frozen up and gotten a distant look on her face before saying in a monotone voice that they had now collected all the jewel shards.

Now that all the jewel shards had been collected all that was left was the final battle to decide who would possess the complete jewel.

To that end ever since Kagome had informed them that they had collected the last of the jewel shards she had been drawing as much magical power into herself as possible until she could hold no more. She somehow knew she was going to need all the power she could get in the coming days.

Ever since they had found the last jewel shard a week ago Hibiki had been withdrawn into herself with an intense look of concentration on her face. Sango and Kagome and even Miroku tried to get her to snap out of it to no avail and it was starting to worry them all. The only time someone could get her to snap out of it was when it came to meal time then she would be a semblance of her former self and talk incessantly just like she used to with Sango, Miroku, and Kagome. Then before bed she would sing a song for Shippo who could never get enough of her beautiful voice much like everyone else in the group though they would never admit it. Her voice sounded like an angels in their opinions and soothed their souls and minds so much so that they all fell asleep almost instantly as soon as she finished singing.

What they didn't know was Hibiki stayed up way after they had all gone to sleep with the same contemplating look on her face she had on for most of the day. Another thing they didn't know was the subtle spell that Hibiki weaved into her singing which put anything that got close to their camp with ill intent that was less strong than she to sleep almost instantly. So their camp was safe even when they were all fast asleep even from Naraku's incarnations who were less powerful than their master by far and were also coincidentally less powerful than Hibiki herself was.

The next morning saw the group awakening to Inuyasha's ranting once more though he was ranting more vehemently then usual which could only mean that Kikyo was near enough for them to reach her in a day. So they would likely be pushed more than usual today so they could get close enough for Inuyasha to be with his mate for a little while. Hibiki understood the situation with Inuyasha and Kikyo the others had informed her about it and she felt for the two lovers. She also knew that at one point in time Kagome had been in love with him, but was no longer in love with him instead she was his best friend and thought of him like an elder brother.

She was also okay with Inuyasha mating Kikyo and happily congratulated them on it once she found out about it. The only reason that Kikyo continued to travel separately from the group was to lessen the strain on Kagome and herself by being in close proximity to eachother and to keep the allusion that she still hated Inuyasha and wanted to take him to hell.

As they set out from their camp that day she got the distinct feeling that something was going to happen today not necessarily good too.

It turns out she was right because at midday just after they set up camp enough for lunch a strong aura approached their camp and one she had only sensed once before while she was in the Western Lands. Apparently the Western Lord wanted to pay his little brother a visit she had been told by the other members of the group that this happened from time to time and every time the Western Lord would knock his younger brother senseless before leaving.

Only she and possibly Sango knew why that was it was a dominance thing for male youkai in packs to fight eachother for positions in the pack more specifically the alpha position. Inuyasha would not submit to his elder brother even though he was obviously the stronger of the two which caused Sesshomaru's instincts to rise up and call for Inuyasha's solid and total beating. So she and the others just sat on the sidelines and waited for Sesshomaru to finish beating his little brother to a pulp. While they were fighting Sesshomaru's little ward came over and joined them and Kagome set out some coloring books for the two children to keep them occupied.

Eventually Hibiki noticed that Inuyasha couldn't take anymore and also noticed that Sesshomaru wasn't letting up in his beating even though he surely noticed that Inuyasha could take much more. She looked closer and noticed that for some reason the youkai lord was pissed and it had nothing to do with Inuyasha that she couldn't stand for so she intervened just before Sesshomaru was able to hit Inuyasha again.

Catching his sword on the hilt of her dagger she looked directly into the Western Lord's shocked eyes and said "you know just because someone or something else pissed you off does not mean you should take it out on your little brother no matter how annoying he might be!"

He simply glared at her with cold calculating eyes and she glared right back with just as icy eyes unfazed by the lord's demeanor. Everyone else just gaped they hadn't know a human could move that fast actually they thought it impossible for a human to move that fast. Unbeknownst to them the Western Lord was just as shocked as they were the onna had moved so fast.

Sesshomaru's mind was in a state of shock he had not even noticed the onna who form her scent was a part of his brother's pack before because he was so focused on taking out his anger on his little brother. He took a moment to study her up close while giving half a thought to what she had said. She like most Japanese had brown eyes and black hair, but her hair looked better taken care of than most peoples and she smelled better as well. She smelled like the sea air near his shiro, yet she also smelled of something more, something sweet but not overly so like some of the perfumes the wealthy lords and ladies of his land wore. Whatever it was it was not something he had smelled before and he was intrigued by it.

"Hn" he said with his customary coolness and when he looked over he saw her face was colored a deep crimson red most likely from anger at his lack of answer like everyone else he deigned to answer that way. He saw the look in her eyes that said she wanted to beat him to a pulp or try to anyway, but he saw in her gaze that she was also warring within herself for some reason. He watched closely as the conflict was resolved and she cautiously slowly lowered her dagger and sheathed the blade in its beautifully decorated and well-made sheath.

Another curious thing how did someone who wore peasants cloths have such an obviously well-made item such as that dagger it did not make sense he thought as he turned and elegantly strode out of the clearing.

There was definitely something strange going on here and he would find out what it was no matter what his curiosity had been roused and not it would have to be satisfied.

Meanwhile Hibiki was fuming mad and everyone knew it and stayed away from her even Inuyasha was rather quiet which was unlike him. They all knew that when the strong willed Hibiki met his icy brother sparks were going to fly, but they had not expected the icy lord to be able rouse her temper. They in all of the three months they had known Hibiki never seen her temper before sure they had seen her annoyed and irritated but never fuming mad.

Then again his brother had a way of rubbing people he wrong way and getting even the most kind natured people such as Kagome and Hibiki fuming mad. Really given that fact he at least should have known something that would happen though she seemed unfazed by everything even things that Kagome normally had problems with. Because of that he unerringly assumed that she would be immune to his brother as well next time he wouldn't assume something like that. After all it would save him the trouble of calming down a potentially dangerously irate pack mate that might do something stupid and get herself killed.

Come to think of it he had seen her hesitate for some reason when he could tell she had wanted to rip his brother a new one and he wondered why she did after all in all the time he had known her she had never hesitated. Then he dismissed it as Hibiki being smart like she always was and knowing and acknowledging the fact that this opponent was stronger than her and it would be a better idea to back down.

Something he admitted he had a hard time doing still especially when it came to his elder brother he just did not want to acknowledge his elder brother as alpha and have it rubbed in her face constantly.

He would never be able to live that down and would probably hide himself in a cave somewhere for the rest of his long life in humiliation his life just sucked like that.

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