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Castle in the Mountains
The good morning sun rose over the big city shining its light upon the sleepy civilization as the Higarashi house was up and ready for a new day ahead of them. Kaname was in Kagome's room helping her pack up some useful supplies for their journey while Inuyasha stood on the side and watched them with a impatient expression. They both straightened up while they picked up their backpacks and Kaname spoke, "Well, we're packed and ready to go." Inuyasha let out a touchy huge breath saying, "Finally! It's been forever for you two to pack up." Kagome turned to him and spoke aggravated at his behavior, "It doesn't matter, Inuyasha. What matters that we are ready to go. So, let's go."
They ran out of the house, entered the shrine, and jumped into the well excited to go back again. They got out of the well and found themselves back in the Feudal Era again outside of Kaede's Village. "Here we back!" Kagome exclaimed eager to be back in the past again. "Yeah!" Kaname laughed along with her. They giggled loudly and enthusiastically while Inuyasha sent them a freaked-out look on his face. They soon stopped clowning around and strolled through the small peaceful village heading to Kaede's house. When they reached the small house, they found Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara waiting for them on the porch.
Miroku took notice of their presence while he glanced over at them and greeted warmly, "Welcome back. It looks like you two settled your differences already." Kagome smiled at him and nodded replying, "Yes, me and Inuyasha both got over it, thanks to Kaname here." Sango got interested at what she said and asked Kaname curiously, "Really? What did you do?" Kaname waved it off embarrassedly saying, "It's nothing, really." Shippo hopped onto Miroku's shoulder and asked them inquiringly, "So, what are we going to do today?" Before they had a chance to answer, a tall figure popped out of the forest, grabbed the shocked Kaname, and flipped behind them landing on the ground gracefully.
They unshielded their eyes and turned around to see Sesshomaru standing holding the stunned Kaname by the waist. "Sesshomaru!" Inuyasha growled angrily at his older half-brother. "Sesshomaru?" The girls questioned disbelieved. Kaname glanced up at him and saw that he looked calm and collected as usual, but a little annoyed at his brother. 'What is Sesshomaru doing? Why does he look irritated?' She turned back to her group to see Inuyasha stepping up to him holding his Tetsusaiga out. "Sesshomaru, let go of Kaname now." He warned Sesshomaru as he gave back a small smirk. "What if I don't?" he questioned amused at his little warning. "Then, I'll use my Backlash Wave on you!" he threatened frustrated with the girls still looked astonished.
"Typical. Don't bother looking for us." With that, he jumped away from the scene holding the stunned Kaname and disappeared into the thick forest leaving the others speechless. "We should follow him!" Inuyasha exclaimed alerted and readied to search for them. He was about to go into the forest when Miroku put a hand on his shoulder stopping him and said with a serious face, "If we do follow him, we don't know what Sesshomaru will do to Kaname." "But still-!" he was about to protest, but looked away with a pout.
Kagome quietly motioned Sango to follow her as they moved away from the boys so that they can't hear them. "This is seriously bad." Kagome commented a little frightened from the situation. "I agree, but I wonder why Sesshomaru kidnapped Kaname?" Sango wondered to herself. "What do you think we should?" "I don't know." Kagome muttered unsure of this. "Kagome! Sango! Stop chattering and come over here!" Inuyasha rudely interrupted their conversation. Kagome sighed at his rudeness and muttered to her, "Let's go before Inuyasha has a fit again." They walked over to the waiting group and listened to whatever they had to say.
In the wooded forest, Sesshomaru landed on the soft grass gently and carefully before he let the dazed young girl down on her feet. She straightened up quickly and shook her head feeling a little dizzy as she turned around to him and asked confused at his weird behavior and the sudden action, "Sesshomaru, what's going on?" He turned his back on her and answered her coolly; "I'm taking you away from here." She was even more puzzled at his answer and asked, "Taking me away? Where? Why?" He slowly turned back to her again and replied, "I'm taking you to my castle up in the mountains, so we won't be disturbed by my half-brother again." She remembered all the times they spent with each other and understood what he meant when she remembered that Inuyasha always interrupted them, except for one time. "I see, but why did you have to kidnap me in front of the others like that?"
"To keep our relationship a secret without him suspecting it." She nodded understanding his reasons as he took her hand softly and led her through the woods and came onto the small campsite where Jaken, Rin, and Ah-Un were. Rin was setting some flowers around the burned out pit with Jaken scolding her as usual and Ah-Un were sitting close to Rin. She looked up from her work and saw Lord Sesshomaru along with her Big Sister.
She let out a big smile and hopped up from the ground before she jogged over towards them calling out happily, "Big Sister! You're back!" She hugged her around the legs while Kaname smiled back at the little girl. She released her grip and backed up while Kaname spoke, "It's good to see you, Rin." Rin gave her one of her famous cute smiles and took hold of her hand saying, "Come, I got a present for you. Come with me." She led her away from the watching Sesshomaru while Jaken ran up delighted and greeted warmly, "Welcome back, my Lord!"
He didn't speak to the small frog demon and walked away leaving him to stare at his departing back. "What is with him? Is it because of that human girl?" he questioned perplexed to himself before he followed his lord. Rin was leading her to forgotten stump sitting among the empty clearing. There was something lying on the stump, but she couldn't figure out what. Rin dropped her hand slowly and went to fetch the gift for her.
She came back and held up a small bracelet that made with orange flowers all around. Kaname took it and examined it intrigued by the small gift before Rin explained to her, "It's my 'Get Well' gift to you. Shippo told me that you were sick and I thought this would help you get better again." "Really? Thank you, Rin. It certainly cheered me up!" she smiled at the sweet innocent girl. She gently put the bracelet on her left wrist and held it out to see as Rin clapped merrily that she liked her gift. Rin stopped her clapping and looked behind her Big Sister to see Sesshomaru coming towards them with Jaken and Ah-Un trailing behind. "Lord Sesshomaru!" she greeted cheerily. Kaname jumped a little startled as she twirled around and found them walking towards her.
Sesshomaru stood and stared at her with a cool expression making her blush a little from his huge attention towards her. He glanced at the girl wearing the orange and yellow-checkered kimono and spoke, "Rin." She straightened up quickly and responded devoted, "Yes, my lord?" "You shall ride with Jaken on Ah-Un." He told her while Jaken looked surprised at what he said and stepped up asking curiously, "Milord, if may I ask, where are we going?" "We're going up to the mountains, back to the castle." He answered not bothering to look at the little frog demon. "Castle?" Kaname questioned befuddled. "But milord, why the sudden change of course? Are we really going back to the mountains?" Jaken pried some answers out of his lord.
Sesshomaru didn't answer him while Rin went over to the two-headed dragon and climbed up on its back. He glanced behind him to see Jaken still standing looking at him with a questioning expression. He narrowed his eyes at him while he ordered irritated, "Jaken, go." He snapped out anxious before he bowed down to him quick and stuttered nervously, "Y-Yes, milord." He dashed over to Ah-Un and jumped behind Rin, who sat up front and held the reins tightly. "Now, Rin, let's go!" he exclaimed with a panicky tone in his voice. She nodded to him and turned back saying to the protective two-headed dragon, "Ah-Un, let's go."
Ah-Un nodded slowly before it started to fly up into the sky leaving them alone in the huge grassy fields. After they left flying towards the looming mountains, Sesshomaru moved behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist making her jump lightly. She slowly looked up to him blushing a little and asked mystified, "…what are you doing?" His head leaned closer to hers making her turn redder while he replied softly, "Don't worry. Relax." When he said that, they both started to glow in a golden light and morphed into a tiny shining ball as it shot away towards the deep, rugged mountaintops.
Moments later, the small ball of light floated above the white snowed mountaintops and went straight towards a large beautiful castle that sat on top of the leveled peak. It hovered above the firm, sturdy wooden gates and descended into the gorgeous courtyard that was filled with colorful flowers and a medium-sized koi pond that sat in the middle. The ball morphed back into a larger size as it revealed them with its light slowly dieing away. The light died out while Kaname gazed around the courtyard amazed at the place as Sesshomaru unwrapped his arms and let it hang to his sides again. "Wow." She whispered flabbergasted with its stunning beauty and Sesshomaru watched smiling at her.
"Do you like it?" he asked still watching her look around. "Course I do. It's beautiful!" she answered twirling around to face him. "I'm glad." They stopped their conversation when they heard something move and glanced up to the sky to see Ah-Un carrying the cheerful waving Rin and the jealous-looking Jaken. He landed on the ground softly before them while Rin hopped off along with Jaken. Rin noticed the amazing courtyard and smiled big at seeing the pretty flowers. "The flowers are so beautiful!" she exclaimed optimistically running towards a bed of white and purple lilies. She bended down and began to gather some lilies for her bouquet as Jaken stared at her back a little mad for running off.
On the other hand, the gang was listening to Inuyasha rant on continuously about his 'so called brother' kidnapping their friend. Kagome was bored and tired from listening to him seethe his teeth until she thought up an idea in her head. She quickly tugged Sango's pink shirt signaling her to follow her once again as they sneakily snuck away from the boys. "Sango, I got an idea!" she whispered excitedly to the curious demon slayer. "What is it?" she asked wondering what it is. She pulled out her cellphone with the small brown doggie charm attached to it and showed it to her explaining, "We could contact Kaname using my cellphone!"
Sango was deeply confused at the idea she brought up. "How are we supposed to get in touch with Kaname with that, Kagome?" "Easy! I will call her cellphone number, if she answers it then we could talk to her at anytime!" Sango's face brightened at the idea and spoke, "Let's give it a try." Kagome nodded excitedly before she clicked Kaname's phone number on her contact list and held it up to her ear hearing the dial tone ring. The demon slayer petted Kirara smoothly on the head while watching the priestess try to call their missing friend.
In the meantime, Kaname was watching Rin playfully chase Jaken around with a handful of lilies along with Sesshomaru until she felt her white cellphone vibrate in her shirt pocket. She pulled it out, flipped it open, and found Kagome's name on her Caller ID. She glanced up at the calm Sesshomaru as she told him, "I'm going over to the koi pond for a while." He nodded understandingly as he turned back to Jaken arguing with Rin about how ridiculous flowers are. She strode over to the peaceful koi pond and pressed a button before she held it up to her ear. "Hello?" "Kaname? Thank goodness that you're okay!" Kagome exclaimed relieved to hear her friend again. "Is that Kaname?" She heard Sango questioned curiously through the speaker. "Yes, it's her." Kagome told her short.
"Kaname, what happened? Why did Sesshomaru kidnap you like that? It nearly gave us a scare!" Kagome inquired intriguingly wanting to know what's going on. "Well, you see, he kidnapped me and took me to his castle up in the mountains." "A castle up in the mountains?" she exclaimed disbelieved while Sango questioned nosey, "Really? A castle?" "Yes, the reason he snatched me in the first place is because he wants me to be with him for a while and he's tired of Inuyasha interrupting our times together, that's all." She explained the story to them thoroughly. "I see! That's like Inuyasha, I wouldn't blame him if someone was bothering me during the time with my special someone." Kagome spoke understanding why he stole her away. "You mean like Inuyasha?" Sango teased naughtily making Kagome squeal embarrassed.
"Sango! Don't say that out loud!" she shushed her up mortified while the girls laughed at her quirks. "Is she red in the face, Sango?" Kaname asked teasingly. "Oh, yes, I've never that color of deep red before. She looks like a tomato!" Sango answered giggling at her girl near her. She could hear Kagome squeaked feeling more embarrassed before she heard a thunk and a pair of feet scuttle away. "Hello? Kagome? Sango? Are you there?" she asked confused and worried. The phone moved again and she listened to Sango's voice saying, "I'm here. Kagome got mad a little and went into the forest to calm down a little."
She nodded knowingly and inquired with an idea in her mind, "Okay, Sango, could you and Kagome both do me a favor?" "Sure, what is it?" "Well, would you lure Inuyasha and the others away from the mountains if possible? I think I need to stay with Sesshomaru a little more before I could leave and join with you all again. Besides, it would blow our secret if Inuyasha finds castle and us at the same time." She enlightened her demon slayer friend on the situation. "Sure! Kagome and I would do everything to make sure that the boys don't go near the mountains. We'll try to sidetrack them by searching through the forest for you." She agreed nodding along. "Good, if you want to talk to me again or inform me of anything, just give me a call." "Okay, bye." "Bye." They both hung up and the dial tone went out.
Sango closed the cellphone and heard someone walking behind her slowly before she turned to see Kagome walking out of the forest and towards her calmed down. "Kagome, Kaname wants us to make sure the boys don't get near the mountains." She walked up to her and told her the favor she asked them. Kagome lifted her head and curiously asked, "Really? Why?" "She wants to stay with Sesshomaru for a while without getting any more disturbances from Inuyasha or the others. She say that she'll join once she's ready to leave the castle." She answered recalling the story to her. She got a dreamy look on her face while she shrieked girlishly, "How romantic! This sounds like something from a romance novel!" Sango sighed deeply seeing Kagome prance daydreaming in her little own world again. "She's off again."
Kaname closed her cellphone and put it back in her pocket while she heard Rin call out, "Big Sister!" She spun around to see the little girl ran up to her leaving Sesshomaru to talk to Jaken alone. "What is it, Rin?" she asked cocking to her head to the side cheerily. "Want to explore the castle with me?" "What? Are you sure we should do that?" she questioned unsure. "Of course, Lord Sesshomaru told me that it's okay. He and Master Jaken has to talk about something important he said." She replied smiling big at her Big Sister. "Well…Okay, let's go." Rin nodded quickly as she took Kaname's hand and led her inside the huge castle waiting to see what's inside.
Later, Kagome and Sango planned together quietly on what to say before they strolled on over to the boys to find Inuyasha pacing back and forth angrily and Miroku and Shippo sighing heavily. The dog half-demon caught a glimpse of his female comrades and swiftly spun to face them asking grumpily, "Where have you've been? Do you realize how long you two were out?" Kagome got a little mad at his behavior towards them and retorted, "Listen here, Inuyasha. It's no use fighting. Just calm down." "It's no use, Kagome. He's been fretting about this all day." He shook his head while uttering it. The monk and the kitsune sighed again while Inuyasha faced them and yelled frustrated at them, "What are you two doing? You're just laying around here while Sesshomaru kidnapped Kaname?!"
Shippo stood up on his two paws and argued back at him, "Look who's talking! Who was standing here yelling at us doing nothing instead of saving Kaname from Sesshomaru?" Inuyasha punched him hard on the head leaving a huge red knot on his head while Shippo laid on his stomach unconscious and dizzied. "Shut up!" "That's enough, Inuyasha! We're going to search for Kaname, so please don't start fighting!" "Fine! Where should we start?" he questioned looking around for any possible clues. "Can't you catch her scent?" Miroku asked surprised. "No, her scent is mixed in the scent of the forest. I can't tell which is which." He replied shaking his head at him.
"Let us start our search in the forest. That's where Sesshomaru disappeared after he disappeared from us with Kaname." Sango suggested pointing towards the thick forest. "Good idea. It seems wise to search for the place where he was last seen." Miroku agreed nodding at her idea firmly. "I agree." Kagome said agreeing with Sango. "Ditto!" Shippo spoke coming out of his unconscious and jumped onto Miroku's shoulder. "Okay, then. Let's go!" Inuyasha called out dashing into the forest with the others trailing behind him determined to search.
Back at the castle, the Rin was running through the hallways looking around the rooms joyfully while Kaname was running behind catching up to her. "Look, Big Sister! This is the forty-fifth bathroom we've seen all day! I wonder what Lord Sesshomaru does with all this bathrooms?" Rin exclaimed amazingly pointing at the open door. "Wow, forty-five bathrooms…I wonder that myself." She said standing before Rin wondering to herself. "I've heard from Lord Sesshomaru that there is a library that every book ever written for ages. That's a lot of books!" Rin smiled looking around the place interested. "Really? Maybe, it has some old Shikigami tomes that I haven't seen." She muttered to herself while she kept an eye on the observing Rin.
"You two! Stop playing around!" Jaken yelled displeased stomping down the hallway heading towards them. Rin stopped examining the old vase and went back to her Big Sister's side again. He marched up to them and frowned at Rin first. "Rin, you go take care of Ah-Un in his stables." She nodded understanding him before she took off heading to the castle stables. He glared at Kaname making her confused of what he was mad about as he told her, "You girl, Lord Sesshomaru wants to meet you in his study. Don't make him wait!" he walked off leaving her behind and alone while she forgotten something and questioned, "Where's the study?"
After 5 minutes of searching through the whole baffling castle, she finally found the study as she stood in front of the grand double Oak wood doors towering before her. "Finally, I found it. I hope I didn't make him wait long." With that, she opened a door and walked inside to find herself in the huge study with a fireplace roaring in the other side and a huge picture frame with a long white-haired woman hanging over it. She found Sesshomaru sitting at a desk writing something down while she crossed the room and strode up to the busy demon. She stood by his side patiently until he noticed her presence and turned towards her. "You're here…I hope you like the castle." He spoke standing up from his chair.
"I like it. It's very comfortable and…big." She nervously rubbed the back of her head while he gazed at her face making her more nervous. She shook off the tension and turned back to seriousness. "So, Jaken told me that you wanted to meet me?" He nodded firmly before he pulled out a scroll from his pocket and gave it to her as she opened it confused. "It's a map of the castle. This will be useful incase you get lost. Dinner will be served in the Dinning Room which is here." He pointed the room out to her on the old worn scroll. "Thanks, I really need it." She pocketed the map before he placed a hand on her cheek and caressed it tenderly. Her face turned light pink enjoying his touch as he flashed her a small smirk.
"Big Sister! Where are you?" Rin called out from the hallways searching for her. He pulled his hand away while her face turned back to normal slightly missing the touch. She looked up to him and laughed a little, "I guess we'll never get away from being interrupted, huh?" He smiled kindly and nodded saying, "Yes, it look like it. You should go and see Rin, I'll have to go back signing papers." "Okay, I'll see you at dinner. Later!" She walked out of the study leaving him to watch her retreating figure exit the room. He glanced up to the huge portrait of the woman and thought aloud, "I wonder if Mother will approve Kaname after that certain incident with Father."
TBC
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