Meanwhile at the castle Meido was up to something and everyone knew that it had to do with Lord Sesshomaru. She was holding up a sword that Totosai had made for her. She planned to give it to Sesshomaru soon after he mated with one of the eligible ladies. Meido inspected the sword and found it perfect. "Beautiful…simply beautiful. Soon Sesshomaru will be mated and the Western Lands will have a Lord again" Meido seemed ecstatic, but Totosai shook his head. "I doubt it. Lord Sesshomaru refuses to be the Lord of the Western Lands until he finds Yukiko" Meido took her fan and gently swatted his face. "Poppycock. All that will change after tomorrow nights ball"
Jaken, with a servant holding the door open for the tiny toad, barged in with two bags of letters that were no doubt accepting the invitation. Meido gave an excited squeal as Jaken told her of all of the princesses coming. "Oh my this is wonderful. You see Totosai…" she said shoving them in his face. "One of these is bound to change his mind" "Oh absolutely" Totosai replied and said under his breath, "not". Meido turned to Jaken and shoved the letters that she held into his hands. "Do…not…lose…one!" "Oh no my lady of course not" Jaken smiled but it soon faded after she turned around. Meido turned to Totosai. "Where's Sesshomaru?...Oh never mind I know where he his. Looking up the mystery of the fat animal" Jaken covered his mouth to keep from laughing. "Um…the great animal your highness" Totosai replied trying to catch the letters flying into the air. "Oh big or great. Its large and it had fur"
Sesshomaru, who had been in the library the whole day, was trying to figure what Lord Taiyou said to him. He thought that maybe if he looked in the books in the castle he could find out some type of meaning. Finishing up with another stack of books and finding nothing, the climbed up the ladder and took a random book from the shelf. He skimmed through it and his eyes widened when he came to a certain page. He went back and forth between the two pages. He snapped the book shut, jumped off the ladder and raced to the doors. He opened it and spotted his mother. In happiness Sesshomaru picked up his mother and spun her around. After he put his mother down and made a move to run only to be stopped.
"Sesshomaru, where are you going?" "To find the Great Animal" Sesshomaru ran to the door, only to be stopped again. "Oh wonderful. Just make sure you're here tomorrow night!" "Tomorrow night!" "The ball" Meido mumbled, pointing to the letters that still remained in her hand. "Mother…I can't…" Meido became so upset that her lip vigorously twitched. "Mother please don't do the lip thing! If I leave now, maybe I'll be back in time" Meido squealed in delight, throwing the letters and they fell on Jaken who was standing beneath her. "But please mother, don't turn it one of your beauty pageants" Without waiting for a reply he raced out the door to find Inuyasha. Long after he left Meido replied with a "Its just a few friends…and their daughters" Meido swiftly turned to Jaken who threw some of the letters that he was picking up in surprise. "I want this ball to be big. Every princess must have their own introduction" "But you said" "Forget what I said. Jaken send for the cooks and tell the band to start rehearsing, and I want footman for every…" She continued to ramble, while Jaken smacked his head down repeatedly on the hard tile floor.