Chapter 6

Demon Lords

Sesshomaru looked down from the windows of his study-room, Rin and Kagome were playing in the garden along with few demon kids. Shippo had already used to living in the castle and gave no troubles – in a way he was more grown up than Inuyasha, at least that's what Sesshomaru thought. His eyes returned to the messenger from the east, male demon was waiting for his response with respect and humbly bowed his head as he was looked at.

"I don't think I can go right now – leaving those Lands at such time would be bad. Naraku would use this opening against me, I'm personally involved after all." he smiled at youngster shock "This Sesshomaru has better idea – how about holding a meeting in here? We have nothing against it as long as our rules would be kept. Just make it clear – on my lands humans are not an animals to hunt or kill, I have made statements regarding such matters long ago and this Sesshomaru never breaks his word." he said while thinking about other matters 'She would be upset if anyone died with those shards as the reason, too many people died already on both sides, humans and demons. As of now she must not stray from her path, this girl – is the key to kill Naraku, so its our best interest to protect her and respect her presence.'

"I will relay this message to my master and he will be sure to deliver your word to other Lords Sesshomaru-sama." young demon looked up and gathering all his guts he asked "This girl down there, the older one – who is she, Sesshomaru-sama? We heard that you took human ward, but one we heard about would be that younger one."

"That was quite rude." Sesshomaru looked at him with a bit hard expression "Calling her as 'this girl' won't do." on this doors opened and one of the servants entered "What is it?"

"Lady Kagome asked for your presence my Lord. Lady had sensed something and says it's very important." Sesshomaru nodded and without a word ordered to two lower demons to stay at his room, he himself left in great hurry..

"Lady Kagome?" asked messenger

"Hai, Our Lady Kagome is very powerful – so if she says its important..." servant stopped and looked at male demon "It means what you think it do – our Master Had finally took woman as his future mate... only Lord Sesshomaru orders are higher then hers."

"Lady of those Lands." he whispered, form the window he noticed that demons were keeping distance now as if they were afraid, little girl run of to the near spring to get water and powerful ice-like Sesshomaru-sama was kneeling down with that human resting on his body

"Yes, in deed – she is the Queen in this castle." servant smiled

"Lowly human?!"

"Watch your mouth." servant moved closer "One more words of this kind and you are not leaving this castle in one piece, messenger or not. This human – is one that carries our master sign and that's enough for us. She is not just any human as well."

"In deed." cold voice came from the doors, Sesshomaru was caring Kagome in "There is something that she has to tell to you apparently."

"Naraku has his eyes set on many places, not only Sesshomaru domain – if you plan on having a meeting you should hurry up and also have some guards left behind just in case. His demons moved toward many directions all of the sudden, Incarnations as well – so something big is about to begin." girl voice was weak but hard as she spoke those words "His darkness is defiling Shikon Jewel even more that up until now. To the point of reaching out to my shard Sesshomaru. Infant moved from its hiding place too, it may be the only chance for us to act – if we destroy the Infant Naraku will be a whole lot weaker." Kagome face was twisted in pain "Have someone bring me my herbs, I need to prepare something. Also someone should go to the Wolf Tribe Den and tell Kouga to not use his shards for a while, he should come here so I could check on them, if Naraku gets him we are in trouble. Kohaku is with Kikyo so it should be fine." she instructed and looked at Demon Lord "Your guest looks a bit off now, was it too much of a shock?"

"No, it's just... what can you know about demons?" messenger asked directly

"Ahh, that – well I know 'cos you are all moved by one desire and this desire of yours is linked with my mission too." Kagome said, he noticed two things. First was a stone on her forehead – mark given to the Lady of this land – and second was the aura around her.

"Miko..." he moved a bit

"Shikon Miko." she corrected softly "That's what humans and demons are calling me."

"Which makes her more than a human." Sesshomaru said calmly "She gave you words of advice, it would be better to listen to her – Kagome knows Naraku very well, after all she was dealing with him ever since this started."

"I see. I'm sorry for my remarks. I shall inform Lords of this and also of Sesshomaru-sama request. I'm sure that they will do as You asked, Sesshomaru-sama and... Kagome-sama." messenger bowed and left. Sesshomaru looked at Kagome who was trying to get up with the help of her servant.

"Rest, but what worry me is your reaction to this – what did you felt?" he asked while sitting down next to Kagome "Should I summon a priest or miko?"

"No, I will be fine – the trouble is Naraku... as I said he send his minions to many direction and also his power is growing – Shikon is giving him a lot more power then before. Is it 'cos of the time... I wonder."

"Time?" Sesshomaru was confused

"I mean the amount of time that Shikon is apart from me – well any miko that would be able to purify it. It may also be the time give to him for finding out how is it working. It's bad – either way." Kagome frowned "We have no time, we should get going soon. I wanted to train with the sword a little more, but I guess that my arrows will have to be enough."

"We will leave as soon as we end meeting with Lords." Sesshomaru said "I asked them to come here – they should know more about Naraku. This way we may have more chance to get a rid of his demons, especially since you said that he is moving a lot."

"Sure." Kagome looked at him with a stern face "Which means you want me to act as your future mate here, as they will arrive."

"Since they are demons they will know that you are still pure – we must have a reason for me keeping you here, so yes. A Lady of this Lands – with Rin as your younger sister, which explains her presence with me for so long. We must appear powerful to them, that will give us advantage."

"I see, I understand – then I will be doing as you told me too. We may even case my order to skip formalities. So I would appear as a true Lady. Kouga will come as well – since he has a few words about Naraku to say. Maybe we should get Miroku and Sango as well."

"That would mean one more person as well." Sesshomaru said 'Well, that's for you to decide – I'm nothing but one who protect you.' he was shocked by this, slowly he got to respect this girl more and more, she was very strong woman and had power to rule over the Land. 'Well, it will do good for Rin – I hope that she can learn about this from Kagome.'

"Well, Inuyasha has a word in it too – Kikyou was killed by Naraku after all. Calling her in would be rather bad, but only him..." she wondered "What do you think?"

"I don't mind, after all they been with you all this time – so they may pass as your guards. But you are right dead priestess is not welcome here – her scent would hurt us to the point of despair, not to mention that you would be unhappy."

"There is no need to be so concerned with me – I was thinking of the same – she as you said carries the scent of death and soil she was made of." Kagome closed her eyes "I don't mind then, summon them for this meeting – they have a lot to say. But make the rules clear to them... we don't want a fight during this, do we? Your brother is hot headed."

"Half-brother" corrected Sesshomaru "But yes, he will act with respect toward you and don't speak with you in private."

Kagome mumbled something in response, but she was falling asleep so Demon Lord just stood up and went of to give out the orders.

In deed response came very fast – all Lords decided to come and talk, or maybe they wanted to see the human who was able to 'bind' Sesshomaru. They knew very few things about Naraku and they wondered why would they have to stay alerted, but they followed Kagome request. Few days later Sesshomaru castle was ready to take them in – servants were on alert and guards were ready to take action any time.

Kagome was looking at the mirror with shock written all over her face, this kimono was great – so beautiful... delicate and soft. Dark blue with white obi, few marks on the material were marks of the West Kingdom and Sesshomaru. Kagome smiled at her servant "This is beautiful."

"You are a Lady." demon put small diadem on her hairs, stone was put into it "You are our Lady, so you must look as good as it is possible. They will expect that form Sesshomaru-sama future mate."

"I know." Kagome put on her shard of the Shikon "Sesshomaru said to wear it openly, didn't he?"

"Yes, since we are announcing who you are Lady Kagome." servant said "None will attack you in open, while other times we will always be with you, so its fine. "

"Has Kouga arrived yet?" asked Kagome "I would like to purify his shards before, if they tainted he must get them clean before Lords can see it. Naraku may spy on us and wants to use this opportunity."

"Yes, he is waiting for you in main hall."

An hour later

Kagome sat beside Sesshomaru in huge hall where they awaited other Lords, Rin was also wearing formal kimono and sat between the two of them, she was playing with Shippo (since Sesshomaru asked for his presence as well). The picture was great – as if they were royal family...

"Well, I think we are ready." Kagome smiled and nodded to one of the servants "Sesshomaru?"

"Yes, you may lead them inside." Sesshomaru turned his head in her direction once more "Just do what you think is right, if you will have enough just tell me – I will arrange so you could leave."

"I'm not weak." kagome laughed "But thank you." she frowned as doors opened "Let them come, I had saw worst things then Demon Lords – and I was less protected then today." she whispered to him "As long as I'm with you – I will be fine regardless of the situation. Also Kouga, Sango, Miroku won't let anything bad happen to me."

"Aren't you forgetting that rather pathetic Inu-demon who is my half-brother?" Sesshomaru asked "As we are at that... where is Kouga?"

"He will enter at the end – to make an impression." Kagome chucked "We are whispering in Lords presence, they are looking at us." Sesshomaru turned his head and tried to speak , but Kagome went ashed "We are sorry for acting this way, It was not our intention to ignore such a great guests." Kagome said calmly "We were just disputing when to send children away for rest." Kagome put up a smile and looked at Sesshomaru.

"Yes, this Sesshomaru is still not used to the fact of having such young creatures with me – I hope that you as an eldery will forgive us." he went along

Lords said nothing for the time, they headed for places prepared for their rest, three Lords and their wives were eyeing this strange family, as Rin and young kitsune kissed Kagome and bowed to Sesshomaru. A couple of servants took them away.

One of the lords stood up then and moved before Sesshomaru "With this gift we hope to celebrate your engagement with the Lady." Lizard demon opened package to showed pieces made of finest gold and stones "East means no harm to the Master of this Land and his Lady, please consider this as a gift of friendship."

"We accept the gift and your friendship." Sesshomaru said

"Yes, we shall assure the same from our side. West means no harm to lads of the East." Kagome said"We hope for a good relation between our two Empires, no frankly speaking – our four Empires." Kagome said in calm voice "I may be skipping important part, but please can we move onto the matter, there is no time – you all should head home tomorrow so..."

"This is rash Kagome." Sesshomaru smiled softly it was getting interesting "But still I believe my Lady is right in this. Just to not skip anything of greatest importance – Lord of the East

Unagi-sama and his Lady Mizuko-sama, please meet my Lady Kagome."

Kagome smiled as her servant gave her the sign that others arrived, everything was ready – now, what was left... get those Lord to understand situation and act fast.

I hope that you liked this chapter - it speeded up a little, but its far from the end.

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