Chapter 28
Kagome closes her journal writings just in time for there is a knock on the door.
"Who is it?"
"Sango, milady."
"Enter."
"Lady Kagome, Lord Sesshoumaru has cancelled your lessons until tomorrow morning. You have liberty for the rest of the day."
"Thank you, Sango, you may sit in the chair."
Sango sits in the chair by the window. At first Kagome isn't sure what she wants to do with her freedom. She turns her attention to Sango who is staring wishfully out of the window.
"Where is your family, Sango."
"My family is gone except for a brother," Sango looks Kagome in the eyes when she answers since it is her place to. A servant doesn't ignore a higher ranks gaze; it is not proper. Her eyes are so distant and broken like her whole world was taken was underneath her very feet.
"I am sorry, I am also without family. Where is your brother?"
"That is a long story, milady."
"That is fine; I have the whole day to self."
"Where do I start?"
"The beginning would be a great place."
Sango gathers her nerves and revisits the place that has haunted her thoughts since that unfaithful day years ago.
Chapter 29
I was born in a village of demon slayers on the outskirts of town. We were employed by Taiyoukai Inutaisho to protect Edo from rogue demons that reside in the outside forests. Our village has been for centuries and had yet to falter. The men were usually the slayers that left the village, leaving a squad behind to protect the women. Now the women were powerless; the females were also skilled in the arts of slaying like myself.
My mother died in childbirth with my brother Kohaku. The village women raised us throughout the years when my father was away. There are no orphans in the Slayers' Village since every child will one contribute to the village with his or her skills. I had the natural skills of a warrior while my brother took a little longer to understand techniques. My weapon is a large boomerang made from a demon's bone. Kohaku favored a scythe with a short handle that a long chain at the end. Now he would throw the scythe at the enemy and the blade returns with a pull of the chain.
One day a hoard of demons attacked the village; the view looked like a dark cloud has swallowed the sky whole. My people prepared for battle; every man, woman, and child that was able grabbed a weapon of some sort. We are a village of warriors and no one backs down from a fight unless everyone can be carried away to safety.
The demons did not back down either and killed my father and everyone else in the village. By the time that Lord Inutaisho and his men arrived, all but myself and my brother were left. We did not cry or show any type of weakness; we buried the dead and went about our lives. Lord Inutaisho wouldn't have anyplace for a boy and a woman in his arm so we traveled the lands, searching for any rumors that would lead to the person responsible for our village's massacre.
For three years we searched until we found him; Naraku. This demon is a half breed with a baboon pelt covering his skin. We wanted to kill him then and there but he disarmed us and injured us horribly. I barely survived and he took Kohaku as his prize. There was not a moment that I regretted his decision. I would have preferred the demon to take me instead of my little brother. He is all that I have left in the world and now I had nothing.
I walked by to Edo and Lord Inutaisho offered me a position as a servant. The position was below me greatly but who would take in woman with no skills besides fighting? I needed to belong somewhere until I had the strength and means to find my brother. I gave Lord Inutaisho all the information that I had on Naraku and he began a search for the half-breed. For what I have learned Naraku has destroyed countless Slayer Villages around the Edo area for no apparent reason. No village has tried to rebuild since I and my brother are the only survivors out of ten villages. Two survivor out of thousands of slayers and I am not even sure that my brother is still alive.
That was three years ago and I'm twenty-two and alone in this palace. I tried to fit in but the other servants see me as useless since I haven't been able to understand the duties of a maid. But I did learn that I was good at memorizing things, so I was given the job of reminding everyone their duties for everyday and every special event. This is also why I was given the duty of becoming your handmaid, Lady Kagome.
Chapter 30
Sango finished her tale and left the room to resume her duties. Her eyes seemed colder with the reminder of what all that she had lost. She was right; she is alone. Another knock on the door and it opens.
"Hello, Kagome. My name is Kikyo, Inuyasha's intended."
"It is a pleasure to meet you."
"I have come to invite you to join me the gardens tomorrow afternoon."
"I would be delighted."
"I will send a servant for you."
"That will be fine."
"Until then, Kagome," Kikyo leaves and Kagome cannot believe the similarities between herself and Kikyou. They both have the same facial features and long black hair. The differences are that Kagome's eyes are green and vibrant while Kikyou's are brown and serious.
Shippo returned from what he was doing and leapt onto Kagome's desk where she was still sitting. The sun had set and long shadows appeared from their hiding places to stretch across the land. Kagome strokes Shippo's fur as always and thinks of Sesshoumaru.
'Why am I thinking of him?'
'Because he is interesting.'
'He is arrogant.'
'He has a sweet side.'
'That has to be forced out.'
'He cares for my well being.'
'He put me in the dungeon in the first place.'
….
'And for all I know he could be waiting for me to slip up and throw me back in there again!'
'Well, I'll be damned.'
"Yeah, I'll be damned before I let him but me back in there."
Shippo meows with a question in his voice and his head cocked to the side with his green eyes wide open.
"Sorry, Shippo, nothing."
Shippo heads lies back down and begins purring.
'Like a cat.'
'But I'll be damned before he gets the best of me. Shippo will be taken care of; he cannot separate us again.'
Chapter 31
"I need you, Kagome," a figure moans while masturbating to the image of Kagome slipping into a sleeping kimono.
"Today you looked so perfect in that blue kimono. I wanted to rip it from your body and pleasure you until you screamed my name into the heavens. Oh, Kagome!"
The figure pumps his hand faster and faster until a liquid substance coats his hands and his member.
"That was for you, my Kagome," and the figure disappears in the dense forests of Edo.