Rubbing her eyes, Kagome dragged herself from the warm confines of Sesshomaru's supper fluffy fur cage. She went to the fire after grabbing her hideous bag, and pulled out a box of matches, a special coffee pot and her secret stash of sugar and creamer. Today was going to suck. She could feel it in her exhausted miko bones. Inuyasha, being the slave driving, order barking, evil hanyo that he was, had forced them to practically fly all the way to the west. They were approximately 3 miles, 200 yards, five inches, a centimeter, and a millimeter away from 7 super powerful demons that she could, and probably would, be ripped apart by. Oh, the freaking joy of it all!
Sighing, Kagome filled her 24 ounce cup. She was going to be as awake as possible. That way, she could attempt to dodge the demons, just in case.
The rest of her group was awakening, if their pained groans and grunts were anything to go by. Miroku silently asked for a cup, as did Sango and Kikyo. Inuyasha just was his normal butt-head self and hopped up in a tree and checked out Kikyo. Rolling her eyes, Kagome drank her sweet, delicious, burning coffee. Sighing in sweet bliss, Kagome sent a small prayer to the kamis, and approached Kikyo.
"We need to talk, Kikyo" Kagome said, trying to at least be civil with the miko.
"Yes Kagome. Lets talk" Kikyo crossed her arms across her bust, and walked a ways. Gin followed silently behind Kagome.
"Kikyo, I'll level with you. I need you to lead the group away from here. I have something that I have to do, and I'm going to. It would just be a lot easier if you would be a dear and take Inuyasha a bit back east, and lead him on a wild goose chase" Kagome said sweetly. As much as she tried, Kikyo was always a B-I-T-C-H.
Kikyo rolled her eyes in an obvious attempt at arse-ness. But she nodded just the same. They walked back in silence.
"Inuyasha, there are shards in two different directions. There are a bunch that just popped up into my senses, and they are headed the way we came. And there's another further west. I and Kikyo decided that it would be easier if you take the majority of the group and follow the brunt of the shards. I'll follow the itty bitty one."
Surprisingly, Inuyasha simply complied, no word of complaint. There were small miracles. Thank you, dear Kamis!
"Rin, Ah-Un, Jaken, Gin, you are with me. Come on" Kagome called. She hopped on Gin's back, waited for Jaken and Rin to get situated on Ah-Un, and took off in the direction of Sesshomaru's palace. This was going to be interesting…
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Several moments later, Gin stopped after jumping over the wall of his own palace. He seemed pissed. Kagome was nervous. Rin was frolicking in one of Sesshomaru's fields. Jaken, under threat of death, was watching her.
Stopping in the open field that Sesshomaru's walls surrounded, Kagome found all of the 7 cardinal lords. Getting off of Gin's back, she nervously walked toward them.
"I know! Wasn't she great?" One of the lords hollered, smacking one poor maid on her rump, before sending her for more wine.
"Excuse me." Kagome said striding forward, angry pout set on her face.
"Oh! Lookie here! This one is a looker. Hey, you want to come and warm my bed?" One lord growled at her.
"Hey guys… do you think that it might be possible to uh… I don't know, leave Sesshomaru's castle?" Kagome said, forcing her knees to stop their shaking.
"And why the hell should we? While Sesshomarus' away, the lords will play, ne? Why don't you get me some more wine!" Another lord shouted at her. Some laughs were heard, as Kagome stood stalk still, afraid she would snap.
"Yeah! We'll drain Sesshomaru's wealth white, and then get away scot free ourselves!" A new lord laughed. Soon the others followed his example.
"How about we make a bet? You seem the type to enjoy betting." Kagome said softly, but she knew everyone heard her.
"Sure, why not! What could a little slip of a woman do to us any way?"
" I bet I can make Sesshomaru turn back into Sesshomaru. If I can, you all leave and repay Sesshomaru all the things you have looted from his castle. If I can't, I will quiet, and allow you to do with me as you will, in addition to allowing you to string me up and eat my innards, because that's always what you demons are after, ne? And I'm the good stuff. I've been told that my blood is sweet and my skin tastes delicious" Kagome said, ending her short monologue.
"You've got a deal, woman. Make it quick. We will give you three tries. After that, we can have our way and eat you twice!" More disgusting laughter.
"Ok. Gin dear, can you lean your neck down here?" Kagome said softly, her hand digging in her pocket.
She tried to pull on his ears, looking sad that he didn't turn. She got a few laughs at her.
Next, she played with his whiskers and teeth, looking near tears. They just laughed harder.
But next, she smiled deviously, hugging the dog's neck. They never noticed her slip on the collar. And there stood Sesshomaru, in all his glory.