The Grandchildren of The 2 Great Lords
Disclaimer: I do not own Inuyasha or Nurarihyon no mago.
Chapter 34
For a change, Kameko was having a blast. Since the sparkling had already being tampered with, some youkais and even humans where getting drunk. School officials went ballistic and threatened to punish however did this, but obviously nobody was talking. They changed the sparkling, but again, someone spiked it. And no matter how much they changed it, it will always come out sake. Both her and Rikuo, joined with Shoei and his date, a fire youkai (with red and yellow hair) couldn't help but laugh at this hilarious scene.
"Do you think there's a youkai that can change sparkling into sake?" asked Natsuko, the fire youkai, in between laughs.
"If there's one, I will make him a part of the Nura Gumi," said Rikuo, laughing.
"For sure, we will never run out of sake in the house parties," said Shoei, a bit too happy.
"I'd love to see that!" laughed Kameko.
"You will," smiled Rikuo and kissed her on the cheek. Kameko blushed as red as her kimono. They had agreed not to show any displays of affection in front of the people but she didn't feel like fighting tonight; she was really enjoying herself.
In a corner of her eye, Kameko could see Kurotabo dancing with his partner, acting like a fool and she knew he had too much sake to drink. The whole party had turned into a giant frat house party. They where suppose to be in high school! Kameko sighed, as she knew this was no ordinary school.
Aotabo and another classmate of his where singing old war songs, then Kuro joined them and also Seiichi, how was handling his liquor very well, yet he remembered the songs of old and decided to join. The sight of the four singing was hilarious!
"They are not going to have all the fun without me!" exclaimed Rikuo as he ran over to join the happy foursome.
Yura joined her and sweatdropped at the scene. All 5 boys where singing and then the music was still going so they started dancing together too; as soon as Kurotabo wanted to do a spin, all 4 guys stopped him.
"Why? I wanna dance," Kuro whined.
"Seriously, man… You are going to kill us all," Ao motioned him to see himself. Kurotabo realized he was wearing his monk outfit. He blushed and muttered, "Shit!"
All four started laughing and goofing. It was nice to see that, even though they where deadly warriors, they where having a good time and enjoying themselves.
"It feels my heart with joy to see them like this," Kameko voiced her thoughts to Yura, who smiled.
"Once, that prick Rikuo threw me from the Sakura tree in his house, making me fall into the pond below it… that Rikuo! I still don't forgive him!" snorted Yura, holding a fist. Kameko chuckled.
"Hey at least he didn't call you a bitch," she answered.
"True that… I still wonder how you two are together."
"Sometimes I wonder that too," Kameko chuckled, still looking at the guys who where making a scene.
Kameko's ears, even though she's in her human form, are very sharp; Yuki-Onna was trying to make Itaku join the guys. The latter was annoyed by the fact of dancing and worst if it's in front of people. Kameko walked over, Yura followed and said to the Kamaitachi,
"She might freeze you if you don't go," Kameko motioned to Yuki-Onna. Itaku cringed not liking the sound of that. He reluctantly walked over to the dancing men and started grooving to the beat.
"He's actually pretty good," Kameko said, surprised. Both Yuki-Onna and Yura nodded in answer.
"I guess somebody needs a little bit of sake to loosen up," all three jumped at Kubinashi's voice.
Yuki-Onna sweatdropped, "And you are the one to talk." Kubinashi laughed nervously.
"Why don't you join them?" asked his blue haired fairy date, Suzume.
"Ehh… I prefer not."
"You where dancing with me, why not with them?"
"Let me answer that for you, Suzume… this guy over hear, eventually, out of nowhere, will get into a fight with that guy over there," Kameko said, motioning towards Itaku. Both Yura and Yuki-Onna nodded.
"Oh," answered Suzume.
Kubinashi turned towards Kameko and said, "Hey, let me proof to you that I can be civil."
"I would like to see that happen," she smirked.
She really is adopting that smirk from Rikuo, thought Yura.
"Ok," he said as he walked towards the still crazy dancing group of male youkais.
It was all going well until, in some point, Aotabo not measuring his steps, pushed Kubinashi to the side; making him fall on Itaku, which pushed him to the side and yelled, "Watch it, turd!"… Which made the neckless youkai angry and threatened to take out his strings. Itaku seeing the threat grabbed his sickles.
"Told ya… it was bound to happen," said Kameko to Suzume.
"Ok, both of you cut it out!" said Seiichimaru, which came out a bit slurred.
Rikuo stood in the middle and said, "Neither of you are going to ruin this night!" he unsheathed Nenekirimaru and said, "Or I'll cut you both!"
"Yeah, like that's gonna stop me," snorted Itaku as he pounced towards Kubinashi.
Rikuo invoked Kyokasuigetsu and appeared behind Itaku, with Nenekirimaru in his throat.
"You are my friend but I will not allow you to attack my subordinate," hissed Rikuo. His Fear was flaring and that seemed to scare Itaku down.
All four girls let out a breath they hadn't realized they where holding.
"That was close," said Yura.
Hamasaki-sensei and other school officials stood in the platform. She tapped on the microphone to get everybody's attention.
"Attention students, before we continue with the announcement of this Year's Autumn King and Queen, we will like to ask you to stop putting sake on the sparkling, please…" a lot of students laughed, others whistled. She shushed them into silence.
"And now, without further due, Arashiyama's next Autumn King is," she opened the envelope, "Nura Rikuo!"
Everyone cheered as Rikuo walked over to the stage with a gigantic smirk on his face. All youkai and even humans admire him, the true nature of the Lord of the Night…
He received a crown made out of bamboo shoots adorned with a few live Sakura twigs. He mocked a royal salute and everyone laughed.
"Very funny Nura-kun," smiled Hamasaki-sensei, "And our new Autumn Queen, whom will join Nura Rikuo on stage is," the room froze as the tension increased.
"Taisho Kameko!" everyone cheered, applauded and whistled. Kameko was still looking towards her friends in disbelieve as they urged her to go forward. She had a real surprise look on her face when Rikuo crowned her with a similar crown as his, but with more Sakura and Yamabuki petals.
"Now for the King and Queen's first dance," said Hamasaki-sensei as she shoved them out of the platform, into the dance floor.
Kameko's embarrassment was visible from miles away. "Sweetheart, if you continue like that, you are going to blend with your kimono," Rikuo said, chuckling.
"Oh, shut up you!" answered Kameko as she punched him lightly in the arm. He smirked. Everyone else joined with their partners as they danced the night away.
Kameko sighed, "Well, I guess the fun ends here… I think you guys should go too, Seiichimaru is already drunk and I don't think he's ever being drunk…" the last part, she said turning to Yura.
"But… but… how am I going to carry him?" asked Yura.
"No need to worry about that, Yura-chan, he can walk himself… he just need a nudge from you… that is, if you wanna leave…" Kameko gave a knowingly look to Yura.
"Fine, I'll go tell him," said Yura as she began walking towards her date.
She reached Seiichimaru, who was still holding the hilt of his sword and said, "Seiichimaru, I would like to leave," with her head down. From where Kameko was standing she could see Yura blushing red beet. All night Yura has being blushing every time Seiichimaru tried to hold her hand or her hip as they where dancing.
Does she really like my cousin? thought Kameko. I will definitely ask her later…
"Sure, Yura-chan, want me to walk you to your dorm?" asked the inu youkai.
"Am I not supposed to walk you?" Yura regretted those words as soon as they left her mouth.
"You think I'm drunk?" asked Seiichimaru, a bit surprised and hurt. Well, I actually feel a bit weird…
Yura blushed redder, if it was even possible, "No no… I mean, whatever… lets go." She slumped her shoulders and turned around; Seiichimaru followed.
"Do you think we should go with them?" a voice whispered behind Kameko's ears, startling her.
"You really have to stop creeping on me like that, Rikuo… its annoying…" said Kameko with slated eyes.
"Besides, they are big enough, they can take care of themselves. And by the way, if anything happens, which I doubt, do you think an onmyoji leaves her house without her shikigamis?" said Kameko, in a matter-of-fact way.
"I guess you are right, for once…" smirked Rikuo.
"Wiseass…" she said with a bored expression as she started to walk away.
"Yeah, you still love me," said Rikuo, appearing in front of her.
"Whatever… and I told you to stop creeping on me like that, dammit!"
"Oi, no need to yell woman, I'm right here."
She ignored him and continued walking. Not this all over again… why does she have to be so dramatic…
Rikuo smirked to himself and thought, I'm just going to annoy her a little bit more…
The walking figure of Kameko halted as she felt a presence the moment she stepped out into the cool night air. A shiver ran down her spine as she recognized it. She could still hear Yura and Seiichimaru talking not far in front of her. Why can't they feel it?
Her question was answered the moment she couldn't hear Yura anymore. The evil presence was overwhelming, making Kameko's heart speed. That's when she noticed a black shadow, out of it came the figure of a woman…
Matte! This can't be right…
"Masumi…"