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Chapter 23:
"Is this everything Kouga?" Sesshomau asked as he glanced out his window.
"Yes milord that is about it whe-"
"Milord!" Susuki exclaimed slamming open the door.
"Yes general?"
"Lord Sagio is here for Prince Ozu. I fear it is to late to avoid this meeting."
"Hn." Sesshomaru left the study. He turned the corner and found Kagome talking to a servant and was both surprised and unsurprised by the way she treats his servants. He had heard a number of people say how much they like having her in the castle, "Kagome, come you will meet the Lord of the northern lands."
Kagome followed Sesshomaru to the greeting hall. He entered with his normal impressive aura and she followed behind allowing a little more of her power free, now she was at least half as strong as Sesshomaru.
"Sagio Lord of the Northern Lands welcome," Sesshomaru bowed his head politely, "Allow one of my servants to lead your guests to their quarters,"
Sesshomaru waved a hand and several servants arrived to escort the rest of the lord's party to their rooms. Sesshomaru then placed the same hand on Sagio's shoulder. The northern lord went to say something but Sesshomaru motioned for him to sit in a chair before sitting across from him and waving Kagome over to the other chair.
"Lord Sagio may I introduce you to the Miko Kagome," Sesshomaru said gesturing to the miko who inclined her head toward the lord.
"Welcome Lord Sagio, it is an honour to meet you." Kagome smiled and straightened her head.
"Lord Sesshomaru! Why would you introduce me to someone so insolent!"
"Insolent? Lord Sagio I assure you she has treated you with nothing but respect, more respect then you deserve being a weak compared to her."
"She is a human wench, another pet of you have taken in I suppose,"
"Kagome you may defend yourself," Sesshomaru said off handily and smirked when Kagome stood.
There was no look on her face as she moved closer to the Lord of the North, her power was now mostly out now and she pressed it against the Lord applying very little of her miko powers.
"I suggest, Lord Sagio, to not insult me ever again. Anything you say or do to Sesshomaru-sama or any of his pack I will take as a personal insult and with my alpha's permission I will purify you to hell and back."
"That is enough Kagome I think he gets your point." Kagome backed off and Sesshomaru stood, "Come, your son would like to see you."
Sesshomaru led the lord away and Kagome went back toward her room, she hadn't seen Rin or Jaken since the announcement of the Northern Lord. The news had traveled through the entire castle before reaching Sesshomaru's ears.
"Mina," Kagome stopped the maid that looked slightly rattled, "What's wrong?"
"May I speak freely, milady?" Kagome nodded once, "Well this humble maid has just had a reminder of how demon females work these days. I had forgotten since Milady does not act like them. I fear that one of them is to become my new mistress."
"I'll make sure Sesshomaru picks a better one, not to mention whoever they are they have to fight me for the title of Alpha female." Mina smiled slightly, "Now I want you to comply to their wishes and don't draw any unwanted attention to yourself, understood?" Mina nodded and Kagome smiled before placing a hand on Mina's shoulder, "Now where is Rin and Jaken they have me worried."
Mina frowned again, "Rin is not allowed in the castle while the other lords are here. They would try to harm her and Jaken is insufficient protection against many demons."
"Well she has no need to fear being in her home. I will be here to protect her. Where does she stay?"
"In the family complex across the court yard, only pack is allowed in there so she is safe there."
"Thank you Mina, and come to me if there are problems."
Kagome walked off as soon as Mina gave her the normal bow and turned away. Kagome understood the necessity of hiding Rin away but the girl had a full pack that would protect her. Kagome raced across the court yard and entered the building.
"Halt!" Jaken's nasally voice screeched followed by a blast of fire from the two headed staff, "Who goes there."
"Master Jaken have you not heard of ask first shoot later?"
"No Lady Kagome, my apologies," Jaken bowed and brushed his head slightly against the ground, "What can I do for the Lady?"
"I would like you and Rin to come back to the main castle. I will protect Rin, she should not be hidden away."
Jaken nodded and motioned for Kagome to move in to the play area. Rin was sitting on the floor sorting through her toys. Jaken coughed and drew her attention to Kagome.
"Kagome-sama! Did Sesshomaru-sama send you hear as well?" Kagome shook her head with a small smile.
"You and Jaken are coming back to the main castle with me."
"Sesshomaru-sama said to stay here until the Lords are gone, are they gone?"
"No sweety, but nothing is going to happen to you as long as I am here."
"Okay Kagome-sama, Rin trusts you!" the small girl raced forward and took Kagome's out stretched hand.
"You'll sleep in my room with me alright?" Kagome asked.
"Can Shippo and Kohaku come? And Sango and Miroku?"
"Sure it'll be safer that way,"
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Sesshomaru sat uneasily in his study as he heard the Southern lord enter the castle, not that the lord himself was making much noise but the large amount of giggling females made more than enough noise for the lord and his silent troops.
Now he was going to stuck in this stupid ceremony and he had an entire thing gave him a bad feeling. There were far too many females to choose from and he was sure none of them would live up to his idea of a female. In a sense he wanted a traditional female, one who cared more about pack then power.
Sesshomaru sighed and walked down stairs to greet the lord making sure to grab Kagome along the way. Lord Yoshimaru is a very traditional demon who hates humans for no other reason other than they exists. Sesshomaru has never done anything that he didn't have a reason for; his dislike for humans was completely justified.
"Mina," Kagome said softly to the maid, "Can you show the rest of the party to their rooms?" the maid smiled and nodded before hurrying along. She was very good with the servants.
"Lord Yoshimaru welcome to the castle of the western lands." Sesshomaru led the lord to sit down, "This Sesshomaru would like to introduce you to the Miko Kagome."
"It is a pleasure to meet you. I have heard great things about the Southern Lord; I welcome you to our home."
"I have not heard much about you," the Southern Lord commented dryly.
"Nor should you have milord, for I have dealt with mostly human problems and a Lord like yourself would not be concerned with such trivial things."
"How does a miko find herself in the castle of the west if you deal with only human matter?"
"Lord Yoshimaru you did not hear me correctly. I said I deal with mostly human affairs I have a great deal of experience with demons, and not just purifying them. I only attack those who have attacked first."
"What sort of demon matters?"
"Most recently I have been introduced as an accepted part of Sesshomaru-sama's pack and as his Alpha female I must deal courteously with Lords like you. One I even refrained from killing for his attack against my pack."
"Which Lord?"
"Lord Kouga and I did not injure Lord Sagio for insulting my person."
"That is not much little girl."
"What would you consider a great accomplishment? Perhaps living with only half of a soul? Pulling the great Tensiga from its resting place? Maybe killing several high class and rouge demons? Being able to track Prince Ozu through the lines of power he uses to control those puppets? My point milord is that you may not have heard of me, but I do not have to answer to you."
"Kagome is correct," Sesshomaru interjected as the southern lord opened his mouth, "the only one she has to listen to is this Sesshomaru."
"Then you better teach her some manners. She is out spoken for a human female."
"A miko who is trained in the details of demon society is not an out spoken female. A miko who can live up to the expectation of being part of this Sesshomaru's pack is more deserving of respect than any other demon," Sesshomaru stood and glared at the bird demon, "We have an uneasy truce at the moment Lord Yoshimaru, this Sesshomaru suggests you refrain from insulting the miko or any member of my pack."
Kagome stood and left with Sesshomaru but stopped to ask a servant to show the Lord to his quarters. She then followed Sesshomaru to his study where she watched him shift through papers restlessly. Before she could think about what she was doing she walked over to him and massaged his ears slowly.
As he slowly relaxed Kagome expanded her aura to keep an eye on the rest of the house, nothing seemed off except that the servant that was supposed to lead the Southern Lord to his room was now nervously leading him towards Lord Sagio's room.
She felt herself being pulled on to Sesshomaru's lap and looked at his relaxed face, "Sesshomaru can you call Susuki?" the demon lord nodded and spiked his aura once and Kagome stood up and sat across from the demon lord who let out a disappointed grunt before leaning back in his chair.
"Yes milord?" Susuki asked bowing.
"The miko wanted me to call you."
"Yes Milady?"
"How good are you at keeping up an illusion?" Kagome asked looking towards the window.
"The best, why do you ask?"
"Lord Yoshimaru isn't where he's supposed to be and I want to know the reason why he'd seek a private counsel with Lord Sagio. Would you mind spying on their conversation?"
"If it is alright with milord?" Susuki looked at Sesshomaru who was studying Kagome but gave a nod anyway, "Then how do you suppose I do it?"
"Pose as a bird outside their window, but keep mostly unseen," Kagome said walking over to the window and opening it.
Susuki transformed and flew out of the window. One of the windows in Lord Sagio's room was open but mostly covered by the red curtain. Susuki perched herself carefully and waited.
"Lord Yoshimaru what brings you to my chambers?"
"I have an idea that I would like to run by you."
"That is an interesting coincidence."
"The Lord of the western lands has become far too powerful and if it continues this way our heirs will follow in his example, just look at Lord Kouga as an example."
"Are you proposing we give Sesshomaru a hard choice?"
"That is exactly it Lord Sagio. He either mates or we take over his throne and give to someone easily controlled. I even suggest that's what we do with Kouga."
"Let's talk to him first after dinner and if he wants nothing to do with our plan we'll force him out as well."
"That is a splendid idea, now I must prepare for dinner."
Susuki left at the same time Yoshimaru did and reported what she had overheard to Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru growled and Kagome thought.
"Sesshomaru," Kagome said slowly almost never using the honorific if they weren't in front of anyone it was important to, "You need to at least pretend to be interested in the women presented towards you. There is a woman you are meant to mate; I've seen you in the future. You were mated with a powerful woman with black hair. That's what your aura said; Susuki and I will look for while you entertain the others. We need Kouga here now though just encase you are not interested in any of the women."
"You have a plan Kagome?"
"Sort of. Unfortunately it can't be activated until your dethroned," Kagome glanced at Susuki, "I guess I'm not the cause of the west falling."
End.
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