Chapter 3

The sun was setting and it was time to eat dinner. Touga was the last one to sit down at the table. "Dear who is that?" Izayoi said as everyone looks towards the female. "Lily you look so beautiful in your mother kimonos." Touga said as he stood up and walk over to his daughter. "I'm sorry that I'm late father it took me longer to get ready than I thought." Lily said with a weak smile. "I don't care if you showed up late I'm just glad that you showed up." Touga said as he led her to her spot. "Izayoi I need you to move over a seat." Touga said as he pulls out the chair Izayoi was sitting in. "Inu no Taisho who is this woman? Why do I have to move this is my spot?" Izayoi said as she got up and started yelling at Touga.

"This woman here is my daughter. Her name is Lily she is Sesshomaru sister the second child my mate gave birth too before passing away. She is third highest ranking title until Sesshomaru finds a mate. You are rank fourth in this palace until our pup is born then you will be fifth. You will learn your place Izayoi and show respect to those with higher titles then you, is that clear." Touga told Izayoi as he places her in the second chair on the right side of the table. Izayoi had to push her own chair closer to the table as Touga helps Lily move her chair closer to the table. "Lily you look like mother." Sesshomaru said as he stares at his sister. "Thank you Sesshomaru." Lily said as her smile grew bigger.

"Are those blue lilies in your hair Lily?" Rin said with a devilish grin. Touga eyes wide as he saw three blue lilies in his daughter hair. "Where did you get those lilies?" Touga asks and Lily told him Rin grew them for her. Sesshomaru tries to pull Rin closer to him but Rin kept slapping his hands away. "When did you replace the table with this taller table?" Lily asks her father. "Your father replaces the table at my request when I first moved in." Izayoi said with a cocky smile. "Yes I did. We only use that table when we have many guests." Touga said as he tears off a leg from a boar on the table. "Oh well I like the table that mother help you pick out since you broke the table that grandfather made for the western palace." Lily said with a chuckle. "You told your sister that story." Touga said as he looks at Sesshomaru.

"Father I have no clue what you mean by that." Sesshomaru said as he summons a servant over. "Bring the good sake for a change servant." Sesshomaru said as he dismisses the servant. Rin could smell that the servant was a human and wanted to know why humans were in the palace as servants. Three servants came out with hot sake and places several large jars of sake around the table. "You're really drinking tonight?" Izayoi asks Touga as he pours himself some sake. "Yes I am Izayoi its been years since I last had good sake." Touga said before sipping on his sake. "Rin would you care to try some of the good sake?" Lily asks as Touga pours her a cup of sake. "Why keep saying the good sake?" Rin asks when Sesshomaru pours her a cup.

"The reason they keep saying the good sake because it's there is two types of sake that is made. One is made by humans and the other is made by demons. Demons finds human sake very weak to drink. They would have to drink 100x more sake made by humans to get really drunk but the sake made by demons is a very strong sake that humans can't drinks." Izayoi said as she rolls her eyes. "Well that makes more sense since I couldn't get drunk all this time." Rin said as she started to laugh.

Over the next three months Lily have been coming to lunch and dinner almost every day. Touga told the servants to destroy the chairs and table that Izayoi pick out and to put back the old table with all the pillows. The more Touga started changing everything back like it was before Izayoi moved in made Izayoi mad. Every day Touga started taking away all the things he had given her. Kimonos, gardens, hair pins, makeup, shoes, and much more. He was even kind to let her keep her room instead of giving her smaller rooms to be in and let her keep her rank and titles. She was left whatever she brought with her when she first moved in. Sesshomaru was order to destroy the items that was taken from Izayoi and it gave him such pleasure to use his acid spray to destroy her belongs. Izayoi didn't care because she never even touch anything that Touga gave her.

Touga was leading Izayoi to the gardens to see the new flowers and trees that Rin grew over the few months. A servant with long silver hair came out of the wash room panting really hard and steam follows her outside. "Leave her she is nothing more than a servant that washes our clothes." Izayoi said as she kept walking towards the gardens. Touga looks at her and couldn't believe how he fell in love with such a creature filled with hate in the heart. Once he made sure that she was gone he walks over to the servant girl. "I'm sorry that my wife is like that. She was never like that until I married her." Touga said as he reaches out to her. She kept missing his hand until Touga grab her hand and help her up on her feet. "Thanks and its okay. I do my best to not take those words to heart. Believe it or not I heard it before I was force to become a servant here." The female demon servant told Touga.

"Force? Who force you to become a servant here in the western palace?" Touga questions the female. "I think his name was Sesshomaru. I remember the name because it was the main name everyone kept calling out to when they were fighting the monks, demon slayers, and the mikos. It's been three months I believe when they found me running away from that village with a miko." The servant told Touga. "Why were you running away from the village with a miko? Were you trying to kill the miko?" Touga questions the servant. "When I was very young a witch cast a curse over me because she told me that my future holds great value and I shouldn't have a future like that. So when she casted a dark spell over me I could no longer see. I wonder around trying to find my way back to my village but somehow I fell into a river. A miko name Midoriko. I only known her for a few years before she passed away. She found me and help me to learn with me being unable to see by teaching me a little of swordsmanship and using a bow as well helping me to use my powers to help others monks and mikos to end bad people. I have only killed one miko because she started using dark magic to harm people." The servant told Touga.

"I knew Lady Midoriko and she was very powerful." Touga said as he remembers the miko. "Please tell me what she looks like?" The servant girl asks Touga. "Lady Midoriko was one of five beautiful woman I have ever laid my eyes upon and I live well over 5,000 years." Touga said with a chuckle. "Really? Who were the other four women?" The servant girl asks. "One was my mate before passing away, second is my daughter, third is my son future mate." Touga replied to the servant. "The last one is your wife?" The servant girl asks. "No the last one is you." Touga said as he touches the smooth blue stripe on her cheek as he stares into her golden eyes. She turns away blushing.

"Your wife is pregnant with your child. She is of noble blood as I am not. Besides living here as a servant is not that bad. I have a bed to sleep in a food here and there. Besides The lord of the west didn't care when he forced me become a servant and I'm sure that he would be upset if one of the royal family members is with a servant." The servant girl told Touga. "What is your name?" Touga asks the servant girl. "My mother use to travel around with my father and they found a strange flower with thorns on it. It has many different colors but the color red was my mother favorite color and loved the flower. I was named Rose." The servant girl told Touga.

Touga smiled to himself when she said Rose. "A perfect name for a beautiful woman. You said that you were curse and you were blind did the witch say anything how to break the curse?" Touga asks Rose. "She wasn't a witch it was a miko that uses dark magic but yes she did. She told me that once I have found my one true love I will get my eye sight back. It will slowly return the more I am around him or I can get it all back all at once when he places his mark on me." Rose told Touga. "How did you know that my wife was pregnant?" Touga asks Rose another question. "Even though someone is masking her scent I can still smell that she is with pup. Ever since I was cruse I could smell even better and my hearing have improved. Like I know that you are a member of a very high ranking family by the way you smell and the feel of your kimonos. I wash a lot of kimonos in these three months to know which belongs to who. I have wash a lot of blood from your kimonos. The designs on the kimonos are different so I know which is which." Rose said with a smile.

"What makes you think that Lord Sesshomaru is the western lord?" Touga said with a smile. "Well I think that because he gave orders to guards, soldiers, and servants." Rose said as she reaches out to him. "Sesshomaru is not the lord of the west. He is the heir to these lands." Touga told Rose as he slowly moves from her reach. "If he is not the lord of the western lands then who is?" Rose asks as one of Touga moko wraps around her waist. "You will learn who is one day." Touga said before he left her alone. "Rose what are you doing out here?" Sesshomaru personal servant ask when she steps outside.

"It got really hot in there so I had to take a break." Rose told the other servant. "Well you better be lucky it was me that came out here instead of the head servant. Remember what happen last time she saw you standing around taking a break?" The servant girl asks Rose. "Yes I do Kanna she is very rude and mean. Kanna can you tell me who is the western lord?" Rose ask Kanna. Kanna smiled when she heard her friend ask about the lord of the west. "Hmmm let's see he is very tall, long silver hair pulled into a very high pony tail, golden eyes, one jagged blue stripe on his cheeks, and can't keep his hands to himself oh and he is a very powerful Inu demon too." Kanna said as pulls her white hair in a low pony tail. Rose started to laugh at what Kanna said. "What is his name?" Rose asks as Kanna breads Rose hair. "His name is Lord Inu no Taisho and there now your hair shouldn't get in the way too much now." Kanna said as she ties the end.

"Thanks you and his personal servant have been very kind to me and the only two who doesn't treat me bad." Rose said as Kanna help her back into the wash room. "I have no reason to treat you in such ways maybe that's why you sleep in our room." Kanna told Rose before she left. Rose heard the door close and she went back to work. The whole time Touga saw and heard the whole thing. He stayed in the same spot for a few more hours hidden on the roof of the washing room. Not once he heard her complaining about the work or about someone. She did her work in silence. Once in a while a servant would come picks up the wet clothes to dry them out of to drop off dirty ones. Each one made a comment about someone and Rose just said thank you as they came and go. Only one who stops by and talk to Rose was Kanna Sesshomaru personal servant and Mary his personal servant would stop by and made sure that she was okay and talk few a few minutes.

Rose fell into the boiling hot water when a guard came running by screaming out "Have anyone seen Lord Inu no Taisho" and she got up and found the door. A guard stop when he saw Rose coming out of the wash room. "You their servant have you seen the western lord?" A guard ask Rose. "Dumbass you know that she is blind how is she going to see the lord?" Another guard said as they started to laugh while walking away. "I can't believe that I forgot that. It's sad how a beautiful woman can be a turn off when they are blind." The guard said while laughing. Rose went back into the washroom and started to cry.

The two guards that made Rose cried never saw Touga coming as he strikes them down and killed them. Another guard saw this and was summon over by Touga. "Get this mess clean at once." Touga said as he walks towards the gardens. Touga saw Rin growing more flowers in the gardens and he smiled. He notices how Rin is making everyone happy and he now sees his daughter even more now. His son is very happy for the last few months. He thought maybe this was the way it should happen in the first place. The only down side of it was Izayoi. She was getting worse by the day and was hoping she wouldn't try to kill anyone this time around.

"Rin where is Izayoi." Touga asks Rin. She looks up and he saw how she was covered in dirt. "Oh that human bitch started screaming at me when she saw me growing different color lilies so she started kicking dirt on me and after a few moments she went into labor." Rin said with a chuckle. "I'm sorry Rin it seems like she will never change even though I gave her many chances. After she gives birth to my son she will lose her rank and titles. She will become a servant if she keeps going down the wrong path I will make sure she will never harm anyone ever again." Touga said with such sadness in his voice. "Everything will be okay. Izayoi was never the one you should be with. You should find someone that puts a smile on your face and want to see every morning when you wake up and to sleep next to every night. You will find the woman who will love you back." Rin said as she gives him a rose with thorns.