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Suitors

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She pulled the string taut as she aimed done the arrow shaft to her target and released. It was a beautiful morning the rose pink light of dawn softly envelope her as she practiced. This was the escape she needed and successfully carried out since her father forbidden her off the premises two days ago, all in retaliation for refusal to listen to his idea for a marriage proposal.

She got back at him in her on way. Refusing to leave her room for meals, then of course she snuck out today to her one place of absolute freedom. Her family didn't even know of her little sanctuary that she had discovered when the marriage proposals started coming in when she turned sixteen. Of course, there were many in the beginning thinking they would be the one to win her over but all had failed.

'Ha!' she thought as she remembered all the failed suitors. She knew without a doubt that they didn't love her, it was the fact that she was a Miko; it was a status enhancer for the suitor to have one of her kind. Yes, she considered herself a separate breed from the rest; she was human but yet not.

But then, her father had to bring up his latest idea for a suitor. The moment yōkai had left her father's mouth she refused to listen any longer. She let out a growl as her aura crackled around her in anger, yōkai. What was her father even thinking mentioning such a thing? Did he not realize what a symbol that would be for a yōkai to have a miko as his wife, to command as he wished, to parade around his status. He would have more status then even a human having her would.

'The yōkai arch enemy of the past now owned by a yōkai.' The war may be over but for a yōkai to have a miko even in marriage gave them prestige it would be like capturing one which in theory is what one would be doing marrying her. It would elevate their status to that of the Inu no Taisho. . . no above that. That would be the only reason yōkai would want her.

It wouldn't happen, it couldn't. The yōkai who came in the beginning had given up so would this one and even as she thought it an unbidden image of Tōga appeared. One that had plagued her since that night her prank went south and try as she might she had not been able to shake that dratted image of Tōga not joining in merriment at her failure.

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