InuYasha Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Through your Heart ❯ Long Preparations ( Chapter 25 )

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Through your Heart

Chapter 25: Long preparations

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"YOU WANT TO DO WHAT?!" Jaken's shout was heard throughout the entire castle and InuYasha had no choice but to block his poor ears.

"Pipe it down, will ya? Just think about our idea for a moment!" The hanyou grumbled.

Jaken's eye twitched and he started to pace around. "You want me to calm down?! You truly are suicidal! My master isn't the sort of youkai who will invite so many people at once in his 'humble' home! Lord Ryuu and Lord Kurama, I can understand. But Kouga of the wolf demon tribe? AND not to mention those humans you always traveled with? Lord Sesshoumaru would never agree to drop so low!"

Kagome gave him a sly look and said in a sing-song voice; "But Lord Sesshoumaru has locked himself in his bedroom!"

Jaken backed away when he saw Kagome eyeing him playfully and he shuddered. 'Urgh! Damn humans! This girl is impossible; I do not know how the half-breed can tolerate her…'

"Alright. But if master Sesshoumaru starts a rampage, I will not have anything to do with it! You will have to feel my Lord's wrath alone!" And with a huff, Jaken departed to his daily activities.

InuYasha and Kagome rolled their eyes and then Kagome squealed happily. "I'll start making the invitations InuYasha! Maybe I should go back to my time to gather some fancy paper, it could impress the other Lords… And I guess Mom will be happy to know that I'm okay. It's been a while since I went back there." She sweatdropped. "Gramps probably invented a couple of new diseases since I've been gone, oh boy."

InuYasha blinked and held his tongue. "Yeah, I guess since the Shikon no Tama is complete it's okay for you to go home…But I'm only giving you 2 days!!! Go it, bitch?" He just had to open his big mouth.

Shippou winced on Kagome's shoulder when he felt her tense. "InuYasha…SIT BOY!!!" She walked away with a huff. "My name is Kagome, not bitch! Really InuYasha, you're so immature sometimes!"

She barely heard InuYasha's muffled response from his hole on the hard floor and Shippou tapped Kagome's shoulder. The miko made a sound with her throat to let him know she was listening and the little Kitsune looked around uneasily.

"Umm, Kagome-okaasan? You know, since you're going to stay with InuYasha, well…For him it's normal to call you bitch…That's what you're gonna be, you know, since he's a dog demon…" He closed his eyes tightly when he saw Kagome's hand approaching his head and blinked when she only petted his red hair.

"I know, Shippou." Kagome pouted a little. "But I'm human and not a dog demon so it's still an insult for me to be called like that. Imagine if InuYasha comes to the future with me for a while and he calls me bitch in the middle of the streets!" The miko shuddered. "Oh, I would so pound him into the ground!"

Shippou and Kagome laughed together until they reached Usagi's door. Kagome took an intake of breath and silently opened the door. She didn't enter the bedroom, though. She just gazed at her motionless friend and her eyes saddened.

"Look Kagome! The mark on her forehead is still shining a little, just like Sesshoumaru said." Shippou whispered quietly, afraid he would attract the Taiyoukai's attention because of his sensitive hearing.

Kagome nodded and sighed; she knew not to get her hopes up. If even the complete Jewel couldn't bring her back, there was little chance anything else could. And besides, she wasn't breathing anymore. "Maybe it's supposed to do that, Shippou-chan. You heard her as I did; she said she wasn't human. I don't know what she is, nobody knows." She sighed and with one last look behind, she closed the door and continued her way to the main entrance.

She was still walking when she heard a door creak open and she turned around just to see a little girl's head pocking outside the bedroom. 'It's Rin…'

The little girl looked around with her teary red eyes and she froze when she spotted Kagome. The miko bent down and offered her hand with a gentle smile. "Hi Rin, you remember me? I'm Kagome. Do you want to come with us? Shippou would love some company."

Rin eyed the young Kitsune for a moment and merely went back into her room, closing the door silently behind her without a word. Kagome eyed the door sadly and almost gasped in surprise when InuYasha put a hand on her shoulder.

The angry mood from earlier was gone from his face and he merely motioned for her to follow him. "Come on. We'll tell Jaken we'll be gone for a few days and that we'll be back with the invitations. At least he'll know where we are."

Kagome nodded and the rest of the time was spent in silence, even when InuYasha took Kagome back to the old well.

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*4 days later*

InuYasha helped Kagome to get out of the well. Her yellow backpack looked bigger than usual, to InuYasha's dismay. But he brushed it off; Kagome had the invitations done and had brought some things from her era to decorate the Western castle's ball room.

"So InuYasha, did Sesshoumaru get out of his room? What about Rin?" The miko asked while getting on the hanyou's back.

InuYasha shrugged. "No change."

Kagome gave a determined look as InuYasha started to run towards his brother's Lands. "Then it's about time we do something. Sesshoumaru won't have any choice but to get out of his room with so many guests. And if he still refuses…well you'll force him out, right InuYasha?"

The hanyou preferred to not answer that and he shuddered just thinking about it. 'That's easy for YOU to say.' He thought glumly. 'He's even more dangerous in that state than in his usual ice cold "Don't-talk-to-me-or-die" mood. He's very volatile; like a bomb just waiting to explode if you touch it or manipulate it the wrong way!'

Kagome didn't press her question. She held her tongue but she wasn't sure either if InuYasha would be able to force his brother to do anything Sesshoumaru wouldn't want.

When they finally arrived at the gigantic castle, Jaken was there at the main gates, waiting for them.

"So toad, did my egotistical brother kill himself off yet?" InuYasha asked good-humouredly.

Jaken grimaced and humphed. "I sure hope not! God forbid if you would have to become the next Western Lord. This poor Jaken would kill himself before serving you, half-breed!"

InuYasha scoffed at the toad's response. Years ago he would've killed the toad without a second thought if he had talked to him like that. InuYasha always hated the 'half-breed' comment with a vengeance but nowadays it didn't really matter to him anymore; probably because Kagome didn't give a damn and that even as a hanyou he was more powerful than most full blooded youkai. That didn't mean that he liked his brother's personal servant, but at least both of them wanted the same thing now; to get Sesshoumaru out of his damned bedroom as soon as possible.

"Hey toad? Does Sesshoumaru have a messenger or something? Someone has to deliver the invitations, and there are lots of 'em."

Before they could enter the castle, Jaken nodded and changed directions. "Yes, my Lord has 3 messengers. I guess just for this occasion we could use them all at once, it would take a lot less time to deliver. I've seen how the miko browsed the book where all the most influential youkai are written down. There must have been at least 50 youkai Lords of different status written down there." Jaken shook his head while he took them to a different building beside the castle.

"Hey Jaken-san? That makes me wonder…Why would Sesshoumaru need to write down the names of other youkai anyway?" Kagome asked curiously.

Jaken raised an eyebrow. "Well miko, my Lord only wrote down the names of the most influential youkai, if you recall. Lord Sesshoumaru has to be careful; some of those youkai can easily gain more control over their parcel of land and Sesshoumaru-sama would not tolerate this control to escalate to a dangerous lever for his safety. The war may be over but his Lordship still has many enemies. Luckily, they don't seem to be that dangerous since most of them gladly accept my Lord's reign."

Kagome nodded and sweatdropped. She unfortunately mumbled a passing thought a little too loudly. "Weird, I would've thought Sesshoumaru to be a heartless tyrant."

The small toad's eye twitched but he didn't turn around. "Miko, there are many things you do not know about Lord Sesshoumaru. InuYasha surely has something to do with those misguided thoughts of yours, ne?"

Kagome eeped and InuYasha coughed, his cheeks a pinkish color. "Yeah well…" The hanyou mumbled weakly, not really knowing what to say.

After giving the 3 cougar youkai their letters to deliver, the trio went back to the castle to finally rest a little and start to prepare the ball room. The gathering would be held in 3 days, just enough for them to prepare.

The ballroom was a dusty mess; it hadn't been used in a long time and it showed. Jaken was a little reluctant to let Kagome order Sesshoumaru's servants around but the toad quickly saw how tiring it was to prepare such a 'party', as the miko called it.

Kagome was ecstatic. She was patting her yellow backpack and grinning madly.

"What are you so happy about now, miko?" Jaken asked while eyeing her weirdly as if he was afraid she'd want to play doll with him like Rin did.

Kagome looked proud of herself. "Oh, it's just that I brought fireworks with me, a lot of them!"

The toad looked at her with curiosity, as well as InuYasha. Some servants who were still working around them paused only slightly to hear the conversation with the strange miko but they didn't want to get caught by Jaken so they kept their distance.

"I'm not telling! It's a surprise!" She said playfully. She could see how InuYasha and Jaken were disappointed about not knowing and curiously, the servants also seemed to be upset. Kagome raised her eyebrows and shrugged it off. 'Oh well! Back to work!'

"Come on guys! Less talking more sweeping! I want that place shining and completely decorated in 2 days! Jaken!"

The toad jumped at her 'business woman' voice.

"You tell the cooks to start cooking!... Well don't just stand there gaping! GO! GO! GO!" She pushed poor stuttering Jaken until he was out the door. Kagome then turned to InuYasha swiftly.

InuYasha gulped and took a step backwards with wide eyes.

"InuYashaaaa?" She addressed him with a sickly sweet smile that meant "I-want you-to-do-something-for-me-and-you're-not-going-to-like-it" and the hanyou wasn't stupid. He disappeared from Kagome's view in an instant and left the dark haired miko there, gaping at the empty space he previously occupied.

Kagome's eyes twitched. "SIIIIT BOYYYY!!!"

Somewhere in the castle resounded a loud THUMP and some colorful swearing. Kagome pinched the bridge of her nose. "This is going to be a long 2 days."

And what do you know? Someone else in the castle thought the exact same thing. Poor InuYasha.

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