InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Nigatsu no Hoshi (Stars of February) ❯ For a Change in Scenery ( Chapter 20 )

Chapter 18: For a Change in Scenery

Sango flipped the fried eggs over that were cooking in the pot infront of her, humming too herself. "Sango!" she heard someone say to her and spun around, no one. "Sango-sama over here." The voice came again, but Sango couldn't see anyone. "Down here Sango," came the now aggravated voice. Sango looked down at her side to see Myouga the flea sitting on her knee, all four arms crossed as he waited to be seen. "Myouga-jiji? What are you doing here?" she questioned.

"What is it Sango?" Miroku asked as he walked outside. "Myouga's here Miroku." She announced. "Oh, Myouga-jiji. What's the occasion?" he asked. "Well monk, I was actually looking for the Lord and me Lady Kagome, do you know where I can find them?"

"What do you mean? You can find us when we're battling in another land, but you cant find inuyasha in his own village?" Sango questioned. Myouga scratched at the back of his head, "yes well, you see. I headed for the hut first, and even though didn't sense inuyasha, I smelt food, so…" he chuckled, and the couple sighed. Sango pinched off a bit of the egg and gave it to him, and he quickly engulfed it. "Now to answer your question Myouga, inuyasha and kagome left a while ago this morning, they didn't say anything so I cant imagine that they are far off from here." Miroku stated.

"Ahh, arigatou Houshi, I will continue my search for them, I have some interesting news for them. Although I don't think they deserve it for not informing me of their plans to mate, but oh well. So is the duties of a Lords vessel." He sighed as he hopped out the door and out into the street, still mumbling to himself. Miroku and Sango shrugged to each other, and continued making breakfast.

Myouga followed the always-tasteful scent of his master's blood into the forest.

Kagome was slowly dozing off in Inuyasha's arms when she screeched in surprise when inuyasha smacked her thigh. "Inuyasha?" she asked as she turned around to see inuyasha-holding Myouga in his hand. "What is it Myouga? Passing through and stopped in for a snack?" inuyasha asked sarcastically.

Myouga popped back to original size and then sat in the palm of Inuyasha's hand, folding his arms and closing his eyes. Both inuyasha and kagome stared at him, waiting for what was so important that Myouga had to search them out. "Sire, I do wish that you would have alerted me to the fact that you planned to take kagome on as your mate, but since you did not, this shall be a little more difficult for all of us."

"Inform you that I was going to mate kagome? I'm sorry, but I'm not the one that can see into the future, that's Kagome's field." Inuyasha responded, looking between the flea youkai and his mate, who stared back with a confused look on her face.

"Yes, I've heard all about Kagome's passed changes, but that is not why I am here." Myouga interrupted. "Well then get on with it dammit!" inuyasha yelled.

Myouga sighed again, "Well my Lord, I'm not quite sure how to put this, or where to begin. So I'll just get right to it. You have taken kagome as your mate, and since you are of royal heritage, that would make her a Lady. Furthermore, you are the first of the two siblings to have mated. Although Sesshoumaru has the rights of first born, in youkai society, the first heir to take a mate, also takes the throne. So in short, you and kagome are now Lord and Lady of the western lands."

Inuyasha almost choked on his own tongue when Myouga finished his sentence, and kagome just stared wide-eyed, not even breathing. "We are the rulers of the Inu-Youkai lands? But, but I thought that Sesshoumaru-sama resided in the family castle. How do we rule the lands if the castle is already inhabited?" kagome asked.

"Well that is simple Lady Kagome, we simply have to persuade Sesshoumaru to vacate the castle." Myouga said simply.

"Coax my brother to LEAVE the castle, yeah, right, that's gonna happen. Myouga, you of all people should know that Sesshoumaru is not one to give up something that would have a direct impact on his stupid pride and heritage."

"Lord Sesshoumaru, as well as Jaken, knew of this law. Your brother chose not to take a mate, when he knew that you and kagome were bound to bond. I can't explain it, but I only know that he made no move to prevent this."

"I don't get it…it wouldn't be hard for Sesshoumaru to find a mate. I mean, he IS royalty, and quite handsome, and overlooking his aggressiveness, he looks kinda sweet…" kagome began to ramble, but was stopped by the growing thunder in Inuyasha's chest.

"You checkin out my brother kagome?!" he asked through clenched teeth. Both Myouga and kagome just stared at him for a moment, and then burst into laughter, and inuyasha just `fehed'.

"So anyways myouga, when does this whole overtaking the crown thing have to take place?" kagome asked as her laughter subsided. Myouga grew serious as well, "I am sure that the board of Youkai Society has already been informed of this, so if you do not make a move to take the throne, they will come and do it for you, and it wont look nice." Myouga informed them.

Kagome and inuyasha thought for a moment, inuyasha still caught up in the fact that he was being FORCED to be part of his heritage. He had always wanted to be excepted by the youkai society that had shunned him from birth, why would they be so eager to make him reigning Lord?.

Kagome was the first out of her daze, and she clapped her hands together, startling both Myouga and inuyasha out of their thoughts. "Well then, it looks like we have some packing to do inuyasha, we should leave tomorrow morning, I want to get a chance to tell Sango and Miroku the news, and part properly." She said, almost cheerfully.

"Aye we do Lady Kagome. What do you say my Lord, are you willing to accept this new position?" Myouga asked inuyasha.

Inuyasha looked down to Myouga, and kept silent for a few moments. "Yeah, what the hell. If it pisses off my jack ass brother then I guess I'll do it." he said and smiled at kagome, flashing his fangs with his goofy grin. Kagome smiled back and kissed him on the nose. "Alright, lets go! I can't wait to tell Sango that I'm royalty!" kagome squealed before turning to leap from the tree.

Inuyasha sighed but quickly recovered with a smile as he leapt off the tree in pursuit of kagome. Myouga attached himself to inuyashas prayer beads and hung on for dear life as they raced back to the village. Inuyashas mouth began watering when the scent of a freshly cooked breakfast caught his nose, and his eyes sparkled as he licked his lips. He passed by kagome and crashed through the door of the small hut, almost taking out miroku in the process.

"Ahh! Inuyasha! You trying to kill me?" miroku gasped.

Sango laughed as her husband began dusting himself of the dirt inuyashas entrance had kicked up. "So inuyasha-chan, im guessing that either myouga found you, or you caught wind of the food and ran him over." She laughed as she coughed on the still settling dust in the air.

Kagome came in shortly after giggling at the expressions on everyone's faces. "Shut up sango, im not that predictable…now, where's that food I smelt?" inuyasha retorted as he searched around for the source of his desire. He found it sitting on a small table on the floor, and started for it, only to be pulled back by the collar of his haori. "Aaaagg! Kagome, what's the deal? Im hungry!"

"Inuyasha, you're so rude." She said, yanking at him again, then turning to sango, slapping another smile on her face, "you made us breakfast sango-chan? What's the special occasion? I was on my way to make YOU guys breakfast." Kagome asked, although still unable to remove the smile from her face.

"Well actually, we had some exciting news to tell you guys, and figured that we would discuss it over a nice warm meal." Sango replied with a gentle smile.

Kagome clapped her hands together, her smile only growing wider, "great! So do we, you go first though."

"No you go first kagome, I want to know what myouga had to say." Sango said.

"No you go first."

"No you."

"No you"

"You first kagome, I insist."

"Sango, really, I don't want to be rude, you go first."

Both the men sighed, and inuyasha growled along with his stomach.

"Fine" "fine" they said in unison.

"We're moving!" both girls screamed at the same time, then stopped their cheer to look at each other. "You-you is moving? Where?" kagome asked, and sango smiled. "I don't know yet, houshi says it's a surprise, so I guess I'll have to wait and see." Kagome looked to miroku and smiled. "So where are you two moving off to all of a sudden? Does this have something to do with myougas visit?" miroku asked inuyasha.

"Yeah, we're kickin my brother out and movin into the castle, orders of the Youkai Society." Inuyasha stated like it happened to him every day, and kagome jumped with excitement. Sango and mirokus jaws dropped, unable to reply. Sango was the first out of her daze, and trampled kagome to the ground, "my little kagome is royalty!!!!" she kept screaming. "But-but how?" miroku asked.

"Can we PLEASE eat first? Im freaking starving over here while you guys are screaming." Inuyasha complained. "Fine, we'll eat and talk." Kagome said, and the group, especially inuyasha, dug into the still warm eggs and meat.

Kagome and myouga explained everything to miroku and sango, and kagome kept begging miroku to tell her where he was planning on taking sango, but he wouldn't budge, `as is the training of a monk,' thought kagome, `strong and stubborn as a tree.'

By the time breakfast was long over, the girls finally stopped talking. The two of them had spent almost 2 hours dreaming of what their new lives were going to be like, kagomes only worry being sesshoumaru, who she would need to figure out a plan for.

The remainder of the day, the four of them lounged around the village, strolling to random places that they had grown to love and call home. They watched the sunset, and then counted shooting stars together, just like old times. The four of them fell asleep under the night sky, and woke up as soon as the soon appeared over the horizon, and then they watched the sun rise until it was about half way to high noon.

Kagome and sango helped each other pack, while the guys waited patiently outside. Kagome shoved everything into her yellow backpack, and sango put everything in the middle of a large piece of purple fabric, which she then tied on her back to form a Feudal-Era-style-backpack.

Kagome and sango hugged for what seemed like forever to inuyasha and miroku, who were happy with a simple handshake and a pat on the back. The girls parted and wiped away their tears. Kagome and inuyasha watched the other couple fly into the distance on the back of kirara, and were soon on their way to the west.

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About 4 hours later, the couple arrived at the boundaries of the western lands. Inuyasha was hesitant to cross, but was finally persuaded by kagome, who simply dragged him a good mile until he finally gave in and followed. Inuyasha was beginning to feel a bit strange, considering that he hadn't sensed his brother at all yet.

Kagome continued to run with a smile on her face, and a skip in her step/leap as you could say. Finally, the castle came into few, and she stopped. Inuyasha didn't hesitate to stop as well, and stood a few feet behind his mate. She turned to face him, and he glared as she smiled. "you didn't happen to already know that this was going to happen, and just FORGOT to tell me, did you kagome?" he questioned. "why I would never inuyasha! To tell you the truth, I didn't have the slightest clue that this was going to happen, this sure does put a sudden twist in things though doesn't it?" she asked, `and will also add to my list of suspects for the horror I foresaw.' She added to herself.

Kagome turned back to face her new home, `but I promised myself I wouldn't worry about that,' she thought, "for now, its just a change in scenery for all I care." She said outloud. "what was that kagome?" inuyasha asked.

Kagome didn't look at him, but kept her eyes focused ahead, "I said, your brothers here." She said quietly as she jerked her head in the direction of the new arrival.

Suteki: mwuahaha, cliffy again! I know this was short, sorry. Im writing this at work, and my breaks ending, so I'll have to do my shout outs next chapter, I do, however, want to dedicate this to Inuyahsha-fan from the AS boards, this wouldn't have gotten done today!! Hehe, ;) and thanks to all my reviewers, ill reply to everyone next time, as I already said. Till then, id love to hear what you thought!!! Reviews make my world turn, lol. ;) tata!