InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ The Tale of Sesshoumaru ❯ How to Piss off Sesshoumaru in Ten Easy Steps! ( Chapter 47 )

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“When will you be back, Sesshoumaru-sama?” Akanesuji asked him in a neutral tone. She was mad at him for sure, but she would not press the issue in front of everyone gathered in the courtyard. They were waiting on Sango. Hizumeha was leaned up against the water well with his spear ready, InuYasha holding Kagome in his arms and Miroku standing not too far from her. Hizumeha's wives were all in a line at the main building's door, sitting on their knees and shins having already said their good byes to their husband. Now they were just watching.

 

“Three days. Five, ten. What ever it takes.” was the reply she got. He would not look at her as he stood in the center of the crowd with his back to her, his hand on his sword pommel, his armor shining brightly from just being polished.

 

“Please come home before the snow falls.”

 

He ignored her request, watching instead the young demon slayer enter the courtyard in her black and red suit, carrying her overly large weapon and the neko Kirara with her. “Are you ready, Sango?” he asked her when she stood but a few feet from him, her mask over her face and the cat sat down on the floor. The girl only nodded yes.

 

“You are taking her but not me?” the dog asked in disbelief. If anyone was the finer demon slayer, it was her.

 

“She serves a purpose.”

 

Now where had Akanesuji heard those words before? She remembered quickly. It was his favorite thing to say when he was doing something he normally wouldn't do, an excuse that sounded like he had a secret worthwhile motive, when indeed he probably didn't. If he did have a motive, he certainly wasn't going to share it with her now. Akanesuji looked over to the monk, who had his arms crossed over his chest, also in a state of shock and grumbling. He obviously wanted Sango to stay here too, but for entirely different reasons.

 

“I guess it's time you guys left,” Kagome said, turning her face up to her loves. InuYasha planted a kiss on her, and she responded by opening her jaw and letting him explore her mouth. They kissed...and kissed...and kissed...and everyone grew tired of the show.

 

Sesshoumaru made a fake cough to separate them, which thankfully they did. He was envious of his brother's ability to be so free about his public affections with her. If he were not lord, would he be the same? He really did not know. He finally looked back to his wife, who stood up so tall there was no way he could ever kiss her in that state. He could pet her ear, but that wasn't what he wanted right now. All she would do would be to slobber on him and ruin his hair and clothes. It was just easiest to turn away.

 

“I love you Kagome. Be careful while I am gone.” the hanyou said to his woman, rubbing his forehead on hers, the tips of their noses touching. It was so sickning sweet Sesshoumaru thought he would gag. Sango only found herself jelous of their love for one another and questioning why Miroku couldn't be that way. She started walking for the gate with Kirara, Sesshoumaru and Hizumeha immediately behind her while InuYasha started finally pulling himself away from Kagome's arms.

 

“I love you!” the girl said, waving at him good bye as he nearly ran into the gate itself. He had been half turned, paying more attention to her than where he was going.

 

Everyone laughed, except for Sesshoumaru of course. Sango just ignored the whole thing. She was in no mood.

 

Once outside the gate, she mounted the flaming cat and the three demons started sniffing the air deeply. “That way,” one said pointing and in a blink of an eye, they were all gone from the estate's view.

 

Akanesuji closed her eyes and forced herself to shrink a foot, then two. Her belly hurt, but she squeaked out a third foot. She was now a little smaller and everyone noticed. “I'm not staying like this forever,” she explained when everyone gave her odd looks. She cracked her knuckles and pulled in the toes of her front paws, expanding them out to make them elongate and the toe that would be a thumb rotate on her wrist to make one. The weight of her dog form made her hands hurt, because there were no thick pads underneath, but the addition of a thumb was a blessing. Now she could at least pick things up.

 

“Now. Someone tell me what the hell is going on with Sango?” she asked everyone remaining.

 

The monk turned and walked back in. The mares followed suit. That left her and Kagome, Jaken and the tanuki alone out in the courtyard.

 

“Things didn't go so well between her and Miroku this morning.”

 

“Oh?”

 

“While she was packing her things, she told me that he has taken lovers.”

 

“Don't tell me she didn't realize he was that kind of man. I mean...he even tried to charm me. I thought she understood he liked to spread his seed everywhere.”

 

Kagome sighed. “This is the first time she's ever caught him actually spreading the seed. She had always thought before that he was just flirting to make her jealous.”

 

“Poor girl. I bet she is heartbroken.”

 

“Yes. That is why she is going on this hunt. She had to get away from him for a while.”

 

“I understand now. I'm surprised Sesshoumaru granted her request to join it.”

 

Kagome looked at her funny. “He asked her to go. Didn't you know?”

 

Akanesuji snarled up her lip. “No. My lord Sesshoumaru would never tell me such a thing.” She twisted her head to the side and popped the joints in her neck, then made a very strong effort to shrink some more. She would force Manatsu to shrink wither he liked it or not. Being in this dog form was not doing her any favors and she was now totally sick of it. “When did you say you needed to go back to your mother's again?”

“Next week?”

 

“Get your things. We're leaving this afternoon. I want to arrange your marriage. Sango isn't the only one who needs to get out of here.”

 

Kagome gave an uneasy smile and walked back to the women's wing, leaving Akanesuji out in the courtyard to contort and morph and transform back into some semblance of humanity. She ran into Shippo and Rin, who were packing their bags as well and asked them what they were doing.

 

“We're running away,” Rin told her matter-of-factly.

 

“Well so are we,” Kagome replied. “Your mother has decided we're going to the well while the others are gone. Why don't you join us instead?”

 

Shippo looked to Rin and grabbed up her hand as she stuffed her winter coat into a big sack. “Sounds like fun. Let's go with them,” he suggested to her before popping some rice cake into his mouth.

 

“That isn't the point of running away, Shippo. You don't run away with the people you're running away from.” Rin was absolutely incredulous.

 

“Shippo, don't run away from me,” Kagome said, picking him up and giving him a hug. “I don't care if you marry Rin. I think the two of you are very cute together.”

 

“See Rin?” he told her. “Kagome is great! She'd let us sleep together.”

 

“Hey...that isn't what I said.” Kagome held him straight out from her like a rag doll to look in his face. “I didn't say anything about sex.”

 

Shippo gave her a horrified look. “Gods Kagome! You too? Everyone thinks we've done it or something!”

 

“Now why would anyone think you guys had sex?” she asked him pointedly.

 

“Cause we spent last night together in Akanesuji's bed,” he mumbled. “But all we did was sleep. Sango locked Rin out of the women's wing.”

 

“Oh.” She sat him back down on the bed. “That's no big deal. That's just like going camping.”

 

“I thought so too, but her mom and dad didn't see it that way.”

 

“That's because they are her mom and dad, Shippo. It's their job to make sure Rin doesn't come home knocked up with kits. Rin's practically a princess. A really messed up youkai princess, but a princess none the less. She's not like you or me.”

 

“I am too!” Rin exclaimed. “Since when did I become a stinkin' princess?”

 

Kagome sat down next to her on the bed and put her arm around the little confused girl. “Rin, honey. You don't like being a lady of the Western Land?”

 

“No.”

 

“But you get to live in a nice home, have all the food you want, get pretty clothes.”

 

“So.”

 

“Have you ever seen how the village girls live? You would have been one of them had your father not taken you away from there. You would be married to some dirty farmer by now, working the fields every day and birthing out a bunch of kids who would probably die of sickness.”

 

“So.”

 

“I always wanted to be a princess when I was a little girl. My daddy died, and it was just me and my brother Sota. We had to move in with my grandpa 'cause we couldn't afford the house we were living in. Mom went back to working. It's only been the last couple of years now that she could stay home with us. We're living off donations to the temple. I go to school preparing for a job when I graduate, knowing that I am going to have to help support them. I'm hoping that I can give her lots of treasure when InuYasha and I get married so that she will never have to work again.”

 

“I'm sorry, Kagome,” Rin said, laying her head on the other girl's shoulder.

 

“It's o.k. My dreams are coming true. I'm marrying a prince.”

 

Rin sighed. “I hope my dreams come true. I want to become a demon slayer.”

 

“If you can just put up with your father for a few more years, you can train with InuYasha and I. I'm sure your mother wouldn't care.”

 

“Don't tell daddy, but mommy has already been training me,” she said quietly so it couldn't be heard outside the room.

 

“I'm not surprised.” Kagome said, squeezing the girl around the shoulder. “Your mommy is a really interesting woman.”

 

“I'll say she is,” Shippo said, shoving more things into the pack. “She is so nice.”

 

“You've not seen her mad at daddy.” Rin said to Shippo. “She can be a total bitch.”

 

“Rin!” Kagome said, shocked at her potty mouth.

 

“It's true. When she gets mad at daddy, she plays a game called “Shinobi-go-seek” with him. She'll run away, worrying him to death, then plays tricks on him until he apologizes.”

 

“That is brilliant!” Kagome declared. “I bet his lordship hates that.”

 

“Yep. That is why I am running away. He'll miss me when I'm gone, then come grumbling at my feet like he does mommies.”

 

“He grumbles at her feet?” That was a shocking idea. Sesshoumaru grumbling at someone's feet? Never.

 

“Oh yeah. You should see him. He's on his best behavior for months. Then he gets all moody and crappy again and it starts all over. In fact, it's just about time for them to get into another fight just so she can run away.”

 

“I see.” Kagome rolled her eyes. “Now I know why she wants to go to the well this week. She wants to be gone when he gets back.”

 

“Shippo!” Rin said, standing up from the bed and lifting her chin. “We are going to the well. If mommy wants to make daddy suffer, then I'm all up for it!”

 

“Yes Mam'” the kitsune said, admiring her spunk. That was his girl. All piss and vinegar. How would he ever find another one like her? He ate the rest of his rice cake and hopped up and down on top of the sack to pack it in tight while Kagome started packing and repacking her ugly yellow back pack. The food supplies were low, and she would have to stop at the kitchens before they all left.

 

Akanesuji got herself painfully to a size that would fit in the halls. She was an ugly sight, her belly big and almost dragging the ground, her face a human one with dog ears and hair sticking out everywhere, her back feet huge and her front feet humanoid. Crawling through the halls she made her way to her bedroom and laid on the bed gasping at the strain of it all. Sure enough, it smelled of Rin and Shippo.

 

There was no way she could fit in her clothes, but by the week's end she should be back into her kimono's. Calling for someone, anyone, she was glad when the tanuki chamberlain arrived to assist her. She had him pack her clothes into a sack, then from her various trunks she had him pack an assortment of gifts.

 

Traditionally the Yui-no gifts were supposed to be an obi, a chest of abalone, dried cuttlefish, dried soup stock, konbu, white hair or hemp braided into rope, a fan and a cask of wine. She picked the finest of her obi and had it folded and wrapped in paper along with a fan. She had the tanuki cut some of her hair and whip it into a braid of rope and put it in a jewelry size chest of abalone. Instead of the cask of wine, she had him fill another larger naga-noshi with gold brick and a third with ivory and mother of pearl hair combs. The edible gifts she could get from the kitchens, their usefulness more symbolism. Counting the items, they would come up to the blessed number of nine, as it should be. Surely Kagome's mother in the future still find use with gold brick and ivory. Hopefully times had not changed so much.

 

Doubting her choices, she had the tanuki retrieve Kagome, who seemed really pleased with the choices. She really fussed over the gold and ivory, saying that gold was still very useful in her time.

 

“How about jade? Will jade still work?” Akanesuji asked her, thinking to replace the food stuffs with the soft green stone cut into coin instead.

 

The girl only gleamed and beamed, her cheeks growing rosy.

 

“You're not from a noble family are you?” Akanesuji asked her warily. She did not want to insult the girl at all. The question was vague enough it could be taken two ways. The first way was to say that Kagome was not noble, the other way was that she was and Akanesuji was not offering the correct gifts.

 

“No. My grandfather is a priest. We live a very plain life.”

 

“Do you think these gifts will impress your mother?”

 

“Yes, very much so.”

 

Akanesuji sighed with relief. She had to make this match with InuYasha go through if her master plan of Inu world domination was to see fruition. She hadn't given up on it at all. “Let's go quickly. I don't want to run into the mares or Miroku. Them coming along would totally ruin my fun.”

 

“Rin and Shippo are going to run away with us.”

 

Akanesuji laughed with almost glee. “Oh won't that just piss of his highness!” She ordered the tanuki to write a note for her lord. It said something about “Nakodo business to attend to”, “will be home soon”, “don't worry about me”, “love you”, “oh by the way, Rin and Shippo are under my watchful eye”, “hope you're having fun with the demon slayer instead of me.”.

 

“Why tell him all that if you want to piss him off?”

 

“Because the truth hurts more than lies do with him. If I told him I was running away to another land or some other shit like that, he would only let me go knowing I'd come back eventually, sorry that I had run off.” Akanesuji ordered the tanuki not to give it to Jaken, but to deliver it only after his lordship figured out they were gone. Jaken would immediately run up to Sesshoumaru once his foot stepped in the gate, but the tanuki would wait until he had combed the house after not getting a warm welcome back. “I never lie. I only manipulate the truth. That way I am never sorry.”

 

“Wow. You really are a clever bitch like Rin said.” Kagome slapped her hands over her mouth just after she realized what she had said. She hadn't meant to insult her but to compliment her.

 

“No offense taken,” the dog demoness said. “I hope someday she is as clever as I am.”

 

“I think she's already there.”

 

The two women smiled at each other knowingly then went down the halls to collect up the children.