InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Wanted ❯ The Banquet ( Chapter 7 )

Chapter7 The Banquet

 

Nich: Cool another update, this girl is on a roll

Dez: Oh hush, go flirt with Miroku

Mir: No don't flirt with me...

Nich: Awe you know you want me to *smiles*

Dez: Both of you shut up gosh, anyways on to the chapter, I do not own Inuyasha only Rumiko Takahashi does.

 

Later that night Lady Nekio had called a halt on the banquet because it was almost time for the 3rd harvest moon, so she then dismissed everyone back to their respective rooms to rest up from their long journey. Lady Nekio had Ryou and Inuyasha share a room in the East quarters, most likely cause of the status reasons, then near them she had Koga and Sango share rooms, after finding out that they were going to be mates. Farther down the hall had a room for Rin and Shippou, including Jaken since he was to watch over them. Then near the end of the hall was Miroku's room connected to Nicholai's room (A/:N just wanted to torture them ^_~) across from their rooms was Kagome's also connected to Sesshomaru's.

 

In Inuyasha and Ryou's room those two we're having an argument about sleeping arrangements. “Ryou fuck you, I'm not sleeping in the same bed as you.”

“Inuyasha just get in the damn bed now.”

He could easily tell that Ryou was angry but didn't want to sleep in the bed with him. Inuyasha then looked towards the bathing chambers and got an idea. “Alright Ryou I'll get in the bed.” Ryou slightly surprised watched as Inuyasha went towards the bed away from the wardrobe. Then suddenly Inuyasha rushed past Ryou and into the bathing chambers closing the door quickly and bracing his shoulder against it feeling Ryou bang on the door and screaming loudly at him. “INUYASHA OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW.” “NO GO AWAY.” Ryou then stopped banging on the door and turned to sit down on the bed looking at the door. “Just come out the bathroom Inuyasha, you can stay on your side of the bed and I promise I won't do anything perverted.” Slowly Inuyasha opened the door and walked out, cautiously he walked passed Ryou to the other side of the bed and gets in and staying close to the edge. Ryou then looked at him smiling and got up to turn the lights out then walks back over to the bed and getting in facing towards Inuyasha. “Good night my puppy” “Feh good night”

 

The next day was uneventful; most of the group was outside except for Miroku who had been wandering around and had come upon a large library, which to his delight had many interesting things in it. Outside Nicholai realized that the whole group was out there except for Miroku so he went back inside the palace to search around for him, occasionally sniffing the air for his sent. He finally realized he was going in circles but he could tell that Miroku was around that specific area; he then turned a corner and noticed a door slightly ajar so he sneaked closer and peeked in seeing Miroku sitting in a chair with a huge book in his hands with an expression of concentration. Nicholai then quietly opened the door wider and slipped in with the ease of an expert thief…which he was.

 

Miroku still reading the book he took off the shelf several minutes ago about ancient youkai cultures was completely freaked out of his mind when Nicholai pulled the book out of his hand and pushed him more against the back of the chair. He then straddled him and leaned forward some. “Why in here all alone little houshi?” Miroku looked at him slightly in shock then gulped. “I…uh…just was wandering around the palace and found this room.” “You should have asked one of us to come with you, anything could happen.” Nicholai smiled sweetly at him, `There's that blush again, so cute' He then moved and gave Miroku back the book he was reading who looked like a strawberry which Nicholai licked his lips at that thought. He then walked over to the shelves of books reading each title to find something he could read. `If only they had wonderful fiction about thieves'

 

Silently Miroku would sometimes look towards Nicholai but would turn back towards the book blushing furiously. `What am I doing? Stop looking at you baka houshi he's a guy and you're a guy, there's no way you can be attracted to guys when you need to look for a female that can bare you a child.' Miroku tried to ignore his inner thoughts and still periodically look at Nicholai but jumped when he notice Nicholai was sitting on the couch across from him with a very heavy looking book. Miroku looked back down at his book seeing that Nicholai was looking at him in an *oh he's so cute* kind of look. Nicholai then stood up and went to put the book back and turned back to Miroku smiling. “I'm not in the mood for reading; you want to take a walk with me?” Miroku looked at him surprised but slowly nodded his head and put the book down on the table in front of him and stood up walking towards the door and opening it as Nicholai came closer. They both then walked out together and started to talk about different things that interested them; they both didn't notice the sly pink eyes watching them with a wonderful idea for them.

 

Outside it was sunny and everyone was out there, even the great Sesshomaru was out there but also talking to a lovely lady by the name of Kagome. They were near a fountain that had the shape of a great Neko youkai on it with water coming from its mouth with jewels embedded into his fur. Kagome had sat down on the little stone bench that was near it and Sesshomaru was standing a few feet away. “Sesshomaru…look I'm sorry for slapping you that day at Ryou-sama's palace.” He turned to her surprised that she would say she's sorry, he then walked over to her and sat down beside her and looked at her then grabbing her chin softly in his right hand he leaned forward kissing her passionately.

 

Kagome was a little shocked but soon started to kiss him back but then pushed him away as Shippo and Rin came around the corner yelling for Jaken, Rin saw Sesshomaru and ran over to hug him tightly not noticing what they had walked in on. “Sesshomaru-sama have u seen Jaken?” Sesshomaru pointed towards a huge tree where the grass was high and Rin hugged him again then grabbed Shippo's hand and pulled him towards where Jaken was. Kagome then softly giggled to herself as she pictured those two finding Jaken, Sesshomaru looked at her out of the corner of his eye and he stood up turning to her and holding his hand out. Kagome looked at his hand then up at his face slowly placing her hand in his and standing up, and then she smiled at him and pulled him towards the castle.

 

Outside the gate entrance Koga and Sango were walking towards the village and holding hands. “Sango I'm so glad you're going to be my mate.” Koga grinned at her and leaned forward kissing her softly on the lips and then pulled her off the road and turned her around lightly pressing her back against a tree and starting to kiss her more roughly. Sango moaned lightly into his mouth then pushed him away as she saw a couple of people coming up the road; she then turned away from him blushing and started to walk back to the castle when Koga rushed forward and grabbed her hand so they can walk back together.

 

Back inside the castle Ryou was trying to wake up Inuyasha since he wanted to have some fun, but Inuyasha kept slapping his hands away as Ryou would reach over to shake him. “God Damnit Inuyasha get your ass up!” “No…go…away” Inuyasha yawned and pulled the covers over his head then yelped as Ryou pounced on him biting his neck. “Come on Inuyasha, the banquet is tomorrow.” Inuyasha then turned over onto his back knocking Ryou off of him and sits up rubbing his eyes. “You're so annoying.” He then gets up and ignoring Ryou sticking his tongue out at him, he walks into the bathing chambers.

 

Several minutes later Inuyasha came out the bathroom drying his hair with a towel and walks over to the wardrobe and opening it, he grabs a pair of dark red hakama's and navy blue kimono top then puts them on and turns towards the bed glaring at Ryou. “Stop looking at my ass you lecher.” Ryou grins then gets off the bed walking over to Inuyasha and pushing him against the wardrobe kissing and nipping the side of his neck. He then pulled back and turned away, “We should get going, you've been sleep for some time so its time for lunch.” Ryou then started to walk towards the door and opened it wait for Inuyasha who breathed deeply then walked towards him and they both left to go to the dinning hall.

 

Finally after about five minutes everyone was seated to the dinning table to get ready to eat lunch. Each person was chattering to the other about things that happened to them that morning and Jaken was sitting in between Shippo and Rin and trying to keep them from throwing food at each other but occasionally gets hit in the head. Lady Nekio walked in and sat at the head of the table, she then snaps her fingers and the servants walk out a door bringing lots of food. As the servants finished serving the food and when they left Nekio looked towards Inuyasha and smiled, “So how do you like being mated to Ryou?” Inuyasha blushed slightly and cleared his throat, “Um…its fine.” Nekio chuckled and Inuyasha glared at Koga as he heard him snicker.

 

After lunch everyone decided to take a trip to the river that was in back of the castle since it was so hot. Kagome and Sango wore bathing suits that she had brought from her time, Kagome wore a dark green one-piece bathing suit and Sango wore a dark blue two piece bathing suit that had a low cut bikini and the top hooked in the front. Inuyasha and Miroku wore swimming trunks and Inuyasha had dark red with little swords going across the bottom and Miroku had a dark purple that matched his eyes. The Four of them went to the river and they found Sesshomaru, Koga, Ryou, and Nicholai already out there and in the water.

 

Miroku's breath caught when he saw Nicholai swimming around, and when he smiled at him, Miroku blushed a bright red but turned to follow Inuyasha over to a tree that's closest to the river. He sat down on the rock and laughed as Inuyasha jumped off the tree and into the river splashing Sesshomaru and Ryou, then turned and watched Kagome and Sango giggle as they slowly walked into the river then laughs again as Inuyasha grabs both of the girls hands and pulls them into the water. Miroku then got up and started to walk towards the water's edge not noticing the figure walking towards him from behind, all of sudden as he went to step into the water Nicholai grabs him from behind and jumps in the water. Miroku swam back to the surface and started shivering from the cold; he let out a yelp feeling someone grab his waist. “Miroku calm down it's just me.” Nicholai chuckled softly and turned him around to face him and leaned forward to kiss him but Miroku pushed him away and went to swim back towards the water's edge then got out still shivering and blushing. “Hey I'm going back inside, I'll see you guys at dinner.” The group yelled cya and continued playing but a certain ice youkai was a bit depressed. `I should have known he would reject me.' He sighed wearily and also got out the water to go back inside leaving a trail of ice behind him.

 

Later after everyone was done swimming they all went inside to get ready to eat dinner, when they got into the dinning hall Miroku and Nicholai were already there but they could feel the tension between the two but not mentioning the in the ice that was around Nicholai. They sat down and Kagome tried to figure out what was wrong with him but he wouldn't say anything so she just sat down. Lady Nekio came in and sat down, silently observing each person at the table and lingering a little longer on Nicholai but then called for the food to be brought out. When every one was done eating she stood up and lightly clapped her hands, she smiled as everyone turned to look at her. “To let you know the harvest moon is tomorrow and so is the banquet, I want you to rest up so you can enjoy yourselves tomorrow night.” The people at the table started to talk about the banquet and got up to go to bed and Shippo and Rin ran around the table to give Nekio a hug then went off to bed with Jaken following behind them.

 

The next day they were either in their own rooms or visiting each other so that they wouldn't be in the way of the servants as they prepared for the banquet. Kagome was in Sango's room and they were talking about Kagome's little crush on Sesshomaru, Koga was in Inuyasha's room arguing about who's going to kill Naraku, and Ryou was in Sesshomaru's room and they were discussing plans about how he should approach Kagome and ask her to be his mate. “You know you should do what I did with Inuyasha.” Ryou grinning at him but backed away as Sesshomaru almost hit him with his poison claw. “I'm not going to do that, it has to be something romantic.” Sesshomaru sighed and looked out the window then quickly looked at Ryou as he said ah ha. “What are you ah ha-ing about?” “Well since the banquet is tonight you should ask her to the banquet, and buy her something nice.” “You know that's the smartest thing you've said in centuries.” Ryou nodded then glared at him and watched as he got up, “Where are you going?” “I'm going to go buy her something like you said.” He then opened the door and walked out leaving Ryou, but then he got up and went after him so that he could also buy Inuyasha something.

 

In Miroku's rooms he was sitting down at a desk reading the book he was reading the other day in the library. He then heard a knock on the door that connects his room with Nicholai's; he said enter and put the book down as Nicholai walked in and sat down on his bed. “Ohayou Miroku and gomen for yesterday I didn't mean to scare you off.” He looked down ready for Miroku to yell at him but he just got up and placed his hand on his shoulder. “Its alright, I was just nervous.” Miroku smiled at him as he looked up, they then started talking about various things.

 

In Sango's room Kagome was blushing strawberry red as Sango was provoking her and saying things like `Sessho is a nice nickname' and `he has a nice ass too'. “Alright Sango I do have a crush on him gosh, but I think it could be more then that.” She blushed again as Sango giggled and they both started laughing thinking of what Sesshomaru would say if he knew what they were talking about.

 

Finally it was almost time for the banquet and everyone was back in their respective rooms and Ryou was in his and gave Inuyasha his gift which was a beautiful silver bracelet with topaz's and ruby's encrusted in it. Inuyasha grinned and hugged him tightly then backed away coughing nervously then they both started to get ready. Sesshomaru knocked on the door to Kagome's room and walked in as she opened it and turned to her slightly looking fidgety. “I…um…wanted to ask if you wanted to go to the banquet with? I also got you a gift.” He reached into his haori and pulled out a beautiful necklace with a sapphire moon on the end of it and handed it to her. Kagome looked surprised but took it and stared admiringly at it, she then pulled it over her head and smiled at him and leaned up kissing him lightly on the lips. “Arigato Sesshomaru.” She then pushed him towards the door, “I have to get dressed now.” He then left smiling lightly and walked into his rooms to get ready.

 

A couple of hours later and everyone was ready for the banquet; they all walked down to the ball room in pairs. In the lead were Ryou and Inuyasha, Sesshomaru and Kagome, Sango and Koga, and Miroku behind them with Nicholai. They got down stairs and looked around as they saw a whole lot of youkai, then walked over to Nekio seeing her talking to another female youkai. Inuyasha grinned and yelled loudly as the group approached her, “Hey Nekio who's the chick?” Said chick was slightly shorter then Nekio who was the same height as Inuyasha which would make her the same height as Kagome, she was wearing a yellow kimono with green leaves going across the bottom of it matching her beautiful eyes and hair, and Nekio was wearing a pink kimono with light pink sakura blossoms on it. Nekio looked towards Inuyasha and smiled, “This is Ryoko, she's a neko youkai like me.” Ryoko smiled shyly and stepped behind Nekio some and waved, they then all found some tables near the back and sat down to get ready for the food that was soon to be served.

 

When the food had been served and everyone had eaten they all stood up to dance to the beautiful music that was playing, even Ryou and Inuyasha got up to dance except for Miroku and Nicholai. Nekio saw this and walked over to them, “Hey you guys should go out there and dance together.” She smiled warmly at them and grabbed both their arms pulling them out of their seats and pushing them towards the dance floor and whispering in their ears to have fun.

 

Nicholai and Miroku both chuckled as Nekio whispered to them and Nicholai pulled Miroku deeper into the crowd and stopped as he pulled him against himself and slowly started to sway to the music that was playing. Miroku had his arms on Nicholai's shoulders as he smiled shyly up at him and cautiously moved a bit closer to him. Nicholai had his arms around Miroku's waist and held him tightly as he noticed some of the youkai looking at Miroku in a lustful sort of way; he then looked down as he felt he was being watched and saw twin deep purple eyes staring at him. “What's wrong Nicholai?” He smiled softly at him and kissed him lightly on his head, “Nothing lets just continue dancing.” Miroku nodded and leaned his head against Nicholai's chest and closed his eyes.

 

Later that night everyone watched as all of the youkai left, some of the youkai giving them dirty looks as they walked pass. When all of the youkai were gone they each left to go to their rooms, but this time with Kagome going to Sesshomaru's room and Miroku going to Nicholai's. Silently a shadow passed through the halls unaware to the other's who were soundly asleep each of them holding the other.

 

 

Dez: OMG I'm so sorry everyone, this took longer then expected cause I've been like having some problems at school so I apologize.

Inu: Yeah like they believe you

Dez: *frowns* they should believe me

Inu: Nope they all hate u *laughs*

Dez: That's so mean *cries*

Nich: *sighs* anyways thanks for reading the story and plz review