The next morning Kagome
was awakened by a soft hand on her cheek. She opened her eyes and
smiled,
seeing Inuyasha’s golden eyes peering down at her.
“Morning love,” Inuyasha
said barely above a whisper, making sure not to wake the others.
“It is a lovely morning,”
Kagome yawned with a smile and stretched. She was about to continue but
Inuyasha
silenced her with a finger to his lips, indicating someone was awake.
“Really Inuyasha. Are
you in such a hurry to take Kagome-chan from us, that you must wake her
so
early,” Miroku growled.
Inuyasha glared daggers
at Miroku but before he could act on his thoughts, a hand bopped Miroku
on
the head.
“Enough you,” Sango moaned,
beginning to wake up.
Kagome snickered and
got out of her sleeping bag. She turned around after straightening her
clothing
and looked at Miroku.
“In fact, Miroku-chan,
Inuyasha let me sleep too long. I wanted to be up earlier than this. I
would
say that was thoughtful of him, wouldn’t
you,” Kagome
said with her hand on her hip.
Miroku grunted in response,
hating that Kagome was right.
Kagome smirked and turned
away from the monk to roll up her sleeping bag.
Inuyasha grinned and
stood up with tetsusaiga at his side and turned to go out of the hut.
“Are you not eating breakfast?”
Sango asked.
“No, we will eat on the
way. We are already behind schedule,” Kagome said with a smile.
“How long will you be
gone?” Sango asked, beating the others to it.
Kagome shrugged her shoulders
and looked out the doorway to the waiting Inuyasha.
“I don’t know, perhaps
a week,” Kagome said with a look over her shoulder as she walked out
the
door.
Kagome climbed up onto
Inuyasha’s back and with a wave behind her they were off.
Inuyasha ran as fast
as his legs could carry him, anxious to get to the cottage. He smiled
as
he thought of his conversation the previous night with Myoga.
“Myoga, I need to
speak with you,” Inuyasha said quietly, walking out of Kaeda’s hut.
“Yes my lord,” the flea said,
jumping up onto Inuyasha’s shoulder.
“Myoga, you know that I will
need to remove the seal in order for Kagome to enter the house,”
Inuyasha
said seriously.
“Yes, and you will be most
vulnerable,” Myoga said, looking at the stern expression on Inuyasha’s
face.
“I know that. I need a guardian,
for the time we are there,” Inuyasha said unhappy, knowing that he
would
not be able to protect himself and Kagome during mating.
“There is one who is most
trustworthy. He is one of the guardians of the earthly representation
of
your father’s tomb,” Myoga said with a nod.
“If he comes, then who will
guard…” Inuyasha began, but Myoga silenced him.
“My lord, there is always
another to fill in. Your father was well respected of the youkai,”
Myoga
said.
“Myoga, you know the youkai
do not take it well when a fellow youkai takes a human mate,” Inuyasha
said
plainly.
“I know, my lord. He whom
I speak of feels differently. He was the youkai that was protecting you
and
your mother when you were attacked. He was wounded badly and could not
fight
the hordes of youkai when they came. He nearly died from his injuries
and
took a position protecting your father’s tomb. I know he will protect
you
and Lady Kagome without a second thought,” Myoga explained.
“I had no idea we were being
protected. I thought that all loyalties were abandoned when father
died,”
Inuyasha said, shocked at this information.
“There are still youkai that
feel you are the rightful heir to the Western Lands and not your
brother,”
Myoga said to Inuyasha’s surprise.
“Then why do they not do something
about it?” Inuyasha growled.
“Fear and their small
numbers,” Myoga said with a sigh. “Besides, do you honestly think you
could
defend your father’s land right now?” Myoga added.
“No,” Inuyasha mumbled.
“Why not take things one step
at a time. You have many years to make up for. Become better skilled
and
enjoy your mate. Become a leader and an example to others. Then when
and
if you decide to take on your brother, you will have loyal followers
behind
you, and your reign will be respected,” Myoga said, trying to make
Inuyasha
understand that he needed to live for himself and his mate, not attain
happiness
only to loose it, because he did not take the time he needed to be
prepared
for it.
“Remember my lord, when you
take lady Kagome as a mate, there will be two of you to think about,
and
if Kami-sama is gracious, possibly pups too. This will no longer be
about
you. It will be about your family,” Myoga said, narrowing his eyes at
his
young charge.
“I do understand, Myoga,”
Inuyasha said, deep in thought about the flea’s words.
“I am glad, my lord. Now I
will go and summon Shinzen to the cottage. I will be with him, so we
will
wait for you outside the seal’s boundaries,” Myoga said, jumping down
from
Inuyasha’s shoulder and bounding off into the forest.
“Thank you, my friend,” Inuyasha
said softly to the bouncing flea.
Inuyasha smiled and gripped
Kagome’s legs tighter as he ran through the trees.
Soon they came upon a
familiar clearing that had a stream running through it. Inuyasha
stopped
and helped Kagome off his back.
“Are we there?” Kagome
asked, looking around and seeing no house.
“No, but I remembered
that we had not eaten yet this morning,” Inuyasha said, going over to
some
bushes and picking the berries that grew on them.
Kagome pulled out the
picnic blanket from her backpack and spread it out.
Inuyasha brought over
many colored berries and laid them on the blanket.
“Here,” Kagome said,
handing Inuyasha a bottle of water.
“Thank you,” he said
with berries in his mouth.
Kagome giggled at him.
“What’s so funny?” he
asked, swallowing the berries.
“You look cute with berry
juice on your lips,” Kagome said, giggling.
“Oh, really. Would you
like to help me clean them?” Inuyasha asked in a low husky voice.
The tone of his voice
sent little shivers down Kagome’s back.
With a smirk, Kagome
pulled a tissue from her backpack and wiped Inuyasha’s lips.
Inuyasha growled and
leaped at her, pinning her down. “That was not what I had in mind,” he
said
softly.
“Oh and what did you…”
Kagome began but was cut off by Inuyasha claiming her lips in a heated
kiss.
Kagome’s mind was floating
in the clouds. Inuyasha’s kisses were pure heaven on earth. All too
soon
for Kagome’s liking,
Inuyasha was pulling
her up off the ground.
She looked at him, puzzled.
“If I did not stop then,
we would not make it to the cottage,” Inuyasha said, blushing.
Kagome smiled at him
and stood up. “Well then, I suggest that we keep moving so we can get
there
sooner, don’t you agree?” Kagome said, bending down to ruffle the hair
behind
Inuyasha’s ears, as he was folding up the blanket.
That was all the encouragement
that he needed. Inuyasha picked up the blanket and was trying to stuff
it
back into Kagome’s backpack, when giggling stopped him.
“What?” he growled.
“Need some help?” Kagome
asked, still giggling.
Inuyasha looked down
at what he was doing. In his hurry he was trying to put the blanket
into
the small pouch in the front of the backpack.
Inuyasha humphed and
put the blanket in the right compartment, then handed the bag to Kagome.
“You know, you are cute
when you are flustered,” Kagome said with a smile.
“Ooh, I’ll show you flustered,”
Inuyasha growled and crouched down to pounce on Kagome.
“Now we are never going
to get there,” Kagome said with a wiggle of her index finger in
Inuyasha’s
face.
“I know… I will deal
with you when we get there,” Inuyasha growled, swinging Kagome up onto
his
back.
In a flash they were
back on their way to Inuyasha’s childhood home.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
In no time, Inuyasha
began to slow down as the shape of a building came into view. Inuyasha
stopped
and let Kagome off his back.
Inuyasha took a deep
breath. “We are home,” he said with a smile to Kagome.
“Home,” Kagome smiled
and put her hand on Inuyasha’s shoulder. “I like the sound of that,”
she
said.
“My lord,” a soft voice
said from beside Inuyasha and Kagome.
Kagome was getting use
to Myoga popping up out of nowhere.
“Oh Myoga-san, I forgot
about you. I’m sorry. Did you have to hop all the way here or did you…”
Kagome
trailed off as she turned to the direction of Myoga’s voice and froze
in
place.
Before her was a very
large grey wolf youkai.
Kagome was speechless
and could not take her eyes off the large wolf. Kagome made gasping
noises
and began to back up from the large youkai, but her escape was stopped
by
a pair of hands around her waist.
“Shh. It’s alright. He
is a friend,” Inuyasha cooed in Kagome’s ears as he put his hands
around
her waist.
“It’s… It’s a…” Kagome
stammered.
“I am a wolf youkai,
your ladyship. Inuyasha-sama, it is good to see you. My, you have grown
since
I last saw you,” Shinzen said bowing to Inuyasha.
“I remember you now.
You were the one who pulled me from the stream when I fell out of the
cherry
tree over there. I thank you for that, but not for the tanning my
mother
gave me when you brought me to her after I had disobeyed her and
climbed
the tree anyhow,” Inuyasha said, smiling at the memory, motioning to
the
tree in the distance.
“My most humble apologies.
I regret that I could not save you both. I am glad that you were
unharmed
in the attack,” Shinzen said with a faint smile.
“Inuyasha, he is not
going to...” Kagome stuttered with wide eyes, as she turned around to
look
Inuyasha in the eyes.
“No love, no,” Inuyasha
said, shaking his head.
“No, my lady. I am here
to stand guard over you and Lord Inuyasha,” Shinzen explained.
“Please, call me Kagome.
And your name is?” Kagome said, walking to the now sitting youkai.
“My name is Shinzen,
Kagome-sama,” he answered, looking to Inuyasha for approval of calling
his
mate by her given name.
Inuyasha smiled and nodded, indicating
that was fine with
him. Since that was how Kagome wanted things, so be it.
“My lord, if you will
please remove the seal so that lady Kagome may look at the house,”
Myoga
said, bouncing up onto Inuyasha’s shoulder.
Inuyasha nodded and walked
to a tree that had a clump of hair on it and looked like it was stained
with
blood. Inuyasha took a claw and pierced the clump of hair on
the tree
and the mists that were shrouding the house faded and before the group
was
a fairly large house.
“This is the vacation
house?” Kagome whispered more to herself, but forgot that she was in
the
company of youkai that have keen ears.
“Yes, my lady. His late
lordship had two homes, this one, and the large castle that Sesshomaru
has
taken over,” Myoga answered.
“I see,” Kagome said
with a nod.
“Come, let us get inside
and get a fire going,” Inuyasha said, walking toward the house.
Kagome picked up her
bag from where it rested on the ground at her feet. She looked over the
house
as she approached it. It was large by modern day Tokyo standards. It
had
three parts to it. In the middle there was a large building and a
smaller
one on each side. It kind of reminded her of the teahouse that she had
seen
in Kyoto when her family had gone to the Cherry Blossom Festival there
last
year.
Kagome walked slowly
to the main door and took off her shoes. She stepped into the house and
her
breath caught in her throat. It looked like something that would have
come
out of her history books. In the middle of the room was a large sunken
hearth
and the room had tatami mats on the floors. Off to the right and left
were
shoji screens, separating the “wings” of the house. It was beautiful.
It
looked like someone had lived here for many years, even down to the
cushions
stacked in the one corner and the low table by them, ready for guests
to
use them.
Kagome’s eyes went over
the entire room that she was in, when someone emerging from her left
caught
her attention. It was a man with long gray hair.
“Your ladyship,” the
man bowed to Kagome, and then it dawned on her who this man was.
“Shinzen?” Kagome questioned.
“Yes, my lady. This form
is smaller and less intimidating than that of my youkai form,” Shinzen
explained
as he walked up to Kagome.
“I like this form. I
still need to get used to the other one,” Kagome said with a smile.
“My lady, your bath awaits,”
Shinzen said, motioning to the shoji screen in the direction that he
had
just come from.
“What do you mean? At
this point in this time, indoor plumbing does not exist yet,” Kagome
said,
running through her history lessons in her head.
“No, my lady. This house
does not have indoor water, if that is what you call this plumbing. In
the
bath house, there is a sunken pool that is fed by the hot spring and is
controlled
by a dam of sorts,” Shinzen explained as they walked to the shoji
screen.
Shinzen pushed the screen
open and motioned for Kagome to go in. She did, and found what they
would
have called in modern day Japan, a rural bathhouse. It had the sunken
“tub”
and a low bench to put clothing on.
“Yes, we have these in
modern times. This is just like you would find at a shrine,” Kagome
explained
to Shinzen.
“I see. Here is a yukata
for your ladyship to put on after your bath. His lordship will bring
other
clothes for you,” Shinzen said, motioning to the folded yukata on the
bench.
“Thank you, Shinzen-san,”
Kagome said with a bow, as he walked to the shoji screen door.
“It is my pleasure to
serve you, my lady,” Shinzen said with a low bow before he opened the
screen
and stepped out into the main room.
Kagome smiled as Shinzen
closed the screen to give her some privacy for her bath.
‘I feel sorry for him,
having to live with Inuyasha’s mother’s death on his mind,’ Kagome
thought
sadly.
Kagome took off her clothes
and placed them on the bench beside the yukata. She put a toe in the
water
and was surprised to find it quite warm. Slowly she descended into the
water
and just let her body relax.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
“My lord,” Shinzen said,
as he stood at the shoji screen on the opposite side of the house from
the
bathhouse.
“Yes, please come in,
Shinzen-san,” Inuyasha said from the other side of the screen.
Shinzen entered the room
and saw Inuyasha opening up the drawers in the tansu that was built
into
the wall.
“My lord, what are you
looking for?” Shinzen asked, hoping that he could help.
“I am looking for...
ah, here they are,” Inuyasha said, pulling two large lacquer boxes out
from
a drawer. One was black and one was red.
“What are in those, my
lord?” Shinzen asked, curious as Inuyasha placed them carefully on the
floor.
“These were my parents’,”
Inuyasha said simply.
“I see,” Shinzen said,
already having an idea of what the boxes contained, but would push
Inuyasha
no further on the contents.
“Shinzen-san, will you
take the red box and place it by the bathhouse door for me?” Inuyasha
asked,
motioning to the box that was on the floor.
“Of course. Should I
tell her ladyship that it is there?” Shinzen asked, not feeling
comfortable
walking into the bathhouse with Kagome in there and the possibilities
of
seeing something that he should not.
“No. I will take it in
to her once I have changed my clothes,” Inuyasha said, taking
tetsusaiga
off his hip and beginning to remove his kimono.
“As you wish,” Shinzen
replied. He picked up the box for Kagome and headed to the bathhouse
screen.
“My lord, I have the
parchment that you asked for,” Myoga said, once Shinzen had left.
“Good. I will need both
you and Shinzen to be present for that and to witness it,” Inuyasha
said
as he opened the box that lay before him.
“Why is this needed?
You marking the Lady Kagome will stand up to any youkai that contest
it,”
Myoga said, not understanding Inuyasha’s reasonings for a human
marriage
parchment.
“Yes, my mark will uphold
to youkai laws, but not to human. My marking her will not hold up in
her
time,” Inuyasha explained as he pulled a white garment from the box.
“My lord, is that...”
Myoga said with wide eyes.
“Yes, this is the hakama
and haroi that my father wore in the ceremony with my mother,” Inuyasha
said
as he sniffed the garment that held his father’s scent.
The conversation was
interrupted by Shinzen opening the shoji screen to the room and walking
in.
“Excuse me, my lord.
I hope that I was not interrupting,” Shinzen said quietly.
“No. Of course not, my
friend,” Inuyasha said with a smile.
“My lord, may I say that
you have calmed down since the Lady Kagome has come into your life,”
Myoga
said with a smile.
“In a way I have, but
I would not be this way outside of this house. I do not want the others
to
think that I have gone soft. That would make Kagome more of a target
than
she already will be,” Inuyasha said, putting the under kimono on.
“I see,” Myoga said,
understanding Inuyasha’s reasons.
“My lord, I have placed
the Lady Kagome’s box before the bathhouse shoji screen as you asked. I
believe
that she may have fallen asleep in the pool. I heard a faint growling
noise
within the bathhouse.” Shinzen said, as Inuyasha stepped into the white
hakama
and tied the waist.
“I will tend to her,”
Inuyasha said as he slipped the accompanying white haroi on and tied
the
tassel that closed the front.
“My lord, you have such
a resemblance to your father,” Shinzen said with a smile.
“Yes, the likeness is
uncanny,” Myoga said, bouncing over beside Shinzen.
“Thank you. Now I must
awaken Kagome,” Inuyasha said as he walked out of the room and headed
toward
the screen for the bathhouse.
Inuyasha stopped outside
the bathhouse screen and took a deep cleansing breath to calm the
butterflies
that were dancing in his stomach.
“Kagome,” Inuyasha called
softly. He received no reply, other than the faint growling that
Shinzen
had mentioned. Inuyasha listened for a moment and was sure that the
sound
was indeed Kagome snoring. Inuyasha smiled at this, quietly opening the
screen
and walking into the bathhouse.
Kagome had fallen asleep
and had her head resting on a rock on the side of the pool and she was
floating
on her back. A deep blush spread over Inuyasha’s cheeks and a heat
built
up in his loins at the sight of Kagome’s naked form floating in the
water.
Shaking
his head to clear some of the
passionate thoughts from his mind, Inuyasha kneeled down beside
Kagome’s
head and caressed her cheek. Kagome cooed in her sleep but
did not
awaken. Inuyasha leaned down and brushed a soft kiss over Kagome’s
forehead.
“Awaken
my love,” Inuyasha whispered.
Kagome’s
eyes fluttered open and a
large smile spread across her face.
“Hello
there,” Kagome smiled up at
Inuyasha.
“Did you
enjoy the bath?” he asked.
“Well,
did you enjoy the view?” Kagome
grinned, as Inuyasha blushed.
“Very
beautiful, my love. Are you ready
to get dressed? I have a gift for you,” Inuyasha said standing up.
“Yes. Can
you hand me my towel?” Kagome
asked, standing up.
“I…I…
wow,” Inuyasha stuttered as he
handed her the towel she asked for.
“You are
so cute when you blush,” Kagome
giggled as she dried herself off.
Inuyasha
turned his back to Kagome
while she was putting on the yukata. He walked to the screen door where
he
left the lacquer box for her.
“Here.
This is for you,” Inuyasha said,
walking toward Kagome with the box.
“Thank
you,” Kagome said, sitting down
on the bench and opening the box.
Inside
the box was a beautiful white
silk Kimono set.
“Oh,
Inuyasha, it is beautiful. Thank
you,” Kagome said, pulling Inuyasha into a hug and kissing him.
“You’re
welcome, my love. I want you
to wear it. Do you need help with it?” Inuyasha said, holding Kagome
away
from him a bit so that he could look at her happy face.
“No, I
know how to wear this type of
kimono, I have dreamed about wearing one of these many times,” Kagome
said
with a smile.
“Alright,
I’ll leave you to get ready,”
Inuyasha said, turning to leave the bathhouse.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Inuyasha
closed the screen behind him
and made his way to the other room across the main room. He walked in
through
the screen and headed past Myoga and Shinzen to the far wall.
“My lord,
where is the lady Kagome?”
Myoga asked, noting that she was not behind Inuyasha.
“She is
getting ready. I needed to
come and retrieve the outer kimono of my mother’s,” Inuyasha said,
lifting
a heavily decorated kimono from the wall and removing its hanger.
Inuyasha
inspected the kimono to make
sure that it was still intact.
“My
father had this made for my mother
on the day he made her his mate,” Inuyasha said, turning to Myoga and
Shinzen.
“It will
look most beautiful on the
lady Kagome,” Shinzen said with a smile.
“Yes… on
the back of this is the account
of how my mother and father met,” Inuyasha said, tracing the image of
his
mother with his claw. “I wish to have one made for Kagome, but my
mother’s
will have to do for now,” he added as he walked toward the shoji screen
that
led to the main part of the house.
“Shall we
follow my lord?” Myoga asked.
“Yes, it
is time. I will get Kagome,”
Inuyasha said as he walked across the room with the kimono cradled in
his
arms.
Myoga and
Shinzen followed and took
their places before the small alcove that had a vase for a flower to be
put
in and a scroll on the wall. The scroll only had one thing on it, the
kanji
character for love.
Inuyasha
stopped at the screen to the
bathhouse and took a deep breath.
“Kagome
are you ready?” Inuyasha called
softly and was answered by a soft ‘yes’ from the other side of the
screen.
Inuyasha
opened the screen and was
amazed by the vision before him.
Kagome
stood there in the elaborately
embroidered white kimono with a soft smile on her face.
“Greetings my mate,” Kagome said softly
and bowed to Inuyasha, who gulped at this.
Inuyasha
could do nothing but stare
at her. She was beautiful and that was an understatement.
“Does
this not please you?” Kagome
asked, fearful that she had upset or offended him.
“Beautiful,” Inuyasha said as he walked
toward the vision in white before him.
“I take
it you like,” Kagome said with
a smile.
“Yes,
very much so. Are you ready to
begin?” Inuyasha asked.
“Yes, I
could not wait another moment,”
Kagome said, and leaned toward Inuyasha to kiss him on the cheek.
“Here. It
would do me great honor if
you would wear my mother’s outer kimono. Father had this made for
mother…
I wanted to have…” Inuyasha stumbled over his words and was silenced by
Kagome’s
hand on his cheek.
“I would
love to. Will you help me
put it on?” Kagome smiled, looking into Inuyasha’s gold eyes.
Inuyasha
nodded and walked behind Kagome
to help her into the outer kimono.
“You look
beautiful, my love,” Inuyasha
cooed into Kagome’s ear from behind her.
“You’re
not so bad yourself,” Kagome
smiled, putting a hand on Inuyasha’s head.
The
couple stood that way for a while
until Myoga bounced into the room.
“My lord,
my lady, are you ready?”
Myoga asked the couple.
“Yes,
Myoga,” Inuyasha answered. He
walked beside Kagome and took her hand. “Shall we, my love?” Inuyasha
asked
with a smile.
Kagome
nodded and followed behind Inuyasha
and Myoga slowly out of the bathhouse.
Once out
in the main part of the house,
Kagome and Inuyasha took their place before the alcove and Myoga began.
“My lord,
if you please.” Myoga said,
nodding to Inuyasha to begin.
“I
Inuyasha, hanyou, son and heir to
the great Inuyoukai of the western lands, choose you Kagome, miko, to
be
my life mate. Do you accept me or do you decline?” Inuyasha said
holding
Kagome’s hands.
“I
accept,” Kagome said with tears
in her eyes.
“My lord,
my lady, you have both agreed
to be life mates,” Myoga said, nodding to Shinzen who walked up to the
couple.
“My lord,
my lady, please grasp each
other’s wrists,” Shinzen instructed. He then took a gold rope and bound
Kagome’s
and Inuyasha’s left hands together and tied it.
“As this
rope binds your hands, may
it also bind your hearts and souls together,” Shinzen said, passing his
hand
over the gold rope as it glowed.
“Kagome-sama and Inuyasha-sama, if
you would please, sign this parchment solidifying your acceptance of
this
arrangement,” Myoga said, pointing to
the paper that lay
beside him.
Kagome
and Inuyasha signed their names
in the indicated places. Myoga and Shinzen signed also as witnesses.
“I
thought that you had to mark me,”
Kagome said to Inuyasha quietly as he took the rolled up parchment from
Myoga.
“That
will come later. This ceremony
is for noble youkai. The parchment that you have signed is proof to the
human
world of your union, and the gold rope ceremony will bind your souls to
each
other. One cannot live without the other. However, if one is in need
the
other that is bound can help,” Shinzen explained, removing the rope
from
their hands.
“How can
that be? My father died, but
my mother…” Inuyasha began but stopped.
“My lord,
your parents did not perform
this ceremony. They chose not to. Your father was concerned about his
children.
He did not want to perish and have your mother pass also and leave his
children
with no mother to protect them. He was thinking of the future,” Shinzen
explained.
“Then it
could happen to us,” Kagome
said with her eyes narrowed at the wolf youkai.
“No.
There is one way that it would
not,” Myoga said, seriously.
“How…”
Kagome began but stopped. She
already knew the answer.
Myoga and
Shinzen nodded their heads
as Kagome answered her own question.
“I see,”
Kagome said with a nod.
“My lord,
your mother did not choose
to become youkai. In your parents’ time that was not a safe option,”
Myoga
explained, answering the question in Inuyasha’s eyes.
“Myoga-san, we will discuss this privately.
It will be my decision in the end. Now please, let us retire,” Kagome
said
quietly, debating with the prospect of becoming a hanyou or not.
“As you
wish, my lady. Remember we
are never far if you need us,” Shinzen said with a bow as Inuyasha led
Kagome
toward the shoji screen to the room that was prepared as a bedroom for
them.
Inuyasha
let Kagome go in first and
then he followed closing the screen behind him.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
“I will
go outside and stand guard”
Shinzen said to Myoga quietly.
“Very
well, I will remain as the witness”
Myoga said with a nod to the wolf youkai.
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Notes: More to come. Many have asked about the lemony part of
my story,
just be patient that will be in the next chapter. Good things come to
those
who wait.
Thanks for reading.
Inuyasha and all related characters belong to Rumiko Takahashi, I do
not
seek to infringe on her rights. I am only borrowing the characters to
expand
on the love and romance between them.
You can find my stories at:
Strands of Moonlight
http://strands-of-moonlight.my3gb.com and
http://strands-of-moonlight.6te.net
