Love Lost Now Found

Chapter2 `wedding ceremony and plans' (ch1arrivals and best friends)

Solia was sitting in the garden the next day with Yumiko going over what she could do to have him start showing his feelings, or at least some emotions besides coldness.

“What about you ask him to like tea or something every week…or every few days!” Yuniko suggested as she poured another cup of tea for her lady.

“Maybe, because he does have a lot of things to do.” She sighed. She thought it was going to be easy to try to bring his old self out but making up the plans was the most difficult! “Kami!” She whined and laid down on the blanket.

Yuniko laughed and sipped her tea. “If we don't think of anything, then let's just let it flow. I mean that if there is something that he could be invited to then you should. Hmm?”

“Hai!” Solia exclaimed as she sprang up looking at her friend with a big grin then hugged her. She was the closest she had here in the castle and here in the castle, she was finally able to act like she always wanted to. She hated acting all polite and her father never let her get that close to her servants. He had them switched out everyday or sometimes sooner if he saw that she was being nice to her. He was always strict with her since she was the eldest and he wanted her to get married soon so he had her taking lessons on the things most ladies her age took.

But she didn't exactly need to because she and her sisters always talked about that stuff. It may have made them blush talking about it but it was so much fun because every time they started to laugh! Or at least when their minds would wander to the perverted side of even the most innocent of sentences.

“Well, I see that you are enjoying yourself my lady.” Came a voice that interrupted her thoughts and made her jump with a yelp. She looked back and blinked seeing it was her soon to be husband. She stood up and bowed to him giving him a sweet smile.

Yuniko was already standing and that made her feel stupid since she didn't notice him coming.

“Hello my lord.” She said as he glided towards her again. “What would bring yourself here?” She asked tilting her head.

“I need you of coarse. Remember that we aren't married yet?”

“Oh yes, the wedding ceremony. I have already forgotten about that! Gomen…” She bowed her head a little then blinked as she heard him laugh.

“It is quite alright my dear. I have just come to get you so we can talk about it.” Inutaisho stated and ran his finger over her cheek, which made her blink. “I still can't believe that I have found someone as beautiful as you. Now, may you accompany me to my study so we can discuss it?”

Solia nodded and told Yuniko to pack their things and take it back to her room.

She nodded with a small `hai' as Inutaisho took her hand guiding her out of her garden.

Once they were out of her garden and room, he asked, “So I assume that you like her?”

Solia nodded. “She is wonderful my lord. We have become quite good friends.”

“That is good, but you don't want to become too attached or else you will miss her when she is gone.”

”What do you mean?”

“I mean if she gets married of course!”

“Please don't do that my lord. She is once in a lifetime friend.” She begged softly and stopped when he did.

“Why would I want to make my mate miserable? I wouldn't be able to stand that.” He looked at her and kissed her gently on the cheek. “But let's avoid that. We need to talk about this wedding of ours.”

“Oh yes! May I ask who is all coming?”

“The lords of the rest of Japan, plus your father and whomever they are inviting.”

“Why so many? Shouldn't only the youkai in this castle, plus my father and my family come?”

Inutaisho blinked at what she said. “Don't you know that the other lords have to witness our marriage?” He asked as he stopped and opened the door to his study.

Solia blinked then nodded as she walked inside. She stopped as soon as she started to look around for someplace to sit and awed at the splendor of the study.

The walls were covered with paintings, seeming to be mostly Sesshomaru when he was a small pup and a few pictures of a woman, which she guess to be his mother since she looked exactly like him when it came to the markings and color of his hair. But there were also paintings of Inutaisho that were the most detailed which didn't surprise her since he was the Lord of the West. There seemed to be millions of rows of book packed bookshelves. that showed that he didn't mess around when it came to information because not one space was empty. She saw a few tables with books opened to certain pages and three comfortable looking cushions around each. The last she saw was the paper covered desk where Sesshomaru sat doing some work that his father asked him to do.

“Do you always admire everything where ever you go?” Inutaisho's voice said interrupting her thoughts.

`That is obvious father. Everyone stops in their place whenever they see the place. What's so big about it? It's just a library with a lot of books. Plus with all the papers and books about, it makes it look like a battleground. that reminds me, I need to tell Jaken to clean this place up.' Sesshomaru thought looking to Solia then back after rolling his eyes.

“I would rather sit and look instead Solia?” He asked as he glanced over at his son then pointed to a table that was empty.

Solia nodded and walked over sitting as he sat across from her.

“Now, may you answer my question before you started to daydream?”

She blinked as she forgot then nodded slowly as she answered. “I must have forgotten, I do that quite often now.”

He laughed. “That is understandable. Are you nervous about this?”

“A little, not to be rude my lord.”

“That is something else to be understood. My first mate was nervous when I married her and a little later until I brought her a gift.” He blinked as something came to him. “That reminds me. What are you giving me as a gift?”

Solia looked at him then back down as she blushed a little. “That is really not any of your business my lord. Not if you want it to be kept secret, but if I were going to give you something. I mean someone. It would be a son.” She whispered the last part and blushed more. She covered her face as she didn't want him to see how red she was.

“You don't have to be so embarrassed my sweet flower.” He pulled her hands away form her face and stared at her while kissing her palms. “It is quite normal for a lady to say that and plus once you see what I will give you. Your heart will stop from excite-“ Inutaisho stopped when he heard Sesshomaru get up and watched him. “Where are you going son?”

“Someplace where I won't have to hear this? It is quite difficult to listen to that and do work at the same time.” He said walking out and Solia and Inutaisho watched.

“He is right my lord.”

“He will have to get use to it if he wants to take a mate. I'm thinking about him marrying soon, though.”

“But he doesn't need one right now my lord. You are still young and healthy.”

“Hai, but I need to make sure that this house will stay in this castle. I may died any time from anything like a sudden cold or while I'm out checking my lands. So that means that if I do then he will need an heir so no one will try to take it from him. I've worked too hard for that to happen. I won't let anything get in the way.”

“But he's so young my lord; my age in fact, I think. He doesn't need to have an heir till he's at least an adult. Plus he won't have any trouble with finding a mate. He's so handsome, like you, that every woman would want to marry him.”

`Will she just shutup! She's not my mother so she doesn't need to talk to him like I am!' Sesshomaru growled in his head as he listened then walked away. He didn't want to listen to all the shit they were coming up with.

Inutaisho smiled as she complimented him and shook his head. “Hai indeed. He won't have any trouble at all.”


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Solia sighed as she looked at herself in the mirror with her wedding kimono on. It was finally going to happen after a few weeks of everything being prepared. She hadn't really been excited about this but she smiled whenever she saw Inutaisho. She didn't want to disappoint him with no smile at what they would be to each other soon. He was a kind man that she never thought someone of his status would be like. “Are you almost done Yuniko?” She asked glancing at the mirror to the girl behind her.

“Hai, just a few more details.” She said smiling back at her. She was the one that was excited about the marriage. When she was done she grabbed the perfume bottle spraying her till she couldn't smell her scent anymore.

It was part of the youkai tradition to do that. They didn't want any other male to smell a bride's scent because she wasn't his and other tradition was that no other man should see her face either till her new mate would remove it to kiss and mark her.

Solia took the mask and sighed heavily as she placed it on her face turning to the door. “Okay, let's go before they start to worry. We are a little late.” She took Yuniko's hand and walked out but blinked stopping when she saw the person that she didn't want to see now. `Kuzo. He was suppose to stay in the hall.'

“What are you doing? Haven't you learned how to act?”

She looked down bowing. “Hello father.”

“You're late.”

“Gomen my lord. But it took longer than expected.”

“I can see with how you are acting with the wench.” He stated growling, glancing at Yuniko and she closed her eyes.

“Gomen again father.”

“This will halt till after the wedding. But as soon as everything else is done then I will have a talk with you.”

Solia nodded and started towards the great hall again, with him by her side.

That changed her and Yuniko's plans of gossiping while walking there. But she blinked and swallowed as she heard talking coming from inside the doors. Her father told the guard to tell the announcer that she was here and she swallowed once again nervous. She didn't want to mess up now, especially since her father was going to talk to her after the ceremony.

He took her hand and guided her through the doors towards the raised area where a chair would have sat. All the while she was staring ahead of her as small droplets of perspiration started to form and the more the people in the court whispered, the worst it got. She was only glad that she wore a mask so that no one could see that she was nervous

Inutaisho was watching her from the front of the platform.

Solia stopped beside him and bowed slightly as her father walked into the crowd while Inutaisho took her hand and kissed it looking towards the priest of the palace. He started to talk and that made her look up.

Once he stopped and told Inutaisho to take her mask off, she got nervous once again. He smelt how nervous she was so he leaned down to her ear and whispered a `don't worry.'

She nodded and he nodded back a little.


Once all of the marriage was done and the eating and drinking started to begin or end in Solia's mind. She sighed and looked at her new husband. He was laughing at something that her father said but she tugged at his sleeve otherwise a little. “Inutaisho,” she whispered softly leaning in to his ear. “Can we go?”

He stopped laughing and looked at her smiling. “Of coarse! But be careful with all the drunks around!” He exclaimed in a drunken voice.

`Hai, but I think that we should watch out for you.' She thought and smiled mentally to herself. She bowed and gave him a half kiss on his cheek before walking out. “I'm glad to be out of there. Father makes me nervous and whenever he sees me do something that I'm not suppose to as a lady he gets mad. I hope he forgets about what he said earlier about talking with me later.”

“Why do you have to hate your own father?”

Solia jumped and turned around eyes wide. “Oh, its only you Sesshomaru.” She sighed heavily her hand to her chest as she felt her heart started going again.

“You didn't answer my question.”

She looked at him and then back down sadness in her face. “I do love him as a father but he has always been cruel to me. You see, I killed my mother when she was having me so he blames me with her death. He's nice to my other brothers and sisters because they were born from my his wife now and isn't that strict with them. He's always been worse with me since I'm the eldest and that I'm the only one from his first wife.” She closed and ran her hand through her hair but stopped when she noticed that it wasn't down. She looked up to a few strands out of place and shrugged as she started to undo her hair.

“I guess that's worse than what happened to me. My mother died a few years ago while she was coming back from her parents home. I guess I was lucky to know mine since she had me.”

She paused at what she was doing when he began and looked at him. “I heard that you changed a lot since she died. You must have been very close to her.”

“Feh, not that close. She just taught me things that father or my sensai didn't. I may have been a pain in the ass but she didn't mind at all because she always had a reason or solution for what I did.”

Solia nodded and smiled. “I see at least you knew her. But I'm glad that you don't hate me. I was nervous that you did because I was marrying your father. I don't want to replace your mother but ….” She paused thinking what she wanted from him. “Well, I just want you to treat me like one of your sisters or something. I don't like being hated by someone.” She smiled and ran her claws through her hair smiling. “So, will you?”

Sesshomaru blinked then shrugged as he laughed a little. “Sure.” He said simply and walked off towards his room.

`He laughed. Inutaisho said that he's never laughed before after she died. Why did he laugh?'

“He's drunk you know. He hasn't drank in a while so he isn't that used to the effects.” Her friend Yuniko said from behind her. “This is the first time he's ever drank that much. I've never seen him drink that much before.” She laughed and looked at Solia.

She back at her blinking. “Really?” She said unbelieving as she looked back to his descending form. “”Maybe that's why he talked so freely. Heh. That `s funny. Come on, let's go back to my room.”

“Sure.” Yuniko walked beside her and something popped into her mind that happened to someone in the grand hall so she started to tell her.