The Twist Of Two Fates

While Kagome was getting ready what that cat said back at camp it kept repeating its self but one thing got her attention, though it is none of her business, it was about how she said she was matting both Gin and Sesshômaru.



Maybe it was just a misunderstanding like she was going to be their concubine Kagome did not know but she wanted to ask. Maybe it was a youkai thing where they can have many spouses as they please she did not know she that's why she wanted to ask.



Nina just came back into the room with the bathing supplies as Kagome covered her naked body with a bathrobe. "Good you’re ready for your bath?" Nina said as she slide the shoji open for Kagome to go into the room first.



But Kagome took some of the things in Nina's arms helping Nina out as she was bring them with her Nina just smiled at Kagome the way the girl went out of her way to help even if it was her, Nina's, job to take care of the Inu-miko Kagome always showed you that she was independent woman that took care of all that were around her.



Setting everything down Kagome took off her robe and got into the water Nina came over to bath her when Kagome shook her head and took a step away from her.

 

"It’s fin Nina you have a lot of work to do my arms are not broken Nina so I can bath myself." Kagome held up her arms to show Nina that they were not broken.



Nina nodded her head and was about to leave. "Nina I do have some questions would you mind if I asked you them?" Looking back Nina saw that Kagome's head was bowed looking at the water.

 

Nodding her head Nina walked over to a stool that was in the room and moved it so she could sit by the spring.



"What questions do you wish to ask of this fox?" Nina asked in a serious tone. Kagome was taken a back a little by how serious Nina was shaking it off Kagome took a deep breath.



"Will when we were at camp this neko by the name of Miyoku said that she was to mate with Sesshômaru but Gin said he wouldn't let her even if he and Sesshômaru was not mated he would not let him mate her." Kagome paused to get her hair wet so she could wash her hair.



Nina thought she knew where this was going but waited for Kagome to ask the questions before jumping to conclusions.

 

"Wait Miyoku the cat? As in princess of the north Miyoku? Whose father is lord of the north?” Nina waited for Kagome to nod her head Nina let out a snort Kagome throw her a questing look at why she would laugh at that.



"That neko the minute she puts her mind on it there is no one that can divert her from the path she wants to take the only way for her to stop is if Lord Sesshômaru or Lord Gin finds a female to mate with that is not Miyoku." Nina said as she handed Kagome one of the washrags.



"Is that your question? If Miyoku was going to stop, chasing him?” Nina ask with a smile on her face hoping that Kagome was interested in Sesshômaru enough to get jealous about another female sniffing around her male.



"No that was not my question what they do with their relationship is their business not mine." When Kagome said that they heard a growl that sounded like it disliked something it seemed that it came from the other shoji Kagome look at Nina with a raised eyebrow.



"It's probably Lord Inu Taishô theirs a mix up in the numbers of how many were coming. Now what is your question?" Nina said hoping that Kagome did catch what Lord Sesshômaru said in inu tongue seeing that Kagome brushed it off Nina let out a sigh of relief.



"I just wanted to know what she meant by 'she was going to mate both of them' I thought when you mate it was just you and your partner or is that not how youkai mate?" Kagome ask innocently wanting to know how things work.

 

"I mean it’s not like there’s a book on how matting works right?" She added while scrubbing her skin free of the dirt and grime that had got on her skin while traveling back home.



'Wait did I just say that? 'She thought stopping her movements. 'Yes. Mistress get it 'Kagome's beast said as it jumped to the front of her mind. 'Do I really mean that I think that the palace as my home? 'Her beast rolled her eyes at her mistress.

 

'If we did not think then we not say it.' It said as if speaking to a pup. Thinking back to the things that happened here the youkai here were nice, welcoming and open so yeah it was home.



"Oh we do have reading material on how matting works it's just that not many can read so we just tell our offspring how it works if you want I can fill you in on the importuned stuff milady.

 

Then later we can go looking for that scroll." Nina couldn't help the smile that come on her face when she saw that Kagome couldn't sit still in the water you could see her tail wagging.



"Yes that would be much help thank you Nina." Kagome said trying to stay seated so the water dose not splash over the edge and on to the floor.

 

"To start off when a male want to mate it is just the two but if the two are of the same gender they can mate or bring in someone of opposite gender to breed with." Nina starts off slow so Kagome could take in the information.



"Nina what if they are mated to the opposite gender can the male go and take another mate? How many can they take?" Kagome ask because back in her time there were people that did this and their spouse was Okay with it because they too had someone on the said.



Even though Kagome was raised to be faithful to the one you married or mated in this case, that meant that if she did mate that male could have another which was almost killing her because that meant that she would have to relive the Inu and pot episode of her life again even if she was the first love he could always bring another into the picture.



"The limits of mates are three. When a mated couple are of opposite gender the male or female can bring in someone that both are Okay with it does not matter the gender because there will be one male or female. Because some of them do that. It does not mean that all youkai’s do that.



Two males that are of high rank like Lord Kenji or Sesshômaru can mate a female for combining lands. Any male can have two females if the first one could not breed a strong pups but that is a slim chance of that happening so." Nina said hoping that it did calm her down.



Kagome was about to ask another question when a knock drew them to the shoji that led to Kagome's room Nina answered it then came back.

 

"Lady Kagome all though I wish we could talk more on this subject I am needed to get some of the other rooms ready for the other guest." Nina had a frown on her face not liking that she had to leave.



"It's Okay Nina we can talk about this later see yeah a round Nina." Kagome said giving a little wave of her hand telling her good bye.

"Oh right lady Kagome the feast should start in an hour or two I'll have someone come and get you when it is to start good bye my lady." Kagome nodded her head in agreement, as she was left to her thoughts on what matting meant for her and her future in life.



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When they got back home Sesshômaru and Gin took a quick bath both wanted to have time to talk about what they were going to say to Kagome later that afternoon. Sesshômaru told Gin that she was from the future and other things that went on before he mated Kagome.



They were laying on Sesshômaru's futon when they heard Kagome's shoji open then a couple moments later closed the shoji to the hot spring opened and closed.



When Kagome said that she can bath herself Sesshômaru smirked at how independent she was. He looked over to see a confused Gin looking at him. "Why would she want to bath herself when she has a servant that would do it for her?" Gin asks thinking it was weird that she would deny that pleasure.



Sesshômaru did answer the question with two words. "She's independent." Then Gin caught what he said and he too had a smirk on his face. They both got serious when they heard that she wanted to ask about something.



Though they do know that it is wrong to eavesdrop unless it was an enemy then it was okay. Today was an exception because they wanted to know where this conversation was going.



They both were not surprised at the reaction Nina had about Miyoku and they know firsthand she spoke the truth about how once Miyoku got her eyes set on something her claws where right behind to sink into it. Her father spoiled her and got her whatever she wanted slippers to pet she got it all.



Kagome said no so they listened to what she had wanted to ask. At first they thought she was going to ask if it was true that Sesshômaru were going to mate. But when Sesshômaru heard that she did not care that some female had a claim on him.

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Sesshômaru was pissed he let out a loud growl that even made Gin almost jump out of the futon at how angry it was. "My bitch not care about claim?" Sesshômaru barked out before walking to the shoji.



Gin saw that Sesshômaru was about to enter the hot spring Gin blocked the way to the miko and was trying to calm Sesshômaru down the only way he knows best which is by holding Sesshô Jr. and licking big Sesshômaru's neck.



"Look I know you don’t like how she just brushes off that your claim by another female. But she doesn't know that she is your mate so you have to see where she is at.

 

If you think about it and how she thinks it is reasonable because if she was not your mate then she would have no say in who has claim on you or not."

 

Gin whispered softly while he was leading Sesshômaru back to the futon by rubbing Sesshô Jr. harder the closer they got to the futon.

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Seeing reason to Gin's words along with the pleasure Sesshômaru and his beast calmed down. Sesshômaru laid down see that he was under control Gin joined Sesshômaru on the futon. They went back to listening to what they were saying.



Sesshômaru and Gin had a smile on their faces finding out that she was entrusted in learning about their ways of matting things Nina did not cover they would teach her after all that's what mate's do they teach their females.



Then after all that happed the last day or two Sesshômaru just remembered that he was to give her a lesson. A lesson that she should know that the female was not to leave the futon until the male was up and told her to get up.



Turning to Gin Sesshômaru told him about how she left the futon and a light punishment was required for that is the first time she'll ever disobey the Inu matting rules.

 

Gin smirked "Why not after our talk we show her the Teaching room?" He wiggled his eyebrows in a perverted way Sesshômaru agreed to it taking her there.



But when Gin found out that she could read his beast purred its content that his mate found a unique female that was educated. Sesshômaru knew that she could read music and when she handed that contract to him three days ago he thought she had someone wrote the scroll for her turns out she wrote it herself.



At first Sesshômaru was disgusted with his beast for matting with the miko that belonged to his half-brother now that he knew that did not belong to InuYasha he was Okay what he just found out about her he was thankful that the beast had marked her as their mate for educated females were hard to find.



In youkai court there was only a hand full that were educated and they were all mated even if they did look for one in a youkai village it was only the royals that were educated and they only taught the males and not the females. But finding a female that could just read was a bonus but she was from the future she was not from here so their mate was one of a kind.



But they don't care about that stuff yeah it would be nice to have a female that could read to their pup but the thing that they were happy about was have a female that was not clingy or did she come off as a gold digger. Gin may not know her as long as Sesshômaru dose but he trusted his alpha in choosing a mate they both would like.



And when he first saw her she fought for them to let her go while other female demons would rub against them to show them they were in heat or that they were willing for anything. That kind of females think just because they are youkai they can lay with them.



That's what turned both of them off of some females unless it was matting season then they would take a female but Sesshômaru would kill her to make sure she was not with pup while Gin would use other ways on his female so she won’t get with pup.



Getting back to listening to what Nina was saying they could feel sadness coming from Kagome when Nina was talking about how the male could have more than on mate Gin connected the dots to why she was sad they mentally noted that they need to show her that she was not going to be second best.



When they heard the shoji open and close Sesshômaru turned to Gin. "You, my dear mate teased this Sesshômaru for was purpose I don't care for I do know that you will finish what you had started." He jumped on top of Gin.



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Taishô made sure that everyone was taken care of before he took InuYasha to his room. Once everyone was looked after he had one of the servants take InuYasha to clean and clothed him in what was appropriate for him.



Taishô went and got ready for the feast he went to check on the entertainment for tonight. The musician were hard at work getting everything ready for tonight they couldn't wait till that night to show Lady Kagome how much they improved. Taishô saw the excitement in their eyes.

For when the will perform.



They also ask if it would be okay for them to ask Lady Kagome to play a song Taishô agreed to it if she was up to it. They all hoped she would agree so she could show the entire court how talented she is. Taishô could see how proud they are to learn from her and now they hope they made her proud of them.



Seeing that it was going smoothly Taishô went to the kitchen to check how the food was going. One foot in the kitchen and Taishô almost tripped one of the members of the kitchen staff Misaki was yelling out orders so caught up in the havoc that she even yelled at Lord Taishô.



"You over there put the leeks in now! No do not cut it like that. Hay you don't just stand there fined something to do or so help me. Hay that's for after the main course." When she did realized that she had just yelled for her lord to stop standing and help her face went pale white eyes big as dinner plates and mouth opened getting low to the ground in a low bow.



Misaki repeatedly ask of forgiveness he had her stop her apologizing and said that it was understandable why she yelled at him and that he couldn't wait to see what she had in store for the feast. He asks if she could also have a little snake brought to everyone for they must be a bit famish Misaki agreed to it.



Taishô left with a chuckle shaking his body at the shocked faces looking at him as he left the kitchen. Seeing that everything was in order he went to see what the pups are up to putting his nose to the air he tracked them down.



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Miroku and Sango were led to the hot spring that was outside once clean they were led to their rooms at the very end of the guest wing so they could change into fresher cloths.



Once changed Sango went to Miroku's room wanting to talk without having any others listening in on them speak to each other. "Miroku can I come in?" She waited for him to let her in.



When her eyes landed on him her jaw almost dropped she licked her now dry lips and found her voice. "I wanted to know if we could talk." Sango's eyes never leaving his body. His cloths were a two piece white and purple kimono and he only had his bottoms on.



Miroku was about to put on his top when he heard Sango's voice he stopped and let her in. His breath hitched seeing her all dressed up in a kimono but he was happy that he had the same effect on her as she did him.

Sango had on a light pink kimono with a lime green obi and the design was of bamboo the second layer under the first was a dark purple her hair was in a bun.



Miroku smiled at her. "And what is it that you wish to speak about my lady?" He said getting behind her Miroku wrapped one arm around her shoulder and the other went to her mid back then lower and lower. 'SMACK' "I came to see how you were doing after all we went through and you pull something like that?" Sango said almost yelling at him.



Miroku had a smile on his face even though his cheek hurt because he got the reaction that he wanted out of her. But then she threw herself at him. "I am so glad that your back to that I was worried that you lost interest in me." Sango said as tears ran down her cheek.



"I only did not touch you because of all that was happening I did not mean for you to think I did not care about you." He said holding her closer to his chest as he nuzzled his head into her neck. "Oh well thank you for not doing that I do have one more thing to say though." Sango said as she was pushing a bit so she could look into his eyes.



Smiling down at her he kissed her lips. "And what would that be love?" the minute those words left his mouth he was on the floor face down and one arm twisted behind his back.



"If you ever do that again I won’t forgive you and I'll break your arm off." Sango was trying to get her point across. He got the point and agreed at not doing that again. Happy that everything is almost back in order Sango helped Miroku with his top.



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The kids were all bathed and changed by the time Taishô found them in the play room. "Oh excuse me I was looking for three little pups but it seems that I found two lords and a lady instead." Three little heads turned to where they heard the voice come from. "Inu Papa your funny we are three pups not lords and lady." Rin giggled as she ran to him.



"With you all dressed like that I could have forgot that you were pups." Taishô said as he hugged the little girl back. "What are you guys doing?" he asked when he saw that the human pup was sad. "Well once we were brought here we thought that we should get our gifts for mother to show each other." The red headed fox said as he hoped onto Taishô's shoulder.



"Really could I see what you got her?" He ask wanting to see what they got for Kagome. Rin showed him her gift that she made for Kagome he smiled at her and told her how pretty it was. The crown was made of white and pink flowers.



Shippo was next his gift was a necklace he made with the stones he found in the pond they were polished to shin the size was not too big that it over powered the one who wore it or to small that you would not see that someone was wearing them. Taishô told Shippo that he should make so he could sale them for a lot of money. With quick thanks Shippo turned red at the complement.



Turning to the last pup Taishô could scents that he was stressed. "And you young one what do you have for her?" Taishô asked looking to see if the little male had it behind him. "Well I don’t have any skills like they do. So I thought about what to get her and I found a puppy but I lost it when all of you came.” He said not looking up.



"Well you just lost the pup he should be around here if you want we can look for him." Kohaku's face light up when Taishô said that he would help look for the inu.



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Kagome wanted to stay a little longer in the water so she just laid back and closed her eyes. She went to think on what Nina said Kagome did not know how any females or males youkai could do that. The more she thought about that the more her mind turned to InuYasha. Not wanting to think about him she dunks her head under the water.



While she was under the water she could hear the shoji open thinking it was Nina coming back Kagome came back up to get a breath of air. Looking around she did not see anyone in the room but she did see the shoji was opened a hair.



Kagome was about to get out of the water when she heard a whimper. Turning to where she heard the sound she saw a small ball of smoky gray fur that had three wagging tails from what she could tell it was a puppy at the edge of the spring confused as to why there was a puppy in here she did not see the puppy about to fall into the water.



'Splash' looking to where the inu was she saw that he was in the water. With her fast speed she got the little inu out of the water getting a towel she dried him off. Looking to see if the little guy hurt himself Kagome was happy to see nothing wrong with him.



Walking into her room Kagome put the little pup down on the floor she went back to where the hot spring was and grabbed a towel to dry herself off and change into her kimono. Looking around the room she could see that there was tea and snakes left on the table for her 'So it was a maid that let the inu in?' She thought to herself as she got ready.



Going back over to where she left her guest Kagome could see a pair of red eyes looking at her. Picking him up she made sure he was dry and feed him some of her snake. After feed both of them Kagome sat and looked at the puppy as he was trying to get off of the table and into her lap.



Looking over to the window she would say it was about time to go and look for her friends putting the inu on the floor Kagome went and did her hair half up into a bun then half down hanging around her neck. Once finished she left her room making sure the puppy was not left behind.



As she was walking by Sesshômaru's room she could hear a long and low moan that sounded like Sesshômaru's name being said. She could feel her face turn red form what she could smell would be a joining of two mates. "Come on cutie lest go to the party." Kagome called out to the pup as she picks him up and left in a hurry.