Betrothal of the Warrior Hime

When Kagome was finally released by her father the next morning she was furious, not to the point that she had flaming white eyes again, but she was a hellion to say the least. She’d stormed her father’s study, in which both her older brothers, Sesshomaru and Taishou were there, “Where is it?” She fumed. They all looked at her in shock, even though her eyes were not white as they had been a few times before her youkai was emanating around her very small body in glorious crimson angered ribbons.



“You will not have that sword until your worthy of it, if you ever are, and you certainly will not have it acting as you are now.” came Shin sour velvet voice. Kagome narrowed her eyes at her father, her rage just barley contained, and they could all feel it, such power was rare, it was so untrained and untapped, and yet now it was awake, raw and angry. All she was able to say was nothing, instead her words were replaced by a low deadly threatening growl. With that she left slamming the door, almost breaking it. Taishou seemed highly amused, Sesshomaru only looked a bit amused, while Jin and Mugen looked slightly taken aback and Shin only pulled his hand to his brow to try and stop the headache that now was coming.



After that Kagome became cold to the world, distant, she shut everything out, until she saw Inuyasha again. The next visit to the northwestern border palace was made only by the two princes and their father, Hatsumomo had not be able to come. Kagome had not greeted them like the rest of the family had, they had arrived early in the morning during the time she always spent with Souta. Every morning rain or shin, when the sun rose she was at his grave, the rest of the house would still be asleep, and so it was her only time to grieve for her beloved brother. The only time she ever let herself cry.



It had been a year since she’d last seen him, a year since her brother had fallen, a year of anger, and cold determination to avenge her kin. She and her sister were now nine, and the young prince was ten, he was now old enough to start training for battle, he had not wanted to come but now it was his duty. Should his father and brother fall he would be General, and so he would have to train like his brother had. Kagome had finally come in from visiting Souta, when her father and the general’s voice caught her off guard she was not used to ease dropping but at the moment it could not be helped.



There were raised voices and she had been passing by to her own room. When she heard her name. “So Kagome’s distant now?” came Taishou’s voice.



“Yes my Lord. She has been since your last visit.” answered her father.



“We may need to have her hidden earlier then expected.” said the general.



“Why?” came the heir’s voice.



“Last year when Souta died, you all killed the heir to the northern lands. More so Kagome did, and was seen. There is a second heir, his younger brother, Ryuumaru. They are demanding that when she becomes of age, that she is either given to them as mate, or that she is killed.” said the General’s somewhat worried tone.



“Hn.” came Sesshoumaru’s voice again.



“But she is promised to your son.” Said Shin.



“What?” Said Sesshomaru again this time a bit more cold. Sesshomaru had not known that he was to be mated to Kagome, she was like a little sister in some odd way and the idea didn’t sit well, Souta would not approve, nor did he.



“You would have been informed as would Inuyasha, you are both betrothed to both Kagome and Kikyo. Which ever one you don‘t pick will be with your brother.“ Answered the general. Which earned a growl from his own son and Kagome. But when Sesshomaru’s died off, Kagome’s had not. It was then that all three males noticed her presence, her angry aura was like its own heavy gravity, and all three struggled to keep standing underneath it. It was unnerving to the General that one so young so untrained and so utterly female had this type of power, this hidden strength. Kagome could have cared less, she didn’t give them time to explain, they had been speaking about her as though she was just some concubine to pass around, even her own father, which felt worse. Her aura subsided, and left with a swiftness none knew she possessed, slamming the heavy cherry door to her own room so hard it shattered sending wood flying down the hallway.



Her anger had not been washed away with that though, no it intensified with a fury the likes of which none in the family or friends had known her possible of, she spent the next week sending the males that had been in the room, and Inuyasha ice glares so hard they felt as though their bodies chilled at the mere sight of her furious almost white eyes. Really they didn’t know what to make of it, How much could she have heard? How could she be so angry? A female was not supposed to fight or be anything but a breeder, a lover, and a mother. Her very nature seemed to amuse the hell out of Taishou, Sesshomaru seemed highly aggravated by the new development, Shinosamu seemed ashamed of her, while Inuyasha had no idea why she was sending him those death glares.



He did find out soon enough though, it was towards the end of the summer, and he’d finally had enough of her ‘childish ways’ as he called them, he’d walked right up to her and in the rude way that was Inuyasha spat out, “Oi! What the hell has you so bitchy?” She had been walking passed him when his brash voice called her in such a rude manor, and before he could take it back, or try to defend she’d rounded on him with breakneck speed.



“What has me so BITCHY,” she spat the word, “Is YOU, your brother, your father and MY OWN FATHER, treating me like a position. Not to mentions that I wouldn’t even be like this had it not been for YOU!”



“What, baka?!? what are you bitching about now?” came his still uncaring voice.



Her words were so clear to the point and cold that he had no idea what to answer her with. “Had your Baka ass not lead us so far out away from this land, my brother would still be alive instead of cold in the ground. I’ll kill you before I ever mate you.” for anyone else to make this statement would have meant death, no one had heard it thought, other then themselves, so Inuyasha let it slide, she was disrespectful, but it was clear that she was angry, and she would not take his life. He in fact had no idea she was still upset, at least not that upset, her aura in that moment was dangerous, living around the Western taiyoukai, he was used to strong flaring auras but her’s was ridiculous.



“Mate me?” he sounded like the whelp she knew.



“It doesn’t matter, It’ll never happen I can assure you that.” she left the confused boy watching her kimono flow around her in her wake.



The summer went on like this, and even after the general and his two sons left the rest of the year went on like this as well, her bond with her father only seemed to weaken, while her bond with her twin, grew stronger. This year they turned ten, not really a year worthy of note but they too would begin training, training to become an alpha females like their mother had before them, and now she would teach them both. Lessons that would decide their nobility, and grace. Lessons on how to be a good mate, and mother, and everything that would come with being an alpha female. Kikyo took to these lessons easily, with a grace that Kagome had admired, even felt a bit of jealousy over. Kagome on the other hand, felt like a wild thing, stuck in a gilded cage.



Years passed uneventfully at the border palace, every year the twins grew older more beautiful, their elder brothers growing more and more protective bonds over them, as Souta had once before. Kagome and Kikyo had never truly been very close to Jin and Mugen, they had been far too young compared to their elder siblings, now though as they grew to the age of fifty, the twins had grown into young adulthood with the greatest of ease. Kikyo and Kagome had males swooning left and right, betrothed or not they could have anything they wanted, Kikyo used this talent more then her sister but she too found ways to use her talents.



Kikyo had usually used her beauty and charm to simply have the males in the palace grounds weak at her feet, while Kagome had used hers to earn fighting lessons from her brothers. In secret when they could, they had some how been convinced that it would be beneficial for her to know this type of thing. She had also had managed to get her way when it came to knowledge, she wanted to know all she could, not just how to be the perfect mate. She had her own ides, namely that if she was worth it he’d put of with her or lose her. It was on a night of a full moon, on her their fifty-first birthday that her father had finally found out about the mock battles she held, it had been a present from her brothers.



Kagome was in the middle of the pair welding two swords with ease and grace to which her father had never seen from her. He’d never seen her fight, he’d never seen her in those final moments of his youngest son’s life, he had not known that she was such a warrior. Coming upon the clash of swords in his home was not a sound that the lord would want to hear, but there was no blood on the air so his curiosity got the better of him. There his youngest, and seemed most talented child fought off both her brothers with nothing more then will. Her moves seemed perfect, one either Jin or Mugen and at many times both would swing towards his precious child she would manage to wiggle out of the way with almost feline agility. It unnerved him that he had not truly assessed his child’s potential. He’d spent years hiding her from his enemies, he’d never noticed her like this. He wanted to be proud, but more so he knew he would have to come down hard on them all especially Kagome.



He’d watched enough, spreading his youkai out just as he came into eye sight of the three they stopped without a notices of hesitation. His sons came crashing to their knees, each holding their head low while his daughter, his proud onyx hair child stood her ground and glared at him, sheathing her swords she sent him a glare, one that was returned with a threatening growl. Shin began snarling at them all, lecturing them, Jin and Mugen seemed to shrink under every word, while his Kagome stood there as though he’d barely raised his voice, yes he wanted so much to be proud of her, truly she was his child. He’d thought if Sesshomaru and Souta had been Death and Destruction she would have been Wrath. Her venomous glares had not gone unnoticed as he chastised his children and it angered him that she could still be so proud, when she was so wrong.



“What do you think your doing? You could have been killed?” he roared at her. “You are never going to handle a sword again! So you hear me?” and it was at this moment she voiced her opinion.



“Then you will have to pull these from my cold dead hands, I will not suffer this insult.” narrowing her eyes at him. “You would have been proud of me had I been a male, why can you not be proud of me because I can?” He growled his displeasure towards her.



“Fine. So be it, you bring this upon yourself.” with that she threw her swords at his feet, one bouncing up and cutting into his pant legs, turning on her heal she left his presence for her room. She would not roar, or slam and shatter doors, no she planned to leave this place, if they wanted her life they would have to kill her for it. When she reached her room she went directly to her desk, a gift from her mother, to ‘draw and paint’ at, a place where she could be ever so female. Taking out a scroll, quill and ink she wrote.





'To my family, I have not been the same since my beloved brother was taken. I awoke that day and have felt as though I was hidden in a golden cage like a bird with clipped wings. If you cared at all you would have let me fly, but as you have not I will escape, and when the times comes, I shall return of my own will, but not a moment before. To my mother, I love you, and I know you will understand the need I have to be free from this. To my brothers, you have been tutors in life I value so much, I adore the bonds I have made with you, To my beloved sister and twin, I’m sorry, I know it is you I will hurt most, for you have never wronged me as I will wrong you with my absence. Forgive me, I love you. To my father, Shinosamu, Good bye.



Your gilded caged bird,



Kagome'







She’d sealed the letter and left it on her bed, it was early night, and most knew that when angered she would not be seen until morning, she would not show for dinner that night or breakfast the next morning, finally gracing them with her presence near midday. Kagome was a fast runner, another hidden talent. Running felt so cowardly but she knew it was the only way, there would be only one that could save her from her father’s prison, and it would be his own mother that would offer such freedom. True Kagome had only spent time with her twice in her short life, her father would not think to look there for her. Miyako, her grandmother would harbor her and take care of her.



Stepping into the night and she ran, she ran like the devil. The guards had noticed but been unable to stop her, they felt her move past them and yet she was not seen. Hitting the forest that was around her she didn’t stop until she reached the ocean. Her legs burned from being pumped through the night, and her heart felt swollen from pressing blood into her small frame. Flying would have made the trip that much easier, but she would have had to rest to long, and would have been caught, her scent and aura were something she knew how to hide, the size of her body in true form, or even in her glowing orb would not easily be masked, no it would be something to see and it would cause them to find her that much faster. Reaching the ocean she rested for a few minutes taking in water for her long trip.



Miyako lived on the main lands of the great continent, she would need everything she had to make the trip. Finally realizing that the sun would be up and the trip would take more on her then she realized, she focused her Ki, a misty cloud that was dark and stormy appeared beneath her feet, quickly she rose to the skies and towards her grandmothers home. It was nightfall when she finally reached the shores of her grandmothers lands, again she found water and ate resting only a bit, maybe a few minutes before forcing herself to rise and press on. She was relentless, a trait she’d gotten from her father, as her mother said. An hour passed, And soon she was on the border of Miyako’s lands.



Walking upon the gates she was spied by two male Inuyoukai, their breed was off from her own but they smelt faintly familiar, part of her clan she imagined, glaring at them she growled, soon the door opened and she was greeted by Miyako. Though she was Kagome’s grandmother, upon looking at the pair, it was realized that they looked like twins, they did not share the same face, no Kagome had been born with her mother’s face, but ever other thing about her from height down to temperaments were the same. Kagome bowed low to her grandmother.



Miyako had onyx hair so black and inky that the night sky would be jealous, her fangs like Kagome’s were as pearly white like the stars in the heavens. Her eyes, unlike Kagome’s furious brilliant eyes were like Shin’s, dark and muddy blue. Upon her cheeks, pale silver blue crest marks. She was breath taking at first sight, But unlike most females, she was not dressed in tradition kimono’s, she wore a warriors garb, this had been the reason Kagome had picked Miyako’s to hide out at, Her grandmother was a warrior, in ever way, her armor gleamed in the new light of day, and her pelt was proudly displayed over her shoulder, the fur being a deep chocolate onyx color. Raising her head to the female she’d spent so little time with but bonded so deeply with she almost cried.